Hu Sanniang glanced at Pan Jinlian with disdain: "At least she still knows some sense of shame."
Pan Jinlian stood aside with tears in her eyes and said nothing, biting her lip in grievance.
Cao Cao stretched out his hand to trim her hair and said with a smile: "After all, when a husband and wife kill each other, they can kill with no more than a nod, and the punishment has been met. She has improved now. Sanniang, for my sake, don't bully her in the future." , after all, they are all sisters.”
After Pan Jinlian was frightened by this, her previous thoughts of making trouble and competing for favor were gone. She wiped her tears and said to Hu Sanniang, "Jinlian has met my sister."
"No!" Hu Sanniang waved her hand and looked her up and down. Seeing that her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and her eyes were frightened and confused, she couldn't help but feel a little soft-hearted and slowed down her tone: "I am eighteen years old this year, you should be older than me. Is it big?"
Pan Jinlian nodded: "The slave family is twenty-three years old this year."
Hu Sanniang said: "You were originally the official's wife. Although you divorced for some reason, since you have never left home, you cannot be a concubine. You and I should be sisters in order of age. You are five years older than me, but I am I should call you sister."
After that, she straightened her clothes, said a blessing seriously, and called her sister.
Pan Jinlian's eyes suddenly turned red again, and she quickly pulled Hu Sanniang and said with tears: "My family did something scandalous that disgraced the family. Meng Dalang didn't kill me, but kept me at home. It was a great kindness from heaven, but I shouldn't have done it." He is also greedy and jealous that you have become his wife. My sister is not worthy of this."
Cao Cao saw the two of them pulling each other and coughed: "That's all, let me be the master. Let's do what Sanniang wants. Let's go by age. Although Jin Lian has made mistakes, no one in this world is born with the right to be right and wrong. It is inevitable to make mistakes, but if you are willing to change your mind, you are a good person."
"As for Sanniang, it's great to have a tolerant temperament. The matron of a family should have a big heart. But she is young and has a good mind. I know that Jin Lian is a person with a bad temper. It's really annoying. She is not you. Opponent, but you also need to know that although she is no match for you, she can beat you. She will kill someone if she draws her sword, so be careful if you offend her."
After hearing what he said, Pan Jinlian was extremely convinced and whispered: "I know, I will never bully my sister."
After that, he went to wash his face first, then diligently boiled hot water, and served Cao Cao and Hu Sanniang to wash up. Then he went upstairs and replaced all the bedding with new ones. He brought the original bedding downstairs and spread it on the ground.
Hu Sanniang couldn't bear it, so she stopped her and said, "Sister, why is this necessary?"
Pan Jinlian smiled hurriedly and said: "There is only one bed in the house. You are the mistress and the bride. I argue that it is your turn to sleep. It would be great if there is a corner in the slave's house where you can sleep."
Hu Sanniang became more and more embarrassed, but Cao Cao saw that Pan Jinlian was trying to show pity, so he shook his head and said, "You can sleep wherever she wants. She can only cope with it for a day or two. I have sent people to buy a big house. Everyone has their own." Houses, servants and maids have also been arranged, so please be patient for a while."
Seeing what Hu Sanniang said, she couldn't persuade him any more, so she followed Cao Cao upstairs and blew the lamp to rest.
Pan Jinlian lit a solitary lamp and sat alone on the first floor. She heard some embarrassing noises from upstairs. She felt sad and jealous at the same time. She deeply regretted in her heart. She had given away a husband with a bright future and a loving husband to others with her own hands.
She didn't know how long she sat there until the lamp oil burned out. Then she sighed quietly and got into the quilt to sleep.
Although it was April at this time, the ground was cold after all, and the mattress underneath her was not thick. After a while, the coldness penetrated through the mattress, so how could she sleep?
Pan Jinlian couldn't help crying, she closed her eyes and endured the dawn. Suddenly, the quilt moved, and a warm body came in and held her in his arms. The coldness disappeared immediately.
Pan Jinlian felt happy and sad at the same time, and whispered: "The abandoned wife is old and beautiful, why don't the officials go and accompany the new couple."
