Chapter 64 Chapter 64 Butler Zhao immediately knelt on the ground,...
Butler Zhao immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Bai, saying, "Madam, the eldest young master asked for this person in front of the Marquis, saying that several of the concubines were short of people and were afraid that they could not serve them well. The Marquis agreed immediately, and there was nothing I could do to stop him!"
Bai was startled, his face turned even more livid, but he sat down and restrained his emotions, becoming a little calmer than before.
Although she is still beautiful, she is old after all, and not as young and fresh as those concubines. The old marquis has never been a loyal person, and he has always had concubines and maids around him.
Although most of the Marquis's bedmates were sent away or disciplined by her. But there are still a few concubines who are from good families and have some family background, so they cannot be sent away easily.
Madam Wen has a daughter who now holds the highest status among the concubines. Her family is also a good concubine who comes from a wealthy merchant family in Beijing and she has no shortage of money.
However, she was usually humble and submissive, and never contradicted Bai. In addition, as she grew older, the Marquis rarely visited her courtyard, so Bai did not take her seriously.
There are also two new concubines. One of them is extremely charming and was sent by the eldest prince, and the other is pure and sweet and was sent from the old house of the Xue family.
These two concubines have someone to support them, and Lord Xue loves and respects them. Although Bai was dissatisfied, he could only pretend to be magnanimous due to various interests involved.
But she just couldn't tolerate these young concubines giving birth to children, so she made some changes to their daily lives and diets. It had been two years since they had entered the house, but there was no sign of pregnancy in their bellies.
Gradually, these concubines seemed to come to their senses and were no longer so obedient to her. They also made trouble in front of Marquis Xue several times.
This time, Xue Fenglin used their names to ask for people in front of the Marquis, which touched the heart of the Marquis.
Now that the Marquis has spoken, what else does Butler Zhao have to say? The only thing they could do was hand over the indentures of these people.
"It seems that this guy has indeed prepared for this move a long time ago." Bai said gritting his teeth.
She asked housekeeper Zhao to bring the roster, only to find that all of Jinzhi and Jingui's relatives had been assigned to several concubines' courtyards. When they sent people to ask, they found out that he had not given the servants' deeds to the concubines at all, but kept them in his own hands.
"It's really watertight." Bai sneered and said, "Butler Zhao, you waited two months to tell me about such an important matter. That's really great!"
Butler Zhao was sweating profusely and was too afraid to look up at Bai.
Bai gave him a fierce look, but didn't say anything more. Instead, she said to him lightly, "Since the indentures of these people have been taken away by the eldest young master, their monthly allowances should also be paid to the eldest young master. There is no need to pay out any more in the future."
"Yes." Butler Zhao immediately took the order and left.
After he left, Bai looked at his back and said, "They took so many benefits from me, but they still want to sit on the fence. These bastards are really hard to tame."
"Madam, are we just going to let it go like this?" Mother You asked.
"After all, he is the chief steward of the Xue Mansion, and an old man who has been with the master. If I suddenly change someone, the master will not be used to him and will definitely call him in for questioning, which will be disadvantageous to me." Bai said.
"This is too easy for him. If the servants see it, won't they follow suit?" Mama You said again.
"I know what I am doing." Bai said calmly. Afterwards, he asked Qiongzhu to bring paper and pen, wrote a letter, and asked her to deliver it to her brother Bai Yan.
Three days later, Zhao, the chief steward of the Xue Mansion, was unfortunately encountered by bandits while he was out on business and his body was left exposed in the wilderness.
Bai informed Lord Xue of this matter and gave his family some silver as a consolation, allowing them to return to their hometown to arrange the funeral for Manager Zhao.
After the Zhao family left, Bai said to Lord Xue, "Originally, Manager Zhao and his family were in charge of many important matters in the mansion, but now they have suddenly encountered misfortune, and no one is in charge of those matters anymore."
"Why don't I send two capable people up first, and then replace them after Manager Zhao's family returns?"
Lord Xue usually has no time to pay attention to the affairs of the inner house, so he waved his hand and said, "Manager Zhao was also promoted by you. Now that something has happened, you have to replace him. I think he did a good job before, so you can assign someone with similar standards."
After hearing this, Bai promoted a new manager and arranged for his family to take the lucrative positions previously held by Manager Zhao's family.
When Mother You heard about this at home, she shuddered and couldn't sleep well for many days.
When Manager Zhao's family came back, Bai sent them to a very remote farm of the Xue family on the grounds that the job had already been filled.
It was impossible for the Bai family's high-profile replacement to be hidden from Xue Fenglin's eyes.
He had spent many years bribing Manager Zhao's family, but now they had all been replaced by the Bai family. It would probably be more difficult for him to do things in the Xue Mansion in the future.
After thinking about it, he found the indentures of Jinzhi and Jingui and asked Wuxin to deliver them to Shen Xuan.
Chen Xuan was very happy to receive their indentures, and he had long forgotten the unhappiness of being held hostage by Xue Fenglin to collect interest last time.
So he wrote a letter to ask about Xue Fenglin's well-being, and specifically told him about the business situation of his shop. He also took 50% of the profits, exchanged them for silver notes, and sent them to him.
Xue Fenglin was living in the Imperial College dormitory when he received the letter. In order to prepare for the spring imperial examination, he lived and ate with other students in the Imperial Academy and worked hard every day.
