Xiao Sa grinned and covered his feet, Chen Muqing stood aside and looked at him coldly.

"Do you know what it means to avoid meat and vegetables?"

Xiao Sa glared at him: "Are you a tiger?"

"Hmph!" Chen Muqing raised his eyebrows, "I'll ask you, is your wife smoking opium?"

Xiao Sali ignored her and twisted her trampled toes on her own: "Fortunately nothing is wrong. I have an appointment with colleagues from the Governor's Office to have a drink later... Today is the first day I will report to the Governor's Office..."

Such avoidance is the best answer.

Chen Muqing's tears fell down: "Do you know, my wife has been alive in a few days? How can her body bear it if you do this?"

The implicit accusation made Xiao Sa's expression turn from ease to solemnity. Chen Muqing's familiar sneer reopened on the corner of his mouth: "I asked me to catch my wife's medicine, how could I not know? But do you know that she moaned until dawn every night?"

"Even so, you can't let her use this." Chen Muqing choked and said, "If she had something for her, I would be uneasy for the rest of my life!"

Xiao Sa looked at Chen Muqing quietly, with an obscure look in his eyes that Chen Muqing didn't understand: "Eunuch Wang's hand face is not ordinary, and everyone who can be sold at home has been sold-you have to let her meet Lord Shen!"

Chen Muqing was stunned: "So, there is really only more than 10,000 taels of silver left in the family?"

"Thanks to Lord Wang's care these days, we have to say hello to others when we are leaving." Xiao Sa avoided talking and said lightly, "You go back to the house early - there are few people in the house, so you can help Aunt Chen serve the wife together."

Chen Muqing grabbed his sleeve: "Don't leave! Explain it clearly. What's going on with the wife? How many cigarettes do you have to smoke every day now?"

Xiao Sa lowered his head and looked at his black coarse cloth sleeves, which were as thin and tender as spring bamboo shoots, and his bright eyes floated like candlelight swaying in the wind.

After a while - just when Shen Muqing was a little impatient because he couldn't wait for his answer, Xiao Sa suddenly raised his hand and shook his sleeves and left.

Chen Muqing stared at his hand in a daze, but he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Xiao Sa, even if he did something wrong, he dared to dump himself...

*******

The carriage walks very slowly and sways, comparable to an ox cart.

Since they were sent onto the carriage, Xiao Sa has nowhere to be seen.

Pang Debao also knew that he had brought a few servants to the car. He arrived and swayed in front of Li as if he was attentive, but he didn't know where he had gone.

The more Chen Muqing thought about it, the more angry he became.

Although things have to be seen in two ways. It is wrong for him to secretly give Li a shot to secretly treat the Shen family, but he shouldn't use this attitude to deal with him with this attitude, but there is no clearer about how harmful opium is than that of her who came from later generations. What made her even more worried was where Xiao Sa got this thing? Do he know how powerful this thing is? Have you eaten it? Is it already popular to smoke this in the Zhou Dynasty?

"What? Do you think the carriage is walking too slowly?" Li looked at his daughter who was occasionally looking out with a curtain and smiled at her.

"Ah!" Chen Muqing immediately calmed down and showed a smile to Li, "It's okay!"

Li smiled, then leaned back on the big-faced pillow. She moaned comfortably and said, "That's good. I have old arms and legs, and I can't withstand the bumps."

Chen Muqing snuggled over: "I see that my wife is in good spirits!"

"That's because of taking medicine." Li interrupted her with a smile, "I heard people say that there is a thing called 'furong paste'. No matter what disease it is, it's good to eat it. It's just that the food is too expensive. Not to mention it, ordinary people have never heard of it. Only those giants who do Western business all year round can find a way to bring some back from overseas. That's it. If you can't keep it, the things will break on the road... Unexpectedly, Xiao Sa helped me find this thing as soon as I heard me..."

Chen Muqing was surprised.

This thing was actually caused by Li to come to Xiao Sa?

Since that's the case, why didn't Xiao Sa make it clear at that time?

Also, why did Li suddenly think of taking Furong Paste?

Does she know the consequences of taking this "Furong Paste"?

"Although the Xiao family has money, it is the Xiao family's money, not his Xiao Sa's money. And they are so dedicated to doing things. Mu Qing, we can't make things difficult for him. When we return to Songshu Hutong, you and the Manager Pang calculate the money and see how much we should take out. You can pay back the money I gave you for the time being." As he said, Li's eyes, which had been a little confused, suddenly became sharp. She stared at Chen Muqing tightly: "When the master comes out, you don't have to show off like you are now."

Showing out in public? Is she arguing that this is a show in public?

Maybe it’s not enough to restrain yourself!

Chen Muqing absent-mindedly said "um" and thought that he would meet Xiao Sa later. He should remember that he apologized...

When Li saw this, he sighed softly, closed his eyes and leaned on the cushion behind him.

*******

There is only one roof in the house in Songshu Hutong.

Furniture, utensils, and even the century-old wisteria are gone.

