Chapter 365 I love it! I love it so much!
Jiang Nuanzhi stared at the stack of silver notes in front of her, so engrossed that she could no longer hear the sounds downstairs. She even couldn't help but pinch her own cheek: "My God, did you really earn all of this?"
Jiang Nuanzhi paused for a moment, took a deep breath, grabbed Li Rong and gave him a thumbs up: "How are you so amazing? I've been here for so long and I've never seen so much silver!"
Li Rong was stunned, and looked at the hand that Jiang Nuanzhi was holding in a daze, feeling rather bewildered for a moment.
Does Ah Nuan really like money?
Li Rong subconsciously looked at Jiang Nuanzhi, only to see Jiang Nuanzhi take the silver and kiss it, then straighten it and count it carefully: "One, two, three... a full twenty!! Two thousand taels? My God!"
Li Rong: "Anuan, do you like it?"
Jiang Nuanzhi: "I love it! I love it so much!"
As she spoke, she caught a glimpse of the package hanging on Li Rong's arm out of the corner of her eye: "What's this? Is it something you said you were going to send back to me?"
Li Rong glanced at the package on his body subconsciously, and the next second he stuffed it under the sofa: "Cough cough, no, it's not!"
Jiang Nuanzhi: "Huh?"
Li Rong guiltily wiped the sweat from his forehead.
The package actually contained the gift he had previously chosen for Anuan—those useless, worthless seeds that Chiheng had mentioned.
Li Rong was initially skeptical, but now he thought that maybe Chi Heng was right. For a moment, he secretly rejoiced that he hadn't had time to give the gift yet.
"Anuan, I'll bring you your gift later." Li Rong said, glancing downstairs, "I'll go down and take a look first."
Jiang Nuanzhi nodded with a smile, "Okay, okay. You go ahead and get busy."
After saying this, she realized that she had agreed too quickly. To avoid Li Rong thinking that she had ungrateful her, she immediately smiled and stuffed the silver into her pocket: "I'd better go with you to take a look."
"Oh, okay."
Li Rong was taken aback, then walked down the road side by side with Jiang Nuanzhi.
He had only taken a couple of steps when Ah Nuan suddenly rushed up to him, smiling and saying, "I'll carry your lantern. Ah Rong, walk slowly, you're not familiar with these steps, don't fall."
Jiang Nuanzhi found the man in front of her pleasing to the eye, and her eyes crinkled with delight. Once downstairs, she even straightened his wrinkled robe slightly. Then, satisfied, she nodded gently to him, "Alright, go ahead."
Li Rong came down with a blank face in Jiang Nuanzhi's sight. At first glance, his expression was no different from usual. However, upon closer inspection, his ears turned bright red in the blink of an eye.
Where Jiang Nuanzhi couldn't see, Li Rong's eyes gleamed with an almost scorching light. He subconsciously touched the clothes Jiang Nuanzhi had just helped tidy up around her chest.
He seems to have figured it out.
Meanwhile, in the innermost room on the second floor, little Baozhu was desperately shouting into the microphone, "Daddy? Mommy? Hello? Hello!"
She frowned, holding the small bamboo tube and shaking it incessantly, sometimes holding it to her ear to listen, sometimes putting it to her mouth to shout.
There was no response for quite a while.
Her round little face was full of confusion: "What happened? Is it broken?"
"General, as you instructed, we were stationed at the east end of the village, and we actually managed to catch him. Judging from his appearance, he must have come alone this time," the soldiers reported to Li Rong from downstairs.
As they were talking, two other soldiers entered the room with beaming smiles: "General, we've caught another one."
Li Rong nodded and took a closer look at the two people who had been captured.
The two people who came to gather information were both tall and upright, but neither of them looked very well, as if they had been eating and dressing poorly for a long time.
Upon closer inspection, the two men's tiger's mouths were covered with a thick layer of calluses, indicating that they were accustomed to using weapons and were by no means ordinary refugees.
Li Rong's eyes darkened. He didn't question the two of them, but turned to Jiang Nuanzhi beside him and said, "Nuanzhi, it's late. You should take the children to sleep first. I'll take these people out for questioning. I'll come back and explain everything to you in detail once I've got the answers."
Jiang Nuanzhi was in an extremely good mood at the moment. She glanced at the two people who had been captured and nodded: "Oh, okay, then go and come back soon."
At this moment, the old man yawned, stretched, and came down from the second floor: "Hey, you caught someone? Perfect timing, I also want to stretch my muscles."
Li Rong nodded, then waved his hand. The soldiers quickly and efficiently took the two captured men away from the courtyard.
The interrogation in the military camp would probably make ordinary people uncomfortable.
Doctors like Ah Nuan must find it even more unbearable to see.
Naturally, Li Rong didn't want her and the children to see this side of him.
I don't want these people's blood to taint the yard of my new home.
Jiang Nuanzhi watched Li Rong and the old man leave, then curled up on the sofa again. She excitedly pulled out the silver notes Li Rong had just given her, counting them and carefully calculating their value.
She received a total of two thousand taels this time, which should be enough for her retirement as long as she doesn't cause any trouble.
He took out one hundred taels of silver and bought himself a few large gold bracelets.
Take out another hundred taels and give two more to Baozhu.
Well, set aside half for Ping'er to use when she goes to the capital for the imperial examination next year.
He took out half of the other half; he should be able to use some of the expensive medicinal herbs he had wanted to buy earlier after steaming them.
Halfway through her calculations, her hand suddenly stopped. Jiang Nuanzhi tilted her head and thought for a moment: "Hmm? It feels like I've forgotten something..."
After thinking for a long time without being able to remember, Jiang Nuanzhi simply put the matter out of her mind. Nothing was more important than money.
Sun Wen and Sun Wu were still standing guard at the bathroom door, waiting for orders. When they saw the very familiar silver note in Jiang Nuanzhi's hand, they exchanged a glance. They both saw a hint of shock in each other's eyes.
In fact, the two of them witnessed their master handing over all the money to the general.
They never imagined that in just a short while, all the silver notes would end up in the lady's hands without missing a single one.
It is clear that this general's wife was probably more favored by the general than imagined.
Sun Wu, in particular, was even more alarmed, remembering the foolish things his master had done before. He stared at Jiang Nuanzhi as if she were some kind of monstrous beast.
They were terrified that if she got upset and said a few more words, the general would skin their master alive the next second.
Sun Wen, on the other hand, had a somewhat ingratiating intention. Unlike that fool Sun Wu, he didn't know who was in charge in this family.
But whether now or in the past, whether it was the Duke's mansion or the General's mansion, there was never a female master.
Now, interacting with the mistress was truly a first for him, like a young woman on her wedding day. For a moment, his eyes widened, and he held back for a long time, until Chi Heng had already finished showering and come out, but he still couldn't utter a single word.
(End of this chapter)
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