10. Call Fee
Outside the Xiao Mansion has never been so lively. Crowds of people crowded the wide streets.
There were two carts of bounties from the palace. Since the Hou Ye entered the Qin Capital, only the Marquis of Bishui Pavilion has been rewarded by the king.
People are talking about it: "I was only made a marquis yesterday, and I was allowed to build a gilded talisman talisman, and I got so many rewards today." Is this a blessing? Marrying five flower-like ladies at a time, beauty died. ”
"I just said that last night there was a wish to be a mandarin duck and not an immortal in the sky above Xiao Mansion, if I marry Xiao Yun, even if it is one night, it will be worth it. ”
"Xiao Yun can't do it, Zhang Juan is good, marrying her is equivalent to taking the capital of Qin, no, more than half of the Qinglou in the entire Great Qin. ”
"I only need Zhang Juan's silk, the top of the Qin capital Oiran list. ”
"Lonely and unheard, the silk you said is just temporarily sent to Zhang Juan's banner, she can rank third in the world's Oiran list, and third in the list of immortal cultivation partners, which is better than Xiao Yun of the Xiao family. ”
"I still like Xiao Yun, look at her figure, tight..."
"You're a poor X, I'm afraid you don't have the money to buy a post to look at Sisi, that look and that figure, and you're smart. ”
"Don't make a fuss, I heard that the Xiao family was overjoyed last night, and when they entered the Hou Cave Room of the Bishui Pavilion, they couldn't even open Xiao Yun's door. You say she's not tight..."
"You are insignificant, my friends in the palace told me that the king rewarded the Marquis of the Bishui Pavilion, as if the Earl of Banyu fell in love with the Marquis of the Bishui Pavilion. ”
"Who is Count Banyu?
"Earl Banyu hereditary Earl Li Hou, no queen, no near ancestor, can only be passed on to his wife..."
"Count Li Hou! I know, he is very old, he conquered the Northern Dao Kingdom three times back then, and he was convinced by the Northern Dao Country and surrendered to my Great Qin. At that time, the king of the northern province was still married to Count Li Hou as a brother of the opposite sex, and now the new king of the northern province is the godson of Count Li Hou.
The fief of Count Li Hou is the former territory of the Northern Province, rich in products, and the new king of the Northern Province has been snooping for a long time, and wants to marry Countess Li Hou. What's more, he is the godson of Count Li Hou. ”
"Who is Count Li Hou's wife?"
"I heard that she was the daughter of the Great Qin royal family, and at that time, Count Li Hou held the power of soldiers and horses, and he was called a brother and sister to the king of the Northern Dao Kingdom. Only the royal clan marries..."
"Ban Yu is too far away from the Qin capital, and Count Li Hou's fief is so far away, it should be degraded. ”
"Definitely, the feudal marquis ceremony shoots the fiefdom, not everyone can shoot the fiefdom. Anyone has the opportunity to be a marquis, and the Marquis of Bishui Pavilion is an example, but since the founding of the Great Qin Dynasty, there have only been a handful of fiefs that have been shot out at the Marquis Ceremony. ”
In the Xiao Mansion, Xiao Yun looked at the list of congratulatory gifts sent from the palace slowly, and Zhang Juan was trying to invite the other three family heads to participate in the auction held by the Zhang family tonight.
Han Chen shook his head and said, "I'm not going, I still have to deal with the family's affairs and settle the clansmen on the fourth uncle's side." Li Chongran, he is too dark, and he will make my fourth uncle a fool. ”
Murong Yingying said coldly: "Come on, last night, you didn't let the head of the family take the position, and your fourth uncle almost killed you." You are in the same grade as Yimeng among us, the youngest, why did he let you be the second lady. ”
He casually said that he was a country man and knew something. Han Chen's face was a little red, she was so excited that she couldn't sleep last night.
"Sister Yingying, he's rich, why should he care about what he says. ”
Xiao Yun put down the list and said softly: "Xiao Meng is right, the harmony between our sisters is the harmony of the five major families. Do you want those hereditary martial artists to see our jokes? The congratulatory gifts that the king gave to the Pavilion Marquis of Bishui were far more than a Pavilion Marquis could enjoy. I probably looked at it, and the congratulatory gifts for the marriage of the royal clan were less than two-thirds. The carriage for gifts in the palace is also enlarged, and there are also bags for gifts inside. On the surface, it seems to be the standard of the viscount..."
"Then our husband is very popular with the king, but he is the king's private..."
