Chapter 7, the gift of the pearl of the night
The sudden sound did not surprise Zhong Jinxiu, she had already realized that there was someone next to her.
She faced Shen Mingze and smiled sweetly: "Cousin, it's not a gentleman's work to eavesdrop on others' speeches?" ”
The bright smile, the sweet laughter, like the fragrance of roses, made his heart ripple for a while.
Today's cousin is wearing a plain printed skirt, which sets off her freshness and refinement, although she is one year younger than herself, but she is the daughter of the grandfather of the country.
And he was tough enough, otherwise he would have been deceived by her.
"Cousin, don't smile so much at the man next to you in the future."
"Huh?"
Shen Mingze looked at her confused appearance, and it was not easy to explain that he had just lost his temper, so he said, "Cousin, I brought you something good, let's go, I'll show you." ”
"Okay."
Zhong Jinxiu was a little unclear about this cousin's temperament.
Back then, he was dedicated to business, and she also made sarcastic remarks. And she still looks down on the Shen family, because the Shen family is useless, and even to marry a daughter-in-law and a daughter, they have to borrow silver from the treasury, when they came to the Guogong Mansion to borrow silver to fill the shortfall, she didn't know what was going on, and the Shen family's face turned red, and finally she completely broke with the Shen family.
And this cousin became a businessman, and finally became famous, and the sisters of the Shen family also married peacefully.
And King Huan recruited him back then, but he was refused.
They went to Zhong Huai's study, Zhong Huai had already finished class at this moment, and when they saw Zhong Jinxiu coming, they hurriedly withdrew their playing hands, and there was nowhere to put their hands.
Zhong Jinxiu pretended not to see it and walked past him.
"Cousin, take a look, this pearl of the night, can you be happy?"
Zhong Jinxiu raised her eyebrows and looked, it was a bead the size of a fist, she hadn't seen such a bead before, but she had never seen such a big one.
When Zhong Huai heard him mention himself, he frowned at the thing and asked, "Cousin, what's the use of this?" It's not as good as my marbles, and it can also hit birds, this one is so big, I'm afraid I can't shoot it. ”
"Marbles, you're a terrible thing. This is the pearl of the night, which can be lit at night without the need for a candle. ”
Zhong Jinxiu bowed his head and said: "It's just right for Huai'er, Huai'er has been working hardest at night recently, studying hard until late at night, and my aunt is worried that he has broken his eyes, so I'm afraid I don't have to worry about it now." I thank my cousin for Huai'er. ”
Zhong Huai said angrily: "I don't need you to thank me." ”
Zhong Jinxiu said: "Oh, this is given to me by my cousin, then you can thank me." ”
She said casually, Zhong Huai didn't realize the joke in her words, and his face turned red with anger.
Her cousin is as cute and fun as ever.
"Zhong Huai, don't worry, in addition to this night pearl, I also brought your favorite scimitar."
"yes, thank you, cousin." As he spoke, he forgot to glance at Zhong Jinxiu, "I don't like the things that the little girl is playing with." ”
Shen Mingze looked at her, his face was normal, and he was not angry because he was treated unreasonably.
According to the rumors, she beat her younger brothers and sisters at every turn, and she had no respect and friendship for her aunt.
That's what someone deliberately preached.
The Shen family's water is too deep.
Her aunt came out, she was in an extremely good mood, looked at the night pearl at that moment, and said: "This thing is a rare thing, oops, this is not a gift for Concubine Lian, Mingze, you have done my aunt a great favor." ”
A few days ago, the splendid fell into the water, although the Wang family has clarified, but the rumors outside are still unabated, she wanted to buy another set of noodles, but this is afraid of gossip from others, so she didn't buy it, she has been helping the eldest lady to find a gift these days, but has never found a suitable one.
The eldest lady said last time that she couldn't cross the queen, and she had searched for many things in the past few days, but she was not very satisfied.
But with this pearl of the night, it would be good.
Zhong Jinxin stood behind her mother, heard her mother's words, shook her head, stepped forward to greet her cousin, and then looked at the full plate of jewelry, rejoiced in her heart, and said, "Cousin, have you made a windfall recently?" Isn't this a dirty thing? ”
The Shen family is extravagant, these years have long been worse than in the past, and now that my cousin has come with so many things, it can't help but make people think about it.
Of course, the most important thing is to make her mother think that the pearl cannot be sent this night.
Shen Mingze forgot to glance at Zhong Jinxin and understood her intentions, but he didn't say anything, but he blamed her aunt for her bad brain.
How could the night pearl he gave him be transferred to others, and in front of him.
"Jinxin, how can you say that about your cousin, you..." probably realized that these things were not suitable for him to appear, so he asked, "Mingze, where did you come from?" You read and write all day long, where do you have the time to collect these? ”
Zhong Jinxiu looked at those things, each of them was very valuable, but several of them were sold to Taobaofang, which was not long after, his cousin's shop.
Could it be that this shop has long been in my cousin's name? Is it just that my cousin was more hidden in the past?
Also, he is a son of the world who has been given high hopes, if he is doing business openly, I am afraid that he will be punished a long time ago.
In his previous life, when he showed his intention to do business, it seemed that the third prince angered the first emperor, and the first emperor was angry and handed over the case of tracking down the deficit to him, and asked him to recover the treasury silver.
The three princes have always thought that it is unreasonable to repay debts, so they are forced to do so.
