Chapter 41 Outing 4

"After all, you are my mother, and I can't believe it." When the ninth sister saw that there were some happy snacks on the table, she took a small piece of lotus and put it in her mouth regardless of Aunt Zhou's hospitality. She decided to let Aunt Zhou manage the shop regardless of the past.

Aunt Zhou quickly calmed down after the shock and looked at the ninth sister quietly, feeling that it was a little unreal. She and the ninth sister got married in Zhejiang. Although she secretly knew that the fifth sister had mercy on the ninth sister and secretly took good care of the ninth sister, she did not think this was the reason for the ninth sister. After all, this is the foot of the emperor, and the ninth sister doesn't have to care about her at all.

Suddenly, she suddenly thought of some clues, and her pupils gathered slightly. The ninth sister thought well. It turned out that she had always been used by the ninth sister.

Sister Jiu didn't intend to give the dowry shop to anyone. Aunt Zhou thought about Sister Jiu's words just now and knew Sister Jiu's intention. Sister Jiu arranged a way for her. If she wanted to manage the remaining three shops all the time, she would be forced to become Sister Jiu's person. It was completely impossible for her to protect herself in Xue's mansion.

In addition, Sister Jiu has no intention of withdrawing the shop at all. Even if she gets married, the shop is still in the hands of Aunt Zhou. Can she let go at that time? She asked herself, no, how could she give up her painstaking management. At that time, if she wants to continue to run the shop, she will have to give up her identity as the wife of the master of Xue's mansion and leave Xue's house, but she can still have no worries about food and clothing. Then she is completely the ninth sister.

For a while, Aunt Zhou's heart was mixed.

"When did you start to arrange it like this?" Aunt Zhou was particularly unwilling, and her chest fluctuated with excitement.

"Well, very early, no matter whether my father died or not, I will always go back to Xue's house. Without my mother, I am nothing. Maybe my grandmother will let my father continue the string. At that time, she was not only my granddaughter. At that time, it would be more difficult for me to stand in Xue's house. It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, and now even my father has gone.

"Since you have come to Xuefu in the capital, these dowries will still be coveted. It's better to let familiar people help take care of the shop. You are my concubine's mother, but after all, you are not the direct mother, and the fifth sister is by your side. No matter how you take care of those shops, you are still my dowry. I have suffered from you for two years, and I still have to earn a little interest back. The ninth sister smiled brightly. That's why she could ignore Aunt Zhou's harm in those years, and she could laugh with her fifth sister.

The ninth sister lowered her eyebrows, and her eyelashes fanned like a fan. She has been planning for the future since she took over this body, hiding it from everyone, including her closest mother Yao.

Aunt Zhou took a cold breath, and the harmless smile of the ninth sister turned into a thorn in her heart.

In the past two years, she has been working hard to make wedding clothes for others in the end. She is unwilling, she is unwilling!

"The fifth sister is virtuous, different from you." She added, "Now I call you a concubine's mother for the sake of the fifth sister. Five sisters will have a good home in the future.

Aunt Zhou's face has changed again and again, if she falls to the old lady now? The corners of her eyes twitched. No, Sister Jiu has blocked her way. I'm afraid that if she stands beside the old lady today, she will be kicked out of the house tomorrow. Looking at Sister Jiu's immature face, she believed that Sister Jiu still had a back hand.

"I have been in that shop for two years, and I'm really worried if I hand them over to others." Aunt Zhou relaxed and agreed to Sister Jiu's request. She had no choice.

"But you'd better take back the shop in the old lady's hand. Although that shop is engaged in the spice business, most of the spices are shipped from Tibet, Dashi and Tianzhu. Every batch of goods can be spent by Xuefu for a year or two." Aunt Zhou frowned and looked sad.

"Hmm?" The ninth sister was stunned. Did her dowry shop do business in Tianzhu? Although many foreigners come to do business in Dazhou now, after all, they are in the minority. The profit of each purchase is large, but the risk is equally large. What's more, Tianzhu is rich in spices. As for Tubo, although Dazhou is now regarded as the Celestial Empire and pays tribute to cattle and sheep spices every year, the wolf's ambition is well known to passers-by.

What else does her mother know? Sister Jiu couldn't help shouting in her heart.

"What are the other shops doing?" The curiosity in the ninth sister's heart is even stronger.

"Pharmaceuticals, cloth, restaurants."

Sister Jiu's forehead kept twitching, and clothing, food, housing and transportation occupied both food and clothing, as well as the luxury of spices. No wonder Aunt Zhou was reluctant to let go.

"Wow--" Sister Jiu exhaled a long breath of turbidness. She saw how powerful her mother was, at least in terms of business, she was more visionary than most people in this era. Of course, it also makes her pay more attention to her own shops and can't let others take them away. But now, she still relies on the old lady and can only put the spice shop in the old lady's hand.

"Grandma just helped me take care of the shop." A bitter smile appeared from the corners of the ninth sister's lips. A touch of shadow flashed in her eyes, and what she ate was going to spit out for her, but not now.

"Everything is up to you." Aunt Zhou gritted her teeth and spit out these words, but there was no dissatisfaction in her appearance.

