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After entering here, the two were more polite to Lin Xiu. They brought him to a private room on the second floor, stretched out their hands and said, "My son is inside, please."

Lin Xiu pushed the door open and entered, and what she saw was a table full of wine and vegetables.

Every dish on this table is a delicacy. I am afraid that the price of any one dish can make Lin Xiu eat wontons for several years, and it is the kind that can be eaten every day.

Across the table sat a young man.

The weather outside was already hot, and the room was extremely hot and stuffy. The young man was sweating profusely just sitting there, his clothes were wet against his body, and he wiped the sweat from his forehead from time to time.

The moment Lin Xiu walked in, what followed was a burst of coolness.

The young man's hair stood on end, and he couldn't help shivering. He felt a refreshing feeling from the inside out.

He stood up abruptly, staring straight at Lin Xiu, and said, "Sure enough, you are the one who provided ice cubes for the Yueyue Building these days, right?"

Lin Xiu didn't deny it, and asked straight to the point: "Who are you and what do you want from me?"

With a smile on his face, the young man stretched out his hand to Lin Xiu, and said, "Sit down and tell me, I'm holding a banquet here today just to make friends with Xiongtai."

Lin Xiu didn't sit down, and asked directly: "What's the matter, just tell me."

"happy!"

The young man didn't beat around the bush, and said, "I want Xiongtai to provide ice for our Tianxiang Building. I will give you twice as much as the Yueyue Building gave you."

Lin Xiu had expected what happened today.

Every summer, selling ice is a lucrative industry. This year, due to special reasons, he is the only one who can provide ice sources in the entire capital. Because of his cooperative relationship with Moon Building, apart from the palace, Moon Building has monopolized the entire All the ice in the capital.

This also allowed them to attract all the customers in the capital, which involved a huge profit chain. How could other restaurants, brothels and other shops that competed with them watch them helplessly?

Obviously, someone was jealous.

Lin Xiu smiled slightly and said, "A bucket of ice is five taels."

He had a contract with Zhaiyuelou, and Zhaiyuelou agreed to a price of five taels of silver for a bucket of ice, on the premise that Lin Xiu could not make ice for shops that competed with them, unless the other party was willing to pay a higher price.

"Five taels, twice as much as ten taels?" The young man widened his eyes and blurted out, "Why don't you grab it!"

Lin Xiu looked at him and said, "It's the double price you said. You can go and ask. The price given to me by Zhaiyuelou is five taels a barrel."

The young man frowned. In previous years, the price of a bucket of ice was only one tael. He originally thought that two, two, three taels would be enough, but he didn't expect it to be so expensive. Earn, but who doesn't want to save costs?

What's more, he was only following orders.

Thinking of this, he smiled again, and said, "Ten taels of silver is a bit expensive, how about this, I'll give you two taels of silver for a bucket..."

Lin Xiu looked at the young man in front of him and asked seriously, "Do I look like I can't count?"

The young man said with a half-smile: "In the past, a bucket of ice was sold for at most one tael of silver, and two taels of silver for you is quite a lot. Brother, you may not know that Tianxianglou is the property of the Yongping Hou Mansion. I know you He is Uncle Ping'an's son, so he must know Marquis Yongping..."

Of course Linxiu, Marquis of Yongping, knew that one of the three first-class marquises in the current dynasty would be the first-class duke. Lin Xiu's future father-in-law, who gave birth to two such outstanding daughters, was only a first-class marquis. , and in terms of background and power, it is far from being able to compare with those families that have been in business for decades.

These dignitaries in the capital usually don’t do business directly, so they will be ridiculed by others, but almost all prominent families will secretly support some industries to satisfy their daily extravagant lives, so every king’s capital opens a colorful shop , There are noble people behind it to support.

A shop with no background can't wait to make money, and it will be devoured by others without even the scum left.

This person even moved out Yongpinghou, obviously threatening him.

If the solicitation failed, it immediately changed to a threat.

