Rebirth of marriage

The next day there was light snow and the temperature dropped a lot.

Today, the Lu family will send someone over to report the progress of the coal business to her. Xie Jiu got up early, lit a fire and waited for someone to come over.

Lin Shu did not visit the clinic today and continued to study the human skeleton diagram at home.

The two of them were warming themselves around the stove, each doing their own thing.

There was a carriage parked outside the door, and it was a patient who came to see Lin Shu.

The patient was a fat foreigner, accompanied by a middle-aged woman and an attendant.

Although Lin Shu is a doctor, she is still a woman. In the past, when a man came to see a doctor, most of them were in the hospital. Today, it was cold, and he saw a middle-aged woman with him, so he brought the man into the main room. .

Xie Jiu was about to go back to her room, but paused when her eyes fell on the entourage. She quietly sat back by the fire and waited.

She lowered her head and buried her face in her knees to warm herself up to the fire, making it difficult to see her face. The guard and the woman glanced at her casually without paying attention, but the attendant looked at her twice.

Lin Shu motioned to the patient to stretch out his hand, and she took the pulse.

"It's my first time to see a female doctor. Today is an eye-opener. How many years has the female doctor been studying medicine?" the woman asked.

There are very few women practicing medicine in this world. People who come to seek medical treatment for the first time will question her medical skills, so some people will use roundabout ways to judge her medical skills. Lin Shu has long been accustomed to this. As usual, "I started learning to identify herbal medicines at the age of three." .”

"Isn't it true that I have been studying medicine for many years?" The woman was a little surprised. She looked at Lin Shu's face carefully and said with a smile, "The female doctor is so good-looking, why does she have to find such a hard road? After all, women don’t have to rely on men.”

Xie Jiu looked at the woman from the corner of his eye and frowned. At this time, Lin Shu also showed impatience and said in a cold voice, "Be quiet, you are affecting my pulse diagnosis."

The woman's expression was a little sarcastic, but she didn't say anything more. Her eyes roamed up and down Lin Shu's body.

Being fat was not a big problem. Lin Shu wrote a prescription for the medicine, and the other party paid the consultation fee, said a few compliments, got in the carriage and left.

"That person doesn't have a difficult disease. He should be treated at any medical clinic in the city, but he came so far to look for you." Xie Jiu reminded.

Lin Shu's eyes returned to the skeletal diagram and he said with a smile, "Many patients obviously have no major problems, but they scare themselves. They always need to see more doctors to feel at ease."

Xie Jiu saw that she didn't care, and she couldn't say anything more without proof, but she was making plans in her heart.

After a while, the Lu family's carriage also arrived, and it was Mother Lu who brought Lu Zhuo.

Since Xie Jiu was a widow, it was not easy for him to have too much contact with men. For convenience, Lu's mother took over the accounts of the coal cake business and came to contact Xie Jiu regularly.

This was the meaning of thanking the wine. Mother Lu was very cooperative. After more than ten years in the countryside, she was no longer the daughter of a wealthy family. She had worked in the fields and helped manage the accounts.

She was also very neat and told Xie Jiu everything about the situation there as soon as she sat down.

The weather is getting colder, and Lu Laosan is a good businessman, so more people are buying coal cakes, and business is better than expected.

In order to supply the goods, they recruited a lot of workers and set up a small courtyard specifically for making coal stoves. Everything was going on in an orderly manner.

After saying that, Mother Lu took out the banknotes and a money bag from her arms, "I have earned some money these days and kept some in my account. I brought you 500 taels of banknotes and 50 taels of broken silver."

Everything is included, very comprehensive.

Xie Jiu took it, rubbed his hand on the bag of broken silver, and looked at Mother Lu, "The weather has been bad recently, so you have to pay everyone's wages every two days, so that they can buy some food and cotton-padded clothes in time for the winter.

When the weather gets better after the new year, you can change it to the tenth or half a month and you can see the arrangements. If there is heavy snow and rain, work will be suspended. Don't rush to come to my place. Safety is the most important thing. "

"Thank you for your consideration, girl. I will tell the second and third sons." Mother Lu responded with a smile.

The two talked about Meishan for a while, and Xie Jiu asked, "Are you in a hurry to go back today?"

Lu Zhuo answered, "We are not in a hurry. Does the girl have plans?"

Xie Jiu smiled and said, "I want to use your carriage to go into the city."

There will be a snowstorm in half a month, and she needs to prepare more clothes, shoes, and food. It will be difficult to enter the city when it snows heavily later.

There is nothing wrong with the Lu family mother and son.

Xie Jiu originally wanted to ask Mother Lu to wait for her at Lin's house, so as not to have to follow her around in the cold weather, but thinking that it was not good for her and Lu Zhuo to be alone together, and Mother Lu had already gotten up, she endured her words.

After entering the city, Xie Jiu had a clear purpose and bought everything he wanted without much effort.

Xie Jiu looked at the sky and said to the two of them, "Let's go back after eating."

It's not good to let people go on a trip without leaving them hungry.

