Red apricots make spring

Chapter 237

Xi Zhu hurried back to Lu's residence, and it happened that Lu Ce had just come out of Qing Ru's room and was talking to Yun Dan.Xi Zhu didn't dare to disturb him, he just stood aside and waited.

"Qing Ru can't stay in the mansion any longer, so it's not our Lu family's business to just leave the mansion like this. There is no reason to watch people die." Lu Ce saw Xi Zhu and stood still.

Yun Dan suggested: "How about this, after she recovers, I will take her out. If she is willing to learn some bookkeeping skills, I will teach her. If not, find a shop that sells rouge jewelry. Put her in. Turn around Let’s look at the accountant or shopkeeper who hasn’t married yet, ask Qing Ru what she means, and then marry her, it’s not wronging her.”

"You can figure it out. But she has served me for a few years, and her dowry is coming out of the house. Then you go to the accountant to get the money." After Lu Ce finished speaking, he looked at Xi Zhu and said, "Madam has left the house. ?”

"Return to Master, Madame said that she will stay outside for two days and won't be coming back for the time being. Let Master report to Master and Tai Ye on her behalf." Xi Zhu replied truthfully.

"Understood." Lu Ce nodded, he took two steps, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Where is the young master of the Shen family?"

The young master of the Shen family?Xizhu said depressedly: "When I got up early to look for my wife, I saw that he was staying with my wife and wouldn't leave, so I lied that the master was looking for him, and I saw him come out. Why, didn't you come to find the master?"

"No." Lu Ce raised his eyebrows slightly, and said lightly, "It's almost time for lunch, so go find him."

Xi Zhu responded, but didn't leave, he hesitated to speak.

"What else?" Lu Ce said with a faint smile, "You and Yun Dan are both my confidantes, so please speak up if you have anything to say."

Xi Zhu replied: "Yesterday I accompanied my wife to buy a house, didn't I look at the housekeeper a little strangely? Today I found out, it turned out to be the housekeeper of the Zhao residence."

"Zhao Mansion?" Lu Ce didn't think of it for a while.

Yun Dan interjected: "Is it the Zhao Mansion in Yuanchang City that Madam mentioned when she was in Yunzhou?"

"Yes, it's the one in Yuanchang City. After staying in the capital for nearly a year, I only spent money to buy a way to find an official. I heard that they are rushing to take office recently, so they sold the house in the capital." Xi Xi Zhu didn't know the specific connection between Ruan Rou and the Zhao Mansion, but he was the one who handled the household registration for Aunt Liu and Xiaohuan, so he was no stranger to the Zhao Mansion.

"Zhao's residence..." Lu Ce pondered in his heart, thinking of Zhao An, he asked Yun Dan, "Did you bring Zhao An back? Did you find his wife?"

"Master, Wen's family learned that Madam was in prison and rushed to Beijing, so they left in a hurry. Although I arranged for shopkeepers to manage the shops and restaurants in Yunzhou, there are still many small and soft items in the two houses. After all, there needs to be someone watching, so I left Zhao An behind. As for his wife Xiaoyan..." Yun Dan shook his head and said: "At that time, both the master and the wife were in prison, so I was busy making arrangements everywhere. , I didn’t bother to look for it for a while.”

Lu Ce nodded and said, "You don't need to look for the trafficker, go directly to Zhao's house and ask where the trafficker lives, and then inquire about Xiaoyan's whereabouts! By the way, what's the old man's name in Zhao's house?"

"Zhao Yuanshan." Xi Zhu replied.

Thinking of Rourou's bullying in the Zhao residence, and the sufferings of Xiaohuan and Aunt Liu, Lu Ce frowned slightly.This account can't be understood so easily!He ordered aloud: "Yun Dan, after you find Zhao An's wife, give him and his wife a sum of money and let them go out and open a small shop to make a living. Turn around and call Yuanchang City's manpower to find out about Zhao An's wife. What kind of business is under Yuan Shan's hands? Squeeze his shop and take it under the name of Mrs. Liu and Xiaohuan, and send a few people to manage it. Don't let them know for now. I will distribute bonuses to them at the end of the year. Say it again!"

"Yes." Yun Dan took the order.

Lu Ce said again in a blink of an eye, "Xizhu, go and find out who Zhao Yuanshan used to buy an official, and I will take his official position away! It's kind of him to leave him alive!"

Xi Zhu smiled and said, "Master, what a coincidence!"

"What?" Lu Ce was puzzled.

"Zhao Yuanshan is just an ordinary wealthy businessman. How can he have any connections in the capital? But he is quite old, and he looks faint and incompetent. The officials everywhere are afraid that he will be too greedy and cause trouble, so they don't want to see him. Even if you have money, you can't get a good official position, so you wasted nearly a year in the capital, until..." Xi Zhu hesitated for a moment before continuing: "Before the deception happened, the husband of the fourth girl of the Shen family, Shi Lei, didn't know Where did you hear about this man, and praised him in front of Prime Minister Shen for his wealth and talent, and that's why he got the post of county magistrate."

"Shen Mengyi!" After a moment of thought, Lu Ce understood why Shi Lei did this.Originally, because of the fact that Lu and Chen were family friends, and because he watched Shen Mengyi grow up, he didn't care too much about the things she did, but judging from this, if she doesn't teach her a lesson, she won't know what to do in the future. What happened!He pondered for a moment, then said: "Xizhu, you..."

