Officials do not compete with the people for profit.

In order to let officials not be driven by interests when dealing with things, the imperial court ordered in the early years that officials should not do business. Therefore, the Shen family has been able to survive on more than 300 acres of medicinal materials on the outskirts of Jingdong for many years. These more than 300 acres of medicinal materials should be evenly distributed to the two rooms and three rooms of the big house, and each family can only exchange more than 200 taels of silver every year.

Master Shen secretly did a timber business, and the sum of the two businesses was only 1,200 taels of income per year. The family property is not abundant, and Shen Mingzhen has also restrained himself when he plays tricks on people.

I thought that this would be the end, but I never thought that the acne behind Shen Mingzhu would be good, so I came to the door and ordered her arrogantly: "Grandmother's birthday next month, I want to embroider a white crane birthday robe for her." I'm not good at embroidery, you help me embroider. ”

Shen Mingzhen: ?

"The gift you gave to your grandmother is sincere when you embroider it yourself."

"I won't! If you dare not help me embroider, I will ask my mother to deduct your mother's monthly silver this month. Your mother is so unfavored, even if she makes trouble in front of your father, only you will suffer. If you want your mother to have a good life, listen to me obediently. ”

Shen Mingzhu gained momentum, and his words lost proportion, thinking that the whole house could be left to his own control, and he naturally didn't care about Shen Mingzhen, the eldest sister.

Shen Mingzhen looked at the gift that Shen Mingzhu had prepared for the old lady, the robe had been made, only the complicated weaving and embroidery had not yet been sewn, and dozens of kinds of silk threads had been prepared. It seems that this birthday gift is destined to be a huge project.

She seemed to be convinced, and nodded, "Leave it to me." ”

After that, he motioned for Shisu to carry the things brought by the second lady into the room.

She did not slack off, and when she entered the house, she embroidered it seriously, which puzzled Shisu: "Miss, are you really going to help the second miss?" ”

Shen Mingzhen: "Since everyone else has prepared my grandmother's gift for me, why can't I do it for myself." ”

This gift, she was going to give to the old lady herself.

During this period, Shen Mingzhu would come to inspect every once in a while, seeing that she was embroidering seriously, as if she really listened to her words, and became more and more arrogant: "Don't worry, I will ask the housekeeper to send the moon silver in your mother's garden, as long as you listen to me obediently, you and your mother will not have a bad time." ”

He was threatening her again.

Shen Mingzhen has never liked threats.

She originally planned to let go of this sister, after all, she had the same blood in her bones, but she repeatedly called herself obedient like this, and her perverse attitude was really disgusting to Shen Mingzhen.

Anyway, since her father and aunt didn't care about her, she took care of their daughters for them.

Shen Mingzhen asked Shen Mingzhu, "Have you ever heard of the gold silk ring?" ”

Shen Mingzhu nodded, the famous wives and ladies in the capital will wear this kind of ring when they have a national birthday.

It is said that it was originally a gift from the great monk of the temple to the Queen Mother. The gold wire ring symbolizes the meaning of gold and wealth, and the old man wears the ring on his hand to draw a good omen.

She looked at Shen Mingzhen: "Are you asking me to make a gold wire ring for my grandmother as a birthday gift?" ”

"Exactly, the old lady hasn't worn such a ring yet."

Shen Mingzhu bent his head and thought about it, and seemed to agree with this.

The old lady has not received such a gift, and she will be the first person to give the ring, and she will definitely win the old lady's favor and shine at the birthday gift.

Shen Mingzhu walked away with the maid.

Zi Su saw that the second miss had fallen into the trap of the young lady again, and just wanted to praise the young lady. As soon as he turned his head, he saw Shen Mingzhen's frowning expression.

Shen Mingzhen had mixed feelings in her heart, she coaxed Shen Mingzhu to make a gold wire ring, and Aunt Zhu was afraid that she would spend a lot of money again.

She should be happy because she managed to take revenge on her sister. But she still feels bad, her feelings for this sister are very complicated, and she hopes that she will have a bad life, and she will not have a bad life.

In her previous life, Aunt Zhu deducted her and her mother's food and clothing, and took away the slaves who served them, so that no one served her when her mother was sick.

She remembers that when she stayed by her mother's side and saw her terminally ill and unable to do anything about it, she was about to be heartbroken.

Her dearest person was going to die, and she couldn't do anything.

It was late at night, and my mother's yard had been locked up early.

Her mother suddenly vomited blood at night, and she tried to ask her father for help, but she couldn't open the heavy door anyway.

The mother's face was very yellow, her face was full of exhaustion, she was in tears, and she was reluctant to let go of her hand: "Child, mother may be leaving, after your mother dies, you have to listen to your father and live a good life." You are your mother's heart and liver, and your mother really can't bear you. ”

Shen Mingzhen looked at her mother's desperate face: "No! ”

She climbed up, found a ladder, hurriedly climbed up, and jumped off the two-meter high wall.

Her father stayed in Aunt Zhu's courtyard, and when she stumbled over, her father didn't come out, but Shen Mingzhu walked out angrily in his underwear.

Shen Mingzhu wanted to reprimand her, but when she saw Shen Mingzhen's face, she was stunned.

Shen Mingzhen's clothes were torn because she jumped from a high wall, and her clothes were stained with a lot of dust. She wept and cried silently.

Shen Mingzhu was stunned, and after figuring out the reason, he asked the maid to take out the ginseng pieces in his room.

"I've heard people say that ginseng can kill a person. You take it back and let your mother hold it, and I'll call my father to get a doctor." ”

Shen Mingzhen hurriedly ran back with the ginseng slices, but this time someone opened the door lock early.

Only, her mother is gone.

The mother's face was still facing the door, and her arms were stretched out, as if waiting for her to return.

