Chapter Seventy-Four: Zhou's Calculations and Tongzhou Affairs
On the same night, Zhou's house. [.la super good]
Li Jinfeng leaned on the bed in disgust, waited until the drum of the third watch sounded, and saw that Zhou Dongyuan had not come back, it was estimated that he didn't know which fan he was obsessed with, so he sighed and prepared to sleep, what a scenery it was when he married into the Zhou family, she proved to everyone that Sister Li Yue was wrong, she was right, but to this day, seeing Zhou Dongyuan not returning night and night, the girls in his room are even more left and right, that kind of bitterness is not enough for outsiders, maybe marry an ordinary family, although the life is a little poorer, But the heart won't be as empty as it is now, will it?
Li Jinfeng thought about it, and couldn't help gritting her teeth, then again, even if she Li Jinfeng is bitter in her heart, her head must be raised high, and everything must be higher than Sister Li Yue. Therefore, now, she must have a child, as long as there is a boy, she can gain a firm foothold in the Zhou family, and it is not a problem for those who have sex or anything. At that time, who would dare to say a word of gossip about her.
She is still the eldest and youngest grandmother of the Zhou family that everyone envies.
Just want to have children, then Zhou Dongyuan has to come to the house from time to time, a while ago, Zhou Dongyuan was obsessed with a new girl who entered the house, and she was put in the room in a few days, and now it is just the honey to mix oil. Let her grit her teeth angrily.
"Young Master, you're here, Young Grandma is waiting for you, and you haven't slept yet." At this time, the greeting of the girl sounded outside.
"Well, go get hot water ready." Zhou Dongyuan snorted wine.
Listening to the sound outside, Li Jinfeng hurriedly got up in his clothes, picked up the brazier in the house, and threw a few pieces of dried orange peel into it. A faint orange fragrance spreads. However, this fragrance made Zhou Dongyuan's wine smell rush when he entered the door, and there was a peculiar smell.
"Where is this drinking party, and it will only disperse at this time?" Li Jinfeng stepped forward. Untied Zhou Dongyuan's cloak, helped him sit down on a chair, and made tea again. Two kudzu pills are added to the tea, which are made from kudzu root and can cure hangover.
"Drink with your father and Master Cha." Zhou Dongyuan waved his hand and said, while the girl came in with hot water, waited for him to wash, and soaked his feet, the girl went out with the foot soaking water.
Then the couple went to bed. Zhou Dongyuan's whole person leaned on the back of the big bed, Jin Feng'er leaned most of her body against Zhou Dongyuan's shoulder, if it was usually like this, Zhou Dongyuan would have already rolled on the bed with Jin Feng, but now. Zhou Dongyuan seemed to be thinking about something in his heart, indifferent to Jin Feng'er's soft and fragrant body, and his fingers knocked on the bed hall from time to time, making a 'porphyry' sound.
"What do you think?" Li Jinfeng raised his face, his face flushed slightly.
"How's Grandpa's body and bones doing?" Zhou Dongyuan picked up Li Jinfeng's chin and asked.
"It's okay, I can go around the yard twice a day in the morning and evening, but when I'm old, plus I've been sick for a long time, my body bones have long been dragged down. It can only be raised slowly. Li Jinfeng said.
"It's hard for you." Zhou Dongyuan gently rubbed Jin Feng's cheek with one hand, and said in a rare warm voice.
"That's what I'm supposed to do, why can't I." Li Jinfeng said with a smile on his face. A year of career in Zhoufu has long worn away her edges and corners.
Zhou Dongyuan didn't speak again, but sighed.
"What's wrong? Could it be that what's going on in the second room? Li Jinfeng asked.
"It's not like that, it's just that if I don't make a move, the second room will run over my head." Zhou Dongyuan said. Then he lowered his head again, looked at Li Jinfeng and said, "Today I touched the mind of the adult, but there is a chance." ”
"What opportunity, let's think of a way to see if we can seize it." Li Jinfeng asked.
"Mr. Cha has a family and a business in Beijing, and the mother-in-law of the family is dedicated to the family's industry, and I don't worry about leaving Beijing, plus Liuwa is close to Beijing, so his lady didn't come with him, but Mr. Cha will inevitably be lonely and sleepless, I heard what he said meant that he wanted to find a concubine here to warm the bed, man, isn't it just this tune." Zhou Dongyuan said, with a malicious smile on his face.
Li Jinfeng glanced at him, but his eyes were as silky. Then he said: "That's not easy, talk to a few people in the town, and I can't pick a satisfactory concubine." ”
"How's that going to work? This concubine is related to our cooperation with Master Cha, no matter what, she has to be her own person and can grasp it. Zhou Dongyuan said.
