Ruoxue looked at her grandmother who was sitting there, catching a string of sandalwood Buddhist beads with both hands, and looked at the second and third uncles, second aunts and third aunts who were quietly drinking tea on the side.

I don't know what's going on, so I have to invite her over.

Old Madam Cao stopped catching the Buddha beads, raised her somewhat muddy old eyes to look at Ruoxue, and said slowly: "Now, your second and third uncles are here, and I will discuss with you about managing the family business." After a pause, he said, "Your father is in a hurry, and if you don't leave anyone to manage the family business, it is better to leave it to your second uncle to manage." Isn't that good? ”

After saying so much, I waited for Ruoxue to say the word "good".

Ruoxue stroked a two-finger-wide mutton fat jade bracelet on her left wrist, looked at her grandmother Mrs. Cao with a smile, and said, "Grandma is afraid that she has forgotten the ancestral teachings of the Mei family. Is Grandma going to disobey her ancestors? ”

When Mrs. Cao heard the ancestral teaching, her brows furrowed, and when she heard Mei Ruoxue say that she was disobedient to her ancestors, she raised her hand and patted it on the kang table, and said, "Contradicting me, you are disobedient, right?" ”

Ruoxue stood up and gave her grandmother a blessing, and said without humility or arrogance: "Didn't Grandma come to me to talk about the housekeeping?" I represent the long house, if Grandma doesn't let me speak, then I won't bother Grandma and the two uncles to discuss things, and I'll come to Grandma another day to make amends. ”

When he had finished speaking, he did not put on his cloak, but went to the door.

Lianxin and Peony followed Ruoxue and walked outside, and Peony unfolded her cloak and chased after her to put it on Ruoxue.

"Ruoxue, you sit down first, if you have something to say, how can you talk back to your grandmother!" Tao hurriedly got off the kang, separated the two maids, and pulled Ruoxue to sit on the embroidery pier.

Mrs. Cao shook her hands, picked up the tea bowl and drank a sip of jasmine tea, suppressed the fire, and then said: "Your father has no son, and the family business has no one to inherit, so it should be handed over to your second uncle to take charge of, are you right?" ”

"My father and my sister and me, how can we say that there is no one to inherit it?!" Ruoxue said.

"You're going to get married sooner or later, do you want to marry the Mei family?" Yang said.

"I'm going to keep filial piety for my father for three years, and I'm not in a hurry to get married." She said.

Her father earned so much family business, how could he easily hand it over to others.

"You and Ruohong are going to marry sooner or later, and the family business will be handed over to your second uncle, and you can also learn to chisel female red well, and teach your sister." Old Madam Cao said.

"The tea shop in the hands of the second uncle, this year and last year, a total of more than 700 taels of silver, grandma is not afraid that the second uncle will compensate the Mei family?" She said.

Ruoxue looked at Mrs. Cao, with a pair of big watery eyes, blinking.

Mei Jishan raised his head suddenly, his face was a little red because of his shyness, and his inch-long beard under his mouth trembled slightly.

When the second wife Yang saw that they were in the second room, she wanted to reprimand them, but she couldn't find the words to reprimand for a while, so she said: "Hmph, even if you lose everything, it is the Mei family, and it is none of your business." ”

This means that she will marry sooner or later, and she will be an outsider at that time, and the Mei family's family business has nothing to do with her Mei Ruoxue.

The corners of Ruoxue's mouth curled slightly, and she said, "The second aunt took five hundred taels of silver last month and gave it to the Yang family's uncle, I'm afraid the second uncle doesn't know, right?" ”

You are a married outsider, why do you have to worry about your mother's family?

Yang's face turned blue and white, which was saying that she took her mother-in-law's money to make up for her mother's family and take care of her mother's family's affairs.

She peeked at her mother-in-law's increasingly gloomy face, glanced at her husband's increasingly red face, squirmed her lips a few times, and finally did not dare to say anything more.

The third wife, Tao Shi, glanced at Yang's family, opened her mouth and wanted to squeeze two sentences, but she couldn't say anything.

She was born in a scholarly family, and she has been polite and obedient since elementary school, and she is not good at playing with people, let alone crowding people.

Ruoxue saw that no one was talking, so she picked up the tea bowl and took a small sip slowly, and there was only the sound of the collision of Buddhist beads in Mrs. Cao's hand in the room, gently knocking on people's hearts.

"Besides, the second uncle is teaching in the house, and there are some people who don't understand general affairs, so it's really not suitable for managing business matters." Ruoxue said.

The second old man, Mei Jishan, held the tea bowl in his hand, brought it to his mouth and took a sip, his face was much better.

He was admitted to the examination at the age of twenty, and then it was difficult to get in, and after the two failed exams, he also gave up the mind of taking the exam again, but among his protégés, there were a few students with the title of the gold list, which made him very gratified.

"What Ruoxue said is that the second uncle really doesn't understand those money operations, and he is also the family's livelihood, so the tired eldest brother went early!" Mei Jishan raised his hand and wiped the tears in his eyes with his sleeve, choking up.

Ruoxue also took out a handkerchief and wiped her tears.

"I'm already sad in my heart, and you came to recruit me again, do you also want me to go over there to see your father?" Old Madam Cao said.

Mrs. Cao's face became more and more ugly, she was not very close to her eldest son Mei Jiye, but she was very close to this son, and when the eldest son was gone, she wanted to get the housekeeping back and hand it over to him.

never thought that she would be defeated by the eldest granddaughter in a few words, which really blinded her old man's hard work.

The third old man, Mei Jitan, persuaded a few words on the side, and Mei Jishan stopped crying, got up to admit his mistake to Mrs. Cao, and said with tears: "My son is wrong, I shouldn't make my mother sad." ”

Mei Jishan bowed his back, and almost knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Tao sat beside Ruoxue, wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes while gently patting Ruoxue's back, as if coaxing a child who asked for candy.

Mrs. Cao took another sip of tea that was no longer hot, and said that let Mei Zhiyuan, the eldest son of the second master, the eldest young master of the Mei family, also the eldest man in the next generation, and he could take over the family business.

Mei Zhiyuan is already sixteen years old, the same age as when Mei Jiye took over the ancestral business, Mrs. Cao thought, so Ruoxue's girl must have nothing to say.

Ruoxue dipped her tears in a handkerchief, lowered her head slightly, didn't look at everyone, and said in a low voice: "No." ”

"You ......" Mrs. Cao angrily threw the teacup on the ground, her fingers trembling and pointing at Ruoxue, speechless.

The tea bowl made a nice crisp sound when it landed, and the tea splashed on the green brick floor.

Yang jumped down from the kang all of a sudden, pointing to Ruoxue is number of people who split their heads and covered their faces, and what they turned over and over again was a stinky girl and a money-losing ......

She still can't scold the swear words in the market.

Forget it about their husband, no one can say that her son is not good, she is a person who will marry sooner or later, why should she occupy the Mei family's property and not let go.

Without Mei Jiye, the eldest man, and the long house has no son, their lord should be the steward of the Mei family, and her son is the next head of the family, and the Mei family can't take her turn to be the master of a girl who has not grown all her hair.

The third wife, Tao Shi, was busy pulling Yang Shi beside her, while persuading her not to be like a junior, and at the same time, she said: "Ruoxue feels uncomfortable, and there are people who speak without proportion, and after this time, she will understand." ”