After moving his family to Changping County, Su Liu lived a bourgeois life like in the modern era. He lived in his own small house and even hung a plaque called Su Mansion. Occasionally, he would stay in Cao Mansion to feel the warmth of family.
The life was enjoyable.
Since she married Cao Kui, Mrs. Chen has become a good wife and mother. She has a gentle temperament. She is loved and protected by Cao Kui and respected by Cao Mingzhu. Apart from a small number of servants in Cao's mansion, there are also many servants.
Some people also respected and obeyed her, so when they followed Cao Mingzhu to learn how to take care of Cao's family, they went smoothly and gradually took over the entire housekeeping rights.
As Cao Mingzhu's wedding is getting closer, the matters in the inner courtyard of the Cao Mansion are becoming more and more complicated. Although Su Liu occasionally helps, Chen is also very busy every day, and her days are more fulfilling than before, but strangely,
Although he is busy and fulfilled, his overall atmosphere is better and his handling of things is smoother and more prudent.
Cao Kui and the Chen family got married, and the property and business in the mansion were not hidden from Su Liu. They even wanted to let Su Liu help manage it, but Su Liu refused.
Cao Kui's intentions were good and he was trusting, but Su Liu didn't think so. Chen's marriage to Cao Kui was actually Chen's personal matter. She respected Cao Kui as her father out of courtesy, but she never had any intention.
She was interested in the Cao Mansion's property, so she refused because she was busy with her personal business. Of course, she would also give Cao Kui advice if there were some inappropriate things. This move also made Cao Kui trust her more.
Su Liu is also really busy. Not to mention that she has towns in Baise Town and the county, as well as a newly opened chili sauce workshop, a donkey-hide gelatin workshop, and what Ning Guang gave her.
It's no big deal.
It was already hot summer in June, and Su Liu originally planned to go to Beijing to inspect the property, but because Cao Mingzhu’s wedding was coming soon, Mrs. Chen and others were afraid that she would not be able to make it, so they postponed it and only sent a letter to Pingjing and others to give permission.
keep it.
The business of the donkey-hide gelatin workshop has been on the right track. In just over a year, the donkey-hide gelatin brand of Centennial Hall has become well-known, and the specialty store has opened ten branches at a rapid pace. According to Su Liu's plan, there will be more than one store this year.
We need to prepare eight to ten branches, focusing on opening them in the Northeast.
As the business grew, the workshop also expanded. Song Jilin and Wei Zhenxiang, who were originally managers, were very fair and rounded in their dealings. Su Liu, as the largest shareholder, was naturally satisfied. In order to appease the two, he also gave him a hundred cents.
One-third of the shares were given to the two of them, in exchange for them being more diligent and loyal to the workshop.
The business of donkey hide gelatin is slowly maturing, but now Su Liu is focusing on chili sauce. The price of this sauce is actually not very impressive, but Su Liu never underestimates every business.
If a bottle of chili sauce sells for tens of pennies, what about ten bottles? What about a hundred bottles?
When this kind of sauce is integrated into people's lives, just like soy sauce, the profit will be incalculable. A drop of water will form a river, and the decimals will be counted as long. This is how it is obtained.
On this day, after Su Liu summoned the stewards of the chili sauce workshop to discuss how to open the north market, someone from the Cao Mansion came. It was Qiu Ju, the maid next to Chen, who said that both Chen and Cao Mingzhu were chanting,
Come and ask the girl to talk.
Su Liu stroked his forehead and asked Xueluo beside him: "When was the last time I went there?"
While sorting out the account books and information on the table, Xueluo said with a smile: "Girl, it was the tenth day of the lunar month, and today is the twentieth day."
"That's ten days." Su Liu rubbed the tip of his eyebrows and asked, "When did the second girl go to Qingzhou?"
"Girl, it's the eighth day of the lunar month."
Su Liu sighed and gave a wry smile. I really don't know whether this is a good or bad thing for Su Xiao to do business. Now she has figured out a lot of tricks for rouge and gouache, and she also opened a makeup shop in partnership with Song Ying.
, now she went to Gyeongju to look after her shop, but it turned out that she was doing well. Once she left, she didn't want to come back. Chen couldn't catch anyone, so he had to catch her.
"Pack it up. Let's go to Cao's Mansion. By the way, put on the two boxes of top-quality Ah tape that Qian'er took back." Su Liu stood up and ordered.
"Yes, girl."
As soon as they entered the inner courtyard of the Cao Mansion, they saw Cao Mingzhu and Mrs. Chen waiting at the Moon Gate. Before they got closer, Su Liu felt a wave of resentment coming towards her face.
"Mom, sister." Su Liu stepped forward quickly and bowed his knees to the two of them.
"You're such a heartless kid, you still know how to come back?" Cao Mingzhu came over and gently squeezed her arm.
Su Liu gritted his teeth in pain and said with a compensating smile: "Isn't this busy?"
"Why have you lost weight again? How did Xueluo and the others wait?" Mrs. Chen looked her up and down, then looked reproachfully at Xueluo, who was following Su Liu.
Xueluo was about to kneel down to apologize, but Su Liu stopped her and went to hold Chen's hand and said coquettishly: "Mom, don't do their business, they serve you very well, but the weather is getting hot.
It’s just that my appetite isn’t very good.”
