boudoir

Chapter 288
After Su's funeral, the sky became gloomy day by day, and it was already the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, and half a month later, it would be New Year's Eve.And every year in the twelfth lunar month is also the time when Zhuangzi shops in various places pay the annual offerings, people start to come and go in the palace, Mei is busy handing over and counting the money and things, so it saves a few days of morning and evening.Every house in the palace has a share in the wealth, and Liuli is the head of the house. He thought that she would be able to work hard to get a place for her as a young mistress, but unexpectedly, the Mei family would not let her get close. The matter of renting a child for the year and choosing a maid to send to Chaoqingtang can only be postponed temporarily, so Liuli will stay in Chaoqingtang to deal with her own affairs in the past few days.

In fact, she is not idle.Ji Xiaoquan from Dazhuangzi in the eastern suburbs has already come twice, saying that he wants Liuli to take some time to reconcile the account books and prepare to send things over.On the second day after returning from Hongxiu, she asked Ji Xiaoquan to recruit Lai Wu and his wife. By the way, this year's profit was 700 taels. After Wang Ermazi's fuss, Liuli was very satisfied with this amount.

There is a fixed annual rent for the two shops that are rented out, and the total monthly rent is 500 taels, and Ji Xiaoquan will collect it quarterly.As for Hongxiu, because of their own business, it took them two days to check and settle, and it was already the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month when the account book and money arrived, so Liuli specially asked them to stay and eat Laba porridge.After the meal, I did the math, and there was a balance of nearly 5000 taels.

Calculated in this way, she earned 2000 taels of silver this year.Excluding some necessary expenses at hand, such as the wages of the employees and the personal expenses in the next year's budget, there are still 2000 taels left.In addition to the 3000 taels earned from selling letters this year, more than [-] taels of silver fell into the pocket.

Then there is Qi Yunhao's family background.This time I finally saw the total number of Grange shops, and Liuli was a little dazzled just looking at those names.As a relative of the royal family, Mrs. Ye's dowry is of course more than that of Liuli, not less.There are only two fields like Dazhuangzi in the eastern suburbs, and there are four or five smaller Zhuangzi.And there are three or four shops, and two houses, which are not counted because they are empty and unprofitable.

Praying for Yunhao himself to have less, after all these years he was not in Beijing, the food and allowances are only enough for food and clothing.Now I also have a four-entry house in my hand, which was given by the emperor after being named the general of the town, and there are two Zhuangzi, which were also rewarded.He bought the two shops in the past two years and rented them out.

Liuli did the math, and Qi Yunhao's total income would be 800 taels. After subtracting the budget for the next year, there would be 4000 taels left.According to the calculation that what they eat from the palace is what they eat from the palace, this is actually a big income.One must know that if it weren't for Mrs. Ye's dowry property, Qi Yunhao's personal income would only be more than 1 taels.For a general of the second rank, this is not a considerable family fortune at all.

Of course, if Qi Yunhao has no plans to divide the mansion and live in another place, then there is no need to worry. The family property handed down by the ancestors of the Qi mansion has increased, and there is some property acquired by King Dingbei from wars over the years, as the eldest son of the mansion Clan wife, what is inherited is most of it.But if the branch office lives in another place, it will be different. They have to wait until the old man's death to separate the family, and then they will have their share of the property.

And the Mei family has her own son, so she will naturally live with Qi Yunjing and the others. In this case, when the long house is vacant, the second and third rooms will have to bear the responsibility of providing for the elderly, and naturally they will not move out of the palace. In this way, the head of the palace will become Mei Most of the property will be distributed to the heirs of the family - of course, Qi Yunhao doesn't care about this, and Liuli doesn't care either. It's just because King Dingbei looks very strong and can live at least another 20 years. Qi Yunhao can't wait to move out of the mansion immediately. They have to use their own money to provide for the expenses, and there are also exchanges of favors and so on. The daily expenses are enough for the daily expenses of three to tens of thousands of taels a year, so where can they save money?But if you don't save money on hand, how can you get by?
Ever since she was worried about money once in the He Mansion, Liuli has also started to pay attention to this aspect.When Qi Yunhao came back at night, she was holding the account book and worrying.

"Is there anything wrong with this year's accounts?" he asked.

She sighed: "The bill is not a problem, but obviously we are a little poor."

Qi Yunhao was startled, he really hadn't thought about the money issue, he was a little embarrassed, but as a man, how could he make his wife worry about money?So he said: "If it's not enough, I'll hand over the salary to you starting next month."

Liuli held her chin and looked at the stalwart man in front of her, and suddenly felt that no matter how strong and capable a man is, he would have a weakness somewhere. "General, your monthly salary is only enough to set up a few good tables, but if you give it to me, where can it be used as a supplement?" As he said, he talked about the problems arising from his wanting to live in another mansion. I asked him a series of questions, and then said: "I looked at the account books handed in in the past few years, and the annual profits are about the same. From this point of view, if we support an independent Grand General's Mansion, it will be a waste of time to live. enough, it will be difficult to save some money for emergencies."

