Chapter 43: Someone's Eyes Are Red
The rouge shop that was originally unable to make ends meet suddenly sold most of the rouge, and the business was quite prosperous, not only the eyes of the peers, but also the Xiao family was really hot.
However, they soon found out that most of the rouge in this capital was bought back from Dadu by the Xiao family caravan led by Xiao Xiantang, and then was given as a cheap Xibei by Mu Chonglan, a fool, and half sold and half given away.
In this way, their eyes are no longer hot, but they are waiting to see the excitement one by one.
During this period, some people complained about Xiao Xiantang, thinking that Xiao Xiantang had married a loser's daughter-in-law, but was blocked by Xiao Xiantang's sentence "I am willing", and secretly cursed Xiao Xiantang in his heart that he was really useless, and he would marry a daughter-in-law as an ancestor to offer, and sooner or later he would have to defeat the Xiao family.
Someone stabbed the matter to Mrs. Xiao, the Xiao family used to be a big family, and Mrs. Xiao also came from the heyday of the Xiao family, so she naturally didn't put a small rouge shop in her eyes, she only felt that Mu Chonglan was just a small fight, and she couldn't make much splash, until Bai Lu was bid for a high price of two hundred taels, she realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly sent someone to summon Mu Chonglan back.
"I heard your rouge shop is doing well?" Old Madam Xiao held the shelf, but she opened her mouth and went straight to the topic.
"Thank you." Mu Chonglan said on her lips, but she was a little stupid in her heart, although she looked at the rouge shop outside, but she felt that the business had nothing to do with her, and it was completely manipulated by Xiao Xiantang.
She went to the shop today, and she was gearing up to show her learning results in the past few days, but after getting the account book, she didn't know why it was a mess, and she wanted to go to make Bailu Lotus again, who wanted to blow up the utensils three times before and after, and nothing came out.
In order to prove that she is not useless, she volunteered to make some fruit wine that is not easy to get drunk and sell it in the store, but she was recalled to the Xiao family before she started.
Seeing that Mu Chonglan was very respectful to herself, disdain rose in Mrs. Xiao's eyes: "I don't dare to take TOEFL, but the old lady wants to ask for the third family, whether there is still a shortage of people in your rouge shop." ”
What does she mean by that?
Mu Chonglan was silent, remembering that it seemed to be this time in her previous life, Mrs. Xiao suddenly found herself, saying that the master of the Xiao family's third room had failed in business, and at this time the debt was high, so she took some money to help the Xiao family get through the difficulties, she was fighting with Tan Susu for the key to the family to the point of life and death, so she thought it was a good opportunity, and couldn't wait to take out the dowry in her hand, Zhuangzi and the shop, as well as the teahouse, seemed to be sold that time.
I thought that if I changed some of Xiao Xiantang's injuries, things would change a little, but now it seems that it hasn't changed much, but this time Mrs. Xiao didn't let her take out the dowry, but wanted to put the third room on her rouge shop, I really don't know what the idea is, can I put people in her rouge shop and sell her rouge shop?
"The old lady laughed, my little rouge shop can't be the size of a palm, and I can't turn around in it, where can I lack manpower, not to mention that the three-room master is doing big things, nesting in my little fat powder pile, it's not like words, isn't it?" Mu Chonglan said with a smile, but secretly complained in his heart.
As soon as Mrs. Xiao heard Mu Chonglan say this, her face sank at that time: "Rouge gouache is just a business, and your third uncle also used to run a rouge shop, why is it not like words?" ”
The corners of Mu Chonglan's mouth twitched, and he had been in business for half a year, and it was quite unreasonable to owe more than 8,000 taels of debts, but he couldn't say it yet, so he could only hold back his words, and when he was thinking about how to deal with it, the maid came in and passed the word, saying that Xiao Xiantang was coming.
Old Madam Xiao's pupils were closed, and just as she wanted to instruct the maid to take people to the front hall first and wait, Xiao Xiantang had already walked in directly, not giving her a chance at all.
"My grandson has seen the old lady." When Xiao Xiantang spoke, he was already sitting beside Mu Chonglan, and this An could not be described as involuntary.
"I'm talking to Chonglan about myself, what are you going to do?" Old Madam Xiao regretted a little in her heart that she shouldn't be in such a hurry, she should wait for Xiao Xiantang to go out again and then look for Mu Chonglan, but now it is useless to regret it, so she can only try to persuade Xiao Xiantang to leave.
I don't know why, she always feels that her grandson, who is very dissatisfied with this family business, is actually not so tired of this woman who is forced to marry, but has some maintenance, if he continues to stay, he may not be able to force this woman to obey today.
"When the matter at hand came to an end, I heard that the old lady had called her, so I stopped by to take a look." Xiao Xiantang picked up the tea cup and skimmed off the tea foam with the lid of the cup.
Mu Chonglan straightened his waist, staring at him with his eyes, wanting to say that the teacup had been drunk by himself, but after being glanced at, he suddenly wilted, and after watching him take a sip, he thought a little stupidly, if he didn't listen to the advice of good people, he deserved to eat saliva.
Xiao Xiantang put down the cup, Mu Chonglan took advantage of his lack of attention, carefully stole the cup back to his side and put it away, when he was happy, he caught a glimpse of Xiao Xiantang's lips, remembering that Xiao Xiantang had already drunk this cup of tea, and suddenly the joy dissipated most of it, what was the use of stealing it back from the secret channel, could he still drink his saliva again?
Mu Chonglan thought that he was doing something very secretive, but in fact, all the small actions were taken into Xiao Xiantang's eyes, but he did not break them, but looked directly at the old lady Xiao, and said slowly: "When the grandson entered the door, it seemed that the old lady said that she would send the third room of the side branch to the rouge shop. ”
"So what?"
"I'm afraid you're old fools." Xiao Xiantang made a loud noise.
Mu Chonglan's hand shook, glad that he didn't have tea to drink at this time, otherwise he would have to squirt out a mouthful of tea, and then be crowned with a reputation of disgrace in front of his elders.
His eyes quietly looked at Mrs. Xiao, and seeing that her angry body trembled slightly, Mu Chonglan shrunk her neck again, a little afraid that Old Madam Xiao would suddenly become troubled, and threw the tea cup on the desk to smash Xiao Xiantang, after all, if Old Madam Xiao really did that, maybe Xiao Xiantang would use her as a shield to block the tea cup, and it was also a matter of maybe.
"Xiao Xiantang, you really don't have any rules at all." Old Madam Xiao's words are not serious, not that she cherishes her children and grandchildren, but because at this time, the Xiao family all rely on Xiao Xiantang to live, she is called an ancestor on the surface, but in fact, she has long been hollowed out, and she does not have much real power in her hands.
It turned out that when Xiao Xiantang asked for the position of the head of the family on the condition of marrying Mu Chonglan, the Xiao family already had a tendency to fall in the middle, so when she learned that Xiao Xiantang was going to be the head of the family, she was naturally happy to deliver the mess, but she didn't expect Xiao Xiantang to be less than a weak crown, but he turned the tide and stabilized the foundation of the Xiao family.
Seeing this situation, she naturally thought about getting her position back, but she couldn't pull off this face, so she could only consider herself unlucky.