Chapter 135: Between the Three

The cold wind that was still rampant in the warm yellow sun drooped the dead leaves dripping with snow water in the last few years of the treetops, and were trampled into slag by the broad feet, and the sparrows that had frozen for a winter flew out of their nests, and began to desperately absorb the sunlight to enjoy the rare tranquility after the storm, and the thick snow on the roof turned into beads on the eaves, not a rainy day, but a dripping like a rainy day.

White snow, falling beads, warm sun.

In such weather, Du Yiyi took a sip of the hot tea that he had been cooking for half an hour according to the gourd painting scoop and learning Lu Yu's tea brewing method, and slowly closed his eyes comfortably and savored the rich tea fragrance on the tip of his tongue.

Four teas, four people.

Ning Xiao sat next to Du Yiyi, but her eyes were staring at Qinglan tightly, Du Yiyi was the sister-in-law she identified with, and this superfluous person was naturally a thorn in her eye.

The sunlight slanted into the room and hit Ning Zhiyuan's shoulder, and the white fluff swayed with the warm and cold wind, reflecting the fine and dense shadows around his neck. He sat side by side with Qinglan, but he didn't squint, just looked at the tea powder that was still swirling in the tea cup.

Maybe it's because the sun after this snowstorm is too beautiful, maybe it's because the fragrant tea fragrance between the lips and teeth is too delicious, no one breaks the silence of this moment, only the eaves fall beads, tick, tick.

Du Yiyi opened her eyes, because of the calm and bright eyes, there was a constant flow of healing, Ning Zhiyuan's always pale face finally saw blood, and she could only see his two bulging thick eyebrows and the straight and tall nose bridge under her half-lowered head, the heat rose up, making the thick eyebrows stained with mist, and fine beads of sweat appeared on the bridge of the nose.

Qinglan is a very quiet woman, if others don't speak, she can not speak for ten days and a half months, although the three of them are husband and wife, but the relationship between them is far from being understood by Ning Xiao, who is not deeply involved in the world, it is precisely because she does not understand, so she will look at the three of them from time to time with puzzled eyes.

A cup of tea, after drinking it or waiting until it cools, it doesn't take two moments.

The tea instinct can refresh her mind, but Ning Xiao, who has been only looking at the three of them and making the tea cold in her hand, was yawned by this long silence, she got up and went back to her room under the service of vanilla and forsythia.

The three were missing one, and someone began to speak.

"Madam, it's time to go back and drink medicine!"

Mother Chang, who has always been standing beside Mother Xu like a wooden pillar, reminded.

Du Yiyi spoke one after another. "Since you have to take medicine, you can't delay your illness, Qinglan, you can go back first!"

"I'll go with you!" Ning Zhiyuan put down the teacup in his hand, which was already drunk with a little tea left.

Du Yiyi quietly looked at the dark green tea leaves with the teacup at the bottom of the teacup, but the corner of his eye was staring at the two people sitting side by side.

Ning Zhiyuan got up, Qinglan also got up, the sound of knocking footsteps sounded, when Du Yiyi looked up again, the two had already left the house, rubbed their eyebrows, Du Yiyi glanced at the figures of the two outside the house, if you want to do a good job in the relationship between the three of you, it is indeed a bit complicated, she will always deliberately get along with Ning Zhiyuan with a sense of hostility, and for Qinglan, Ning Zhiyuan is her first rank, how can she reverse the current situation and make herself invincible?

You can't go on in a mess, your own destiny must be in your own hands. The hard-won new life must not be wasted in the backyard of this Rui Wangfu.

"What kind of person, I've never seen anything like this, I'm about to fly into the sky when I get the momentum." Mother Xu sent a few people away and went back to the house, babbling and confiding her dissatisfaction. "Princess, you see, the Chang family is really unbearable."

"Mother Xu, you clean up this and call the housekeeper over later, and the account in this house will also have to be settled with him!"

Ning Zhiyuan has handed over the account book of Rui Wangfu to himself, but he has been lazy to sort out before, and now it seems that if he wants to let himself live a free life, it is far from enough to escape from the world and be alone, although money is outside the body, it is an indispensable thing outside the body, only by letting herself have the capital to live in this male-inferior society, she can really live freely, otherwise once she has no Shen Ke to rely on in the future, she will have to struggle.

Du Yiyi suddenly opened her mind, Xu's mother was overjoyed, she had persuaded many times before, Du Yiyi was just lazy to look at the account books and only discussed with the housekeeper on the supply of their people's monthly money in the yard, as for the others, they ignored it, the virtuous help the virtuous inside, naturally it is necessary to take care of the basket and the account book, although there are not many people in the Rui Wangfu, but it is also the prince's mansion, the input of Zhuangtian and the façade is the basis for maintaining this family, and the gift of food and clothing is the expenditure of the running account. Du Yiyi is the well-deserved hostess of Rui Wangfu, these things are naturally for her to take care of, Xu's mother happily replied to clean and put away the teacup, and immediately went out.

