Chapter 20
Seeing that Gu Yuezi was still confused, Li Ling continued: "Brother, think about it carefully. Every family has a great fortune, so different people will naturally preside over each line. For example, money houses and restaurants must not be managed by one person. By the same token, the bookstores and money houses must not be able to speak in the same voice."
"The words are good, but they are a family after all..." Gu Yuezi still hesitated.
"It's right that it's a family, but aren't these two places separated? Jiangcheng is dozens of miles away from the Fucheng. How could they know the situation here? Traveling across mountains, how could the Wanai brothers let all the people in the tribe know in detail what happened here? I even suspect that the Wan family in the Fucheng didn't know at all except those who were in charge of the family power, and wouldn't care about everything here."
This time, Gu Yuezi finally understood a little, nodded slightly to express his agreement, but there was a trace of doubt in his eyes. After discovering it, Li Ling added: "The other key point is that in my opinion, even if the person in charge of the Wanjia Money House in the Mansion really knows the dispute between us and Wanai and others, he may not be unwilling to lend us money."
"How do you say this?"
"There are so many people in the Wan family, and they naturally have their own thoughts. They will inevitably fight each other openly and secretly. If they are said to be able to be one of the same brothers and uncles, I would not believe it. Moreover, Wan Ai and I can only come to our Jiangcheng County to open a bookstore, which proves that they are not at a high level at home. How could the people in charge of the important money house industry in the family care about their ideas?" Li Ling said so naturally, but Gu Yuezi fell into deep thought again. But after thinking about it, he felt that what he said was reasonable, but he was too worried.
In fact, to put it bluntly, Li Ling can see more and more deeply than him because of hundreds of years of experience. Although there are few such huge family industries in the 21st century, there are still many large cross-industry enterprises. Li Ling worked for the past time. There, several departments had to fight openly and secretly, and it was common for each other to pull each other. After all, if you fail to do something, will you show my ability?
Although time and space are different, in Li Ling's opinion, people's hearts are the same. He can make a business and at the same time make his competitors defeated. Most of the people will choose to do a vote.
After pondering, Gu Yuezi nodded and said, "Then according to what you said, we will borrow money from Wanjia Money House. I will let Manager Wu go to the next trip..."
"Why don't I go." Li Ling suddenly recommended himself: "I think I should be more suitable than the old shopkeeper in this regard. I only need some account books in our store."
"You go?" Gu Yuezi hesitated for a moment and then responded: "Since you have this intention, I naturally believe it. But have you ever been to the Mansion City before?"
This is really a problem in this era. The men and women in the city have really traveled far away, and only 100% have been to the city. Others who have not even been to the county may have been caught blindly without going far away. This is also the limitation of the times. However, Li Ling certainly cannot have such concerns. Although the original owner has never traveled to the county, he had traveled to many parts of the country on business in his previous life, and it is no problem to go far away.
"Isn't it just a trip to the city? There is a direct official road. Can I still get lost? Don't worry." Seeing that Li Ling said this, Gu Yuezi finally agreed: "Then I'll ask you, brother. But there is still a way to take care of me on the road. I'll ask Gu Gang to accompany you. He has accompanied me to the city several times before, and he is down-to-earth and steady. How about it?"
This shows that Gu Yuezi is a big business person. He has enough trust in people and can also recognize and employ people. Even if Li Ling is not a person in the bookstore, he is willing to entrust such important matters to him and truly employ people without doubt. But at the same time, he did not trust completely blindly, and left a guarantee for himself. However, this arrangement is clever enough that Li Ling is difficult to refuse. Who said that he has never been to the Mansion City?
Li Ling smiled and responded without any hesitation: "Success, I will go to the city with him tomorrow morning, and I guess I will come back before the Mid-Autumn Festival." Speaking of this, he put forward another condition: "Brother, if I can borrow the money smoothly, can I borrow 100 taels?" His solution to his own problems turned out to be here!
"Of course, even if you can't borrow money, you will help you with your own affairs." Gu Yuezi agreed. The two of them looked at each other and laughed.
After deciding on the matter, Li Ling took the bookstore's account book home. He decided to make another account for the bookstore overnight today so that the value of reading the bookstore is higher. This may be difficult for others, but it is a trivial matter for him who was in the previous life.
He came to his door with a relaxed mood. When he saw that the gate of the yard was only half closed, Li Ling felt tight and rushed in quickly, shouting, "Yue'er? Are you at home?"
Since the thief entered the door and injured his brother and sister and snatched money, Li Ling has always been vigilant in his heart. Whenever he went out, he even warned Yue'er several times to close the door. Although it was still bright now and there were people in Aunt Jin's house next door, he still couldn't help but worry.
