"It makes no sense to see someone who is trying to bite me on the road by a poisonous snake, just because I can't grab it by seven inches, so I have to leave it there."

Rong Ting's eyes were slightly cold, and his fingers moved slightly as he spoke.

On a sunny day, Huaiqing felt the cold when she heard a few clicks and bangs in the air.

...

After returning to the mansion, Jiang Rao went to the study to find Fourth Master Jiang.

Dad thinks about his elder brother every day. He doesn't ask for fame, he wants to stay behind. Now when people in Jinling mention Ning'an's mansion, they only know that Uncle Jiang is the one in charge.

If it wasn't for her father's early fame for calligraphy and painting, and her father's rambunctious temperament, I'm afraid no one in the world would know that there was a fourth master Jiang in the Jiang residence.

When others praised her father's calligraphy and painting, her father often said that it was the elder brother who taught him well when he was young.

Daddy thinks about the uncle like this, but he will be called a white-eyed wolf by the Liu family behind his back.

She couldn't take this breath.

In the study, Fourth Master Jiang was holding a picture of a thousand mountains from his predecessor, and he was looking at it, fascinated.

Hearing that the servant said that Jiang Rao was looking for him, he slowly put down the calligraphy and painting in his hand.

Jiang Raolai didn't want to mention Liu's business directly.

She just felt aggrieved for his father.

He was hesitant to tell him about Liu Shi directly, but he didn't think about how to comfort his father so that he would not be so sad.

"Dad, are you tired of looking at the paintings?" Jiang Rao ran behind him and began to knead Jiang Siye's shoulders, "I'll pinch Daddy's shoulders."

Jiang Siye was immediately vigilant, "What do you want to do for the ninth prince?"

"No." Dare to connect "Ninth Prince" and "That boy", it is estimated that her father would dare to do this alone.

Jiang Rao lowered her eyes, "I'm afraid Daddy will be too tired."

Fourth Master Jiang snorted lightly, and seemed to be enjoying this set.

But he knows that everything happens for a reason, and his daughter will not worry about whether his old father is tired or not for no reason.

Fourth Master Jiang's eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked, "Jiang Ping told me today, did you go to the Qinhuai River?"

Jiang Rao nodded.

Hearing this, Fourth Master Jiang let out a heavy sigh, as if he had heard something troublesome. He raised his hand and rubbed her head, "Did you see the ledger."

Jiang Rao nodded again.

Jiang Siye's gaze was slightly cold, contrary to Jiang Rao's expectations, he said, "Daddy knows what the big room does."

Jiang Rao raised her eyes in astonishment.

It never occurred to me that my father knew everything.

"I specifically told your mother that the accounts of those shops will wait until

The big room will bring you to see. "Jiang Fourth Master shook his head helplessly," but you ran away by yourself. "

Jiang Rao said: "I'm worried that there is a problem with the accounts..."

"Before I wanted to go back to the shop, I thought that this account can't be cleaned up." There was a hint of helplessness in Jiang Siye's eyes, "Come here and listen to me."

Jiang Rao obediently went over and heard Fourth Master Jiang say, "When my mother left, I was younger, my body was weak, and I was sick when I was a child. My elder brother would always stay with me until I was healed, and he was not afraid of spreading my sickness. At that time, I wanted to grow up quickly and repay my big brother earlier."

"The little silver that Liu's greed took is not a lot to me, so I want to turn a blind eye and forget it. If I don't understand it, I don't know. It's just a loss of silver taels, no When it touches my bottom line, it's like a gift to my eldest brother."

Jiang Rao pursed her lips, and when she heard it, she felt annoyed.

"But now she's making my daughter angry, what should I do?"

Jiang Siye suddenly said.

The words were still soft, but the eyes became a little cold.

He still wants to repay his elder brother, but he knows it very well in his heart.

Big brother is no longer just the old big brother.

When he left Jinling six years ago, his eldest brother sent him 30 miles on horseback. Anyone who saw him would say that they were brothers.

