Time passed unconsciously, another month passed, and more than half of the pile of lotus bodhi seeds were sold. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This afternoon, as usual, it was the time for Eleven Niang to practice calligraphy, and Siniang came to visit the door and gossip.

"Eleventh sister, Mama Li, the ancestor of the Li Mansion had a birthday the day before yesterday, do you know what birthday gift the second master Li gave?"

"What did you give?" Mama Li asked after stopping the embroidery needle in her hand.

Because of the wealth of the four rooms, Mama Li is afraid that someone will find flaws in her words, so she has restrained a lot, and she has not gone to chat with the subordinates in other people's houses for a long time, and she stays in Xu's mansion every day to be a female celebrity, and she goes out to buy books and pens, ink, paper, inkstones and other items for Shi Niang, in other words, since she has money, Shi Niang has bought the most things, not jewelry and clothes, but books, all kinds of books, what miscellaneous travelogues, and even Da Chu Decree has bought.

"Lotus Bodhi, I heard that the Bodhi Zi looks exactly the same as the lotus seat of Guanyin Niangniang, when the Second Master Li offered it, many people were stunned, it turns out that there is really a Bodhi Zi in this world that is lotus-shaped!" The fourth lady recalled the scene excitedly.

November 20 is the seventieth birthday of Mrs. Tai of Li Mansion, and everyone with a little face in Shangyuan County has been invited, Mrs. Xu has taught a son, so she is naturally invited to be in the list, and Siniang also went with Mrs. Tai.

"Sister saw it?" asked Shi Niang incessantly.

"At that time, Mrs. Li put the bodhi on her hand, and later when I went up to congratulate her, I saw it, and the bodhi was so beautiful on Mrs. Li's hand!"

Of course, even if she had seen many good lotus bodhis in her previous life, she was also amazed by the quality of these bodhi. This kind of wild jujube can only grow a regular lotus shape on Taihang Mountain, if it grows in other places, the jujube kernels are deformed, if she guessed correctly, Foyuan Pavilion will definitely take the jujube kernel to plant, to see if it can be planted, however, if it is planted in other places, it will definitely fail, it depends on whether they will mistakenly plant on Taihang Mountain.

"I heard that this Bodhi is sold for two hundred taels in the Buddha Yuan Pavilion in Fucheng, but it is like this, they are all priceless and marketable, I don't know if the Buddha Yuan Pavilion of Dayuan Temple has to be sold? Siniang said with emotion, in fact, even if it is sold in Shangyuan County, she can't afford it, but she just wants to take a closer look and touch it.

When Shi Niang heard these words, what she thought of was that Foyuan Pavilion really had business acumen, even if she pulled away all her inventory, she didn't take it all out and sell it, but released some from time to time to catch their appetite, no wonder selling a Bodhi seed, the business can be so big.

After saying this, Siniang changed the topic and asked Mama Li: "Mama, have you heard others talk about the 'Shangyuan' recently?"

The Shangyuan is the maritime trading ship led by the Zhao Mansion, and many big families in the entire Shangyuan County participated.

Mama Li asked, "What's the matter with Shangyuan?" The old slaves have been in the mansion recently, and they haven't heard anything about it! Fourth Miss, what news have you heard?"

The fourth lady hesitated for a long time before she said: "Actually, it's nothing, it's just that I heard Li Shi Niangzi laugh at the fifth lady of Gaofu in Li Mansion that day, saying that she is pretending to be a talented woman now, and when the news of the sinking of Shangyuan comes, their Gaofu will go bankrupt...... When I heard this, I was shocked and wanted to ask if you know. ”

Shi Niang and Li Mama, who heard the news, were also shocked, you must know that this ship was bought by the merchants of Shangyuan County, not counting the purchase price, there are more than two million taels of goods on it alone, if it really sinks, then those partners will really lose a lot.

Mama Li first said: "Really, impossible!" and then patted her chest and said fearfully: "Fortunately, Mrs. Tai didn't agree to invest money in it, if our government also participated, then the people in the whole house would really want to drink the northwest wind!"

"Mama-" Siniang hesitated for a long time before she said, "Can you go outside and inquire whether this news is true or false?"

Feeling Siniang's abnormality in this matter, Eleven Niang put down her pen, walked over and asked in a low voice, "Fourth sister, is there anything inside about this matter?"

The fourth lady looked around and made sure that there was no one, so she whispered to the two of them: "Eleventh sister, Mama Li, what I told you, don't spread it!"

Hearing this, Eleven Niang and Mama Li couldn't help but get nervous, and nodded hurriedly.

The fourth lady said in a low voice: "That **** accidentally heard my father tell my mother that this time he went to sea, and he also invested money in it!"

"What?" Mama Li was shocked and asked again and again, "Doesn't Mrs. Tai disagree?

The fourth lady replied nervously: "Daddy said that he borrowed it from the Li Mansion and borrowed 30,000 taels!"

"Why is the eldest master so confused!" Hearing this, how could Eleven Niang and Mama Li not understand, it must have been borrowed secretly by Master Xu from Mrs. Tai.

"But, Fourth Sister, the property in the mansion can't be mortgaged without the permission of the grandmother, what did the uncle use as collateral to sign a contract with the Li Mansion?"

Mama Li sighed and said: "Miss, the eldest master is the son of our house, and he came forward to sign, even if others disagree, he can be used as a mortgage in the law." ”

"This-" Eleven Niang was also speechless, all she had in her mind was the spirit of the contract of the later generations, like this kind of behavior that does not need to be mortgaged, but also regarded as a mortgage, she is really the first time to come into contact with it, it seems that the newly bought "Great Chu Decree" can't be put aside, you must familiarize yourself with it when you have time, otherwise you don't know how you will die one day.

At this time, the fourth lady was also in a state of confusion, if the news was true, her father had caused the disaster, but she had to bear it with the whole house, and she herself felt very guilty.

Seeing the guilty look of the fourth lady, Eleven Niang comforted her and said: "Okay, this news is not necessarily true, it's useless for us to worry about it here, Mama, you have time to go out of the house to inquire in the past two days to see if this news is true or false." ”

Mama Li immediately agreed.

Eleven Niang thought, even if this thing is true, their house does not need to be afraid, as long as the problem can be solved with money, it is generally not a problem, not to mention that she already has more than 50,000 taels of silver in her hand.

Mama Li went out to inquire for a few days, and came back and said, "Miss, this news is likely to be true, and the ship may really sink." ”

Eleven Niang sat on the couch, carefully drawing a Taishi chair, and Mama Zhou was on the side.

My grandmother's birthday is at the end of January, and she didn't give a gift last year, so she plans to make two Taishi chairs as gifts this year.

Mama Li continued: "I heard from the people in the second room of the Li Mansion that the ship sank in the sea near Zhancheng, and it sank very quickly, and the boat next to it sank to the bottom of the sea before it could be saved. ”

"This news was first transmitted by a wave of Huizhou merchants at the beginning of the month, who had already returned to the sea, and when they passed by Champa to replenish their drinking water, they saw with their own eyes that the ship had sunk. ”