Chapter 117 Cen Text
"What's wrong?" Li Xiu turned his head and asked with concern when he noticed Yue Chan's strangeness.
"No... nothing, I feel a little uncomfortable." Yue Chan said with her head down, and a layer of fine sweat appeared on her forehead, which made Li Xiu stunned, and then she showed a look of silence. Women, there are always some uncomfortable days every month, and some have dysmenorrhea. For example, a female colleague of his previous life had several days in pain every month and could not go to work every month. It is estimated that Yue Chan also had the same problem, so she had to find a doctor to help him with some conditioning in the future.
However, Li Xiu was obviously misunderstood. He did not notice that Yuechan's eyes kept glancing into the crowd next to him. The expression on his face was nervous rather than painful. He even wanted to escape several times. However, when he saw Li Xiu in front of him, he forced himself to escape and calm down.
Li Xiu thought Yuechan was uncomfortable, so he specially stretched out a hand to support her. The two of them looked a little intimate, which made Yuechan very shy, blushing but not resisting.
Pan Ren is not bragging. He is not only familiar with the market, but also knows the ways inside. In a short while, he found four maids. He originally wanted to find six, but Li Xiu thought that Yuechan was uncomfortable, so he asked him to stop. Anyway, the four maids were barely enough.
These four maids are not old, from thirteen to sixteen, and they are almost the same. They are all black and thin. They are obviously from poor families. Pan Ren also asked clearly. They are all families near Chang'an, and they have parents and brothers at home, so there is no need to worry about them running away.
"Master, look at the maids I chose. Don't look at them thin, they will be fine if they have been raised for a while. And they are all from poor families, so there is definitely no problem with their work!" Pan Ren came up with a smile at this time, and after saying that, he did not forget to ask for credit for himself. "And you have seen just now that many of these people are scammers, and their hometowns are all fake. If the uninformed person buys them back, it may take a few days to escape, and even rob the owner of the house before leaving!"
Li Xiu smiled when he heard this, then took out a few copper coins from his arms and stuffed them into the other party's hands. As a result, Pan Ren looked at the copper coins and said in a daze: "Master, you are not an ordinary person at first glance. Is this little money a little less?"
"This is a deposit. I'll hire a carriage to send four of them to my mansion. At that time, your hard work and errands will be indispensable!" Li Xiu said with a smile. Yuechan's appearance always made him feel uneasy, so he wanted to take her to see the doctor first, so he wanted Pan Ren to take the maid back on his own. Anyway, Liu'er and the others were there at home.
"Okay, I wonder where your mansion is?" Pan Ren's eyes lit up when he heard this. He was a idle man who had eaten the last meal but had no meal. He naturally could not miss the good things he had to do and get money.
"Do you know the Princess Villa next to the Huangqu outside the city?" Li Xiu said with a smile.
"I know, you are not from the Princess's Mansion, right?" Pan Ren shouted in surprise when he heard Li Xiu mention Princess Pingyang's villa.
"No, when you go there, ask about the Li family village. That village is full of my tenants. They will tell you how my family goes. Then you can just hand over the people to my family. In addition, let them give you a reward of 100 cents!" Li Xiu said with a smile.
"Oh, thank you so much, lord, don't worry, you will help you deliver the person!" Pan Ren's eyes lit up when he heard the reward of 100 liters, which was enough for him to eat for several days.
"Master, why did you hand over everyone to him? What if..." Yuechan was a little anxious when she heard this, she no longer cared about anything else and said, but she was embarrassed to continue talking halfway through. She was worried that Pan Ren was slick, what if she ran away with four maids?
"It's okay, I want to go shopping in the city later, it's not convenient to bring too many people." Li Xiu said with a smile. Because he was afraid that Yuechan would be embarrassed, he didn't say that he would take her to see the doctor. As for Pan Ren, he was not worried. He just saw that Pan Ren was very familiar with many people in the city. If he dared to run away with his maid, it would not be difficult to find him.
After hearing Li Xiu say this, Yuechan nodded, but then she intimidated Pan Ren again: "My master gave you the people and trust you, but you must also remember that my master is the priest of the Detachment of Women's Army and a fifth-rank high-ranking official. If you dare to neglect anything, be careful of your head!"
"Oh, the villain is blind. Unexpectedly, the master is still a general, and he is a member of the Detachment of Women. The villain dares not neglect it!" Pan Ren immediately assured Li Xiu in a flattering manner when he heard Yue Chan's words, "No one knows the name of the Detachment of Women, and he will not provoke him if he has the courage to do so."
