After the rebirth of Madam Hou Clan, her heart was sealed with cement

Chapter 2: Reading and hyphenation, knowing a little bit about it

Tan Zhixu listened to the sound of footsteps walking away, snorted coldly, spread out his green-white hands and looked at them again and again.

It’s great to be in your prime of life.

Mrs. Song was originally worried that Tan Zhixu would be restless, but in the next few days, she was very well-behaved and stayed in front of the funeral day and night.

Until the burial, Tan Zhixu saw that he had lost weight.

The second-bedroom Linglong Garden is still wrapped in plain white.

Tan Zhixu dragged his tired steps and just stepped into the door when he heard a call.

"Miss!"

Tan Zhixu stiffened for a moment and raised his head in disbelief.

A little maid aged fourteen or fifteen came to meet her, hurriedly helped her, and said anxiously, "They don't let the servants go to the mourning hall to serve you. The young lady has suffered."

The little girl calls her Guyu and has grown up with her since she was a child. She is not a sister, but is better than a sister.

But later, Guyu drowned in a lotus pond, and until his death, Tan Zhixu was unable to find out who the murderer was.

Looking at Gu Yu's face covered with small pockmarks, Tan Zhixu's eyes heated up, and regardless of the pain all over his body, he suddenly held Gu Yu in his arms.

He left home at a young age, suffered many hardships, and died by the guillotine.

All this has returned to the starting point. Only Tan Zhixu understands how precious it is to reunite with old friends at this moment.

Guyu was hugged tightly by her, stiff and did not dare to move, "Miss, if you want to cry, just cry!"

Anyone whose husband dies on their wedding night would feel unhappy.

Miss, she is timid by nature, neither humble nor arrogant. She doesn't say anything, maybe she has been holding it in for too long.

Tan Zhixu couldn't hold back the soreness in his nose, but he let go of Gu Yu, and the corners of his pale lips curled up, "I'm fine, but you, you must protect yourself."

Guyu was confused. In the past, when something happened, the young lady would always shed a few tears. How could she be so forbearing today?
The more she acted like this, the more distressed Gu Yu felt. He held Tan Zhixu's hand and said, "Miss, are you hungry? Gu Yu has prepared a meal for you."

Song Qinian, the young master of the second house, likes to live in a lively atmosphere, so the courtyard is also the closest to the street corner, and just one wall away is the busiest shopping street.

Gu Yu took Tan Zhixu to sit down. There were several side dishes and rice cheese cakes on the table. Gu Yu hurriedly served her with dishes, "Before leaving, my aunt was worried that the young lady would be homesick, so she specially taught the slave this rice cheese cake. Just I’m afraid that this slave doesn’t have the craftsmanship of my aunt.”

Tan Zhixu took a sip and said with a smile, "You are used to being humble."

She couldn't help chatting with Gu Yu for a while, and for a moment she didn't notice someone walking in the door.

"This is the second younger brother and sister, I guess. The old lady has always had good taste. She looks cute, white, tender, and exquisite, which is exactly what Erlang likes. It's a pity."

The person who came was none other than Dafang's wife, Tan Zhixu's sister-in-law, Mrs. Zhou.

Zhou is wearing a rose-red skirt. The gold threads outlined on the skirt are dazzling in the light. There are two big red coral hairpins on the left and right sides of the red hairpin in her bun. At first glance, it is the finest goods produced in the South China Sea.

Tan Zhixu concentrated his attention, his eyes a little cold.

Her good sister-in-law had always made trouble for her in her previous life. It was Zhou's idea to let her take the blame for her sister-in-law.

"Brother and sister..." Mrs. Zhou felt a little uncomfortable with Tan Zhixu's eyes and frowned slightly.

She heard that Tan Zhixu was very well-behaved. The old lady pointed east and she did not dare to go west. She did not leave the mourning hall for seven days.

Knowing that she had a soft temper, Zhou came to her door.

But Tan Zhixu's eyes looked as if there was a blood feud between the two of them, and they didn't look like a compatibility-friendly master.Zhou was about to speak but stopped, until Tan Zhixu Fang came back to his senses.

