Chapter 31 The Three Horses of the Zheng Family

dispersed, Zheng Sanjun, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, did not want to go home.

He asked the sedan chair driver to park his sedan chair outside the hanging flower door of the house, and sat in the sedan chair and smoked his cigarette pouch. There is no good tobacco in the cigarette pouch, and the good tobacco is too expensive, and he can't afford to smoke it if no one gives it to him.

Just sitting, he didn't want to go home. What good can I do when I go back.

The old lady would only point to his nose and scold, saying that his unfilial son didn't know how to think of a way for the clansmen in Ningbo's hometown.

"You're going to be buried in the capital, and you're going to enter Valhalla. After I die, even if it stinks, you have to transport it back to Ningbo. Cover my face, I don't know what to say after seeing so many ancestors!"

Early this morning, Zheng Sanjun, who was about to go out to the court, was blocked at the door of Mrs. Wufang by the old lady on crutches, and scolded him with a face.

"How dare my son, they are too lawless, you can just hand over some of the silver from the court, who knows that they don't pay a copper plate. Don't fight, don't be lazy, just don't have long eyes, their son has already sent them letters, and they don't listen to them. The son walked the door and asked our student Tianqi to make the county order of Xiangshan County in the fifth year of the apocalypse, so he went to the door to explain to the eldest uncle, and the county order was not accepted, and the housekeeper scolded the county order back. Mother, tell me, what else can I do with my son?"

What is the situation of his own family, Zheng Sanjun knows better than anyone else. His younger brother is in Xiangshan County, below Ningbo Mansion, known as Zheng Bantian. There are only wrong names, no wrong nicknames. Zheng Bantian's nickname is really not too much at all.

In the bamboo forest alone, their Zheng family occupies more than 7,000 acres. Other excellent rice fields and mulberry forests occupy more than half of the entire Xiangshan County. There are also five fishing boat wharves on the seaside, regardless of whether there is a catch or not, a small fishing boat is five taels of silver a month, and a large fishing boat is twenty taels of silver a month, which is indispensable. If you can hand over the money, the Zheng family will plant a red flag on the bow of your ship. If there is no flag fishing boat, it will be directly scuttled by the fire boat of the county government, and the head can become a pirate and a pirate who repays the imperial court. The fireboat team of the county government is the son of the Zheng family's wet nurse, where can you go to reason? Real pirates and pirates also came at night, and the fireboat fleet of the county government became smuggling merchant ships at night.

In addition, the Zheng family has its own so-called second-class officials in the imperial court, not to mention the people in the clan, that is, those wet nurses and servants, and their nostrils are facing the sky when they leave the door of the Zheng family. If it doesn't please the slightest, he will send people directly to the prison, so that he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead. He didn't secretly read the information of the household department, and judging from the taxes over the years, the population of Xiangshan County is getting smaller and smaller. In fact, he also wrote letters, sent people to carry messages, and even sent his own brother back, but what was the use? Their family occupies more fertile land. These fertile fields are not taxed, and are all wasteland under contract.

At the end of last year, he even openly began to boil salt. Salt is something you can touch, too? ….

"Mother, it's good to be able to pay the money to be exempt. Otherwise, if the emperor really waited until the emperor took away his son's head, the whole Zheng family would be satisfied?" The more Zheng Sanjun thought about it, the more angry he became, so he straightened up directly and said with his neck stalked.

"I don't care! You're just fooling me all day long. My eyes are glazed, my hands are shaking, and your father is in the coffin. You're a big man now, too. What can I say? Anyway, I'm not ashamed, if you don't solve this matter, I'll go to the street to ask for food tomorrow with that broken bowl!" The old lady didn't listen to her son at all. Yesterday, his son came back angrily, indiscriminately, did not study, and tied his grandson, who was holding a famous singer to listen to the play, on the spring bench and whipped twenty rattans fiercely. I couldn't sleep all night, and the old lady was also distressed for a night, and found an excuse in the morning, that is, she was ready to scold her son for being angry.

Zheng Sanjun was also scolded and anxious, and hurriedly glanced at the five wives around him. Who knew that none of these five women paid attention to themselves, but they all gathered around the old lady.

"Everyone outside is looking at you, Zheng Shilang is so majestic. In previous years, sir, you could receive one even in the imperial examination

One hundred and eighty thousand taels. These two years are good, except for your Yulu, there is a little bit of dividends left in the court in one year, which adds up to less than three thousand taels. It's all up to Xiangshan's hometown to raise people, and I'm the eldest wife, and I'll also accompany the old lady with me. Zu'er don't go to school either, and I'll go with my mother tomorrow."

