The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Jia Lian wore a smile on his face, knowing that Xu Qingheng's words were just to resolve the embarrassment between the newlyweds, so he joked very wittily: "Your nanny is too stupid, now you are mine, Could it be that I am a prodigal son, and would intentionally trample on your embroidered shoes?"

Because of Jia Lian's words, Xu Qingheng's face blushed, but it also slightly reduced the loss of waking up alone after a good night, "secretly" looked up at the newlywed husband, and couldn't help but feel a little confused, turned his head to get better For a moment, I thought of Jia Lian's sentence last night, "The woman married in this life is born with what kind of temperament, let her live a life of peace and wealth with that temperament", and I couldn't help thinking that if Jia Lian didn't have so much helplessness, she would treat her as the current woman. She was the luckiest woman in the world, so she made up her mind to share Jia Lian's worries with both sweetness and sourness.

Because of the intimacy in Jia Lian's words, the maids following Jia Lian and Xu Qingheng also consciously slowed down and followed slowly.

The newlyweds entered their house one after the other, and the new house was still full of joy when the dragon and phoenix candles were extinguished. The mandarin duck red on the bed was always reminding the couple of their intimacy last night.

The dowry mother gave Xu Qingheng winks from time to time, Xu Qingheng coughed, and forced himself to take off Jia Lian's overcoat.

Jia Lian turned slightly to the side, feeling a little embarrassed when he saw Xu Qingheng, took Xu Qingheng's hand and walked under the window, sat on two large mother-of-pearl nanmu chairs under the window, and asked affectionately: "What did you have for breakfast?"

Xu Qingheng looked at Jia Lian's slender fingers holding her hand, his face was slightly red, his red lips were slightly parted, and he asked with a smile, "Have you eaten, fourth brother? Do you want to eat some more now?"

"I ate at Jing Huan Zhai in the front."

"Cough." One of the old nuns standing outside coughed.

Xu Qingheng glanced out, and naturally knew what Mammy meant.After waking up this morning, because she wasn't sure whether Jia Lian would come back for dinner, she ordered someone to warm up the food, thinking about eating together after Jia Lian came back. Xu Qingheng did not eat.At this time, my stomach was empty, but Jia Lian skipped the question of "Have you eaten?" and asked directly "What did you eat?", an inexplicable sense of self-esteem rose for a while. Looking at the man's woman, she refused to wait for Jia Lian, so she didn't eat, she just took her hand from under Jia Lian's fingers, and when the maidservant brought tea, she got up and took a cup from the tea tray Putting the tea by Jia Lian's hand, he brought another cup for himself, and then sat down next to Jia Lian.Silently looking forward to Jia Lian asking "what did you eat" again, but seeing that Jia Lian was a little lost in thought but didn't ask again, he picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea to satisfy his hunger, and thought to himself that she was so hungry. The appearance of not being able to tell is really hypocritical and ridiculous.

"Erheng." After Jia Lian lost his mind for a while, he finally came back to his senses. After putting his feet on the pedals, he straightened his clothes and turned his head to look at Xu Qingheng intently.

"Fourth brother?" Xu Qingheng guessed that Jia Lian was about to say something important, so he stopped laughing at himself and waited to hear what Jia Lian had to say. When he met Jia Lian's seemingly calm but tender eyes, he felt as if his mind had been steadied.

"Erheng," Jia Lian called out again, frowning slightly, and said in a low voice, "I'm afraid you will be wronged."

Xu Qingheng hurriedly shook his head, it was inevitable that Jia Lian's lost appearance would be noticed by the servants, and he slightly waved his hand to make the nuns and maidservants retreat - it is simply that all the people serving in the room at this moment are her people, just one look, everyone They all withdrew.

"Fourth brother, although I'm not very smart, but I saw what happened last night, and I fully understand the difficulties of fourth brother. If you have something to say, second brother can just say it directly." Xu Qingheng said.

"It's hard for you to be so considerate." Jia Lian smiled, "You are the second grandma now, and this family will depend on you in the future."

"This is a matter of duty, the second brother said it specially, but he seemed out of touch." Xu Qingheng sucked his lower abdomen slightly, and picked up the tea cup to take a sip of tea to satisfy his stomach.

Jia Lian chuckled and said, "I know that you have more ideas than others. Once you have to deal with the affairs of the family, you can handle them well, better than other men. But there are dragons and snakes in the Rongguo Mansion. Mixed, old and young, all of them have more eyes than others." After a pause, seeing Xu Qingheng nod, he said, "There are countless people outside the Rongguo Mansion who are waiting to plot against me, but it is me. Things were a little ugly before, and they restrained themselves because they were afraid of making things even more ugly."

