"Is this like a word?"

"At the bottom of our family, can we afford to raise two maids?"

When Mrs. Xu heard Old Man Xu's suggestion, her first reaction was to shake her head.

There is some money in the house, and there is money to buy two maids.

But people like them don't have a stumbling life, but they are not very rich. After all, there is a Xu Laosan who is still studying, and this year, it costs a lot of money to study.

Not to mention things such as pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, just the cost of each time to catch the exam, it is an expense for ordinary people.

The old Xu family has saved some silver over the years, and this time there are fifty taels of Xu Laosan's account, but it will be a long time to come.

Even if Xu Laosan is admitted to Xiucai next year, if he wants to be successful, he has to continue to take the exam.

If you pass the exam, you should go to Beijing to take the exam, and the cost will be even greater.

Well, the Wang family is low-married, and he brought a lot of dowry silver. But that is the Wang's private house and the silver on his side, which is the foundation for a woman to settle down in her in-law's house.

When the old Xu family was in the most difficult time, the old lady Xu used it as her own jewelry, and she never spent a penny of dowry silver for her three daughters-in-law.

This is the foundation for her old lady to stand up in front of her daughter-in-law!

That is, their family is not prosperous now, and in the future, the old lady will have to write this into the family rules of the old Xu family.

The daughter-in-law's dowry silver is the daughter-in-law's own private house and body silver, and all the children and women of the Xu family, if there are those who covet the daughter-in-law's dowry silver, they are not worthy of being the wife of the Xu family.

Whether it is a man or a woman, you have to have a bit of backbone.

This is the backbone of Mrs. Xu.

"You should be able to afford it!"

Old Man Xu smiled, "Our family's luck is too strong, I thought, when the spring begins, I will go to the town to get a shop, just sell some food or something, and the ingredients are grown by our own family, but we hire someone to process it, the cost is not much, and the wages earned to get rid of the cook and run the hall, the rest is ours!" ”

"Aren't we a merchant family?"

Mrs. Xu was stunned, a little embarrassed, "The third child wants to study, if our family becomes a businessman's family......"

"Daughter-in-law, you don't know about this!"

Old Man Xu smiled, "Shinong businessmen, like those who do small business, such as opening a shop and walking the streets and alleys, are actually not businessmen." ”

"We're still farmers!"

"After all, what we grow, what we get from hunting and fishing, also has to be sold. It's just a different way to sell, don't worry, I value it much more than you! ”

"If that's the case, open a shop, open a shop!"

Mrs. Xu was also relieved when she listened to Old Man Xu's explanation.

In this regard, Old Man Xu didn't care at all.

Shinong Industry and Commerce? As long as the third child is out, his family will be a taxi. Everything else has become a side story. Besides, the new dynasty did not attach as much importance to the division of Shinong industry and commerce as the previous dynasty.

On the contrary, the new dynasty also encouraged commerce.

I heard that there was a maritime merchant who made a lot of money when he came back from a trip to sea.

It's a pity that the risks at sea are unpredictable, some people go to sea to return to glorify their ancestors, and some people are left with no bones.

Old man Xu didn't have any big ambitions, and he didn't want to glorify the lintel of the old Xu family, and he could live this rich little life, his wish was fulfilled.

It's good to be a little rich!

Thinking about it like this, Master Xu didn't have much to worry about.

As the old saying goes, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge.