Five years ago, Xiao Zhengzhen took advantage of the convenience of being in charge of the Ministry of History, and took the reason that Nanyang County, the capital of Xingzhou, had a good yield of hybrid rice for two consecutive years due to good weather, and regarded it as Chen Mingxiong's political achievement, and promoted Chen Mingxiong to the prefect of Xingzhou Prefecture.

As a result, Chen Mingxiong is not an official, and in the next four years, in the criminal state capital, his political performance is still very average.

Forget it, Chen Mingxiong is not self-aware.

Last year, when he entered Beijing at the end of his term, he took the opportunity to go to Xiao Qiongzhi's house and find Xiao Zhengzhen, first asking Xiao Zhengzhen for help and promoting him to be the envoy of Zhengdong Jiedu in charge of Xingzhou and other prefectures.

Xiao Zhengzhen refused him and asked him to stay in the criminal state capital for another four years.

He retreated and asked Xiao Zhengzhen to transfer him to Mingzhou Mansion, the richest south of Daxiao, as the prefect.

And the richest prefect of Mingzhou Mansion in the south of Daxiao is Zheng He, Xiao Zhengzhen's confidant.

Whether it is management ability or loyalty, Chen Mingxiong is completely incomparable.

Therefore, Xiao Zhengzhen once again rejected Chen Mingxiong,

Chen Mingxiong's face darkened, and he left angrily without saying a word.

Soon, Chen Mingxiong's wife, that is, Xiao Qiongzhi's second aunt Zhao Miaozhu, came to the prince's mansion to find Chen Lingfeng.

She said that Xiao Zhengzhen rejected Chen Mingxiong, and at the same time, she said that she had a relationship with her mother's family, and she could contact Chen Mingxiong to be transferred to Mingzhou Mansion, the richest in the south of Daxiao, as the prefect, and now she was still short of 10,000 taels of silver as a gift, so that Chen Lingfeng could lend it to her.

Chen Lingfeng has many advantages and few disadvantages, but there is a big shortcoming, which has given Xiao Qiongzhi a headache so far.

That is, in front of her relatives, she acted unprincipledly, her ears were too soft, and she was powerless in the face of the excessive demands of shameless relatives.

She felt that Xiao Zhengzhen was not wrong to reject Chen Mingxiong, because Chen Mingxiong had no political achievements, that is, he did not meet the rules of promotion, nor did he meet the rules of transferring to a better party, if Chen Mingxiong was promoted, Xiao Zhengzhen was making a mistake.

At the same time, she felt that Chen Mingxiong wanted to be an official in a better place, and there was nothing wrong with it, since Xiao Zhengzhen was inconvenient to help Chen Mingxiong, then, when Chen Mingxiong found other ways, she, as the eldest sister, should help Chen Mingxiong.

So, she borrowed 10,000 taels of silver to Zhao Miaozhu.

However, she always felt that all the property in the family belonged to Xiao Qiongzhi, and afterwards, she deliberately told Xiao Qiongzhi the cause and effect of borrowing money.

Xiao Qiongzhi was shocked at that time.

Because, Zhao Miaozhu did not come to Chen Lingfeng to borrow money for the first time, but for the Nth time to come to Chen Lingfeng to borrow money, but the reason was different every time in the past, and the amount was far less large than this time.

But dripping into a river, Xiao Qiongzhi calculated, from the first time Chen Lingfeng lent money to Zhao Miaozhu, until this time, he had borrowed more than 37,000 taels of silver from Chen Lingfeng.

She immediately asked people to stare at Zhao Miaozhu to see if it was true that every time she borrowed Chen Lingfeng's money, she used it in practice, and for what reason, she only borrowed it and didn't pay it back.

As a result, she found out that Zhao Miaozhu's mother's family had no way to contact Chen Mingxiong to be transferred to Mingzhou Mansion, the richest in the south of Daxiao, as the prefect, and what Zhao Miaozhu said was all a lie.

Including the money that Zhao Miaozhu borrowed from Chen Lingfeng before, many of them are also excuses.

On the contrary, Zhao Miaozhu's annual income is very high, and with Chen Mingxiong in Xingzhou, the two of them have to earn at least 20,000 taels of silver every year in addition to Chen Mingxiong's money.

And the real reason why she always asked Chen Lingfeng to borrow money was just because she felt that when Chen Lingfeng got married, Mrs. Chen gave a lot of dowry, which made Zhao Miaozhu feel at a loss, and she had to rely on this method of borrowing money to get Chen Lingfeng back little by little the dowry that Chen Lingfeng took from Chen's mansion.

Xiao Qiongzhi was furious and immediately told Chen Lingfeng the truth about Zhao Miaozhu's borrowing money.

Chen Lingfeng was also very angry at the time, saying that she was looking for Zhao Miaozhu to return all the money, who knows, the next time, when Zhao Miaozhu used an excuse to borrow money, she was still coaxed to lend Zhao Miaozhu again.

