Shen Mingzhen went back to the inn with Imperial Doctor Hu.

Several people ordered a table of good wine and food, gathered around to eat, and the master took Shen Mingzhen's hand: "If the Shen family is not happy, your master and I will find a reason to call you out and let you come to my Hu family to live."

Your senior brother and your master both bought a two-entry courtyard not far from the imperial city, although it is not too big, but it is always not a problem to add you one. ”

Hu Lewei echoed on the side: "If my junior sister comes, I should vacate the yard for my junior sister to live in." ”

He lowered his head to eat the food, and a blush appeared on his face.

Shen Mingzhen was moved by this warmth, and she was about to cry part-time.

Shi Niang laughed at her: "How old is the child still crying, there is not enough time, let your senior brother send you back." There are still many things waiting for you in the Shen Mansion. ”

Shen Mingzhen should go down.

got out of the carriage and entered the side door of the Shen Mansion, where Hu Lewei was still looking at her.

Zi Su quipped on the side: "Miss is like a flower like jade, and Hu Gongzi is a beautiful woman with green leaves and flowers." ”

Shen Mingzhen smiled and slapped Zi Su on the shoulder.

The porter was shocked when he saw her walk in from the outside, and told her secretly: "Miss, someone from the official mansion came just now, I don't know what I said, the lord is very angry, and he has called the old lady, Aunt Zhu, and Mrs. Sun into the main hall of the Shen Mansion, and now I am waiting for you alone." ”

Shen Mingzhen nodded.

In the main hall of the Shen family, Master Shen sat on the main seat. The old lady and Aunt Zhu sat on the side, bowing their heads and not speaking. After a while, Aunt Zhu lowered her head and cried, and sat down at the feet of Master Shen with a thud: "Master, this matter is not the fault of the concubine alone, and the concubine body also did this at the behest of the old lady."

If the more than 900 taels of silver are borne by the concubine alone, how can the concubine bear it. ”

"If you can't afford it, you'll go to jail. Just go to prison, even the reputation of my Shen family will be damaged along with you, and it is difficult to hope for this master's promotion this year. ”

Master Shen threw the small table beside him out.

The table quickly fell apart.

He looked at his mother, who was sitting next to him silently: "Mother, it's not me who lost my temper with you. As an elder, how can you be as knowledgeable as Shen Mingzhen's junior, not to mention that this child has always been very well-behaved. It's not good for her, she's also your granddaughter. ”

Shen Mingzhen walked in just in time.

She heard the old lady say; "As long as Shen Mingzhen doesn't sue us, don't you have to go to the official office? As her father, if you don't let her go, she will always listen to you. ”

"Grandmother was wrong.

If the granddaughter doesn't have the silver from the jewelry store next door, the granddaughter still has to be in the yamen, and at that time, it will not only be the granddaughter that will be involved, but also the old lady What you and Aunt Zhu did to the granddaughter will be sent to the yamen and let thousands of ordinary people know. ”

It's only three hundred taels of silver.

The old lady was angry: "Let your father help you pay it back, my son, how many taels of silver are still in the Shen family's account?" ”

Master Shen glanced at Mrs. Sun, and Mrs. Sun's face was embarrassed: "It's only half past this year, and the silver collected by the house is more than 700 taels, and the concubine used more than 300 taels when she was the housekeeper, and Aunt Zhu spent more than 300 taels when she was in charge, and now, the Shen family has no extra silver."

Don't hide it from the old lady and the master, these days, the Shen family has always relied on Mingzhen's income in the shop. ”

What the?

This incident caused a monstrous wave.

Old Madam Shen and Old Man Shen took the account book and flipped through it again and again before they accepted Mrs. Sun's statement with difficulty.

Old Madam Shen looked at Shen Mingzhen: "How much more silver taels did you earn from opening a store?" ”

Shen Mingzhen did have nearly three hundred taels of silver, but she didn't want to take it out.

"Back to my grandmother, the money Mingzhen has earned these days is basically pressed on the goods in the store, and after this time, the maids and maids in the shop have no livelihood. The granddaughter gave each of them ten taels of silver to clean up the shop.

Right now, there are only a few dozen taels of silver left in his hand. ”

"Then why don't you just withdraw the case? Why do you want to involve me and your Aunt Zhu. ”

"Grandmother, if you don't return the compensation from the jewelry store to others, our Shen family will be inescapable. Moreover, your granddaughter's shop was maliciously prevented by you and Aunt Zhu, and the loss was heavy, didn't grandmother want to pay for it? ”

"What do you mean?"

Seeing that he was about to quarrel, Master Shen hurriedly threw a teacup, so that the two sides calmed down.

This incident was originally something wrong with Mother and Aunt Zhu.

It's just that in the current situation of the Shen family, where did he go to borrow more than three hundred taels of silver?

