Although the Mei family is also a scholarly family, there have been several officials of more than five grades, and in ancient times, if two officials of more than five grades could be erected as a door post, it was called a door valve.

In ancient times, if you wanted to see if the family had power, you didn't need to go in, you just used your eyes to know whether the family had strength.

The first is the gate valve, which means that the family can speak in the court. The second is the town house lion at the door, which is also a symbol of status, and ordinary people cannot use stone lions to guard the door.

Look at the door nails again, the door nails of people with status have a large bowl mouth, and the door knocker is inlaid on it, and it is particularly imposing when knocking on the door.

In ancient times, the courtyard was extremely deep, and it was normal for several times to enter and weigh a few times, and once the master entered the inner courtyard, he could not be found if there was an emergency.

The door nail acts as an alarm, especially when the knocker is knocked on the door nail to make a crisp sound, which can be heard even in the inner courtyard.

Today's Uncle Mei Guo is called Hualu, the word Rongtian, but the world calls him Sika Deer.

The main reason is that he loves to dress up and dress like a girl, especially now that his sister is the queen, he dresses more boldly, and his clothes are more colorful than the Qinglou Oiran.

In the past, I dressed conservatively because I was afraid of trespassing, and some colors could not be worn indiscriminately, otherwise I would be reported and my head would fall to the ground.

Now that it has developed all of a sudden, there is more room for color choice, so the collocation is more free, and even light purple can be used.

As for the crimson ones, not to mention, big green and blue are the norm.

It's just that the dark purple color has not yet been lifted, so he can only wear it after he gets the title.

The identity of the uncle can wear light purple, and if he has a knighthood, he generally has at least three grades or more.

It is easy to be crowned a champion general, and if you go further, you will inevitably not be able to seal a super-grade Hou Ye dangdang.

The sika deer is thirty-five years old this year, fourteen years older than Mei Huaqian.

He thought about what a glorious thing his uncle was, so he asked his father to build a high-rise building.

But the Mei family is just a scholarly family, not a merchant family, where can they get so much money?

The sika deer said to the old man: "My sister is now the master of the Sixth Palace, and the entire treasury belongs to her family, as long as she leaks a trace from her fingers, my Mei family will die." ”

Mei Yuanwai is a squire of Zhishi, and he also has a head and face in the place, and the whole guild knows him.

And he has let go of two prefects, three years of Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver.

His luck is very good, he has made a lot of rich businessmen, so he has a lot of oil and water, although he is not very greedy, but the two prefects are now in power, and his assets have turned over several times.

But in order to send his young daughter to the palace, he has spent a lot of money over the years, and it is very expensive to train his daughter to the age of fourteen.

Sika Deer is a short-sighted guy who only knows how to show off his wealth immediately, but Daddy Mei is a very urban person, and he is afraid that because his hands and feet are not clean, his daughter's status in the palace will be affected.

Because there was a royal history before, he was impeached for corruption and perversion of the law in office, corrected lawsuits, and disregarded people's lives.

At that time, he accepted the request of a wealthy businessman and received a benefit of 2,000 taels to recover the occupied old house for him.

The man who had seized the rich merchant's house was a lawyer, and he was very familiar with the law, so he took advantage of the loopholes.

Father Mei didn't make a wrong judgment in this matter, but he just clamped the lawsuit stick to death during the torture, which caused trouble.

Originally, the litigant was at fault, but when the person died, the family stopped doing it and went around suing the royal family.

When I got to the imperial history, it became a lawsuit and a curse on people's lives, which was simply out of nowhere.

And the royal history and the lawsuit stick are the relationship between the robe brother and the robe brother in the past, that is, the ambiguous relationship between the godbrothers and the back door.

In ancient times, that kind of relationship was very normal, and no one would rise to the level of Gang often to accuse, even the old master Zhu Xi just didn't see it.

Although they have broken up for many years and gone their own ways, the sudden news of his death still made the imperial history start to bite as if he had rabies.

But after all, her daughter is the crown princess, and she can still talk a little bit about it, and there is nothing wrong with Daddy Mei in this matter, but the fault is that he received two thousand taels of silver from the rich man, so it is reasonable and unclear.

Father Mei was thinking about how to break off this matter, but the straw bale son seemed to be angry with him and asked him to borrow money to build a house.

After all, Daddy Mei is an official with a conscience, not the kind of traitorous official who is particularly treacherous, so he still has a lot of laws in doing things, that is, he can't make trouble for his daughter.

If the daughter gives birth to a prince, then the position will be stable in the future, and the benefits will run away? The daughter will naturally favor her mother's family.

He patted the table and said, "Rebel, are you afraid that you won't be angry with me?" How much risk does your sister have to take in the palace to sit in the position of queen, but you are afraid that she will sit too firmly and want to drive her down?"

