0p0 Chapter 220 12 Silver
Chapter 220 12 Silver
What Xie Jiaojiao didn't expect was that as soon as they arrived in Jiangbo City, that old man Jiang Huaian sent someone to ask them to go back.
"What is he thinking?"
Xie Jiaojiao chuckled: "What's the big deal? He just raised our price and wanted to drag us in front of him to disgust us. He probably thought we would come to him to ask for an explanation!"
"Will you go then?"
"Why not? The dinner is in the evening anyway."
Steward Wang looked at them and immediately bowed and said, "Master, Madam, don't worry. The shopkeeper is here, and I will make arrangements."
Xie Jiaojiao called him aside and gave him some instructions.
Then he followed Jiang Weinan in the carriage to the Jiang Mansion.
Spring Festival couplets were posted at the entrance of the Jiang Mansion. Inside the yard, there were some small red lanterns hanging on the trees, which looked very festive.
Jiang Huaian didn't come out to greet them, but Li Juaner came out to greet them.
Ji Juan'er was dressed like a woman, with a bun on her head with a circle of pink and white flowers, a string of pearl pendants on each side, and pearl earrings of the same color on her ears. She was wearing a pink Confucian skirt and a pink jacket of the same color. The jacket was trimmed with fox fur, and she had a grass green silk scarf draped over her. She didn't look like a woman, but more like an unmarried young lady.
Looking at her like this, Xie Jiaojiao thought, could it be that Jiang Huaian just likes this?
Li Juaner welcomed the two of them in with a smile.
Adhering to the attitude of not hitting a smiling person, Xie Jiaojiao didn't say anything but still had a smile on her face. However, Li Juaner just looked at Jiang Weinan uncontrollably, which made Xie Jiaojiao feel a little unhappy.
When they arrived at the main hall, Li Juan'er naturally sat next to Jiang Huaian.
Jiang Weinan immediately snorted coldly: "I have never seen a concubine in any wealthy family eat at the main table."
As soon as he said this, Li Juaner's face immediately looked unhappy.
Looking at Jiang Huaian, he stood up with a wronged look on his face.
That look made Jiang Huaian feel very distressed.
"We are all family, and your mother is sick now, and Juan'er is taking care of all the household affairs. Why can't she sit down?"
As he said that, he pulled Li Juaner to sit down.
Jiang Weinan threw the chopsticks directly on the table: "Believe it or not, I will overturn the table directly."
Li Juaner quickly stood up again.
"Sit down!" Li Juan'er wanted to sit down, but she didn't dare to. She was afraid that Jiang Weinan would throw her out like last time. She still remembered clearly the scene of Jiang Weinan coming back and throwing her out from the swing!
Li Juaner gently placed her hand on Jiang Huaian's back and whispered something in his ear. Jiang Huaian immediately laughed and said, "Okay, go ahead."
Jiang Huaian also watched Li Juaner leave.
Xie Jiaojiao couldn't help but glance at Li Juaner and sneered in her heart.
Jiang Weinan cursed, but Xie Jiaojiao didn't quite hear it.
Jiang Huaian heard it clearly. Jiang Weinan called him shameless.
His face suddenly turned pale: "How can you talk to me like this?"
Jiang Weinan picked up Xie Jiaojiao's bowl and scooped a bowl of hot soup for her.
“This one is hot.”
He ignored Jiang Huaian at all.
"I'm talking to you!"
Jiang Weinan scratched his ears, chuckled, and scooped a bowl for himself: "I heard it. I praised you for being strong and healthy at your age!"
Xie Jiaojiao almost spit out a mouthful of soup.
Jiang Huaian's face turned blue and red, but he held back.
As if concerned, he asked Xie Jiaojiao: "I heard that your business is doing well recently?"
Xie Jiaojiao raised her head and said with a smile: "Thanks to my father-in-law, I did a good job."
For some reason, Jiang Huaian felt unhappy when he saw this smiling face. He ate the food with chopsticks and nodded slightly: "It's good. Weinan's mother left so many industries, and our family also has so many shops to look after. I don't have time to take care of it."
