The Concubine of Crossing

Li Xiao's steamed stuffed bun shop was opened, especially when he found out the next day that the children's craftsmanship had improved a lot, and the steamed stuffed buns could be sold at the market price.

Li Xiao felt strange at first, although the children's hands are relatively skillful, but it is impossible for all of them to be so skillful, right?

Even Er Fatty, who has the worst craftsmanship, looks good today, which is amazing.

Later, I overheard a few small ones mentioning that they even went to dig the soil to practice when they went back.No wonder they didn't see each other overnight, each of them practiced their skills so well.

What a group of cute and well-behaved children.

With the efforts of the children, the bun shop opened smoothly.Mainly meat buns, and other buns with various flavors will also be made.I didn't have much experience at the beginning, and if some flavors couldn't be sold out, there would be a lot left.

Of course, these buns will not be wasted in the end, but will go into the stomachs of children.The children are really good, except for the steamed stuffed buns that are really missed, they have to wait until they are sold out before eating.

Later, Li Xiao would deliberately make more, or leave some to close the door early every time, as snacks for the children.Although the children were clamoring not to keep them when they were sold out, they were still very happy every time they took the buns given by Li Xiao.

When Zhao Xiucai came, what he saw was such a lively scene, he smiled, "Brother Li, you are so lively here!"

As the only friend in this world, Li Xiao had already told Zhao Xiucai the location of his shop, but Zhao Xiucai was busy writing manuscripts recently, so he had time to come over today to take a look, and then he saw a bunch of busy radish heads .

Zhao Xiucai was puzzled at first. Although it is cheaper to hire children, children are not as agile and convenient as adults in doing things. Moreover, there are so many children...

Turning his gaze around, Zhao Xiucai's eyes swept across the children, his expression changed slightly, and then his eyes became very complicated, "Brother Li, Gao Yi, is really admirable." Pucheng is so big, He still knew the little beggar who wandered around the city all year round.

Li Xiao twitched the corners of his mouth, this Zhao Xiucai is good at everything, but sometimes his words are sour, which makes people get goosebumps.

When he meets others, he will pretend to learn a few words, but Zhao Xiucai is his friend, and he is too lazy to talk nonsense with him, so he puts his hand around his neck and pulls him into the room, "Okay, don't talk so much Nonsense, let's see what good things our great talent brought us!" He said while rubbing his hands together.

Zhao Xiucai was also not polite to him, and handed over the booklet in his hand, and poured himself a cup of tea.Li Xiao has already picked up the story book and started to read it.

The story book is naturally brand new, and the delicate handwriting still has a faint fragrance of ink, which is a taste that the books printed by later generations do not have.

Because the books in this era are all hand-copied, and every word is the painstaking effort of someone else, so Li Xiao turned carefully.

Flipping through the entire storybook, Li Xiao still has some unfinished business. The storybook tells the story of a parent official.This county magistrate tried people during the day and ghosts at night. He not only appealed for people, but also for ghosts. He didn't have any unjust or wrong cases in his hands, which can be said to have benefited the people of the Li people.The script is very exciting, but he is not familiar with the characters of this era. If he hadn't learned a lot in the past year, he probably wouldn't even be able to understand the script.

Li Xiao was very moved. He just told Zhao Xiucai some country ghost stories that he had heard in his previous life. He didn't know how Zhao Xiucai could compile such a masterpiece, and the cases interspersed in it were very orderly. Reasonable and well-founded, not like a product of imagination.

Seeing Li Xiao's puzzled eyes, Zhao Xiucai chuckled a few times, "Brother Li, I know a friend. He is a clerk in the county government office. It is said that their ancestors were all in this line of work. Yes, there are many cases left.”

Li Xiao's eyes changed a little, "This is really a strange person, if there is a chance, we can make friends."

Zhao Xiucai scratched his head, and laughed a few times, "It's just that he's a bit rough and addicted to alcohol. I don't know if you can hold back his temper, Brother Li."

Li Xiao was speechless, he also said that Zhao Xiucai made such a big sacrifice for the novel, and his relationship was a friendship made out of drinking.Thinking of the scene when Zhao Xiucai almost drowned when he drank too much when they met for the first time, he couldn't help reminding, "Drinking too much alcohol will hurt your body, Brother Zhao, you should drink less."

There was warmth in Zhao Xiucai's eyes, "I know, I've been drinking very little recently." As he spoke, he took out another purse from his sleeve and handed it over.

The purse looked very light and light, Li Xiao's heart moved, he opened it, and sure enough, he saw that there were not silver coins in it, but a few light silver bills.

Looking at the hundred taels denomination on it, Li Xiao's eyelids twitched, "Did you steal the money?"

Zhao Xiucai's eyelids didn't twitch, but the corners of his mouth twitched.His brother is good at everything, but sometimes his words can make people want to beat him.

Just at this time, a child came over with a plate of steamed buns, smiled at Zhao Xiucai friendly, and then quickly backed away.

Zhao Xiucai smiled a little more on his face, "You children... are quite obedient."

