Chapter 254 Silver
In Tsinghua Courtyard, a family of three was having lunch. Meimei suddenly looked at Xu Junying, biting the ends of her chopsticks and laughing, which made Henger also look at Xu Junying and laugh. Xu Junying said:
"What's so funny? Starting today, the rules apply: no talking while eating, no talking while sleeping. You two, stop laughing, eat!"
Meimei was thinking of what Cuixi had told her about Xu Junying's handling of Yuehua Courtyard. She couldn't help laughing when she thought of a man like Xu Junying interfering in other people's bedroom affairs. She immediately responded to Xu Junying's words:
"Okay, I agree. Now we won't talk during meals. If anyone wants to talk to me before bed, they will be punished according to the family rules!"
Xu Junying paused with his chopsticks stretched out, looked at Meimei and winked. Meimei pretended not to understand, so he had to say:
"I'm teaching Heng'er, you should cooperate..."
Meimei said seriously: "Didn't I cooperate very well?"
Xu Junying laughed angrily: "Okay, since it's just cooperation, don't take it seriously!"
"You! Great! So you just want the governor to set fire and not allow the people to light lamps, Heng'er..."
Heng'er didn't really understand what they were saying. He scooped up the rice happily, his cheeks were round and chubby, and he looked so cute. Meimei wiped the rice off his mouth and patted his cheek with a smile:
"You little cutie, eat slowly!"
Xu Junying smiled and put a chicken drumstick in his bowl: "You've finished your meal, so you want to eat this, right? Your mother taught you well. What if you want to keep this habit until you grow up?"
Meimei said: "What if you have been well-mannered since childhood? Are there any girls looking at you in the wild at the border? You might be very rude!"
Xu Junying coughed and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? Who said that being well-mannered is just for girls to see? He doesn't have to go to the border and the wild..."
Meimei smiled: "Isn't it? But the book says: Women dress up to please themselves. So I thought of changing the word "女" to "男", the meaning is the same!"
Xu Junying stared at her: "How do you teach people in your school? Your brain..."
Meimei smiled and picked up a piece of food for him with chopsticks: "My husband, please have this! This is a dish that Xiankelai has just learned to cook. Cuixi wrote a recipe and asked Madam Liu in the kitchen to learn how to cook it."
Xu Junying took a bite and said, "Mm, delicious!"
"Delicious, right? Your taste is similar to the old lady's. It seems that the old lady will like it too. Let's serve this dish to her tomorrow!"
Xu Junying pondered her words: "Why do I feel that what you said is weird? Can you put it another way?"
"How do I change it?"
He thought for a moment and said, "Forget it, I don't understand!"
Meimei smiled at him and said, "You're sending your aunt out of the house today, aren't you going to tell me about it?"
Xu Junying nodded: "I thought so. So that's what happened! Your girl Cuixi told me about it, right?"
"She just stood far away, what does she know?"
"So what do you want to know? Send her away, that's all!"
Xu Junying teased her deliberately, and Meimei snorted: "If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me! How dare you set up a secret treasury without telling me, and give so much money to my aunt at once? Who knows where else you hide gold and silver treasures? One day you have too much money and burn yourself, and you keep a mistress outside without me knowing!"
Xu Junying didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Meimei, what nonsense are you talking about? How dare I? I don't even bother! Having a wife like this is enough for my life! That silver is not from your public treasury. The double salary has been given to you... Well, it can be called a small treasury. The emperor gave it to me during this southern tour. It's a total of 200,000 taels. I asked Baoju to take it back and put it in the small treasury in the east courtyard. I still need a small treasury because I have to give my subordinates some extra subsidies and rewards from time to time... If you are worried, you can manage it for me? Baoju has detailed accounts. You can check and know what I use it for."
Meimei blinked her eyes and said, "You got such a huge reward, but you didn't tell me? Would you not tell me if I didn't ask you?"
Xu Junying couldn't help but stretched out his hand and gently pinched her cheek: "Then how can I hide this account today? It was clearly given out under Cuixi's nose! You are as cunning as a little demon, how can you not tell me? The emperor's reward will be given before the festival, and there are only two days. Why should I tell you something else? Why do I have to talk about such a boring topic as money? I will tell you later!"
Meimei shook her head: "I don't think the topic of silver is boring at all, I love listening to it!"
Xu Junying gritted his teeth: "Cen Meimei! I'm going to be angry!"
Meimei smiled and finally let him go: "Okay, let's not talk about money, it's vulgar! I don't care about it either!"
Xu Junying looked at her and suddenly came closer: "I heard that besides Xiankelai, you also have other businesses, and Li Qiuge's music studio will split the profits with you in half. You should have a lot of money, right? Where do you keep it?"
