In Daming, sixteen years old is the legal age of majority. Most of the well-off families began to look for a partner at the age of their son, sent someone to talk to the matchmaker, set the marriage, and it took almost a year after the preparation was ready.

However, those who are above the well-off, or those who are extremely poor, are more likely to marry after 20.

The former is because the children need to go to school, and the elders in the family do not want to see the children distracted because of the female sex. Therefore, it is generally only after winning the birth or lifting the person that they begin to prepare for marriage. If this sub-field is too smooth, and even the jinshi is picked up all of a sudden, it is even a hot rare item, you can sit on the ground and start the price, and it is common to marry the daughter of a wealthy family.

The latter is because the family is poor and cannot marry a wife.

If Xu Yuanzuo had just taken over this body, it was still a question of whether he could get married at the age of thirty. Now he has become Zhu Li's little dark horse, and several big families have begun to inquire about Xu Yuanzuo's character. This is obviously a deliberate release to remind the Xu family not to forget them when it is time to propose.

"Thank you mother for worrying about this, but is it necessary to see what my stepfather means?" Xu Yuanzuo reminded his mother that he still had a stepfather.

Mother Xu was a little embarrassed for a while, and said, "This is the etiquette that should be had." It's just that your father-in-law is too high, and he doesn't have much contact with him on weekdays, so he didn't even think of this for a while. As she spoke, she suddenly lowered her voice and said, "Do you think outsiders think that you are the kind of righteous son of the Xu family?" ”

The Ming Dynasty forbade human trafficking, and also forbade the coercion of a qiē form of cheapness, and the production of slaves and maids could only be convicted by officials. Otherwise, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the perpetrator will be given 100 canes, and the victim who is forced to be good and cheap will be sent back to his hometown.

In this case, there is a trend of buying righteous sons and daughters, turning human trafficking into human relations, and the law can't control it. But these righteous sons and righteous daughters are actually still in the status of slaves and maids, and they are directly said to be "slaves and maids" in the oral slang of the novel. After the Ming Law was reformulated, the legal status of righteous children was no different from that of domestic slaves and maids.

"Hehe," Xu Yuanzuo laughed dryly, "Who dares to buy the son of a clan?" If the neighborhood has such suspicions, just invite them to a table after the New Year to celebrate the continuation of the lineage between my family and the county town of Xu. ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Mother Xu's brows stretched: "The continuation of the Lianzong is indeed worth celebrating, your father wanted to have something to do with the Xu family back then, but people ignored him." ”

Xu He saw his wife exposing his old background, and said hurriedly: "I really thought it was the same clan as the Xu family, otherwise why bother to befriend others?" At that time, Xu Ge Lao was just an ordinary jinshi. ”

- Exactly? Ordinary Jinshi is also a star in the sky for you!

Xu Yuanzuo's stomach scolded, but he didn't say anything, with his understanding of Xu He, his mother must have taken care of his face.

"Mother," Xu Yuanzuo said, "my son plans to watch the show next year, so he will go upstairs to study first." ”

Xu He snorted: "I didn't even open the pen, so I went to watch the show, isn't it a waste of money!" ”

Mother Xu glared at her husband, saw her son standing on the stairs and winked at her, knowing that there was something else hidden, so she said: "Son, don't be in a hurry to study first, change into the cotton shoes that your mother made for you to see if they fit." With that, he pedaled and followed upstairs.

Xu He glanced at his wife and muttered: "I'm really living in this family, and I don't even have new clothes for the New Year!" But the son of a son has a new pair of shoes! ”

Although Xu Mu heard it, she followed Xu Yuanzuo into the room.

Xu Yuanzuo closed the door, took off the package on his back, and put it on the table. I only heard a bang, and the tone was dull, obviously not light.

"What's this stuffing?" Mother Xu was very curious.

Xu Yuanzuo moved his bloody shoulders: "Silver." ”

Mother Xu was still suspicious, stepped forward to open the baggage, and almost screamed: "So many!" ”

"A hundred taels of snowflake silver!" Xu Yuanzuo said with a smile: "Keep the family for your mother." He carried the more than six pounds of heavy metal all the way, and it was indeed a lot of hard work.

Xu Mu quickly wrapped up the burden, with a shocked face: "How can there be so many!" ”

"Mother, is this too much? The Xu family used silver to pave the floor, and there were so many of them when they picked it up. Xu Yuanzuo joked.

If you want to say how much silver the Xu family has, it is estimated to be tens of thousands of taels, because although the income is high, there are a lot of expenses; Although the benefits are high, the costs are many. The cash silver that can really fall in the silver cellar, 100,000 taels is already the top of the sky. However, the intangible assets of the Xu family are really high, but they are still underdeveloped.

Mother Xu pressed the silver bag tightly under her hand, and raised her eyebrows: "Are you a village woman who has never seen the world!" No matter how much money the Xu family has, it's not like you, the half of the shopkeeper, can make so much money! You've only been there for a few days and you're going to be able to come back with a hundred taels? ”

"Hehe, speaking of which, I don't think my mother is from a small family, where is my uncle?" Xu Yuanzuo asked.

Xu Mu protruded the knuckle of her index finger and quickly knocked on the door of Xu Yuanzuo's head - it is the so-called hemp chestnut as the saying goes!

"When your wife is a fool? What the hell is going on! Tell me about the money! Mother Xu was not taken away by Xu Yuanzuo, and she didn't let go.

"First of all, my son definitely didn't steal or rob."

"That's natural, you have to have that guts, don't you?" Mother Xu is very relieved in this regard.

"My son didn't gamble either."

"I haven't seen anything about gambling money and winning back money." Mother Xu scoffed.

"So, mother, can't you just collect the silver? Why bother. Xu Yuanzuo's face was entangled.

"You're deliberately delaying time, and you're making up lies in your heart to deceive me, right?" Mother Xu saw through Xu Yuanzuo's tricks at a glance.

Xu Yuanzuo was really afraid of this shrewd ghost...... God's old lady sorted out the wording and said: "That's it, before I helped people to give advice, communicated left and right on the transaction of their original loss of a large sum of silver, arranged manpower, and spent a lot of effort, and finally turned the loss into a profit, but also made a lot of money." He secretly said in his heart: This should be regarded as a partial truth!

"The other party is a big family in the county, a family with a head and a face. In terms of meritorious deeds, I divided the silver that flew in, and my son and I got more than a hundred taels. Xu Yuanzuo said aggrievedly: "I kept some private money, and I brought this hundred taels back to my mother to keep the house." How can a mother suspect that her son has done something bad? ”

Mother Xu was relieved and sighed: "I'm just afraid that you are young and ignorant and have done something inappropriate." You must know that you can have today's scenery because Xu Ge's hometown appreciates you, promotes you, and recognizes you as a relative, if you do something sorry for them, it will be difficult for the entire Songjiang to gain a foothold. Your father ...... back then," Mother Xu said this, her lips pursed, and she didn't continue.

"My son knows that reputation is a treasure that is not easy to win in this world. Don't worry, mother, my son is very concerned about this. Xu Yuanzuo played the package ticket.

Mother Xu picked up a bag of silver and hid it in her bedroom in a secret compartment. She was very satisfied with her son's filial piety and carefulness, and she could not let her husband know anything about this silver.

Xu He didn't know that the two upstairs were discussing the big matter of one hundred taels of silver. He's still worried about where to go to find someone to borrow next year's capital! Although the son got the goods and signed the deed, the payment for the goods had to be paid in advance. There is no good thing to take the goods to sell, and then give the silver when they come back.

This money, even if it is shared equally with Lu Dingyuan, will cost more than 100 taels!

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