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"Who are you?" Lu Xiaoxiao put his arms around Wang Shouzhe's arm, and said to Wang Luojing with staring eyes, "Hurry up and let go of my cousin Shouzhe's hand, every girl is not ashamed."
In the Changningwei area, most of the girls from aristocratic families don't have a lot of typesetting names when they name them, and they are more arbitrary. Because of the long history of the Ping'an Wang family, ancestor Zhouxuan personally set the female character generation, and these rules have naturally continued.
"I am the younger sister of the fourth brother, and the fourth brother loves me the most." Wang Luojing held the other side without giving in, and said mockingly, "I think you are not shy, and you will throw yourself into the fourth brother's arms as soon as you meet."
"You lied, Cousin Shouzhe dotes on me the most." Lu Xiaoxiao said angrily, "Cousin Shouzhe will bring me gifts every time we meet."
"Fourth brother is the best to me. The day before yesterday he gave me an amethyst spirit bee hive to play with, which is worth more than two hundred dry gold." Wang Luojing held her head up, showing off.
"Cousin Shouzhe, I want the Amethyst Spirit Bee's Hive too." Lu Xiaoxiao felt as if he was being compared all of a sudden, and began to pull Wang Shouzhe to act like a baby. She is usually pampered, so she probably doesn't even know what an Amethyst Spirit Bee is.
"Uh..." Wang Shouzhe was a little speechless, why did the two little girls get pinched because of him the first time they met? Especially Luo Jing, who is actually one year younger than Lu Xiaoxiao in terms of age, she is usually quite well-behaved, but now she is fighting for favor.
"Shou Zhe, you really bought an amethyst spirit hive for the children to play with?" The uncle Lu Zhengjie who was accompanying him was also very surprised, "It's too extravagant and wasteful. Let me see how you pass your cousin's test."
More than two hundred dry gold, whether it is for Wang or Lu, is already a huge sum of money. Just like the fishing brigade of the sixth uncle Wang Dinghai, the ten boats come and go in the wind and rain a year, and the hard work can only make a profit of about two hundred thousand gold.
As one of the pillar industries of the Wang family, Fenggu Farm has two hundred tenant farmers and thousands of acres of farmland. The annual profit from such a large-scale operation is only six to seven hundred thousand gold, which is still a book benefit.
This time when I came to Lu's, I prepared some gifts, but they were all small things.
"Uncle, there is no secret to this matter." Wang Shouzhe smiled wryly, "Why don't you come to persuade my cousin? Now that I've been sold, I can't buy the Amethyst Spirit Bee's hive either."
"I'm not capable of persuading her." Lu Zhengjie shook his head hastily and said, "This girl is the most favored on weekdays. Even the ancestors dote on her, and the elder brother can't do anything with her. Shouzhe, you should ask for more blessings. "
The ancestors doted on her
Wang Shouzhe was a little dazed. Lu Mingsheng, the patriarch of the Lu family, is the direct descendant of the Lu family's Ming family. He is over a hundred years old now, right? In terms of seniority, he is Wang Shouzhe's great-grandfather.
Most of the ancestors of the major Xuanwu families don't like to show their faces very much. Usually, each of them is retreating and cultivating, thinking about going further, and only some big events will come out.
Wang Shouzhe has lived for eighteen years, and he vaguely remembers that he has seen Patriarch Mingsheng only a handful of times, and the number of times he was summoned voluntarily was only once, that is, when he was seven years old, he found out that his aptitude was good, and he was summoned by Patriarch Mingsheng and praised him a few times. The sentence rewards some resources.
You know, Wang Shouzhe's aptitude is already close to mid-level, but he only has this kind of treatment. Lu Xiaoxiao, this little girl, how can she let her great-grandfather dote on her...
But the matter has come to this point, he can't come up with a gift worth two hundred thousand gold, even if he can, he is reluctant to give it away, so he can only say something perfunctory to Lu Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao, the honeycomb was picked up by my cousin..."
"Wow! Cousin Shouzhe doesn't like me anymore, woohoo, cousin is a bully." As soon as he heard that he didn't, Lu Xiaoxiao suddenly felt completely inferior, and ran back to the house crying.
But Wang Luojing held Wang Shouzhe's arm, and looked proud of defeating the "bad guy", which made Wang Shouzhe roll his eyes. He was really a little girl, and she even ate this kind of jealousy.