Xiao Qiongzhi was originally relieved to hand over the family's property to Chen Lingfeng, but at this time, she realized that this would not work at all.

She unceremoniously took the opportunity to take the power of managing money into her own hands, and demanded that as long as it was money to be spent outside the usual practice in the family, Chen Lingfeng must obtain her consent before she could spend it.

At the same time, she complained to Chen Lingfeng in various ways, saying that Daxiao is too poor now, and she wants to save money to donate to the Ministry of Industry to popularize asphalt roads across the country, so that she can go hiking on a bicycle with Xiao Zhengzhi and Chen Lingfeng's family of three in the future, and see all the beautiful mountains and rivers of Daxiao.

Chen Lingfeng is still very supportive of her ambition.

Therefore, from now on, not to mention that Zhao Miaozhu came to Chen Lingfeng to borrow money, it is the money in the family's routine, as long as it is not very important, Chen Lingfeng advocates open source and reduce expenditure, and save it if it can be saved.

Early the next morning, Xiao Qiongzhi followed Chen Lingfeng to her grandmother's house, Chen Xiangfu.

Her grandmother gave birth to four boys and four girls, but half of them died early because of smallpox.

Among them, her mother Chen Lingfeng was not the eldest daughter, she had two sisters and an elder brother on her head, but because when Chen Lingfeng was born, all three of them died, so Chen Lingfeng became the eldest daughter.

Behind Chen Lingfeng is her eldest uncle Chen Mingying, who is three years younger than Chen Lingfeng and is still alive.

Chen Mingying is followed by her little uncle Chen Mingxiong, who is two years younger than Chen Mingying and is still alive.

Chen Mingxiong was followed by another aunt of hers, two years younger than Chen Mingxiong, who died of smallpox at the age of three.

Behind is her aunt Chen Minghua, who is nine years younger than Chen Mingxiong.

At present, Chen Mingying and Chen Mingxiong have both married, but they have not separated from each other, and they still live in Chen Xiangfu's house with Xiao Qiongzhi's grandfather and grandmother.

Chen Minghua is only more than two years older than Xiao Qiongzhi, seventeen years old this year, and is a famous beauty in Beijing.

There are as many men in Beijing who propose to her like carp crossing the river, but Chen Xiang and Mrs. Chen both love her and respect her own choice, and she has relatively high requirements for choosing a mate, so she has not taken a fancy to any man so far.

After entering Chen's mansion, Chen Lingfeng first took Xiao Qiongzhi to meet Mrs. Chen-Xiao Qiongzhi's grandmother Zhou, and then went to meet Mrs. Chen-Xiao Qiongzhi's grandmother Zhang, before rushing to Zhao Miaozhu's courtyard.

The rules of Chen Xiang's Mansion are similar to those of the Prince's Mansion, and the adult juniors are all allocated by the public middle school and handed over to the juniors to manage themselves.

However, Xiao Zhenjia and Xiao Zhengzhen are very good at making money, and when the adult descendants do their birthdays, they will operate low-key and luxurious.

Chen Xiangfu is different.

In general, Chen Jingzhi is still a clean official, and his annual income mainly depends on his income.

Chen Mingying is now a household servant, but like Chen Jingzhi, he is also a clean official, and his annual income mainly depends on his income.

Chen Mingxiong is the prefect of Xingzhou, and he is actually far inferior to Chen Jingzhi and Chen Mingying, but Xingzhou is rich, and as a local dignitary, he can earn extra money in more places than Chen Jingzhi and Chen Mingying.

It's just that he is very treacherous, and the money he hands over to the public school every year is all his money, and he will not pay a penny for the extra money.

In addition, Chen Jingzhi heard from Chen Lingfeng's mouth a year ago that Xiao Qiongzhi had saved money to donate to the Ministry of Industry and popularized asphalt roads across the country, and he was very supportive, and every year he had to take out 30% of the silver from the public middle school and donate it to the Ministry of Industry to repair the road.

This has led to the economy of Chen Xiangfu, which is relatively tight.

For example, on Zhao Miaozhu's birthday, the public school only allocated 300 taels of silver to her.

And Chen Mingxiong has been the richest place in the east of Xingzhou, just as a prefect, for five years.

Zhao Miaozhu usually followed him there and entertained those official ladies, so naturally she didn't see much of the scenery of other people's birthdays.

At the same time, she has a good face, is keen to socialize, and has a lot of friends in Beijing.

And in Beijing, even if you find an ordinary restaurant and book two good tables, it will cost three hundred taels of silver.

This means that she needs to make up at least 600 taels of silver by herself in order to have a good birthday.

Therefore, she was very unhappy, as soon as she saw Chen Lingfeng and Xiao Qiongzhi, after a simple cold noise, she sent Xiao Qiongzhi in the hall to play with her pair of children, Chen Yingchun and Chen Xunzhang, and she herself dragged Chen Lingfeng to the back room to complain in a low voice.