It was not until he entered the yard and saw Yue'er coming out of the house safely, that he breathed a sigh of relief and said with some blame: "Yue'er, why are you not even closing the gate of the yard..." Then he saw another middle-aged man following Yue'er, smiling at him.
"Brother, Uncle Tong is back to see us." Yue'er was full of joy at this time, and she didn't notice Li Ling's previous nervousness at all. The latter was stunned for a moment and then laughed, "Uncle Tong, didn't you go to Jiangbei County with your sister? Why did you come back?"
When he said this, Li Ling felt ashamed. He had to think about recognizing his identity for a while. It was not until this time that he and Yue'er still had a sister who married to Jiangbei, Lin County.
In fact, if you say it carefully, it is no wonder that Li Ling is indifferent. It is because the original owner was too deeply influenced by the idea of favoring boys over girls and splashing water from his married daughter in this era. Therefore, after his sister Li Le'er married to Lin County three years ago, he was unconsciously forgotten by him, as if there was never such a person at home.
The Tong Uncle Li Tong in front of him was the slave who was dowed by the Li family. At that time, the Li family had not yet fallen, and there were many servants and maids. Li Tong was just one of them, and he had a close relationship with Li Ling and his sister before.
At this time, Yue'er's voice sounded and helped to give an answer: "It was my sister who asked Uncle Tong to come back to see us, and he brought me some delicious food."
"So that's it. Sister is really mean." Li Ling smiled and sent Yue'er to prepare the meal. Then she sat in the main hall with Li Tong and asked tentatively, "Uncle Tong, but what does my sister know, so she asked you to come back?"
"Dalang has become very different from before. He is so smart that he can see what I want to come at once." Li Tong smiled with relief and nodded to admit it. Then he looked somber. "What happened to such a big thing in the family in the past two years, why don't you think about sending someone to send a letter to the lady? Even if the lady can't help for the moment, I can always do my best, right?"
Li Ling is really hard to answer because he was not the one who made the decision before, so who knew what the cheap father and the original owner thought. After he arrived, he could not even remember such a sister who married out of his county, so it was naturally even more impossible to bring news to ask for help.
Seeing that Li Ling didn't speak, Li Tong sighed again: "It should be the master's intention? He just has a lot of face, otherwise he wouldn't..." As he said that, he sighed again: "But it's a pity that Dalang and Yue'er have been miserable."
"Uncle Tong, how did you know that something happened at home and you came back specially?" Li Ling quickly changed the subject and asked.
"It was our fellow villager from Jiangcheng County who went to Jiangbei and happened to have some friendship with a husband of a lady's friend. Then we were able to know that such a thing happened at home." Li Tong said with a lot of blame. He really couldn't accept the matter at home and needed to turn things around so that he could know it.
"Now our family still owes a lot of money outside, right?" Seeing Li Ling nodding, Li Tong took out a thick cloth bag from his close-fitting clothes, and put it on the table, making a loud noise. It was obviously not light. He pushed it to Li Ling: "This is a little money that the lady has saved money in the past few years. I weighed it, but I didn't know if it was enough to pay off the debt. If it wasn't enough, I would like to borrow some..."
Li Ling stared at the cloth bag blankly, feeling both moved and ashamed, and there was no movement for a while...
"Sister..." The image of a strange woman slowly emerged from her mind. She was gentle and quiet, always taking care of everything at home. "Sister, is she okay at the Wei family in Jiangbei?"
"It's not bad. Since we went there, my son-in-law passed the exam for scholars. Recently, he is busy taking the exam for the Juren, and the lady is also very busy."
Li Ling, who was feeling a little excited, did not notice the gloom in his eyes when the other party said this, and said with ease: "That's good. When he said he wanted to marry Jiangbei, his sister refused. It was his father who insisted on marrying her to Wei Mingcong..." As he became emotional, some memories buried deep in his mind were also awakened.
"Then these silver..." Li Tong was really afraid that Dalang would be ashamed of face as the master, so he refused to accept the silver.
"Since it's my sister's wish, I accepted it. But it was my loan. I will definitely take the money to Jiangbei to return it to my sister next year!" Li Ling said immediately. This is much more efficient and reliable than going to the capital city first, then spending time raising a few thousand taels of silver, and then coming back to pay off the debt. After all, there is still a possibility to borrow money from Wanjia Money House.
After hearing this, Li Tong laughed, "That's good, is there enough money?" As for what Li Ling said, he would not take it to Jiangbei to pay back the money next year.
Chapter completed!