"Don't talk nonsense. Xiao Yun glanced at Zhang Juan: "Anyway, I accepted the gift, people have to take care of it, a rich man will become bad quickly." ”
"Agreed," several women agreed in unison.
"Juan'er, I can't go to the auction tonight, if you see anything in the house, you can take it to auction. It's Miss Silk presiding over the auction. ”
"Yes, she's going back to the Northern Qing Sect. After tonight's auction, she'll leave. A few days ago, I saved up 30 million gold. ”
"She has only been in Qin for two years, 30 million gold, I really don't know how stupid I am in the Great Qin Kingdom, or..."
Murong Yingying said: "If you want me to say, the Northern Qing Kingdom actually started a war with the Northern Dao State without doing its best, and as a result, the king was captured by the Northern Dao State and taken hostage. The treasury revenue of the Northern Qing Kingdom for ten years was not worth two years. National disaster, what a holy daughter of the Northern Qing Sect, the Great Yuan Wonderland, in order to redeem the king of the Northern Qing Kingdom..."
Zhang Juan said: "After tonight, the third place on the world's Oiran list is vacant. I'm going to lose a lot again. ”
Xiao Yun tapped her fingers on the list: "Cao'er, it's almost noon, go wake up Hou Ye and invite him here." ”
When the grass outside the door heard it, it said yes and left.
With such a wide bed and the fragrance of flowers, it is really suitable for sleeping. Ning Dan's replenishment spiritual power really benefited Li Chongran a lot, and without bloodshed, he really couldn't break through the four grades of fake gold.
His crippled qualifications broke through the fourth grade, if it weren't for the Ning Dan that relied on spiritual power, he would have to cultivate for at least a few years. If this Ning Dan was given to Xiao Yun, she might have broken the Yuan Immortal Realm.
Breaking the four products, no one took a few more glances in the Xiao family's compound. Li Chongran is different, he is the Marquis of the Bishui Pavilion and a gilded talisman master.
Since two carts of congratulatory gifts were sent from the palace, the servants of the Xiao family have respectfully guarded his small courtyard, guarding him. Who would have trouble tipping money! Regardless of whether he is a waiter or not, he can just give a reward if he has money.
Li Chongran opened the door, stretched his waist, and yawned.
The servants all over the courtyard shouted in unison: "Uncle, morning." ”
The bright smiling faces of those people were beaded with sweat, and the difference was too different from yesterday's tepid expressions.
"It's summer, standing in the sun, isn't it hot?"
"Congratulations to my aunt, I congratulate my aunt on breaking through the fourth grade and rising to three grades in a row. Congratulatory gifts were also sent from the palace..."The servants turned and turned the words of the salute fluttering.
"Got rich?"
"Yes, uncle. ”
"Tip them all!"
"Hurry up and freshen up my uncle, where is my uncle's breakfast..."The servants came around, and Li Chongran was really uncomfortable.
When Cao'er came to the courtyard, Li Chongran was eating breakfast, and several maids were beating his back and pinching his legs.
"Uncle, ladies please come over. Cao'er glared at the servants and added, "Madame, please aunt..."
Xiao Yun didn't abuse the servants, it didn't mean those ladies, the servants around Li Chongran quickly slipped away.
After a while, Cao'er led Li Chongran to the door of the room.
Li Chongran asked Cao'er to open the door very regularly. Last night, Xiao Yun found him the only room in the Xiao family where the door could be opened, the firewood room in the small courtyard, and it took an hour to change the firewood room into a bedroom.
"It's four grades! It's okay, you don't need to spend a lot of pills on cultivation in a hurry. Xiao Yun said: "Sit down, the bow and arrow used to shoot the fiefdom, the lowest level used is the cultivation of the fifth grade, if you break through the fourth grade, you will soon be able to break the fifth grade." Today, a congratulatory gift was sent to the palace, and the king rewarded it. I'm roughly divided into ten. ”
When Li Chongran heard this, he thought to himself, he finally has money. But the expression was very calm and sat down: "How much can I get?"
"The king rewarded the Hou Ye. It's all Hou Ye's..."
Li Chongran was a little excited: "It's all mine!"
"But Master Hou is a rule, and these congratulatory gifts are all our dowry. After we received the dowry, we will naturally change our words to call you husband. Xiao Yun handed the list of congratulatory gifts in the palace to Li Chongran.
Li Chongran has never seen such money, and even the storage bag with treasures on the list is also a Langxie brand storage bag with more than three grades.
