The next day, Li Yuejiao woke up a little earlier, lay on the bed and listened to the north wind outside for a while before sitting up.

After washing up and tidying up, after breakfast, she was going out with Fu Nian and Yuntuan again.

"It's too windy outside," Mother Tong didn't stop it explicitly, but said worriedly, "I went out yesterday and encountered so many things, let the little ones go today." ”

"It's okay," while Yuntuan was tidying up things, Li Yuejiao walked out of the door and said with a smile, "I still have something to ask my mother to do for me." ”

In order to prevent the wind, Li Yuejiao wore a nozzle made of red gauze today, and even the sleeves were tightened, but when she went out, she still felt that the wind was unbearable, so she had to take a fan to cover her face.

"What's the matter?" Tong's mother asked hurriedly.

Li Yuejiao said: "Among our people, my mother knows the most about renting real estate, so ah, my mother will wear the best today, let Cuiqiao, Jin Nian and Bao Nian follow you, find a good corner of the shop and come back, I can open a store." ”

Tong's mother was laughed at by her: "Such publicity, isn't it waiting for someone to sit on the ground and raise the price?" Or should we secretly search - don't stand here, madam, it's windy. ”

"Don't be afraid, sooner or later you have to adapt," Li Yuejiao stood leaning on the pillars, "Mom, you have to be public, so that the whole Anhua County knows that we are going to open a store." Alas, if it hadn't happened yesterday, we wouldn't have been able to take the carriage again, so I would have gone to the General's Mansion to ask for a carriage and let my mother sit and look for it. ”

She said, turned her head to Jin Nian and said, "Go and rent a donkey cart or a sheep cart, it's windy, my mother is old, I'm afraid I'm going to blow it if I just walk." ”

Jin Nian immediately responded, thought for a moment and asked: "It's better for the little one to rent two, it's so windy, and it's not easy for Mrs. to go." ”

Li Yuejiao nodded, and after thinking about it, she suddenly had a playful heart, and hurriedly instructed him: "Golden Year, I want a sheep cart and a donkey cart." Mom, I'm so big, I saw the sheep cart for the first time yesterday, but I don't know if it's safe, or let my mother take the donkey cart. ”

Everyone laughed, Jin Nian agreed, covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and ran out with a puff of smoke.

Only Tong's mother looked at Li Yuejiao with a worried face.

The young woman, standing on the verandah under the strong wind, looked at the fallen leaves that had been blown into whirlwinds in the courtyard, and still smiled as she had when she was a child, but there was more sorrow in her eyes that was not a child's after all.

After a little hesitation, she whispered:

"Madame's meaning, the old slave understood, it's just Madame...... Don't blame the old slave for talking too much, these things, what does the lady want to do? Or did the prince let his wife do it? According to the old slave, if it wasn't what the girl wanted to do...... And why do you want to do things for those who are ruthless? If it is done, he doesn't think about the girl's goodness, if he can't do it well, it's dangerous, and he has to complain. ”

began to call her Mrs., and later she was really emotional, and she called her "girl" just like she was at home when she was a child.

Li Yuejiao knew that Mother Tong felt sorry for her, just like Yun Tuan would call her Miss even in front of Xue Zhen after understanding her mind, it was the same.

She was moved in her heart, holding a fan and holding Tong's mother's arm, as coquettish as when she was a child.

"Naturally, I wanted to do it myself. Mom, rest assured, I won't wronged myself. She said, and lowered her voice again, "When I reconcile with the prince in the future, I will go to the Grange and hide with my mother." ”

And away?

The wind was very strong, blowing Li Yuejiao's voice very loosely, but Tong's mother still heard it clearly.

The first time she heard her make this plan, she suddenly felt even more distressed, and she didn't know how to persuade for a while, and after thinking about it, she didn't want to persuade again.

What Miss has seen since she was a child is a husband and wife like the old lady, and her marriage is so unfortunate.

Thinking about it, Mother Tong patted her more lovingly, and said kindly: "Since it is our girl who thinks of herself, then the old slave must do things beautifully, and Guan Bao will let the whole city know today that our wife is rich and wants to open a big shop." ”

"Well, but even if Mom sees a good one, don't settle down." Li Yuejiao reminded with a smile.

"The old slave knows, play." Mother Tong said with a smile, went back to the house, and dressed herself up as a little old lady from a rich family as Li Yuejiao instructed.

Yuntuan packed up his things and came out, and after a while, Jin Nian also rented a car and came back, Li Yuejiao said to the three cui who stayed at home: "It's windy today, the yard doesn't have to be cleaned up, just take out your good skills, make more snacks in the capital, and come back next morning, let's visit the neighbors." ”

"Yes." The eldest Cuiliu responded, and asked her in a low voice, "It's just Madame, do you want to hire two nurses?" ”

"What? What happened yesterday? Li Yuejiao listened to what she said, and stopped to ask her.

"No, I know whose yard this is, don't dare," Cuiliu said busily, "It's just the one opposite us, when I got up this morning, I saw someone standing on the roof of that house, pretending to repair the roof, but the slave found that they were looking into our yard one by one." ”

Li Yuejiao frowned when she heard her say this, and looked up at the opposite side.

