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Chapter 168 Brothers and Sisters

Zhang Jie was about to take out the money when he was suddenly grabbed by a hand.

He turned around to look and breathed a sigh of relief.

He thought someone was trying to steal his banknote. He broke away from Huo Xi's hand and gave the other person fifty taels of banknote.

"What box costs fifty taels? Show it to me." Huo Xi said to the waiter.

The waiter was waiting to receive the money with a green light in his eyes, when suddenly a disruptor came, and he was a little annoyed.

But when he saw the girl's dress, he couldn't offend her, so he handed Huo Xi the ivory box that Zhang Jie had chosen.

Zhang Jie tried to grab him, but Huo Xi turned around and staggered him away.

"This is what I like!"

"I won't compete with you."

"snort."

Huo Xi took it in his hand and looked through it. It was indeed ivory. It was as big as a palm. It was carved very carefully and had exotic characteristics.

"The box is a good one, but you want fifty taels. In this business, you don't want repeat customers."

When the clerk heard this, he stared anxiously, "Girl, you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. This is a box from the extra story. It's very expensive, so there's no need to worry about selling it."

The young master likes it so much that he holds the banknotes in his hands. It is obvious that he likes it very much. Who would think that he makes a lot of money?

Where did this girl come from?

"Five taels."

"Hey girl, you're here to cause trouble, right? Five taels? You can't even get in."

Seeing that the boy was about to take the box back, Zhang Jie became anxious and said, "Give it to me, I bought it!" He pushed Huo Xi.

Seeing him holding up the banknote to give, Huo Xi pulled him out.

"What are you doing? Let me go!"

"Fifty Liang, are you so eager to be taken advantage of?"

"I want you to take care of it!"

Huo Xi saw that his wallet was bulging, and he just took out a handful of banknotes and counted them. Why would he bring such banknotes when he went out? Where did he come from?

"Let's go, I'll take you to pick something."

"I want that."

“Better than that and cheaper!”

Ignoring his screams, he dragged him away. The clerk chased him and shouted, "Young Master, you can negotiate the price!"

Huo Xi dragged Zhang Jie to Langguang Pavilion. She originally wanted to drag him to Guangfengshui, but the shop in Guangfengshui was a bit far away. He refused to cooperate along the way, so he had to find the nearby shop in Langguang Pavilion.

The shopkeeper recognized Huo Xi and greeted them respectfully into his private room.

I heard that they wanted to see the boxes, so I brought all kinds of boxes in the shop for them to choose from.

Wooden boxes, lacquer boxes, ivory boxes, jade boxes, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, covered with gold and silver rims, painted with enamel, flat, round, square, long, short... Embroidery Zhang Jie

eyes.

He took a palm-sized ivory box and asked, "How much is this?"

Langguang Pavilion, it’s not like he didn’t know that Zhang Yuning brought him here to empty out his money?

Humph, anyway, if it's too expensive, he might as well not buy it.

"This..." the steward glanced at Huo Xi, "Young Master Xie can take it if you like."

Uh...what do you mean? "No money?"

"Send it to Master Xie to play with."

Zhang Jie glanced at Huo Xi and snorted, not intending to appreciate it. "I don't want the money!"

"Just tell me a price, Master Xie has plenty of money." Huo Xi smiled at the steward.

"Then, Master Xie, please give me five taels of silver."

Five taels? It's not like he doesn't understand. This box is much better than the one he saw just now. "If you lose money, you can't ask me to get it back."

The manager smiled and said: "We are businessmen, how can we do business at a loss?"

Zhang Jie was satisfied. He bought this with money, not as a favor to her. He took out a few gold and silver beans, paid the money, and put the box directly into his arms.

Huo Xi looked at the way he was taking out his wallet, and his eyes flashed.

The two of them took a carriage and returned to the house.

Seeing Zhang Jie return to his yard, Huo Xi gave Hu Hu a few instructions, and Hu Hu turned around and left the house.

Zhang Jie returned to his yard, wiped the box, and then found the items in the secret cabinet beside the bed. He carefully opened the strap of the purse and poured out the contents. Twelve copper coins

fell onto the bed.

Zhang Jie counted them one by one, several times, and found that they were twelve copper coins.

He carefully put them into his purse, then put the purse into the ivory box, locked it with a small lock, looked at it several times, and then put it back in the secret cabinet.

Not long after, Amber came back.

"Zhang Bin said that she left all the things Mrs. Wu left behind to the Third Young Master to take care of himself."

Huo Xi frowned.

Looking at Zhang Jie's lavish look today when he was collecting money, Huo Xi knew that he had a lot of money in his hands. How long could he use it like this?

Zhang Biyao can rest assured and leave everything to Zhang Jie to take care of himself?

"Zhang Bin said, thank you, girl. She didn't realize this before. She will find the third young master later and help the third young master take care of it."

I'm afraid that these two siblings don't trust the people in the house.

However, with the current situation, they really have no one available.

It is also impossible to entrust the second and third bedrooms to help take care of the things left by the Wu family. The eldest bedroom has two concubines. How can their siblings find them? The madam did not speak for the Wu family, because she is afraid that she will not be able to get the Zhang Biyao siblings now.

of trust.

Forget it, let them be.

In the evening, I saw Zhang Mao coming to her courtyard to have a meal, and asked: "Are you in charge of the monthly money paid by the government now?"

Before, his nanny was in charge, and everything went into the nanny's pocket.

Zhang Mao didn't know why and nodded: "Yes, Mao'er keeps it for himself. Sister, do you want some silver? Mao'er will give it to my sister."

Huo Xi laughed and said, "How much money can you have?" The monthly silver is only twenty taels. The ones that were issued before are all gone, and the part I got back from the wet nurse is not much.

But I should have more than a hundred taels of silver.

"Mao'er needs to take care of himself and don't spend too much money, you know. Just like those dudes out there, spending too much money is not good, you know?"

The other young masters also have mothers and fathers. The young master and the girl in this big house have a father who is not home yet because his mistress is gone.

"Well, Mao'er keeps it and doesn't spend it randomly."

"Good boy." Huo Xi praised him.

I also thought of Bi Zhu Bi Yue who was preparing her dowry, and Qing Chu who had lost her mother in her third marriage...

"Vanilla, go and tell the second lady that she should bring Bizhu, Biyue, Qingchu and the others with her when she handles government affairs every morning, and teach them some skills in running a household."

The second lady heard Huo Xi's words and nodded in agreement.

I also asked someone to talk to several ladies, and decided to call her daughter Jingwan Jingshu. They are all twelve or thirteen-year-old girls, and it is time for them to learn some skills in running a house.

When Qingchu got the news, she specially asked the girl to give Huo Xi some handkerchiefs made by herself. Sure enough, the eldest sister, who was also motherless, could understand her situation.

Yunnan, Shuixin'an.

Mrs. Yu was stunned when she received the letter sent to her by Mu Yan Kuai Ma.

She had no relationship with this heir, but it was just a casual relationship. He didn't record it in her name. But now there were only two of them in the big house. In name, they were still mother and son. He usually sent people to greet him during holidays.

Why did you write to yourself when it was not a festival?


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