Selling Favors

Author: Silent

Selling Favors

Zhang Zhou returned to his yard. As soon as he entered the backyard, he saw Wang Mingshan surrounded by several women from his family.

Wang Mingshan had just put on the clothes prepared for her as a royal guard of Qianhu, and the flying fish embroidered spring knife was worn on her daughter's body for the first time, which made Jiang Pingyu and Han Qing look particularly fresh.

Fei pulled her and let her show her off.

Wang Mingshan doesn't have any scheming ideas. When others ask her to show off, she is like a movable clothes hanger, spinning her around wherever she is told.

Zhang Zhou looked from a distance and felt that there was something new on Wang Mingshan's face that had never appeared before, and there was a light and brisk lift between her eyebrows.

It seems to be fun too.

Faced with such a girl who has a bit of innocence and innocence.

Zhang Zhou suddenly felt that some facts were too cruel.

Until now, Wang Yue's death was still a secret to the court, but Zhang Zhou did not want this secret to remain between him and Wang Mingshan.

If there is, there is, and if there is nothing, there is nothing.

Facing a girl like Wang Mingshan, whose eyes were full of transparency and innocence, Zhang Zhou really couldn't think of any need to complicate a simple problem.

To make her understand the gray things in the world, she needs to be exposed to the sinister nature of people's hearts.

"master."

When Jiang Pingyu and others saw Zhang Zhou, they all came over to greet him.

After Zhang Zhou nodded, he let Jiang Pingyu and Han Qing go into the backyard first, leaving Wang Mingshan alone.

Wang Mingshan thought Zhang Zhou also liked to use her as a clothes hanger, and then she walked around in front of Zhang Zhou, probably to let Zhang Zhou judge whether her clothes fit her.

"Do you like this outfit?" Zhang Zhou asked.

Wang Mingshan was startled for a moment, then handed the knife in her hand forward.

The meaning is obvious.

She didn't feel anything about the clothes, but she liked the knife very much.

"Come here." Zhang Zhou called her and asked her to come to the stone bench.

Zhang Zhou was sitting, and she was standing next to Zhang Zhou as before, like a loyal guard, but she didn't have this style before, and it was not formal enough.

Zhang Zhou stretched out his hand.

Wang Mingshan put the knife in Zhang Zhou's hand, but Zhang Zhou put the Xiuchun knife on the stone table. When he reached out again, Wang Mingshan naturally put his hand over.

When holding hands together, Zhang Zhou could also feel the warmth on the hands of a girl with a cold heart.

This kind of warmth was probably brought to her by him and this family.

It was something she had never felt before.

Zhang Zhou looked at the hand in front of him. The skin on the back of the hand was quite delicate, but the palm was slightly calloused. From this, Zhang Zhou knew how hard Wang Mingshan had worked to practice martial arts since she was a child.

Unlike other women in Zhang Zhou's backyard, Wang Mingshan did not object to Zhang Zhou holding her hand. In other words, she did not think it was appropriate or inappropriate, nor was she shy or grudge. In her eyes, there was a big difference between the relationship between far and near.

Obviously, she was not wary of the people in the yard, but when she walked outside she was like a female leopard, always alert.

"Mingshan, I don't want to hide it from you. Your grandfather passed away two days ago. He passed away peacefully. It will probably take ten days before your family mourns."

When Zhang Zhou said this, Wang Mingshan's arms suddenly tightened with a natural reaction.

After a brief absence, she looked at Zhang Zhou again and shook her head, feeling that this did not seem to be what really happened.

Zhang Zhou sighed.

He knew that in Wang Mingshan's heart, Wang Yue's image was too majestic.

That is the flag of the Wang family. The situation of the Wang family in the past few decades is most directly related to Wang Yue. Once it was glorious and fell into decline, the whole family was homeless, and then came back... Wang Yue resisted everything that the Wang family has experienced in the past few decades.

Everything, when Wang Yue collapsed suddenly, for the Wang family, it was no less than the sky falling.

In the heart of a simple-minded girl like Wang Mingshan, how could the sky fall?

The sky should always be above our heads, and the wind, frost, rain and dew that the Wang family has experienced should always be under the protection of the sky...

Zhang Zhou took her over.

I wanted to say a few words of comfort, but found that it was all in vain.

It was different from the sadness on Wang Shouren's face.

Wang Mingshan didn't believe it, or she was...at a loss. She didn't know how to face this situation.

Probably she also knows that this is no less than the sky falling for the Wang family, but she also feels that she has married into the Zhang family and has nothing to do with the Wang family. So does the Wang family's sky mean anything to her?

Emotional bond?

