After being scumbag with the paranoid villain, I failed to escape

Chapter 61 Small trajectory changes

Hearing that she finally brought up the topic, Zuo Weiyue, who had always been curious about why Lou Huai invited Xie Shiyun to the teahouse alone, sat up straight and her little ears perked up.

Lou Huai glanced at the curious girl beside him, suppressed the corners of his lips that were about to curl up, and played with the black Buddhist string worn on his left wrist with his right hand.

"I come from a business family. Something happened to my family, so I fled to the City of Eternal Cold for a temporary escape."

"A businessman?" Xie Shiyun looked at the fine clothes and materials on Lou Huai's body, and remembered that he had previously taken out the token given by Si Yi, the third son of the Si family, and asked tentatively, "Has your family ever

Are you doing business in the capital?"

Lou Huai nodded: "That's the case, that's why I thought of asking you something after remembering that you were once a member of the prime minister's house."

At this point, in order to increase the possibility of Xie Shiyun's cooperative answer, Lou Huai added: "Of course, if the questions I ask are too embarrassing for you, you can also choose not to answer, it's okay."

Originally, Xie Shiyun did think so. After all, the place where she once stayed was unusual, and many of the news she heard could not be spread at will, so she had to be more cautious.

But when Lou Huai said this, she remembered that he had saved her before, and her heart began to waver again. She bit her lip and said, "Then Wu You, you ask first, and I'll listen to what the problems are."

Zuo Weiyue held up her cheek to look at Lou Huai, with the same curiosity on her face as Xie Shiyun.

Lou Huai nodded: "My family makes a living by selling aquatic products, but half a month ago, we got the news that the aquatic products sold by small merchants can no longer continue in the Anyang River area of ​​​​the capital, and have been monopolized by a merchant.

My father and brother were very angry and wanted to ask for an explanation, but they were both severely punished."

"If I remember correctly about aquatic products, the water transportation along the Anyang River in the capital has been secretly taken over by people from the Ministry of Industry. This monopoly shop may belong to the Ministry of Industry."

"Ministry of Industry?" Lou Huai frowned. This was completely inconsistent with the news he had learned in his previous life. In his previous life, it was clearly Prince Gong who started to interfere in the water transportation in the Anyang River area.

Xie Shiyun said, stood up and closed the window of the private room with a cautious look on her face.

"Wuyou, my father, Prime Minister Xie, once told me about this matter, saying that he could not let me talk to outsiders, but you are different. I can trust you, and you have saved me once again. I will tell the truth about this matter.

Tell you."

Zuo Weiyue remembered what Lou Huai told her on the way here, writing down all the key information Xie Shiyun said.

In order not to miss any key information, she directly wrote down what Xie Shiyun said in the booklet with the ink pen Lou Huai gave her.

But Xie Shiyun spoke too quickly. Before she finished writing down what she had written on her hand, her lips moved, as if she was planning to say something else.

Zuo Weiyue had no choice but to pull Lou Huai's sleeves and look at him for help.

Lou Huai received Zuo Weiyue's look for help. He felt happy for a moment and then interrupted Xie Shiyun and said: "Drink some tea first. After talking so much, your throat must be a little dry. There is no need to be so anxious."

Xie Shiyun actually didn't feel her mouth was dry, but thinking that this was Lou Huai's way of expressing concern for her, she still cooperated by picking up the tea cup, blowing on the white smoke on it, and took a sip.

Perhaps it was because the person she saw was the person she wanted to see, so even this low-quality tea felt a little sweet in her mouth.

Little did he know that Lou Huai did this just to allow Zuo Weiyue to keep up with the speed of her records.

Seeing that Zuo Weiyue had curled her lips and stopped writing, looking at him again, Lou Huai turned his gaze to Xie Shiyun.

Xie Shiyun drank her tea and continued: "But I heard that in addition to the Anyang River, Anyin River, East and West Chu Rivers, the water canal flows under the control of the Ministry of Industry, the South and North Chu Rivers can continue as usual.

When doing water transportation business, Wuyou, didn’t your family consider these two places at that time?”

Anyang and Anyin rivers are the two rivers closer to the imperial palace in the capital, as are the East and West Chu rivers. The South and Beichu rivers are more remote. They are in the suburbs. Unloading and loading goods in the suburbs requires additional land transportation.

cost.

Therefore, most shops will not give priority to these two rivers.

Xie Shiyun didn't know about this matter.

After Lou Huai explained the reason, she finally understood.

"In addition, my father and brother have offended the people under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry. Even if they can resume their old business in Nan and Bei Chuhe, I am afraid it will be more difficult, so I thought that I, who was originally traveling, could come to the City of Eternal Cold to take refuge.

Just to avoid it, let’s see if we can develop something here.”

What Lou Huai said was well-founded and impeccable, leaving Xie Shiyun unable to find anything to doubt.

Seeing that he seemed to really have the idea of ​​developing in the City of Eternal Cold, Xie Shiyun thought about it for a moment and finally revealed the fact that her former brother was on duty at the Ministry of Industry.

"My second brother has the best relationship with me. Even if something happened to me, he didn't alienate me. Yesterday, I received a letter from him saying that he will arrive in Yonghan in three days.

I am attending to official business in the city, so you stopped by to see me."

Xie Shiyun's second brother Lou Huai remembers that Xie Youji, who was the director of the Dushui Qingli Department of the Ministry of Industry, was the second son of Prime Minister Xie.

But despite this, he still pretended to be curious and looked at Xie Shiyun, as if asking her what her second brother's coming had to do with him.

Xie Shiyun saw his doubts and revealed Xie Youji's identity and position.

"If you can have the help of my second brother, it should be much easier for you to start your family's old business in the Eternal Cold City."

No matter how kind Xie Youji is to her, he can't always stay in the City of Eternal Cold.

So she had to make plans for herself as soon as possible while she and Xie Youji still had some old brother-sister relationship.

She couldn't count on her biological father, who was a barefoot doctor, so she could only see if Wuyou in front of her could be helped up.

Lou Huai was waiting for her words. After pretending to be surprised, he stood up and bowed down to Xie Shiyun with his hands folded as a gift.

"Thank you Shiyun. This is indeed very necessary for me right now."

As he spoke, Lou Huai seemed to have remembered something, and took out a wooden hairpin from his sleeve and handed it to Xie Shiyun.

"I am currently short of money and don't have anything good at hand. I can only use this hairpin as a thank you gift. When I am more capable in the future, I will give you a better gift."

Zuo Weiyue finished writing quickly and looked at the wooden hairpin handed to Xie Shiyun by Lou Huai. The more she looked at it, the more familiar it looked.

There is only a simple water pattern carving on the wooden hairpin, and there is even a small hole missing at the end of the hairpin, which is a bit black.

If she remembered correctly, this seemed to be something that Ah Zheng planned to throw away early in the morning?

Lou Huai: Please call me Master Perfunctory.

(End of chapter)