Before the Zhao family came, they had a plan to restrain Mrs. Zhao's house, just because they didn't want to offend the hot Chen family, so as to bring disaster to the Zhao family.

It's just that people's hearts are unpredictable, even though the elders of the Zhao family know the current affairs, but they are forced to come here, and they are inevitably indignant in their hearts, but because of the momentum of the Chen family, they dare not declare it. At this time, after listening to Chen Qi's promise, the elders of the Zhao family immediately forgot the humiliation of being forced before, and were relieved, for fear that Chen Qi would change his mind again, so they were busy begging the little maid to go to the backyard to pass the word to their own women in front of Chen Qi, and tell them how to deal with the conversation. When Chen Jue saw this scene, he knew that everyone in the Zhao family was already convinced. At that moment, he didn't say anything more, and led everyone back to the table to eat and drink.

This description is really cumbersome, but it is just a cup of tea, and everyone in the Zhao family changed their attitude under the pressure of Chen Qi's words. Xu Zichuan, who knew a little about the inside story, saw this, and couldn't help but admire Chen Jue, although he was inferior to him in terms of books and knowledge, he was also inferior to Chen Jue in terms of human affection.

At the moment, it is not said that Xu Zichuan has mixed feelings in his heart. only said that in the back house of the Chen Mansion, Mrs. Zhao was really angry because of the obstruction attitude of the old sisters-in-law in the clan. It's just that because Mrs. Chen is tough in her words, Mrs. Zhao is afraid that she will be embarrassed for a while and pretend to be sick, but she doesn't dare to mention taking the two sisters home.

Seeing that Mrs. Chen had suppressed Mrs. Zhao's arrogance, she no longer mentioned the matter of the banquet. After the play ordered on the stage was sung, the banquet was withdrawn and another meal was served. Smile and invite all guests to take their seats.

When the female guests in the hall saw this, they also tacitly ignored Mrs. Zhao's family. Immediately, they staggered, smiling, and toasting to the old birthday star, and there is no need to say in detail.

After finishing the meal, I had another cup of tea. Seeing that the hour was not early, everyone opened their mouths to leave. Mrs. Chen ordered Feng to take the daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law of the family directly out of the Yimen, and saw that the vehicles in various provinces were gone, so she turned around.

Chen's mother and daughter came out of the room after the guests had dispersed, and went to the main room to kowtow to the old lady again. Because it was the old lady's birthday, the three Chen mother and daughter specially changed into plain clothes and put on auspicious clothes. Mrs. Chen saw her daughter and two granddaughters dressed in bright clothes and extremely pleasing appearance, and she couldn't help but smile from ear to ear. Because he thought of the ghost thoughts of Mrs. Zhao at the banquet, he sneered again and again. made up her mind that she would never let that old Zhao Qian woman succeed.

Although the Chen family is in the back house, they are very well-informed. also knew that Mrs. Zhao brought Zhao Lin's family to make trouble. Immediately sneered: "What a fat-blinded old bastard." It's only been a few days, and I forgot how good my aunt is. Looking at me, I can't wait for someone to handle the dough? If it's not my mother's birthday, I'll have the ability to scold them first, and then tell the boys to beat them out. also let them know that Ma Wang Ye has a few eyes! ”

Seeing this, Feng Shi hurriedly smiled and said, "You are also too willing to be angry. It's a big deal, why bother scolding like this. Besides, your family is like this in front of the children, and you are not afraid that the eldest sister and the second sister will grow up in the future, and you can also learn such a broken emphasis, but how can you make it? ”

After that, he smiled and said to Chen Wan: "Today is the old lady's birthday, you are also tired." Let's take my sisters and rest in the back. ”

He also ordered Chen Huan to go back to the room to rest, "Ming'er still has to go to school!" ”

Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Chen remembered at this time, and they hurriedly persuaded Chen Hua and several sisters to go back to their rooms to sleep.

When Chen Huan and the others saw it, they had to get up and leave.