"It's hard for fourth brother." Xu Qingheng said sincerely, but felt that Jia Lian must have another reason for complaining.

"But for you, the bride, I'm afraid that they can do things that bully you, such as relying on the old, pretending to be stupid, and using strong words to bully you. Therefore, I thought, after I leave the capital, instead of calling Shang Xia Excuse me, the old and the young put their hearts and minds on you, making it difficult for you as a new wife, why don't you put the whole thing on my head. Therefore, for the time being, please, your second grandma, only take care of the internal accounts, not the left and right external accounts. When it comes to your hands, if someone else has a wrong mind and wants to steal the money from you, you can just say that the money outside was not in your hands." Jia Lian rubbed the corners of his eyes, restrained and cautious, showing helplessness.

Xu Qingheng was stunned for a moment, knowing the difference between the internal account and the external account. For families like Jia's and Xu's, the profits of the Zhuangzi and shops outside are all in the hands of the mistress, and the mistress only cares about earning fame and titles. His wife and son don't care about family affairs.Although there is no explicit stipulation, this is also a custom, and everyone knows it.The situation in Rongguo Mansion seems to outsiders to look like she doesn't care about it and has no housekeeper.Xu Qingheng was already ready to take care of Jia's family, but now Jia Lian's words flashed through her, and she felt lost.

"I know that the talkative people outside know it. Eight out of ten out of ten, they will laugh at you with the heart of a villain for not being in my heart, secretly guessing that I am on guard against you..."

"Fourth brother, don't worry, Qingheng is not a person who secretly hurts himself when others say a few unpleasant words." Xu Qingheng wanted to forcefully interrupt Jia Lian's comforting words, and he only wanted to share Jia Lian's worries, so instead he comforted Jia Lian and said: "Fourth brother Don't worry about doing errands outside, don't worry about me." I felt a tumbling in my stomach, fearing that there would be an indecent sound in my stomach, so I picked up the tea bowl and took another sip of water.

"I knew you weren't the kind of person who loves to seize power." Jia Lian smiled, thinking that Xu Qingheng's teacup had come to an end, and thoughtfully handed her his own teacup, vaguely seeing that Xu Qingheng's face was a little embarrassed I just feel that it is because of the external accounts, after all, he is unwilling to hand over the external accounts so easily to Xu Qingheng, who in his eyes is not considered close-hearted - after all, in the world, money is the lifeblood, so easily hand over the lifeblood to others In hand, where to make it?It's just that if Xu Qingheng returns home in such an embarrassing manner tomorrow, it will be easy to have right and wrong.

Just when Jia Lian was thinking about how to appease Xu Qingheng, he heard the voice of mandarin ducks outside the window, "Second Master, Mr. Xu wants to say goodbye, will Second Master go see him off?"

Hearing this, Jia Lian first said to the window, "Of course I will send it off", and after getting up, he asked Xu Qingheng, "Do you want to see Uncle?"

Changing from a big girl to a young woman overnight, Xu Qingheng was embarrassed to see Xu Yuheng, so he lowered his head a little shyly and said: "Fourth brother, let's go home tomorrow, so I can see big brother."

"That's true." Jia Lian said with a smile, went out, took a few steps, turned her head and smiled at Xu Qingheng: "I missed it today, I have never seen a beautiful woman getting up in the morning, wait for tomorrow and dress up slowly, wait for me Come to draw your eyebrows." Saying so, he lifted his robe and walked out.

Xu Qingheng was stunned by Jia Lian's two words, and stood next to the window to watch Jia Lian's heroic stride away.

"Grandma, please sit down, the second master is gone." The maid Wen Lan smiled, and put down the tray she was dragging. Suddenly, a burst of sweet rice porridge hit Xu Qingheng's sinuses, and the aroma spread into the internal organs. The viscera suddenly became noisy.

After hearing the cooing sound, Xu Qingheng secretly rejoiced that he didn't make a joke in front of Jia Lian, so holding the silver spoon, he ate the japonica rice porridge.

The two old mothers came in with a nanny, and when they saw Xu Qingheng's appearance, they looked at each other, and then teased and said: "Grandma and Second Master are also childhood sweethearts, why bother to be strangers to Second Master, just to be with Second Master Said that you have never eaten, would the second master say, "You can eat by yourself, I can go out for a walk?" It is absolutely necessary that the second master should accompany grandma to eat. In this way, grandma will not eat alone and look at you lonely."

"Mama doesn't know something. Fourth brother is naturally understanding. If he knows that I haven't eaten yet, he will naturally eat with me. It's just that I know he doesn't like women who wait all day for men to spend their days. Therefore, I would rather starve myself once than let him take it lightly." After two mouthfuls of hot porridge, Xu Qingheng took a spoon and stirred it in the bowl. I found myself wronged and felt a little uncomfortable.

