Chapter 28: Chrysanthemums and Ginkgo

"Why are chrysanthemums so expensive this year? You old dog, don't think that you can touch the money and simply take an extra sum from the house, right? ”

In Ning Anbo's mansion, Xie Lin'an slapped the signing slip in front of him on the table, and only looked at the housekeeper coldly with his eyes.

This steward used to be in charge of repairing the house in the house, if it wasn't for no one in the house, Xie Linan would not have sent him to buy chrysanthemums.

The steward stood aside, his head was covered with cold sweat, and his face was sad:

"Lord Shizi, you kicked the little one back into the mother's womb and let the villain hang two hundred more guts, and the little one didn't dare to be greedy for the money in the house, the villain was really scared when he saw the chrysanthemums in the market, and thought that the chrysanthemums on the street this year were all gold. I heard that the emperor in the palace is in good mood this year, not only like chrysanthemums, but also the chrysanthemums to a few elders, this Yanjing City has a face of people have sent a ruthless buy chrysanthemums, the prince you said that there are guests in the house to come, let the small buy good chrysanthemums back, now the best chrysanthemums are at this price. ”

Xie Lin'an's expression was still ugly.

Although he is a gentleman who is idle, Xie Lin'an is not a delicate son who does not know about general affairs, since his father lost his errand, the Xie family has been eating the old book of his ancestors over the years, although he has not reached the field of selling houses and land, but his wife's dowry, the valuable calligraphy and paintings in Shen's hands have long been cleaned up, and he also knows that his mother is obviously delegating power to her daughter-in-law, but in fact, she is just letting the two daughters-in-law use their own money to supplement the family. Now that his father is in prison, he is reluctant to drink the flower wine in order to send the money out everywhere, and his mother loves the second brother, the second brother is in Xuanfu and Zhang Dusi befriended, he planned to send only five hundred taels to the past, but his mother had to say that he would send 1,600 taels, 1,500 taels to make friends with Zhang Dusi, and 100 pieces of silver to reward people's expenses. The mother was still lying on the bed and couldn't get up, Xie Linan could only respond, and later the mother said that she had packed some clothes and wanted to bring them to the second brother, Xie Linan couldn't help but sneer in his heart, what kind of good clothes can't be bought with so much money in the second brother's hands, and he has to bring them from the house? It's just that he stuffed money in private, and he had to guard against his eldest son.

The second brother's letters were one after another, and he said that he was quite appreciated by Zhang Dusi, and he could ask Zhang Dusi to introduce Zhuo Shengquan, a waiter from the Criminal Department, as his father. A-Niang wanted to send another 5,000 taels of silver to Xuanfu, but Xie Linan refused.

Zhang Dusi's Xie Lin'an had heard of his reputation, and giving so much silver at one time would only feed his appetite.

Moreover, now that the account in the house is empty, the income sent by each Zhuangzi this year has been subsidized, and another 5,000 taels of silver have been taken out, he is only afraid that the Great Ning Anbo Mansion will have to sell the Zhuangzi, sell the land and sell the utensils before the house is raided.

But his mother Sun insisted on this, the two had a dispute, and finally the old lady who had lived in the house for a long time sent someone to send twenty gold ingots and a white jade Bodhisattva statue wrapped in embroidered gold cloth, and the big girl who sent things said with a smile: "The old lady said, as long as the family is in one place, there is no one who can't get by, money and wealth are external things, the family is a difficult time, and finding a way out is a way out. ”

The old lady sent her belongings directly, what could Xie Lin'an do? Knowing that the Bodhisattva statue was a treasure at the bottom of the box given by the Princess of England when the old lady got married, Xie Linan personally held it and sent it back to the back house, and then went back to the room to ask his wife for money.

His wife took a set of red envelopes with her head and face with red eyes, and finally made up another 3,000 taels of silver to Xie Lin'an.

Five thousand taels of silver plus the small burden that Xie Lin'an's mother took out, Xie Lin'an found the head of the guards in the house and brought three strong men to escort him together.

The head of the guard listened to his command and said: "Lord Shizi, now many people outside the mansion are staring at the villain in our mansion before leaving, there are few people in the mansion, if the villain leaves again, I am afraid that it will be difficult to deal with something in the mansion, and it is better to give the second young master money to Master Wu." ”

The leader said that the martial master's surname is Shao, when he was young, he was the little banner of Jinyiwei, and later committed a crime and was not only dismissed, but also broke a leg with a cane of eighty, but fortunately, his martial arts were still there, so he was favored by his uncle Xie Wenyuan, and invited him to come to the house as a martial arts master, in addition to training guards, he also taught Xie Linan and several of his brothers boxing and kicking.

