The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 373 The Daily Life of Xiu Mu [中]

[Gathering power... well, it should be able to be recharged tomorrow, the day after tomorrow at the latest. 】

Mrs. Wang naturally sent someone to invite her when she learned from Lin Daiyu that Jiao Shun had come to the Grand View Garden early in the morning.

In fact, she has been paying close attention to the business of making cars all the time, and has even quietly collected enough money. The reason why she didn't take the initiative to bring it up is because she wanted to use this matter to run on Jia Zheng. In front of him, the predicament of the separation of these two places will naturally be solved.

However, after waiting for a long time and not seeing Jia Zheng's action, Mrs. Wang couldn't hold back anymore, so she wanted to take this opportunity to hint to Jiao Shun, so that Jiao Shun could help turn things around.

Unexpectedly, Jiao Shun came prepared. She just mentioned a few business matters, and before she could get to the real purpose, Jiao Shun immediately handed over a detailed plan, explaining it word by word. .

This time Mrs. Wang couldn't be perfunctory, so she could only bite the bullet and discuss with Jiao Shun.

Fortunately, she had consulted Baochai in advance, and the questions and answers were meaningful, but after all, it was not something she came up with, and the details were unavoidably ignorant, and Jiao Shun needed careful analysis to understand the general idea.

And at this moment, Tanchun rushed over in a hurry, and bumped into Lin Daiyu who was about to say goodbye and leave.

"Is my sister cured?"

Tanchun pretended to be concerned and stepped forward to inquire, but the handsome eyes and eyebrows drifted straight into the living room.

"Thanks to the third sister, the past two days have been much better."

Lin Daiyu responded with a smile, and followed Tanchun's gaze into the living room, thinking that she had something to do with Mrs. Wang, she said, "The third younger sister is here to see the wife? They are talking about serious business for a while. I'm afraid my wife may not be free right now."

Tanchun hurriedly said: "The main thing is that I heard from the waiter that my sister is here, so I came here to have a look, and I would like to ask my wife to show me a small matter. It is not convenient now, and our sisters are just talking outside for a while."

After speaking, Lalin Daiyu sat down at the stone table in front of the main room.

However, after the meeting, Tanchun chatted with Daiyu a little bit, but kept peeking into the room.

It is difficult to hear the conversation between Jiao Shun and Mrs. Wang clearly here, and only the back of Jiao Shun's head can be seen, so Tanchun focused on Mrs. Wang's facial expressions, trying to get some clues from it.

In her heart, she didn't think that Jiao Shun would have anything to do with Mrs. Wang.

This is not to say that she really believes that Mrs. Wang will not cheat without reservation—that day Mrs. Wang became famous when she "took off" and her dignified and reserved image was already shattered, although it is not enough to be regarded as a human being. She is a slutty husband, but it also confirms the sullen comments inside.

With this precedent, it would not be very surprising to say that Mrs. Wang, because she was neglected by Jia Zheng, had any private behaviors with others.

The problem is that Mrs. Wang is several years older than Jiao Shun's mother. Although she is pampered and well-maintained, it is inevitable that she will show the appearance of a twilight beauty.

On the contrary, although Aunt Xue is only seven or eight years younger than her, she is also a widowed woman, but there is not a trace of wrinkle on her kindly face, and her plump muscles are as red as snow, and her cheeks are as bright as snow, as if there are two cooked vegetables on a silver plate. The rotten apple makes the tempter want to take a bite.

The fault was that she had just moved into the Grand View Garden that day, and her every move attracted people's attention, so she didn't have the conditions to 'commit a crime' at all. Jia Tanchun would definitely rank her suspects ahead of Mrs. Wang.

Far away.

Back to Mrs. Wang and Jiao Shun.

The Xing Xiuyan, Xiangling, and Qingwen in Jiao Shun's house, isn't that the most beautiful in the world?
Even his biological mother, Aunt Zhao, was one of the best in terms of looks and figure, although her character was terrible.

There are so many young, beautiful, mature and romantic women who let him get what he wants, how can the villain look at the mid-mature Mrs. Wang?
unless……

Is it because she is greedy for her status as the wife of the head of Rongfu?
Tanchun has also heard that there are those dog slaves who hold grudges but don't hold grudges. Once they become powerful, they will humiliate their original masters in every possible way. In fact, Aunt Zhao has such a tendency, but she is not able to suppress Mrs. Wang for the time being. That's all.

Or maybe Jiao Shun also has the intention of deceiving the Lord?
Thinking of "the slave bullying the master", Tanchun couldn't help but think of being at his uncle's house...

She bit her lower lip violently, using the pain to dispel the images in her mind, and concentrated on observing the movement in the room again.

