"You haven't been a homemaker, you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are, do you think that the money you add is all picked up on the street?"

I didn't want to be more than that, but the eldest brother actually taught him a lesson with words: "Do you know that the few taels of silver you gave out casually are enough for an ordinary family to spend a year." If you don't believe me, you can ask the farmers in our village, who work long hours in our house and earn only a few taels of silver a month. ”

Wei Minwen really went to inquire, and then he learned that ordinary long-term workers do a month, and generally only 2 to 3 taels of silver.

If the big family is generous and gives some reward, there may be 3 to 4 taels of silver. And it doesn't have to be every month.

That is to say, even if it is full and calculated, for 12 months a year, a long-term worker can only earn 48 taels of silver.

"How do you know so well?"

Wei Minsen looked proud: "I used to bet with a few buddies, and I went to ask." ”

Wei Minwen was a little speechless: "It turned out to be a bet, I thought you knew what you were doing seriously." ”

"What's wrong with the bets? Do you know how much money I earned when I won a bet? ”

"You're about to fall into the eyes of money."

"Hey! You don't belong to your family, you haven't earned your own money, and you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are. You can earn hundreds of taels of silver by making a bet, do you know how many things you can buy with a few hundred taels of silver? ”

"A fan? It's still an ordinary kind, if it's more expensive, it's possible to have a few thousand taels of silver. ”

……

Yang Xiangwei was a little troubled by the quarrel between the two of them, and directly ordered: "Since you two are so idle, then investigate the prices of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, cabbage, radish, eggs, and meat in the kitchen." Remember, you are not allowed to ask the maids and servants in the house, you yourself take the servants to the bazaar in the south and ask. ”

When Wei Minwen heard this, he immediately frowned: "Mother, this ...... This is too insulting, how can I go to that kind of place as a scholar? ”

"What's wrong with that place? You don't have to eat and drink Lazar? Where did all the things you eat come from, do you think they fell from the sky? Hurry up, if the investigation is not clear, you two will not come back tonight. Yang Xiangwei drove them away directly.

Although Wei Minsen also felt a little embarrassed to go to that place, as soon as he was accompanied by the second child, he suddenly felt that it didn't matter.

Hahahahaha...... No matter how embarrassed you are, can you have a second child to lose face?

Puff –

As long as he thinks that when the second child goes back to be an official in the future, his colleagues will probably laugh him to death if they know that he has been to such a bad place.

Don't you know that there is a saying that "nobles don't step on the ground"?

Probably, Wei Minwen at this time didn't expect that one day in the future, the reason for his promotion was - when the emperor inadvertently asked how much an egg was, he said two pennies.

"How do you know it's two pennies?"

Wei Minwen, who said that he was leaking, suddenly thought - he can't say that he has been to that kind of indiscriminate place before, right?

The emperor's expression was serious: "Say." ”

Wei Minwen didn't dare to deceive the emperor at all, and there were other officials in the court, thinking that they probably had another reason to laugh at him, and said with some embarrassment: "The minister used to go to the bazaar in the south with his brother, and the old woman who sold eggs said it herself. ”

"You actually went to that place?!" The Emperor was surprised.

Wei Minwen's expression became more and more embarrassed.

The Emperor then asked the others if they knew that eggs were worth two cents in the bazaar.

Few of the officials present knew about it.

The emperor didn't know why, so he suddenly got angry: "Okay, good, good, you are all good officials of mine, people who work for the imperial court, and you don't even know the real price of an egg?" Is this how you were fooled by the people below and turned around and fooled me again?! ”

Everyone was scolded, except for Wei Minwen.

In fact, from beginning to end, he didn't know what was going on, and he didn't understand why the emperor was suddenly angry.

How much is an egg worth and does it matter?

If it weren't for the fact that he and his eldest brother were suppressed by their mother with filial piety and forced to go to the market that day, I am afraid that he would never have gone to that place in his life, and he would never have had the opportunity to know that an egg is only worth two cents.

Until the next day, he heard the news that the emperor, by means of bloody repression, had purged the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Wei Minwen suddenly remembered that after he went to the market with his eldest brother, he came back to clean the kitchen of the Weihou Mansion, procurement and other things for the maids and slaves.

At that time, he and his eldest brother were really mad, and they even forgot about the struggle between brothers, and for the first time they worked together to do one thing - to deal with these bold and deceived guys.

Hemp!

A two-penny egg, the account reported by the purchase is actually two taels of silver.

"I'm! Uncle, when I was spending money outside, I was still scheming with others for a tael of silver, they were good, the family gave birth to slaves, and even their lives belonged to the master, and they dared to lie more than ten times, and deceived Lao Tzu of so much silver......"

"Lao Tzu wants to report to the official!"

"If Lao Tzu doesn't kill these rabbit cubs, Lao Tzu won't be surnamed Wei."

……

Wei Minwen was more rational and said: "Let's talk to my mother about this matter and see what my mother means." ”

"What do you mean? Didn't my mother ask us to look into this matter, and my mother shouldn't have known about it earlier? Wei Minsen thought that since his mother had already known, she should have handed over this matter to them to deal with.

Wei Minwen glanced at him and said, "Just the two of us, can we handle this matter cleanly and not leak a little rumor?" ”

"I ......" Wei Minsen wants to be atmospheric, Lao Tzu Xing.

But soon, he was deflated, because he knew that he had a few pounds and a few taels, and small things were okay, but it was really difficult to deal with such a big thing without leaking a little rumor.

After not wanting to report, Yang Xiangwei just asked them with a faint expression: "Just deal with a few kitchen and procurement?" ”

Wei Minsen was at a loss: "Then what else do you have to deal with?" Mother, if you have anything to say, you know that your eldest son is not smart enough, and now he is going around and around, and he is confusing me. ”

"What's the hurry? Go, secretly borrow a few people from the eldest lady, find out all the big and small maids and servants in the house, and come and tell me when the time comes. ”

Wei Minwen and Wei Minsen were sent away like this.

Wei Minsen was still a little incredulous: "Mother just doesn't care? She just sent us away? ”

Wei Minwen was a little silent.

"Hey! You speak, haven't you read books and have a smarter brain, can you tell me what the hell is going on? ”

"Since Mother told us to do this, it must make sense. Big brother, let's go find my sister-in-law. Wei Minwen felt that compared with the eldest brother who bombed Huhu, it was more reliable to be a sister-in-law from a scholarly family.

Later, when the eldest lady heard this, although she was a little surprised, she quickly understood what the old lady meant, and explained the old lady's meaning to them.