Meimei sat back and pointed at him: "Hey, you're talking about such a boring topic!"
Xu Junying smiled, and without caring about Heng'er being beside him, he stood up, walked to Meimei and sat down, hugging her. In fact, Heng'er had got the chicken leg and was fighting hard, so he didn't pay much attention to them.
"Hurry up and tell me! If you don't tell me, I'll let Bai Zhan investigate tomorrow! I've let you go for so long, and I don't know how much silver you've secretly collected. Who are you going to use it to support? I won't let you off!"
Meimei pushed him: "Look, Heng'er is looking here..."
"He looked at it, and they weren't just his parents. How dare he say anything? Answer me now, silver!"
Meimei had no choice but to answer honestly: "Yes, there are quite a few. Ask Cuixi for the exact number."
"Are they all in Houfu, Tsinghua Courtyard?"
"no……"
"Where is it?"
"Qin Mansion, my brother and sister-in-law will keep it for me."
Xu Junying was anxious: "Meimei, you...you can't do this! This is your home, your roots, and the Qin Mansion can only be regarded as your mother's home! How can you rely on your mother's home and not take your own home and your husband seriously? You are going to piss me off to death!"
Meimei smiled and reached out to smooth his chest: "Don't be angry..."
Xu Junying rolled her eyes like she usually did, but Heng'er saw her and laughed. Xu Junying said angrily, "This brat! Wait until I call Xia Lian over!"
Meimei stopped him: "He hasn't finished eating yet!"
Seeing Heng'er continue to gnaw on the chicken leg, Xu Junying embraced Meimei and begged in a low voice, "Let's put it aside before. From now on, your money and valuables must be kept in Tsinghua Courtyard, okay?"
"Yeah!" Meimei nodded and sighed, "I thought I loved money, but I didn't expect that Lord Hou is even more obsessed with money than me!"
Xu Junying tapped her nose: "I am obsessed with money? I have been too permissive with you. I didn't know until I asked, and now I am shocked - you are still so insincere. You are here, but your favorite things are placed somewhere else. Cen Meimei, Cen Meimei, you are too cunning! You are simply a..."
"What?"
Xu Junying looked around and leaned close to her ear with a smile: "Little vixen!"
The two of them jumped up at the same time and ran around the room. Heng'er looked at them in amazement and shouted:
"Hu Ji!"
"Maggie!"
Meimei couldn't catch up with Xu Junying in the first place, and now she was laughing so hard that her legs went limp. She sat back on the couch and pointed at Heng'er and told him to stop:
"Eat your food! What are you yelling about?"
Xu Junying came over and sat next to her. Meimei turned her face away: "I told you that you have the same taste as the old lady, and you became even more proud. You imitated her and scolded me!"
Xu Junying laughed and said, "You still called me a demon, but I'm not angry!"
"I like demons, not vixens!"
"Then I'll be the fox spirit and you'll be the demon?"
Meimei was finally amused and pulled him back to the table: "I never realized you were so good at talking before! Come on! I'm full, you eat quickly!"
"I've already eaten enough."
Xu Junying helped her sit down, and whispered with a smile: "I only talk like this when I'm with you. What can I say to others? No one else dares to treat me like this!"
Cui Xi and Cui Lian brought the little maid in to clean the table, and brought warm water and hot tea for washing hands and rinsing mouths. Xia Lian and Cui Si cleaned Heng'er, and Xu Junying and Meimei took Heng'er to play on the couch. The sun was shining brightly in the courtyard, and although it was late autumn, it was still a little hot to go out at this time.
Xu Junying talked about the house that Xu Xiaojuan and her family went to: "The Hou Mansion has two or three other courtyards, all of which are good houses with good locations, exquisite scenery and extremely spacious. If the wife was not ill, even if she was driven out of the house, she would definitely be given one of them. I thought about it, and there are still the fourth and sixth sons. Although they are illegitimate sons, their mother is not someone else. She is someone my mother trusted when she was alive. I can't treat them badly. Besides, they are male members of the Xu family. Xiaojuan is already married, so how can she get less benefits from the wife? So I only gave her the small house. Baoju bought it a while ago. A total of two small houses were bought, and one was renovated and given to the second uncle... Just listen to it. The second uncle is pretending to be a woman outside, and she is already pregnant."
Meimei opened her mouth into an O shape: "Your...your man is so awesome!"
"What do you mean?"
Xu Junying glanced at her sideways, and Meimei returned to normal and smiled: "No wonder you don't dare to detain the two concubines of the eldest brother-in-law. It's unreasonable, right? Our family members are like that, how can you blame the brother-in-law!"
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