Chapter 371 Opening a Store in Beijing (3)

"Hehe, young master, my cousin is indeed a rare beauty, but when I went to the inn, I heard some rumors about her..."

"What rumors?"

When Du Yulang heard that his cousin was a rare beauty, his blood boiled and he was very excited. He was interested in beauties and gossip about beauties.

"Hehe, I heard that my cousin has a very fierce personality. Although she is beautiful, she is not gentle and respectful as a woman should be. Think about it, a girl doesn't stay in the boudoir to embroider and drink tea, but goes out to do business all day long. What kind of appearance is that?"

However, Cao's slander did not affect Du Yulang's mood of hunting for beauties, but aroused his stronger interest.

"Haha, such a lively beauty is interesting. There are so many women who stay in the embroidery building all day embroidering and playing chess. They are all the same and boring. I just don't know what kind of woman my little cousin is..."

He squinted his eyes and touched his chin with anticipation...

Housekeeper Cao was shocked when he saw this. After quietly withdrawing, he sent someone to pass the news to Cao Jin's house, and went to the inn to pass the message.

Cai Wei laughed when she heard what housekeeper Cao said, and said: "My family's monthly income from business is nearly two thousand taels. Please reply to grandfather. If you can give us a monthly salary of one thousand taels, we will not do this business. Otherwise, please don't hinder us."

Housekeeper Cao took a breath of cold air. He didn't expect that the cousin's appetite would be so big.

The expenses of the mansion are all based on the quota. Even the eldest master's family has a monthly quota of only one hundred taels. The two illegitimate men have only twenty taels of monthly salary each.

After the fourth young lady returned to the mansion, the monthly allowance of the family was comparable to that of the two concubines, which was already a great blessing. It was ridiculous that she dared to dream of a thousand taels per month.

The financial situation of the Anguogong Mansion has been declining, and it is no longer the same as before. In recent years, the money in the mansion has been less than the money spent, and the children in the family are used to squandering and don’t know how to save money, so the family is getting more and more difficult.

The lady is in charge of the household affairs, so she naturally knows the situation at home. She repeatedly advocates frugality for the whole family, but it still doesn’t help. In the long run, in less than two years, the family will definitely not be able to make ends meet.

As for the thousand taels of silver that the cousin said, let alone the Duke of Guo, even the lady would never agree.

Butler Cao smiled awkwardly and said: "Cousin, wait a moment, the old servant will go to the mansion to reply and see the Duke of Guo’s opinion, hehe..."

He politely withdrew, but he knew in his heart that the cousin’s request would be rejected.

When he returned to the mansion, he saw that Master Huo had come to visit the mansion. Now he was sitting in the flower hall drinking tea and chatting with the Duke, and several gentlemen were accompanying him.

Although Master Huo was born in a merchant family, no one in the entire Jin Kingdom dared to look down on him, not because his family was the imperial merchant of Jin, nor because his family was the richest in Jin, but because he had a sister, the virtuous concubine, who was favored by the emperor, and a nephew, the King of Jing, who was deeply loved by the emperor.

Moreover, Master Huo himself was a noble man, and no one looked down on him in terms of virtue or interest.

Therefore, in the Jin Kingdom, whether it was the royal relatives or the princes and nobles, when they met Master Huo, they had to be polite and give him some face.

The Anguogong Mansion was no exception. When Master Huo arrived, Anguogong called out several sons and several older grandchildren to accompany him to show his respect.