Chapter 83: Building the Qiguang Mansion
When Lu Chiye heard this, he gently touched Qiu Yan's hair and nodded with satisfaction.
"It's still my wife's flexible mind, and that's it, but before that, we still have to discuss it with the county magistrate, and only if he agrees, can we give an order and let those shopkeepers cooperate."
"Otherwise, it would be a waste of time for us to go door-to-door to find the shopkeepers of those shops."
Qiu Yan nodded, took another bite of the sweet and sour wild fruit, and made up his mind that after finding a suitable time, he would mention his identity to Lu Chiye.
I don't know if she can talk about her somewhat cowardly father when she goes back with Lu Chiye.
As a result, before they could go back to rest with Lu Chiye, when they passed a fork in the road, Qiu Yan and the others happened to meet Qiu County Ling, who was wearing a dark purple ordinary official robe and carrying two catchers behind him to inspect the local situation.
Qiu Guangwen originally took advantage of his time today to come out casually to see how the people's shops were developing.
Unexpectedly, I saw an extremely unexpected person.
Qiu Xian Ling rubbed his eyes vigorously, and at first thought that he had seen it wrong.
Qiu Yan's memory was completely integrated with the original body at this moment, and he looked at the original body's biological father strangely.
Qiu Xian Ling's next to him also noticed that something was wrong with him, and when he turned his head, he saw Qiu Yan and Lu Chiye standing at another intersection, reminding him in a low voice.
"My lord, that one is the second miss, right? Is it her uncle next to her? ”
"It should be, that, you wait for me, I'll go and talk to them."
A hint of embarrassment flashed across Qiu Xianling's face.
He really didn't expect that one day he would actually meet Qiu Yan in his own jurisdiction.
When he married his daughter to Lu Chiye, he only heard that the Lu family had fallen into the middle of the road at that time, and saw that they didn't have any maids or anything with them now, and thought that they came back alone to find a backer for help.
For a moment, the mood was a little complicated.
After taking the initiative to walk in front of Qiu Yan, he whispered, "But I'm finally back, why don't you let someone send me a message back?" ”
"Well, we just came out and just settled in the inn. How can you have time to take people out for a stroll? Qiu Yan replied expressionlessly.
looked at the puzzled gaze of Chiye on the road, and quickly explained.
"It's ...... It's my dad. After speaking, he told Qiu County Ling about the situation of the two of them.
"It's good to be back anyway, it's already here, so let's go back and rest. What's the matter with you guys staying in an inn outside? Qiu County Ling took the initiative to invite.
But when Qiu Yan was just about to explain, saying that they just came out to investigate the situation here, and did not plan to go home and waste time, they found that there were many people next to them, all pointing in their direction.
In particular, there are several people who still have extremely subtle expressions on their faces, and they don't have good intentions at first glance.
Lu Chiye hurriedly protected Qiu Yan by his side and politely declined the invitation of Qiu County.
"Thank you, Lord Yue, for your kindness, but now we have some things to do, and it's not convenient to visit."
"When I have time in the future, I will definitely hand over the post in person."
A hint of disappointment flashed in Qiu Xianling's eyes, but Qiu Yan glanced at Lu Chiye gratefully.
After bowing his head slightly to Qiu Xianling, he left behind Lu Chiye.
It wasn't until he returned to the inn where he lived that Qiu Yan sat next to Lu Chiye, took his arm and shook it, explaining a little embarrassedly.
"Husband, I really didn't mean to hide it from you before. It was only after getting closer and closer to Qiguang Mansion that I fused the memories of the original body. ”
"I really didn't remember it completely, I just thought the name was a little familiar."
"It's okay, why are you apologizing to me for this? In fact, when I first came back, I couldn't merge with the original memories of Lu Chiye at all, which is very normal. Lu Chiye soothed.
Qiu Yan nodded like pounding garlic, looking like she had met a confidant.
"Really, I'm the same way, although I now have the original memory of this body, but it's not particularly clear."
"Alas, there are many people and things that need to be thoroughly aligned before I can remember a little, and I am also afraid of causing trouble, so I didn't tell you the first time."
"It's a little embarrassing just now, isn't it?"
Qiu Yan still remembered that those people with fierce faces didn't know when they offended them.
Lu Chiye is worthy of He Qiuyan's extremely tacit understanding, and just after listening to her words, he mentioned those people who acted a little strangely, and asked curiously.
"It's strange to say, you are the daughter of Qiu County Ling, and the local people shouldn't be blind to their parents, so why do they look so weird when they see the two of you appear?"
"Did something happen before? Do you remember? ”
"I don't really have any impression of this." Qiu Yan shook her head.
