Smiling and watching this group of guys walk away, Mao Yulong's originally peaceful smile was gone, but it was replaced by a hint of a treacherous expression. This time, I can be regarded as roasting this uncle on the fire.

Then he squinted his eyes and looked at the back in the distance, and sneered in his heart, what kind of hand is he? I started the exam from kindergarten and took the exam until I graduated from university, and in this era, I want to say that I know the most about exams, and I dare to say second, and absolutely no one dares to say first.

Reading is an absolute test of wisdom and ability, and the key to relying on acquired efforts is not of great significance. And in the era of this rigid eight-strand essay exam, what kind of situation you are in is basically a stereotype. After a few years, no matter how hard you try, you can't break through at all. So throughout history, there are very few late-bloomers, even these late-bloomers, they are basically out of tune, and their minds don't think about it at all, and the results they have achieved after repenting are like Su Dongpo's father. So if you look at those so-called late bloomers, the stories behind them are almost all the same.

And this uncle of his, who has been enlightened since he was a young child, has been rolling in this pile of old papers, and he has been admitted to the examination room no less than seven or eight times until he is 35 years old, and the result is at least seven or eight times, and the result has landed every time, which has already taken shape, and it is difficult to change. This time he wanted to suddenly go to high school, even if he was struck by lightning, it was almost impossible to achieve.

And he just praised him lightly, and he lifted him to the clouds, and then looked at the mother-in-law and daughters-in-law on both sides of the street to look at him and became reverent, you know how much everyone expects him from, as a result, this uncle will fall very badly, and now Mao Yulong is imagining that this uncle's mood after falling from the clouds into the sludge, is it embarrassing that he even has the heart to die?

Thinking of this, after a pause, Mao Yulong shook his head with a wry smile: "I made up my mind to be calm and ordinary, but my original temperament still hasn't changed much. This is not good, this has to be changed. ”

Thinking of this, he took a breath, and then piled up a flat smile, showing a sincere smile of his eight teeth, while smiling at the uncles and sisters-in-law who were even more sneering at his mother and son, and followed his mother to the patriarch's house step by step.

The patriarch's lineage has been inherited and continued by the original upper house, and he has always lived in the old house. Since he is the patriarch, no one can say that he is not greedy for some public wealth. Therefore, the patriarch lived a more prosperous life than other houses. The mansion is exquisite and luxurious, the blue bricks and white walls are solemn and full of aura, and the servants and women come and go from people, and there is an atmosphere of rich people in the south of the Yangtze River.

When I arrived at the door, my mother first told the door with my nostrils facing the sky, and the door said impatiently to my mother: "Come in, the old man and the grandmother are in a hurry, if you don't come, you have to trouble me to run again, don't you want money to buy shoes." ”

The dog's eyes look at people low, the dog fights people's power, and the adjectives involved in the dog, that's what it looks like. In principle, his mother and son are still half the masters of this family, and the result is such a person with five people and six people, if this is the character of the previous life, a big-necked slipper beckons to the past, it is the result of looking for teeth all over the ground.

With a warm smile, when he walked past this family, Mao Yulong politely said hard work, which made this family very stunned for a while. The original kid either raised his eyebrows coldly, or roared angrily and reasoned with himself, but this time he behaved like this, but it was surprising.

The hall of the long house is spacious and bright, and the ground is clean and can see the human figure, and the mother pulled Mao Yulong over the high threshold, and stood at the door, for fear of polluting the ground of others. Carefully look at the situation in the hall, the long rooms of the other rooms are there, but the long room of his own branch is nowhere to be seen, this is hiding out and not wanting to stand out for Mao Yulong's family.

Inform the uncle and big milk sitting on the chair of the master above. Uncle Changfang and the eldest grandmother saw Mao Yulongniang and the two of them come in, they didn't even owe, they snorted and snorted with a hookah, and after a long time, they squinted at the mother who was standing on the edge of the threshold and bent over obediently, and then said slowly: "The six daughters-in-law are here." ”

The mother saluted again: "Listen to the child's call, so I hurriedly came to listen to the words of the patriarch." ”

The uncle nodded, then put down the hookah, took a sip of the teacup, and coughed again before speaking again: "Seeing that it is winter, and it is the end of the year, the public wealth handed over by each family is left with your family, and it has been four years, if you can't pay it again, I really can't cover it up for you." ”

The big milk also said in a weird way: "That is, if everyone is the same as your family, and they don't pay it if they find an excuse, then who in our clan has a person who is in trouble and invites disaster, and what relief will they get?" They are all people in the same family, they usually don't accumulate some, and when they need it urgently, they will shorten their position capital, but it will kill people, and they can't delay it this year. ”

Each clan in the clan set up a public money warehouse, usually according to the number of the population, every year to hand over a certain amount of money and grain to accumulate, and so on in the clan there is a major event that can not be turnover, then in this public money warehouse to pay some money and grain turnover, slow down a moment of emergency, this is also the rules of the family in various places, although the Mao family can not be regarded as a family, but the family can still be counted, so there are also such rules, but also played a huge role.

