After the marriage was severed, I fled with my golden finger to protect my mother

Chapter 169: Build a Fireplace

After listening to Lin Er's report on the progress here, Yuxiu felt that nothing was missed. She smiled and praised him a few times, and told him to send someone to find her if he had any problems, and then left Guihua Lane.

As the weather gets colder, it gets dark earlier.

Yuxiu was afraid of the cold, and now that it hadn't snowed yet, she had already put on thick thermal underwear.

Not only did she wear it, but she also prepared several sets of spare clothes for Cui and Xu Qinghe.

Anyway, I have several layers of clothes on the outside, so if they get dirty, I can just put them in the washing machine in the space to wash and dry them. I don’t have to worry about anyone finding anything.

It is said that the winter in the capital is very cold. Yuxiu heard that it would start snowing in about ten days. By then, the snow would be so thick that it would bury her calves, making it very difficult to travel.

So everyone has been busy stockpiling supplies recently. If the city is really blocked by heavy snow, everyone can stay at home and warm themselves by the fire during the winter.

The Xu family has a steward named Zhang Wentang to manage the family. If there is something that needs to be bought, he will naturally take people out to buy it. This makes Yuxiu and the others less worried.

In addition, there were many maids and old women in the mansion, and Mother Wen had them working overnight to make two sets of thick and warm cotton coats and trousers for each person. Even Yuxiu replaced their sleeping bedding with thick new cotton.

Among the supplies she had collected while fleeing the famine, there were quite a few pieces of cloth, and many warehouses contained cotton-padded clothes and quilts. Yuxiu immediately found an opportunity to get them out and asked Mother Wen and the others to alter them, and they all became new clothes for the servants of the Xu family.

The rest of the people on the farm were not left out. Although some of the tenants could not be considered servants of the Xu family, after discussing it, Yuxiu's family felt that it would not look good if they did not give them any.

Since the money has been distributed, there is no point in leaving anyone behind. Just give a set to all the tenants, so as to distinguish them from the servants of the Xu family.

As for those who signed the indenture, they were servants of the Xu family. Not only did they receive monthly wages, they also received cotton-padded clothes and quilts personally delivered by Xu Qinghe. They also received two sets each, which made the other tenants very envious.

Now everyone in the village has moved into the new houses. Yuxiu told Xu Qinghe about the kang in the previous life. She heard that the house could be heated up while cooking. Xu Qinghe became very interested.

A few days ago, I took Zhang Dazhui to the village every day. After some experiments, we finally succeeded in making a kang. Now every house in the village has a kang. Some families who are afraid of cold have used it several times and like it very much.

With it, not only can the temperature in the house be maintained, so both adults and children will not feel cold, but it also looks clean and tidy. There will no longer be a black smell everywhere due to warming up by a fire in the house.

Although Xu Qinghe has never done business, he still has some business acumen. Now that it is near the end of the year, there is nothing to do in the fields that requires so many people to work.

He asked Boss Yang to take the lead and lead more than twenty young men to go out every day to build kangs for people.

As for the money earned, he only took half of it, and asked Boss Yang to distribute the rest to his subordinates. This could be regarded as a way for everyone to make extra money.

Although this is a small business, they have a large number of people and good skills, and they can receive a lot of orders every day. Now, in less than a month, Xu Qinghe has accumulated a lot of change.

He used the money to buy a set of pearl hair accessories for Cui, and a pair of beautiful butterfly earrings and a hairpin for Yuxiu.

He hesitated for several days with the remaining money before he finally made up his mind to buy a jadeite-inlaid headband for the old princess.

In order to give away this headband, Yuxiu sneaked into Prince Ning's mansion in the middle of the night and personally helped to deliver her father's filial piety.

Even though the old princess had lived in luxury since she was a child and her jewelry box was filled with countless jewels, many of which were more precious than this headband, she still couldn't help but wet her clothes with tears when she received such a gift.

This is her biological son. If those things hadn’t happened to him since he was young, he would definitely be very filial to her.

If the child did not crawl out of one's own belly, then no matter how much one feeds them, they will never be full, just like Xu Jinran's family.

In the past, the old princess only felt disgust towards Xu Jinran from the bottom of her heart, but when she thought that he was her own child after all, she did not think of doing anything to him.

This time she fell seriously ill and learned that Xu Qinghe was her biological son, so she asked someone to investigate Xu Jinran thoroughly and was greatly surprised.

Xu Jinran has spent a lot of his family's money over the years. If he hadn't had a large amount of good medicinal herbs to support him, he would have died long ago. How could he have the life he has today, with a wife and children who never have to worry about food and drink?

However, the result of the investigation was that not only had he withdrawn money from the accounting office many times over the years, but he also sold the supplements that the mansion had bought with all possible means.

Maybe Princess Ning also found out that he had taken a large sum of money from the account, but his excuse every time was to seek medical treatment. If it really came to light, people would scold her for being an older sister-in-law who mistreats her younger brother-in-law and even refused to give money to treat the brother's illness.

Xu Jinran probably noticed this and his appetite grew.

You wouldn't know until you check. Once you check, you'll be shocked. If you add up the total amount of silver, it has reached an astonishing amount of over 100,000 silver coins.

Fortunately, his health was not very good, and he did not squander much of the money. Instead, he used it to buy houses and shops.

When the old princess heard the news, she didn't know whether to laugh at him for being stupid or to be angry at him for having no conscience.

But as long as the things are still there, Xu Jinran is still smart. He didn't even tell Qin, who had slept in the same bed with him for more than ten years, and the house deed was directly placed in the study in the front yard.

His idea was indeed a good one. Xu Jinren and Xu Jinyi were not in the mansion, and the women in the mansion would not go to his study on weekdays, so it became the place where he hid his secrets.

After the old princess learned the news, she immediately sent people to search his study thoroughly.

Not only did he bring back seven or eight house deeds and two land deeds, but there were also tens of thousands of taels of silver notes in the box placed together with these things.

It seems that apart from the money he paid out from the accounting office, his savings over the years should all be here.

These were things that should belong to her own son, so the old princess naturally put them away.

Poor Xu Jinran, who had recently fallen ill, didn't know that his little treasury had been wiped out, and he was still arguing with Qin in the house.