Chapter 14: The Family Feast (2)
After having this little son, it is unknown whether Erniang has other thoughts in her heart about Shen Lian's inheritance of the family business.
Sanniang has only one son, Shen Fang.
I don't know why, Shen Fang looks crooked melons and cracked dates, not at all like Shen Wanquan with elegant demeanor, very unpleasant, when he grew up, Shen Fang was infected with the vice of eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and if he didn't change his teachings, he was even more unfavorable.
Siniang gave birth to a son and a daughter, Shen Zhan and Shen Yiyi.
Shen Zhan is very handsome, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and Shen Yiyi is also very standard, and he is deeply loved by Shen Wanquan.
However, in the past few years, Shen Zhan has often fooled around with Shen Fang, and he has also contracted the vice of eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, which has made Shen Wanquan more and more disappointed.
Wu Niang and Liu Niang have only married in the past few years, and Wu Niang gave birth to a pair of twins, named Shen Wen and Shen Wu, who are still young, both under the age of ten.
Liu Niang is pregnant, her body is delicate, and she is also Shen Wanquan's most favored concubine at present.
In this big family, five women not only compete for favor, but also fight for the rights and interests of their respective children.
Shen Wanquan knew very well what they were arguing about.
He has six sons, three of whom are adults, Shen Lian, Shen Fang, Shen Zhan, there is no need to compare carefully, the blind can see that Shen Lian is very outstanding, far from being comparable to Shen Fang and Shen Zhan, and Shen Lian is still the eldest son, no matter from which point of view, the heir of the head of the family is none other than Shen Lian.
However, Sanniang's mother's family is the prefect's own uncle, and the background is very hard, so she has to hold up her son Shen Fang to fight with Shen Lian, and often makes waves at home, and has nothing to do.
And Siniang is a wall grass, listening to the wind is the rain, and she is familiar with whichever side is beneficial.
Wu Niang and Liu Niang have their own careful thoughts, and they all learn from each other.
In the face of Sanniang's aggressive and harsh criticism, Erniang's face was gloomy, and she argued: "Lian'er has recently recruited servants for her family, and she is busy with everything else, and it is inevitable to spend more money, is the third sister too fussful." ”
Sanniang sneered: "Who is recruiting Hu Cong? Who is recruiting? Why haven't I seen one? He is spending money like running water, 100,000 taels today, 100,000 taels tomorrow, endlessly, is this a trivial matter?"
Erniang was angry and defended: "Lian'er has been smart since he was a child, strategizing, never nonsense, he has his own ideas, and he will see results after a while, the third sister is not in a hurry at this time." ”
Sanniang pursed her lips and said disdainfully: "Second sister, isn't it too protective of Lian'er?" Sister, I'm only worried, after a while, the Shen family is afraid that it will go bankrupt." ”
Erniang was trembling with anger.
Knock knock!
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
Shen Wanquan, who closed his eyes slightly, raised his head and looked at the door: "Who?"
"Dad, it's me. Shen Lian answered outside the door.
"Come in. ”
Shen Lian pushed the door in, Shen Xiaoshu pulled his sleeve to follow, Shen Fang and Shen Zhan followed with strange expressions, Cuilan cowered and hid behind Shen Lian, as if wishing she would be invisible.
"Lian'er is here, oh, Xiaoshu, Xiaofang, Xiaozhan, you are here too. Shen Wanquan couldn't help but be stunned, and was slightly surprised to see his four children coming together.
Erniang looked at it with a smile, smiled and nodded, but her smile was a little stiff, and hinted to Shen Lian with her eyes, you came at a bad time.
Sanniang glanced at Shen Lian coldly, and suddenly!
Her pupils shrank suddenly, her gaze crossed Shen Lian's shoulder, and she stared at Cuilan, her eyes almost spewing fire, and her face was full of murder.
Cuilan lowered her head, eager to bury her face in her chest, her body trembled, she was so frightened that she couldn't breathe at all, she almost suffocated herself, and it was obvious how scared she was in her heart.
Siniang also glanced at the Yuehua skirt on Cuilan's body, and didn't know what she remembered, she raised her eyebrows, covered her mouth and chuckled.
Shen Lian saluted: "Meet Daddy, Second Mother, Third Mother, Fourth Mother, Fifth Mother, Sixth Mother." ”
Shen Xiaoshu, Shen Fang and Shen Zhan also saluted one by one.
Shen Wanquan waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's all a family, don't be polite, just sit down." ”
"Dad!" Shen Xiaoshu trotted to Shen Wanquan's side, coquettish and cute, making Shen Wanquan laugh.
Sanniang was impatient, and said coldly: "Lian'er, you are really getting more and more like the head of the family, and even what your maid wears is better than those of us who are mothers." ”
Cuilan shuddered violently, and had to hold on to the back of the chair to stand firmly.
Erniang's brows furrowed, she opened her mouth when she opened her mouth, and suddenly saw Shen Lian swinging her hand calmly, and swallowed back what she was about to say.
Shen Lian sat down slowly, calm as water.
Sanniang wants to take away his power and take away his inheritance, and it is not easy to trick her into giving up.
Shen Lian chuckled and said, "Sanniang has always been diligent and thrifty, living a simple life, and should be a model for the Shen family. Since the child took over part of the family business, he trembled and did not dare to slack off, and gradually realized a truth: it is difficult to start a business, and it is even more difficult to keep a business. ”
Shen Wanquan's heart shook slightly when he heard this, and he was pleasantly surprised: "It's difficult to start a business, and it's even more difficult to keep a business, Lian'er said it well!"
In his heart, Shen Lian has always performed well.
