However, after the second room of the Song Mansion and his party arrived in Beijing, they lived in the inn and looked for shops, and now in the prosperous era, the prices are getting more and more expensive, and the house prices are also high. A small shop in Beijing can easily cost tens of thousands of silver to rent.

And Song Anrong's entire worth of land and land is only 50,000 taels of silver.

They searched for more than a month before they found a small shop on the back street in the East Market. Because it was also opened and framed before, the layout of the interior is still passable. However, the rent fee is too high, asking for a huge amount of 40,000 silver, and the monthly rent is still appropriate, only 20 taels of silver a month.

If the cost of renting a house is removed, Song Anrong's family will only have 10,000 silver left to survive. Moreover, it still costs thousands of taels to purchase and sell all kinds of tools and materials needed to open a store. Song Anrong thought about it, and finally rented this small shop, two on the first floor, the outside for the counter to receive the goods, and the inside for calligraphy and painting. There are also two rooms upstairs, where the ladies live and Song Anrong lives outside. There was also a small bed in the attic, which became Zhao He's residence.

There is a large case in the middle of the first floor, which is the remains of the owner of the previous shop who opened a shop here, although it is dry for a long time, the cracking is very strict, but it can still be used. In addition, cutting boards, cutters, unveiling screwdrivers, rows of pens and all kinds of brown brushes, all of which are newly purchased. After the brocade silk, rice paper, drama headlines, heaven and earth poles and other objects were placed side by side, Zhao He took several paintings from Song Anrong's collection to try his hand.

After a few paintings are framed, they will be hung in the store for sample display, waiting for customers to come to the door.

At this time, it has been more than two months since they entered Beijing, because the old family Cai's mother did not enter Beijing together, and the coachman has also been dismissed.

It opened on the first day of the day, and because it was a back street, there were very few neighbors who came to congratulate him, but after a few strings of cannons, Song Anrong and Zhao He sat down in front of the counter. Su Shi was bored upstairs for two months, and his heart was depressed, but because Song Anrong and Zhao He, Zhenshu was busy all day, and it was inconvenient to tell each other. Today, when I saw that the store had opened, I had the heart to go to the Song Mansion to report and give a good message to the Zhong family. So he and Zhenyi cleaned up and went downstairs, and said to Song Anrong: "We came to Beijing this time, and we don't know about the mansion." Why don't I go to Fuzhong today, so that I can see what Zhenshu is doing? You go out and hire a car for me. ”

Because there was no one in front of the door, Song Anrong was also in a bad mood at this time, so he didn't reply: "I'm busy at this time, how can I go out and hire a car for you, go upstairs quickly." ”

Su Shi covered the white and tender upstairs for two months, and today he put on a few of his proudest autumn shirts, and was about to go out to show off, when he heard Song Anrong's words and said angrily: "There are many birds in front of the door, the store is empty, what is there to be busy?" ”

Song Anrong stood up to quarrel with her, but Zhao He hurriedly stopped and said softly: "Today's first opening, everyone is angry and wealthy, and harmonious is wealthy." ”

Su Shi walked to the back and saw Zhenshu squatting on the ground to make a stove. The price of coal in Beijing is expensive, in order to save money, the coal taken by Zhenshu is all good and cheap stone coal, only her good skills can be born, and others have no way.

Su Shi hated and said: "Living in such a narrow place, people will be suffocated. ”

Zhenshu looked up and smiled: "Mother, this is already good, tens of thousands of silver are rented, and you can build a small house in exchange for silver, you just think this is a golden nest and a silver nest." ”

The capital in Su's heart is a big family of Zhumen, a group of servants and maids, and a courtyard full of spring flowers with fresh clothes and angry horses, rather than crowding in this narrow patio and looking at the gray sky on his head. She anxiously lifted her skirt and stood for a long time, in order to live up to the good clothes that were easy to dress up, she took Zhenyi and the two out to visit the embroidery silver building next door.

Zhenshu had just finished making lunch in the back patio, when he heard a sudden cry outside, and when he hurriedly looked around, he saw Su Shi covering his mouth and carrying his skirt upstairs, and Zhenyi followed behind with a small baggage.

She first called Song Anrong and Zhao He to come in for dinner, and then took a few bowls of rice upstairs with a plate. Now it's just a room, with beds on the left and right. Su Shi was still crying on the bed, and Zhenyuan sat aside and softly persuaded her.

