Xi Yunzhi felt that after her husband came back from Nanning, her whole person had changed, and she loved to give her things at every turn.

First, the bag of jewelry that blinded her, and then the next day, out of nowhere, she got a room of flowers, and then, in the afternoon, she asked Zhao Yi to lead three or four servants into the door, one of the family was for the old lady, and the other was an old mother, and two maids arranged for her to serve her closely.

Xi Yunzhi was grateful, but suddenly there were four more people in the family, and she felt a little uncomfortable, besides, the place where this family lived was originally small, and now that they came, Zhao Yi and Han Feng were bound to be squeezed into one room, and the other room was for the old mother and maid to live in, and there was a small guest room where the manservant could live in.

With such a stop, Xi Yunzhi felt that the courtyard, which could only be regarded as small before, suddenly became crowded.

In the evening, I mentioned this matter to my husband a little, but I didn't expect my husband to throw her a drawing the next day, saying that it was to expand the house, he even drew the design drawings, and asked her if she had any special arrangements.

Xi Yunzhi doesn't have so many requirements for the residence, just looking at this magnificent mansion, there are thirty-two rooms from left to right, not to mention the gardens and water pavilions, if it is built according to this drawing, it will definitely not be able to get down without tens of thousands of taels of silver, Xi Yunzhi has no choice, so he has to risk being stared at by his husband, and he has to scratch out a lot of unnecessary expansions.

After more than a month of hard work, Tianli gradually got on the right track, and under the watchful eye of Yan Bo and Fu Bo, there was nothing to do with her, just so she could find time to arrange the construction period of the house renovation.

In the end, she decided the layout of the house, and she planned to add five or six rooms, that is, to build a small courtyard on the vacant land next to the master bedroom, with a master bedroom, two children's rooms, a study room, and an embroidery room in the small courtyard, living next to the backyard where the old lady lived, but each with a wall, and not interfering with each other, so that there was no need to tear down the wall when building, and it would not disturb their normal life now.

The work at home was shared between the maid and the old mother, Xi Yunzhi only kept the cooking, and the days were idle all of a sudden, this day she sat in the yard and tinkered with needlework, and a few days ago she made a close-fitting shirt for her husband, she wanted to embroider a Zhilan at the corner of the clothes, and it was about to be completed, but she was unexpectedly seen by Cousin Qian who passed by the courtyard.

I saw her standing behind Xi Yunzhi and looking at it for a while, then she shook her head with a sigh, and Xi Yunzhi asked puzzledly:

"What, did I embroider something wrong?"

Cousin Qian bent down and picked up the shirt in Xi Yunzhi's hand, and asked in a somewhat disdainful tone, "Have you been embroidering this flower for several days?" ”

Xi Yunzhi nodded: "Well, it's been five or six days." I am not good at embroidery, and my hands and feet are slow, which makes my cousin smile. ”

Cousin Qian sighed, threw her shirt back to Xi Yunzhi, and said bluntly: "It's not good, the flowers and leaves are invisible and godless, and the color is rustic, I really don't know how your mother taught you female workers." ”

"......" Xi Yunzhi heard that Cousin Qian had no intention of mentioning her mother, so she smiled and lowered her head and did not speak.

It just so happened that Cousin Lan came to look for Cousin Qian, as if something was wrong, but Cousin Qian seemed to have finally found the person to talk to, and immediately beckoned to her, snatched the shirt in Xi Yunzhi's hand and said to Cousin Lan:

"Aunt Lan, come and see, this is the flower embroidered by my cousin and sister-in-law, it doesn't look like there are wild flowers blooming on two weeds?"

Aunt Lan came over and took it, looked at it several times, and then said with disdain: "What is this?" Flowers don't look like flowers, grass doesn't look like grass, I don't know how my nephew fell in love with this wildflower. ”

“……”

As he spoke, he returned the shirt to Xi Yunzhi, and Cousin Qian listened to Aunt Lan's words, covered her mouth and snickered, and comforted her with a fake look:

"Cousin-in-law, don't mind, Aunt Lan was one of the best embroiderers in Beijing before she got married, and her requirements are naturally higher."

