Chapter One Hundred and Four
To tell the truth, Jiang Xuehe also went back to the academy in the town not for his two younger brothers, but for Jiang Qingya. Because Jiang Qingya intended to go to the academy in the county, Jiang Xuehe went to the academy in the town to ask him about his progress. Because they were all cousins, she asked for the results of the other two cousins by the way. This look shocked Jiang Xuehe, she found that Jiang Qingsen's grades were getting worse and worse, from the original twenty to more than seventy, while Jiang Qingmao was getting better and better, from the original fifty to more than a dozen.
This made Jiang Xuehe very surprised, so although the two sons both went to the same academy, the Lin family always boasted about Jiang Qingsen the most, saying that Jiang Qingsen studied seriously, and when he was first admitted to the academy, he was in his twenties, and later there were more and more powerful students in the academy, and he could continue to maintain this name, and even make progress slowly. As for Jiang Qingmao, although he didn't say anything bad about Jiang Qingmao, the mood to show off was a lot lighter, and he only said that although this kid was serious, he was actually not very talented, so he could barely learn.
Because the Lin family has always said that, every time Jiang Qingsen reported his results, Jiang Qingmao never refuted it, Jiang Xuehe thought that although Jiang Qingsen was not very good, he was okay to read, although Jiang Qingmao was quite honest, he was a little bad at reading, who would have thought that Jiang Qingsen's grades had been hovering in the seventies as early as the year before? It's Jiang Qingmao who has been rising, but no one at home knows about it.
Jiang Xuehe was very surprised at the time, but she never liked to touch the affairs of the big house, so she didn't say anything. I told Hu Xiaohong this time, and it was also to divert Hu Xiaohong's attention.
Jiang Meihua's face was not very good when she heard this: "I don't know how Brother Sen is studying now, but when he was first admitted, he was indeed stronger than Brother Mao, so my mother has always been more partial to Brother Sen, thinking that he can shine on the lintel." If he really secretly changed his ranking with Brother Mao, he really had to talk to his mother about it. ”
Hu Xiaohong hurriedly said: "It's not, the eldest sister will take me to their academy another day to have a look, you are still familiar with the town." ”
Jiang Meihua nodded, her face became more and more solemn, and Jiang Xuehe was even more satisfied when she saw it.
Speaking of which, if it was just her mother's younger brother who didn't learn well, although Jiang Meihua was worried, her face would not be so dignified. But she also has a five-year-old son, and she asked Jiang Qingsen to help enlighten her last year. Although there are two brothers who study in the family, everyone has always thought that Jiang Qingsen is better at reading, and Jiang Meihua gave a lot of silver in order to let her brother, who has always been arrogant, enlighten his son. If her brother had already learned badly, then it would be a big trouble for her to lose money, and it would be a big trouble for her brother to teach her son badly.
Jiang Meihua has always regarded her son as the meat of her heart, but she can't tolerate a little mistake, Jiang Xuehe also knows this, so after explaining Jiang Qingsen's affairs, she can get peace on both sides.
Jiang Han smiled and was very surprised to see that Jiang Xuehe was a lot quieter on both sides, and after lunch, he asked Jiang Xuehe how he did it, and Jiang Xuehe smiled and told the truth.
Jiang Han pouted after hearing this: "It's also that the eldest aunt is too partial, no matter what the fourth cousin says, he will believe it." In my opinion, there are two people in their big house, one is the big sister, and the other is Brother Mao. ”
Jiang Xuehe also felt that Jiang Meihua was okay, at least Jiang Meihua's request to her was not excessive, and Jiang Meihua had not offended her personally, so she originally thought that although she couldn't take the flower cake to Jiang Meihua to sell, it was okay to help think of other ideas. It's just that today she was attacked by Jiang Meihua and Hu Xiaohong on both sides, so she had to solve it together.
As for Jiang Qingmao, Jiang Xuehe didn't have much contact with him, and he had the impression that he was a cousin who didn't talk much, and he looked honest and wooden on the outside, which was a bit similar to Uncle Jiang's third uncle. But Jiang Qingmao came out of the big house, Jiang Xuehe didn't trust the big house, so he always wondered if Jiang Qingmao was hiding a traitor inside.
"After the second sister-in-law finds out about Brother Sen'er's affairs, the big house must be very lively, and we can just watch the play then." Jiang Han smiled and said, "The eldest aunt has always been partial to Brother Sen, even if Brother Sen really only took the seventy-odd exams, and his mind would have been stopped on studying, it would be impossible for the eldest aunt to ask him to drop out of school." But where is the Hu family getting along? Our second sister-in-law is even more spicy, and when the time comes, the big house will be jumping all day long! ”
Jiang Xuehe also smiled: "Then I have to take Xiaozhu Xiaoliu back home, so as not to be affected." ”
"That's right, I see that grandma is quite concerned about Xiaozhu Xiaoliu's reading situation now, and she will definitely be able to successfully take them away under this excuse." Jiang Han smiled and said that he was not very happy: "But that house is obviously a second room, why do the people in the big room live in it all the time?" There are also those lands in the second room, although the people in the big house dare not dominate, but they don't let the fourth sister use it, and they keep saying that married women can't take advantage of their mother's family, how can anyone do this? ”
Jiang Xuehe was also a little depressed, the land that her father and mother bought was basically used as a flower field, and she didn't take care of it much this year. If you don't take care of it next year, I'm afraid it will be scrapped. But the people in the big house can't take care of it themselves, and she is not allowed to interfere, if she doesn't find a way to stop it, they are afraid that they will have to rent out all the land, and then she will not be able to keep the flowers and plants left by her father.
