Chapter Eighty-One: A Radical Plan
Since the jade unicorn and the gold ingots accidentally "drunk and disorderly", there seems to be a tacit change in the understanding between the two. The gold ingots are no longer as casually ridiculing and sarcastic as before, and the jade unicorn will not always be as arrogant as before, inexplicably, when he is in front of him, he will restrain some of the madness of the wild girl.
After a while, the quiet little half a month passed, and the jade qilin felt that the gold ingots seemed to have changed, but she felt that the change was too small and weak, which made her a little anxious.
On this day, on a rare sunny day, the evening was full of red clouds and a breeze, and Mrs. Jin was interested, so she invited a group of family members to set up an open-air dinner in the courtyard.
Originally, the jade unicorn and the gold ingots should have sat together, but since that incident, she has not seen the gold ingots every day, and when she saw that Jiang Xiaoxuan had a place next to her, she immediately sat down against Jiang Xiaoxuan.
Poor Gu Changfeng looked at Jiang Xiaoxuan with blank eyes, but he could only sit beside the gold ingots aggrievedly.
How long will this stinky girl be reserved! The gold ingots glared at the jade unicorn very dissatisfied.
Feeling his gaze, the jade qilin immediately tilted his head and glared back.
The two looked at each other across the dinner table, which made Mrs. Jin, who was sitting in the room, look at it with joy, this little couple seems to be a little awkward, it's really funny, looking at it, I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
When Jin Yuanbao heard the sound, he saw that his mother was looking at his happiness, and his heart was a little hairy, so he quickly found a topic and interrupted: "Mother, it will be your birthday in a short time, is it time to start planning for the banquet." ”
As soon as I heard this. Mrs. Jin's heart was suddenly full of warmth, "It's rare that Yuan Bao has such a heart, let's leave the matter of this year's birthday banquet to Wen Zhao." ”
Liu Wenzhao saw this. Hurriedly got up: "Auntie, don't worry, I'll start preparing." ”
Mrs. Jin nodded with satisfaction: "I have always been relieved of Wen Zhao's affairs. ”
There was a trace of dissatisfaction in Jin Yuanbao's eyes, and he leaned towards Mrs. Jin again: "Mother, didn't you say that you wanted Xiaoxuan to be the housekeeper, I think this year's birthday banquet will be organized by her." She has been in Jinfu for a while, and her virtuous and virtuous virtues are obvious to everyone, and she will definitely do a great job in this banquet. "Say it. He raised his eyebrows and looked at the jade unicorn defiantly: "Did you say?" "For the jade unicorn, although he doesn't say that he understands ninety percent, he has at least eighty percent, and he has the method of agitation. It worked best for her.
Sure enough, the jade unicorn took over with high morale: "Just do it, what's so difficult?" Mother, you can leave it to me. I'm going to have a good time. ”
"That would be great. But ......" Mrs. Jin was both happy and worried: "But this birthday banquet seems simple. In fact, it is also very trivial, all aspects must be taken care of, and on the day of the birthday banquet, all the relatives and nobles in the city will be present, in case there is a bad pool, it will make people see jokes. ”
Seeing this, Jin Yuanbao was afraid that she would back down, so he gave it to Liu Wenzhao cheaply, and hurriedly fanned the flames and said, "This is a heavy burden." If you can't do it, you have to say it earlier! ”
Hearing this, the jade unicorn just sprouted a little retreat. It's gone, when even if he resisted: "Of course I did!" ”
Seeing that she answered briskly, Mrs. Jin nodded with satisfaction and smiled, "It's okay." It's good to take this opportunity to let Xiaoxuan experience it, Yuanbao Wenzhao, you also have to help her more. ”
"That's for sure." Jin Yuanbao's mind was racing, and a bad idea sprouted up, and when he turned his head and looked at Liu Wenzhao with a smile, he said, "Steward Liu, let the account office allocate a budget of 30,000 taels to the young lady later." ”
When Liu Wenzhao heard this, he looked at the jade unicorn in surprise: "Thirty thousand taels? "Gold ingots: Is the budget of 30,000 taels less?
The jade unicorn blurted out: "It's too much." ”
Jiang Xiaoxuan, who was on the side, heard this, cold sweat was about to flow down, and she was so anxious that she pulled the jade unicorn's clothes straight behind and came out with a scissor hand. He said in a low voice: "Add another 20,000 taels." ”
Yu Qilin looked back at her in amazement, tried to listen to Jiang Xiaoxuan's words, but didn't hear clearly, probably heard a twenty thousand taels, and then saw Jiang Xiaoxuan's gesture, nodded confidently: "Twenty thousand taels is enough." ”
The crowd was in an uproar.
Mrs. Jin, Jiang Xiaoxuan, and Liu Wenzhao couldn't believe it, only Jin Yuanbao looked comfortable.
