Coming out of the back house, Xue Pan led Lin Yun and Jia Lian to his residence and asked people to prepare a banquet for his two brothers.

Jinling is not far from Yangzhou and Suzhou. Lin Yun has eaten most of the dishes at the banquet, not to mention Jia Lian. The Rongguo Mansion has a cook specially brought from Jinling to the capital. Naturally, he has tasted all the delicacies here.

Later, a dish of roasted suckling pig was served, which caught Lin Yun's attention, because Xue Pan introduced that the roasted suckling pig was made from Siamese pigs, and the spices used were also Siamese cypress.

Lin Yun asked curiously: "Brother Xue, how come you have Siamese pigs in your family?"

Xue Pan smiled proudly and said: "I asked someone to get this from my second uncle's house. He has been doing overseas business all year round and has been to Siam and Annan many times."

Lin Yun became even more curious now. He hurriedly asked: "Isn't the imperial court prohibiting sea trade? How can your second uncle go to sea to do business?"

Xue Pan turned to Jia Lian and said, "Second brother Lian knows this best."

Jia Lian cut a small piece of meat with a knife and said while eating: "My uncle's old man used to be in charge of foreign envoys coming to pay tribute to our country. Naturally, some private goods would be brought in between the two parties."

Lin Yun suddenly said: "That's it."

Jia Lian suddenly remembered and said, "Brother Yun, if we ship perfume abroad and sell it, can we make a lot of money?"

Lin Yun was very excited after hearing this. Foreigners have a special liking for perfume. If this trade route can be opened up, it will be really profitable.

However, thinking of the court's ban, he still shook his head and said: "The production of perfume is limited, so it still meets the domestic market demand."

Xue Pan offered Lin Yun a glass of wine and said, "Brother Lin, can you also let me become a shareholder in the perfume shop you open in Jinling?"

Lin Yun: "Didn't you say before that you can't make the decision at home?"

Xue Pan smiled and said: "For one thousand eight hundred taels of silver, I can still make the decision myself."

"Brother Xue, if you want to make money, I have a good deal to introduce to you."

"Oh, what kind of deal is it?"

"Rickshaw, I want to open a rickshaw shop in Jinling and I'm looking for partners."

Jia Lian said anxiously from the side: "Brother Yun, why didn't you tell me about this?"

Lin Yun said speechlessly: "I wanted to talk to you last night, but you were gone. I can't go to the painting studio to catch you and bring you back."

Jia Lian smiled coquettishly and said, "Stop mentioning that matter. Quickly tell me what's going on with this rickshaw?"

Lin Yun took out a few drawings from his arms and handed them to the two of them: "This is a portrait of a rickshaw. I want to buy a horse-drawn carriage shop here and turn it into a rickshaw shop. If you want to invest, I can give it to you." You get 10% of the shares."

Jia Lian took the manuscript paper, glanced at it and said, "Brother Yun, can an ordinary person pull this kind of rickshaw?"

Lin Yun: "It should be no problem if it only carries one person. I have thought about it. The passenger flow at the dock in Jiangnan is very large. If we put a group of rickshaws on the dock to attract passengers, the profit should be guaranteed."

Xue Pan: "Brother Lin, how much money does it cost to invest in this 10% share?"

"One thousand taels is almost enough."

Jia Lian said without hesitation: "Okay, I'll vote for this rickshaw business."

Xue Pan: "I also want to invest in it."

Lin Yunxiao asked: "Do you want to discuss it with your aunt?"

Xue Pan: "It's just one thousand taels of silver. I can get it."

Lin Yun raised his glass and said with a smile: "Okay, let's wish the business a prosperous business and have a drink."

The three of them raised their glasses and clinked them together, then each drank it down in one gulp.

After finishing the drink, Lin Yun said: "Brother Xue, I have a lot of things to do and don't have time to run around outside. I'll leave it to you to find a carriage shop."

Xue Pan said happily: "Brother Lin, don't worry, I will definitely handle this matter for you."

Lin Yun warned: "Don't buy by force. The most important thing in doing business is to be friendly and make money. If you can solve the problem with money, don't do it randomly."

When Xue Pan heard this, he immediately blushed. He always does things as he pleases, so he doesn't know how to make money by being friendly.

Lin Yun added: "Second brother Lian knows that I look down on people who bully others. If you can't do this, don't get involved."

Jia Lian said happily: "Brother Xue, if you can't accept it, then we should break up as soon as possible."

Xue Pan said anxiously: "That was a misunderstanding. I don't usually like to cause trouble."

Lin Yun thought: "Are you lying?"

At this moment, a woman walked in with a food box and said to Xue Pan: "Master, my wife asked my slave to send a letter from the bad goosefoot duck to serve you with wine."

Xue Pan: "This goes well with wine. Bring it up quickly and let Brother Lian and Brother Lin have a try."

Jia Lian was not interested in eating food. After a few glasses of wine, he recalled Miss Yi Mei's instructions and asked Xue Pan to help him redeem his life.

Although Xue Pan was not very reliable, he also knew that he could not agree to this easily. He promised Jia Lian that he would help him plead with his mother later.

Lin Yun shook his head secretly after hearing this. If Aunt Xue knew about this, the girl Yimei would definitely suffer a lot.

No matter how stupid Aunt Xue is, she would not dare to send a prostitute to Rongguo Mansion. This would not only offend the old lady, but also make Mrs. Wang embarrassed. It is strange that Aunt Xue would agree to such a thankless thing.

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Seeing that he was almost drunk, Lin Yun and Jia Lian said goodbye and left together.

After Xue Pan sent the two people away, he came to the inner house to see Aunt Xue. It happened that Aunt Xue and her daughter had just finished their meal and were sitting in the house drinking tea.

Seeing Xue Pan come in, Aunt Xue smiled at him and said, "Your second brother Lian and the others have left?"

"Already gone."

After a pause, Xue Pan said again: "Mom, my child just promised Brother Lin that he would invest a sum of money to become a shareholder in his rickshaw shop."

Aunt Xue frowned when she heard this and said, "Why don't you tell me how much money you want to invest and just make the decision privately?"

"I want to invest one thousand taels of silver, and second brother Lian has also bought a stake."

After Xue Pan finished speaking, he took out the drawing of the rickshaw from his arms and handed it to Aunt Xue.

Baochai came over to look at the manuscript paper, and then asked curiously: "Brother, how could that brother from the Lin family think of driving a rickshaw?"

Xue Pan: "Brother Lin said that there are many docks in Jiangnan and the passenger flow is large. If we can open a rickshaw shop, we will definitely make a lot of money. Seeing that Brother Lian readily agreed to become a shareholder, I was too embarrassed to refuse."

Aunt Xue said angrily: "You should think about this matter and discuss it with the housekeeper at home before making a decision."

Xue Pan said dissatisfiedly: "It's just a thousand taels of silver. You don't have to dig and dig at it to make people look down on you."

Aunt Xue's face darkened after hearing this, and she scolded Xue Pan: "One thousand taels is not much, but one thousand taels today and three thousand taels tomorrow. No matter how big our family's fortune is, it won't be enough for you."

Defeated."

Xue Pan was also angry when he heard this, "Mother said it as if this business will lose money. If that's the case, let the child invest his own money to invest in the shares."

After saying that, Xue Pan angrily turned around and walked out the door.

After walking a few steps, he turned back to Aunt Xue and said, "By the way, Brother Lian has fallen in love with Miss Yimei from Songzhu Pavilion and wants to help her redeem her life. It's up to you."
Chapter completed!