90th bowl of soup (7)

Looking innocent and innocent, it's actually a bit vicious. Qing Huan quickly returned to the table, "Don't worry about her, we are here to eat today, so it's not necessary to disturb people who don't like it."

When the shopkeeper was busy in the kitchen, Xiao Er served food over and over again. Shui Han and Xia were also ordered to sit down and eat together. In the middle of the meal, the inheritance came, so there was no food on the table for the shopkeeper. Left. Although the little prince could not speak, he also had a round belly. Even the milk cat in Qing Huan's arms was lying on the table, taking a piece from the owner's bowl from time to time, and it was a joy to eat.

After eating, the shopkeeper was reluctant to leave the lady, and then begged the lady to let him go back to the house and be a cook honestly. He wanted to cook for his own lady in return for the kindness of the encounter! Qing Huan smiled and said: "Laohou, you have gone back with me. These apprentices under yours have not been trained yet, who will help me guard the eighteenth floor? I can't worry about leaving it to others."

Ruan Yi hugged Qinghuan into the carriage, looked at the old tears and couldn't help guaranteeing that he would guard the shopkeeper on the 18th floor. He couldn't help but chuckle. When he saw the shopkeeper for the first time, he was not the old man. It's like this. His upper body was shirtless, the sound was like thunder, eyes and bells, and he was terribly fierce. Who could tell that he was the God of Cooking? More than ten years have passed, and he has become such a benevolent look. I really don't know if Qinghuan is great, or his old man has become more relaxed and fat. After all, this figure has doubled horizontally, and it seems that it can sit a person to death with just one butt. But when Miss Zhao asked someone to beat him, the speed of dodge can still tell that the old man's treasure is still young.

People who have enough food and drink are prone to sleepiness, the snow stops, and as the New Year is approaching, every household is busy. Qing Huan raised the curtain and looked out, and said to Ruan Yi, "Spent with me this year."

"Okay." He didn't plan to go back.

When the two were talking in the carriage, the little prince listened intently with his eyes wide open. Ruan Yi could not help but feel sorry for him when he saw him like this, so he peeled off the oranges, half for the little prince, and half for Qinghuan. Xia smiled as she watched from the sidelines. Shui Han, who was driving outside, was busy talking to his brother who hadn’t seen him for five years, and didn’t pay attention to what happened inside, otherwise she would have to sigh when she saw it. Who believes that there is no love between men and women?

If there is love, why are they not together? It really made her hair pale!

It takes time for a stick of incense from the eighteenth floor to Xu Mansion. Qing Huan was still teaching the little prince to play nine-links in the carriage. He heard the sound of Shui Han stopping, and then said: "Miss, the poor talent is here again."

Qinghuan: "..." Fuck.

What she said before, the merchant females are so beautiful and rich, and they are born as merchants. Most people in Dayu think that they are inferior, and they don't even have the qualifications to be true wives to scholars. Similarly, because of a bad background, most business women want to marry a high school or a scholarly family, in order to improve their status and enhance their status.

Qinghuan is not one of them, but she can't hold back someone who wants her to do this. Those members of the Xu clan wanted to embezzle the Xu family's property when she was young. After being taught by her, they would not learn anything, and even wanted to squeeze her. Later, she grew up at a young age, had loyal servants by her side, and a lot of tactics. These people didn't dare to mess with her anymore, and they were respectful when they saw her, so they decided to focus on her lifelong affairs. After all, although Qing Huan looks like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old, in fact, she is much older, with a bad background, it is impossible to marry a good family.

No one knows how big the Xu family's family business is except those in the center of power, including the Xu clan. This is Qing Huan deliberately, there is no need to let irrelevant people know her strength, so as to avoid trouble in the future. But at the same time, she faintly let the emperor and the others know that she is not easy to provoke, which is why she acted indifferently and no one dared to talk about it. When Ruan Yi first left, she had no intention of meeting someone in the Hou Mansion. She heard that the eldest daughter of the Hou Mansion speaks bitterly and cursively. Qing Huan did not say anything to ask someone to go up and be beaten. Han was beaten into a pig's head in public, losing face.

Not only that, Qing Huan also ruined the marriage she had already said. Now the eldest lady is in her twenties, and she is still an old girl who cannot get married. Every time Qinghuan is mentioned, it is a curse through gritted teeth.

The eldest lady felt sorry for her daughter, so she went to the palace to report to the imperial court. Unfortunately, the emperor didn't care about this matter and didn't interfere with the marriage.

After that, the doctor knew Qinghuan was really not easy to provoke, and he never dared to speak ill of Ruan Yi publicly.

It's a pity that Qinghuan can't hold back someone who is not afraid of death. She feels that she has a bad background, and she is a lowly merchant, and it is difficult to be elegant. So if I want to marry you, it will give you face. You should kneel down three times, be overjoyed, and hope to marry me quickly, and then give all your family property to my face, and come entangled every other day.

The Fang Xiucai who is currently blocking the entrance of Xu Mansion is one of them.

