Chapter 91 Self-defeating

Ling put away the wooden box on the table and looked back to see Shao Hua sitting in the same position, and couldn't help standing. He came over and touched her head, touched her hand, and then said to himself, "Okay, I'm not sick." Shaohua was shocked by Ling's behavior. Niang, what's wrong?

Ling frowned and looked at her strangely, "That's why I'm going to ask you what's wrong. I just saw that Brother Boyan was there, and you ignored him. Don't you always love sticking to him?" Just now, Ling didn't say anything. Seeing that Shaohua didn't make fun of him as usual, Bo Yan was obviously disappointed, but he always liked to laugh and didn't let people see many details.

Shaohua opened his mouth and wanted to say that the visitor was a guest, but thinking about it, her relationship with Bo Yan should not be the host and guest, and it should be more intimate than ordinary cousins. However, it was not the real Li Wuniang, and she didn't know how to speak. Adhering to the principle of saying more wrong, she chose to be quiet and not to speak. However, she clearly felt that there was something wrong with the way Bo Yan looked at her, as if she could see through her.

The more so, the more she didn't dare to speak. She simply hid behind Wanhua and listened to their conversation quietly.

It's just that Shaohua doesn't know. It's because of her silence that Bo Yan feels even more wrong.

"I think Brother Boyan must be angry, but you ignored him." Shaohua was stunned and didn't know how to reply. Wanhua looked at her and said, "I haven't seen you for a year. You look like a stranger. Can he not feel uncomfortable?"

"Don't scare Wu Niang. Bo Yan is not as shallow as you said." Ling's words put Shaohua's heart back into his stomach.

"Mom, I'm fourteen this year, and I can't quarrel with Brother Boyan as before." This is the most convincing reason why Shaohua thought of it.

Wanhua didn't take it seriously and joked with a smile: "So you know, I thought you were four years old."

Shaohua immediately complained to Ling: "Mother, the third sister bullied me again." Ling shook her head with a smile, indicating that she was not in the quarrel between the sisters. Wan Hua ignored her sister's complaints and continued to laugh, "In the past, when we went to Pu'an to pick you up, every time you cried, hugged Bo Yan's leg and refused to come back, and said that you were my uncle's wife. Dad is so angry that he doesn't want to take you home.

Shaohua stagnated and asked Ling for help: "Did I really do this?"

Ling nodded, and Shaohua secretly made a mistake. No wonder Bo Yan just looked at her with something wrong. It's okay to think that she only needs to show her nature to play around, but she was afraid of showing off her feet and obediently became everyone's boudoir, but it turned out to be self-defeating, which made people suspicious. I don't know if Bo Yan will talk to Mr. Ling about her strangeness after he goes back. Shaohua secretly wrote in his heart that he needed to know more about the Ling family so that he would not have to talk about it again next time.

Shaohua was making up his mind, but Ling brought back memories of the past and sighed in his tone.

"It's no wonder that Bo Yan looks like your uncle, and the fifth mother follows me. Our three brothers and sisters look the same. It's not too much to insist that Bo Yan and the fifth mother are brothers and sisters." Looking down at Shaohua, Xing was used to her, but he didn't mention what happened just now.

"Is it similar?" Shaohua touched his face. Although it was still fleshy, it was much better than before.

"It doesn't look like it now. It's very similar when I was a child, more like you and San Niang!" Ling was amused by her behavior and followed to pinch her little face. Wanhua also felt funny and went up to make trouble with her. Shaohua immediately covered his face and ran away.

Wanhua couldn't compare with Shaohua's skills. He was tired after running a few steps. He didn't want to talk to her and sat down next to Ling. Niang, is Brother Boyan just coming to see Wu Niang? Although he knows that Shaohua and Boyan are childhood sweethearts, compared with his uncle's relatives, Wanhua is still quite close to his older Boyan.

"Of course not. I asked your uncle to buy two more villages before. Although it is not big, the feng shui is excellent, and it is not inferior to Yan Shangju. Seeing that you are going out, this land deed will naturally be sent back, and some people will come and have a look another day. Ling opened the wooden box in her arms, and the two sisters came over curiously and saw a pile of paper neatly placed in the box.

One by one, except for Zhuangzi's land deeds, the rest are all deeds of sale.

"Why so many?" Shaohua counted it carefully, and there must be at least 30.

The Li family has its own regulations that there are only two close maids around each woman, and no more than eight other rough maids. There are no more than six maids in Langjun's room, especially after the enlightenment, maids are not allowed to enter the inner room or the study. The purpose is to prevent some bad-hearted maids from climbing up to the master's bed with their beauty. Therefore, even such a romantic man as Si Yan has never had an accident.

Each garden has its own sewing room, which is responsible for the clothes, hats, shoes and socks of everyone in the yard, and several skilled embroiderers are specially responsible for the clothes of the master. The maid is responsible for the women's close-fitting clothes, while Lang Jun's is made by the maid in his wife's room. Therefore, there are more maids in the lady's room than the wife. Two to eight are uncertain. Chu He and Youhan were originally just embroiderers. For the return of Shaohua, they specially went from the sewing room to serve in the room.

Generally speaking, after Lang Jun is 15 years old, the mistress will choose a few good maids from the needle and thread room to be the maids for Lang Jun. That's how Su was arranged by Li Xunzhuo at the beginning.

