Zhou Tong pursed his lips and drove the five people away, "I haven't slept well yet, you guys go out to play first." ”

Knowing that he was in a bad mood, several people silently got up and left, asking him to rest more.

A few people couldn't help but squeeze their eyebrows when they left his room, Lin You pushed them and said, "Let's go, let's go out to eat." ”

After the exam, of course, you should relax and relax.

Shang Mingjie couldn't help but glance at the backyard, Lin You saw him grab his shoulder and walk out, and whispered, "Want to see my cousin?" ”

Shang Mingjie's face turned red and asked in a low voice, "Is my cousin at home?" ”

"No," Lin You dismissed his delusions, and said with a smile: "Today is fifteen, my cousin has accompanied Mrs. Yang out to offer incense in the morning, and she will enter the palace in the afternoon." ”

Shang Mingjie was a little disappointed.

He hadn't seen his cousin in a long, long time.

Lin You hummed in his heart, and pulled him away, wanting to see his cousin, there was no door, and there was no window.

Shang Mingjie went out to lunch with his friends, and then went home with his head down. Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and everyone has activities in the afternoon, Lin You and they don't enter the palace, but they make an appointment to go out shopping together in the evening.

Shang Mingjie agreed to go with them in the evening, but he had to go home in the afternoon.

Lin You and the others also had to rest in the afternoon, so they each dispersed and went home.

As soon as he returned home, Shi Mo came out of nowhere and said secretly: "Second master, my lord has gone to several business houses today, and the small ones don't dare to get too close, so I don't know what they are talking about." ”

Shang Mingjie was stunned, "Firm? ”

What do they have to do with the Lin family and the trading house?

He scratched his head, and finally opened the cabinet and took out a bag of silver for him, "If you don't follow too closely, then go out and hire someone." ”

Thinking of what they had encountered during their previous study tour, he reminded: "Find those gangsters or children on the street, if you can hear what the old man says, it is naturally good, it doesn't matter if you can't hear it, just write down who he sees every day, and go back and tell me." ”

Shimo opened his mouth wide and asked in a daze, "Second, second master, what can't you ask the master directly?" The lord has only one son, and I think if you ask, the lord will definitely say it. ”

Shang Mingjie pursed his lips and didn't speak.

Xi Yan looked at the young master, and slapped the waiter Mo on the head and said, "You are still used to teach the young master this truth, the young master is doing this to better talk to the master." ”

Shimo looked at him with an idiot's gaze.

Xi Yan said unashamedly: "This is called knowing oneself and knowing whether the other understands or not, the second master is not familiar with the master, and some things are not easy to say, of course, you must check it out first and then speak." ”

Shimo was skeptical.

Xi Yan continued: "Then let me ask you, now that you see your father, will you tell your father about the second master?" ”

Shi Mo shook his head without thinking.

His father served by his master's side, and he began to follow his second master at the age of eight, and since then he has rarely seen his father again.

To be honest, if it weren't for this trip to Beijing, he would have almost forgotten what his father looked like.

Although his father sounded very close, looking at Xi Yan and then at Shang Mingjie, he still felt that the second master and Xi Yan were closer.

Shi Mo accepted his explanation a little, he sighed, put the silver in his arms and said, "Then I'll go." ”

Shang Mingjie nodded and whispered: "Be careful, don't let anyone find out, if you are caught in the future, you will honestly confess that I asked you to do it, but don't be stubborn." ”

Shi Mo said speechlessly: "Second master, don't worry, I will not be hard-mouthed." ”

Shimo left with the silver, and suddenly called out after washing the inkstone and closing the door, "Second master, you gave him all the silver, and we have no money on us!" ”

He was so anxious, "You still have to have a party with Young Master Lu and Young Master Lin at night, it's not good to ask them to pay, and there will be entertainment in the future, this is more than half a month before the monthly money will be paid next month." ”

The Shang family generally pays monthly money from the third to the fifth day of the first month.

Shang Mingjie said indifferently: "Just send someone to the account room to get it, and you will go in a while, just say what I said, I want to buy something and ask for money, give me twenty taels first." ”

Xi Yan looked entangled, isn't it okay to use the money in the account room to buy people to follow the master?

However, Shang Mingjie didn't think there was anything bad, and asked him to say that everything was caused by power, and if his father gave up the title to his eldest brother, then there would not be so many fights in this family; If his father could be content, he wouldn't be involved with his uncles to deal with his cousin's family now.

In his opinion, these are all relatives of the family, so what's the point of fighting back and forth like this?

For the sake of nothingness, which is not brought by life and not taken away by death.

Their family is not short of money, nor is it a family that is bullied at will, so why bother so much?

Shang Mingjie didn't put money in his eyes, but he didn't know that his father Shang Ping was almost white worried about money.

Zhao Jie gave a list this time not only varied, but also large, and needed a lot of money, even if he had prepared for it, he would not do it at this time.

It is still the next choice to borrow money from Qianzhuang, because the interest of Qianzhuang is not low, so Shang Ping's first thought is to pay credit to the commercial bank first, and then pay it back when the goods are handed over and the money is distributed, so that there will be a lot of interest left.