"Your own people? There's no such thing as a suitable one, otherwise, the girl in the house will pick one. Li Jinfeng took the opportunity to say, she had long seen that these charming girls in the house were not pleasing to the eye, and she could give one away.
"The girl is despicable, how can she be the aunt and grandmother of Lord Cha." Zhou Dongyuan shook his head. Then the finger pointed out emptyly: "I think it's appropriate, your family has a suitable one." ”
"My family? Sister Li Yue, you say? That's impossible, what kind of temperament does Sister Li Yue have, in order not to marry you, she almost sued my grandma in court. Not to mention being a concubine for Lord Cha, she won't make a fuss, besides, she won't be at our mercy. Li Jinfeng exclaimed.
"Oh, who said she was here, didn't your sister-in-law just reconcile with Jia Wulang, she is beautiful and has a gentle temperament, she is the best candidate." Zhou Dongyuan said with a dark face, but any man, when he is disliked, he is always unhappy, Jin Feng'er mentioned that Sister Li Yue was purely a pot that was not opened, and it was strange that Zhou Dongyuan could be happy.
"My sister-in-law? is a good candidate, but she has been married for eight years and has nothing to do, won't the inspector mind? Li Jinfeng asked.
"What do you know, that's it, such a candidate will not provoke the genuine wife of Lord Cha's family, in this way, even if it is in line with Lord Cha's wishes, it will not offend Mrs. Cha, and it can bring us closer to Mrs. Cha, the best of all three worlds." The more Zhou Dongyuan spoke, the more excited he became, and he felt that Li Su'e was the most suitable.
If he gets a concubine and gets pregnant and fights with Mrs. Cha, then Mrs. Cha will definitely blame him, then he really can't say it.
"My sister-in-law's affairs are in charge of my grandpa and grandma, and I am afraid that my grandma's temper is unwilling." Li Jinfeng said hesitantly.
"Anyway, you do your best, tell me more, your sister-in-law is married for the second time after all, and being an aunt and grandmother for the inspector is also her creation." Zhou Dongyuan's face was a little heavy.
"Well, then I'll wait until I have time to go home and explore. This matter is not in a hurry, this is almost the New Year, in case it doesn't work, everyone will be unhappy, it's better to wait until the New Year to mention it. Li Jinfeng said. First, she knows her grandmother's temper, if it is a normal plan. Then this idea must be smashed back in the face, so, here, she has to take care of Daddy and Auntie, and secondly, she also wants to drag it, and there is this thing to drag. Dongyuan inevitably has to slap her a little, she wants to take advantage of this time to do her best and conceive a child.
"That's right, go to sleep." Zhou Dongyuan said, pulling Li Jinfeng hard. The mouth sucked Li Jinfeng's earlobe, Li Jinfeng's body immediately softened, the cold wind outside, and the house was full of spring.
In the blink of an eye, it is the twenty-second of the lunar month.
Mrs. Tian lived in the west house of the Li family, and confirmed that the person Li Xianggong rescued at that time was her son who had been separated for forty years. She has to pay it back, she has a plan in her heart, she has a spiritual head, and her body is getting better day by day, and she will be raised for a period of time, except that she is still a little weak. The rest is all good.
As soon as she remembered Li Xianggong's love for saving her son, she was also an idle character, so she began to take care of the Li family's housework, and she was the wife of a large family in Jianghuai, and after the defeat of the family, she supported the family and searched for a child, so to speak, most of the riches, most of the difficulties, and most of the setbacks in this world She has experienced them one by one, it can be said that in this world, except for time, except for birth, old age, sickness and death, there is almost nothing that can stump her.
And Sister Li Yue, although the Zhou family stayed in the previous life, but most of the time was confined in the backyard, reborn in this life, in addition to some foresight, and in addition to hard work, maintenance of younger siblings, and desperate money to make money, the others do not have much to see in the head of the house, the portal communication, just in a sincere heart, but there are also limitations, that is, people who can't look at it, even lazy to socialize, will naturally provoke some people unhappy, this is her unharmonious behavior.
But now, all this has been managed by Granny Tian, all aspects, dotted properly, even before, there were a lot less rumors in the town, and there were also some people who were promoted by Mo Yi, and all kinds of strange words were inevitable, but Mo Yi walked around a few times according to Granny Tian's arrangement, not only were the strange words gone, but they also patted their chests and broke the boulders one by one, and they cooperated very well.
The way of doing things unconsciously when the fine cotton of this Jianghuai big family abducted people into the pit really made Sister Li Yue breathtaking. made up her mind and learned a few hands, and Mrs. Tian also taught her wholeheartedly, and Sister Li Yue benefited a lot.