But Li Sijin is a nerd. He loves books much more than beauty. Liu has always been worried about whether his son has something wrong with that. Li Geran didn't care much about this and felt that Li Sijin was so promising. As for Li Sijin, he is not close to women because he loves reading. Li Sinian's lack of a room is purely because Pang's illness is so bad that he has no time to take care of herself, so he doesn't have so much mind to take care of things in Li Sinian's room. Qiu's mother chose two girls for Pang to give to Li Sinian. As a result, she stayed in the house for a day and was kicked out by Li Sinian in the name of being blind.

Because of this, Xin Zixuan came into the door with her own room, and Liu stuffed four flower-like maids in one breath. However, when they came back from Liang Ping, there was only one purple mandarin left, and Hongling was still bought by Xin Zixuan from Liang Ping.

"You think they are all the same as our family. In other big families, a woman is accompanied by four big maids, four second-class maids, and seven or eight rough maids and women." Ling felt that these 30 people were not enough, so he decided to ask people to come into the house tomorrow and buy a few more. First, he would teach them for a few days to see the situation and then choose some to dowry.

"But didn't you just let Hanzhang and Shuyu dowry?" Shaohua said sullenly.

"That's close to you. You have to choose someone who can do things to follow. Otherwise, you don't even have a good person when you get to your husband's house. How can you call people?" Ling doesn't blame Shaohua for not understanding this. Mr. Ling is also a maid who doesn't love a room full of maids, which is very similar to his in-laws. Ling has lived in Beijing for a long time and has a lot of contacts with various dignitaries. Only when he knows the etiquette of others can he know more.

"There are six big maids around Yan Niang, and she has a sewing room by herself." Wan Hua is a little envious of this.

Only then did Shaohua remember that every time he went to Zhongyi Houfu, it was indeed full of people. At first, because he was a guest, he later learned that most of them were maids. If there are not so many people in the huge Hou Mansion, it will be really troublesome.

"Buy more than a dozen maids later and put them there. You can choose some you like. The book makes her feel at ease at home. There is an empty person in your room. Let's find a replacement first. You can't let Hanzhang take everything away. Ling ordered carefully.

Wanhua also feels reasonable. With only Zhang's words, many things are delayed and can't be done.

Ling thought for a moment and suddenly said, "I just want to sell one and set up a three-entry yard in Beijing." Because of the previous incident of the examiner's bribery, many people were investigated and punished, and some of them were secretly thrown out of their houses. However, the master was arrested and the house was detained. Now people have done it, and things have been done. Some houses have been taken over by the government, and those confiscated have fallen into the hands of others.

But after all, most of them are not free, and it is useless to hold the land deed, so it is safer to get rid of it as soon as possible and exchange some silver.

Ling is trying to take advantage of this to set up some yards so that he can set up more money for himself.

"What are you going to do when you buy a yard? Do we want to move out?" Shaohua listened to Ling's words and asked curiously.

"Of course, it's for your sister and brother-in-law to use alone in the future. My uncle is not the eldest son and has no family business to inherit. Why do you still live together to attract people's suspicion?" Wanhua listened to Shaohua's question and was about to annoy her a few words, but he didn't expect Ling to change his words and even changed his name. She blushed. For the first time, Ling issued an order to expel them all back.

"Come on, you all go back, Lianxiang, go and call Fugui for me. I want to ask you something."

Hearing Ling's words, the two sisters could not delay any longer. They got up to worship Ling and retreated.

Although Dao Wanhua hasn't settled yet, there are still a lot of things to do when it comes to preparing for happy events. Rao Ling had prepared a dowry for his daughter for a long time, but at that time, now his family background was not comparable to before, bright, dark, and Liangcheng. Ling had long felt that what he had done before was too shabby. At least his son-in-law would still be the princess's family in the future, so he had to do it again.

Li Xunzhuo made the shop in Liangcheng very popular. I thought I would be excluded and didn't dare to publicize it. Unexpectedly, Liangcheng listened to the Central Plains merchants and was very supportive. Almost every time a purchase is made, it will be robbed. Some people make money, and naturally some people are jealous. The fat meat in Liangcheng has been left for many years, and no one has dared to move. They all thought it was hard to eat because of the ice and snow. Now that they have been robbed of the first place by a nobody, how can they be willing to fall behind? All of them rushed to sell goods first. Although they also made a lot of money, no one had the luck on Li Xunzhuo's side.

Li Xunzhuo watched the business gradually rise, and he couldn't sit still at home. He was always looking for opportunities to go out. If he hadn't heard that Lingjing was unstable, Li Xunzhuo would have run out.

As soon as Shaohua stepped into Biwuxuan, he called Wanhua, "Third sister."

Wanhua turned around and said, "What do you call me?"

Shaohua suddenly shouted strangely with a hippie smile, "My third brother-in-law!"

Wanhua suddenly blushed with shame and ran to twist her angrily, "You're going to die!"

Shaohua couldn't avoid it and was caught by her. She twisted her body and took off Wanhua's hand. "Don't be shy, third sister. No matter how long it is, it won't last for more than half a year."

Seeing Jinhua coming towards them with a gloomy face, Shaohua retreated as he made trouble. Wanhua's eyes were ill and shouted, "You bad girl... Be careful!"

Shaohua was not careful. He took a step back and bumped into Jinhua. Fortunately, he closed his feet quickly and didn't step on her. He hurriedly jumped away and turned around and apologized to Jinhua: "I'm sorry, is Qi Niang all right?"

Originally, he was angry. After being made such a fuss by Shaohua, Jinhua immediately lost his temper: "Five sister, can't you walk with your eyes?" He rubbed his chest, which was hurt by Shaohua's elbow, and gave Shaohua a vicious look.