"Husband??"
Li Chongran came back to his senses, looked at the ladies, and said with tears in his eyes: "I have lived in Lijia Village most of the time since I was a child. It was a very poor village, and in order to practice the lake-moving talisman, I destroyed several dung pits in the village, and the ladies in the village scolded for a morning. Cultivated land feeds on the ground, and manure pits are fertilizer for crops... Now I have so much money, it's all a dowry, isn't it too much, I want to keep some private money..."
Zhang Juan said with a smile: "Do you raise other women?" Husband, you dispel this idea as soon as possible, the Qinglou in Qindu is almost my Zhang family's. If you dare to raise the woman of that Qinglou, I will demolish that house. Yixiang Courtyard in Shuanghe Town, I've already had people demolish..."
"Huh?" Li Chongran was stunned: "I just want to give a little bit to the village, it's not that people are rich, and they can't forget their roots..."
"Husband, Sister Yun, I have already sent someone to send money to Lijia Village, your friend named Li Sanwa, Sister Yun also sent him a lot of money, even if he doesn't do anything, it is enough for him to be chic with his seventeen ladies for a lifetime. Besides, his wives are not small families, but if they can participate in the gladiatorial fight, it is not difficult to buy two or three Shuanghe towns. Han Chen looked at Li Chongran with a smile, his eyes were gentle like water.
"I'm going to tell you how to divide the dowry. I'll take a copy, Sister Juan has an auction tonight, it's not bad money, get a copy. Sister Chen has to deal with the problems of her fourth uncle's family, so she has to have two copies. The remaining six portions are given to Yingying and Xiaomeng. Last night, Xiaomeng's hidden silk played a great role, I heard that the hidden silk was taken back by the official family, inspected, to put it bluntly, it went directly to the official loot warehouse, and our Xiao family paid some money as compensation. If the husband can shoot a fief at the marquis ceremony, shoot to a fief, with the king's love for the husband, it will not be too difficult to get back Xiaomeng's hidden seal silk from the king, so husband, you have to work harder to cultivate. ”
"I..." Li Chongran felt that Xiao Yun's words had blocked his mouth.
"Oh, by the way, sisters, each of you will give your husband five first-grade spars a month, and he will have pocket money. It's not good for a Hou Ye not to have some money on him. ”
"Okay!" several women agreed, and they all took out a pint of spar from their storage bags.
Twenty-five first-grade spars a month is not too bad, and Li Chongran did not accept the spars politely.
"Yingying, your family has business dealings with Hulu Division, and you are bothered to collect Hou Ye's money every month, Hou Ye is a hundred households, you go to select a hundred households, spend some money to get some relationships, and only choose to cultivate for people with more than eight grades of alchemy. Money, our Xiao family out. ”
"Sister Yun, you don't have to bother to pay. That's what I'll do. ”
"Xiaomeng, your family has a good relationship with the Lang Evil Pavilion, please ask them to build a handful, and melt half a penny of silver if necessary. ”
"Okay, Sister Yun. ”
Xiao Yun nodded slightly, and shouted to Cao'er outside the door: "Cao'er, please make a family banquet for Chunniang." ”
"Yes, master. ”
Xiao Yun turned her head to Li Chongran and said, "Husband, do you think it's okay?" ”
"Good!"
"The husband can't be too shabby when he goes out, there are five storage bags in the list. You take one. ”
"Okay. Li Chongran nodded.
Everyone was silent for a while, and Xiao Yun said, "Husband, what else do you have to do?"
"Oh, no. ”
"Then what are you still doing here? Go back to the small courtyard to cultivate, they will bring the food to the small courtyard, if you are bored, you can go to visit Qindu. There are meat dishes at the family banquet, which is not suitable for the husband..."
Li Chongran was embarrassed, what else could he say, he simply said a few words of farewell, and then left, he must be self-aware and self-aware as soon as he entered the house and saw the five ladies who were beautiful and fragrant, smiling so brightly, there was an essential difference from the smiles on the faces of the servants in the courtyard.
The servants were hungry for a little reward, and the ladies were so simple that there was no place to plead.
Last night, the hundred-year-old five-grade rune paper was unfortunately pasted on her fourth uncle's forehead, and when she teased her another day, she took the five-grade rune paper back for research and research. Now look into the pot.
Although the yard is small, there should be trees, flowers, and stones, tables and chairs.
