The girl who wears fast

Chapter 62 The Prime Minister's Tool Man Stepwife (62)

"It turns out that the young master is really lively and cute." Mrs. Hu boasted, and then suggested, "Since the young master is dirty, why don't you come to my house to rest? You can also ask the doctor to diagnose the young master. , in case the young master plays too much and gets sick."

Xu Shichu originally wanted to refuse, but he hesitated when he heard her last sentence. After all, Xiao Zhaozhao was still a child. He played too crazy today, sweated and couldn't change his clothes in time. He might really get sick.

It is not a trivial matter for a child to be sick, and it would be inconvenient to live in an inn, so she thought about it and agreed to Mrs. Hu's warm invitation.

When walking down the mountain, Mrs. Wen finally couldn't help asking:

"Madam Luo, why didn't you open a branch of Zuixiangge in Jiangnan? We have a lot of rich people here, and Zuixiangge's business must be good here!"

"Yes, yes, we usually have to buy the incense from the Zuixiang Pavilion at a high price from a merchant, or we have to send someone thousands of miles to buy it from the capital. It's inconvenient. Mrs. Luo will open a branch here, right?" The other wives asked one after another.

Xu Shichu was a little surprised. It seemed that these people recognized his identity. No wonder the ladies who were high above and had a faint disdain for him before were now very enthusiastic about him.

"I don't have this plan for the time being. After all, the incense of Zuixiang Pavilion is high-quality goods, and the raw materials are all carefully selected. The output has been unable to increase. The supply in the capital alone exceeds the demand, so there is no stock to open branches in other places." Xu Shichu smiled. said with a smile.

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Because the prime minister's wife had already been recognized, Xu Shichu received a very warm welcome in Wen'an Mansion. The wives of various officials or wealthy businessmen wrote posts to her one after another, or tried their best to visit her.

Xu Shichu was a little annoyed by the disturbance, so he left Wen'an Mansion.

Fuhaotang's charity is still going on. Although there are many trivial things, the people she invites to help with the work are more capable and knowledgeable, so they can always implement the benefits to the women and children. Men snatch.

Xu Shichu inspected women's halls scattered in various places, and put forward several targeted suggestions, let rural women do needlework to make money, so as to subsidize their lives and improve their status at home. The economic base determines the superstructure. It is the truth, if they can make money by themselves, then they can at least survive.

When she and Du Zhao were not thinking about Sichuan, Luo Changqing missed her more and more in the capital.

Leaving aside the fact that she has been away for so long, let’s just say that the chambord fruit she planted was made famous by the Marquis of Zhen’an, making everyone in the capital wonder and curious. clean.

But Luo Changqing couldn't hide, so he became the one who was harassed, not only his colleagues and subordinates came to him to inquire about the details of the fruit, even the queen mother and concubines in the palace were curious about it, the emperor couldn't stand women With the wind in his ears, he specially asked Luo Changqing to enter the palace to explain.

Luo Changqing couldn't escape, so he had to open the gate of Xu Shichu's courtyard, picked a basket of Chambord fruit and sent it to the palace.

As for the others?Luo Changqing didn't pay attention to it. After all, Xu Shichu didn't have much Chambord fruit, so he couldn't just give it away when someone asks him, right?He had violated Xu Shichu's rights by picking them up and sending them to the palace without permission. If they had picked them all up, wouldn't Xu Shichu have to make trouble with him when he came back?

He also had to write a special letter to explain and apologize to Xu Shichu for this, and he refused even when his daughter came to ask for some.

After Xu Shichu learned about this from the letter, she didn't blame Luo Changqing. After all, she was out of Beijing, and she couldn't eat any more fruits. She let the servants who stayed in the capital to take care of the flowers, plants and trees handle the ripe fruits by themselves.

But Luo Changqing can explain this to her specifically, she is still useful, after all, she feels respected.

Some machismo men regard their wives as their own property, and they naturally feel that their wife’s things belong to him. He can use them as he wants, and don’t explain or apologize to his wife after using them privately. On the contrary, I will feel that it is my wife's honor to use it.

Therefore, Luo Changqing was considered a good man by doing this, and Xu Shichu's impression of him was much better - of course, this probably also had a little bit of guilt after throwing the mess to him to deal with.

Compared with Luo Changqing, Xu Shichu left without a letter for a long time, which made her seem a little heartless.

This time she received a letter from Luo Changqing again, as she expected, still urging her to return to Beijing, saying that it was almost the Dragon Boat Festival, and she was asked to come back and preside over various affairs in the mansion.

Xu Shichu played wildly outside for a few months, and thought that it would be summer after the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather was too hot, and it was too painful to work outside, and it was more suitable for her to rest at home obediently to enjoy the cool air, so she wrote back to Luo Changqing saying that she would be at the Dragon Boat Festival I went back to Beijing.

After Luo Changqing received the reply, for some reason, his heart was moved to tears of joy, full of anticipation, and felt that going to the palace to deal with all kinds of complicated and annoying things was full of energy, and even walking felt windy, full of energy It's all different.

"Luo Xiang is so happy today, did you encounter any happy event?" Zhen'an Hou saw Luo Changqing's handsome appearance, Yushu Linfeng, as young as a young man in his 20s. Can't help but ask with some jealousy.

Luo Changqing smiled slightly and said, "It's not a happy event, it's just that my wife is going back to Beijing."

Speaking of Mrs. Luo, Zhen'anhou suddenly remembered the anecdote about his "sweating sweat" that spread all over the capital at the beginning of the year, and the blue veins on his forehead couldn't help twitching a few times. Looking at Luo Changqing was even more unpleasant up:
"Really? I see that when you found out that Mrs. Luo was coming back, it was windy to walk. You must miss Mrs. Luo very much, right? Hey, Mrs. Luo did the same. It took me so long to leave you alone in the capital. Lonely. Unlike my wife, who stays in the mansion all day long and clings to me so much, not to mention leaving me for a few months, she can't do without seeing me for a day..."

Luo Changqing glanced at him sideways, and said lightly, "No wonder, the scratches on your neck, Lord Hou, are all new."

Upon hearing this, Marquis Zhen'an immediately covered his neck with his hands, looked around again, and said to cover up: "Then what, don't think about it, my new injury was scratched by a cat."

Luo Changqing saw that he didn't have 300 taels of silver here, chuckled a few times, and said, "Then your cat is really strange, what you have is not claws, but human fingers—I was wrong just now, you The wound on the neck is not a fingernail scratch, but a finger print."

Zhen'an Hou glared at him immediately, knowing that he had been tricked by Luo Changqing, he said angrily: "You cunning and treacherous black-hearted thing, no wonder your wife doesn't want you anymore, you haven't come back for a few months, you deserve to be alone No wife hurts!"

(End of this chapter)