Because Jia Lian had a reputation for being considerate and considerate, and he was bound to respect his wife in the eyes of everyone, so the nuns didn't feel that Xu Qingheng had been wronged.

After waiting for a while, after Xu Qingheng finished his breakfast and rinsed his mouth, a mandarin duck came in with a stack of account books with a smile on his face. After paying respects to Xu Qingheng, he respectfully put down the account book and said with a smile: "Grandma , the whole family is waiting to kowtow to grandma, is grandma going to rest for a while, or is she going to show her face and see her?"

Xu Qingheng still sat by the window, didn't look at the account book, but put his hands on it, but he didn't see Jia Lian coming back with Yuanyang, so he asked, "Where is the second master? What did he say?"

"It is said that Prince Zhongshun's mansion also invited an imperial physician early in the morning, and the second master went to see if Prince Zhongshun is in good health. The second master is not here at the moment, and everything depends on grandma." Yuanyang stood with her hands folded, because she had heard that the foreigner The account hadn't been handed over to Xu Qingheng, so seeing Xu Qingheng rubbing the account book at this moment, she couldn't help feeling nervous, lest Xu Qingheng's anger would flare up on her, after a long time seeing Xu Qingheng's face as usual, she breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly sighed that it was Xu Qingheng. If the family is well educated, if it is replaced by a competitive grandma, if the grandma doesn't get angry at Jia Lian, she will also vent her anger on them servants.

"Grandma, according to me, we should see you when we get back to the door." Mother Wang said with a smile, because Jia Lian had no one in the room, and she knew that the status of mandarin ducks was different from that of ordinary servants, so she asked the maid, Wen Lan, to choose a superior one. The purse is a reward for Yuanyang.

After Yuanyang kowtowed to pick up the purse and exited, Wang Momo saw that there was no one around, then she looked at Xu Qingheng and said: "Grandma, according to the rules, we should wait for the second master to come back and see you together."

Xu Qingheng smiled, not knowing that Nanny Wang was looking forward to having Jia Lian to support her, took the account book and flipped through it, and saw that it was just an account that recorded the daily and monthly rations of rice and grains of the master and servant in the family, and for a while felt that Let go of the account books when what you learned in the past is useless.

"Grandma doesn't look carefully? If something goes wrong, wait until you see the daughter-in-law who is in charge, so you can speak out to convince the public, lest they think that grandma is full of recklessness and doesn't know anything about the inside and outside of the family." Madam Li Mammy took two steps forward, and handed the account book on the tea table to Xu Qingheng again, although she was old but hale and hearty, as if she believed in Xu Qingheng's talent and learning.

Xu Qingheng looked at the two old nuns and the maid looked at the account book in her hand eagerly. No one knew that everyone thought that this account book recorded the ins and outs of tens of thousands of taels of silver in the Jia family's legend, so they told the mother Mama said, "It's just a few bits and pieces of expenses, where is it worth looking at carefully?"

Wang Momo didn't believe it, she moved closer, and said with a smile: "A family like Jia's, even if they don't have much contact with other families now, with three festivals and two lifespans, the contacts among them will not be fragmented."

"As for the reciprocity, there is an old example. If it is bought outside, it will be sent to me according to the old practice, and there is no need to hand it over to me." Xu Qingheng said.

Because of Xu Qingheng's ambiguity, Wang Momo showed hesitation on her face.

After being slightly stunned, Nanny Li cupped her hands at Xu Qingheng and said, "Congratulations, grandma, for being the housekeeper grandma. From now on, grandma will take care of the family's income and expenses. She will not be as relaxed as she was when she was a girl."

When Wen Lan, Wu'er, and Liu'er saw Nanny Li making a bow, they also smiled and called the housekeeper grandma.

Xu Qingheng was afraid that everyone would cause trouble without knowing it, so he hurriedly said: "Don't shout like that, be careful to make people laugh. In their family, there is an old grandmother on the top, an aunt on the bottom, and a sister-in-law who has been in charge for many years. According to the second master's intention, Yes, let me take care of the rouge, powder, four seasons and clothes in the inner house, but after a year or two, let people see my ability, and then hand over the Zhuangzi shop outside to me." In order to show that he was willing, he put on his face Look more and more calm.

The nuns and maidservants who came as dowries were taken aback. Everyone thought that with Xu Qingheng's family background and Jia Liansu's character, Xu Qingheng should be an all-powerful housekeeper and grandma from the very beginning. It's some trivial things, everyone is surprised, but also quite aggrieved.

