After shopkeeper Bai left, the Li family was puzzled by the big package.
"I received a New Year's gift from Sister Ning years ago, why is there still a package? Could it be that Jixiang Drug Store missed the delivery?"
When the family opened the package, they saw a package of furs and a thick letter.
Before the letter was opened, a few banknotes fell down. I counted them and found that there were a thousand taels. Look at the signature at the end of the letter, Zhang Fu.
Li Shimian was stunned.
It took seven or eight years before I received a letter from Zhang Fu.
That son-in-law who followed him around in the Imperial College every day, served him tea and water, tried to please him every day, and worked hard to marry Rou'er to him. Everyone said that he was a good son-in-law. He had not heard from him for so many years. It made him sigh.
Then, he received a letter.
I also gave away so many banknotes.
"What is this supplement for?" There was a hint of resentment in Ma's voice.
When she thinks of the unfair treatment her grandchildren have received over the years, her heart ache. When she thinks of her daughter who lost her life at a young age, she cannot help but hate her.
Li Shimian finished reading the letter and was silent for a long time.
"master?"
"He said that he sends us letters and things every year and festival, but he hasn't received a reply. This time it was a letter sent from Saibei in person."
"Master, do you believe it?"
Li Shimian thought again of the young man who had greeted him before and after him many years ago. He did not speak.
Mrs. Ma didn't want to believe it. When she thought of the tragic death of her only daughter, she wanted to kill Zhang. If she hadn't been soft-hearted and just married her daughter to an ordinary family, her daughter would still be alive.
Zhang Fu didn't sleep for several nights.
He personally sent someone back to Beijing to inquire about the letters sent to Shangyong. However, Beijing replied that he sent letters to Shangyong every year, but never received a reply.
Everyone in the house was saying that the Li family must have seen Mrs. Li die in childbirth, and Sister Ning also followed her. The Li family was angry with Mr. Hou, so they didn't plan to contact her.
After all, Mrs. Li is gone, even Sister Ning is gone, and the last connection between the Li family and the Zhang family is gone. It is normal not to want to contact them. Only forgetting can heal some of the pain.
Perhaps the Li family is thinking of old friendship and does not want to cause trouble to the Marquis.
is that so?
The father-in-law was cold-faced and soft-hearted. Even though he initially wanted to find Rou'er a civil servant for marriage, he finally convinced her to agree.
He moved his father-in-law with his sincere heart.
In those years, his father-in-law and mother-in-law really treated him as their son-in-law. Whenever he went to the Li Mansion to have dinner with them, his father-in-law would secretly smile.
After Sister Ning could speak, he personally sent Sister Ning to the Li Mansion, and his father-in-law also taught Sister Ning carefully and step by step.
Did his father-in-law not contact him because he didn't want to implicate him?
The genius was bright, and the vanguard army set out to camp. Zhang Fu, as the vanguard general, led the troops to the expedition.
Mu Yan watched from a distance in the camp.
"Master, the Li family should have received a letter from the Marquis of Xincheng by now, right?" Li Yi stood behind him and looked towards the direction of the army's departure.
"Um."
"Master, why did you do this? If the Zhang family discovered the existence of Mrs. Huo and her brother, wouldn't you have put them in danger?"
"The little liar is fourteen years old. As a member of the Huo family, what kind of marriage can you give her? Do you want to see her marry like a concubine from a branch of the Zhang family?"
Li Yi shook his head. Mrs. Huo had been living outside for so many years, running for the livelihood of her family. This was not her life. She should have a better destination.
Mu Yan watched Zhang Fu leading the troops farther and farther away, his eyes flashing. The little liar was hesitant in doing things, so he gave her a push.
Li Yi turned his head and glanced at the young master. The young master was nineteen years old, and Ke's wife's words could not last long. It would be very bad if the emperor granted the marriage. It was time for him to remind his wife.
After the New Year, Yang began to be busy with Yang Fu's marriage.
Yang Fu was the only root left in the Yang family, and she had raised him as her son. She didn't want to wrong him. She found a matchmaker with a good reputation in the city and asked about the rules for marrying a girl in the city.
I learned that there were six rites to go through, including getting married, asking for names, etc., and that there were six major procedures to go through before getting married. The direct address was very particular, but thinking about the status of the Qin family, I did not dare to neglect, and entrusted a matchmaker to go to the Qin family to get married.
After getting the Qin family's permission to marry, they began to prepare Yang Fu's betrothal gift.
