Author: Qingqingyinuo

In this way, food prices began to slowly slow down, and it suddenly became difficult for the Bai family to control food prices, because Bai Zhanyang found that his colleagues were disobeying him, and even dared to break with him in person.

After Lin Shuran had done what she could do, she no longer cared about the liquor store. Now she was bent on finding the whereabouts of Xu Junze and Fifth Uncle. Seeing that one month was about to pass, and the New Year would be celebrated in another month, but there was still no trace.

News about Xu Junze and the others.

On the second day of the twelfth lunar month, Hong Gu hurried back from outside. She happily told Lin Shuran that there was news about Xu Junze and Dongfang Ji, and they were now in Suzhou.

"Suzhou? He went to find Lao Wu?" Lin Shuran was also very excited when he heard the news, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Honggu replied: "I'm not sure about this, maybe it is!"

As soon as Honggu got the news, she came to inform Lin Shuran. During this period, because there was no whereabouts of Xu Junze, Lin Shuran couldn't sleep well every night. Fortunately, the child in her belly was very obedient and didn't torment her much. However, a woman cannot give birth to a child.

On that particular day, the Queen Mother even found Po Wen for Lin Shuran and let her live in the General's Mansion.

"Mom, is the little sister in your belly about to come out soon?" Xu Mingsheng, the tenth-year-old boy, asked, staring closely at Lin Shuran's big belly.

"It can't be so fast. The time should be past the New Year!" This was what Dr. Mei, who asked him for Ping'an pulse every day, said. Lin Shuran couldn't calculate it himself. Seeing the nervousness on the face of the tenth-year-old Xu Mingsheng, she deliberately teased him.

He said, "There may be a younger brother here, not a younger sister!"

"Mom, don't lie to me. She must be my sister. The eleventh brother, the twelfth brother and the thirteenth brother all said it was my sister. Grandma Zhang said that children's eyes are the most real. They can see into the mother's belly.

Is he a younger brother or a younger sister?" Xu Mingsheng, the tenth-year-old boy, said to Lin Shuran very seriously, with a tone that did not allow Lin Shuran to refute.

Lin Shuran didn't care much about having a boy or a girl. As long as it was her child, she loved both boys and girls. However, the boys at home had been thinking about their "sister" for a year. If she gave birth to a fourteenth brother for them, they would probably

I will be very disappointed, and I don’t know whether Xu Junze prefers boys or girls.

Not long after, Lin Shuran received another letter from Xu Junze. It still said the same thing. He would rush home before New Year's Eve. He didn't say much else. As for the fifth child, Xu Mingyuan, there was still no news.

Although Lin Shuran didn't want to admit it, the hope that Xu Mingyuan, the eldest son of the Xu family, was alive might not be great, but as long as she didn't see the body, she thought he was still alive in this world, and maybe one day he would stand in front of her alive again.

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The days before the New Year always passed very quickly. Lin Shuran didn't have to do anything by herself, but she still asked the people in the house to busy preparing all the things needed for the New Year. Each family's New Year's gift must also be prepared in advance.

In the middle of the month, there was another heavy snowfall in Beijing. When the snow melted away, the New Year would only be two days away.

"Brother Han, how was the business of the sugar shop and wine shop last year?" Since Xu Minghan took over the shop, Lin Shuran had not had many opportunities to see him in the house.

Now Xu Mingchen is studying and helping him with his business, while Xu Mingye concentrates on staying at home, worried that someone else will come to trouble him like Su Yunsheng did before. The other children of the Xu family also practice martial arts and calligraphy seriously every day, and their lives are peaceful.

He was indifferent, everyone was looking forward to Xu Junze and Xu Mingyuan returning home as soon as possible.

"Mom, the business is very good. I'm afraid I won't be able to have time during the Chinese New Year. Manager Wu helped me find some people. They work very hard. I follow mother's instructions and pay them a lot of wages every month. At the end of the year,

There will be rewards." Xu Minghan replied.

"Business is not done in a day. You should also pay attention to rest, but don't let your homework fall behind. Find a suitable opportunity and find a capable shopkeeper or helper. You should learn to delegate some things to others instead of doing everything yourself.

If you want to grow your business in the future, you must first learn how to manage people. If you make good use of the people under your control, you will get twice the result with half the effort!" Lin Shuran taught him.

Xu Minghan nodded, and soon Xu Mingchen and Xu Mingye came. Lin Shuran specially brought them together today, and then asked Chunxi to take out a small box and hand it to the boss Xu Mingchen.

"Mom, what is this?" Xu Mingchen asked curiously without opening it.

Lin Shuran smiled and said to them: "Here are one hundred thousand taels of silver notes. Your father wrote last time and asked you to take this money to find a man named Wu Xuan and hand it over to him."

Xu Junze's letter only asked Lin Shuran to take out five or sixty thousand taels of silver from the palace, and then asked Xu Mingchen and his brothers to deliver it to a man named Wu Jiao. She had probably known from Wu Bao what the silver was used for.

, so she took out one hundred thousand taels on her own initiative, and decided to take out one hundred thousand taels of silver every year in the future. This is not difficult for the current General's Mansion. Besides, her family's sugar shop and wine shop have such a business.

Well, just to appease the emperor, she had to spend more money. She didn't believe that Emperor Zhao Youhui didn't know at all that Xu Junze took "huge amounts of silver" from his pocket every year.

Accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. Lin Shuran has always been a person with a sense of worry. The Queen Mother and the Emperor sincerely treat Xu Junze and her well, but no one can guarantee whether this sincerity will change one day, so she does not

She hoped that one day the General's Mansion would be feared by the emperor, and she hoped that this "sincerity" would last longer.

"Don't worry, mother, this matter will be taken care of!" Xu Mingchen hugged the box tightly. He knew that Wu Jun was Xu Junze's former subordinate and now also served in the military camp in the capital. Moreover, their brothers also guessed that Xu Junze came from the mansion every year.

He probably took the money out to do something.

Lin Shuran was relieved, and Xu Junze suddenly decided to let Xu Mingchen and his brothers do this this year, which showed his trust and importance to them. I am afraid it was also to prepare for letting them enter the military camp in the future. After the New Year, Xu Mingchen and Xu Mingye

They are already fifteen years old. When they turn sixteen, according to Xu Junze's idea, they will all join the military camp.

Lin Shuran had no right to object to the fact that her children would be sent to the military camp when they reached the age of sixteen, because this was decided by the emperor and Xu Junze from the beginning.

However, Lin Shuran thought there was nothing wrong with boys going to the military camp to get some training, not to mention that they were all descendants of martyrs, but she never expected that Xu Mingchen and Xu Mingye would want to advance this time.

The three brothers took the box and went to see Wu Xuan together. After returning, Xu Mingchen and Xu Mingye told Lin Shuran that after Xu Junze came back this time, the two brothers planned to enter the military camp first.

"Why did you suddenly have this idea?" Lin Shuran looked at the two brothers in surprise and asked.

It's just a money box to give away, shouldn't it be possible to bring two sons into it?
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