My Ancient Stepson Bootcamp

Chapter 55
That night, after Xu Junze came back from outside, he went into Lin Shuran's room, and saw that she seemed to have washed up, but she hadn't gone to bed yet, and was reading by candlelight, which was a Jin Dynasty geography.

He came in with a cold winter's breath, she looked up and saw him slowly approaching the charcoal fire and sitting down, Chunxi hurriedly came in with hot tea, then closed the door and went out.

Xu Junze took a sip of hot tea and sat there without making a sound, but Lin Shuran sensed that he seemed to have something on his mind, so he put down the book, walked up to him and asked, "General, what's the matter?"

Xu Junze slowly raised his head and looked at her intently, as if a shining star had risen in his deep eyes, as if there was warmth all of a sudden.

"We're married, you should call me husband, lady!" Xu Junze put down the teacup in his hand, then stood up, his momentum suddenly increased and approached, causing Lin Shuran's upper body to turn sideways.

Could it be that just because of a title made him ponder for a long time?Lin Shuran was much shorter than Xu Junze, so she could only raise her neck, and replied naturally: "Yes, husband!"

Xu Junze seemed to have guessed that Lin Shuran would obediently listen to him, because since the two met for the first time, she has been wearing a deliberately disguised mask in front of him. She shouts softly and gently, but there is nothing in her eyes Emotional temperature, if you don't have him in your heart, how can you feel turmoil in your heart? On the contrary, he has been swayed by her several times.

Suddenly, Xu Junze thought of teasing Lin Shuran, he bent down to get closer to her, his eyes were at her level, the tip of his nose almost touched hers, this sudden intimacy made Lin Shuran startled, he almost fell back when his center of gravity was unsteady Go, fortunately Xu Junze moved quickly and grabbed her waist.

The temperature from the man's generous palm made Lin Shuran's heart jump uncontrollably, her face turned red, she quickly got up to avoid him, and pretended to be calm and walked to the bedside In front of the dressing table, I tried to calm down the strange emotions in my heart.

Xu Junze put a little smile on the corners of his eyes behind her that she couldn't see. It turned out that she didn't feel completely indifferent to him, but now she would subconsciously avoid it, which made him still care about it, and he cared very much. The woman has always had very little contact with her, so she doesn't know how to make her start to really care about her, after all, he has already started to care about her.

Xu Junze pondered for a moment, then his usual cold expression returned to his face. He didn't allow the affair between a man and a woman to occupy his mind too much. After sitting down again, he calmly said: "Tomorrow I will withdraw 5 taels of silver from the public. !"

The Xu family only has Xu Junze's lineage, saying that "Gongzhong" is actually the warehouse of the General's Mansion, Lin Shuran showed surprise on his face, and hurriedly asked: "Is there something wrong? Why do you have to take so much at once?" silver?"

Lin Shuran is now the head of the house and the mistress. She knows that the General's Mansion has a total of more than 6 taels of silver on the books. Counting it, Xu Junze is a first-rank general, and his salary is not low. In addition to the usual royal rewards and land stores, etc. The income of Xu's family is not too small after a year, but the Xu family's family property is only more than 6 taels, which is really not much.

"Nothing happened. From now on, I will take some money from the public at this time every year. Don't worry, I won't starve you and the child!" Xu Junze didn't explain too much, and got up to wash up after speaking, leaving Lin Shuran was even more curious about this.

Isn't 5 taels of silver a small sum?What exactly is Xu Junze going to do with the money?Could it be that he still has a home outside?Still in debt to someone?
It wasn't until Xu An came to ask for the keys to the warehouse the next day that Lin Shuran learned from him that Xu Junze would withdraw a large amount of money from the warehouse at this time every year, at least half of his family's fortune. Last year, he took out 7 taels , and almost emptied the Xu family's family fortune. This year, the mansion managed to save more than 6 taels, and he will take another 5 taels.

"Steward Xu, do you know what the general spends so much money on every year?" Xu Junze doesn't look like a lavish playboy, could everyone be mistaken?Intuition told Lin Shuran that it was not that easy for Xu Junze to take the money.

Xu An shook his head in embarrassment and said that he didn't know what Xu Junze did with the money. Anyway, the life of the General's Mansion was smaller than usual every year. They don't have to bother to return the gift, which saves a lot of money for the family.

Hearing what Xu An said, Lin Shuran couldn't laugh or cry. Could it be that Xu Junze didn't attend the invitation banquets of various mansions and didn't interact with other mansions because he was short of money and wanted to save money to use elsewhere?It's just that what did he do with so much money all at once?You must know that he has a special status, and his every move will arouse speculation from the emperor and courtiers.

But after thinking about it, the money belongs to Xu Junze himself, and he has no right to interfere excessively with how he wants to use it, not to mention that he is not a person without discretion, and he also said last night that he would not starve himself and his children.

However, Lin Shuran's requirements for life are not just "not hungry". Before she had nothing to do with the Xu family, it had nothing to do with supporting herself and the group of people under her hand, but now she has thirteen more sons at once. As they grow up, they will inevitably spend more and more. They can't let their food, clothing, housing and transportation be too shabby. After all, they are also the sons of the general's mansion, and they will get married and have children in the future. At least, if you can't save a little family business, I'm afraid that no one will really want to marry into Xu's family in the future.

Xu Mingchen and the others call themselves "mother" now, so she has to take on the responsibilities and obligations of a "mother" and save up some family property for them. The dowry can't be afforded, which makes people look down upon her.

"Housekeeper Xu, you must get things done with the porridge shed today. You don't have to worry about the money. You must not let others think that our general's mansion is stingy!" Lin Shuran has already made up her mind. After the new year is over, she has to plan how to make more money. Saving money for the family business, because she has deeply understood a truth since her previous life-money is not everything, but without money, absolutely nothing.

In the next few days, the righteous deed of Zhen Guo Gong's Mansion and the Grand General's Mansion to jointly open a porridge shed to serve porridge inside and outside the city was unanimously praised by the people, especially Xu Minghao, the young children of the Xu family who also helped in the cold weather. Busy work has greatly changed people's usual bad impression of them.

After hearing this, the queen mother and the emperor also praised the two families greatly, and also rewarded a lot of good things. Aunt Chang, the mother in charge of the queen mother, even personally brought the rewards to meet Yang and Lin Shuran of the Zhen Guogong's mansion.

(End of this chapter)