Chapter 325 Butler Tong
Wen Zhenyi was not in a hurry: "Okay, I've been living in the house opposite Master Cheng recently. If you have made up your mind, you can come to me anytime."
After she finished speaking, she didn't stay long and left the Song Mansion together.
It's getting late now, but fortunately there is no curfew in the county.
Ah Xiang looked at the two of them and said, "Miss, where are we going now?"
"If I go to my aunt's house, she will nag me if I don't go."
A Xiang drove the carriage towards the Ma family's location.
After dinner, Old Lady Ma and her family chatted in the yard, discussing Ma Yuruo's marriage after the New Year and the college entrance examination.
Geng Ru: "Mom, we should prepare holiday gifts for my sister and the others."
"It's time to get ready. Yuruo and Can'er will both be on duty during the New Year this year, so we can't go to Wenxia Town to see them."
"I'm also planning to have Yushun go and deliver the bonuses from the store opening to everyone."
"It's time to send it."
“Knock, knock, knock…”
As they were talking, they heard a sound outside the courtyard gate and were all a little confused.
Ma Can stood up and prepared to open the door, muttering, "It's so late, I don't know who it is."
"Go and take a look, in case it's something happening in the government office." Old Man Ma called him to open the door.
For those of them who work as yamen runners and constables, it is normal for things to happen frequently in the yamen.
When Ma Can opened the gate and saw the three people, he was stunned for a moment.
"Uncle, are you not happy to see me?" Wen Zhenyi looked at him with a smile.
Old Ma looked out the gate and said, "Why do I hear Yi Yi's voice?"
Geng Ru was a little uncertain: "No way, it's not even fifteen yet!"
Ma Can immediately made way with a smile: "Girl, why are you here at this time?"
Ma Yushun stood up and looked towards the door, and really saw Wen Zhenyi and the other two: “Grandma, mother, it’s my cousin and Brother Shen.”
Upon hearing this, several people hurriedly stood up and walked towards the gate of the courtyard.
Old Lady Ma looked at the three of them and asked, "Why are you here at this hour? Did something happen on the way?"
"Grandma, it's nothing. We arrived early, but we were delayed a little by doing something else."
"That's good, that's good. Otherwise, it would be scary in the middle of the night."
Ma Yushun looked at Shen Hanxing and put his arm around his shoulders: "Why are you here too?"
"After the New Year, the college entrance examination will begin, so I have to go to the county town."
"That's true."
Wen Zhenyi told them about the current situation. She had a house in the county town, and during the New Year, she asked her uncle and his family to go to the house to celebrate with them.
Old Man Ma and his friends are happy, and it will be much more lively for everyone to celebrate the New Year together.
Today, Wen Zhenyi did not go back to her own house to sleep, but stayed at Ma's house, in the same room she had lived in before, which had always been reserved for her.
Shen Hanxing was dragged by Ma Yushun to live with him.
Wen Zhenyi was making the bed when he saw Geng Ru walk in: "Aunt."
Geng Ru walked over to her, took her hand and sat down beside her: "Yi Yi, I have something to tell you."
Wen Zhenyi sat on the stool: "You say."
Geng Ru took out a few banknotes from her bosom and placed them on the table: "This is the profit from the store this year. It's not much. Please keep it."
Wen Zhenyi looked at the several hundred taels of silver on the table and said, "This is not much."
"For you, it's really not much."
Wen Zhenyi didn't refuse, but reached out and took the banknote: "Then I'll take it."
"You should accept it." Geng Ru had been worried that she wouldn't accept it, and had even thought of words to persuade her. Now that she saw that she accepted it so readily, she felt that she had been overthinking it.
"Aunt, you should get some rest early. I will be in the county during this period."
"Okay, okay." Geng Ru smiled and turned to walk out of the room.
Ah Xiang came in from somewhere and said, "Master, I thought you wouldn't accept it."
"If I don't accept them, they will feel uneasy. If I accept them, they will feel at ease."
"But I think you'll pay it back in other ways later."
"Axiang, you are really smart." Wen Zhenyi went to bed after saying that.
When Axiang heard her say that she was very smart, he felt that there was something wrong with this sentence, but he didn't seem to notice anything wrong.
When Wen Zhenyi woke up in the morning, he simply gave everyone the cake he brought as breakfast.
Old Man Ma likes this cake very much: "This cake is good, you don't have to chew it hard."
"Grandpa, if you like it, I'll bring it to you when I make it."
"Okay, okay, then I'll be in for a treat."
Old Mrs. Ma seemed to have heard something else: "Yi Yi, are you planning to open a pastry shop?"
"I have this plan when I go back this time, but there aren't many varieties. If I want to make more, I'll have to wait for a while."
Geng Ru shook her head helplessly: "You really don't intend to let yourself have some free time."
“When I’m idle, I feel like something is missing from my life.”
Ma Yushun approached Shen Hanxing and whispered, “You don’t even try to persuade me.”
"If I could persuade him, wouldn't you have done it long ago?"
Ma Yushun didn't know what to say.
Shen Hanxing turned to look at Ma Yushun: "Have you never thought about what to do in the future?"
"I want to travel, but I'm afraid my mother won't let me go."
"She's worried about you at your age."
"When I was young, people said I was young. Now that I'm old, they think I should get married and have children." Ma Yushun shrugged helplessly.
"If I pass the examination and become a scholar, I will then take the examination for a juren. Would you like to accompany me to the capital?"
"Accompanying you to Beijing is like traveling." Ma Yushun's eyes lit up.
"If you're willing, you'll have to ask your cousin for help then."
"This is not easy, my cousin must have a way." Ma Yushun instantly became energetic and turned to look at Shen Hanxing: "Brother Shen, you have to work hard! Whether I can get out depends entirely on you."
Shen Hanxing smiled and shook his head.
Wen Zhenyi also had to go to Mr. Cheng's house to talk to him about buying a dairy cow for him.
Shen Hanxing planned to visit her new house and review her studies there.
The three of them went to see their own house first. Perhaps as County Magistrate Lei had instructed, the doorman was very polite to them.
After they entered the yard, they called all the servants in the house over.
There are seven people, but they are all family.
Butler Tong greeted them and handed their family's indentures to Wen Zhenyi: "Miss, this is our indenture."
Wen Zhenyi took a look at the indenture in his hand and saw that the people guarding the gatehouse were Tong Guanjia's parents.
His wife and two daughters were responsible for the sanitation and kitchen work in the house, and his son was responsible for doing odd jobs.
"Butler Tong, please show us around the house."
"Okay, Miss, please follow me."
Butler Tong took them around the house. The house was very clean and there were only furniture left by the previous owner in the room. As for bedding and other things, they were put away for fear that the new owner would be uncomfortable with them.
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