Xizhu understood what he was thinking, before he finished speaking, he interrupted immediately: "Master, I think your idea will be put on hold for now, I will send someone to keep an eye on the fourth girl of the Shen family, if she wants to make trouble in the future , let’s do it according to my master’s idea!”

Lu Ce was slightly surprised, he didn't expect Xi Zhu to speak for Shen Mengyi, he just looked at him with a faint smile and said, "Tell me what you think."

"You little one has any ideas!" Xi Zhu said with a smile: "Unfortunately, the fourth girl of the Shen family is pregnant, no matter how wrong this mother is, she shouldn't be a burden to the child in her womb..."

"Huh?" Yun Dan asked in surprise, "Really?"

"It should be true. The news was obtained from the doctor who was the one who took care of Shen's family. Prime Minister Shen was so anxious to take his daughter back to live. Apart from the convenience of discipline, there must be another reason for this." Xi Zhu approached and whispered. road.

"It sounds like I want to get rich and kill her, but it's just to teach her a lesson so that she won't get into trouble in the future." Seeing Xi Zhu's mysterious appearance, Lu Ce couldn't help kicking him angrily and amusingly. He kicked him and said: "Forget it, the Shen family treated me well, so let's let this matter go. As for Shi Yushi..."

Yun Dan smiled and said: "A few days ago, the Lord asked me to manage the officials in the capital, and now everything is done. In the future, even if the Lu family does not serve as officials in the court, they can live a happy life with this relationship. Why don't I arrange it?" After a while, Shi Yushi will demote him out of the capital for the time being, go out to suffer a little bit, experience some experience, and teach him to have his own ideas in everything, and don't always be instigated by others to do things that harm others and benefit himself."

"That's a good idea!" Xi Zhu said with a smile, "We never bully others, but we are not able to be bullied at will."

Lu Ce nodded and said, "I'll leave these matters to you."

Yun Dan and Xi Zhu agreed, and each withdrew to go about their own affairs.

Lu Ce stood there watching them leave, remembering that since he was released from prison until now, he has always been entangled in these trivial matters, and he has no time to talk to Wen Rou, but this will be a little free, so she went out to live in the house again, but taught him Thinking of the phrase I saw in the collection of words compiled by his grandmother, "If the two loves last for a long time, how can they be in the morning and evening."

When I saw it at the beginning, I thought it was true, but when I think about it today, I don’t think it is true anymore.How much time can be wasted in life?It is only a hundred years in a hurry, and it is more important to fight for each other day and night, just like his grandfather is separated from his grandmother, but after all, there are countless memories of living together to chew and think about, so that he will not regret that he did not cherish it at the beginning.

As soon as Lu Ce thought about it, he wanted to go out of the house to find Wen Rou. Even if there were many Wen family members and he didn't have the opportunity to talk alone, he could still look at her more.Who would have thought that as soon as he walked towards the gate of the mansion, he saw Shen Mengan holding a book on the way, staring at it intently, humming and chattering over.

The sun really came out from the west. Lu Ce knew that although Shen Meng'an was a very intelligent and savvy person, he hated reading by nature. Because of this, he had been beaten a lot since he was a child, and he had memorized a lot of classics and history books. I don't know why, but I didn't expect to see him holding the scroll today, and he was so ecstatic that he didn't even notice that there was anyone in front of him.

"Okay! Well done! Even if there are tens of thousands of people, I will go!" Shen Meng'an couldn't help dancing when he saw the ecstasy.

Lu Ce's complexion changed slightly when he heard the words, and then he looked at the book in Shen Mengan's hand, it wasn't written by his grandmother, so what is the book that his grandfather always regarded as a treasure?He slapped Shen Mengan on the shoulder unexpectedly, so frightened that Shen Mengan let go of his hand, the book fell to the ground, and he quickly copied it back into his hand.

"Lu...Brother Lu Shi..." Shen Mengan was shocked and said: "What are you scaring me for? Quick, return the book to me, you are seeing the wonderful part!"

Lu Ce raised the book in his hand and said with a faint smile: "Sorry, this book is my grandmother's relic, so I can't show it to others easily. If you want to read, there are plenty of books in the study room, so you can pick it up yourself." He said, holding the book Put it in your arms and walk away.

Shen Mengan was in a hurry, and hurriedly chased after Lu Ce with his robe in his hand, saying, "Brother Lu, for the sake of our two families' family friendship, what's the point of lending it to me? Three days! Ah, no, two days! Two days!" I'll pay you back after I've finished reading it!"

"No." Lu Ce didn't turn his head.

"One day! Is it all right for one day?" Shen Mengan said anxiously: "This book is so wonderful! If I can't finish reading, I can't even eat, and I can't sleep. Wake up and lend me a day!"

The two have been getting along since childhood until they have grown up so much. Shen Mengan has always disliked him, holding back his dissatisfaction, not to mention pleading, and has always refused to show weakness even in speaking. He always has to be tit for tat aggressive. For this book, Shen Meng'an chased after it and begged bitterly.While Lu Ce thought it was funny, he deliberately said calmly, "I can let you take a look, but you are not allowed to pester Wenrou any more."

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I shouldn't have broken this, but if I write it again, it will exceed a thousand words, so I will continue to the next chapter, forgive me ^-^.
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