Cao Cao chuckled and said: "She has fallen into a coma. The air is cold at night. If I don't help you keep the heat away, you will definitely fall ill. As for who is old and sallow, let's talk about it in thirty or fifty years."
Pan Jinlian was moved in her heart, turned around and hugged Cao Cao tightly, sobbing.
To be honest——
A vigorous and arrogant man, my real name is Cao Danzi Cao.
The beauties above and below have great talents, and the heroes on the road show their unique skills.
The girls in Hu's family are shy, and Pan's daughter is like a succubus.
One night, I listened to the rain falling in the small building, and the crescent moon shone on the top of the forest.
The next day, the three of them sat together to have breakfast. Cao Cao was sitting upright, and the two women on his left and right were in harmony. How could they look unhappy at all?
Hu Sanniang was a newly married woman, so she was too shy to look at people. Pan Jinlian saw that her shy posture was very touching, so she also pretended to be shy, lowered her head and blushed, and only glanced at Cao Cao with her eyes. Cao Cao laughed: " Xiao Pan, everyone has his or her own beauty. You are beautiful because you are lively and cheerful. You don’t need to imitate others. Just be yourself and you will be extremely beautiful.”
Pan Jinlian was really embarrassed now and stretched out her hand to pinch Cao Cao. Hu Sanniang put down the bowl and said with a smile: "It's really delicious! The soup prepared by Sister Pan is so good, it's not like I have no daughter. Not to mention cooking, she can't even cook." The embroidery girl is also unreasonable."
Pan Jinlian said quickly: "This little trick of the slave family is not worth mentioning. It seems that my sister has learned incredible skills and will really be able to help Da Lang do a big business in the future."
Not long after, Pei Xuan and others arrived together and reported that they were interested in two houses and wanted to ask Cao Cao to make a decision.
Cao Cao went to see it with them. One of the houses was Ximen Qing's former residence. It was passed off as public property and sold several times. Because there were so many people killed inside, no one dared to buy it. There is another room, but it is a villa built by a county magistrate. Because he was ready to return to Beijing after his term of office, he sold it.
Cao Cao made the decision and said: "No one is willing to leave. Let me live in the county magistrate's house. The other house is bigger, and your brothers will live more spaciously."
Pei Xuan took the silver to buy the two houses for a total of more than 4,000 taels of silver. Cao Cao thought it was a good deal and immediately moved out of Zishi Street.
What’s interesting is that he opened a small door on the side of the new mansion facing the street, and gave it to Wang Po along with two or three cabins inside, so that she could live here and still open a tea and soup shop, and even provide the servants needed in the mansion. They also asked her to become a comprador.
Grandma Wang got this good job, and she almost lost the rest of her life with joy. She patted her chest and made sure that if there was anything wrong, she would come to see her.
Hu Sanniang was a little confused and asked privately: "That woman is not a good person, why do the officials use her?"
Cao Cao smiled faintly: "I have my own way of employing people, and I don't pay attention to both virtue and talent. Use virtue if you have virtue, and use talent if you have talent. The law is inconclusive and informal. Although this woman has a bad mind, she does things very well. Since it is neat and helpful, why should I give up because of the past? Moreover, these people are the most deceitful and afraid of evil, but if it comes to comparing evil, who can be more evil than me? "
Hu Sanniang thought about how she had become his wife inexplicably, and immediately felt convinced.
As expected, Mrs. Wang did her job swiftly. Within three days, seven or eight servants, maids, and cooks all arrived at their posts. Cao Cao saw them and found that they were all loyal, honest, and willing to work hard. He chose two of the maids with good colors. They were named Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao, and ordered to serve Sanniang and Jinlian respectively.
After finishing the family affairs, Cao Cao summoned Zheng Tianshou and met with all the brothers. He gave Zheng Tianshou all the deeds of the houses in Zhujiazhuang and gave him an additional fifty thousand taels of capital to expand his business. , spread to surrounding prefectures and counties.
After finishing these things, it was already mid-April. Cao Cao gathered all his brothers for a banquet. He said that he would go far away today to kill Cai Jiu to avenge Pei Xuan and fulfill his previous promise.
