Hu Wanda and Shopkeeper Feng talked about the medicinal materials in detail. Lin Wan listened attentively and did not ask any more questions. After the two of them finished talking, Lin Wan thanked Liao for their hard work, and then asked Liao, who was in charge of the grain store.

The shopkeeper, shopkeeper Zhao and shopkeeper Liu talked.

Shopkeeper Zhao was a little overweight. He was in his forties and had perfected his ability to read people's eyes. He smiled so hard that he couldn't see his eyes. He explained the accounts clearly in a few seconds. He paused and looked at Lin Wan and laughed.

He said: "This year's autumn grain harvest has just begun, but the people at the Ministry of Revenue have been very busy recently, and it seems that they have to harvest grain. The border crossings are also tightly blocked these days, and no more grain is allowed to be shipped. My boss sees it, this year

How do we collect grain?"

Lin Wan paused in her hand movements, looked at Shopkeeper Zhao and asked with a smile: "Shopkeeper Zhao has been doing this for more than ten years, what do you say?"

Shopkeeper Zhao squinted his eyes, was silent for a moment, looked at the shopkeepers present, and said with a smile: "This is because the boss thinks highly of me! In my opinion, we will temporarily slow down the supply of food this year and let the Ministry of Revenue take the lead.

Collect less. Why don’t the people fight against the officials?”

Several shopkeepers laughed, and Lin Wan also put down her tea cup and stood up with a smile on her face.

Shopkeeper Zhao had sharp eyes and stopped talking when he saw Lin Wan standing up. His heart skipped a beat as he waited for Lin Wan to speak.

Lin Wan did not ask Shopkeeper Zhao again, but turned her attention to Shopkeeper Liu, who was in charge of the handover of goods from the north to the south, "How many horses did we exchange for grain last year?"

The nobles in the capital like to ride and shoot, but even if they don't know how to do it, they still have to buy two horses to show off their appearance. However, there are few horses in the south, so most of them are bought from the north. In addition to exchanging silver, the rest of the grain in the grain store is exchanged for cattle, sheep and horses.

You can make a lot of money by changing hands with all kinds of robes and fox skins when they are shipped back.

"There are more than fifty fine horses, and they have just arrived in the capital." Shopkeeper Liu responded hesitantly.

Lin Wan hummed, thought for a while, looked around the crowd, and said to the three shopkeepers Liao, Zhao, and Liu: "If there is no notice from the Ministry of Revenue and no one comes, we will harvest the food as usual, but we will only wait for others first."

Luck. There is no clear text from the court, but we have randomly guessed the thoughts of the saints. No matter whether we guess right or wrong - this is not the duty of businessmen! Shopkeeper Zhao said it well, the people do not fight with the officials, we have the best to think about the thoughts of the nobles.

Don’t guess! As for the horses that have been exchanged, if someone from the Ministry of War asks, we will sell them to them. If they don’t ask, then we can sell them how they want.”

Several shopkeepers looked at each other. Shopkeeper Zhao couldn't see the expression on his face, but his heart sank. It seemed that he didn't understand the owner's thoughts at all! He thought she was just a little girl, but now it seems that he really looks down on her.

She was killed. The court had already had clues that the Holy Emperor was going to send troops to Beiyan, but now he was making preparations? But judging from the owner's intention, he was not ready to stop Beiyan's business for the time being. That's right, he stopped rashly.

It's hard to say that it attracted people's attention, but in the end it didn't work!

"Thank you, the shopkeepers have been talking for a long time, let's stop here today. I will ask someone to reconcile the accounts later, and we will discuss it again. We have traveled a long distance, so we can rest early today. Shopkeepers Min and Zhong will stay here.

"I'll stay, I have something else to ask you two." Lin Wan smiled brightly, then turned around and ordered Forsythia Polygonatum to prepare tea and snacks, and take care of the accommodation for a few people.

The shopkeepers said their goodbyes. Hu Wanda glanced at shopkeeper Min, raised his eyebrows, and left after everyone.

Shopkeeper Zhong rubbed his hands subconsciously, leaned forward and asked, "My boss, are you going to talk about things in the south?"

Lin Wan smiled and nodded. "Beiyan has cultivated his health in the past few years, and his horses have grown stronger. We cannot fight this war at all. Even if we fight, we will not get any advantage. But looking at the current situation, Beiyan's national strength is gradually increasing.