"Don't take that spice shop too seriously. Although the profit of this shop is high, the risk is very high. These are the most important for the people of Dazhou to be separated from food, clothing, housing and transportation, and those who don't go to see a doctor and get medicine when they are sick.

Aunt Zhou was shocked again. She lost to Sister Jiu and was quite unwilling. She lost to an eight-year-old child. But what Sister Jiu said just now is the same as what the eldest wife once said to her.

"I think my mother opened this spice shop because the other three shops needed a lot of money and had to take risks." The ninth sister said her own guess. Maybe there is another more important use. She guessed deeply again.

"The old lady once said this to me, and it's true." Aunt Zhou looked a little respectful to Sister Jiu.

"I won't care about those three shops. Put your heart in your stomach. If you don't want to do it one day, that money will be enough for you to retire. There is a saying: People's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants. Mother, take care of yourself."

Sister Jiu's words made her blush, and the appearance of Sister Jiu's indifference made Aunt Zhou angry. What is self-righteous? The shop was in her hands for one day, and the old lady stared at her. Which of the second wife and the third wife was not jealous? Even the second aunt wanted to get a piece of the pie. Sister Jiu stuffed all the questions to her?

Aunt Zhou was angry, but she could only grit her teeth and respond. Who made her equally jealous of these shops. The profits earned by each shop in a year are enough for her to live a lifetime, and the money she put into her pocket in the past two years is enough to live for the second half of her life. No one will be jealous.

"Don't worry, the shop won't have any big problems in my hands." Aunt Zhou greeted each other with a smile, but Sister Jiu didn't care at all, so Aunt Zhou's words behind her naturally couldn't say anything.

The ninth sister raised her face and looked at Aunt Zhou's hesitant look and said with a smile, "If you have anything to say, just say it directly. Maybe we won't have many opportunities to say intimate words like today in the next few years."

"In the future, you must find a good family for your fifth sister. I don't ask her to be rich, as long as the family is kind. It's enough to find a landlord gentry to live as the fifth sister. Aunt Zhou said sullenly.

"I won't treat the fifth sister badly." The ninth sister's tone suddenly cooled down, and she didn't need others to give her advice. Aunt Zhou's words don't seem to be greedy, but after all, Sister Jiu has gone through a lot and suddenly heard it. Although the landlord gentry is not as glorious and rich as Xue's mansion, generally speaking, there are few women and can be the master mother. If they give birth to a son and take the imperial examination in the future, they will be superior. Her mother, who was born as a concubine, is also so tall. Who dares to show her face?

"The drawing screen is coming. Let's not talk about this for now." Far away, Sister Jiu saw the painting screen running this way in a hurry and quickly stopped the topic with Aunt Zhou.

"I'm afraid you don't want others to know these words today, and I don't want Yao's mother and the painting screen to know." Sister Jiu said seriously.

"I know, the second aunt's side--"

Sister Jiu is a little unhappy. Obviously, you provoked the second aunt. Do you still need me to solve it in the end?

"You can do it yourself." The ninth sister said in a hurry.

"Sister Jiu, are you all right?" The painting was panting, and there was still panic on his face. He looked up and down at the ninth sister.

"No, my mother treated me very well and specially prepared some snacks for me." Sister Jiu said with a smile.

The painting screen stared at the snacks on the stone table in panic, and the panic on his face became stronger and stronger. Sister Jiu couldn't help laughing. Aunt Zhou was not so stupid and dared to poison the food.

She stood up and blessed Aunt Zhou. "Jiu'er went to play with the fourth sister first and left first."

After saying that, regardless of the painting screen's desire to stop talking, she left the pavilion first. When she went far away, the ninth sister said to the painting screen with a smile, "Don't worry, the second aunt and fourth sister saw that I had met Aunt Zhou, and she didn't dare to poison me."

The painting screen looked at Sister Jiu in disbelief.

The ninth sister nodded, indicating that she was really fine. After a long time, the painting screen saw that the ninth sister's face was still ruddy, and then she let go of her hanging heart.

The spring on the mountain is bright and beautiful, and there are several paper kites flying in the sky. Sister Jiu can't help stretching her waist. She is really in a good mood today.

"Ninth sister, this way!"

When the ninth sister heard the fourth sister's cry, she looked around and saw the fourth sister holding the spool in her hand. The paper kite in the sky flew very high, and the ninth sister trotted a few steps to the fourth sister.

"Where's your second aunt?"

"Auntie went back after basking in the sun. She can't see me playing so wildly. Come on, here you are!" The fourth sister put the spool in her hand in the ninth sister's hand.

Sister Jiu played in a rare good mood, looking at the paper kites flying freely in the sky, and the smile on her face was even worse.

"Sister Jiu, put it quickly, a little higher, a little higher." The fourth sister clapped her hands, shouted happily, and suddenly became anxious again, "Take it back quickly, collect it quickly, it's going to be entangled with another paper kite, oh--"

Two paper kites fell down in the sky. The fourth sister quickly took the ninth sister to find the paper kite.

It's a pity that Sister Jiu hasn't played Paper Kyuan for a long time, and her technology is so bad. From afar, she seems to see a familiar figure coming here.