Uncle Lai in the Red Chamber

Chapter 58 Li Wan’s secret code

After returning home from Qingzhu Yayuan, Lai Shangrong immediately rushed to the back garden room.

Lie down at your desk and write it down in Chinese Pinyin.

Today, King Zhongshun and Uncle Tian Guo were talking about silk. On the way back, he remembered an old thing.

Silk and porcelain have always been the business cards of the Chinese people in ancient times, but later the porcelain-making technology was stolen by a French missionary named Yin Hongxu who lurked in Jingdezhen for seven years and passed it back.

So much so that for a long time in time and space, the birthplace of porcelain became a dumping ground for Western porcelain.

Although I don’t know when this time and space corresponds to the old time and space, and I can’t be sure whether the same thing will happen again, it’s always good to take precautions before they happen.

A good memory is not as good as a bad pen. Recording it is to avoid forgetting it. When you see the emperor next time or King Zhongshun or Uncle Tian Guo, you can remind him to take precautions.

Taking note of this, he came to Dongkuayuan.

Now that his parents have divorced, he also has his own share of the soap industry, allowing his father to take care of it and preventing him from being idle.

Lai Da also has a restless temper. He has no objection to Lai Shangrong's arrangement, but is looking forward to it.

After leaving Dongkua Courtyard, I remembered that Qin Zhong had not cut ties with him the day before because Jia Zhen and others came to the door. Now that he was free, he ordered him to be called home to tutor his homework.

The examinations for children in the Great Xia Dynasty were held in February and March every year by counties and prefectures in local yamen, and the examiners were the local county magistrates and prefects.

Compared with Qiuwei and Chunwei, it is not very strict. Generally, examiners will also take family background and other factors into consideration. Qin Zhong has a good foundation. With a little guidance, it shouldn't be too difficult to become a scholar.

This can be regarded as repaying Qin Ye's favor.

The people who didn't want to be sent out had just left, and the front yard reported that the grandma of Rongfu had come to visit.

Li Wan?

What is this pretty widow doing here?
Could it be...

Putting aside the doubts in his heart, he ordered people to invite Li Wan into the side hall.

"Grandma Zhu came here to give some advice?"

Lai Shangrong glanced at Jia Lan who was following Li Wan and said disappointedly.

Li Wan laughed at himself: "I am an unemployed widow, so I don't have any advice. I just want to ask for help!"

The moment he saw Jia Lan, Lai Shangrong guessed why Li Wan came.

The friendship between the Jia family had been exhausted the day before yesterday, and it was never his style to retaliate with kindness, so there was no reason to worry about the Jia family.

But that’s it!You might as well see what she has to impress you first.

Li Wan's face is dignified and beautiful, yet cold and glamorous. Although she is dressed quite plainly, her body wrapped in an azurite skirt is unusually mature. Because she is sitting on a chair, her buttocks are spread out around her, as if embedded in Meat gourd on the chair.

The graceful and mature figure coupled with the dignified and cold face may seem out of place on others, but it looks very natural on her.

Lai Shangrong couldn't help but think of the saying in his previous life, if you can get out of the hall, you can get on... Maybe you don't have to fall into the cliché and can develop in other directions.

Thinking of this, he looked at Li Wan unscrupulously. After all, even Wang Xifeng had looked at him, and he didn't care if there was another Li Wan.

Li Wan noticed the look in his eyes. She had never been scrutinized like this since Jia Zhu's death. She felt ashamed and angry for a while, but also had some other emotions that were difficult to detect.

Suppressing the strange fire in his chest, he tried his best to calm down his emotions and said: "Because Uncle Lai quit his job at the school, Lan'er has no place to go to school now. I'm afraid that he will neglect his studies, so I would like to trouble you to teach him in your spare time!"

Li Wan originally planned to let Jia Lan follow Qin Zhong's example and take Lai Shang Rong as his teacher. It can be seen that he was so presumptuous that he changed his mind temporarily.

Lai Shangrong looked at Jia Lan and then at Su Yun next to Li Wan. Seeing that she had no intention of moving away from the two of them, he knew that he was overthinking.

He shied away: "I'm afraid I'll disappoint grandma. I've been busy with things lately, so I'm afraid I don't have any free time."

