Xu Liang walked out of the eldest lady's house, waited for the iron head in the pavilion outside to greet him and asked, "How is it, young master, have you got the note from the eldest lady?" ”

Xu Liang shook his head in disappointment, and said in the tone of the eldest lady: "The Xu family's money is not blown by the wind, it falls from the tree, and it is also earned by the hard work of one or two big guys." After taking two steps, he pinched his voice and said, "Auntie, I can't wait for a penny, break it into two halves!" Then he rolled his eyes widely.

Tietou looked around nervously and persuaded in a low voice: "Young master, you be quiet, be careful to let the eldest lady hear." ”

Out of the eldest lady's courtyard, the iron head said with a bitter face: "If you don't have the eldest lady's strip, you can't get the silver, what should I do?" ”

The corners of Xu Liang's mouth flashed with a sneer, "Hmph, without her Zhang Butcher, Lao Tzu would still have to eat hairy pigs?!" After thinking about it, he asked Tietou: "Ah Tie, do you have a silver collar every month as a subordinate?" ”

When Tietou heard this, his face turned bitter, and he covered his pocket and said nervously: "Young master, I only receive two taels of silver every month, and I have saved two or three years to get five taels of silver, then, that's what I kept to marry my daughter-in-law, you can't beat my idea!" ”

When Xu Liang saw it, he couldn't cry or laugh, and said with relief: "How can this young master be so tasteless, I want you to have a subordinate silver, I want to ask you, since everyone has moon silver, then my dignified third young master of the Xu family, does he also have moon silver or something?" ”

When Tietou heard that Xu Liang didn't want his wife, he immediately put his mind at ease, thought about it and said, "I know that Young Master Jiang, Young Master Qing and Miss Ru will go to the account room every month to get some silver, and you should have it if you want to come to Young Master." ”

Xu Liang was overjoyed when he heard this, and after thinking about it, he didn't remember where Xu Liang put the original silver, and couldn't help asking: "Then Ah Tie, do you know where the moon silver that Young Master Ben received before was placed, why can't Young Master Ben remember it?" ”

The iron head said deliciously: "That, young master, you don't seem to have received the moon silver in the tent......"

Xu Liang listened anxiously, "Ah Tie, you have thought clearly, is it that Young Master Ben has never received it, or has he never received it?" ”

Tietou was frightened by Xu Liang's almost crazy appearance and took two steps back, and said seriously: "Young master, you have never been to get it!" He thought for a moment and said seriously, "Still, I'm guessing you've never received it." ”

"How unreasonable!" Xu Liang was furious and kicked a pot of orchids on the side of the road to the ground.

"Who's making a noise in the inner courtyard?" A majestic shout sounded, followed by a sound of broken footsteps, and I saw a middle-aged man in a yellow robe with a horse's face walking over with two small servants.

"Ah, it turned out to be Third Young Master Liang!" The middle-aged man raised his hand and arched it, without even bending his waist, "Yang Lin, the steward of the inner courtyard, has seen the third young master. ”

When Xu Liang saw it, he hummed lightly and asked, "Is there anything wrong with Steward Yang?" ”

Yang Linpi said with a smile: "Just now, the old man took people to inspect the inner courtyard, and I heard someone making noise here, so I hurriedly rushed over, it turned out that the third young master was here, haha." He saw Tietou in a blink of an eye, immediately put on his face, and asked, "Tietou, you are a member of the outer courtyard, don't you know the rules that you can't enter and leave the inner courtyard at will without being summoned?" What are you still doing here? Why don't you go to work in the outer courtyard yet! Be careful that the old man deducts your monthly money! ”

Hearing this, the iron head responded urgently, and ran out as if flying.

Xu Liang looked at Yang Lin and sneered, "Yang is so majestic!" ”

The corners of Yang Lin's mouth twitched, and he said in a deep voice: "What did the third young master say, the old man was appointed by the eldest lady to take on the errand of the housekeeper of the inner courtyard, how could he not dare to do his best to do a good job, just now the old man also acted according to the rules, if the third young master felt that the old man did not handle it properly, he could report it to the eldest lady." The cold smile on the corner of Yang Lin's mouth flashed, "If the third young master doesn't have any orders, the old man will continue to inspect!" ”

After speaking, Yang Lin took the two little guys and walked away in a big way.

