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Xiao Shiji's straightforward refusal made Long Xiangye feel very uncomfortable, and when Xiao Shiji mentioned his father Xiao Xiangsheng, he couldn't help crying, and said with a sob: "If your father is still here, where is it?" Do you need to worry about these things? It’s fine if you don’t appreciate it, and you still talk like I’m going to kill you! ——You are my real son, crawled out of my belly, will I hurt you?”

Seeing this, the maids and women in the room knelt down all over the room, begging: "The old lady has just recovered from her illness, so please don't make the old lady angry."

Xiao Taiji also said anxiously: "Brother, they are just two servant girls, so why not accept them? Why do you want to make your mother angry with these trivial matters?"

Xiao Shiji also stood up from the sandalwood chair, and apologized to Long Xiangye: "Mother, I was wrong just now, but I really don't need a roommate. If mother likes these two maids, I can keep them for myself." Bar."

No matter what Long Xiangye did good or bad, Xiao Shiji would not let go.

These years, the head of the family is actually Xiao Shiji.Although he is respectful and filial, his ears are not soft, and he has never given up on what he wants to insist on.

Long Xiangye knew it would fail again this time, so she said angrily: "Since you don't want it anymore, let me give it to your brother. Let me tell you, your brother just got married, so don't just think about your own affairs. Take care of your siblings as well.”

Only then did Xiao Shiji ask, "Whose family is settled?"

"It's Guan Yunlian, the daughter-in-law of the Chancellor of Guan County in Chang'an County. You've met her before." Long Xiangye couldn't do it any longer, so she had to wipe away her tears with a handkerchief.He picked up the Persian cat on his lap and handed it to the cat-carrying maid behind him.

Xiao Shiji vaguely remembered that there was such a family, and thought that Xiao Taiji was already 14 years old, and he really wanted to say goodbye, so he nodded and said: "It's fine if Mother likes it. I'll go and find out about their family when the time comes." ,in case."

Long Xiangye nodded listlessly, and waved them out.

Xiao Tai and the servant girls in the room were the most, this time he brought two back, enough to play two tables of mahjong.

Xiao Yanran has the best relationship with her second brother Xiao Taiji.Seeing that Xiao Taiji and the two maidservants beside him looked unhappy, he smiled and asked Xiao Taiji in a low voice: "Second brother, are you not afraid that the maids in your room will be unhappy?"

Xiao Taiji said nonchalantly: "They are all slaves, if you treat them a little better, you can treat yourself as your master. If you dare to throw face at this second master, just sell them out."

Out of the corner of Xiao Yanran's eyes, she caught a glimpse of Xiao Tai and the two maidservants behind her, and immediately became panic-stricken.Secretly amused, "Second brother, you are more capable. Although there are many people in the room, they are orderly and orderly, so you don't have to worry about it."

After a few days, Xiao Shiji deliberately looked for an opportunity.I checked Chaguan's house and found that his house is not bad.The population is simple, there are no concubines and aunts in the family, and the few children are all descendants. They have just taken in a relative who came from afar.

But Long Xiangye said that he fell ill again and was lying in bed all the time.The matching of horoscopes, courtesy, and appointment are all handled by the matchmaker.

Although the Xiao family is rich.But Xiao Shiji is just a sixth-rank idle official, and Xiao Taiji is even a commoner, so he is a good match for Guan Yunlian, the daughter of the ninth-rank county magistrate.

After getting married, Xiao Shiji asked Xiao Taiji if he wanted to go to school and get a good reputation, so that he could become an official in the future.

Xiao Taiji smiled and said: "Brother, you didn't go to school to take the exam, you can still be an official. If I can be like you, I am satisfied." Playing around Xiao Shiji with a playful smile, he beat his legs for a while, Rubbing his shoulders for a while, it was a harmonious scene of brothers and friends.

When Xiao Taiji was growing up, the Xiao family was in great trouble.Later, Xiao Shiji focused on reviving the family business, and was on the go all day long. Besides, he was only a boy in his teens, so he couldn't take care of both.

Long Xiangye was sad and sad all the time, leaving the two children in the care of the adoptive mother and maidservant, ignoring the education of the two children.

Xiao Yanran is fine, she is a girl, as long as she knows how to read, she is fine.Xiao Taiji is a boy, and he wants to start a family and be the master of the house in the future.

Xiao Shiji discussed with Long Xiangye, "Mother, should I let my second brother go out to study? Duke Yi promised to introduce him to the best school in Chang'an City."

Long Xiangye thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "It is enough for our family to have you as an official, let your second brother stay with me. Our Xiao family has such a large family business, and we need someone to take care of it. You don't know where you will be assigned to the ends of the earth in the future, and you can't do business even if you are an official, so let your second brother take care of the Xiao family's shops."

Xiao Shiji sighed.Xiao Taiji didn't go to school, and didn't even know a lot of words, how could he trust those shops to him?What's more, half of his shop is actually the property of Yi County Prince's Mansion, not their Xiao family's property.Of course, there is no need for Long Xiangye to know about these things.

"Mother, the second brother wants to learn how to do business, it's not impossible, but he has to go to school to learn a few words, otherwise he won't even be able to understand the account books, and those shopkeepers are smarter than ghosts, otherwise he won't be able to hold back."