He passed the exam for ten years, and then... he was always a talent. He is arrogant and feels that he reads the books of sages and sages, which is different from ordinary people. Therefore, he looks down on others, and even downright businessmen who are covered in bronze. But even though he looks down on it, he has to live his life. Which one does not need money? Gifted scholars like Feng Huaxueyue, but if you don't have money, how can you be Fenghuaxueyue?

Not to mention the smelly money, but the money is also fragrant.

Then for some reason, he suddenly fell in love with Qing Huan.

It was probably two years ago. Qinghuan went out on a whim and went to the shop to make surprise inspections. The shopkeepers were all her confidants. Everyone was very happy to see the young lady coming. They all knew that the young lady had a bad body and was difficult to get out. Now she is in her own. Wouldn't it be worthwhile to come from the shop?

It happened that Fang Xiucai came to buy rice and squeezed two pennies. Who knew that the price of rice had risen, and he immediately became unhappy, but because of the literati's character and bad bargaining, he was in a dilemma for a while. Qinghuan thought this person was funny behind the screen, and stayed there motionless, not buying or not buying, but blocking the way, as if to wait for Xiaoer to take the initiative to lower the price-what a joke, they Xu Shimi The price of the shop is already the lowest, and it is very affordable, okay? The prime minister's house next door came to buy thousands of catties of rice and they didn't discount them. How could it be possible to pay a poor star?

Qing Huan realized that she hadn't laughed like this in a long time, and she was in a good mood, so she asked someone to give him the original price.

She really just said it casually, and she meant only this once, not as an example. I didn't know that Xiao Er listened to her very well, and then Fang Xiucai came to buy rice and kept paying low prices, which was very incredible. When Fang Xiucai heard that it was the price ordered by the lady herself, she immediately became complacent. After returning home, she slept and thought about it, and got an answer that made him more confident: this Miss Xu Jia must be pleased with him. !

He didn't think that he was wishful thinking at all. At any rate, he was a scholar. Although he was a talented scholar in the cold window of ten years, he was a late bloomer, and there will always be future prospects. Ms. Xu must have liked this.

Then he looked at his dilapidated yard, the reed quilt that my old lady still covers in winter, does not keep warm, and can't eat meat during the holidays. He claims to be a scholar, and he refuses to lower his status to sell calligraphy and painting at a street stall, relying on his old mother to raise chickens and sell eggs every day. The scholar's robe has been patched innumerably, and only one can be worn out. Such a hard life is extremely difficult. Therefore, he is extremely thin and has protruding cheekbones. He was barely considered a handsome young man, but now he looks like a three-pointer rather than a seven-pointer. ghost.

Fang Xiucai told her old mother about Miss Xu Jia's joy in herself. His old mother's eyes gleamed and caught him with excitement and trembling: "My son...Do you know how rich the Xu family is?!"

Then Balabala said a lot, all the Xu family’s land was paved with gold, and the Xu family’s servants gargle with bird’s nests. The Xu family is rich than the country. Generally speaking, the Xu family is rich and rich. ! If Fang Xiucai married Miss Xu Jia, the two of them would never have to raise chickens and sell eggs for a living!

Fang Xiucai thought about it all night, and felt that what his mother said was reasonable. Regardless of how Ms. Xu's birth was, it was fine if she had money. Although she was still a little low for her talent, she was barely acceptable. It's a big deal that in the future, he will pay a few more aunts, which can be regarded as compensation for himself.

So with a heart of kindness, he asked the neighbor’s matchmaker to go to Xu Mansion to propose marriage.

Who knows that the matchmaker didn't even enter the door!

Fang Xiucai thought, is it because the young lady didn't know that he was going to propose a kiss? If you knew it was him, you would definitely agree to it, right? He sighed in his heart, and looked down upon Miss Xu Jia, who was a merchant girl and she was a little bit of a family. That's it, he will go through this experience himself.

It's no use knowing that he has come in person, and still can't even get in the door.

Since then, he has been hitting every other day, and he is more frequent than wind and rain. Because he can't marry anyone other than Miss Xu, the five daughters of the butcher's family next door have to carry a dowry. Fang Xiucai prides herself on being elegant and can't look down on the butcher girl—and he can't afford it. So much dowry.

He tied his heart to Qing Huan, not knowing where he was confident, thinking that as long as Miss Xu saw him, he would definitely marry him. The people who blocked him were all with ulterior motives, they were spoiled slaves, and they didn't see others good. When he married Miss Xu as his wife, he must sell all these people!

Qing Huan heard that Fang Xiucai was here again, and couldn't help but help her: "This guy... By the way, has the rice price changed back?"

"I changed it back early." Cong Xia said, "There was also a commotion in the poor, saying that you want the lady to sell the shopkeeper."

The treasurer is a subordinate and not a slave. Following the young lady is voluntary and has no contract to sell her. They sell one bite at a time, and the young lady does not drag him.

Ugh. Qing Huan sighed and lost a lot of money.