Xu Xun has been by Mrs. Xu's side since she was a child, although she is young and ignorant of the world, but Mrs. Xu is a sober person, and she also values her two daughters. Although she herself is illiterate, she is very much in favor of Mr. Xu being idle and teaching her daughter to recognize a few more words. When I have free time, I will also take Xu Xun with me and let her know some things outside, so as not to be disgusted by my in-laws after I get married in the future.

Although no in-laws require Xu Xun to know about money, but she still has a good idea of her mother's former family background, the Xu family originally had nearly 100 acres of fertile land, which was usually cultivated by tenant farmers, and the annual rent paid, except for leaving for food, exchange for firewood, rice, oil, salt and meat, were taken to the rice shop in the city to sell.

The rice shop in the city and Mr. Xu are old relatives, and the rice from their family is the most affordable, one stone of rice and two coins of silver, which is five points higher than others to carry, and if you don't do your hands and feet on the scales, it is basically equivalent to not making money. Mr. Xu sells about 200 stone rice a year, and the income of 40 taels of silver is stable. The rest of the pigs and chickens and ducks were mostly given to the tenants to be fed with chaff, and they used them to kill and eat meat.

In addition to the income of the field, Mr. Xu can collect 20 taels of private school cultivation every year, and the students who are admitted to the children's school have to come to thank the teacher. There are talents in the examination, and they can't cut off gifts during the New Year's holidays, although they don't send money directly, but these gifts save the Xu family a lot of money to buy cloth and meat. - Mr. Xu's ability is not big enough to teach a lifter, if he teaches a lifter, it will be great, and the life of the Xu family will have been better a long time ago.

With an income of sixty taels a year, there is almost no place to spend money, and Mrs. Xu is diligent and can make a living, although the Xu family is a scholar, it is not good to do business, and they dare not put money in print. But relying on the sixty taels of silver beaten by this iron, the Xu family is already a relatively famous and honest family in the Yuhuashi area. You must know that generally a slightly worse family, a year's chewing grain is about ten taels of silver, not to mention those tenants, under Mr. Xu, it is considered very lucky, but this is it, if you can save two taels of silver a year, you have to have a good year.

The market price of the good land in the capital area is rising year by year, unless it is favored by the county lord and others, it is estimated that it will have to be given out at the same price as free gifts. Otherwise, there is absolutely 30 taels of silver per mu, and this 100 acres of silver is a fixed asset of 3,000 taels, and generally the descendants of those who are not particularly ruined are never allowed to sell them -- Xu Xun converted the fields into silver, just for the convenience of his own calculations, and there were many times when he couldn't buy good land with money, and as long as there was land, the silver money could always be saved slowly. Therefore, the money is all floating wealth, and whether a family is really rich or not depends on their land.

There are also nearly 1,000 taels of self that Mr. Xu has saved over the years, and the Xu family has a family background of 4,000 taels, which is of course nothing in Beijing, but in Yuhuashi Town, it can be regarded as a family with a name and surname. The two couples love their daughters very much, and when the Xu Xun sisters get married, it is estimated that they can get a dowry of about two hundred taels of silver, so Mr. and Mrs. Xu are not in a hurry to tell her that Xu Xun is prosperous in the marriage market, and they will never worry about not finding their uncle.

Xu Xun's reward today, first of all, the most expensive should be those boxes of gems and pearls, Xu Xun also opened it this morning, the box is not big, it contains more than 20 gems, there are cat's eyes, emeralds, peacock green, diamonds, but they are not very big, most of them are a little bigger than soybeans.

To be honest, the most reflective grade in the palace may still depend on the size of the gemstone. The cat's eyes are a little bigger than soybeans, and one is only sold for about 30 taels, and if it is the size of a fingernail, one is enough to sell for 200 taels. Sometimes there is no place to buy it if you have money, but after all, Nanzhu is produced in China, and the price is slightly cheaper, Xu Xun got a box full of rice beads, bright and uniform, uniform size, although not big, but also quite rare.

