Zhao Xiu didn't want to pay attention to Zhao Yan, so he asked his mother-in-law to tell him: "Grandmother and brother are not here, I am a female dependent, it is not good to see a foreign man, what is the matter, wait for my grandmother and brother to come back." ”

Zhao Yan heard the words from his mother-in-law, and immediately choked. If there is no such thing as leaving the clan, he is Zhao Xiu's nephew, and his blood relationship is still very close, how can he be a foreign man? But now he has no way to refute this statement, so he can only call the mother-in-law who passed the word, and report it to Zhao Xiu like this.

The mother-in-law relayed his words to Zhao Xiu, and Zhao Xiu was stunned: "The landlord forced them to move?" Then they will move and come to me for what to do? ”

The mother-in-law said: "Brother Yan said that there is no money at home, and his grandmother refuses to take out her body, if she is really kicked out of the current house, the family will sleep on the streets." ”

Zhao Xiu sneered: "I have to coax a three-year-old child to say this, when I don't know what the market for renting a house outside?" The area where his family lives now is not a few steps away from Qianmen Street, so the rent is more expensive, and it costs seven or eight taels of silver a month. But is it necessary for them to live in such a nice place? If you change to a more remote neighborhood, you can rent an entire courtyard house for three or four taels of silver a month. If you go outside the city, it is also common to rent a large farm yard for two taels of silver. Zhao Ze sends four taels of silver to his home in a month, and Zhao Yan is not without money in his hands, will they sleep on the streets? When I'm a fool. Their grandmother refused to take the money, and he begged his grandmother to go, so could he expect me to rent a house for them? ”

The mother-in-law went out and passed the word to Zhao Yan, and after a while, she turned around: "Brother Yan said that the girl misunderstood what he meant." He didn't want the girl to help them find a place to live, but he wanted her to come forward and talk to the landlord and tell him to continue renting the house to their family. His grandmother was used to living there and didn't want to move, and he knew that it was inappropriate, but he didn't dare to disobey his grandmother's order. ”

Zhao Xiu didn't believe a word: "I didn't know that Zhao Yan was such a good grandson who was filial to his grandmother." You spoke to him for me, and I understood what he meant. It's just that I'm a girl, and I'm young, how can I come forward to talk to a landlord? What is the point of the landlord not wanting to rent the house to his family, and they are reluctant to leave? That's someone's house, not theirs. If the lease has not expired and the rent has been paid, let them go to the government to reason. If the lease period has expired and the landlord refuses to rent anymore, it is also the freedom of the people, and they will find another house and move in. Niu's usually goes in and out of the inner city to fight the autumn breeze at the rich and noble's house, and she runs so diligently, she is tired of moving? If you really don't want to move, you can just buy someone's house. ”

The mother-in-law went out, and after a while, she turned around again, and Zhao Xiu smiled when she saw it: "What is this for?" Zhao Yan used his mother as a microphone? As she spoke, she was asked to move a small stool for her, so as to reward her for her hard work back and forth.

The woman smiled and thanked her, sat down, and was actually a little impatient with Zhao Yan in her heart, but she was naturally very attentive to Zhao Xiu: "Isn't it?" The little one said again, the girl has spoken, why is he still pestering there, he doesn't look like a man? He pulled his small sleeves and refused to let go of the small one, and everyone around him looked at it, he was also a brother who was about to become an adult, and he was embarrassed to make a small fuss. He also covered his reddened face with his sleeve.

Zhao Xiu was stunned for a moment, then held back a smile and turned back to the topic: "What did he say this time?" ”

The mother-in-law hurriedly said: "Brother Yan said that he also wants to move, but his grandmother is reluctant to spend money, and if she chooses a cheap house, she doesn't like it well, and she refuses to move outside the city." I thought of asking Ze Ge'er to come back with the silver, but Ze Ge'er said that last month's salary had been sent back four taels, leaving one tael, and now five or six hundred dollars have been used, and it will last until the end of the month. The money in the store's account is cut off and cannot be moved. Even if you advance next month's salary, it will only be five taels. Nowadays, if you rent a house outside, you have to pay off the rent for two or three months at a time, and you have to buy furniture. Therefore, Brother Yan asked, can you let him also help in the shop? He can speak well, and he will definitely be able to help, not for anything else, just to get another salary to supplement the family. ”

Zhao Xiu raised his eyebrows, presumably this sentence is the real purpose of Zhao Yan's door, right? But doesn't he despise this errand? When he was first called, he thought that he was too little money, so why has he changed his mind now?