It's a pity that the firms are not stupid, although they promise to be able to owe a part of the credit, but they are very little, and the sum is a fraction, and in the end he still has to go to the bank to borrow money.

Shang Ping returned home with a headache, and as soon as he got home, he was told by the account office that his son had taken twenty taels from the account.

He frowned and said, "The second master has just finished the exam, and it is the time to socialize, isn't it normal to take some money?" Send him another fifty taels, tell him to wash the inkstone and serve the ink, and go out to play with the same department, but they are not allowed to go to those pickled places, and they are careful about the second master, if the second master is bad, I only ask. ”

The bookkeeper hurriedly responded, and then said cautiously: "But master, there are still fifty taels in the current account......

Shang Ping frowned and said, "I'll have someone send another hundred taels over later." ”

It's not that Shang Ping is stingy, but this money is indeed not small, and the purchasing power of silver is very large.

At that time, the Lin family only left a few thousand cash, which was the living expenses that Lin Jiang had prepared for their aunt and nephew for several years.

If it weren't for Lin Qingwan's too much money to run Juetian, a few thousand taels could provide their aunt and nephew with luxury for more than ten years.

Although Shang Ping's expenses in the capital are large, he rarely spends money from the account, so the account office of Shang Mansion is quite a bit of a fictitious meaning.

However, with Shang Mingjie moving in, the account room finally has a more important use.

Shang Mingjie got the money from his father, and couldn't help but soften his heart, and then went to his father and asked, "Father, how will you choose between the country and the family, and how will you choose between morality and family interests?" ”

Shang Ping frowned and asked him, "This is the test question for this imperial examination?" ”

"......" Shang Mingjie was silent and said, "No, it's the question that my son wants to ask." ”

Shang Ping tensed his face and said, "How did you think of such a tricky question?" You just need to learn benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, and shame, and think about those irrelevant questions. ”

"Father, isn't this benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, and shame?"

"Nonsense, the family is in the interests of the country, the country is prosperous, I have only heard that the two support each other, but I have not heard that their interests are contrary to each other," Shang Ping interrupted him urgently, "Those words are all made up by some talented people to disturb people's hearts, do you think which minister in the court has not become an official, and the family has become more and more prosperous after becoming a official?" ”

"And they do things for the country, and the country is naturally more and more prosperous, how do you think the interests of the country have ever contradicted? You have to remember that home has always been with the country. ”

Shang Mingjie pursed his lips and said: "Father, this is obviously a quibble, you know what I mean by asking, the country and the family are put together, and the interests can indeed be the same, but how can there be no conflict?" ”

"For example, if a soldier dies to guard the door, is it not sacrificing himself for the country and his family for the country? Another example is ......"

"Okay, okay," Shang Ping said with a headache: "I've been tired for my father for a day, and I really can't argue with you, so you go down first, didn't you say that you asked a friend to go out at night?" ”

Shang Mingjie pursed his lips, he could see his father's evasion, and a breath suddenly surged in his heart, wanting to rush out of his chest, but he endured it, stepped back and bowed.

Shang Ping opened his eyes when he left, and asked Changping, "Who told him what, why did he suddenly ask such a question?" ”

Changping hurriedly said: "No one chews his tongue in front of the second master, it's just that the second master has always been sensitive, maybe he saw something outside." ”

Shang Ping nodded slightly, thinking that his son had always been pure and good, and would not hide his emotions, so he should not have discovered anything, so he nodded and said, "Forget it, let him go, the child just needs to be depressed for a few days." You go to the account again to see if you can make up some money, calculate how much is still missing, and I'll go to the money bank to talk about it tomorrow. ”

Changping should be down.

The Shang family looks glamorous on the surface, but it is actually inferior to the Lin family.

Now the Lin family has several money-making things in their hands, but the Shang family does not, if it weren't for the cooperation with the Zhao family every year to do business, the Shang family would have had even more difficulty.

Changping understood the master's difficulties, sighed and went out to settle the accounts.

Shang Mingjie walked out angrily, and when the wind blew, he gradually calmed down, and said, "Go back and bring more cloaks, we won't come back at night." ”

Shang Mingjie ran to Lu Yu and them to play, but unfortunately, Lin Qingwan just took Lin Yubin out to the palace.

He felt a little sorry, and then went in to meet Mrs. Yang.

Mrs. Yang still likes Shang Mingjie very much, so after receiving his salute, she smiled and said, "Okay, I know you are in a hurry, go out and play." ”

Shang Mingjie thought that she was alone at home, so he hesitated: "Madame, why don't you go out with us, I heard that this year, Your Majesty has a thousand autumns, and the Ministry of Household and Rites have jointly prepared a lot of fireworks, waiting for the Mid-Autumn Festival to be happy with the people." ”

Mrs. Yang smiled and shook her head, "Go ahead, I don't like to be lively, and where to see this firework?" I was at home waiting for their aunt and nephew to come back, and it was getting colder and colder, so I showed them hot water at home. ”

Lu Rui was already impatient, so he pulled him and saluted Mrs. Yang: "Then Madame, I'll go down first, and I'll bring you beautiful lanterns back at night." ”

Mrs. Yang waved her hand amusedly, "Go, go." ”