The big room and the three rooms can be taken to himself, but if he talks about it, he will inevitably make the people in the two rooms laugh.

Right now, I can only start from the courtyard of Old Madam Shen and Aunt Zhu.

There are a lot of treasures in the yard of both of them, even if only half of them are sold, it is enough for the jewelry store to compensate.

Master Shen said he would do it, pulled the housekeeper, and turned from Aunt Zhu's yard to Mrs. Shen's yard, and finally found more than fifty valuables.

Old Madam Shen looked at it from the side, and she was very distressed.

"It's better to sell half of it, right?"

"It's all sold." Shen Mingzhen stood up: "Father, it's not that I mean to embarrass you. It's just that Mingzhen suffered a heavy loss this time, and the store lost more than 600 taels of silver, most of which were dried fruits sent by uncles from afar.

You know that these dried fruits are already very expensive and sell at a high price.

Mingzhen hasn't settled the accounts for the dried fruit for her uncles yet. It's not Mingzhen's fault at this time, you can't ......"

is so partial to the old lady of God, and ignores her own daughter.

"You are presumptuous!" Old Lady Shen was furious.

"If grandmother wants to go to the yamen with Aunt Zhu, Mingzhen won't say anything."

Master Shen pushed Mrs. Shen and asked her to say less.

It was the old lady Shen who saw that Shen Mingzhen's business was doing well, and felt that this granddaughter's wings were stiff, so she no longer listened to her own words, so she came up with the idea.

She is ruthless and unrighteous first, how can she blame Shen Mingzhen.

If they don't even agree to their granddaughter's request, Mrs. Shen and Aunt Zhu are afraid that they will really want to enter the yamen.

Master Shen waved his hand to let people carry these things away: "Carry it away, carry it away." ”

After that, he looked at Aunt Zhu and the old lady: "Let's disperse." ”

Master Shen was ashamed of Shen Mingzhen and Mrs. Sun, and the next day he held a silver ticket and sent it to Shen Mingzhen in person. In front of him, Shen Mingzhen asked someone to send some of the silver tickets to the jewelry store, and some of the silver tickets to his uncles.

She left fifty taels for Master Shen: "Father, you have this money, you can't let our family drink the northwest wind." ”

Although there are few people in the second room, the monthly silver of the people under each month adds up to more than 20 taels.

Every month, the necessary expenses in the government, such as flowers and plants to remove insects, repair the road surface, these are at least nine taels.

In addition to these, there are only a dozen taels left, and there are still a lot of food and drinks for this big family. It's really hard.

Master Shen thought for a while and told the housekeeper to postpone the distribution of the people's monthly silver. And from today onwards, only one meat and two vegetarian dishes are allowed on the table of the masters, and the next people will have a vegetarian meal with pickles.

Where did Mrs. Shen suffer this sin, she couldn't stand it after only two days of eating.

The ducks sent from the kitchen are all bought at special prices, and the meat is old and woody, and the cooking is not delicious, and it is simply difficult to swallow.

Aunt Zhu's is even worse. Master Shen thought she was the culprit, and he didn't even give her meat, and Aunt Zhu only had a bowl of Chinese cabbage to eat at each meal.

Eat cabbage and turn people into rabbits.

After Shen Mingzhen found out, she specially called ten dishes and two soups from the restaurant and placed them in the pavilion of the Shen Mansion.

Eight treasure lotus seed soup, hot and sour chicken, sweet and sour tenderloin, steamed small yellow croaker...... Slowly got on the table.

The fragrance soon attracted Shen Mingzhu, who shrank behind the pillars of the pavilion and asked her in a low voice, "Big sister, can I have dinner with you?" ”

The cabbage in Aunt Zhu's yard, she really didn't want to eat it.

"Of course." Shen Mingzhen presented her a bowl of chicken soup and handed it to Shen Mingzhu: "This is the chicken soup made by the chef in the capital, with bird's nest and ginseng added to it, which can not only replenish the body, but also beautify the skin, my sister should drink more." ”

She sandwiched another chopsticks to grill fish to Shen Mingzhu: "This is a special grilled fish, using the freshest fish, it tastes refreshing and delicious, my sister eats more." ”

Shen Mingzhu stuffed the slow food in her mouth, and thanked Shen Mingzhen while eating: "Thank you, sister." ”

When she goes back, she will definitely let Aunt Zhu sell the pearl red gold chuan that she secretly hidden, and eat delicious food every day like her sister.

It's all to blame Aunt Zhu and the old lady, if they didn't have to hurt Shen Mingzhen, how could they have worked so hard.

Forget the hard work, and clothing, food, housing and transportation will be affected.

It's horrible. Shen Mingzhu secretly hated the old lady a little more in his heart.