Li stood at the gate and looked blankly at the bare yard.

"Madam, the old ones are not gone, and the new ones are not gone," Mr. Pang was beside Li respectfully. "The gardener will come early in the morning. At that time, we will plant strange flowers and plants according to the famous Rongzhi Garden, which will definitely look better than before."

Li was stunned and smiled and said, "Rong Zhiyuan? That was built by my son-in-law who helped King Jin."

A surprised look swept across the face of General Manager Pang, and he smiled, "I have a shallow knowledge and don't know that the son-in-law in the house has such skills. I will make you laugh."

"He has a good academic knowledge and a good temper..."

The two of them said as they entered the hanging flower gate of the inner courtyard.

Aunt Chen pulled Chen Muqing, who was following Li closely: "Auntie, my gold and silver jewelry have been confiscated. How can I live this life?"

"It seems that the shop in Jiangnan has not been sealed yet!" Chen Muqing pondered, "Or, let the other side bring some money first."

Aunt Chen cried with a sad face: "If the master has something like this, there is no business in the shop - if you open the door for a day, you will lose money for a day."

Chen Muqing smiled and said, "Since you are losing a lot, I think it's better to discuss it with your wife and close the shop that should be closed!"

Aunt Chen looked very shocked.

Chen Muqing raised his lips and said, "It's just to open a shop to make money! Since you lose money when you open the door for a day, why are you still opening it?"

"But, but..." Aunt Chen's eyes turned slightly, and Chen Muqing had already walked forward quickly: "Let's hurry up! Don't let the wife wait in a hurry!"

*******

Returning to the Liang family from Songshu Hutong, he went to pay tribute to the grandma first as usual.

The lady asked Chen Muqing with great concern: "How is it? My in-laws are okay!"

"Thank you grandma for your concern, ma'am is pretty good!"

The lady nodded: "That's good, that's good. I'll go see her when they are born in a few days."

Chen Muqing thanked again.

The grandma turned around and ordered Feng to stand behind him: "The servants of the Shen family are still locked in Dali Temple, and there is no one to call at home. You can pick a few smart people to send to Songshu Hutong later."

Feng replied with a smile.

Chen Muqing thanked again.

The man said, "You have been busy for a day today and are exhausted. Go down and rest!"

Liang Jimin and Shen Mu retreated.

Feng and the wife discussed several family matters and retreated.

There was only Aunt Liu in the room, and the lady sighed deeply.

Aunt Liu squatted down and beat the lady's legs: "Don't be upset, what the Marquis said makes sense. The Shen family is in trouble, and we must get closer to the Shen family..."

The lady hummed coldly and said, "He was not at ease with me. She even wrote a letter to instruct me. I had eaten more salt than he had walked, and I could use him to teach me a lesson." Her tone was very dissatisfied.

"Isn't this a marquis who can discuss?" Aunt Liu smiled and explained, "If you don't write to you, who can he write to! After all, you have to take care of the matter in front of you."

The Madam's face cleared slightly.

Aunt Liu continued: "No matter what, Lord Shen has not been convicted yet. If we are so anxious to leave it apart, it is inevitable that the Marquis is a little anxious."

The lady smiled bitterly and said, "Why don't I know? It was just that the Empress Dowager was in power in the past and had always been courteous to families like us, but now the Empress Dowager is gone. Who knows what the emperor's temper is, we should be more careful!"

*******

Chen Muqing and Liang Jimin went to Diecuiyuan one after another.

"Madam!" Seeing that it was almost here, Liang Jimin suddenly stopped and called Chen Muqing.

Chen Muqing turned around and smiled and said, "What are your instructions?" Although his mouth was soft, there was no heat, which gave people a sense of politeness.

A trace of guilt flashed in Liang Jimin's eyes and murmured: "Chen Yazi treats me very sincerely... He has never asked me for it. I really can't refuse what happened today."

Earlier, Liang Jimin agreed to go to Songshu Hutong to pick her up, but she waited until the lights were held, and Liang Jimin came late.

Chen Muqing didn't want to say much to him at all, nodded, said with a smile, "Is that right?", and then turned around and entered Cuidiyuan.

A hint of annoyance flashed in Liang Jimin's eyes.

He stood there thinking for a while, then chased Chen Muqing into the main house.

Chen Muqingzheng and Liang Youhui talked about the scene of returning to their parents' home: "... Fortunately, it's a century-old house, beams, pillars, and rafters are all made of cold pine trees, so they won't just sleep in the open."

Liang Youhui heard the tears rolling in her eyes and asked Chen Muqing: "Do you want to send some clothes? Or, let's make some food and have you send them?" She said, and saw Liang Jimin walking in. Liang Youhui stopped the topic and shouted sweetly to him "Third Brother".

Liang Jimin said "Oh" and said with no words: "Are you talking?"

Liang Youhui laughed "puke" and said, "Third Brother, we are not talking, are we fighting?"

Liang Jimin glanced at Chen Muqing, who showed distant face, and smiled embarrassedly.
Chapter completed!