Chapter 815 "Negotiation"

The last time Li Nai met Sun Jue was on the Dragon Boat Festival.

Li Nai mentioned the twins to Sun Jue at the end of April. It was at the wine table and after three rounds of wine. Although there was no one else, Sun Jue's reaction was still very fierce.

If it were anyone, it wouldn't be a good thing for someone else to raise a son for several years.

Li Nai said all the good things, but Sun Jue was still the same. Looking at his aggressive appearance, if Li Nai was not his brother-in-law, he would have to fist.

Because he was concerned about his daughter's marriage and was afraid that the trouble would come out, it caused gossip from the Fan family, so Li Nai could only bear it and thought that after marrying his daughter, he would "move it with emotion and reason."

Unexpectedly, Sun Jue could come to the door on his own initiative.

"It's Yushu here!" Li Nai personally greeted him, his face full of warmth.

Sun Jue was wearing 90% new official uniform and gained a little weight. He snorted coldly about his brother-in-law's enthusiasm and followed Li Nai to the living room.

The Cao, Li, and Sun families are just supported by the Cao family, and the Li family is able to compete with the Cao family.

To be honest, the Li family is still superior. Li Nai's grandfather served as the governor of Guangdong in his early years and was appointed as the chief official of the border; Cao Yong's grandfather was the weaving manufacturer of Jiangning and was always a slave to the emperor.

Unlike the introverted and low-key Cao family, Li Xu has always paid the most attention to enjoyment in the Li family. Even though the old house in the capital has not come for several years, the furniture is not ordinary.

Let’s talk about this living room, the screen with sandalwood and jade inlaid, the antique treasures in the gauze, and the calligraphy and paintings of famous artists on the wall. They can be taken out for two of them, which are worth hundreds of taels of silver.

Sun Jue's eyes were full of wealth and honor, and he felt it was so dazzling.

Look at Li Nai's body, a sky-blue crepe robe and a royal blue jacket. The buckle on the jacket is made of sapphires the size of a little finger cover. The cap on his head is a half-inch square sapphire.

The several tasks hanging on the belt were all the Sichuan brocade that showed off Su embroidered, and half of the thin gold chain was faintly exposed. I don’t know if it was a pocket watch chain or something else.

This is just a homely dress, and it costs hundreds of taels of silver to get off this body.

Sun Jue was so upset that he thought that after he went to Beijing to work, his father would only give him a thousand taels of silver every year, and he would not even be able to chew at home, let alone exchanges of favors.

When I wrote to my father, my father was stubborn and asked him to do his best to do his job and not think about learning from others.

Sun Jue only felt bitter. When he first entered Beijing, he also had a noble airline and thought that with the heart of "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" he could achieve something. As a result, he became the "Daozi" mentioned by others. Shangguan was not happy, his colleagues did not like it, and he was excluded for several years.

Only when he knew the "rules" of the Beijing officials and the greatest favors of the world, he realized the feeling of being tight.

Not to mention anything else, as a lieutenant, who is a filial master who is filial to his superiors for "three festivals and two lives", he cannot take advantage of the gift of 10000 silver coins. Not to mention the expenses of relatives, colleagues and fellow villagers, and various social engagements.

As both weaving and building a opera troupe, the Li family spent tens of thousands of taels of silver. As the eldest son of the Sun family, he brought his family to Beijing. He was just a mistress who entered the house and had about twenty servants.

The Cao family has a princess, who is considered a royal relative, and it is impossible to compare with the Li family.

The more Sun Jue thought about it, the more annoyed he became. When he thought about the pair of sisters he had always loved, he felt that he had become a big joke, which was simply a shame to the Sun family.

But he didn't think about it. In fact, his hat was not as green as it was. After all, the sisters followed Li Ding first and then him. After arriving at the Sun family, Sun Jue strictly prohibited the family management, and Cao Ying obeyed his husband's fate. He was extremely virtuous. The sisters were raised in the inner house and had no chance to see the man next to him.

Li Nai sat opposite Sun Jue. Seeing Sun Jue's expression changing, his face became darker and darker, and he was also unsure, afraid that his brother-in-law would come to make trouble.

"Yushu is here. You are Hanyu's uncle and you are still thinking of asking you to be the master of sending you off. The Fan family is the prime minister's mansion, not an ordinary family. I am afraid that I will lose my face if I am short of manpower." Li Nai squeezed out a little smile and said.

As for the Fan family, Sun Jue has long been famous. Apart from the founding assistant Fan Wencheng, Fan Wencheng's sons all became chief officials and governors.

By Fan Shichong's generation, many brothers and nephews were in the court, let alone now he was a member of the Ministry of War. Fan Shichong had just been transferred to the position of Shangshu, and he happened to be his immediate superior.

