Chapter VIII: Responsibility
It is now the twenty-first year of summer in Chengshun, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter.
Nie Xiaofan's body is afraid of heat and cold. You can't use kang for cold, and you can't use ice for heat.
Nie Xiaofan sat on the rose chair and watched Liu Yu sweating profusely and fanning her, Nie Xiaofan said that he would fan himself, and his hands were so sore that he couldn't lift it after fanning him twice. Ask Liu Yu to let someone else fan, but she refuses.
Nie Xiaofan sighed in his heart that the old society was all evil! Forget it, follow the crowd and not be beaten. But Nie Xiaofan looked at the people in the courtyard and became even more worried.
Since the people of Zhuxiangyuan publicized that Nie Xiaofan's illness had been cured, people from Zhuxiangyuan often came to visit. In the past, when you came, you could drive people out, but now that you are cured, you have to treat people.
Liu Xin and Liu Yu couldn't be busy, so Liu Xin went to find Mrs. Nie and made up for the people in Zhuxiang Courtyard according to the example of the concubine. The old lady promised the "Mystery Woman" that she would treat Nie Xiaofan's sister and brother well. She didn't dare to disobey.
The subordinates with heads and faces around the Jiang family were all taken by Mama Jiang to Nie Xiaonian's side. Liu Xin also picked four third-class maids and four sprinkler mothers who had followed the Jiang family to the other courtyard before. Familiar and heartfelt!
Now Liu Xin is a big girl, in charge of the inside and outside of the bamboo incense courtyard. Liu Yu took two little girls to follow Nie Xiaofan. Xiaohong brought up the second-class maids, and took two third-class maids to take care of Nie Xiaofan's medicinal food. It turned out that the two mothers-in-law who were arranged by the Jiang family to clean the Zhuxiang Courtyard were arranged by Liu Xin to guard the door.
The people in the courtyard were beaming, and they were punished by Mrs. Nie to do hard labor after Jiang's death. Now that Liu Xin has been selected to come to Zhuxiangyuan, I haven't seen each other for a long time, and they are all eleven or twelve years old. Whenever I have time, I have fun in the yard.
Nie Xiaofan now finally understands why the original owner, a daughter, doesn't like too many people. In the past, Liu Xin and Liu Yu used to be, and Nie Xiaofan could occasionally have a little private space. It's good now. Even sleeping was followed by someone.
Nie Xiaofan is now very yearning for the life of the original owner in Changping.
Liu Xin came back from his busy work and reprimanded the little maid in the courtyard in a low voice. The little maidens giggled and ran away.
Liu Xin entered the main room, put the account book in his hand on the table, and said, "Girl, it's all counted." The dowry under the wife's name has a total of three shops and two Zhuangzi. Other jewellery and silk satin, etc. All of them have been made and put in the private treasury of the wife. The two silk shops and the Changping Zhuangzi we stayed in before were given by Mrs. Zhou. There is another dim sum shop given by Mrs. Jiang. The other Zhuangzi is also in Changping, which was purchased by our wife herself.
There were more than 8,200 taels of silver. I took some bits and pieces of silver and asked Xiaohong's brother to take them to the shop to reward the workers. They're all called Miss Thank You. ”
"Well," Nie Xiaofan shook the fan gently, in fact, she was weak and had no strength, and the main wind was from Liu Yu's fan. She held the fan mainly to disguise everyone's beautiful appearance.
"What's the name of Xiaohong's brother, you seem to value him very much?" The last time Xiaohong's brother was sent to Zhuangzi, it was also arranged by Liu Xin.
"It's called Fortune, it's a clever man, and he knows how to read. I used to be a small guy in the big man's study. I saw that the old man didn't care about them, so I asked him to run errands for us. Liu Xin replied respectfully.
It seems that in the past few months when the original owner has been in a coma, Liu Xin has thoroughly explored the whole Nie Mansion. Nie Xiaofan nodded, and she really deserved to be a big girl. is one year younger than Liu Yu, but he is more calm and able to handle things!