These two boxes of jewelry together, worth a thousand taels, can't run away, and Mama Sun also agrees with this statement. This is more expensive than the heads and faces she gets, after all, the silver head is inlaid with gemstones, that is, the price is less than a hundred taels, as for the gold head face, the gold is heavy, all added together, ten taels or more is enough to see, this is all for Xu Xun's daily wear, and it will lose its meaning if it is too heavy. One tael of gold is only five taels of silver, and the sum of the head and face is about five hundred taels, if you count the miscellaneous jewelry that Xu Xun rewarded before being canonized and what he got today, the approximate value of all her gold and silver jewelry is offset by the jewelry, and it is also about one thousand taels.

It was just her jewelry, and her second major item was the two hundred pieces of cloth she had gotten...... This is for her to cut clothes, harem concubines, and not as girls, they always have to have some of their own family background, do they still point to those clothes that have been divided in a year? Xu Xun has two needlework very haode small palace people around him, who have followed her since the Roujiadian period, and they have no problem changing Xu Xun's clothes and putting clothes on their own, sometimes Xu Xun wants to make a big coat by himself, so he takes these two hundred pieces of cloth to find the embroidery girl in the palace to do.

Silk silk is the same as the field, are very valuable, an ordinary silk can be sold in the market for about two dollars, and satin, brocade because of the number of weaving is difficult, the price to double. Leno is correspondingly cheaper, but it also depends on the process. Haode leno is sometimes more expensive than satin and brocade. Note that this is still talking about ordinary woven silk, and official silk is several times more expensive than this price, not to mention the tributes that are impossible to circulate on the general market. It's not a royal gift, ordinary people can't get tribute to wear, and occasionally there is a tribute flow, and the selling price is often about ten times that of the people's property. Two hundred pieces of cloth are worth at least five hundred taels of silver—and if the colors are complete and the age is new, then the price may be doubled.

As for the complement, this thing is more time-consuming to weave, and of course it is more expensive, but the people never circulate this. Xu Xun didn't estimate the price, don't look at it small, it's just so round, not much bigger than a palm, such a piece, according to Mama Sun, sometimes costs as much as two taels of silver.

These are all things that are rewarded to her, consumable assets, and as for fixed assets, the set of sour branch wood furniture will cost three hundred taels of silver to come down: not only the materials are good, the work is good, and the number of pieces is many and complete. Don't talk about other scattered chairs, charcoal is also very valuable, but it has to be used every year, Xu Xun didn't count, the clothes she had didn't count, and the jade ornaments didn't understand the market, so they didn't count. In addition to the 3,000 Guan Zumo copper coins that were rewarded to her - 3,000 taels of silver, Xu Xun had just entered the palace, and she got about 5,500 taels of silver.

This is the grandson Jieyu, who has just entered the palace, and she hasn't even seen the face of the grandson, she already has more wealth than the Xu family's hard work for generations......

The more Xu Xun calculated, the more surprised she became, and Mama Li saw her standing there in a daze with a list, so she smiled and said, "Is Jieyu too much, or too little?" ”

"Many, too much." Xu Xun said incoherently, "It's so much that I don't know what to do with me." I...... Am I worth all this money? ”

Grandma Sun and Grandma Li both laughed, and Grandma Sun said. "Generally, when people marry their daughters, they give a dowry. Let's marry a woman in heaven, and of course we will buy a dowry ourselves. Your dowry is not rich, the princess is in a good time, her dowry is three thousand taels of gold alone, and the rest of the treasures and curiosities are not counted, your idea is to give you pocket money. The whole world belongs to the emperor, and marrying Jieyu's eldest grandson is too much? ”

Thinking about it like this, Xu Xun felt that it didn't seem to be a lot. She stood up and touched the bonsai, and then touched the screen, it was so fresh. The two grandmothers looked at her and smiled, and Grandma Sun said, "Jieyu is in front of other people, but you must not show this appearance." ”

Xu Xun seemed to be listening, and after touching it for a while, he asked the grandmothers, "What's the matter with the money given to me, can I still use the money in the palace?" ”

"That's what you're rewarding." The grandmothers explained, "Gold and silver jewelry is more expensive, and Jieyu is still young, so she has to wear it herself." Now you can't reward people at will, these three thousand copper coins are prepared for you to send the eunuchs and palace people sent by the elders and grandsons to give you a message, sometimes you have something to do, and it is more convenient to have a little money in your hand. This is all because of the mercy of Queen Renxiao, so she came up with such a rule, if you could only reward people with gold and silver in the past, it would not be cost-effective. ”

