Chapter 36
: Use talents in an eclectic way
Hu Sanniang glanced at Pan Jinlian with disdain: "At least she still knows some sense of shame."
Pan Jinlian stood aside with tears in her eyes and said nothing, biting her lip in grievance.
Cao Cao stretched out his hand to trim her hair and said with a smile: "After all, when a husband and wife kill each other, they can kill with no more than a nod, and they have been punished. She has changed now. For my sake, Sanniang, please don't bully her in the future."
, after all, we are all sisters."
After Pan Jinlian was frightened by this, her previous thoughts of making trouble and competing for favor were gone. She wiped her tears and said to Hu Sanniang Fu Shen: "Jinlian has met my sister."
"No!" Hu Sanniang waved her hand and looked her up and down. Seeing that her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and her eyes were frightened and confused, she couldn't help but feel a little soft-hearted and slowed down her tone: "I am eighteen years old this year, you should be older than me.
Is it big?"
Pan Jinlian nodded: "The slave family is twenty-three years old this year."
Hu Sanniang said: "You were originally the official's wife. Although you divorced for some reason, since you have never left home, you cannot be a concubine. You and I should be sisters in order of age. You are five years older than me, but I am
I should call you sister."
After that, she straightened her clothes, said her blessing seriously, and called her sister.
Pan Jinlian's eyes suddenly turned red again, and she quickly pulled Hu Sanniang and cried: "My family did something scandalous that disgraced the family. Meng Dalang didn't kill me, but kept me at home. It was a great kindness, but I shouldn't."
He also has a greedy heart and is jealous that you have become his wife. My sister is not worthy of this slave."
Cao Cao saw the two of them pulling each other and coughed: "That's all, let me be the master. Let's do what Sanniang wants. Let's go by age. Although Jin Lian has made mistakes, no one in this world is born with a blind eye.
It is inevitable to make mistakes, but if you are willing to change your mind, you are a good person."
"As for Sanniang, it's great to have a tolerant temperament. The matriarch of a family should have a big heart. But she is young and has a good mind. I know that Jin Lian, you are a person with a bad temper. She is really mean-spirited. She is not you.
Opponent, but you also need to know that although she is no match for you, she can still beat you. She will kill someone if she draws her sword, so be careful if you offend her."
After hearing what he said, Pan Jinlian was extremely convinced and muttered: "I know, I will never bully my sister."
After that, he went to wash his face first, then diligently boiled hot water, and helped Cao Cao and Hu Sanniang wash up. Then he went upstairs and replaced all the bedding with new ones. He brought the original bedding downstairs and spread it on the floor.
Hu Sanniang couldn't bear it, so she stopped her and said, "Sister, why is this necessary?"
Pan Jinlian smiled hurriedly and said: "There is only one bed in the house. You are the mistress and the bride. I have argued that it is your turn to sleep. It would be great if I have a corner in my house where I can sleep."
Hu Sanniang became more and more embarrassed, but Cao Cao saw that Pan Jinlian was trying to show pity, so he shook his head and said: "You can sleep wherever she wants. She can only cope with it for a day or two. I have sent people to buy a big house. Everyone has their own."
Houses, servants and maids have also been arranged, so please be patient for a while."
Seeing what Hu Sanniang said, she couldn't persuade him any more, so she followed Cao Cao upstairs and blew the lamp to rest.
Pan Jinlian lit a solitary lamp and sat alone on the first floor. She heard some embarrassing noises from upstairs. She felt sad and jealous at the same time. She felt deep regret in her heart. She had given away a husband with a promising future and a loving husband to others with her own hands.
She didn't know how long she sat there, until the lamp oil burned out, she sighed softly, got into the quilt and fell asleep.
Although it was April at this time, the ground was cold after all, and the mattress under her was not thick. After a while, the coldness penetrated through the mattress, so how could she sleep?
Pan Jinlian couldn't help crying, she closed her eyes and endured the dawn. Suddenly, the quilt moved, and a warm body came in and held her in his arms. The chill disappeared immediately.
Pan Jinlian felt happy and sad at the same time, and whispered: "The abandoned woman is old and beautiful, so why don't the officials go and accompany the new couple?"
