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Baochai answered so decisively that all Daiyu's guesses came to nothing, and many of the later plans she had planned were useless, and she was stunned for a while.

The two of you looked at me, I looked at you, and stared at each other stupidly. I felt that there were thousands of words in my heart, but I couldn't speak, and I was stunned for a while.

It wasn't until Ying'er brought in two cups of tea from outside that Baochai came back to her senses, and hurriedly invited Daiyu to drink tea, and said with a forced smile, "Sister, do you have something important to say to me?"

The tea was originally brought as a tribute to the palace, the taste is pure and mellow, and Daiyu had previously praised it full of praise, but now she tastes it extremely bitter, and only uses her eyes to watch the green leaves in the teacup float up and down, gathering together San San, after a long while, Fang smiled slightly and said: "There is nothing important. Left and right are just gossip. But since my sister has left this garden, firstly, she must take care of herself and not work too hard. Second, if she has time, don't worry about it." Forget to come and sit in the garden, talk to me a few words, come three... come three..."

She turned her head and thought for a while, but she didn't say the third thing, but Baochai nodded again and again, with a solemn expression: "Don't worry, sister, I'll make a note."

Seeing the expressions of the two of them, Ying'er could not help but smile.

Daiyu was inexplicably panicked, and even lowered her head, her face flushed slightly.

Afraid of her embarrassment, Baochai turned her head and gave Yinger a stern look, and asked, "I have spoiled you people more and more. Miss Lin is here, why are you laughing?"

Daiyu hurriedly smiled and said, "What is this talking about? Could it be that my sister is in a hurry to draw a line with the sisters before she leaves the garden? We were so close in the past, and you treated Ying'er like your own relatives, but now Can't you even laugh?"

Ying'er came forward with a smile, and said to Baochai, "If I tell you, the girl will not be angry. When I saw Miss Cailin and Miss just now, they looked exactly like a drama I just watched."

Baochai shook her head and said, "You've become more and more tired these days. Tell me, what kind of play is it that asked you to arrange the two of us?"

Ying'er said: "Isn't it "Eighteen Lovers"? Just now I saw the girl and Miss Lin, you look at me, I look at you, just like in this play."

Sending off the Eighteen is a famous play by Liang Zhuli. It tells the story of Zhu Yingtai disguised as a man and going to the academy to study. When Liang Shanbo sees her off when she returns home, she asks her little sister to entrust her life-long affairs.

Baochai was a little worried. Hearing what she said, she was afraid that Daiyu would misunderstand her, so she hurriedly explained with a smile: "This girl is talking nonsense! She just went to Lixiangyuan to peek at a few scenes, and she couldn't even tell the difference between men and women." Come out, let's start to arrange us. You don't have to pay attention to her."

Yinger said anxiously: "No, I can tell the difference between men and women. The lotus official is Xiaosheng, and the student official is Xiaodan..."

In this way, it is even more consistent with what Daiyu asked earlier.

Baochai didn't wait for her to finish speaking, and she scolded again and again: "Tell me about you, you are becoming more and more unruly. Can you arrange things like this in front of Miss Lin? Hurry up and get out!"

Ying'er looked puzzled, thinking to herself that she was just talking about the facts, and said a few words casually, so it could be regarded as an arrangement.But seeing Baochai's serious appearance, knowing that she might be in a hurry, she didn't dare to make any distinctions, so she bowed her head and retreated.

Here Daiyu was also in a state of ups and downs, and it took her a long time to catch her breath and said to Baochai: "She was just making a joke, why should she be so angry, she doesn't look like my sister. It's my sister who thinks about it." Lost dignity, but those who are clear are self-clearing and have a clear conscience, so why bother to be as knowledgeable as her."

Baochai felt a lot of emotion when he heard the words, and blurted out without paying attention for a while: "What if I am not a clean person, I will clean myself?"

Daiyu was startled, and carefully chewed the meaning of the words, but felt that they were ambiguous and obscure, so she hurriedly asked: "What did you just say?"

Once Baochai said a word, she regretted it a long time ago, so she didn't want to repeat it, but just evaded it with other words.

Daiyu couldn't help feeling lost, and suspected that she had heard wrong, so it was hard to ask.The two wentssiping for a while, although they felt reluctant to part with each other, but the topic was unsustainable, they usually talked about poetry, music theory, and there were endless things to say, but now they only mentioned it briefly, and it was all in vain He paused, as if he was afraid of touching the unspeakable part of it.

At the end, Daiyu suddenly remembered something, and said with a smile to Baochai, "I thought I would bother Sister Bao with something when I came here this time, but I forgot about it before."

Baochai also laughed and said, "It's okay. Now you remember it? If you don't remember it, you can send snow geese to say it in the future. It's the same."

Daiyu took another sip of tea, Fang opened her mouth slowly, but blushed before saying anything: "Just now you want to read the account books of this business with me, I really don't know how to do it, anyway, I will leave it to Sister Bao to take care of it. Regardless of profit or loss, I can trust my sister. But I thought of something a few days ago, so I need to ask my sister to be more careful."

