"come on!!"
Deafening cheers exploded in my ears.
Manager Xie impatiently moved to the side, but the man sitting next to him took off his outer robe, held it in his hand, and waved it and shouted.
Xie Guanshi really didn't like such a rude atmosphere, so he said something to the tour guide and left the venue.
Before going out, he turned around and squinted his eyes to find Su Erlang's figure in the crowd.
Su Erlang protected Su Yunyan with his left hand and Shuyao with his right hand, and was discussing something enthusiastically with the grassland people next to him.
Manager Xie took a deep breath and decided to give up on looking for Su Erlang on this occasion.
Don't worry, there will always be a chance.
Various desires such as power and money, and emotions such as grievances and injustice are all poisonous snakes hiding in the grass.
As long as people have seven emotions and six desires, a crack will be pried open, and the poisonous snake will inject toxins through this crack.
Su Yunting didn't know yet that he was being watched.
He accompanied his wife and sister to watch a conference. After the conference, the two said they were hungry.
Su Yunting had no choice but to take them to the night market. It was so late, and her mother would definitely be asleep, so they could just have a bite outside, there was no need to bother her.
Outside the Cuju venue, there were all kinds of small vendors, some selling soups, some selling braised mutton...
The aroma of delicious food filled Su Yunting's nose. Although Su Yunting didn't want to eat anything, his appetite was aroused.
Su Yunting was worried that his wife and sister would choke and have stomachaches after eating outside, so he hired an idle man to deliver the food to Hongyun Tower first.
"Fourth brother, eleventh sister, here!"
Coincidentally, as soon as Su Yunting and his party entered Hongyun Building, they saw Chen Yixuan and his family inside, waving at them enthusiastically.
There is nothing much to say about this. Naturally, they have to be combined into one private room.
The weather was still too cold, and even though the idlers were riding their bikes, some of the food was still not warm.
Su Yunting asked the waiter to help take it to the kitchen to heat it up, and then he sat down next to Chen Yixuan.
Chen Yixuan said with some envy: "Fourth brother has improved. He used to be very venomous, but now he can even say thank you to his employees. Are you going out to sea for business or to study?"
Chen Yixuan took a look at the food that was brought in. It was all the girl's favorite. He sighed and said, "It's incredible. She used to fight with Eleventh Sister for food... ah!"
Chen Yixuan looked at his wife accusingly and asked, "What are you doing? Why are you kicking me? My feet hurt!"
"Erlang, don't be surprised. He is just like this. He is spoiled by his father-in-law and the old lady at home. He has never been out to do anything. He is already a father, but he is still so careless."
Su Yunting smiled: "Sister-in-law, you are too polite. Just call me Fourth Brother like him. We are sworn brothers. We have been through hardships together. We are no different from real brothers. After we get along for a long time, you will understand that there is no need to talk so much between us."
Chen Yixuan raised his eyebrows proudly at his wife. The look of such a smug villain was really embarrassing to watch.
Su Yunting couldn't help it and punched Chen Yixuan on the head.
"What are you doing! Fourth brother! Your brain is going to be damaged."
Su Yunting gnashed his teeth and said, "How old are you? How dare you do nothing? Your mother and wife have gone to school, and you are still lying at home?"
Chen Yixuan's expression froze, his eyes rolled around, and finally he whispered, "I've been pestering my dad these days."
"Um?"
"My godmother asked my father and Ma Dangjia to open up trade routes. I want to go too."
Su Yunting: "Can you do it? It's so difficult to be a trader. You have to sleep outdoors and it's dangerous."
Su Yunyan was puzzled and asked, "Uncle Chen has never been to business, why is mother looking for Uncle Chen?"
We are all family, there is no need to hide it.
Chen Yixuan: "This time we plan to go to Xixia and Goryeo. Doesn't my father know Goryeo? Ma Dangjia and my father are discussing whether it is better to go to Xixia together and then to Goryeo, or to go one by one."
Su Yunting couldn't understand: "Why does my mother want to go to these two places to do business? Shouldn't she focus on the south?"
Chen Yixuan crossed his legs and said nonchalantly, "Why else? We are short of money. The Great Zhou court is not a good person. On the surface, they have tacitly agreed with my godmother to stop the war, but in fact, they are blocking our trade route."
Now that there are more borders, it is impossible to completely block the trade routes.
However, if high taxes are imposed in big cities and there is a lot of extortion, it will be very annoying.
Short of money?
Su Yunting thought about how his mother was so angry that her mouth was blistered. Could it be that she was really worried about money?
Su Yunyan was so shocked by the words "lack of money" that she stood there in a daze.
What?!
I have worked so hard for so long, but my mother is still poor!
Su Yunyan's eyes were red and she was holding back tears. She said firmly, "I want to go too!"
Whether to go or not is not decided by Su Yunyan and Chen Yixuan.
Early in the morning, just after Gu Nanxi finished breakfast, he was greeted by Su Yunyan and his group of young people.
Gu Nanxi had been frowning these days because of money issues. It was rare for her to smile when she saw her children, who were like budding flowers.
"How come you have time to come here today? The wrestling tournament hasn't ended yet, why don't you go and take a look?"
Su Yunyan sat down next to Gu Nanxi, resting her head on Gu Nanxi's shoulder, sobbing, "My child is unfilial."
Gu Nanxi's heart tightened. How could this be unfilial? Did he secretly get engaged to someone?
The more Su Yunyan thought about it, the sadder she felt: "The daily expenses of the Great Zhou Imperial Court are as high as one or two thousand strings of cash, but my mother is so frugal. It's my daughter's incompetence."
The basic salary of the prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty was 300 strings of cash per month, and the entire imperial palace consumed more than 1,000 strings of cash per day, far exceeding the total salary of officials.
An official once said that the expenses of the Zhou royal court were comparable to those of a country.
This is not an exaggeration. For example, the palace consumed hundreds of kilograms of mutton every day, and the royal kitchen expenses exceeded tens of thousands of strings of coins each year. The emperor's ceremonial robes cost thousands of strings of coins.
Gu Nanxi felt sour in her heart and strongly agreed with the first half of Su Yunyan's sentence.
The prodigal son of the Emperor of the Great Zhou built the De Shou Palace for Concubine Tong. He dug a pond to draw water from the East Lake and stacked stones to imitate the Feilai Peak. The monthly maintenance cost was as high as tens of thousands of taels.
There were also entertainment agencies in the palace that specialized in training elephants and rhinos for performances. A dancing elephant required ten stones of corn for daily feed.
This is all money!
Use the whole country's strength to support one family.
If Gu Nanxi hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would have had no idea how extravagant it was.
If it were Gu Nanxi, she would definitely not be able to enjoy all this wealth and glory with peace of mind.
"Yunyan, mother doesn't like these."
No, who wouldn’t want to enjoy themselves if they can?
Gu Nanxi just doesn't want to improve his living standards by squeezing the people's money.
Su Yunyan couldn't help but shed tears. A'niang was such a selfless person!
Su Yunyan sniffed and said firmly: "Mother, I want to go to Goryeo too! Don't worry, I will definitely make a lot of money for you!"
There are many ways to make money, some are by cutting leeks, and some are by digging up the roots.
Since A Niang cares about the people in the Central Plains, Su Yunyan naturally wouldn't dig into the matter.
But what about Goryeo? (End of this chapter)
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