Most of the children of famous families in the capital who were preparing for the imperial examinations studied in the Imperial College, but only a few of them lived in the college.
On the contrary, many families of scholarly origin have the habit of letting their sons and nephews live in the Imperial College. Xue Fenglin, a prince, was an anomaly living with them.
On this day, Xue Fenglin was debating with his classmates when he saw Wuxin sending him a letter.
He just saw the handwriting on the letter and knew it was sent by Shen Xuan.
Xue Fenglin smiled slightly and was about to put the letter into his sleeve pocket.
He had a look of joy on his face, with an unconcealable smile on his lips. When his classmates saw this, they couldn't help but joked, "Prince, look at your expression. This letter must be something special. Could it be from a lover?"
"That's right! Fenglin, you are already over 20 years old and you still have no wife or concubine at home. You are usually as pure and as indifferent as a monk. Could it be that you have fallen in love with some girl?"
"With Feng Lin's looks, the one he likes must be extremely beautiful. I wonder if I can see her in person?"
These classmates were about the same age as Xue Fenglin. Although most of them were unmarried, many of them had concubines at home.
In the past, sometimes when we had no classes in the evening, some people would make plans to gather at Yaji.
Of course, although it was an elegant gathering, singing and dancing were indispensable to entertain the people, and some people even invited courtesans from Zijin Street to serve them.
Among the students of Dajin, they are the norm, while Xue Fenglin is an outlier. Even when attending an elegant gathering, he always sat alone and never visited prostitutes for fun.
Of course, part of the reason why Xue Fenglin kept himself clean was because the Bai family was keeping a close eye on him. But another big reason was that he really hadn't been very interested in these things before.
After all, he is so good-looking and has many admirers. How could he easily fall in love with someone who is not as good-looking as him?
Xue Fenglin was a little embarrassed to be teased by his classmates. He put the letter away and coughed, saying, "Xiu is talking nonsense. I will stop here today. I am going to rest now." Then he turned around and left to his room.
After he left, his classmates dispersed. Xue Fenglin closed the door and lit the oil lamp, then he couldn't wait to open Shen Xuan's letter and read it.
It has been more than half a month since I last separated from Shen Xuan.
Xue Fenglin originally thought that he was a pure-hearted person and he looked down upon those classmates who were impatient for sex. Now he realizes that it is not that he is really pure and indifferent, but that he has never met anyone who makes him impulsive.
He opened Shen Xuan's letter, and a faint floral scent came out. Chen Xuan had been spending more time in the soap shop these days, so it was inevitable that he had some fragrance on him, and the paper he wrote the letter on was also stained with some of it.
The letter was not long, but the language was vivid. In addition to the usual greetings, it also wrote about many interesting things that happened in his shop.
When Xue Fenglin read the end of the letter, he found a few more sheets of paper underneath. When I opened it, I found that it was actually several silver bills.
There were six silver notes with a face value of one hundred taels each. Shen Xuan explained in the letter that this was 50% of Xuanzifang's profit in ten days, and it was given to Xue Fenglin as interest.
In just ten days, he earned 1,200 taels of silver. The profit from the soap was really huge.
However, Xue Fenglin looked unhappy when he saw the banknote. After thinking about it, he folded the banknote again. Then he took out a book from his desk, opened it to a page and tore it off.
Then, after writing a few small words casually, he put the page of paper and the silver note back into the envelope and asked Wuxin to return it to Shen Xuan for him.
The next day, Shen Xuan received a letter from Wu Xin early in the morning.
It was still early in the morning, and before he had time to get up, he lay on the bed and opened the letter.
Unexpectedly, just as he opened the letter, the roll of silver bills fell down, and then a page of the book floated to his face.
Shen Xuan took a closer look, his face suddenly turned red, and he suddenly crumpled the page into a ball and threw it out.
"Brother Chen, what happened?" Jinzhi saw it and was about to pick up the paper ball.
Shen Xuan quickly said, "Don't pick it up! You all get out first!"
Jin Zhi Jingui looked puzzled, not knowing what had happened. But seeing Shen Xuan’s serious expression, he also hurriedly retreated.
After they closed the door, Shen Xuan got out of bed again and picked up the bunch of pages.
It was already deep winter, and a charcoal brazier was lit in his room. Shen Xuan was tempted to throw it into the charcoal basin and burn it, but in the end he couldn't bear to do it.
Instead, he sat on the bed and opened the book again to take a look.
I saw a delicate erotic painting on the page, with every detail described in great detail.
In the painting, a boy is being pressed on a table, and someone is molesting a certain part of his upper body.
Next to the erotic painting, Xue Fenglin wrote a line of small words: [I have returned the banknote to you. You should prepare the interest. I will collect it next time we meet. 】
Even though Shen Xuan was a person who had experienced the baptism of the modern world, his entire body was red from head to toe.
I wondered why Xue Fenglin was like this? He looked so serious before, but now he has the nerve to send pornographic pictures to me!
Shen Xuan held the spring palace in his hand, but his mind was firmly recalling how Xue Fenglin treated him that night. The memory was so overbearing that it made his entire body go limp.
He held the erotic picture in his hand and wanted to burn it but felt reluctant to do so. After going back and forth several times, he finally folded the drawing and put it into a small box.
He was afraid that the box would be seen by others, so he finally hid it stealthily under the pillow.
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