Rebirth of the Main Room Manual

Chapter 44 Gifts
Surrounded by the servants, the old lady and Mrs. Zheng talked and laughed and went back to their rooms to rest. Yiqing was relieved and supported the scene by herself. Great, the potential has been tapped out!
On the way back to Yuhui Courtyard, Zheng Jingyan personally took a lantern to illuminate the way for Yiqing. Seeing this, the servants knew that the newlyweds wanted to whisper something, so they put a distance between them and left them far behind. The two of them walked and talked slowly.

Zheng Jingyan said to Yiqing: "You are doing very well. The old lady and the wife are very happy tonight. I should give you a New Year's gift. What do you want?"

Lately, she has been seriously deprived of sleep. Yiqing has been sleepy for a long time. She covered her lips with her hands and yawned. Zheng Jingyan is just her husband in name, an insignificant person, and she doesn’t need to hide anything in front of him. She feels free and relaxed in front of him. It's actually pretty good.

He asked tiredly: "In a few days, I should be able to go back to my mother's house to pay New Year's greetings, right? Can I stay at home for a few more days?"

Zheng Jingyan thought for a while and said, "Also in the capital, the Hou's mansion is less populated and deserted. It stands to reason that it shouldn't keep her natal family... What's the matter with you?"

"Uh, it's nothing... You know I'm from the south of the Yangtze River, and I got married from my grandfather's house. It's impossible to have a dowry like a farm and a mountain forest, but my grandfather gave me four shops scattered around the city. I think it's very good. I want to personally Go and have a look, make some plans..."

Zheng Jingyan interrupted her plainly: "What those shops were originally doing, let them continue to do it! Doing business is nothing more than earning profits. Since you like money, I will give it to you. Walk around the streets The idea, rest!"

Yiqing was rejected, and sighed in disappointment: "Others can only give it once or twice, how can I earn more than myself? It feels so good to keep getting money!"

Zheng Jingyan glanced at her: "There is a saying that you can't chew too much, have you heard of it?"

Yiqing lowered her eyes: "Thank you Lord Hou for reminding me, I understand!"

I can't help but feel a little excited. Lan Shan: Is this considered cooperation and mutual assistance?Both requests were rejected!
But I heard Zheng Jingyan say: "Mrs. Hou's participation in business will hurt the reputation of the Hou family and me. If grandma finds out, it will be a matter of worry and anger! Grandma is getting old, and I don't want her to be in peace! How about it, I and He opened a drug store and a restaurant in the capital as a partnership. It was originally for fun. After a few years, the business has been very good. The profit has not entered the account of the Hou Mansion, so I will give you two dry shares. Dividends in the middle and end of each year Once... is a New Year's gift, so I'll give it to you this year too! Is this considered to be 'continuously entering the account'?"

Yiqing stopped in her tracks and looked back at him, her eyes were shining like stars in the night, with an alluring luster like jewels:

"Pharmacies and restaurants? Dry stocks? Then, what's the point of that?"

"Don't like it? Then change it..."

"Ah? No, don't bother, that's it! Thank you Lord Hou for the New Year's gift!"

Zheng Jingyan was speechless, everyone is greedy, but ordinary young women are not like her, right?

Back at Yuhui Courtyard, while the maids were taking Yiqing to take a bath first, Zheng Jingyan went to Hanjin Courtyard and brought back a flat box. When Yiqing came out, he handed the box to her. Yiqing just After a little hesitation, he took the box unceremoniously, and ordered casually:
"Ruyi, you come to serve Master Hou to take a bath. Remember to dry your hair with water...Hua Yu, Yunping, are you ready for your change of clothes? Put it on the smoker cage first, and you will come out in a while, dressed warmly... ..."

Zheng Jingyan went in to take a bath, and Yiqing secretly counted the bank notes in the box, counted three times in a row, and finally believed it—a total of 4000 taels!
The pharmacy and the restaurant each have a dry stock, and the dividends are paid out twice a year, totaling 4000 taels of silver!
Xia Yiqing was stunned for a while, and then went crazy with joy: This is even easier than picking leaves!

Back in their hometown in Huzhou, she and her younger sister Yueqing relied on embroidery and painting New Year pictures, and only had savings of more than 100 taels for a few years. The cheap father slapped the two sisters a few times, and compensated three or four hundred taels of silver under guilt. In her eyes, it was already considered a huge amount of assets, and she arrived in the capital with that little money and planned to buy a house with confidence... She had successfully negotiated marriage with the Rongping Hou Mansion, but it was not her turn to calculate the gift money for the engagement, and she could not even take a look at it. No, the dowry is all in kind, and the 400 taels of silver in the box are not allowed to be moved... She knew in her heart that in such a high-ranking mansion, there is not enough personal money to turn around, and sooner or later she will suffer a loss and make a fool of herself!
And now that Zheng Jingyan has made an agreement with her, the Hou Mansion is no longer a place where she can entrust her life, and she may be divorced in a year or two. At that time, Zheng Jingyan may give her some compensation, but who knows?The so-called abandonment, you will be kicked out of the house only if you bear the crime. It is the family's business to give more and less.
But I really can't believe it, Zheng Jingyan gave a random benefit, that is, the two dry stocks can get dividends twice a year, a total of 4000 million silver!

If she doesn't know what to do and go out to do business, then she deserves to be tortured to death!
Xia Yiqing stayed silent all night. At the beginning, she thought about going out and making a contract with him, but then she thought about it, forget it, this year's dividend has been received, and she will definitely receive it next year , Even if he leaves the next year, he has already accumulated tens of thousands of taels of silver. This start-up capital is enough, and there is no need to make him sign a pledge, so as not to annoy him and regret it!

Zheng Jingyan felt that he gave this New Year's gift too well. Xia Yiqing performed very well, serving his grandmother and mother wholeheartedly in front of his grandmother and mother, filial and docile, and more active cooperation. The husband and wife live in the same room but have different beds. Be noticed a little bit!

The two of them guarded this secret together, and even Wang Yaozhen and Zheng Jingyan didn't say anything about it.

On the evening of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Zheng Jingyan came back from the Prince Qin's Mansion after having New Year's wine, instead of going directly to his own Marquis' Mansion, he went to the mansion to visit Wang Yaozhen.

New Year's items had been prepared by Du Zhong many years ago, and a visit during the New Year's Eve would have to prepare another gift. Zheng Jingyan thought of Yi Qing's "New Year's gift", which was very appropriate and nice.

Shouldn't the gifts given to people at the beginning of the new year be called New Year's gifts?
Women from Jiangnan are often praised by literati and inkmen as "light makeup is always suitable". Xia Yiqing does look so fresh and elegant, with a clever mind and a gentle temperament. Light!

Thinking that Xia Yiqing's behavior completely subverted the beautiful preconceptions of Jiangnan women in the minds of literati, Zheng Jingyan couldn't help smiling!

Sister Yaozhen is not like Yiqing, she has an elegant taste, gold, silver, yellow and white things don't catch her eyes, what she likes is playing the piano, composing music, practicing calligraphy and painting, and some of them have been studying for a lifetime when it comes to the creation of poems and songs All the scribes are not as good as her!

The New Year gift that Zheng Jingyan brought to Wang Yaozhen was a copy of Mrs. Wei's authentic handwriting, and an ancient piece of music that has almost been lost - Gaoshan Liushui.

(End of this chapter)