Chapter 1499 Buying Iron

Ji Zhenniang was stunned. She looked at Mrs. Han and then at Sister Yu. When she saw Sister Yu turned her head away from her, she shed tears sadly: "I didn't mean to do it. I really like Gu Xiaoyu, too. I’m grateful that she saved me.”

Han sneered: "Your gratitude is just to laugh at her behind her back?"

Ji Zhenniang was speechless.

After a few days of contact, Mr. Han came to know Ji Zhenniang's temper. She was someone who cared about food but not about fighting. The more familiar she was with her and the better she treated her, the more she would push for her.

Xie Cheng is like this, Qin's siblings are like this, after a while, her family will become familiar with her, Ji Zhenniang will also feel that it is natural for her family to treat her well.

"Brother and sister Qin is an open-minded person and I won't argue with you about this. But sister Xie, you can't be ignorant. You are not young, you are almost twenty. Brother and sister Qin is only three months shy of sixteen. You are so much older than her. Why? Can you accept her favor but laugh at her behind her back?"

"If you act like this in the capital, you will not only be laughed at for not having a tutor, but you will also offend people, make them hate you, and then kill you behind your back."

"Do you know why noble families and aristocratic families look down on merchants? It's because you merchants only have money but no knowledge, no rules, and are ungrateful. Your actions are comparable to shameless villains..."

Damn it, Han said a lot, and Ji Zhenniang was so scolded that she burst into tears.

Han said: "Stop crying. If you do something wrong and don't want to correct it, you will just cry. Crying is the most useless thing!"

Then he said to the driver: "Stop the car."

The driver was from the Han family, so he stopped the car quickly after hearing this.

Han said: "Thank you, sister-in-law, please go back first. My sister Yu is at the age where she needs to learn how to behave. If you are so ungrateful and don't remember your benefactor's kindness, if you stay with you for a long time, I'm afraid you will teach sister Yu a bad lesson." "

Ji Zhenniang was confused. Why did she teach Sister Yu bad things?

She was about to quibble, but the Han family's nanny grabbed her arm and "helped" her off the carriage.

"Madam!" Nanny Xie hurriedly got out of the car and supported Ji Zhenniang who almost fell.

Mrs. Kuang was watching the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal. When she saw Ji Zhenniang was suddenly kicked out of the Zhang family's carriage, she immediately asked someone to drive over and said, "Hey, Mrs. Xie, what kind of nonsense did you say again to get kicked off?" You deserve it! I told you before, get rid of your temper. Your family is a merchant family in Linhe Prefecture. Do you really think you are the eldest daughter of a noble family? Now you meet a real noble family. Miss, you must suffer a loss."

Ji Zhenniang was so angry that she pointed at Kuang and said, "You..."

"Bah! What do you mean? Go ahead and scold Mrs. Zhang if you dare. She is the eldest lady of the Earl's Palace. Her son will be an uncle in the future. He is a real nobleman. Do you dare to scold her? Do you dare to scold her? With just one sentence, people dare to complain to the emperor, and you and your whole family will be arrested and beheaded in the capital!"

Kuang cursed so fiercely that Ji Zhenniang had no chance to reply. She left after cursing, leaving Ji Zhenniang to continue crying.

Mrs. Kuang also turned around and yelled at Ji Zhenniang: "You're crying, you're celebrating the New Year. You're crying before the first lunar month is over. Do you have to mourn by yourself?!"

After saying this, Ji Zhenniang, who was afraid of death, immediately shut up.

When Xie Cheng learned what was going on here, he rode over on horseback, supported Ji Zhenniang and said, "Stop crying, go back to our carriage first."

When Ji Zhenniang saw Xie Cheng, she finally found someone to support her. She cried out of breath and said, "I'm really not ungrateful, I just said something."

Xie Cheng said: "Yeah, yeah, Zhenniang is not an ungrateful person. Let's go, get in the carriage first."