It's a pity that the children of Bofu who grew up in the splendid pile have long lost the temperament to make meritorious contributions, and they have no ability to endure hardships.

Xie Lin'an thought about it and thought it would be okay, so he asked Master Wu to take someone to deliver the money.

Master Wu

The master of the front foot Wu left, and the person sent to Zhuangzi on the back foot finally sent a letter saying that Shen was sick in Zhuangzi, and found a doctor to come and see, not only saying that he could not move now, but also prescribed a lot of medicine, Xie Lin'an hurriedly asked the doctor to send the medicinal materials together, and asked the messenger to tell the steward in Zhuangzi that he had to take Shen back to the mansion no matter what, even if the ginseng was hanging on his life, he had to take it back.

There are expenses inside and out, and there is no money in the family's account, and it is full of money and credit to collect debts.

When he walked out of the account room, Xie Lin'an looked up at the sky, and he didn't know how the Ning Anbo Mansion with fine clothes and food when he was a child got to such a field.

Finally, there is good news in the midst of countless bad news, and it is still great news.

The prince of Yingjun wants to enter Beijing! Also come to visit the old lady!

Seeing the letter from the Yingjun Palace, the first thing Xie Lin'an thought of was that with the face of the Yingjun King, even if his father was really questioned, the title of Ning'an Bofu would be saved!

With this thought in his heart, Xie Lin'an mobilized everyone in the mansion to raise up the dead leaves in the lotus pond, the dead leaves in the lotus pond had to be fished, the mansion had to be sprinkled and swept everywhere, and the old things had to be replaced, and there was no money, so he asked his wife to sell some jewelry.

The money to buy chrysanthemums was taken out of his private room by gritting his teeth.

As a result, a good chrysanthemum can now be sold for twenty taels! The two hundred taels of silver he squeezed out, not to mention building a flower tower, ten pots of flowers are cold in horizontal and vertical rows!

"Why don't you find someone to build a wooden shelf, and then get some ...... Fill in the gaps with bamboo leaves and stuff, and then put the flowers on the line. Anyway, for these two hundred taels of silver, you can make me two flower towers, no matter what it looks like inside, you must look decent outside, and you will make it for me today! ”

The steward became more and more sorrowful, and almost cried when he withdrew.

Xie Lin calmed down and wanted to continue reading the account book, but he felt bored.

Just a few pots of chrysanthemums, when will their Xie family be embarrassed by a few pots of chrysanthemums to this point?!

"It's okay, it's okay, if you don't come to the palace, we welcome the prince of Yingjun to the house, and our Xie family will pass this hurdle! If the second brother can rely on Zhang Dusi to catch Zhuo Shilang, I will be able to find a real shortage in the future. ”

Consoling himself like this, he slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity.

"Lord Shizi! The prince is not good! The silver sent to Xuanfu was robbed by bandits! Even the martial master was kidnapped, and only one guard escaped with his life and came back! ”

"Poof."

Xie Lin'an took a long breath and almost vomited blood.

On the Zhuangzi outside the city, Zhao Surui almost vomited blood.

He knew that the person who used the Xie family to send money out for the second time must be powerful, but he didn't expect this person to be really powerful, and he injured four or five people in a row, and Tu Nan, who still led people to look at the wind, turned around and shot with Pei Feng to subdue people.

Tunan's arm was also slashed.

can make Zhao Surui's heart hurt, is Tu Nan's hand a hand? That's his grilled elbow, crab noodles, lamb dumplings, chestnut cake!

This person slashed down and injured Tu Nan's hand, and what hurt him was Emperor Zhaode's mood!

"There's no need to tie it up, the person who dared to hurt me will cut him down directly."

Sitting on a chair in the courtyard, Zhao Surui, who was holding Shen Shiqing's skin, looked ruthless.

Ah Chi looked at him with slightly red eyes, knowing that his girl was really angry, but he thought that the girl was distressed by Tu Nan, and hurriedly persuaded:

"Girl, don't be angry, Tu Nan's injury didn't hurt his muscles and bones, just take care of it for a few days, it was Master Shao who recognized Tu Nan and collected his strength, he didn't know what the girl thought, he was just doing his duty."

