The end of the year is a busy year for every family, but Zhangfu has encountered the most difficult year.

Zhao Qian, a woman with a hearty personality, wiped her tears twice at home for the New Year.

Who would have thought that the Zhang family, a great family that has been famous for hundreds of years, would not even have any money to spend at the end of the year, just like those who had broken down the family, and wanted to use her private money?

But her private money had already been embezzled when she gave her daughter a dowry. Not only her private money, but also her husband's private money.

The old lady swore that she would be able to give the money when the autumn harvest was over!

"Madam, there is really no money in the public school." The accounting supervisor put on a very pitiful face and shook his head vigorously, "Only out, not in, where does the money come from?" ”

"What about the money sent from the Zhuangzi after the autumn? Autumn rent for the shop? And the four arrears collected last month? "Although the Zhao family doesn't care about the money in the public school, as the head mother of a mansion, there is Zhuangzi to send food and silver money in the autumn, and there are a lot of items in the past few months.

"This ...... Madam, you'd better find the old lady. The accounting supervisor made it clear that he didn't want to ignore Zhao, he was the old man in the family, and he was the old lady's confidant, and Zhao really didn't have anything to do with him.

"It's my mother again, isn't it?" Zhao sneered and nodded. "I don't care, if you don't have money, you don't have money, and if you can't send the New Year's silver at the end of the year, I see if you will be torn apart by your subordinates!"

Zhao Shi said cruelly, and turned around and left regardless of the face of the account room. She really didn't want to care about it at all. She has been married for almost twenty years, and she never thought that she would have such an experience.

She wrinkled her brows, angrily walked to the door of her daughter's room, and knocked on the door.

"Yuan'er, are you there?"

Zhang Yuan opened the door in response, she has been following her grandmother in learning for a while, the Jiang family is a big family in the south of the Yangtze River, and the likes of cooking and eating are completely different from those in the north, and her middle feed has to continue her studies.

"Mother, what's wrong?"

"Let's go, pack up our things, and we'll go to your grandmother's house for the New Year." Zhao is a fiery person, and he said that he would leave if he wanted to, but the girl behind her was taken aback.

"Go now? There is still more than half a month before the Chinese New Year! Zhang Yuan's eyes widened, "Mother, what's wrong?" ”

"Anyway, I'm not in the house for the New Year, I can't live this day!" Zhao's silver teeth gritted, "I'll take a few of you to my grandmother's house to spend this year, don't talk too much, just follow me." ”

"But ...... mother"

"That's it, you pack your things, I'll call your two younger brothers." Zhao frowned and dropped a sentence and walked to the main courtyard, where her two sons lived.

"Mother? Mother! Mother......"

Zhang Ning had a party after leaving the court, and at the end of the year, officials from all over the country began to return to Beijing one after another, and all kinds of entertainment became more, and it was difficult to refuse.

He went home a little drunk, but found that everyone in the family was terrified, and even the doorkeeper saw him with flickering eyes, and there was a faint uneasiness in his heart.

When I arrived at the main courtyard, it was dark outside the courtyard, and the mother-in-law and maids in the family did not come out, only a few mothers-in-law guarding the door came out to say hello, and Zhang Ning's wine suddenly woke up.

"What's wrong at home? What about your wife? ”

"Madame...... Madame, she went to the Zhenguo General's Mansion. ”

"Madame has returned to her parents' house?"

As soon as the woman finished speaking, Zhang Ning's face became terrifying.

"Not only Madame, but also the young lady and the two young masters have left together...... the woman was already so frightened that she knelt on the ground, "Madame is leaving, and the old lady is not at home, no one dares to stop ......"

Their wife is the daughter of the general who is angry and draws her sword directly, who dares not to stop her?

I didn't see the lord and the lady quarreling, must the lord be the master who couldn't get up the next day?

"Who else is in the main house? Did they all go with their wife? "Why is the main courtyard so clean? Can't even see the rough maid? How much has this gone?

"I left a few mothers-in-law, and Mrs. gave the other girls a holiday."

Zhang Ning returned to the main courtyard with a cold face, pushed away the dark room, and immediately ordered someone to call the chief steward and several stewards and ladies to come over, and called the henchmen at home, and asked carefully what happened today.

