An's face was as solemn and expressionless as ever, and when he saw Banniang looking over, he smiled a little and glanced at Banniang meaningfully.

On the contrary, Xu had some expectation on his face.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that the third uncle is an official of the fifth grade, and they all say that the officials of the Great Song Kingdom are rich, but in fact, this is not true.

The official rank of the five grades is a watershed, and those who can reach the five grades can't talk about how luxurious the days are, but it is no problem to ensure that the family's life reaches the level of well-off.

The third uncle's family has three sons and two daughters, the children are not small, and the expenses are not low, but they can always live a decent life, which can be guaranteed. Although Ding Wei is at home now, he has lost it for a while, but his official position is still there, and he can receive a salary every year, to put it bluntly, he is on paid leave.

But the fifth uncle is just a state general judge, just an official position from the eighth grade, two sons and two daughters, married a daughter and a daughter-in-law, both expenses are a lot, especially marrying a daughter, in the Great Song Kingdom, this woman can own property, high dowry is indispensable in the era when the high dowry is prevalent.

A lot of money was spent, but the population was not small, and he married two daughters, and at the same time married back two daughters-in-law. And the daughter-in-law will also give birth to grandchildren in the future. Besides, the two sons want to study and take the exam, which one doesn't need money? With the salary of the fifth uncle's official position, he can at most take care of food and clothing. It is almost impossible to ensure the quality of life of a family.

This is okay at home, if it is used in addition to clothes, and living outside, the cost is much greater than at home.

Now that he has undoubtedly proposed to purchase land and distribute it to each house, it is no wonder that Xu is tempted.

The three brothers said a few words, and the third uncle and the fifth uncle were reluctant.

Zhu is the eldest sister-in-law, so she interjected with a smile: "Don't fight, it's not your business to live, you don't understand the difficulties in this." If you want me to say, in the future, even if we have a family property, it will also be taken care of by our wife's family, and the children of the uncle's family will not be there, so we will be the masters. His third uncle and fifth uncle, don't be in a hurry to talk first, let's listen to his third aunt and fifth aunt first. ”

The third uncle looked at An and Xu: "You have also heard the words of the second sister-in-law, and you will also tell me your opinions." ”

Xu couldn't help but want to speak, but An was older, and she didn't speak, so she had to endure it.

An Shi was silent for a moment and said with a smile: "Even the second brother and sister-in-law also asked me to talk to the third brother and sister, so the brother and sister-in-law said it directly." We are a family, even if we are separated, we are also blood relatives. If you want me to say, the second uncle's words are good, although we shouldn't take this land, but we also have to be considerate and considerate of the second uncle's heart, is it not good for my own brother, and the second uncle can rest assured? According to this, you two brothers are inconsiderate of the second uncle. The second uncle is the elder brother, and the elder gives it, so I can't say it, we will accept this property, so that the second uncle can rest assured. However, my brother and daughter-in-law also have something to say, buy us some land, and we will take advantage of our brother's affection to accept it. It's not easy for only eight girls to make money, and the poor ones are busy all day long, so why don't you need money turnover to do business? You can't make her embarrassed because of that. Now she needs money, and I think that the grange does not need to be put in much, but only to leave a way out for each family, and it will be enough to chew for a year. As for the matter of Yizhuang, it is even more difficult to embarrass the eight girls. Just do what you can. ”

Xu was originally worried that with An's temperament, he would definitely resign, but An said this, but he was relieved.

She is not greedy, and if she can have a permanent production there, she will have confidence in her heart. I'm not afraid that if there is something in the future, the family can really only rely on the second room to live, and when it comes to that point, they don't have that face, the difficult things in the second room in the past, although they said that life is not easy, but it is not really impossible to get it at all, but it really has not subsidized the second room. Now that she can have a legitimate excuse, she also has a land, and her future life is also guaranteed, so she is satisfied.

In fact, An's also has her considerations, Banniang can propose to buy land, and when the family is separated in the future, she will leave them a few children in a big house, as well as a three-bedroom and five-room method, with the shrewdness of the eight girls, she must have considered it. At this time, I promised to come down, whether it is a big house or a three-bedroom or five-room, I will also get benefits, and when Lao Tzu returns to his hometown in the future, he can also live a decent life. Although they have no extravagant hopes for the money in the second room today, if the family business is not divided, the family will live together in the future, and the children and nephews below will marry one by one, who can guarantee that there will be no selfish people who will make some things out of it and pollute their own door? If you divide the family, if you are poor except for the second room, the other rooms are poor, and the autumn breeze starts, won't it annoy the big house? Now that the words are clear, they have all three rooms benefited, and the eight girls can also settle down with peace of mind, isn't it something that everyone likes?

If you don't agree, it's really embarrassing for the second room.

is a brother, and each other should also leave some leeway. The second and third are only brothers and sisters in the second room, but they are aunts, but they are outsiders, and they see things differently from their own masters. From another point of view, it is more conducive to the resolution of things.

Seeing An Shi say this, Zeng Budo smiled and said: "What his third aunt said is right, I think things will be done like this." However, the purchase of the grange is not a temporary thing, and in the future, I will ask Dalang to pay attention to it, and just wait for a good one to buy it. However, the Grange is best connected together, several nephews of the eldest brother's family are outside as officials, although now Ding is worried, I didn't ask them to rush back, a year later, they still have to be outside, you two rooms too, the third and fifth after two years, they are also going out to be officials. In this way, we will take care of the Grange after we buy it. It is more convenient to buy them together and take care of them. In the future, when the harvest of each year is in season, someone will send it to you. ”

The third and fifth uncles couldn't say anything more, so they agreed to Zeng Budo's words.