"Good!" The gold ingots applauded proudly: "It is worthy of being my gold ingot's wife, 20,000 taels are decided!" ”
After the dinner, Jiang Xiaoxuan pulled the jade unicorn to hide in the corner of the garden, and rebuked in a low voice: "You promised to organize Mrs. Jin's birthday banquet, how can you agree to a budget of 20,000 taels?" This is too nonsense! ”
"Twenty thousand taels is less?" The Jade Qilin was extremely surprised, "I think 20,000 taels is too much to spend." The year before last, we only spent two taels of silver for Grandma Li's birthday banquet at the foot of Mount Emei, and the whole village ate it for three whole days, and brought it with a package. ”
Jiang Xiaoxuan sighed: "How can this ordinary people's birthday banquet be compared with a big family?" ”
"Why can't it be compared?"
Jiang Xiaoxuan looked at the jade unicorn and met her ink-like eyes, but was silent for a while.
"Why don't you speak?" The jade unicorn asked, and he didn't like it the most when people said it halfway through. Jiang Xiaoxuan said slowly and helplessly: "Generally, people like Jinfu hold a banquet, and less than 50,000 taels is not decent. ”
"So much!" Jade Qilin looked at her in shock, "Didn't you tell me that twenty thousand taels is enough?" With that, he stretched out his index and middle fingers.
Jiang Xiaoxuan also followed her example and compared to scissor hands and said, "I'm talking about adding another 20,000 taels!" ”
"Add another 20,000 taels?" The jade qilin opened his mouth wide, and was stunned for a long time before he reacted, "That gold ingot only gave me 30,000 taels, and he obviously dug a pit and wanted me to jump in!" ”
Jiang Xiaoxuan shook her head helplessly: "It's also your fault that you didn't want to think about it, so you agreed to come down so quickly." ”
The more Jade Qilin thought about it, the more angry he became: "No, I have to find the gold ingots and ask for clarification." With that, he left Jiang Xiaoxuan alone and rushed towards Songzhuyuan.
As soon as the jade qilin arrived at the door of the new house, he heard Ah Fu's voice coming out: "Young master, you really only give the young lady 20,000 taels of silver, just in case...... What if the young lady messes up? ”
Forthwith. The triumphant and very unobtrusive voice of the gold ingots came out: "Isn't there still your young master and me?" As long as she comes to me, I will never stand idly by. ”
"With the temper of the young lady." Seems unlikely. ”
"I'm going to frustrate her spirit, if she can say good things to beg me, young master, I have a soft heart, maybe I'll help her."
As soon as he heard this, the jade qilin was furious, and when he kicked open the door, he roared at the gold ingot, who was drinking tea leisurely: "You are dreaming! Gold ingots. You bastard! Want me to beg you? There are no doors! ”
Seeing this, Ah Fu was so frightened that he hid aside.
The gold ingots looked indifferent, and looked at her lightly. smiled slightly: "There is backbone!" Then you'd better never beg me! ”
Yu Qilin gritted his teeth: "I will take the battle book aunt and grandmother you ordered today, and I will definitely hold a decent birthday banquet for you to see." ”
"Okay, I'll see." The gold ingots lifted their plackets and lifted Erlang's legs.
See how he looks like a child. The jade qilin was even more furious: "Let's see!" "Say it. He slammed the door and left in a rage.
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Jiang Xiaoxuan met Gu Changfeng on the way back, and the two chatted together and returned to the medical hall.
Who knows, before she could sit down and drink a glass of water, the door was slammed open, and the jade unicorn rushed in like a rocket, seeing the tea in her hand, she snatched it and drank it all. After drinking, he sat down at the table with a huff, and his face was red.
Jiang Xiaoxuan was stunned by her series of actions for a long time. After waking up for a long time, I saw the teacup in her hand that was about to be crushed, and quickly rescued it and asked, "What's wrong?" Makes you angry like this? ”
"It's not a birthday feast yet. That guy with gold ingots, I'm so angry! I didn't dig a hole for me, but I also said cool things, plus watched jokes. You two help me figure it out. ”
Gu Changfeng listened to the words and persuaded kindly: "Yuanbao asked you to do this, not to embarrass you, he values you and believes you, I heard it when I was eating just now." ”
Jade Qilin glanced at him and sighed: "The whole mansion, I'm afraid only you are a fool who thinks so." ”
Gu Changfeng looked at Jiang Xiaoxuan suspiciously, with an expression of "Isn't that so?"