But he remembered that after the final separation, he looked back and saw the eldest brother's expression of relief when he saw the sadness on his face.

His eldest brother may not realize it himself.

He was afraid of his younger brother, who was ten years younger than him.

What he wanted was that his younger brother would always be weak and always follow behind him, without the slightest edge, and had to rely on him for everything.

But he didn't want one, a younger brother who might threaten his title.

What's more, the eldest brother later married a Liu family who gave him pillow wind.

The more clearly Fourth Master Jiang saw, the more his heart was cut like a knife. There were only those few years when was carefree, and the time passed and couldn't go back.

He said in a deep voice, "I don't want to have a conflict with the big house, but if you feel angry, you don't have to think about Daddy."

Today, Mrs. Liu brought up Jiang Rao's abduction again, which has touched his bottom line.

When Liu Shi did things, he didn't care about his and his elder brother's feelings.

"If you want to confront Liu Shi right now, I will accompany you. If you don't want to do it now, put the ledger with me, and I will help you hide it and find someone to look at it, and it will be useful in the future. ."

His bottom line is that his wife and daughter cannot suffer any grievances.

Jiang Rao chose the latter.

She had an inexplicable intuition in her heart.

He asked quietly, "Dad, are you really not interested in the affairs of the Ning Anbo Mansion?"

Fourth Master Jiang smiled slightly. There was too much content in the smile. He held a cup of tea and said leisurely: "Man, most of them want to make achievements and make a name for themselves."

...

It is difficult to calculate the accounts of several shops, and since there are many people from the Liu family, it is not easy to clean up.

Jiang Rao settled the accounts and rearranged the staff, and closed each store for a few days before opening them one by one.

Sometimes she dreams and sometimes she doesn't. She is afraid that she relies too much on these dreams that can make her predict the past. Instead, she loses the ability to observe in life. She asks the servant girl to go out to inquire about news, and she inquires more diligently than before.

Hearing that a servant came back and said that last autumn's crops were not good, and this year's life for the common people was not easy, Jiang Rao thought about it and made a decision.

...

When Liu Shi heard that on the first day of the Jiang Rao Grain Store opening, it was going to open a warehouse for grain relief, and he laughed directly.

She sneered: "Sure enough, she is a girl who has never endured hardship. She opened a warehouse to provide food, and chose it during the prosperous years. She could earn a good reputation without losing much food. She chose this year. Those who are short of food and Like a wicked wolf, she's afraid she won't want to leave behind the corn to sell money."

Liu Shi heard that Jiang Rao had found the shopkeeper early and was going to leave the account book. She was worried about changing the account in the past few days, for fear that the problem in the account would be seen by her.

Who knew that after waiting for a long time, nothing happened.

Hearing this today, he breathed a sigh of relief, "That girl, she was really abandoned, she really has no brains."

Not only can't even see the problem in the account, but even some naive fantasy.

"These days, people who want to be Bodhisattvas can't make money."

"When will she reopen?" When Liu Shi thought that those shops wanted Huang to be in Jiang Rao's hands, he seemed to give himself a sigh of relief, "I'll go take a look at that time."

Go have a blast.

...

Egret Academy.

Twilight Quadruple.

Rong Ting was holding the book in his bedroom, Huai Qing walked in quickly, took out a piece of paper secretly from his sleeve, and handed it to Rong Ting, "His Royal Highness, I took Changxing to check, the first wife of the Jiang family. The background experience, everything that can be found, is here."

In Shouhuai Palace, because Rong Ting was studying outside, there were only two palace servants who could leave the palace. Huaiqing and Jiang Rao arranged to come in with long sleeves who knew martial arts.

Although not comprehensive enough, it should be sufficient.

Rong Ting let go

With the scroll in his hand, he took the paper, glanced at it, and then threw the paper into the candle and burned it.

He imitated Jiang Rao's usual way of taking care of his servants, and handed him the first half month's salary as Huaiqing reward silver.

Huai Qing was flattered.

