"I'm going to kill myself if I leave." Chang Le touched his chin and muttered in a low voice, "If you want to be happy, you have to be independent, and if you want to be independent, you have to get rich." Unexpectedly, when I came here, my only wish was to get rich overnight. ”

Shili looked at her and muttered, and sighed for a long time: "So, it's more practical for Madam to snatch the head of the family back from the Hua family and drive the Hua family out of the house." ”

Chang Le couldn't listen to this kind of uncompetitive words, but it was also because she was too realistic that she didn't want to accept it, so she couldn't help but teach seriously: "Drive away a Hua clan, and then another grass clan, flowers and grass are everywhere, how can I fight over?" In any case, it is a time-honored truth that only by having economic independence can we gain the initiative. Ten miles, how much assets do I have now? ”

Shili lowered his eyes, really unwilling to tell her the truth: "Madam, your pockets are as clean as this quilt, and none of the words assets can be touched." ”

"I'm not Mrs. Yan?" Chang Le suddenly became dry, and his voice raised slightly, "What kind of gold and silver jewelry can be valuable, have you counted?" ”

Shili knelt on the edge of the bed, looked up at her, full of pity and distress: "Madam, you don't have a dowry when you marry in, and your food and clothing are all in the Taishou Mansion." After the Hua family took charge of the family, you didn't even have a monthly routine, and you could only live in the pot courtyard for so long by taking the valuable things that the head of the family gave you before. Now we don't have much left. ”

Chang Le was heartbroken and supported his forehead, so he wanted to suffocate himself with a quilt and exchange it for a rich, powerful and background corpse. Oh no, it's the body.

"Ma'am, or recapture—"

"Stop." Chang Le interrupted her, saw that the ground was cold, patted the side of the bed, and said with renewed interest, "Come, sit here." We have to find a way to earn enough money before we get along, and then find a good place to live our lives. Ten miles, in our country, which place is the best place to enjoy? ”

Seeing her swept away the gloom, Shili was inexplicably infected, and felt that it was not bad to dream, so he thought about it carefully and said: "Jiangnan County, it is said that Jiangnan has many talented and beautiful women, beautiful mountains and green waters, and many great writers and officials have settled there in their later years. ”

"It seems that no matter where Jiangnan is, it is a place of scholarly elegance, so let's go to Jiangnan." Chang Le clapped his hands, "Then we buy land in Jiangnan to live, how much do you estimate how much it will cost?" ”

This really stopped Shili, how did she know the prices in Jiangnan? But thinking that the prosperity of Jiangnan must be several times higher than that of the thirteen counties, he counted his fingers in a daze, and gave an answer that he was not very sure of: "A few thousand taels." ”

Chang Le was suspicious: "A few thousand taels? ”

"One or two thousand taels."

"Strike?" Chang Le didn't believe it and couldn't calculate, he only felt that it must be eight or nine without leaving ten, and patted Shili's shoulder, his eyes were shining, "Then let's earn 1,500 taels first." ”

Shili suddenly felt that Chang Le was either ashamed of his words, or he didn't know that silver was not easy. 1,500 taels, their head of the family, from the second grade of Taishou, can earn 3,000 taels a year.

"Let's earn, how do we earn? Selling embroidery? ”

Shili still dreams with her. Thinking that Chang Le has a skillful hand, the finished product of the female red is definitely on the table.

Chang Le shook her head, she knew how to cross-stitch at most. But she had another way.

"We really don't have anything to sell?" It's not that Changle doesn't give up, the way she thought of making money still had to spend money to buy materials, so she could only ask again.

I didn't expect Shili to be really embarrassed.

Chang Le's eyes lit up, and he immediately approached while the iron was hot and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

"Yes, there is also a love token given to Mrs. by the head of the family, a pair of white jade bracelets."

Chang Le suppressed his joy, and said with crooked eyebrows: "You didn't say it earlier." Leave them for now, and buy some paper that you can paint, a little harder. Do we have willow trees in our house? ”

"Yes. What does Madame want to do? ”

Chang Le raised his eyebrows: "Sell paintings." ”

Shili's eyes widened again: "Madame can paint?" ”

Chang Le's rhetorical question: "I won't?" ”

"You don't know how to write and ink, you don't know how to play the piano and chess, where can you paint? If you could, you wouldn't let the Hua family, who knows everything, hook up with the head of the family. ”

If he didn't know that Shili was a sister who grew up with Chang Le, Chang Le really wanted to sigh that the ancient maid was so bold and didn't let the master say a word. In the end, I had to make up a reason.

"During the time I was in a coma, I dreamed of a fairy, and he taught me a unique way to paint, which is definitely different from what you have ever seen."

Shili didn't believe it, but he didn't want to hit her again. But if she wanted to sell the white jade bracelet, Shili was afraid that she would regret it in the future, so she confirmed again: "Madam, do you really want to be a white jade bracelet?" ”

"Naturally. In the future, if it is redeemed, it is fate, and if it is not redeemed, it is doomed. ”

Chang Leman doesn't care, now he only cares about whether he can save enough money to move out. Only when you are independent can you have more confidence to come back to liquidate no, Pinru is a clear example.

"You won't be out of the house, will you?"

"Madame, don't worry, the maid can go out of the house at will."

Chang Le was relieved and said with a smile: "Then I'll wait for you to buy paper and come back and then go pick wicker together." ”

Chang Le couldn't guarantee that burning wicker to make charcoal brushes would succeed once, so he went back with Shili and a bunch of wickers. When I went back to the yard, I also asked Shili to break some branches of dead trees and use them to make a fire. The two of them moved quickly, coming and going in a hurry, and they felt like thieves and sneakers.

The people who saw it immediately spread the word, and it was spread back and forth, and it was rumored that Mrs. Yan was so depressed that she had to rely on herself to cut trees for firewood and make fires for warmth. A few curious sneaked to the pot yard to take a look, and really saw Mrs. Yan wrapped in a quilt and a personal maid, and the two of them were burning wood in a broken iron basin in the yard, which immediately confirmed this statement.

There was a sigh in the house. I think how much honor their wife was back then, if it weren't for the sudden change in personality and the fact that she became a jealous person, how could she be like this.

Naturally, this matter also reached Zhang Changxiu's ears. At that time, he was in the Red Bean Garden.

"It's all the concubine's fault, I found out when I went to visit my sister two days ago, and there were many omissions because of the face injury. Suhe, hurry up and let people send charcoal to the pot yard, don't let my sister get frostbite again. Hua Chu'er spoke before Zhang Changxiu expressed her opinion, looking sensible.

Zhang Changxiu took Hua Chu'er in his arms, put his chin lightly on her forehead, and his eyes were full of tenderness: "There are too many trivial things, it is not easy to be a housekeeper, I have worked hard for you." Chang's side, you don't have to pay too much attention, let her live a nourished and comfortable life, but idle to trouble you. ”

Hua Chu'er got out of his arms and looked up at him tenderly: "After all, my sister is the husband's life-saving benefactor, the husband and wife, the master mother of the Taishou Mansion, the concubine is just a concubine, and she can bear to be beaten and scolded, and she deserves it." If the sister is wronged, it should be inappropriate, and the concubine will also be spurned by the world. ”

"Chu'er understands the righteousness, if the Chang family had you at all, or if you were still virtuous, it would not be like this. She's all self-inflicted, and you don't have to talk to her all the time. ”

Zhang Changxiu hugged Hua Chuer tighter, and Hua Chuer was very happy against Zhang Changxiu's chest. It's another picture of affection.