Jiang Xiaoxuan ignored Gu Changfeng and came to comfort Yu Qilin: "Although the matter of holding a birthday banquet is complicated and trivial, the good thing is that the specific things are done by subordinates, you just need to coordinate the overall situation and grasp the general direction." ”
The jade qilin was confused: "But how do I grasp the general direction?" ”
Jiang Xiaoxuan lowered her eyes, looked at the tea bowl she was holding in her hand, spun the tea bowl, thought for a moment, and said: "You only need to do these three things well: first, determine all the links of the birthday banquet, formulate the corresponding plan, and then proceed step by step according to the plan." Second, assign each link to a specific person, and the person who gets the job is responsible for his part. Third, according to the plan, check the progress of each work and make adjustments in a timely manner. If you do these three things, you can be organized and not messed up. ”
"Xue'er, I didn't expect you to understand this, it really impresses me." Gu Changfeng looked at her with admiration.
The jade qilin didn't know what to do, and a big smile bloomed on his face: "Yes, Xue'er, you are so powerful, I was dizzy just now, and I seem to understand a lot when I hear you say this." She hugged Jiang Xiaoxuan and couldn't wait to kiss her, "Thanks to you, otherwise I would definitely be on fire." ”
Jiang Xiaoxuan pushed her away: "Don't be too happy too early, I'm not as powerful as you say." Although we are now clear about this idea, there are many difficulties in doing this thing beautifully. ”
The jade qilin hurriedly asked, "What's the difficulty?" ”
Jiang Xiaoxuan put down the tea bowl in her hand and said carefully: "First, it is the part of this banquet." Banquets are held every year, so we want to make a new one, and it is not easy to make it unique. Second, the division of labor is clear, and it is easy to assign responsibility to people, but there are very few capable and responsible people, and it is very important to find the right person. Third, the biggest difficulty is the problem of money, 20,000 silver is definitely not enough, how to make up for the big hole in the budget? ”
Gu Changfeng was confused when he heard it: "Although I still don't quite understand, as long as you need it, I will definitely help." ”
At this time, the jade qilin somewhat understood, but he was still full of confidence, "As the saying goes, there is no mountain that can't be climbed, and there is no river that can't be crossed." ”
Seeing her rekindle her confident eyes, Jiang Xiaoxuan also smiled slowly: "Yes, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and Changfeng and I will try our best to help you." ”
Yu Qilin and Jiang Xiaoxuan discussed and invested, but they didn't return overnight.
However, this time, Jin Yuan Bao was not angry, let her be busy first, and when she was done, there was no way, so she naturally still had to come to him.
Recently, the six doors were idle again, so the gold ingots stole a little bit and read the book in the room. After looking at it for a while, he stretched his waist and asked Ah Fu, who was dozing off with a pestle next to him: "Ah Fu, what has the young lady been doing lately?" ”
Ah Fu hurriedly woke up, cheered up and replied: "The young lady is discussing with Miss Xue'er and Changfeng about the preparation of the birthday banquet. ”
"What?" Jin Yuan Bao sneered: "A stupid goose and a weak woman, what big things can you do?" ”
As he was talking, the jade qilin walked in with a frown, but he didn't look at him, and sat directly at the table, writing and drawing with a pen and paper.
Sample, still loaded! Jin Yuan raised his eyebrows, and pretended to look at the book leisurely, but from time to time he glanced at the jade unicorn with his spare eyes, and saw the jade unicorn biting the end of the pen and thinking about it, which seemed to be very brain-spent, and his psychology was inexplicably dark.
After being silent for a long time, Jin Yuan Bao couldn't help but open his mouth tentatively: "You have been busy in the past few days, you must have arranged your mother's birthday banquet in an orderly manner." ”。
The jade unicorn didn't raise his head: "Preparing." ”
Seeing this, Jin Yuan Bao deliberately embarrassed her: "This birthday banquet is a major event in our Jin Mansion, it must be of the highest standard, there will be 3,000 guests, there will be hundreds of royal nobles alone, and there are thousands of children of officials and wealthy businessmen, and 300 tables must be arranged for the banquet alone......"
The jade unicorn casually snorted.
Seeing that the jade unicorn ignored him, Jin Yuanbao was a little annoyed: "Liu Wenzhao made a fool of himself when he held a birthday banquet for the first time, and was punished by my mother to kneel in the ancestral hall for three days, and he thought about it behind closed doors for a month, during which he was not allowed to come out, and no one else was allowed to enter, and the food was only placed at the door, so don't make yourself as pitiful as him." ”
He persuaded in a seductive tone: "If you ask me, I don't mind helping you." ”
As soon as he heard this, the anger that Yu Qilin had finally suppressed was hooked, and he immediately raised his head and glared at him fiercely: "Don't worry about you, I will definitely be able to hold a birthday banquet." ”
Jin Ingot smiled: "Yo yo yo! You don't even have to make drafts to brag about now. ”
The jade unicorn picked up the paperweight on the table and wanted to throw it at the gold ingot.
Jin Yuan put down the book unhurriedly: "What's the use of being in a hurry with me, you agreed to hold a birthday banquet yourself, I didn't force you." With that, he swaggered out of the alley.
Seeing his floating figure, the jade qilin was indignant, and had to slam the paperweight on the table. (To be continued......)