Zhao Xiu said to the mother-in-law: "Ask my mother to go out and tell him, he will ask his brother directly about this kind of thing." If the shop is handed over to Zhao Ze to take care of, the house will not ask, we will only look at the accounts. There is no problem with the account, so naturally Zhao Ze decided to hire a few guys. She also instructed the girl next to her, Bihan: "Ask someone to wrap a few freshly beaten moon cakes, and then pack a few fruits, let him take it back, the money is gone, seeing that it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, let him not go back empty-handed, so that the people who see it know that our family is not an impolite person." ”

Bihan and her mother-in-law took the order, and this time, the mother-in-law did not turn around to pass the word, and Bihan reported after a while: "The person has left, looking at the basket of mooncakes and fruits, his eyes are wide, as if he is disgusted." ”

Zhao Xiu smiled, of course he would dislike it, this was probably the first time he came to the door but didn't get the money to leave. She is not a grandmother, she is not so kind-hearted, and people come to the door again and again to fight the autumn breeze, and the reasons are more and more varied.

However, Zhao Yan suddenly changed his mind and planned to work in the study shop, presumably for a reason. Because of Feng Yushi's accident, the second room of the Zhao family sent people for a long time to secretly pay attention to the movements in Zhao Ze's house. Zhao Xiu was suspicious today, so he asked people to send the family to question.

The husband and wife of the family are both old servants of the Hou Mansion, and since they received this errand, they have tried their best to do it well. Compared with the others, they have no background and connections, and they have never worked under the Zhang family, if they want to mix well in the Xinhou Mansion in the future, they must seize this opportunity to perform well. At first, they just dealt with a few old servants under Zhao Ze, and later the wife became acquainted with a girl named Bailing next to the Niu family, and recognized her goddaughter.

Bailing is also a big girl, but in front of the Niu family, she is not as favored as another person called Thrush, but she can mix in this position, and she is naturally not a fool. She had long sensed that Niu's anger was about to run out, and if the latter ran out of money in the future and hit them with the idea, it was very likely that she, who was not so favored, would be the first to be sold. For the sake of her future, she deliberately secretly got close to the subordinates in the second room, and was also willing to reveal some inside information.

So when her godmother came to Zhao Xiu, she replied to Zhao Xiu about many things that outsiders didn't know: "There is no big deal in Zhang Shanjia Hutong recently, but the landlord and the old lady have quarreled." A few days ago, Sister Xiang was making a tonic soup for the old lady in the kitchen, and somehow burned half of the wall, but fortunately it was saved in time, and the landlord said that their family had ruined his house, and there was no one in his eyes, so he refused to renew the lease and asked them to move out. The old lady refused to move, and refused to give money to repair the kitchen, saying that she would renew the rent, but she would wait for Ze Ge'er to receive her salary next month, and the two sides froze. However, Brother Ze once came back and asked what was going on, he had already paid the landlord to repair the house, and privately instructed Sister Xiang to prepare the silver, and found a familiar Chinese person to look at the house, presumably ready to move. I heard that Sister Xiang knew where he was looking, and she was a little unhappy. ”

If you don't want to be kicked out undignifiedly, even if Niu is reluctant, he will have to find another place to settle. But she actually picks the door like this on the issue of her own residence, which is really not like her. Hasn't she always been very particular about her food, clothing, housing and transportation?

Zhao Xiu asked the daughter-in-law: "Does the Niu family have no money in his hands?" Why are you so stingy? ”

The daughter-in-law lowered her voice: "The eldest girl guessed well, even if she plays her brother and their mother, I am afraid that she may not know." The old lady over there collects the money herself, and she is not even allowed to touch her hands. It's just that Bailing's girl has very sharp eyes, no matter how much gold and silver, she can estimate the number with a glance, ** not far from ten. She said clearly, the old lady held the silver coin box, there were only four twenty taels of silver ingots in it, three were whole, one had been twisted a corner, and the rest were some silver coins, presumably when she went to another house to fight the autumn breeze. And then there's a few gold and silver bracelets and jewelry. If it is full, it will not exceed two hundred taels. ”

It is difficult for the Niu clan to fight the autumn wind now. The second room is well publicized, and nine out of ten families in the capital know that her grandson is now a big shopkeeper. If Niu cries with people again, no one will believe it. Sometimes when she goes to someone's house, the porter can stop her from entering the inner house if his wife and grandmother are not at home. If she has to be cheeky and have to wait for other people's daughters to "come back", then she can drink tea for a day, and she can't even get a meal. Gradually, she understood that she rarely ran to the inner city anymore. But she is used to life, and she can't save it no matter what, at most she reduces waste, lowers the food she eats by a level, and then deducts the food and clothing of the maids' servants, but the cost is still very large. If you can't get in and out like this, won't the money gradually decrease? Zhao Ze refused to listen to her, greedy for the silver in the ink shop, she only became more and more stingy, and only used the four taels of silver given by Zhao Ze to support daily use. For big expenses such as renting a house, she is not willing to pay out of her own pocket until she has to do so.

Zhao Xiu shook his head when he heard this, this Niu clan really couldn't get on the stage, no wonder Mrs. Qin looked down on her back then. What is the difference between Zhao Ze paying money and her paying for it herself?