"Send the dear master?" Sun Jue was quite surprised. No matter what he thought in his heart, he looked down at his replenishment and said politely: "I can't give my niece a decent official, so I'd better forget it."

"What is Yushu saying? You are Yu'er's uncle. If you don't become a gift, who will be a gift? Speaking of which, Yushu is also proud. It has only been a few years since he entered Beijing, and he has been promoted twice. Now he is in the Ministry of War again, and he is just around the corner. Even for me, I hope that Yushu can pull him up in the future." Li Nai said sincerely.

Sun Jue thought that he was now a doctor in the Ministry of War. I don’t know how many people were jealous and felt a little proud. He even said, “Brother Miao Zan, it’s nothing, he just works hard as a job.”

"Now that the northwest uses troops, the Ministry of War has a heavy responsibilities, so Yushu also needs to take care of himself. Although it is a bit harder, when the war is over, he will not be able to get a reward for his merits." Li Nai said.

Sun Jue could no longer hide his lust. He raised his eyebrows and said, "It's hard enough, very trivial. Where can I be free and leisurely when I am at the Ministry of Rites? However, as a minister, being able to share the worries of the emperor is also a blessing. How many people can't get in even if they are squeezed out."

The two of them said these boring words and seemed to be very enthusiastic.

Because Sun Jue was in the Ministry of War, he was far more familiar with the news about the northwest than others, so he had to list them one by one to show off with Li Nai.

Li Nai didn't understand military affairs, so he was confused. He just paid attention to the name of Prince Ping's Prince Nersu, and was also very concerned about the recent situation of the 14th Prince.

When Sun Jue felt thirsty, the guest and the host had been chatting for two quarters of an hour.

Sun Jue's initial anger had disappeared. He remembered his original intention of coming, glanced at Li Nai, and felt a little confused about how to speak.

It’s not that he has shallow eyes and cares about how many money he cares about. This is a big deal about the face of the Sun family. Although those two babies are concubines, they have already been included in the Sun family’s genealogy and become other people’s descendants. If this happens in the future, the Sun family will become the laughing stock of others.

Besides, as a in-laws, what face does the Li family have to let the Sun family support the Li family’s grandson in vain?

When Li Nai heard Sun Jue talk for a while, he felt tired of it, but when he stopped talking, he felt that it was a mess again.

Looking at Sun Jue's desire to speak but stop, Li Nai was about ten years older than him, and was more informative in the world. He knew in his heart that the previous "inducement with profit" was almost the same.

After all, my brother-in-law is already living as a wife who is dowrying and is full of face, which shows that life is difficult.

Thinking of this, Li Nai had lost all his previous uneasiness and felt relieved.

I am not afraid of Sun Jue asking for money, but I am afraid that he doesn't want it. If I ask for money, the matter can be covered up, and I can think of a way to satisfy the face of both families.

Sun Jue picked up the teacup and delivered it to his mouth. He took a sip of the tea, lowered his head and didn't look at Li Nai, and said, "What my brother-in-law said a few days ago, what happened to Zhuangzi? Hum?"

Even if he was thick-skinned, he would just tell the amount of money he wanted.

Seeing that he was hesitant, Li Nai knew that he had always loved face and had a thin face, and then said, "I didn't say that, I'll just be a ritual for the promotion of Yushu. Thirty hectares of land are all first-class fertile land, just near the Tongzhou Wharf, a well field, a farm that guarantees harvest in drought and flood."

Sun Jue said "Oh" and looked interested, saying, "Zhuangzi in Tongzhou? East? In his early years, my father had searched for someone to divine me, saying that my fate was in conflict with the east."

Li Nai was a little confused when he saw his behavior like this.

He took the initiative to mention this Zhuangzi, and immediately rejected it. What was his idea? Could it be that he planned to be real money and silver? It would be too undecent. Besides, this time he came to Beijing to donate officials and marry his daughter, and the money he had spent almost the same amount.

Sun Jue had already put down the teacup in his hand, cleared his throat and said, "Don't there be two villages in Fangshan, my brother-in-law's house?"

"That's the sacrifice to the fields?" Li Nai frowned a little when he heard this. His mother, Han, died of illness a few years ago, and was buried in the Li Family Fencing Garden in Fangshan.

Speaking of which, Li Nai's grandfather's grave was in Tongzhou. Because the nearby villages were all powerful families, the Li family could not buy a wide range of sacrifice fields there, so Li Xu bought several villages in Fangshan.

Li Xu's grave was repaired in the early years. After his first wife, Han, died of illness, he buried it in Fangshan first.

"Isn't that village in Shanghan Village a few miles away from the sacrificial fields? It's not considered a piece of it, right?" Sun Jue's eyes fell on the calligraphy and paintings on the wall, and he said unintentionally.

