Chapter 160 Lu is worried and Shixian returns to the bank
"Eleven, are you back?"
Aunt Lu was waiting at the door for her daughter.
"Aunt! It's so cold, why are you waiting here!?" Luo Shiniang quickly helped Aunt Lu into the room, and said with concern: "It's been a tiring journey, you should rest early, we have to go on the road tomorrow." After saying that, he lightly scolded Bin Ju and Qiu Ju behind Aunt Lu: "You are the same, how can you let Aunt Lu stand at the door? It's so cold outside?"
"Okay, they just came back, they are in a panic, and they are not well yet..." Aunt Lu interrupted her daughter's intercession for the two maids in a gentle voice: "Besides, I am holding the hand stove!"
She treats her servants very well, just because she was born as a maid and an aunt.
Before that, she was the maid next to the eldest lady. Seeing her docile temperament, the eldest lady gave Mrs. Lu to the eldest master, and gave birth to Eleven Niang, who was then raised as an aunt.
Lu was born honest, and even after she became an aunt, she never relied on favors and became arrogant. Others did not dare to bully her because she was the eldest lady's friend.
But it’s okay to be a little lazy in normal times.
Eleven Niang didn't really want to say harsh words to blame the two maids. After hearing this, she hurriedly looked over: "Bin Ju, Qiu Ju, haven't your injuries healed yet?"
She has lived with Dongqing, Binju, and Qiuju since she was a child. They can be described as loving sisters. Just now she only felt sorry for her aunt, but now her true feelings are revealed.
"Don't worry, Miss. The caravan manager seems to be greedy and overbearing, but he has given us enough medicine and food," Qiu Ju said.
Bin Ju also said: "Yes, the shopkeeper is actually very disciplined in his work. Along the way, we saw that other people in the caravan were very convinced of him."
"That's good..." To be on the safe side, Eleven Niang checked the two of them carefully and then felt relieved.
At this time, Aunt Lu asked: "Why did I go so long if I wasn't going to deliver a food box? It made me feel very uneasy."
Eleven Niang replied with a smile: "Originally I just wanted to put down the food box and leave, but I didn't want to talk about embroidery. Mr. Qin asked me to make a pair of embroidery, and my daughter asked about the details carefully, which delayed some time.
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Dongqing happily took over the conversation: "Master Qin was full of praise for the girl's embroidery, and even gave her a deposit. Auntie, look!"
She took out a banknote from her sleeve and handed it to Aunt Lu with a denomination of fifty taels: "Even in my hometown in the south, this is enough for us to live for a long time! Now our money shortage problem has finally been solved!" Holly's tone was both happy and proud. In this era, it was a very honorable thing for a girl to have superb embroidery skills, and it was worthy of showing off.
Seeing the banknote that Dongqing took out, Aunt Lu was also happy. Then she thought of something, raised her hand and pulled Eleven Niang aside and asked in a low voice: "Is it true that Mr. Qin really likes you?"<
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Eleven Niangxiu was stunned, with an expression of disbelief, her mouth slightly opened, and for a moment she didn’t know how to respond.
I saw Aunt Lu reaching out to grab Eleven Niang and said to her daughter: "I'm not joking to you. You have been smart since you were a child and are good at observing people's words. If Mr. Qin really has this intention, then we have to respond early, and we can do it very well."
Hurry! It’s best to invite someone to discuss it as soon as you arrive in the capital..."
"Mom!" Eleventh Niang said to stop Aunt Lu, her oval face flushed red, her expression was very embarrassed: "That Mr. Qin is a handsome gentleman, and what you said doesn't mean anything at all!"
After hearing this, Aunt Lu sat down slumped and sighed: "What a pity."
Eleven Niang understands that Aunt Lu is doing it for her own good. Who in the Luo family doesn’t understand the eldest wife’s skills? But in her opinion, Aunt Lu’s worry is more out of fear of the eldest wife.
There are several aunts around the eldest man. The eldest aunt Duan and the second aunt Ke were originally the eldest maids around the eldest man. The fourth aunt Yang was a gift from the eldest man’s old boss. The other three, five and six aunts are all eldest aunts.
Madam's personal maid.
This alone can only show that the eldest wife has strong control over the inner house.
But one thing is that except for the eldest brother born to the eldest wife, none of the other brothers are left under the eldest man's knees.
Especially the second brother, who died just two days after he was born.
Although the medical conditions in ancient times were extremely backward, the things behind it were enough to make Aunt Lu think about it and be extremely frightened.
Unlike Aunt Lu, who is increasingly afraid of the eldest wife, Eleven Niang has a much broader view. She and her mother will not fight over each other. No matter how scary the eldest wife is, she will not eat people, right?
Looking at Aunt Lu who was full of worries, Eleven sighed: "Mom, even if this trip to Beijing is unpredictable, you don't have to rush to push me out, right? Besides, marriage is a major issue in this family.
Where is it your turn and my turn to make the decision?"
After hearing what her daughter said, Aunt Lu was startled, but she could only nod in agreement.
But she still kept mumbling: "I guarantee there will be a chance... Oh, it's all my fault that I didn't find a good marriage for you in advance..."
Suddenly, someone knocked twice on the door.
"Could it be Master Qin?" Dongqing ran to open the door, only to find that the person who came was a person she had never met before.
"May I ask who the young master is?" Dongqing asked subconsciously.
The visitor smiled and replied: "Sorry to inform you, I am Lin Shixian, the young owner of Lin's Trading Company."
Aunt Lu came over on the 11th, and when she saw the visitor, each of them marveled: How come you can see such a handsome and noble man everywhere?
The Lin Shixian in front of him seems to have a weak head and a gentle manner. Compared with Jia Lan, under the same delicate appearance, Lin Shaodong appears more mature.
After a few polite words, he went straight to the point and stated his intention.
Aunt Lu and Eleven couldn't help but open their eyes wider and wider, until Lin Shixian took out the banknote and wanted to hand it over to the two of them. The two of them didn't know how to respond for a while, but Dongqing secretly pushed Eleven.
Only then did I react.
"Master Lin, this is really..."
Lin Shixian smiled: "To put it bluntly, my people just want to show off. In fact..."
It turned out that during the day, the shopkeeper just didn't want to show weakness in public, so he deliberately asked for a high price. Unexpectedly, Jia Lan came forward in the end, and he was more or less embarrassed, so he didn't have the nerve to come over and return the banknote.
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Looking at the empty corridor, Dongqing was full of praise for Lin Shixian.
"Since the banknote has been returned, I will return it to Mr. Qin." Eleven Niang looked at the banknote in her hand and made an instant decision."
Dongqing stopped her quickly: "Miss, please don't!" Facing Eleven Niang's eyes wide open, she said: "Although we finally found Binju Qiuju, miss, don't forget that almost all our belongings were lost.
It’s clean, this little money is really important to us now!”
"But..."
"Miss, Mr. Qin's great kindness can be repaid slowly when we recover. The most important thing is to get through the difficulties now."
Aunt Lu also helped: "Although we have our own family to take care of us when we return to the capital, the cost of taking care of things in the house is not small. We should borrow these two hundred taels of silver first. When we recover, we will pay back the principal with interest."
That’s it.”
"Okay..." Seeing that Aunt Lu also said the same thing, Eleven could only agree.