The two of you talked about it for a long time before you stopped talking again.

The mother took this opportunity to interject: "It's not that I don't pay the public money of this clan, it's just that our clan's public loom has dividends distributed to each family every year. ”

Mao Yulong's heart suddenly burst, he really didn't expect that there was a weaving factory in his family.

Now the handicraft industry of the Ming Dynasty is developed, according to the brick family in the history books, that is, capitalism has sprouted. Due to the need for a large amount of production, such as this weaving, it has slowly evolved from a family to a large weaving factory, unified management, in order to obtain greater benefits.

Although no one in the Mao clan can compete with others with a huge amount of capital, the patriarch of the previous generation is an expert in financial management, so he solicited funds from various households, coupled with public financial investment, and founded a weaving factory, the scale of which was 100 looms at that time, and later continued to expand, reaching the current scale of 400 looms.

"Four hundred units, although I don't know how much profit, but look at the patriarch's family business is definitely a lot, it seems that when Dad is here, this income is still successful, but Dad is gone, of course, he was deprived of it, which is also a reasonable thing." This is Mao Yulong's idea.

As a result, the uncle really said: "The weaving factory originally had some profits, but in the past few years, there have been tens of thousands of looms in Hangzhou, and everyone has competed to lower the price, and it is not profitable." And your family's share, when your man died in battle, the court did not have a burial fee, and it was not the clan who paid for him to be buried in a beautiful manner, so that he could be buried in the earth with dignity, so your share was spent on this, but you remember, this is a little bit back, and it is too early to pay it off. ”

Mao Yulong slandered in his heart: "Since the public wealth is to solve the danger and hardship of the clan, is it considered a crisis if my family is unable to send my father who died in battle?" As a result, why do you have to deduct it from your own profits? Especially if the profit is meager, and only a fraction of the money is returned, the meaning cannot be clearer, that is, the deduction for preparing for children and grandchildren cannot be finished, that is to say, bullying people has to let you read it. He thought so in his heart, but there was no anger on his face, and he was still listening with half-squinted eyes and a faint smile on his face.

First, the mother here is in charge, if she rashly asks questions, she will be criticized, and she will deduct a hat that is neither big nor small, and she will be a no-no in the future in the clan; Second, I also understand, what if I argue? With the current situation of his orphans and widows, the fight is also in vain, and he is angry for no reason. Anyway, I will support my family, so I don't care about this.

The mother was unwilling, and said again: "Then since the part of the weaving factory has paid for my man's burial, but the five acres of good paddy fields outside my city have been cultivated by the clansmen, and the output on them should be far greater than the public money." ”

The uncle was unwilling to interrupt his mother's words: "You can't say that, we made it clear at the beginning, your son can't study, and we righteously said that he should stop studying and work as a farmer, and it was you who took these five acres of paddy fields out to get permission from the clansmen and let your son continue to study in the clan studies." ”

The eldest grandmother also said: "According to the rules of clan studies, ten years of enlightenment, and finally assessed by the clan elders, if there is no hope of further progress, you have to go out of the clan to study, either go to work as apprentices abroad, or go out of the city to farm." Your son was a husband in a big family and had no money, so he should have been removed from school, but you had to stay in vain, so you let you use your palm-sized land in exchange for the money to support your son's education. ”

Mao Yulong smiled bitterly in his heart: "Yes, this means that my family's five acres of ancestral land are gone, where is this a family of relatives, this is simply a group of tigers and wolves, tearing and biting around their own family." But it's okay, since that's the case, just wait for yourself to be a little older, just move out and live elsewhere, and lose this bullshit family that eats and drinks all of your family, but still doesn't give up, and you can set up another door by yourself. Anyway, I'm not actually a member of this clan, and I can't beat them with eight poles, so I'll worship my true ancestors when the time comes. ”。

Before the mother could continue to argue, the uncle squinted his eyes and nodded: "That's it, let's talk about one more serious thing today." ”

Mother can only listen.