Xia Chunchao naturally didn't know anything about what happened after this, and took the car home by himself, saying nothing all the way.

When she returned home, she first looked in Sister Lu Hong's room, and when she entered the door and heard that Sister Lu Hong had just fallen asleep, she hesitated for a moment, only handed over the purse to Chun Tao, and explained: "When the girl wakes up later, give her this purse, you don't have to say anything, she naturally understands." Chun Tao understood, put the purse sleeve, and only said: "This purse is still made by the girl after a few days of hard work and boiling oil at night." "That's it.

Xia Chunchao thought that Sister Lu Hong woke up for a while, and the two sisters-in-law were relatively embarrassed, so they went first.

Back in the room, Boa came up to change her clothes and pick up her jewelry. Xia Chunchao instructed Zhu'er about the reason for dinner, and said: "Explain the kitchen, stew an extra bowl of ham and simmer duck in the evening." When your young master came back, he just tore up the wine and ate it. Zhu'er promised and was about to go, when she heard Bao'er suddenly "huh".

The master and servant both stopped, and both looked at Bao'er. Bao'er came up and asked, "Grandma, why is the sachet you brought when you went out missing?" Xia Chun glanced at the clothes and jewelry on the bed, the hairpin rings and scarves were there, but there was no sachet, thought about it, and asked, "Presumably I didn't hang it on my body when I went out?" Bao'er shook her head and said, "I hung it for my grandmother with my own hands, why didn't I wear it?" There are also three things about the silver that grandma uses on weekdays. When Zhu'er heard this, she came over and said, "Could it be that she has fallen outside?" Xia Chun thought about it, but he couldn't remember, so he said: "If you lose it, you lose it, it's not a valuable thing." The three things of silver, how many years have I been making, not to mention that I have polished a lot, and the quality of the silver is not pure, so I don't want it. Ming'er will take the silver again and ask the silversmith to pull the silk and make it. Zhu'er smiled: "Grandma is generous, but I don't know who is cheaper." So saying, he went out of the door.

Bao'er complained: "How can this carry-on thing be littered? However, there was nothing to be done in the end, so I had to throw away my hand.

In the evening, Lu Chengyong came home from the Yamen. Xia Chunchao put the table, and Bao'er brought dinner from the kitchen. Sure enough, there was a ham stewed duck under the order earlier, and the husband and wife sat opposite each other to eat, and opened a bottle of Huiquan wine. Lu Chengyong said some interesting things in the yamen, and Xia Chunchao told him about seeing Shen Changyu during the day.

Lu Chengyong listened to his wife's words, only bowed his head to eat, and was noncommittal. Xia Chunchao said a few words, and seeing that he was silent, he turned his head sideways and asked with a smile: "What's the matter, are you angry?" Lu Chengyong grinned, tore off a duck leg, put it in the Xia Chun Dynasty plate, and said, "You are going to talk about serious things, why am I angry?" It's just that I hate that I'm so mediocre in economics, and I can't help you with anything, and I want you to work so hard every day. Xia Chunchao didn't have any doubts when he heard his words, smiled heartily, and said: "It's okay, you fight your battle, and I do my business, which is also called complementing each other." Lu Chengyong sighed: "I was an official, and my original intention was to let you enjoy pure happiness." Who knew that when you came back this time, your hard work was not reduced by half a point, but you still had to add a few points. I'm a husband, and I'm a very wretched. ”

When Xia Chunchao heard this, his heart was very sweet, and he immediately smiled: "You have to be diligent and hard work in order to prosper your family." Our family is just recovering now, and it's time to work hard. If we enjoy the blessings at this time, the future generations will only be hungry. Lu Chengyong heard her mention of future generations, looked at her lower abdomen, the corners of his lips were slightly curved, and he said: "As the old saying goes, God rewards hard work, why is it not accurate in this matter?" Since I came back, I've been so hardworking, why haven't I seen any news? Xia Chunchao heard this extraneous sound, his cheeks couldn't help but redden, he took a sip, and scolded with a smile: "Speak seriously, pull the branches and leaves, and pull out some crooked words!" If you practice the ancients like this, you are not afraid of being struck by lightning! ”

The husband and wife laughed and had dinner. After the meal, the two took a short break, and after grooming, they entered the account hand in hand. Lu Chengyong has a great plan for his family's descendants, and it is inevitable that he will work hard again on the bed, which is not a problem.

The next day, Lu Chengyong went to the yamen on an errand as usual. Xia Chunchao got up and had breakfast and took care of a few urgent household chores. The man at the door sent in the style of Sister Lu Hong's dowry drawn by the carpenter and the quotation. Xia Chunchao took it and looked at it, and saw that the wood used and the price were appropriate, and the style was also the most popular in Beijing nowadays, so he was satisfied, and handed it to Zhu'er and said: "Go and show your girl, and then see if she is better today." Zhu'er took the order, but did not move, only said: "The girl was so sick yesterday, I am afraid that I will not be able to work hard." Xia Chunchao said: "Go, it's okay." ”

Zhu'er got the order, so she couldn't go out, and Shaoqing came back and said: "The girl read the list and said that there is nothing bad, just ask grandma to cut it." Xia Chunchao asked again: "You look at the girl's spirit, it is better than yesterday?" Zhu'er frowned and thought for a while, and said, "It's still like that, but Chun Tao said that the girl can eat some porridge and rice than yesterday." Xia Chunchao asked, "Does the girl have something to say?" Zhu'er smiled: "There is really a sentence, but it is headless and brainless, and I don't understand it." The girl asked me to pass the word to my grandmother, but she only said that she knew. When Xia Chunchao heard this, he was silent, and said in his heart: It would be better if she really wanted to open it, but she was only entangled by this demon, and she was afraid that she would really get sick in the future.