But Lin Daiyu suddenly became a little weird when she saw Tanchun's expression, and subconsciously followed her gaze to look in, but she didn't find anything unusual at all—the only thing that was a little annoying was standing there with her toes digging on the ground and her eyes were messed up. Jia Baoyu, who is floating and wandering in the air, is gone.

"Third sister, this is..."

Lin Daiyu was about to ask why, when she suddenly heard the faint ringing of jingling bells outside, she knew in her heart that Shi Xiangyun must be riding a bicycle, so she gave Tanchun a hand and said with a smile: "What's so interesting inside?" ? Let’s go, let’s welcome the bride~”

Tanchun was dragged and staggered a few steps, but when he was about to struggle, he was afraid that Daiyu would become suspicious, so he absent-mindedly followed her to the gate of the courtyard.

Just as Shi Xiangyun put his bicycle under the steps, he looked up to see Lin Daiyu and Jia Tanchun coming out from inside, and immediately ran up the steps cheerfully, saying, "Sister Lin is indeed here, so it's easy for me to find—" —I just went to the Xiaoxiang Hall first, and then followed the little maid to the Zhuijin Tower, and after a long search, I found out that you are here!"

"So it was me."

Seeing Shi Xiangyun sweating slightly on the temples, Lin Daiyu was very moved, but she habitually joked: "I thought you came to see Mr. Ruyi."

"Humph~"

Shi Xiangyun spat out a little clove at her, and said angrily: "People still care about your illness, but you... see what I can say about you when you make a decision with her!"

Because of these words, Lin Daiyu suddenly remembered the rhetoric of "Jianxie", and was inexplicably flustered and short of breath for a while, so she quickly changed the subject and said: "How is the second sister these days? I plan to go over and have a look later."

As soon as Lin Daiyu mentioned the coming of spring, Shi Xiangyun couldn't help shaking his head and sighing: "On the surface, it seems that there is not much difference from before, but I quietly took her "Taishang Induction Sutra" to read, and there are bits and pieces in it that I don't know. No matter how many tears I shed, the book I wrote was thick."

Speaking of this, she couldn't help but smiled wryly and said: "I feel a little uncomfortable because of this trouble, I feel like I robbed my second sister's good marriage."

Lin Daiyu chuckled, covered her mouth and said, "You are so shameless, how can you boast that you got a good marriage?"

Shi Xiangyun was straightforward at the moment, and felt a little inappropriate after she finished speaking, but after all, she was not such a cowardly character. After being teased by Lin Daiyu, she blushed and argued forcefully: "If it's not a good marriage, how can I provoke you?" Sister jokes every day?"

Without waiting for Lin Daiyu to reply, she said seriously: "In the beginning, I was quite displeased with this marriage. It all proves that Big Brother Jiao is indeed a good match!"

"Although he lacks some literary talents, he knows how to be motivated and understands economics. He can put down airs in front of our girls and is used to being considerate..."

"That's all, what's rare is that Brother Jiao is not like those vulgar officials who only want to climb up, but have the ambition to serve the country and the people-not to mention, the Ministry of Industry recently sold kerosene lamps About the matter, the newspapers are full of praises..."

At the beginning of this month, the trial sale of kerosene lamps officially started in Beijing. Once they were launched, they were well received. The cheapest version can be purchased in limited quantities with household registration, and the price is less than half of the cost.

Of course, the lost profits can be recovered from kerosene, but even so, the cost is far less than candles, and even cheaper than soybean oil lamps, which have far inferior lighting effects.

Among them, the ones who benefit the most are undoubtedly those poor students who like to read at night, so the news media manipulated by literati all praise it.

Of course, these praises are limited to the Ministry of Industry as a whole. As for Jiao, the initiator, because of his background and standpoint, literati and inkmen have used spring and autumn brushwork to cover it up.

But other people didn't know that it was Jiao Shun's handwriting, and the entire Rongguo Mansion was well-connected, so Shi Xiangyun said this.

When it came to the end, Shi Xiangyun was a little hesitant, but in the end he said calmly: "Although I feel a little uncomfortable facing my second sister now, if I want to say, if I want to let her have this marriage, I am absolutely unwilling! "

"What a shameless little hoof!"

Lin Daiyu covered her mouth and laughed straight: "We don't dare to listen to your affectionate words. Let's leave it to your Brother Jiao."

"You still say, you still say!"

Shi Xiangyun rushed forward angrily, and the two of them got used to arguing together.

Tanchun next to him was silent.

Shi Xiangyun's words touched her quite a bit. Although she didn't want to admit it, she often pretended to be a woman who would not let a man's eyebrows fall. The ideal husband and son-in-law were undoubtedly such a great man who knows how to make progress and understand economics, and has the ambition to save the world and the people.

If it hadn't happened to her, she might think that Jiao Shun is a good match.

