Chapter 422
As soon as Xia Zihan heard the words "Ji Hairpin Li", he felt much silent.
These three words reminded her of her hair-raising ceremony in her previous life.
In her previous life, her grandmother passed away not long after her haircut ceremony was completed. Although many things in this life were different from those in her previous life, and her grandmother's body and bones were much better than in her previous life, she still felt a little scared.
The Dou sisters felt relieved when they saw that her mood was better. After sitting for a while, Dou Si suggested that they go play in the back garden.
"Chu Yu, go ahead, go ahead. Don't you know? Your grandmother built a flower house in the back garden this year. Liao Fangyi and I even came to see it. It's beautiful. Let's take a walk. I'll take you there."< br>
Dou Si turned around and took Xia Zihan with him to the back garden.
On the way, Dou Si mentioned again that she and Liao Fangyi opened a shop together.
"Your Nuanyu is so capable. Liao Fangyi's shop has been profitable just two months after it opened. That girl actually came to show off in front of me. I was so angry that I dragged Nuanyu and asked her to help me. I also opened a shop. Liao Fangyi saw that I was robbing her of people, so she had to get involved. Feet, Chu Yu, tell me, I only have such a small amount of private property, how can it be easy to use it to open a shop? She wants to share half of it, which makes me angry to death, but fortunately, the shop is now considered If you make a profit, you can earn some money to buy makeup and powder in a month..."
Continuing to divert Xia Zihan's thoughts, Dou Si kept talking about the partnership between her and Liao Fangyi in opening a shop.
After finishing reading, the flower room also arrived.
The greenhouse was built on the edge of the lotus pond, not far from the orchard. It was built under the ruins of dozens of fruit trees and a small courtyard.
The greenhouse occupies a large area, more than ten meters wide, more than twenty meters long, and more than five meters high, covering more than three or four hundred square meters. Only the wall near the front yard is made of large stones, and the other two walls are made of large stones. The walls are all made of tall, large and wide wooden doors. Open, both sides are bright and airy. Looking from a distance, the inside is clearly visible. The wall and roof near the lotus pond are all made of precious glazed tiles. The sun shines down from above, and the entire greenhouse is bathed in sunlight and flowing light. Overflowing with color.
Even when Xia Zihan saw such a vast and luxurious flower house, he couldn't help but speak awkwardly.
Not only Xia Zihan's clumsy tongue, but also Dou Da and Dou Er, who came to the flower house for the first time, had their eyes widened with expressions like 'The Chu family is so rich'.
Only Dou Si looked calm.
She said with a smile, "Go in, the decoration inside is even better."
In the flower room, there are small bridges flowing over water, rockery and flowing clouds, a large tree pavilion, a large flower garden, and a flower wall more than ten meters long. What surprised Xia Zihan was that there was also a place for reading with a shelf. There are books, desks, tables and chairs, etc. It is very suitable for holding a flower party and poetry party. The Dou sisters all liked it very much after seeing it.
Dou Er said, "Chu Yu, this place is nice. In the future, you can hold more flower parties so that we can come here more often."
"Okay."
A group of people wandered outside the pavilion.
In the pavilion, Liao Fangyi was talking to Xia Zilan. Zeng Jing and Zeng Ning would interject from time to time. Xia Ziying smiled lightly and rarely spoke, but her eyes would glance at the glazed tile wall from time to time, filling her heart with joy. Envy, jealousy and hatred.
After she called the capital, she heard from her mother that the Chu family was rich. She also knew that the emperor had rewarded the second sister with a house and a village, and that the second sister could inherit the Chu family's huge property and be worth a lot of money.
Before that, she had been to the Chu family several times and played in the back garden. She saw that the back garden of the Chu family was similar to the back garden of the Xia family's old house. There was no luxury. It could be said that it was not even as decorated as the back garden of the Xia family's old house. nice.
She thought that the rumors that the Chu family had money were just spreading rumors.
Mr. Chu Ge is an upright first-class official known to the common people. He never accepts bribes or takes advantage of others. I heard that Mr. Chu Ge was a poor orphan before he became an official and had no family background. So this Chu family The money is just Mrs. Chu’s dowry.
Mrs. Chu is a daughter who is married outside. No matter how rich her mother-in-law is, the dowry they can give her is only twenty or thirty thousand silver at most.
Even taking into account the Zhuangzi and the house that the emperor rewarded Xia Zihan, the Chu family only had a family fortune of thirty to fifty thousand silver.
Later, she heard that the Yusha Pavilion and Cuiyu Xuan on the street were owned by her second sister. She didn't know how much money those two shops could make in a year, but looking at the clothes of her second sister, she changed her clothes and dresses in different patterns throughout the year. From the jewelry she wore, she knew that the second sister made more money than she expected.
All this was enough for her to vomit blood out of jealousy.
Unexpectedly, seeing this flower house today broke her suspicions again.
This greenhouse was built by Mrs. Chu. The glazed tiles cost more than one tael of silver each. For such a big greenhouse, one wall and the entire roof, how many glazed tiles would it cost?
Ten to twenty thousand yuan, right?
Then such a greenhouse would cost at least 30,000 to 40,000 taels of silver. For someone who is willing to use 30,000 to 40,000 taels of silver to build a greenhouse, the silver in Mrs. Chu's pocket must be at least over 100,000, right?
