Lunch was served in the dining room in Meng’s courtyard.
The old gentleman did not come, Meng, Meng Yang, Xu Yan’s family, Xu, Song Lin and Song Wan Yue and Gu Yi.
Meng Yang had heard Song Si’s name from Song Lin many times, but today was the first time he had seen him.
He was happy to see that although he had joined the Hanlin Academy and had an official position, he still called Song Wan Yue his uncle grandfather, so he took out the red envelope he had prepared and gave it to him, “It’s my first time meeting you, so I, as your uncle grandfather, don’t have anything nice to give you, inside is two thousand taels of silver, consider it a gift.”
When Song Xie wanted to push back, Song Wan Yue said aside, “Big brother take it, we all have it.”
Song Si took it, “Thank you, Uncle Grandfather.”
Meng Yang laughed happily, “Uncle grandfather has nothing else but silver, if in future any of you are in trouble and need silver, just send me a letter.”
“Then we will thank Uncle Grandfather in advance.”
Song Wangyue said with a sweet mouth.
Meng Yang burst out laughing again.
After he finished laughing, he said, “I’ve been in the capital for quite some time now, so it’s time for me to go back. I’ve already had my things packed, so I’ll be leaving tomorrow. I’m afraid I won’t have the chance to come back in the future, so if any of you work hard in the future, go to Jiangnan and have some fun, and see me as an old man.”
“Uncle grandfather is not old, you are still young.”
“Only our Yue’er is sweet-talking, but if Uncle Grandpa is really well, when you get married in a few years, I will make another trip with my old bones.”
“One, two, three ……”
Gu Yi counted on his fingers, and the crowd looked at him strangely.
Gu Yi wiggled his six fingers, “Yue’er and I have at least six years to go before we get married, uncle grandfather must take care of his health and give us a big gift to follow when the time comes.”
Meng Yang froze for a moment, then burst out laughing again, “Good, good, good, I will definitely prepare a big gift for you guys.”
Song Wangyue stepped hard on Gu Yi’s foot and Gu Yi bared his teeth in pain, Song Lin saw it and just ignored it. Today, he gave Gu Yi face in front of so many people, but if Gu Yi dared to say that in front of him back home, he would have thrown him out.
The meal was a delightful one.
After the meal, Song Si went back to Nancheng and Song Wan Yue sent him out.
As he walked out of the house, Song Si gave Song Wan Yue the silver ticket, “You take this silver ticket back and return it to uncle grandfather.”
“No need, big brother take it at ease, I have made some great tonic pills for him. ”
Song Si didn’t insist anymore, put the silver ticket away and got on the carriage to go back to South City.
Song Wangyue went back inside and held a box and went to Meng Yang’s courtyard.
Meng Yang was happy today and had had a few drinks, he had just undressed and was about to take a nap, when he heard Song Wan Yue’s voice, he hurriedly put his clothes back on, “Yue’er girl, come in.”
Song Wangyue pushed the door in, put the box on the table and opened it. Inside were two layers, she took the top layer down, “These are the pills I sent to uncle grandfather, this top layer is a great tonic and the bottom is for wind and cold.”
Meng Yang looked straight.
He had come to the capital these days and had been around a lot of places. When he heard about the pills, he knew that it was a business opportunity, but he had asked around in many pharmacies and one pill for wind chill cost one tael of silver, the price was ridiculously high, even if he brought it to Jiangnan there would not be much profit, he was regretting it.
“Yue yatou, where did you get this pill?”
Song Wangyue lowered her voice, “I’m not going to hide it from uncle grandfather, I made this myself.”
Meng Yang was shocked, “You made it?”
Song Wan Yue nodded, “My family has always been in the pill business, because we have no backers, so we don’t dare to make it known and do very little.”
Meng Yang couldn’t hold back his excitement as he stood up and spun around a few times, “Great, great.”
The pills were light and portable, and their efficacy was even better than that of tonics, so if the Meng family did this business, their financial power would definitely go up a notch.
Song Wangyue looked at him with “confusion”.
Meng Yang suppressed the excitement in his heart and sat back in his chair, trying to keep his voice steady, “Miss Yue’er, do you want to cooperate with your grandfather?”
“Ah ……”
“It means you make the pills, uncle grandfather helps you sell them, we share 50/50, and I’ll bear all the expenses.”
Hearing him out, Song Wangyue’s eyes glowed, “Of course.”
“Then it’s a deal, I won’t be leaving tomorrow, I’ll go with you to Qingping County.”
……
“Big brother is going with us to Qingping County?”
Meng looked at Meng Yang in confusion.
Meng Yang stroked his beard and nodded, “I’ve thought about it, it’s better to visit the place where Wan’er lives, it won’t take more than a few days around.”
Meng thought it was strange, his elder brother had said at dinner that he was going back to Jiangnan on the day, how could he have changed his mind so soon?
Meng Yang didn’t tell her about the pills, Song Wan Yue had specifically instructed that the fewer people knew about this matter the better, and that we should wait until we returned to Qingping County.
……
The people who served in the courtyard told him that Gu Yi had gone out and said he had to buy gifts for his family.
Song Wan Yue felt strange, in the past Gu Yi always asked her to go with him to buy gifts for his family, but this time why did he go shopping by himself?
At the same time, Gu Yi’s carriage stopped at the side gate of the Ding Guo Gong’s residence, Gu Yi got off the carriage and walked quickly into the residence.
The butler was waiting inside the door, and when he saw him, he saluted respectfully and took him to the Duke of State’s study.
Both Duke Ding and Xiao Zheng were present.
“Grandfather, uncle.”
“Xiao’er sit down quickly.”
Several people took their seats.
The Duke of Ding looked at him with reluctance; after today’s farewell, I was afraid that they would not see each other again for a few years.
“You’ve decided everything?”
Gu Yi nodded his head.
“Actually, you don’t have to ……”
Xiao’er is only eleven after all, and if she has to go …… at this time, she doesn’t know how much she will have to suffer.
“Grandfather doesn’t need to worry, I will be back soon, in the future, on Yue’er’s side, please take care of her, I came today because I want to discuss one thing to grandfather and uncle.”
Gu Yi lowered his voice.
“No!”
Hearing him out, Duke Ding immediately objected, “It’s too dangerous, I don’t agree.”
“I don’t agree either.”
Xiao Zheng said, “Last time you went to the royal residence without consulting us, we couldn’t even do the aftermath for you. There are imperial guards over there now, how easy is it to get in? If anything happens to you, we can’t afford it.”
“Your uncle is right, you’ve already attracted their attention by going to the royal residence twice, there’s no need to take that risk. Listen to your grandfather, go back and pack your things and return to Qingping County as soon as possible.”
“This has to be done, I came to tell Grandfather and Uncle, so you don’t worry about me when the time comes.”
“Xiao’er!”
Duke Ding Guo sternly tone, “This is very risky, in case it doesn’t work ……”
“There is no eventuality, Grandfather please believe me, I never do anything that I am not sure of, I have already made a foolproof deployment, nothing will go wrong.”