Cao Cao chuckled and said: "She has fallen into a coma. The air is cold at night. If I don't help you keep warm, you will definitely fall ill. As for who is old and sallow, let's talk about it in thirty or fifty years."
Pan Jinlian was touched in her heart, turned around and hugged Cao Cao tightly, crying uncontrollably.
To be honest——
A vigorous and arrogant man, my surname is Cao Dancao.
The beauties above and below have great talents, and the heroes on the road show their unique skills.
The girls in the Hu family are very shy, and Pan's daughter is like a succubus.
One night, I listened to the rain falling in the small building, and the crescent moon shone on the top of the forest.
The next day, the three of them were sitting together for breakfast. Cao Cao was sitting upright, and the two women on the left and right were in harmony. How could they look unhappy at all?
Hu Sanniang was a newly married woman, so she was too shy to look at anyone. Pan Jinlian saw that her shy posture was very touching, so she also pretended to be shy, lowered her head and blushed, and only glanced at Cao Cao with her eyes. Cao Cao laughed: "
Xiao Pan, everyone has his or her own beauty. You are beautiful because you are lively and cheerful. You don’t need to imitate others. Just be yourself and you will be extremely beautiful.”
Pan Jinlian was really embarrassed now and stretched out her hand to pinch Cao Cao. Hu Sanniang put down the bowl and said with a smile: "It's really delicious! The soup prepared by Sister Pan is so good that I don't have a daughter. Not to mention cooking, she can't even cook."
The embroidery needlework is also unreasonable."
Pan Jinlian said quickly: "This little trick of the slave family is not worth mentioning. It seems that my sister has learned great skills and will really be able to help Da Lang do a big business in the future."
Not long after, Pei Xuan and others arrived together and reported that they were interested in two houses and wanted to ask Cao Cao to make a decision.
Cao Cao went to see it with them. One of them was Ximen Qing's original residence. It was passed off as public property and sold several times. Because so many people were killed inside, no one dared to buy it. The other one was in a county.
The villa built by the grandpa was put up for sale because he was ready to return to Beijing after his term of office was over.
Cao Cao made the decision and said: "I will stay in the county magistrate's house. The other house is bigger, and your brothers will live in a more spacious place."
Pei Xuan then took some silver to buy the two houses, which totaled more than 4,000 taels of silver. Cao Cao thought it was a good deal and immediately moved out of Zishi Street.
Interestingly, he opened a small door on the side of the new mansion facing the street, and gave it to Wang Po along with two or three cabins inside, so that she could live here and still open a tea and soup shop, and even provide the servants the mansion needed.
They also asked her to become a comprador.
Grandma Wang got this good job, she almost couldn't live with the rest of her life, she was confident that if there was anything wrong, she would come to see her.
Hu Sanniang was a little confused and asked privately: "That woman is not a good person, why do the officials use her?"
Cao Cao smiled faintly: "I have my own way of employing people, and I don't pay attention to both virtue and talent. Use virtues with virtue, and use talents with talents. The law is inconclusive and informal. Although this woman has a bad mind, she does things very well.
It's neat and helpful, so why should I give up because of the past? Moreover, these people are the most deceitful and afraid of evil, but if it comes to comparing evil, who can be more evil than me?"
Hu Sanniang thought about how she had become his wife inexplicably, and immediately felt convinced.
As expected, Mrs. Wang did her job swiftly. Within three days, seven or eight servants, maids, and cooks all arrived at their posts. Cao Cao saw them and found that they were all loyal, honest, and willing to work hard. Two of the maids were of good color.
They were named Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao, and were ordered to serve Sanniang and Jin Lian respectively.
After finishing the family affairs, Cao Cao summoned Zheng Tianshou and met with his brothers. He gave Zheng Tianshou all the deeds of the houses in Zhujiazhuang and gave him an additional fifty thousand taels of capital to expand his business.
, spread to surrounding prefectures and counties.
After finishing these things, it was already mid-April. Cao Cao gathered all his brothers for a banquet and said that he would go out to a faraway place that day to kill Cai Jiu to avenge Pei Xuan and fulfill his previous promise.
Chapter completed!