Yu Tang Golden Boudoir

Chapter 84
Xu Sihai's eyes darkened when he said a word, and the cup in his hand fell to the ground with a bang, Nanny Yao was startled. I picked up the cup, which Jiulang? Jiang Jiulang? I didn't expect the Li family's wife to marry the Jiang family. This is a marriage marriage, and I was shocked."

Mother Yao heard what Xu Sihai said, she shook her head and smiled, and hurriedly called someone to clean it up, ordered another cup of tea and handed it to Xu Sihai, then said with a smile: "Which is Jiang Jiulang, it's Jiulang from my uncle's house, it's Brother Jing, Sister Li and Brother Jing grew up together since they were young, and they are a good marriage of childhood sweethearts."

"Ah? Ha! That's that." Xu Sihai smiled exaggeratedly: "You just said that in the past few days, you sent someone to your door to propose a marriage? Did you actually propose this marriage? Brother Jiu is very lucky, this matter I didn’t even hear what Auntie said.”

"I haven't gone yet. Madam didn't find a suitable person for a while. According to etiquette, people like us always have to say something before proposing marriage. The person who talks, on the one hand, wants to be acquainted with the woman's family, and on the other hand, he wants to be acquainted with us. Our side is fine. The Yongguo Mansion has rarely interacted with people in the past ten years. Where can we find such a suitable person in a short while? Go?" Nanny Yao patiently explained.

Xu Sihai sighed secretly, agreeing in his mouth, but quickly made up his mind in his heart: "That's that... that's the right person... I think of one." Xu Sihai had some ideas in his heart, looked at Yao The mother said with a smile: "I heard from Mr. Leng that his grandmother is Mrs. Zhou from Duke Lai's mansion, and she often visits Duke Yong's mansion."

"Huh?" Nanny Yao clapped her hands and said, "Qilang is smart. Our wife has been thinking about it for the past two days but I haven't come up with a suitable person. You just mentioned one. This is, I remembered, Zhou The grandnephew of the old lady’s natal family is marrying the son of Duke Yong, Uncle Li, and she is not a very suitable person, thanks to Qilang!”

"Thank you." Xu Sihai stood up with a smile and said, "I still have something to do. I won't wait for my aunt to come back. I'll bother you to tell my aunt that I'll come and see her tomorrow." Xu Sihai said as he walked out, Yao Mammy had to follow along all the way out.

Xu Sihai rode out of the Marquis of Qingjiang, raised his whip and hurriedly ordered: "Go to Lengfu."

For several days in a row, Li Tian's green oil car with blue silk apron came out and went in two or three times a day, either by the front door or the rear corner door. The car couldn't keep an eye on people, so he had to withdraw the hidden stakes guarding the front, back and back corner gates of Yongguo Duke's Mansion in resentment.

Since Li Xiaozu made a deal with his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Zhou, on that day, he took the opportunity to raise this idea with Madam Yang. Qian Gang, what is sad is that the dignified son of Duke Yong's mansion actually wants to study business!After thinking about it over and over again, I finally made up my mind and handed over 3000 taels of silver to Li Xiaozu, asking him to buy a few houses and rent them out for a try.

To buy a house in the expensive capital city, 3000 taels of silver is really pitifully small. Li Xiaozu is a careful man who is not afraid of hardship. He ran around the capital seven or eight times, and finally found a row of old houses that are not too remote. The location of the 3000 taels of silver house is not too bad, but the house is dilapidated and unreadable. Li Xiaozu bought the house, and the 3000 taels were exhausted, so he had to go to find Mrs. Yang again. After all, I finally got it from Mrs. Yang again. 500 taels of silver came out for repairs. 500 taels of silver to repair the dilapidated house that can no longer be broken. It is really stretched. Li Xiaozu's calculations are almost white. Every penny has to be used wisely. In order to save money, he almost runs to the store every day. That cousin of the Xun Zhou family came here to ask for advice on how to repair a house, and secondly, he stared at the old materials and leftover scraps that were replaced by the maintenance department of the building shop. Come to repair his 3000 taels of silver broken house.

The Dongxixianglou store in the capital is in charge of tens of thousands of public houses in the capital that are leased to officials and ordinary people, and they are under the control of the Ministry of Household Affairs.There is a lot of rain in summer. At the end of June, it rained heavily in the capital for two consecutive days. This morning, the rain was a little lighter. The fourth prince, Qin Kun, took a few officials from the household department and worked on the business affairs of the left and right wing buildings. Waiting for the head of the building office to check the water and leaks in the houses, and saw that it was almost noon before turning back to the office of the building. Just after entering the office of the building office, the little servant Mingfeng leaned over and whispered: "Master, the one standing in the corner over there is the Lord of Yongguo's Mansion."

The fourth prince turned his head to look at Li Xiaozu, who was cautiously huddled in a recessed corner of the corridor in the distance, looked at him a few times, then entered the building with a normal expression, and listened to the repair plans and leases from the chief officers of the building. After listening carefully for half an hour, he stood up and gave instructions: "There is not much money in the ban. It is a good deed to transfer the money to the Salesian Bureau. It is also a good deed to repair the house and reduce the rent for those who are struggling on that day. Don't save too much money for repairs, and rent as much as you can."

