Chapter 254 The elder of the Xue family!
In the evening, brothers Su and Shen Changan were busy preparing dinner in the kitchen. Xu Zhiyi was in the room checking the account books and calculating the regular silver that would be paid to each person. It was time to pay the regular silver to the hired workers in each shop!
"Ma'am, it's time to eat!"
Shen Changan walked into the room and saw her counting copper coins. A small pile of copper coins was poured directly in front of her. He asked curiously, "Madam, don't we count the silver and copper coins every day? Why count them again?"
Xu Zhiyi: "This is the regular silver I want to give to the servants. Some of them can be given in exact amounts, but some people's regular silver is not an exact amount. I have to split it up from a string of 100 copper coins and count it for them."
Hearing this, Shen Changan advised: “My wife, let’s eat first, Wuyou and I will help you later!”
As he said that, he pulled Xu Zhiyi up, held her hand and went to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, Su was serving rice, Shen Wuyou was serving the last dish, and Xu Zhiyi looked at the four dishes cooked on the table, fried bacon with bamboo shoots, steamed spare ribs, fried cabbage, and the spicy diced chicken that Shen Wuyou brought to him.
Shen Wuyou's eyes were smiling, with an expression that looked like he was asking for praise:
"My dear, I made your favorite spicy chicken tonight. Please try it. Is it okay?"
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi took the chopsticks handed over by Shen Wuyou, picked up a piece of chicken and started eating.
"How is it? Is it the same as what you made? Or is there anything that needs to be improved?" Shen Wuyou stared at Xu Zhiyi expectantly, and seeing that she seemed to be eating very happily, he felt extremely satisfied.
He decided that from now on, he would learn what his wife liked to eat!
Aunt Mu said that if you want to capture a man's heart, you have to capture his stomach. On the other hand, if he wants to capture his wife's heart, he has to learn how to cook.
After Xu Zhiyi swallowed the meat, he gave a thumbs up and praised, "Wuyou, I found that you have a talent for cooking. I only taught you this dish twice, but I didn't expect you to learn it! It's delicious and suits my taste!"
Shen Wuyou was very happy when she heard this: “My wife, whatever you want to eat in the future, just say a word and I will make it.”
Xu Zhiyi shook his head after hearing this and sat down at the dining table: "I thought about it, you guys are busy in the shop all day, and you still have to cook and do housework when you come back, it's too hard!"
"We didn't have the conditions to enjoy life before, but now we can afford it! So I decided to go to the dental clinic and buy a few people."
"This way, someone will do the housework, and we can just focus on business!"
Su placed the prepared meal in front of Xu Zhiyi, then sat down opposite her and said, "Zhiyi, there is no room left at home. If we buy people back, where should we arrange for them to live?"
After hearing this, Xu Zhiyi thought for a while and suggested, "Why don't we move to the house in town? I have to take care of the fields in this village in the early stage, and when things are stable later, I can let my grandparents and uncle help take care of it."
"Besides, our village is close to town, so we can get there and back quickly if anything happens!"
Su: "Zhiyi, just make your own decision. Anyway, wherever we go, our family will be together!"
Shen Wuyou Shen Changan on the side nodded in agreement: “I listen to my wife!”
"Then it's settled! You don't have to move your things at home. Let's prepare a new set. If we move back to the village in the future, we can just clean it up!"
The family ate and talked about their short-term goals and plans, and then started gossiping. The sky outside gradually darkened, but there was constant laughter in the kitchen, and happiness was revealed in the laughter.
After dinner, Xu Zhiyi took hot water to take a bath, Su was in the kitchen cleaning up the dishes, and Shen Changan and Shen Wuyou helped calculate the regular silver to be distributed.
Before going to bed at night, Xu Zhiyi made the bed and saw Shen Wuyou and Shen Changan standing at the door. He looked at them and helplessly held his forehead: "Do you two want to come in or go out? I bolted the door!"
After hearing this, the two came in and bolted the door. After Xu Zhiyi took off his shoes, he lay down in the middle and said, "Go to sleep, you two blow out the lights!"
