Xie Shurou picked up a bargain.

After Xie Changjing heard that Princess Pingyang planned to send Mu Hongshang on the expedition in person, he almost choked on a sip of wine into his trachea, and he coughed vigorously for a long time before he came to his senses. Xie Shurou seemed to think that Xie Changjing was not embarrassed enough, so she deliberately stood up and gave him a blessing, and said, "Father, Princess Pingyang is going to send Sister Mu tomorrow!" ”

The implication is obvious, didn't your old man just criticize the city gate in the past and send the generals out of line? Now that other princesses have to send it, you have the ability to criticize the princess for ignoring etiquette.

Xie Changjing is so smart, of course he can hear the sarcasm in his daughter's words, he is so angry, but he is choked by his daughter and has nothing to say. Princess Pingyang may not have been sent by the emperor to send Miss Mu on the expedition! Could it be that he can still sit at home and scold the emperor for ignoring etiquette and rules?

Grandma Xie looked at her husband and daughter, and hurriedly smiled and played a round: "Okay! Rou'er is so old, and now that she is about to get married, she is still naughty and making fun of your father. It's not early, you go back, rest early, and you have to get up early tomorrow. Grandmother told me to dress up carefully, and tomorrow you should dress solemnly, and don't be rude in front of the princess. ”

Grandma Xie gave the steps, Xie Shurou naturally accepted it when she saw it, she saluted Xie Changjing and his wife, and then slipped away quickly.

Seeing her daughter leaving, Grandma Xie picked up the wine glass and began to coax her husband: "Okay, how can my husband be like a child, what do you care about your daughter." Rou'er, that's kidding you. ”

"Humph!" Xie Changjing snorted coldly and directly pushed away the wine in Grandma Xie's hand. But Grandma Xie still looked good-natured, and continued to persuade softly: "Husband, think about it, Rou'er has grown up so big, and she has always been obedient and well-behaved, can she not take what you say to heart?" Rou'er is getting married, and she hasn't stayed at home for long, so she won't be able to be with us as a couple for much time. The girl's family, occasionally willful, is not an exaggeration, the husband just thinks of her as coquettish. ”

Xie Changjing glanced at Grandma Xie, and didn't know what she thought, so she nodded very eloquently: "Forget it, don't talk about this." What happened to the family's accounts? ”

"It's a lot and it's a lot of things, and it will take a few days." Grandma Xie sighed: "Our family has always filed taxes according to my father's official position, and even the private property of ourselves and several brothers is the same, so it is troublesome to sort it out separately at the moment." There is more than one official in our Xie family, and he can't donate this tax alone. ”

"yes." Xie Changjing nodded: "According to my grade, it's too little and it's not decent." ”

"Therefore, for the time being, I can only instruct the accounts to calculate all the accounts first," Grandma Xie replied, "How to donate this silver at that time will have to wait for my father and mother to show me." ”

"Alas!" Xie Changjing frowned and shook his head and sighed: "Wen Bin too, what kind of idea is this!" It's just looking for trouble. The old lady of the Anguo Mansion carried a year's tax silver to the court, which was to force the courtiers to donate silver to support the northern border in the name of paying military contributions. Who doesn't understand this? The imperial court is fighting, the treasury is short of silver, and we are not unwilling, what do we have to do according to the Anguo Mansion, according to the number of family properties? It's not that I can't give the money, and it's not that I won't give it. If I can save this trouble, I would like to donate more! ”

"Isn't Lord Jiang also kind!" Grandma Xie replied: "The situation of each family of the court officials is different, and our family is naturally willing to donate more, so what can officials from poor families do?" If you donate too much, you can't get it, and if you donate less, I'm afraid it will cause people to talk, and it's actually right to have a charter. But what the husband said is right, Master Jiang's method is really too troublesome. ”

"That's it!" Xie Changjing nodded: "Wen Bin, this person, is good anywhere, but this head is often not open." Doesn't the donation of money from each household have to be handed over to their household in the end? If he has to calculate the tax and silver according to the family property, this is actually asking for trouble for himself. I don't know what he thinks. ”

"Probably not wanting to offend people?" Grandma Xie thought about it and said, "He is the head of the household, and the matter of urging his colleagues to donate is naturally his." It's a good thing to get money out of people's pockets, and it's easier for him to talk about having a charter. ”

"Then why do you have such a troublesome charter?" Xie Changjing frowned and replied: "Such a toss has caused a lot of trouble for every family, according to me, there are only a lot more people who scold him behind his back." Alas! Forget it, he won't listen to persuasion anyway. This person has always been a tendon. ”

"Don't say that," Grandma Xie said with a smile: "Master Jiang is a household secretary, and he needs to take the lead in donating money, but he himself is not well off in Beijing." Right now, he has a second-class official residence, if several Shangshu adults donate a thousand taels of silver, what can you let him do! ”

"Look for me." Xie Changjing replied with a righteous face: "After so many years of friends, can I still let him lose this face?" ”

"Husband's words are not right," Grandma Xie shook her head: "Master Jiang's personality is understood by Husband. How embarrassed is he to reach out to you for such a thing. ”

"Alas! Aren't I worried about him, too? Xie Changjing sighed heavily: "He has not been in charge of the household department for two days, and he has started to do such things that offend people, and he doesn't want to think about his career future." Li Xiang stared at him day by day, he didn't say that he was cautious in his words and deeds, but did things so publicly, isn't that a ready-made handle for people! ”

"I know that my husband is anxious for Lord Jiang." Grandma Xie said with a smile: "But when it comes to donations, didn't the emperor support the household department!" ”

"That's his luck! This time, there is the Anguo Mansion standing in front of the wind and rain," Xie Changjing shook his head: "Didn't you see that Old Madam Mu even gave up her granddaughter in order to raise more military funds and solve the dilemma in the north?" However, such good things do not happen all the time. If the war in the north does not end for a day, the pressure on the household department will not be reduced, and at the moment he is carrying the household department like a thunder, and he can't tell when it will explode. Who knows if he will have such good dog luck next time. No, I still have to persuade him not to be so impulsive in the future. ”

"Isn't there already a proposal for peace?" Grandma Xie said.

"Just look at the emperor's attitude," Xie Changjing replied, "If the emperor wants to negotiate peace, why send a girl to fight?" This is clearly for those who want to discuss and the gang. Alas! Energy consumption is one day at a time! ”