[Qing Chuan + Red Mansion] Midas touch

Not being able to find Smarter is like hanging a sword that will fall down at any time on the top of the head, making Jiamu and others sleepless.

While comforting himself that Jingxu could no longer threaten the Jia family and the empress, he kept guessing who was trying to harm the Jia family and the empress.

And whether that smart boy can make another fool.

All the clues were cut off for a while, and the Jia family had to let go of all these disturbing things without clues. Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang couldn't help but think of Zuo Xi, who tipped off the news on this matter.

If you do well, you will naturally be rewarded.

So Jia's mother specially asked Yuanyang to open her private treasury for her dowry, and found several valuables to send to Zuo Xi.Mrs. Wang was also bleeding profusely and asked someone to send Zuo Xi a few horses of useful materials.However, Mrs. Wang knew that Xue's family was rich, and Xue's family was an imperial businessman, so she was in charge of the comprador of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.It is uncertain how many of these materials were sent to the palace from Xue's side.So when I sent Zhou Rui's family to deliver things, I asked her to say something, "I know your family is not short of good things, it's just a meaning." '

"It's not like he hasn't seen anything good before, and he didn't care too much for it. What I received was the kindness that the old lady and the wife treated me, and nothing else can compare to it." Zuo Xi smiled. After being polite with Zhou Rui's family, he first greeted the family according to the routine, and then asked about the progress of the family home with a smile.

Although there is still a big gap in the money, the progress of the Rongguo Mansion is quite gratifying.In addition, during the chat with Zhou Rui's family, Zuo Xi also discovered that the funding gap of Rongguo Mansion had been perfectly resolved.

The Jia family already had some contacts in the official department, and they helped arrange an official position, just like the arrangement for Jia Yucun.Or like Sister Feng, who helped others to get benefits, or arranged for some lawsuits, and some opportunistic people came to flatter and cater to them. At that time, Mrs. Wang was asked to collect all the money for the construction of the provincial hospital.

Not only did the initial expenses come together, but even the later soft decoration expenses were prepared.

Zuo Xi: When the Jia family died, they always took the highway in no man's land, right?

This speed can't be kept up with Wubi Tucao.

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The last time I went out for an outing, I met Zhou Yun. Immediately afterwards, Zhou Yun fell ill. He was looking for Smarter, representing the moon to eliminate Jingxu. He had been busy for more than a month. It is now mid-to-late April. I can't hold my tail anymore.

I also thought of Mrs. Wang's ability to put needles in every stitch, and worried that in order to save money, she would use the pretext of taking care of the Xue family's business to trick Aunt Xue into paying on credit.

That business is not only owned by the Xue family, but also owned by the Jiu Ye.It's really a huge amount of credit, Jiuye's pretty face can't be the bottom of the pot.

Thinking of this, Zuo Xi asked someone to clean up the Xue family's Zhuangzi outside the city, and then pestered Aunt Xue and Xue Pan to live in the Zhuangzi for a while.

"The city is noisy and chaotic. Seeing that it is getting hotter every day, you might as well go to Zhuangzi to live for a while."

Xue Pan thought that he had to go out of the city every time he hunted, and he would live in the Zhuangzi outside the city when it was late, so he felt that it would be more comfortable to live in the Zhuangzi for hunting and horse racing.Aunt Xue is a true ancient housewife, except for the necessary entertainment, she can really live in the house.But seeing that Zuo Xi wanted to go, Xue Pan also thought it was good, so this spoiled parent asked someone to pack his luggage.

Originally, before going out, he had thought about going away for several months, so he should have told the Wang family and the Jia family.When Zuo Xi heard this, he quickly stopped him.

"Mom, it's serious, what's the big deal, and I'll send someone to talk about it. Don't talk about how busy Auntie is, just say that Auntie may not be happy to hear what you said." , Zuo Xi murmured deliberately, "It seems to be deliberately showing that you have a son, so you live a leisurely life."