The sika deer opened her big round eyes and said, "Dad, what do you mean by that?" Of course, I hope that my sister's position is as stable as possible. What does this have to do with building a house. ”

Father Mei shouted: "It's a big deal, your father's money is not blown out of the air, it was saved by hard work after being the prefect for two terms, and the total is only 400,000 silver." ”

Sika Deer said disdainfully: "That's because you are too pedantic and unwilling to do anything in the accounts, if you change someone else, you don't have 800,000 taels, at least 500,000 taels." ”

Father Mei glared at his son with hatred and said, "I spent 200,000 taels to send your sister to the palace, and now the money for the pension is stretched, and you are still clamoring to build a house." ”

The sika deer held his head high and said: "But Wan Ju Xiaoxuan's housekeeper Bai Rihun said that he could take credit, and he would ask the emperor for it with an IOU in the future, and he was afraid that his uncle would not be able to repay the account?"

Father Mei was so angry that he couldn't speak, and only after a while did he say: "Is it the way that Bai Fever taught you?" You loser, see that I don't break your legs, tell you not to mix with the Bai family, they are not good people, they have collapsed the Lingji Hall, and they even fall in love with my Mei family again!"

He said to the housekeeper Uncle Wang: "Bring me the stick, I won't break the legs of this rebel today, I won't be surnamed Mei." ”

A person shouted: "Mei Guozhang, why are you so angry? Good things are coming." ”

When Daddy Mei saw that it was the big-footed matchmaker Liu on West Street, he said angrily: "What are you doing here? Get out!" But Mrs. Liu didn't walk on the threshold, with one foot in and one foot outside, especially talking to herself.

"Mei Guozhang, now there is a yellow flower girl who wants to marry you and renew the strings for you, if your son is not angry, don't be angry, it's a big deal to have another one. ”

Mei Guozhang waved his hand in the air, and he thought: Yes, I am only in my early fifties now, and I got married at the age of sixteen. Now that my wife is gone, I can have children if I marry another one, people can have children in their seventies, and of course I can have children if I am in good health.

So a news spread in Bianliang City, saying that Mei Guozhang was going to marry.

Empress Mei was frightened when she heard the news, now that the old emperor has just died, why is her father confused, is she afraid that she will sit too steadily?

She sent her henchmen to the Mei Mansion overnight to find out, but the person told the Bai family about instigating the sika deer to build a house, and Queen Mei was so angry that she fainted.

As soon as she told Zhao Qian about this, Zhao Qian was also angry, and even wanted to come to the palace to ask for an account, could it be that the palace was opened by his Bai family?

He was even more disgusted with Concubine Bai in his heart, since your Bai family has to calculate Lonely, Lonely, it can't be too cheap for the Bai family.

He issued an order to Wan Ju Xiaoxuan: There is no other courtyard for the concubine to live in, and the etiquette is not compatible, so Wan Ju Xiaoxuan will share my worries and build a separate courtyard for the concubine, and the specifications will be according to the system.

Wan Ju Xiaoxuan was very happy at first, it was built for Concubine Bai, but after the will was issued, when the labor was all together and the construction began, the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Households did not pull out a tael of silver, which made the person in charge of the construction worried.

But Wan Ju Xiaoxuan is used to liking to let people build houses in debt, so he doesn't feel at ease.

After more than three months of construction, I didn't realize that it was midsummer, and the weather was very hot, but fortunately the old emperor had been buried.

When it was finished, someone happily informed Concubine Bai that it was specially made for her.

Concubine Bai didn't know any news about this matter, and now she has lost power, so the news came late.

What a shrewd person she was, how could she not be informed of such a big event, and after the death of the old emperor, all entertainment in the mortal world, including architecture, should cease.

She found out that something was wrong, so she found the principal, and he was still waiting for praise, but he was scolded by the white concubine.

The person in charge was inexplicable, and Concubine Bai scolded: "Do you think I don't die? After the death of the Emperor, all entertainment and construction stopped, don't you know?"

Only then did the principal react, he usually used it to drill people, but this time he was tricked by Zhao Qian.

The principal said humbly: "The wages and costs should be returned?"

Concubine Bai was so angry that she couldn't wait to step forward and slap her two big mouths, she scolded angrily: "You are a pig, a brainless thing, why don't the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Households pull out the money? They didn't say to build it immediately." Who is to blame if you have to hit this knife? It is a great blessing not to punish you!"

The principal rolled his eyes and almost fainted, this annex cost a lot of money, at least two million silver, and now it was all because of his carelessness to give it to the royal family.

Since this incident, the Bai family has broken with the royal family, and Bai Zicheng didn't expect Zhao Qian to be so hot, making such a move that made his chest so tight that he wanted to vomit blood.

But when he thought that Lingjitang had gone bankrupt, from now on, no one would rob him of business, and the money would still be earned.

Just as he was thinking this, a housekeeper suddenly came over to tell him about a big event, which was about the drunken white house and the Lingji Hall.

It turned out that Drunken Baiju had a stake in the Sea Overlord Bathhouse, and he had made a lot of money in the past three months, which was higher than Drunken Baiju's profits.

The housekeeper broke out a shocking news, he approached Bai Zicheng very mysteriously and said, "But do you know who the major shareholder of the Sea Overlord Bathhouse is?"