Is my wife farming today?

Chapter 333 Everything happens for a reason
"Liangzhou is different from Kyoto. I heard that there will be a day of socializing for He Lang after the wedding night. This bastard probably won't be able to help you. You should be careful tonight. After all, Her Highness the Princess and Prince He San are both in the mansion, so it's not easy to offend them."

Xie Shen instructed Dugu Xiwei as if he were his own son.

She declined, and was happy that someone else would handle the matter for her, so she dropped her ears and pretended to be deaf and dumb.

After explaining the matters, Xie Shen called over the two housekeepers who usually took care of the household affairs beside her. One of them was named Zhang, who was in charge of the trivial matters in the inner courtyard of the Xie family and was quite familiar with Xie Jue. The other one was named Shen, who was mainly responsible for managing the business of the Xie family.

As everyone knows, let alone a family as large as the Xie family, even a small official in the capital, with dozens of people in his family, cannot just rely on the monthly salary to make a living, and will definitely find ways to make some extra living.

The Xie family is no exception.

However, Xie Shen had never explained this to Xie Jue. The last time the mother and daughter had a heart-to-heart talk, she did not mention anything about making a living. Instead, she revealed all the bad debts that the Xie family had owed and threw them in front of Xie Jue, asking her to figure it out on her own.

Since that incident, Xie Jue never thought of relying on her parents for support, because her family didn't have the financial resources to support her.

Now she has very little assets, just the income from a hot pot restaurant in Kyoto and the vegetable market. Fortunately, food is the most important thing for people, so she didn't worry too much and saved a lot of money.

It is not difficult to support Dugu Xiwei.

What Xie Jue was worried about was that the Dugu family was wealthy, and he had been living a life of luxury since childhood, so he was bound to be picky. She didn't want Dugu Xiwei to feel that after marrying her, she would have to downgrade in everything from food, clothing, housing and transportation.

That seems too incompetent.

So after returning from Xie Shen, Xie Jue called Xue Hanxiang and reported his business to him, with the details of the accounts delivered to him one by one.

Dugu Xiwei looked at Xue Hanxiang meaningfully.

I originally thought that he was only responsible for managing the vegetable market in Kyoto for Xie Jue, but I never expected that he was actually in charge of everything under Xie Jue's name, including farms, tenants, shops...all food, clothing and other expenses were under his management.

Xue Hanxiang looks so weak and gentle, but I didn't expect that she is also a good master.

No wonder Xie Jue kept calling his name in a daze in the middle of the night.

Dugu Xiwei took the account book from him and whispered, "Thank you for your hard work."

Xue Hanxiang looked towards him and suddenly had the illusion that Master Dugu might not like her.
That’s right, in the past there were no househusbands in charge of backyard affairs.

Now that we have him, these are just the first steps.

In the future, he will slowly replace that small position that I hold in my master's heart.

When she thought of this, Xue Hanxiang felt a little depressed and sad.

But he had to cheer up and respond to Dugu Xiwei's questions.

He only flipped through it quickly and found the important parts.

“The profits of hot pot restaurants in Kyoto are so impressive?”

Xue Hanxiang replied: "Yes, the hot pot restaurant was originally the master's idea. Later, because he didn't want to bother running it, he gave half of the gross profit to Miss Zhou Si to manage."

Dugu Xi nodded slightly, looking at the account book showing the tens of thousands of taels of silver that Zhou Wenxi received from Xie Jue every month, and couldn't help but wonder, is this damn hot pot restaurant really that profitable?

If it was so profitable, why didn't she open one in Liangzhou as well? Or find a partner to open one in any of the prefectures in Jiyue?

In this way, wouldn’t it be possible to make a lot of money?

However, this was just a fleeting thought that flashed through Dugu Xiwei's mind when she first saw the account. The private accounts that were rejected were not many, and most of them were expenses in the mansion. As for herself, she had not spent any money for ten days or half a month.

From this point of view, she is a rare good wife, much better than those idle wives in Kyoto. Xie Jue did not stay in the room for long, because someone from the East Suburbs reported that there were some problems with the agricultural lectures in Nanling, so she rushed to the East Suburbs alone.

She had originally planned to ask Xu Boyan to go along, but Xue Hanxiang said that Xu Boyan had just rested at noon, so she went in a carriage by herself.

Dugu Xiwei, on the other hand, looked at the account book for a while, and after listening to the internal and external stewards reporting the list of guests for today's Helang wine banquet, he began to prepare for the dinner.

Two hours passed in a blink of an eye.

He declined but did not come back from the eastern suburbs. The evening Helang wine party could not be without her presence. What kind of Helang wine party would it be without his wife? Maybe he would become a laughing stock among the men in Liangzhou City.

This is what Jiang Han talked about with Dugu Xiwei after he came to visit.

"How is it? My second sister hasn't come back yet?"

Dugu Xiwei raised his hand and gently smoothed the wrinkles on his sleeves, and said in a cold tone: "I think something delayed you. It doesn't matter. I will prepare all the affairs for the evening first. Have you prepared the wedding clothes for Helangjiu?"

Xue Hanxiang replied: "Yes, everything is ready."

"No need to send anyone to rush her, just prepare everything."

"Yes."

Jiang Han frowned slightly. If Xie Hong hadn't coaxed him to eavesdrop on what his mother said about internal and external affairs, he would never have rushed to please Dugu Xiwei.

Before he got married, he was always overshadowed by Dugu Xiwei's reputation. Now that he is finally married, he marries the eldest daughter. But in the end, he has to look at the eyes of his husband, the second daughter who came into the family later. What is this?

Jiang Han didn't really care about taking care of the family. There were only a few things going on in the Xie family, and he could see them all at a glance.

It's just that everything should be fair and just.

He didn't want to get involved, but he also didn't want Dugu Xiwei to be involved. If the news got out, how would others talk about him? About the Jiang family?

Jiang Han sat in the East Courtyard for a while and then couldn't stand it anymore and left.

I happened to see Xie Hong getting ready to go out, so I asked her a few more questions, "Where are you going?"

"Mother said that Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess wanted to eat cakes from Liuxiangzhai, and asked me to buy some. Why did you come back? Did Dugu Xiwei chase you away?" Xie Hong said impatiently.

Jiang Han looked away, "No, he didn't chase me away. I wanted to come back on my own."

"Did you find out anything?"

"When I went there, the two managers had already reported and left, so I didn't hear anything. However, I did hear from Xue Hanxiang that something happened in the eastern suburbs, and my second sister went out in the afternoon and hasn't come back yet." Jiang Han asked, "Do you have any way to stop her from going outside? It would be best if she can't even come to the evening celebration?"

Xie Hong's eyes flashed, "Let me think about it."

The dinner is about to begin.

However, the servant came to report that Xie Jue had not been seen returning.

Dugu Xi nodded slightly, "Okay, I understand."

"What should we do? Should we send someone to the East Suburb Garden to ask?" Xue Hanxiang was a little at a loss.

"No need, go to Mr. Xu and see if he has woken up."

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