Xu Xun immediately fell into his mind, "Is this money available every year?" How much do you want to give away in a year? ”

"As long as you have decency, you can always get some every year." Mama Li said with a smile, "Whether it's more or less, it depends on how much Jieyu is loved by her grandchildren and elders, and how much you give out depends on Jieyu's own temperament." ”

To be honest, Xu Xun didn't realize that her life still revolved around Taisun until now, and before that, although she had also received a lot of training to serve Taisun, for several years, there was no Taisun in her life.

That night, He Xianxian came over to talk to her, and showed Xu Xun the list in his hand, "I'll take a look at you, see what good things you have got." ”

Zhang Guifei is fair, Xu Xun and He Xianxian get the same thing, only the furniture and ornaments are not very different, He Xianxian admired Xu Xun's ornaments, and pulled Xu Xun into his own room, showing her the small coral bonsai that the princess appreciated, and the two of them praised each other.

To tell the truth, Xu Xunde's jade bonsai is a little more expensive, and the two of them can see it, but He Xianxian didn't say anything, and praised Concubine Taisun for her generosity, "These two furnishings don't seem to be cheap." ”

In the past, some ugly things happened in the palace, and Xu Xun and He Xianxian had heard a little about it. It is said that the adults in the court also wrote to the emperor because of this, hoping that he would strictly regulate the draft system - the emperor was only a vassal king in the past, and the golden iron horse and the southern and northern wars had been fought for many years, and the women in the harem were often collected from the subordinates of the generals, and some were selected from other people. Although these concubines were born beautifully, they had a tyrannical temperament, narrow-mindedness, and even caused an extremely unseemly case. A Korean concubine who was very loved by the emperor died in a young age.

The crown prince did not catch up, as early as when the emperor had not yet ascended the throne, he had already married, the crown princess was virtuous and virtuous, 'the wife and husband are less troubled', and the prince's backyard is well managed. The emperor also thought that although the crown princess was born in a small family, she went through a lot of visits and education before she was admitted to the harem, which was extremely beneficial. Therefore, Xu Xun, He Xianxian, and Concubine Taisun have all been carefully investigated.

The little girl who is narrow-minded and good at fighting for the wind and jealousy, no matter how deep the city government is, can she compare to the old palace maids and old eunuchs who observe them? Therefore, although the few who remained, although they were not perfect, no one accounted for such a small difference in bonsai. is the princess, who used to eat and live together, but now they are different from each other, and such a dramatic change did not make the two little girls resentful in their hearts. They are still very close to Concubine Taisun.

Early the next morning, the two of them got up to say hello to the princess, and the princess took them to the princess's palace to say hello. The three of them came back and sat down to talk, and also talked about the aftermath.

Concubine Taisun's life is relatively simple, she has actually been receiving a stricter education, and after the education is completed, she will enter the palace to salute, and then she will start court life, and take charge of the Taisun Palace, which is not very prosperous now. A few people happened to be sitting together today, and she told the two of them about some of the rules of Taisun Palace.

Generally speaking, the living of the Taisun Palace follows the prince's East Palace, and after getting up in the morning to eat, and when the prince goes out of the East Palace, the Taisun Concubine will go to the East Palace to greet him, and sometimes follow the princess to the inner palace to say hello to the elders. Xu Xun and He Xianxian, because they are concubines, they don't have to go over every day, and when there are too many people, they are afraid that the princess will also be annoyed, so they will follow the princess the next day. As for the concubine, she followed her every day, she was raised by the princess herself, and the affection between them was naturally unusual. The crown princess looked at her as if she were her own daughter, so the princess could go over every day. In the past few days, she has been in poor condition and uncomfortable, so she has to stay in bed, which is a small illness.

As for eating, the meals of the concubines are delivered to the house every day, and the palace has a small stove, which can also make the imperial kitchen hold a banquet, and the Taisun Palace does not seem to have this treatment. But there is also a room in the courtyard of the princess, in which there are two or three small wind stoves, which can make some small stir-fries, dim sum, and so on. Concubine Taisun asked the two of them not to be polite, and just tell her whatever they want to eat.

