Chapter 148
Chen Zhen is still a visionary person and soon understood Chen Muqing's worries.
He was a little sad.
My daughter was for her wife first, and now she was for her...
The next day, Chen Zhen called Aunt Chen, Chen Muqing and Dashe to the study room, and arranged the family affairs in front of the three of them.
"The family's annual expenses are now between 1,200 and 1,500 taels. Mu Qing's dowry was given to her when his wife was there. The sixteen shops in Jiangnan were also distributed to the Dashe when his wife was there, and they did not move. The old house in the house was the Petrochemical Bridge, because it was passed down from generation to generation, I left it to the Dashe."
As he said that, Chen Zhen turned his eyes on Aunt Chen.
"I didn't let you take care of the big house before, because you didn't have the mind of your wife, and because you didn't want the big house to be better than a woman. Now I still think so. But Mu Qing asked you to ask me to give you home and give you the big house..."
Aunt Chen couldn't help but look at Chen Muqing with tongue.
Because Chen Zhen was talking, Chen Muqing smiled kindly at her.
"From now, you come to the housekeeper. But the big house is handed over to Mu Qing, and you will also live in Tingyuxuan with Mu Qing in the future."
"Master!" Aunt Chen was crying and was very excited.
But Chen Muqing was stunned.
Leave the grand house to yourself...
Chen Zhen ignored the two and continued, "The sixteen shops that were distributed to the Dashe House will also be handed over to you. Mu Qing lives at home and gives 400 taels of silver to the public every year, but she bears the rewards for the monthly routine of her house, four seasons of clothes, and she also assigns the people themselves, so you cannot move."
Aunt Chen nodded as she heard this.
"A hundred years later, if you want to stay in the Shen family, Dashe will treat you like an elder. You go west and buried it in the ancestral tomb of Taicang. If you don't want to stay in the Shen family, you will be relatives with our Shen family in the future. I believe that both Mu Qing and Dashe have this mind! If you agree, I will ask Mr. Min and Lord Yuan to make a document in the afternoon."
Aunt Chen covered her face and started crying.
This time, I was really crying.
Dashe seemed to understand but he looked at Aunt Chen with panic.
Chen Muqing thought that from now on, this villain would be his own responsibility, and felt soft. He stepped forward and hugged Dashe, and advised Aunt Chen: "Don't cry, be careful to scare Dashe."
Aunt Chen raised his head, a smile bloomed on his face covered in tears, and said to Dashe: "Don't be afraid, Auntie is happy. You must listen to your sister in the future."
Dashe looked at Chen Muqing timidly.
Chen Muqing smiled at him.
"Sit down!" Chen Zhen indifferently told Aunt Chen and Shen Muqing.
Several people sat down again.
Chen Zhen said: "Mu Qing and I sent our wife's coffin home. During this period, the family affairs were managed by Mrs. Wang."
Then he looked at Aunt Chen: "You can think about your mistakes at home and copy the "Women's Commandments" ten thousand times. After copying it calmly, you will take over the butler."
He looked at Dashe again: "As for Dashe, I will send it to Mr. Min's youngest brother is studying in the Imperial College of Kyoto, and I have asked him to enlighten Dashe."
"Take the big house to Mr. Min?" Chen Muqing was very surprised when he looked at the big house like bean sprouts.
Aunt Chen also looked at Chen Zhen with tears in her eyes.
"A kind mother defeats her son!" Chen Zhen disagreed.
Now, it's hard for both of them to say anything else.
But Chen Muqingliu's care was immediately favored by Aunt Chen.
When Chen Zhen was receiving Mr. Min and Lord Yuan, Aunt Chen came to thank her specifically.
Chen Muqing sighed: "I don't know whether it is right or wrong to do this!"
Aunt Chen said, "Don't worry, girl, I will never do that stupid thing again."
Chen Muqing nodded with a smile.
Aunt Chen hesitated for a moment and said, "I will not marry again... I have been guarding the grand house for a hundred years and can be buried in the ancestral grave of the Shen family in the future, enjoying the salary and incense of the descendants... I am already satisfied!"
When she said this, her eyes were filled with tears - she was really moved.
Chen Muqing couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Like Chen Zhen, Li and herself, there are only a few people who don’t care about the incense of the ancestral tomb... Speaking of which, Chen Zhen is still powerful, and just saying that she can enter the ancestral tomb of the Shen family has already made Aunt Chen feel at ease.
However, what expression would she look like when she knew that Chen Zhen decided to be buried with Li's family in Xiangshan Li's ancestral grave?
Maybe I was overthinking.
Aunt Chen married Chen Zhen for a purpose of relying on her. Now that everything she hoped for has come true, there is no regret for her...
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After seeing off Mr. Min and Lord Yuan, Chen Zhen gave the document he had made, which is something similar to our will today, to Aunt Chen and Shen Muqing, and finally solemnly placed it in a small box with black lacquer tinsels and flowers and bird patterns.
Aunt Chen was satisfied and began copying the "Women's Commandment" the next day without leaving home.
Chen Muqing was busy packing up his house. On March 14, Chen Zhen sent the house that was looking pitifully at Chen Muqing to Mr. Min's home in Tianjing Hutong.
After Chen Zhen left, Chen Muqing went to the tea shop in Baizhifang, told Zhou Bing about his whereabouts, and told him to look at the shop well.
