Huo Lang, the king of Yanbei, is the grandson of the eldest princess, and the Huo family has guarded the northeast border of the Yong Dynasty for generations, and is one of the four kings with different surnames in the Yong Dynasty.

Huo Lang's princess Tao and Bai Tao are sisters of the common grandfather, and Huo Xu, the son of Princess Tao, has to call Bai Tao an aunt.

Qu Muge didn't know about these things, but Bai Lingting was a person who loved to take care of things at home, and she knew from the mouth of the mother-in-law next to Bai Tao's side that Bai Tao's was marrying Princess Taixuan and Yanbei Shizi Zhang Luo, so she was a little apprehensive and complained to her brother Bai Yuan.

"The marriage of our brother and sister has not been settled, and my mother is good, so I will worry about this leisure for Taixuan. She has the queen mother in charge, what good family can't marry? ”

When Bai Yuan heard about it, he was taken aback.

He knew about Taixuan and Gu Hou, why did his mother make trouble in the middle?

He hurriedly found his mother and said, "Although we are the princess's foreign family, the princess is the daughter of the Li family after all, and the emperor has already chosen someone for her marriage, so don't be nosy!" ”

Bai Tao asked in surprise: "The emperor has already decided on a candidate?" ”

Bai Yuan replied: "Yes, you don't know anything and make your own opinions, when the time comes, not only will our family offend the emperor and the king of Yanbei, and the two sides will not please you, but it may also make the king of Yanbei and the emperor have a dislike and affect the society!" ”

Bai Tao was beaten by his son, and was a little unhappy: "You are capable now, open your mouth and use Sheji to press me." Who am I worried about the princess's marriage? Not for you! ”

Bai Yuan was puzzled: "What does it have to do with me?" ”

Bai Tao said: "As the grandson of the long house, you abandoned literature and martial arts, and entered the Beijing military guard to become a brocade guard. The elders of the clan have long criticized you, but now they think that you are quite important to the emperor, and the princess is close to you, so they have been hiding it. Your father was an idle man, who didn't care about the affairs of the clan at all, and spent his days wandering around the mountains and rivers, writing poems and songs, and your grandmother was counting on you to take over the position of head of the family, and then someone would talk about it. If you don't have some external support, how can you sit as the head of the Bai family? Therefore, your grandmother wants to marry you to the county lord of Mingmei, and the princess has no objection, but the king of Yanbei thinks that your official position is low. If our family can help the prince marry the princess, King Yanbei will definitely agree to marry the county lord to you for the sake of this situation! ”

Bai Yuan's face flushed with anger, and he said, "I will rely on my own ability to gain a foothold in the clan, why use my wife's strength?" I won't marry the princess, and you won't interfere in the princess's marriage, if you can't listen, I'll talk to my grandfather and grandmother. ”

"It's the same for whoever you go to!" Bai Tao was also angry and said, "Could it be that what Ting'er said is true, you really like Miss Xie?" ”

Bai Yuanhui was shocked in his heart, he did have a good impression of Xie Zhiyin, but the two of them didn't do anything out of bounds, how could his mother know?

"Miss Xie is clear about right and wrong, brilliant in writing, and smart in her appearance, I admire her very much, but mother, don't talk nonsense, it will ruin people's reputation."

"Look at you, you praise others everywhere and defend others, and you don't admit it. What's so good about her that you deserve to confront me? How did I raise such an aspiring son as you, you all have to be angry with me! ”

Bai Yuanhui felt that it was useless to talk more to his mother, so it was better to go directly to his grandfather and grandmother.

The old lady of the Bai family, Bai Yicheng, and the old lady Bai were also discussing the matter of discussing marriage with the Yanbei Palace, and when they saw their grandson running in angrily, the two glanced at each other, and their faces also fell.

