As soon as he got out of Zhang's house, Zhao Xiu took his brother Zhao Wei to the study. Zhao Wei looked back at his grandmother's direction and asked his sister in a low voice: "Are you worried that your grandmother will be soft-hearted again, and she will help the Niu family and Zhao Xiang, so that I can take the matter down?" But if we ignore it, Grandmother will know. ”

Zhao Xiu pursed his lips and smiled: "Who said to ignore it?" If my grandmother wants to help them, we will help, but we have the final say on how to help. ”

Zhao Wei wondered, the brother and sister arrived at the study in a blink of an eye, Zhao Xiu hurriedly pushed Dongsheng out of the door to guard, and then closed the door and sat down to discuss with his brother.

Zhao Xiu thought very simply, Zhao Ze asked the Zhang family to help Niu and Zhao Xiang because he heard that they had reached the point of exhaustion, and they had no livelihood, and they didn't even have money for Niu's medical treatment. But what is the reality? According to Bai Ling, their ancestors and grandchildren clearly still have some silver, but they can't maintain the standard of living in the past, so they want to work around to get silver in the autumn wind like they did before they moved to the Wang family, so as to continue to maintain a rich life. Since this is the case, then their second room should not know the truth at all, so they can understand according to Zhao Xiang's statement, lend a hand, and maintain the "daily life" of their ancestors and grandchildren.

Now that Niu and Zhao Xiang are with a girl, how much living expenses do the three women need for a month? According to the standards of ordinary people in the outer city of the capital, two taels of silver are more than enough, enough to provide them with high-quality food and clothing. As for more? I'm sorry, they're ordinary people now, what do they want to do more? Among the residents of the outer city, there are seven or eight people in the whole family a month, and there are many people who have only one or two living expenses. By this standard. They have two taels of silver, and they can already live very well. The Marquis of Jiannan is a loyal vassal of the new monarch, and it is impossible to harbor the great rebel after the sinner. The ancestors of the Zhao family were entirely motivated by humanitarian considerations. will subsidize them with a monthly sum of money enough to support the three masters and servants!

If it costs money for Niu's to see a doctor and take medicine, this is also easy to do. Jiannan Hou Mansion came forward, found a doctor with an average or high level of medical skills, integrity and not a very good temper nearby, and hired him for a long time to visit Niu's family, and the money for diagnosis and medicine was all from Hou Mansion. What medicine does Niu's disease need to take, and how to take supplements, the doctor will mention it to Hou Fu. Niu and Zhao Xiang wanted to cheat money under this guise. That's a fantasy! And this doctor doesn't need to look at the faces of Niu and Zhao Xiang, and he won't lie to the Hou Mansion for them. If they pretend to be sick, they can't hide it from his eyes. If Niu's illness is beyond his ability. He can work his own, or he can ask others for advice, but it is best not to expect the Hou Mansion to specially invite any famous doctors, divine doctors, imperial doctors, and sinners' wives. Mother of sinners. She doesn't have that qualification!

Of course, the medicine that Niu's takes is also the medicine that people with the same disease generally take. If you want any particularly precious medicinal herbs, then I'm sorry. The inventory of rare medicines in the Hou Mansion was brought to the bottom of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal by Niu's husband and Zhao Xiang's biological mother, so now there is nothing to be taken out!

Zhao Xiu finally had an idea, that is, the courtyard where Niu and Zhao Xiang live now was rented by Zhao Ze for a large family in the past, and the lease period will come after the year. There were more than a dozen people in his family, so the rented yard was larger. There were seven or eight rooms, and now there were only three of them left. Where is the use of such a big place? Therefore, Zhao Xiuti rented another courtyard for them to live in in the original alley. For a small courtyard with three or four rooms, the rent is a few hundred dollars, and no matter how much it is, it will not exceed one or two. The Hou Mansion was more generous and gave the money for them, and also saved them from taking the house money as an excuse to ask the Hou Mansion to increase the money.

Zhao Xiu said to Zhao Wei: "The living expenses are two taels, the rent money is at most one tael, and there are two taels of silver to ask the doctor to take medicine, which will not exceed five taels of silver per month." In the past, we hired Zhao Ze to work in the study shop, and it cost so much money. Now it also costs five taels to solve the problem of the ancestors and grandchildren of the Niu family. Compared with other families of rebellious sinners, they are not wronged at all in this treatment. We also helped them think of all kinds of problems, housing money, medicine money, they don't have to worry about it, it's a big deal to hire a mother-in-law from the alley to help them do some rough work, if they are not satisfied, it is too greedy. We just preach and preach, it's not that we don't want to help, but that they don't have enough people to swallow elephants! ”

Zhao Wei thought about it, if according to the standards proposed by his sister, it was indeed enough for the three of the Niu family's ancestors, grandchildren, masters and servants to live, and grandmother Zhang would not feel that there was anything inconsiderate, that is, they had more things to worry about in the second room. But he instructed the account office to allocate money every month, and the people under him would take care of it themselves, and his family did not need to worry about daily trivial matters, which seemed to be a feasible method. It's just that, according to Niu's habitual temperament, she probably won't accept this arrangement. What she wants must be that the Hou Mansion will allocate them one or twenty taels of silver every month, and then they will arrange it themselves.

