"So that's it, the young master is really lively and cute." Mrs. Hu praised him, and then suggested, "Since the young master is dirty, why not come to my house to rest for a while? You can also ask the doctor to diagnose the young master. , in case the young master gets sick from playing too much."
Xu Shichu originally wanted to refuse, but when he heard her last sentence, he hesitated. Xiao Zhaozhao was still a child after all. He played too crazy today, was sweating and failed to change clothes in time, so he might really get sick.
It was not a trivial matter for a child to be sick, and it would be inconvenient to live in an inn, so she thought about it and agreed to Mrs. Hu's warm invitation.
As she walked down the mountain, Mrs. Wen finally couldn't help but ask:
"Mrs. Luo, why didn't you open a branch of Zuixiang Pavilion in Jiangnan? We have a lot of money and people here, so Zuixiang Pavilion's business will definitely be good here!"
"Yes, yes. If we want the incense from Zuixiang Pavilion, we usually have to buy it at a high price from merchants, or we have to send people all the way from the capital to buy it. It's not convenient. Can Mrs. Luo open a branch here?" The other ladies requested.
Xu Shichu was a little surprised. It seemed that these people recognized his identity. No wonder the ladies and ladies who were still condescending and disdainful of him before were now extremely enthusiastic towards him.
"I don't have any plans for the moment. After all, the incense in Zuixiang Pavilion is all high-quality, and the raw materials are carefully selected. The production has been unable to increase. The supply exceeds the demand in the capital alone, so there is no stock to open branches in other places." Xu Shichu laughed. said with a smile.
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Because the prime minister's wife had been recognized, Xu Shichu received a warm welcome in Wen'an Mansion. The wives of officials and wealthy businessmen all left messages for her, or tried their best to visit her.
Xu Shichu was a little annoyed by the fuss and left Wen'an Mansion.
Fuhaotang's charity is still being done. Although there are many trivial matters, the people she invites to help are relatively capable and sophisticated, so they can always provide benefits to women and children without being The man snatched away.
Xu Shichu inspected the women's halls scattered around the country and put forward several targeted suggestions to allow rural women to make money by doing needlework to supplement their lives and improve their status at home. The economic base determines the superstructure. It's the truth. If they can make money on their own, that means they can at least survive.
While she and Du Zhaole no longer missed Shu, Luo Changqing missed her more and more in the capital.
Not to mention that she had been out for so long, let’s just say that the champagne fruit she planted was made famous by the Marquis of Zhen’an, making everyone in the capital worried and curious. But she was smart and simply left the capital and hid. A clean one.
But Luo Changqing couldn't hide, so he became the one being harassed. Not only his colleagues and subordinates came to him to inquire about the details of the fruit, but even the empress dowager and concubines in the palace were curious about it. The emperor couldn't stand women's harassment. Hearing the news, he specially asked Luo Changqing to come into the palace to explain.
Luo Changqing couldn't hide, so he had to open Xu Shichu's courtyard door, pick a basket of champagne fruits, and bring it to the palace.
As for the others? Luo Changqing ignored it. After all, Xu Shichu didn't have much champagne. He couldn't just give it away if someone asked for it, right? He had violated Xu Shichu's rights by picking them privately and sending them to the palace. If he had picked them all, wouldn't Xu Shichu be allowed to make trouble with him when he came back?
He had to write a special letter to Xu Shichu to explain and apologize for this. Even when his daughter came to ask for some, he refused.
When Xu Shichu learned about this from the letter, she did not blame Luo Changqing. After all, she had left the capital. No matter how much fruit she had, she could not eat it. She always asked the servants who stayed in the capital to take care of the flowers and trees to handle the ripe fruits themselves.
However, Luo Changqing was able to explain this to her specifically, and she still benefited from it. After all, she felt respected.
Some men who are too chauvinistic regard their wives as their own property, and naturally feel that their wives’ things belong to him. He can use them however he wants. Don’t bother to explain or apologize to his wife after using them privately. On the contrary, I will feel that it is my wife's honor to use it.
Therefore, Luo Changqing was considered a good man by doing this, and Xu Shichu had a much better impression of him - of course, this was probably due to his guilty conscience after leaving the mess to him to deal with.
Compared to Luo Changqing, Xu Shichu didn't come back with a letter after leaving for a long time, which made her seem a little heartless.
This time she received another letter from Luo Changqing. As she expected, he still urged her to return to Beijing, saying that the Dragon Boat Festival was coming soon and asked her to come back and take charge of various affairs in the house.
Xu Shichu had been playing wildly outside for a few months. She thought that summer would start after the Dragon Boat Festival. The weather was too hot and it would be too painful to work outside. It would be more suitable for her to rest at home and enjoy the coolness. So she wrote back to Luo Changqing and said that she would be there during the Dragon Boat Festival. Returned to Beijing recently.
After Luo Changqing received the reply, for some reason, he felt like crying with joy. He was full of expectations. He felt that he was full of energy when he went to the palace to deal with all kinds of complicated and annoying things. He even felt windy when he walked. He was full of energy. Nothing is the same.
"Luo Xiang is so happy today, has he encountered some happy event?" The Marquis of Zhen'an was shocked when he saw Luo Changqing's graceful demeanor and beautiful trees in the wind. He was as young as a young man in his twenties. He was completely different from the heavy-faced look before him. I couldn't help but asked a little jealously.
Luo Changqing smiled slightly and said: "It's not a happy event, it's just that my wife is going back to Beijing."
Speaking of Mrs. Luo, the Marquis of Zhen'an immediately thought of his "sweating" anecdote at the beginning of the year that spread all over the capital. The veins on his forehead couldn't help but twitch a few times, and Luo Changqing was even more displeased. Got:
"Really? I saw that when you heard that Mrs. Luo was coming back, you felt windy when you walked. You must have missed Mrs. Luo a lot, right? Hey, Mrs. Luo did too. It took you so long to leave alone in the capital. It's too much. Lonely. Unlike my wife, who stays in the house all day long and is extremely clingy to me. Not to mention she has been away from me for several months. She can’t live without seeing me for a day..."
Luo Changqing glanced at him sideways and said lightly: "No wonder, Mr. Hou, the nail scratches on your neck are all new."
When the Marquis of Zhen'an heard this, he immediately covered his neck with his hands, looked around again, and said in a subtle way: "What, don't think about it, my new injury was scratched by a cat."
Luo Changqing saw that he didn't have three hundred taels of silver here, so he chuckled a few times and said, "Then your cat is really strange. It doesn't have claws, but human fingers. I made a mistake just now. The injuries on your neck are not fingernail scratches, but finger prints."
The Marquis of Zhen'an immediately glared, knowing that he had been tricked by Luo Changqing, and said angrily: "You cunning and treacherous black-hearted thing, no wonder your wife doesn't want you anymore, she won't come back for several months, you deserve to be alone No wife hurts!”