Baochai hurriedly asked what was the matter, but Daiyu hesitated at first and remained silent, but finally said, "It's not a big deal. A few days ago, I heard that my sister built several houses outside, either to escape the summer heat or to live in leisure time. It’s a good place, and the sisters are also very envious.”

Baochai bought these houses originally to plan ahead and prepare for the future. Hearing her question suddenly, she felt a little uncomfortable, and hurriedly said: "You are making fun of me again. It's just that you have nothing to do. I heard from Ying'er that there are a few yards in Beijing that have been released, and the price is very reasonable, just buy them for a while and put them away. You also know that businessmen only buy and sell, and they earn the price difference inside. no place to go."

She was just talking nonsense.Although it is a prosperous age, it is common practice to ask for land to buy houses, but if you expect to make a difference in price, even if you put it on for ten years, I am afraid that it is not as good as taking this capital to start a small business and earning interest.First, the market price is stable, excluding middleman commissions, deed taxes, etc., the profit is meager, and in bad times, it may even lose money; Look, after dragging on for a year and a half, if you are in a hurry to spend money, you may not be able to escape in a hurry.Therefore, although there are many rich merchants in Beijing, very few of them make a living by dumping their farms.It's just that there are many inappropriate things about the unmarried daughter's family rashly buying a house like this, and it's hard to tell for a while. Baochai was afraid that Daiyu would be suspicious, so she used random words to blame her.

Although Daiyu is unparalleled in intelligence and wisdom, she never asked about money since she was a child, so she didn't know about the activities in the business field.So he believed it to be true, and said with a smile: "Since that's the case, why don't sister Bao find a house and sell it to me?"

Baochai was startled, and hurriedly asked why, but Daiyu didn't want to say more, but just smiled and said, "But I have nothing to do, and I want to buy a house and find a quiet place. The price is naturally according to the market price. Come on, since my sister's family specializes in this business, I absolutely can't let my sister earn less money."

Baochai was startled and uncertain at first, but suddenly remembered something, so she made up her mind and agreed, "Since my sister is interested, I will do my best to find a house that suits her wishes. Don't worry about the price, I won't ask for it." If you want more, you can’t ask for less, and you don’t have to find another sister to take it, so it’s better to deduct it from your year-end interest.”

Daiyu saw her look of surprise at first, and was thinking how to get what she wanted, when she suddenly turned around, and her words were straightforward, she was happy, and said: "This is even better. I can trust your vision." There is one more thing, it is agreed to deduct it from the interest at the end of the year, don't forget it."

Baochai agreed one by one, and the next day said goodbye to the sisters in the Grand View Garden, and moved to live with Aunt Xue, but before making the bed and sleeping, she hurried out with Yinger, Qianxue and others.

Aunt Xue was so angry that she rubbed her silk and scolded: "I used to think she was fine, but these past few years, she seems to be bewitched by ghosts, and she often does things that disappoint my heart. If this is passed on, it will be reported to the girl's family." It's not a good reputation."

She talked so much that even the maid who served her became a little impatient.A nun said abruptly: "People who know her name all over the capital are not praising her for her ability. If she comes to my wife, she just doesn't like her anyway. If there is any bad word to spread, I'm afraid it will come from the wife's mouth." .”

Aunt Xue savored the taste in these words carefully, she was actually blaming herself, she was furious immediately.She has always been the head grandma of the Xue family. Although she is cowardly and has no opinions to the outside world, she is used to speaking inwardly.But I don't know that in the past two years, because of the urgent need for manpower in the shop, Baochai has promoted many elderly people in the family, and many families have a lot of money thanks to the year-end dividends from the shop, so these daughters-in-law and mothers are all focused on her, and they look at her. I'm not used to Aunt Xue taking the lead in arranging her daughter like this.

Aunt Xue was trembling with anger, she wanted to order someone to tie up the nanny and drive him out, but the daughters-in-law nearby hurriedly stopped her and said, "The nanny is getting old and confused, but her family The sons are all working in the shop with the young master and young lady, it is a minor matter to be kicked out, but it is a major problem to lose the dignity and dignity of the family."

Aunt Xue was so angry that her seven orifices were filled with smoke, and she realized that she didn't know when the throne of the head family had already changed hands.After all, she is the grandma of the family, and she knew that if she yelled at this time, she would go out, which would be even more disrespectful, so she stopped and helped the little maid, Wen Xing, into the room to rest, but she was secretly planning how to marry Baochai, and she might not be able to marry her. Peace of mind.

Here, Baochai explained the route in person, and the car drove the crowd into an alley in the north of the city.This place is only one or two miles away from Rongguo Mansion, the streets are noisy with passers-by, but the alleys are extremely quiet.At the end of the alley, a piece of red paper "for rent" was pasted on the door of a small family.

Then Baochai told Ying'er, "Go and call the door. Call out the old man who guards the house, and I will discuss the deal with him personally."