In the first ten years of her life, as long as she can remember, the Wang family has been homeless. Her mother and female elders around her are absent, and no one takes care of her. She can only learn martial arts. No one has ever cared about her, and she can't even recognize a word.

A few people had told her about filial piety and etiquette, but those things were too far away or too unreal for her.

Even she and Zhang Zhou were given as "gifts" by the family, without even consulting her...

"If you feel a little unhappy, go practice sword practice, sweat it out, and take a shower. Go look at the few weapons I gave you to see if there is anything you can use. If you are still unhappy, go and talk to your two sisters.

Talk to them and ask them to help you with advice on clothes and jewelry. If you like the glass beads, I will bring you some more later..."

Zhang Zhou discovered that it was actually quite easy to comfort Wang Mingshan.

No need to coax.

She looks dull, but in fact she is so obedient and sensible that she seems to be a person who is not a human being.

There is no need to think about what she is thinking in her heart. Maybe she just emptied her head of all thoughts and didn't think about anything.

"Um."

Wang Mingshan nodded, and when Zhang Zhou put the Xiuchun knife in Wang Mingshan's hand again, Wang Mingshan walked towards the inner courtyard with the Xiuchun knife.

But just when I passed through the moon gate.

Wang Mingshan still looked back at Zhang Zhou. This time, Zhang Zhou could see the same kind of attachment in Xiao Nizi's eyes, which made Zhang Zhou feel that she was not heartless.

Zhang Zhou gave her an encouraging smile.

Wang Mingshan also nodded slightly, and then she walked towards the inner courtyard wearing the decent Feiyu suit, her sleeves fluttering.

Only at this moment, Zhang Zhou felt that Wang Mingshan's heart felt a little warmer, thinking that one day the ice might melt.

…

…

After Zhang Zhou watched Wang Mingshan enter the inner courtyard, he didn't think about doing anything.

When Wang Yue died, he was not too sad or regretful, but more felt a sense of powerlessness that "God's will cannot be violated".

Not long after, someone came to visit, but it was Jiang Dezhong who shamelessly came to visit, and what he mentioned was just a bid for rebuilding the wood and stone materials of Piantou Pass.

"...I didn't win, and for some reason, so many bidders suddenly came out this time, and the prices were not as good as others. I can only watch the business fall by the wayside." Jiang Dezhong sighed in front of his son-in-law.

Zhang Zhou narrowed his eyes and said, "You don't want me to help you get your business back, do you?"

"No." Jiang Dezhong said, "I am willing to admit defeat, but I bought a batch before. It seems that the wood and stone materials in the capital are going to plummet again, so I will use them to honor the imperial court."

Zhang Zhou had no intention of discussing this with Jiang Dezhong.

"Xian son-in-law, I'm just curious. With your current identity and status, it's easy to win that business. If you don't make any money, why bother?" Jiang Dezhong said, "But you are taking advantage of the merchants from the south. However,

Many families are bidding together this time, and I heard that some of them have accumulated a lot of wood and stone materials, and they may suffer heavy losses all of a sudden."

Zhang Zhoudao: "You don't have to focus on the coal mines in Xishan, but you always want to do some side business and cause trouble for me, right?"

"Haha." Jiang Dezhong was also quite embarrassed.

Obviously he also knew that he had caused a lot of chaos to his son-in-law.

Jiang Dezhong said: "My dear son-in-law, actually I'm here. There's someone else I want to ask you. It's the Chen family who sells salt in the south of the Yangtze River. It has nothing to do with you, right? I heard that the Chen family has recently been using the banner of Chengguo Gongfu.

We are very close to the merchants from Huizhou, and there is an Anbian Marquis recently born in Duke Cheng’s family, and I heard he is one of yours.”

Zhang Zhou frowned and said, "Did she steal your business?"

"Hey, no." Jiang Dezhong said with a sarcastic smile, "So I said this woman would not have any good results if she came to be the head of the family. I heard that she would go out to buy wood and stone without losing her fortune, but the price was still too high. She didn't win against the Huizhou Chamber of Commerce.

People, the Huizhou Chamber of Commerce really spent a lot of money this time, they didn’t even make a profit, it seems they just wanted to send money to the imperial court."

"I didn't steal your business, why did you ask her?" Zhang Zhou said coldly.

Jiang Dezhong said: "I thought that since we had done business before, it would not be aggravating for each other, but if she has nothing to do with you, then I have nothing to avoid."

Zhang Zhou frowned and said, "So you are planning to add insult to injury?"

"Exactly!" Jiang Dezhong said with disdain, "You want me to add insult to injury at this time? The prices of wood and stone materials this year are really up and down, and I have to find a way to push out the wood and stone materials quickly, so that I won't do this business again!

As for the Chen family... those who love it to death, I don’t bother to take care of it."
To be continued...