Chapter 3356 Extra Strong Sister 10
He had long wanted to cool down the hot potato in his hands. He hadn't thought about Zhao Liulang before, but now...
Bai Shan looked at him with a smile, "The old Duke's health is getting worse. I heard that he has been thinking of dividing the family property among you brothers. After the family property is divided, have you thought about how to gain a foothold in the capital?"
If Zhao Liulang wants to become independent from the Duke's Mansion, his expenses will definitely increase sharply. He will still earn the same amount of money, and it is even possible that his income will decrease because he is no longer a young master. How will he maintain his current standard of living at this time?
"Besides, my nephew and niece are also planning to get married now. They'll be married in two years, right?"
Zhao Liulang married and had children early, and his children are already quite old. Even if he were to respond to the Imperial Medical Bureau's call to marry and have children later, he should be married by now.
Zhao Liulang tightened his grip on the box.
Bai Shan said, "The cost of making a paper mill is not high. You can find a few craftsmen and make it with the recipe. Paper is cheap now, but if you sell more at a lower profit, you can make a lot of money. Otherwise, no one would be so jealous of the princess's paper mill."
Zhao Liulang: "...Do you think I can protect the paper mill? How about you and Zhou Man join forces?"
In the whole Jin Dynasty, I’m afraid few people dare to mess with the couple.
Bai Shan refused directly. "Zhou Man and I both have shares in the princess's paper mill, so it's not convenient for us to take any more money from you. This recipe is a New Year's gift to you, so I'll leave it to you to handle."
Bai Shan secretly reminded him: "If you are worried, why not ask the prince to come along? As the saying goes, brothers united are stronger than iron."
But his relationship with this big brother is very ordinary.
The two brothers had a big age gap, and Zhao Dalang was never in the capital, being sent out most of the time. The two brothers had only seen each other for half their lives combined, but that was not as long as the time he and Bai Shan had spent together.
When they were studying at Chongwenguan, they had at least been together day and night, but he and Zhao Dalang had only had such an experience for a few days.
"If you don't want to find the prince, then find someone else," Bai Shan said, guiding him: "It doesn't have to be powerful, just someone who shares the same ideals or has good character."
"As long as your paper mill is running smoothly, even if outsiders want to do something, they have to consider the Duke of Zhao's Mansion," Bai Shan said. "Even if the family splits up, you are still the son of the old Duke and the younger brother of the future new Duke..."
Bai Shan spoke the following sentences slowly, almost enunciating each word. Zhao Liulang seemed to be lost in thought. "Are you saying that you want me to find those who might also be separated from the family but have a good family background?"
Bai Shan: "...I was clearly talking about someone who shares your ideals and has excellent character."
"I know, I know. They just get along with me," Zhao Liulang waved his hand to show he understood. He stroked his chin and thought, "You know what, there are actually a few..."
Zhao Liulang had an idea in mind and became happy. He patted Bai Shan's shoulder vigorously and said, "I will treat you to a drink when my paper mill makes money."
When he saw Bai Jingxing squatting on the rockery with a book in his hands and looking worried as he walked out, he said, "This time, it's all thanks to my niece. If she needs anything in the future, I will definitely not refuse."
Bai Shan pushed him out and said, "Shut up, get out, get out."
If even their own family can't solve the problem, there's not much Zhao Liulang can do to solve it.
After sending Zhao Liulang back, Bai Shan went around to the foot of the rockery to see his daughter. He saw her reciting the Su Wen with a pained face. Bai Shan listened for a while, shook his head, and interrupted her, "Why is it so painful for you to recite it?"
He smiled and said, "When your mother was memorizing this book, she was so happy. She pondered every sentence, and when she could recite it by heart, she even ran to the Jishitang in the county town to find the shopkeeper Zheng and recited it to him."
Because "Su Wen" was lent to her by Manager Zheng.
Bai Jingxing, "But it's very difficult, much harder than the Analects and Mencius."
Bai Shan climbed up the rockery, sat next to her and asked, "If it's so painful, why do you force yourself to study medicine?"
“I want to be like my mother.”
Bai Shan looked at her and couldn't help but smile, "Silly child."
But he didn't stop her. It was always good for children to study. Even if she herself didn't understand his own feelings, studying medicine was not a bad thing anyway.
So Bai Shan pretended not to see her pain, and when he saw her persistence, he encouraged her: "Then try hard, father believes you can do it."
Zhou Man also encouraged her in this way, and the two of them gave her kind words as if they were free of charge.
Whenever Bai Jingxing felt that she could not hold on any longer, the two of them would take her out, either Bai Shan or Zhou Man, or the couple would go out together, taking their three children with them.
Seeing the happiness and suffering of the people outside, as well as the benefits of the government affairs presided over by Bai Shan and Zhou Man, and listening to the people's gratitude to her parents, Bai Jingxing felt that she was doing well again.
She was so immersed in her studies that she could only go out twice out of ten times when her friends asked her to go out, and she only went out to play polo more often.
Whenever this happened, Bai Jingxing would quietly ask Zheng, "Grandma, were father and mother really fun-loving when they were young? How come they were so good at studying even though they were fun-loving? Don't they have to study hard?"
Zheng said, "They are fun, but they don't have as much time to play as you do."
She said, "You kids, you always call your friends to go out and play. Your parents didn't have so much time before. There weren't many things to do in the village. After school every day, besides playing in the mud and catching birds, you would spend most of your time together doing homework and copying books."
Zheng couldn't help but laugh as she recalled feeding them snacks every day. "Back then, the happiest thing about them was waiting for me to bring them snacks. As for playing? They'd only go out and play for half a day on their days off, and the rest of the time they'd spend in the study reading and playing."
"For them, reading is just fun. Even your cousin, who was so naughty when he was little, was taken to the study to read on his days off," Zheng said with a smile. "Now that your lives are better, you just want to run outside on your days off. How many of you remember to read?"
Bai Jingxing was shocked, "You call this fun?"
"That's how it is in the village. It's quiet and easy to calm down. It's not like the capital, where there's a bustling market just a few blocks away from your house. You'll pass by it on your way back from school, so naturally people are restless and can't calm down."
Zheng touched her head and said, "You are smart, just as smart as your parents, but you don't have their eagerness to learn, so you find studying difficult and don't have the joy your parents have."
Bai Jingxing looked at her grandmother with a confused face. She didn't understand at that time. It was not until a long time later, when she looked back, that she understood what her grandmother meant.
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(End of this chapter)
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