Aunt Xue gave Zuo Xi a hard look, "The bigger you get, the more ugly you become."

Those with small mouths may sound reasonable at first glance, but they are all nonsensical when you look carefully.

But Aunt Xue didn't bother with Zuo Xi for such a trivial matter, and she wouldn't notify if she didn't want to be notified.If something happened, just send someone to look for them outside the city.

Immediately, Aunt Xue called the housekeeper and gave such and such instructions, and the next day, she followed her son and daughter to Zhuangzi, which is more than 50 miles away from the city.

The big housekeeper got Aunt Xue's orders and Zuo Xi's instructions. Whether it was the Wang family or the Jia family who came to look for them, they only said that the uncle took the old lady and the girl out to check the accounts. The direction was unknown and the date of return was uncertain.

There was nothing wrong with the Wang family, but Wang Ren lost money again and came to ask his little aunt for some money.People from Jia's house came more than once.

First, April 26, Baoyu's birthday.Jia's mother wanted to celebrate Baoyu's birthday at home, and then Mrs. Wang sent Zhou Rui's family over to invite Aunt Xue to talk.

Zuo Xi really guessed what Mrs. Wang wanted to say to Aunt Xue.

Nowadays, provincial homes are being built everywhere in the capital, and the prices of all objects have already been raised.Mrs. Wang wanted to get the goods from the Xue family's shop. One was to hope that the Xue family would give a cost price, and the other was to hope that the Xue family could pay one or two on credit.

This kind of thing, let alone in ancient times, is common in modern times.Whoever opened a small supermarket or something at home, the relatives in the family would all want to go to the small supermarket to 'buy' things.

If you have small change and small money, you can avoid it.It's unavoidable, and I have to ask you to give me a delivery price.What's more, they just take things when they come, saying that they will give money back.When he asked for money, he either said 'huh?There's also this kind of thing', or it's just a pair of 'it's really getting more and more picky, and such a little money is worth asking for'.

Mrs. Wang got the money, maybe she didn't take advantage when she took advantage, and that's not her style.

He also went to the Xue family's shop to borrow things under the guise of relatives, but the problem was that those guys in the Xue's shop didn't even care about the real master of the Xue family.

He had no choice but to send people to Xue's house one after another, and found that the three members of Xue's family were still not in the capital, so they had to give up.

This year is leap April, don't wait for May, in the second April, the weather is already hot.

The life in Zhuangzi is no different from that in the mansion in the capital. If there is, it means that going out is more convenient than before.

Living in Zhuangzi, he didn't need to take a car or sedan when going out. Zuo Xi would wear a valance every day, and then take the girl and servants out for a stroll.

In the beginning, it was purposeful loitering.For Aunt Xue, she picked three or five elderly country women who spoke clearly and looked upright, and asked them to play with Aunt Xue.After Aunt Xue had her own small circle, Zuo Xi began to wander aimlessly in this area.

The Zhuangzi of the Xue family is at the foot of Xiaotang Mountain. When they bought the Zhuangzi, they brought hot spring water into the Zhuangzi.Even if Xue's family doesn't have a hot spring village on Xiaotang Mountain, it is still possible to soak in hot springs.

Soaking in hot springs every day, and walking around Zhuangzi, I don't know if it's really improved, or because of his mood, Zuo Xi always feels that his body is much lighter.

It was raining the day before, and Zuo Xi, who was so happy to go out, heard that it was possible to pick mushrooms. He immediately put on a pair of small boots, put on a veiled hat, and took people into the mountains to pick mushrooms.

Because there was not much ventilation in the mountain, Zuo Xi took off the curtain cap.The woman who went out with her had seen Zuo Xi's appearance for a long time and was not surprised. She only glanced at Zuo Xi's face several times when Zuo Xi took off her veiled cap.

There are such handsome girls in this world, maybe the fairies in the sky are like this.