What did you say that how much the Yueyue Tower pays, and the Tianxiang Tower is willing to pay double --- why do you pretend to be forced if you don't have money?

The other party has even investigated his own identity. It seems that he really doesn't take a small third-class Uncle Ping'an seriously. Also, when he was a first-class prince, he was already a powerful person among the powerful. Among the powerful, Bi Yong Pinghou's status is still respected, only the ten princes and the royal family, in their eyes, the third-class uncle is no different from the common people.

But no matter how young the third-class uncle is, he is also a powerful person in the Great Xia. If Lin Xiu agrees to him today, the Uncle Ping'an's mansion will be disgraced.

At that time, what will his parents think of him, what will Lingyin think of him, what will Sun Dali think of him, and what will Dahuang think of him?

Even Lin Xiu herself would look down on herself.

The young man looked at Lin Xiu and continued, "You probably don't know that the master behind the Yueyue Building is the Consort's Mansion. What do you think is more important between the Concubine and the Marquis of Yongping?"

Although Daxia's son-in-law is noble, but has no real power, he is naturally far inferior to first-class princes. If Tianxianglou is really willing to pay double the price, Lin Xiu may not be unable to cooperate with them. After all, he will not make trouble with Yinzi .

But this person tried to use Yongping Hou to suppress him and force him to submit, but he made a wrong calculation.

If he bowed his head today, he would lose not only the face of the Lin family, but also the face of the Zhao family.

Lin Xiu's expression was calm, without showing any emotion, she said lightly: "It seems that there is no need to eat today's meal."

After speaking, he turned and left.

The two strong men wanted to stop him, but the young man waved his hand and said with a smile, "Let him go."

When Lin Xiu's figure disappeared, a mocking look appeared on his face, and he said, "He will come back and beg me. At that time, it will not be two taels, but two coins. No, there is no two coins..."

Soon, he stood up, went to the innermost private room on the second floor, knocked lightly on the door, pushed the door open, and said to a young man standing in front of the window: "Master, he refused .”

The man didn't look back, and asked lightly, "You know what to do, right?"

The young man said: "Since you don't eat the toast, you can only let him drink the fine wine..."

When the young man exited the room, the young man standing by the window turned around and walked to the table, and said in a low voice, "I hope you don't let me down like that trash Qin Cong..."

Chapter 28 I urge you to be kind

Leaving Tianxiang Building, Lin Xiu walked on the street, always feeling something strange.

Although the dignitaries in the capital are lawless, the forces behind Tianxianglou are too lawless.

Lin Xiu even felt that they were deliberately making trouble for him.

But this is just his feeling. I have to admit that in this special season, the chain of interests of ice making is too big, so big that some big shots can't help being jealous. It can be said that the person who can make ice in summer is A walking cash cow.

There are two cash cows like Wangdu, one is Lingyin and the other is Linxiu.

Lingyin and the others couldn't afford to offend them, so they had no choice but to focus on Lin Xiu.

Lin Xiu rejected the Yongping Hou Mansion today. Judging from the young man's final attitude, they will definitely not let this matter go. He must be more careful.

When Lin Xiu walked back to the gate of the Yueyue Building, Sun Dali jumped out of the carriage and asked, "Master, where have you been, I've been waiting for you here for a while."

Lin Xiu said casually: "Turn around casually, let's go, go home."

The carriage Sun Dali bought from the dealership, including the horse and the cart, cost a total of 50 taels of silver, of which more than 40 taels were spent on the horses.

In this world, horses are more expensive than people, and it only costs a few taels of silver to buy an untrained maid.

In addition to spending a lot of money at the beginning, the cost of raising horses is not low on weekdays. If Lin Xiu hadn't made a fortune in the past few days, he would not be willing to spend money on this.

Early the next morning, Lin Xiu went out in a carriage.

Judging from the previous situation, the ice he made for the palace was only enough for them to use for a day and a half, so today I had to go out early and go to the Yueyue Building first, so as not to lose the 300 taels of silver.

