Li Xiaoqi looked at Yueting and walked away, and asked with a smile at her background, "Want to open?" ”

"Forget it, I've been wilting for the past two days, and I don't want to talk much, so I want to open it." Mrs. Fan sighed and explained for her.

"It's her blessing to think about it." Li Xiaoqi said lightly, Mrs. Fan turned around and looked at Li Xiaoyi, and said with a smile: "You came just in time, I was trying to discuss with you, I think, it's better to hurry up and set the door for Yueting, this girl's family wants to think about the west, and the major events of her life are decided, and her heart will settle down." ”

"Sister has a suitable family?"

"Well, I think Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liushun are both good, and they are the same age, forget about Yueting, I'll discuss with my second aunt to pick one when I go back, what do you think?"

Li Xiaoqi looked up at Mrs. Fan, was silent for a long time, lowered her eyes and said: "This marriage matter, the two love is the best, if the dog or Liushun takes a fancy to the Moon Pavilion, this is their fate, if they don't fancy it, I won't make up my mind for them." ”

Mrs. Fan was slightly stunned, looked at Li Xiaoyi, and paused for a long time before speaking: "Yueting has a soft temperament, although sometimes she is confused, it is not that she doesn't listen to people at all. ”

"Sister, whether this family is doing well or not depends on men, but on women! What should the people who support the family be so docile? Blindly supple and then make a little big fool and little fool from time to time, what kind of life has to become? Li Xiaoqi said unceremoniously, Mrs. Fan was stunned for a moment, and was speechless for a while, Li Xiaoqi looked at her and changed the topic: "Sister, I came to discuss this open source matter with you, our family's family is on the account, after the New Year, the Zhang family will be filial piety, Brother Erhuai and Tiemu should get married, Brother Erhuai can still make peace for a while, Tiemu's house has to be bought in the year, and the silver is empty." ”

"I still have some •••••• there"

"Sister, sit and eat the sky!" Li Xiaoqi interrupted Mrs. Fan's words, and Mrs. Fan hurriedly smiled: "I know, you are talking about righteousness, you have a lot of things, I didn't dare to disturb you, I was thinking that Mrs. Sun would come back from Zhuangzi tomorrow and discuss it with her." ”

"When I was in Rucheng, I heard the prince say, the silk spent in Beiping, seven or eight out of ten sold from Wu State, the local weaving mills in Beiping can not weave the exquisite new patterns of Wu State, I think we might as well open a small weaving workshop to try, this thing has a bargain, if the silk woven out of those big weaving workshops is not too bad, I can persuade the prince to buy our things, if the woven things are not so good, it will be made into a cage quilt yarn tent, the capital can always be recovered, this is one, second, my sister is also half knowledgeable, this silk loom, so I can understand better, Third, it won't take long for Sister Zhang and the others to come back, and they don't need to look for someone outside, you and Sister Zhang cook together in this weaving workshop, and several sisters-in-law and aunts of the Fan family can use it. Li Xiaoqi said one by one, Mrs. Fan thought about it carefully, looked at Li Xiaoqi and said with a wry smile: "Weaving a few pieces of cloth in this house to make some needlework is very different from the one in the weaving workshop, but I am afraid of difficulties." ”

"It's okay, I'm going to find the prince for this, ask him to help find a few good weavers back, that day in Zhuangzi, I asked, there are a lot of mulberry trees around Kaiping Mansion, and there are also people raising silkworms, sister, you don't know, the northern silkworms grow when they grow, and the quality of the silk that comes out is better than that in the south, buy some silk this year and try to weave it, and let the Zhuangzi hatch silkworms and raise silkworms in the spring next year, let's raise silkworms and weave silkworms ourselves, no one can compare with this price!" Li Xiaoyi's eyes lit up and he became excited: "If this is done well, our Li family will have the foundation to build a family, my sister is a careful person, and Sister Zhang is capable, she will definitely be able to do well!" ”

Mrs. Fan thought carefully about Li Xiaoqi's words, and when she said this, she could really give it a try: "Okay, let's try it, I don't think it's better to go outside to buy a yard and put a place, it's better to seal the moon gate in the middle of the front and back yards, and make the front yard a weaving workshop, anyway, tomorrow your eldest brother and they will go to the camp, and the house is empty." ”

Li Xiaoqi breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "You can do this, I will go to find the prince tomorrow, looking for the weaver, you have to hurry up, the weaver is here to order the loom or something, and the silk thread, I will ask the dog to inquire about this matter, and find a cheap one to come over first." Li Xiaoqi and Mrs. Fan agreed on this, their hearts were relaxed, and their feet were brisk, and Mrs. Fan said goodbye, walked a few steps, hesitated for a moment, beckoned a mother-in-law to come over and ask, and went to the small garden behind the east courtyard to find Mr. Fan to gossip and pass the time.