"Grandma, the second master has accumulated a lot of power in Jia's house. It is said that he is the one who decides all matters big and small. As long as the second master says something, no one else will dare to disobey him." Nanny Zhong always refused to speak before the two old mothers. At this moment, seeing that the nuns were silent, they said something first.

Xu Qingheng chuckled lightly and said, "Second Master can't stay at home all the time, is it possible that he must always rely on his prestige to convince the public?"

"...Is there a certain amount of money for the monthly expenses?" After hesitating for a long time, Wang Momo asked.

Xu Qingheng pursed his lips and nodded, because he didn't dare to tell others about Jia Lian's plan to leave Beijing, so he didn't say much.

"It turns out that grandma doesn't have any money to make the decision? Everything must be done according to the account books?" Zhong was surprised.

Xu Qingheng nodded, and said with a smile: "This is just right, the nuns and mothers said that I was too young when I left the court, but now the job is very light, just follow the script, and spend a good time looking for Yingchun and Xiangyun to gossip every day .”

When Mrs. Qin was about to speak, she saw Li and Wang giving her winks, so she could only hold back her mouth, thinking that in the end it was the second master Lian who was so skilled that he could make their girls so desperate. It didn't make much difference whether Jia Lian was with them or not when they kowtowed, people on the left and right watched Xu Qingheng's in and out of money while he was careless about matters such as the posthumous makeup, the moon, etc., and at the end they also suspected that the newlyweds had a disagreement.

"Let's get back, the old lady is kind, and told grandma to take a good rest, Wen Lan will help grandma to sleep." Li Nanny laughed.

"Hey."

Xu Qingheng nodded, only heard a burst of chattering, and after everyone had retreated, he leaned forward and stood by the window, and vaguely heard a slight whisper, although he didn't hear it clearly, but he expected it to be The dowry were discussing in disappointment that she had no extra money.

"Grandma, take off your clothes and rest for a while." Wen Lan said cautiously, and seeing Xu Qingheng listening to the movement outside, she said softly: "Grandma, everyone should only treat you like the second master at home and be friendly with the uncle , and grandma's talent, as soon as she enters the house, grandma has to shoulder the burden of managing the housekeeper, after all, the old lady has long been out of business, and there is no serious wife in the family, so..."

"Forget it, tell the subordinates to be more careful when you are free. Don't let others think that we are just here, so they are excitedly waiting to take over the Jia family's million-dollar wealth." Xu Qingheng stood up and stood in front of the bed and asked Wen Lan to change her clothes. , Remembering that Jia Lian said that she wanted to give her thrush, she looked at her willow-leaf eyebrows carefully in the dressing mirror by the window.

"Grandma, don't worry, our people don't want to be excited, but everyone in the Jia family thinks that grandma will hold great power, and they can't wait to hold grandma to the sky. If they know grandma... I'm afraid they can't wait to trample grandma on the ground." Wen Lan He spoke cautiously, unable to hear Xu Qingheng's words, so he had to put down the red curtain and then backed out gently.

She was alone in the room, and Xu Qingheng wasn't tired. He lay on the bed and rubbed the brocade quilt with his hands. Thinking of the polite, gentle and delicate touch last night, he became more and more sleepy. He turned over and was about to look for Jia Lian on the pillow. Breath, and there was only my own fragrance on the pillow, as if I was the only one lying there, I opened the curtains and walked out of bed, looking for some things Jia Lian used in daily life in the room to know Jia Lian's likes and dislikes, and seeing that this new house is really "Brand new" is incomparable, and all the utensils can't be seen to be half-new because Jia Lian often used them. Since there are no daily-use things, it is expected that Jia Lian will not stay here for a long time in the future.

"It's really strange, there are people who don't miss the boudoir." With a sneer, Xu Qingheng lay on the bed sleepily with his head on his head, pillowing his arms, unconsciously guessing Jia Lian's true intentions in not letting her take care of foreign affairs, and slouched in embroidered shoes Kicking the draped bed curtain, she turned her head suddenly, and saw a handsome and handsome man in red, leaning on Baibaoge with arms folded and looking at her.

"Has the beauty woke up? Is the thrush?"

Xu Qingheng was stunned for a moment, because the man's enchanting smile disturbed his heart, and then he sighed in his heart, vaguely guessing that he came here specially to draw eyebrows for her, maybe he missed him as much as she did, but he was afraid that she would look good when he came back tomorrow Not good, it's hard to explain about the butler when asked by the Xu family.

"What a wonderful flower." Xu Qingheng sighed inwardly, although his mind was clear, but when he saw Jia Lian walking towards the mirror stand, and a handsome face was reflected in the mirror, he still replied with a twitch in his heart.