In the backyard of Zhaiyue Building, Lin Xiu was making ice while saying to the shopkeeper of Zhaiyue Building: "The people from Tianxiang Building came to look for me yesterday."

When the shopkeeper of Jieyuelou heard the words, his heart skipped a beat, and he immediately said, "My lord, you promised us not to make ice for other restaurants..."

Lin Xiudao: "I know, so I refused."

The shopkeeper of Zhaiyuelou heaved a sigh of relief. Although five taels of silver for a bucket of ice was already an unprecedented price, the monopoly of Wangdu's ice cubes has caused the passenger flow of Zhaiyuelou to surge in the past few days, and there is still a lot of surplus.

The more important significance is that when other restaurants have no ice available, Yueyue Tower can provide guests with a stable source of ice. As long as the guests get used to it, the future business of the building will definitely be better than before.

However, he hesitated for a moment, and reminded Lin Xiudao: "Young master, be careful these days. Behind the Tianxiang Tower is the Yongping Hou Mansion. If you reject them, they will definitely use other means. If it doesn't work, pick the moon." The amount of ice in the building can be reduced, give them a portion, don't offend them too much..."

Lin Xiu glanced at the shopkeeper of Zhaiyuelou, and said unexpectedly: "Unexpectedly, you, a profiteer, still have a conscience."

To be honest, although Lin Xiu sometimes has a headache, she also knows how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

If Tianxianglou is willing to offer the same price as Zhaiyuelou, for the sake of Marquis Yongping, Lin Xiu can't consider the shopkeeper of Zhaiyuelou.

But the other party didn't have the sincerity to cooperate at all. They not only wanted ice, but also the faces of Lin Xiu and Uncle Pingan's house. Ever since she realized this, Lin Xiu would not give them a piece of ice.

The shopkeeper of Jieyuelou said helplessly: "There is no way, we can't harm the young master."

Based on his words, Lin Xiu smiled and patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Don't worry, there will be no less ice for the Yueyue Tower. As long as you are not afraid of Yongpinghou, I am not afraid."

The shopkeeper of Jieyuelou said: "Although Marquis Yongping is very powerful, he still dare not do anything to the consort's mansion, but you, son, really have to be very careful..."

After a while, Lin Xiu walked out of the Moon-picking Tower, handed over the reward to Sun Dali, and prepared to go back to the Lin residence, waiting for Manager Li to pick him up.

But when Lin Xiu walked to the carriage and was about to get on the carriage, an old man passing by suddenly bumped into him.

"Ouch!"

Lin Xiu stood there without moving a muscle, but the old man sat down on the ground, holding Lin Xiu's leg with one hand and his waist with the other, and wailed, "Oh, my waist I'm going to be broken, you have to take me to see a doctor..."

Sun Dali widened his eyes, pointed at the old man, and said, "Obviously you bumped into it yourself!"

This place is already in a busy city, and in a short time, many passers-by surrounded him. Lin Xiu thought he had met Peng Ci. After all, he came from the 21st century and was no stranger to such things. If he guessed correctly, this The old man also cooperated with the medical clinic, if he really followed him to the medical clinic, he would be taken for a fool today.

Lin Xiu originally thought it was just a simple touch, but before he could open his mouth, several figures squeezed in from outside the crowd, and the leader asked loudly, "What happened, what are you all doing here?"

Several people were wearing the official uniforms of officials, but they were not officials of the Qing Dynasty. The old man seemed to have been prepared for a long time. As soon as they appeared, he cried and said: "My lords, you have to make decisions for the little old man!" , this person bumped into me and still doesn't admit it..."

Before the official had time to say anything, someone in the crowd said: "Fart, you obviously did it yourself, and you didn't open your dog eyes to see, who is this lord, will he hit someone and refuse to admit it?"

Obviously, someone in the crowd knew Lin Xiu. After the case of the Wang woman, Lin Xiu also gained a slight reputation among the common people in the capital.

The leading officer gave the person who spoke in the crowd a hard look, and then said loudly: "What's the matter, go back to the yamen and bring them all back to the yamen!"