Zhou Bing nodded repeatedly and told her excitedly: "Everyone praised our shop for being elegant and the customers who came here are becoming more and more generous! We will definitely make money this year."
Chen Muqing was quite surprised.
At the beginning, she thought that the shopkeepers followed their masters to enter high-end places, all had broad vision and elegant decorations, making people who come to drink tea feel more comfortable... but she didn't expect that they would invisibly improve the level of customers.
"The business of a penny must continue. No one will be unable to get along with the money!" Chen Muqing pondered, "This time, the master and I will go to various famous tea shops to take a look. Let's see what varieties and their own characteristics..."
Zhou Bing was very happy to hear this.
If Chen Muqing can put all his thoughts on business like this, why worry about not being able to do this shop!
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On March 16, Mr. Ouyang invited the Taoist priest and the monk was performing rituals and lifting out the bones of Li.
On March 17, with Li's coffin, Chen Muqing followed Chen Zhen to the south from the waterway.
On the fifth day of the fifth month, they arrived at Xiangshan.
Xiangshan is a county town facing the sea three times. The Li family is a farming and studying family in a small town called Nanwan, Xiangshan. In the generation of Li’s grandfather, there were seven brothers. In the generation of Chen Muqing, there were no less than a hundred cousins and cousins, and in-laws, there were countless. It was a real big family.
Chen Zhen returned home with Li's coffin, and everyone in the Li family was shocked. However, Chen Muqing's honest uncle, who adopted the adoptive family, still warmly welcomed Chen Muqing and his daughter. Although he was rude and did not argue with reason, he said a very realistic sentence: "No, just buy a piece of land next door, and I will help take care of it!"
Chen Zhen knew that his behavior was a bit shocking and could understand the decision of the Li family. He bought a piece of land next to the Li family's ancestral grave and then picked the day of June 16 to destroy the land for Li family. Not only that, he also invited someone to build a tomb next to Li family for him.
Uncle Chen Muqing ran around and ran around. He asked the Yaxing people to write a transfer document, asked the Feng Shui master to see the cemetery, asked Taoist priests and monks to build a temple, asked craftsmen to level the land, plant trees and flowers... Chen Zhen shook his hand and handed it to him - Chen Zhen lived in Nanwan for ten years and served in Zhejiang again. He heard that he came back, and many of his young friends, classmates and officials from other places in Zhejiang came to visit him. He welcomed and sent him every day, wrote poems and paintings, and was as free as a god.
Chen Muqing's cousin Li Wanyu was entrusted by Uncle Han and accompanied her every day. The two of them were doing needlework or going to the town to stroll around - anyway, half of the people were surnamed Li, and the other half was relatives of the Li family.
Once, she went to the beach with Li Wanyu and Li Wanqing to swim.
In Nanwan Town, no one knew that Chen Muqing had ever been married, and they treated her as a little girl. Her two close maids, Yingfen and Mingxia, said nothing, and called Chen Muqing "girl" in front of others.
Summer has passed, and Chen Muqing's skirts have all been shorter, but her skin is always too tanned, which makes Li Wanyu pinch her face and shout "unfair".
Chen Zhen took Chen Muqing to Hangzhou to make clothes, and Li Wanyu also accompanied him.
They rented a river house in Hangzhou, and after the New Year, they went to Jiangsu.
When they were in Nantong, they learned to make kites. When they were in Yixing, Chen Muqing personally pinched ten purple clay pots. Chen Zhen also took them to Changzhou, where they bought more than 100 combs, and swam all Taihu Lake, Shrimp West Lake, and Jinji Lake. They made a pot of spring water from Zhenjiang Zhonglingquan, Wuxi Huishan Spring, and Huqiu Hanhan Spring. Finally, they encountered the first snow in winter in Nanjing.
Chen Zhen took them to live in an old friend of his - the former Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion and the Minister of Personnel Shi Zi Mo's family.
Shi family has planted tea gardens for generations, and Chen Muqing is very interested.
Shi Zimo asked his sixth-ranked granddaughter Shi Jingshu to entertain her and Li Wanyu, the tea garden of the Shi family, which was managed by Shi Jingshu, who was not married at the age of 27.
Chen Muqing opened his eyes and followed Shi Jingshu in men's clothes and ran in the tea market in Jiangsu. In spring, he followed her to live in the tea garden. Starting from picking tea, he learned to learn about tea again.
By the time they left Nanjing, Lin Ruichun had already arrived at Shijia Tea Garden from Kyoto. He will follow Shi Jingshu to learn how to grow tea, pick tea, stir-fry tea and manage tea gardens for one year, and then find a suitable place to grow tea in the Jiangnan area, so that Yiwen Tea House can sell its own tea, which can not only reduce costs in the intermediate links, but also ensure the quality of tea and cultivate its core competitiveness.
Shi Jingshu was very interested in her plan. The two agreed that after Chen Muqing returned to Kyoto, she would visit Chen Muqing to see if they could do business together.
In the autumn of the 21st year of Anqing, Chen Zhen and Shen Muqing returned to the long-lost Petrochemical Bridge Songshu Alley.
Everyone meets you like a different life.
Especially Dashe, who is eight years old, would not have recognized him if Jinxiu hadn't been holding him.
(Sisters, we will see you in the middle of the night...(*^__^*)hehe...)
Chapter completed!