husband in another world

"Brother Jing, now the family has a large population, and there are shops in front of it, which is really inconvenient, especially those nurses and servants are young and strong, and there is only a wall between Sister Ji and the others, so you can hear a few words over there. It’s all clear, so I’m going to buy another house, it doesn’t need to be too big, it’s enough.” Shen Mo mentioned this because Wei Yuanshan practiced the guards in the yard yesterday, and the men took off their coats when they got hot. There was only one layer of fur clothing left, and the newly bought pair of servants who came to bring tea to Shen Mo bumped into it, knocking over the teapot in shame, causing the entire back of his feet to become hot and swollen.

Zhou Jing nodded and said: "It's just right, I know that a master is going to the south to join his son, his house is for sale, and the location is good, it is located in a wealthy area, and the neighbors on the left and right are businessmen."

Go as soon as they said, Zhou Jing and Shen Mo asked Wei Yuanshan to cover the shop in front, and Jiang Wei drove the ox cart to see the house.

The house is located on Huabei Street, the front street is Dongyuan Street, and the back street is Anyu Street. These three streets almost gather the rich and noble people in Liu Town.Along the way, I saw three or four familiar people, such as Mr. Qian, the head of the restaurant business, the brother-in-law of the county magistrate, Zhu Jianye who was in the silk fabric business, and Li Dong, who had business dealings with the Zhou family and was now attached to the Zhou family.

The owner of the house was surnamed Liu, Mr. Liu was in a hurry to leave, and the journey was far away, so he didn't plan to take away all the things in the house, and left them for the next family. The price was a little bit more expensive, 480 taels of silver.

Mr. Liu's house has two entrances. The street gate is the Jinzhu Gate, and the right side of the Jinzhu Gate is the inverted sitting room. The inverted sitting room is full of servants.Therefore, it is separated by two screen walls, with the maid living in the innermost room and the male servant living in the outer room.And the maids inside have a hand-painted veranda directly leading to the backyard, instead of going through the hanging flower door outside where the male servants live, so as long as they think about it, they can avoid each other.

Opposite the street gate is the screen wall with pictures of ladies' hairpins, and bypassing the screen wall is the inner courtyard.Although it is only a second entrance, the inner courtyard is very large, and there are no less than five or six kinds of trees. Zhou Jing only recognizes hackberry, zelkova, red maple, and loquat, and the others cannot be named.As for the flowers, they really are blooming in a hundred flowers, and they are so beautiful that they cannot be counted.

In the middle of the courtyard there is a small bridge with nine zigzags. Under the bridge is a lotus pond. The lotus planted in it has not bloomed yet, just bare branches. In the green lake water are dozens of koi, among which there may be one or two different ones. colored.There is also a rockery by the lake, and the rockery is written with koi leaping over the dragon's gate.

On both sides of the lotus pond are the east and west wing rooms and the ear rooms, and facing the upside-down room are the main house and the ear rooms where the main family lives.

"Don't look at this house as a second-entry house, but it's not smaller than a third-entry house. The main reason is that our family has a small population. There is only one boy and the rest are daughters. Later, after my daughter got married, I demolished the back room and rebuilt it into a second-entry house. Just to build a big courtyard. It would be a beautiful thing to sit in the gazebo of the lotus pond to drink tea and enjoy the fish when you have nothing to do in summer.” In fact, Mr. Liu was very reluctant to part with this house, but his son had landed in the south, and it was impossible to come back. This son had no choice but to go.So no matter how reluctant he was to give up this house, he still had to deal with it, so he was a little afraid that Zhou Jing and the others might not be a good match, and felt that it would be better to buy a three-entry house for the same price.He lobbied hard.

"What do you think?" Zhou Jing turned his head and asked Shen Mo, "Is it what you want?"

"Well, yes, I like this courtyard very much, it's beautiful."

Master Liu breathed a sigh of relief immediately, Zhou Jing said, "I'm going to leave this house."

Mr. Liu was in a hurry to sell, so he went to the yamen to transfer the account, and moved out on the third day.

Although Mr. Liu moved away, Zhou Jing did not move in immediately, because Mr. Liu's house only had Dilong without firewalls, and Zhou Jing asked the craftsmen who had cooperated with him several times before to add firewalls to all bedrooms, including the servants. It won't be cold in winter.

After all the construction was completed, it was already a month later that the Zhou family officially moved in.

The servants of the family realized again that the master's family was really rich.

Zhou Jing took the opportunity of repairing the firewall this time to build a secret door in the bedroom.The switch of the hidden door is on the two carved handles at the head of the bed. Zhou Jing first turned the left handle three times, and then turned the right handle twice. There was a soft green sound, and a hidden door appeared on the originally smooth wall.

"Brother Jing, what is this?" Shen Mo's eyes widened in surprise.

Zhou Jing smiled and said, "This is a dark room." He lit a candle and Shen Mo each held one in each hand and entered the dark room. The dark room was about two or three square feet, and there were many boxes piled up. Was empty and not only somewhat disappointed.

"Xiaomo, are you looking here?"

Shen Mo looked over, the box that Zhou Jing opened was covered with a layer of silver ingots, each one shining silver in the candlelight.Shen Mo jumped forward joyfully, and reached out to touch it. Although it was not much, it felt like falling into a pile of money.

"I exchanged half of the silver money in our hands, but I didn't dare to exchange all of it. I will take my time when I have a chance in the future. If gold and silver ingots are collected in the shop, I don't need to exchange them. I just put them here."