Everyone hurriedly bowed and promised, the fourth prince stood up, strode out, walked about ten steps, as if thinking of something, suddenly stopped, raised his hand to call Lu Anshun, the store manager in the left wing, and walked a few steps forward He took a step forward and said very casually: "I almost forgot, I heard that Li Xiaozu, the eldest son of Duke Yong's mansion, is still making progress. If few people use it in the future, it will be useful."

Lu Anshun has been able to work in such a fat job as the head of the store in the left wing building for ten years. Naturally, he is a fine person. As soon as the fourth prince finished speaking, Lu Anshun hurriedly thanked him: "Fourth Lord always thinks of the officials. , but there is no shortage of people to use, there are few people on the money-grabbing officer, and there are few people on the repair and selection command. One of the three detainees wants to move. safe."

The fourth prince said 'hmm' casually: "Forget about the others, we can't wait for the repair of the house."

"That's not right, the lower official thinks the same way. I'm uneasy..." Lu Anshun respectfully sent the fourth prince away, with his head bowed, one hand behind his back, the other hand twirling his beard, and frowning. Stop, Li Xiaozu, the son of Duke Yong?Lu Anshun thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't figure out the slightest impression. Didn't the Duke of Yongguo fall down long ago?Li Xiaozu wants to find a job in the building business?Lu Anshun thought about it for a long time, but he still didn't have the slightest impression. For such a trivial matter, it is reasonable to send a servant to explain it to him, but the fourth master actually sent the message himself, and specified that he was looking for a job in the repair area. Poor, um, it seems that Li Xiaozu's errands make good arrangements, but it can't be too low... Li Xiaozu was dizzy and went back to Yongguo Duke's Mansion. He seemed to be unable to hear or see all the way, but his face was smiling. Like a flower.Almost by instinct, Li Xiaozu ran all the way into his small courtyard and the door of the hanging flower, but suddenly stopped, raised his hand and patted his forehead several times, his wife must be waiting for A Niang right now, Li Xiaozu originally He turned around abruptly, crossed the courtyard and jumped up the steps of the courtyard gate. He was about to step out of the courtyard gate, but he took it back. Said that I was in a hurry to find her."

The mother-in-law agreed, and hurried to Mrs. Yang in the main courtyard to find the eldest grandmother Zhou.Grandma Zhou came back with her mother-in-law. Li Xiaozu was standing in the courtyard gate waiting for her with a smile on his face. Grandma Zhou looked up and down Zhou Xiaozu suspiciously. These days, she frowned every day. What's the matter today?Still in such a hurry to call himself back.

Li Xiaozu stepped forward to support his daughter-in-law attentively, put it in her ear and said excitedly and mysteriously: "We have changed luck, it's a great thing!"

"What's the matter?" Grandma Zhou also smiled when she was overjoyed by Li Xiaozu.

"Guess, you're sure you won't be able to guess!" Li Xiaozu's brows trembled excitedly, Grandma Zhou raised her hand and slapped him angrily, "Let me guess when you know I can't? Tell me quickly."

"A good thing that can't be imagined!" Li Xiaozu's smiling eyes narrowed into a line, and his face flushed: "It's not that our house lacks a few door panels and panes. I've been looking for them for the past few days. They are either too expensive, or I really don't like them. Eyes, I heard that yesterday the shop demolished several old houses, so I went to see if I could find something good early in the morning."

"Did you buy a cheap one? Or, did you not spend any money? They don't want it?" Grandma Zhou laughed hurriedly.Li Xiaozu shook his head like a drum: "No, no, what a good thing? I didn't find it, and I didn't find it after searching for a long time. Who knows." Li Xiaozu stopped like a joke: "Who knows about Mr. Lu, you know about Mr. Lu Right? That’s the head of the store in Zuoxiang Building, and someone called me in, saying that there is a lack of people for the maintenance of Zuoxianglou’s store, and asked me if I would like to come and do it.”

"Really?" After staying for a long while, Grandma Zhou let out a startled cry. Li Xiaozu seemed to have expected his daughter-in-law's reaction, his eyes still couldn't open his smile, and he nodded awkwardly: "That's not counting, Mr. Lu He said that I was careful and capable, and I was given the title of manager when I first came up, and I have to manage the second, No. 30 people!" Li Xiaozu couldn't help puffing out his chest, very proud.

Grandma Zhou didn't know how to express her surprise anymore, she tiptoed around in the corridor several times, then suddenly threw herself on Li Xiaozu's face and kissed her, giggling and said, "I knew you were capable!"

The maids and women in the yard hurriedly twisted their necks and turned their heads to pretend not to see. Li Xiaozu's face was flushed by his wife's kiss. Grandma Zhou was excited, but she suddenly stopped, grabbed Li Xiaozu's arm tightly and said, "You didn't lie to me? You How could you lie to me? Mr. Lu didn’t lie to you, did he? How could there be such a good thing? It’s so rare to get a job in the store in that building. The third cousin ordered thousands of silver and waited for a year or two before he got a job. Who doesn’t know that the job of Qian’s marriage officer is the best job in building repairs? You got such a good job for nothing, and you’re still in charge, how can there be such a good thing?”

(End of this chapter)