Shui Yan was choked by Li Xiaoyi's words, his face was slightly red, he raised his hand and patted his forehead and said with a smile: "Let the fifth master laugh again, the fifth master is so anxious to let people find me, what's the urgency?" Li Xiaoqi hesitated, turned his head and motioned for Zhang Gouzi and the others to step back, leaving only Danyue and Haitang to wait beside him, and then smiled: "I am a big deal, in the second master's place, I'm afraid it's nothing, I'm going to do a few businesses, and now I lack some capital, I want to borrow 20,000 silver from the second master, for a year, very profitable, I know that the second master doesn't care about this profit, but this rule has to be done well." Li Xiaoqi didn't turn around, and simply said about borrowing money directly, Shui Yan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "It's not a big deal, what business is the fifth master going to do?" Or a weaving mill? ”

"Not all," Li Xiaoqi hesitated, looking for someone to borrow money, and his own business should be frank: "The weaving mill doesn't need much silver at this time, even if you buy a shop, it costs some silver taels, not much, I want to open a hook bar and make it the most skilled and best hook bar in the world." The folding fan in Shui Yan's hand froze in mid-air, looking at Li Xiaoqi in disbelief, and only relieved himself for a while, he didn't know what to say for a while, Li Xiaoqi was drinking tea, looking at Shui Yan, and when he reacted, the folding fan in Shui Yan's hand was retracted and opened, shaking quickly, and said with an embarrassed smile on his face: "The fifth master is really •••••• really •••••• 20,000 silver•••••• this silver is not much, just •••••• the fifth master and wait, I'll go back and see•••••• See if there is any cash on the account, the fifth master knows, 20,000 cash is not a small amount, the fifth master and wait for a while, wait a while, I went to see the account, and then I will talk about •••••• after reading the account. ”

Li Xiaoqi lowered his eyes in disappointment, slowly put the cup on the side table, raised his head again, and said with a smile on his face as usual: "Then please ask Second Master Shui to bother, just have extra silver, if not, Second Master Shui doesn't have to be reluctant, Second Master Shui smelled that Xiao Mi was in a hurry and was willing to hurry, Xiao Mi was already grateful in his heart, Xiao Mi thanked Second Master first!" Li Xiaoqi said, stood up and bent his knees deeply to thank him, Shui Yan hurriedly stood up, and bowed his hand to return the salute: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, this is the fifth master's understanding, the fifth master rest assured, I'll go and see, I'll go and see, and I'll call back to the fifth master in a while." Li Xiaoqi smiled and bent his knees to thank him, raised his voice and called Zhang Gouzi to come in, and sent Shui Yan to the door of the main hall by himself, watching him go out of the second door, only to let out a long sigh of loss, drooping his shoulders and dragging his steps back to the backyard slowly.

Shui Yan went to ask Su Zicheng to show it, and opened the hook bar by himself, Shui Yan didn't have Su Zicheng's approval, and he didn't dare to lend a tael of silver to himself, not about money, but about this hook bar. Li Xiaoqi let out a long sigh again, where else to raise money? Lu Feng is not in Kaiping Mansion, he is useless, where else can he borrow silver? Alas, it would be nice if there was a bank like later generations, it was really a penny that stumped a hero, and 20,000 silver stumped Li Xiaomi. Li Xiaoqi dragged his feet back to the half-acre garden, and half of the yard had been placed in the yard to congratulate the gifts, Li Xiaoqi paused, bent down and stroked the brocade material of a hundred seeds, these congratulatory gifts, if they can be packaged and sold, plus their own jewelry, they may be able to sell for 20,000 silver, alas! It's a pity that he can't sell it, even if he sells a piece of such a congratulatory gift and those pieces of jewelry sent by Su Zicheng that are engraved with the words of the royal family, this matter has to become the biggest news in Kaiping Mansion, and he is poor to sell congratulatory jewelry, who would dare to do business with himself? Which kabuki dares to come to his own bar? The wild goose is just a mouthful, and no one can be invited!

Li Xiaoqi straightened up irritably, stood in the middle of all kinds of big red gift boxes in the courtyard for a long time, suddenly turned around and walked out of the courtyard, and walked straight to the small courtyard where Mrs. Shen lived. Danyue and Haitang paused, you look at me, I look at you, Danyue said in a low voice: "Mama has confessed, the two of us, our eyes have to keep our eyes on the girl, stay away." ”

"Uh-huh!" Haitang hurriedly nodded in agreement, the two of them stayed far behind Li Xiaoyi, and followed to the door of the small courtyard, Shen Pozi was sitting on the armchair under the east corridor, pointing to the cherry to do needlework, seeing Li Xiaoqi come in, Cherry hurriedly put down the needlework and stood up to salute, Li Xiaoqi signaled that Shen Pozi did not have to get up, and instructed Cherry: "Move me a chair, I'll talk to Grandma for a while, you just go and do your job." Cherry hurriedly went in and moved the armchair over, Danyue and Begonia followed, helped to lift Zhang Gaoji out, made tea, Li Xiaoqi watched Danyue and Begonia bow their heads and busy, and did not speak.