"Humph!" Zhao Surui glanced at the man who was tied to the ground, "Do you know this person?" ”

The maid wearing the navy blue armor had a smile on her face, and said coaxingly: "Girl, you forgot, Master Shao is the martial master in Ning Anbo's mansion, when the girl came out of Uncle Xie's study, Master Shao happened to pass by, saying that his daughter wanted to learn calligraphy, and asked the girl what books she could read, the girl not only gave the book list but also gave Master Shao a set of calligraphy, Master Shao has been reading this, this time we moved the book out or Master Shao helped us find the person." ”

Zhao Surui raised his eyebrows, this Shen Sanru, there is nothing but a good heart.

"The villain injured the Tunan girl next to the young lady, and the young lady wants to kill or kill the villain, and she has nothing to say."

The words are hard.

Zhao Surui snorted coldly, and took out a silver ticket of one hundred taels from his hand and gave it to Pei Feng:

"If you are injured this time, one person will give ten taels of silver, and then get a pig and send it to each of their families, and each person who goes out with you this time will be rewarded with another sheep, so that they will know that they will not be treated badly if they follow me."

Peifeng should be down.

Zhao Surui looked at the martial master named Shao Zhiqing again.

Shao Zhi was a young man in his forties, dressed in gray-brown shorts stained with ash, with a torn cotton gown on his coat, not very tall, but he could see that his body was in shape and his eyes were bright, although he was a little unkempt, but he was not a sloppy man who was annoying.

The only pity is that one of his legs is lame, otherwise he would have been able to do something in various guards.

"You can avoid the death penalty, but you will not escape the living sin." Glancing at the lame leg, Zhao Surui was about to ask someone to break Shao Zhiqing's other leg, but someone stopped him again.

"Girl, I'm just a few flesh wounds, it's okay, the top priority at the moment is to redeem the silver ticket as soon as possible, in case Ning Anbo Mansion reports to the official, and the government relies on the silver ticket to check it."

There is some truth to this.

No matter which silver number is redeemed, it is impossible not to attract attention.

We have to think of a proper solution.

Supporting his face with one hand, Zhao Surui looked around, and finally looked at Tu Nan's arm that had just been wrapped.

Tunan was injured.

The three meals and snacks a day are not as good as before.

scraped so nearly 10,000 taels of silver from Ning Anbo's mansion, and he could be regarded as saving a family foundation for Shen Sanfu.

Shen Sanfu put Ning Anbo in prison in the palace, which can be regarded as a bad breath.

If this is the case, Shen Sanwaste can still be mixed into a waste...... That's it, he can be regarded as having fun, no matter how wasteful Shen San is, he can also make her live better than before.

After all, he was the emperor.

As soon as the north wind blew, the golden ginkgo leaves fell to the ground.

The day after tomorrow is the Chung Yeung Festival.

Zhao Surui sighed.

This drama of "a weak abandoned woman stepping on Bofu", he was tired of Emperor Zhaode.

"I remember that the people in Ning Anbo's Mansion wanted to take your girl back, saying that Princess Yueqing wanted to see your girl."

His tone was light, and his expression became cold.

"In other words, as long as you girls go to Princess Yueqing's mansion, you can see the princess."

Isn't this a ready-made road where you can see Shen Sanru?

Zhao Surui raised his hand and touched the plain bead silver hairpin on his head.

"Write a post for me, and I'll go to Princess Yueqing's mansion tomorrow to see you."

Another gust of wind rose, and a few more golden ginkgo leaves fell to the ground.

One hand picked up the ginkgo biloba leaf from the white jade railing and held it in his hand to enjoy it.

"Emperor, what you told your servants to find someone to make has already been obtained."

The four rats carefully opened an embroidered box and sent it to Shen Shiqing.

Shen Shiqing looked at it and nodded:

"Well done."

After receiving the praise of the emperor, the four rats lowered their heads and became more and more respectful:

"Emperor, the king of Yingjun has ...... these days"

"What's going on in Princess Yueqing's mansion these days?"

The four rats were stunned for a moment, and replied: "The eldest princess of Yueqing still studies Jinshi calligraphy and painting every day, and then sends people to Ning'anbo Mansion every day to pick up people. ”

"Did you get it?"

"Not yet."

While he was talking, a chicken hurriedly ran over:

"Emperor, Princess Yueqing's Mansion sent a secret fold."

"The day after tomorrow is Chongyang, and he really refuses to wait."

Shen Shiqing smiled, her fingers loosened, and the golden ginkgo biloba leaf fell to the ground and was stepped on by her.