Just when Xiuniang hesitated, she turned her head and saw Xu Zixian standing by the east gate with a robe.

It was the first time Xiuniang had seen Xu Zixian's pale face...... Shizi rarely loses his temper, once Xiao Yiran accidentally splashed hot water on Shizi, scalded a few bubbles, Shizi just smiled, and just bounced a few times on Yiran's head.

Now the young woman felt her heart beating hard, and for some reason she felt as if she had been caught doing something wrong......

"It was Li Fulai who pestered me, and I have always ignored him......" The woman said involuntarily, and then she knew that she had said the wrong thing, and her face instantly turned from white to red.

Xu Zi heard this first, but laughed instead.

There was still murder in his eyes, his left hand was holding his robe, and his right hand was still pressed on the barrier knife.

When Li Fushi was teasing Xiuniang, Xu Zi directly pressed on the barrier knife first, but in the end he still didn't do it.

He looked at the woman's tear-beaded eyes and said seriously, "I'm not sure yet. ”

After saying this, Xu Zi first put the robe on the side of the well, glanced at Xiuniang, and said, "Don't worry." ”

"Hmm." Xiuniang subconsciously replied.

Then the woman blushed again, what was wrong with herself?

At that moment, she forgot that she was a woman with a husband!

Thinking of Xie Quan, Xiu Niang's body was trembling, that demon-like man.

There was a sound of laundry in the patio, and Xiuniang immersed her mind in the work, and slowly, very carefully washed the robe pulp of the prince, as if doing such a thing could make her mood slowly calm down.

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Xu Zi first returned to his residence, called the little servant Xu Ming, and asked him to send the dirty clothes to the well to wash Xiuniang, but he sat in the chair and thought.

It is really a tree that wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, he knows that the Hou Mansion cannot make ends meet, and he also knows that the Li family father and son are making trouble, Li Cheng does not know how much benefit he has made in the official village.

Father Xu Yingbin has been trying to deal with this matter before his death, but his father is the Marquis of Nan'an, and at the same time he is the defense envoy of Qizhou appointed by the imperial court, and he specially led the three villages of Qizhou to resist the Qishan bandits, and the last time he lost the war with the Qishan bandits, his father was dismissed from the official responsibility, because he was worried about being arrested and asked the Jingshi to ask for the guilt, and his father has been worried.

may be because the Hou Mansion has been short of money, Xu Yingbin is not like other clan nobles, there are more than a dozen concubines at home, as well as a troupe, a juggling team, banqueting guests every day, playing with antique utensils, and not much energy is spent on his own family.

Xu Yingbin is different, he is with his children every day, teaching Xu Zixian poetry, songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, all carefully taught, but unfortunately Xu Zixian at that time was a useless goods, his father's Confucianism was average, but the miscellaneous studies were profound, after all, the clan had a lot of free time, and the contact with the masters was also ......

Xu Zixian sat in the room first, the little maid Xu Ming was not there and no one was in charge of the lamp, the sky gradually darkened, the moonlight was reflected through the window, he sat in the chair in a daze, thinking of his father's dying entrustment, and unwilling eyes, Xu Zixian's eyes were a little sour......

"Big brother, it's time for dinner."

The little sister walked in and complained, "Why don't you light the lights?" The newspaper was delivered by a horse-drawn carriage, and you complain every day that there is no newspaper to read here, and you come and hide here......"

After saying a few words, the little sister lit the lamp, looked at Xu Zixian's face, and the little sister said worriedly: "What's wrong with you?" ”

Xu Zixian said: "The dog of Li Fu hit me and ran away without saying a word." ”

Xiaomei said: "You don't have to worry about him, well, this person is going to get out, and the way he looks at me is also uncomfortable." ”

Xu Zixian was furious when he heard this!

Li Fu, this dog, not only teases Xiuniang, but even his own sister dares to make up his mind?

"It's just that Li Tiguan is not a good match...... "The little sister looked worried, not like a little girl who was not yet thirteen years old at this time, looking at Xu Zixian's eyes, it seemed that there was still a little color to protect her brother.

"Don't worry, I won't act like Meng Lang......"

Xu Zi has been held hostage by domestic slaves in his previous life, his life has been embarrassing, and he has not been able to officially become a knight after he became an adult, and he was excluded from the Fuzhou clan, and he was completely marginal.

Of course, this can't be the case in this life, but he doesn't have to rush yet, he can take it easy and take his time.

Of course, at this moment, Xu Zi made the first move, and he knew Li Cheng's hatefulness quite clearly.

The little sister walked out with him, and suddenly said, "If Brother really wants to drive away the Li family's father and son, you can ask Fengchang Li Gong's thoughts." ”

Xu Zixian's eyes lit up, he could only adjust his body in the past few months, and slowly affect the perception of the people around him. At least Xiaomei and the people in the other courtyard know that Shizi's personality has changed greatly, and he has become quite calm, which is completely different from before.

Thinking about it, the same is true of Fengchang Li Yi, who was quite disappointed in himself in his previous life, and in his previous life, Li Yi would resign soon after, obviously quite disappointed in Xu Zixian...... This person is a native of Hebei Daimyo's Mansion, raised people's background, repeatedly tried to enter the Shi failed, and was later favored by Xu Yingbin, the Marquis of Nan'an, who went to Beijing to report on his work, and later returned to Fujian Road to serve as a defense envoy of Qizhou, but he did not recruit Li Yi as a subordinate official, but asked Li Yi to serve as a regular for his Hou Mansion, and the official position of eight grades. Xu Yingbin's promise to Li Yi is that in the future, when he is the assassin of the state, he can recruit Li Yi as an official Cao to participate in the military, so that the official position of real power is quite rare, and it is also from the seventh rank, Li Yi can show his strengths......

