"Who are you?" Lu Xiaoxiao hugged Wang Shouzhe's arm and stared at Wang Luojing and said, "If you don't let go of my cousin Shouzhe's hand quickly, every girl will be ashamed."
In the Changningwei area, most of the girls from aristocratic families do not have much typing in their names and prefer to do whatever they want. Because the Ping'an Wang family has a long history, Patriarch Zhou Xuan personally decided on the typing of the girls' names, so naturally these rules have continued.
"I am the sister of the fourth brother, who dotes on me the most." Wang Luojing took the other side of her without giving in and said sarcastically, "I don't think you are ashamed. You throw yourself into the arms of the fourth brother as soon as we meet."
"You're lying, cousin Shouzhe loves me the most." Lu Xiaoxiao said angrily, "Every time we meet, cousin Shouzhe will bring me gifts."
"Fourth brother is the best to me. He even gave me an amethyst bee hive to play with the day before yesterday. It's worth more than two hundred gold." Wang Luojing held her head high, looking like she was showing off.
"Cousin Shouzhe, I also want an amethyst spirit bee hive." Lu Xiaoxiao felt like she was being outdone all of a sudden, and started to pull Wang Shouzhe to act like a baby. She was usually spoiled and spoiled, so she probably didn't even understand what amethyst spirit bees were. bee.
"Uh..." Wang Shouzhe was speechless. Why did the two little girls start pinching each other because of him as soon as they met? Especially Luo Jing, who is actually one year younger than Lu Xiaoxiao in terms of age. She is usually quite well-behaved. , but at this time they started to compete for favor.
"Shouzhe, did you really buy an amethyst spirit hive for your child to play with?" My uncle Lu Zhengjie, who was accompanying me, was also surprised. "It's too extravagant and wasteful. Let me see how you can pass the test of your cousin."
More than two hundred dry gold is already a huge sum of money for both the Wang family and the Lu family. Just like the fishing brigade of the sixth uncle Wang Dinghai, ten boats come and go in the wind and rain a year, and they work hard The profit you can make is about two hundred gold.
Fenggu Farm, one of the pillar industries of the Wang family, has two hundred households of tenant farmers and thousands of acres of farmland. The annual profit from such a large-scale operation is only six to seven hundred gold, and this is still a book profit.
This time when I came to Lushi, I prepared some gifts, but they were really just gadgets.
"Brother, there is no secret behind this." Wang Shouzhe smiled bitterly, "How about you come and persuade my cousin? If you sell me now, I won't be able to buy the amethyst spirit bee hive."
"I don't have the ability to persuade her." Lu Zhengjie hurriedly shook his head and said, "This girl is usually the most favored. Even the ancestors dote on her, and the elder brother can't do anything to her. Shouzhe, you'd better ask for your own blessings. "
Even the ancestors doted on her?
Wang Shouzhe was a little confused. Lu Mingsheng, the ancestor of the Lu family, was a direct descendant of the Ming generation of the Lu family. He was now over a hundred years old, right? In terms of lineage, he was Wang Shouzhe's maternal great-grandfather.
Most of the ancestors of the major Xuanwu families don't like to show up. They usually stay in seclusion, thinking about taking the next step, and will only come out to deal with some major events.
Wang Shouzhe has lived for eighteen years, and he vaguely remembers meeting Patriarch Mingsheng a handful of times, and being summoned only once. When he was seven years old, he was found to have good aptitudes, and was summoned by Patriarch Mingsheng, who praised him several times. The sentence rewarded some resources.
You must know that Wang Shouzhe's qualifications are close to the middle level, but he only gets this kind of treatment. Lu Xiaoxiao, a little girl, is so virtuous and capable that she can let her great-grandfather pamper her...
But at this point, he couldn't come up with a gift worth two hundred gold, and even if he could, he would be reluctant to give it away. He could only say a perfunctory sentence to Lu Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao, that honeycomb was picked up by my cousin... "
"Wow! Cousin Shouzhe doesn't like me anymore, wuwu, my cousin is bullying me." When she heard that she didn't, Lu Xiaoxiao immediately felt that she was completely outclassed, and ran back to the house crying.
But Wang Luojing was holding Wang Shouzhe's arm, looking proud of defeating the "bad guy", which made Wang Shouzhe roll his eyes. She was really a little girl, even jealous.
But this kind of thing is just a minor incident, and Wang Shouzhe doesn't care.
