After burying Zhou's coffin in the Su family's cemetery outside Chang'an City, Zhao Yuanbai took Suning'er and Mrs. Zhao back to Zhao's mansion.

In a few days, it will be the New Year's Festival, and at this time, the Zhao Mansion is already in trouble.

As soon as the couple returned to Ningyuan, the elders of each room came over in an endless stream, complaining bitterly about Zhao Pingguang and his wife's arbitrariness and indifferent treatment of the clansmen, which put the entire Zhao family in a predicament.

The most resentful of these rooms is the fourth room.

Because even if the big house and the second room leave the Zhao family, they can support themselves, but the four rooms are different, the head of the fourth room is a seven-rank official rank to fill the real vacancy, and the position he lives in is only a history of the governor of the mansion, and the annual salary is more than the upper than the lower, and he has to rely on the Zhao family everywhere to survive better.

But after the Liu family took the housekeeper's cards, the four rooms had a very bad time.

In the past, when Zhao Yuanbai and Su Ning'er were in charge of the house, they treated the juniors in the fourth room the most, and they ate and wore as much as possible, but now it is good, whether they can be allocated depends entirely on the faces of the Liu family and Zhao Pingguang.

The most infuriating thing is that it is natural that Zhao Pingguang decided to take over the porcelain kiln of the Tao family without authorization.

For such a big matter, he relied on Zhao Yuanbai's father to not even discuss it with the rooms.

Suning'er asked Xilian and the others to make the fire in the stove more vigorous, and helped the mother of the fourth room to sit down, while listening to her chatter:

"Yuan Bai, San Lang's daughter-in-law, aunt doesn't want to come to find bad luck for you, these days you are busy with the funeral of the Su family's aunt, you are already tired, your aunt is really helpless, your father and mother are becoming more and more disagreeable, instigated by Wulang's daughter-in-law all day long, don't care about anything, the old lady is now also staying out of the matter, if you and your wife don't come out to take care of it, I'm afraid that the Zhao family will be finished."

"The fourth aunt is serious, our Zhao family has always been harmonious......"

Without waiting for Zhao Yuanbai to finish speaking, the mother of the fourth house immediately interrupted him and said indignantly:

"Since San Lang has said this, the aunt is not hidden, yes, our Zhao family was able to maintain a superficial harmony before, but that was also before the Tao family and your stepmother came in, now, look at it, none of the small people in your second uncle's family obey your father and mother, plus the Tao family has to encourage your father to do porcelain business, this is not our Zhao family's old business."

Anxiously glanced at the couple and the couple, and the mother of the fourth room continued: "Taking over the plate of the Tao family, it is obviously a transaction of money, I really can't figure out what your father is thinking, you also know the third lang in the second room, you have always wanted to separate from this family, and now it has given them a reason to stir up trouble, I am afraid that your second uncle will not be able to control it this time." ”

"I know this matter clearly, the fourth aunt should go back and rest early, it will be the New Year's Festival soon, and it is not too late to discuss anything after the New Year's Festival."

Zhao Yuanbai patiently persuaded a few words, and was ready to send off the guests.

Out of the room, Liuniang in the fourth room turned back with a bitter face, and begged bitterly: "Brother Yuanbai, my aunt is not trying to provoke right and wrong, but the sister-in-law in the fifth brother's room, I don't think I really have any good intentions, I heard that she has been instigating the brother and sister-in-law in the second room to break up recently, Brother Yuanbai, you must be careful." ”

Zhao Yuanbai smiled and waved his hand at the mother and daughter, then closed the door, returned to Suning'er and sat down, and asked calmly:

"Madame, can you see Tao Jiuniang's mind clearly?"

Suning'er stretched out her hand in front of the stove and turned around, and replied slowly: "I'm afraid Tao Jiuniang's intention is not to lie in the Tao family's porcelain kiln, and now the Tao family's porcelain kiln is obviously losing money, which she herself thinks very well." ”

"Well, and then what?"

Zhao Yuanbai looked at her with a shallow smile.

Su Ning'er said again: "She should want to completely mess up the Zhao family, in my opinion, even if the husband stops Aya, the families in the second room are going to make trouble and divide the family." ”

"What Madame said is good", Zhao Yuanbai smiled: "And I dare to conclude that they will take advantage of my Zhao Yi's dilemma to ask for more family property, so as to promise me not to withdraw the money invested in it for the time being." ”

"Hey, although there is still a lot of silver money in the treasury at the moment, after all, Luoyang has invested a lot, and the few newly built houses in Kyoto Lifujun have not yet been completed.

Su Ning'er sighed weakly, she really didn't know what Zhao Yuanbai was planning.

If this crisis is not resolved, I am afraid that she and the baby in her womb will have to sleep on the streets in the future.

Zhao Yuanbai's eyes were bright, and he didn't have a little flustered look, he still said with a smile:

"What Madame thinks about is exactly what they think, otherwise how dare they be so unscrupulous, I told you earlier, the more this time, the more we have to stay calm, the Zhao family's family style is not cured, it is difficult to be truly harmonious."

"Having said that, what I'm worried about is that if Aya and the Naliu clan continue to quarrel like this, I'm afraid that this family will fall apart before the New Year's Festival."

Zhao Yuanbai couldn't help but feel sad when he looked at her beautiful face, and couldn't help but feel a little distressed, so he hurriedly took out an account book from his arms, handed it to her, and said with a smile: "Madam, please take a look." ”

Suninger took the account book and flipped through a few pages, and found that it was all new accounts that she had not checked before, and there were several new receipts and expenditures.

While she looked at it, Zhao Yuanbai also explained for her:

"Our family must be divided, we can't go on like this anymore, the new 700,000 pieces of silver on it, more than half of the profits I have earned from doing spice and jewelry business with the Persian caravan over the years, and the 300,000 guan is the capital of the saint and the Persian caravan to join my Kangning firm."

Su Ning'er was shocked, she didn't expect Zhao Yuanbai to hide such a large amount of private accounts from her.

Zhao Yuanbai also saw her surprise and patiently explained:

"I shouldn't have hidden this from my wife, this silver money was a windfall I made when I was taking salt, when I saw that the saint's brother was not very wealthy, so I funded all the money I earned to their caravan, but I didn't expect that over the years, I would get 400,000 yuan with interest."

Suninger went down again and found that Yangzhou and Suzhou had a lot of expenditures.

Zhao Yuanbai continued: "Luoyang's new market and cabinet shop have indeed been delayed, but I didn't dare to put aside Yangzhou, Suzhou, these places where Hu merchants gathered, the site selection and planning are all handled by the saint and the steward I sent over, and the saint has also added Quanzhou and Guangzhou, and the Persian caravan has been entrenched in the Lingnan area for a long time, with them, you can rest assured." ”

Suning'er closed the account book and nodded thoughtfully.

This guy is not a stunned young man, she is really going to impress him today.