The only thing she can compete with Ning Zhiyuan except Shen Ke is to grasp this account book, Ning Zhiyuan has thousands of acres of land under his name, and this year's winter and New Year's Eve should be the time for the owners to send a year's harvest to the palace, and Ning Zhiyuan has also contributed to buy a few shops for rent before, and the rent can not be paid every month, although there are few people in the Rui Wangfu, but with Ning Zhiyuan's little money, he can't feed so many people, but Ning Zhiyuan is the emperor's favorite son, Every year, the rewards from the palace are like flowing water, and even the medicinal materials are sent from the imperial hospital, in the past, Ning Zhiyuan lived in a simple place and did not spend much, but now he needs silver to win people's hearts when he is running outside, and when the income of the manor is not sent, the Rui Wangfu is stretched and the economy is embarrassed, but there are also lazy housekeepers and the powerful Mr. Du, and this account can be remembered clearly.

Mr. Du, she heard the housekeeper say that he is an unfathomable person, he knows everything, he can do anything, and he is not watching the account books of Rui Wangfu all these years, and the housekeeper really can't manage it alone.

The happy mother Xu moved very quickly, and brought the housekeeper in a hurry.

The housekeeper is the old man who was in the house when Ning Zhi was far away from the palace and set up the mansion, he knows everything up and down the house, although Ning Zhiyuan and Du Yiyi do not have the intimacy between husband and wife, but Ning Zhiyuan's attitude towards Du Yiyi The housekeeper is also in his eyes, with such a strong background of the heroine, even if the housekeeper is shrewd, he is just a slave, where dare to have tricks.

"Butler, sit! Mother Xu looks at tea! ”

The housekeeper is over forty years old, not tall, not short with a goatee, it should be regarded as an old man, the wrinkled folds on the forehead, the two fat and turbid yellow whites on the cheeks, I don't know why, half of the front teeth are missing, and the rickety back makes Du Yiyi feel that the middle-aged man in front of him who is only in his forties can be regarded as an old man. From time to time, he raised his eyelids to take a look at Du Yiyi.

Du Yiyi looked at the dozen account books in his hand, and closed the account books at the end of November this year, and got up, the housekeeper who was sitting in danger was sitting like a Buddha statue, Du Yiyi walked to the table with the account book, and stopped in front of the housekeeper: "Butler, the prince handed over all the housekeeping to me, and I see that today is a few days before the end of the year, and the rent of those farms has been collected?" Is there any arrears in the rent of the shop? ”

"Back to the princess, Zhuangtian's rent has been recovered eighty percent, and ten percent should be collected in two days, because of the events of the other day, the shopkeeper of several shops had an accident, and he failed to hand over the rent for a while, and the slave has already let people urge, and the rent will definitely be collected before Chinese New Year's Eve."

The butler replied nervously.

"How much rent do we receive for an acre of land?"

"Because of the field, if it is far away from the water source, the harvest is poor, and the harvest is good, and the harvest is good, and the harvest is good.

"Five liters and three in one, so many?" In such a dynasty, the productivity is low, how much grain can be grown in one acre of land, even if this is the field rent after Ning Zhiyuan's reduction, she still feels that it is much higher than what she thinks in her heart.

The housekeeper was unimpressed. "Princess, it's not much, the official fields are all collected according to seven buckets, and the private fields are all five buckets, our prince is already merciful, the ten farms rewarded by the emperor are all fertile, their harvests in previous years are good, even in the hands of the official family, there is still more than that, the prince is so benevolent, these tenants should be happy to heaven."

Du Yiyi nodded, after all, he still didn't know much about the work of this society, and he could only make a conclusion when he had time to go to Zhuangtian next year. "In the past, the imperial court arrested people everywhere, could Zhuang Tian be affected?"

"These Zhuangtian are all in the name of the prince, and the people of the court dare not arrest them indiscriminately, so don't worry about the affairs of Zhuangtian, the princess! There will be no bad pools! The butler bowed his hand with a guarantee.

"The shopkeepers of those shops are victimized by the imperial court, and you should give appropriate grace when you collect rent, otherwise it will disgrace the reputation of the prince, I am free today anyway, housekeeper, you can take me to see those shops!"

The housekeeper was stunned, and he actually forgot his identity and etiquette and looked directly at Du Yiyi with surprised eyes, the princess has been ignoring this for a while, so she became interested in these all of a sudden? The butler stood up thinking like this, and sighed twice in response.