"...For some reason, sometimes this kind of dog urine moss is poisonous, and sometimes it is not. When eating at the same table, some will be poisoned, and some will not." A woman accompanied Zuo Xi to pick mushrooms. Seeing Zuo Xi Once again squatting there to look at a mushroom called dog pee moss under the tree, and introduced it to Zuo Xi with a smile, "Girls can just look at this thing, but don't dare to eat it."

The three masters and servants heard that people in the village would dig wild vegetables in spring, so they also wanted to join in the fun, but it was not easy to join in the fun.One is that Zuo Xi grew up in the city and didn't know any wild vegetables at all.Ying'er came to the mansion to serve the original owner since she was a child, so naturally she didn't know her.When Wen Xing was assigned to Zuo Xi's room, she was younger.So I had to ask the woman on the farmer who knows the goods for help.

Zuo Xi also knew that it would be embarrassing for these people to leave their own work and go out to play with her, so he discussed with these women and paid them the daily wages according to the monthly wages of the shop assistants.

Zuo Xi got up early and wanted to go out, so she asked the little girl to go to the Zhuangzi to shout, whoever accompanied Zuo Xi out to play today can go to Yinger to receive a daily salary that night.

In this way, everyone is happy.

After listening to the woman's words, Zuo Xi nodded and stood up slowly, his eyes scanned the area, and there would be such a pile of dog urine moss under almost every two or three trees.I couldn't help but feel a kind of doubt in my heart, "I don't see so many dogs on Zhuangzi."

'Puff~'

"Hey, what are you talking about, girl? Whoever tells girl that it's called dog pee moss must be peeing on it."

"Uh?"

"Forget it, forget it, who cares what it is for. Don't say such vulgar words again." Zuo Xi didn't feel much about it yet, but Ying'er, who was on the side, saw these women relentlessly posing in front of Zuo Xi. What dog pee, even laughed at Zuo Xi's ignorance in public, immediately took out the big girl's fan, and stopped telling them.

Seeing this, Zuo Xi didn't say anything in front of people.After all, the authority of the big girl still needs to be maintained.

When the women saw them, they immediately put away their smiles and continued to lead the master and servants to find mushrooms and dig wild vegetables.

Wild vegetables are always available, but mushrooms will not be available until after the rain.Walking among the crowd, Zuo Xi thought that this was the first time they came to Zhuangzi to pick mushrooms, so he couldn't help asking Ying'er, "Is there much less rain this year than in previous years?"

Will less rain cause drought?

Then the food production decreased, the people complained about the famine...

Ying'er might as well Zuo Xi asked her about the rain, and after thinking for a while, she replied, "There was a light snowfall in early March. It didn't stop, and it melted when it fell. At the end of March, there were two snowfalls. After entering April, It’s only for one game.”

"Miss Ying'er has a good memory, but that's not the case. I heard from our family that the water in the river is not as good as in previous years." A woman put a handful of wild vegetables into a basket on her arm, and said with lingering fear on her face, "Fortunately, after listening to my mother-in-law, the family grows sweet potatoes this year."

Sweet potatoes are more drought-resistant than sticks. Once the sticks lack water, it will affect the harvest.

After hearing this, Zuo Xi couldn't help asking the woman worriedly, "Will there be a drought?"

"You can't say for sure, it depends on the mood of the lord. I still remember when I was a child, the year was really good as said in the book, but who knew that the wheat was about to be harvested, and I fell several times in a row. It was raining heavily, and there were hail the size of eggs in the rain..."

This is the price of relying on the sky and relying on people.

First he sympathized with the ancient peasants in his heart, and then he was proud of the modern technology, so Zuo Xi began to worry about the drought belatedly.

Losing the mood to play for a while, Zuo Xi called the crowd and turned back to Zhuangzi.Others didn't know what happened to Zuo Xi, but Ying'er knew that her girl's mood might have been affected by the drought, and she began to feel compassionate again.

In the past, the girl looked smart and courteous, but her heart was cold.I don't want to go from the master, the older the girl, the more humane she becomes.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters are not something that Zuo Xi can control, but she feels that it is not impossible for her to do anything.

