Chapter 268: Selling Daughters
"It's so cold, how troublesome is it to worry about this? These people can see if they want to see it, and if they don't want to see it, they will go back, and no one dares to take it to Yu
Ji Xun said as he tightened the mink cloak with pity on his wife's face and held her in his arms.
The cloak on her body was specially ordered to be made in the palace needlework room, with a high-quality texture and fur collar, which made Shen Yuyu's little face more delicate and beautiful.
Shen Yuyan took Ji Xun's slender and white hand, played with his fingers, and said unhurriedly: "Since you have become the Night Princess, you will inevitably deal with these ladies and young ladies, and you can't hide, right?"
"That's right." Ji Xun nodded, wrapped Shen Yuyu's small hand in the middle, pressed against her smooth and tender forehead, and said a little apologetically, "It's embarrassing, none of these women in the back house have anything to deal with." ’
"Poof~~" Shen Yuyu smiled easily, "Will they be more terrifying than dead corpses?" I don't believe I can't deal with it, Ah Ran can rest assured. ’
"Hmm." Ji Xun responded sullenly, and the hot and humid kiss was gently imprinted on her forehead, and he doted, "If anyone dares to embarrass Yu Yu, Yu Yu doesn't have to be polite to them~~'
"Husband, don't worry, Yu Yu is a businessman, will he let himself suffer?"
"That's good." His woman's integrity and kindness don't mean that she is weak and easy to bully, and he doesn't seem to need to worry so much. After a moment of silence, he said: "There are few people in the house, and there is only one day to prepare, is it too late?"
"Doesn't the world firm have four restaurants in the capital? Just summon those four chefs into the house and arrange for them to cook. Saying that, he raised his pretty face and said proudly, "How good is it that you can also advertise our restaurant?"
"This girl is full of business experience." Ji Xun pinched her little nose, "After a while, ask Manager Yang to hand over the key to the treasury in the mansion to you, and in the future, the palace will be in full charge of Yu Yu."
Shen Yuyu smiled sweetly: "Well, I will definitely take care of the Night King's Mansion and take care of my husband."
"It's hard work." He pecked her charming little mouth lightly, "When I enter the palace in a while, I will go to the Penglai Restaurant by the way, and tell them to close for a day today, and all of them will enter the Night King's Mansion to be dispatched." ”
After clarifying this, Ji Xun called the head Yang in the mansion over.
Manager Yang was waiting from afar with a box in his hand early in the morning, and handed over the account books and warehouse keys in the house to Shen Yuyu.
"Manager Yang is his own person, just tell him if there is anything." Ji Xun explained a few words, and went to the palace after breakfast.
After Ji Xun left, Shen Yuyu asked Manager Yang to call all the subordinates in the house to take a look, there were only fifty people, except for a few fathers-in-law, the others were all florists and mothers-in-law who were in charge of wine sweeping.
"This is a huge palace, just such a small number of people?" Bai Yixue, who was teaching Ji Feng to practice kung fu next to him, leaned over and muttered.
Zhang Neng hurriedly came over and explained: "His Royal Highness the Night King used to be in the military camp all the year round, and only some florists and mothers-in-law were left in the house, and after returning to Beijing, the queen wanted to reward some maids into the mansion several times, but His Royal Highness refused."
Others reward others naturally as other people's henchmen, who dares to ask for it? Shen Yu made it clear.
But the manpower in the house is really not enough to hold a feast, and there are no maidservants who serve the food.
Shen Yuyu was in a dilemma, and the father-in-law led Princess Wei Jinyan of Leyang in, with nearly fifty maids and grandmothers behind him.
"Imperial sister-in-law." Father-in-law Leyang came over with a grin and grabbed Shen Yuyu's arm affectionately, "Thirty maidservants, twenty mothers-in-law, half of them are from the princess's mansion, and half are from the Xuanwang Mansion, they can all be called with confidence." ”
Shen Yuyu said, "I was just worried that there was no one in the house, so the imperial sister sent it over, and it rained in time." As he spoke, he called Manager Yang over and asked him to arrange these maids and grandmothers, and then beckoned Princess Leyang to come over for tea.
Wei Jinyan took a sip of tea: "Father-in-law Fang said that there is a banquet in the mansion tonight?" The imperial sister-in-law has just entered Beijing, so there is no need to be so anxious. She was worried that someone would be unkind and embarrassed her imperial sister-in-law at the banquet.
Shen Yuyan smiled lightly, "Sister Jinyan, don't worry, although your imperial sister-in-law was born in the countryside, she has been to Daqi and the Western Regions, and she can still cope with a feast." "I haven't watched a lot of modern costume dramas, so it's good to copy and use them at that time.
"It's nothing else, it's just that if a lady asks the imperial sister-in-law to perform a talent or something, the imperial sister-in-law will dance a set of swords, and that is also a talent." Of course, she didn't mean to look down on Shen Yuyu, and kindly reminded her.
There is suddenly a commoner princess in the royal family, and there will definitely be people with bad intentions to do things.
Shen Yuyan smiled and said calmly: "As the host of the banquet, where do you need to show your talents to everyone?" If anyone dares to coax this princess to perform her talents, this princess will invite her out of the house. ”
"Yes, yes, yes, do it like this, the imperial sister-in-law is mighty." Unexpectedly, his sister-in-law was so tough, Wei Jinyan looked admiring.
After talking for a while, Wei Jinyan went back to the princess's mansion, and Shen Yuyan pulled Bai Yixue and Zhang Neng to start the banquet.
Taihua Street, west of the capital, is inhabited by poor people, and on both sides of the dirt road are low, sloping wooden houses, and the occasional horse-drawn carriage passes by, and the dust is flying.
At this time, sitting in a small gray courtyard on the side of the road, Shen Zuorong has lived here with his daughter, niece, and Shen Lingling for more than a month.
They didn't know that the prince's marriage would be postponed for so long, and even later got the news that the second princess of Daqi had become a concubine Teng to marry, and she went to the royal palace to ask for a meeting in frustration, and was blasted out.
In the disaster year, the price is expensive, the silver on the body is about to run out, and the weather is getting colder and colder, and it is desperate to live in this dilapidated courtyard that is ventilated on all sides and cannot even afford charcoal.
Shen Zuorong moved his mind to sell Shen Lingling and Shen Xiaoli, and asked Mrs. Qian next door to inquire about which house to ask for a girl early in the morning.
It was a good morning sun, but at noon there was snow and snot so cold that I could only pick up some firewood and make a fire in the courtyard and eat it around the baked potatoes.
"Yo~~ Roasting fire!" Mrs. Qian entered the courtyard with a smile on her face.
"Isn't it? It was too cold on this day, and it was estimated that it was going to snow heavily. Shen Zuorong shrunk his neck and tightened the old cotton jacket on his body, which was dirty.
The north is not as good as the south, there is a shortage of water, they have not bathed and washed their hair for more than a month, and if they can't think of a way to get some money, they are really desperate.
At this time, seeing Mrs. Qian coming, Shen Zuorong seemed to see hope, and stood up busily.
"Aunt Qian came over to roast the fire." He moved to the side.
Mrs. Qian didn't sit down, her eyes swept to the three girls who were shaving potatoes in the charcoal fire, "Brother Shen, didn't you say before that there were girls who were willing to go into a big family to be a girl?" Now here's your chance. ”
Shen Zuorong suddenly showed surprise: "Really? Aunt Qian, tell me quickly, which big family wants to buy a girl?"