The look in Li Xiao's eyes softened a bit, "Yeah, they're all pretty good."

After the two talked for a while, Zhao Xiucai talked about the idea of ​​the next story.Although because of his vision, Zhao Xiucai's vision is easily limited, but he also has a lot of ideas of his own. Every time he starts a story, Li Xiao will add a lot of plots to him, and then Zhao Xiucai is like a treasure. Pick up a small notebook and write it down, and then go back to sort out and write small stories one by one.

In fact, Li Xiao felt that he was a bit hot to get the commission, and always felt that Zhao Xiucai was doing everything, and he was just telling a few random stories, and it was a bit unreasonable to charge so much money.

Zhao Xiucai waved his hand indifferently, and said with a smile, "If it weren't for your ideas, no one would read the stories I wrote for free, so you should get the money."

Now that Zhao Xiucai said so, Li Xiao himself was really short of money, so he stopped being polite and put all the bank notes into his purse carefully.This is a good thing, and it is very fragile, but it must not be broken.

After sending Zhao Xiucai away, and letting the children take the prepared ingredients back to cook by themselves, Li Xiao closed the door, and walked over the wall and entered the house with today's earnings and the huge sum of money Zhao Xiucai gave.

The third son stood in the yard again, looking at him with burning eyes.

Ever since Young Master Luo fell into the water and woke up, he seemed to be a different person, tossing around at home all day.First Mrs. Luo was dismissed for stealing someone, and then Aunt Zhang's brother said that the mother was seriously ill at home, and asked Auntie to go back to see her and never returned.

The next day, Aunt Li's family also had something to ask her to go back, but she hasn't come back yet.The first two times when the third son talked about this with him, his eyes were sparkling. When the third son thought about it, if there was no aunt in the family competing for favor, the young master would think of their son, and his life would become better.

But he didn't know that Xinzi, his son, had already been replaced, and he was completely uninterested in competing for favor, especially for a man. Just thinking about it made him feel goose bumps all over his body!

Seeing the shining eyes of the third son, Li Xiao felt his scalp go numb for a while, and said helplessly, "Tell me, what happened today?"

The third son's eyes became brighter, and his voice was a little higher than usual, "Young master, Aunt Su has also returned home today!"

Li Xiao let out an oh, and walked into the yard calmly.When he thought about it, since the original owner had been out of favor for so long, how could he be remembered all of a sudden?

Judging from the fact that Master Luo only had the original owner as a male concubine, the original owner obviously preferred women.Especially when I heard that the original owner was bought back because she was misunderstood as a woman, this convinced Li Xiao even more.

Seeing his master's appearance, the third son was a little anxious, "My lord, you are the only one in the young master's backyard now, why don't you show your face to the young master now, and wait for the new wife to come in later, how will you live?" Huh?" What Sanzi didn't say was that men and women are different after all.Women can still have children, even if they grow old and look bad in the future, they still have their own children to rely on.

But a man can't have children, and he's just a concubine. If he doesn't save some capital now, how will he live when he's old?

Li Xiao never thought that he would be confined to this small courtyard in the future.In Li Xiao's heart, sooner or later he will leave this Luo mansion, it's just a matter of time.

But he also knew that the third son was doing it for his own good, so every time the third son chanted, he didn't say anything, he just went in from one ear to the other, and didn't hear what was in his heart at all.

But today, what the third son said suddenly made him feel something was wrong, Li Xiao stopped suddenly, looked straight at the third son, "What did you just say?"

The third son was stared at by those beautiful peach blossom eyes, feeling inexplicably uncomfortable. His son was really good looking, if it wasn't for the height problem, he would not have been left out in the cold in this small backyard.

Sighing in his heart, the third son quickly answered Li Xiao's question, "Wait for the new lady to come in..."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Xiao stopped him, "Last sentence!"

The third son thought for a while, "You are the only one in the backyard..."

Li Xiao's face suddenly changed.

Speaking of which, including the original owner, there are only five people in Young Master Luo's backyard. It is said that except for one original owner who was bought by Young Master Luo from outside, the other concubines were brought up by Wang.

At first, Li Xiao didn't understand what this kind of woman who put people in her husband's room was thinking, but after she learned that Wang's heart belonged, she realized it.

Because of the love of the house and Wu's hatred of Wu and the house, Young Master Luo was not relieved after divorcing his wife, and it is understandable that the aunts who had lifted up several ex-wives tried to get rid of them.

But now after the reminder from the third son, Li Xiao suddenly realized that Master Luo's backyard had been emptied.

This momentum seems to be a bit wrong, coupled with the words of the third son just now that the new lady enters the door, countless plots of house fighting flashed through Li Xiao's mind in an instant.

Master Luo is paving the way for newcomers!

No matter how dark his thoughts were, Li Xiao began to wonder if Wang really stole someone...

Thinking of this guess, Li Xiao couldn't help shivering.

Immediately, his eyes lit up again. Since the boy Luo wanted to clean up the backyard, could he leave in a legitimate way?

Li Xiao turned around and happily packed up his things.