Now she is the little white rabbit of the Song family, how dare she be rude to her sister-in-law.

As a result, Tan Zhixu looked at Pan Qingqing, acting as if humans and animals were harmless, "Zhixu was supposed to go to pay his respects to his sister-in-law. Please come to visit, because Zhixu's etiquette is not appropriate."

Zhou shook her head, and Tan knew that Xu Fang fit into her mind.

Guyu made tea for her, but Zhou ignored it, glanced at the cold food on the table, and sneered, "Now that you have married into the Hou family, you should change the sour taste of poverty in the countryside. Hou The wife of the mansion cannot disgrace the marquis mansion."

Tan Zhixu's eyes flashed with a hint of darkness, his chin slightly retracted, and he leaned forward, looking timid and cowardly.

Mrs. Zhou was very satisfied with the power she had exerted. Fang pulled out a chair and sat down, and said leisurely, "Anyway, Erlang's funeral has passed, and you are idle in the courtyard. There are many trivial matters in the house, and the industries under your name are complicated. You also It’s time to go see the world, and from now on you will be in charge of the West Market shop.”

Talking about taking care of the family business, Tan Zhixu knows better than anyone else, but he just wants her to shoulder the burden, but he doesn't want to give any benefits, so he acts like a donkey!
However, she remained silent and pretended to accept the situation.

Zhou's chin was raised, and his arrogance became stronger, "Can you do an accounting?"

Tan Zhixu shook his head.

"Literate?"

Tan Zhixu said, "I know a little bit about it."

Zhou sneered and said, "I was negligent. A wild girl from the countryside wouldn't teach you this. If Erlang hadn't been ill for a long time, let alone the Hou Mansion, you wouldn't even have thought of being the wife of a nobleman."

A glimmer of light flashed across Tan Zhixu's lowered eyebrows. Did the eldest brother also know that Song Qinian died of Hualiu disease?
No, the old lady has always doted on her second son, so she would not reveal this matter to her eldest son.

Could it be that……

Before Tan Zhixu had time to think about it, Mrs. Zhou stood up, stroking her clothes and said, "Since you don't know how to book, you'd better leave the key to the accounting room with me and start with the things in the shop first."

Tan Zhixu then reluctantly agreed, and Zhou's contemptuous eyes contained a hint of sternness, "Don't blame me for not mentioning you, the wife of the Marquis is not that easy to be."

As soon as the person left, Gu Yu became extremely angry, "Madam, you have gone too far! Every word is poking at your lungs! I am bullying you openly and secretly because you don't have the support of your husband!"

"Besides, when they asked you to manage the shop, they didn't say how much bonus they would give you. I think they just want to beat you and make you work hard for the Marquis Mansion without complaining!"

Even the little maid could see it, so how could Tan Zhixu not know?
She was like this in her previous life, with empty power but no money. She was obviously the master of the Hou Mansion, but she still wanted to look at the faces of her subordinates.

I have worked for the Hou Mansion all my life in vain.

She sat on the couch on the window sill, gently twirling the green leaves next to the daisies, and asked thoughtfully, "How much moon silver do we have on our account?"

"Twelve taels of silver."

"How much did you spend today?"

Guyu glanced at the dishes on the table hesitantly and said, "My servant added some blood-tonifying herbs to the soup. Today's meal has already cost three taels of silver."

Tan Zhixu frowned, "How come it's only ten taels of silver? The second bedroom always has the most money."

Guyu knelt down immediately, with tears in his eyes, and said, "The servants in the house say that the old lady dotes on the second master, but the second master has always spent a lot of money, and there is not much money left for us. The second master went away, and the money allocated was less."

She had forgotten that Song Qinian's disease was contracted by visiting the brothels every day, so the money in the house was naturally spent on those warblings and swallows.

This idea of ​​Yue Yin, let alone supporting the entire second house, she and Gu Yu had to tighten their belts to live.

(End of this chapter)