"What's wrong?"
Gong Zhuoliang raised his eyebrows, put the bowl on the bedside cabinet, lay on Qiao Yingze's body, and tilted his head to look at his face.
"It's nothing, just a little tired, just lie down and be fine."
Seeing that Gong Zhuoliang came to care about him, Qiao Yingze felt a little better. Being pressed down by Gong Zhuoliang, he lay down on his side, feeling a little sleepy.
From the busy work in the morning to now, he is indeed extremely tired, and not only his body is tired, but also his heart that is always unable to let go.
"Sanggong, if you are unhappy in any way, just tell me, don't be bored in your heart, I may not be able to help you, but it is always possible to let you say a few words to vent your anger."
Not as sensitive as Qiao Yingze, Gong Zhuoliang didn't know where he was acting, but he had his own way of deceiving people, so he copied what Qiao Yingze said before, and even swayed on Qiao Yingze's body while talking. .
When Gong Zhuoliang heard this, he couldn't resist it, and he couldn't believe that Qiao Yingze didn't feel numb.
"How about the lady let my husband take a bite?"
Amused by Gong Zhuoliang's antics, Qiao Yingze glanced back at him, then turned over and sat up with his arms around him.
"This, can you pay for what you owed me just now?"
Captured by Qiao Yingze's smiling glance, Gong Zhuoliang leaned into his arms with a smile, and continued to play tricks on him.
"No, everyone bites their own."
Qiao Yingze put his arms around Gong Zhuoliang and tried to bite him, but Gong Zhuoliang deftly slipped off the bed, and then brought him the soup on the cabinet. With some appetite, coupled with Gong Zhuoliang's company, Qiao Yingze finally ate half a bowl of rice more than usual.
After the meal, Ruo Lan gave Gong Zhuoliang a list, which was a list of red envelopes to be given today. Qiao Yingze saw that Ruo Lan looked at Gong Zhuoliang as if he had something to say, so he shook his hand and said that he was going to the study Tidy up and give the room to their master and servant.
After leaving the new house, Qiao Yingze went to his study in the new courtyard accompanied by his personal book boy Qiao Ming.
Qiao Yingze grew up in the old lady's courtyard since she was a child. She moved out only after passing the examination for a scholar. She also lived in the quietest courtyard closest to the old lady's courtyard. The new house they live in now was a few days before their wedding. It was just officially moved in. It was left by the old lady to the eldest grandson. It is the third largest courtyard in the mansion after she and the old lady lived. Speaking of which, Qiao Yingze didn't know what his new courtyard was like until the day of his wedding. During his illness, he was unable to enter the yard to avoid embarrassment. All matters were arranged by the old lady. Even the bed setting three days before the wedding was made by the best man's little boy to sleep in the house by himself.
"Young master, is there any book you want to read? Ming'er will help you find it."
Qiao Yingze treasured his collection of books very much, so Qiao Ming did everything in the study by himself. Even this time, he didn't let others touch Qiao Yingze's treasures, and arranged everything by himself.
"Find some interesting travel notes and essays, and take a few volumes of your favorite vernacular. I will find the young lady to relieve my boredom."
Qiao Yingze was very satisfied with the layout of the study. He sat on the couch with a smile and instructed Qiao Ming. Then he looked through the books he had found and picked out a few that he thought were interesting or novel, and prepared to show them to Gong Zhuoliang. .
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "Miss, the handkerchief this morning is... are you okay?"
After the two of them were left in the room, Ruo Lan finally couldn't hide her worry, she grabbed Gong Zhuoliang's hand and asked him uneasily.
"Ruolan don't worry, I'm fine..."
Facing Ruo Lan's sincere concern, Gong Zhuoliang hesitated, and told her frankly that Qiao Yingze knew about it, but kept the details and his own thoughts away, and only inferred that Qiao Yingze was kind and didn't expose him, and promised to find a way in the future Let him go, the bloodstains were faked by him stabbing his arm.
"That's great. I'm really thankful that Miss can meet such a nice person."
Ruo Lan's eyes were red with joy, and she decided in her heart to go to the temple to pay the gods as soon as she had the chance, thanking the gods for blessing Gong Zhuo Liang, so that he can endure all hardships.
"Hmm... Is there so much in my dowry?"