Speaking of which, when the second room was developed, in fact, a lot of land was bought for the big house and the third room, but it was mainly mountainous, not field, because the second room was to plant flowers, and the field was useless to them. At that time, Pei's also made it clear that this land was given to them, but he hoped that they could start this flower and herb business together as a family.
When the big house first received the land, he hurriedly transferred the house, for fear that Jiang Ershan and his wife would regret it. At first, they listened to the second room and began to plant trees in these mountains like the third room, and they were all peach trees, pear trees and other fruit seedlings, as well as willow and plum trees that could be viewed. It's just that the income from planting trees is slow, and the people in the big house feel that the people in the second room are playing tricks on them, and they are obviously planting flowers faster, so why do they have to plant trees? Third Uncle Jiang planted it honestly, didn't think about anything, didn't ask anything.
Later, the big house saw that the best sellers in the second room were orchids and peonies, so he secretly sold all the saplings he had planted before and planted orchids and peonies instead. But the people in the big house don't know how to raise flowers at all, and those flowers and plants are sick not long after they are transplanted, and then they have to call Pei Shi to help. Pei's family had already taken care of a large flower field, and where could he take care of it, he could only ask an experienced gardener to help. But the people in the big house didn't trust the gardener, they felt that Pei's refusal to go over to help in person was to die and not save him, and he didn't cooperate with what the gardener said, and in the end those flowers and plants were almost dead.
The people of the big house have hated Pei since then, and always feel that Pei has never thought of sharing wealth with them, since Pei can plant their orchids and peonies well, why can't they plant their orchids and peonies well? That time, the big house suffered heavy losses, and they directly approached the Zhou family and asked the Zhou family to call the shots for them, and let the second room take the money out to make up for their losses.
Pei Shi was unhappy at first, she felt that it was not their fault, it was that Dafang was greedy and incompetent. But who cares about this from the people of the big house? The Zhou family has always been eccentric, and in the end, after a long time, Pei's gave them the money for the sake of tranquility.
So from that point on, the big house no longer cares about those lands, and rents them out every year, and only collects some rent for himself. Although the rent in the mountains is not high, they can't make much, but it doesn't matter, as long as the Zhou family is there, the second room is reluctant, and they have to take out the money to provide for their big house. Those people in the big house were originally lazy, but after that, they became more and more lazy, and gradually became what they are now, like moths who want to empty out their second room.
As for the third room, although there was no income in the first three years, the income gradually stabilized after the tree blossomed and fruited, and there were more and more. Although Sanfang has always refused to transfer the land, the income is all kept by themselves. Originally, Uncle Jiang still wanted to give half of the income to the second room, but the second room didn't accept it, saying that after the trees were given to the third room, the third room would take care of it themselves, and they didn't do anything, so they shouldn't charge any share, and the couple in the second room persuaded them for a long time before they asked Uncle Jiang to stop mentioning the sharing.
What you plant, what you get, how the second and third rooms are now, they are actually earned by themselves, but the people in the big house have never understood, and they are unwilling to work hard and wait for pie to fall from the sky, and they are not dominating other people's land and not letting others use it.
Jiang Xuehe thought that now because of the relationship between the two younger brothers, the Zhou family is not as biased towards a big house as before. Even if her heart is still biased, in order for Gu Siyan to help the two grandsons of the big house tutor, she will always be polite to them, and then she can propose that she needs to use the land left by her father and mother before, and she can give a certain rent, but this rent must be in Zhou's hands, and Zhou will agree when the time comes.
It's just that the Zhou family prefers big houses so much, and it is impossible not to subsidize the big houses when the time comes, and Jiang Xuehe feels annoyed when he thinks of this. As a granddaughter, even if she doesn't like it anymore, she still has to honor her grandmother, but what is the reason for raising her uncle's family together?
The more Jiang Xuehe thought about it, the more angry she became, but she couldn't get a good solution for a while, so she could only comfort herself that the money she gave to the Zhou family was Zhou's, as for who she loved to give to, she couldn't care about it anyway. She won't give less to Zhou's share, but if Zhou wants to help Dafang get more, she can't give it. In the past, my father and mother had no choice but to be filial piety, but now that they are married to their husbands, they always talk about her being a foreign-married daughter, and when they ask her for money, she also says that she is a foreign-married daughter.