Now seeing that in the wax moon, Yutan is busier every day, to prepare for the New Year's things, grandmother's heartache is becoming more and more strict, and it has added to the problem of chest tightness and shortness of breath, Yutan does not dare to slack off, please ask the doctor to ask the careful service of medicine, every day is more and more idle, Qi's delivery is approaching, and there is no trace of energy, every day the family and other big and small twenty or thirty things, Yutan has to be single-mindedly scheduled, the old lady also said to let Yurong follow her sister to help, how can Yurong be impatient with the general affairs, I have a headache when I look at the account book, and I don't want to deal with those rough servants, which really can't help much.

On this day, the Qi clan sent someone to ask her to come over to talk, and Yutan was busy with her mother, "Mother, what did you call me for?" ”

Qi asked a few words about housework, how is the rent on Zhuangzi collected, have the New Year's gifts of relatives' families been prepared, the patriarch's family also has to send two cars of good things, and the relatives will also start to move around after the New Year.

Yutan said them one by one, and Qi said with a smile, "You kid is also careful on weekdays, why didn't you think that Brother Shen had just been separated this year, and he didn't have any family funds in his hands, how should he spend this year?" ”

Yutan really didn't think about this, "Mother, isn't Brother Shen'er's children's family celebrating the New Year with the house?" I still give him his monthly money on a monthly basis, and the maid's monthly money is also given by the house, and it's the same as before, even the needlework and thread people I ordered, Brother Shen'er's eight sets of clothes per month, and his maid's clothes are all made in the house. ”

Qi Shi smiled, "It's different from before." You don't want to think about it, Brother Shen not only has to manage the minions in his yard now, but he also has to support those 30 or so families, and he has invisibly added more than 100 people, and your father will not really give him the 300,000 taels of silver he said, how do you say he should spend this year. ”

Yutan lowered his head and pondered for a long time, it was really the reason that his mother said, and he was thinking about it in the end, "Mother, these subordinates used to be slaves raised in the house, and now they are distributed to Brother Shen, and they will be raised by Brother Shen, this is unfair, what was given to him is the farmland that has suffered from the disaster, and he can't collect much land rent, as soon as he hears that it belongs to Brother Shen, how much rent can he ask for as a child, Brother Shen can't take out the money and food to appease the subordinates, how can those subordinates live in the cold weather, it's strange if they don't rebel, There is also the shopkeeper in the shop who is cunning, maybe he will prevaricate him, his little guys have not gone through any major things, and Brother Shen can't have much silver in the shop, and now he wants to raise more than 30 families, and they are all old and weak, what does Daddy mean by this. ”

He complained to his mother again, "Mother, you should have told me earlier, I also have a number in my heart, but the house will allocate money to Brother Shen'er, I'm afraid that my father will not want to, my father just wanted to grasp Brother Shen'er's meaning when he spoke last time, and I only understand it now." Yutan held her cheeks and thought for a while, "Mother, I'll talk to my grandmother." ”

Qi Shi smiled, "You are still in charge of the house, just this cannon temper, this is not your business, you are so careless, your grandmother will not care, horizontal and vertical and hungry Brother Shen, what is it to be hungry for a few people." ”

Yutan couldn't help frowning and said, "Brother Shen can't get any money and food, what can I do with these thirty or so families for the New Year, where will they still be loyal at that time, as soon as my father sends someone to come forward, these people don't have to listen to the house." ”

Qi smiled slightly sarcastically, "Isn't your father's fight just such a wishful thinking, Brother Shen'er's people have to listen to the house, and Brother Shen doesn't want to turn out your father's palm." ”

"Mother knows that you and Brother Shen are going to be good, but the family is divided, and you can only take care of him in small things, Brother Shen has suffered this big loss, and it is also because he is too young, isn't it that even you didn't think of these? My mother didn't say it at first, but she was also waiting for him to be really unbearable, so that he could remember our kindness. ”

Yutan looked at her mother in slight surprise, and then figured out that there was a heart disease between her mother and Brother Shen.

"Brother Shen'er's kid is bold and scheming, he can seize that opportunity to divide the family, it's really difficult for him, he doesn't want the title of the Marquis, and I owe him a favor, giving him two shops, twenty acres of land, and a little bit of heart for me to raise him once."

