Back at the residence, Xu Hao called Mrs. Liu, explained the matter first, and instructed: "Mobilize some local people to secretly investigate the competitors of Jiangnan Jewelry Store, as well as the interpersonal relationships within the jewelry store, especially the shopkeeper himself." ”

Liu thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Don't blame the son for being suspicious of the shopkeeper, it stands to reason that when you enter the house, you should clean it up and use it to greet your own people, or to guard the valuable goods, this is the proper meaning of the question, and renting it to outsiders for no reason is indeed suspicious." ”

Xu Hao said: "I still wonder why he cashed the silver out, just one day away, even if there is a dispute, he can try to delay, why don't you worry about the person who made the decision to trade?" Probably with the support of the government, even if he made a claim, he couldn't lose much money, and he lost more than 10,000 taels of silver because of his carelessness. ”

Liu said with a smile: "It's really a good calculation, but it's a pity that he didn't expect that Gongzi would meet at the right time and lose a lot of silver, so he had to inform Gongzi about it." It seems that he was lucky, thinking that Childe would not take this matter seriously, right? ”

"Almost." Xu Hao smiled bitterly: "How can I have the time to take care of these things? I thought I could fool the past, it's really not enough to swallow the elephant, after a long time, someone began to plan for themselves, this matter is handed over to you, then my sister will send someone over, what to do and what to do,. ”

"Yes!" Liu Shi said sternly: "My subordinates will definitely handle this matter well." ”

The old family for many years did this kind of thing, which made Xu Hao's heart a little panicked, and he wrote "Don't say it, don't ask for it; Don't take it to heart, don't ask for anger. ”

Seeing that he was unhappy, Liu thought for a while and said, "The subordinate told the son a joke, right?" ”

"Well, you name it." Xu Hao continued to write with his head down.

Liu said softly: "When my husband and wife returned to Beijing last year, they met a child of a family in a teahouse, wearing a mink cloak and green pants, and he didn't look weird! Dr. Tea said that this person got up early every day and went to the teahouse to make a bowl of tea. One sitting is most of the day.

The rules of the Jinling teahouse, the locals pay ten yuan, and they bring their own tea, as long as five yuan is enough. The person brought his own tea leaves, opened the paper bag, and put the tea leaves in the bowl as much as he could.

The guests around them said, "There is less tea, right?" ”

The man snorted and said, "Where do you know! This is the best Longjing tea that the British government got from overseas Venice, as long as a little bit is enough, if you put too much, you don't want to drink tea for a year. ”

At that time, the slave family was particularly curious. Is there still a dragon well in a foreign country? When I walked over, there were three or four tea leaves floating in his tea bowl, which was the fragrant tea I usually eat, and the tea was a bowl of boiled water that did not change its color at all, and it was crystal clear. ”

Xu Hao suddenly stopped his movements and said with a smile: "Okay! Are you laughing at the stinginess of the Jinling people? The dragon gave birth to nine sons, and the sons were different. Jinling naturally has a lot of such down-and-out children who don't fall down, relying on their family background and disdainful of working to make money, blindly pretending, and idle. To tell you the truth, my Xu family also has similar people, huh? Could it really be the Xu family? ”

"Hee-hee! Not really. Liu covered his mouth and smiled, "But the slave family didn't dare to ask which room it was." It's probably not the son's own family, why is the family so shabby? ”

Xu Hao was speechless and said, "You don't have to wear a high hat for me." The Xu family can't guarantee that everyone has no worries about food and clothing, and if they don't fight for themselves, how can I send silver? ”

Liu continued: "Later, I saw him take out two pennies from his waist, buy a baked cake, sit there and tear it and eat it, chew it carefully, and say as he ate: 'It turns out that the baked cake is so delicious, and it is used to the delicacies of the mountains and seas, but it is more delicious than ordinary things. ’

After eating for more than an hour, he finally finished eating, and suddenly he stretched out a finger, dipped it in saliva, wrote on the table, dipped it, and wrote a stroke. At that time, the slave family was curious, and secretly laughed at why this person worked so hard? What about writing ancient stickers in the teahouse? So I carefully looked at what he wrote, it turned out that where he was writing, and he dared to love for the sesame seeds that fell on the table. ”

"Where do you think you've heard of this?" Xu Hao recalled that he had the heart to say that with this care and energy, what should he do to make a living?

If it is an ordinary person who has no food and clothing, it is very sympathetic, but when it happens to the children of the powerful, it is difficult not to be regarded as a joke.

"I'm not done yet." Liu smiled, "Seeing that he had been writing for a long time, not a single sesame seed on the table was gone, and he was suddenly distracted there, as if he was thinking about something." After thinking about it for a while, I suddenly seemed to wake up again, slapped the table hard, and dipped it in saliva to write, it turned out that two sesame seeds fell into the cracks of the table, so I deliberately made it look like I forgot about it, and I deliberately made it look like I suddenly woke up, and I shook the sesame seeds out. After eating the sesame seeds, the slave family saw that he didn't write anymore, and he didn't leave, so he sat for most of the day. ”

Xu Hao laughed at her and said, "You couple are boring enough, and you don't sit for most of the day." ”

Liu said with a smile: "It's rare for him to take me out to sit, I don't want to leave immediately, there are many people in the teahouse, and some of them are lively to see." Later, a little child came into the teahouse and said, 'Daddy, go back, my mother is going to get up.' He said: 'Your mother will get up and what do you want me to go back to?' The child said, 'Dad came out wearing his mother's pants, and his mother was so anxious at home that she didn't have pants to wear.' ’”

"Don't talk about it." Xu Hao smiled bitterly, he had probably guessed who that person was, it was the first famous Lai Han of the Xu family, Xu Yong of the same generation, because he was lazy and good-looking, no one in the family was willing to take care of him, and it was also the family that provided him with money and food to live, so that he had nothing to do all year round, otherwise he would have starved to death eight hundred times.

is poor and good-looking, and the scenery he cleans up is decent, but the family is surrounded by walls, his wife and children are almost starving to death, and everything is pawned, even so, he has to pretend to be rich and young outside.