When all the children came out, Chen Jue looked at his sister who was still angry, and said with a smile: "This has nothing to do with you." If Mrs. Zhao is serious about dying, as well as your father and mother, your brother and me, where do you need to go into battle in person? You just stay at home with peace of mind, and don't scare your good husband away. ”

Chen Qi only cared about making fun of the girl, but forgot that Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Chen didn't know about the red line in his case. Hearing this, Old Lady Chen and Old Lady Chen hurriedly asked. Chen Qi thought to himself that this matter had been □□ and could not be separated from ten, and he no longer concealed it at the moment, and hurriedly told the old couple about it as it was. At the end, he still smiled and asked, "That Second Elder You has also seen it, but do you think I am doing this Baoshan?" ”

When Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Chen heard this, they couldn't help but think of You's mother and son at the birthday banquet, and Mrs. Chen thought of Lord You's frivolous behavior at the Shangyuan Festival, and felt that this person only cared about coveting beauty, and I was afraid that his character was slightly uneven, so he was noncommittal. But Mrs. Chen likes You Ziyu's personality quite much. What's more, You Ziyu was still Chen Jue's peak back then, and he didn't mention Chen Jue on weekdays. Now, if the two families do another family business, wouldn't it be a perfect match? Not only does her daughter have lifelong support, but her son also has help in his career.

It's the best of both worlds.

When Mrs. Chen thought of this, she couldn't help but feel happy. asked again and again what the You family meant and when they would come to propose their relatives. Chen Jue will discuss with Lord You, and wait for Chen to keep her ex-husband's filial piety. When Mrs. Chen heard this, she was silent for a while, and said with a smile: "This is also a worldly gift, which should be kept." It's just that it's hard for our sister Hui, who has been married to the Zhao family for many years, and she hasn't reaped any benefits, but she deserves a lot of crimes. ”

When Chen heard this, he hurriedly smiled and said, "Why is it not good? gave birth to the eldest sister and the second sister, which is the biggest benefit given by the Zhao family. Just for this one, I also feel at ease to keep a smile for him for three years. ”

When everyone in the Chen family heard this, they also felt that the second sister was their own little lucky star. They all laughed immediately.

Because of the birthday banquet during the day, everyone in the Chen Mansion was already tired, and they were tired, so they said a few words, and then they dispersed and went back to their rooms to settle down. Nothing to say for a night.

Zhanyan is the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, because Chen Qi has been promoted to the sixth grade of the main business, Mrs. Chen and Feng, as Chen Jue's mother-in-law and wife, have also been promoted to the sixth grade, and the people of An.

According to the laws of the imperial court, officials in Beijing who are above the sixth rank in the court can enter the court to work. Officials above the sixth rank and their families are also eligible to enter the palace to congratulate.

On the fifth drum of the day, Chen Qi wore court clothes and crowns under the service of the slaves and maids at home, and Mrs. Chen and Feng also put on makeup, put on all the deacons, and entered the palace to congratulate.

He returned from the banquet for a while, and led his sons and nephews to open the ancestral hall to perform the ceremony of hope. After the ceremony, everyone went back to the upper room, Mrs. Chen and Feng Shi glanced at me, and said a lot of majestic places in the palace banquet, everyone listened to it, only as news, and became more and more interested. While talking and laughing, suddenly someone went back and forth, "Someone from the mansion of Lord Zhao, the commander of the Jinyi Army, came to see the master". When Chen Qi heard this, he wondered in his heart, and he didn't know why Lord Zhao sent someone to the mansion to speak during the New Year's Festival. At the moment, he didn't dare to slack off, one wall invited people to the hall for tea, and the other wall came out to meet with a full dress.

Everyone in the Chen family didn't know why, and they looked at each other unconsciously, dazed.

After about a meal, Chen Jue returned to the inner house, but with a look of embarrassment, he hurriedly instructed the Feng family to find out his plain clothes and put them on. Everyone didn't know why, so they hurriedly asked. Chen Jue ordered people to prepare funeral rites on one wall, and explained to everyone on the other.

But it turned out to be Zhao Bihe who had just gotten the news that a talented person in the East Palace who was raised in the prince's garden had died. Not only that, but even a small county lord who was raised in the other garden also contracted a violent illness and died. The prince suddenly heard the bad news and didn't realize that everything was burning. Zhao Bihe knew the news for the first time because his son Zhao Yin was the prince's companion. is busy preparing the funeral to annoy the prince. Because he thought that Chen Qi could be regarded as having taken the prince's path to be promoted, and Chen Qi had frequent contacts with the East Palace recently, the prince seemed to like Chen Jue's personality, so he sold his personal love affair with Chen Jue.

