"The slave has seen the third master."

A middle-aged woman makes a blessing ceremony.

Jia Huan smiled brightly and said, "Mama, please get up, I don't know ...... Mama"

After the woman looked at Fan Jiahuan quietly, she smiled and said: "If you go back to the third master, the slave maid's surname is Zhou, and she is the slave maid who follows the eldest lady in the Baoling Hou Mansion. ”

Jia Huan nodded and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Mama Zhou, I don't know if Sister Yun is okay?" The first few times I went back home, I just broke up with Sister Yun, which is a pity. ”

Mama Zhou also smiled when she heard this: "Who said it wasn't? Sister Yun went to the house twice, as if she listened to the brother and sister in the house sing some little songs, and chattered all day after coming back. No, I heard that the people under the third master came to do things for the Zhuangzi in our house, so I specially asked the slave and maid to follow me to see the third master, saying that it was an appointment to go to your mansion together, and it would be difficult to go wrong. ”

Jia Huan laughed loudly when he heard this, and said, "Sister Yun has a heart, so that Mother Lao Fu told me that I will return to the house at noon in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and I will go out of the city before the city gate closes after worshipping my ancestors in the afternoon." On the morning of the first day of the new year, I will go to kowtow to my ancestors to say goodbye, and then after paying respects to the eldest lord, the eldest lord and the eldest brother of Dongfu Zhen, our brothers and sisters can be together. Well, if there are no accidents, I can probably stay in the house for two days. I don't think I missed Sister Yun's truth this time. ”

Mama Zhou smiled when she heard this: "Yes, Sister Yun has always gone to visit her aunt and grandmother on the first day of junior high school. Now that the words have been brought, I have also written down the words of the third master, and the slave will go back now. ”

Jia Huan raised his eyebrows and said, "So urgent? Have dinner at Zhuangzi and then come back? Otherwise, it will be difficult to explain when I see Sister Yun. ”

Mama Zhou's smile became softer and softer, and said, "No, the third master doesn't know the nature of my sister Yun, so I'm in a hurry." The slave maid must go back early, otherwise she will not be able to wait for news at home. ”

Jia Huan was stunned when he heard this, and then said to Li Wanji, who had been hanging his head silently: "Wanji, since Mama is in a hurry to go back, then you can take her to Steward Wang, seal a piece of silver, and give Mama tea on the way." ”

When Li Wanji heard this, he bowed his head and said "yes", and then quietly looked at Jia Huan's hand behind the desk, where Jia Huan's hand made a thirty gesture.

Hearing this, Mama Zhou suddenly couldn't stand still, and waved her hand again and again: "Where is the third master's words, it's just a word, where is it still used...... Alas, I can't help it, I can't do it. ”

Jia Huan waved his hand to Mama Zhou, and then said to Li Wanji: "Let the kitchen prepare some of our Zhuangzi's specialties and bring them to Sister Yun to try." Prepare another pack for Mama to pad her hunger on the road. ”

After that, he smiled at Mama Zhou and said: "Mama, our Zhuangzi produces some donkey meat with sauce, although it can't be on the big table, but the taste is really good." Our sisters and brothers in the house love to eat it, and even the old lady, the old man, and the wife are happy to taste a few bites. Mama Lao took it back for Sister Yun to taste, and if she wanted to eat it, she could send someone to get it at any time. Even if it's a little filial piety for my sister as a younger brother. ”

"Ouch! That's really ...... This is a good story of sister and brother. Third master, slave and maid thank you for my sister Yun! ”

After that, Mama Zhou smiled with chrysanthemums on her face, and knelt down and kowtowed to Jia Huan three times.

Seeing this, the corners of Jia Huan's mouth twitched, and then smiled: "Then that's it, Mama and Li will go down." ”

When Li Wanji heard this, his body slammed suddenly, and then two excited lusters bloomed in his eyes, and Steward Li ...... Fortunately, he knew that he couldn't lose Jia Huan's face in front of outsiders, so he accompanied Mama Zhou out very well.

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"Steward Li, the old woman said the wrong thing, and the third master was unhappy?"

After going out, Mama Zhou said to Li Wanji with some uneasiness.

Li Wanji smiled when he heard this, and said, "Mama doesn't have to worry too much, it's not Mama's fault." ”

Mama Zhou was still uneasy, and said, "But I see ......."

Li Wanji explained in a low voice: "Mama doesn't know, my third master is the most kind-hearted, I can't see people like Mama kneel and kowtow, on weekdays in Zhuangzi, he repeatedly asked the elderly not to kneel and kowtow to him, for such an old man, the third master has always been courteous, respectful." So after seeing Mama kneeling down just now, the third master couldn't bear it. Mama is no wonder ......"

Mama Zhou was greatly moved when she heard this, and said: "It's really the son of a noble family, and it's extraordinary." Where did Steward Li say, when I met a polite son like the third master, it was too late for me to like the old woman, where would I blame? After I go back, I will definitely talk to those who have no knowledge, so that they can also open their eyes and know how noble the scholar is. ”

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After Mama Zhou left, Jia Huan, the "scholarly son", copied another pair of words, although it was still like a bird crawling, but it was finally able to write it all, unlike at the beginning, there was always a lack of a stroke.

I am used to writing simplified characters, and it is really not a trivial thing to learn traditional characters.

