In Fucheng, a very luxuriously built house, a woman who still looks charming is sitting on a couch eating peanuts, and a servant woman is helping her to pull out the peanuts, and then blow the peanut coat clean, and put it on a small plate in her hand.

"Auntie, the clan elders are here again!" A little maid hurried in to report it.

The woman choked and coughed.

"I don't know whether the little hooves are alive or dead, don't you see Madame eating, what are you doing in a panic, and who do you call your aunt!" The servant woman patted the lady on the back again and again, and reprimanded the little maid.

The little maid hurriedly knelt down and couldn't stop admitting her mistakes: "Madame is angry, and the slave knows her mistakes!" ”

She said that she was wrong, but she was very disdainful in her heart, ma'am? It's just an unblessed concubine, thinking that if you harm your wife and the eldest young master, you can be the master of the house? Now it's not that she has been eaten to death by the clan elders, and I don't think it's long before she has a good life.

After thinking about it, if this aunt is really unlucky, it is estimated that these subordinates will have to eat and hang up, forget it, she will be like this!

The woman coughed for a long time, coughing until her ribs ached, and then she breathed a sigh of relief, threw the peanut plate on the table towards the little girl, slapped the table and said, "These old immortals... Ahem, what are you doing again! ”

The little maid narrowly avoided the smashed plate, and hurriedly replied, "The clan elders didn't say anything, they are already waiting in the flower hall." ”

I said this in my mouth, but I thought in my heart, what else can I do, ask for money, these people can't come a few times a month, and you don't know in your heart, why ask me, what kind of shelf!

The woman coughed a few more times, picked up the teacup beside her, poured her saliva, sat up and rubbed her sore ribs, and then let the servant woman beside her help her walk towards the flower hall.

As soon as they left, the little girl hurriedly got up, saw the smashed plates on the ground, and peanuts all over the ground, kicked them away, and muttered: "Still smash me, saying that people don't die old, and you are not a good thing, phew!" ”

After speaking, she didn't care about the mess on the ground, turned around and walked out of the house, and slipped to the back of the flower hall to eavesdrop, she knew that every time the clan came old, her aunt had to be angry, but she couldn't have a seizure yet, she had to smile like a grandson, thinking about it made people feel comfortable!

Sure enough, as soon as she entered the flower hall, the originally arrogant woman immediately seemed to be a different person, stepped forward quickly, and said with a smile: "Uncle, third uncle, fourth uncle, fifth uncle, you are here!" ”

Turned around and shouted out of the door again: "Where are all the people dead, don't the clan elders hurry up to serve good tea when they come, are they all blind?" ”

One of the eldest clan elders stretched out his hand to stop him, and said: "Okay Liu, don't play prestige in front of us, this is our Zhou family's house, if we want to drink tea, we can call a subordinate, or make a call." ”

This woman is Zhou Jian's aunt Liu, hearing what the elder of the big clan said, her face was a little stupid, and she stopped acting at the moment, sat on the chair awkwardly, looked obedient, and waited for them to explain her intentions.

But I scolded in my heart, I don't die, you are also playing majestic in front of me, no matter how powerful you are, aren't you like a beggar, going to my door to fight the autumn breeze?

The old man of the big clan sat up straight, and the little maid outside also came in with hot tea.

He took a sip of tea and nodded with satisfaction, it is indeed a good tea, the soup is clear and bright, and he thought to himself, this kind of good tea, the Liu family didn't take it out last time, and he said that the tea and silver were taken out to pay homage, and the ghost was deceived! This time, she has to give her some blood, otherwise she will really take these clan elders for fools!

"Ahem", he cleared his throat and took another sip of tea, before he said: "This tea is good, it seems to be different from the last time!" ”

Aunt Liu glanced down at the tea in her hand, sure enough, it was a good tea treasured at home, her eyes glanced quickly at the door, and she secretly hated in her heart, these cheap hooves, let the good tea really take such a good tea for these old immortals to drink, and now she will be hurt to bleed!

No matter how resentful he was in his heart, he really didn't dare to show it on his face, and said with a smile: "This is the good tea that Fan'er just got a few days ago, and I haven't had time to send it to a few uncles, since the uncles are here today, I will pack some back in a while!" ”

Several clan elders nodded, praising Zhou Fan for being sensible, and secretly gritted her teeth with Aunt Liu's motherishness, only to feel that the interribal area hurt even more.

After a few more gossip, the third uncle led the topic to the purpose of today's visit, "Now it is the end of September, and there will be a few months before the New Year, and it is also the day of ancestor worship.

I see that Fan'er's child has grown up a lot this year, and he has picked up the burden of the Zhou family, and the restaurant business is also booming, so it is better to be funded by Fan'er to repair the ancestral hall, so that Zhou Zhang can have a stable place to rest, and by the way, the incense and candle tributes are purchased together, so that the ancestors also know that Fan'er is now out, and there is filial piety, bless our Zhou family in the future, one day is stronger than one day! ”

Several other people nodded one after another, and echoed: "It is this principle, Fan'er is filial, naturally he is reluctant to suffer in the wind and rain of Zhou Zhang, and he cannot be blessed, this repair of the ancestral hall can be said to allow the ancestors to rest in peace, and it will naturally bless our Zhou family in the future." ”

"But it's not, the cost of repairing the ancestral hall is not much, one thousand taels of silver is enough, counting the incense and candle tribute, one thousand five hundred taels of silver is more than enough, we just use this money, we can exchange for the rest of the ancestors, blessing, worth it!"

Aunt Liu pouted, fifteen hundred taels! You really dare to say that the broken ancestral hall that leaks everywhere is enough to cover two hundred taels, and it can be repaired openly and brightly.

It sounds so good, don't you want silver?

She had a bitter face, and she felt something in her throat, which made her very uncomfortable, she couldn't swallow, she couldn't cough out, and she coughed violently several times without improvement.

When several clan elders saw her like this, they thought she was pretending to shirk it, and they spoke urgently, blocking her room for refusal.

By the time Aunt Liu finished coughing, the clan elders had already blocked the way out, and even Ziyunlou's daily income had asked them to check the bottom line, and these people had calculated exactly how much money they had in their hands before they spoke.

She couldn't even open her mouth and said that she didn't have any money, so she wanted to turn her face and refuse, thinking that they had evidence in their hands that they had framed her mother, but she didn't dare to open her mouth, so she had to agree to repair the ancestral hall with 1,500 taels from them.

She thought that after this matter was finished, these old immortals should always leave, but the elders of the five clans spoke again, "Liu's family, our Ziyunlou business is booming now, but our Zhou family doesn't even have a famous person, in the future, if someone covets it, I'm afraid it won't be able to keep it!" ”

Aunt Liu said in her heart, don't take a bite of our Ziyun Building, that is my Ziyun Building, what does it have to do with you?

However, the words of the old man of the five clans also reminded her, yes, Ziyunlou has a prosperous business, and it is certain that some people covet it, in the past, the lord and the prefect had a good personal relationship, and they were not afraid of people's concerns, but recently, the prefect's attitude towards them was very cold, and Zhou Fan went to send things back a few times.

If this matter is known, they know that they don't have the prefect as a backstage now, and they come to the restaurant to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, their Zhou family is really dangerous.

But Zhou Jian, the only famous Zhou Jian in the Zhou family, has been kicked out of the house, and everyone else is still white.