And asked the head of the Zhao family to secretly remind him in his words that the deceased Feng Cairen could be regarded as having a relationship with the Chen family. Tell Chen Jue to be cautious in his words in front of the prince, so as not to anger the prince.

When everyone in the Chen family heard this, they became more and more incomprehensible. How could the prince of the dignified East Palace have a relationship with their Chen family?

Seeing this, Chen Qi had to talk about the old story of catching the kidnapper on the Shangyuan Festival, and everyone suddenly realized.

At the moment, it was needless to say that Chen Jue changed into plain clothes and went to the East Palace to say that he was annoyed. only said that since the second sister found out the omissions in Chen's dowry shop and earned back five hundred taels of silver for her mother, Chen knew that she was inferior to her daughter in housekeeping affairs, so she simply handed over all the dowry accounts to the second sister to take care of. He also ordered his eldest sister to study on the side.

The second sister came from the later generations, and she knows that life in the world, regardless of men and women, must be settled and rely on her own truth. I also understand that it is useless for money to press on the bottom of the box, and it must be taken out to do business so that the money can make money.

It's just that the second sister is still young, and she doesn't know the world outside, so she doesn't dare to make a decision lightly. Later, after discussing with his mother Chen for a long time, and with his grandfather, grandmother, uncle and aunt several times, he finally decided to take out two-thirds of Chen's Tiji silver to buy fertile land and shops.

One is to buy a shop in a relatively good location, even if you don't do business, you can rent it out and collect rent. Even if the annual rent is limited, it can be accumulated over the years, which is an open source thing. It's much better than sitting on a mountain and eating empty.

Second, buying land and renting it to tenants can make a harvest every year, half of these harvests are converted into silver, and half are provided for the family to chew, which is also to relieve the pressure of the Chen family. After all, the Chen family and daughter want to stay in the Chen family for a while, even if the Chen family doesn't care, if their mother and daughter obviously have spare strength but don't have any money, it is not a reason to get along for a long time.

Since grandfathers, grandmothers, uncles, and aunts don't accept their own money, it is better to send rice, noodles, fruits and vegetables directly to the door in the name of tasting fresh. Isn't it the best of both worlds?

These words were secretly said by the second sister to the Chen family in private, and the Chen family also thought deeply after hearing this. She was used to being casual under her hands, and the brains of the people who fought with the Zhao family were about to hit the dog's brains, and she still spent money lavishly on weekdays, and asked a few brutes in the second room of the Zhao family to follow a lot of light in vain. In the end, for the sake of the two sisters, they did not hesitate to share half of the dowry with the Zhao family. This is still the case for the enemy, and now that the silver is spent on his own family, the Chen family feels even more happy.

It's just that this plan doesn't have to be told to Mrs. Chen and others. After the good field shop is redeemed, directly instruct the tenants to send the rent and rice noodles in spring and autumn directly.

Thinking that there was no one familiar with Jiaxuan in her family, the second sister was afraid that she would be fooled by comprador brokers when she bought land, and she spent a lot of money but could not get good land. Therefore, after thinking twice, he discussed with the Chen family and begged the Zhang family to help look at the land. The Zhang family is a person who has been in charge of Huangzhuang for generations, so he naturally understands the good and the bad. Zhang Yun even had the idea of pleasing his in-laws, patting his chest and taking care of it. He also asked Chen Qi if he also wanted to pay for the land, and he could help to see Yunyun.

Chen Qiyuan didn't expect this, but when he heard what Zhang Yun said, he also knew that this was a major matter of opening up sources and reducing expenditure, so he didn't feel tempted. discussed with his family, and then transferred another 1,000 taels of silver and handed it over to Zhang Yun to prepare.

Zhang Yun went out for more than half a month, and when he came back, he said: "Although there is fertile land in the suburbs of the capital, it is only at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and the price is much more expensive than in other provinces. In this way, if in Shandong, two taels of silver can buy an acre of good land, and when you arrive in the capital, you may not be able to buy the same good land for six taels of silver. I am afraid that the price of buying 100 acres of land in the suburbs of Beijing will be enough to buy 2 or 300 acres in other provinces. It's really not a good deal. I still thought that it really wouldn't work, so I went another 1200 miles, even if I went to Ping'an Prefecture to buy land, it was better than spending money in vain. Who knew that by coincidence, I met such a master - he is also a Beijing official, and he wants to find a vacancy, and his family is selling land to raise silver taels, looking for love and finding a way. Because he is in a hurry to sell, the price can be reduced a lot. Moreover, it is also close to the capital - it is in the eastern suburbs of the city twenty miles away from the city of Rosewood Fort. There were 100 acres of fertile land and nearly 200 acres of medium fields, as well as a few houses, and a total of 900 taels of silver. Dare to ask my sister-in-law, can this price be made? ”

