It's just that she is curious now and wants to know how Zhao Yuanxun intends to deal with it.

"You don't have to worry about this, just learn to draw hard." Zhao Yuanxun's answer was the same as all fathers, making Zhao Ruxi helpless.

It's treating her like a child.

"You're tired from the day, go back and rest early." Zhu said.

Zhao Ruxi said goodbye and led Qingfeng to the bamboo cultivation courtyard, when he saw Zhao Ruxin standing there with the maid, with his back to them, as if he was admiring the verdant bamboo at the courtyard wall.

"Third sister." Zhao Ruxi called, curious.

Zhao Ruxin's aunt is an honest person, and she rarely comes out and walks around. Zhao Ruxin herself is also a quiet woman, because she is married, she will get married soon, and she has been embroidering dowries for marriage during this time, and she doesn't even go out of the courtyard gate.

She usually eats with her aunt, so Zhao Ruxi has been back for so long and hasn't seen her much.

"Fifth sister." Zhao Ruxin heard the voice, turned around, and saluted Zhao Ruxi.

Zhao Ruxi returned the salute and invited her in.

After Yicui served tea, the two exchanged two more words, and Zhao Ruxin said: "I heard that the fifth sister's painting is very good, and it just so happens that I am troubled by the color of the quilt, and I don't know what kind of color to embroider." My aunt suggested that I come and ask my sister for advice, so I came to bother her. ”

Zhao Ruxi was puzzled: "Well, all the portraits I paint are people, and they are painted with charcoal strips. I don't know anything about tricks. Don't tell the third sister that I have never embroidered before. ”

Zhao Ruxin was surprised: "Won't it?" Could it be that my sister used to be in the Xu family, and Mrs. Xu didn't teach you embroidery? ”

After speaking, she quickly covered her mouth and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to mention my sister's past." It's just a little weird. ”

"It's fine." Zhao Ruxi waved his hand, "My adoptive mother taught me." It's just that I'm clumsy and can't learn. ”

Zhao Ruxin saw Zhao Ruxi's refusal, and she didn't know if she really wouldn't, or she didn't want to teach herself. It's just that the two can't talk anymore this day.

She said a few more polite words and stood up to take her leave.

Sending her away and coming back, Zhao Ruxi asked Mama Yuan curiously: "Why is she here?" I never saw her talk to me before. ”

Mama Yuan is an old man in Bofu. Although I don't usually like to mess with right and wrong, I still understand the temperament of the master in the house.

She said, "The third girl is nothing. Madame has always been kind to the child, even if she is a concubine, she does not treat her badly. It's just a motherly heart of Aunt Meng, the third girl's mother, who wants to plan for her. ”

Seeing Zhao Ruxi's puzzled face, Dianjiang explained with a smile: "Girl, you don't know yet, right? On that day, Mr. Deadwood came to take you as an apprentice, and many people in the house were present. With such a pass, don't you know? It is said that because of you, the future of the third young master is very good. So Aunt Meng called the third girl to come close to you, probably for the future. When you get married in the future, you sisters can take care of each other. ”

As soon as he heard the word "marry", Zhao Ruxi sighed.

"Girl, you haven't learned embroidery before?" Mama Yuan asked.

Zhao Ruxi immediately became vigilant, looked at Mama Yuan and said, "You know how much homework I have to do in the academy every day." Mama can't tell my mother to let me learn embroidery. Where in this world is there a man who is proficient? I just have that time, and I have to be tired to learn embroidery again. ”

"Don't talk about embroidery, you have to know a little needlework, right? In the future, you will have to make my aunt's underwear. "Mama Yuan doesn't approve of authenticity.

Zhao Ruxi sneered: "Then let him marry an embroidery girl." ”

Mama Yuan: "......"

Zhao Ruxi ignored them anymore, polished the ink after taking a bath, and began to stare at a piece of paper in a daze.

Some time ago, she held a painting training class, and she received 36,000 taels of silver, which could not be spent after deducting the tuition fees given by her master and brother, and what she could use to invest was 27,000 taels of silver. Tomorrow, the senior brother said that if she wants to go to handle the transfer of ownership of the Grange, it will cost 12,000 taels. In other words, she still had fifteen thousand taels left on hand.

This is cash silver.

In addition, the master asked Senior Brother Wu to spread the word that the emperor sent her a shop as a meeting gift, and she blackmailed a Jiangnan shop from Xiao Lingyan. These two shops, she planned to use them to run a silver building, but for a while, she couldn't find the jade she wanted. It's a nuisance.

In fact, now, she has a grange and a shop, and there is no shortage of means to make money. But because she lacked one thing, her business couldn't be done.

That's the human hand.

The right people.

She needed a shrewd shopkeeper, a capable fellow, someone she could trust to send to the south to find jadeite, and a craftsman who cut and polished jadeite.

Although she can go to buy people, she casts a wide net among all the Chinese people in the capital, and she can always buy similar people.

But for those who have just bought it, loyalty and understanding of abilities are problematic, and it takes time to slowly cultivate and hone in.

But what she lacks most now is time.

She had to earn enough money in two years to buy a house and land in Jiangnan, and then find a way to move her family there.

She also wants to make more money to help Xiao Ke.

Although I don't want to pay attention to him, I can't really throw all the burdens to him and run away by myself. She couldn't be so unkind. While saving her own life and that of her family, she hopes to help him as much as she can.

Two years have been very nervous for her, and even more nervous for Xiao Ke. He had to lay out, he had to mobilize all his forces to prevent the defeat from happening two years later, and he had to deal with the series of targets and conspiracies that followed. And all of this requires money.

She can't help him politically, but she can solve his worries in this regard financially. So she had to make money, make a lot of money.

But the problem came back, she couldn't make money alone, and she had to need help.

Lifting the pen to the blank paper, she didn't write the last word, put down the pen, and sighed heavily: "Sleep!" ”

The next morning, she still got up early to go to the academy.

As soon as she arrived at the gate of the academy, the grandmother guarding the door said, "Miss Zhao, congratulations, I heard that you have been admitted to the first place in the academy." Mrs. Cui instructed the slave maid and asked the slave to tell the girl, and after the girl came to the academy, she went directly to find her. ”

"There's Mama Lao." Zhao Ruxi took the burden of decorating the snacks from Qingfeng's hand, stuffed it to the mother-in-law who guarded the door, and then entered the academy and went to the courtyard where Mrs. Cui stayed.

Mrs. Cui is not a particularly kind and enthusiastic person, and she has always been cold and indifferent. Zhao Ruxi can be seen, but the smile on her face is very kind: "I really didn't expect you to do so well in this exam." ”