Although his wife has a fiery temper, she is not an ignorant person. It must not be a trivial matter to be able to make her so angry that she can take all the children away, and she looks like she will live for a long time.

Before he figured it out, he didn't dare to go to the Zhenguo General's Mansion to pick up people.

He was afraid of being beaten out.

Things quickly became clear.

In the end, it's still money.

In fact, his wife was arguing about the lack of money a few months ago, he went to his mother to ask for it, and his mother said that he borrowed someone and would pay it back at the end of autumn, and he later investigated it carefully and found that most of the money had been moved to his uncle's house, so he didn't check it again.

His uncle has many sons, and they are all officials or businessmen in other places, so he can't turn around for a while, so he borrows some money from his family, all of which are his own family, and it hurts his feelings to ask too much.

Since it was said that it would be returned at the end of autumn, it was nothing more than a little longer.

But by the end of October, all the income from the Zhuangzi had returned, and except for a small part of the property in their house that had been rented and earned, the rest of the money was still in the public middle school. The wife nagged many times, saying that the mother at home always embezzled the money from the public school, so he should not return the money to the public, but out of filial piety, he did not slap his mother's face so naked.

But now that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, my wife didn't have a tael of silver and ran home......

Even Zhang Ning felt that his mother was a little too much.

In Cui's room.

"If the uncle borrows money, the mother doesn't want it, and the son goes to the door to ask for it." Zhang Ning was almost driven crazy by the two most important women in his life. He is a dignified official and a member of the court, and his family will actually make trouble because of lack of money, and his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will have conflicts, and his wife will go home in anger.

Rumors are gone, and he doesn't want to be a human being.

"Who told you that you borrowed money from your uncle?" Cui Shi looked at Zhang Ning incredulously, and then realized. "You're sending someone to check on me?"

Zhang Ning was silent, only daring to look at his toes.

"You actually sent someone to check your mother's whereabouts!" Cui's voice suddenly sharpened, "For a little money, you don't even care about your mother's face?" ”

Zhang Ning wants to check, and it must be someone from the house. But where is there an impermeable wall in this world, I am afraid that many children of the family know that their master is checking the old lady.

Zhang Ning felt irritability in his heart for no reason. He is the eldest son in the family and the only concubine in the big house, and he has already accepted that all the money in the family will be his sooner or later. He doesn't mind borrowing a little or helping his family and nephews, but he can't accept others going over him to treat him as a fool.

Thinking of this, a burst of depression in Zhang Ning's chest came out through the strength of the wine:

"Have you ever thought about whether you have the face to go back on your word again and again? Your son is working hard in the court, but the family can't even have peace in the backyard, does your son have face? Now that your daughter-in-law has returned to her parents' house with her children, does she have any face in the Zhenguo General's Mansion? His three questions all hit Cui's heart, shocking her and speechless.

It is precisely because Zhang Ning is a filial child on weekdays that once a fire starts, it is even more terrifying.

There was something deep in his eyes, as if it could make the person who saw it fall into a bottomless hole. Cui's heart also has indescribable suffering, when he sees his son like this, he only feels that his heart has fallen into cold water, and he keeps sinking, sinking, and sinking......

Cui's housekeeper has been in charge for forty years, and now he has not let go, so he naturally knows how much money he has spent at the end of the year. Not to mention, even the gifts of relatives and friends at home are a lot of expenses. The small family can naturally collect things from the east house and send them to the west house, but when they get to their position, there are a number of things, if you do the same, I am afraid that the whole Da Chu will know that your family is going to fall early tomorrow morning.

On weekdays, these things should be her own worries, why didn't she know that she had no money to do these things, so she hid out of the house every once in a while and let her daughter-in-law pick up this mess?

The daughter-in-law ran away angrily, although she was a little surprised, but she was not surprised.

Zhang Ning didn't know if Lu Dao Cui's had any troubles, he only knew that Lu Dao's mother took the family's money to fill in others, completely ignoring his sons and granddaughters, which was really unreasonable.

The gentleman still has to consolidate his roots!

"Mother, I don't know when you and your uncle will repay the money, but we will use the money at the end of the year, and my son will have to deal with some elders in the court in the middle of the year. Zhang Ning even had a cold air in his words, "It's best for my mother to go to my uncle's in a few days to get the money, if you don't get it, I will come to the door in person in three days." ”

He shook his mother to the end, clenched his fists and went out with his bare eyes.

