"Is this an inquiry?" The one who spoke was a lady in a navy blue background with a golden floral pattern satin facing a placket, with a wooden face, and smelling a little sandalwood in the room.

Standing in front of her with her eyebrows and eyes was Situ's companion He Tian's family, and when she heard this lady's words, her face was a little embarrassed, so she resignedly said: "Madam, the slave maid has asked someone, and there is almost no one in front of the adult's house, and the two young masters don't appear in front of people, so..."

Situ sighed, paused with the Buddha beads in his hand, and said, "I know, although I am a relative of the family, although I am a girl from the Situ family, but I am also a few rooms away from that cousin." Besides, there is no contact between our two families, and even when I went back to my parents' house in the past, I didn't have much chance to see him. Well, this time I forced it. Thinking of this, the bitterness became more and more bitter, and the face of this relative in her mouth was no different from that. Who doesn't know that Situ Sheng is the most unsympathetic, even if he is of the same race, he can't look at him differently. However, I have to admit that she sits so firmly in the position of the head of the Chen family, except for the two sisters-in-law and a daughter-in-law she gave birth to, and more importantly, she still relies on the power of the Situ family.

When He Tianjia heard this, his heart secretly turned around a few times, and his hesitant face was embarrassed, and after a while, he said timidly as if he had great courage: "Madam, there is something here that the slave maid wants to ask for clarification, this Mrs. Situ..?" Speaking of which, among the wives of the upper-level officials in Beijing, this Mrs. Situ is the most mysterious, speaking of which Mrs. Situ's identity is full of dignity except for this princess, but it is said that she is the eldest daughter of the former prime minister, even if the former prime minister is gone, but the family is full of nobles, why does this Mrs. Situ rarely show up in front of outsiders.

Situ squeezed the Buddha beads in his hand, showed some anger on his face, and said, "You don't need to talk about it, but remember." Oh, by the way, the people on Zhuangzi have delivered all the New Year's goods, and you have checked them one by one? ”

He Tian's family could see that this Situ family was not willing to mention the rather mysterious Mrs. Situ, so they hurriedly said yes, and after listening to Situ's words, they hurriedly took the account book and reported it to Situ. Situ Shi raised his forehead with a little headache, waved his hand to stop He Tianjia, frowned and said, "What the hell is going on?" Why is this year's harvest several percent less than usual? ”

He Tianjia's face turned pale, and he hurriedly defended: "The slave and maid were also strange at that time, and they asked the steward of the Zhuangzi, and they all said that they were connected by natural disasters this year, which made the harvest on the Zhuangzi not very good. ”

"Hmph, this harvest is not very good, and they use natural disasters to prevaricate, I think they don't take me as a master more and more seriously. Not to mention that, how much silver is left in the account? Situ had a little more anger on her face, she was a little depressed in her heart, although she was the head of the Chen family, but there was still an old lady above. On this side, it is good to let her manage this family, but how many years has the old lady been in this family, how can she say that she will let her power go. I still have to consult the old lady for some important things in the family, and when I think about it, I feel that I can't spit it out when I hold my breath in my chest.

"Mrs. Hui, there is no money in the account, but now that several relatives and friends are leaving, it will be the old lady's birthday in a few days...... When I came over just now, the second master sent someone over to ask for a thousand taels of silver. Therefore I have come to ask my wife to show me where this money will go? He Tian's family secretly wiped a handful of sweat, although it is November now, and the cold winter is about to reach the wax moon, no matter what, it is a matter of silver. She is Situ's companion, but she is on the same side as Situ's, and she is a matter of glory!

Situ Shi was surprised when he heard this: "When I settled accounts with you a few days ago, the money in the account was still enough to spend in the house, why is it only a few days, and there is no silver all of a sudden?" There are no big expenses in the house these days! Where did all the money go? ”

He Tian's family hurriedly replied and said, "Madame, but I forgot, when we settled the accounts a few days ago, we included the gift sent by the Ying family, and this will be a little silver." ”