After writing a word, Wang Gui knocked on the door and asked to see him.

"Third Master!"

Wang Gui is now more and more like a housekeeper, and the wrap on his head is not the tattered and smelly wrap he used to be, but an extremely magnificent butler hat.

The Jia family Zhuangzi has made so much money in the past few months, and Jia Huan has also set up the rules.

The so-called rules, in addition to some old rules of Jiafu, are the payment of wages.

Wang Gui, a butler-level figure, has now completely gotten rid of the class of "bottom people" and has become a figure with a face.

He is also dressed well, and in his words, he can't embarrass the third master......

Glancing at the blue and cyan robe on Wang Gui's body, and then at his old chrysanthemum face, Jia Huan pulled the corners of his mouth and said, "What's the matter?" ”

Wang Gui said with a smile: "Third master, the people who invited me to eat noodles recently are all scheduled for the beginning of spring next year." They all wanted to ask me to ask the third master if we could sell them some of the cement produced in Zhuangzi. ”

Jia Huan said noncommittally: "They want to pave the way? You can find our engineering team and go to Li Wanji to sign up and queue up. If you want to build a house, it's no problem, we can even contract furniture, and we can say that it is not bad to use it. ”

Wang Gui smiled more and more when he heard this: "Third master, look at what they mean...... One thousand taels is really unaffordable. Moreover, their Zhuangzi is not as big as the Zhuangzi of the Zhenguo Mansion, and the road is not so long. ”

Jia Huan said while washing the brush: "Then you can reduce the price as appropriate, the roads built by the Zhenguo Mansion add up to about 300 meters, less than 400 meters." I'll suffer a loss, even if it's 400 meters. When converted, one meter is two or five cents of silver. That's fair enough, isn't it? ”

Wang Guixiao's face was sour, and he said speechlessly: Is this fair? Fair ghost, the raw material of cement is that gray stone mountain, at most a waste of manpower. But in this world, how much money is manpower worth?

Another main raw material for paving the road is dug directly from the Fengshui River, eight rivers around Shenjing, Fengshui is in the south of Shenjing City, there is a small tributary that flows better through the side of Jiajia Zhuangzi, it is the Gazi River......

Therefore, the raw materials for paving almost do not cost anything, except for manpower.

It's just that where did Wang Gui dare to say this to Jia Huan, he just stopped talking there.

Seeing this, Jia Huan was in a bad mood, and said in a deep voice: "Lao Wang, did you accept gifts from others and come to me to be a lobbyist for them?" ”

Seeing this, Wang Gui was so shocked that he was about to kneel down and ask for guilt, but when he saw that Jia Huan's eyes were even more fierce, his bent knees straightened up again, and he bowed down to make amends: "Third master, I didn't take the wrong medicine, little old man, I suffered from madness, what are you going to do to receive their gifts?" Never, never. ”

Jia Huan snorted and said, "Then what are you grinding here?" ”

Wang Gui explained bitterly: "Third Master, I'm not for them, I'm for you, Third Master." Walking down the official road in the south of the city, in addition to a few large Zhuangzi near the outskirts of the city, there are many small and medium-sized Zhuangzi, especially small Zhuangzi, who can't take out a thousand taels of silver to pave the road if they are killed.

However, along the way, a section of the road that our family leaned on the official road is really beautiful, even if it snows, as long as the road surface is cleaned, it is still bright, and theirs is much uglier in comparison.

The masters of these people's houses also want to save face, and in this comparison, their faces are not good-looking. But they can't take out or are reluctant to take out a thousand taels to pave the road, so many people don't dare to say it openly, but secretly they start to talk about it. ”

Jia Huan sneered when he heard this, and said, "What are they talking about?" ”

Wang Gui hesitated, and when he saw that Jia Huan's eyes were not good, he gritted his teeth and said, "I heard that someone secretly rumored that the cement recipe in the third master's hand was actually not made by our Zhuangzi himself, but by the second master of the house from the Ministry of Industry. Some people also say that this was not from the Ministry of Industry, but from the craftsmen who were sold to our Zhuangzi, but those craftsmen used to be official registrations, so speaking of which, this cement recipe is still from the imperial court.

Third master, I inquired, many people believe this statement, otherwise...... Otherwise......"

"Otherwise, the third master, a seven-year-old yellow-haired naughty boy, how can he have the ability to make something like cement, right?"

Jia Huan sneered.

Wang Gui looked embarrassed, and said: "Third master, this is all those bastard things, I asked Li Wanji about them, and they all swore by their ancestors, saying that it was definitely not the recipe they brought." ”

Jia Huan glared at Wang Gui angrily, Wang Gui knew that he was speechless, and he also went to ask, doesn't it mean that he had been so suspicious before?

Looking at the sneering meaning on Wang Gui's face, Jia Huan sighed and said, "We have to make some preparations, eating alone is really the most taboo thing." We must extinguish this storm before it arises. ”

When Wang Gui heard this, he looked reluctant, and said, "Third Master, do you really want to hand over Fangzi?" ”

Jia Huan sneered and said, "How is it possible? It's always the third master who cares about other people's things, where will others take things out of my pocket. It's just to find a few more shields, the third master, my current reputation is still not hard enough, a signboard of the third master of the Jia family, can't stop people. ”

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