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"You said Du Hengxue is looking for a marriage?" Long Xiangye was bored all day long, and was still very interested in these matters of marriage between men and women.

Xiao Taiji raised his long eyebrows, with a smile in his peach eyes, he said: "Sister Xue'er is soft-tempered, I heard that Aunt Fang said that she wants to choose a good family and marry her." After speaking, he let out a long sigh ,"such a pity……"

Long Xiangye heard what Xiao Taiji meant, she was tongue-tied for a while, and said in a low voice: "Quickly put away those thoughts for me! ——What's so good about Du's women? One or two will marry into my Xiao's family. I just don't want her, no matter how good she is, I don't want her!"

Xiao Taiji was a little unwilling, and said softly: "Mother, what's the matter? It's not a marriage exchange. Of course, a marriage exchange is looked down upon..." But it is a good story for sisters to marry brothers at the same time.

Long Xiangye snorted, closed her eyes and shook her feather fan, and said in a low voice: "I know what you're thinking, anyway, you're complaining that the marriage I ordered for you is not satisfactory. Isn't it just a few coins? You don't want to do that Eyelids are shallow, our Xiao family has a lot of money, so we don't need to rely on our daughter-in-law's dowry to live."

Xiao Taiji felt a little bit interested when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Mother, you still love me. But elder brother..."

"Your elder brother is fascinated by ghosts for a while. After a long time, he will know that only mother and brother are reliable, and everyone else is unreliable." Long Xiangye said with confidence.

Xiao Taiji was still a little worried, and murmured: "You can't say that. Gu Yun and his wife are one, or the eldest brother has a child, how can he have one heart with us?"

Long Xiangye opened her eyes, and tapped Xiao Taiji's head with a feather fan. "You look pretty smart on weekdays, how can you say such a thing now? Your elder brother has a child, so it's naturally our Xiao family. These family wealth are all ours, and of course they also have a share." After finishing speaking, he was worried, and continued Hitting Xiao Taiji, "Don't worry about your share, I will take it back for you. But your elder brother's child's share is theirs, you can't make a mistake."

Xiao Taiji called Zhuang Tianqu, "Mother, I am wronged, when did I think about the nephew's share? I am just worried that the elder brother is not willing to talk about the family property with us now. In the future, he will have a share." Boy, wouldn't you be even more unwilling?"

Long Xiangye was suffocated, shrank her feet back, and said after a long while: "Your elder brother is not that kind of person, just watch it. If it doesn't work, I will let you split up in advance. ——If your elder brother can split Half of your property. I will let you divide the family."

Xiao Taiji smiled, "Mother, I don't want half of the family property, just give me [-]%, and I will be enough. At that time, mother will move out with me, and we two will live happily. Of course, mother belongs to my family." Old Feng Jun, who dare not listen to mother's words. I will sell her to Liaodong!"

Long Xiangye was heartbroken, and smiled with a feather fan and tapped Xiao Taiji's shoulder. "Your mouth is like honey, you know how to make your mother happy. You speak so lightly, your wife will not be happy."

Xiao Taiji curled his lips in disdain, "How dare she?! If she dares to show any disrespect to mother, I will divorce her!"

Long Xiangye nodded, "With your words, I feel relieved." She said with a little sadness, "If your elder brother can tell me like this, how can I feel bad every day?"

Xiao Taiji hurriedly said: "Mother, don't worry, elder brother definitely thinks the same in his heart, but he is worried that if he speaks out, the members of Xu's family will be unhappy. Mother, you also know that Xu's family belongs to Jing Zhaoyin's residence, we cannot afford to offend them. "

"Really? Is your eldest brother really hindering the Xu family? ——If that's the case, I would urge him to make contributions as soon as possible, and he will be promoted to a higher position in the future. The three of us, mother and son, don't have to look at other people's faces." Long Xiangye repeated Nodding his head, he felt that he had found a very reasonable explanation for Xiao Shiji's behavior, and pondered for a while, how to vent his anger for Xiao Shiji.He was angry with the Xu family outside, so he has to make up for it on Du Hengshuang, right?