There were three of them, Xu Zhiyi slept in the middle, with Chen Wuyou on his left and Chen Changan on his right. The two of them were on each side, with their arms around Xu Zhiyi and their heads resting on his shoulders, falling asleep with sweet hearts.
The next day.
The Xue family sent someone to the shop to inform them that the elders had arrived! The Xue family had an old house, which was a large house where several members of the family lived together. The Xue family's photo studio was inside, so Xu Zhiyi could just go there with his family today.
Su looked down at her clothes, feeling very nervous. She looked at Xu Zhiyi and asked, "Zhiyi, can you help me check if there is anything wrong?"
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi took Su's arm and comforted her, "Mom, there's nothing wrong. Don't be nervous. Haven't you met all the Xue family members?"
"Zhiyi, I was just a village woman before, and I don't know what etiquette those wealthy families have to pay attention to. There are so many people here today, I'm afraid it would be a shame to make a fool of myself!"
“Mom, it’s okay, I’m here.” As he said that, he pulled her onto the carriage sent by the Xue family, and Shen Wuyou and Shen Changan followed closely.
A quarter of an hour later, the carriage stopped in front of the Xue family's old house. When Su saw the carriage stop, she became so nervous that her whole body tensed up.
Wei was waiting at the door of the old house in advance. When the carriage stopped, Su got off first. Wei went over to greet her with a smile: "Sister-in-law!"
Hearing this, Su nodded and responded: "Sister-in-law..."
Xu Zhiyi: “Auntie!”
Shen Changan Shen Wuyou on the side also called out: "Hello, auntie!"
Wei nodded with a smile: "Oh, all right, everyone is over at the Shadow Hall, let's go over there too!"
Wei walked side by side with Su, chatting from time to time, but most of the time it was Su who answered and Wei who asked.
Xu Zhiyi, Shen Wuyou and Shen Changan followed behind. Although no one lived here, the house did not look overgrown with weeds at all. It was probably because someone came to take care of the house regularly.
"Sister Zhiyi!"
As soon as she stepped into the shadow room, Xue Yinyin shouted.
Xu Zhiyi nodded in response, then glanced at the four white-haired old men standing nearby.
Mr. Xue: "These four are the second grandfather, the fourth grandfather, the fifth grandfather, and the seventh uncle."
Upon hearing this, Xu Zhiyi bowed and said hello: "My lord, I have met the second great grandfather, the fourth grandfather, the fifth grandfather, and the seventh uncle."
Shen Wuyou and Shen Changan on the side also bowed and greeted!
The four of them looked at Xu Zhiyi and nodded kindly, then looked at Shen Changan and Shen Wuyou beside them. Seeing that they were both handsome and had impeccable manners, they were even more satisfied.
The second master looked at Xu Zhiyi and praised her, "Well, you are worthy of being a child of the Xue family. You are so pretty!"
Madam Xue pulled Su to her side and introduced: "Second grandfather, fourth brother, fifth brother, seventh brother, this is Yong'er's wife"
Upon hearing this, Su bowed and greeted like Xu Zhiyi had just done.
The four of them just nodded and said nothing more.
Afterwards, seeing that everyone had recognized each other as relatives, the main ceremony began. First, they knelt down and burned incense in front of the ancestor's tablets. Then they took out the family tree and introduced the people who were to be included in the family tree in front of the ancestors, indicating their ranking in the generation.
Xu Zhiyi watched the second grandfather take two copper coins and throw them on the ground three times in a row. The third time he said that the ancestors received the message and recognized this descendant.
Finally, he took out a thick book and found in the family tree that Mr. Xue's branch wrote down the second son Xue Yong, Su wrote down the second wife Su Wan, Xu Zhiyi wrote down the eldest granddaughter Xue Zhiyi, and the eldest granddaughter's son-in-law: Shen Changan, Shen Wuyou.
After finishing the matter of adding the family tree, everyone went back to Xue's house to have lunch before returning to the shop.
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