Zhao Xiu scoffed at this: "I'm not stupid, I don't know what they are thinking about?" Pick up the bowl and eat the meat, put down the chopsticks and scold the mother. They must have thought of speaking ill of our family. I'm not going to give them that chance! ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Xiu also straightened his expression: "Brother, I don't think that no matter whether the Niu family accepts our arrangement or not, we can't let her talk nonsense outside." I know that my grandmother taught us since we were young that in life, we need to walk right, sit upright, be kind to others, and not do things that violate morality and etiquette, otherwise our reputation will be ruined. However, how is the so-called reputation good or bad? Is it to see if someone will speak ill of us? But the mouth grows on others, and we can't control what others want to say. Although there are gentlemen in the world, not all men in the world are gentlemen. If there are a few people here who don't look down on people's goodness, hold a grudge against us, or for one reason or another, no matter how good we do, we have to pick out some wrong people and say bad things about us in front of others, then our reputation is bad, is it because we have done badly, or because of other people's distorted facts? Grandmother would just think that it was because we weren't doing well enough. But I feel that this is too aggrieved, and I don't want to sit back and watch it any longer! ”

Zhao Wei groaned: "You want to stop the ancestors of the Niu family from spreading bad words about us?" How can I stop it? If you want to lock people up, it's better to stay in the city. You can send them to Zhuangzi. In the past, when the Niu family was a housekeeper, I heard that he was a little mean to the tenants below, and the people who wanted to come to the village would never have a good impression of them. Just enough to help take care of it. ”

Zhao Xiu secretly wiped her sweat, she didn't expect her brother's idea to go further than herself, but she really didn't have such a thought. After all, she has crossed over from modern society, and it is not quite consistent with the brain circuits of the ancient magnates.

She said: "If you can stop the ancestors of the Niu family, you can't stop others." We can't lock up everyone who says bad things about us. So my suggestion is to take the initiative and guide public opinion. Create a new image of Jiannan Hou Mansion! ”

Zhao Wei blinked, and somewhat understood: "You mean...... We take the initiative to publicize the good things we have done, such as helping the ancestors and grandchildren of the Niu family. If the Niu family says bad things about us again, it will be revenge, and if they don't know what to do, others will naturally stop believing them. ”

"That's right!" Zhao Xiu smiled. "When the Niu family had not yet fallen. There are many bad things to say about our house in the capital. Even if they are now treacherous sinners, a lie told a thousand times will become the truth. The people in the families of the eunuchs in the capital who do not know the inside story are still affected by their lies and are prejudiced against our family. In this case, we will simply publicize it and tell everyone what happened in the past, and we should not be afraid of losing face. Let the people in the capital know what the Niu family has done. But! She paused heavily, "Even if they're so bad." Our family is still very benevolent to help Niu and Zhao Xiang. The old and weak women and children, if we worry too much about them, it seems that we are not very generous. But we also have a temper and will not indulge them unprincipledly. If they have gone too far, then they are also at fault in the first place, and the relatives of the great rebels are too embarrassed to ask of the victims' families? We want to withdraw the aid, not only is it not unkind, but it is loyal to the emperor and the emperor, and filial piety to our grandfather and father and mother! ”

Zhao Wei laughed when he heard it: "I understand." In short, just tell people the truth. If my grandmother hears it, she will definitely say that this is the princess selling melons and boasting about herself. But when the world boasts more, we have not exaggerated ourselves, but we have only told the truth, why can't we boast? ”

Zhao Xiu smiled and said, "Actually, this is just the first step. It is enough to deal with Niu and Zhao Xiang. When the world realizes their true colors and no longer pays attention to them, if they are honest, we will continue to spend two or three taels of silver every month to support them, Niu died, and bought her an ordinary coffin for the funeral, Zhao Xiang wanted to get married, so he gave her twelve pieces of cloth and twenty taels of silver as a dowry - compared to the example of our family's eldest girl getting married, there are two more pieces of cloth, and the rest has nothing to do with us; But if they are not honest, then they really have to send them to Zhuangzi, it is best to pick a Zhuangzi outside the capital, and there must be a Zhuangzi who has an enmity with them...... "The servants who died with Zhao Zhuo and Mi Shi capsized the boat back then, and their families and friends were arranged in which Zhuangzi?"

Zhao Wei smiled and nodded: "I understand what my sister meant, it's really a good idea, just leave the matter to me." ”

Zhao Xiu asked a little uneasily, "What is my brother going to do?" ”

Zhao Wei sold the guanzi: "You just wait and see." Could it be that you can't trust your brother's methods? ”

Zhao Xiu thought about it, compared with his grandmother Zhang, his brother still had a little temper, so he put his mind at ease: "Okay." I'll leave this matter to my brother. Next, let's discuss the second step. ”

Zhao Wei was stunned: "The second step? What's to be done? When they send people to Zhuangzi, whether they are dead or alive depends on their luck, and they need to think about other things? Do you mean Zhao playing them? ”

Zhao Xiu shook his head: "They ran away, whether they were dead or alive, it had nothing to do with me." I'm referring to the external image of our family, not that it is enough to stop the Niu ancestors from talking nonsense outside, but also to stop others from gossiping about us. I think the reason why those people chew their tongues is because our family has just returned to the capital, and they are not keen on interpersonal contacts on weekdays, and there are only a few families in total, so those who don't understand will talk nonsense. The second reason is that our family is not only a military general, but also no one is in the court, and my brother is a young man, and in the eyes of some people, he is also lucky. However, it is clear that our grandfather has made great contributions to the country, our father is a serious person, and our grandmother and mother are both daughters of a scholarly family, why do they still say that we are rough people? My brother and I rescued the driver, but we also risked our lives, where is the luck? If they had been replaced, would they have had the courage to resist the pressure of Hong Wencheng and Zhao Jue and escort the emperor and the prince to Beijing, I don't know, why do they look down on us? ”

Zhao Xiu remembered the anger he had received in the capital this year, and he felt itchy teeth: "I'm not convinced no matter what!" Even if it's selling and boasting, I'm going to beat our family's good reputation! As long as the world says that we are good, and a few sour and rotten civil officials chirp crookedly, who will listen?! ”

Zhao Wei sat up straight: "I want to hear it." (To be continued......)

PS: Cold ...... I know it's because I'm lazy......