The eldest lady was adding oil and vinegar to the side, but when she heard this, the old lady's ears were unhappy again. Your own son is your own son, you can scold yourself, but others cannot.

"If you want to show your face without shame, you can go, and you don't look at what kind of you recruited your men into the door, so that the Zheng family became what it is now. You don't have anything to do with this big house? Zu'er wants the lintel of the Zheng family, so you don't have to pull around."

"Hey, what the old lady said, I really can't afford to let my daughter-in-law. Your eldest son, which aunt and wife brought home is not your eldest son who picked up the broken goods from the Qinglou or the banquet? Which one has discussed with me, the eldest lady? Now why does the old lady blame my daughter-in-law? Do you know that in this court, your eldest son is called a pawnshop waiter in the Ministry of Rites, and that is just collecting second-hand goods! When I came back, my sister didn't scream, a cup of tea was disrespectful, and I got up later than me every morning. What's the matter, now that I think I'm the eldest wife?"

The eldest lady doesn't care anymore, not only the old lady is talking with a gun and a stick, but also a few aunts and wives next to him, all of whom he swept in.

"Daughter-in-law, this is your fault, everyone scolds others, how can anyone scold themselves for second-hand goods?" The old lady is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

"I heard that your daughter-in-law is putting money outside? I don't believe this, old lady. It's against heaven and earth to put the money in print, it's something that no son can do, no wonder, tsk......

The old lady looked the eldest lady's body up and down, and sighed at this mouth. ….

"No wonder............

The eldest lady suddenly became angry, and directly pointed at Zheng Sanjun and scolded:

"Zheng Sanjun, if you say that again, I'll go back to my parents' house. I'm going to take a look, if our Huang family doesn't support you, how long will you be able to go from the second rank to the right waiter of the Ministry of Rites?"

"Enough! You continue to quarrel until one day your house is raided, and when you go to the market, you all shut up!"

Zheng Sanjun sat in the warm sedan chair outside the hanging flower door, smoking a big cigarette pouch while thinking, feeling that there is really no fun in this life.

"Sir! Sir!"

The little guy outside the sedan chair shouted softly.

"Ahem, ahem...... Shout what you want, what you shout!" Zheng Sanjun coughed.

"Tell the old lady and the eldest wife, the second wife, the third wife, the fourth wife, and the fifth wife, just say that this official is on duty at the official office today and can't come back, let them do what they should do."

Zheng Sanjun touched the silver in his pocket, out of sight, he decided to go to Eryulou to drink, it's a big deal to owe a little debt, anyway, Shen Bo, who went back to Xiangshan County to ask for silver, will come back soon.

"No, there is a scholar named Fan Yun outside who wants to see you and has been waiting for you in the concierge for a day."

"Fuck off!" Zheng Sanjun was a little angry. He is a second-class official of the imperial court, what do you do when you see a scholar? When did the officials of the imperial court become so worthless.

"Sir!"

The little servant got half of his body into the sedan chair and handed over a silver ticket of 10,000 taels of silver in his hand.

"People said that they just wanted to invite the master and Master Huang from the Ministry of Industry to have a meal."

"Huh? ~」

Zheng Sanjun took it. That's right, it's a silver ticket of 10,000 taels of Jin Shang Qianzhuang, I shouldn't have seen it for two years, it was not uncommon before, this kind of silver ticket was only available to Jin merchants, no name or surname, and most of the money received in the imperial examination was this.

The drawing is right, the secret words are not wrong, and the mulberry paper feels exactly the same as before.

"It's kind of seeing the money." Zheng Sanjun was about to cry.

"......Come on," he was just about to ask the little guy to invite someone in, and then he thought about it. This guy hasn't met yet, so he can give this

That's a lot of money, but it's a big fat sheep.

"Let him go back and wait for news, and say that I will discuss with the minister today and let him come back tomorrow." Zheng Sanjun changed his tone and said lazily. Seeing the little guy turn around and leave, he was afraid that the little guy would misunderstand what he meant, so he hurriedly stopped the little guy.

"Follow him and see where he lives. And then you can also hint to him that people can't succeed without perseverance."

"Huh? Oh! The little ones get it, get it."

Zheng Sanjun patted the sedan chair and shouted:

"Zheng Liucai, Zheng Liucai, where did you go with a dog, let's go now, master, I want to drink some wine!"

Zheng Liucai was the one he had brought out from the Zheng family since he was a child, but he was a little clever, so he hurriedly came over and asked:

"Sir, are you going to the haggis shop in front of the door?"

"Go to your grandma's haggis shop, go to Taibai Restaurant!" Zheng Sanjun was a little annoyed and angry.

"By the way, I passed by the Jin Shang Xishan Money Village, and the master exchanged a few broken silver!"

How about the wrong knife