Chapter 197: Four Rich Women’s Businessmen 50 (added updates with more than 8,000 book reviews)

Alas, how can we talk about it now...

Xie Lu felt depressed, picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

After eating the food on the table, he exchanged greetings and sent off his colleagues. Xie Lu checked the bill himself as usual and then went home.

The snow outside became heavier.

It was too late to call the carriage at this time. He put on his cloak and walked back. In fact, it was not too far from home, but the weather was cold. When he walked to the door of his house, his hands and feet were already cold.

After finally returning home, she didn't feel warm at all. Xie Lu's depressed mood suddenly became a little irritable.

The servant brought the hot tea, he frowned and took a sip, and then the two women came in with a curtain and burned the charcoal basin.

The charcoal used is not good, it smells strange when it is burned.

Xie Lu couldn't help but scold them: "It's sometimes winter, why do you start burning charcoal every time I come back? Who doesn't heat up the house in advance and wait for the owner to come back? Why, there are no people in charge in the yard, and you can't even do these small things?"

The woman bent her waist and said, "When the third master said, the second wife is not allowed to burn charcoal in the empty room. She said that since there is no one in the house, it is a waste to burn charcoal. Now the price of charcoal has increased a lot, and the second wife has made everyone save some money."

In front of the servant, Xie Lu couldn't help but wiped his second sister-in-law's face and said irritably: "The second wife's words are reasonable, but you should learn to adapt to your work and go to the account room at home to buy charcoal. In the future, I will burn the carbon here in advance."

The two women looked at each other.

One of them replied in a dilemma: "Will the third master go and tell the second wife? Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to pay the money..."

Xie Lu felt unreasonable: "Why do I have to tell the second wife if I use my own money? Even if the second wife is in charge of the Public High School now, she will not even ask about this amount of money to buy charcoal, right?"

The woman replied: "For expenses of more than ten taels of silver, you need to go to the second wife to get the cards, otherwise the account will not be given the money."

Xie Lu was speechless.

This family is a sick person, and the second house is not a child. The only one who earns money is Xie Lu, the third house.

Xie Lu's income is mainly divided into two parts, one is his monthly salary and the other is the revenue of Xikelai.

So Xie Lu couldn't understand it. Why did he, a person who made money, have to pay for a second house that could not make money? It's not a big amount of hundreds of taels, it's just buying charcoal. How did his second sister-in-law work in the housekeeper?

Xie Lu just invited his colleagues to have wine today, but he didn't have much extra money. How could a man have no money in diplomacy? But he had never done anything like asking for money. When he thought of finding his second sister-in-law to withdraw money, he couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

In the past, he didn't need to mention money at all. Xiangzhi would send money to him early, ask about his well-being and caring. He was a graceful editor of the Hanlin Academy. He called friends outside and was extremely carefree. How could he bother about common people?

Xie Lu is a person who values ​​immediate interests. Seeing that there are often distinguished guests in Wangyou Pavilion, he thought of Li Lingjing's good deeds. Now he lacks silver in his hand, and he thinks of Xiangzhi's good deeds, and ignores the last time he fires.

"What is Aunt Xiangzhi doing now?" he asked the woman.

The woman was stunned, "Now... I guess she is embroidering her flowers in the house. I heard before that my aunt wanted to make you a cloak."

Xie Lu felt a little relieved and said, "She is a sensible."

The woman and the servant in the room didn't say anything.

Before, Xiangzhi was punished by Xie Lu to kneel to the ancestral hall, and everyone in the Xie family knew about it. At that time, Xie Lu scolded Xiangzhi so much that it was worthless, and everyone still remembered it vividly.

But Xiangzhi didn't suffer much at that time.

She knew Xie Lu too well and knew that he liked to show off a gentlemanly manner and would not be aggressive to women. Therefore, she only knelt for half a day and then pretended to be dizzy in the ancestral hall. Then the maid carried it back to her yard. Xie Lu really didn't have the nerve to mention the punishment of kneeling again.

But the child never came back and stayed in the old lady's yard with the wet nurse.

Xiangzhi knew that Xie Lu's anger had not yet disappeared, so she was very tactful and did not mention the child these days. She was waiting for the opportunity.

When the maid came to pass the message and said that the third master had come, she knew the time was up.

...

The charcoal fire in the room was burning strongly, and Su Hexiang was burning. As soon as Xie Lu entered the door, the maid immediately stepped forward and took off his cloak and baked it on the side of the brazier. Xiangzhi personally poured a cup of hot tea for Xie Lu and handed it to him.

"Third Master, it's cold and cold outside. Let's drink a cup of tea to drive away the cold."

She was always gentle and considerate, and seemed to have no grudges towards the coldness of a man.

Xie Lu took the tea and took a sip.

The fragrance of tea was savoring between the lips and teeth, and the warm fragrance floated in the air. It was appropriate to lean on the pillow behind him. He slowly exhaled, feeling extremely comfortable.

Xiangzhi put his feet on a footstool except for his boots, grilled them in a charcoal basin, and rubbed the acupoints on the soles of his feet to serve Xie Lu comfortably.

"The weather is so cold, and the third master has to work hard for official duties every day. When he comes back, he has to take a good rest and don't get tired of his body." Xiangzhi rubbed and pressed her for a few times, lowered her eyebrows and asked with her eyes pleasingly, "The soles of her feet seem to be a little cold, why don't she burn her feet?"

Xie Lu squinted his eyes slightly comfortably and nodded, "Then let's burn it."

Xiangzhi stopped pressing her feet and asked the maid to prepare a foot basin, hot water, old ginger and fragrant slices, and asked the maid to serve Xie Lu to soak her feet, and then she walked aside to clean her hands.

After washing it, she applied moisturizing balm, then returned to Xie Lu, stood behind him and gently pinched his shoulders.

She learned more and more skillfully than Li Lingjing, and she could do anything Li Lingjing disdained to do.

Xiangzhi lowered her eyes, staring at the man's head, and a chilling under her eyes.

She asked in a gentle tone: "Have the Third Master warmer?"

Xie Lu closed his eyes and enjoyed: "Well... you are much warmer here than in my house. I'll stop here tonight."

Xiangzhi curled the corners of her lips, "Then I will put a few more soup on the bed later, so as not to freeze you at night."

"No," Xie Lu said, "It's quite warm now."

"There is not enough charcoal at night. I'm afraid you will feel cold in the middle of the night. So I'd better warm up a few more soups." Xiangzhi said with a smile.

When Xie Lu heard this, he opened his eyes, turned his head, and repeated the first half of her sentence: "...Isn't the charcoal burned enough at night?"

He asked Xiangzhi in disbelief: "Home has reached this point? How come he can't afford to pay for a little charcoal? I came back just now, and there was no heat in the room. The servant said that the second wife was not allowed to burn charcoal in the empty house to save money."

Xiangzhi smiled embarrassedly, rubbed his shoulders slowly in her hands, and said softly: "After all, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and money is spent everywhere. Just the New Year's goods prepared for her hometown will cost a lot of money. As well as the old lady's family members, they must be considerate."

After a pause, she leaned over slightly and whispered in Xie Lu's ear: "I heard that the New Year gift prepared by the second sister-in-law for her parents this year is heavier than in previous years..."
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