The three of them retreated far away to the porch of the courtyard to do needlework and talk, and Mrs. Shen looked at Li Xiaoqi with a smile on her face and said, "I heard that you have won the seal, this is a great joy, why are you not happy?" Li Xiaoqi looked at Mrs. Shen and smiled bitterly: "What are you happy about?" Originally, Liang Wangye told me that in order to reward me for my merits, he wanted to reward me with 10,000 taels of gold, but now 10,000 taels of gold has turned into an old hen and become a duck, what a lady! What am I happy about? Li Xiaoqi said a word, as if he spit out some sullen heart, and patted the arm of the chair angrily and continued: "Whether it is a silver reward or a seal, it is naturally up to him, but you shouldn't be so untrustworthy!" The house of the wild goose, the dog's shop, and the weaving mill, everywhere is silver, if it was said that it was sealed, I would have followed the plan of the seal, what is this?! Mrs. Shen was a little surprised and a little stunned when she heard this, and it took a long time to understand what Li Xiaoqi meant, and then sighed, reached out and gently patted the back of Li Xiaoyi's hand, and asked in a low voice: "Xiaoqi, you tell Grandma the truth, what kind of plan do you have for this marriage event?" ”

"Grandma, why did you ask about this?" Li Xiaoqi frowned and asked rhetorically, Shen Pozi looked at her carefully and replied in a low voice: "I have also heard some gossip these days, then Lord Liang is very good to you?" ”

"What did Mama Zhang and Mama Lu say?" Li Xiaoqi asked sensitively, and Mrs. Shen shook her head with a smile: "No, your two grandmothers, monkey spirits, monkey spirits, talk without leakage, only they inquire about me, I don't have the ability to hear a little gossip from their words, it's these little girls, in the end, they are still young, grandma eats a lot of salt, and she can still talk clichés." Li Xiaoqi smiled when Mrs. Shen said, looked at Mrs. Shen, and replied bluntly: "It's not really good, he wants to carry me into the house, Grandma told me before, it's not really good!" I am not a concubine, let alone the prince, even if it is the emperor's concubine, I am not a concubine. Mrs. Shen sighed, raised her hand and stroked Li Xiaoqi's sideburns and sighed: "You child, grandma doesn't persuade you, good child, who wants to be a concubine?" But I'm afraid ••••••"

"No one dares to marry me." Li Xiaoqi smiled and continued, Mrs. Shen nodded busily, and Li Xiaoqi snorted softly: "I don't plan to get married, and no one is worthy of me!" Mrs. Shen looked at Li Xiaoqi in a daze, and suddenly laughed: "Grandma is married, it's better not to marry, the hardest and most difficult years in this life have been spent in her mother-in-law's house, and she lives by herself, but it's all good!" If you don't marry well, I think it's better not to marry! Li Xiaoqi sighed approvingly and spread his hands and said: "Grandma, look, I don't want to enter the Liang Palace, and I don't want to marry, what kind of lady is this, how can there be gold ten thousand taels?" If I am a man, I have obtained this title from the third grade, and I can still be a wife and a son, and I am a neighbor of the country, and I am a lady, what use can I do in addition to being good-looking? If you knew this, you might as well give the eldest brother and the aquatic brother something in exchange! ”

"Forget it, people are under the eaves, this is not under the eaves, it is the royal family, the heavenly family, I won't say, forget it, it's a good thing to have a seal, in the future you go out to meet guests or something, ordinary people have to give you a salute when they see it, please sit down, you are arrogant, isn't this right?" Li Xiaoqi was persuaded by Shen Pozi to cry and laugh, so she had to sigh and pour a cup of tea and hand it to Shen Pozi, and she also poured a cup and drank it, the two were silent for a moment, and Li Xiaoqi continued: "Alas, Grandma look, although this courtyard is full of people, but I only dare to say such things to Grandma, this day is really sulky, I just want to hurry up and make more money, buy my own yard, use my own people, talk and act or something, I can do whatever I want, say whatever I want." ”

"Isn't the person in this courtyard appropriate?" Mrs. Shen became nervous all of a sudden, and Li Xiaoqi hurriedly comforted her: "It's not inappropriate, the people in my courtyard, starting from Mama Zhang, were either sent by Liang Wangfu or from Jingjiang Houfu, not people I bought and picked by myself." Mrs. Shen sighed: "Scare me, you can rest assured that you can buy it yourself and pick it yourself?" Do you know where the people you buy and the people you pick come from? You think too much about this, I see that these mothers-in-law and girls in your yard are all convinced by you, and they are all willing to follow you and wait for you in their hearts, how can you not believe this? Mrs. Shen's words moved Li Xiaomi's heart slightly, this morning's order was •••••• to be killed, Li Xiaoqi was out of the gods, looked at Mrs. Shen and suddenly asked, "What kind of errand did Grandma do in the Lin Mansion back then?" How did you get sent? ”

"It's a long story." Mrs. Shen was stunned by Li Xiaoyi's question before she sighed, patted the armrest of the chair and sighed with emotion: "You have seen Mrs. Xiao like that, you haven't seen Mrs. Xiao when you were young, just like you, it's not as good as her, I went into the house for the first time, and I saw her from afar, Mrs. Xiao was dressed in white and long skirt, she was really like a fairy, who didn't love it when she saw it, look at it, the back is •••••• like that!" ”