latelenovela Chapter 349 Oolong
Chapter 349 Oolong
The next night, Meixiang became the money-giving boy for the third time and took out another 800,000 taels of silver notes. She gave one to each of the four gentlemen and Feng Yishuang and Feng Yijiajia, and another 200,000 taels to Doctor Wang as a reserve fund for the medical school. The remaining 400,000 taels were thrown directly to Meiying.
Without saying a word, he did it, and stunned the people sitting there.
Doctor Wang, who thought he knew her well, immediately changed his expression, "Xiang girl, what do you mean by this? Giving us severance pay for retirement? Isn't that a bit too generous?!"
"Ah?" Meixiang was stunned by these words. How could the payment of money also involve retirement and severance pay?
He didn't even bother to drink his tea anymore and asked hurriedly, "Master, didn't we agree on this yesterday? What about retiring and returning home?"
"So what do you mean? You come up here without saying anything and just throw money at my face!" Doctor Wang asked angrily. This was the first time he got angry with Meixiang in all these years. The other three gentlemen also looked angry.
Meixiang looked at this and that, and her usually smart brain was confused. Shouldn't it be a happy thing to get money? Why were they all angry?
Chu Zeming and the others had already experienced this last night, so they had the experience and psychological endurance to deal with Mei Xiang's actions. Now that they saw that something had gone wrong, they hurried to explain for her.
"Gentlemen, please don't be angry yet. Let me explain the whole thing to you from the beginning," Chu Zeming tried to smooth things over. "The thing is, Brother Feng, Brother Sun and I have taken stock of the things we have these days, and yesterday we got back the surplus silver we have accumulated over the years."
"As a result, Sister Xiang'er's hands haven't even warmed up yet, but she's already started giving out money. Last night, each of the four of us received one, and it was the kind that we had to accept. She even said, 'We'll all get the money together, and everyone who sees it will get a share. Hahaha..."
After hearing this, Doctor Wang looked at Meixiang who was sitting beside him suspiciously and asked in a deep voice, "Is this the case?"
Meixiang nodded repeatedly, almost swearing to the sky: "Really, really, it couldn't be more true. If we had money, we must have spent it together. Otherwise, what would I do with so much money? I can't spend it all."
"You stupid little thing," Doctor Wang looked at his apprentice's flattering smile, and was so angry that he almost called her a spendthrift. "Can't you be a little more stingy? When you get to the capital, you'll need to take care of every household, and there will be many places to spend money. If you give it all to us, how are you going to live? Huh?!"
"If the money is gone, I can just earn it again. Besides, Meiying still has 400,000 taels left," Meixiang defended herself in a low voice with a smile.
"You, your whole family, when they go to the capital, don't they have to pay for food, drink, and go to the toilet? Don't they need to buy some things to live in? Besides, we don't have to pay for food and drink every month, and we have a generous monthly allowance, so why do we need you to spend extra money? Huh?!"
Doctor Wang’s finger was almost pointing at Meixiang’s forehead. He was so angry that he didn’t know what to say.
Seeing his apprentice's stubborn and unresponsive appearance, he simply turned around and shouted, "Li girl, Li girl, come out quickly."
"Hey," Nanny Chen, who was working in the main room, heard the shouting, dropped her work and hurried out, repeatedly responding, "What happened? Why are you shouting so urgently?"
Doctor Wang pointed at Meixiang and ordered her, "Hurry up and find a housekeeper for this little bastard. With her character, no matter how much wealth we have, it will be scattered all over her."
When Nanny Chen heard this, she was stunned at first, then saw the silver bills in front of the four gentlemen. Her face turned red. The four old gentlemen who were about to take action directly, as well as Meixiang who was asking for praise with an innocent look, immediately understood what was going on.
"Oh, this is a gift from the young lady to the four gentlemen. You can accept it with peace of mind. Besides, the young lady has grown up and knows what she is doing. Please accept it with peace of mind."
Doctor Wang's suspicious gaze shifted from Nanny Chen's face to Meixiang's. Only then did he slowly understand that his apprentice's extraordinary actions did not seem fake, but were just a little too generous.
"Then I'll accept it?"
"Accept it, accept it," Meixiang nodded hurriedly when she saw that Doctor Wang had figured it out.
When Mr. Dou, Mr. Shi and Mr. Gudu heard that Doctor Wang had spoken, they reached out and pushed the one in front of them to him.
"I'm in the Liu Mansion, I have no worries about food and clothing, and I won't need them for the time being, so please ask Old Man Wang to keep them for me." Mr. Shi said this as a matter of course. One hundred thousand taels of silver notes was a sum of money that ordinary people in Liuzhou Prefecture could not earn in their entire lives, and he would not feel at ease putting it in his hands.
"Yes, yes, yes, put it here with me. I'm really afraid that I might lose it by accident. Thank you for your hard work, old man Wang. Hahaha..." Mr. Lonely followed with a sentence.
Doctor Wang understood what his three old friends meant, but he stopped the hand that Mr. Dou was pushing to him, "Old Dou, you should take this photo to the capital yourself. The distance is too long, and I don't have the energy to take care of it for the time being."
This misunderstanding caused by Meixiang became a laughing stock among everyone in the Liu family for a long time.
In the blink of an eye, it was August of the twenty-sixth year of Haoyue. The letters from the emperor in the capital became more and more numerous. The implicit meaning of their words was to ask Meixiang and her daughter to set off as soon as possible to avoid the hardship of traveling in the cold weather and the suffering of others.
The arrangements for various affairs in Liuzhou Prefecture were nearing completion, and seeing that they could not be delayed any longer, Meixiang and her daughter discussed and decided to return around the end of August or the beginning of September.
After breakfast that day, Aunt Li came up to Meixiang and the beautiful woman hesitantly, with an expression as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
It turned out that since the announcement that night, Meixiang had never asked about the issue of whether the Liu family would stay or go, and had been waiting for them to make a decision and report back. No matter what decision they made, Meixiang had no objection, because Liuzhou Prefecture was her own fiefdom and her second home, and she knew this very well.
"Aunt Li, what's up?" Meixiang looked up and asked curiously. Since she came to the mansion, she has been working diligently, keeping the kitchen clean inside and out, and taking good care of the family's three meals a day. Everyone likes and respects her.
"Madam, Miss," Aunt Li looked up at the two of them, gritted her teeth and knelt down, "Madam, Miss, do you still remember that when I first entered the mansion, I promised to accept Xiao Shi as my adopted daughter when she was a little older?"
"That's true. I promised you at the time that if Xiao Shi agreed, I would have no objection," Mei Xiang thought about it carefully and confirmed that it was true. "Aunt Li, how are you now?"