Xu Xiuyi showed her face today. In fact, this gift from the old man of the Wei family was sincere, but she also wanted this effect.

The outside world knows very little about her, other than that she is a widow and the granddaughter of the Protector, and her husband would rather like a brothel oiran than touch her.

What's more, in front of the Su family, she forced the second master of the Su family to leave and set up a new business. Now the two pharmacies are facing each other. From the outside, the two pharmacies and the security hall are busy. On the contrary

The Baoning Hall was deserted and deserted.

Baoning Tang, under the price pressure of Baoning Tang, business is indeed sluggish, which is why Xu Xiuyi made such a high-profile appearance.

Su Jinyi's business is good, not only because of the price war, but also because of his wide network of connections. He has been managing the counter for many years, and he can pave a broad road with all his connections.

On the contrary, Xu Xiuyi comes from a womanly family, and Su Jinye is timid. Their connections are too thin, which makes them inferior to Su Jinyi in many things.

The simplest thing is that the price increase of medicinal materials last time, which almost drove Xu Xiuyi to despair, was not the "blessing" of Su Jinyi's vast network of contacts.

Xu Xiuyi has thought about it a long time ago. When opening a business, it is necessary to have friends all over the world. She also wants to build a network of contacts for Baoning Hall. If she needs anything in the future, she can always find someone to help her, so that she will not be forced to do so.

On a dead end road.

The youngest person who could come to Wei's family to celebrate his birthday today was a country squire, and they were all wealthy and respectable people. Xu Xiuyi won over the old man of Wei's family with just one cake, and also impressed the wealthy businessman who was working on several projects.

Afterwards, the conversation was very pleasant. Xu Xiuyi was very eloquent and beautiful. Everyone was willing to chat with her. She had already made preparations and distributed business cards one by one. Naturally, she had already done this.

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What I saw was a delicate piece of copper with rounded corners. The address, business scope of Baoning Hall, and Xu Xiuyi's name were exquisitely engraved on the copper piece.

This is strange and unheard of.

Xu Xiuyi wants to bring modern business concepts to ancient times.

A business card, the first thing at the beginning, is naturally indispensable.

Her weird and unusual gadgets made everyone even more impressed by her. After the birthday party, everyone present who had a few words with her would remember her firmly.

Not only because of her beautiful face and extraordinary conversation, but also because of her many unique ideas.

After the banquet ended and Xu Xiuyi left with Miss Qing, Wei Jinniang personally walked to the door and reached out to gently touch Miss Qing's head.

"I like it very much if you deliver it to your wallet."

Su Qingying lowered her head shyly, and Xu Xiuyi thanked her: "As long as Auntie likes it."

"Third Grandma, there is something I really want to say I'm sorry for. I'm afraid your list will be delayed for a few days."

Xu Xiuyi felt a little uncomfortable, but still smiled on her face: "How many more days will it take?"

"It's hard to say. I don't know why, but the silk and satin shops within a hundred miles are unwilling to sell cloth to us, and the sewing shops are also the same. They used to have a kind of thread that was short, and now they can't buy it. I thought I would do it myself in two days.

Let’s take a look at Shuzhou.”

The brocade in Shuzhou is the best in the world, but the trip there and back takes at least three to five days, which is relatively fast.

In this case, her order would be delayed for at least seven or eight days.

She then said, "Can you give me the embroidered work first? I'll pay the money first."

Jin Niang smiled and nodded: "It's half done. I'll have someone take it to your Baoning Hall tomorrow."

Xu Xiuyi thanked her, said goodbye to Jinniang, and took Su Qingying home.

She slept until midnight, feeling very uneasy in her mind. She didn't know what she was feeling uneasy about. When she opened her eyes, she couldn't fall asleep. She kept thinking about Jinniang's words. Jinniang said that silk and silk threads within a hundred miles of radius were all covered with silk.

It’s sold out, how could such a coincidence happen?

At this time of year, summer is approaching, and less fabrics are used for clothes. In summer, few people wear embroidered clothes. They wear them to keep cool and refreshing. There are also distant relatives in the Su family who run a silk and satin shop. Xu Xiuyi seems to have heard of silk and satin in his memory.

Zhuang's distant relative once came to beg her father-in-law for some money, saying that business was not doing well in the summer.

But why is the satin thread out of stock this time?

She sat up immediately, feeling even more uneasy.

A muffled thunder outside the window really startled her.

The strong wind made the half-open window crackle. She stood up, closed the window, and stood at the window, vaguely seeing a red light dyeing half of the sky in the south direction of the city, as if there was a fire.

