That night, after Xu Junze came back from outside, he entered Lin Shuran's room, and saw that she seemed to have washed, but she hadn't gone to bed yet, and was reading by candlelight, which was a geographical chronicle of the Jin Dynasty.

He came in, with a cold winter breath, she looked up, and saw him slowly approaching the charcoal fire and sitting down, Chunxi hurriedly came in with hot tea, and then closed the door and went out.

Xu Junze took a sip of hot tea and sat there without making a sound, but Lin Shuran sensed that he seemed to have something on his mind, so he put down the book, walked up to him and asked, "General, is there something wrong?" ”

Xu Junze slowly raised his head and looked at her intently, as if a shining star had risen in his deep eyes, as if he had a temperature all of a sudden.

"We're married, you should call me husband, lady!" Xu Junze put down the teacup in his hand, and then stood up, his momentum suddenly strengthened and approached, causing Lin Shuran's upper body to turn back.

Could it be that just because of a title made him ponder for a long time? Lin Shuran was a lot shorter than Xu Junze, so he had to raise his neck and naturally replied: "Yes, husband!" ”

Xu Junze seemed to have guessed that Lin Shuran would listen to him obediently like this, because since the two first got married and met, she was like wearing a deliberately disguised mask in front of her, she shouted softly and gently, but there was no emotional temperature in her eyes.

Suddenly, Xu Junze had the idea of teasing Lin Shuran, he bent down and approached her, his eyes were at eye level with her, and the tip of his nose was almost touching hers, this sudden intimacy made Lin Shuran startled, and he almost fell backwards with an unstable center of gravity, but fortunately, Xu Junze moved quickly and grabbed her small waist.

The temperature from the man's generous palm made Lin Shuran's heart beat uncontrollably "thump", her face turned red, she quickly got up to avoid him, and pretended to be calm and walked to the dresser next to the bed, trying to calm down the strange emotions in her heart.

Xu Junze put a slight smile on the corner of her eyes behind her can't see, it turned out that she didn't feel for herself at all, but now she would subconsciously avoid it, which made him still care in his heart, and he was very concerned, he had always had very little contact with women before, and he didn't know how to make her start to really care about her, after all, he had begun to care about her.

Xu Junze pondered for a moment and then his face returned to his previous cold and solemn expression, he did not allow the private relationship between men and women to occupy too much of his mind, and after sitting down again, he said lightly: "Tomorrow I will take 50,000 taels of silver from the public office!" ”

The Xu family only has Xu Junze's vein, and it is said that "Gongzhong" is actually the treasury of the General's Mansion, Lin Shuran showed a look of surprise on his face, and hurriedly asked, "Is something wrong?" Why do you have to take so much silver at once? ”

Lin Shuran is now the head of the family, she knows that there are more than 60,000 taels of silver on the books of the General's Mansion, counting up, Xu Junze, as a first-class general, is not low, plus the usual royal rewards and the income from the field and shops, it is not a small year, but the Xu family's family is only more than 60,000 taels of silver, which is really not much.

"Nothing happened, I will take some silver from the public at this time in the future, don't worry, I won't starve you and the child!" Xu Junze didn't explain too much, and after speaking, he got up and went to wash, leaving Lin Shuran, who was more curious about it in his heart.

Fifty thousand taels of silver is not a small amount? Xu Junze: What exactly is he going to do with the silver? Could it be that he still has a home outside? Or is it a debt to someone?

It wasn't until the next day that Xu An came to ask for the key to the treasury, and Lin Shuran learned from his mouth that Xu Junze would take a large amount of silver from the treasury at this time of year, at least half of the family's funds, and last year's Guan took out 70,000 taels, almost emptying the Xu family's family funds, and this year the house finally saved more than 60,000 taels, which was taken away by him again.

"Steward Xu, do you know what the general does with so much silver every year?" Xu Junze doesn't look like a big-handed gentleman, is everyone looking away? Intuition told Lin Shuran that it was not so simple for Xu Junze to take the money.

Xu An shook his head in embarrassment and said that he didn't know what Xu Junze had done with this money, anyway, every year when it came to the Great General's Mansion, it was a little shorter than usual, but fortunately, in these years, no one would take the initiative to give New Year's gifts, and they didn't have to bother to return the gifts, but they saved a lot of family silver.

Lin Shuran heard Xu An say this, and he couldn't cry or laugh a little, could it be that Xu Junze didn't participate in the invitations and banquets of various mansions and didn't interact with other mansions, because he was shy in his pocket, and he wanted to save money and use it elsewhere? It's just that what the hell is he doing with so much silver at once? You must know that he has a special identity, and his every move will cause speculation from the emperor and courtiers.

But after thinking about it, the silver is Xu Junze's own, how he wants to use it, and he has no right to interfere excessively, not to mention that he should not be a person without proportion, and he also said last night that he will not starve himself and his children.

However, Lin Shuran's requirements for life are not "not hungry", before she had nothing to do with the Xu family, it didn't matter if she supported herself and a group of people under her hands, but now she has thirteen more sons at once, as these children grow up day by day, the cost will inevitably get bigger and bigger, and they can't let their food, clothing, housing and transportation be too shabby, how to say that they are also the sons of the general's mansion, and they will all get married and have children in the future, this silver cost is only a lot more, if you can't save a little family business, In the future, I am afraid that no one really wants to marry into the Xu family.

Xu Mingchen and they now call themselves "mother", then she has to take on the responsibility and obligation of a "mother", and she has to save some more family business for them.

"Steward Xu, today's porridge shed must be done, you don't have to worry about the silver, you must not let others think that our General's Mansion is stingy!" Lin Shuran has already made up her mind, after the New Year, she has to plan how to make more money to save her family business, because she has deeply understood a truth since her last life - money is not everything, but no money is everything.

In the next few days, the Zhenguo Mansion and the General's Mansion jointly opened a porridge shed to give porridge inside and outside the city, which was unanimously praised by the people, especially Xu Minghao, the young children of the Xu family, also helped in the cold weather, which greatly changed people's consistent bad impression of them.

After hearing this, the Queen Mother and the Emperor also praised the two families, and also rewarded a lot of good things, and Aunt Chang, the mother in charge of the Queen Mother's side, personally took the reward to meet the Yang family and Lin Shuran of the Zhenguo Mansion.