As a concubine, of course, they can't finish their meals, and if they want to use snacks occasionally, they can directly ask people to go to the imperial dining room to ask for it, whether it is raw materials or finished products, the imperial dining room will not refuse, and they will send it when they say hello. But this premise is within the scope of their share, for example, there is no bear meat in Xu Xun's share, even if the bear meat in the imperial dining room is piled up and there is no supervisor to speak, Xu Xun can't order this dish, otherwise, this is non-divided. If the elders know about it, maybe they will be left behind.

However, Xu Xun's own portion is really enough for her to eat, she has as much as two catties of pork a day, not to mention two catties of fresh vegetables, and five chickens, five ducks, and five geese a month. The rest of the fresh vegetables are rewarded at any time, and the palace masters often have appreciating vegetables, and these dishes are simply not eaten according to Xu Xun's appetite.

Roughly speaking, life in the palace is like this, please eat and sleep, there are no other activities, the palace says that the internal training is held once a month, and the palace concubines and concubines go to each other, and the Taisun Palace also participates. You can do whatever you like at other times, as long as it's not too wild, and there's not too much constraint.

Of course, this is for Xu Xun, a little Jieyu, the wife of the princess is busy with a lot of things, she has to take care of the house, she has to take care of the top, take care of the bottom, and generally have less free time than Xu Xun. For example, this afternoon, she is going to enter the palace with the crown princess to serve Wang Guifei, and this kind of thing has nothing to do with Xu Xun now.

After talking for a while, it was almost time for lunch, and although we were still unsatisfied, we had to get up and say goodbye. Xu Xun seized the opportunity and asked the concubine in a low voice, "In the past, I didn't have any money in hand, and I didn't have anything to give to my grandmothers. They have been working hard for me for several years. I don't want to go, I want to get some money, but I don't know how much is appropriate......"

He Xianxian hurriedly pricked up his ears to listen, and the princess said with a smile, "Well, it's time to give some." In fact, they are also rich people, and when you are outside, your family should also have some trouble. The old palace people here follow the rules of the crown princess and the princess, and reward ten times according to the quarter, and the small palace people have two and three times. Usually have any unsightly jewelry, feel free to appreciate it, they also have face - the most important thing in the palace is face, you have just entered the palace, how much money can you have? The grandmothers know in their hearts that what they are asking for is this face. ”

Xu Xun and He Xianxian both sighed, and when they went back from the crown princess, He Xianxian released the reward money before lunch - how did Xu Xun know? The two of them live across the door, with only a courtyard in between, who can hide the movement of this reward?

Xu Xun was hungry, but after eating, when the grandmothers happened to come to change shifts, and everyone in the house arrived, he closed the door and quietly rewarded him. She said a lot of words of gratitude, and said, "In the future, I will also learn from the princess and concubine, and I will subsidize the grandmothers every quarter." It's just that I don't dare to cross the princess, I only say ten times to the outside world, and I can get five more times in private, so that I can feel at ease. ”

Several grandmothers exchanged a few glances, and they all smiled with satisfaction, and Qian Mama said, "Jieyu just entered the palace, I don't know the situation in the palace, and I just have such a sum of money in my hand, so I want to spend it indiscriminately." Concubine Taisun Niangniang rewards ten times, you can't cross her no matter what, this money, you reward eight times enough, we don't dare to ask for more, you can get face, it's better than anything. ”

Xu Xun was a little embarrassed, and he still had to fight, but he was held down by Mama Zhao, "Just listen to the grandmothers, we have to live for a lifetime." - In the future, when the grandmothers are old, they have to count on Jieyu's maiden family to take care of them! ”

Xu Xun understood this sentence. In the past, she also felt that several grandmothers were kind to her for their hearts and lungs and dedication, and she had nothing to reciprocate, and she was very uneasy. Now, her heart has been put to fruition, and when she looks at a few grandmothers, she feels closer and more like a family. did not insist on his own intentions, but was one level lower than the princess, and quietly gave a reward to everyone around him.