Zhenshu put the plate on the outside, came in and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Zhenyuan shook her head and sighed, Su Shi raised her head and sobbed, "My Zhenxiu ......"

Zhenshu thought that Zhenxiu had an accident halfway like himself, and asked in a panic, "What's wrong with Zhenxiu?" ”

Zhenyuan frowned and said: "My mother said that just now she went to the Huang embroidery workshop on the side to see the materials, and I heard rumors that the second girl Zhenyu in Concubine Rong's mother's house got married, and the fourth girl recommended herself as a concubine. ”

It turned out that Zhenyu was in a hurry to ask Zhenxiu to enter Beijing for this. It's just that what Dou Keming wants is Zhenyuan, this will go to Zhenxiu, how could he be willing.

No wonder Zhenyu said to Dou Keming that day: I will definitely give you a girl in the second room as a concubine.

It turned out that she had the idea of Jung-so in the morning, not Jung-won.

Zhenshu asked Su Shi again: "Then the Hou Mansion drove her out, where is she again?" ”

Su Shi shook his head and said, "I know there, but I'm afraid I'll go back to the house." If this kind of thing happens, I don't go to the house to see how my heart can be at ease, but I hate your father sitting there idlely, and he doesn't even want to hire a car. ”

The two of them were originally resentful couples, but when they were in Huixian, because one was inside and the other was outside, it was better. Now crowded in this narrow shop, grinding day and night, and resentment against each other even more.

Zhenshu persuaded: "At the beginning of today's opening, businessmen pay attention to harmony and make money. Even if my mother has something big, she shouldn't bother my father. ”

Su Shi was even more angry when he heard this, and said hatefully: "Zhenxiu is also your sister of the first mother's fetal clothes after all, she has such a big thing now, you have nothing to do, and you persuade me not to be anxious." ”

Zhenshu said: "If the Hou Mansion does not allow it, she will not be able to return to the mansion." Even if she loses some leather noodles, she is asking for herself, can she lack food and clothing? ”

On this day, Su Shi only lay on the bed and cried, and even the neighbors on the left and right were curious, and the probe was looking outside. Song Anrong couldn't, so she had to book a car after dark, and asked her to take Zhenyuan, Zhenshu, Zhenyi, and a few people back to the house the next day to worship.

Su has spent all the money in the silk village and embroidery workshop silver building these days, and now he has put some good things, but there is no money in his hand, and he is already shy when he returns to the Song Mansion, and he has no original generosity to the people.

The old lady of the Song Mansion, Zhong, had already heard about the disaster in Hui County, and she had not waited for the news of the second room, thinking that they had also become scorched bones in Hui County. Now listening to the Su family's words about how they happened to get out of the fields and houses out of Hui County, and how it happened that Hui County suffered a disaster, it was natural to hide the humiliation of Zhenshu.

Although the Zhong family has no affection or hatred for these concubines, otherwise it would be impossible to divide them to the countryside to be rich people. At the moment, he said lightly: "Although it is too coincidental, it is also a blessing." ”

She raised a pair of sharp eyes and swept over Zhenshu, and saw that she was still wearing her usual household clothes, with a plain skirt tied underneath, standing there generously, seeing her gaze, she gently bent her knees and saluted back.

As soon as Zhen Xiufu entered Beijing, he told Zhenshu about his adultery with a Jiangyang thief in Wuling Mountain to the Zhong family, Zhenyu, and Shen. Fortunately, Zhenyu was inconvenient to go to various mansions because of her proposal to get married, so this matter is still only passed on in the Song Mansion.

The mothers-in-law and maids around the Zhong family, as well as the subordinates in the Shen family's room, heard that the three girls who had been humiliated had come to the house, and they all had to excuse themselves to go to the easy-going house to take a look. Zhenshu didn't care about this when he saw this, he still stood in a regular manner, not twisting or ashamed, but he was a little shocked to see the people in the house, and said in his heart that if she was not too thick-skinned, she really didn't have that kind of thing, otherwise she could stand there with such a big and generous base.