Back at Zhuangzi, Zuo Xi sent someone to call over the big housekeeper who stayed in the city to watch the house and watch the wind direction.

When the chief steward arrived, Zuo Xi first asked the chief steward if his sacrifice field was affected by the drought.The housekeeper thought for a while and said to Zuo Xi, "Last month, the old slave went up to the Zhuangtou over there. Fortunately, there is a river in the place I picked at the beginning. In addition, the water in the river that the girl said last year It’s not safe, so I asked to dig a few deep water wells to eat. I don’t think it’s a big problem.”

Zuo Xi heard the words and asked the big housekeeper, "How about we get a well-drilling team? It is dedicated to dig wells for each household in each village."

"The girl wants to do the well digging business?"

Your girl, am I the master who is short of money?

Zuo Xi said: "That's not true, I just want to accumulate some virtue."

Butler: How much sin did the Xue family do to make the girl so prepared for danger in times of peace?

Sometimes when digging a well, you may have to enter the inner courtyard of someone's house. If something happens to a group of powerful elders, the good deeds will not be left behind, but they will commit crimes.

"...The old slave heard that there are quite a few people who get clean every year, but they fail to enter the palace. If the girl doesn't dislike those people, then the old slave will go over there to pick some people?"

"There's nothing to be disgusted with, as long as you do your job and don't have those messy things."

"What the girl said is true." Seeing that Zuo Xi really thought so, the big housekeeper also told all kinds of dislikes that the world has for those who have been cleansed.

"As long as they don't take the initiative to hurt others, everyone who strives to live and abides by the law should be respected." As a modern person, Zuo Xi really doesn't understand where those people's sense of excellence comes from.

I don't understand.

After discussing the matter of organizing a well-drilling team for a while, Zuo Xi left the big housekeeper to live in Zhuangzi for a night, and then let him go back.

Today's Xue Jiaming is still Aunt Xue's housekeeper, but in reality, Aunt Xue was almost blinded by Zuo Xi.

Because she intentionally kept Aunt Xue secret from Aunt Xue, Aunt Xue didn't hear anything about the housekeeper's visit to Zhuangzi.

After the big housekeeper left, Zuo Xi's mood eased for another two days, and then she continued to live the careless life of her rich daughter.

Ever since he came to Zhuangzi, Xue Pan has been like a wild horse running wild, seeing the sky but not seeing people.

Hunting on horseback, fishing in the water, how you like to play.

Zuo Xi is also happy for Xue Pan to play something that can keep fit without changing his temperament, and with Zhou Yun accompanying Xue Pan, Zuo Xi feels more at ease.

After Zhou Yun's affair with Jingxu was over, he first went back to Chang'an, briefly talked with his parents about Jingxu and Shuiyuean, and then persuaded his parents to go to Shanhaiguan to join his elder brother Zhou Zhun.Afterwards, I paid homage to Zhang Jinge, and found that the place where Zhang Jinge's bones were buried had grown weeds. Thinking of the saying that a daughter who died unmarried cannot be buried in the ancestral grave, I felt reluctant for a while, so I dug out Zhang Jinge's coffin.After cremation, he was sent to Hongluo Temple for storage, and will be buried with him in the next day.

After dealing with his own affairs, Zhou Yun came to Xue's house.

After more than a month in the Xue family, he already knew what the Xue family lacked the most.Although he is not an extremely intelligent person, he considers himself a person who is familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics and the laws and regulations of the Qing Dynasty.Not to mention being a counselor who can solve problems for the Xue family, but being a clerk is still competent.

Zhou Yun wanted to repay Xue's family for saving his life, and he also wanted to repay Da Zuo Xi for avenging him. He wanted to sell himself as a slave to Xue's family, but Zuo Xi didn't want it.

A bond of slavery cannot restrain people with malicious intentions.Conversely, if you have a good heart, you don't need that paper contract.