At that time, the Shen family, which had always been honest, owed the most debts, and of course the debt collection was the tightest, and his grandfather almost died in the Jinluan Palace.
It was also at that time that his cousin gradually and truly abandoned literature and turned to business.
Now it seems that this cousin is afraid that he has already had this thought, and he has long predicted that the Shen family will have that day, otherwise the Shen family will be forced, and he will not have collected more than 500,000 taels of silver in more than a month.
"Aunt is serious, these things are the new headdresses from Taobao Fang, Ming Ze thinks that his cousins are like flowers and jade, and they are just right."
"Taobaofang?"
Shen Shi was very surprised, she had been busy taking care of her children all these years, and she was already anxious, where did she still have the heart to pay attention to the outside.
But the second and third rooms often mentioned around her that new products must be released every month in this Taobao shop, and every new product will inevitably be snatched up, and it will never be out.
Although she was envious in her heart, she didn't ask for this thing, and every day they said a few happy words, and it passed.
However, Zhong Jinxiu knew that the old lady was in charge of the house's internal affairs, and only some of the housekeeping was handed over to the second room Xiao Yang.
Therefore, the expenses of the big house have never been much, but she is a fool, the expenses are extravagant, she doesn't know how to understand her aunt's difficulties, she is always difficult, and she always sues her for self-restraint, but she doesn't know that she is always making up for it by herself, and she has a hard time.
At that time, because of her extravagance, someone in the Shen family also worried about this matter, embarrassed her aunt, and asked her to pay the money.
At that time, my aunt was accused, and she lied to her father, and this aunt's life was even more difficult.
"What's in there, isn't it? Mingze, how do you have silver? But what does your mother have to say? ”
Shen Mingze was slightly stunned, but he didn't know how to answer.
He only cared about giving a gift to his cousin, and he was familiar with it, but he got a little carried away.
I actually forgot that her aunt was a more difficult lord than her own mother, and if he said that he had already discussed, I am afraid that he would cause a lot of trouble.
Just when he was in a dilemma, Zhong Jinxiu smiled and said, "Cousin, that Taobao Fang was set up by the grandfather of the Yin family?" ”
"Exactly. That's exactly what my cousin said. ”
Zhong Jinxiu smiled: "That's really thanks to my cousin and my grandfather." ”
Shen said: "I see, you kid, what's so bad to say, I'll go back to your house and tell your mother, I don't know if there is such a good thing, I don't know what I'm doing, hey, forget it, you play first, I'll prepare a meal for you." ”
"Auntie..."
Zhong Jinxiu looked at his cousin's depressed appearance and laughed.
Shen Mingze was not worried in his heart, his mother had already communicated with the letter, and she was just out of fashion.
But I didn't expect to win a smile from the beauty.
"Cousin, you're just looking at me like that?"
Zhong Jinxiu shook her head and smiled, and said, "Cousin doesn't have to be like this, aunt, I'm afraid I don't have time to go back." ”
is also said, I haven't seen her go back for a few years in these years, who let them have an old Miss Zhong in the Chengen Mansion to sit in the battle.
It was so infiltrating that even Duke Cheng En and Duchess Cheng En didn't dare to say a word heavy.
My aunt is so cowardly, how can she bear such a sin?
So she can hide and never get up.
Zhong Jinxin has always cherished what his mother said in his heart, and now he looks at the beads, which is very eye-catching.
"Eldest sister, just now you said that you want to give something to your grandmother, and it is best for me to look at this night pearl."
Zhong Jinxiu shook his head and said, "This night pearl is still for Brother Huai." "It's a waste to give it to his old man," I see that hairpin is excellent, proud of the snow wax plum, very meaningful, cousin, why don't you give it to me." ”
"Okay, if my cousin likes it."
Zhong Jinxin looked at the hairpin, small and elegant, different from what she usually liked.
If it were normal, she would have loved the luxurious things that showed her status.
I can't guess why she chose this thing, I can't guess, but I can't let the bead fall into her mother's hands.
Zhong Jinxiu understood her worries, and it was precisely because she understood that she felt sad.
In the previous life, she didn't understand Zhong Jinxin's hard work, and she used her aunt to stab her everywhere, and the two sisters were separated from each other, and in the end, none of them ended well.
"What was my cousin thinking? Are you wondering what gift to give when you enter the palace tomorrow? Tell me, cousin, what do you think is a good gift?"
"This hairpin is excellent."
"Oh? Doesn't my cousin want to give something more valuable? ”
"Precious? No matter how valuable it is, if others don't like it, it's just a sentence with a heart, the congratulatory gift is cheap, if the person who gives the gift is pleased, even if the soil is given, it will be said to be happy. This is the experience of the previous life, she always thought that it was Lu Jinling's fault and seduced the four princes, but she didn't know that all this was just Xiao Ruiyi's plan, wanting to capture him, and also to remove him himself.
Xiao Ruiyi, Xiao Ruiyi, her mother's family is weak and desperately needs a strong helper, but she can't blatantly ask for marriage, but if she sent it to the door herself, the definition is different.
The emperor will feel that he has wronged his son, and he will especially reward him.
And she is stupid and ignorant and easier to be controlled, so she has long been his prey.
However, in the end, he also said that he forced him to marry him and humiliated his reputation, hehe, it was really insidious enough.
Do you want her to give a nice gift?
Shen Mingze looked at his cousin's face flickering, and said worriedly: "Cousin, are you unwell?" ”