After Ruo Lan calmed down, Gong Zhuoliang looked at the list she handed over carefully, and only then did he realize how rich he is now.
At first, the gift from the Qiao family was 3,000 taels of silver, and then the Gong family added another 3,000 taels of silver, and used a total of 6,000 taels of silver to buy the dowry... Gong Zhuoliang briefly compared the value of silver in this era, and felt that it was comparable to the purchasing power of the Ming Dynasty. Almost, then assuming that one tael of silver is equal to five hundred RMB, my dowry would be three million...
But if you think about Master Qiao's prefect status, it is equivalent to the current mayor, and Bocheng is one of the richest cities, which is equivalent to the current provincial capital. The money for marriage is not too much.
"Miss, Ruo Lan has also estimated the red envelopes given by the old lady, the master, and the madam. The box given by the old lady is worth about 1,200 taels, what the master gave is worth 200 taels, and what the lady gave is worth 200 taels."
Ruo Lan lowered her eyebrows and thought for a while, then took out a small bunch of keys from her pocket and put them in Gong Zhuoliang's hand.
"This is?"
Sighing at her 800,000 worth of change fees, Gong Zhuoliang was stunned when she saw the keys. She saw some of them familiar, and remembered that they were the keys to several precious boxes in the dowry, such as land deeds, house deeds and jewelry. For jewellery, Gong Fu specially asked Ruo Lan to keep the key in front of Gong Zhuoliang, hoping to wait for Gong Zhuo Liang to become a widow before taking it back to her, but he did not expect Ruo Lan to give it to him the next day after they got married. .
Gong Zhuoliang knew that Ruo Lan was kind to him, but he didn't expect her to be like this.
"This servant thought that if there was something wrong with my uncle, I would give these things to my wife in the future, and maybe I could ask my wife to let you live. Now that my uncle is such a good person, these things should naturally belong to you."
Ruo Lan's expression was filled with joy as she spoke, and finally she was no longer like a grown-up like usual. She grew up in front of Madam Gong and learned a good skill of distinguishing weapons. They are very accurate, and I like this line of work, so I get excited when I see rare things, but I have absolutely no selfish desires.
"There is a warehouse for your private use in the yard, where all the dowry items are stored, and the other one is shared by you and my uncle. Sister Hanshu and the others are counting, and the keys will be handed over to you later. The maidservant went to see it before." , There are a lot of rare things that I have only heard of before."
"If Lan likes anything, I'll find a chance to give it to you."
Gong Zhuoliang quite liked Ruo Lan's appearance, she was not so old-fashioned, like a fourteen-year-old girl.
"That can't be done. How can the lady give such a valuable thing to the slave? This is against the rules and will be looked down upon by the husband's family."
A new daughter-in-law rewarding her daughter with treasures from her husband's family will definitely be said to be greedy for money and uneducated. Ruolan can't let Gong Zhuoliang do that.
"Then... I'll make money to buy gifts for you in the future, so no one can pick me up."
Gong Zhuoliang knew that Ruo Lan was doing it for his own good, so his gratitude to her was even deeper, and he decided in his heart to repay her well, but he spoke innocently with a smile on his face.
"Then Ruolan thanked Miss in advance."
When Gong Zhuoliang was talking angry, Ruo Lan comforted him with a smile, she was only happy at Gong Zhuoliang's closeness, and didn't think much about the gift he said, after all, Gong Zhuoliang was still so young and was detained in this deep house compound , How can I earn money by myself
Chatting with Gong Zhuoliang again, when Qiao Yingze came back, Ruo Lan resigned knowingly, and saw Ruo Zi was guarding the door with shining eyes, apparently thinking of something.
"Sister Ruolan, my younger sister has already taken a fancy to a set of jewelry in the dowry. Madam can give it to me before she comes."
Ruozi pulled Ruolan back to the room of the two of them, smiled and spread her hands in front of her asking for the key, but today she searched the house carefully but couldn't find it, presumably Ruolan kept it next to her.
"Bold, Miss's dowry is something you can think of, what kind of place is this place, do you want to die if someone finds out?"
Ruolan knew that Ruozi would have no good looking for her, and without Mrs. Gong, she didn't have to accommodate her anymore, so she immediately turned cold and reprimanded her a few words.
"Why can't I think about it, because he deserves those good things? Besides, it was given to me by my wife."