After he finished speaking, two people stepped forward, trying to arrest Lin Xiu.

Sun Dali, as Lin Xiu's guard, of course would not stand on the sidelines. He took a step forward and was about to block Lin Xiu, but Lin Xiu reached out to stop him.

Lin Xiu patted him on the shoulder and said, "You go back first, give the silver to my mother, and then just wait at home."

Sun Dali said anxiously: "But young master..."

Lin Xiu waved her hand, and then asked the official, "Which Yamen are you from?"

For some reason, the gaze of the young man in front of him made him feel a little terrified, but the policeman still bit his bullet and said: "We belong to the Dongcheng Yamen, don't worry, if you didn't do it, we will let you go quickly. "

The King of Great Xia has four jurisdictions, that is, four districts in the southeast, northwest, and each district is managed by a yamen. The highest official of the Dongcheng Yamen is the Dongcheng Order, which is roughly equivalent to the mayor of the Dongcheng District of the imperial capital. All civil and criminal matters that occur in the Dongcheng District , and trivial matters are all under the management of the Dongcheng government.

Only when there is a homicide case, or if the case has too much influence, will the clean officials directly take over.

Lin Xiu glanced at them, and said lightly: "Dongcheng Yamen, right? What are you still doing in a daze, let's go..."

After finishing speaking, he put his hands behind his back and walked towards the Dongcheng Yamen on his own initiative.

Several arresters from the Dongcheng Yamen looked stunned. They thought they would encounter some obstacles in arresting people today, but they didn't expect this person to be more active than them. Should he go to the Yamen or go home?

But as long as they can bring him to the yamen, their task will be completed. The arrester didn't think too much, waved his sleeves and said, "Let's go back to the yamen!"

Dongcheng Ya.

Lin Xiu walked leisurely all the way, like strolling in a courtyard, and walked to the East City Yamen. Just as he stepped into the Yamen, he saw a familiar person.

The young man who met in Tianxiang Tower yesterday smiled at Lin Xiu and said, "What a coincidence, we met so soon."

Lin Xiu said with emotion: "It's a bit of a coincidence..."

Tianxianglou's movements were faster than he had imagined. Obviously, the old man on the street and the police who appeared in time were all arranged by this person in advance.

Lin Xiu looked at him and asked, "Who is your father, Dongcheng Ling, or Dongcheng Wei?"

Dongcheng Ling is a yamen official who manages all affairs in Dongcheng District. Dongcheng Wei is an adjutant who is in charge of arresting and burglarizing. There are only two of them who can drive Dongcheng Yamen to catch up quickly.

The young man was noncommittal and said, "You are smart."

Lin Xiu knew it in her heart, no wonder, she was in someone else's territory.

The young man looked at Lin Xiu with a smile, and said, "How about it, a bucket of ice, a penny, you nod, you can go now."

Lin Xiu asked, "What if I disagree?"

The young man said: "It's very simple. You didn't admit it when you bumped into someone in the street, and then suddenly broke out in the yamen and broke the poor old man's leg. It's simply lawless. I will imprison you for a month according to the law, isn't it too much?"

Lin Xiu asked, "When did I break his leg?"

The young man took the water and fire stick from a yamen servant, and slammed it down on the old man's leg. He only heard a "click", and the old man fell to the ground, wailing like a slaughtered pig. One of his legs has been bent into a strange angle.

The young man looked down at the old man and asked, "Who broke your leg?"

The old man's face was grim because of the pain. He raised his hand, pointed at Lin Xiu with difficulty, and said, "It's him, he did it all!"

Lin Xiu sighed, looked at the old man helplessly, and asked, "Won't your conscience hurt?"

The old man was still howling, and the young man threw down the water and fire stick, then looked at Lin Xiu, and asked, "How about what I just said, do you think about it?"

Lin Xiu looked at the young man, shook her head and said, "It's better to be kind."

The smile on the young man's face gradually faded, he glanced at Lin Xiu lightly, and said, "You will change your mind."