There was indeed not much silver left at home, and it was not until the next day that Xia Yuan asked for the silver and was about to hire a few subordinates, that he realized that his estimate was still too conservative.

As the mistress of the Xia Mansion, the family's silver is now supervised by Zhao Yuerong, and she, the little housekeeper, is very happy and conscientious.

As a person who has lived a hard life, Xiao Chuzi has the virtue of frugality, and she manages the financial power of the family, Xia Yuan is very relieved.

When Zhao Yuerong took out a box from under the bed, opened the lid, and saw that it only contained a dozen taels of broken silver and hundreds of copper plates, Xia Yuan sighed, "It seems that this subordinate can't be hired, and the husband is still going to hire a doorman, so that no one will find out if there are thieves in the house." ”

Zhao Yuerong bit her lower lip, her expression became very self-reproachful, she felt that it was because she didn't manage it well.

The little self-blaming appearance is very cute, Xia Yuan touched her head, "It has nothing to do with you, these days you only can't get in and out, and it's the New Year, this is even more when it costs money, it's already very good that there are still a dozen taels of silver left in this house, well, you manage it very well, and my husband is very pleased." ”

"Besides, it's not easy to make money, the husband will return to his old business, and then write a book to exchange for some silver."

has been lying flat and rotten for the past few months, Xia Yuan has not picked up a pen to write a book at all, and the reason why he didn't write is very simple.

After he finished the manuscript before, he thought about giving himself a short vacation for a while, and then writing in a few days, but when he was about to pick up the pen, he met the prince to give him silver, and the silver was so much that it corroded his heart of struggle, so he couldn't help but continue to lie flat and rotten, and then he has been lying down until now.

I have to say that lying flat is really comfortable.

On the other hand, he really didn't expect the money at home to be spent so quickly, and he miscalculated, and it was his own problem if he miscalculated.

Xia Yuan silently reflected on himself for a while, and decided to start coding words today, and then sell them to earn silver taels.

But which one to code.

He was thinking about it, when he suddenly heard Wu's mother shouting outside the door: "Young master, someone came to visit him, saying that he came to make amends with a generous gift." ”

Hearing this, Xia Yuan's eyes immediately lit up like a light bulb, he looked up and glanced at Zhao Yuerong, and found that Xiao Yuanzi's eyes were also shining.

"Whoever is so understanding, come and come, and with a generous gift." Xia Yuan walked out excitedly, and suddenly reacted again, make amends?

What kind of sin to pay for?

Forget it, it doesn't matter.

As long as you give a gift, that's my good brother.

Xia Yuan hurriedly came to the front hall, and then he was stunned for a moment, only to see the stuffy gourd eunuch sitting there silently, and there were three wooden boxes next to him.

If you guess correctly, the generous gift is contained in these boxes, although I don't know what it is, but Xia Yuan still can't close his mouth happily, and even looks at this eunuch with a lot of pleasing eyes, and suddenly feels that this Dongchang Governor is actually not so gloomy, but still very cheerful.

Well, if he doesn't laugh.

Seeing Xia Yuan coming in, the stuffy gourd immediately got up, "Our family offended Master Xia in some places yesterday, and today we have specially prepared a generous gift to make amends, and I hope that Master Xia will not have to worry about us." ”

It is difficult for people to feel sincerity when they say such words of reparation with a blank expression, but Xia Yuan really feels it, and he can feel sincerity just by relying on these boxes.

So he said very kindly: "Don't say that, it's me who is wrong first, and my father-in-law must not take it to heart." ”

Stuffy Hulu shook his head, "It's our fault." ”

"Eh, my father-in-law's words are wrong, and there is something wrong with me."

"No, it's our fault."

"I have it too" Xia Yuan still wanted to continue to be polite, just halfway through speaking, seeing that this person seemed to be about to shake his head again, in order to avoid nesting dolls again, he simply said: "Okay, it's your fault." ”

“.”

The gourd was silent for a while, and then said, "I hope Master Xia will take care of him in the future." ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say." Xia Yuan nodded again and again.

Seeing this, he felt that his goal had been achieved, or even overachieved, "Then our family will go back first." ”

“？”

Before Xia Yuan could react, he saw that he had already gotten up and walked out of the front hall, and his movements were quite neat.

Wasn't the Ming Dynasty an era of etiquette?

Shouldn't we have a few more polite words?

After pondering for a while, Xia Yuan didn't care about this problem anymore, and leaned over to open one of the boxes, a pair of small bowls.

The remaining two were opened, one containing a scroll, and the last one containing an inkstone.

There are only three things in three boxes of this size?

He took out the things one by one, put the scroll aside, tapped his fingers on the inkstone with a crisp sound, and then picked up the two small bowls and looked at them, each with a few chickens painted on it.

, this, this is a doucai chicken cup, right?

Xia Yuan didn't know any antiques, but he had still heard of the name of the Doucai Chicken Cup, and he also knew that this thing was worth hundreds of millions, but the one in his hand was a pair.

Rich, rich.

Xia Yuanzheng calmed down suddenly with excitement, as if he had made a fortune but not completely made it, this thing is worth hundreds of millions in the future generations, but in this era.

If he remembers correctly, the full name of this thing is Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup.

The period in which Emperor Cheng lived was only a dozen years away from now, is this thing worth now?

It should be worth it, remember that this thing was fired by Chenghua from the imperial kiln, and Emperor Chenghua also likes to drink with this cup.

But if this thing is taken out and sold, no one will dare to accept it, and who will dare to accept it for royal use?

It can only be passed down as a family heirloom and leave a huge fortune to future generations, provided that it can be passed on to that time.

Carefully put the two cups back into the box, Xia Yuan picked up the other two things, since the cups were antiques, these two must also be good things.

He unfolded the scroll, it was an ancient painting, with mountains and trees, as for how much it was worth, sorry, I don't know.

He didn't even know who the person who painted the painting was, and there was a line of small characters in the blank space next to the mountain peak in the painting, which was very small, so small that he could hardly see it clearly, and vaguely, it seemed that he saw the words Li Tang.

Li Tang?

Is this a personal name? Are you sure it's not the name of a dynasty?

Or is there a painter named Li Tang?

With this thought, Xia Yuan quickly gave up thinking, because this truth touched his blind spot in knowledge, and he was ashamed that there were only a few well-known painters in ancient times he knew.

"Husband, are these generous gifts?"

Hearing this, Xia Yuan couldn't help but turn his head, and then found that Zhao Yuerong had squatted next to him for some reason.

"yes."

“.” Zhao Yuerong looked at the painting, disturbed, didn't know it, and looked down at the pair of bucket chicken cups in the box, with all the bells and whistles, and finally looked at the gray inkstone.

These are generous gifts?

To be honest, it was not what she imagined.

She thought that the generous gift was white flowers.

If Xia Yuan knew her little thoughts, he would definitely have different opinions, he was a scholar, a scholar who regarded money as dung, even if it was a generous gift to make amends, he would be elegant.

Then I took these elegant things and exchanged them for some dung.

(End of chapter)