Zhu'er saw her sullen distraction, and laughed out loud: "Grandma and the girl have both participated in Zen, and they say some boundless words, like playing dumb riddles, but you can understand it." This matter involves Sister Lu Hong's name, and Xia Chunchao naturally won't tell Zhu'er about it, so he just laughed it off.

After a few days in such a hurry, Xia Chunchao negotiated the transaction of Hexiangzhuang, and never asked about the business in the store, but only instructed the shopkeeper Xia to compensate the three goods according to the price. Whether they receive it or not, they will surely send the money. Liuxiang Pavilion and Changchun Building were silent for a while, but the owner of Songyue Tea House couldn't sit still. He first heard that the Lu family dry goods store had signed a contract with Hexiang Zhuang, and then inquired and learned that Xia Chunchao personally brought gifts to the Liuxiang Pavilion for a long time a few days ago, lest this matter was a trap made by those two families, and squeezed him out, so as to monopolize the fresh goods of the Lu family's dry goods store. Songyue Tea House is not as good as those two, but it is a medium business, and it has to lose one of them in terms of extensive human relations and the size of the capital. The owner of Songyue Tea House was afraid that it would be difficult to find a punctual and trustworthy store like the Lu family's dry goods store in the future, and he was afraid that the Lu family's wife would ask his own man to secretly rectify his family, so he hurriedly bought a wine box as a gift, hired two rough men to pick up the door of the Lu family, and Xia Chunchao bowed to make compensation. In order to show his sincerity, he spontaneously and automatically raised the price of the goods by 10%.

Xia Chunchao is a businessman, so naturally he will not be angry and hurt money, so he smiled at all the gifts from Boss Li, re-signed the contract, and sent him out in person. This matter spread and blew into the ears of the shopkeeper Liu of Liuxiang Pavilion. The shopkeeper Liu made people inquire about Wu Ji's dry goods earlier, and he knew that as Xia Chunchao said, it was just a grocery store a year ago, and the dry goods were bought and sold temporarily, and there were not a few catties of inventory in a hurry, so how could it supply such a large daily consumption of Liuxiang Pavilion. If he hadn't investigated carefully, he had signed a contract with this family, and the supply of ingredients would not be available at that time, and he would have cut off contact with the Lu family's dry goods store, then it would really hurt the roots. Shopkeeper Liu was in shock, and heard that Boss Li of Songyue Teahouse personally came to make amends and rebuilt the old good news with the Lu family's dry goods store, plus the rumors that Hexiangzhuang ordered from Xia Chunchao a few days ago, this shopkeeper Liu couldn't survive anymore, and he couldn't take care of Meng Yuanzhen's obscenity.

After these two major events were completed, Xia Chunchao's two stones landed in his heart, and there was an unexpected joy of Hexiangzhuang, which was really icing on the cake.

Other than that, there has been nothing else to do in recent days. Because the deadline for Lu Chengyong to leave Beijing was approaching, he pushed back the invitation and only accompanied his wife at home every day. The two saw that they were going to separate again, and they became more and more like glue, and it was difficult to separate.

However, the good days are easy to pass, and it is the end of the month in a blink of an eye, Lu Chengyong is about to set off soon, and the Lu family is busy again.

That night, Xia Chunchao was in the house, so that the girl took out all kinds of clothes and spread out a bed. She examined it the same, folded it neatly and put it in her bag.

Lu Chengyong sat cross-legged on the kang, and when he saw his wife walking around, very tired, he couldn't help but say: "That's it, I'm not going to fight this time, I don't have to bring so many things, and you don't have to be busy anymore, it's better to talk to me." Xia Chunchao said where he was willing to follow, and said: "What you said is light, it is easy to go out at home, and it is difficult for a while." You will be careless, you don't need that, you don't want it, it's you who suffers on the way! It's been a person who has been out for so many years, and it's still like this. As he spoke, he didn't slow down in his hand, paused and said, "The two pieces of rice I just made are put in it, remember to change them when you see someone." Don't be disgraced and don't remember to change your clothes, eat people and laugh shamefully. I was afraid of the wind on the road, so I put the cloak in. Changchun Hall's gold sore medicine, I sent someone to buy three cans back today, and they were all stored in a small cloth bag. Even if you're not here to fight, you'd better be careful. Think about it when you encounter something, don't pounce on it when blood gushes up, be fierce and ruthless, and irrelevant trivial things are not worth risking. I can't be angry, just think about it, I'm still waiting for you at home. ”

Her subordinates kept talking, and she was chattering in her mouth, and she didn't want to be hugged from behind by someone else, and she didn't move when she knew that it was her father-in-law. Lu Chengyong lay his head on her back, a pair of iron arms firmly wrapped her body in his arms, and said in a low voice: "You are at home, and you must take care of yourself." Although family matters are important, think more about yourself. Mrs. has never been able to do anything, so you don't have to take it to heart. If what she says is really ugly, just go away, ignore it, and wait until I get back. I'm not at home, so I can't protect you. If there is anything else, you can discuss it with Sister Hong. If I go this time and come back, I will not go out again, and I will certainly not cause you to suffer any grievances. Xia Chun soured his nose, rubbed his eyes, and laughed softly: "I know." ”。