Zuo Xi didn't talk about his concerns, but kept Zhou Yun by Xue Pan's side with an attitude of "I believe in you".

Xue Pan is not smart and reckless, and he has inherited some of Aunt Xue's traits.

For example, the ears are soft, and they listen to and believe in this point.

Keeping people like Zhou Yun by Xue Pan's side has advantages and disadvantages.But the reason why Zuo Xi is willing to gamble is because Zuo Xi discovered that Xue Pan has abilities that no one else has.

He can make smart people willingly worry about him and be ordered by him.

Zuo Xi watched a TV series called "Daranfang" when he was a child. Xue Pan's ability is a bit like that of the second male lead Lu Jiaju in it.

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Leap on April 26th, there are still two days before the post car returns to Beijing.Master Jiu came out of the city and headed all the way to the hot spring village in Xiaotangshan.

Only a mile or two away from Hot Spring Village, I met Xue Pan who was leading a hunt. Master Jiu smiled and called Xue Pan into the village for a drink.

Xue Pan was not polite to Master Jiu either, he smiled and followed Master Jiu and said that he already knew that this was Master Jiu's Zhuangzi Yunyun.

He also said that today he killed two turtledoves, how about serving wine to Lord Jiu.

Zhou Yun followed Xue Pan, sizing up Jiu Ye calmly.This was the first time he saw this Ninth Master, and to be honest, he was a little surprised.

He has the aura of a nobleman in Tianhuang.He also has the shrewdness of a businessman.The boldness in Manren's bones was not shown in him.It wasn't until Xue Pan talked about the turtledove that he could see the breath of the hunting people from him.

Ever since he stayed in Xue's house, Zhou Yun also had a comprehensive understanding of Xue's situation.

Not very good, but delicately on a balance point.

However, given the circumstances of the Xue family's three mothers, it is not easy to have such a situation.

Now, the uncle is dedicated to martial arts, and wants to use martial arts to become an official, to honor his ancestors, then this situation does not need to be broken at all.

For a while, Zhou Yun followed Master Jiu and Xue Pan into the Zhuangzi, and after walking for a while, he saw a handsome and thin young man standing beside a few flower trees.

Young people have a respectful temperament, which looks light and has a long lasting charm.The melancholy temperament and the sickness are perfectly blended together.The way he looked over with a smile was inexplicably soft-hearted.

This was Eleven's first impression on Zhou Yun.It's just that before Zhou Yun could think about it, he saw the man warmly calling Master Jiu 'Brother Jiu'.

"The sun is so big, why did it come out?" Seeing Eleven, Master Jiu hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, dissatisfied, he glanced at Tian Guo and the others who were waiting on the side, and wanted to give a lecture.

"Brother Jiu, don't get mad at the wrong person. I just left the house because the palace people said that Brother Jiu is here." Stopping Master Jiu with a smile, Eleven turned to look at Xue Pan and others who were thrown by Master Jiu, "they are?"

"The elder brother of the royal merchant Xue's family. His surname is Xue, his first name is Pan, and his name is Wen. He stayed with his mother and sister in the Zhuangzi below. I happened to meet him when I came here. This person is quite interesting. If you are bored, call him It’s good if he comes over to talk to you.” After talking with Shiyi, he turned his head and introduced to Xue Pan: “This is Elder Brother.”

As for Zhou Yun and the others, Master Jiu didn't take them seriously.

After all, he was born as the prince's elder brother, and he never lacked waiters around him.In addition, when Xue Pan met Jiuye, he only talked about his turtledove and hunting experience, and did not introduce Zhou Yun to Jiuye.It was also like this that Master Jiu included Zhou Yun in the ranks of servants of the Xue family.

But even if it is introduced, it is estimated that it will not be so bad based on the style of Jiu Ye in the past.

"Imperial merchant Xue's family?" Hearing Master Jiu's introduction, Eleven couldn't help but give Xue Pan a bright smile.