Situ Shi listened, thought about it carefully, there was really such a thing, frowned, and said: "That's it, you will go to the treasury in a while to find a few things to go out, first bet a few hundred taels of silver, and deal with the past first." As for the second master's side, you can delay it for a few days and then let me think about it. Alright, you can go down and do it first. Waiting for He Tian's family to retreat, Situ looked back at the courtyard inside, and secretly thought that there was still an internal account in this mansion, and there was money in it. It's a pity that this account is in the hands of the old lady, she has wanted to reach into it in the past few years, but the old lady is not a vegetarian, so she didn't let her people touch it. snorted coldly, this old lady is obviously eccentric and the second girl and the third girl who crawled out of her belly, I don't know how much silver to put on the third girl who got married every year! The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, although it was good that she was the girl of the Situ family, but the most powerful Situ Sheng in the Situ family had nothing to do with their family, and others who were partial still thought how powerful their family was! When she married into the Chen family, the three girls were still in the boudoir, and the girls were naturally coquettish, and the daughters-in-law were inferior. What's more, these three girls are the daughters of the true Erba Sutra, or the youngest girl, and even the old lady is pleased. At that time, it was the time when the old lady raised the housekeeper of the three girls, and she was stunned to pass her eldest daughter-in-law and put the right of the housekeeper into the hands of the three girls.

After the three girls finally got married, with the husband's family to the field, although the old lady loves the girl, but after all, the girl who married out of the water spilled, the New Year's gift is still the old lady's own good things, although she is greedy but helpless. Finally, when she was housekeeper, the old lady was still restraining her everywhere. After Gui'er was born, the old lady immediately kicked a brightly colored maid beside her to the lord as a roommate, at that time she finally sent away all the girls in the room before she got married, and she was beaten so badly that she could not show her virtuousness and generosity, and she had to arrange this roommate.

This girl in the room is a child, and if she hits the bones, she will be connected to the tendons, and when the girl in the room gives birth to a girl, she was immediately born by the old lady as an aunt. At that time, she was secretly proud that even if you gave birth to a girl, what would you do, you still don't have to call her mother. However, the old lady's words immediately knocked her pride down, at that time, she gave birth to the eldest grandson and eldest granddaughter of the Chen family, and the girl she gave birth to at that time was still raised by her own side. The old lady said that she was old, and she was afraid that she would be lonely, so she got the girl born by this aunt and the eldest son of the second family together and raised them together.

At that time, Situ only felt that his mouth was full of bitterness, so he couldn't say it. This old lady is a three-grade fate, and her identity is not the highest in the family. In this world's customs, marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous person, the more high-ranking the family, the more attention is paid to birth and upbringing. The girl from an ordinary scholar's family and the grandchild raised by Mrs. Decree are two different things in the eyes of the world. Whether it is a man marrying or a girl marrying, this is an important weight. Situ's son and daughter were all raised by the old lady's side before, even if she was reluctant, but there would be no reason for reluctance. But why did a girl born to her aunt be treated the same as the child born to her, the head of the house, which almost made Situ vomit a mouthful of blood angrily.

However, this aunt relied on her own appearance to hook the old man to death, and she would rest in her room for most of the month. This is the reason why Situ can't look down on this aunt the most, a fox!

Thinking about the girl who came out of the house, Situ's attitude towards her was slightly better, after all, she was a girl favored by the old lady, and besides, this girl's appearance was not with her foxy aunt, she was four or five points like the master, but she was favored by the old lady and loved by the master. But the best thing is the girl Lin who came out of her belly, after all, she is the girl who came out of her belly or she is fighting for herself as a mother!

Now that I think about it, my face is becoming more and more gloomy, but fortunately there is no maid in the room. Situ didn't dare to curse the old lady openly, and he didn't know how many old lady's eyeliners there were in this house, so he had to twist the handkerchief in his hand into a rope. After thinking about what she asked her companion to inquire about before, my heart became more and more bottomless. I secretly thought in my heart that if her family had a good relationship with the Situ family, why did she have so no confidence and let the old lady control her elbows for so many years. And the matter on the account, no one in the capital knows who doesn't know that the nephew has the ability to make money, if her family can also take a few points, how can there be no silver in the account! This old immortal has been holding the inner account dead all these years and has not put it down at all. It's just that now the Situ family can't find a relationship, I don't know if there is any good news from Gui'er, but she doesn't believe that the Situ family doesn't talk about it at all?

Thinking about it, she can only rely on her own children, and now Gui'er has also been lifted, waiting to go to the door to do a good job of family affairs will not make her have a little more confidence in this mansion. Thinking of this, there was a look of disdain on her face, where could the sister-in-law in the second room compare to her Gui'er and Lan'er.

After scolding again in his heart, and after venting the anger in his heart, Situ stretched out his hand to summon the maid who was standing far away at the door who was expelled by her, and said, "You go and see if the eldest young master is back?" If he comes back, let him come to me. ”

After the maid took the order to go out, Situ took a shallow sip of tea soup with the tea bowl on the side, frowned, put down the teacup dissatisfied, slammed the "bell" on the table, and said angrily in a low voice: "What kind of thing, dare to fight with me!" That's it, let's talk about it then! ”