Sheng Yunyou didn't expect that the old lady was quite open-minded, and immediately said with a smile: "No need for Aunt Grandma to pay, Yunyou still has a lot of private money!
When we come back from the manor, Sister Xuan and I will bring our aunt along, and we will go to Jingrong Hall to watch a play!"
Jingrong Hall is equivalent to a theater in later generations, and is the favorite place for middle-aged and elderly women!
"Okay, okay, I'll also enjoy the blessing of being my grandson's wife!"
As soon as the old lady finished speaking, Sheng Yunyou pretended to be shy and stood up and stomped his feet, "Grandma, you just know how to make fun of me. I won't pay any attention to you!"
Everything is done. If you don't leave now, when will you leave?
Sheng Yunyou ran away as fast as he could, fearing that if he walked too slowly the old lady would keep him for dinner.
The old lady is taking care of her health by eating light and vegetarian food. She is still growing!
After several months of hard work, her height has finally exceeded 1.5 meters. She is still young and has room for development, so there is no need to rush!
After returning, Sheng Yunyou wrote two letters to Anping. After sealing them with wax, she told Qingdai, "Remember to have the other party personally deliver them back to Anping and hand them over to the Second Young Master!"
For convenience, Liu Binglun left some people in Kyoto for Sheng Yunyou to command. Since there was nothing to do here, it was a good opportunity for him to go back.
"Yes, I'll remember that!" Qingdai put the letter away, went to find Ziluo to tell her where she was going, and then went to get the matching card and leave the house.
When Qingdai went out for a stroll, the eldest lady had someone send back the letters and items sent from Anping City.
Since this letter and these things were sent out in the open, it means that most of the things were for the Bo family.
After reading the letter, Sheng Yunyou randomly kept two items and selected a few for Bo Jingyao, and had the rest carried back.
The servant met Bo Rongfang on the way and stopped to bow to her respectfully, "Second Miss."
Bo Rongfang looked down on these servants and was about to leave with her head held high. She saw what they were carrying out of the corner of her eye. She looked at the direction and realized that they came from Sheng Yunyou. Her eyes immediately lit up and she stopped, "Let me see what you are carrying?!"
"Second Miss, the Madam is waiting for my report. I will take my leave now!"
This is a short-sighted person. The cousin has long since announced that the second wife and her daughter are not allowed to touch her things. One is the future mistress of the Bo family, and the other is the second wife who is to be separated and married off. They naturally know which is more important.
After hearing Bo Rongfang's words, the two servants dared not stay. Before she finished speaking, they carried the things and ran towards the main courtyard!
Bo Rongfang pointed at them and angrily cursed: "You dogs who look down on others!"
She has never gained any advantage over Sheng Yunyou in the past few months. Don't look at the fact that she is half a head taller than Sheng Yunyou, she is really no match for him in terms of fighting power!
The important thing is that the status of her and her daughter is not as good as before. In the past, whenever her uncle and elder brother got something good, as long as she followed her elder sister to the main courtyard, she would have a share of those things.
Now her elder sister doesn't want to play with her, and her aunt doesn't want her to go to the main room. It's even worse recently. She went there and her aunt started to chase her away before she even had a drink of tea!
Bo Rongfang did not reflect on herself, but instead thought that it was Sheng Yunyou, the vixen, who misled people with her lies and harmed her and her daughter!
But no one in the Bo family stood on their side. Even their father treated her and their mother less well than before, and there was a pair of younger brothers and sisters about to be born.
This contrast made the mother and daughter, who had just been released from confinement, feel extremely uncomfortable!
However, they have suffered many more days, and now the Zhao family can no longer be a help to them. Since the last talk, the Zhao family has let down their defenses.
Little Zhao came back from her parents' home crying, and someone from the Zhao family came the next day.
Xiao Zhao thought that her parents were here to apologize, admit their mistakes and support her, but she didn't know that her brother and sister-in-law were asking her to help her parents.
She didn't think much about it. She was still counting on her parents' help in getting rid of the evil thoughts in her concubines' bellies, so she easily took out her own private property. At night, she thought more and more that something was wrong. She tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, so she simply called the housekeeper.
Together with the maidservant beside her, the three of them reviewed the matter again. Even if they did not admit it, the Zhao family had already reached the end of their rope and could not even maintain their superficial glory!
For this reason, Xiao Zhao cried again, feeling sorry for herself and for the private money that was cheated away by her brother and sister-in-law. No matter whether it was power or money, Xiao Zhao finally knew that she had to keep a low profile.
Now she not only dared not to do anything to those concubines, but also had to keep warning her daughter not to cause trouble!
Otherwise, based on Bo Rongfang's previous temper, she would probably chase after the servant and slap him a few times, and then take away most of those things before she would give up!
After jumping up and down and cursing a few times, Bo Rongfang went to the Second Lady's courtyard angrily, hugged her mother and burst into tears.
In the end, the mother and daughter hugged each other and cried, and they cursed everything they could before they stopped.
After that day, Bo Rongfang always felt that everyone looked at her in a strange way. She became unusually sensitive and suspicious. She was criticized by the teacher several times in class. She simply stopped attending home classes and spent the whole day in her yard throwing tantrums.
Of course, this had nothing to do with Sheng Yunyou. Originally, they thought they had to wait for a while, and if they couldn't find Bo Jingyao, Xu would arrange guards to send them to the manor. Unexpectedly, the next day Xu asked someone to notify Sheng Yunyou to set off for the manor early the next morning.
