Before Aunt Mei could finish listening to her, she interrupted her: "It's okay, your fifth aunt came over yesterday, and I already mentioned it to her in passing, and she was very happy ......."

He Jiaxian was stunned for a moment, and after going back, he thought about it, and still went to pass a message to the fifth aunt, asking her to check the reputation of the young lady.

So I feel at ease.

Who knew that after half a month, news came that Fang Qige and the young lady were married, and when the winter solstice was on, it was the day to marry and enter the door.

He Jiaxian was shocked and hurriedly went to the fifth lady.

Who knew that the fifth lady didn't have a good face towards her at all: "When the family said that they would entrust this matter to you, but I didn't see you coming." Have you been so careful, and have I ever offended you?"

He Jiaxian was stunned: "I heard that the girl has a bad reputation......"

"What a bad reputation, that's my family's future daughter-in-law. The fifth lady had a straight face, and began to protect herself before she passed the door: "The female junior holds the gold brick, she and my son are in love, and this family affair is very good." Don't you ...... hot."

He Jiaxian really doesn't know what evil is in all of them, and it's not good to say anything, listening to the meaning of the fifth lady, she knows the details of that girl, and besides, she is really not a person inside and out.

Walking out of the door, He Jiaxian found that he was still out of step with this society.

The fourth lady walked over with her head down, she had always been so cautious, but when she looked at He Jiaxian, she smiled happily, and came over to hold her hand: "Mr. He is really amazing." ”

He Jiaxian knew that she was talking about Fang Qixuan's entrance examination, so he asked if he should continue to study?

The fourth lady smiled and said, "He's not that material." A showman has taken the exam three times, which is very difficult for him. However, when his family recommended him to go to Juxian County as a private school, he was an official school. ”

He Jiaxian secretly thought that they had left the Fang family one by one, but he also knew that for Sifang, it was a good thing to be self-reliant, so he sincerely congratulated him and asked when he would leave.

The fourth lady said: "Wait for the fifth uncle's family to do the family affairs, and leave." ”

He Jiaxian couldn't help but tell the fourth lady the details of the young lady he found, and asked her to persuade the fifth lady.

The fourth lady was shocked, and naturally refused to watch her good nephew enter this kind of fire pit, so she agreed.

Three days later, the fourth lady came to Tinglan Courtyard, sighed, and said to He Jiaxian: "The situation of the young lady's family, when the family said it clearly at that time, the fifth brother and sister knew about it. She does. ”

At this point, that's a sure thing.

Neither of them spoke anymore, and could only sigh. The fourth lady said: "I'm afraid that the fifth brother and sister are not angry when they see the third uncle as an official." The young lady's father, who was said to be extremely powerful, thought that he had promised them some benefits. That young lady, after being abandoned, talked about her relationship in the capital for a year, and no one dared to marry. There are people who want to succeed, their family background and character are not as good as our family's character, and they are afraid that they will be laughed at in the capital in the future, so they think of Yanzhou City. ”

Sure enough, it's not far from home, but it's not close. There are not many people who know the details, and they can't say anything unpleasant. People who know the details are all high-ranking families, and they dare not talk nonsense because of their power.

This is a good fate for that young lady. But for Fang Qige, blessings and disasters are unpredictable.

He Jiaxian couldn't help but bow to Fang Qige's tears of sympathy.

After the new daughter-in-law entered the door, the fifth lady began to complain everywhere, saying that the daughter-in-law was too temperamental or something, and complained about Aunt Mei again and again.

Aunt Mei never explained, and let her talk everywhere.

After the New Year, when he returned to his parents' house on the second day of the first lunar month, Fang Qige went to visit his father-in-law and came back, telling the fifth lady: "My father-in-law said that if I win the show in the autumn, I can get a county order." ”

The fifth lady was overjoyed, and then realized that the new daughter-in-law's family background was really beyond her reach in her life, and praised the new daughter-in-law loudly, and endured everything, saying everywhere that Aunt Mei was kind and found a good family for her son.

Aunt Mei was still smiling and silent. It's just that he Jiaxian is urging here and asking her to supervise Fang Qirui's reading.

He Jiaxian said it a few times, and seeing that Fang Qirui only had one procrastination trick, the two of them had a tacit understanding not to say it.

Fang Yulu came back to pay New Year's greetings.

First, he went to the grave of Master Fang and the Chen family and cried several times, while chanting "Why don't my father and mother wait for my daughter to come back", while sprinkling gold and silver foil, and burning a lot of paper money in the chariots.