There was another dull thunder, so she quickly closed the window, took a breath, and went back to sleep.

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"Grandma, it's not good."

Early in the morning, Jin Yu rushed in with surprise.

Xu Xiuyi didn't sleep well last night, so her head felt a little heavy now, and she opened her eyes in confusion and looked at Jin Yu.

"What's up?"

"Jinniang Xiuzhuang sent someone here and said that the goods were not sent to us."

"What?"

Xu Xiuyi sat up from the bed.

Jin Yu's voice was filled with tears: "Grandma, you have been looking forward to it for so many days, but there was a fire last night that burned the entire Jinniang Xiuzhuang to ashes. People from the government came over and said it was struck by lightning.

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"thunder."

Xu Xiuyi suddenly remembered that last night when she got up and closed the windows, the red light in the south of the city was all Jinniang Xiuzhuang?

She had been uneasy all night yesterday, always feeling like something was going to happen.

She got up in a hurry, and Jin Yu came up to help her change clothes and make up, and the two of them went to Jinniang Xiuzhuang.

Jinniang Embroidery Village is in a mess. The wooden house has been burned down and only the mud walls are left. A few surviving embroidery frames have been snatched out, but the silk threads on them have all melted into curls under the high temperature.

Son.

The Jinniang Xiuzhuang sign with gold characters on a blue background has been burnt, leaving only a gold-plated frame. It was because of the heavy gold plating that the money was spent to surround the frame.

Wei Shufen's face was full of joy yesterday, but today she was crying with tears in her eyes. Several maids helped her, but she couldn't stand still.

This is the family business of the Wei family. Although the craftsmanship is still there, the fire burned away all the hard work.

How could Xu Xiuyi have the nerve to ask about her batch of goods, when everyone was in such a miserable state that they would be worse off than dead? She sighed, stepped forward and said to Wei Shufen: "Mrs. Wei, if something like this happens, you have to hold on."

After saying that, I felt blank.

Wei Shufen just cried so hard that she couldn't listen to what others said, so she heard her say: "Our old Wei family is about to end. Third Grandma, we can't finish your list. You

We will refund the deposit to you another day."

"No rush, no rush."

How could she not be in a hurry, but since everyone was in this situation, what could she do? She could only see if she could entrust another embroidery shop.

In fact, this order was not the key to her victory. She never thought of accomplishing anything in one go. She just wanted to build the pharmacy's reputation step by step.

Obviously, the first step was on the water, and there were ripples on the water, without leaving even a single footprint.

Back at Su's house, Xu Xiuyi was upset.

She always felt that something was fishy.

The delivery was agreed upon, but the goods were burned overnight.

Moreover, after contacting that the satin and silk threads were sold out, she always felt that everything was not that simple.

That night, she changed into black men's clothes. Since she was teased last time and walked alone at night, she no longer dared to show off to others in her daughter's clothes.

After changing her clothes and grabbing a lantern, she went out through the back door and headed towards the burned ruins of Jinniangxiuzhuang.

Jin Yu said it, and the government verified it and said the fire was a natural disaster.

But the thunder just sounded yesterday, and the south of the city was already ablaze. Although Jinniangxiuzhuang was full of cloth, it was not dry this season. How could a thunder cause such a big fire in an instant?

After thinking about it, she felt something was wrong even more. She picked up the lantern and unknowingly arrived at the pile of ruins.

Because the house was on fire and the surrounding shops were also affected, the street was deserted early on. Xu Xiuyi stood outside the ruins, hunched over, holding a lantern, and began to search for clues inch by inch.

Her nose is not particularly bright, but it is not bad either. It smells of oil.

In this era, apart from rapeseed oil and lard, there was no gasoline.

In the nose, there is a smell of rapeseed oil.

She searched slowly in the pile of charcoal ash and found another pine cone.

Just from these, she was very sure that the fire must be man-made.

Because it rained heavily immediately after setting the fire, the rapeseed oil was not completely burned, but was washed away by the rain into the gully beside it, leaving a smell.

And the burned black pine cone has kept its shape because it has not been crushed.

Obviously, it was arson, but she found out the real cause of the fire just by looking at it casually. Why did the government talk about natural disasters?

Do all the yamen at the emperor’s feet do things like this?

Xu Xiuyi straightened up. In her hand was the pine cone that had been burnt to black. Because she pinched it, it was already broken into pieces. Some of the ash fell off. It was not quite complete, but it still looked like a pine cone.

Looking at the sky, it was already very late, but the arson case at Jinniangxiuzhuang was also related to her batch of goods. No matter how late it was, she would have to go to the government office.
To be continued...