Looking at Chu Yue's little face that became more and more charming after she opened her eyes, Lu Xinghe smiled slightly and stretched out his hand to pinch the little girl's face.
"Why are you going to the county town?"
Suddenly touched by Lu Xinghe's fingertips, Chu Yue's eyes moved slightly and she sat upright.
A blush flashed across her face, and she gave a somewhat embarrassed fake cough.
"Isn't this a partnership with Miss Shen to open a shop in the county? After all, I get 70% of the shop's revenue, so I want to go there and have a look."
In fact, the most important thing is what He Xiang told her about Guan Linglong and Shen Zhixia when he came back last time.
She was worried that the two men were playing dirty tricks behind her back, and Shen Zhixue couldn't resist them.
The matter of the shop in the county town had already been mentioned to Lu Xinghe when Chu Yue took him to the workshop last time he came back.
He looked at Chu Yue, "How is business in the county?"
"Okay, okay, but I heard recently that some people are jealous and causing trouble." Chu Yue said, looking directly at Lu Xinghe with her bright black eyes, "Ms. sir, just study in peace and take your exams. Leave the family affairs to my mother and I. I am responsible for making money outside, and my mother is responsible for taking care of things at home, with the occasional help from Xingping, Xing'an and Xiaozhu."
Lu Xinghe held the teacup in his hand, a hint of warmth flashing through his heart.
"Yue'er is acting more calmly now."
Chu Yue's face was full of pride, and her delicate little face was filled with smiles.
"That's right. My husband has been teaching me through words and deeds for such a long time. Learning just one and a half moves is enough for the time being."
After she finished speaking, she stood up.
"My husband, please sit in the house for now. I'm going to help my mother cook."
"good."
Seeing Chu Yue running away, Lu Xinghe picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip.
"Kuroki, come in."
Heimu came to Lu Xinghe and clasped his fists and said, "Master, what are your orders?"
Lu Xinghe put down his teacup and raised his eyes to look at Heimu, "What happened during my absence?"
…
Heimu was reporting to Lu Xinghe what happened during this period, while Chu Yue was helping Yun Cuihe cook in the kitchen.
The lunch meal was quite sumptuous, including steamed egg custard with sauce, cured rabbit meat with wild onions, stewed chicken with wild mushrooms, and a side of stir-fried wild vegetables.
They were all home-cooked dishes, but because Chu Yue was here, these dishes were all delicious and delicious, and Zhang Zheng nodded repeatedly as he ate them.
"It's delicious! The rabbit meat is fragrant, the chicken soup is fresh, and this bowl of steamed egg custard, although it's just a simple dish, is much more delicious than the ones in the capital."
Chu Yue smiled and said, "Master, we are still in the capital after all, so we won't die like this because of food, right?"
Zhang Zheng shook his head.
"It's different, it feels different. The cuisine in the capital looks exquisite, but the taste is heavenly. To me, the taste is not as good as home-cooked food."
After hearing this, the whole family laughed.
In the evening, Lu Dagui, Zheng Yuan and Lu Shoucheng took forty loads of grain and forty taels of silver home.
Chu Yue collected the money, gave each person a reward of thirty cash, and asked them to carry all the grain to the cellar for storage.
Originally, they were paid for working at home, but now they received an extra thirty cash rewards, which was equivalent to twice the wages they received in a day, and they became more energetic when working.
…
That night, when Chu Yue returned to the house after washing, she saw Lu Xinghe reading in the study with an oil lamp burning.
Chu Yue wiped her hair and went to the study.
"Ms. sir, what are you looking at?"
Lu Xinghe glanced in the direction of Chu Yue and quickly closed the book at hand.
Chu Yue stepped forward to take a look and saw that it was a storybook she had bought some time ago. She hurriedly stepped forward to take it and put it in her arms.
"These are what I bought to entertain myself in my spare time. My husband, I'd better not read them. I also bought other books. My husband can read those."
When she was buying books some time ago, she picked up four story books, and so far she had only read one. It was nothing more than about the love-hate entanglement between men and women. She thought it was good for entertainment, but she couldn't taint her husband's eyes.
Lu Xinghe raised his hand and touched his nose.
"you have seen?"
"Not yet. I've been too busy recently and haven't had time to read this one yet." Chu Yue said, then opened the book in her hand under the light of the oil lamp.
Lu Xinghe pretended to cough twice and felt a heat rising in his body.
"Why don't you just stop reading this book?"
"Why?"
Chu Yue glanced at him suspiciously, then looked at the book she had opened. When she saw the ambiguous scene between a man and a woman, she panicked and quickly closed the book again.
how so?
Didn't she buy a storybook? Why did you even draw a picture? Luckily the illustrations on this are not explicit.
Your husband won't think she's frivolous, right?
Chu Yue's cheeks turned red, and she raised her hand to tuck her scattered hair, "I... I didn't read the book carefully when I bought it, so I didn't know what it contained."
Lu Xinghe nodded to express his understanding. He stood up, took the handkerchief from Chu Yue's hand, and gently wiped the water stains on her hair.
"In order to make more money, bookstores will indeed ask people to copy storybooks. Some people will draw some pictures on them on a whim. When you buy a book in the future, you can briefly browse through it. If it is too unbearable, don't buy it..." After a while, he couldn't help but add, "You're still young."
In the next two years, he will definitely not be by her side often, and I am really afraid that the little girl will be led astray.
After listening to Lu Xinghe's words, Chu Yue touched her forehead in embarrassment. If there was a hole in front of her, she would want to plunge into it.
"Actually...I'm not very young anymore."
After a moment, Lu Xinghe's faint voice reached his ears.
"Let's wait until you are old enough to say this."
I don't know how long it took, but Lu Xinghe finally returned the handkerchief he used to wipe his hair to Chu Yue.
"The hair is dry."
"I'll put the veil on first."
After Chu Yue finished speaking, she quickly ran out of the house with the handkerchief in hand.
Lu Xinghe looked at Chu Yue's back and raised the corners of his lips in a funny way.
In the past, I didn't feel anything when there was no such person around me, but now as long as she is around, I feel happy.
…
After dinner the next morning, Chu Yue asked Lu Dagui to send a bag of food to the sake village.
Now that the family has food, and her eldest uncle and second uncle are helping with the work on the farm, she naturally has to take care of her grandparents.
With these 100 kilograms of grain, I think it will be no problem to wait until the grain is grown this year.
As soon as Lu Dagui left, the servants of Huang Mansion sent an invitation to Chu Yue, inviting Chu Yue and his wife to visit the manor in two days.
Chu Yue looked at the invitation in her hand, the corners of her lips raised.
"A few days ago, when Aunt Jiang came to me to buy Ganoderma lucidum, she said that the family would move somewhere else soon. I was curious, but I didn't expect that it was because Huang Yuanwai was promoted." Something suddenly occurred to Chu Yue and she quickly changed her mind. Said, "Oh, no, now I have to call you the magistrate."
Lu Xinghe pursed his lips and smiled.
"If it weren't for the arrangement of the magistrate, with Huang Yuanwai's current fame, he might have been the county magistrate long ago, but he might not be in Tongzhi County."