Mrs. Chu, how come you have so much money?
Could it be that the rumors outside that Mrs. Chu made a lot of money from doing business when she was young are true and not rumors?
Thinking that Mrs. Chu had a lot of money, and all this money was inherited by Xia Zihan, and Xia Zihan also had a lot of money, and he also had a profitable shop, a village, and a house that the emperor rewarded. This time, the emperor rewarded him so much. There is a lot of silver and gold. Xia Zihan's net worth cannot be estimated. It is probably more than ten, two or three hundred thousand taels of silver.
Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Thinking that all this money belonged to Xia Zihan, Xia Ziying was so jealous that she wanted to vomit blood. With so much money, why did it belong to Xia Zihan and not to her, Xia Ziying?
Xia Zihan is her father's daughter, and she, Xia Ziying, is also his father's daughter.
Could it be that just because their maternal family is different, their lives are destined to be different?
Why isn’t her maternal wife Mrs. Chu?
Why...
So much money, piles of money... Why doesn't it belong to her?
She is also Xia Shiming's legitimate daughter, but her private money is only a few dozen taels, which she saved from the monthly ten taels of silver.
As for her father, he didn't give her a penny to use. Her mother...forget it, let's not mention it. Her mother was poor and didn't have much dowry. Not to mention giving her daughter money, she took care of herself. Not coming.
Xia Ziying was filled with sadness and jealousy, and she complained that God was unfair.
When Xia Zihan and his party walked in, she didn't have time to calm down her emotions. The moment she looked at Xia Zihan, her eyes were filled with jealousy, and she shot at Xia Zihan like two knives.
Xia Zihan's facial features were sensitive and she immediately caught the look of hatred and jealousy. She turned around and saw Xia Ziying standing up with a smile on her face and saluting her, "Second sister." Then she gave the three Dou family members one by one. Bowed.
And that look of hatred and jealousy disappeared without a trace the moment she turned her head.
A group of people sat down and chatted for a while, then a maid came to report, "Mrs. Xia's wife sent her maid over, saying that she had something to do at home and wanted to return home early. Please invite two girls from the Xia family to come over."
Xu was really embarrassed to be ignored. After finishing the banquet, he sat for a while and then excused himself to leave.
Zeng didn't want to stay longer and asked Qingya to replace Xia Zilan and Xia Ziying.
Xia Zilan saw that there were many people and wanted to stay and play for a while. Xia Ziying had already stood up, pulling her and saying goodbye to everyone.
Seeing this, Xia Zihan ordered Silk Grass to see off the guests.
After Xia Zilan and Xia Ziying left, Liao Fangyi muttered, "Sister Chu Yu, your step-sister has become even more sophisticated in pretending to be coquettish. You have to be careful when dealing with her in the future."
Just now, when Xia Zihan came in, she clearly felt a sense of hatred emanating from Xia Ziying who was sitting next to her.
Who was this hatred aimed at? Xia Zihan was the only one present.
"What are you afraid of? If she wants to deal with me, she must have the courage." Xia Zihan sneered.
In this life, she is no longer the weak and helpless Xia Zihan in her previous life who let Xia Ziying and Xu do whatever they wanted for the sake of family affection.
In this life, neither mother nor daughter Xia Ziying could get a single benefit from her.
Not only that, she would also watch from the sidelines, watching Xu and Xia Ziying, mother and daughter, fall into a terrible situation, just like her previous life, living a life that was worse than death.
Xia Zihan didn't take it seriously, but Xia Ziying and Xia Zilan followed the Xu family and Liu family and had already walked out of the Chu family's gate. The Xia family's carriage had stopped at the gate. The four of them were about to get on the carriage. Suddenly, two horses galloped towards them. Come and stop at the gate of the Chu family.
A young man wearing armor who was seven points more beautiful than any woman jumped off the horse.
Qingya, who was escorting the Xia family out, her eyes brightened when she saw who was coming. She hurried over and said, "Greetings to the eldest young master." Then she smiled and said, "Young master, the guests in the house are still here. , the old lady’s aunt and the princess are still accompanying the guests.”
Chu Jingqi frowned her beautiful eyebrows, hummed coldly, then threw the horse rope to Shengdi, turned around and entered the Chu family gate.
Qingya didn't bother to say hello to the Xia family and hurriedly followed them in.
Shengdi glanced at the Xia family coldly, and then led two horses into the Chu family gate, without any intention of talking to the Xia family.
Xia Zilan stared at Chu Jingqi's retreating back with disbelief, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, what a beautiful man, even more beautiful than the men in the painting."
My mouth is watering.
Ms. Liu looked at her with disgust and said, "Looking at the maid's attitude towards the boy, this must be the second girl's fiancé, right?"
"What fiancé? Yu Niang hasn't gotten engaged yet, sister-in-law, don't ruin Yu Niang's reputation." Although Mrs. Xu said this, she was already so jealous that she was about to get angry.
Her sister Ying, like Xia Zihan, is also the legitimate daughter of the Xia family. Why are their identities so different?
Xia Zihan can climb the Chu family's big tree, why can't her sister Ying climb it?
(End of chapter)