Fragrance Returned

Sun Mingjing really wanted to know more about Tao Weng's family affairs. Not only did she want to know, but someone else wanted to know.

Ding Xiang dealt with her for a few words first, and then listened to her very detailed questions, even asking about Tao Weng and his wife's preferences for home furnishings, so she had to say, "I'm not familiar with Tao Weng and Mrs. Tao either. I'm just with my father and Mrs. Tao." My dad has been to his house several times.”

After the two children picked flowers and looked at the fish, Lilac also figured out what she wanted to know.

The little girl who was with Sun Mingjing yesterday is Wang Wanchun, the third daughter of Deputy General Wang's military family. She is eleven years old this year.

It was still the "Spring Festival Gala", and Ding Xiang had a bad impression of the little girl from the Wang family.

The girls from these two families gathered together, and it was really possible that the people talking were the Lu family and the Zhu family.

Sun Mingjing said, "I made an appointment with Third Sister Wang to go to her house to enjoy chrysanthemums on the fifteenth day of this month. Third Sister Lu...oh, that's Lu Yuqi, the third girl from General Lu's Mansion. Sister Qi is Qi Xuemin, the eldest girl from Magistrate Qi's family. They all go, Sister Xiang, come with me, I will introduce you to them."

A little expression that says I will take you to a higher level.

Not to mention that Ding Xiang was not interested in the gathering of ladies from high-ranking officials' families, even if she was interested, she would not join in the fun with these little girls.

She said, "You are all girls from high-ranking officials' families. I'm afraid."

Sun Mingjing smiled and said, "I have a very good relationship with them, so there is no need to be afraid. If you go and talk more about Tao Weng and Mrs. Tao, Sister Lu San will definitely like to hear it. She often asks me about Brother Mu and me..."

Feeling that she had let something slip, she quickly changed her words and said, "Sister Lu San likes painting, especially the paintings of Dongshan Old Man. She wanted to ask about Tao Weng, my brother Mu."

Ding Xiang glanced at Sun Mingjing, did she really think she was a seven-year-old child?

Ding Xiang still shook her head, "We are going back to our hometown soon, and we can't go."

She was also more certain that the "Lu" in their mouths tomorrow would be Mr. Lu. The eldest girl Lu is already married, and the third girl Lu is still young. There is no doubt that the marriage is between Lu Yubing and Zhu Zhan.

How could a man as smart as Zhu Qian decide on such a terrible marriage for his son?

The families in the story are the Lu family, the Wang family, the Sun family, and the Zhu family. The first three families are senior military officials, and the Zhu family are generals who were recruited. I don’t know if those words were just chatter between a few girls, or if they had any special purpose.

According to the relationship between Mrs. Zhu and Mrs. Sun, if they knew about it, they would definitely tell Mrs. Zhu. Maybe Sun Mingjing didn't dare to tell the adults at home, and the girl who followed her was tight-lipped, so Mrs. Sun didn't know.

Miss Lu San is ten years old this year. She is asking about Sun Yumu, whether for herself or for her sister. Sun and Mu were thirteen years old, the same age as their sisters.

The people the Lu sisters wanted to date were people like Sun Yumu. Even though he was pushed out of Beijing by his second uncle, they still thought he was good because of his noble birth.

Girls in ancient times were so precocious.

After dinner, after sending the guests away, Butler Bai came over with the gift list to show Ding Zhao and Mrs. Zhang.

The Sun Mansion gave them red coral ornaments, the Qin Mansion gave them two large glass vases, the Zou family gave them colorful porcelain tea sets, and the Qian Lei brothers gave them colorful porcelain tableware.

What Zhufu sent was a red envelope containing twelve thousand taels of silver notes. The Qin Mansion also sent a red envelope, which contained two thousand taels of silver notes.

These two families knew what the Ding family needed most, so they gave it money.

Such a big gift made Zhang difficult to breathe.

Ding Zhao said, "I heard from General Qin that General Zhu gave a small piece of ginseng to his father. General Qin was very happy about that ginseng treasure..."

As for the Zhu family, they gave him ginseng and honey balm as gifts. They had money and nowhere to buy these two things, so they compensated them in this way.

With so much money, Ding Zhao was filled with emotions. Ding Chi had longed for and been striving for the richest man in Linshui County. He had never thought about it, but he was about to realize it inadvertently.

He glanced at Ding Xiang, these were all earned by the little girl. Now the family has to keep a low profile and cannot give her a better life. When my daughter gets married, she must be given a generous dowry...

Ding Xiang didn't look at Ding Zhao, she was thinking about Zi Gourd. She intuitively felt that the thing was better than the old ginseng root, but she didn't know what was good about it.

The next day, Ding Xiang slept until she woke up naturally.

Before I even opened my eyes, I could hear the chirping of birds outside the window.

She sat up and rubbed her eyes, hearing Mrs. Zhang laugh and say, "Are you awake?"

"mother."

Mrs. Zhang was not used to being too far away from her daughter, so she came here right after breakfast.

As soon as she hung up the gauze curtain, her daughter grabbed her waist and hugged her.

"Mom, where are dad and eldest brother?"

"They went to the streets with Butler Bai."

Ding Zhuang wanted to buy a shop here and open an ironware shop, so he asked Zhu Qian to bring 5,000 taels of silver to Ding Zhao.

Ling'er came in with a copper basin to help Ding Xiang wash up.

After breakfast, Ding Xiang accompanied Zhang to check the account books, the furnishings at home, and the daily necessities in the warehouse.

Everything is a gift from the Zhu family. I don’t live in my family all the time, so I have to count the things here.

It was already noon when the accounts were reconciled.

The house and its contents were roughly estimated to be worth four to five thousand taels of silver.

At the beginning of Shen Shi, Ding Zhao and his son and Bai Zihua came back.

They bought a shop and spent one thousand two hundred taels of silver. The iron shop mainly sells farm tools and kitchen utensils. It doesn't need a good location. It is located at a small street not far from the city gate. A bungalow with a relatively large yard at the back.

Ding Zhao was happy as long as it had something to do with iron. He was so excited that he even thought about how to decorate.

Butler Bai is responsible for decoration and recruitment.

Dingxiang has never thought of opening another shop in Jiaozhou, one is enough.

Although Jiaozhou is a port city, business with foreigners is mainly concentrated in Mingzhou and Guangzhou. There are some things from Korea and Fuso, but these two countries are relatively poor and are not very interested in these business opportunities.

The places where she most wanted to open a trading firm were the capital and Jiangnan...

In the evening, the steward of the Qin Mansion came to say that General Qin invited shopkeeper Ding and Uncle Ding to have a drink at home, and invited his sister to come too. Since there was no mistress at home, Mrs. Zhang was not invited.

Ding Zhao and Ding Lichun went there with Lilac and a jar of wine they bought on the street today.

The structure of the Qin Mansion is similar to that of the Ding Family. Several people eat in the west wing of the front yard.

There were no outsiders, so Ding Xiang sat at the same table as them.

Qin Hai and Ding Zhao drank wine from large bowls. Qin Zhen and Ding Lichun were injured and did not dare to drink more.

As the wine got deeper, a few people started talking more.

Qin Hai was dissatisfied with Deputy General Wang, saying that he was incompetent and came by air. He was always jealous of General Zhu and put small shoes on General Zhu...

"Bah, he deserves it. Fortunately, Mr. Lu is facing General Zhu. Although General Sun is not as senior as him, his uncle is very powerful, so that bastard doesn't dare to go too far."

Qin Hai's dissatisfaction with Deputy Commander Wang openly stated it in front of Ding Zhao and Ding Lichun. It was no secret that Wang and Zhu were at odds.

Judging from the meaning in his words, Lu and Sun had a good relationship with Zhu Qian, and they also had a good relationship with Deputy Commander Wang.