When Li Nai heard this, he couldn't tell whether he was angry or angry. He stared at Sun Jue and couldn't speak.

The Li family has four villages in the capital, two in Tongzhou and two in Fangshan. Two in Tongzhou, one is the cemetery of his grandfather, with a 20 hectares of land; one is next to the canal wharf, with a 30 hectares of land. Two in Fangshan, with a 80 hectares of land; one is the largest farmhouse in the four places, with a 140 hectares of land.

This 140 hectares of farmland is one of the places with the most profitable industries in the Li family in the capital. The Li family relies on this ​​prosperity to socialize in the capital every year.

In recent years, the land in the capital has been expensive. Even if the farm includes dozens of hectares of mountainous land, even if the hundred hectares of fertile land can be sold for 60,000 taels. With the mountainous land, if the farm is now taking out, 70,000 taels will not be a problem.

Li Nai was doing a good job of "finding" to deal with the affairs of these two nephews, but he never thought that Sun Jue would speak like this.

Sun Jue was still feeling sulky, thinking that the Sun family was a wealthy family in their early years, but their father and grandfather were not good at managing and gradually declined. There were originally several ancestral properties in the capital, but when they were separated in the early years, they had already separated their houses. The one left to his father was only a small village with twenty hectares of land.

The Li family is not considered an industry in the south, but it is just around the capital city management village, with the land reaching almost 300 hectares, which is more than ten times more than the Sun family.

Seeing Li Nai's embarrassment, Sun Jue felt much more relieved.

The Li family shamelessly asked the Sun family to raise a small bastard for a few years. Is it easy to control the Sun family?

It was just a concubine of two maids and concubines. The Sun family had legitimate sons and legitimate sons, so they were not short of these two children. If Li Ding had not had these two little bastards, the incense would have been cut off.

Although Li Nai is the eldest son of the Li family, he is not the one who can make a decision with Li Xu. He has already mentioned the "gift" of Sun Jue in Tongzhou Zhuangzi in his letter to Suzhou, and Li Xu also agreed to him do this.

The village in Fangshan is the largest property of the Li family in the capital, and Li Nai did not dare to take charge of dealing with this village without his father's consent.

Both of them were silent, and the room was so quiet that they were afraid of others.

But there was a housekeeper. I didn't know that the two of them were in a stalemate in the room. They walked to the door and reported that there was a guest coming.

Today, when we set up a wedding banquet, the Li family members and relatives in the capital were sent to the juniors to help.

Li Nai had no smile, waved his hand to send the housekeeper down, and said to Sun Jue: "Yushu, my father bought the two villages in Fangshan in his early years as a sacrifice. The farm in the middle was the property of General Liu of the Inlaid White Banner, and his father had always been thinking about buying it. Because General Liu has been in office for many years and is not in the capital, the matter was delayed."

Although he didn't say it clearly, the polite rejection in this sentence was sure. Sun Jue felt that he couldn't hold on his face, so he raised his head and looked at Li Nai with a cold face.

Li Nai knew that he was lonely and was afraid that he would be so sad. After thinking about it, he said, "If Yushu thinks that Zhuangzi in Tongzhou is small, then do this. Do you think it's okay? There are two houses on the Gulou Street, which are also the Li family's property. In a year, the rental income can be worth a thousand taels, which is considered to add pocket money to Yushu."

Sun Jue could no longer sit still, and stood up from the chair with a "swish" and said with a sneer: "Brother-in-law, don't you despise me like a merchant, otherwise why would you still learn from merchants to bargain? I dare not accept my brother-in-law's value. Even if I don't come today, I'd better forget it."

After saying that, without waiting for Li Nai to react, he had already left his seat and walked out with great strides.

Seeing that he was determined, Li Nai had to follow him and said, "Yushu, they are all his own family, so let's discuss it carefully."

However, Sun Jue didn't even look at him. He drank his own Changsui and rode his horse away.

Looking at Sun Jue's back, Li Nai stomped his feet hard, not knowing whether he hated his younger brother for leaving such trouble or complained about Sun Jue's greed.

Sun Jue was really angry.

Who doesn’t know what a wealthy family is like? Is it really easy to bully him if he chooses a small farmer to fool him?

Thinking of the two little bastards who shamed the Sun family, Sun Jue felt a sense of anger in his heart.

When he returned home, he went straight to the inner house and ordered someone to bring the two concubines.

Seeing that his face was not good, Cao Ying served him to change his official uniform. He felt that he was kicking him and did not dare to breathe.

At this moment, the old lady had already brought the twin illegitimate sons over.

These two children were born in the summer of the 53rd year of Kangxi. They are six years old this year and have begun to enlighten themselves with the Master.
To be continued...