"Just now, I was actually quite surprised to see this father in the real sense of the original body."
"But I really don't have any impression of getting along with him before, so it's actually quite awkward to talk to him."
"In this case, then don't worry, let's find someone to investigate carefully, about whether there is anything strange about the Qiu Xianling family in the local area, as for the matter of the visit, just wait and see, don't worry."
Qiu Yan nodded and agreed.
Qiu County Ling has been a little uneasy since she saw her and Lu Chiye appear together, and even the arrangements behind her have been completely interrupted, watching the sky gradually darken, and then she returned to the county magistrate's office.
After rubbing his shoulders and walking to the room in the backyard where the candles were brighter, he didn't have time to say a word to his family, and Qiu Yan and his wife came over to be interrupted by a loud voice.
"It's already dark like this, and you only came back, is there any existence of our mother and daughter in your heart?"
"Day by day, I know to go to see those people, do you keep looking at them, and have silver in your hands?"
Cao Xinfeng is very spicy, as soon as he saw Qiu Xian Ling coming back empty-handed, he immediately became angry and scolded Huai at him.
"People say that after three years as a prefect, you can have 100,000 snowflakes of silver, how long have I been following you?"
"Don't say 100,000, you can hand over all your monthly income to me, and I am already grateful to Dade! are also officials, why is the gap between you and others so big? ”
Qiu Xian Ling closed his mouth a little bitterly, and hurriedly took the initiative to step forward to help Cao Xingfeng set up the dishes and chopsticks, and said embarrassedly.
"Isn't this also for the sake of the people? This day of Qiguang Mansion is sad, how can I not help the people? As a local parent officer, this is what I should do. ”
"What else should I do? If you keep helping them with your own money, sooner or later your family will have to drink the northwest wind! Didn't you notice that our group brother is getting bigger and bigger day by day, and he is eating more and more? ”
"It's okay for me to eat bran with you, but why should my son suffer with you? You don't know, the price of rice has been getting higher and higher lately! ”
Cao Xinfeng chattered, and her voice was a little high, Qiu Xian Ling really didn't want to quarrel with her, so as not to scare her son, so she could only respond to some trivial things on the side.
Obviously, his attitude is already very good, but Cao Xinfeng is still very dissatisfied with him, and openly and secretly scolded him.
After a while, Qiu Xian Ling was finally able to sit down, but the youngest son in the family, Brother Tuan, was spoiled.
Seeing that there were some extremely ordinary vegetarian mussels on the table, he immediately stopped doing it, pulling Cao Xinfeng's sleeve and being coquettish.
"Mother, you said before that you were going to prepare a big hoof for me tonight, where are the hooves? I don't want to eat these things. ”
"Good son, eat a little first, and when your father receives the money next month, I will get the money, and I will definitely buy you two more big pig's feet, so that you can satisfy your hunger, okay?"
"Who made your father only have those poor people who are suffering and tired in his eyes, and he doesn't care about the life or death of our mother and daughter?"
"I finally got this money from your father, otherwise our family would only have to eat bran vegetables." Cao Xinfeng said unceremoniously.
"Why, Daddy?" The youngest son, who was raised with a tiger's head, looked at Qiu Xianling very unhappily.
"What do those people have to do with us? It's not our family, I just want to eat hooves, Dad, you're an official, hurry up and let someone send it to us! ”
Qiu Xian Ling hurriedly appeased this extremely troublesome little son, and the house was full of chickens and dogs.
After Cao Xinfeng ate a few bites of this bland and tasteless dish, he couldn't stand it anymore, and scolded while wiping his tears next to him.
"Everyone thinks I'm blessed to marry you, only I know how much I have paid to run this family!"
"People say that I am the high-ranking county lady, but who knows, the poor in this family can't even afford to pay for a maid? When will this day be the end! ”
The corners of Qiu Xianling's mouth have been drooping, and his face is full of sorrow.
While comforting his wife, he also has to take care of his youngest son, and this sigh is one after another.
However, Qiu Yan and the others still don't know what happened to the county magistrate's office, and they don't know much about the situation here for the time being, so they didn't rush to visit.
In addition, Qin Baiyang arranged for the express delivery to send a new batch of fresh goods, and felt that these things could not be piled up in the inn, so as not to be wasted.
Therefore, Qiu Yan and the others went to find two shops with not particularly high rents, and simply put them down.
After a simple tidying up, he asked Shen Fengxing and the others to come over to help.
After putting all the goods on the shelves, I began to prepare to sell them.
After a busy while, I finally put things in place.
Before preparing to open for business, Qiu Yan and the others gathered together to discuss the price of these things, and everyone was on the side to give their opinions.