Xi Yunzhi smiled and didn't speak, so she lowered her head and packed up the needle and thread, and saw that Aunt Lan didn't pay attention to her anymore, and turned her hand and pulled Cousin Qian into the room, as if she had something to whisper.

She vaguely heard words like 'borrow, repay'.

At the beginning of May, Xi Yunzhi received an invitation at home, saying that the largest restaurant in the city would open in three days, and the boss specially sent someone to invite the master, young master and wife of the Bu family to enter the city to take care of them.

Xi Yunzhi looked at the cashier's office, and a familiar name came into view - Zhang Yan. That's why I figured it out.

Xi Yunzhi accepted the invitation, but she couldn't accept the guy who sent the letter, because Zhang Yan didn't invite her alone, but the entire Bu family, so she couldn't be the one who could make the decision.

During dinner in the evening, Xi Yunzhi told the matter at the dinner table, and the few men at the table were all stunned, and the old lady bit her chopsticks and asked:

"Daughter-in-law Sun, you mean, someone invited our family to dinner?"

Xi Yunzhi saw that Bu Chengzong's face was different, so he put down his chopsticks, nodded respectfully and said, "Yes." If the old lady doesn't want to go......"

"Why don't you want to!" Bu Chengzong suddenly became anxious, slapped the table and stood up, his excitement overflowing: "It's such a good thing for someone to invite you to dinner, there hasn't been anything since you left the capital, go, you must go!" ”

His serious expression made the dinner table silent again, and everyone looked at his old man with a kind of 'you can't do it' eyes, which made his face tighten, and he also realized that he was too excited, so he covered his lips and coughed lightly twice, pretending to be calm:

"I mean...... Since everyone has come to the door sincerely, our step family is also a reasonable person, no matter what, we can't fall into the face of others. ”

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, with a look of 'no matter how much you say, you are covering up', Xi Yunzhi saw that the old man's eyes were erected, as if she was going to be angry, so she hurriedly said in a round voice:

"Yes, everything is done with the etiquette of the step family."

The old man sat down with satisfaction and continued to eat.

There were more maids in the house, and they took over the affairs of the outer courtyard, so Xi Yunzhi went back to the room early, and looked left and right with the clothes that were laughed at by Cousin Lan and Cousin Qian.

was dismantling the thread, Bu Qin actually entered the room early, saw her sitting under the lamp worried, saw him enter the door, only smiled, stood up and greeted her.

Bu Qin wanted to take advantage of the situation to take him into his arms and make love, but she was naughty and dodged, so he didn't entangle, opened his arms, and waited for her to change clothes.

Xi Yunzhi skillfully took off her coat for Bu Qin, and was about to go to the cabinet inside to get clothes, but saw Bu Qin pointing to her embroidered blue clothes and said:

"Isn't there a ready-made one?"

Xi Yunzhi brought a change of clothes from the cabinet and smiled at Bu Qin's usual smile: "It's not done yet, I want to embroider some Zhilan flowers at the corners of my clothes to distinguish them from my husband's other clothes." ”

Bu Qin saw that she was ashamed, so he didn't say anything more.

The two went to the bunk early, reading books, embroidering flowers, even if they were silent, the atmosphere between the two was still calm and sweet.

Bu Qin took advantage of the gap between turning the page to glance at Xi Yunzhi, and saw that she was looking at the embroidery in a daze with a distressed face, and couldn't help but say out loud:

"My cousin and those cousins are all crafts practiced in the Jingshi embroidery room, and I like to teach female workers on weekdays, you don't pay attention to them, no matter what kind of embroidery you make, I will wear it."

Xi Yunzhi looked up at Bu Tan, and saw that although he was staring at the page, his fingers were tapping on the futon for a while, so he knew that he was actually comforting himself, and immediately smiled:

"Husband, but seriously, no matter what I embroider, you will wear it?"