It was indeed lunch, and the Lu family mother and son did not refuse. The three of them found a restaurant on the street.

"Girl, are we looking for Meishan again?" Lu Zhuo asked while waiting for the food to be served.

Xie Jiu promised Lu Hongyuan that Lu Zhuo's generation would not be involved in their master-servant relationship. Therefore, she only negotiated coal matters with the three brothers and their wives of the Lu family.

Lu Zhuo took the initiative to mention this matter, and Xie Jiu's heart moved slightly. She said, "I am planning to search along the mountains of Yuyou Pass in the next two days."

"Miss, can I bring someone with me?" Lu Zhuo said, "It's not safe for you to go into the mountain alone. Then you can just calculate the wages for me."

Xie Jiu didn't answer in a hurry and looked at Mother Lu.

Mother Lu smiled, "If the girl doesn't mind, let him follow. That will make us feel more at ease."

"Okay." Xie Jiu did not refuse.

There are two types of coal mountains, one that can be seen from the surface, such as the one being mined, and one that requires some skills to find underground.

Once coal becomes popular, coal mountains will become hot spots for everyone to compete for. She has to buy those coal mountains that can be seen on the surface before everyone reacts.

She needs manpower, and Lu Zhuo has this idea, which is exactly what she wants.

As for the coal mines buried deep underground, she wanted to wait to explore them until they would be of greater use in the future.

When the three of them had lunch, it started to rain again. Lu Zhuo held an umbrella and helped Mother Lu get on the carriage first. Xie Jiu stood under the eaves of the restaurant, waiting for Mother Lu to get on the carriage, so she would run over quickly to avoid queuing. I was soaked in the rain when I got on the carriage.

As soon as Mother Lu entered the carriage, she ran towards the carriage with her hands on her forehead.

Lu Zhuo settled his mother down and turned around to receive the wine.

Xie Jiu didn't expect that he would come back to pick her up. When the umbrella covered her head, she smiled and said, "Thank you."

Then he followed Lu Zhuo to the carriage.

In the private room of the restaurant across the street, Gu Xiao just approached the window when he raised his eyes to thank him and smiled, but this smile was not for him.

Mo Li was whipped last time, so he didn't dare to be sloppy when it came to thanking him for drinking. When he saw Gu Xiao staring at the two people under the umbrella, he whispered, "That's the boy from the Lu family."

Gu Xiao was silent, his eyes slightly sinking on the carriage that was gradually running away.

Seeing this, Mo Li didn't dare to say any more.

Mo Qi, who came in later, said, "The Lu brothers are now managing the coal business for Miss Xie, and there is a woman who came to the city with them today, who should be Lu Zhuo's mother, Mrs. Xu.

She is responsible for managing the accounts, so today's meeting must be related to this. "

He knew that the prince treated Xie Jiu differently.

After Mo Li was whipped, he found out why Xie Jiu went to the mountains.

As soon as I saw Xie Jiu and Lu Zhuo on the first floor, I went to the restaurant opposite to ask about the situation.

I didn't want the prince to have a misunderstanding and worry about it, so I came up with this explanation.

The expression on Gu Xiao's face did not change. After finishing the meal, she said calmly, "Buy some coal cakes to the palace. If they are useful, send a batch to the military camp. Keep an eye on the Lu family and don't let them take advantage of her. Don’t let other short-sighted people try to make a living in this way.”

Mo Qi responded and bravely asked, "If the Lu family boy has other intentions, can he interfere?"

There was no reply for a long time. When Mo Qi thought that Gu Xiao would not reply to him, Gu Xiao said calmly, "The Lu family is willing to marry. If she is willing to marry, it has nothing to do with anyone else."

Mo Qi understood that Lu Zhuoruo was interested in Xie Jiu, and the prince only allowed him to marry Xie Jiu as the matchmaker's wife.

Not to mention the fact that Xie Jiu had been with the prince, even as a convict and a widow, it would be difficult for the Lu family to agree.

In the end, the prince was still reluctant to give up.

Mo Qi lamented, hoping that the knot in the prince's heart could be resolved soon, and that he would not regret it in the future.

Here, the Lu family's mother and son sent Xie Jiu back to the Lin family. They were worried that it would rain even more later, so they went home without stopping.

On the way, Mother Lu asked, "What is Zhuoer's plan?"

Lu Zhuo knew that she was asking about going into the mountains together, so he explained, "Mom, I understand what my father is doing.

But Xie Jiu is the child's savior, and the child will always feel indebted if he doesn't repay the favor. She doesn't have to do anything about the coal, but the Lu family needs this opportunity.

Rather than saying that the Lu family was repaying the favor for saving their lives, it was more of a cooperation. The Lu family got [-]% of the profit and could go out again. "

"Zhuo'er, your father and uncles have entrusted the future of the Lu family to you. Your future is the future of the Lu family. It is in the capital, in official career rather than business." Mother Lu reminded.

Lu Zhuo smiled and asked, "Does mother think the purpose of thanking you for drinking is just to do business?"