With so much silver and the savings of several generations, even if there is a famine, the money used to buy food will be enough for the people of a place to feed for many years. Zhang's family room has all the confidence here, if it is gone, he will not be able to accept it first.

Don't say it's his uncle, it's his own father, he won't just let him swallow the money!

Cui was forced by his own son and father-in-law, he didn't sleep well all night, and even had the heart to commit suicide, and all kinds of bizarre thoughts flashed in his mind.

Her husband fell ill with a heart attack before he was forty years old, and died young, because he was too worried.

It's just a pity that even her husband is dead, and the old immortal is not dead, and he continues to jump with a sigh of relief, and he is willing to drag the whole family into the water.

He said it well, and he faked his death in order not to implicate the Zhang family. But the grandchildren born to his youngest son are all doing this dead thing, everyone is a relative who is not out of five suits, the emperor really wants to cut people, can he miss these knives in her family?

It's just to see that Ning'er still has a great future, and keep it for great use. Just like her husband.

This is another drama of "Zhao's orphans", Huang Liang has been dreaming for several generations, and he still refuses to wake up.

The next morning, Cui Shi fell asleep, she only slept for two hours, got up after three poles, ate something casually, and drove to the house of the concubine in the outer city.

"We will succeed in the future, and now is the time when we need a lot of money, how can we pay you back now?" Zhang Tingyan grimaced, and said disapprehantly, "You women know that you are calculating the gains and losses of money, and you have no overall situation at all!" ”

In fact, he also knew the embarrassment of the Taoist family, and in order to hide his weakness, he had to speak uprightly.

"Father-in-law, there is a sentence that the daughter-in-law has never known what it means, I wonder if the father-in-law can give the daughter-in-law an answer?" Cui Shi tried to make his expression less stiff in the face of Zhang Tingyan.

"You say."

"The daughter-in-law once read "Xunzi", which has a sentence 'Cutting the country's baht to bribe it, then cutting it and being insatiable', the daughter-in-law is ignorant and doesn't know what this means."

"It means, 'If you bribe those people with the size of the ceded country, then their* will not be satisfied after the cession is completed......"

When Zhang Tingyan said this, she naturally understood what her daughter-in-law meant by this, and her face turned red with anger. "How dare you sarcastically mock the old man!"

Cui Shi took a step back and shouted: "The New Year is coming soon, if we can't even send new clothes in our house, and we can't prepare all the New Year's gifts, my father-in-law thinks that a discerning person can't see that there is a mistake in our house?" You have to pay me back at least 100,000 taels of silver, otherwise don't blame your daughter-in-law for what she will do! ”

"You...... You're the opposite! ”

Zhang Tingyan has been windy and rainy for so many years, and tens of thousands of subordinates under him obeyed him, even the eldest prince and the little prince of the previous dynasty were respectful to him, but he didn't expect his daughter-in-law, who had always been obedient, to dare to threaten him.

For so many years, he had been torn between extreme pain and extreme joy. The pain of not being able to reunite with his family, not knowing when he will die, and the brilliant achievements after victory, and the happiness of being in power and unscrupulous means now, make his personality completely different from when he was younger.

"The old man is not dead yet, you are making such a rampant appearance!"

Seeing Cui's staring and screaming, he raised the cane in his hand and slashed at his daughter-in-law.

Zhang Tingyan is more than eighty years old, but her body is still strong, and she does not need to be supported by crutches and canes at all. His cane is called "Lingshou Cane", which is a style of crutches carried by the legendary gods. Zhang Tingyan was worried that her life was too short and she would not live to see the restoration of the Yin Dynasty one day, so she used this to calm her heart, as if she would be able to live a long life as long as she used the same crutches as the immortals.

His Lingshou staff is made of hard pine and cypress, taking the meaning of pine and cypress evergreen, this rod is split, Cui Shi suddenly buzzed in his ears, his forehead was in sharp pain, and something like water flowed down.

In just the blink of an eye, Cui Shi knew that it was not water, but blood.

Zhang Tingyan didn't expect that her daughter-in-law didn't dodge at all, but she really hit him, and she was stunned for a moment.

At this time, Cui's had already hated Zhang Tingyan's madness to the point of eating flesh, she touched the wetness on her forehead, and suddenly became angry, stretched out her hands and pinched it.