Dog fighting human power! Xu Liang scolded secretly, looked at the direction of the tent, and walked hurriedly.

The old lady Xu of the Xu family has three sons under his knees, the long room Xu Changkun is now in charge of the power of the Xu family, the long room occupies the southeast corner of the Xu family compound, the second room occupies the northeast corner, the third room occupies the southwest corner, the old lady Xu occupies the northwest corner, and the tent room is located in the position of the four small courtyards, which is said to be convenient for the daily access of the money of each room.

When Xu Liang stepped into the threshold of the tent, the two tent gentlemen on the tent were napping with their chins on their chins. He stepped forward and banged on the table, waking the two bookkeepers.

The two bookkeepers looked at Xu Liang in surprise, and they didn't understand how this master came here for a while.

"What do you call them?" Xu Liang asked.

"The little one's surname is Xu."

"The little one's surname is Yang, what does the third young master command?"

Xu Liang said secretly, is there more people surnamed Yang in this Xu family compound. He said to the tent surnamed Yang, "Mr. Yang, I have asked you to receive this month's moonsilver." ”

Yang Tent and Xu Tent glanced at each other, Yang Tent turned over the account book in front of him, coughed lightly, and said: "Ahem, that third young master, it seems that the amount of your monthly silver has not been set yet, so, hehe, it may not be convenient to withdraw it to you for the time being." ”

Xu Liang had long expected such a result, and he was not annoyed at the moment, so he picked up a chair and sat down, took the tea on the table and took a sip to the teapot spout, and then said to the two bookkeepers: "Young Master Ben also knows that due to his previous negligence, he has not been able to receive the monthly silver on time, so that there has been no record of Young Master Ben's receipt in the account for many years. He waved his hand very generously, and then said: "But it doesn't matter, Young Master Ben remembered it today, and he just took the months that he hadn't received before at one time, as for the monthly number, I think it's good to receive it according to the amount of my fourth sister Xu Ru." Mr. Yang, Mr. Xu, can you help me calculate how much I should receive in total? ”

Xu Liang said that the two account gentlemen were confused, the monthly silver of the young masters and young ladies in each room of the Xu family's compound is different from the concept of the monthly silver of the family, the monthly silver of the families is considered wages, and the lack of it can naturally be made up, and the monthly silver of the young masters and young ladies is, to put it bluntly, the pocket money given by the family on a monthly basis, who has ever heard that the pocket money can also be repaid? Besides, since the third young master of the long house was born to the present, this is the first time to come back to receive the moon silver, if this is according to what he said, he will not receive a piece of silver before, this master is sixteen years old this year, according to the rules of the Xu family, from the age of eight, more than one or two silver per month, eight years down that is nearly a hundred taels of silver, such a large amount, where did Xu Yang's two small account gentlemen do this master?

Yang Tent swallowed hard, and asked hesitantly: "Well, Third Young Master, if you just receive this month's monthly silver, you will receive it according to Miss Ru's quantity, naturally there is no problem, it's just that you said that you want to take a piece that you haven't received before, this, this, this Xu Mansion has never done this before...... Third young master, do you have the approval of the eldest lady? ”

Xu Liang waved his hand very shamefully, "What approval?" No! ”

Yang Tent was obviously relieved, and he spread his hands in embarrassment, "Third Young Master, it's not that the small one won't be given to you, you see that you don't even have the approval of the eldest lady, this, such a big sum of silver, the small one can't be the master." Do you think you went to ask the eldest lady first, and then came over after taking the approval slip? ”

Xu Liang said impatiently: "How can it be so troublesome, this young master uses some money from the Xu family and still needs to approve it?" What kind of rule is this, dare to be tight, and give it to Young Master Ben to withdraw it to me. ”

Is this going to be taken by force? When Yang Tent heard Xu Liang's words, he put his mind at ease, he leaned back in his chair, and said slowly: "Third Young Master, isn't it embarrassing for you to do this?" When the time comes, the eldest lady will blame it, and the little one can't afford it. ”