But Xu Yingbin was seized of office after the defeat, and he didn't have a chance to assassinate Shi, let alone promote Li Yi?

And now that the law of the imperial court is changing, it is becoming more and more difficult to serve in the clan, and there are only a handful of clans that can hold high positions, even if Xu Zixian is not a child of the clan, it is very difficult to be a prominent official, and Li Yi no longer feels that he has any future and future in Fujian Road.

"Let's go, let's eat and ......" Xu Zixian felt that he had faintly touched his thoughts, and finally found the key to break the predicament, and he was in a good mood for a while!

Touching the little sister's head, Xu Zixian smiled and took the lead to walk out.

Xiaomei looked at the mentally retarded again, but the smile on her face was quite bright.

Compared with the elder brother who didn't care about himself like a bad person before, the little sister certainly likes the current big brother.

The dining hall of the annex is placed in the west wing of the north hall, it is dark, it is dark everywhere, this will not be like the light source everywhere in later generations, if there is no starlight and moonlight, there is only a ghost fire like candles or oil lamps to illuminate, these two things are quite expensive, oil lamps are cheaper, candles are not used much in the middle-class family.

When Xu Zi pushed the door in first, the room was not much brighter than the outside, there were only a few oil lamps in the room, and the wind that Xu Zi brought in by pushing the door first swayed left and right, shaking a large amount of light and dark shadows on the wall.

In the house, there was Xiuniang and another servant woman who helped the cook, and the women were setting up the dishes, and they were all officials from the nearby village who came to serve as servants.

In addition, there are guards, patrols, gardeners, cooks, vegetable farmers, and about ten people, of course, these people are free labor, and each village takes turns to send people.

When his father was a state defense envoy, according to the rules of the imperial court, his father Xu Yingxing's monthly salary was fifty yuan, and he had always been a thousand yuan, plus firewood salary, Lu Su, job money, minister money, tea and soup money, coupons, kitchen material money, etc., as well as yuan with money, clothing money, and his father's monthly income was the sum of these miscellaneous expenses, reaching more than 100 yuan, and the minister's money was 3,000 yuan, which was replenished when it was used up, and there was also a job field, and there were dozens of yuan of income every year.

When Xu Yingxing was alive, he earned millions of dollars a year, but his father rarely used the minister's money for his own use, so he was an official for a few years, but he repaired the ancestral house of Fucheng one after another, paid off some old debts, and passed away without money to repair the other courtyard.

As soon as his father left, the income of the Hou Mansion dropped by more than ninety percent, and it returned to between poverty and food and clothing.

The Yu Lu of the Great Wei clan can't be compared with the officials, it's too far away.

Of course, even if he is poor, it will not make the Hou Mansion poor like this, and the most important thing is that he is controlled by Li Cheng, and a large amount of income is filled with his own pockets.

Xu Zixian had a kind face, first nodded briskly to Xiuniang, and then nodded to the middle-aged servant woman.

Xiuniang smiled and returned the salute, and the etiquette was very thoughtful.

Xu Zixian was a little disappointed......

Dinner was steamed with a large yellow croaker, a few seasonal vegetables and vegetables, and a large bowl of steamed rice.

The Hou Mansion still maintains a separate meal system, Xu Zixian and the little sister each have a tray in front of them, the fish and vegetables are separated, and after the brother and sister sit down, Xiuniang and the servant woman also began to eat on the table on the other side.

Xu Zixian's little maid Xu Ming, the little maid Yiran, also got together with Xiuniang's servants.

They only have a plate of boiled vegetables with brown rice, which is enough.

Before that, they had to wait for Xu Zixian's brothers and sisters to finish eating before they could start, and Xu Zixian ordered them to eat together, at least this would save fuel lamps.

Hearing such a reason, the girls all agreed, and the little sister even praised Xu Zixian rarely.

On the right hand side of Xu Zixian, there is a stack of newspapers that exude the scent of ink, which are the weekly and evening newspapers of several newspaper houses in Fuzhou City in the past week, and five or six copies are stacked in one place and sent over, such a large stack of newspapers, some are three copper coins each, some are five coins, plus the errand money of the newspaper courier, a total of 130 yuan.

This is also a lot of expense for the Hou Mansion, Xu Zixian still persuaded the little sister that now he is not in Fuzhou City, and he is blind to the major affairs of the court and local affairs, which is not good.

The little sister suspected that Brother Ah wanted to read those fragrant gossip articles, how could he care about the major affairs of the court? However, the eldest brother has really calmed down a lot in recent months, and he often reads some texts such as the imperial court's mansion copying the Tang Newspaper, which is boring and boring, but the elder brother reads it with relish, so from this point of view, I am afraid that it is really beneficial.

Xu Zi was very happy to see the newspaper first, and it was pitiful to think about it, reading books and newspapers was about the last entertainment in later generations...... Is it that the game is not fun or the movie is not good, and you actually have to read the newspaper?

Now that there was a stack of newspapers in front of him, Xu Zi didn't care about eating first, so he picked up one and read it first.

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