I didn't expect to get such results on the first day, thank you to all the friends who clicked, recommended, collected, and voted for PK, super thanks. With tears in his eyes, he said, I'll try, clench my fists.

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Sure enough, she is a strong woman, but unfortunately she was born in the wrong era. Xia Xiaoman was full of emotion, if it weren't for the fact that this woman was too strong, she really wanted to make friends with her. She couldn't help but say, "Since the fifth grandmother is so powerful, even if she has two cents, she has a lot of silver, right?" Plus the martial family gave her some dowry silver or something, why didn't she open her own shop, she had to ask for the shop of the Nian family? ”

Anyone who has been in a company knows that running this kind of thing is boring, and you can squeeze out some silver anywhere.

Fennel shook her head and said, "Listening to the words of the fifth grandmother, you also know that there are not many people who are officials. General Wu and his wife are both born in the bitter cold of the market, and they have no family background, although they have military merit rewards, but there is not much in the end, and there is no income on the side, and their own chewing is not very enough, and the dowry for the fifth grandmother is very limited. The fifth grandmother saved some private money, and she was afraid that she would have to help her mother's family from time to time, so she didn't have much money to buy it - maybe there were, we don't know, anyway, she always wanted to take a few shops with the capital of the family. In fact, the slaves and maids privately speculated that she was also unwilling.

"The gentlemen in the four rooms are all officials, but the silver is far from being enough to pay tribute to the eunuchs, and there is also the worship of the ladies and concubines in the palace, which are all the silver in the officials. In fact, the old lady married several Zhuangzi and the pharmacy Nian Shoutang are also very beneficial, more than half of the money in the official in a year is from that side - that is, the dowry shop of each lady, and those who let the Nian family run it, there are also six points of profit into the official. Only the fifth grandmother, pretending not to see these, always feels that she and the fifth master raised the whole family. When the fifth master wanted to ask for the Nianshoutang in Jinzhou, she stared at it, and later the fifth master dominated the eldest lady's dowry shop and no longer handed over the money to the officials, so she was pried open and cracked, and she made trouble again and again......"

"Huh? The fifth old man dominated the eldest lady's dowry shop, what's going on? Xia Xiaoman interrupted her, tilting his neck and asking in surprise. In ancient times, wasn't the dowry private, at least the property rights belonged to the wife, and only his own son was passed on, if it was run by the husband's family, it was understandable that more than half of the profits went into the official, but the brother-in-law accounted for the sister-in-law's dowry shop, which ...... It's a scandal!

Fennel consciously lost her words, shrunk her neck, and didn't dare to say it, seeing that Xia Xiaoman had been looking at her, she hesitated for a moment before whispering: "It's a slave who has a lot of mouths...... As long as the master knows it in his heart, this matter is also a taboo at home. It turned out that a few old ladies knew, but because the fifth grandmother quarreled, the family knew about it. The old lady was angry, and no one dared to mention it after that. ”

Xia Xiaoman blinked, it was really a scandal, do you want to listen to it? In the end, it can be regarded as a little bit of a relationship with yourself. She was still hesitant, and the fennel was already starting to speak.

Fennel started from the beginning: "Our eldest lady's maiden family is in Jinzhou City, which faces the Southern Xia Kingdom in the south, as well as ports, and trade by land and water. When the eldest lady got married, she brought over six salt and tea shops, all of which received southern goods and sent them to all directions, and the business was very good, so although the eldest lady followed the eldest lady everywhere, she was never willing to redeem the shops. It turned out that although a few accompanying families helped to operate, it was also the same as the Nian family's industry, and the profits were paid to the officials, only 40% were paid.

"In the year of the eldest lady's funeral, the eldest master was far away in the northwest, the sixth master was young, and the fifth master was an official in Jinzhou at that time, so he sent someone to take over the shop, saying that he was guarding the property for his nephew. And because it was found that many of the companion houses had embezzled silver taels, they gave the severance money and sent it away, so they took care of it themselves, paid sixty percent of the profits to the officials, and divided two percent into the six masters. The eldest man didn't say anything, and the family had nothing to say. It's been like this for more than ten years. I don't know what happened a few years ago, and the fifth master didn't send a penny of silver home.