"Right now, your father is waiting, waiting for Brother Shen to beg him if he can't go on, your father means to toss Brother Shen enough, subdue him, and then help him, so that Brother Shen can no longer turn over his palm, so that he can hold Brother Shen for the rest of his life. If it weren't for the money you allocated over the month, I guess they wouldn't be able to live this month, Brother Shen is just a child, no matter how smart he is, where do you want to get these trivial things about living at home. ”

Yutan was speechless, they were still a family, and their mother was calculating, even her father, it was really boring.

"Mother, what is your idea? You also told sù that I know, and I know it in my heart. ”

Qi said slowly, "What other ideas can my mother have, it's nothing more than a combination of grace and power, let Brother Shen owe us kindness, and take good care of your brother in the future, and then give your sisters a support, don't blame your mother for being scheming, it's really your brother who is too young, Brother Shen'er, this child will become a big deal sooner or later, and Mother should also think about your sister and brother." ”

Yutan said goodbye to his mother and returned to his boudoir, feeling a little depressed, taking off his thick wool clothes, Qingzhu hurriedly took it, Cuimo held the hand stove, "Miss, warm up quickly, I'm afraid it's going to change today." ”

While talking, he went down to prepare refreshments, "Miss is too busy, just now Aunt Qiao also sent someone over, saying that Aunt Huang got half a horse of Yunjin, and she was not convinced, the slave maid said that she is really unbelievably thick, even this kind of thing came to talk to Miss, that was the Lord Hou spoke, Miss didn't give it?" If she has the ability, she will also find Hou Ye to go. ”

Yutan ignored her, crooked on the couch for a while, then stood up and came to the courtyard, looking at the gray sky and being distracted, Cui Mo hurriedly took out the big hairy clothes, and muttered, "Miss, on such a cold day, you are not afraid of freezing, if you fall ill, who will take care of this family." ”

Yutan sneered, "If I'm really sick, I'll be fine, and I won't have to worry about an aunt with those rags, I'm a young lady, and I don't care which of them is half a piece of cloth short." ”

Cui Mo didn't dare to answer, seeing that Miss was not happy today, she accompanied Miss to look at the gray sky.

There is still a trace of oblique sunlight in the morning, and at this time there are small snowflakes with silver light floating in the sky, Yutan has no intention of entering the house, Cuimo has to accompany him, for a long time, the snowflakes are still vaguely countable, faintly difficult to find.

Yutan suddenly had a hint of melancholy, "Do you remember my sister Xin'er in the house over there, she moved away for three years, and actually made a concubine, at that time I saw her dressed as a man, I really should have said it to my grandmother, even if she hates me, it will save her from falling like this today." ”

Cui Mo didn't dare to talk, looking at her toes, the fierceness of Miss Xin'er in the past has also embarked on a road of no return.

"Sister Xin'er was also forced to have no choice, they are all relatives of the family, and in the end, what is the point of making it like this."

Cui Mo didn't dare to squeak more and more, so she took the hand stove in Miss's hand and added a little charcoal fire to it, "Miss should go into the house, it's getting colder and colder." ”

"Isn't it sad for those people in winter? What would happen to them if they didn't have money to survive the winter? ”

Yutan said this suddenly, Cui Mo really didn't know how to answer, Cui Mo was only six or seven years old when she was selected, and she was born in a family, and she didn't know what life was like outside, "Miss, the slaves don't know much, but when I was a child, I heard that the common people sold their children, and there were rough maids bought from outside in our house, and they were all sold at home when they couldn't survive." ”

Yutan couldn't help but think of the thirty or so families that were distributed to Brother Shen, those people on the Zhuangzi were okay to say, there were still some rations, how could those families who were attached to the Hou Mansion live this year, Brother Shen'er's little maids were all owned by Brother Shen, there was no silver, where did they still have loyalty, and the father even had to control the hearts of the people around Brother Shen. What do you say about dividing the family and not dividing the house, just making a show, and when the children of those families can't go on, crying and begging the lord, it is also the time for Brother Shen to be the most wolf.