Sheng has aroused the fear of the court. Therefore, we must fight once, not to compete for land, but to intimidate. Therefore, our business in the north may have to temporarily slow down for a year or two. But we can try it slowly in the south.

It’s done.”

Shopkeepers Min and Zhong looked at each other and nodded at the same time. The three of them discussed the business in the south in detail.

Lin Wan and Mrs. Liu stayed in the courtyard for four or five days. It was on the third day of September that they packed up and returned to Chong'an Hou Mansion. As soon as the carriage arrived at Lin Mansion, before they even entered the door, they heard a big show.

In the inner courtyard, Mrs. Yang was holding Mrs. Feng's sleeves with both hands, and her indecipherable howling sound came through the high walls: "Our master is the brother of the Marquis! Sister Min is the niece of the Marquis! You

This is not virtuous! Thank you for pretending to be virtuous! Take a look at the third sister in your room, look at--" He rushed to the right and grabbed the third girl, Lin Zhi, and dragged her to the crowd.

In front of him, he wailed, "A girl from our family is dressed like this! You are still treating me as my aunt! Oh my god, why am I so miserable and unlucky? I have such a pretentious sister-in-law. I don't know how much I have suffered in the mainland."

I can't even tell you how hard I am..." Mrs. Yang howled louder and louder. There wasn't a drop of tears on her face, but she exerted such force on her hands that she couldn't move Mrs. Feng.

Mrs. Feng's face turned pale with anger, her upper and lower teeth were clasped together, and her face kept trembling. After a long time, she pulled off her sleeves and kicked Mrs. Yang's second wife hard.

Mrs. Yang was howling happily, but her eyes were extremely bright. She saw Mrs. Feng moving her feet in anger, tilting her body to the side, and fell to the ground. Mrs. Feng's feet brushed against Mrs. Yang's waist.

Mrs. Yang's second wife immediately burst into tears. She hugged Mrs. Feng's legs, pinched and bit her, and shouted: "Hitting someone! Madam Chong'an Hou is beating someone! Sister-in-law, you would have tolerated it a long time ago."

We are no more! If you are dissatisfied with us two, just say so! Why are you crying and worrying about the feud between the Marquis and our master! What are you thinking about?"

Mrs. Feng was so angry that she could hardly breathe. Mrs. Yang had been fighting with her for more than a day or two. She was a legitimate daughter of a wealthy family, and she didn’t bother to be seen like a shrew in the market, but Mrs. Yang climbed up the ladder - but

It was a flower party, an irrelevant mission, and Mrs. Yang Er dared to threaten herself by tarnishing her reputation like this!

Mrs. Feng was unstoppable! Previously, Mrs. Yu, the second wife of the Feng family, could only curse people. After all, she was her second sister-in-law. She recognized her brother just by looking at her face! But who was Mrs. Yang? She couldn't bear it.

!

"Drag her down! Stop her mouth!" Mrs. Feng shouted sternly at the frightened grandmother beside her.

The women were stunned by the roar and hurriedly helped Mrs. Yang away.

Mrs. Yang stopped crying for a moment when she saw this, and then rushed towards Mrs. Feng, "You are vicious! You want me to die! Why did our Lin family commit a sin and marry such a mistress..." The voice

It was like thunder, deafening, reaching directly outside the gate of Chong'an Marquis Mansion.

Mrs. Liu frowned all the way and asked Nanny Wei beside her with a stern face: "What's going on?"

Aunt Wei sighed in confusion and said, "It's not because of the second master's mission to have a party with the Yuan family! Originally, this morning, the second wife walked up to the eldest lady with a smiling face, saying that she wanted the eldest lady to take the fourth girl there.

At the Yuan family's flower party, although the eldest wife didn't look good, she didn't say no, so she just kept silent. Later, the second wife also looked ugly, but she didn't break up after all. Who knew that Bicui came in to see the second wife?

, saying that the second master’s mission failed, and the mission that the second wife was originally optimistic about was taken by the Feng family’s eldest man! No, the second wife immediately became angry, dragging the eldest lady and howling for half an hour! She had to ask the eldest lady to give her a

statement!"

Mrs. Liu rubbed her brows, glanced at the main courtyard in disgust, and took Lin Wan directly back to Yimei Courtyard.
Chapter completed!