Qi Wei came back from the yamen and did not see Li Qiniang. After asking, he found out that it was Wen Xiu who came and the two of them were talking in the small study.

Qi Wei didn't care. In the past, Li Qiniang would go to Li Shiji every one or two days. She has been too busy recently and has not been there for a few days.

Qi Wei returned to the front yard and called the accountant and the chief manager. An hour later, when Qi Wei returned from the front yard, Wen Xiu had already left.

"Why didn't Aunt Wen leave her for dinner?" Qi Wei asked with a smile.

Li Qiniang said, "She promised her granddaughter that she had dinner together and was in a hurry to go back."

Having said that, Li Qiniang sighed silently in her heart. When her daughter married, she was as deep as the sea when she entered the palace. Although the palace was different from the palace, she didn't want to eat with her granddaughter.

Seeing her in a daze, Qi Wei stretched out his finger and shook it in front of her: "Aqi, what are you thinking?"

Li Qiniang smiled and said, "I'm thinking, I want to see my granddaughter in the future. Do you have to send someone to deliver the post in advance?"

Qi Wei shook his head helplessly and pulled Li Qiniang to sit down: "Why did you suddenly start to worry about gains and losses and have random thoughts? I only heard that my daughter's family would be nervous before getting married, but I think that you, as a mother, are even more nervous than your daughter. Do you think Sister Huai'er is not very good?"

Li Qiniang wanted to say that heartless person, but when she thought about it, her daughter was never heartless person.

Qi Wei patted her hand and comforted her, "Okay, don't think too much. When Xiaoman is in the summer vacation, Sister Huai should have finished living in the moonlight. Then I will accompany you to Wisteria Villa to escape the summer heat. Haven't you kept saying that you want to go and have a look?"

Wisteria Villa is the ancestral property of the Qi family. It has been hundreds of years, more than 80 miles away from the capital. When the old Duke's wife was alive, she would go to Wisteria Villa to escape the summer heat every summer. But when he arrived at Qiwei, he hadn't been to it for more than ten years. But Fusheng had been to the capital several times since he returned to the capital.

"Summer vacation? Is there a summer vacation in the school?" Li Qiniang only knows about annual leave and clothing leave. Moreover, clothing leave is only for students from other places. For example, Xiaoman, who lives in the capital, only annual leave, and ten-day holidays, as well as annual leave during the Chinese New Year.

"That day, Xiaoman told me that in midsummer last year, there were many students in the academy with heatstroke, and the imperial classes could only be suspended. He heard from Sister Huai that in some foreign countries, there will be a summer vacation of one to two months in midsummer. Students do not have to go to the academy to go to school, they only need to complete the homework assigned by their husband at home.

I thought about it and found that it makes sense. If there is summer vacation, students can use the summer vacation to learn about the common tasks that cannot be learned in some schools, increase their knowledge and improve themselves.

It just so happened that a student from a college was born in a farmer. He relied on his father and brother to raise silkworms and weaving cloth to study. He finally got a scholar and had the supplies from the clan to study in the academy in Beijing.

However, when he asked about farming and sericulture, he knew nothing, and he rarely even visited the fields.

Mr. Lu Er was quite angry about this. There were many scholars like this student. He was so incompetent and disdainful of farming and sericulture. Even if he entered the imperial examination in the future, how could he become a good official?

When I told Mr. Lu Er about the summer vacation, he agreed very much. Even if the gentlemen from various subjects were called to discuss, the summer vacation was decided.

This year is the first year, and Lihua Academy is also being piloted. If the effect is significant, I think other academies will follow suit.

Speaking of which, this is all due to Sister Huai. It seems that those foreign countries also have something worth learning from."

Li Qiniang and Youyan are the best, her daughter is the best.

It's a valley

At this time, Qi Wei took a box, put it on the kang table, and said to Li Qiniang: "I know that you asked Wen Xiu to come over, you must want to get the silver from Li Shiji."

Li Qiniang was stunned and said, "How did you know?"

Qi Wei said without a reply: "Li Shiji wants to do business. If he is too short of money, how can he do this business? Here is 20,000 taels, and the accounting room is ready, so you can use it."

Li Qiniang was startled and pushed the box back and said, "This is the money from the public account in the mansion, I can't ask for it."

Qi Wei raised his face and pretended to be angry: "Jia Huai'er is also my daughter. Why not give me a dowry to my daughter?"

"But..." Li Qiniang didn't know what to say.

"But what? If you refuse to accept it, I will be really angry." Qi Wei murmured in his heart. If Aqi refuses to accept it, is he really going to get angry and scare her?

If Aqi is not sure and annoyed him, what should I do?

Fortunately, Li Qiniang took the box, which was Qi Wei's heart. She couldn't let Qi Wei's heart feel cold. When Qi Ying got married, in addition to the public servants, she also took more silver from her private room to do the marriage decently for Qi Ying.

Seeing that Li Qiniang received the money, Qi Wei smiled in her eyes. In fact, the money in the public was originally shared by him and A Qi. Besides, his A Qi was very rich, and he didn't know if he asked. When he asked, he was shocked. The manager and the accountant said, "Don't look at the wife being busy, but she is well-informed. As long as an official leaves Beijing and transfers, the wife will ask her to buy a house. She can always buy a house before others. She has already bought more than a dozen small houses that are one or two. Such houses that officials have lived in are very popular in the market and are priced at the market."

Li Qiniang quietly asked the manager of the mansion to come forward. Over the past year, she had resold several official houses, and now there were seven small houses, all not far from the yamen. Her wife told them not to rush to sell them.

It is not easy to live in the capital. Not every official has a wealthy value and can easily buy a house in the capital. Many officials can only live in rented houses with their families when they arrive in the capital.

Therefore, this kind of house near the official office is used to rent it to officials who have just entered Beijing, so there is no need to worry about not being able to rent it out.

Sure enough, in less than half a month, all seven small houses were rented out.

Qi Wei felt that he was not only going to the yamen, but also teaching at Lihua Academy. Compared to Li Qiniang, he was too leisurely.

Moreover, teaching is a waste of time and there is no salary.

Fortunately, my family’s foundation is quite rich, otherwise I would have become a soft-hearted person.

The next day, it happened to be the ten-day holiday, so we comforted each other without going to court or going to the yamen.

Early in the morning, the inner magistrate of the palace sent someone over, and Li Qiniang directed the mothers to sort out the goods according to what the inner magistrate said. As soon as the inner magistrate left, the people from the Ministry of Rites came. Li Qiniang asked the manager to follow the people from the Ministry of Rites to pass by. After finally sending everyone away, Li Qiniang told the stove to send snacks and snacks to Ouyang Shanggong, and then took the account book and checked with the mothers.

Qi Wei circled around Li Qiniang, but there was no place where he could get into his hands.
Chapter completed!