Hearing Pan Ren's promise, Li Xiu sent him away with the people, then took Yuechan away from the city, and looked around while walking. Finally, he found a clinic and pulled Yuechan in. As soon as Yuechan felt very strange, he asked, "Master, are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"Uh, isn't you uncomfortable with your identity?" Li Xiu asked back strangely.
"No, I don't feel uncomfortable!" Yuechan also said inexplicably.
"But you were there just now..." Li Xiu wanted to ask Yue Chan what was wrong, but when he thought maybe he had misunderstood, he smiled helplessly, "It's fine, but since we are here in Xishi, let's go and buy something for our family!"
When she heard that she wanted to buy something, Yuechan became excited immediately. In fact, as soon as she left the market, she recovered from her nervousness, especially when she turned her head several times but didn't find anyone following her, which made her secretly relieved.
Did you buy a lot of things at home when you went to Chang'an? In the past, Li Xiu asked Boss Liu to bring it back when he entered the city. Speaking of which, the weather is warm now, and the bean sprout business is obviously not easy to do, but it is still profitable. So as long as you are not too busy, Boss Liu and the others will still send some bean sprouts.
"Master, look at the cloth over there is very cheap. Let's buy a few horses and go home!" Yuechan pulled Li Xiu to the cloth market, compared the several stores before making a decision.
"What are you doing when buying cloth? You should not lack clothes at home, and the quality of this cloth is a bit poor?" Li Xiu asked strangely when he heard this.
"Master, why have you forgotten? I just bought four maids, and they also have to wear clothes. And the servant's clothes are enough to withstand dirt and rub, and they can't use a very good cloth!" Yue Chan explained with a smile.
"You are still thoughtful, Yuechan, you think about it. You can buy everything you need!" Li Xiu nodded with praise when he heard this. Yuechan, the butler, was very well done, much more thoughtful than he thought about it.
"Yeah!" When Yue Chan heard Li Xiu hand over the power to buy things to herself, she was excited and blushed, and then she started the first major purchase of Li's mansion, with oil, salt, sauce and vinegar all among them.
Speaking of which, buying things was a big problem in ancient times, because the copper coins were too heavy, and shopping with a few chunks of copper coins could make people exhausted. However, there was no way. For example, when purchasing bulk items or valuables, the store usually did it, and the payment was enough at that time, but those scattered goods were not enough. Therefore, Li Xiu finally brought a bunch of them in big bags. Yuechan wanted to help several times, but he refused.
After the purchase, Li Xiu hired a carriage and returned home with Yuechan. The four maids had been placed by Liu'er and all lived in the front yard. They were usually responsible for some rough work. In fact, it was just rough work, which was nothing more than housework, such as carrying water, washing clothes, etc., which was much easier than working at home.
"Master, when you didn't come back just now, there was a strange person wandering around the house." Li Xiu got off the carriage and washed his face, Liu'er ran over and whispered to him in a mysterious way.
"Strange people? What kind of strange tricks?" Li Xiu asked curiously after taking the towel handed by Yuechan and wiping his face. There were only Lijiazhuangzi and Princess Villa near his new yard. Except for the last Lantern Festival, few people usually come to him.
"I don't know either. I saw someone walking around from a distance, so I told Fat Sister. Fat Sister asked Sister Qiu Niang to take a look, but Qiu Niang said that the other party didn't look like a bad person, so she let the other party go." Liu'er answered.
Hearing this, Li Xiu was also a little curious. He took Liu'er and Yuechan to find Fat Sister. Before he could walk to Fat Sister's yard, he heard the sound of training coming from inside. When he entered the door, he found that the entire yard had been transformed into a small schoolyard by them, and there were many training equipment around him. Fat Sister and the other two were holding long swords that had not been opened in their hands, and were practicing the knife technique with a straightforward look.
"Master, why are you here?" Seeing Li Xiu coming in, Fat Sister immediately stopped practicing and stepped forward and bowed.
"That's right. I heard Liu'er say that there was a strange person around. Fat Sister, you sent Qiuniang to contact the other party, so I want to ask who the other party is?"
When Fat Sister heard Li Xiu ask about this, he immediately smiled and said, "Master, it turns out that it's for this matter, but Master, you don't have to worry. Qiu Niang has already asked about the other party's identity, and the other party has only been lost for a moment before coming here."
"Lost? Who is the other person? How could he get lost here?" Li Xiu asked even more curiously.
"This person's name is Cen Wenben. He is an official of the Ministry of Personnel. This time he came to see the princess. However, because he didn't know the way, he came to us and saw that our new house was suspected to be the princess's villa. But he was not sure for a moment, so he wandered outside. Qiu Niang saw that the other party was an official of the court, so she didn't dare to ask more questions and let him go." Fat Sister explained with a smile again.
Chapter completed!