When Chen heard this, he was naturally overjoyed. I just thought about it for a while, and I couldn't help but hesitate. Because of the ladder silver in her hand, even if she counted the five hundred taels of the shop manager in front of her to make amends, it was only one thousand taels and zero, and this son spent only nine hundred taels to buy land and land, plus the shop that her brother Chen Qi was looking for, it was beyond the budget.

Seeing this, Chen Jue smiled and said, "What is there to hesitate about such a good thing to take advantage of." It's better to divide the 300 acres of land equally between our brothers and sisters, and you want 50 acres of fertile land and 100 acres of medium land, and the rest will be evenly distributed to the family. It's just that we both pay together. ”

When Zhang Yun heard this, he smiled again: "Because Brother Chen is an official, when I negotiated with that family, I did not mention Brother Chen's identity, so as not to cause trouble." If Brother Chen can trust me, this matter will be left to me. ”

Chen Qi smiled and said: "This is natural, as the so-called one thing does not bother the two masters." It's just that I'm tired of Brother Zhang. ”

immediately paid the silver and Zhang Yun. That Zhang Yunluo sat down for tea, and hurriedly said goodbye on the grounds that he was busy with the autumn harvest.

A few days later, he really ordered Mrs. Zhang to send the title deed of the house with her name and surname to the Chen Mansion. And because the Chen family is a female dependent, and the people in the Chen Mansion don't care about Jiaxuan, Zhang Yun Haosheng helped the Chen family recruit tenants, etc., and talked about how to collect rent and grain in the spring and autumn. should take measures to cook properly, and there is no need for the Chen family to worry a little more.

As for the purchase of shops, Chen Qi himself was the head of the household department, and he could choose some shops with relatively good lots and suitable prices from the houses confiscated by officials in the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China at official prices.

Chen thought that he had no business skills, and he didn't have the energy, so he leased the shop he had set up to others, and only collected rent every year to live.

On the other hand, his own dowry shop used to sell some things commonly used by women, such as oil, powder, spices, hairpins, and so on. Because the goods procured are ordinary, the business is neither good nor bad. It's just that since the second sister picked flowers and flowers in the summer, she Taocheng rouge paste and various colored fragrance powders, and the ones that the family can't use up will be sent to the shop to sell - even if the price is more expensive, it has slowly accumulated some reputation, and even the sales of other fat powders in the shop have also increased a lot. It's just that customers who can afford the second sister's homemade rouge paste are always not used to other inferior goods, and they can't help but complain again and again after many times.

For a time, the reputation of Chen's dowry shop outside was completely different.

Seeing this, the second sister simply discussed with her family and asked the shop not to buy those inferior goods. Instead, bring in something of good quality. I also tried to make a lot of flower cakes, flowers and fruit drinks, configured flower teas with different uses, and configured some spices according to the ancient recipes I had seen, and even brought forth the new, constantly drumming up some fresh tricks and putting them on the shop to sell.

Over time, Chen's dowry shop has successfully transformed from a small shop selling inferior goods to an exquisite shop for the families of ladies and merchants. The second sister is well aware of the consumption psychology of short supply, and insists on the workmanship process of self-produced rouge incense powder, and the monthly output is also limited.

In this way, the ladies who can buy the Chen family's incense powder are naturally very proud, and those who can't buy it have to go to the shop next to buy it in addition to regretting it. Therefore, although the price of the rouge incense powder in the Chen family's spice shop is expensive, it does not pose a threat to other people's shops. Even if everyone was jealous that the business of the Chen family's spice shop was good, there was no evil thought that would be eliminated quickly.

There are also people who secretly think about the various spice recipes of the Chen family's spice shop, but because Chen Qi is becoming more and more important in front of His Royal Highness the Prince, they don't dare to act rashly. Some people who are qualified to act rashly do not look down on the benefits of a mere spice shop.

In this way, Chen's spice shop opened smoothly under the big tree.