Li Xiaoqi held a cup of tea, rocked the rocking chair, and talked with Mr. Fan idly: "Mr. ••••••, I have read a lot of books, and those people say what the hatred of the country is to save the surname from hanging upside down, I don't understand, don't they understand, this country has been destroyed, there is hatred and hanging, but those princes of the clan, in the blink of an eye, fell from the clouds into the world, naturally the pain is extreme, but for the surname, but the emperor has changed, whoever is the emperor is the emperor, what is the difference?" When the dynasty is changing, it is still the time when the decree is the clearest, what do they have to hang upside down? Tell me, do these literati still talk nonsense with their eyes open when they know this, or do they really don't know firewood, rice, oil and salt, and don't know what the surname is? ”

Mr. Fan coughed a few times in embarrassment, and Li Xiaoqi hurriedly turned his head and explained, "Sir, I didn't say anything about you!" Mr. Fan was embarrassed and laughed again: "I know! You say that you don't know firewood, rice, oil and salt, but the truth, one to do this thing is very hard, do not focus on this, it is difficult to achieve, second, the people who read pretend to be noble, this firewood, rice, oil and salt things, even disdain to listen to it, the reader speaks, there is almost no direct mention of silver, I don't know the world is difficult, I was impulsive, with the old and weak women and children on the stomp foot away from home, up the mountain only after the fear of sweat through the back of the clothes, alas! ”

"Sir, it's okay." Li Xiaoqi commented pertinently, Mr. Fan nodded with a smile, and Li Xiaoqi tilted his head to look at him: "That gentleman has cooked three meals a day by himself, has he ever had firewood, rice, oil and salt?" ”

"That's not true, although my family is poor, it's not so much, it's really poor enough to be able to lift at this step, but there are very few, and one of them is rare talent and intelligence." Mr. Fan replied with a smile, Li Xiaoqi exhaled, shook the rocking chair and sighed: "Today I saw a list of captured officials from Liang Guo, a long list, sir, you talk about these people, if you want to be martyred, the day of the country's death will be martyred, if you want to be good, you should have obeyed it a long time ago, this is neither martyrdom nor disobedience, what is the meaning of talking about loyalty with your neck crossed?" ”

Mr. Fan looked at Li Xiaoqi with tears and laughter, and after thinking about it, he explained: "This martyrdom requires great courage, calmly and righteously, and it is difficult to follow the dragon and read the book, don't you just talk about integrity?" There is no way to do it. ”

Li Xiaoqi turned his head to look at him, wanted to speak, and thought of his inaccessibility, and swallowed back the words in his mouth, the two were silent for a long time, Mr. Fan looked at Li Xiaoqi, hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Since the prince shows you such a document, I can probably listen to your views on these things, if you have the opportunity, explain one or two for these people, they are all useless scholars, martyrdom is not courageous, from the dragon can not bend down, when the country is destroyed, the time is also fate, they are all poor people." Li Xiaoqi looked at Mr. Fan fixedly, Mr. Fan closed his eyes, and said sadly: "If Wu Guo doesn't save himself, he can't get rid of such a catastrophe." ”

"Hmm." Li Xiaoqi promised in a low voice: "The prince asked me to see these things, but he never asked me anything, if there is a chance, he will naturally excuse them, but I am afraid that there is no chance, and the excerpt was submitted a month ago." Mr. Fan closed his eyes and didn't speak again, Li Xiaoqi shook the rocking chair in silence, his eyes looked at the changing white clouds in the sky, and thought of a god.

Before the end of the day, Lu Feng just came back, and Li Xiaoqi talked about what he had heard, and before he finished speaking, his mother-in-law led Nanning in, and Nanning greeted him with a smile on his face: "Fifth master, Lu Ye, our master wants to invite the two of you to Fengle Building for dinner tonight, and give the two of you a pick-up." Lu Feng almost jumped up, and hurriedly waved his hand: "I'm sick!" Sick badly! Can't go anywhere! ”

Li Xiaoqi turned his head to look at the drip in the corner of the house, and Nanning said with a smile: "Ye is busy, saying that Shen Zheng will arrive at the moment." ”

"Well, I'll be here at the moment." Li Xiaoqi looked at Nanning with a smile and said, Nanning's face was as usual, he agreed, turned his head to look at Lu Feng, who was still waving his hand, and said goodbye with a smile.

Lu Feng wrinkled his brows, looked at Li Xiaoqi with dissatisfaction and complained, "What's so delicious about the rice?" We've been here for a few days, and then we remembered to catch the wind! What?! No sincerity at all! Don't go either! Where do you want to eat, I'll take you there tomorrow! Li Xiaoqi looked at him, and said slowly after a while: "I like to eat, go shopping, and talk with your little uncle, and when I talk to my eldest brother later, I will go out to eat." ”

Lu Feng blinked in a daze, Li Xiaoqi ignored him, jumped up and went straight back to her half-acre garden, and there was still half an hour, she hurried back to take a shower and pick up clothes.

Li Xiaoqi changed into a blue gown, tied a silk silk decorated with a piece of flower amber, inquired about the distance and direction of Fengle Building, thought about it, and Zhang Gouzi came out of the half-acre garden with the hour, and went all the way to Fengle Building unhurriedly.

Fengle Lou looks like the mansion of a rich and noble family from a distance, and there are still seven or eight steps away from the gate, Nanning greeted her, leading her from the main entrance, turning the shadow wall, and walking along the verandah full of all kinds of birds and birds chirping happily, all the way to the depths of the courtyard.