Chapter 46 Unable to make ends meet

Since that day, the business cooperation between the Junwang Mansion and the Wind Snow Pavilion has been completely broken.

No matter how many times Lu Shangxuan came to visit, every time the door of Fengxue Pavilion was closed, he had to eat this closed door.

I don't know what kind of weird steps Qin Mu made at that time, Lu Shangxuan couldn't catch up with him with a lot of effort, so he could only watch him leave the county king's mansion like this.

"If only this matter hadn't been heard by Boss Qin that day, it would have been heard by others, and those sachets!"

As soon as she mentioned this stubble, Mrs. Lu was so angry that her hands trembled, and she couldn't help but point to Lu Shangxuan beside the bed and scolded: "I just said that she is a broom star, a mourning star, every time as long as she is present, nothing good will happen, you don't listen, you have to mix with her!" ”

"Alright, mother! Why do you blame all the blame on Lian'er? ”

Lu Shangxuan replied with some impatience in his tone, he had listened to Old Madam Lu muttering these words back and forth for a long time in the past few days, and he really couldn't listen to them anymore.

However, his attitude made Old Madam Lu even more dissatisfied, and her right hand slammed the futon vigorously, making a muffled sound.

"Isn't it? At the beginning, how many people at the birthday banquet saw my jokes and laughed at the fact that our county king's mansion couldn't even teach a child, and now, as soon as she comes back to the mansion, our business with Fengxue Pavilion will be gone, and we have to lose so much silver, ouch, my heart hurts when I think of this! ”

The more Mrs. Lu pondered, the more she felt that something was wrong, she stared at Lu Shangxuan directly, and said in a trembling voice: "By the way, there is also Na Yiyuan, why are those subordinates living in the past fine, and she caught fire not long after she entered?" ”

"That's just because of the dryness of autumn, maybe the people didn't pay attention to it for a while, and they gave it when they burned the leaves," Lu Shangxuan's eyes also flashed a trace of doubt, but he still said a few good words to Lu Lianzhi: "Mother, Lian'er was raised by you since she was a child, and she also gave birth to Dongge'er for me, can you not blame her for all the fault!" ”

It's okay that Dong Ge'er was not mentioned, but as soon as Dong Ge'er was mentioned, Mrs. Lu's face became even more pale.

She was so angry that she was sick in bed for these days, and Brother Dong never came to visit her once, but every day she could hear the subordinates come to report Brother Dong'er's nonsense in the yard.

That's her own grandson!

"Ahem, ahem! You, don't mention that unfilial grandson, he just followed his useless mother, and didn't take me as a grandmother in his eyes at all! ”

Old Madam Lu coughed violently, and the maid hurriedly brought a bowl of Chinese medicine for her to drink.

As a result, as soon as the Chinese medicine was delivered to her mouth, Mrs. Lu immediately noticed that something was wrong, she frowned and spit the potion back into the plate, and scolded angrily: "What is added here, why is the taste so bitter!" ”

The maid knelt down and stammered: "Hui, if you go back to the old lady, it is probably because the hundred-year-old ginseng in it has been replaced by ordinary ginseng whiskers, so the taste will become astringent." ”

Hearing this, Lu Shangxuan's eyes widened, and he said to the maid: "Bold!" Who allows you to replace the master's medicinal herbs at will! ”

"No, young master, the slave and maid are wronged," the maid was so frightened that her eyes turned red, and she shouted again and again: "These medicinal materials are all handed over to the slave by the big housekeeper to be decocted, and the slave and maid don't know anything!" ”

"Go and call the chief butler and ask for clarification."

Lu Shangxuan raised his hand impatiently, and a subordinate quickly stepped back and went to find the chief butler.

In less than a moment, the chief butler Chen Xiyuan hurriedly arrived, first bowed to Lu Shangxuan, and then saluted Mrs. Lu who was lying on the bed.

"Old lady, young master."

Seeing that Lu Shangxuan was just sitting there without saying a word, looking like he was in a very bad mood, Chen Xiyuan was worried in his heart, so he had to cautiously ask with a smile: "I don't know why the young master called the little one over?" ”

"What's the matter? Cheap slave, you secretly changed the old lady's medicinal materials, secretly took them to fill your own pockets, and dared to ask the master what was going on! ”

Lu Shangxuan smashed the bowl of hot Chinese medicine in front of Chen Xiyuan, as if he wanted to vent the anger that had been holding back in his heart.

"Changed the herbs?"

Chen Xiyuan was stunned for a moment when he said this, and then he reacted suddenly, and he also cried out for wrongdoing.

"No, young master, you listen to the little one explain to you, this original hundred-year-old mountain ginseng needs three taels of gold, but it can be bought for half a catty in exchange for ordinary ginseng, so the small one bought ordinary ginseng for medicine!"

It's okay not to explain, this explanation made Mrs. Lu pat the mattress angrily, and reprimanded Chen Xiyuan loudly: "The old body thinks that he was not thin on you in the past, why should the cheap slave buy this cheap ginseng to harm the old body!" ”

"It's not a small deliberate attempt to buy cheap ginseng, but it's a ......"

"And what!"

Seeing this, Lu Shangxuan felt a little uneasy in his heart, so he waved his hand and asked the other subordinates to retreat, leaving only Chen Xiyuan alone.

And Chen Xiyuan swallowed and vomited for a while, and finally had to whisper: "Young master, old lady, the money available in the house is getting less and less at the moment, and there is really no way to use food, clothing, housing and transportation in the future like before." ”

"Less and less money? Where did all the money go? ”

The uneasiness in Lu Shangxuan's heart became stronger and stronger, and he asked Chen Xiyuan to stand up and reply.

"Originally, the mansion could get a fixed amount of silver from the Fengxue Pavilion every month, but after Boss Qin broke off the business cooperation with the mansion, that silver money ......."

"Wind and Snow Pavilion, it's Wind and Snow Pavilion again! Could it be that without that damn Qin Mu, the county king's mansion would not be able to survive? ”

Lu Shangxuan's anger burned even more vigorously, and he waved all the things on the table in his hand to the ground in one fell swoop.

The porcelain "crackled" and fell all over the ground, which frightened Chen Xiyuan's heart, and he didn't dare to take a breath.

"Get down!"

"Yes, it's the young master."

Where did Chen Xiyuan dare to stay in the house, and hurriedly got up and retreated.

When only Lu Shangxuan and Mrs. Lu were left in the room, Mrs. Lu's voice sounded a little panicked: "Son, that cheap slave is true, the house is really gone?" ”

Lu Shangxuan grinded his teeth viciously, knowing that what Chen Xiyuan said was not alarmist, so he responded impatiently: "I don't know very well, so let's go and check." ”

With that, he was ready to get up and go to the bookkeeper to ask what was going on.

However, Old Madam Lu suddenly remembered something, and immediately stopped Lu Shangxuan, and said eagerly: "By the way, can you know about this matter?" ”

It's okay not to mention Dou Lianyi, but as soon as she is mentioned, Lu Shangxuan's mood is even worse.

(End of chapter)