Your Majesty, she doesn't want to flip the brand

Zhou Xingzhi didn't express any opinions on this. She didn't know anything about the He family or the so-called Shi family, and she didn't know the conduct of the two families.

"Master He, wait a moment." Ren Xingxue got up and walked towards the back room, and after a while, he came out with an old account book and spread it out on the table.

"This is what the Shi family sent me with a letter. This is the real account book of one of your shops." Ren Xingxue emphasized the word "true".Since His Majesty did not express his opinion, he came according to his own ideas.

After reading a few pages of the account book, Mr. He's face changed. When checking the accounts, he checked the accounts one by one, and he knew exactly how much each store made and how much it paid.According to the number on the ledger, the store concealed a profit of about 3000 taels, that is, it concealed a tax of nearly 900 taels.

"If your lord trusts me, can you give me the account book, I'll go to the shopkeeper to confront!" Mr. He took a deep breath, "I can assure you, this must be a fake account made by the shopkeeper or the accountant, and the actual goods are out of stock. The selling price is not as high as it is on the books, and the cost will not be so low."

Ren Xingxue couldn't help but glanced at Zhou Xingzhi again. After seeing that the other party didn't respond, he became entangled in his heart. After hesitating for a while, he nodded, "Since Mr. He said that, then I will give you a chance. If you If you catch the person who made false accounts, then this matter will be over."

Although Zhou Xingzhi didn't make a statement, she was sitting here with an attitude. On both sides of the He family and the Shi family, she must be biased towards the He family.

After quickly sending Master He away, Ren Xingxue knelt down on the ground with a plop, "My minister Ren Xingxue sees Your Majesty, Long live Your Majesty, Long live, Long live."

Liu Butou's eyes widened now, and then he also knelt on the ground with a plop, his face turned pale, and he tried his best to keep his head down.

"Get up." Zhou Xingzhi put down the teacup in his hand, "Are the He family and the Shi family enemies?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the two companies have competition in business, and the relationship is not very harmonious." Ren Xingxue stood in front of Zhou Xingzhi with his head down and replied, "Occasionally, there will be some small moves between the two families."

"I had no intention of interfering in this matter, but your yamen servants seem to have a wrong attitude when performing official duties." Zhou Xingzhi said lightly, "As a local official, you should love the people under your rule."

"What your majesty said is that the ministers will definitely investigate this matter strictly and let them remember your majesty's teachings." Ren Xingxue bowed his hands, which was considered to be the fault of Liu Butou.

"Just remember it." Zhou Xingzhi bent his fingers and brushed off the unnecessary dust on his sleeves, "Just handle the He family and the Shi family's affairs fairly, and aboveboard business competition is fine, but secretly playing tricks is not acceptable. "

"It's Your Majesty, I'll remember." Ren Xingxue breathed a sigh of relief, since His Majesty said so, it seems that he will not be held accountable for his negligence before.

Zhou Xingzhi didn't intend to stay in Renqiu for a long time, after brushing his face, he took his followers and lived in the house provided by Master He.During the period, Mr. He came to visit and sent some things. After seeing that Zhou Xingzhi had no interest, he didn't continue to bother.

"Look, how is my handicraft?" In the evening, Zhou Xingzhi took Ye Ningxuan out for shopping, and he couldn't help itching his hands when passing by the sugar painting shop.

Ye Ningxuan looked at the invisible sugar painting in Zhou Xingzhi's hand, and tentatively guessed, "Is this a rabbit?"

Because of the weather, the syrup solidifies quickly after leaving the heat source, so it takes about one or two breaths to complete the painting.

Zhou Xingzhi raised his eyebrows, "No, guess again."

Ye Ningxuan sketched the lines on the sugar painting in her heart, and tried her best to piece together the picture, "Is this a pig?"

Zhou Xingzhi couldn't help laughing, "I drew you, can't you see it?"

"You are turning a corner and scolding me!" Ye Ningxuan's reaction was quick, and she was about to pounce on Zhou Xingzhi.

"Nonsense, why am I scolding you? Do you think this looks like your eyes? Is this a nose?" Zhou Xingzhi was really wronged. She just drew Ye Ningxuan's face with the simplest lines. Turned into a pig's head.

"I don't think so." Ye Ningxuan was surrounded by Zhou Xingzhi who had freed up a hand, so she had no choice but to bite the sugar painting on Zhou Xingzhi's hand, expressing that she refused to admit that the person on the sugar painting was herself.