It was the first time I saw Ruo Lan tearing off that good old man's face, Ruo Zi became angry from embarrassment when she was blocked, she thought to herself, a dowry girl who is the same, why should you teach yourself a lesson and pretend to be someone in front of others, isn't this showing your true colors
"You also said that it was the dowry of the young lady. How could the madam give it away in such an unruly way? It is obvious that you are greedy for money and want to steal the master's things. I have never heard of this today. How dare you give it away? If you make any crooked ideas, you will be kicked out."
Ruo Lan knew that she didn't care about Ruo Zi today, and with her arrogant personality, she would get into trouble sooner or later, now that Gong Zhuoliang was only able to live a good life for a few days, she wouldn't allow Ruo Zi to make trouble.
"you!"
Ruozi blushed, pointed at Ruolan and was speechless, she was used to being arrogant in Gong's house, she didn't want to be taught a lesson after entering Qiao's house, now even Ruolan, a soft-hearted person, dares to teach her a lesson, Ruo Zizi really lost his mind when he was angry.
"You can see where Qiao's house is. Which of the two in charge is simple? There may be many eyes picking on our faults. Do you think the miss is unlucky and the two of us can get better? I'm afraid we will die than anyone else." It’s fast, you figure it out yourself.”
What Ruolan said was indeed from her own heart. Those two of Qiao's were protective of seeing if they didn't like the girls, so if they wanted to find fault with them, they would naturally look for them first, so they wanted to live in this house. She had to clench her tail and be an honest person. If Ruozi couldn't figure it out, then she had no one to help her.
After Ruolan finished speaking, she left the room to go to work, leaving Ruozi alone in the room to think deeply.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Qiao Yingze returned to the house, and he didn't say that he had picked out books for Gong Zhuoliang, but just put those books on the bedside table, and then went to wash his hands and face, planning to take a nap and have a good rest.
Gong Zhuoliang came over to help Qiao Yingze get dressed, his eyes lit up when he saw the books beside the bed, he was worried that he had nothing to do in this room, reading books was a good pastime, he used to be a bookworm, and practiced it again when he was a child He is good at brush calligraphy, and the traditional characters of this era are not difficult for him at all.
"like reading?"
Seeing Gong Zhuoliang's reaction, Qiao Yingze curled his mouth, pulled him to sit in front of the dressing table, helped him remove all the pendants on his head, combed his loose hair, and then used a hair tie to simply tied behind the neck.
It could be seen that Gong Zhuoliang didn't like combing women's hair, and they didn't have to see anyone again today, so Qiao Yingze wanted to make him feel more comfortable.
"Um."
Gong Zhuoliang nodded honestly, and then looked at the mirror again and again with satisfaction, it felt good not to have to bear that red hairpin on his head.
"Then what you want to watch in the future, just go to my study and choose it. Let's rest now. I didn't get enough sleep last night. Today I've been busy all morning."
Embracing Gong Zhuoliang back to the bed and sitting down, seeing him reading those books with great interest, Qiao Yingze felt better again, took his hand and put the books back, and let him lie down together with Gong Zhuoliang in his arms. down.
"All right."
You could see the obvious fatigue on Qiao Yingze's face. Although Gong Zhuoliang wanted to read a book, he endured it and lay quietly beside him. After a while, he also fell asleep, until he was tickled by the heat on his lips. Feeling startled awake, Gong Zhuoliang squinted his eyes to see the person who blushed and stole a kiss before avoiding him, and pretended not to notice and waited for a while before stretching his waist to 'wake up'.
Lazily not wanting to get up, Gong Zhuoliang forced the young man who wanted to hide in the study under him, and then found a comfortable position to lie on top of him, asking Qiao Yingze to tell him about the situation in the Qiao Mansion, to know himself and the enemy Only then can we survive all battles.
Qiao Yingze thought for a while, then started from Mrs. Qiao's yard, and briefly talked about the characters of the main maids around her and the daughter-in-law who was in charge, and then the master, wife and the people around them. Zhuo Liang knew less, and then when he talked about his brother Qiao Yingxuan, Qiao Yingze hesitated for a moment, seeing that Gong Zhuoliang, who had been listening boringly, regained his energy, he couldn't help but pursed his lips again, but he continued to talk.