Chapter 44 Negotiations

When the fifth brother saw Xiaoyu looking over, he moved his eyes slightly, and Xiaoyu moved the chair forward with a smile, and the chair was made of rosewood, which was quite heavy. Xiaoyu didn't move for the first time, so she had to work harder before she leaned forward and said, "They mean to buy it, I haven't thought about it yet." But don't worry, whether you buy it or not, you will be grateful for your knowledge of the fifth brother. I will definitely solve this haunted matter for you, and give you peace to the people. ”

Zhou Zhen was turning the tea cup in his hand, thinking about the look in the brother and sister just now. I didn't see any action from the fifth brother, why did this kid seem to understand something. After a moment's pause, he could tell that something was wrong, as if something was wrong? Did I miss something just now? And the furnishings in this room are all in a fixed position, what are you doing with that chair? You are not sitting neatly with your brother at this moment.

"Actually, if the price can be lowered, we can still afford it, otherwise we will have to look at other stores. It's just that the appointment will have to be later. ”

Saying that, Xiaoyu moved the chair forward again, as if she was afraid that Zhou Zhen would not hear it: "You also know that we are a Zhuang family, and our family has food to eat." The silver money is not enough to get his hands on anything, and the second brother can also give some silver, but he is not very calm at this time. ”

Zhou Zhen's heart moved, and he looked at the fifth brother, who sniffed and lowered his head to take a sip of tea. Xiaoyu also looked back at the fifth brother, and seemed to be a little remorseful, so he smiled shyly at Zhou Zhen. Rubbing forward again, Zhou Zhen looked at her in surprise, and said in his heart that you are almost in the middle of the room at this time.

This study was originally not big, Shizi sat behind the long table, Zhou Zhen sat on the left side of the table, and the fifth brother and sister sat on the right side It was originally an arc, Xiaoyu moved a few times and finally turned to the opposite side of the long table, and sat opposite Zhou Shizi across the table.

Zhou Shizi smiled and pushed a small plate of dim sum on the table: "I made it myself in the house, do you want to taste it." He saw that this kid had been moving the chair for a long time, and every time he moved, his eyes fell on his snack.

Xiaoyu looked back at her brother, and then she pinched a white handkerchief from her arms, picked up a piece of puff pastry, and said politely: "Then I'll taste one." ”

Xiaoyu ate very slowly, wiped her hands and face carefully after eating, looked at the stunned Zhou Zhen and smiled embarrassedly: "I just ate a piece of dry bun in the morning, and I haven't eaten yet." When people are hungry, they feel uncomfortable. ”

Zhou Shizi nodded sympathetically when he heard this: "That's it, I can't help being hungry." ”

Xiaoyu immediately smiled and nodded straight, her eyes flashed with admiration, as if she couldn't help but be hungry and something great: "Then I'll eat another piece, are you still enough?"

Zhou Shizi pondered for a while and said, "I'll let the cook make you a separate one." ”

Xiaoyu nodded and stopped eating. Shizi called the little servant in: "Let the kitchen make a few good dim sums, and bring them back to the Xia brothers in a while." ”

Zhou Zhen waited for his brother to finish explaining, and then asked idly: "Then what are you going to do with your second brother?" ”

Xiaoyu turned her head to look at him blankly, frowned and asked, "What to do?"

Zhou Zhen said patiently: "Didn't you just say that your second brother is not peaceful?"

Xiaoyu's face turned red all of a sudden, and she smiled embarrassedly: "I was really hungry just now, don't worry about it, I didn't mean to ask you for help." ”

The fifth brother chuckled lightly on the side: "Let you see the laughter, Xiaoyu is not sensible." We can't control my second brother's affairs. It's all a matter of the rivers and lakes, and we don't understand it. ”

Zhou Shizi was sitting opposite Xiaoyu at this time, looking at her with an indignant expression - obviously you don't understand yourself, and you want to pull me up. It's a little funny in my heart, and I secretly think that he is indeed a little clever child, and he is quite greedy, and after some things, it may not be useless. Thinking like this, the expression on his face softened a little: "Things on the rivers and lakes..."

Xiaoyu's eyes really became shining, and she looked at Zhou Shizi nervously and expectantly.

Zhou Shizi didn't understand anything when he saw her like this: "Our government is really not easy to manage." ”

Xiaoyu was suddenly like a deflated ball, and Zhou Zhen couldn't help laughing when he saw it. The fifth brother beside her covered his mouth, and coughed lightly with a smile on his face.

Xiaoyu sighed and sat back again: "Zuo is just those things, my second brother is amazing." Actually, I don't need to help with boxing, he's my brother, and when I can help, I have to help twice. ”

When Zhou Shizi heard this, he smiled and said, "How are you going to help?"

Xiaoyu grinned, Zhou Shizi and Sangongzi were deliberately cultivated by their mother when they were young, and they dealt with all kinds of people, so they saw that she just continued to laugh and delay time, and did not ask, only sipping tea to look at her. Xiaoyu wiped his hands and hesitated slightly, as if he had made up his mind, he moved the chair forward again, and then lowered his voice and said: "Actually, the people on the rivers and lakes are most afraid of the government. But..."Xiaoyu paused for a moment and seemed to think about how to say: "Alas, there are already people to help anyway, and I am also worried about it in vain." In just a few days, the matter is over. ”

The fifth brother on the side was so shocked that the tea in his hand spilled out. Xiaoyu added embarrassedly on the side: "Don't tell others, the second brother didn't even sue the fifth brother ......."

