Chapter 226: You Have a Time to Ask Me

The leather goods outside the customs have always been much cheaper than Beijing, Shandong is close to the Liaodong post road, and in winter, the Yin Shi family always has a few sheepskin jackets to protect against the cold. After all, compared with the Lanzhou Gu velvet, which is less than ten taels or more than dozens of taels of silver, this ready-made leather goods are cheaper. The top rich and noble families mostly use large leather goods such as fox skins, lynxes, mink rats, and silver rats, and for the officials of the prefect's yamen, they do not have to pay for them.

A few years ago, Zhang Yue received more than a dozen leather robes and jackets of various colors, because it was too conspicuous to send them to Beijing, but he brought two to Nanjing to Zhang Zhuosun's family, and the others were rewarded, and a few were worn by himself. Now it is the end of March in a blink of an eye, and seeing that these clothes are going to be put into the box, because the Lingxi autumn mark often has to take care of the Meng family, Amber, who has just recovered from a serious illness, no longer refuses to stay in the house to recuperate, so he and the two daughters-in-law of the Cui family and the Li family dry together.

The Cui family took a lynx fur jacket from the shelf, and said with a smile on the amber face: "The girl has been sick for so long, and as a result, the young master often tightens her face during the Chinese New Year, and she specially instructs the stove to make another diet, and she looks at the prescription in person every time." Even when the leather pieces were divided after the year, the young master also specially mentioned that the girl was weak and took a fine-haired silver rat skin to wear. ”

The Li family also helped beside him: "It is said that good people have good rewards, and the amber girl is finally good now." Speaking of which, it is the Meng family that is pitiful now, and after the good Hou Mansion, it has become such a situation. That day, Miss Lingxi took me to deliver all kinds of vegetables and vegetables, and I saw that Miss Meng was actually thrifty...... Alas, that's a precious daughter, a sin! ”

The two daughters-in-law talked lively, but Amber never said much, just hummed. Although Zhang Yue said that she was not allowed to go out because she was still sick, how could she not imagine the situation of the Meng family?

When her family moved to Hainan. Although his grandfather Qiu Fu died, after many years of Guogong, he always had some savings, and there were many slaves and maids in the family. But you don't even have to raid your home to mess up. There are Diao slaves who steal things and run away, and there are family members who take refuge and quietly slip away, plus the imperial court takes back the Zhuangzi given to them, and it is a foregone conclusion that the tree will fall and scatter. If she hadn't taken advantage of the chaos, how could she have been fostered in the nursing mother's house?

Now the Meng family is just a defeated one. The Hou family in Baoding is still there, but if it weren't for Zhang Yue's shoulders, the Meng family might not be much better than what she experienced at the beginning.

When he went to the house, he put two lambskins and lynx fur jackets into the camphorwood box, and Amber rummaged through the boxes a few of Zhang Yue's spring clothes, and carried them out to dry. Because she was still thinking about the Meng family's affairs in her head, she was inevitably a little absent-minded, and as soon as she went out, she bumped into someone. Looking up, it was Zhang Yue, and she was about to retreat. But unexpectedly, there was a threshold behind her, and when she stumbled, she suddenly couldn't stand steadily, and the whole person fell backwards. said that it was too late, and then it was fast, and she only felt that her wrist was grabbed and pulled. Immediately, his shoulders were held firmly.

"When did you also collide with Autumn Scar so recklessly?"

Amber's face turned red, and she hurriedly explained: "Young Master forgive the sin, he was in a hurry just now, and he didn't pay attention. ”

Zhang Yue saw Amber holding a Buddha-headed green pan-collared right-hand saro shirt, a willow yellow silk narrow-sleeved tunic and a Huai blue semi-long-sleeved cardigan. I took it all over. Seeing that the Li family of the Cui family was waiting there, he handed them over to dry, and immediately turned around and opened the curtain to pull Amber into the door. This is his usual behavior, but the Li family of the Cui family looked at it with a smile on their faces, thinking that the guess was really not wrong at all.

Amber fell ill these days, but he has seen Zhang Yue's stubborn side, so after entering the house, he rushed to say without waiting for him to speak: "Young master, my illness is now cured, and I can't stay in the house all the time." This drying is just light work. It doesn't matter if it's left or right. ”

Hearing Amber say this as soon as she opened her mouth, Zhang Yue suddenly understood that she would be wrong, so he smiled and said: "Now that you are recovering from a serious illness, you should do this, you can't sit and wait for your muscles and bones to rust, I have other things to discuss with you." When Lingxi went to the Meng family to help, the expenses of the affairs in this family were all recorded by you, and now how much money is still on our family's books? ”

"A few years ago, Zhuangzi sent a year of silver. The old lady also sent for silver. Because there are various expenses for New Year's gifts. He sent another five hundred taels to the Meng family, and now there are seven hundred taels left, and the fraction is about dozens of yuan. Hearing that it was a serious matter, Amber straightened his face and explained, "There are still the gifts sent by the previous people in the treasury, except for those sent by the King of Han, if they are sold by other people who can be trusted according to the methods of other adults in the prefect's yamen, at least there is still this amount." ”

"Those things of King Han can't be moved, and the others don't need to be left to occupy space, but there is no need to find those merchants, I will find someone to come in two days, and you can transport all the things to him."

