Chapter 29 Dislike
"Does it win people's hearts?" Ruan Miaomeng in front of the dressing table had already looked very good. She smiled while taking the hairpin on her head: "Our second young lady is also sensible."
"How about that?"
The little maid standing behind her whispered: "My grandma came out of the West Courtyard with an angry look in the afternoon and didn't respond to the actions of the Second Young Master Grandma. However, I heard that the Second Young Master Grandma was delivering food to the Master's yard."
This was interesting. Ruan Miaomeng giggled twice, and a pink face seemed passionate: "As long as she becomes sensible, our lives will be easier, and the rest are ignored."
"Yes." The maid responded and stepped back with her hands down.
Scan the head and face on the table, Ruan Miaomeng picked up a golden hairpin and kissed her, looked at the bronze mirror for a while, sighed with satisfaction, put on her clothes and lay on the gold-inlaid jade pillow, closed her eyes and fell asleep.
She is not stupid and will not engage in those scenes of competing for favor in the yard. With these gold, silver and jewelry, she feels more at ease than having a man.
Main courtyard study room.
Xiao Jingtang smelled some tempting barbecue, mixed with spices from the Western Regions, which attracted the saliva from the people. He couldn't help but put down the account book in his hand and looked up.
"Second Young Master." The housekeeper came in with a plate, with a little embarrassed on his face: "Second Young Master must ask someone to send this."
A plate of shiny pork skin was as crystal clear as jelly, smooth and elastic. After applying a layer of spice, it did not smell the stinky smell in his impression. It was very similar to the barbecue carefully made by Zhenxiuzhai.
Xiao Jingtang's Adam's apple moved.
"Let's go." He said: "It's a pity that she can send me such a thing."
The butler sighed and looked at the pig skin and said, "Master doesn't eat such things. Why don't the old slave help you eat it? When you go out, you say you have benefited. Is it an explanation to the second young lady?"
"What explanation do I have for her?" Xiao Jingtang said unhappily: "Just let it go."
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Some of them reluctantly put the plate on the desk. Butler Xiao thought that the second young master would keep it even if he didn't eat it, but it was a bit wasteful. Although it was pig skin, it looked so delicious...
However, the master's intentions cannot be violated. The old butler bowed and left and brought it to the door. However, when it was time to sleep, when he pushed the door back in, the plate of roasted pork skin on the table was gone, leaving only traces of spices, and there was still fragrance.
"Second Young Master?" He exclaimed in surprise, butler Xiao glared: "Have you eaten this thing?"
"No." Looking at the account book, Xiao Jingtang said with disgust: "It's too uncomfortable to smell it, I fell down."
Falling?! Butler Xiao frowned: "Why are you falling? It's better to deal with it for the old slave. It's food..."
Before he finished speaking, the old butler looked very good and saw the spices left on the corner of his second young master's mouth.
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Did you take it seriously? That's pig skin. Even if the food is delicious, you can't eat it all in one plate!
The housekeeper was a little shocked, but he knew that the second young master had always been respectful and could not tell it in front of him even if he saw it through. He could only press his throat and swallow the words back.
"It's getting late, and it's time for you to wash and rest."
"Butler, I think the accounts in the mansion are a bit strange." Ignoring his urging, Xiao Jingtang frowned and looked at the account book in his hand: "How can the expenses in our yard be greater than those in my mother's yard?"
According to the rules, even if there are too many aunts in the yard, they shouldn't have so much expenses. They are about to welcome the new aunt. If they have always had such a large expense, they will not be able to bear it, but it will be shocking.
"Don't you remember?" The housekeeper reminded him: "You personally manage the account books in our yard. Every time Aunt Ruan asks you what you want, you will give them all. In a bit, you can count them a lot of money for a month."
Ruan Miaomeng? Xiao Jingtang frowned and looked at the headless accounts carefully. It seemed that they were all on her head. A few days ago, she gave her two new faces. She was not polite, and chose the best materials and craftsmen, which cost a lot.
This is a bit worrying. As a man, he cannot be stingy. But Ruan Miaomeng spends half a yard alone, that's not a big deal.
Squinting his eyes, Xiao Jingtang put down the account book, looked up at the butler and said, "Does other families be managed by the young grandma?"
"Yes." The housekeeper nodded and glanced at him: "But don't you think the second young lady is too selfish and likes to treat her servants harshly, so she doesn't let her care?"
"It's OK now." Thinking of the man's shrewd look, Xiao Jingtang snorted: "With the title of Second Young Master Grandma, you should do something that Second Young Master Grandma should do. Give her a monthly limit of 500 taels and let her take care of the yard well. If there is something missing, and if it is angry and resentful, leave it to her to worry about it."
The housekeeper paused and thought about it carefully, there was nothing wrong with it. Aunt Ruan wasted extravagantly, and the second young lady's stingy temperament might be cured.