Xie Jiaojiao just smiled.
Jiang Huaian felt that looking at her smiling face was boring.
He had been thinking of inviting them to dinner today. She would at least mention the issue of transportation, and he would negotiate the matter of soy sauce and brown sugar!
Even if he doesn't make much money from soy sauce and brown sugar, his bottom line is not to lose!
"I heard that your soy sauce business is now very big and you even opened a shop in the city?"
Xie Jiaojiao put down the bowl: "It's just a small business, my father-in-law will naturally look down on it."
He was interrupted again.
"Your brown sugar..."
"It's sold out! If you want to try it, I'll have someone bring you some next time."
Xie Jiaojiao said this in a very "filial" way.
Jiang Huaian was very angry, but before he could say anything, Jiang Weinan wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and said, "Give me one thousand taels of silver."
When Jiang Huaian heard this, he said impatiently without even thinking: "Why are you asking me for money?"
"Why do you care what I do? Just take the money!"
Jiang Huaian wanted to ask, why should he give him money? Wasn't the money earned from his mother's shops enough for him to spend?
There was silence for a moment.
Jiang Weinan looked at him: "Why? You won't give it to me?"
"If you don't give it to me, it's okay. I'll stay in this house and take something worth one thousand taels to the store to pawn it!"
After Jiang Weinan finished speaking, he ate another bite of food, shook his head and said, "This dish is not good. It looks delicious, but it tastes terrible!"
Jiang Huaian's face turned red with anger, and he said, "Go to the account office and get one thousand taels of silver."
The old slave standing nearby glanced at Jiang Weinan, bowed, said something, and went down.
Jiang Weinan then laughed: "That's right, think about it, if I really took those things to the pawn shop, wouldn't it be embarrassing for you?"
Jiang Huaian snorted coldly, but it was obvious that he was angry.
After lunch, Jiang Weinan took Xie Jiaojiao to his yard again. Ever since the last incident, even if Li Juaner was in charge, she didn't dare to touch Jiang Weinan's yard easily.
"Didn't you move all the valuables out of your yard last time?"
"I just suddenly remembered that there is something I haven't taken."
Xie Jiaojiao followed him and saw him asking Lai Fu to get a small hoe and dig up an area next to the tree with a few strokes.
There was a wooden box inside.
Xie Jiaojiao's eyes lit up.
"what is this?"
Jiang Weinan said, "The year my mother passed away, she and I planted a bottle of wine together, saying that it was for me to drink when I got married."
"Why didn't you take it out before?"
Jiang Weinan smiled slightly: "Didn't you dislike me before? I always thought you would divorce me, so I didn't dare to bring it out."
Xie Jiaojiao raised her eyebrows and smiled: "Then why do you dare to do it now?"
Jiang Weinan looked at the wooden box in his hand. Due to the passage of time, the wooden box had long been corroded, and some parts of it were wrapped around the wine jar like a layer of skin.
As soon as the rotten wood was brought over, a burst of wine aroma came.
Jiang Weinan took a deep breath, looked at Xie Jiaojiao and said with a smile: "Now that we know what you mean, we can drink it."
Xie Jiaojiao laughed, and then asked him seriously: "If we really get to the point of divorce, will you divorce me?"
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When the two of them left Jiang's house, Jiang Weinan was holding a silver note worth one thousand taels, while Xie Jiaojiao was holding a box containing the jar of fine wine.
"Look at the expression on that old guy Jiang Huaian's face when he gave me the banknote, hahahaha..."
"You are really stupid. Your father definitely didn't expect that he would lose so much money just to show off in front of us."
Jiang Weinan gave the silver to Xie Jiaojiao.
Lai Fu quickly took the wine in her hand and held it to himself.
Xie Jiaojiao took the banknote without hesitation: "Compared with the difference in transportation costs over the past few months, your father still made a profit."
Jiang Weinan said as if it didn't matter: "If there is a next time, I will ask him for another thousand taels!"
Xie Jiaojiao directly put the silver into her own pocket and said jokingly: "After this, I'm afraid your father won't let us come to his house for dinner easily anymore."
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