Mrs. Zhou disagrees with some of Mrs. Zhou's practices, but he doesn't dare to disobey, but there is one thing that he agrees with very much, not letting Geng's family stick to his mother's family, it's not that he is stingy, it's just that the two brothers of Geng's mother's family are too unsuccessful, the boss thinks about making a fortune and making quick money all day long, what to do and what to lose, the second eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, and his wife marries one and fights another, and I don't know whether he was beaten away or sold by him in the end.

But at present, the most important thing is to invite Mrs. Zhou back, at least she has to get the property of the Yongxiang Hou Mansion in her hands, and the money is in her hands, as for this family, let the Geng family manage it first, and after the daughter-in-law enters the door, let their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law manage it together and supervise each other.

Before Master Xu could figure out how to play the role of filial piety and coax Mrs. Zhou back, several elders in the clan entered the door.

Master Xu was worried at first whether Mrs. Zhou was complaining, this patriarch taught them a lesson, but he didn't expect the patriarch Xu Wugong to hold a stack of documents, and said seriously: "Master Hou, this is the old Hou Ye passed away, and Mrs. Zhou entrusted us to manage the Yongxiang Hou Mansion property, and now it is handed over to you, seeing that your son is going to marry a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Tai is also old, I don't want to worry about it anymore, you can do the math."

Hearing that it was the property of the Marquis of Yongxiang, Master Xu immediately came to the spirit, said a few polite words, took the stack of documents and land deeds and looked at it.

This look immediately changed his face, except for an old mansion in his hometown and the title deed of this Hou Mansion, there are only sacrificial fields and Yongye fields given by the imperial court, and there are no other items, how much is this worth?

Moreover, the sacrificial field and the Yongye field cannot be sold, and the harvest of more than 1,000 acres of land is only a few hundred taels of silver a year, which is not enough for the expenses of the Hou Mansion for a month.

It is impossible for the Yongxiang Hou Mansion to be the only thing left.

Seeing that his face was full of disbelief, several elders of the Xu family were sympathetic, but they didn't want to say anything, and after a few more greetings, they were about to leave.

Master Xu came back to his senses, hurriedly retained, and instructed the kitchen to prepare dishes and invite a few elders to eat and drink.

The kitchen got the order, but there was nothing good, and it was too late to buy it temporarily, so I had to consult Geng's.

Geng knew that several uncles of the Xu family must have something important to do, and if they didn't attend the meeting at this time, they would definitely be punished, so they had to endure the pain and take out the private money, and the steward went to the nearest Baxianlou restaurant to buy a table of banquets for them to send over.

Master Xu took out the good wine that had been treasured for many years, poured it desperately into a few elders, and only asked about the Hou Mansion when everyone was drunk and hazy.

This question, I can't help but be shocked, it turns out that the old marquis was addicted to wine, and almost lost the property of the Hou Mansion, and the two quarreled every day, making trouble and leaving, after all, it was a dignified Hou Mansion, the emperor's relatives, and the face of the clan was not good-looking.

So there were elders who came out to say peace, at that time Mrs. Zhou cried that the old marquis had lost all the family property, and wanted to seize her dowry, the Zhou family was also short of money at that time, so they wanted to let Mrs. Zhou reconcile, pull the dowry home, after a while of noisy, the old marquis suddenly fell ill, and it took more than three years to go, before he died, he spent a lot of money to treat the disease and buy the night, and owed a bunch of debts, it stands to reason that this Hou Mansion cannot be sold, but because the old Hou Ye has no children, and no one inherits the Hou Mansion, and there is such a disgraceful thing, Everyone guessed that this title was probably not kept, so they sold the house to pay off the debt after being taken the title.

But she never thought that Mrs. Zhou was familiar with an old lady in the palace, and begged for grace, saying that she was willing to keep it, and succeeded a child to support the entire Yongxiang Marquis Mansion, just to keep the title passed down from her ancestors.

During that period of time, the folk and the wind of divorce and remarriage became more and more intense, the court did not like it, but it could not be explicitly prohibited, so I wanted to support a few examples to come out.

Half of it was because of the old lady's intercession, half of it was to set an example, the royal family allowed Mrs. Tai to pass the heirs and support the family business, at that time, Mrs. Zhou still had a daughter under her knees, it is estimated that in order to be afraid of property disputes in the future, the clan came forward to count the property of the Yongxiang Hou Mansion, which counted, and naturally found that there was almost nothing left in the Yongxiang Hou Mansion, and there was a pile of debts.

Mrs. Zhou said again, she has no ability to repay all of them, after all, her mother and daughter still have to live, and she hopes to repay part of it first, and the rest will be repaid with the grain produced in those sacrificial fields and Yongye fields, with royal interference, what do those creditors dare to say? Even if they don't pay back a penny, they don't dare to do anything, so they can only do this.

In order to show justice, Mrs. Zhou handed over the land and property to the Xu clan for safekeeping, and the debts were also dealt by the clan, how much grain can there be in the field a year? When the natural disaster ** had to be posted to the tenants, no, it took more than 20 years to pay it off, and it was not paid off until last year.

Hearing this, Master Xu almost fell to the ground, he was less than eighteen when he came over, and the poor boy in the countryside suddenly entered this rich township, and was dazzled, he never thought that the Yongxiang Hou Mansion was just an empty shelf, and no one had ever told him these things.

The emotional Hou Mansion has eaten all these years with Mrs. Zhou's dowry? No, this is absolutely impossible, when the Xu family got married, Mrs. Zhou had already given a large dowry, no matter how prominent the Zhou family was back then, the dowry would not be more than Xu's, not to mention that there was the Hou Mansion for so many years.

I saw the appearance of Master Xu.

One of the clan uncles drank too much, looked at Master Xu with sympathetic eyes, and said: "Big nephew, if you want to say that Mrs. Zhou is a heroine among women, I have never admired anyone in my life, so I admire her, but unfortunately she is a woman, otherwise she must become a character like Shi Chong, the fact of making money is too strong, and what is achieved by cooperating with others, just say a small Zhuangzi, others collect some food and vegetables at most, what about her, she grows fruit trees and raises chickens below, and the chickens and ducks are not sold when the fruits are ripe, I don't know that she got a lot of recipes there, and she is familiar with the tastes of the powerful, the business is very hot, and she has earned a hundred times, Mrs. Tai's vision is excellent, and she is probably afraid of people saying it after the family business is propped up, so she has converged a little, and lives by buying shops and buying fields to collect rent, and now most of the fields and shops in the Hou Mansion are Mrs. Zhou's This point was recorded in the clan back then, and others could not snatch it away, of course, this is not a glorious thing for the deceased old marquis or even the Xu clan, and the older generation did not mention it, So most of the young people nowadays don't know, but when you came over, your daughter-in-law was married, so you don't know at all?"

Speaking of this, the clan uncle is still a little grateful, he is a big man is not good at doing business with a woman, but his mother-in-law used the dowry to follow Mrs. Tai to do some fat powder business, not to mention the bits and pieces of money earned enough for the family's expenses, the four seasons clothes are always earned, and the clan is full of praise for Mrs. Zhou over the years because after Mrs. Zhou does some business, it will be transferred to the clan, and everyone will be wiped out.