Xu Liang looked up at the sky outside, the sun was about to set, if he continued to rub it like this, even if he got the money and rushed to the county office, he would have to wait until tomorrow to get the people out, he couldn't help but be very anxious, and said in a higher tone: "You just give me the money, I am the third young master of the Xu family, even if the eldest mother is to blame, I will naturally bear it for you!" ”

Yang didn't raise his head in the room, "Without the approval of the eldest lady, I won't pay you anything you say, Third Young Master." ”

Another Xu tent saw that the two of them were stiffening more and more, and couldn't help but carefully persuade Xu Liang: "Third young master, you should go and ask the eldest lady before you come." ”

Xu Liang got up and said in a deep voice: "What if Young Master Ben has to take it today?" ”

Yang Tent saw that the third young master of the long room, who had always been soft, suddenly became so hard this time, and he was a little hesitant for a while, but when he thought of the eldest lady's consistent dislike of this master, and then remembered that the eldest lady's real surname was also surnamed Yang, and she was still her aunt in terms of seniority, she replied very hard at the moment: "The third young master is deliberately trying to make the little one embarrassed!" ”

Seeing that the two of them were about to get up, the tent quietly moved to the door and ran out in a puff of smoke.

Xu Liang was really angry, when did the surname Yang of the Xu family compound become so bullish, even the third young master of the Xu family dared to contradict me, first Yang Lin, the steward of the inner courtyard, and then the Yang tent in front of him. What to do? If you go back and ask the eldest lady, it will be ironclad, but Huang Ziren has to save it, Xu Liang's face was blue and white for a while, his heart was ruthless, his feet stomped, and he stepped forward and said to Yang's tent in a few steps: "That young master will teach you a way not to be embarrassed now." ”

"Oh?" Yang's jaw raised, and suddenly a gust of wind swept by, snap! A big slap in the face.

"Ahh Yang tent room and chair were hit backwards by that slap, and when his head hit the ground, he suddenly understood, turned over, and blushed: "What's wrong with you?" Ouch! Another big slap swept over, and Yang Tent staggered, took four or five steps back, covered both sides of his face with his hands, and screamed in disbelief: "You dare to hit me?!" ”

Xu Liang retracted the left hand that had just slapped the person's face behind his back, shook it twice, and then handed forward his right hand that had eased up, and scolded Yang Tent: "Lao Tzu hit you who don't have eyes!" Yes! Lao Tzu dignified Young Master Xufu, you can't come to your own account to get some moon silver, what kind of thing are you, the little account man, you dare to shirk it, and obstruct it for all kinds of reasons? The tiger doesn't threaten you, and you still treat me as a sick cat! ”

Yang's tent tightened his two already red and swollen faces, which were hot and painful, but he shrank on the side of the table, looking at Xu Liang who was spitting in horror.

Xu Liang scolded for a while, and the soreness in his hands had disappeared, so he glared at Yang's tent and scolded: "Bastard, don't you hurry up and get the silver for Young Master Ben, didn't you get enough slaps?" ”

"Hmm." Yang reflexively tightened his hand covering his face, stumbled back to the table, counted ninety-six taels of silver, wrapped it in a cloth, put it on the table and pushed it in front of Xu Liang, "The money is here, you, you take it!" After speaking, he covered his face and shrank behind the table, rubbing his hands constantly.

Xu Liang grabbed the cloth bag, checked it, and scolded Yang Tent: "Things that don't have a long memory, don't you have nothing to do if you give me the silver earlier, you have to force Lao Tzu to be rough!" ”

Xu Liang had just walked to the door with a cloth bag, only to hear footsteps outside the tent, and the eldest lady's characteristic voice screamed: "No one is allowed to leave!" ”

Xu Liang paused, only to see Yang Lin, the steward of the inner courtyard, enter the courtyard gate with six inner courtyard family members, the family members stood on both sides, and the eldest lady of the Xu family compound walked in with a calm and frosty face, followed by the half-old Yang Lianhua and the Xu tent who quietly slipped away while Xu Liang and Yang were arguing.

Xu Liang was just about to speak, when he suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing around him, and saw Yang Tent, who was still rubbing his face just now, rushed to the feet of the eldest lady from behind, and let out a heart-rending wail: "Madam, you can count it, you have to be the master of the little one!" ”

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