"You, your family is not short of food and drink. Why are you running out one by one? Can you still make enough money? You are like this, and now even that girl Su Xiao is following the same example.
, She hasn’t been home for ten and a half months now, and I think she is getting wilder and wilder." Mrs. Chen looked resentful and said, "Brother Ye, I won’t talk about him anymore. He is about to end, and he can’t be more diligent in the academy.
Something like that, but it’s not that far away, there’s always time to come over for a meal, right? But no one is coming, not even my mother.”
Su Liu couldn't laugh or cry. Why did Chen become so angry when he married Cao Kui?
She looked at Cao Mingzhu for help. Cao Mingzhu looked like you deserve it, but she didn't look at her. She smiled and comforted Chen and said: "Mother, Mingzhu is with you. You say that, Mingzhu is sad.
Already."
"You are just a good boy, they, huh!" Mrs. Chen glanced at Su Liu.
Su Liu smiled flatteringly and said, "Didn't I come this time? Mom, do you have something to eat? I just finished meeting the steward of the workshop, and I'm hungry."
Ms. Chen said that she deserved it. After all, she couldn't bear to see her daughter hungry, so she asked the two of them to talk first, while she went to the kitchen to tell her how to make food.
"How come my mother has such a good temper?" Su Liu asked, holding Cao Mingzhu's hand.
"My father is not used to it, and so are you. I don't blame her for being angry if she doesn't come home for a long time." Cao Mingzhu pinched her face and said, "Even I am angry, knowing that
I don’t have many days at home, and you won’t come to spend more time with me.”
"You also know that I have a lot of things to do there. If you hadn't wanted to get married, I might still be on my way to Beijing." Su Liu said with a bitter smile.
Cao Mingzhu snorted and pretended to be angry. Young Master Su Liu couldn't help but coax her a few words. When she came to her room, she saw a bright red wedding dress hanging smoothly on the clothes rack. She couldn't help but exclaimed.
Say out loud: "Is this all embroidered?"
It is customary for a woman to embroider her own wedding dress when she gets married, especially in wealthy families. Of course, there are some exceptions. If you really don't know how to embroider, the embroiderer at home will embroider it, and you can finish it by adding a few stitches at the end.
.
But Su Liu knew that Cao Mingzhu's wedding dress was embroidered by herself. On the bright red brocade, large peonies and auspicious clouds were embroidered with gold and silver threads. The sleeves and skirt were all made of
It is embroidered with gold, the skirt is long and drags to the ground, and the large peonies are lifelike and noble.
Cao Mingzhu's face was slightly red, and she said shyly: "This has just been completed, and modifications still need to be made."
Su Liu touched the smooth brocade and praised it: "It's really beautiful."
"Yours will be even more beautiful in the future." Cao Mingzhu said angrily.
Su Liu laughed at himself: "Come on, I can't embroider such exquisite things with my embroidery skills."
"Don't worry, on the day you get married, someone will arrange the arrangements for you." Cao Mingzhu said with a smile.
Su Liu glared at her, and the two of them came to the table and sat down. Su Liu said again: "It's almost July now, is it time to give out the betrothal gift?"
Cao Mingzhu blushed and nodded, saying, "I said I'm going to hire you on the first day of July."
"After this busy period, I can be free to help. You can just wait and see in peace to be your bride."
Cao Mingzhu pinched her reluctantly and said, "Didn't Ning Guang have a letter?"
When mentioning this, Su Liu's smile faded a little, and he frowned and said, "I haven't heard from you for more than a month. Maybe the war over there has become tense?"
Although there was no letter from Ning Guang, Su Liu was always paying attention to the war, and her mood fluctuated with the victory or defeat of the war. If the situation had not allowed it, she would have really wanted to run to the border to find her husband.
As if seeing through her thoughts, Cao Mingzhu said: "Don't be stupid and secretly run away to Mobei. There is a lot of war and chaos there. Besides, didn't I say that we also recovered a few cities?
?Now there are fewer refugees in the county. Maybe he will drive those enemy troops out of the Central Plains soon and return to the court with his troops."
Su Liu showed a wry smile and said, "I hope so." After a pause, he added, "It's a pity, he can't even come back in time to drink the wedding banquet between you and Third Brother Song."
"The days are still long, and we are sisters. Are we afraid that we won't have this opportunity in the future?" Cao Mingzhu said angrily.
Su Liu smiled. This time the girl came to report again that Song Fei was here. Cao Mingzhu's eyes suddenly lit up when she heard this. Su Liu's teasing eyes touched her and she couldn't help but blush with shame.
"Okay, I won't laugh at you anymore. Go quickly. I'll lean here for a while." Su Liu smiled and pushed her.
Cao Mingzhu was so ashamed that she couldn't help but see her lover, so she said a few irony words unconvinced, half-pushed her out of the house, and hurried towards the flower hall.
Seeing her brisk steps, Su Liu couldn't help but look envious. Thinking of him who was fighting the enemy in an unknown corner, or whether he was injured or anything, he felt a little aggrieved and sad.
I have never missed lovesickness in my life, so I will miss lovesickness, and it will hurt lovesickness. This is probably my current mood!
Su Liu was about to lean for a while, but when he saw Xueluo running over in a hurry, he couldn't help but frown.
"Girl, it's not good, something happened over there in Shangjing." Xueluo said anxiously, holding up the letter in her hand.