Bu Qin raised his head and met Xi Yunzhi's cunning black eyes, and couldn't help but be stunned, a little surprised that he would say such love words, but he didn't escape denial, nodded and said:

"Yes, whatever it is, as long as you embroider it."

Xi Yunzhi was sweet in his heart, pursed his lips and snickered for a while, and then said solemnly: "Okay, then I'll embroider a little turtle on it, um, or embroider a caterpillar?" Husband, do you like baby turtles or caterpillars? ”

“……”

In the face of Xi Yunzhi's ridicule, Bu Qin chose to look at her silently, and after a long time, he silently put down the book, and silently put the needle and thread in Xi Yunzhi's hand into the inner bed, hooked the corners of his lips and said to her:

"You want to know what, don't you?"

Xi Yunzhi was stared at by him and her back was cold, if she didn't understand what Bu Qin meant at the moment, then she was a mallet, and nodded stubbornly: "Hmm." ”

Bu Qin was satisfied and pulled her off the pillow, turned over and pressed on:

"Then let's go to the quilt and have a good discussion."

Saying that, Xi Yunzhi only felt a darkness above his head, Bu Qin did what he said, and as soon as the quilt was lifted, the two of them were enveloped in the messy bodies, and the waves were undulating fiercely, Xi Yunzhi couldn't help but exclaim:

"Ahh Ahh

“……”

The exclamation was followed by a heart-wrenching sigh, and it was clear that someone was not going to let go of this rare opportunity for punishment.

Three days later, the young and old of the Bu family went to Zhang Yankai's new restaurant as a guest.

Zhang Yan became the boss, and his outfit was changed, and when he saw Xi Yunzhi, he hurriedly greeted him from behind the counter, and shouted to Xi Yunzhi with a gesture:

"Oh, it's so late for the shopkeeper to come." His eyes swept and fell on the handsome and extraordinary Bu Tan, and his eyes lit up: "This is Mr. Bu, look up for a long time." ”

Bu Qin's grand return to the fist salute, Zhang Yan suddenly turned around and clapped his hands a few times, beckoning to the guys in the store and shouting:

"Come, come, come and see the shopkeeper."

“……”

Xi Yunzhi looked at the more than a dozen runners who came to the hall, as well as the three cooks who ran out of the back kitchen, all of them came around, only to hear Zhang Yan pointing at Xi Yunzhi and saying:

"You see, this is the shopkeeper I often mention to you."

"The shopkeeper is good."

Everyone saluted Xi Yunzhi in return, but Xi Yunzhi was frightened, she frowned and whispered to Zhang Yan:

"What the hell are you doing?"

Zhang Yan also whispered to her: "I, Zhang Yan, am not ungrateful, you treated me like that before, if I don't reciprocate, how can I be worthy of you?" ”

"......" Xi Yunzhi was puzzled: "How are you doing?" ”

Zhang Yan asked the guys to entertain the four members of the Bu family to the private room upstairs, but he pulled Xi Yunzhi aside, mysteriously, and made a gesture of three to her: "In the past, I was seven and you were three, but now it is still valid, I am seven, you are three." You don't have to do anything, just wait for the cash register every month. ”

Xi Yunzhi looked at Zhang Yan in surprise, but saw that the latter smiled happily at her, straightened her waist and said to her:

"Of course, if the shopkeeper still plans to open a restaurant, then I didn't say it. My current set is all taught by you, and I ask myself if I can't do business with you, so I can't do it. Forget it. ”

Xi Yunzhi realized this, it turned out that this kid was afraid that she would open another restaurant to steal business with him, no wonder he was so generous.

Shaking his head, Xi Yunzhi simply gave him a reassuring pill:

"I'm not going to open a restaurant. Without a good cook, no matter how good the means are, you can't do business. Instead, you are asking me if there are any good shops on Xiangluo Street, and I would like to rent two of them for other transactions. ”

"Xiangluo Street? That rouge alley sells all the things of women's houses, what do you want to sell? ”

Regarding Zhang Yan's question, Xi Yunzhi did not answer positively, but smiled inscrutablely, ignored him, and went upstairs to meet his family.