Jinling Xu Mansion.

Princess Jiaxing came to Zhang Lianyi again, carrying the corners of her skirt, and complained while walking in the garden: "Don't blame the palace pattern to be symmetrical, and the Jiangnan garden also has a context to follow, how can there be anything like his family?" The entire Nine Palaces Bagua Array, as soon as I came in, I couldn't tell the difference between Dong'an and Northwest. ”

The palace maid next to her also said funny: "Fortunately, we are used to walking our legs and feet, otherwise we will be tired to death." ”

Complaining is complaining, the princess of Jiaxing is still familiar with the twists and turns, or ask someone to inquire about the road, and come to the small courtyard where the ripples live, the outside is the flower wall, and the five outer courtyards are the houses where the old mother lives.

Hit the outer courtyard to enter, the west is a big magnolia flower two or three zhang high, and the east is a very large glass flower house in the south. In the early winter season, it is as lush as midsummer, flowers are in full bloom, more than 100 Xiangfei bamboos in the north, four or five wood leaf plantains, and there is a corridor room in the middle.

Princess Jiaxing led people into the second entrance, which is also the corridor of the left and right wings and the flower beds and trees, and there is a pond in the west.

Entering the third entrance, there is a wide corridor in front of the door, among which is a three-storey embroidery building, and the plaque reads "Ripple Small Residence".

Princess Jiaxing raised her head and smiled: "It's still a small house, much higher than my bedroom." ”

The little girl opened the hanging flower curtain, the princess of Jiaxing walked in, the flower hall on the first floor has an independent fragrant nan wood natural table, facing the outside of a mahogany carved West Lake 24 views of the Mida collapse, two big red tribute satin embroidered gold cushions, big red tribute satin embroidered gold pillows, a pair of red copper cast crane platform on the natural several, the lion to win the ball big incense burner.

On the east side, there is a pair of large vases of purple kiln rain over the azure, placed on a red sandalwood pedestal, and a branch of yellow sky bamboo and a branch of red sky bamboo are inserted in it. There is a cluster of red evergreen planted in the cloisonné pot next to it, and there is a marble autumn red smoke and rain landscape screen embedded on the red sandalwood frame on both sides, and a pot of double-stage chicken feet daffodils is placed on one side.

In the middle of the room, there is a large mahogany double-piece round table, two small marble rosewood tables against the wall on both sides, surrounded by red satin sprinkled gold table carpets, there are eight Cantonese mahogany large carved chairs on each side, the floor is covered with a thick woven carpet, and the walls are all terrazzo bricks.

Princess Jiaxing left the palace people, went up to the second floor alone, walked to the door of the study first, and took a look inside.

Directly opposite is the desk that Ripple and Xu Ye personally picked up with Nanmu Miscellaneous Seven Tricks, on which are placed the four treasures of the study, the white jade crystal paperweight sent by the uncle, the white marble pen wash, the agate pen holder is inserted with more than a dozen Xiangfei bamboo pens, and there is a whisk on one side, and a leaf of calamus is raised in a small round hollow bowl of white jade, which is placed in a small round jade basin.

Xiangfei bamboo shelf on a cloisonne porcelain basin, planted ripples favorite two concentric orchids, the desk against the wall is a three-layer carved Shoushan stone bookshelf, the shelf is full of books, the wall hangs a couplet, a thousand silk lotus delicate women, a roll of plantain like a heart.

In the eyes of Princess Jiaxing, she naturally can't see a priceless antique calligraphy and painting, who doesn't know that the ripples are deeply favored by her uncle, she can be said to be in the Xu family.

"No, I'm going to live here too."

The jealous Jiaxing couldn't help pouting, it stands to reason that the queen mother should be able to agree, so she was happy when she thought about it, she was a ten-year-old girl, innocent and didn't have much scheming.

On the third floor of the boudoir, in front of the bed a half-moon table of agarwood, on top of a beautiful woman chiming bell that resembles a ripple appearance, a white copper longevity incense burner, a picture of stopping the piano and serving the moon on a summer night on the window wall, two pairs of Tibetan gold notes, are from the hand of Xie Jin.

A water-mill square bamboo lettering bed, hung with a top of the landscape and West Lake-colored silk gauze tent, paved with a silver mouse palindrome splash mattress, folded with two white and blue orchid quilts.

I didn't see the figure, so the princess of Jiaxing walked into the room lightly, a small kang with hollow roots in the south, four feet are also made of tree roots, and the top is also a small kang at the foot of the roots, a few ancient sand pots in a curved green calyx plum, and a bamboo stick carved empty seat under the basin.

Collapsed two cantile tree root pedals, a small square table in front of the couch with clouds and Xiangfei bamboo, white silk and blue satin-edged table covers, and several bronze Yi Dings were placed on it.

In the corner, there is a small screen of bamboo leaves and jade, four bamboo chairs and a bamboo coffee table along both sides of the wall.

If the furnishings in the flower hall on the first floor are made by her, including the study on the second floor, then you can see Ripple's personal preference here, with cicada leaf gauze couches on the glass windows on both sides, and a portrait of Ripple herself on the back wall, painted exquisitely, even the face in the curtain is faintly visible. (To be continued......)