Shen Mingzhen cried out, her heart was as silent as death.

At that time, she hated her father and Aunt Zhu very much.

If it weren't for her father's indifference to her and her mother, her mother would not have died.

If it weren't for Aunt Zhu's order to lock the yard in the middle of the night, how could her mother be sick and not be treated.

If it weren't for the aunt's deduction of her mother's monthly silver, so that she didn't even have a good diet, how could her mother's body deteriorate.

She hated them so much that she wanted to eat them alive.

It's just that Shen Mingzhu is innocent.

In her previous life, she was like this, relying on the love of the old lady and her father, and doing evil in the house, like a little bully. She is arrogant and domineering, but she has no bad intentions.

Shen Mingzhen has always been not very disgusted with her because Shen Mingzhu borrowed ginseng films from her in her previous life.

Her sister isn't too bad, and she's relying on her sister to calculate her aunt, isn't that right?

She thought about the headache and simply didn't think about it.

Shen Mingzhen hastily sewed a few stitches to give the old lady's longevity robe, and called out to Shiso: "Let's go see my mother again." ”

The wound on Mrs. Sun's head healed a lot, and all day long, she sat in the garden making tea, admiring flowers, and basking in the sun, like a carefree old man.

Shen Mingzhen took her pulse and found that her mother was still depressed. What was she worried about?

"Mother, are you still thinking about your father?"

"I don't want to, I don't want to do it for a long time. What's so good about him, he doesn't deserve my sorrow for him. ”

Mrs. Sun's words were so strong that she didn't even notice it, and a deep sadness came out from under her nose.

Shen Mingzhen was heartbroken when she saw it.

Heart disease is also a disease, and she has to untie this knot for her mother.

She stroked her mother's hand: "Since your father doesn't like you, why does your grandfather still want your father to marry you." ”

"Because, if the Shen family marries me, they can get a good reputation of affection and righteousness in the court, and they can also win the hearts of the people more. The Sun family has failed miserably, but they still keep their promise to marry me, aren't they a model for contemporary officials? These mothers didn't understand until the second year after I entered the door, and your grandfather was ordered to be promoted from a third-grade official because of this incident. ”

It's just that his life is thin, and he died before the official admission of the court came down.

"In that case." Shen Mingzhen pinched the wording, "Why do you still miss your father?" ”

Mrs. Sun's eyes lit up, as if she recalled the time when she first met Master Shen.

"You're still young, you don't understand a word of love."

How could Shen Mingzhen not understand it, she knew it very well, but now was not the time to dwell on this.

She hoped that her mother would get better soon, since her mother still remembered her father, Shen Mingzhen thought, she still had to go to her father to talk about it. After all, it is a father who has been around for more than ten years, and he is always so stiff, and it is not very good for either side.

Shen Mingzhen did not comfort her mother, she felt that the more she comforted this kind of thing, the more sad it could only make the other party sad.

She folded a few budding flowers from the yard, inserted them into her mother's bedroom, poured a cup of tea for Mrs. Sun, and then retired.

Shen Mingzhen couldn't have imagined that Master Shen, whom she had always respected in her heart, would be such a person. If my mother hadn't married into the Shen family back then, maybe she wouldn't have been as comfortable as she is now, at least she wouldn't be as worried as she is now.

Not long after Shen Mingzhen went out, she heard the news that Aunt Zhu had ordered a gardener to plant a large number of flowers and plants in her yard.

I heard that because this aunt couldn't read the account book, she specially invited a bookkeeper into the house.

It's hell that such a person can count the Zhang in the house well.

It's not very good to visit Master Shen for no reason, she has to help her mother win back her father's heart now, if she can't redeem it, at least she can't make her mother fight her father again.

Shen Mingzhen packed up a few notebooks and came out, all of which the old man likes to read, and the book is full of flowers. Shen Mingzhen took a few stacks of chrysanthemum hawthorn cakes made by herself and went to the old lady's yard.

Mrs. Shen was drinking tea with Aunt Zhu, and Shen Mingzhu was sitting under the old lady's knees, with a piece of sugar in her mouth, and she was talking to the old lady vaguely, which made the old lady and Aunt Zhu laugh loudly.

They were happy, as if they were a family.

Master Shen sat in a corner of the room, holding a pen, not knowing what he was writing.

Shen Mingzhen smiled and saluted: "Say hello to my grandmother's parents." ”

The old lady was in a good mood, looked at her, and told her to get up.

Before Shen Mingzhen put down the dim sum she had made, she heard Aunt Zhu's yin and yang strange voice: "I thought the eldest lady had taken something good for the old lady, but it turned out to be just an ordinary chrysanthemum hawthorn cake." This hawthorn cake is also eaten by the people, how can the eldest lady be filial to the old lady and not take some valuable food? ”

"Chrysanthemum hawthorn cake clears heat and detoxifies, and it is good to restrain it, and it is very suitable for grandmother to eat. It's just food, but also to divide the high and low? ”

Aunt Zhu glanced at her: "Of course, the old lady's body is so expensive." ”

Turning her head, she looked at the old lady and smiled: "I will invite the chef who is good at making dim sum from Fanghuazhai tomorrow to make golden pine cake for my mother." When you bite into this pastry, you will have a faint floral fragrance that fills your mouth, and it is very delicious, and my mother should try it well. ”

Old Mrs. Shen smiled happily: "Okay...... Okay, Aunt Zhu really has a heart. ”

Shen Mingzhen stood with a smile, unmoved.

Aunt Zhu is really in charge of the house, and her hands and feet are becoming more and more generous.

Very good.

She really wanted to see how much money could be lost in the account books of the mansion by the end of the month, according to Aunt Zhu's housekeeper's method.