Chapter 59 Good Habits

After he walked out the door, he muttered softly.

“The real murderer.”

Next time, if the general comes back, let Sister Cherry serve him.

As for small things like running errands to the small kitchen, she can do it!

In the ear room, Shang Ji struggled for half a day.

At first, he planned to just wash his hands and change his clothes.

However, as soon as I took off the coat and casually placed it on the clothes rack, I could see some fine dust underneath.

It is out of tune with the cleanliness of the entire ear room.

So he had to take off his underwear and wash himself from head to toe with a towel.

Then he changed into clean clothes and shoes.

Maybe there are spices in the closet where clothes are kept, so there is a faint fragrance on the clothes.

It's just this kind of fragrance that Shang Ji can accept.

It's not strong, it smells quite refreshing.

I raised my hand and smelled it carefully. It seemed to be the scent of bamboo after the rain.

When I went out and returned to the main house, the food was just on the table.

Du Jingyi looked her husband up and down. He looked much cleaner now than before.

So he rushed to praise him.

"General, you have a good habit of washing up as soon as you come back. It will be more comfortable to eat cleanly. Next time, I will ask them to prepare more hot water in the wing room, so it will be convenient if you need to wash or something."

"Um."

Shang Ji answered inexplicably.

When he thought of his habit of falling asleep immediately after returning from the military camp, he admitted it without blushing or panicking.

The couple sat down at the round table and looked at the table full of food. They were really hungry.

Du Jingyi was fine, after all, he had eaten breakfast.

But Shang Ji's physical energy consumed every day naturally requires a lot of food to replenish.

Therefore, Du Jingyi ate slowly and leisurely, and Shang Ji ate fast but not to the point of wolfing down his food. Overall, he was still very calm.

The maid Cherry was serving on the side, adding some food to the general and the young lady from time to time.

The couple in Xitang courtyard ate with gusto.

However, there was a little trouble in the Baotao Courtyard of Beiyuan at this moment.

The third room's grandchildren, Erlang's wife and Sanlang's wife, were sitting together discussing something.

"Second sister-in-law, I heard that a great monk has come to Pingliang Temple. His Majesty has specially gilded the Buddha statue in the temple to welcome him. For such a good thing, shouldn't our Duke's Mansion also donate some money? This way, the Buddha will bless our third son and daughter."

The one who was speaking was Sanlang's wife. She looked wealthy and gentle, and her voice was soft and gentle.

But his words and deeds all seemed to be about the glory of the Duke's Mansion, and he tried every possible way to get some of it.

This news has not been announced to the public yet. The reason why she knew about it was because her father on her mother's side was a minor official in the Ministry of Rites, so he was more or less well-informed about the news.

After learning the news, she originally didn't intend to tell it.

But it seems that things have been going badly for the third room these days, so I came up with this idea.

Anyway, when it comes down to it, the money won't come from the pockets of the people in the third room.

It would be the best thing if you could get your name on the list without spending any money.

But although she wanted to do such a good thing, she couldn't do it, so she had to come to her second sister-in-law to discuss it.

After all, she had a lot of face in front of her grandmother, the Third Old Lady, and it was always much better for the Third Old Lady to come forward than for the nieces and nephews to ask Madam Wei of Yunjinyuan for help.

Unfortunately, although her plan was very clever, she was mocked by Erlang's wife who snorted coldly after hearing what she said.

"What do you mean by our Duke's Mansion? Look at who in the whole courtyard treats our third room as the master of the Duke's Mansion. The people in Yunjin Courtyard are protected by their uncle, the people in Dongyuan are protected by Liu Lang, and I don't know what kind of incense they burned, but they have been living smoothly these days. But in our room, the husbands are useless and the sons are not working hard. Only the wives of our two rooms are here, calculating their lives and want to add money for incense? I don't have the money to spare."

Erlang's wife's sarcastic words made her already harsh expression even uglier.

After saying this angrily, she picked up the cup of tea at hand and drank it.

Tea is supposed to be enjoyed, but now for her it is just a tool to reduce internal heat.

Sanlang's wife saw it and didn't say much.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

I had to wipe the corners of my mouth with a handkerchief, feeling a little embarrassed.

I thought to myself that I was stupid. How could I forget that? I was still rushing to say this at this time. Wasn't this deliberately making my second sister-in-law angry? So, I quietly accompanied her to drink a small cup of tea and stopped talking.

After a while, Erlang's wife probably reacted herself.

Apart from other things, my third brother's wife's family is still of some help, otherwise they wouldn't have found Sanlang a job as a treasurer in the Ministry of Rites.

If they get upset and stop interacting with each other, it won't be good for my family, so I softened my tone.

"The children are useless. They have embarrassed my third brother and sister-in-law."

After hearing her offer to give the opponent a way out, Sanlang's wife immediately came to comfort him.

"It's okay, it's okay. Second sister-in-law is just upset because of the children's affairs, but even if you are angry, you still have to take care of your own health, otherwise it will only make you more upset."

Erlang's wife sighed when she heard this and pretended to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief.

Then she started crying and complaining.

"Your second brother was never a good person, and now his two children are following his father's example. You can tell me how much effort we put in to send these children to the Zhen family's private school to learn skills."

"Who would have thought that they not only didn't study hard, but also caused trouble all day long. Now the teacher is so angry that he returned the tuition I just paid the other day. He also threatened that he would never accept them into the school again."

"Tell me, you are neither good at literature nor martial arts, are you going to go down the old path of doing business in the future? Isn't this asking for trouble?"

After all, they are children from the Duke's Mansion. Even if they don't have a high status, they still have powerful relatives.

Letting them go into business, isn't that just slapping themselves in the face?

Besides, it is so difficult to learn to read nowadays. If you can only walk cats and dogs, you may not be successful even in business.

Thinking of this, Erlang's wife was filled with melancholy and heartache. She had no idea what to do with her two sons.

After hearing these words, Sanlang's wife also began to sigh.

How could she not know the difficulties her second sister-in-law was facing? She herself had children, so of course she understood the pros and cons.

For families like them who live in the Duke's Mansion, it seems that there are still some benefits.

But if the grandfather, the third old master, died, then everyone in the family would be "asked" to leave.

(End of this chapter)