"Okay, okay, it doesn't look like it doesn't look like it, let me draw another one for you?" Zhou Xingzhi said with a smile, holding a bamboo stick in his hand to facilitate Ye Ningxuan's movements.

"Come on, I'm going to draw you." Ye Ningxuan pulled Zhou Xingzhi's hand away, and went to the side of the stall. Like Zhou Xingzhi just now, she dug a spoonful of syrup with small bubbles, and then tilted slightly Spoon, and soon trace the lines on the prepared plank.

After the pattern on the wooden board was formed, Ye Ningxuan turned her head to look at the sugar painting that she had bitten, then picked up the sugar painting that she had just made without saying a word, and took a bite as if to vent her anger.

The smile on Zhou Xingzhi's face grew wider, and he could barely see some tricks in his sugar painting, but what Ye Ningxuan just drew, at best, was probably a bush.

"Is this me? It looks pretty similar." Zhou Xingzhi tried his best to restrain the smile on his face, and said solemnly, "Let me have a taste."

Ye Ningxuan glared at Zhou Xingzhi, and then Kaba bit off the sugar painting she drew. "I eat my own, I won't give it to you."

Seeing this, Yang Bai'an was also a little curious. After absorbing the experience of previous failures, she simply drew a solid circle with a large size and a small size, and made a very perfect and full-bodied gourd.

"Sister, do you want to try it?" Yang Bai'an carefully took a bite of the sugar painting he made, and found that the taste was very sweet, and his eyes turned into a beautiful crescent shape.

Liu Lanze had never been in contact with this kind of gadget in the market, and after observing it carefully, she raised her sleeves and started to do it.Liu Lanze didn't pursue any patterns, but just took out the posture of practicing spells, and wrote a cursive script of "An".

"Here, you can eat slowly on the way." Liu Lanze didn't like sweets, so she waited until the sugar painting cooled and solidified and handed it to Yang Bai'an.

"Thank you sister." Yang Bai'an also knew Liu Lanze's habits, so he took it directly, and took another bite neatly.

Seeing this, Zhou Xingzhi couldn't help but take a look at his own drawing, and silently took a big bite. Compared with Liu Lanze's sugar painting, his skills are still too low.

Ye Ningxuan looked at the interaction between the two with a thoughtful look, and took a long time to look away from the two of them.

"There is sugar painting over there, I want sugar painting too!" Just as Zhou Xingzhi was about to leave, a little boy's voice came over. Looking in the direction of the voice, a little boy in red clothes looked like a firecracker. The same rushed over.

"You, hurry up and draw me a horse!" The child directly regarded Liu Lanze, who was closest to the stall, as the stall owner, and commanded arrogantly.

"Little friend, the owner of this stall is this uncle. Let him draw one for you." As he spoke, Liu Lanze moved to the side, making room for the middle-aged man who had been standing beside him.

"Young master, this shop is mine. You want to draw a horse, don't you?" Seeing this, the stall owner who has been acting as the background board came over with a smile. Today's luck is really good, first of all, he accepted these distinguished guests. Two silver coins, and now the rich young master has taken a fancy to his sugar paintings.

The little boy frowned, "No, I want her to draw it for me, hurry up, I'll give you money after I draw it."

Liu Lanze pressed her eyebrows, it was the first time she heard someone talking to herself in such a tone, "My paintings are not cheap, are you sure you want to buy them?"

"Of course, I have money!" The little boy said, and when he saw his servant trotting over, he became more confident, "Tell me, how much money do you need to paint?"

Liu Lanze glanced at the two people's attire, and casually reported a number, "100 taels of silver."

The following boy gasped when he heard the quotation, and bent down to talk to the little boy, "Master, we only brought 20 taels of silver with us when we went out this time, which is not enough to pay for the sugar painting."

"I don't care, anyway, I just want to eat now, and I want this woman to paint!" The little boy should have been pampered all the time and grew up, and his tone became very nasty if he didn't like it, and he was extremely ruthless.

"Girl, I know you are not the owner of the stall, but my young master really wants the sugar painting you painted, can you discuss it and make it cheaper." The servant is also very helpless, but he has good eyesight You can see that the people in front of you are either rich or noble, so they keep their posture very low.

"Why are you begging them? I said yes, but at worst, let her come to my house later to ask for money." The little boy was very dissatisfied with the servant's attitude, and felt that he was humiliating himself by humiliating others. He was very unhappy. Kicked a foot shop.