"Give some to Changxing." Rong Ting said without looking back.

Huai Qing was a little stunned.

He originally thought that His Highness was so human only when he was around the Fourth Young Lady.

But now that pinched the considerable reward silver, thought to self, it would be really good to have His Royal Highness as the master.

Rong Ting turned his head back and continued to burn the paper, holding the edge of the paper with his fingers, watching the cyan flames dance, and sneered slightly, "It's not necessary to make up her handle, it's a handle in itself."

I mean Liu's.

"The Liu family is greedy for money, and what she cares most about is the shop in her dowry." His voice was cold and clear, as if he was talking about a trivial matter, and the eyelashes were thickened by the jumping firelight on the eye socket "Then destroy that shop."

He thought that with his current ability, it would be difficult to do this.

Unexpectedly, the willows are dark and the flowers are bright.

Liu Shi himself gave him this opportunity.

Huai Qing's heart trembled, and she said "yes".

He knew what Rong Ting meant.

Liu was born in the family of a first-class and second-rank official. Although her family's family was a little down, she was a direct daughter. There was a small grain shop in the dowry.

At least a lot more than Uncle Jiang's salary.

It's a pity that went directly to the shop and asked, but couldn't find out much.

It was a good idea for His Highness Ninth to ask him to find those small workers who were fired from the shop.

The dismissed workers all harbored resentment towards Liu.

There are so many tricks in Liu's shop, they simply know as much as they say.

Like last year's grain, the rice that was gnawed by mice was dried and washed, mixed with this year's grain and sold.

It's the little things.

This year, taking advantage of the lack of food, secretly set the price of rice several times higher than the price set by the government.

This is the big deal.

Privately raising the price of rice is strictly prohibited by the Dazhao Law.

However, because the uncle of the Jiang family is the future uncle of Ning An's mansion, and the price is set high only a few times, it is often the customer who sees this customer today and gives a low price, and then raises it a little when he sees the next one. , It is not easy to be noticed, and no one cares about his family at all.

And this is not uncommon in the shops opened by the powerful in Beijing.

Huai Qing suspects that those small workers are exaggerating and is afraid of him

They made it up, and they deliberately asked a few more people to confirm it repeatedly before they came back.

But Rong Ting's words just now, "It's not necessary to make up her story," made him fully understand that he shouldn't bother.

What His Highness Ninth wanted was just an excuse to clean up the Liu family, whether it was true or false.

"I will tell my father about this." The paper in Rong Ting's hand was half burned.

Emperor Zhaowu knew that he had entered the Bailu Academy, and he kept saying that he would give him a reward, and asked him if he had anything he wanted.

He now has what he wants.

He wants to move Liu's shop.

"When will Nian Nian's shop reopen?"

People call you the Ninth Highness respectfully every day, but you should be polite and call you the fourth girl Jiang.

Huai Qing blinked, "The seventh day of the lunar month. It's an auspicious day to open."

Rong Ting said, "Before this one, I will ask Mr. Yan to ask for a day off to go back to the palace, and mention this to the royal father, and you will help me prepare the carriage."

"It's best to stop Liu's shop on the day it opens every year." He smiled politely, "It's a gift for every year."

Huai Qing shivered slightly.

"Don't tell Nian Nian." Rong Ting said softly.

He didn't want Jiang Rao to know about this kind of shady method.

Huai Qing often felt that she knew too much.

But Rong Ting turned his eyes back in dissatisfaction, and said to him, "Isn't Uncle Jiang having two concubines and a maid?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he smiled as if he had seen something happy.

The young man was extremely beautiful when he smiled, as if he had gathered all the beautiful colors in the world.

Seeing his face so beautifully, Huaiqing understood why his mother-in-law was just a humble palace maid back then, but she fell into the eyes of Emperor Zhaowu and was favored by Emperor Zhaowu.

If it hadn't been for dystocia and premature death, that palace maid would be in the harem today, and I'm afraid she would also have a certain status.

