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Chapter 138 The Book Has Its Own Golden House

At Taolin's home, Meng Xiaowan was listening to Mother Chen's return.

Among the 23 redeemed people, none of them was willing to redeem themselves. There were about [-] people who went to Xijiang to join the old master. Among these people were nine young maidservants, including Chunyan and Xuejuan who were originally in her room. They all proposed to go to Xijiang and did not want to stay in Wuling.

Mother Chen is also very careful when she speaks at this time.

"Both Chunyan and Xuejuan said that they had betrayed the eldest lady before, and they had no face to serve her in front of her. In addition, they had already been damaged by people in that place, so they didn't dare to dirty the ground in the inner courtyard. Everyone decided to go to Xijiang to vote for the master. Now only the old Zhao, grandson and grandson, Mrs. Qi, who used to be in charge of needlework, and Mrs. Qian, who worked in his wife's small kitchen, wanted to stay and work in the Zhang family. She took her grandson to other places, and Mrs. Qi also had a daughter who was released and married on the edge of the county. Her daughter and son-in-law were willing to pay for her mother to go after three years, but Mrs. Qi thought it would cause trouble for the couple. Coincidentally, we were also short of needleworkers, so we stayed. And Mrs. Qian is a widow, childless, and doesn't want to die in another place. She will be a lonely ghost in the future, so I just ask the eldest lady to let her help in the kitchen at home. .”

"According to my calculation, four people are just right," Meng Xiaowan closed the roster, "Meng Dong is an old man on the caravan, and my husband and I took two hundred guan, and told him to sell the Song family's son while the government office was selling it." I bought those animals and vehicles as well as I could. Adding 300 taels of capital, it is considered to be a loan from my natal family. Not to mention other places, on the road from Xijiang to Wuling, as long as the prefect Yan is appointed as the patrol envoy, this One business route is enough for our caravan. The Li scribe who made my husband earn a carload of books, calligraphy and paintings, my husband has already sent another [-] pieces to my uncle secretly. At that time, my father can contact this person. Li Shuli, so that he can take care of one or two."

After finishing speaking, Meng Xiaowan smiled and sighed.

"Autumn is getting stronger. I have been busy making autumn clothes for my husband for these days, and I only got half a piece. With Mrs. Qi's needlework, I can save a lot of money. On the side of Mrs. Qin, my husband has been deliberately letting the fifth and sixth uncles The family went back to Taowan to take care of the houses and fields, and Mrs. Qian happened to do the cooking. Old Zhaotou's two grandchildren, I can also use them. You didn't know that this old Zhaotou was also literate before, so you It's his grandson, Zhao Ping, who also knows a lot of characters, and he's 13 years old this year, so he happens to be a book boy for your husband, isn't it much easier than Sanqi, who is careless?"

Mother Chen hesitated for a moment: "Sanchi and Mr. Lang are no different than ordinary people. The lady wants to choose another person to be beside Mr. Mr. I wonder if Mr. Mr. will have something to say?"

"This is actually what my husband means," Meng Xiaowan stood up and came to the three black pear wood bookshelves that had just been moved from Taowan. "Uncle is going to set up an inspection station, and the quota is fifty archers. It’s rare for a bookstore to dare to contradict my uncle once, but he wouldn’t go there even if he was beaten to death. Therefore, the inspection station needs someone to look at it, so my uncle entrusted my husband to choose Sanqi to look at it.”

Mother Chen was taken aback, then smiled again.

"As for Sanqi's frizzy temper, Bie Archer didn't bring it out, but brought out a group of living bandits. Also, Sanqi is young, so don't be underestimated."

"Those archers will be selected from the Zhang and Huang surnames in Taowan at that time, and there will be dozens of catties of food to receive a month, plus the uncle is the patriarch of the Zhang family, and he is also Li Zheng, and the husband's reputation, if This way Sanqi can't hold back." Meng Xiaowan suddenly clapped her palms and smiled, "My husband also warned him, if this matter can't be done, let him find a library to study! This monkey is annoying to death."

After Chen's mother finished replying, she went to the study with Meng Xiaowan.