So out of the blue, the theory of "Jiangyou" in the peach blossom forest popped up in my mind again...

"Cough, cough, cough!"

It wasn't until Lin Daiyu's violent coughing came from beside him that Tanchun woke up suddenly. At that moment, he wished he could give himself a slap in the face, and thought to himself that he was really dazed just now, why did he think of bowing down to that villain? !

She collected herself and tried her best to keep this matter in her heart, then she looked at Xiangyun Daiyu who was at the side.

At this time, Shi Xiangyun was stroking Lin Daiyu's back in a panic, and blamed himself repeatedly: "It's all my fault, it's all my fault. I was so busy playing around that I forgot that you were still sick!"

Seeing that she couldn't figure it out in a panic, Tanchun hurriedly reminded: "Quickly, help her go inside to rest for a while——Zijuan, do you have the right medicine with you?"

"Take it, take it!"

Zijuan rushed out from the courtyard, dumped it out of a small porcelain bottle, and said: "This is the medicine given by Aunt Xing, it can best relieve cough and reduce phlegm."

As she said that, she suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly turned her head and yelled: "Xueyan, hurry up and ask for a bowl of warm water, so that the girl can take the medicine!"

This burst of turmoil caused even the main room to be alarmed.

Jia Baoyu was the first to run out to check what happened. Seeing that Lin Daiyu was coughing badly, he subconsciously moved forward.

"Baoyu!"

However, Mrs. Wang, who came out right behind, stopped him, and said with a somber face, "Don't follow the chaos, go back and talk with your brother Jiao in the living room, and go there after I finish dealing with it here."

Jia Baoyu wanted to argue, so he looked up at Aunt Xue who was aside, thinking of the turmoil that had happened before and how Sister Lin rejected him now, he could only follow Jiao Shun back to the living room dejectedly.

Only then did Mrs. Wang come closer, seeing that Lin Daiyu took the medicine with warm water, and the cough symptoms gradually eased, she breathed a sigh of relief, and then scolded Zijuan: "The old lady only let you see that you are mature. How dare you be so negligent while serving by Lin girl's side? Let her mess around outside before she's fully recovered!"

Zijuan was so obsequious that she didn't dare to make a sound, but thanks to Xiangyun who took the initiative to admit her fault, Mrs. Wang let her go, and then ordered: "Quickly go outside and call a soft sedan chair, and send Miss Lin back. Go home to recuperate!"

Just as Zijuan was about to agree, Shi Xiangyun hurriedly said again: "You don't need to go outside to find a sedan chair, the rickshaw that Brother Jiao sent a few days ago is stored in Yihong Courtyard, just find two servants to take Sister Lin back with a cart .”

As he spoke, he volunteered to take someone over to pick up the car.

After about a stick of incense, seeing Lin Daiyu being escorted into the car by Shi Xiangyun, Mrs. Wang turned her head and walked into the living room.

When he entered, he saw Jiao Shun drinking tea by himself, and Jia Baoyu sitting at the head of the room, not intending to entertain guests at all.

Mrs. Wang sighed secretly, remembering her real purpose today, she scolded with a straight face: "You ignorant evil! You go down first, I still have a few words to explain to you Brother Jiao alone."

Baoyu seemed to be pardoned, she didn't even ask her mother what she wanted to ask Jiao Shun for, she got up and ran out excitedly.

I didn't want to almost bump into Tanchun when I got outside the door.

The two brothers and sisters were taken aback for a moment, and blurted out at the same time:

"Why is my sister here?"

"Why did brother come out?"

Jia Baoyu was taken aback for another moment, and immediately explained: "My mother has something to say, and I have to explain it to Brother Jiao alone, so she let me out."

The speaker had no intention of listening, and Jia Tanchun came here to find out the truth. When he heard that Mrs. Wang was going to have a secret talk with Jiao Shun alone, he couldn't help being suspicious for a while.

Just as he was about to go to the door to spy, Jia Baoyu suddenly grabbed his wrist and said eagerly, "Sister, do you know where Sister Lin has gone?"

Tanchun had no choice but to tell him what happened just now.

Jia Baoyu then urged Tanchun to visit Xiaoxiang Pavilion with him.

"Brother, just go by yourself."

Tanchun hurriedly said, "I still have something to tell my wife."

"That……"

Jia Baoyu hesitated for a moment, then said firmly: "Then I'll wait for my sister to finish her work, and then we'll go there together."

If he went by himself, he might not even have the guts to enter the door, so he killed him to make Tanchun more courageous.

It's not easy for Tanchun to eavesdrop in front of him, so he had no choice but to say: "Then I'll accompany my brother to visit Sister Lin first, and then I'll come back and report to my wife."

(End of this chapter)