"If I can successfully request the decree after I enter the palace, I will spread the news to the servants of the Jiang family that the shop is gone, and I will blame the Liu family." Rong Ting said, "It's better to let those concubines know. "

He raised his fingers and flicked away the ashes that had been burned by the paper under the candle heart. His voice was light and soft, "The backyard of the uncle Jiang's family will be very lively by then."

Obviously he is the person behind the scenes who mess with right and wrong, but because of his immortal appearance and graceful appearance, what he has on his body is just a coldness and a world away from the world's right and wrong.

...

Liu Shi packed up brightly that day, waiting to see Jiang Rao's good show.

The carriage was only halfway through the road when it was stopped.

The man was out of breath, "Ma'am, shop, shop over there.

It's up! "

The carriage stopped, Liu opened the curtain, and saw the young servant at home.

"Ma'am, the fact that the grain store in the family raised the price of rice has been impeached before the emperor's eyes. The store has been closed and is being reviewed."

Liu Shi couldn't believe it, "Who?"

Those officials are not as big as her husband's officials, and even less than the power of Ning Anbo's mansion, who dares to take care of this?

"It was the imperial decree directly issued by the emperor. It is estimated that it is a close confidant. But if the emperor does not say it, no one knows who it is."

Liu Shi's eyes were completely blacked out.

No longer caring about what happened over Jiang Rao's side, he jumped into the carriage and asked the coachman to rush home.

...

In Jiang Rao's grain shop, there is a lively distribution of rice.

She didn't show herself, but in the small private room on the second floor, she occasionally opened the window to take a look at the scene below.

In her eyes, opening a warehouse for food relief is something that she can also benefit from, and those who are short of rice and noodles can also benefit.

Her father has been away from Jinling for too long, and her reputation in Jinling has become weak. This time, she used her father's name to open the warehouse for food relief, so that when Liu Shi said bad things about her father, others would believe it.

Across the street.

The scholars of Egret Academy went their separate ways after school. The third prince saw Rong Ting walking here, and saw some commoners running here, so they followed.

Seeing that the Jiang family opened a warehouse for food relief, the third prince sighed, "No wonder the father often said that Jiang Siye's calligraphy and painting are like his own, and he is very elegant and comfortable. It is really elegant."

"I heard that he has a daughter who is about to get married. My mother mentioned it to me two days ago and asked me if I wanted to meet. I didn't think about it then, but now I kind of want to meet."

He touched his head and smiled towards Rong Ting, "Ninth brother doesn't think that a girl raised by such a family must be kind-hearted, a kind-hearted girl, doesn't she look particularly good-looking?"

In the past few days in the academy, he saw that Rong Ting was not as bad as the rumors in the Jinxiu Palace, and Mr. Yan treated Rong Ting very well. Mr. Yan's vision should not be wrong.

In addition, he heard from Concubine Shu that Rong Ting went back to the palace to talk to his father, although he didn't know what it was, but his father, Emperor Longxin Dayue, obviously valued his ninth brother very much.

He got a lot closer to Rong Ting.

——Just as close as he thought.

For a moment, Rong Ting didn't laugh, and he looked at the third prince as if he were looking at his mortal enemy.

Concubine Shu and the third prince mentioned Jiang Rao, and the person who almost got engaged when he was a child might be the third brother in front of him.

But that gloomy smile climbed on his cold and handsome face, but after a while, it disappeared suddenly, and no one else saw it at all.

His smile quickly softened, he raised the corners of his lips again, and replied, "I saw it a long time ago."

The third prince said "oh", very interested, "how is she?"

Rong Ting narrowed his eyes and said slowly, "She is the best girl I've ever met."

"Gentle, beautiful, and kind-hearted, I have known her for a long time, we have been with her together, and I know more about her character. She once cooked and delivered medicine for me, took care of me a lot, and was very worried about my leg injury. However, I know, She just took pity on me and treated me like a brother."

He paused, smiled, and said kindly, "Third brother, don't think too much."

It's just that the last few words were biting slightly harder.