"You've lived for more than eighty years, and it's enough, so don't be tired of the children!" She jumped up and grabbed Zhang Tingyan's neck, her hands were hard to force, and her eyes were indescribably hideous.

"Die!"

Every meeting between Zhang Tingyan and Cui's was in private, and Zhang Tingyan's youngest son's family was in the outer city, and there was a secret room in the house, and what they said and did when they met was never known to outsiders. It was because Zhang Tingyan was choked by Cui's neck, but she could only make a "ho-ho" sound in her throat, and she couldn't call for help at all.

Cui's hand was holding the thought that he must be strangled, but Zhang Tingyan was not a person who panicked when he encountered a major event, he could still move his hands, so he pulled Cui's wrist with one hand and pulled it out, and kept beating Cui's head with the cane in his right hand, expecting her to let go of the pain.

Cui's is more than sixty years old this year, and he has been a puppet of a housekeeper since he was young, and the second son of Yan was forced to press the name of the concubine in order to give Yin Jing his identity, and became a concubine who couldn't hold his head up for a lifetime, and he was sent to the bitter cold border since he was a child, and he couldn't see each other for a year.

The eldest son is filial, but now he is forced by them to make the family restless, and he sees that most of his life's hard work is going to come to naught.

She has been with her father-in-law for so many years, and naturally knows what kind of person he is, and when she looks at his tone and look today, she knows that this money will not come back, not only will it not come back, but the money of the Zhang family will be filled into this hole like a bottomless pit in the future.

In this case, she doesn't want to be cheeky enough to go home to see her son, so she simply strangles this old horseman, and everyone dies together!

No one knew how tragic the battle for life was in Lu Dao, until Zhang De and Lu Shi waited for the two of them to arrive, and it was not early, and after Zhang De opened the secret room, he was frightened by everything in front of him......

The wall and the ground were full of blood, and Cui's hands in a pool of blood were pressed on the old man's neck, Zhang Tingyan's face was blue, and Cui's was looking ahead with wide eyes with vicious eyes that chose people to devour.

"Ahh Yes! Yes!!! ”

"This ...... How could it be ......"

Zhenguo General's Mansion.

The Da Zhao family returned to their parents' house with their children, and the people in the family were naturally surprised.

General Zhenguo is just a knighthood, a title given by the old general after he unloaded his armor, but in fact, he does not hold real power like the general of the "Four Towns".

General Zhao had died seven or eight years earlier, leaving behind a widow. Because he had no heirs, most of the family's property was given as a dowry to his two daughters, and a small part went to the clan to cultivate the excellent children of the clan. Some of the remaining possessions were left for the old lady to live with.

The saint thanked the old general for the hard work of half his life, and after the old general died, he did not take back the reward of the general of Zhenguo, and the palace still issued Lu rice and silver by the imperial court, which was regarded as supporting the old lady of Zhao Qian. Anyway, there are no men in the Zhenguo General's Mansion, and when Mrs. Zhao dies, this inheritance will naturally be cut off.

Mrs. Zhao only had two daughters in her life, and both daughters married into Beijing, so she did not return to Wuwei's hometown, but stayed in the capital, and she saw her two daughters from time to time.

Although Mrs. Zhao is married to a martial artist, she herself is a well-informed lady from the family, raising flowers and dogs in her spare time when she is old, and stringing out the door when she is bored, although she has no daughter-in-law to serve, she also ends up clean.

On weekdays, if the Zhao family brings her grandchildren home, she is naturally very welcome, and if she can stay for a few days, she will be even happier.

But now that there is still more than half a month to go before the New Year, Da Zhao ran home with his children and family, obviously quarreling with her husband. But Mrs. Qian asked her granddaughter in private, but she learned that Zhang Ning was not in the house at all when her daughter returned to her parents' house, so she had to worry about her daughter's private conceit.

While sending someone to settle her grandson and granddaughter, Mrs. Zhao instructed her subordinates to go to Sun's Mansion to invite her youngest daughter.

No matter what it was, the two sisters consulted with each other, and they were much better than an old lady who stayed at home.

Zhang Yuan and her two younger brothers were actually very anxious, and they didn't even use lunch properly. Their mothers are not reckless and ignorant women, and they will be angry and take the people from all over the family back to their grandmother's house, something must have happened.