Recently, he has spent a lot of money, which is a bit abnormal, but compared to the heirs of several other major families, Shen Lian undoubtedly stands out and never fools around, especially his talent in poetry and writing, which adds a lot of glory to his face.
Sanniang snorted coldly: "Lian'er has always been very good at poetry and eloquence, but the Shen family is not an official family, it is a businessman, not who reads well and can play tricks, which means that he will definitely be able to do a good job in business." ”
Shen Lian: "Sanniang is a person who understands the truth, and the child sighs to himself, and he has always taken Sanniang as an example in private." Especially recently, in order to deal with family affairs, the expenses have become increasingly huge, which makes children anxious and unable to sleep at night.
Fang knows that it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.
Sanniang's worries are not unreasonable, there is no moderation, and I don't know how to be diligent and thrifty, and the Shen family may go bankrupt.
After learning from the pain, the child learned a lesson and was determined to learn from Sanniang, take the lead in carrying forward the great spirit of hard work and simplicity, and start from me!"
Turning to Shen Wanquan, his expression was sincere, "Dad, the child wants you to take back my right to withdraw the family's money at will."
At the same time, the child voluntarily donated all his monthly money to set up a 'crisis fund'.
Although my monthly money is small, it will increase over time, and the crisis fund will continue to increase.
In the future, if the family is in trouble and has no money available, the crisis fund will be the last insurance for our family. ”
Shen Wanquan raised his eyebrows and said, "Donate them all?"
This is obviously unrealistic, Shen Lian, as the eldest prince, ushered in the send, where does it not cost money.
Shen Lian nodded: "Donate it all!" Not only that, the child proposed to halve all the monthly money of everyone in the family, and put the remaining half into the crisis fund. ”
He stood up, walked to Erniang, and asked: "Erniang has a good way to run a family, with hard work, and should have enjoyed more happiness, but what Sanniang said is too reasonable, we can't help but think about the future, you won't object to the child's proposal, right?"
Erniang smiled and nodded: "Diligence and thrift, everyone is responsible, Lian'er's proposal is very good, I agree." ”
Shen Lian walked towards Siniang suddenly, his eyes were like a tiger and majestic like a mountain, "Siniang won't object, right?"
Siniang was taken aback, her character of wall grass, bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, panicked, and blurted out: "When, of course." ”
Shen Lian turned around and walked towards Wu Niang, "What does Wu Niang think?"
Seeing his posture, Wu Niang's heart became weak, and she smiled dryly: "Lian'er is so bold, she gave up the right to withdraw the family's money at will, and donated all the monthly money, of course Wu Niang can't fall behind, Wu Niang supports you!"
There was no need for Shen Lian to ask, Liu Niang was also frightened, and very simply: "Of course I support Lian'er." ”
Shen Lian immediately came to Shen Fang and Shen Zhan, looked at them apologetically, as if to say, you can't blame me, if you want to blame, blame Sanniang, she forced me, and said with a wry smile: "Second brother, third brother, you and I are brothers and sisters, and you will share difficulties together, and you will not object to the eldest brother's hard work for the family, right?"
Shen Fang's expression twitched, Mao was in a situation, why did the increase in monthly money suddenly halved!
Shen Fang couldn't help but glared at Sanniang, his own biological mother, speechless.
"For the sake of the family's future, I, of course, support the eldest brother. Shen Fang beeped like a dog and sighed bitterly.
Shen Zhan was also speechless, feeling that Sanniang's extra move was a bad thing, and sighed: "I support the eldest brother." ”
Shen Lian turned around suddenly, bullied Sanniang, and shouted loudly: "Sanniang!"
Sanniang shuddered fiercely, the corners of her eyes twitched, she had never seen Shen Lian have such a strong side.
However, when he thought of successfully taking away Shen Lian's power to withdraw the family's money at will, he suddenly felt a little proud, and said with a smile: "Lian'er is dedicated to his family, how can Sanniang not support it." ”
"Good!"
Shen Lian knew that he had won, so he slowly turned to Shen Wanquan and said, "Dad, what do you think?"
Shen Wanquan couldn't understand his son's manipulation, and nodded with a smile: "Just do what you say." ”
At this time, the housekeeper Fan Li came and said, "Master, ladies and sons, the guests are almost here, do you want to open the table?"
Shen Wanquan got up, looked around at everyone, and said solemnly: "Let's go over together and start the family banquet!"
Everyone went downstairs together.
In the hall on the first floor, the Shen family gathered together.
At the wine table where Shen Wanquan was, only Erniang and Shen Lian were qualified to accompany him, as well as the protagonist Sun Yuanxiang.
In addition, there are also the county magistrates who came to cheer, as well as the heads of the three major families, and the most heavyweight guest is the wind chasing god to catch Baili Fei.
On the earth, it is not an exaggeration to say that Baili Fei is a combined version of Bao Qingtian and Zhanzhao, and his fame is really big, and there are fans everywhere!
Of course, this one came quietly, rushing to Shen Lian's face.
After all, he lived in seclusion in Snow Ridge City, and he didn't want to make a fuss.
Only a few people present knew that he was the wind chasing god in the epicenter of the Central Plains, and the county magistrate was one of them.
However, this official man couldn't move Baili Fei, and even repeatedly came to the door to ask for a meeting, but he couldn't afford it, but the Shen family came as soon as he was invited.
At this moment, the county magistrate finally had the opportunity to sit at the same table with the wind chasing god, but how much he wondered in his heart was beyond what others could imagine.
In addition to the above people, there is also a stunning beauty who looks like a fairy and makes all the women present lose color, which attracts countless eyes like a powerful magnet, making people think about it, and they can't help but speculate whether Shen Wanquan is going to marry the seventh concubine.