People in the officialdom, really can not relax a day!
Sun Shaozong sighed and sat up, then pushed Xiangling back onto the bed, and said, "Lie down for a while, your sister Rong is probably taking a nap, so I don't need you to serve me for the time being."
While they were talking, two 11- or 12-year-old maids came over with clothes, shoes and hats.
Sun Shaozong put on a pair of trousers indiscriminately, and the two maids each held one foot and carefully put on their boots.
When Sun Shaozong first crossed over, he sneered at the meticulous service of this kind of thing - he even claimed to have hands and feet, so he didn't need to be served by others.
But after just one year, he was already content with it. If there was no maid to serve him, he would be a little uncomfortable.
ah~
Sure enough, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, and it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.
Sun Shaozong left the courtyard with emotion, and was about to go to the front hall to meet guests, but suddenly a woman jumped out of the slanting door. He couldn't help but knelt on the ground with a thud, and said repeatedly, "I beg your second master to raise your hand and spare my brother. Come on! I beg the Second Master to raise your hand and spare my brother!"
Sun Shaozong fixed his eyes and saw that this woman seemed to be one of the eldest brother's concubines. He couldn't remember the name, but only vaguely remembered that the eldest brother had boasted that he was the best at ventriloquism.
His eyes swept across her rich lips, confirming that he remembered correctly, Sun Shaozong dodged and frowned, "What do you mean? Get up and talk first!"
The woman had the heart to rely on the ground and begged, but seeing that his face was not good, she lost her courage in an instant.
Sun Shaozong asked with a stern face: "What does your brother do? Why did you let me spare him?"
The woman hurriedly squatted down and said, "In response to the second master, the slave's elder brother Ping is a businessman. Because he helped people sell the four treasures of the study on Gongyuan Street a few days ago, he was... arrested by your second master's yamen."
tsk~
Unexpectedly, among those 'literate dealers', there are even their own 'relatives'!
Sun Shaozong's face sank, and he scolded: "Second Master, I am the patrol envoy of this department, but your brother is going to sell some entrainment cheat sheets. If I didn't punish him, it would be an extra-judicial favor, but you dare to let me. Forgive him?!"
puff~
The concubine fell to her knees again, subconsciously wanting to hug Sun Shaozong's thigh, but Sun Shaozong dodged.
He could only cry and wipe away his tears: "Second Master, spare your life, although my brother doesn't know anything about it, but there is an old mother in the house and children below..."
"Okay, stop talking about these useless things!"
Sun Shaozong interrupted impatiently: "Who's your brother's last name? When I go to the yamen to ask, as long as it's not the main culprit, I'll give him a name for accusing him of committing crimes and making meritorious deeds - but this is exempted from being conscripted into the army. Big boards and fines are indispensable."
"Thank you second master for your kindness, thank you second master for your kindness!"
The concubine banged her head three times in a row, and then said, "My brother's surname is Ni Ming'er, and he also has a nickname called 'Drunken King Kong'."
"Drunk King Ni Er, right? I wrote it down."
As Sun Shaozong said that, he walked straight to the front hall, until he walked far away, and heard Aunt Ni thanking him there.
ah~
It's getting more and more corrupt!
With more and more emotion, Sun Shaozong arrived in the front hall.
"Congratulations, Lord Hexi!"
As soon as he entered the door, he saw Feng Xin greet you with a smile on his face: "After this class is over, there will be a lot more students in the future. After the Spring Festival next year, I can't say that the new class scholar has to call you when he sees you. Teacher!"
"I haven't seen you for a while, but your kid's mouth is getting better and better."
Sun Shaozong gestured to the guest seat, then sat on the main seat, laughed and joked, "Did you learn a few tricks from that talented girl in your family?"
"I want to learn, but I have to understand it first!"
Feng Xin never shy away from him, he smiled and said, "That mother-in-law usually doesn't talk much, but she has a lot of rhetoric when she goes to bed. I hear it, so I have to pounce on it and smash it hard. Only then did I babble about 'human words'."
Hearing a few words from him, he went straight to the next three roads. Sun Shaozong hurriedly stepped on the brakes and said back to the topic: "By the way, you are here this time, but I have already asked you clearly about the things I asked you to check last time. ?"
"Of course, even if I missed the imperial errand, I didn't dare to delay your affairs, Lord!"
Feng Xin said, took out a booklet from his sleeve, held it in both hands and brought it to Sun Shaozong.
Sun Shaozong took it over and flipped through it, but there were various building materials and price lists for the craftsmen's remuneration.
Not only the price list is very detailed, but also the characteristics of various materials are marked one by one, and how to easily distinguish their advantages and disadvantages.
Some of these tips are not summed up by a family like the Feng family who have spent several lifetimes throwing up wood and stone materials!
Sun Shaozong put the price list on the coffee table and said with a satisfied smile: "Old Feng, this is efficient enough - when I discuss the garden with my eldest brother, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you to show it for me."
"Sir, what you said is so out of the question. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't know where I would be buried right now! What are your orders? It's not your business?!"
Feng Xin patted his chest and said a few words, but then he persuaded: "But this year, several royal relatives have built large gardens at the same time, and the good wood on the market has gone crazy. If you are not in a hurry, you might as well wait for the next one. In a year and a half, we will break ground again.”
In fact, Sun Shaozong is just talking nonsense about repairing the garden.
At the beginning, he was tricked in the Rongguo Mansion. Although it was a blessing in disguise in the end, he accepted Ping'er as an internal response, but he remembered this Liangzi.
Jia Yucun is a cunning and cunning old man, and he is also Sun Shaozong's immediate boss; Wang Xifeng leans on Wang Jia's two big trees, and is a woman in her own room, so it is difficult to get revenge.
Only Na Lai's identity was more than a little worse, and he was the initiator of his 'disappearance', which was naturally regarded by Sun Shaozong as a breakthrough.
Especially now that the Rongning Second House is repairing the garden, and the main people in charge are Lai Da and his brother Lai Er. With Lai Da's daring and reckless actions, if you don't take the opportunity to fill your own pockets, it will be a hell!
Therefore, Sun Shaozong approached Feng Xin to inquire about the price of repairing the garden, so as to open up the gap and give Na Lai a blow.
At this time, Feng Xin took the initiative to persuade him not to repair the garden for the time being, which was exactly what Sun Shaozong wanted.
He pretended hesitantly and said, "Is the price really going up a lot recently?"
"No!"
Feng Xin quite gloated and said: "The amount of various materials has doubled, and the amount of materials has been doubled four or five times!"
"Now those families of royal relatives and relatives are all difficult to ride a tiger, let's give up halfway, can't afford to lose that person; continue to repair, but the financial resources are not enough - now the capital is full of pieces, and I don't know how much I owe! "
Hearing this, Sun Shaozong's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "What about Rongguo Mansion? Does it also owe a deficit?"
"Well..."
Feng Xin knew the relationship between the Sun family and the Rongguo Mansion, but he didn't doubt anything. He scratched his head and said, "The Rongguo Mansion's family is thicker than others, but now it's just the same."
That's it~
If they were rich, it would be nothing for the ho slaves to get some benefits. Now that the Rongguo Mansion has fallen into a deficit, how can Lai Da be allowed to do it