Aunt Mei said to He Jiaxian: "Look, the girl whose parents died and didn't come back, there will be no good thing to come back this time." ”

Of course, she said this in her chest, and naturally there was a way to deal with it.

Sure enough, Fang Yulu stayed for more than ten days, neither mentioning it back, nor interacting with people, and even Fang Yuhe only met a few times hastily, and did not say much.

Aunt Mei was calm, and when people were talking about it and felt strange, she didn't say a word, and she was good at eating and drinking.

Fang Yulu couldn't stand it at first, so she found an opportunity to visit Aunt Mei.

Nothing else but to come back and ask for silver.

He Jiaxian then understood that Master Fang and the Chen family passed away one after another, during that period she was competing for favor with her husband's concubine, she had been in the door for so long, only had a daughter, the concubine just entered the door, she was afraid that someone would give birth to a son and cross her head, she didn't dare to leave the house at all, and let her husband and concubine be alone together, staring everywhere, for fear that their concubine would be ruthless and pregnant while she was not at home.

Now I have come back because all the money I have on hand has been spent, and I am short of silver.

He Jiaxian's strange thing is that Fang Yulu loves money like life, so many marriages at the beginning, and his uncle is honest and honest, how can he spend money so quickly.

When Fang Yuzhu went back to her parents' house to play, she treated these things as an unsolvable mystery and talked to Fang Yuzhu a few times.

Fang Yuzhu said with a smile: "She can hold on to the silver until now, which is already very good." When I went to Bingzhou, I thought it would have been a year earlier. After all, her uncle is a good official who is honest and honest, and loves the people like a son......"

This time, Fang Yuzhu didn't finish speaking, and He Jiaxian understood.

Lord Taishou is clear, naturally there is no silver, except for that meager money.

If you don't have it, that is, if you can, you can help the poor.

What does this mean by this range of power? If he has twenty taels, he will give twenty taels and help only one person. If he has two thousand taels and is willing to do so, then he can help a hundred people.

Now that Fang Yulu has passed with a rich dowry, the old man must have used her silver to help the people.

However, where the poor people of a state can be relieved by the power of one person, it is natural that the silver is spent like flowing water, and there is no great income.

smiled at Fang Yuzhu: "Aunt Mei will definitely not give it." ”

"I don't know. Now Aunt Mei is a popular figure in Yanzhou City, and she will not treat the aunts and grandmothers who marry out of her husbandry, you look at the treatment of the eldest sister when she goes home, it is not as good as living in the Hou Mansion? Fang Yuzhu pouted: "These twists and turns, you can understand them now." ”

He Jiaxian said with a smile: "What if you understand, it's not that you can't suppress a word of filial piety." Then he told Aunt Mei about forcing Fang Qirui to study.

Fang Yuzhu listened and said: "Since neither of you is willing to take the official career, why don't you find a good opportunity to draw a salary from the bottom of the kettle." ”

He Jiaxian didn't think about this trick. Fang Qirui wasn't sure what she wanted, she didn't dare to come nonsense.

Hearing Fang Yuzhu say this at this moment, he was very moved. If Fang Qirui really doesn't want to take the official career, she will harm the auspiciousness with Aunt Mei, and she doesn't want this kind of person who builds roads and bridges during the day and kills people and arsons at night to get her wish.

No matter how good Aunt Mei's reputation is, in her eyes, there are just two words, hypocrisy.

It's just that she doesn't have the ability to fight, so she can only swallow her anger first.

Fang Yuzhu's agitation made her eager to try.

Out of the door of the second room, He Jiaxian turned around to the silk village where Fang Qirui was and took a look, and saw from a distance that Fang Qirui was personally counting the goods at the door, and he was full of energy when he spoke.

And this kind of Fang Qirui was something she had never seen in the Fang Mansion compound.

If there is, it is also in Tinglan Courtyard, there is no one around, and the two of them get along alone with each other.

In this way, I made up my mind and just looked at when it was a good opportunity.

Fang Yulu asked for silver for the first time, touched a soft nail at Aunt Mei's, and walked back in a gray manner, and met He Jiaxian's ruthless expression on the way, which she had never seen before, she was in a bad mood, and sneered: "Has the second sister-in-law stayed in the Fang family for a long time?

He Jiaxian didn't know where she started, and before she could ask, Fang Yulu said again: "It's all in vain." I'm used to knowing that you're in power now, so naturally you have to be ruthless. Women are not ruthless, and their status is unstable. Just look at the sister-in-law. In the past, when you gave a gift, you had to ask someone what she said. Now, she's confined to her house and lives in a dull place, and I haven't heard you go to see her. ”

He Jiaxian was silent.