There is a big mulberry tree in the opposite yard, and most of the roof is hidden under it, and there is no one now, and it is estimated that from the roof of the house, there is nothing to be seen under the shade of the tree.

But in this yard of my own, there are no mulberry trees that block people's sight.

Li Yuejiao knew it in her heart, and ordered: "I know, don't be afraid, the sky is blue and the sky is daylight, presumably they don't dare to mess around, you just don't know, don't always look at it, it will surprise them." ”

Cuiliu nodded: "Yes, don't worry, madam." ”

Li Yuejiao arranged the affairs at home, and when she walked out of the courtyard gate, she glanced at the closed gate opposite through her mask.

It seems that she should ask Xue Zhen for two reliable nursing homes.

*

Li Yuejiao, Yun Tuan and Fu Nian took a rented sheep cart and went to Mahang City.

Mahang Market is a very prosperous street, and there are two small inns on it, and even Jin Nian's car is rented from the car shop here.

It is said that it is a "horse shop", but in fact all kinds of cattle are sold, but there are no horses, but there are a few shops selling saddles, whips and other horse harnesses, and a few blacksmith shops are also opened here, and there is a big "official" character outside the door, which means that they are officially allowed to do this for a living.

Therefore, half of the people who came to Mahang City were soldiers of the Zhenbei Army.

Li Yuejiao looked at the street scene that she had never seen in the capital through the car curtain, and discussed with the clouds with great interest.

But by the time the sheep cart passed through the market and further west, she was already visibly feeling a gradual depression.

There were beggars on the roadside, most of the shops were dilapidated, and the people who came in and out were not as sturdy as they were seen elsewhere, and most of them were in rags.

Most of the so-called carpenter shops on this street have closed, and only three are still open, all of which are closed.

Li Yuejiao frowned, and even the clouds were speechless in the face of the scene outside.

Eventually, the sheep cart stopped in front of one of Liu Kee's carpenters' shops.

Li Yuejiao got out of the car and walked into the shop against the wind.

In the store, a capable middle-aged man is teaching two slightly thin children to cook.

Li Yuejiao looked around the store, there was little outside, but the inside was very clean, with a few pieces of furniture commonly used by ordinary people.

And what she cares about the most is the various tools around the middle-aged man, all of which are beautifully taken care of, and he is obviously a person who cherishes things.

Li Yuejiao nodded secretly in approval, and Fu Nian, who is also a carpenter, saw those tools and looked at the eyes of the middle-aged man, and he had more respect for his peers.

But when the middle-aged man saw that there were thousands of distinguished guests like Li Yuejiao entering the store, instead of the joy of the distinguished guests, he frowned vigilantly and asked:

"Ma'am, do you want to make furniture?"

Li Yuejiao lifted the curtain of her coat and hung it on the side of her hat, smiling kindly, the dimples on her face were a little deeper than when she entered the door:

"There are a few things in my house that are not very good and need to be fixed."

Her smile can always make people relax, even if it is a strange middle-aged man, half of his vigilance will be dissipated when he smiles at her, and then listening to her kind and angry voice, and the other half of his vigilance will be almost gone.

Therefore, even though the man still wondered why she came to the door in person for such a trivial matter, he finally smiled and asked respectfully:

"I see, I don't know what kind of furniture Madame is going to repair? What kind of wood is it? Can you bring it? ”

"A lot, one of the wedges of the bed leg is loose, and the pattern of the grille is broken, and it is of rosewood; The door of the cabinet in the house was loose, and the pattern of the back panel was too ugly, it was elm; The gantry is walnut with a crack, and I don't like the look and want to redo it; And Bogu ......"

Li Yuejiao said a lot in detail, and finally smiled: "In my newly rented yard, things have to be cleaned up because I don't buy them, but I don't know if you can do it?" ”

She was telling the truth.

Although Xue Zhen treated her coldly, he was by no means stingy, and since he decided to cooperate as she said, no matter how calculating, he would not be stingy in food, clothing, housing and transportation.

In fact, Li Yuejiao also knew that Xue Zhen only arrived in Anhua County three or four days earlier than him, and he found such a house to settle her, which must have taken a lot of thought; Although the furniture is not complete, it is indeed a good object - at least it is a workmanship that can make the thousands of noble Anyang Hou Shizi look pleasing to the eye.

However, Li Yuejiao has learned from her family since she was a child, and her vision is higher than that of Xue Zhen, although it may not be possible to do it, but finding fault with woodware is the first thing she learned when she was a child.

The middle-aged man heard her say so much, and he knew that he was a person who knew very well, although he didn't dare to slack off, but the doubts in his heart rose again.

Is it another ingenious ruse?

He pondered his words and pushed back: "Listening to what Madame said, it is a huge deal, but the villain shop is small, and he may not be able to accept this kind of deal......

Before he finished speaking, Li Yuejiao pursed her lips and smiled.

"I only asked you if you could do it, and I didn't say that you should do it with your family," she said, pointing to the street, "I see that there are three carpenters' shops here, and the three craftsmen and your apprentices should always be ......."

Her words came to an abrupt end.

Xue Zhen, who was wearing dark clothes, was standing outside the store and just glanced at her.