"I understand, and I will send the account book to the West Courtyard tomorrow."
"Yes." Xiao Jingtang nodded, finally closed the things on the table, got up to wash, and went to bed to rest.
His room was cold and old-fashioned, with no extra decoration at all, only a mahogany carved shelf bed and a set of red sandalwood tables and chairs. In the past, Mrs. Xiao thought it was not like a room, and she always sent some paintings and ornaments. But in the end, Xiao Jingtang took it into the warehouse and gradually stopped caring about him.
Xiao Jingtang is similar to this room, monotonous and boring, and valuable.
Lying in such a place, he used to dream of all kinds of accounts and business trivial matters, but tonight, the second young master had a spring dream.
The woman in the dream had a water snake-like waist, her eyes were as charming as silk, and she spitted a letter and hooked his body, and asked cutely: "Do you like me?"
"Don't like it." He answered as always.
The woman was not annoyed when she heard this, and she still smiled. She licked his Adam's apple with her tongue and wrapped her legs around his waist, making him unable to control her. She really had a night of spring with her.
When he woke up, it was already dawn outside. Young Master Xiao second sat on the bed and recalled the woman's face, with a very ugly expression.
"Butler." He shouted: "Has the account book been sent to the West Courtyard?"
The butler standing outside pushed the door with a basin of water and smiled and said, "I sent it over, but the second young lady went out and said she was looking for a doctor. I'm afraid she would have to explain it later."
Looking for a doctor? Xiao Jingtang nodded, no longer asked, stood up and washed up with a stern face, and then continued to work on his own affairs.
Wenrou hummed the song all the way to Pei Mansion. Although she was sitting in a sedan chair outside and wearing ordinary clothes that were not eye-catching, she slept well last night and looked pretty good today.
"Has the second young lady encountered something happy?" Pei Fangwu was waiting in the flower hall for a long time, and his eyes lit up as soon as he saw her: "Has healed?"
"It's not a big injury, it heals very quickly." He smiled politely at him and asked gently, "Who is the butcher's name? How can you know?"
"Well, the person is in my house now. His surname is Zhang, and his family is ranked fifth. If you don't mind, just call him Zhang Laowu."
Zhang Laowu has sufficient lung energy, blows three pigs a day, and has skills in slaughtering and cutting, but not brute force. Such people are most suitable for training and then working in a glass kiln.
He nodded gently and was about to invite him to see him, but Pei Fangwu had already ordered him and didn't have to worry about her at all.
There was a new snack she had never seen before on the table next to her. Wenrou then remembered that she had eaten two sips of porridge for breakfast. She was not polite at the moment and picked it up and ate it.
She glanced at her from the corner of her eyes, and Pei Fangwu chuckled and pretended not to see it. After she had eaten enough, someone asked someone to take the plate down and replace it with a cup of fragrant tea.
"Last time I went back, did the Second Young Master make things difficult for you?" he asked.
Gentle shrugged: "I almost died in order to save him, but I still made things difficult for me, wouldn't that be a beast? He promised me that he would go through his own lives in the future and would not interfere with each other."
How could such a couple be like this? Pei Fangwu stopped smiling, his face looked a little serious. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he felt it was inappropriate, so he swallowed it back.
"Madam, just don't let yourself be wronged."
"I'm not wronged." Gentle smiled: "If you have money, you have a prosperous life. If you don't have to ask a man for money to spend, I'm not wronged at all. By the way, I'll show you something."
He reached out and handed over the drawings and said gently: "If it can be successful, the young master might as well try this ceramic conference."
Pei Fangwu was stunned, took it and opened it and looked.
The bottle with beautiful lines is covered with cracks on the top of the top, and a ceramic base on the bottom is unique in patterns.
"This is?"
"A cracked glass bottle." After taking a sip of tea, he smiled gently: "Didn't the Xiao family want to compete with you for anyone's wealth? They win with gems, what else do you care about glass and ceramics? A glass bead is 1,500 taels. What else in this world can be more expensive than this vase carved by a huge natural gem?"
"But..." Pei Fangwu was a little shocked: "Is that the ceramic conference?"
"Here." He pointed his finger and said gently and seriously: "The base is ceramic. If they are not convinced, let the Xiao family snatch the gems on the ceramic!"
"..." The soldiers took dangerous moves, but after thinking about it carefully, it was more successful than the dishes.
After thinking about it, Pei Fangwu sent all the maids out, looked at her seriously and asked, "Madam, can you make such a thing?"
"Yes, but the bottle body may be green in the material problem here." He said gently: "When Zhang Laowu comes, I will communicate with him, sign a contract, and then tell him how to do it."
It is said that it is a carving of a huge natural gem, but in fact it still depends on artificial. The artificial that no one else knows about is natural. Anyway, no one else can make glass except her.
Chapter completed!