When Lao Zhoutou and Mrs. Qian heard Mrs. Liu mentioning the marriage, they cheered up. After thinking about it, it would indeed be more honorable to get married after Bai Shan had an official position. The time was not long, so they smiled and nodded in agreement.
Because the adults mentioned marriage, Bai Shan couldn't help but look at Man Bao.
Man Bao was serving soup, so he hesitantly served him a bowl, "Don't you want to drink soup?"
Bai Shan took it and said, "Now I think about it again."
After lunch, Princess Mingda and Princess Changyu went to Manbao's room to rest together. The three girls huddled on the same bed and dozed off, but they still wanted to chat.
Manbao was sleeping in the middle and was squeezed by them. He simply crossed his legs to make himself more comfortable, "How about you not going to Huguo Temple?"
Mingda: "We found other excuses, because the third brother left after his fifteenth birthday, so we said we wanted to ask for a peace charm for the third brother. We didn't use the excuse of going to perform rituals for the emperor's grandmother. We had already asked the palace people to get it.
No need for us to go there in person."
Man Bao: "Prince Gong is so easy to make an excuse?"
Mingda laughed: "Father knows this and won't blame us for this, and neither will third brother."
"Then during the Lantern Festival, you also come out and get the peace talisman for Prince Gong, and I will take you to play that day."
Mingda was moved, but still shook his head, "No, we are still in Xiaozhong. It's okay to come out of the palace to visit your house, but it's not okay to go out for fun. The censor will impeach us."
Even if the imperial censor does not impeach, they will still feel sorry, and their father and mother will also have opinions.
The Queen Mother is their biological grandmother.
Man Bao sighed, "Okay, then we can only play by ourselves."
Mingda pushed her and said, "You can just play with it? And you can say it out loud."
The Manbao chicken thief said: "I will make you envious and envious."
Mingda burst out laughing and leaned his head against hers. He thought of something, squeezed her and said, "Tell me more about your journey to the Western Regions. I heard from my father that the grassland is very big and stretches as far as the eye can see."
Are the fields in the Imperial Mansion even bigger? You can't see the horizon at a glance. The horizon is not like mountains here, but flat land connected to the mountains?"
Man Bao said: "Some people see mountains in the past, while others see no mountains in the past. But the grassland is very beautiful? Especially after autumn, the grass grows as long as a cow's calf and as high as a sheep's thigh. The sheep are gnawing in it.
Grass to eat? Inexperienced shepherds can’t tell how many sheep there are? Anyway, I can’t tell them all the time? Only when the wind blows over does the hidden sheep appear..."
Mingda yearns for it.
Chang Yu was lying on one side outside, counting the gems he got this time, and thinking about what jewelry to wear. Thinking about it, she turned around and asked Mingda, "I don't have much gold in my hand."
Want to make jewelry? I’m afraid it’s not enough, can you lend me some?”
Mingda nodded. "No problem. Let me know how many times you want later, and I'll have them weigh you."
After saying that, he continued to pull Man Bao to listen to them about suppressing bandits and looking for treasures.
Chang Yu figured it out and became happy, "That way I can wear more than ten sets of jewelry."
Man Bao couldn't talk to Ming Da anymore. He turned to look at Chang Yu, "You want so many jewelry?"
Mingda was also startled and reminded: "It's still the period of filial piety."
Changyu: "I don't wear it, I just let others do it first."
Man Bao said: "If you ask me, you might as well choose some you like and keep them like me, and sell the rest. You have gems and spices in your hands. You can't use them all yourself, right? Even though you are a princess,
You have food and accommodation in the palace, so you don’t need to spend your own money. But you also said that you should get married before next year, so you have to prepare some more things for yourself. Jewelry and other items are not easy to cash out. In a pinch, gems and
Spices are actually not valuable, the most useful ones are gold, silver, copper coins and cloth."
Chang Yu said, "But I'm not short of money either."
She is a princess, and even if she gets married, she will still have a dowry from the palace and care from her husband's family. All she has to do is ensure that she lives a good life.
In Chang Yu's words, "All the money I earn has to be spent on me. If I don't spend Wei Yu's money on myself, I would be very virtuous."
Man Bao and Ming Da nodded, and then said: "But your money must not be enough for yourself."
Chang Yu was unconvinced, "Who said it wasn't enough?"
Mingda: "Why don't you just borrow gold from me now?"
Chang Yu was silent for a moment, and then asked Man Bao, "When will your fourth brother come back?"
Man Bao said: "After collecting the spring tea, he will come to Beijing after collecting the spring tea and some seasonal medicinal materials. He will send the tea and cloth to the grassland in exchange for goods. If you want to sell things, you can find my niece.
"
She said, "My second niece and two nephews are now in charge of the business here in the capital."
Changyu sat up from the bed and said, "I'll go talk to them."
Mingda pulled her and said, "Lie down for a while. Do you see anyone outside now?"
Zhou Lijun and the others also went to rest separately, and the entire Zhou residence was quiet. However, Zhou Lijun did not lie down even when he was resting, but sat cross-legged on the couch and made an abacus.
When Xiang Mingxue walked in and saw him, he couldn't help but smile and asked, "What are you doing?"
Zhou Lijun wrote down a number in the account book and said: "My sister-in-law's accounts, have all the people brought by the princess been arranged?"
Xiang Mingxue nodded, "I've had my meal and now I'm going to rest."
He walked over, took a look, smiled and said, "Zhou... my sister-in-law is richer than the rest of the family."
Zhou Lijun said matter-of-factly: "Of course, my sister-in-law earns the most."
After Zhou Lijun collected the account books, he learned from Xiang Ming: "My third uncle said that the grapes at home have begun to climb vines and will bear fruit in two years. I asked my aunt, and she said that the winemaking recipe given by my sister-in-law is not difficult, but
It will take a year or two to make wine, but the place where wine is made must be clean, so I thought of building a wine cellar in the village in advance, so that it can be used as soon as the grapes start to bear fruit, so there is no need to be too busy."
Xiang Mingxue was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you want to go back?"
Zhou Lijun looked at him curiously, "Didn't you say you wanted to go back to worship your ancestors? Since you are going back to worship your ancestors, you can stop at my house for a while when you come back, and then go back to Beijing."
The two of them got married last year, but did not return to their hometown. Xiang Mingxue always wanted to go back to pay homage to his ancestors. Now that he is married, although he has not yet given birth to a child, this is a big event and must be told to his family.
It just happened that Zhou Man was outside the customs, and the Zhou family was worried, so Zhou Lijun went to Xiazhou in person to take charge and wait for Zhou Man to come back.
Xiang Mingxue didn't expect that she would still remember this matter, and he couldn't help but smile. He nodded and said, "Okay, let's stay a little longer then."
He sat next to her and asked, "When will we go back?"
Zhou Lijun said: "When all the goods brought back this time are out, as well as the gems and spices that my sister-in-law has, they have been sold in the capital, and the rest have to be brought back to Yizhou, so that it can be easier to sell.
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Xiang Mingxue: ...There is always a sense that she went back to sell the goods in her hands.