Many times people are picky at the beginning and start to get nervous once they don't get what they want. Li Wan also has the same mentality. She just saw Lai Shangrong looking at her and became picky, but when she heard his rejection, she started to regret it.

I regret that I should at least take out Shu Xiu and show the sincerity of Corporal Li Xian, and even wonder if it was because of his contemptuous tone that Lai Shangrong refused.

But it was impossible to take back the water that was thrown out by what he said, so he could only look at Suyun.

Suyun didn't know about her psychological struggle. Seeing that she didn't come as planned, he just thought that she was in trouble but couldn't save face.

Seeing Li Wan looking at him again, he said hurriedly: "Uncle Lai! Grandma may not have made it clear. She wants me to be like Master Qin and worship you as my teacher!"

He raised the bundle in his hand and said, "Look, uncle, grandma has prepared all the bundles!" After hearing this, Li Wan also took a deep breath, turned to look at Lai Shangrong, and nodded hurriedly.

Lai Shangrong looked at the baggage in Suyun's hand and laughed dumbly.

Everyone said that Li Wan was a man of wealth, and he was indeed right.

This small package only cost a few dozen taels of silver. Of course, even if it were ten times or a hundred times more, it might not be able to impress him.

He Lai Shangrong is not greedy for money. Since he can't invest in what he likes, he can only thank Jing Bumin.

"Grandma has misunderstood! I really can't get away, so I'd better ask someone else to do it!"

Li Wan's face showed deep unwillingness and loneliness.

"Then...then don't bother me!"

She didn't know that Lai Shangrong's refusal was because she didn't like him. She just thought he looked down on her orphans and widowed mother and didn't want to sell the favor.

After being sent to the second door, Lai Shangrong turned around and went back.

Li Wan took Jia Lan Suyun and left Lai's house in low spirits.

As soon as he stepped out of the gate, he ran into Qin Zhong who was coming towards him.

"Qin Zhong!"

"Jialan! Auntie!"

The two were school classmates and said hello.

"Qin Zhong! What are you doing?"

"The teacher asked me to come over to class!"

Li Wan was dejected, and after a moment he woke up and said: "Ah! Come in quickly!"

Speechless all the way.

After returning to the hospital, he told Jia Lan to go back to the room and read a book, and then rushed to Rongxi Hall.

Because she was crowned a concubine in Yuanchun, the celebration in Rong Mansion was not over yet. She was accompanying Mrs. Jia Muwang in Rongxi Hall and did not come back until the second watch.

After washing, go to bed and rest.

Suyun climbed up from the steps on the front porch of the bed and said, "Grandma! Or should I go and beg the master?"

Li Wan sighed: "That's it! He just looks down on us. His inability to get away is just an excuse. You didn't see him and still asked Qin Zhong to go to class at home?"

"But teaching one is still teaching, and teaching two is still teaching. There's no reason why you wouldn't want to sell it even if it's a favor, right?"

Suyun lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then said, "Could it be that Grandma Shuxiu didn't give me enough?"

"How much can I give my widow who is unemployed? The papermaking workshop he improved is even coveted by the government. I heard that he made tens of thousands of taels of silver just by selling it to those companies."

"Then why is he willing to teach the young master of the Qin family? After all, I am the eldest son and grandson of the family. Isn't he worse than an outsider?"

As he said something, he seemed to suddenly think of something. He leaned on the edge of the bed and leaned into Li Wan's ear and said, "Grandma! I heard that Master Lai took a concubine because Master Qin gave it to Zhang Luo. Could this be the reason?"

After Jing Suyun said this, Li Wan remembered Lai Shangrong's wanton eyes.

Turns out to be a lecher!

But how dare he...

Thinking of this, wherever Lai Shangrong's thief eyes glanced, there was a burning sensation.

He let out a long breath: "Come up and sleep!"

Li Wan became a widow in his prime years, and his body was long and lonely. There were always hard times during the long nights. Whenever this happened, he would ask Su Yun to go to bed and do some fake things. Over time, sleeping became a secret between the two of them. signal.

"Hey!"

Suyun happily agreed and climbed onto the bed.

(End of this chapter)