my grandmother

Gu Yan stood at the door of Nuan Pavilion, wearing a silver and white gown without a belt, with his hands behind his back, looking at Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan stood under the steps, looking up at Gu Yan.

"Come in." Gu Yan laughed when she saw her, and motioned to Li Xiaonan sideways.

"This is the autumn tea from the mountain behind Bieye in Hangzhou, you can try it." Gu Yan poured a cup of tea and pushed it in front of Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan picked up the cup and took a sip carefully.

"Zhou Chennian said you asked Yu Chengfu to come and find him, why didn't you follow it yourself?" Gu Yan changed the subject.

"How can I accept Yu Chengfu's ambitious look?" Li Xiaonan replied.

"Why can't you accept it?"

Li Xiaonan raised her eyebrows and looked at Gu Yan without answering.

Why can she afford it?
"Where is the prince? Are you back?" Li Xiaonan asked.

"Going back by sea, the emperor is not in good health." Gu Yan lowered his voice.

Li Xiaonan gave a light oh and sighed.

In the current time and space, it is really rare for people to live in their seventies.

Gu Yan also fell silent, and for a moment, pushed the letter on the table in front of Li Xiaonan, "I've read it."

When Gu Xiaonan saw that it was Mrs. Shi's letter, she said oh, folded the letter and put it in her sleeve pocket, "Is it useful?"

"Well, the Taixue student who was on the impeachment papers has a little relative with Pang Xiang, but his brother was born under Wang Xiang's family. Mrs. Shi's younger brother has no eyesight, and has a withdrawn personality. There are not many literary talents who can move him. .

"After Mrs. Shi returned, there were only two occasions to invite him. One was the autumn party hosted by Wang Xiang's youngest son, and the other was a banquet for Wei's family." Gu Yan snorted coldly.

"Big lady is really amazing." Li Xiaonan praised.

"She is thoughtful and very smart." After a pause, Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan, and said seriously: "Her cruelty is more than clever, even if it is her closest relatives, parents, children, husbands and brothers, who hinder her, or She felt that it should be cleared up, and she would do it without hesitation.

"This person can be an alliance, not a friend."

Li Xiaonan nodded quickly.

What kind of alliance can she make with Mrs. Shi?Who is the alliance against?
"She wrote this letter for you." Li Xiaonan looked at Gu Yan.

"Her letter is for you." Gu Yan frowned.

Although he couldn't figure out where he showed his traces, he felt that the reason Mrs. Shi wrote to Ah Nan was because she had guessed his plan, or because she thought it was possible to catch Ah Nan's line first.

But what is the purpose of her making friends with Ah Nan?What does she want to do?
He didn't want A'nan to have any relationship with Mrs. Shi, but for these two, he couldn't talk on Mrs. Shi's side, and on A'nan's side, he was very sure that she would not listen to him. When the eldest lady communicated with each other by letter, at most she would foolishly agree to communicate with Mrs. Shi's jbsu letter, but she did not pass it through Bieye.

Well, if that's the case, it's better to go through Bieye, at least he can know how frequent the correspondence between them is, and if necessary, he can read it secretly before forwarding it to her.

"I think the eldest lady just wants to find someone to talk to. If I can barely count as a friend with her, then it is a pen pal. A noble girl like her is too far away from me."

Li Xiaonan looked at Gu Yan's frowning eyebrows and explained seriously.

Gu Yan looked at her for a moment, then snorted.

Li Xiaonan looked at Gu Yan, who was obviously not very happy, and picked up the cup to sip tea.

From the two topics of Yu Chengfu to Mrs. Shi, she felt that she and him were talking like chickens and ducks.

Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan who was sipping tea with downcast eyes, and sighed for a moment.

She didn't understand that what he said was reasonable. Although it was reasonable, he still felt very depressed and unhappy.

"The marriage between Yang Wu and Si Niangzi has been settled." Gu Yan said abruptly.

Li Xiaonan was stunned before she realized that she was talking about General Yang and Mrs. Wei Si.

"Si Niangzi doesn't mind..." Li Xiaonan didn't finish her sentence, her tongue tied up.

This must be a private conversation that Fourth Lady told her, and it shouldn't be said.

"Nothing?" Gu Yan asked closely.