But this kind of thing is just a small episode, and Wang Shouzhe doesn't care.
Later, under the leadership of my uncle Lu Zhengjie, Wang Shouzhe and Wang Luojing went to the main hall of Lu's main house together.
At the same time, Lu Zhengxiong, the patriarch of the Lu family, and his wife, Wang Shi, had already put on formal clothes and waited there.
Lu Zhengxiong was already in his fifties, with a Chinese-character face and a three-strand beard, he looked quite dignified.
And his wife, Lu Wangshi, is Wang Shouzhe's eldest aunt, Wang Liuling. She is actually over fifty years old, but she is well maintained and dressed, and she is a middle-aged beautiful woman sitting on top of her.
"Shouzhe took Wang Luojing, the fifth younger sister in the family, to meet his uncle and aunt." Wang Shouzhe stepped forward and saluted according to the etiquette of the younger generation meeting the elders. He had previously sent his family to report that this trip was to meet with the elders, not as the patriarch of the family.
"Shouzhe, hurry up and forgive me." Lu Zhengxiong stepped forward to support Wang Shouzhe, looked him up and down, "I haven't seen you for a long time, Shouzhe, you have grown to such a degree."
"Zhe'er, Zhe'er." Wang Liuling also stepped forward and grabbed Wang Shouzhe's hand, very affectionately, "You have just become the patriarch, and it is really hard for you to run around like this."
Aunt Wang Liuling went to the Wang family's funeral in person before, and she has already cried for her younger brother's death, and the deceased is dead. Now she is more concerned about Wang Shouzhe, her nephew.
"Uncle, aunt, this is not a difficult matter." Wang Shouzhe said, "We are connected by the blood of the Wang family and the Lu family, and it is our due duty to help each other."
Because the biological mother is the daughter of the Lu family, Wang Shouzhe had a deep affection for the Lu family since he was a child. The exchange of relatives between the previous generations of the two parties also made the blood of the two families extremely close.
After exchanging pleasantries, aunt Wang Liuling pulled Wang Luojing aside to talk.
And Lu Zhengxiong sat and talked with Wang Shouzhe, but what he served was not the regular spirit tea, but Yingxiu Lu's specialty ice crystal dew drink.
The Lu family occupies a favorable location in Yingxiu Lake, not only has made some achievements in aquaculture, but also circled a piece of "spiritual water", specially planting a kind of underwater spiritual plant - crystal dew grass, crystal dew grass will produce a kind of thumb-sized spiritual fruit , it looks like a grape, but it is as transparent as a cicada's wing. Take out the slurry inside and chill it for a while, it is an excellent drink.
After drinking it in one gulp, the cold and clear feeling enters the stomach along the throat, and then the coolness spreads throughout the whole body.
Speaking of it, it was the third time for Wang Shouzhe to drink Ice Crystal Dew, because this is a kind of spiritual drink with rare production, and this cup alone costs several dry gold, and even Lu's direct descendants rarely drink it.
The Yingxiu Lu family is not a very powerful family, and there is only one ancestor in the family. But their Ice Crystal Dew is a specialty product, and most of the output is now exclusively for the Zifu Academy, and a small part is shared by some powerful family descendants.
Wang Shouzhe does not know how much his annual net profit will be, but he estimates that it will not be less than eight or nine hundred thousand gold.
In addition to Wang Shouzhe's cup, Wang Luojing also got a cup. It was the first time she drank such a good drink, and her eyes were straight.
After the good drink, another meal of spiritual food was served, which made Wang Shouzhe's brother and sister full of energy and blood.
Then, naturally enter the topic. Wang Luojing cooperated with members of the Lu clan to carry out the pest control operation. The mode is also simple, just copy the disposal method of the Sanyang Gongsun family. Moreover, Yingxiu Lu's land is not too much, only six or seven thousand mu, so it is not too difficult to deal with.
Originally, Wang Shouzhe wanted to help, but before leaving, he received a message from Ming Sheng's ancestor, calling him to meet Wang Shouzhe.
It caused Wang Shouzhe to be suspicious. Could it be that Lu Xiaoxiao went to Mingsheng Patriarch to complain, which made Mingsheng Patriarch have a problem with him
But this absurd idea is only fleeting, Ming Sheng Patriarch is Yingxiu Lu's Ding Hai Shen Zhen, how could he get involved in the small conflicts between children.
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