Drunk House

  Chapter 77 Where is the face (one more)

  Although Zhou Gu didn't know the price of these fabrics, what price could the fabrics leaked from the royal offering be? The fabrics Su Rong chose, even if a blind man reaches out and touches them, he can tell that they are very valuable.

  He has lived in the prefect's mansion for a while, so he understands that the eldest lady is lenient towards everything else about Su Rong, except for her moon silver, she is terrified, saying that she makes money indiscriminately, before he didn't understand how her daughter's family can make money, and the eldest lady hated it when she mentioned it, but now he has seen it, so it turns out that this is how money is made.

   It is indeed made!

  Even in the residence of Duke Hu Guo, his grandmother and mother just made him a few sets of clothes every time the seasons changed. It has never been said that there are twenty sets of such a large-scale flower at once. If the whole family makes it like this, what kind of prodigal will it be?

  The expression on Zhou Gu's face was so obvious that Su Rong understood it all at once.

  She pressed her forehead and turned her face, thinking that she had forgotten that she seemed to have told Zhou Gu that she was short of money, but she didn't say that it was before. She needed to support too many people and couldn't make ends meet. The richest man in the state and even Daliang.

   But even so, she is still willing to spend the dowry that the eldest lady prepared for her, and she is willing to look at the distressed face of the eldest lady.

   But apparently, her fiancé seems to have misunderstood.

  She looked at the twenty pieces of fabric that had been selected, and she was reluctant to return any of them. After all, they were selected through hard work, so she said decisively to Zhou Gu: "I finally selected it, how can I not take it all?"

  She made a final decision, "Listen to me, wear everything, you can keep it and wear it slowly."

  After she finished speaking, without waiting for him to speak again, she pointed at the cloth domineeringly and told the shopkeeper, "First make ten sets of these. If you want ready-made clothes, you can wear them before early autumn. These fabrics are taken away directly and saved for him to make and wear in late autumn. One piece of cloth can make two sets of clothes, which can be worn from late autumn to next spring. They can't be worn next year, but they can't be worn in the next year. Anyway, they won't break."

  The shopkeeper nodded with a smile, "Okay, rare and good material, if you don't save more, maybe there will be another one at some time, Miss Seven, you are right."

  Su Rong was happy to be praised, "That's it."

  Zhou Gu saw that she was talking to the shopkeeper one by one, she was extremely proficient, and opened her mouth to stop him, but Su Rong grabbed him firmly, and whispered in his ear: "Xie Xiaowang is watching, is it not good for you and me to argue in front of him like this?"

  Zhou Gu shut up instantly.

  Su Rong saw Xie Lin's stunned look from the corner of his eye, and it was a little funny, and looking at Zhou Gu again, his expression kept changing, and it was also a little funny.

  Her status is low, but let people know that it doesn't mean that she can't climb up to Duke Huguo's mansion, and she can't give Zhou Gu good things.

  The shopkeeper brought the album, Su Rong carefully selected the styles, and then the shopkeeper cheerfully called the embroiderer to measure the size for Zhou Gu.

  Zhou Gu numbly allowed himself to be manipulated by him, but he thought in his heart that his fiancée might be very capable. In the whole Jiangning County, she seems to be able to eat everywhere she goes, from a small fisherman who makes a living by fishing to a big man in charge of the third floor, and now there is Jinxiu Pavilion, which is not inferior to the Qianjinfang in the capital, where she can find the materials leaked from the royal palace by Lingshan Weaving.

  After the embroiderer finished measuring the size, the shopkeeper personally wrote it down in a notebook, and said to Su Rong with a smile: "Send the other ten pieces of cloth to the prefect's mansion?"

   "Well, tell the concierge when the time comes, just ask Zhou Xi and leave it to him." Su Rong confessed.

  The shopkeeper nodded, "Okay."

   Then, he ordered the little guy to carefully wrap the cloth selected by Su Rong and send it to the prefect's mansion later.

   "Let's go!" Su Rong greeted Xie Lin with a smile, "I'm sorry to have kept Mrs. Xie waiting for a long time, please come to the mansion to have dinner tonight! The cook in our prefect's mansion is good at cooking fish. You can try the fish in Jiangning water, it tastes very delicious."

  Xie Lin came back to his senses and glanced at Zhou Gu, "Will it be too much trouble for Prefect Su if you come to the door rashly?"

   "No, my father and mother are very hospitable." Su Rong smiled and shook her head. Anyway, if he knew that Xie Lin had come to Jiangning County, his father would have invited him to the house as a guest. Now that she had met someone, if she didn't invite her, her mother would have to reprimand her for being rude.