Zhou Shizi and the third prince took a lot of effort to suppress the turbulent waves in their hearts, and saw that the fifth brother's expression did not seem to be fake. How young was Zhou Zhen, so he asked curiously, "Then your second brother sued you?"

Xiaoyu's face turned red, he clenched his fist with one hand, pinched his bent index finger with the other, hesitated for a moment, and tilted his head to look at the fifth brother secretly.

Because the fifth brother has always been ambitious, Su Ri has a bit of calmness when Mount Tai collapsed in front of him. At this time, he couldn't sit still, and reprimanded in a deep voice: "Xiaoyu don't want to talk nonsense. ”

Xiaoyu had just mustered up the courage to speak, but was stunned by the fifth brother. Zhou Shizi saw her stupidly open mouth and pitiful appearance, and couldn't help but say, "You eavesdropped." ”

Xiaoyu's mouth opened a little wider, and Zhou Zhen smiled on the side: "Don't hurry up and cover it, the flies have flown in." ”

The fifth brother held his forehead and thought secretly, in the past, when he went home to live, he always heard her family say that she was naughty, I still don't believe it, where is this naughty, and I don't know if it will hurt the second brother's affairs.

Zhou Zhen believed a little more when he saw his brother and sister's expressions, and sure enough, the brothers of the Xia family were all doing their own thing, and they were not very connected with each other.

Xiaoyu hurriedly covered her mouth and shrank back, showing a shrunken look on her face, looking at Zhou Shizi like a monster.

Zhou Zhen regretted it a little, thinking to himself how he could ask just now: "Then you know?" I have to talk about it: What is your second brother's killer weapon? At this moment, everyone has spoken, and it would be a bit of a bully to bully children if they ask again.

Zhou Shizi smiled: "Children are like this. Pointing to Zhou Zhen and said: "I didn't know how naughty he was when he was young, my mother was not less angry, and several dusters were discounted." Now that you look at it, it's already my right-hand man. ”

Zhou Zhen couldn't, so he had to cooperate with this brother's words and smiled.

Xiaoyu looked at his gentle appearance, and there was still a little shyness on his face, so he forgot about his own affairs, and looked at Zhou Zhen and smiled. muttered in his mouth: "I'm scared to death, I thought you had mind reading, I didn't say you knew it, it turns out that your family also has one..."

Zhou Shizi talked a few more words, and the atmosphere eased. Zhou Zhen brought up the matter of the house again.

Xiaoyu sighed and said: "This house is so expensive, I see that Ming'er still has to ask someone in the tooth shop, it is best to have a house with three hundred taels of silver, and there are three courtyards, just enough to live." ”

Zhou Zhen was not very enthusiastic at the beginning, but now he became active again: "If it is only two hundred, it is not impossible to think of individual solutions." ”

Xiaoyu looked at him earnestly, and thought to herself: "It's best that you make up for the missing two hundred for us." Hey. ”

Zhou Zhen looked at her and smiled sneeringly, so he said: "Your fifth brother's salary is fifty taels a year, and it is enough to be a county official for four years." ”

"Ahh ”

Zhou Zhen smiled at the corner of his mouth and squinted at her.

Xiaoyu snapped his fingers: "My fifth brother has the talent to go through the heavens and the earth, it's too wasteful to be a county official, at least he can be a government minister." If you think about it, he could have done the work of a prefecture for you, but then he could only do the work of a county. See if you're losing. ”

Zhou Zhen laughed out loud and arched his hand: "I've been taught." So how do you want to calculate? ”

Xiaoyu thought for a while and said, "Let's suffer a little loss, even if it's two years." You paid the rest for us. To be honest, if you hadn't urged my fifth brother to go to work, I would have slowly grinded to three hundred taels. You say that's not true. ”

After that, he looked at Zhou Shizi and Zhou Zhen earnestly. Zhou Zhen clapped his hands: "Okay, who asked me to snatch your brother away." I'm out of the money. ”

Xiaoyu immediately smiled, patted the fifth brother's shoulder and said, "Maybe it's done, you will definitely not regret it." ”

The fifth brother had a gloomy face and did not talk.

Xiaoyu looked at Zhou Shizi again: "There is another thing I want to ask the two of you to help, I bought this huge yard, and I still need a few rough mothers-in-law and family members." It's just that our family has never had a servant, and we don't know how to manage such a big family, so I want to borrow a steward and a steward in your house. Help me set some rules, and in the future when I have all the people, help me teach them. ”

Zhou Zhen hesitated a little, and after thinking for a while, it became clear: "Their family is from a peasant family, so naturally they don't know that this servant is not good at using other people's families." It just so happened that I was thinking that if he bought this house, he would stuff a few people into his yard through the tooth shop. It's easy to stuff as much as you want, and stuff as much as you want. ”

Normally, he would never respond to such a thing, but at this time, he looked at Zhou Shizi's expression and nodded: "This one is also accurate." ”