Huo Xi gave Yang a 10,000 tael in silver notes and asked her mother to prepare for her uncle's marriage.
"It won't be that much." Yang declined.
"Mom and your father have money. You haven't taken the rent collected over the years, it's all in the hands of your father and mother. Your father also raised your uncle as a son. He told your mother to give the money to your uncle.
For getting a wife.”
Huo Xi couldn't help but feel lucky that her uncle was lucky enough to meet such a good brother-in-law.
"Mom, take it. Let dad go see if there is a Zhuangzi near the capital and buy one for uncle. If there is not one near the capital, he will look for it in the surrounding cities. Then he will buy a house for his uncle in the inner city, and mother will take care of the rest.
Betrothal gift. When the wedding date is agreed upon, I will get some for my mother."
"That's enough, that's enough. If you don't need to take it, don't take it." Afraid that Huo Xi would take it again, she accepted the banknote.
"In the countryside, even betrothal gifts, wedding banquets and various purchases cost less than ten taels of silver. Now your uncle's marriage actually costs so much money." Mrs. Yang tsked her tongue in pain.
"Your uncle also gave my mother ten thousand taels for her shopping."
"Uncle gave my mother ten thousand taels?"
"Yeah, I don't know when I saved so much. Didn't you just steal the money from the shop?" Suddenly he became nervous. The things in the shop belonged to Xi'er and Nian'er.
"No. Mom, I see you are thinking about uncle. What he has saved over the years and his share of the shop. In the past two years, he has also brought some goods to Japan, and he has made a lot of money. But with
If I pay ten thousand taels, I'm afraid he won't have much money left."
Ms. Yang breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm doing business for my family, how come I'm bringing in private goods?"
Huo Xi smiled: "From the boss of the ship to a group of sailors, everyone brought them, and every ship owner knew and acquiesced. It doesn't matter if my uncle brings some goods, it will be good for him to save some money himself. He will live a good life in the future.
Okay, mom, you and dad should stop worrying."
"That's right. When he gets married, Huaiyu will take care of her. Mom doesn't care about her anymore. She only needs to keep an eye on you siblings."
Speaking of this, Yang said to Huo Xi: "Xi'er, you're not young anymore. You haven't been running around in the past two years. Just stay at home and learn more about the work of a female worker. Don't get married in the future and do everything.
No. Mom heard that your sister Qin has already held the wedding ceremony at home and she is so happy that you will have to do all these things yourself in the future."
Regardless of Huo Xi's protests, he took Huo Xi and asked her to learn how to cut and sew.
Huo Xi still knows how to sew and mend. She could do simple needlework in her previous life.
The buttons of the newly bought clothes are trembling slightly. She always has obsessive-compulsive disorder and needs to be reinforced before she dares to wear them. Some of the newly bought clothes don't even have buttonholes opened. Who can't open the buttonholes and mend them with a few stitches?
.
When there are holes in the clothes, she sews them by herself and is too lazy to carry them around to find a repair shop. However, few of the clothes in her previous life were worn until they were worn out and then thrown away. They were worn for one season and then thrown away when she no longer wanted to wear them. Quality
Leverage.
There is no chance to mend the hole.
She didn't want to learn embroidery, which was laborious. She could still do it by drawing lines on fabric, cutting pieces, and sewing them together. So she patiently learned from Yang for a few days.
Yang Fu was celebrating the New Year there and had no time to deal with his marriage. He was busy selling the goods he brought back from Japan. Although Zou Sheng was refused to go to sea, he wanted to learn, so he followed Yang Fu.
This year Huo Xi plans to ask shopkeeper Shen to patrol the shops and go to the north to see the renovation of Tianjin Wharf and Peking's abandoned streets. The capital and the south decided to let Yang Fu and Zou Sheng take the lead.
At the end of February, news came out from the court that Emperor Yongkang personally conquered the northern part of the Great Wall and won a great victory.
There was great joy in Beijing.
Although the Han people regained power, the grassland peoples in the north continued to cause trouble and were always thinking about restoration. No one wanted to let the grassland peoples rule again. When they heard about the great victory, there was joy everywhere in Beijing.
The literati and the common people in the capital were overjoyed and celebrated with their foreheads and hands.
Not long after this news came out, news came out that Emperor Yongkang recruited 200,000 civilians to build a mausoleum in Changping County, Shuntian Prefecture.
The capital was as silent as a chicken for a while.
