Mrs. Xie chatted with her son Xie Pu for a long time, and barely achieved her goal, and she was in a good mood.

After the third granddaughter Xie Yingrong cooperated in the play of "the old lady is sick and weak, and her son needs to be filial", she successfully got her son's promise and asked for a lot of living expenses.

At this time, she finally has time to care about the juniors. Knowing that her eldest grandson Xie Xianzhi was sick recently, she asked Xie Pu, and after making sure that Xie Xianzhi's illness would not be overcome, she said with a loving face that she wanted to visit her eldest grandson to comfort and encourage.

Mrs. Xie held Xie Yingrong's hand and slowly walked out of the study, and saw Pearl standing at the foot of the steps waiting.

She couldn't help but say, "Where did you go?" I told you to call the three girls, and the three girls came back with the medicine, but you disappeared. The three girls said that you are with a few children, what are you doing? Can't even care about my messenger here? ”

Pearl glanced at Xie Yingrong with a smile, and replied softly: "The second young master, the third young master, and the second girl care about the old lady's body, and pull the slave maid to ask the old lady about her diet and daily life, as well as what medicine she takes on weekdays." The slave maid took the opportunity to ask the second girl for advice on a medicinal diet, and Ming'er made it for the old lady. The old lady also tasted the craft of the slave maid's stew. ”

Old Mrs. Xie smiled: "Really? All I know is that you order good tea, do good needlework, and never taste the soup you make. These days, it's all Ah He and Ah Jiang who are cooking. I'm a little interested in that. Don't make it too bad, I'm going to make a joke. ”

Pearl grabbed her arm in disgust: "Why does the old lady make fun of the slave?" If the slave doesn't have a three-plate axe, how dare she work on porcelain? He joked and then turned the conversation away.

Mrs. Xie took Xie Yingrong and Pearl, followed by her son Xie Pu, and walked all the way to Xie Xianzhi's house to visit the patient. Xie Xianzhi got the letter in advance, tidied up his appearance, welcomed him out of the room, and knelt down to ask the old lady to say goodbye. However, Mrs. Xie was not so picky about her beloved grandson in terms of etiquette, so she hurriedly stopped the person and pulled the person into the house, which was a very routine scene in which the elders asked the juniors about their illness, and the juniors comforted the elders.

Xie Mulin, Xie Jinzhi, and Xie Huizhi also rushed over, and the three of them all glanced at each other with Pearl, and then looked away in unison, and then behaved very quietly and well-behaved.

Fortunately, Xie Yingrong suffered a few losses from them, and in front of his father Xie Pu, he didn't dare to make any more moths, so he didn't say more.

So after Mrs. Xie fulfilled her responsibilities as a good grandmother, she took Xie Yingrong and Pearl and left the Xie family. Before leaving, she reminded her son again that he should clean up the Xie family's mansion as soon as possible so that she could move back.

Xie Pu guessed that his mother might not have taken what he had said to heart at all, forgetting that he was going to leave for his post in two days. He couldn't say anything more, so he casually agreed, and personally sent the old lady back to the residence.

When he returned home, he immediately sent for all his treasurers and stewards to come to the house for a meeting.

In the process of waiting for others to come, Xie Mulin's brothers and sisters took the opportunity to tell Xie Pu about Xie Yingrong, such as spending money lavishly, and wanting to swallow the income of the second house industry, etc., all of which were not missed.

Xie Pu's brows furrowed when he heard this. He began to wonder if some of his mother's more excessive demands could be instigated by his third daughter? But what exactly did she want to do? Even if she started planning for her life's events at a young age, she couldn't ignore her father's existence, right? Without the nod of his father, who could she marry?

Xie Pu didn't know that he was completely absent from the marriage of several children in his previous life, and he thought that Xie Yingrong's approach was ridiculous and strange.

