Chapter 147 Xiao Yan Seeks Comfort
"I know, I know. You always blame me. Why don't you blame my elder sister?" Erya pouted.
Daya said calmly: "I've kept it in mind as well."
"You, you really won't accept any loss." Lu Qiniang scolded with a smile, "You guys pack up the stall, I'll go buy some meat."
When she returned home, Lu Qiniang was still trying to find an excuse to cook a few more dishes.
In addition to buying fish, meat and vegetables, she also bought half a basket of crabs.
She didn't want to eat crabs because she thought it was troublesome, but since the Fifth Young Master liked them, she bought them. After all, they were guests in the house.
When I got home, Xiao Yan and Zhou Xiaoyao were sitting on a stone bench in the yard talking. I didn't know what they were talking about.
"Abandoned Mother, you're back." Xiao Yan stood up and came over to help get things from the car.
The Fifth Young Master couldn't sit still and wanted to help.
"You're not needed." Lu Qiniang and Xiao Yan said in unison.
"You should take good care of it, it's just right." Lu Qiniang hurriedly moved things downstairs.
Xiao Yan said, "You are a guest. How can you let a guest take action?"
He didn't ask his three daughters to move, so he let them rest while he, Lu Qiniang, and Yun Ting went in and out several times to move things.
Yun Ting wanted to say, is he no longer considered a guest?
Seeing that Lu Qi Niang had bought so much meat and vegetables, Xiao Yan smiled and asked, "Is today a special day?"
"I was thinking about this," Lu Qiniang looked at the Fifth Young Master and had an idea, "The Fifth Young Master is getting better, let's celebrate."
Xiao Yan: "...Oh."
"You go talk to the Fifth Young Master, Daya and I will cook."
"I want to tell you some good news."
"What good news?"
"The warehouse has been rented out for three months at ninety taels. I just negotiated it and signed the contract today."
Cheng Jiuwan is a very interesting person.
He had stopped them before and no one dared to rent the warehouse.
After shaking hands and making peace yesterday, someone came to the door immediately today.
In fact, Xiao Yan was very suspicious that it was introduced by Cheng Jiuwan.
This is a way of giving him a good reward and declaring to him who is the boss here.
"Ninety taels in just three months?" Lu Qiniang said in shock, her eyes full of disbelief.
"Because the place is big enough," Xiao Yan said, "except in winter when the canal freezes, there should be no shortage of people renting it in other seasons. We'll see in winter, maybe there are other uses for it. But—"
"What?"
"These ninety taels of silver aren't all ours," Xiao Yan said. "We get half, forty-five taels. And from our forty-five taels, we deduct the five taels a month for hiring someone to guard us, leaving us with about thirty taels."
"How much for Lao Hu?"
"Nine taels, he gets ten percent. We don't deduct any other expenses from him. We pay for everything."
Originally, you can't take up that much. If you only contribute money or only contribute labor, you can't take up much.
However, Doctor Hu helped them a lot, so Xiao Yan was willing to make up for him in this regard.
"We get ten taels of silver a month," Lu Qiniang said, "and we don't have to do anything. We can just lie at home and get it."
I dare not think about it, I really dare not think about it.
"In fact, if we didn't rent it out as a whole, but sublet it ourselves, we would have more space. But at the beginning, we are just trying to figure it out, and then we can slowly adjust it over time."
"Enough, enough!"
It can never be spent.
"No, we have to give some to Yun Ting." Lu Qiniang said, "That's Yun Ting's collar."
"When I have money later, I will return the collar to him."
If you don’t have money, you won’t pay it back.
Lu Qi Niang: "That's not good."
"There's nothing wrong with it. He's collected a lot of my things before."
"Well, give him some to make him happy."
"Don't worry, I know what to do." Xiao Yan said.
This little money can solve their urgent needs, but for Yun Ting, it is not worth his second glance.
"I just bought some meat tonight, let's celebrate!" The joy on Lu Qinniang's face was so contagious that Xiao Yan couldn't help but curl his lips.
"Go talk to the Fifth Young Master. He's been lying down all day, feeling a bit depressed." Xiao Yan said, "I'll go help Daya. Yun Ting, go fetch some water!"
Yun Ting: "...I understand."
Grandma, your eldest grandson knows everything now.
She knows how to use the water winch and carry water with a shoulder pole, although she can only carry half a bucket at a time and is still laughed at by Erya, the little girl.
But, I learned it!
Erya went to give Dujuan a flower pattern. Dujuan got engaged and started embroidering her dowry.
Daya was clever and skillful, so Dujuan begged Daya to draw flowers for her.
So at this moment, Erya took the pattern that Daya had drawn late at night to give to Dujuan.
Doctor Hu said that all future profits from the warehouse would be Dujuan's dowry, which was better than giving her only one hundred taels as a dowry.
——Maybe she would be tricked into spending it all by a man.
It’s better to do this way, with income every month. Even if you change a man, the money is still there, so there is nothing to be sad about.
San Ya was playing football with her friends at the door. The little girl had grown a lot taller recently, and she followed the stall every day. She would play football when she came back. She was tanned like a coal ball, her appetite increased, and she was as strong as a calf. She could kick the sepak takraw ten feet away with one kick, and it would hurt when it hit people.
Only Daya was busy in the kitchen, and Xiao Yan walked in.
Lu Qiniang's loud voice rang out from outside, "Fifth Young Master, are you feeling better today?"
"Much better. Abandoned Mother, are you tired?"
There is a kind of tiredness that makes others tired just looking at her.
"Tired? Not tired! I didn't do anything all day." Lu Qiniang smiled, "I bought your favorite crabs and Jinhua wine. I asked Erya to ask Lao Hu. If he says it's okay, you can have some too."
"Okay." The Fifth Young Master smiled and nodded, "Thanks to you this time—"
"It's too formal for you to tell me that. I remember all the times you took care of me! And you, too, the eldest lady is your mother, so no matter what you do, it's difficult. Is there any way to separate you from the mansion... maybe after you get married? But she has the final say on your marriage, which is really frustrating..."
In the kitchen, Xiao Yan hesitated for a moment, but still spoke.
"Zhao Zhao, you guys are setting up a stall at the dock today. Have you heard about—" He found it a little difficult to speak.
"Dad, are you talking about the sword dance you performed for Cheng Jiuwan?" Daya understood.
"Yeah." Xiao Yan said.
"I heard about it." Daya said briefly, quickly taking apart the crabs and picking out the crab roe and crab meat.
"Your mother knows too?"
"Um."
Xiao Yan pursed his lips.
Now that Lu Qiniang knew about it, why didn’t she come to comfort him?
He is waiting...
He glanced outside and saw Lu Qiniang chatting and laughing with the Fifth Young Master.
"Do you remember the time when there were mice? I thought it was haunted, hahahaha..." Lu Qinniang's hearty laughter echoed in the courtyard.
For the first time, Xiao Yan felt that the laughter was a bit harsh.
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