As soon as he arrived at the mansion, Su Li asked Su Er to rewrite the rental poster.
She had not expected that Pei Ji's mansion would be granted to her so quickly. The contact addresses on the rental posters of the shops on Jinxiu Street were all Jufu Inn and the rental office. Now that they had moved into the mansion, of course they had to rewrite the rental posters.
This time she only asked Su Er to write four notes and posted them on the four shops at the end of Jinxiu Avenue. She then gave Su Er the rent records of the shops she had previously investigated on Changming Street and asked him to bring Xiao Mu with him to take charge of the leasing matters.
In the afternoon, Su Li first asked Xiao He to go to Ningyuan Marquis Mansion and hand a visiting card to Pei Mingyue, wanting to tell her about her move and, by the way, invite the two teaching maids she had promised to come to the Zhuangyuan Mansion.
However, when Xiao He delivered the visiting card, Pei Mingyue was not at home, and it was the nanny in charge of her courtyard who accepted the visiting card.
I originally thought that Pei Mingyue would not have time so soon, after all, she was busy with her second brother's marriage recently. Unexpectedly, she came in a hurry early the next morning with two teaching maids.
"Ali! Congratulations on moving into your new home, hehe!" Pei Mingyue looked around the mansion as soon as she entered: "This mansion is nice, it's brand new, right?"
Su Li nodded: "Probably."
Pei Mingyue took a medium-sized wooden box from the maid and said, "Here, this is my housewarming gift for you."
Su Li took the box and asked in surprise, "What is this? It's so heavy?"
"Jade ornaments." She spent a long time picking in the warehouse last night.
Su Li smiled and said, "That's perfect. I just need some ornaments. Thank you very much!"
As he said that, he handed the wooden box to Xiao Ye and led Pei Mingyue into the hall.
After serving tea, Su Li asked, "How come you're free today?"
"I'm busy, but I definitely want to come and see you when you move into your new home. Oh, and I've brought the tutor I promised you."
Hearing this, two maids with graying hair came out from behind her.
Pei Mingyue introduced: "This is Madam Liu, the training madam you asked for. This is Madam Zhou, the madam who teaches the servants etiquette and manners."
The two maids bowed respectfully to Su Li and said, "This old servant greets Madam Pei."
Su Li stood up and made a false promise to the two maids: "Mammy, there is no need to be so polite. I will trouble you two for the time being."
The two maids quickly said, "This old slave dare not."
But in his heart, he was very fond of Su Li's humble attitude.
"The guest rooms are ready. I'll have two maids take us down to rest. We'll start formal instruction tomorrow."
The two maids will certainly agree.
Su Li ordered: "Madam Xiao, take the two maids to the guest room."
"Yes, ma'am." Xiao He replied, and then invited two maids to come down: "Madams, please follow me..."
After the maids left, Pei Mingyue took out another wedding invitation: "This is my mother's invitation to my second brother's wedding. Remember to come to the wedding banquet."
"Okay." Su Li took the wedding invitation and asked, "By the way, what official position does your second brother hold?"
She only asked about Zhao Xingwen that day, but not Pei Mingheng.
"I've been sent to serve as a county magistrate. The emperor has granted me special permission to wait until my second brother gets married before I can take up the post."
This was also what her father asked the emperor for. Her father said that the second brother should be sent away for a few years to gain experience. Moreover, their Ningyuan Marquis Mansion already has a third-rank Dali Temple Minister, and her eldest brother is the commander of the capital guards. It would be too conspicuous if all of them were serving in the capital, so it would be better to send the second brother far away.
Pei Mingyue was really busy, so after they chatted for a few minutes, she hurriedly said goodbye.
Su Li picked up the wedding invitation and saw that the wedding was in five days. It was so urgent. No wonder Pei Mingyue was so busy. She also had to prepare a gift quickly.
In the afternoon, Su Li went to the academy to pick up Pei Zhao. When passing Changming Street, he found that the street was particularly lively. Both sides of the street were full of people. Several floats were slowly moving forward on the street. On the floats were beautiful men and women from the Western Regions.
Seeing her lift the curtain to look, Xiao Wu immediately told her what he had learned: "Madam, these floats are from the new dance hall on Jinxiu Street, and the men and women on the floats are also dancers from that dance hall.
Su Li nodded. She knew about this. In the original novel, dancers with Western faces were one of the major features of the dance hall. Moreover, the dancers were not only women, but also various handsome men. This broke the convention that ordinary dance halls only had female dancers and basically only provided entertainment for men.
In the original novel, the male dancers were very popular among women and girls because they were good-looking, could dance and sing.
"The Benyue Dance House hasn't officially opened yet, right?" She remembered seeing the promotional date before, and it should be a few days later.
Xiao Wu replied, "Yes, they've been promoting a soft opening these days, with the official opening coming six days from now. They already started the soft opening last night, and it was said to be very busy."
Because the dance hall was located on Jinxiu Street, the business performance of the dance hall would directly affect the future leasing of the shop, so her eldest brother asked them to find out more about the dance hall.
“So it’s a trial run…”
Su Li thought that someone would come to rent the shop on Jinxiu Street in the next two days.
When they arrived at the academy gate, Pei Zhao was overjoyed to see Su Li. He hugged her and said with a smile, "Mom, why did you come to see me again so soon?"
Su Li patted his little head and said with a smile, "Your father's No. 1 Scholar's Mansion has been granted to you. We just moved in yesterday. Do you want to stay there for a night?"
"Okay, Mom, isn't our new home big?"
"Yeah, it's pretty big."
Pei Zhao asked his servant to go back and tell Mr. Song, and then he and Su Li got on the carriage and went back.
In the evening, Pei Ji finally found time to come back. After the family of three had dinner together, Pei Ji continued to go back to the Dali Temple to handle the case, while Pei Zhao talked with Su Li for a long time before returning to his room to study.
The next morning, the third son drove Pei Zhao back to the academy in a carriage, while Su Li began to learn the rules and etiquette from Madam Liu in the mansion.
As for the servants, since they all had their own things to do, Su Li only let Xiao He learn the rules and etiquette from Nanny Zhou, and then let Xiao He teach others.
After observing for a few days, Su Li also discovered that Xiao He was not only the oldest among the servants, but also the most stable, so she decided to let her be the housekeeper in the mansion.
For several days, there was nothing to do, so Su Li studied the rules and etiquette in the mansion every day.
That morning, she had just finished learning etiquette and was about to look at the lease contract of the shop on Jinxiu Street, which Su Er had given her to review in the morning.
Only three shops have been rented out for the time being, all of which are small shops, and many people are still waiting and watching.
Su Li was not in a hurry. The dance hall would officially open in two days, and more people would come to rent the shop.
At this moment, the third son rushed in and reported anxiously: "Madam, something happened in the shop!"
"What happened?"
Half an hour later, Su Li arrived at Jinxiu Street.
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