Long Xiangye thinks this idea is good.She wants to keep this little son by her side, but the family business is so big, it is impossible to be smart, so she said: "If you want to learn something, you don't have to go to school, right? Our Xiao family has a lot of money, you go find a good one." When the gentleman at one o’clock comes back, let’s teach your second brother alone? Oh, no, we also invite some female gentlemen to teach your younger sister.”

That's fine, as long as the siblings can learn something, hopefully it's not too late.

While Xiao Shiji felt guilty that he hadn't taken care of his younger siblings these years, he hurriedly invited his husband back, and specially designated a yard in Xiao's house to make a study for Xiao Taiji, so that his husband could live there.

The two female gentlemen invited by Xiao Yanran lived with her in her yard.

Throughout the twelfth lunar month, the Xiao family passed by in a hurry.

Ever since Du Hengshuang shot and killed Wang Xiaofu, a prostitute, at the north gate of Pingkangfang, he lived in seclusion in the Xu family and never came out again.

In June of the new year, which is the first year of Yongchang, she will be ready to go.In August after Jiji ceremony, she will get married.

Although it was a marriage that was ordered since childhood.The large dowry has already been prepared, but the red hijab and wedding dress for the bride, as well as the gifts for her husband's family after entering the house, all need to be made by her stitch by stitch.

Xiao Shiji was also busy renovating the Xiao family's house, repainting it inside and out.In order to make Du Hengshuang live comfortably, he even laid earth dragons in the new house he prepared, and a clean room in the inner room even dug a small bathing pool with a whole piece of light white jade.

Next to the cleaning room is a fire room, in which a woman looks after twelve hours a day to boil hot water.The boiled hot water can flow down the bamboo tube to the jade pool in the clean room next door, which is most convenient for bathing in winter.

The year is over.Xiao Shiji's new house renovation project is finally over.

When Long Xiangye heard that the yard of the new house was completed, she became a little interested, smiled and held Xiao Taiji and Xiao Yanran's hands, and came to visit the yard of the new house.

Entering the door is an octagonal pavilion standing in the center of the yard.Inside the gazebo, there is a square screen with a height of one person.Just like the screen wall when people enter the door, it blocks the scenery in the yard tightly, but it does not look bloated and old. It is a good idea and design in the inner yard.

Long Xiangye looked at this large courtyard that could be built into a gazebo without being too crowded, and her expression became pale.

The Xihe Courtyard where she lived was originally the main house of the Xiao family mansion.But compared with the yard of the new house prepared by Xiao Shiji.It is simply the house where the maid and mother-in-law live.

Long Xiangye supported Xiao Taiji's hand and walked around the pavilion.Walking in, it is as if you didn't see the famous peonies and seasonal flowers planted under the four walls in the courtyard.

When I came to the steps, the two Xifu Begonias planted on the left and the right actually bloomed in the first month, and they were so colorful that Long Xiangye groaned heavily.Said: "What kind of flowers bloom in the winter! If things are abnormal, there must be demons, it is not a good thing..."

Come to the new house.It was empty, without any furnishings.

Long Xiangye felt a little more comfortable in her heart.

But Xiao Taiji laughed beside him and said, "Here is waiting for my sister-in-law's dowry."

Long Xiangye suddenly remembered that the rich families here married their daughters, and even the furniture was accompanied by their natal families.The Du family must have sent someone to measure the size, and they went to beat the furniture according to the size.

Their Xiao family is rich, and the Du family is not poor.

In recent years, they have the support of Luoyang Da Sima, and the business of the Du family may be bigger than that of the Xiao family.

Moreover, the Du family only has two daughters, so of course they have to accompany the family wealth.

Thinking of this, Long Xiangye's heart was in a mess, and she hurriedly looked inside and outside the new house, especially staying in that unique clean room for a while.

After returning from the courtyard of Xiao Shiji's new house, Long Xiangye fell ill on the bed again.

Du Hengshuang heard about it from Xu's house, but she was too embarrassed to come to the door in person, so she had to send her maid to pay her respects three times a day.

After Long Xiangye fell ill, Zhu Susu became a frequent visitor to the Xiao family.She felt that Long Xiangye was very ill this time, and after thinking about it for a long time, she finally understood what Long Xiangye was thinking, and she only sneered frequently in her heart.

Since Long Xiangye wanted to pretend to be sick, Zhu Susu didn't expose her, but it made her think of a good move, so she resisted speaking and used warming medicine to restore Long Xiangye's body, until it was almost June, Zhu Susu said to Xiao Shiji: "Brother Xiao, I'm afraid my aunt will not recover from her illness this time."

Xiao Shiji has been helping King Yi to go to other places for a while, and he was away from Chang'an for three months. He hurried back because he was thinking about Du Hengshuang's Jiji ceremony in June, but when he came back, he saw Long Xiangye was sick in bed again. up.

"Is there really no other way?" Seeing Long Xiangye's thin and pale appearance, Xiao Shiji was very sad.

"It's not that there is no way. You must know that the aunt's illness, now that the medicine is dead, is about to take the lead. Maybe there is still a chance." Zhu Susu said with a worried expression.

"What way? Tell me, I will definitely do it!" Xiao Shiji said firmly.

Zhu Susu said: "I think you can give Chongxi a try."

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