She went to see the Zhou family, and the Zhou family looked like she was afraid that she was going to kill Fang Baoqian's life, and she always suspected that she was going to kill the heir and cheapen Fang Qirui, so she went a few times and never went again.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Fang Yulu sneered and said, "Speaking of ingratitude, you are the first one. used to be submissive and petty, but now it is still. No one cares, no one cares. ”

He Jiaxian glanced at the few servants around him, knowing that they were all Aunt Mei's ears and eyes, and there was no one who did not report to Aunt Mei, and said with a smile: "Aunt Mei's housekeeper is well organized, everyone performs their duties, sister-in-law teaches her children, and inherits the Fang family when she grows up." However, when she went to a private school, I supervised her study every day. I really don't have time to move around. Look at Aunt Lin and Aunt Shen, aren't they all busy for the sake of their children? The Fang family is prosperous, and there are successors, you should be happy. How can you just look at these small sections and ignore the general righteousness. ”

Fang Yulu didn't pay attention to her being able to speak so eloquently all of a sudden, and choked her back in a few words, coldly furious, feeling that the poor sour girl who was looked down on in the past now dared to choke with her. After a while, he calmed down again, and he didn't smile: "So it sounds like I misunderstood you?" ”

He Jiaxian listened to her second brother's affectionate call, but when she first came back, she didn't have such an attitude, but kept saying that Fang Qirui had embezzled Fang Qiye's property, but she was afraid that she was thinking about something, and it was not easy to poke it, so she only said indifferently: "Your second brother came back late, you have to find him and wait for the lamp to come back." ”

Fang Yulu saw that she was outspoken, but she didn't want to say anything more, so she snorted coldly and left.

When Fang Qirui came back in the evening, He Jiaxian sent someone to invite Fang Yulu over, no matter how disliked he was, he was a family in the end.

Fang Qirui heard that Fang Yulu was coming over, and asked, "You didn't ask her anything?"

He Jiaxian said: "Now that you are in charge of the family's income, it means that she is for the silver, and she is looking for Aunt Mei for other things, where can I find you." ”

Fang Qirui listened and said: "Then there is no way, the seals of the money village are all in the hands of Aunt Mei." ”

He Jiaxian was stunned for a moment, and then understood. Before his death, Master Fang handed over the power of the family to Aunt Mei, and he was also taken care of by Aunt Mei.

Later, the outside business was taken care of by Fang Qirui, and he wrote the contract, probably thinking that their mother and son were one, so they all thought that Aunt Yin Mei gave it to Fang Qirui, and no one pursued this.

In this way, Fang Qirui only has a small amount of liquidity in his hands, and there is no way to mobilize a large amount of silver.

He Jiaxian thought that Aunt Mei's arrogance and extravagance were all acquiesced by Fang Qirui, and she was conniving at her own mother. Now it seems that it is Aunt Mei who is restraining Fang Qirui.

It's just that Fang Qirui didn't mean to occupy the Fang family's property, so he didn't care. As long as it is for regular use, Aunt Mei is very happy to stamp.

He Jiaxian said: "Then I will refuse the fourth aunt and grandmother?"

Fang Qirui groaned and said: "That's not necessary, call her over, you calculate how much silver we have in our private room." She went back to her parents' house for help, let's do our best. ”

He Jiaxian nodded in agreement. Get up and count the money.

Fang Qirui suddenly hugged her from behind, hugged her for a while and made her turn around, he pressed her shoulder, looked at her eyes seriously, and said: "During this time, the family is in a mess, and my own heart is also in chaos, I don't know where to go in the future." On the one hand, I know that the business is not passed on to the concubine, but I am the only one who can inherit it, so I will inevitably be resentful, and occasionally I will be greedy. But on the other hand, I feel that since the family rules are here, my fathers can abide by them, why can't I abide by them? Aunt Mei wants me to study and become an official, and thinking of the ending of the Mei family's companion like a tiger, I don't want to be an official even more, this is not my ambition. ”

He lowered his body, leaned his head against He Jiaxian, and sighed tiredly: "I'm tired, very tired." During this time, I didn't dare to think about studying, after all, the eldest brother and the third brother were still supporting me, and there was still so much life left, as soon as I let go, they were completely gone. ”

"Ah Xian, Ah Xian, I'm just an ordinary person, an ordinary man. I sometimes want to be selfish, but I don't dare, and I can't bear it. Fang Qirui poured out his heart to He Jiaxian: "The uncles have been divided, I know what my aunt meant, I want all the Fang family's property to fall into my hands." Then I took the silver to the imperial examination and became an official. This path is an excellent path for her, for you, and for me. ”