Seeing that Zhenxiu didn't come out for a long time, Su asked Zhong with a smile: "Ancestor, why didn't Zhenxiu see it?" ”

Zhong frowned and snorted: "She got up early in the morning and said that she was afraid that the nourishing soup in the kitchen would not be clean and the heat would not be enough, so she had to watch it herself." ”

Su Shi smiled when he heard this: "That is her filial piety to the old ancestor, don't be surprised by the old ancestor." ”

Zhong said: "She can do whatever she wants, what's wrong with me?" It's just that Zhenyu called her here at the beginning, and now that Zhenyu is married, I have always loved Qingjing and not many people, and now that you have come, bring her back. ”

Su Shi was frightened when he heard this, and hurriedly pushed Zhenyi over and cried: "Now that the daughter-in-law is having a hard time, Baba is squeezed into the same bed with a few girls, not only Zhenxiu can't live when she goes back, but the daughter-in-law also wants Zhenyi to be filial piety and accompany her ancestors in front of her." She is young, has a sweet mouth, and is the most amusing. ”

Zhong glanced at Zhen Yi, and saw that he was only twelve or thirteen years old, and he was printed in the same mold as Su's, wearing a light Li Lingzhi pattern half-arm, with an tooth-colored upper shirt on the outside, and a begonia red pleated skirt below. This set of clothes is very unconventional, I don't know how many times more beautiful than the old-fashioned clothes she wore when she came last time, of course, such a good material, it must be worth a lot of money, obviously it is something from the Beijing Embroidery Workshop. She still wore her buns, her lips were blood-red, her eyebrows were painted black, and she looked at herself with low eyebrows.

Zhong shook his head and said: "You don't have to force me to stuff these people in, I don't like to be noisy around me, besides, now that Zhenyu is married, this house is also surrounded by four walls, what you want to do can't get it, it's better to go home and live your life well, and open your shop." ”

Su Shi took a few steps forward and waved his handkerchief and said, "Mother said this, and the daughter-in-law just wants them to honor you, for fear that Zhenyu will be lonely by your side." ”

Zhong's eyes were gloomy, but he also smiled coldly, and said secretly in his heart: The loneliness of Zhenyu's departure, how can she be replaced?

After a while, Zhenxiu came in with an urn of soup on her two little feet, and she didn't look at the Su family, but went straight to the restaurant to put it down, took the bowl and put it down, and then came out and bowed down and said, "Ancestor, it's time to drink soup." ”

Zhong frowned and said, "What kind of soup is it today?" ”

Zhenxiu said with a smile: "The black chicken and wolfberry lily and red date soup, the granddaughter deliberately kept the stove and boiled it herself." ”

Zhong stretched out his hand, Zhenxiu hurriedly came over to help, and the two walked into the restaurant together. Su Shi and Zhenyuan Zhenshu also followed, still standing on the side and waiting.

Zhong drank a few mouthfuls of soup, Zhenxiu leaned over and wiped Zhong's lips with a handkerchief, and when Zhong finished drinking the soup, he hurriedly removed the bowl and came over to help Zhong.

A bowl of medicinal food to drink Zhong Shi mixed comfortably with a layer of fine sweat, his heart was a little smooth, nodded slightly and pointed at Zhenxiu and said to Su: "Among these granddaughters, she is the only one who still has a little wisdom root, and she is a person who can pluck it." ”

Su Shi couldn't close his mouth when he heard the smile, and before he could speak, he heard Zhenxiu say coquettishly: "I'm not the granddaughter of the ancestor. ”

Both the Zhong family and the Su family changed their faces slightly, and they heard Zhenxiu say with a smile: "The ancestor is a bodhisattva, and I am the virgin who waits beside me. The ancestor is the Buddha, and I am the mouse with the heart of the Buddha under the case. If the ancestor is the queen mother, I would like to hold the fan for you every day. ”

Zhong has been calm all his life, and he will believe in these flatteries there. But now that Zhenyu has gone, no one laughs and scolds her and points to each house, she is lonely in her heart, and she can only watch Zhenxiu pass the time with a coquettish idiot, so she smiles slightly. Su Shi saw Zhong smiling, knowing that he had fallen for her fetish, and said overjoyed: "Good boy, what the ancestor wants is filial piety like you." ”

She turned to Zhenyuan again and said, "Look at your sister, how much filial piety, if you can compare with one or two, the ancestors also asked you to live and serve in front of you." ”

At noon, the Shen family set up a banquet in the casual residence to invite several of their mothers and daughters to dinner.

Su and Shen sat on the kang, and her sisters sat on stools to accompany each other below. The Su family served the Zhong family at this time, and the tired look was lost, and asked the Shen family: "What was the situation when Zhenyu got married, and how could Zhenxiu be involved?" ”

Shen Shi also looked at her with a few other ladies, and looked back at Su, Su said: "It's not in the way, they are all their own sisters, they should also know." ”