In the courtyard of the main house, Chen Yuejiao got up gracefully, bit her lower lip and thought for a long time, but still lingered up the steps. When she was at the door, she was stopped by two young maids who had just cut their hair, and smiled and knelt down to her, "Miss Biao, please allow us to go in and communicate."

Hearing what the maid outside said, knowing that it was Chen Yuejiao who had come, Long Xiangye and Xiao Taiji kept silent about what they had just said.

Long Xiangye even secretly winked at Xiao Taiji, warning him not to be fooled by lard.

Xiao Taiji understood what Long Xiangye meant, knew that this road was impassable, and then thought about how rich his family was, why bother to go through all the trouble just to get some dowry money, and kept this matter to himself.

"I'm tired, you go down first. — Let the servant girl come and beat my legs. I want to sleep for a while, and wait for the banquet at the No. , "Let Miss Biao go back to rest too, and we will have dinner together at the family banquet in the evening."

Xiao Taiji patted his forehead, and said "ah", "I almost forgot. Mom, at the family banquet tonight, do you want to invite some female gentlemen to come in and give lectures? Or invite some who can dance Hu Xuan dance?"

Long Xiangye slightly closed her eyes, lay on the Arhat's bed, waved her hands and said, "That's all, what do you want those dancing girls to do? You don't have to spoil your sister..."

Xiao Taiji smiled and said: "Sister-in-law is a good player, why don't you ask sister-in-law to dance for mother?"

Long Xiangye opened her eyes, glanced at Xiao Taiji, and wanted to say yes, but thinking of what Chen Yuejiao said just now, it seemed reasonable.

If he continues to manipulate Du Hengshuang, he will push the elder son further and further away. Wouldn't it be as the women of the Du family wanted?

He had no son, so he let his daughter steal other people's sons.

Hmph, shameless...

The noon sun shone in through the dark red nanmuzi.The mat was covered with a fine layer of Xiaying gauze, which filtered the sunlight and fell on the edge of Luohan's bed.

Long Xiangye opened her eyes and looked at the rich and honored house, her mood calmed down again, the corner of her mouth was half a smile, she lowered her eyelids again, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

The little servant girl knelt down and gently beat Long Xiangye's legs with the beauty hammer.

Long Xiangye shook the feather fan in her hand, closed her eyes and said in a melodious voice: "Your sister-in-law is in charge of the people in the outer courtyard, you let her dance for everyone. Wouldn't it make your elder brother feel uncomfortable? If you are frizzy, you will offend people sooner or later without knowing it!"

Xiao Taiji hurriedly patted himself on the face twice, and said with a smile: "Should be beaten! Who told you that you only have mother in your eyes and no sister-in-law?!—— You must remember carefully in the future, now this family is run by sister-in-law .”

Long Xiangye felt extremely uncomfortable, but she held back and didn't refute. She just nodded and said, "It's good that you know. Go out. I'm very tired today, and you just caused me a headache."

Xiao Taiji hurriedly got up to say goodbye, opened the curtain and went out.

Standing under the porch at the entrance, Xiao Taiji looked at Xiao's pavilions with his hands behind his back, where the trees were shady and the flowers were blooming.He took a deep breath before returning to his yard.

Guan Shi had just assigned the work in the kitchen, and sat in the main room of his house doing needlework with the maid.

Xiao Taiji was a little impatient when he saw it, and sat beside her with his sleeves folded, and said a little sadly: "I remember there is a needleworker in our family, why do you ask your mother-in-law and maid to do needlework?"

After all, the Guan family was not from a wealthy family.Although her father Guan Zheng made a lot of money.But because it is stolen goods, it is not easy to take it out as a facade.Most of them were secretly transported back to their hometowns and hid, leaving only a small amount of silver in the capital. They lived diligently and thriftily at home on weekdays, and they were extremely embezzlement to their children.

Guan Shi has never experienced real wealth since he was a child, so he doesn't understand these things.It was entirely up to Chen Yuejiao to make suggestions behind the scenes.

As far as the current Chen Yuejiao is concerned, she is Du Heng first.She is Xiao Shiji's first concubine wife, and then Chen Yuejiao, Xiao Shiji's successor wife. The experience of the two lives is rich.