   Xie Lin glanced at the sky, wondering if he should go tonight, and asked Zhou Gu with his eyes.

  Zhou Gu had no objection, his mind was still full of those blinding fabrics, seeing Xie Lin looking at him, he didn't bother to pay attention.

   Xie Lin coughed, "Then I would like to thank Miss Seven, I will go to visit Governor Su and his wife today."

  Su Rong nodded, thought for a while, pulled Zhou Gu's sleeve, and asked him: "Brother Zhou, why don't I go back home first? You haven't seen the little prince for a long time, you can chat more, or you can take the little prince around, I won't accompany you."

  The point is that she is tired of visiting everywhere in Jiangning, and doesn't want to accompany them around anymore. Also, if Xie Lin and Zhou Gu had something to say, it would be inconvenient for her to follow.

  Zhou Gu interrupted the thoughts in his head, felt that he also had to separate from Su Rong, so as to wake up without her interference, so he nodded, "Alright!"

  Therefore, Su Rong parted ways with Zhou Gu and Xie Lin.

  She had just walked a few steps, Zhou Gu suddenly remembered his purpose all along, called her to stop, and in front of Xie Lin, pretended to be considerate and said: "I will ask the guards to take you back."

  Su Rong stopped and turned around, unable to understand the meaning behind Zhou Gu's thoughtfulness, waved his hand, "No, the sky is bright, I'll just go back by myself."

  Zhou Gu took two steps forward, looked at her, and said forcefully, "Let the guards take you back."

  Su Rong: "?"

  Zhou Gu coughed and explained, "Yue Wan and Ah Hua love to eat snacks, you can buy them some snacks along the way and ask the guards to carry them for you, so as not to hurt your hands."

  Su Rong blinked, thinking that maybe she gave him the clothes, and he reciprocated? My hands hurt or something, but I have never had any pain from eating a few bags. But she could accept his kindness and nodded, "Okay then!"

  So, when Su Rong left again, he was followed by a guard from the Duke Protector's Mansion.

  After Su Rong left, Zhou Gu glanced at Xie Lin, suddenly hooked his shoulder, and said happily: "Brother, how is it? Is my fiancee particularly nice?"

   Xie Lin shook off his arm, feeling very complicated. At first, he was shocked by the fabrics, and then he watched Su Rong carefully choose colors, fabrics, and styles for Zhou Gu one by one. Zhou Gu was not a patient person, but cooperated with her like a marionette. The two of them chose for half an hour, and he just stared at them for half an hour.

  If he hadn't been sure that the person in front of him was Zhou Gu, he would have suspected that Zhou Gu had been taken away. When had he ever been so patient and obedient to a woman?

  Especially when I originally chose ten sets of ready-made clothes, but in the end, I chose ten more pieces of cloth. These are not ordinary cloths, only a few of the finest brocades are selected, and his mother and concubine have never been so arrogant in making clothes.

  If he didn't know Su Rong's identity, he almost thought she was a noble girl from some noble family. No, that's not right, a noble lady from a noble family doesn't spend such a large amount of money, if she can make a piece of brocade, she might have to spend all her own money. And she didn't see the slightest bit of reluctance, she said she wanted it without blinking her eyes.

  Xie Lin has never seen such a woman before, suppressing the complexities in his heart, and said to Zhou Gu: "I don't know if Miss Su Qi is very nice, but she is willing to spend money for you, and you are quite shameless, letting other girls spend so much money on you all at once. Even if she has a lot of money in her private house, you can't just take it just by licking your face? Do you have to pay it later? It’s eight thousand taels, I’m afraid it’s tens of thousands of taels.”

  He compared Zhou Gu's private money with his own money, and he only had 10,000 taels of private money, so he thought Zhou Gu should have the same amount. After all, they haven't entered the court to do serious things to get their salaries, and they haven't gotten married to get their own share of the property. They can have so much private money in their hands because they are all favored by their families. The average son of an ordinary mansion only has a few hundred to a thousand taels of private money, which is not a lot.

  Zhou Gu naturally wanted to replenish Su Rong, how could he accept such a valuable thing from her, but naturally he couldn't admit it in front of Xie Lin, "For what? My fiancée said to give it to me, and she gave it to me. Believe it or not, if I give her money back, she will definitely turn against me."

  Xie Lin glared at him, "No love? Then you accept it like this? Don't you think it's embarrassing to be spread?"

  People are always in a rush to give their fiancées this and that, but Zhou Gu is lucky, and his fiancée gives him instead. He didn't make it up and returned it, why is he so shameless?

  (end of this chapter)