On the Cui family's side, there is only the last day left of the agreed three days, and Uncle Cui is so worried that he can barely eat half a bowl of porridge for breakfast.

A dignified uncle's mansion, five thousand taels of silver can still be squeezed out.

Although he has been poor for so many years, except for a few pieces of furniture added by the way when his aunt and grandmother got married a few years ago, and there is nothing added to the family until now, his Yulu and the tea garden in the south still have a harvest of seven or eight thousand taels of silver every year, plus the dozen or so shops that are still on hand, and he can get back thousands of taels of rental money every year.

These add up to one or two thousand taels.

But there are also a lot of expenses in the house, and in recent years, I don't do things and don't socialize much, and I can barely cope with the past, and my daily expenses alone have to be seven or eight thousand taels a year. I looked at the account book last night, and there were more than 6,000 taels in the account. This is enough for chewing and human relations in the second half of the year. In other words, it is difficult to get through the accounts.

Where do you go to raise money?

Do you borrow from someone? He is the deputy commander of the twelve guards of the pro-army, and he goes to borrow money from others, so what face does he have to walk in the court? Besides, don't others know that his Cui family is an empty shell?

What if you don't borrow it? Borrowing money from someone? That's even worse.

Mrs. Cui still has a dowry in her hand, but the dowry is for Cui Jingru, and when the eldest aunt and grandmother got married, she divided a part, even if she has done well over the years, she can't change a share. What's more, the rest will have to prepare Cui Jia to marry in the future, and this money naturally can't be moved.

After thinking about it, I can only borrow it.

But who will you borrow from?

He gritted his teeth and went to the mansion of his old partner, General Hu, the commander-in-chief of the Twelve Guards of the pro-army.

General Hu's mansion has a new two baskets of big crabs, leaving him to eat and drink, and there are four or five of his clan brothers at the same table, and they agreed to go to Wanxilou to listen to the play after losing the boxing, and everyone respects him as an uncle, and let Zhuang give it to him. Before he touched his lips, he felt a thorn under his buttocks, and he said that there was something in the house.

After turning around the street for half a circle, he went to the mansion of Wu Guogong again.

Wu Guogong is happy and quiet. I don't like to gather crowds and make noise, and I often drink a little wine and chat with him alone in the house.

Guogong's Mansion is really quiet, and Wu Guogong is eating tea in the study. When I saw him coming, I asked him if he wanted to buy Tianfu? It turned out that a general under Wu Guogong had committed something. Need to sell the grange and return to his hometown. "I remember that my brother's family only has the Zhuangzi in the southern suburbs, why don't you put it down? If you can harvest four or five thousand taels a year, you can buy it at a price of 80,000 taels, but you don't lose at all. ”

He was silent.

Wu Guogong said again: "Too expensive? Two thousand taels less is not a problem. Our family is just too many Zhuangzi, we don't need so much. Anyway, brother, you should be such a big official. There is also a knighthood, and he doesn't care about these thousands of taels, right? ”

He sweated on his back and came out again.

Who else can you go to? Even if there is still someone to find, he doesn't want to scan this face.

Although they didn't know about the fall of the Cui family, just looking at their pomp and circumstance made him panic. At the beginning, he was also the master of spending money, the Zhuangzi in the south and north of the Yangtze River, the houses in the east and west of the river, and the shops in the north and south of Beijing, he picked a little ash in his nails to buy dozens of baskets of such big crabs, and where was he afraid of inviting people to listen to the opera in the pear orchard?

"Sir. It's our aunt's house in front, do you want to go in? As he walked aimlessly, the attendant suddenly said.

Uncle Cui was stunned when he heard this, the golden and brilliant mansion in front of him was the Mansion of the Marquis of Zhongwu?

The Cui family's eldest aunt and grandmother, Jing Xuan, was also born by Mrs. Cui, and married Yin Shang, the son of the Marquis of Zhongwu, five years ago. The Yin family is a reduced lord, and it is an earl in the Yin Shang generation, and now he is in charge of the rear military camp with Chen Guogong, and Cui Jingxuan is also a good match to marry him.

Before the eldest aunt and grandmother got married, the Cui family was restrained. But there was still a surplus, but the Yin family had a lot of dowries at that time, and in order to win glory for their daughter, Uncle Cui and his wife added a lot of silver to the dowry. After that, he had contacts with the Yin family over the years. He has never lost the face of his aunt and grandmother, so that his family background is getting thinner and thinner, and now he is so worried that he is on the street.

Cui Jingxuan is the wife of the prince of the Hou Mansion, and she has a lot of dowry in her hand, and Yin Shang is still angry, and a mere five thousand taels of silver will definitely not be difficult for her. Do you want to talk to her?

Because it has only become embarrassing in recent years, Cui Jia and his siblings don't know about the suffering in the house. Cui Jingxuan naturally didn't know about it. I don't want to disturb her life all these years, and I must not have looked for her to talk about taking money.

What kind of excuse do you have to find to tell her?

However, there is clearly no better candidate these days.

He thought about it for a long time at the street entrance, but in the end he gritted his teeth and raised his feet to go to Yin's house.

When he entered with his front feet, the prince withdrew his gaze from the window of the teahouse opposite the Hou Mansion. After pondering for a long time, he asked Cheng Yun opposite: "Is there any difficulty with this Cui Lian?" ”

Cheng Yun also had some doubts in his eyes, "It stands to reason that there won't be." "Although Uncle Cui has been disturbed by Cui Jia's matter for a while, but now that the dust has settled, everything that should be broken has been broken, and there should be nothing to be difficult for him, but why did he wander on the streets outside his daughter's mansion for so long?

The prince said: "Is he short of money? ”

Cheng Yun paused slightly and laughed: "How did you say this?" ”

"Guess." The prince smiled. Turning his head, he glanced at the eunuch behind him.

The eldest aunt and grandmother still felt sorry for their father, even if Uncle Cui didn't say anything terrible, she didn't say a word and took 5,000 taels of silver tickets to him. Uncle Cui was so ashamed that he didn't even bother to stay for dinner, so he went to the Zhongwu Marquis House to eat a cup of tea and left.

When I returned to the house and told Mrs. Cui, Mrs. Cui could only sigh, and it was really embarrassing to fall to the point of borrowing money from her daughter. couldn't help but think of the thing that fell on the Xu family, and said: "If this matter is dealt with, I have to try my best to get that thing back, otherwise what is the end of this day?" ”

Uncle Cui thought so: "Who said it wasn't? ”

With a silver ticket here, I can't help but ponder.

The days of the third room finally calmed down, and early in the morning when the Cui family returned the belongings, the Yang family took out the Cui family tokens that were stored at the bottom of the box.

It is a fine piece of jade, with the mark of the Cui family engraved on it. At the same time, there is also a white silk with words such as wishing the two surnames to be friendly, with hairs on the edges, and it should be torn off.

It's usual, and it's in line with the situation at the time.

At the beginning of the hour, the housekeeper of the Cui Mansion arrived with a silver ticket and a token as promised. The token given by Xu Shaochuan is a simple and rugged finger, which is also very consistent with Xu Shaochuan's image in Xu Ying's mind. Of course, there is also a picture of the same letter, which is an ordinary woven cotton cloth, but the handwriting is very pale.

Xu Yong counted all the silver tickets here, and here Xu Ying also took out the New Year's gifts from the Cui family that he had received over the years.

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Happy New Year! Good luck!!

Another simple and rude sentence: ask for a guaranteed monthly pass!! It's double until the 7th today! (To be continued.) )