So the matter is settled.

Because this is also a good thing, everyone is in a good mood, and the two sisters-in-law of the fifth uncle's family, Jiang and Shen, also look at each other and smile. With constant production, no matter how much, it is a happy thing.

Besides, the second uncle also said that he would buy more than 20 yuan, and remove the sacrificial fields, if he really bought so much, four families would have a point, and each family would have 500 acres. He also said that he wanted to buy high-quality fertile land, and I heard that Xiao Bamei's son-in-law is also specialized in farming, and now he is planting double-cropping rice, and the harvest is quite large.

The family had dinner and then dispersed.

Because of this, Banniang remembered that before An Shi spoke, she looked at her with a meaningful look, and she also admired this third aunt in her heart. Because the uncles followed their father to the study to discuss the matter of the sacrificial field, the two aunts went back to the courtyard left and right, and the time was early, so they accompanied the Zhu family to gossip. After all, the purchase of land is a great joy, and the three of them chatted happily.

Banniang felt that An's was willing to help her, so she smiled and brought tea, personally brewed it for her mother Zhu and the two aunts, and said that she bought some jewelry when she was in Quanzhou, among which there are a lot of bright colors of all kinds of good tourmaline, which is best used for jewelry. I called May to come over and find my sister-in-law to get it, and by the way, I also called the two cousins-in-law, and also asked the sister-in-law and sister-in-law to pick some of their favorites.

Although it can't be taken out to create now, it will be made of jewelry later.

Although tourmaline is not precious, it is rare and rare, and everyone naturally likes it.

Xu also smiled and praised sincerely: "The eight girls are really generous, and when they go out, they are a little embarrassed and annoying, but they still take us all to heart." ”

An Shi smiled: "If you Sister Yunxian know how many good things you often bring back, you must blame your third aunt for marrying her early, but I have to take a lot of good things from you." ”

Banniang stepped forward and hugged An's arm, and said angrily: "Look at what the third aunt said, it seems that I didn't take Sister Xian to heart, this is wronging me, this time I went out, I saw a set of heads, all of which were inlaid with pink jewelry, and I felt that Sister Xian must like it when I saw it, because the price was not expensive, I bought it, and I was planning to ask the third aunt to help me carry it when the third aunt sent a letter to Sister Xian in a few days." It's these tourmalines, the third aunt hasn't married a daughter-in-law now, so don't give it to the two sisters? On the side of the fourth sister of the Lu family, I had already sent it over, so the third aunt didn't have to think about this daughter-in-law. ”

Several people laughed.

Qin and Shen heard that May said that they were invited to pick up jewelry, so they naturally happily looked for it, and when they saw the door, they saw that everyone was laughing, and Qin was a talker, so they smiled and said: "But the little eighth sister's clever mouth is making the two aunts and mother-in-law happy?" ”

Xu smiled: "Isn't it? ”

Shen also smiled: "Daughter-in-law these days, seeing that the little eighth sister's dress is mostly old, she can grow taller now, and it doesn't fit well on her body, and the sister-in-law is busy taking care of it, I have nothing to do with the plain material, so I can help her make one, today is good, I still want to wait for tomorrow to be free, ask her to try it on, where it is not suitable, just change it, I didn't think that the new dress has not been sent, but I took advantage of the good things of the little eighth sister." ”

Qin's family was not to be left behind, and also said with a smile: "Sister-in-law makes clothes skillfully, I can't compare with the embroidery work, only the daughter-in-law's shoes are the best, and I also made two pairs of shoes for the little sister, because it was discussed with the sister-in-law, it just happened to match the dress she gave to the little eighth sister, and I also sent it back." Eight sisters try. ”

Banniang hurriedly thanked her.

Shen and Qin saw that her words of thanks were sweet and sincere, and they were also very comfortable in their hearts.

As he was talking, Wu had already led May into the house with a box containing tourmaline.

Seeing that the ladies were all there, only Qi Niang led Xiao Shi and Eleven back to the Wei Courtyard, and An called Qi Niang over in May.

Because of the gorgeous color of tourmaline, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, which color, and non-pure color are also colorful, large and small in the ink paint box, and there is a light to shine, how can you not like it?

First, the Zhu family picked two, then the An family and the Xu family, and then it was the turn of the Wu family and the three of them. Because the mothers-in-law only picked a few of the largest and purest ones, the Wu family naturally picked a few slightly smaller ones, but there were more of them than the mothers-in-law.

After the sisters-in-law finished picking, Qi Niang had already helped her buy a lot of jewelry, so she didn't care, she just picked a few pink and blue ones, and planned to tie them up for Xiao Shi Niang.

There is not much left, so An's closed the box and handed it to Wu's to put it away: "With these, it's enough to play two good faces, and the rest of the eldest daughter-in-law can be put away well, and in the future, there will be favors, or Qi Niang will marry a dozen or so, maybe they can be used." ”

Wu glanced at his mother-in-law Zhu, and saw that Zhu nodded slightly, so he accepted it with a smile.

Because it was not early, everyone talked for a while, and then they dispersed happily.

When Banniang returned to the house, she took out the floor plan drawn in the new shop during the day, and while looking at it, she thought about the structure of the field and thought about how to decorate it.

After thinking about it for a while, she remembered that her father Cai said about the establishment of the city department in Quanzhou, since she had already gotten the news, it should be sooner rather than later, and she should also think about how to make some profits from it.

However, this is not an easy task.