And in addition to these, Mrs. Tian looked at the Li family's tofu workshop again, except for white tofu, braised dried tofu, fried tofu, tofu brain, and soy milk, there was nothing else, in her opinion, it was a bit monotonous, so she smashed out the edamame tofu and stinky tofu,
That stinky tofu smells really stinky, but it can be fried in oil, and then mixed with chopped peppers, that taste, you can drool when you think about it, in short, Yuebao and Mofeng are completely obsessed, and they can't sleep if they don't eat a meal every day. Now the Li family tofu workshop is the only one in these ten miles and eight townships.
Because Yuebao Mofeng likes to eat, Tian Pozi has even used all kinds of skills to make all kinds of marinades, just a small tofu brain will let her make seven or eight flavors, so that a few small ones are addicted to eating.
Now a few small ones are tired of Mrs. Tian all day long, and those who don't know to outsiders must think that they are the grandchildren of their relatives.
In short, in just 20 days, Mrs. Tian can be regarded as taking root in the Li family's West House.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the sky began to snow again, and the Li family's west house closed the door early, and the four fields were silent. Just after dinner, when a few people in the Li family's West House were chatting, they heard someone knocking on the door outside, Mo Yi got up to open the door, and it was Uncle Shanlang and the lady who was the leader of the year and Nian Lan'er who came in.
Nian Niangzi and Nian Lan'er stayed in Liuwa some time ago, and often went to Li's house to walk around, and later arranged the things in Toutongzhou, so they took the two of them.
"Come and warm up on the kang." Seeing the three of them enter the house, Sister Li Yue hurriedly got up and took a dry cotton towel for the three of them, and asked them to dry their wet hair.
As soon as they were properly collected, Sister Li Yue let them sit on the kang, and the three of them sighed comfortably, running outside in such ghost weather is really fatal, and fortunately, Tongzhou is not far from Liuwa, otherwise, it is really unbearable.
Then Sister Li Yue went to the kitchen to cook shredded pork noodles for them, and added a poached egg every night and brought it out.
A few people were cold, and a bowl of hot soup warmed up from the inside to the outside, and after eating, the conversation box opened.
Yamaro said that the harvest of Tongzhou during this natural time.
"As soon as we arrived in Tongzhou, we found Zheng Tieniu, the boat he had already helped us contact before, just pay to pick up the boat, carry the boat out, and ask someone to register in the Yamen and Cao Si, at this time, there are people from the Cao Gang to contact the ship, some of them are squatting in the Yamen, once someone buys a new boat, the squatting point will know as soon as possible, and will notify the officials of Caoli, and then these officers will discuss the issue of chartering the ship with us. Our ship was introduced by the Zheng family, rented to Tongzhou Tankou, opened to the sea in May every year, went to Zhenjiang, Fengyang, Huai'an, Yangzhou four prefectures, and waited for the autumn to transport grain back to Tongzhou, the total lease period is from May to November, a total of seven months, the monthly rent is 20 taels, a total of 140 taels. ”
"Why is it only twenty taels?" When she heard her brother-in-law say the price, Sister Li Yue was stunned, this did not match her expectations, before she estimated that she had to have thirty or forty taels a month, although 20 taels a month is not less, but the ship has to be repaired when it comes back, this cost is not low, and there is also the tax money to be paid to the yamen and Caosi every year, so there is not much at all, and the profit is too meager.
"I was shocked at first, this kind of rent is not cost-effective at all, but later, Tie Niu told me that the Cao Gang and the Cao Si charter ship are at this price, everyone is the same, as for the real profit is not in the rent, but on the goods, the Cao boat can carry the goods, this is already a well-known practice, and these entrained goods do not have to pay any checkpoint fees, Cao Gang should undertake that each ship owner has a certain amount of private goods entrainment, from Tongzhou down a trip, and then from Yangzhou, Huai'an back, The profit of the two trips of goods is more than a dozen or even dozens of losses, which is enough to cover the lack of rent, and this part of the income is not tax-payable. Shanlang explained that during this time, he was in Tongzhou, which was really an eye-opener.
Sister Li Yue nodded, she knew that she could be entrained, this Mrs. Zheng told her, but she was not very familiar with the goods, so she didn't study it carefully, and now it seems that the profit of this piece is the big one. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )
To download the latest txt e-book of this book, please click:
This book is read on mobile phones:
Post a Review:
In order to facilitate the next reading, you can click on the "Collection" below to record the reading record of this time (Chapter 73 Zhoufu Calculations and Tongzhou Affairs), and you can see it next time you open the bookshelf! Please recommend this book to your friends (QQ, blog, WeChat, etc.), thank you for your support!!