It is estimated that the reward money is not in place, and there is not a single figure in the yard, Li Chongran is idle, sitting on the stone bench, playing with the pot.
It was black, grinding on the stone, and there were no scratches. It stands to reason that without the use of mortal firewood, how could there be such a thick and hard pot with ashes.
A maid passed by the small courtyard and poked her head out: "Uncle, aren't you going to eat?"
"Xiao Yun said, you will send it over. ”
"Uncle, the head of the family is right, the slaves and maids send tea and meals to the uncle every day, and charge a piece of first-grade spar for the summoning fee. ”
"What?" Li Chongran stood up suddenly: "Call Fei??"
"Although my uncle was named the marquis by the king, he is a rich man after all. We heard that my uncle only took twenty-five spars from the hands of five ladies every month, and we thought that my uncle came to Qindu alone, and it was not easy to live, so the call fee was reduced to a first-grade spar. This is the cheapest call fee in Qindu. ”
"Ben Hou has always been frugal, Ben Hou will go to the kitchen..."
There is a canteen outside the kitchen, and Li Chongran's location is equivalent to a private room without screen isolation, and the tableware is obviously much more high-end than that used by the servants.
"Where's Spring's message? She can get me a few vegetarian dishes. "Li Chongran doesn't expect meat dishes anymore.
"Uncle, Chun Niang is the head chef, she only cooks for Xiao Yun on weekdays, and only cooks once during the Chinese New Year. Of course, my uncle is more noble than us, and he eats the dishes made by Chun Niang for free once during the New Year, and then only has the right to ask Chun Niang to cook for free once a month. Uncle seems to have used this power last night, if the uncle still wants to taste the food cooked by Chun Niang, he only needs to pay one five-grade spar each time. ”
"Five-grade spar??, why can't she go to heaven. ”
"Uncle, don't say that, Chun Niang has already given my aunt a big discount. ”
"Forget it, just get me a dish. ”
"Uncle only needs one dish??"
"Hmm!" Li Chongran is at ease with what happens, as long as there is something to eat, fill in some first, and then go out to eat.
At the family banquet here, Spring Message also sat in the banquet. The women ate and drank, and it was very lively.
The Qin capital is so big that Li Chongran can't imagine it.
Fortunately, there are few ordinary people in Qindu, and they have to ride horses and sit in sedan chairs when they go out.
The sun is a little hot, and it is nothing for Sipin Xiu to resist this temperature, Li Chongran came for about half an hour, and he thought that the price of the restaurant attached to Xiao Mansion would definitely start because the Xiao family was sitting on the ground.
"What would you like to eat?"
Li Chongran chose a shop with a lot of people, entered the store, and as soon as he sat down, the shopkeeper enthusiastically mixed tea.
"What can you eat with these?" Li Chongran took out twenty-five first-grade spars and poured them on the table, he didn't understand Qin Du's market, so he didn't dare to order rashly. In Shuanghe Town, two first-grade spars can have a big meal.
"This distinguished customer, our store generally accepts more than two grade spars, in fact, customers mostly use three grades of spars to pay the bill..."
"May I ask where the Yiping Crystal can eat?"
"Distinguished guest, do you see the bun shop outside the store?"
"Thank you. Li Chongran put away the spar.
When Li Chongran left the restaurant, some diners snickered.
The shopkeeper said, "What are you laughing at, I see that you are all outsiders, and you don't know anything." The one just now was the Marquis of Bishui Pavilion, and he had only been in the house for a short time. Qin Ducheng, a few people who have just entered the restaurant can eat in a restaurant, and it is already very good to have twenty-five first-grade spars on their bodies. ”
"Why doesn't Master Hou have any money?"
"Lord Hou is rich, and it is also Mrs. Hou's. A bunch of ignorant ones..."The shopkeeper lowered his head and continued to fiddle with the abacus.
Li Chongran walked to the front of the steamed bun shop: "Boss, how much is a steamed bun?"
"One bun, five first-grade spars. ”
"It's too dark. ”
"I used a first-grade wild boar and beast meat bun, which is the cheapest in Qindu. ”
"Boss, in my hometown, a wild boar that lives well is only worth twenty or thirty spars..."
"Distinguished guest, this is the capital of Qin, the capital of Daqin, a radius of 100 miles, not a radius of 2 or 300 miles, a beast has long been gone, this is all transported from other places, counting the labor costs, transportation costs and other messes, my buns are not expensive. Do you still buy it?"
Li Chongran shook his head and said, "I can't afford to eat." ”