"What are you looking at me for? If you want to ask anything, you can say it directly, and it doesn't look like you. Zhou Xingfeng said that he wiped his face with a handkerchief, sat back at the desk, and prepared to write some calligraphy notes silently, and left them at home for Zhou Shiyu to practice calligraphy.

"You're studying in the academy, why are things at home cleared?" Zhou Shiyu asked, "At your age now, you just need to study, and these parents shouldn't distract you." ”

Zhou Xingfeng smiled, "You are even more old-fashioned than the master." ”

"By the way, how about I ask my mother to find you a master again?" Zhou Xingfeng said, "Your temperament is too dull, I'm afraid that you will learn from the old master and change to a young and lively one." ”

"Now you're talking about you, why are you talking about me again." Zhou Shiyu said, "It doesn't matter what the master teaches me, but people's energy is limited, if you are distracted, you will inevitably not be able to concentrate on your studies, and the scientific examination is like a thousand troops crossing a single-plank bridge, you can't take it lightly." ”

"These things are not a distraction for me, just an after-school pastime." Zhou Xingfeng said, "Reading is the need to concentrate, but to be relaxed, you can't read a nerd in the future, this book and general affairs are very important, learning books allows you to be admitted to the Jinshi to be an official, proficient in general affairs can make you a good official, a longer official, a big official." ”

"I don't want to be an official." Zhou Shiyu said, "Dad trusts the big housekeeper very much, why don't you like the big housekeeper?" ”

"The big butler is greedy for money." Zhou Xingfeng said, "Take this deer as an example, buy two hundred and fifty taels, keep an account of four hundred taels, so where did the remaining one hundred and fifty taels go?" It's all in the pockets of the big butler. ”

"This is just one example, the big housekeeper is in charge of the family's shopping, and he has countless silver coins in his hands every day, and he can fill the bowl with a little stretching out his hand, can you like such a person?" Zhou Xingfeng asked.

"Doesn't that daddy even know?" Zhou Shiyu asked.

"How does Daddy know?" Zhou Xingfeng said with a smile, "We have never gone to the street to buy, what is the price of vegetables, how is the price of rice, we only know by looking at the housekeeper's account, absolute rights are not supervised, it will breed corruption, sometimes the people above also know that the middleman wants to eat some kickbacks, but this is a number, if it exceeds that number, it cannot be kept." ”

"Then go and ask on the street, and you'll find out." Zhou Shiyu said.

"To put it mildly, you have to go to the street and ask, do you still have time to do side things? Besides, you've never bought groceries, but you go to the street, and you know how to buy and how to ask? Xu can't find a place, even if he finds a place, will he sell the same as what you eat? Maybe the pigs you eat grew up drinking mountain spring water, and the chickens you eat have to be bathed every day, how to explain these things clearly. Zhou Xingfeng said.

"Then if you want to say that, the big housekeeper is quite hard, and Dad also knows that he will take some kickbacks, so what do you want him to do?" Zhou Shiyu asked.

"Of course, because he is too greedy and wants too much." Zhou Xingfeng said, "Okay, you don't need to know this carefully, you just need to know that the property of the Zhou family will be our brother's in the future, and your eldest brother and I are only doing this to keep our property." ”

Zhou Shiyu snorted, he didn't know if he understood, he put his face on the desk countertop, and asked Zhou Xingfeng again, "Why doesn't my father trust my mother?" ”

Zhou Xingfeng finished writing a piece of paper and looked at him, "Who said that?" Husband and wife are one, and the father naturally trusts the mother. ”

"Mother is not as trustworthy as the big housekeeper in my father's heart." Zhou Shiyu said. "Mother and father are still a community of interests, although the big housekeeper believes in Zhou, he also has his little Jiujiu in his heart."

"Community of interest?" Zhou Xingfeng chewed these words and felt very interesting, he glanced at Zhou Shiyu, "If my grandfather's family is not a wealthy businessman, my father may trust my mother a little more, but how to say it, if my mother is not the daughter of a wealthy businessman, my father may not marry her." ”

wants to take advantage of the power of his wife's mother's family, but he is worried that his mother's family will in turn embezzle his family property.

Dad is trusting and defensive to his mother, he will definitely not be like this in the future, husband and wife are one, that is, husband and wife are of the same heart.

Zhou Lang wanted to check Zhou Qu, first sent someone to the village to ask about things, and asked people to take the account book to see, in previous years, the accounts were flat, and occasionally there were places that could not be filled, Zhou Qu admitted his mistake first, Zhou Lang didn't embarrass him much for the sake of not having much money, and opened the latest account book, and couldn't turn two pages to see the account of the deer in the Mid-Autumn Festival, "Four hundred taels." ”

Zhou Lang said, Zhou Qu stared at the ground and almost couldn't stand, "Did I remember wrong?" What did Da Lang just say? It seems to be a matter of two hundred taels, why did it suddenly become four hundred taels? ”

"Send someone to ask the eldest young master, what are you talking about a few hundred taels?" Zhou Lang said.

Zhou Qu pouted and knelt down, "The old man spares his life, it's the little one who deserves to die, the little lard is blinded, and the matter of two hundred taels is written as four hundred taels." "He can't please this situation, admit his mistake earlier, maybe the lord can let it go gently for his mother's sake.

"A light stroke is a difference of two hundred taels." Zhou Lang flipped through the account book and said, "I trust you and never check your accounts carefully, but now it seems that not checking your accounts is harming you, and you are getting more and more bold and swallowing a lot of money." ”

"The lord forgives the sin, the lord spares his life, and the little one will never dare again." Zhou Qu said.

The people of Maple Village heard the news quickly, and someone from Zhou's family came to ask about the situation, knowing that it was Zhou Qu who was doing evil outside the company in the name of the outside, so that the old man found out, and the old man checked him.

There is only one person in this village who has recently acted outside the Zhou Yuan, and that is Lizheng.

He turned pale after hearing the news, and felt that it was over, the elders of the Zhou family also knew that they had been sued by the official office at this time, and they closed the door to sum it up, they were also confused about this matter, everything was done by Li Zheng, Li Zheng himself obtained his eldest brother's wealth by forcing his widow and sister-in-law to marry, and now he is doing the same to harm the Zhou family, otherwise how could they act like this.

This is a bad person, it is absolutely unacceptable, you must go to the yamen, ask someone to come down and re-elect Lizheng.