Nie Xiaofan turned his head to look at the account book, and Liu Xin immediately came over quickly to take the fan in her hand, and stood on the opposite side of Liu Yu to gently shake the fan for her. He also motioned to Liu Yu, who was sweating profusely, to go out and blow the wind.
Nie Xiaofan shook his head and smiled and took the account book to look at.
Liu Yu said with a smile: "It's good that Sister Liu Xin is here." I'll go see if the girl's medicine is ready. ”
As he spoke, he shook his fan and left.
Liu Xin smiled and said: "Girl, look, Liu Yu is still the same as Zhuangzi, except for me, don't worry about others coming to serve you." ”
Nie Xiaofan's hand froze as he flipped through the ledger.
This willow heart, speaking of which, is not so capable in the memory of the original owner?
It is estimated that it was covered by Zhou Qiaoqiao's light before!
Nie Xiaofan smiled again and shook his head. Dig through the ledger intently.
Nie Xiaofan thought that anyway, the original owner couldn't read the account book after being ill for a long time, and if he didn't understand, he wouldn't arouse suspicion if he asked Liu Xin. Unexpectedly, this is the account book that Liu Xin made specifically for Nie Xiaofan.
I'm afraid she can't understand it, but behind everything there is a silver tael value on the market.
Finally, there was a total of four hundred thousand eight hundred taels of silver.
Nie Xiaofan looked at that number and remembered his life with Doudou. In his previous life, Nie Xiaofan, Yun Dou, and Miss Jiang worked for five years before they scraped together enough money to buy a three-bedroom apartment together.
Later, in order to raise Doudou, Nie Xiaofan and Yundou sold their three-bedroom house and replaced it with a small house. Nie Xiaofan has always dreamed of buying that house back. After all, Doudou's biological mother in that house also has a share, and Nie Xiaofan also has feelings for that house.
She's been thinking about it since she came here. If you can be with your loved ones, it doesn't matter if you live in a small house. If this money can make them exchange, then Nie Xiaofan will definitely do it without hesitation.
Thinking of this, Nie Xiaofan suddenly became clever, what was she thinking? This money was not hers! Even if the original owner was here, this money was half of Nie Xiaonian!
Could it be that I have been acting for a long time and unconsciously substituted for the role?
Nie Xiaofan put down this ledger and picked up another one. This is the original owner's ledger. Same as the previous bookkeeping. All the income and expenditure of the Zhuangzi where the original owner lived were arranged by herself. The main reason is that she spends a lot of money on medicine. However, in the past eight years, he has also saved more than 5,000 taels of silver. With the addition of other hairpin ring jewelry, the final figure is 8,600 taels. It's also a lot of money.
Nie Xiaofan was also going to ask her if these things were over the original list, did the old lady Nie have anything to do? Liu Yu jumped in and said that the eldest young master was here.
Since the second room moved out, Mrs. Nie did not allow people to call the second room grandchildren ranking. Nie Xiaonian also changed from the second young master to the eldest young master.
Nie Xiaofan looked up and saw Nie Xiaonian coming from afar, the young man had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, red lips and white teeth. Now he is worried. The bamboo incense courtyard was full of bamboo, and it looked lush from a distance, but it couldn't suppress the gloomy color between the young man's eyebrows, but made him even more melancholy.
Nie Xiaofan's heart softened suddenly. She thought of Doudou, did she look like this every day? That Nie Xiaofan was originally a young lady, and she was usually served by people, would she know how to take care of children?
Thinking like this, Nie Xiaofan's gaze softened a little when he looked at Nie Xiaonian. All along, Nie Xiaofan has been playing the role of 'Nie Xiaofan'. The people around her are like characters on TV to her, she has no emotions about these, she is just acting in a good scene, and now Nie Xiaofan really cares for Nie Xiaonian. She is the one who has raised her own children, and she can imagine the sadness and hesitation of a child after losing its mother.
Nie Xiaofan secretly reminded his eldest sister Ru Mother that she must take care of Nie Xiaonian.
pinched the ledger in his hand again, and must protect everything about her!