"I mean, for a person as elegant as Si Niangzi, General Yang is quite a soldier." Li Xiaonan put it another way.

"If you don't have the military spirit, how can you lead good soldiers?

"When Yang was 12 or 17 years old, he was taken to the army by his elder brother for more than a year. He went to the army for more than a year when he was [-] years old. At the age of [-], he officially received a mission. Now." Gu Yan smiled.

"The Wei family has always been the first choice for the Yang family to marry a wife. Yang Wu has always listened to the fourth sister's words since he was a child, and he is very good to the fourth sister. If there is anything wrong, it is probably a little bit of a soldier, which is not a big deal."

Li Xiaonan hummed, indeed, this marriage is far from perfect, that is, it is a little bit short, there is no perfect thing in the world.

"How is your second elder sister's marriage?" Gu Yan asked.

"There is no suitable one. The eldest sister is too busy, and the second sister is also busy. The second sister is not in a hurry at all. She doesn't seem to want to marry very much." Li Xiaonan laughed.

"Are you not in a hurry?" Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan.

"The second elder sister is not in a hurry, why should I be in a hurry? It's not that I have to get married. I mean our family." Li Xiaonan quickly added.

In this time and space, if it is not like their family, the daughter's family really has to marry.

"Your elder sister thinks so too?" Gu Yan squinted at Li Xiaonan.

"The elder sister told the second elder sister: Even if you are a few years older, don't rush to pick up vegetables in the basket. If you really marry the wrong person, like sister Mei, you might as well not marry." Li Xiaonan said with a smile.

"To your face?"

"No, I just overheard the two of them whispering." Li Xiaonan laughed.

"Coincidentally?" Gu Yan pouted.

"It's just a coincidence!" Li Xiaonan raised her chin.

Gu Yan kept laughing, nodding while laughing.

This happened to happen, and he happened to pass it too.

"How is your business?" Facing Li Xiaonan's slanted gaze, Gu Yan asked with a hasty cough.

"It's not that good. There's more money going out, but less money coming in." Li Xiaonan sighed.

"Didn't you say that you put a long line to catch big fish?"

"The long line has been released, big fish~" Li Xiaonan sighed again, "There are quite a lot, but there are also a lot of people fishing. Forget it, let's not talk about this, how is your case?"

"On my way back, when I passed through Hangzhou, the local weaving workshop had already stopped the monthly payment for the weavers, and put all the weavers in the tooth shop. Zhou Shennian said that you asked the Li family to come forward to harvest the autumn silkworm cocoons? How much can you charge? "Gu Yan frowned slightly.

"In the past month, Sister-in-law Yin's place often has people from silk and satin shops or weaving workshops gossiping by shopping."

Li Xiaonan became serious.

"I think that all the weaving workshops and silk and satin factories all over the south of the Yangtze River are looking forward to the quick settlement of your case. It doesn't matter how you close it. If you lose, it will be a setback. Everyone will be happy as before.

"If you win, everyone will quickly follow you and change the rules. No matter how you change, Jiangnan can't live without weaving workshops. If other people's weaving workshops can be opened, their own family can follow suit.

"In either of these two situations, the autumn silkworm cocoon has to be harvested. After all, after this trip to the autumn silkworm cocoon, there is still half a year before the spring silkworm cocoon."

Li Xiaonan paused, looked at Gu Yan, and then said: "If there is no letter or limelight, no one knows when the case in your hand will be concluded, and everyone dare not act rashly, and no one dares to be the first bird. In the first half month, the silkworm cocoons rotted in the hands of silkworm farmers."

After listening intently, Gu Yan hummed for a moment, "Then give them some limelight."

"I went to Linhai Town a few days ago, and Mr. Huang would sigh after saying a few words. He said that all the difficulties are on your side." Li Xiaonan looked at Gu Yan.

"Well, the prince came here this time and witnessed it with his own eyes. When he returns to the capital." Gu Yan paused and sighed, "Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. I used to think it was so difficult, but now I know How difficult."

"I think you can clean up the sea tax department, and then from the sea tax department to the capital, assist that prince to be the master of Zhongxing." Li Xiaonan looked at Gu Yan and said seriously.

Gu Yan raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Xiaonan. After a moment, he burst out laughing, and cupped his hands at Li Xiaonan, "I entrust you with a good word."