"Be careful." Yang Bai'an pulled Liu Lanze towards him, avoiding the splashing syrup.

"What are you doing?" The expression on Zhou Xingzhi's face was a bit unfriendly. He thought it was just a child throwing a temper tantrum, but he didn't expect this child to be so bearish.

"Since you don't make it for me, then there is no need to open this stall." The little boy snorted heavily, "Xiao Ma, let me open this stall!"

Xiao Ma, the servant who was called, had a somewhat embarrassed expression on his face. He turned sideways and stuffed a piece of silver into the stall owner's hand, and whispered, "We bought this thing." After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for the stall owner to agree. Rolling up his sleeves, he planned to overturn the stall according to the little boy's request.

Before the entourage could make a move, Jiang Qianhu walked forward, directly pinched the entourage's arm, and carried him away like a chicken.

"Hey, you have something to say." The attendant struggled twice, his facial features were all wrinkled together because of the pain, "Release, let me go quickly."

Seeing Jiang Qianhu picking up his entourage like a chick, the little boy shrank his neck, but still forced himself to speak, "Hurry up and let Xiao Ma go, are you going to fight against me? "

"This... kid, didn't your father teach you how to behave in the world?" Zhou Xingzhi looked at the boy, and most of the smile in his eyes disappeared, "People like you are easy to be beaten. .”

"Who dares to hit me! Whoever hits me, I'll call my dad to hit me back!" The little boy was a little afraid of the way Zhou Xingzhi looked at him, but when he saw people around him stop and look at him secretly, the expression on his face He became tough again, "Hurry up and let go of my people, or I will make you look good."

"Then tell me, how do you want me to look good?" It's not that Zhou Xingzhi has never seen dude disciples. There are many second-generation officials and second-generation power in the capital, but none of them are as rampant as this little boy and can't examine robbed children. degrees.

"I..." The little boy paused, "You don't care what I do, anyway, you will regret it when the time comes."

"Tsk." Zhou Xingzhi felt a little itchy. If the person in front of her was not Xiaodouding's, she would have punched him to teach him to be a good person.

Seeing more and more people watching, Zhou Xingzhi signaled Jiang Qianhu to put them down with his eyes.Now there are many people on my side, and in the eyes of the uninformed, they are bullying a child. Zhou Xingzhi doesn't want to go out for a walk and take the blame.

"You know you're afraid, coward! But you've offended me, just wait and see!" Seeing this, the little boy became more courageous, and said to Zhou Xingzhi with a look of disdain, and then called his followers Run away.

Zhou Xingzhi didn't stop the elder and the younger from leaving, and couldn't help sighing, "If this is my child, he would already be lying on the bed by now."

"It should be spoiled by his family." Ye Ningxuan said, "If this goes on, his final ending will be a prison."

The incident with the little boy was a not-so-good episode, but after a few rounds of shopping in the bustling streets and buying a lot of favorite gadgets, this episode was forgotten.

"Cousin, let's eat at this restaurant. The business is so good that the taste must not be bad." Yang Bai'an held a small wood carving he just bought in his hand, and looked up at the restaurant's plaque.

"Yes." Zhou Xingzhi nodded in response.

"The guest officials are new to Renqiu, right? Our restaurant is worthy of the name No. [-] in Renqiu. If you come to visit Renqiu, you must come to our restaurant for a meal." The restaurant guy at the door is very clever. , Come and lead the way right away.

"Are there any boxes?" Zhou Xingzhi asked.

"Yes, there is also a special box for VIPs. I'll take a few of you in." The waiter said with a smile, and introduced the signature dishes of their restaurant by the way.

The clerk of the restaurant speaks the same way. In his introduction, every signature dish is delicious in the world and must be tasted.It's not that Zhou Xingzhi is short of money, so he just followed the buddy's wishes and asked him to serve all the signature dishes.

"Okay, wait a moment, sir, we will definitely serve all the dishes you ordered within a quarter of an hour!" After the clerk memorized the names of the dishes, he went down very happily.

The private room was very big, so Zhou Xingzhi simply asked Wei Zhong and others to eat at the same table with him, and he didn't have to follow any rules when they were all out.

Facts have proved that there is a reason for the good business of this restaurant. Not only is the food served quickly, but the taste of each dish is also good.After roughly tasting the taste, Zhou Xingzhi put the dish he thought was good into Ye Ningxuan's bowl.