Bo Rongxuan even ran over and asked them to guess whether it was their father's guards who would send them to the farm or the guards from the mansion. Unexpectedly, they guessed wrong again. This time it was really Bo Jingyao who sent them personally!
Sheng Yunyou was stunned for a moment before he smiled and said, "Oh, isn't this our busy young master Bo who we haven't seen for a long time?"
Bo Jingyao reached out and flicked her forehead, saying helplessly: "You little heartless girl, it's a waste of my staying up for two nights to finish my work and come back to accompany you!"
Bo Rongxuan was also very surprised to see her brother. She pulled the other half of his clothes and said coquettishly, "Brother, Xuan'er hasn't seen you for a long time. Can you accompany us to the manor to stay for a few days?"
In fact, Bo Rongxuan was still a little scared. After all, there were no elders accompanying them this time. It was just the two little girls going alone with their guards. But now that she had her brother, she instantly felt at ease!
Seeing Bo Jingyao nod, she almost jumped up with joy, "Really?"
Then she became worried again, "Does my brother really have time to accompany us? He won't just send us there and come back to work in the yamen?" That would make her brother too tired!
"Of course it's true! I promised to accompany you, and I will. Your brother is not made of iron, and he needs to rest too!"
Bo Jingyao rubbed his sister's head and helped them both into the car, and he followed closely behind.
The carriage was very spacious, and it didn't feel crowded even with him in it. What's more, one of them was his sister and the other was his fiancée, so there was no need to be too cautious. There would be no problem for them to sit in together!
It was just getting light at this time. It was the first time that Bo Rongxuan went out without the company of her elders. She was seven parts excited and three parts scared. She had not slept well last night and was woken up early today. As the carriage swayed, she soon couldn't hold on and began to feel sleepy.
Sheng Yunyou was also a little sleepy, mainly because she was too bored. She tidied up her things, took out a thin blanket and pulled Bo Rongxuan to lie down, not treating Bo Jingyao as an outsider at all!
Bo Jingyao hadn't slept for several days and was very sleepy. Seeing this, he closed his eyes and leaned against the wall of the car to pretend to sleep.
Qingdai, who was sitting outside with the driver, did not hear the voices in the carriage. She gently lifted a corner of the curtain and saw that several people were taking a rest and catching up on sleep. She whispered to the driver to slow down.
It took Zhuangzi one and a half hours to reach the place which should have taken only one hour.
No matter how comfortable the carriage was, it was not as good as a bed. Sheng Yunyou felt sore in his back and tired after sleeping so well that he could not muster any energy after getting off the carriage.
Bo Jingyao took them for a walk around the Zhuangzi Villa and then took them to soak in a hot spring, and only then did the two of them come back to life.
After lunch, after sending his sister away, Bo Jingyao asked Sheng Yunyou, "I heard from mother that you have a recipe for burning charcoal? But do you want to burn a furnace yourself?"
Sheng Yunyou shook his head and nodded, then pulled him to his room and took out the recipe. "Actually, I don't understand it either. You decide. But I am quite interested in the charcoal stove."
After I talked to Mrs. Xu that day, she sent me some charcoal that she made at home. The charcoal was actually quite good, but it was not very durable and the heat was not very high.
I guess it's because the kiln was sealed too late, but if it was sealed too early, there would be too much charcoal, and it would not be cost-effective to pick them out and put them back into the kiln...
Sheng Yunyou actually has some experience and knowledge about charcoal burning, but she needs to see the conditions of the charcoal kiln and their charcoal burning method.
Intellectual property rights were very important in this era, so the masters of the Bo family had no way to communicate and learn. After several failed attempts, they could only burn these worthless charcoals year after year.
Bo Jingyao opened the prescription and took a look at it, then nodded, "You take a rest first, I'll make some arrangements and pick you up in an hour!"
"it is good!"
After he left, Sheng Yunyou couldn't sleep, so he took Qingdai to the kitchen and directed people to make some snacks.
The lunch was actually quite rough, but the ingredients were all fresh and the taste was still okay.
The old woman in the kitchen was surprised and delighted to see Sheng Yunyou personally teaching her how to make dim sum. Plus, her cooking skills were pretty good, so she put in a lot of effort and the dim sum she made was pretty good. It was just that there were no decent molds in the villa, so the appearance of the dim sum was naturally not so perfect!
When the Bo siblings came over, the snacks were just out of the oven. Sheng Yunyou smiled and said, "What a coincidence! Come and try these snacks. They are all famous snacks in Anping. It's a pity that many of the ingredients are missing, so I can only make a third of them!"
“It looks great!”
Bo Rongxuan was used to fine food, and the lunch tasted okay but she was still not used to it. She only took a few bites and put down her chopsticks. She was really hungry now!
Bo Jingyao had eaten worse food in the army, so he was naturally not picky about the lunch. However, at his age, he was still growing and was at the right age to eat, so he was naturally hungry at this moment.
Of the three snacks, Sheng Yunyou only took a small bite of each, Bo Rongxuan ate two small pieces of each, and asked Bo Jingyao to eat up the rest!
Bo Rongxuan saw her brother eating quickly and elegantly, clearing the three plates in a short while. She covered her mouth and laughed, "Brother, you can really eat!"
Bo Jingyao smiled and said, "Your brother is a military commander, so he is naturally not as refined as the civil officials!"
He could finish this small plate with another helping!
After taking a few sips of tea to relieve his greasy feeling, he asked Sheng Yunyou, "Let's go now?"
Sheng Yunyou nodded, "There's nothing else to do right now, so I'll go out and digest my food!"
Bo Jingyao laughed. With such a small appetite, does he need to digest food?