Her eyes flickered, and her voice became lower and lower, almost like a whisper: "The slave maid heard that it was the southern side of the herbs that were popular, and the fifth master wanted to use the Jinzhou branch of the old lady's dowry pharmacy Nianshoutang to stock up and pour medicine, but the big shopkeeper over there refused, saying that it was the old lady's private property, and only listened to the old lady's words." As soon as the fifth master was angry, he repaired the book and discussed with the old lady about the year's longevity. Presumably the old lady and the old lady didn't agree, so the fifth master simply dominated the shops of our eldest lady, and the money was collected into his own hands, and he didn't pay it to the officials. ”

Xia Xiaoman sighed, since the father and son are centrifuged, and the brothers are on the wall, most of them are only for the word "family property", those who have no money want to be rich, and those who have money want more money. It's been the same throughout the ages, but it's not the same on my stepmother's side, I always thought that my father gave her too much money to go to school, and then I thought that she didn't pay enough money to her home after going to work, or overtly or covertly ridiculed and noisy, until she was transferred out of the city, it stopped.

Her thoughts had long since returned to the modern age, and Fennel still whispered in her ear, "...... The fifth old man is the old son of the old lady at the age of forty, and he is the top of the old lady's heart, if it weren't for the fifth grandmother to make trouble, the old lady would definitely suppress the affairs of Jinzhou, and it would be ...... Alas...... Although the family didn't mention this later, the old lady must have been extremely unhappy in her heart, she didn't like the fifth grandmother very much, and now you see, I'm afraid she is very bored. …… Alas, it is also a loss to the Zheng family, and the old lady Zheng only has two daughters, our eldest lady and my aunt, and there are no sons, nor too close sons and nephews, otherwise the sons and nephews of the Zheng family will have to make trouble when they hear the letter......"

Xia Xiaoman suddenly became a little impatient, waved his hand to interrupt her, and asked, "The eldest master doesn't know about this?" The sixth master doesn't know? What do they say? ”

Fennel felt that the master's words were not good, so she glanced at her cautiously, thought about it in her heart, and then said, "Master...... You should know...... But in recent years, they have been in Lizhou in the northwest, and what to say when the letter comes back, the slave and maid have no way of knowing, but the people below are rumored to be dragging this matter, and they don't care if they want to come to the master. Our sixth master didn't care about it, when he heard this, he laughed and said, "What a big idea", and said, "It's really boring to hurt the harmony for the idea of silver." ’”

Xia Xiaoman was stunned for a moment, pulled the corners of his mouth and snorted for a while, lowered his eyelids, and said, "He is actually an open-minded person." ”

She can also be open-minded, but the premise of open-mindedness is to live, so she can only choose to fight for baht. She has seen how fragile morality is in the face of survival, family affection is as thin as paper, and blood is lighter than water! She had never expected to find a clean human heart in this world. Seeing that she was a little ironic, she didn't think he was pretentious, after all, he was rich, had open-minded capital, and could really have many virtues such as benevolence and self-interest; But she won't appreciate and look up to this virtue, she can restrain herself not to be greedy for money, but she can't do without money, she can't spend a hundred days, life has taught her - only holding money in her hands is true!!

Fennel actually kept paying attention to the master's expression when she spoke, the water was steaming, her master's face was a little gloomy, but her voice was flat, which made her a little apprehensive, she said half-tentatively: "Actually, according to the slave maid, the sixth master is really stunned by the fifth grandmother today, so he wants to go to Jinzhou ......."

Xia Xiaoman shook his head, throwing away those bad emotions, but because the amplitude of shaking his head was larger, he scattered his hair and splashed fennel and cardamom on his face. Looking at the two little girls hurriedly wiping the water off their faces, they looked cute, and she showed a solid smile. That's it, the past is gone, isn't there a lesson learned? She laughed at herself and asked Fennel to bring a long hand towel, then wrapped her hair in an Indian style and put it on her head.

Fennel and Cardamom looked at it, they both felt funny, they wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, and their faces were slightly distorted. Xia Xiaoman laughed out loud: "Come on, two girls, just laugh if you want, don't suffocate!" I'm not that particular about it. ”

The two maids were a little frightened at first, but seeing Xia Xiaoman's face teasing and not angry, the master also likes to laugh in the past two days, so he let go and pursed his lips.

Xia Xiaoman shrugged his shoulders and said, "Yes, it's almost washed, so be it." Then with the help of fennel, they came out of the bathtub, and the two took hand towels to wipe off the water on her body, changed her middle coat and jacket, and helped her to the dresser to comb her hair.

Xia Xiaoman smelled the fragrance of osmanthus oil, smiled and looked down at her green silk fennel in the mirror and said: "Idle is idle, if it's not a secret, let's talk about what the fifth grandmother made trouble twice." ”