"Try it, although it's not as good as the imperial chef, but it still has a local flavor." Zhou Xingzhi lowered his voice, leaning his head to Ye Ningxuan's ear and said.

"It's really good, you should eat more." Ye Ningxuan also quickly put something into Zhou Xingzhi's bowl, and quickly piled up a small spike on the surface of her bowl.

Yang Bai'an was forced to watch the daily life of the two showing their love, and then looked at the dishes in his own bowl. Taking advantage of no one paying attention to him, he quickly put several chopsticks in Liu Lanze's bowl.

"Sister, eat more." Yang Baian felt a little guilty when he spoke.

Liu Lanze was very calm, she didn't care if anyone was looking at her, she directly put several kinds of vegetables into Yang Bai'an's bowl, and signaled her to taste with her eyes.

Renqiu County was just a temporary resting place for Zhou Xingzhi and his party. They got into the carriage around noon the next day and set off for Hejian.

About an hour and a half later, the gate of Hejian Mansion appeared in front of everyone.Zhou Xingzhi rode ahead on horseback. There was no checkpoint at the city gate of Hejian Mansion, and the group entered the city smoothly.

"Cousin, where is your family?" Although the Yang family is Zhou Xingzhi's mother family, she has never been back.Moreover, the relationship between Yang Bai'an's father and Zhou Xingzhi's mother is also mediocre. In terms of blood relationship, they have already surpassed the third server.

"On the east side of the city, it will take about half an hour to take a carriage." After coming to the familiar environment, Yang Bai'an became much more lively, "If you are not in a hurry, cousin, you can go there while shopping. , I remember there is a plum blossom forest nearby, you can see the plum blossoms.”

"Okay, then I will trouble my cousin to be our tour guide." Zhou Xingzhi replied with a smile.

The street in Hejian is much more lively than the street in Renqiu. There are many shops on both sides of the street, and basically everything you can think of is sold there. Even Ye Ningxuan was very moved when she saw it.

This kind of heartbeat is not because of the many and precious things in the store, it is simply because of seeing different things, I like it and want to buy it, it has nothing to do with quality or price.

Zhou Xingzhi didn't have much interest in shopping, and just followed Ye Ningxuan as a tool for payment and praise, recording prices in his free time, and observing the people coming and going on the street.

Soon Zhou Xingzhi saw a familiar name and shop. After seeing a big [-]% ​​off poster at the entrance of the shop, he couldn't help laughing.

"What's the matter, is this inappropriate?" Ye Ningxuan looked over suspiciously, holding a jade pendant the size of a little finger in her hand.

"No, I just saw the shop opposite." Zhou Xingzhi moved aside as he said so that Ye Ningxuan could see the opposite side.

After seeing the shop on the opposite side, Ye Ningxuan couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth, "Tsing Yi is really good, and has already made business outside."

"That's fine, the bigger her business is, the richer we will be." Zhou Xingzhi stretched out his hand as he spoke, holding the small jade pendant and looking at it, "Do you like this kind of gadget?"

"The color of this little jade pendant is well chosen." Ye Ningxuan put the jade pendant in Zhou Xingzhi's hand, pressed her index finger on the jade pendant, and let the cylindrical jade pendant roll around in her palm, "Look, near the bottom There is a piece of yellow variegation in the part of the pendant. Originally, the appearance of this variegation would affect the value of the jade pendant, but the sculptor had an idea and carved this yellow color into a koi. It is a very good subject matter. .”

"Shopkeeper, how much is it?" Zhou Xingzhi raised his head and asked.

"It's not expensive, ten taels of silver is enough." The shopkeeper said with a smile.

Zhou Xingzhi nodded, and took out a bank note with a face value of 20 taels from his purse.Yesterday, Master He gave a total of 2000 taels of silver as a thank-you gift, Zhou Xingzhi gave 800 taels of it to Jiang Qianhu himself, and the remaining 200 taels were regarded as one-tenth of the income tax, which was collected by her.

"This is ten taels of silver, please keep it." The shopkeeper quickly confirmed the authenticity of the bank note, "Do you two need a box for it?"

"No need." Ye Ningxuan said, bent down and put her hands on Zhou Xingzhi's belt, and hung the jade pendant on it two or three times.

"You should keep this little jade pendant with you," Ye Ningxuan said, "I heard Tsing Yi say that koi will bring good luck to people."

"Okay." Zhou Xingzhi responded with a smile, "I will always wear it."

The author has something to say: rub your hands, the bear will deal with it later