After listening to the conversation between Jin Miaomiao and Ying Shisan, Shen Cha exchanged glances with Shen Haolin and Xue Ruitian. I'm afraid he didn't have to wait until those royal censors came to the battlefield in person to experience what it means to hang on by a thread. In Xijing City On the way to the border, Commander Datong and Dai Yi can teach them how to behave well. It is estimated that these people will suffer more than they imagined along the way.
Thinking of this, Shen Cha shook his head helplessly, reached out to take the letter Xue Ruitian handed back, put it back into the envelope, put this letter aside, and continued to read the next letter.
What was in the next envelope was still not a letter, but a note with nothing written on it, but only a signature.
Shen Cha didn't recognize this signature. It wasn't Chinese characters, it seemed to be characters from the Western Regions.
She waved to Ning Cheng and handed him the note signed only by her name, asking him to see if he recognized the name.
"The writing of the Western Region?" Ning Cheng glanced at it and shook his head gently, "I really don't know it very well. General, you can ask my friends from the Western Region to take a look. They must know it."
"Okay." Shen Cha nodded. She put the note back and opened it with a signature in Western characters. There was nothing else. She put these envelopes with signatures in Western Regions aside, looked at Ning Cheng, and said, "The Ning family is still related to the Western Regions?"
"Well, it has a little bit to do with it." Ning Cheng stretched out his hand and gestured, "The Ning family has several spice shops. The Western Region spices in the shops are all bought by the master chef who personally led a team to the Western Regions, so it has something to do with it. Yes. This business was done a long time ago. They started it during my great-grandfather’s time, and it has never stopped until now.”
"That's right!"
Shen Cha instinctively felt that the matter was not as simple as Ning Cheng said. If it was really just doing business with the Western Regions, why did she collect so many notes in the Western Regions? Moreover, according to her observation, these notes came from different years. Some of the papers are relatively new, but some have turned yellow, indicating that they have been around for a long time, at least from the time of Ning Cheng's grandfather.
However, she didn't plan to speak out her thoughts. She wanted to wait for the Western Region businessmen to arrive and understand what the note meant before she expressed her views. This would be more convincing.
As she thought, she reached for the next envelope. This envelope was a bit heavy. After pouring it out, she found a key inside.
"This is..." Ning Cheng looked over and took a look, "This is... if I'm not mistaken, it should be the key to the Ning family's old house."
"Ning's old house?"
"Yes!" Ning Cheng nodded, "The place we live in now was built by my grandfather. It is considered a new house. Before that, there was an old house on the outskirts of Chaozhou Mansion, but it has been abandoned. Even I don’t go there anymore to worship ancestors or anything like that." He said while looking at the key, "Why did the patriarch keep the key to the old house? How strange!"
"Do you know the location of the old house?" Shen Cha raised his chin towards Ning Cheng, "If I ask you to draw it, can you draw it?"
"It can be drawn. When I was a child, I went to the old house. That place has not been visited in the past ten years. Because the new ancestral hall has been built, all the ancestors' tablets have been moved here. .”
"Okay, then you draw!"
Shen Cha waved to Hongye and saw Hongye leading Ning Cheng to the table on the other side and asking him to draw a picture of the old house. She would find Chaozhou's shadow to investigate it herself.
She saw that Ning Cheng was obediently going to draw a picture, and then continued to read it for the current head of the Ning family. It was the head of the Luan family who told the head of the Ning family what he had been doing recently, and there were also many bitter words. Her brows furrowed as she looked closer, and the expression on her face became stranger and stranger.
"You..." After reading the last letter, the expression on Shen Cha's face was indescribable. She sighed softly and said, "Don't you think the relationship between Boss Luan and the head of the Ning family is very... Is it strange?"
"It's indeed strange." Shen Haolin, who was sitting next to Shen Cha, and Xue Ruitian, who was standing behind her, said at the same time, "Compared to ordinary cooperation,
For readers, is the relationship between the two of them too close? Isn’t it a little too strange for these two words of longing and longing to come out of their mouths? So weird, isn't it? "
"Yes!" Shen Cha nodded, "But these two people are kindred spirits. Looking at the letter written by Boss Luan to the head of the Ning family, basically they both think about the same thing and appreciate each other's ideas very much. ,right?"
"That's right, boss Luan said that the market for Wangyou Powder has been opened. Just follow what Brother Xian said and raise the threshold for buying and selling. There is no need to make money from those poor people. It is better to make money from those who have rich families. Okay." Xue Ruitian had a look of disgust on his face, "These two people are just messing around for women. You don't think at all how despicable and beastly they are, right? Also, I remember that one of the letters mentioned Boss Luan. What happened in the Western Region, did he talk about the city lord’s daughter?”
"Really?" Shen Cha thought for a while, then opened the letters again. In three of the letters, he found information about the Western Region and the youngest daughter of the lord of Ubi City. "Here, here, Boss Luan said that giving up the salt and iron business was a very correct choice, because the risk of that business was too great, and it was not something that businessmen like them could bear. Even if they had a backer, I'm afraid it would really If the scandal happened, their backers would abandon them mercilessly. He also cited the example of Ningchang State, saying that Ningchang State was already in that position and gave up as soon as they said they would. They didn’t feel any regret at all. This made They were very chilled."
"They are coldhearted and still work for the people behind the scenes. Are they stupid?"
"It's not that they are stupid." Madam Ning shook her head gently, "It's that there is no other way. I guess the mastermind behind it must have the handle on them, or their lives are in someone else's hands!"
"That's what the old lady said!" Shen Cha nodded, "Ah, here, the youngest daughter of the Lord of Ubi City was mentioned, saying that she..." She sighed softly, "that she couldn't bear the harassment from her ex-fiancé. , died together with that ex-fiancé."
