Great Qi Dynasty, the capital, Xuanhe Hou Mansion

Inside the Wenxi Hall

"Old lady, I really can't help it, the public treasury in our house is really empty, and I have been selling my dowry for the past six months to maintain it.

But now my dowry is ......"

As soon as Qiao Mu woke up, he saw a woman sitting on her left hand talking about the difficulties of the family with a sad face, and looked up at her face from time to time when she spoke.

"It's already here?

Don't worry, I just want to see how many things you put into it, and I didn't say that the housekeeper's daughter-in-law still has to put the dowry in it, and after I verify it, I will try to make up for your dowry.

I see that you have been worrying a lot about this matter these days, and you look older than in the past, so let's take a break for a while, and wait until I finish reading the ledger to see if there is any way to open up sources and reduce expenditure, and then talk about it, otherwise this is a bottomless pit.

You go get the account book first, tidy it up a little and then bring it over, I'll rest for a while, and I'll look at the account book after I have enough spirits, and think about the future. ”

Qiao Mu urgently needed to guide the memory of the original body at this time, and along with the desire to understand the original body, so he planned to send this woman who didn't know how many daughters-in-law she was, and who should theoretically be the eldest daughter-in-law.

"Yes, old lady, I'll go."

Xiao's face was overjoyed, and he was glad that the housekeeper's mess in the house could finally be thrown out, and after answering, he retired and left, planning to go back and quickly pack up the account books of the past few years and bring them over.

The work of being in charge of the family is a good job, and it is also the eldest son and daughter-in-law who should do it, but it also depends on whether the family has money or not, and the family has money, so it is naturally easy to take charge of the family, after all, the things in the back house can be done well with money, but I am afraid that there is no money, and the four words are applicable wherever people are poor, even if they are placed in the country, they are also applicable. These can't be bad, if it's a lot worse, then I don't know how to be ridiculed by other people, just like some little stars, even if you don't have any money in your hand, you have to buy a famous brand, and you have to find a way to rent it, which is the surface is glamorous.

The same is true of their nobles.

No matter how poor the family is, the superficial glory must be maintained, otherwise it will be a shame.

Slap a swollen face and become fat, that's about it.

After Qiao Mu left with her daughter-in-law, she hurriedly ordered the maid who was waiting, saying that she would go to lie down on the side and rest for a while, and sent the two maids who were waiting out when she was resting.

It is better to accept the memory so as not to be disturbed.

Half an hour later, Qiao Mu finally straightened out the memories of the original body for more than sixty years.

The original body is from the Wu family in northern Hebei, and she is considered to be the daughter of a family of years, although it is not as good as the top family like the five surnames and seven wangs, but it is also one of the best in northern Hebei, just because the last Hou of the Xuanhe Hou Mansion, that is, the original father-in-law went out to fight, and saved the eldest son of the Wu family in northern Hebei.

Although the original body was a little disappointed that he did not marry a certain talent or champion, but because of his upbringing since childhood, there was no room for opposition, so he naturally married honestly, but after marrying in, he knew that their military general's family was chaotic.

The family is extravagant in daily life, and it is even more common to visit the green building and spend money like dirt, but because these military generals and ancestors robbed many young and old things when they followed Emperor Taizu to fight the world, and even the palace of the previous dynasty was robbed by them and divided a lot, so although it was extravagant, it could also get by, and after the original body gave birth to a son and a daughter, she no longer cared about how many concubines her husband accepted.

But it is precisely because of this that the root cause is planted.

Of course, this bane does not refer to how restless those concubines are, or that they want to assassinate the original body and the children of the original body, in fact, those concubines are very peaceful, but the key is that the husband of the original body is a martial artist, or a martial artist who has not been injured much and is very healthy, and those concubines have not been poured with the original body to kill the child, as a result, they are desperately born, so that ten years later, the original body already has a son, a daughter, two concubines, and thirty-six concubines, of which there are sixteen concubines, and the remaining twenty are concubines.

Attention, these thirty or so are just the children of the original husband, the original husband is not an only son, he also has a younger brother and two sisters, as well as six brothers and nine sisters, the younger sister doesn't matter, all of them have been married, but because the parents are not separated, more than 20 years ago, the brothers of the original husband lived in the Hou Mansion.

At that time, the generation of the original children, regardless of the sum of men and women, totaled more than 100, and in the end, the courtyard in the Hou Mansion was not enough to live, so they could only live in a room, sleep in bunk beds, and eat as if they were fighting, in short, it was very chaotic.

After the death of the original father-in-law and mother-in-law, the house was able to be opened, but this house was only open compared to the past when there were more than 100 masters, and compared with those families with few heirs, the house was still very crowded.

When the family first separated, the Hou Mansion still had a little money.

But don't forget, there are still twenty concubines and one concubine to marry out of the original body, and then there are sixteen concubines to marry, and the age between these concubines and concubines is still about the same, almost all of them have to be completed within five years, not to mention how much it costs to get married, just the amount of gold and silver required for these twenty-one dowries and seventeen dowries is an extremely terrifying number.

Seeing so many things, and when he had to pay so much money, the original body really regretted that his intestines were green, and he couldn't wait to strangle a few on the spot.

It was not until that time that the original body understood why many housewives of noble families in the capital wanted to give medicine to the concubines below, if they really didn't give medicine and let them live, it would really be a hole that couldn't fill the dowry with thousands of family wealth.

Of course, if the original body remembers to leave the man's dowry when marrying his daughter, then, although he still has to pay a lot of money out, it will not empty the family.

But the original body wants to save face.

In order not to embarrass his own daughter, it is naturally impossible to leave the dowry sent by his son-in-law.

So, I can only slap my swollen face and become fat.

After the original body completed the marriage of all the children, the Hou Mansion was almost empty, and later it still relied on the original body to sell the dowry and open sources and reduce expenditure, so that it could support it for more than ten years.

But four years ago, the original body couldn't hold on, and the dowry was basically emptied, so he had no choice but to give the mess to his eldest daughter-in-law, that is, his eldest daughter-in-law.