"Yeah." Shen Mo couldn't help nodding, "That's good. Let's deposit so much silver in the bank and exchange it for a thin banknote. Although it can be exchanged when it's time to use it, I always feel uneasy. .So I feel relieved."

Seeing Shen Mo's happy look, Zhou Jing also smiled unconsciously.From the first time he woke up and saw him, he wanted him to live a good life, and now he finally did.

"Master, Boss Ren has arrived and is waiting for you in the front hall." Jiang Wei did not enter the house. Ever since Fan Xin investigated Wei Yuanshan's life experience and confirmed what he said was true, the chief steward of the Zhou Mansion fell to Wei. On the top of the distant mountain.And he became the porter and errand runner.

Boss Ren is the shopkeeper of a rouge and gouache shop in the north. He planned to buy some soap, hand fat and face cream to sell in the south, and he had already made an appointment with Zhou Jing.

Zhou Jing gave Shen Mo a look, indicating that he would close the darkroom after they were far away, and Shen Mo nodded.

When the two came to the hall, the mother-in-law served the tea and went down.

Zhou Jing smiled and said, "Master Ren, how about trying my tea?"

Master Ren took a sip and said with a smile, "Biluochun, good tea!"

Zhou Jing laughed loudly, "Master Ren is indeed elegant."

Master Ren waved his hand and said, "It's just a little research."

The two talked a few more words before Master Ren said: "I heard that Master Zhou has made a black pen and a new color lip balm. I wonder if I will be lucky enough to see it."

Zhou Jing knew what he meant, he made it for sale, so he didn't go around the bush, and stretched out his hands to compare.

"I'll give you 18 taels for a Daibi, and 35 taels for the new lip balm color apricot. In addition, we have a new face cream in our shop, which contains pearl powder and snail liquid. , is a very good face cream, which is very popular among women. But this face cream is relatively expensive, and even the purchase price can only give you [-] taels of silver for a box."

Things are not cheap, but shopkeeper Ren was very excited when he heard that, he has put in a lot of effort to reach Zhoujing, and now Zhou Ji's rouge gouache is very popular in the south, it is almost to the point of "the market is priceless", as long as he can bring Go back, no matter how expensive it is, there will be women lining up to buy it.

"It doesn't matter, the price is not a problem. I know Master Zhou asked for half of the payment to be paid in silver or gold, and I have already exchanged it."

In the end, Mr. Ren only spent 1000 taels on the purchase, and left satisfied.After that, several masters came one after another, all of them costing 500 taels, each of them flushed with excitement.

Zhou's flour milling workshop more than doubled the number of workers, and it was barely able to supply the goods.Zhou Jing recently planned to open a branch in the south, but he hadn't decided on who to send, and was looking for candidates.

Of the 1000 taels of silver, 500 taels were silver, which was brought back by Zhou Jing and put into the dark room by Shen Mo.Every time he entered the dark room, Shen Mo looked like a hamster hiding pine nuts, very cute.

In the evening Zhou Yu came back from school and looked quite normal, but Shen Mo always felt that something was wrong, so he told Zhou Jing that the two husband and wife went into the child's bedroom in the middle of the night, lifted Zhou Yu's pajamas secretly, and found that the child was bruised a large piece.

Shen Mo couldn't help but exclaimed in a low voice, unexpectedly woke up Zhou Yu, he pulled his pajamas to cover the bruises on his body.

"What's going on here, did you fight with your classmates?" Zhou Jing asked with a frown.

Zhou Yu nodded.

"Because of what?"

Zhou Yu didn't seem to want to say it, but he knew that Zhou Jing couldn't be fooled, so he said after a while: "They knew that our family is a merchant's family, and they called the merchants rich and heartless. They said you were a blood-sucking leech and fought."

Shen Mo hugged Zhou Yu distressedly, and called Mrs. Ji to take the ointment for removing blood stasis and gently rub it on Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu comforted Shen Mo and said, "It's okay, ah, it doesn't hurt, and I beat them harder."

Zhou Jingdao: "Good fight, if they beat you, you have to pay it back, don't let them bully you."

Shen Mo wanted to scold Zhou Jing for educating children, but seeing the injuries on Zhou Yu's body, he couldn't continue.

"Tell Xiaobao to follow you to the school tomorrow. Don't look at that child who can't speak, but be ruthless. Whoever dares to bully you again, he will definitely bite off a piece of meat for him."

Zhou Yu lowered his eyes, his bones ached all over his body, one of their six or seven children beat him, the old master was not there, and the other master didn't like him, so he pretended not to see him, and when they beat him to the ground, and saw that he was really Out of hatred, he hugged and beat someone desperately, as if killing someone, the master came out to stop him.But in the end, he was the one who was fined the most, and he was also fined to pay for the medicine.This is not an honorable thing, he didn't want to tell Zhou Jing and Shen Mo, for fear that they would think he was a troublemaker and a bad boy, and would dislike him.I just thought about letting things go and letting others go, and it would be enough to pay with my own pocket money tomorrow.

But I didn't expect that although he didn't say it, Ahma and Dad could still see it. For a while, he couldn't tell what the complicated feeling in his heart was, but it was very nice and warm.At this moment, he even had the illusion that he was never adopted by them, but his own.

Zhou Yu, who never reported good news but not bad news, complained, "Father, seven of them beat me up, and my master was biased. He fined me to stand, and wanted me to compensate them for their medicine?"

"Punishment by the old master?"

"No, it's the master next to me. Master Gu wasn't here yesterday."

Zhou Jing sneered and said, "It's too much bullying. My son will be compensated for bullying me. Just wait, Dad has a way to deal with them!"