Chapter 2353 Discussion
Old Zhou and Qian were cheered up when they heard Old Lady Liu mention the marriage. After thinking about it, they felt that it would be more prestigious for Bai Shan to get married after he got an official position. And since it would not be long, they smiled and nodded in agreement.
Because the adults mentioned marriage, Bai Shan couldn't help but look at Manbao.
Manbao was serving soup, so he hesitantly poured him a bowl and asked, "Don't you want to drink the soup?"
Bai Shan took it, “Now I think about it again.”
After lunch, Princess Mingda and Princess Changyu went to Manbao's room to rest. The three girls squeezed on a bed and dozed off, but they still wanted to chat.
Manbao was squeezed in between them, so he simply crossed his legs to make himself more comfortable. "Is it okay for you not to go to Huguo Temple?"
Mingda: "We found another excuse. Since our third brother was going to die after the fifteenth day of the lunar month, we said we wanted to get a peace amulet for him. We didn't need to go to the Empress Dowager for a ritual. We had already asked the palace maids to get it, so there was no need for us to go in person."
Manbao: "Is it so easy for Prince Gong to make an excuse?"
Mingda laughed and said, "Father knows about this and won't blame us. Neither will Third Brother."
"Then during the Lantern Festival, you can also come out and get a peace amulet for Prince Gong. I will take you out to play that day."
Mingda was tempted, but still shook his head, "No, we are still in mourning. It's okay for me to come out of the palace to visit your house, but it's not okay to go out and have fun. The censor will impeach me."
Even if the censor did not impeach them, they would still feel guilty, and their father and mother would also have objections.
The Queen Mother is their grandmother.
Manbao sighed and said, "Okay, then we can only play by ourselves."
Mingda pushed her and said, "Go ahead and play if you want, why bother telling her?"
Man Baoji said cunningly: "Let you be envious."
Mingda burst out laughing, leaning his head against hers. Then, remembering something, he nudged her and said, "Tell me more about your journey to the Western Regions. Father told me the grasslands were huge, stretching as far as the eye could see, even larger than the fields in the imperial farm. It stretched as far as the eye could see, and the horizon wasn't a mountain like here, but rather a flat land connected to the mountains."
Man Bao said, "Sometimes you see mountains, and sometimes you don't. But the grasslands are beautiful, especially after autumn. The grass grows as long as a cow's calf and as high as a sheep's thigh. The sheep graze on the grass, and inexperienced shepherds can't tell how many sheep there are. I couldn't tell at all, anyway. Only when the wind blows past do the hidden sheep appear..."
Mingda felt a yearning in his heart.
Changyu was lying on the side outside, counting the gems she had obtained this time on her fingers, thinking about what kind of jewelry to make. As she was thinking, she turned her head and looked past Manbao and asked Mingda, "I don't have much gold left. If I want to make jewelry, I'm afraid it won't be enough. Can you lend me some?"
Mingda nodded. "No problem. Tell me how much you want and I'll have someone weigh it for you."
After saying that, he continued to pull Manbao to listen to their story of suppressing bandits and searching for treasure.
Chang Yu calculated and became happy, "Then I can make more than ten sets of jewelry."
Manbao couldn't continue talking to Mingda, so he turned to look at Changyu and asked, "Why are you making so many pieces of jewelry?"
Mingda was also startled and reminded: "We are still in the mourning period."
Chang Yu: "I'm not wearing it, I just asked someone to do it first."
Manbao said, "If you ask me, why don't you keep the ones you like, and sell the rest? You have gems and spices all over your hands, you can't use them all yourself, right? Although you're a princess and live and eat in the palace, you don't have to spend your own money, but you also said that you will be married before next year, so you should prepare more things for yourself. Jewelry and other things are hard to cash in, and gems and spices are actually not worth much in times of emergency. The most useful things are gold, silver, copper coins and cloth."
Chang Yu, "But I don't lack money to spend."
She is a princess, and even when she gets married she will have a dowry from the palace and be taken care of by her husband's family. She just needs to make sure she lives a good life.
In Changyu's words, "All the money I earn should be spent on myself. It's already very virtuous of me not to take Wei Yu's money and spend it on myself."
Manbao and Mingda nodded, then said, "But your money must not be enough for your own use."
Chang Yu was unconvinced, "Who said it wasn't enough?"
Mingda: "Aren't you borrowing gold from me now?"
Changyu was silent for a moment, then asked Manbao, "When will your fourth brother come back?"
Manbao said, "Let's finish harvesting the spring tea. He will come to the capital after harvesting the spring tea and some seasonal medicinal herbs. He will send tea and cloth to the grassland to exchange for goods. If you want to sell anything, you can find my niece."
She said, "My second niece and two nephews are now in charge of the business in Beijing."
Chang Yu sat up from the bed and said, "I'll go talk to them."
Mingda held her back and said, "Lie down for a while. Look, there's no one outside right now."
Zhou Lijun and the others also went to rest, and the whole Zhou residence was quiet. However, even when Zhou Lijun was resting, he did not lie down, but sat cross-legged on the couch and used an abacus.
Xiang Mingxue walked in and saw this, and couldn't help but ask with a smile, "What are you calculating?"
Zhou Lijun wrote down a number in the account book and said, "Have you arranged for my aunt's bill and the people the princess brought with her?"
Xiang Mingxue nodded and said, "I've already eaten and am going to rest now."
He walked over to take a look, then smiled and said, "Aunt Zhou...you are richer than anyone else in the family."
Zhou Lijun said as a matter of course: "Of course, my aunt earns the most."
After Zhou Lijun collected the account book, he told Xiang Mingxue, "Third Uncle said the grapes at home have started to grow, and they'll be bearing fruit in two years. I asked my aunt, and she said the winemaking recipe my aunt gave me isn't difficult, but it'll take a year or two to make wine. And the place to make wine needs to be clean, so I'm thinking of building a wine cellar on a piece of land in the village ahead of time. That way, we can use the grapes as soon as they bear fruit, without having to rush."
Xiang Mingxue was stunned for a moment and asked, "You want to go back?"
Zhou Lijun looked at him in surprise. "Didn't you say you were going back to worship your ancestors? Since you're going back to worship your ancestors, why don't you stay at my house for a while on your way back? Then you can return to Beijing."
They got married last year but did not return to their hometown. Xiang Mingxue always wanted to go back to worship his ancestors. He is married now, although he has no children yet, but this is a big deal and he has to tell his family.
It just happened that Zhou Man was outside the Great Wall, and the Zhou family was worried, so Zhou Lijun went to Xiazhou in person to take charge and wait for Zhou Man to come back.
Xiang Mingxue didn't expect that she still remembered this matter. He felt relieved and couldn't help but smile. He nodded and said, "Okay, we'll stay a little longer then."
He sat down next to her and asked, "When are we going back?"
Zhou Lijun said, "Let's sell all the goods we brought back this time. Also, the gems and spices my aunt has are almost all sold in the capital. The rest should be taken back to Yizhou so they can be sold more easily."
Xiang Mingxue: ...I always feel like she went back to sell the goods she had.
Good night
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(End of this chapter)
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