Later, under the leadership of their uncle Lu Zhengjie, Wang Shouzhe and Wang Luojing went to the main hall of the Lu family's main house together.
At the same time, Lu Zhengxiong, the patriarch of the Lu family, and his first wife, Wang, had already put on formal clothes and were waiting there.
Lu Zhengxiong is already in his fifties. He has a Chinese character face and three strands of beard, and he looks quite impressive.
His wife, Mrs. Lu, was Wang Shouzhe's biological aunt, Wang Liuling. She was actually over fifty years old, but well-maintained and well-groomed, she looked like a beautiful middle-aged woman sitting on her.
"Shouzhe brought Wang Luojing, the fifth sister of the family, to meet his uncle and aunt." Wang Shouzhe stepped forward and saluted according to the etiquette of juniors meeting their elders. Previously, he had sent family generals to inform them that this trip was to meet their elders, not to meet their elders. Came to meet as the clan leader.
"Shuzhe, please excuse me." Lu Zhengxiong stepped forward to support Wang Shouzhe and looked him up and down, "I haven't seen him for a while, Shouzhe, you have grown to such an extent."
"Zhe'er, Zhe'er." Wang Liuling also stepped forward and took Wang Shouzhe's hand, very affectionately, "You have just become the clan leader, and you are running around like this. It's really hard on you."
My aunt Wang Liuling had gone to attend the funeral of the Wang family. She had already cried over the death of her younger brother. He was already dead. Now she was more concerned about her nephew Wang Shouzhe.
"Uncle and aunt, this is not a hard thing to say." Wang Shouzhe said, "Our Wang family and Lu family are connected by blood, so it is our duty to help each other."
Because his biological mother was the direct daughter of the Lu family, Wang Shouzhe had a deep affection for the Lu family since he was a child. The direct line exchange between the previous generation of both parties also made the two families very close.
After a brief exchange of greetings, aunt Wang Liuling took Wang Luojing aside to talk.
Lu Zhengxiong was sitting and chatting with Wang Shouzhe, but what he served was not regular spiritual tea, but Yingxiu Lu's specialty ice crystal dew drink.
The Lu family occupies the advantageous location of Yingxiu Lake. Not only has it made some achievements in aquaculture, it has also circled a piece of "spiritual water" and specially planted an underwater spiritual plant - crystal dew grass. Crystal dew grass will produce a kind of thumb-sized spiritual plant. Fruit, it looks like a grape, but is as transparent as a cicada's wing. Take out the sap inside and chill it to make an excellent drink.
After drinking it in one gulp, a cold and clear feeling went down the throat into the stomach, and then the cooling feeling spread throughout the body. The whole person trembled, and suddenly felt a sense of comfort after having the marrow and hair removed.
Speaking of which, this was the third time Wang Shouzhe drank the ice crystal dew drink, because this is a spiritual drink with a rare production. Just one cup costs several dry gold, and even the direct descendants of the Lu family can rarely drink it.
The Yingxiu Lu family is not a very powerful family, and there is only one ancestor in the family. However, their ice crystal dew drink is a specialty. At present, most of the output is exclusively supplied to Zifu Academy, and a small part is used by some Strong family lineage sharing.
Wang Shouzhe didn't know how much his annual net profit was, but he estimated that it would not be less than eight or nine hundred thousand gold.
In addition to Wang Shouzhe's cup, Wang Luojing also got a cup. It was the first time for her to drink such a good drink, and her eyes were filled with tears.
After a good drink, they were treated to another spiritual meal, which made the two brothers and sisters of Wang Shouzhe feel full of vitality and blood.
Then, naturally we get to the point. Wang Luojing cooperates with the Lu clan to carry out pest control operations. The model is also simple, just copy the method of disposal by the Gongsun clan in Shanyang. Moreover, the Yingxiu Lu clan does not have too many fields, only six or seven thousand Mu, it’s not too difficult to deal with.
Originally, Wang Shouzhe wanted to help, but before leaving, he received a message from Patriarch Mingsheng, summoning Wang Shouzhe to meet him.
This made Wang Shouzhe suspicious. Could it be that Lu Xiaoxiao went to the Mingsheng Patriarch to complain, causing the Mingsheng Patriarch to have a problem with him?
However, this ridiculous thought only passed away in a flash. Patriarch Mingsheng was the Yingxiu Lu family's Dinghai Shenzhen, so how could he get involved in the small conflicts between his children.