Xie Wenyuan didn't have an answer to this question. She shook her head slightly and said, "Actually, I don't know much either. Shen's mother told me last time that your grandmother was probably a little bored at home now.
After all, your sisters have all left the house one by one, and there is no one in the house to chat with you.
So your grandma has been going out a lot recently to get together with old ladies with whom she had good relationships in the past. She must be getting older and misses the past a little bit!"
Hearing this, Gao Ying nodded and said, "That's right. When people get older, they will miss the people and things in the past. This was the case when my grandmother was here.
On weekdays, when I have nothing to do, I like to ask some old ladies who have served her in the past to come into the house and talk to her. If I have time, I always find a few old ladies to listen to plays and laugh with her."
Children are always worried about their parents getting old. Xie Wenyuan sighed softly after hearing this.
"Your grandma has always said that she wanted to go south for a walk. Your grandpa once had free time and took her to see the beautiful mountains and rivers, small bridges and flowing water in the south of the Yangtze River. Unfortunately, your grandpa was really too busy. He was busy with court affairs every day.
Son, I couldn’t make it in the end.
I don’t know anything else, but this matter has become a big regret in your grandmother’s heart. Now that I have some free time, the world is not peaceful, otherwise I could accompany your grandmother to travel around and see the mountains and rivers.”
When the current chaos was mentioned, the three people eating together couldn't help but fall silent.
After a while, Lin Ruoxi sighed and said: "I don't know when this situation will end. In the past two months, the purchase of brocade and raw silk has slowed down a lot. I don't know how many pieces a waterway has been cut into."
, this road is full of people who occupy the mountains as kings and the water as bandits. Here you have to pay a little money to buy the road, and there you have to pay some protection fees.
This transportation along the way has significantly increased the cost by several percent. I originally wanted to observe and observe. If the situation becomes more serious in another two months, I may have to collect the surrounding materials and raw silk."
"You think so, and others think so too. No, the price of materials is getting higher and higher. It's a pity that people in the capital have not lowered their standards of enjoyment at all.
Naturally, there are workshops producing cloth and raw silk near the capital, but the quality is incomparable to those in the south. The quality of the finished products we produce will inevitably be greatly reduced later, and they may not be able to meet the requirements of these people."
Gao Ying has now completely taken matters in the shop as his own business.
Speaking of which, the background is clear and logical. Even the perspective of considering the problem is from the perspective of Xie Wenyuan and Lin Ruoxi.
When the mother and daughter heard what she said, instead of showing sadness, they both smiled a little.
Xie Wenyuan said: "Ah Ying has really grown up now. Such things will never trouble you, but don't worry, the situation in the world is the same.
Our family is affected, and so are other families. No matter what, we can't be worse than others. When the time comes, we generally won't have what they want, and they will naturally stop pursuing it."
This was said a bit implicitly, but Gao Ying naturally heard it right away.
In fact, she had forgotten for a while that there was the Xie family behind Xie Wenyuan and her daughter.
There is also Xie Yuncang, the chief assistant.
No matter what, they are still at the top of their peers. If there are materials that can come in from the south, others may not be able to get them, but they will definitely not have any problems.
Then what she just said does not exist.
After sorting out these troublesome things, what is left is the happiness and freedom of the three single women.
After Lin Ruoxin's birthday, the three of them had a great time eating and drinking some wine.
There was only intimacy in the conversation without any alienation, and there was no overt or covert extortion or ridicule.
In such a conversational atmosphere, Jiang Shuhua's mood turned from the initial disgust to a bit of envy.
When she heard that Xie Wenyuan and Lin Ruoxi, mother and daughter, had gone downhill and ran to become merchants and open shops, she thought it was funny and ridiculing.
Isn’t this going downhill?
The sister and nephew of the dignified chief minister of the dynasty actually ran away to become a businessman, and two women were exposed in the street like this.
Just thinking about it makes me feel embarrassed and ridiculous.
But she never thought that after making such a choice, the life of mother and daughter would be so relaxed and casual.
It is almost completely opposite to her current appearance in the East Palace.
Every step she takes and every word she speaks outside are the result of careful consideration.
Even the maid who is closest to me has to turn a dozen corners in my mind, thinking about the downward technique to control people.
Not to mention the so-called prince beside her, almost from the beginning to the end, she was calculating every bit of affection between her and the prince.
Why?
Jiang Shuhua was a little confused and more confused.
Why can they be so relaxed?
A mother who is divorced from others, a girl who is still unmarried at such an old age.
When two people like this open a shop on the street, aren't they afraid of other people's probing eyes? Aren't they afraid of other people's comments behind their backs?
The most important thing is, if they see the friends they were with back then, now standing tall and surrounded by each other, but they are interacting with customers with smiling faces in the store, won't they feel lonely and unbalanced in their hearts?
Especially Lin Ruoxi.
Even though Xie Wenyuan and Lin Jiyan broke up, she is still the cousin of the Xie family.
With such an identity, as long as she behaves well in the Xie family, with the temperaments of Xie Yuncang and Mrs. Xie, they will definitely take the trouble to plan a good marriage for her.
Why should she give up on herself so much that she would do such vile things? What on earth is going on in her mind?
On the one hand, Jiang Shuhua despised and ridiculed the people next door, and at the same time, she could not help but envy their harmonious atmosphere.
Then she suddenly remembered that it had been a long, long, long time since she had eaten with someone so happily.
Looking at the table full of delicacies in front of her, she felt that it was all tasteless, and even the dishes that aroused her appetite became disgusting.
Jiang Shuhua frowned, but saw Hemerocallis sitting opposite her, as if waiting for something.
Only then did Jiang Shuhua suddenly react, and she smiled and said softly: "I have a poor appetite. Eat more. Seeing that you are happy eating, I might be able to follow suit and use more."
Hemerocallis opened his eyes and glanced at her, then lowered his eyes and responded in a low voice: "Yes!"
Jiang Shuhua just sat quietly with her chopsticks, raising her eyes to look at the way Hemerocallis was eating, and took a bite or two at will.
But I was already thinking about it silently in my heart.