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Chapter 117 The first month (1)
Lu Mingxuan blushed slightly: "It's all my fault, if I hadn't been kicked in the head by a donkey, we would have lived a life like this a few years ago."

But Lu Mingfu shook her head and said: "You can't say that. If you had figured it out a few years ago, I'm afraid that the new wife today would not be the current one. Who knows what will happen if you change one? This kind of thing still has to pay attention to a fate, which can only show that the fate of Daddy has never been reached before."

As the two sisters said, they had already arrived at the door of the main room, and were about to lift the curtain to go in. Unexpectedly, the curtain had already been drawn from the inside, when Lu Zhongxian's face full of smiles appeared in front of the two of them: "I just said that if you don't come again, I will I'm going to invite you in person."

"Daddy!" The two quickly bowed their knees to salute Lu Zhongxian, Lu Zhongxian pulled him up one by one, and the father and daughter entered the room affectionately.

Mrs. Qi was already waiting at the table, and when she saw the three of them coming in, she said with a smile: "Master and the two girls should sit down quickly, the food will not taste good when it gets cold, if you have anything to say, wait until the meal is over." Besides, it's the same, the master doesn't have to go out in the afternoon anyway."

The two sisters were even more happy when they heard that Lu Zhongxian didn't have to go out in the afternoon. After Lu Zhongxian and Mrs. Qi were seated, they followed suit, and the family began to eat happily.

After the meal, the father and daughter moved to the smoker cage and chatted while having tea. Although they were talking about irrelevant gossip, they were all in high spirits. He took the needle and thread and sat in front of the smoked cage.

There was a icy cold wind outside, but the house was as warm as spring, filled with a warm atmosphere... Lu Mingxuan felt an indescribable warmth, and only hoped that she could feel this kind of warmth again every year in the future.

The 29th day of the twelfth lunar month is the day when Lu Mingzi, a elder sister of the family, gets married. Living in a small family is not so particular, and everything is based on frugality, so after the agreement between the man and the woman, the date is specially set on this day, so that You can use only one share of money, but you can also arrange weddings and celebrate the year.

Before Lu Mingfu entered the Duke's Mansion, he was on good terms with Lu Mingzi, but after entering the Duke's Mansion, she gradually faded away from her. Now it's the latter's wedding day, so naturally he wants to send her off, yes On the evening of the 28th, he stayed at Lu Mingzi's home, and came back after sending off the bride on the 29th.

Since Lu Mingfu and this Lu Mingzi are on good terms, the friendship between the two adults is not much different. The brothers in the Kuang family have a happy event, and Lu Zhongxian should have gone to follow the ceremony and help, and even the Qi family will have to In the past to eat wedding wine.Lu Mingxuan wanted to join in the fun, but she thought that the Chinese New Year would be around the corner, and she hadn't been to Jifang Pavilion for another year, so if she didn't go to see Huang's mother, Xiaoli, and Master Xiaochi and his son during the Chinese New Year, it would be too cold for them Feeling overwhelmed, he excused that he had a headache and was afraid of noise, so he didn't go to the wedding banquet, but after sending Lu Zhongxian and Qi away, he asked someone to prepare a car and went to Shuzi Hutong.

Seeing Lu Mingxuan's arrival, Xiaoli and Master Xiaochi were overjoyed. Xiaoli hurriedly handed over the business that she was discussing with the customer to the newly hired daughter-in-law in the shop, and then, together with Danqing and Master Xiaochi, they landed in a crowd Ming Xuan entered the back hall.

Now Jifang Pavilion is quite well-known in Xisi Pailou and even in the east part of the capital, so as early as summer, Master Xiaochi decided to hire five young and knowledgeable daughter-in-laws to take care of guests. He and Xiao Li are in charge of the shop affairs, while Master Lao Chi is still in charge of making jewelry. After half a year of getting used to each other, they have already adapted to each other's way of speaking and acting. They cooperate with each other tacitly, and the business in the shop is natural. It is thriving day by day.

After saluting Lu Mingxuan, Master Xiaochi took advantage of the coldness after Xiaoli and Lu Mingxuan said goodbye to get the store's account books for this year, "Girl, here are the store's account details for this year. Excluding the cost and the 20 taels of Mr. Ling every month, the net profit is 610 taels, please take a look!"

Hearing this, Lu Mingxuan couldn't help being a little surprised, but more surprised: "There are so many profits?" It seems that it was a very wise thing for her to intercept Master Xiaochi and his son. Even the principal of opening the store was only a little over 1000 taels of silver. Last year was too short a time to make a profit, but in just one year, Master Xiaochi not only got back all her principal, but also made a profit of nearly two taels. With silver twice as much as the principal, Master Xiaochi is really a genius in business!

A look of color flashed in Master Xiaochi's eyes, and he said, "I believe there will be more next year, girl, please wait and see."

Lu Mingxuan nodded with a smile and said, "Then I'll wait and see." But she was thinking in her heart that she didn't ask how many times the profit of the store could be multiplied, as long as the current situation could be maintained, she was already very satisfied.

After hastily flipping through a few pages of the account book, Lu Mingxuan put it down. Employers are not suspicious, and suspects are not. If she doesn't even give this basic trust to Master Xiaochi, how can she ask others to confide in her and treat Jifang How about treating it as his own home?Then she announced a year-end red envelope of 150 taels to Master Chi and Master Chi, 50 taels to Xiao Li and Mama Huang, and 20 taels to each of the five new wives.

Master Xiaochi and his son were unwilling to accept such a large sum of money at the beginning, saying that they had already received monthly money, and that Lu Mingxuan had saved their lives, but now they did everything for Lu Mingxuan willingly, so how could they Want Lu Mingxuan's money again?
Lu Mingxuan couldn't stand it and asked them to leave Jifang Pavilion if they didn't accept the money. Jifang Pavilion was developed and grown by their father and son, just like their children. They had already regarded this place as their own home, how could they be willing leave?He had no choice but to accept the money with a face full of shame.

Because Lu Mingxuan asked Master Xiaochi to calculate the profit that Ling Mengqi should have for [-]% of the shares, and then went to the bank to exchange the bank notes, and planned to bring them to Ling Mengqi when she returned to the Duke's mansion after the Chinese New Year.

After finishing these things, Lu Mingxuan asked Master Xiaochi to go to the restaurant in front and ordered two tables of high-ranking guests to come, and temporarily closed the shop door, regardless of master and servant, she and Danqing Xiaoli were on the same side as Xiaochi. The master and his son sat at the same table, and the other five wives sat at the same table. Unfortunately, Mama Huang's youngest daughter-in-law was about to give birth, so she didn't come to the store today. she.

This meal lasted for two hours, until everyone except Lu Mingxuan and Danqing got a little bit drunk, it was over.

Back home, Lu Zhongxian's Qi family and Lu Mingfu hadn't come back yet. Lu Mingxuan breathed a sigh of relief, and rewarded the driver with a tael of silver, so that he could not say a word that he shouldn't say, then Fang supported Danqing's hand and went back. own house.

Danqing didn't care about warming himself up first, so he immediately went to make some tea for Lu Mingxuan to eat, and then he went to burn the stove and handed it to Lu Mingxuan with both hands, before he said with a smile: "It's a good thing that Master Chang chose Miss Zi's happy day In the new year, otherwise it would be really inconvenient for the girl to go out, it is easy to talk to the master and wife, but it is not so easy to talk to the eldest girl."

(End of this chapter)