Jin Baihu passed by with his soldiers. After hearing this, he said to Xie Cheng: "Xie Baihu, your husband is too weak. She is just a merchant girl and not a lady. Why are you coaxing her? We're waiting. After going to the northwest, I will find you some beauties who are gentle, sensible, and have good backgrounds. Don't be such a coward all the time. How much will it affect the reputation of our southern soldiers by coaxing a merchant girl?"

After saying that, he rode away.

Ji Zhenniang was confused, remembering what Han said... Could her Ji family really be so unworthy? Is it the home of a humble merchant?

Seeing that she was stunned, Xie Cheng carried her into the carriage and asked her worriedly: "Zhenniang, are you okay? Just talk and don't be in a daze."

Ji Zhenniang let out a cry and burst into tears. She grabbed Xie Cheng's clothes and asked, "Is the Ji family really so miserable? But Gu Xiaoyu's family is also a businessman. Why isn't she being criticized?!"

Xie Chengdao: "The eldest son of the Gu family is our young San Yuan Lang from Jianghuai. He is a scholar. The Gu family is considered a noble family, not a merchant. Moreover, the Gu family is farming and has a lot of land. The shops in their name are rented to others. If there is no shop, it will be a waste." It’s not considered a merchant, but a home for farming and studying.”

Gu Jinli's family had thought of this for a long time, so apart from the workshop, they did not open any shops under their own name. The shops they bought were rented out. The shops in the county town were recorded under Lao Yan's name, and the shops in Fucheng were registered under Gu Jinli's name. Chen Gu Dagui and Gu Dashan managed it, but Gu Dashan and Gu Jinan didn't occupy it at all.

But the Ji family is different. All the shops are under the name of Mr. Ji, and there is not much land. The whole family relies on the shops to make a living, so they have long been designated as merchants.

After hearing this, Ji Zhenniang had no words to refute and she shed tears silently.

Xie Cheng sighed: "Although you have a good relationship with younger siblings Qin, and younger siblings Qin are also open-minded and don't care too much about you, it's really not right to laugh at younger siblings Qin behind their backs. Sister-in-law Zhang is a noble girl, and she was hired from the palace. As an old palace maid, you have strict rules as a nun. If you say bad things about Qin's younger siblings in front of Sister-in-law Zhang, will Sister-in-law Zhang not be angry?"

He said sincerely: "Mother Zhen, I know you didn't mean it, but you really need to change your temper. If you don't change it, you will offend people we can't afford to offend in the future, and you won't just get scolded a few times." . There are many generals in the northwest, and there are generals’ wives and old ladies all over the place. I am just a small household. If you really offend those people, I won’t be able to protect you with my life.”

If Gu Jinli hears this, he will definitely chuckle and say: Xie Baihu, you are worrying too much. Your Ji Zhenniang is the best at looking after people's food. If she meets those high-ranking ladies, let alone offend her. Being able to kneel down and flatter someone right away.

After hearing this, Ji Zhenniang was so frightened that she trembled. Over the past few days, her relationship with Xie Cheng had improved a lot. She also knew that Xie Cheng was having a hard time working outside, so she didn't want to bring him down. After crying for a while, she nodded and said: " I understand... just take me to the Gu family's carriage."

She didn't dare to go there alone for fear of being kicked out by Gu Jinli.

Xie Cheng laughed when he heard this: "Okay, I'll take you there."

Gu Jinli was very annoyed with Ji Zhenniang, but when he heard that she had been scolded by the Han family, he felt very happy. He asked Ji Zhenniang to get on the carriage, laughed at her, and laughed at her aggrieved look.

Aunt Tao took the opportunity to teach Ji Zhenniang. Ji Zhenniang only gave up after realizing her mistake.

…

After the banditry, their army received many horse-drawn carriages and mule-carts. Since the wounded soldiers and their relatives had cars to ride on, their journey was not delayed.

After leaving Laoguzhuang, we drove for another month, and finally arrived at Beicang Mansion on the day when the dragon raised its head in February.

Further ahead from Beicangfu is the real northwest land, so armies from all walks of life will rest in Beicangfu for a few days to replenish various supplies.

And what everyone buys the most is ironware.