Xie Mulin saw that Xie Pu's face was ugly, and exchanged a few glances with Xie Jinzhi and Xie Huizhi, and felt that there was no need to burn the fire too strongly, so he tried to change the topic: "Actually, the third sister thinks that she and the old lady need to provide money from the second room, and their ideas are too narrow. In our family's mansion, there will always be some things that don't matter and can be pawned out. There are basically no bargains for things at home, and you can casually get a thousand or a few hundred taels. As long as the third sister spends money more modestly in the future, this money is enough for her and the old lady to live comfortably for a few years. ”

Xie Pu snorted coldly: "You also underestimate the things in our house." A thousand or a few hundred taels? If you really want to make a move, tens of thousands of taels of silver are just a small matter. Cao's is picky, not a good product, and she is not rare. There are still a lot of things made in the house, and now we don't need them, so let's clean them up. I'm afraid that someone will deliberately lower the price and can't sell it at a good price, so I will suffer a big loss. ”

Xie Mulin blinked: "If someone lowers the price, let's just take a few small things, enough for the old lady and the third sister to live on, and just store other things." In addition, Guiyuan is exquisitely built and is also quite famous in Jinling City. I think that to maintain such a large garden, it will take a lot of manpower and material resources to maintain. The old lady goes shopping a few times a year, and it's a pity to leave it there in vain, so it's better to rent it out and hold a banquet or a cultural meeting for someone. The flowers in the garden and the fish and shrimp in the pond can be sold except for personal use. Over the course of a year, you should be able to earn a lot of money. This money should be more than enough for the old lady to live in Jinling City. ”

Xie Huizhi interjected on the side: "This method is not bad. In the past, my friends and I used to go to other people's gardens for banquets, and the garden was not as big as half of our Guiyuan, and the rent was hundreds of taels a day! Even if our garden is only counted as two hundred and two days, as long as there is one tenant in each month, it will be quite a year old! ”

Xie Jinzhi also helped to come up with an idea: "There are several empty courtyards in the outer house, which were originally prepared to be used as guest rooms, and only the two gentlemen next to my father have lived. This year is the year of the Spring Festival, and the opportunity has been missed, but in two years, as soon as the Autumn Festival is over, you can clean up these empty yards and rent them to the people who go to Beijing to catch the exam. The Pearl Bridge area is clean, and the water and land transportation is convenient, so there should be many people interested. Even if you only charge two taels of rent a month, you can accumulate a lot of money. ”

Xie Xianzhi nodded beside him: "In addition to rushing for the exam, officials who go to Beijing to report on their work and wait for vacancies also need to rent a house." ”

Xie Pu listened to a few children help him come up with ideas, and his original anger gradually disappeared. At this time, the treasurers arrived one after another, and he announced the opening of the meeting. Participating in the meeting, in addition to the shopkeepers, also included Wen's family, Aunt Dajin, and four older children. As for Wanqin and the young Xie Yingfen and Xie Hanzhi, as well as Xie Yingrong, who is not at home, they can only be absent.

Then Xie Pu began to tell everyone to do things.

He asked the shopkeeper Mao, who was originally scheduled to stay in Jinling and be responsible for the procurement and transfer of goods, to find a reliable dental shop, and hire enough people to clean up the remnants of the outer courtyard and garden of the Xie family's mansion as soon as possible, but not to enter the inner house and study.

After this part of the clean-up work is completed, Wen can take a few henchmen and daughters-in-law to the back house to sort out some of the clothes and supplies that Xie Pu needs to bring to take office, so that Xie Pu can take them out.

After Xie Pu set off, Wen continued to take his manpower, along with a few children, to pack up everyone's personal belongings in the mansion together, and pack the valuable fine and soft boxes, take them away if they can't, seal and lock the boxes if they can't, and clean everyone's rooms, seal the doors and windows.

In addition, it is necessary to send people back a batch of cheap coarse cloth to cover the valuable furniture in the mansion and avoid the accumulation of dust. No one may come back to live in the inner house for several years, so except for Mrs. Xie's yard, other places should be sealed as much as possible, so as not to lose use when you move back in the future.

Immediately afterwards, it was time to send Mrs. Xie back to the mansion.

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