However, although the Niu family is stingy, Zhao Ze understands the matter, even if he doesn't have any money, he still directly finds someone to look at the house. With his current income, the big deal is to advance two months' wages, and it is no problem to rent a yard in the outer city. I just don't know why Zhao Xiang is unhappy?

Zhao Xiu asked: "Do you know where the house Zhao Ze asked people to find is?" ”

The daughter-in-law said: "Brother Ze picked two places, one is in the tea alley outside the Xuanwu Gate, and the other is in the West Street of Yongguang Temple not far from there, both are courtyard houses, the place is not small, but the price is cheap, the house with less rent money is a little older, as long as two or four dollars of silver, the more is only three or two two dollars, and it is close to the store." Ze Ge'er said that it would be more convenient for him to go home and take care of his family. Come from Chenghuangmiao Street, go out of Xuanwu Gate along the avenue, and you can get home. ”

Zhao Xiu listened, although he felt that Zhao Ze was inevitably troubled, and his own idea was to let him stay away from the Niu family, but he still didn't appreciate it, and asked the Niu family to move closer to him. However, his vision is not bad, the two houses are outside Xuanwu Gate, the transportation is convenient, and it is not very remote, and the security in the vicinity is also passable. Why should Zhao Xiang dislike it?

The daughter-in-law still has some understanding of this: "The girl next to Sister Xiang once mentioned to Bailing that the house in the tea food alley is close to the donkey market, and Sister Xiang thinks the smell is unpleasant." As for the house on the west street of Yongguang Temple, it is old, and most of the neighbors are pawns of peddlers, so Sister Xiang feels that it is not decent enough. She said the same thing in front of the old lady over there, so the old lady had already rejected it, and asked Ze Ge'er to find a house again, just near the current house, and the place could not be small. Nowadays, this yard is actually not enough to live in, if you really want to move, you will move to a larger yard. ”

Zhao Xiu listened to it funny, if Zhao Ze really agreed to such a request, it would be really stupid. Once he rented a house for his family that suited Niu's wishes, it was time for her to prepare to check the accounts.

Zhao Xiu figured out what was going on, knowing that the ancestors and grandchildren of the Niu family were facing the situation in front of them, but they did it themselves, so they didn't bother to ask more, but why Zhao Yan changed her initial thoughts, she was a little interested.

The daughter-in-law said, "Bai Ling really told the little one about this." Aunt Xiaoqian is now in good health, and she often cooks some good meals and dishes, or does some needlework, honors the old lady, and spends more time with Brother Di. The old lady knew it and enjoyed it with peace of mind, but she never mentioned the matter of handing her brother back to her to raise, knowing that her mother and son had private money, and even let her take over the housework, asking her to pay money to supplement the public middle school. Brother Yan was originally doing homework for his former classmates outside, or writing articles and poems for others, and he could earn some silver, so Aunt Xiaoqian could still support it. One of the young masters who could hire Brother Yan found out that his homework was done by someone else, so he reported to the family, and the family sent someone to stay by the young master's side at all times, and Brother Yan never approached him again. Another young master fell ill last month and took a leave of absence from school. Therefore, now there is a lot less business in acting brothers, and in three or five days, it is just one or two hundred dollars, which cannot be compared with before. Perhaps he changed his mind because he felt that the errand in the shop was more stable. ”

Zhao Xiu said: "I told him that he didn't come, but now it's too late." How big is the study shop? Zhao Ze and Lao Zhangtou are enough, and if you add one more him, it will be difficult to even turn around in the store. It depends on whether Zhao Zecong is smart. ”

Zhao Ze is probably really not very smart. Zhao Yan went to find Zhao Qixuan, and after learning that Zhao Qixuan had no intention of interfering with the operation of the study shop, he directly asked Zhao Ze to work in the store. Zhao Ze didn't hesitate for long before agreeing to him!

Fortunately, Zhao Ze didn't get home in a daze, and he didn't follow his own standards, and gave Zhao Yan a salary of five taels of silver a month, only three taels, but this is already a lot. Zhao Yan is indeed sharp-toothed, very active in soliciting customers to compete for business, and is also good at engaging in various sales tricks, such as when a guest buys a good study room back, he will send one or two more pens, a knife of paper or something, as a partner, to attract the guest to buy next time, buy more. Within a few days, the sales of the store doubled, comparing Zhao Ze to Zhao Ze. Zhao Ze was still happy for him.

After Zhao Xiu heard this, he sighed twice and instructed the account office: "When reconciling the accounts, let them record the amount of things sent out clearly, don't let people take advantage of the loopholes." She didn't believe it, Zhao Yan would not make small moves.

The Holy Driver sent the spirit back, and Zhang and Zhao Wei were about to go home. Zhao Xiu put aside Zhao Yan's affairs, and was busy directing people to prepare hot water for meals, clean the room, and welcome the return of his grandmother and brother. RS