The egret and the warbler were dizzy from work, and piles of manuscripts, calligraphy and paintings filled every corner.Some calligraphy and paintings identified by Meng Xiaowan as genuine, Bailu and Baiying each took one, and carefully brushed the dust on the calligraphy and painting in their hands these days.

After getting married, it is almost impossible to see Zhang Zhe who read a book seriously, and now he is holding a half-old book and flipping through it.

There are more than 200 carts of various artifacts seized from the Song family.

The people working below thoughtfully "drifted along the way" dozens of cars, and Li Shuli helped Zhang Zhe "buy" the fake car. That car is worth the money."

Zhang Zhe used to laugh secretly, the things had already "floated" before they were registered on the boat, but he didn't expect that he also got a cart.These things were all randomly loaded into the car from the Song family, but the imprint of the prefect's mansion was secretly written on the car, and the people in the prefect's mansion were busy handling the handover, and almost no one came to register.

No one knows what is in Zhang Zhe's car.Seeing that he was the head of the Wuling literature, Li Shuli ordered Zhang Zhe a carload of "the least valuable" "paper" in his eyes.

Seeing these manuscripts, calligraphy and paintings, Meng Xiaowan almost died of joy.

After only a half-hour of sorting out, she confirmed more than 50 pieces of calligraphy and paintings of celebrities from the previous dynasty, and there were more than 70 pieces that she could not recognize.These more than 100 manuscripts, calligraphy and paintings only accounted for one-third of the cart.

Meng Xiaowan's favorite thing before was painting and calligraphy. In her heart, she was only ranked after her parents, brother and sister-in-law. Even now, she is still among the top three favorites in her heart.

She saw Zhang Zhe read the book, flipping through it very carefully, not as usual, he came up to tease her when she saw her.

I couldn't help being curious for a while, and glanced at the name of the book.

But this medical skill!
Meng Xiaowan immediately recalled the "anecdotes" of Zhang Zhe's "silent persuasion" with a medical book on her wedding day, and felt a little ashamed for a while.It is true that he "reformed evil and returned to righteousness" and read the book seriously, but he still did not forget to make fun of himself silently.

These medical books are very new and common, so they were casually put aside by Meng Xiaowan, but now they become props for someone to "taunt" her.

"Husband flipped through this medical book so quickly," Meng Xiaowan came to her husband's side, complaining in a low voice, "But you are making fun of my concubine's use of medical books to persuade you that day?"

Her jade face was blushing, and her shame and anger were beyond words.

Zhang Zhe didn't look at him, but nodded "sincerely".

Meng Xiaowan's dimples rounded out dissatisfied, and she stretched out her slender fingers to grab Zhang Zhe's sleeve: "What's so funny? Husband, let's explain it to my concubine today."

Zhang Zhe turned his head to look at her, his face was also blushing, and Meng Xiaowan was taken aback.

Meng Xiaowan subconsciously took half a step back, but what was this person thinking about? Are the maids and mother-in-law still in the study?

"I'm a laughing lady, but I have the same temperament as the Song family's grandpa,"

"how do I say this?"

Zhang Zhe smiled and whispered in her ear.

"Miss, have you forgotten that in the book you used to persuade your husband to retire that day, you still hid two hundred dowry land deeds and silver notes. The medical books worth three or four hundred will indeed live for your husband on the spot." Get scared off."

Meng Xiaowan couldn't help but stepped on Zhang Zhe's instep with her jade feet after hearing the embarrassment, and stomped hard quietly.

"Don't worry, lady," Zhang Zhe happened to turn over a page in the Chinese medicine book, and quickly took out a piece of paper from the page.

This is a silver ticket!

Jiangnan Tongdui [-] guan!
Meng Xiaowan just covered her mouth, but she saw Zhang Zhe move a body without making a sound, revealing a stack of "papers" behind him.

The couple immediately rushed Mama Chen, Bai Lu and Bai Ying to do other things, and read through the dozen or so medical and miscellaneous books carefully.I found 44 bank notes, the smallest denomination was [-] guan, totaling [-] guan!

Zhang Zhe laughed loudly at Meng Xiaowan: "I once heard people recite poems to encourage learning, and I once said [the book has its own golden house], it really is true that I can't be deceived!"

(End of this chapter)