Now that silver is expensive and cheap, ten taels of silver is enough for a family of five to live for a year, and the Meng family has now laid off manpower and consumption, and the expenses have been greatly saved. If it weren't for the hard knock by that Doctor Feng, even if Mrs. Wu still had to use medicine, the five hundred taels of silver sent by Liu Zhong and the five hundred taels of silver sent by Zhang Yue would be enough for the Meng family to last at least a year. Zhang Yue thought that he didn't have much money left in his account, so just in case, he made up his mind to sell those gifts, and he didn't need them anyway.

After finishing business, Zhang Yue raised his head and looked at Amber. After a winter's serious illness, Amber, who was still a little plump, has now lost a lot of weight, and it is no different from Meng Min, only the eyes seem to be more restrained. Although she was still silent, she seemed to have something more when she spoke.

"Amber, when you suddenly fell ill, you went to the Xiaonan Yam Shop in Anqiu County to pick up medicine, did you bump into someone there?"

Since he got better, Amber was ready for Zhang Yue to ask this question, but he never waited, and now he asked again. Thinking of the bearded man who suddenly appeared in front of the bed, thinking of the seventh sister, and thinking of the figure who left suddenly and did not look back, she sighed softly in her heart.

"Young master, I just met someone who seemed to be a relative when I was a child, and I don't know if I was wrong. After all, it's been so many years, and things are not people. Even if I used to be a relative, now that I am a slave of the Zhang family, I naturally have nothing to do with him. As for this illness, it is because my body is weak and suffering from cold, and it has nothing to do with him. ”

After receiving such a bland answer, Zhang Yue couldn't help frowning, seeing that Amber was still so calm and waveless, he was really a little helpless, and he hoped that her joy, anger and sorrow would be on his face like Qiu Zhen, so that he could at least see it more clearly. It's just that since Amber admits that she has met her relatives when she was a child, it is an indisputable fact that the Qiu family is in Shandong. Although it was already a declining family, it stands to reason that there was no need to worry, but he still wondered whether to use Jinyiwei.

Anyway, this is both a private matter and a public matter, and there are ready-made spies available, so it would be a pity not to check it out.

At that moment, he comforted Amber twice, nothing more than saying that his former relatives were also relatives, and if he met again in the future, he could let people come to the house to meet, and then got up and went out. The moment his feet stepped out of the door, he suddenly turned his head, and saw Amber still standing there, biting her lip in shock, and he couldn't help but say something again.

"It doesn't matter if you don't want to say it now, you can say it to me anytime you want to say it in the future. I still say the same thing, don't hold it in your heart, since you and your family have been separated for many years, you should treat everyone as a family now. If you really don't want to talk about it, and you feel panicked, find a mound well and say goodbye. But be careful, do you remember the story of the donkey's ears? ”

Seeing Zhang Yue smile slightly and open the curtain and go out, Amber couldn't help but remember that when Zhang Yue was young, he often liked to tell some strange stories, and Autumn Scars was often obsessed, and he had to say one every night before he was willing to sleep. She couldn't remember the stories of the prince and princess Cinderella for a long time, but the secret of the donkey's ears was still fresh in her memory.

Zhang Yue went out from the back door of the mansion and was about to go to the Meng family to visit the place, but he saw a group of uninvited guests stopping at the door, led by Zhang Jin. He didn't have a good impression of Zhang Hui and Zhang Xuan's two families, and his face couldn't help but sink at this time, and he rushed up with Lian Sheng and Lian Hu.

"What are you doing here?"

"Third Brother Yue is fine." Zhang Jin turned his head to see Zhang Yue, and immediately came up with a smile to salute. Although Zhang Yue's face was not very good-looking, he pretended not to see it, and said earnestly, "I just came to visit you, I heard that the Meng family lives here at the back door of the mansion, so I will take a look by the way." Daddy didn't have a way at the beginning, after all, it was the person who took the brocade guard, and he was just trying to protect himself. Today, my father also asked me to bring two hundred taels of silver, the Zhang family and the Meng family are always in-laws, and the bones are broken and the tendons are connected, isn't it? ”

This guy has changed sexuality now? Zhang Yue really couldn't believe that he and Zhang Bin were the same at the beginning, and the guy who was sneering at him the last time they met would put on such a posture. The amount of silver is not a problem, Zhang Yuan's family is very rich, and two hundred taels of silver is just a drop in the bucket, but this posture is very strange.

There is a way to stretch out his hand and not hit the smiling person, although he is not willing to perfunctory Zhang Jin, but since they are brothers of the family, he is not good to ignore it completely, and after a moment of silence, he simply sent the person to the public office in the palace. Seeing that Zhang Jin had no objection at all, he knew that the so-called Chong Meng family was just an excuse, and this guy was completely rushing for himself.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhang Yue stepped down from his seat in the flower hall, Zhang Jin jumped up from his seat, stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, and said with a sad face: "Third Brother Yue, for the sake of everyone is the Zhang family, you must save my father!" ”

At this moment, Zhang Yue has only one thought in his heart - this family will actually ask for his head?