Bai Yicheng said coldly: "You are capable now, when you see your grandfather and grandmother, you don't have any courtesy, and I don't know where it doesn't suit your heart, so you came to show the elders' faces." ”

Bai Yuan suppressed the anger in his heart, and said as respectfully as possible: "Ask grandfather and grandmother An, grandson just learned from his mother that the second elder intends to marry the county lord of Mingmei for his grandson, and he also wants to marry Princess Taixuan for the prince of Yanbei, and the grandson wants to know what the second elder thinks?" ”

Bai Yicheng is the head of the family, but in the past year, he has been questioned by his grandson many times, and he has long been dissatisfied in his heart, and he was about to reprimand him, but Mrs. Bai came forward to stop him.

Old Madam Bai's face was pale, and she pointed to a booklet on the table next to her and said, "Go, bring this month's account book, since you want to be the master of the house, then the family affairs, grandmother should teach you well." ”

Bai Yuan was puzzled, but he still took the account book as he said.

Old Madam Bai opened the account book and asked, "Yuanhui, do you know how much the Bai family spends every month?" Not counting the side branch of Youyang's hometown, only saying that we have two rooms in the capital. ”

Bai Yuan couldn't answer, he didn't know the family's expenses.

Old Madam Bai didn't expect him to answer, and said directly: "Last month alone, our family's expenses were three million taels. ”

Bai Yuanhui stood in place in shock, he didn't expect the expenses to be so big, his monthly income was only thirty taels!

Three million taels, enough for an army of 100,000 people to eat and drink for three months!

"How could it be ......?"

Mrs. Bai and the old god are there, and she lists the major expenses with him: "Our family has built twelve libraries and academies, and the monthly repair cost is 350,000 taels; subsidize more than 1,500 tribute students, with a monthly donation of 500,000 taels; the purchase of calligraphy and painting collections, the publication of books and books, the cost of 1.7 million taels; There are more than 100 people in the clan, daily consumption, clothing, food, banquets and gifts, a total of 450,000 taels. ”

After reading it, she closed the account book and said, "This real money is like flowing water, don't you know the price of firewood and rice, and think that your brocade clothes and jade food have fallen from the sky?" Do you think the Bai family's reputation is really based on reading? Did you make it by writing a few words and drawing a few pictures? If it weren't for our decades-long funding of the tribute students of various academies, or for us to write books and speak regardless of the cost, how could the people of Shilin only look forward to the Bai family? Now that you have a little support from the princess, you want to be the master at home, do you have the ability? ”

Old Madam Bai's tone gradually became a little disdainful, in her eyes, Bai Yuanhui and Princess Taixuan were two ignorant children in the end.

Bai Yuanhui blushed and apologized: "Grandson shouldn't be disrespectful to his grandfather and grandmother, and he doesn't want to be the master of the house, but he just thinks that the princess's marriage is not something that our family can interfere in." ”

Old Madam Bai continued: "In this world, there is nothing that can be done or not, only whether you want to or not! Let me ask you again, where did we get our money? ”

Bai Yuanhui was not completely ignorant of the affairs of the clan, and replied: "The family runs a academy, an auction house, and also does wood and jewelry business, and the calligraphy and paintings of your uncles can also be sold for some money, as well as the industries of various granges and shops. ”

Old Madam Bai asked again: "The forest farm that produces timber and the mine that produces jewelry, why is it the turn of the Bai family to make so much money?" ”

Like an initiation, Bai Yuan understood.

The Bai family's forest farms and mines are in the northeast, and the Bai family relies on the king of Yanbei for food!

Old Madam Bai saw that he was hit hard, so she said: "Since you have figured it out, you should know that you can't make your own decisions about your marriage." ”

Bai Yuan's palms were sweating, but his head was cold.

He was born and grew up in the Bai family, but he didn't understand the Bai family at all.

Since he was a child, he only saw the men in the family reading with their sleeves in their sleeves, rushing to one elegant assembly after another, neither wanting to become an official, nor wanting to serve the country in the army, and even the housekeeping and business were lost to the female dependents, and even had to rely on the daughters' in-laws to gain a foothold in Beijing.

He felt that they were so boring, so he resolutely became an alternative to the family, practiced martial arts and joined Jinyiwei, and almost didn't care about family affairs.

If it weren't for Princess Taixuan's reasons, he wouldn't have known about this at all.

But now that he understands it, he realizes that he is so powerless and incompetent!

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