Zhang Yuan vaguely knew that there was a problem with the dowry she married, and the problem was with her grandmother. Full of hesitation, this sixteen-year-old girl began to be annoyed that she wanted to marry the Jiang family for nothing, if she married any family in Beijing, their family would not have to worry so much about the dowry, and her mother was so tired that she was angry and disagreed with her grandmother.

Xiao Zhao came in a hurry, and asked why the eldest sister ran home behind closed doors with his mother. Da Zhao couldn't help but feel sad when he thought of the bad things that his family had done since the beginning of the year, and he complained with a handful of snot and tears that Cui's was still not letting go of power at this age, and the silver in Gongzhong and Zhuangzi's shop was stuck tightly by her, and even his only granddaughter was married, and the dowry refused to add a few more points, and he also obstructed everywhere and did not pay her silver.

This kind of thing, don't say that Zhong Mingding's Zhang family, which is a single family, will not appear even in a small family.

After all, there are two grandchildren in the family, even if it is for the sake of the grandson, face must be given.

For a while, Old Madam Zhao and Xiao Zhao didn't know how to persuade Lu Dao. This belongs to the Zhang family's family affairs, and the mother-in-law is a housekeeper, delegating power is loving, and it is common sense not to let go, out of filial piety, it really can't be persecuted. If you cry, make trouble, and hang yourself three times, you don't return your rights, what else can you do? Is it really impossible to force the old lady to death?

"I used to envy your leisure, but looking at it this way, it is my hard work that has the benefit of hard work. What are you going to do now? It's not a thing to live here all the time, if you really don't take advantage of it, take a thousand dollars from me to give it a year? ”

Xiao Zhao also has two sons and a daughter, the eldest has gone to school, the daughter Yanniang is eight years old, the youngest son is just three years old, her mother-in-law and Shun, she has already released the power, she also has a sister-in-law and a large family, and she is tired of managing the house, and sometimes she envy her sister for not having to take care of anything, as long as she takes care of her own room.

Now that I see her ending, I really don't dare to call it hard at all.

"I've been married for so many years, why do you want me to subsidize his family with my sister's money! It's not that there is no money at home! Da Zhao wiped his tears, gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "I won't live here and won't go back, my mother-in-law insists on taking care of the house, give her care!" I'll see how she'll come up with the silver at the end of the year! ”

"This is angry talk, the wife and children of the family went to their mother-in-law's house for the New Year, what do you tell others to think of your brother-in-law?" Xiao Zhao persuaded him gently, "Believe me, as long as my brother-in-law is right, life will be better." The husband and wife discuss it carefully, and Mrs. Cui will always figure it out. ”

"I'm afraid that she will learn from others to lend money outside and waste all the money!" Da Zhao's heart was abrupt, and tears and broken beads fell down. "The one in my family knows that Lu Dao protects his mother, and he doesn't want me to say anything serious, and he also says that I will wait until the end of autumn. It's the end of the year! ”

"At the end of autumn, we pulled a hundred and twenty truckloads of things into Beijing, except for some wild goods such as roe deer and wild deer furs, nothing of value was left in our room!"

"This ...... That's too much! Xiao Zhao gasped.

For people like them, fur or something is just a plaything, and what really matters is the rental silver that comes with Zhuangzi.

"I'm not going back tonight. Sister, don't be sad, stay at home for a few days and see what your brother-in-law says. My brother-in-law is not that ignorant person, and he will always give you an explanation. ”

As Xiao Zhao said, after Zhang Ning returned home that night, he sent his family to his mother-in-law's house to ventilate with his wife, saying that he had already asked his mother for silver, and he also knew where the silver had fallen. If the Cui family doesn't ask for the silver in the past two days, he will go and ask for it in person, so that his wife and children can dissipate in the general's mansion for a few days.

Hearing her husband's words, Da Zhao finally showed her first smile today.

"Sister, I'll just say that my brother-in-law won't ignore it." Xiao Zhao and Da Zhao still live in the same room as before, and the two sisters lie on the bed and talk at night, chattering about trivial matters at home.

When I got married, I realized that the world of Lu Dao in this world is far from being as simple as when I was at home, and even some of the quarrels that were still at home back then became funny when I thought about it.

Compared with the life after marriage, what are those things in the family?

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