Qi Yunhao pondered for a moment, then suddenly tilted his head and glanced at her, and said, "You must have some idea after thinking so carefully."

Liuli grinned, threw herself on his back, and wrapped his arms around his neck: "The general is so smart! I've thought about it, Madam's shop Zhuangzi is actually making money, but it's just that there is no one to take care of it, so it hasn't expanded over the years. Business, if we now accumulate some of the money we save every year and slowly use it to buy land and farms, wouldn’t we be able to make money again?”

Qi Yunhao smiled and said: "The money is all with you, you can make up your own mind about what to do, why bother playing with me so narrow-minded?"

Liuli said: "I always want to say hello to you. What if you need it urgently and I can't get it out?"

"No matter how urgent my affairs are, they are not as urgent as my family. You are in charge of the family, and you are the master."

He was a little itchy to be disturbed by her breath, and after speaking, he pulled her from behind and bit her earlobe.

Liuli dodged with a smile, he simply put her down on the couch, and began to kiss her carefully.The two of them didn't know how long it had been since they had been really close, Liuli gradually gave up pushing and shoving, and wrapped her arms around his neck instead, and when he kissed her shoulder blades, she also kissed his forehead back.

After this dawdling, the two of them hadn't left the room until Chenshi, and Rui'er waited outside the door for a long time, only hearing low voices of conversation coming from inside from time to time, Liuli's coquettish voice, and Qi Yunhao's voice He was coaxing and persuading, but he didn't dare to go in rashly.

When Liuli finally called for someone, the moment they entered the door, they couldn't help but blush because of the scattered bedding and clothes on the bed.

Lucy also blushed.Pretending to be nonchalant, he changed clothes for Qi Yunhao, and then stopped sending them to the gate of the courtyard.

In fact, Rui'er is very happy for Liuli in her heart. Since they quarreled, everything Qi Yunhao has done has changed their initial dissatisfaction with him little by little. Now the two of them can be so harmonious, as a companion along the way They who Liuli came over had no reason not to hope for their good.

But since there are still many things to be done, Rui'er will go around this hurdle right now, and waiter Liuli has breakfast, and then directly talks back to her: "The old offerings from Zhuangzi will be done in the afternoon today. It can be delivered. The business in the palace has been finished, and the general manager Wu will bring people over tomorrow morning. The holy man is feeling better, and the second master has relaxed these days. From tomorrow onwards, he will enter and leave the yamen on time I still haven't talked to my second grandma these few days, but I heard that my second grandma was told by Mrs. Mei once, and her attitude is a bit softer."

Liuli flipped through the annual offering list handed over from the Zhuangzi, and said, "Go and prepare some cloth rewards. Tomorrow, Lai Wu will give it to them. The general will be in the mansion at noon tomorrow, so let him bring someone back in the next noon. Second Mistress How do you show your love to Second Master?"

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Rui'er glanced at her and said, "What else can I do? I heard that Mrs. Mei called her in that day, and asked her to treat the second master better, and to give the second family a son as soon as possible. So yesterday Second Mistress prepared food and drinks in the room, intending to apologize to Second Master and keep him in the room for the night. But Aunt Mo suddenly said that her stomach hurts, and Second Master immediately went to the backyard again. Second Mistress was so angry."

Liuli smiled, thinking about it, the Mei family should not suddenly say this to He Yuhua at this time, this is probably the meaning behind the king of Dingbei, as expected, all parents-in-law are the same in the world, if they can't have a child, it's a daughter-in-law wrong.But Liuli didn't have the slightest sympathy for He Yuhua, she wanted to take advantage of this aspect of King Dingbei.

"Hearing what you said, does Aunt Mo have a real stomachache or a fake stomachache?" she asked.

Rui'er said: "I don't know if it's true or not, but we didn't insert people in the backyard of the second room. But I heard that after the second master passed, Aunt Mo's stomach pain stopped. It's because of this second grandma, so today I'm still letting you go." People went to Aunt Mo's house to vent their anger, but it didn't matter, just found a fault and smashed a few bottles and then came out."

Liuli nodded, and said: "Let people keep an eye on the second room again, and keep a close eye on it. The second grandma will come back to me if there is anything that involves Aunt Mo." Then she picked up the imperial calendar on the case and looked at it, and said: "Today's Twelve, I'm in my twenties after I've been busy for the past few days, you go and find out the whereabouts of the second master in those days."

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(Sorry, this chapter has several hundred words from the next chapter. The reason is that a section of the content violated the regulations and had to be deleted. Because many chapters have been released later, it is not easy to add or change anything. Please forgive me. I will I will add this number of words in the following chapters. Thank you everyone)
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