Besides, Xiao Shiji will become the Marquis of the Zhu Kingdom in four years. The Xiao family is even more wealthy than now. She naturally understands how the backyards of powerful families are managed.But the housekeeping skills she taught her cousin Guan shi were more in line with Guan shi's identity, and she didn't want to teach them more advanced ones. ——She didn't want to teach the apprentice, and then starve the master to death.

If Guan Shi really did everything well, then what about Chen Yuejiao?

When Chen Yuejiao came here, Xiao Shiji was already the Marquis of the Zhu Kingdom.It has been more than ten years since she married Xiao Shiji and worked as a house filler.As soon as she got started as a housekeeper, she compared this second younger sibling.

Du Heng knew these things clearly from Chen Yuejiao's memory.

She had made up her mind a long time ago that she would help Guan Yunlian gain a firm foothold in Xiao's house before Chen Yuejiao became Xiao Shiji's house fill, but she would not teach her unreservedly.

Therefore, when Mrs. Guan proposed to abolish the needleworkers and save some housekeeper's expenses, Chen Yuejiao didn't say a word to persuade her, but just nodded her approval.

Now Xiao Taiji said that needleworkers should be used in the family, Guan was a little panicked, and murmured: "I think the expenses are too high. There are only a few people in the family, and the needleworkers need almost 200 taels of silver a month to support them." , I decided to let them out."

"What?!" Xiao Taiji was very surprised, "You let them out?! When did you let them out? They all signed a death contract. How much money did you ask them to pay for their redemption?"

Guan was even more panicked, and helped the maid to stand up, her whole body trembling like a sieve, "...money...what kind of redemption money...I want to let them go out, so that the official voice of the elder brother will be more pleasant."

Xiao Taiji stood up with his hands behind his back, looked at Guan Shi with a gloomy face, couldn't speak for a long time, finally coughed, and went to lie down in his own room to rest.

Mrs. Guan was very flustered, and said in one voice: "Go and invite Miss Biao! Tell Miss Biao to come here quickly!"

Chen Yuejiao soon followed Guan's mother-in-law in, curtsied to her with a smile, and asked, "Cousin, what's the matter?"

Mrs. Guan talked about the abolition of needleworkers.

Chen Yuejiao opened her eyes wide and looked puzzled, "Cousin, you are right about this matter. How can my cousin's husband talk like that?"

Guan felt that Chen Yuejiao had spoken to her heart, so she dragged her to cry.

Chen Yuejiao comforted her calmly, and finally said with a smile: "Cousin, tonight is a family feast. Why don't you go to find your sister-in-law, admit your mistake in private, and ask her to help you make it up."

Asking her to go to Du Hengshuang to be a child, Guan Shi couldn't bear it.

Chen Yuejiao just wanted to snort, and endured it for a long time before she said: "Cousin, it will take a lot of money to bring these people back. Now your housekeepers can use human heads as hats, so where is the extra money? Are they hugging back?!"

As soon as the silver was mentioned, Guan Shi immediately felt that his waist was a little weak, so he listened to Chen Yuejiao's words and asked people to watch the gate, and as soon as Du Hengshuang came back, he would report to her immediately.

Du Hengshuang and Xiao Shiji came back from Xu's house in the evening.

On the way back to Xiao’s house, I met a special envoy from the country of Fransia who came to Chang’an to pay homage. There were as many as three to five hundred people, and the streets of Chang’an City were crowded.

Du Hengshuang was curious, opened the curtain of the car to have a look, and asked: "Who are these people? They look weird." They all have high noses and deep eyes, blue eyes and yellow hair, similar to the monsters drawn in the story books.

Xiao Shiji also looked at it.

Because the big car couldn't go, it stopped by the side of the road, so Xiao Shiji asked someone to inquire about it.

The man went away for a while, then came back and said, "My lord, I heard that the special envoy of Haixi Fransiya came to see His Majesty."

Fransya, what a familiar name.

Du Hengshuang suddenly felt a little sad, lowered his head, leaned against the car wall, closed his eyes, and thought of his father, Du Xiancheng.He died on the sea route to France. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)

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