Haven't you already eaten it? Do you want to go out to eat? Xiao Jingtang said unhappily: "Ordinary concubine ceremony, according to the threshold of the Xiao family, five hundred taels is already a surplus, don't open your mouth." ”

"I don't care, for these two options, the silver given by the second young master is not two thousand taels, so even if one thousand taels are given, I will use it to blow up firecrackers. He puffed up his mouth and said gently: "As long as you give enough two thousand taels, there will be no inappropriate thing about your happy event." ”

After glancing at her twice, Xiao Jingtang sneered: "Is your gambling mother short of silver again?

The gambling mother was stunned for a moment, lowered her head and recalled.

Du Wenrou's mother Liu is indeed a good gambler, and last time Shu Fang said that Du Wenrou's private money was sent back to the Du family, and it was also for her to pay off her gambling debts. However, when Liu was in a hurry, he would still ask her for silver, but she hadn't received a letter for a long time recently.

"I am not short of silver. When he came back to his senses, he looked at the man in front of him gently and unpleasantly: "But I just want it, do you give it or not?"

“...... It's no different from a bandit. Half of his face darkened, Xiao Jingtang snorted: "Two thousand taels for you, if the concubine ceremony is the slightest bit inappropriate, you have to pay me back." ”

"You can rest assured. Gently smiled, patted his chest and said, "Wrap it on me!"

If two thousand taels of silver can make her not sad, Xiao Jingtang feels that it is not a loss. Although Du Wenrou looks normal now, in the end, it is his concubine, and as a wife, she should not be comfortable no matter how free she is.

Thinking like this, the second young master's anger was a little smaller, he glanced at the account book in her hand, and didn't say much else, only muttered two sentences about controlling the expenditure in the courtyard, and then left.

Gently holding the account book, thinking to herself how much money can be spent on a group of women's fat powder?

"Shu Fang!" her voice trembled, and she gently pointed to the words on the account book and asked her, "How much silver is this?"

Shu Fang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly helped her to look at the account book.

“...... Eighteen thousand five hundred twenty-eight twenty-six dollars. She whispered: "Today is the end of the month, and this is the expenditure of our yard this month." ”

Is the expenditure of 18,000 taels a month going to eat gold?! Gently trembling for a long time before he stood up straight with his waist and eyes and glanced at the detailed accounts.

Fortunately, Xiao Jingtang spent 1,500 taels to buy beads, which is a big deal, and the regular use of other furniture was crossed out, and the expenditure of the aunt in the backyard was a total of 3,000 taels.

Three thousand taels! Gentle is about to vomit blood, she has worked hard to sell a glass bead for 1,500 taels, these losers have to spend so much money every month to eat and wear? It is equivalent to 3,000 stone of rice, how many people can be fed?

Sure enough, it is Zhumen's wine and meat!

Taking a deep breath, he gently took the account book back to the west courtyard, and knocked on the table while sitting on the main seat: "Let all the aunts come to me for a meeting." ”

has been busy with glass matters, and she doesn't have time to take a good look at Xiao Jingtang's backyard, and now it's a chance, the errand will always fall into her hands, so she can't do too badly.

Shu Fang responded, and hurriedly ordered the little girls in the yard to invite someone. I don't know if it's because I've eaten too much meat recently, all the maids in the yard are in good spirits, and things are done a lot neatly, and after a while, I invited all the existing four aunts to the west courtyard.

The atmosphere in the hall was instantly a little solemn.

Gently waved his hand and asked people to put a plate of melon seeds on their hands, and then cocked Erlang's legs and kowtowed: "Everyone feel free, I just want to talk to you." ”

Four women with different makeup and temperament unanimously chose silence.

What good thing can be done when they are called by the housewife to chat? They have all heard about it, and when they meet a housewife like Du Wenrou, they can only consider themselves unlucky.

"If you have any orders, just say it. "It was Ruan Miaomeng who broke the silence, she was a woman who had met gently, she looked a little kind, although there was a festival, but it was also familiar.

So Wen Rou looked at her as if she was grasping a life-saving straw, and said with a smile: "I don't dare to do it, it's just that the second young master just gave me the backyard account book and asked me to reduce the expenses in the backyard." ”

As soon as these words came out, a person was not very happy, and if he ate good meat, he would not be happy if he was taken away by someone.

"If you don't speak, then I'll assume that you agree. Glancing at the four people, he smiled gently: "From now on, each aunt will have a monthly salary of fifty taels, including all the clothes and jewelry. ”

Fifty taels is actually a lot, and Linglongxuan's golden hairpin is generally only twenty taels, not to mention that these aunts eat and live in the house, and the money is spent on fat powder clothes and jewelry.

However, they didn't stipulate the monthly money at all before, and whoever didn't have enough money would go to the account office to withdraw it, and each person also withdrew at least two hundred taels a month, and suddenly strangled them to death, which would naturally cause resistance.

The first one to be unhappy was Ruan Miaomeng, who stood up with a sinking face: "I heard that Mrs. was harsh early in the morning, but I didn't expect it to be like this." Fifty taels of silver, is it called Hanako?"

Gently raised her eyebrows, and replied to her with a smile: "If fifty taels of silver are used to send Huazi, then the Huazi waiting at the door of my Xiao house can be lined up from the entrance of the vegetable market to the East City Gate." ”

"......" Ruan Miaomeng frowned, unwilling to do so. She likes gold, silver and jewelry the most, she has to collect a lot of them every month, and the good shops outside also know her, and if there are good things, they will take the initiative to send them to the door, if she has no money to buy them, how embarrassing is it?

Su Lanjin sighed: "Madame has to set the rules like this, there is nothing we can do about those of us who are aunts, the account book is given by the master, presumably Madame can't be the master." ”

It sounds good, Ling Wanmei and Murong Yin next to him both understood, it was useless for them to quarrel in this western courtyard, if they wanted to quarrel, they should go to the master to quarrel.

But...... Several women knew in their hearts that they were just sending people under the fence, and if they were still suspicious, they would ignore them if they sued them back.

Then there was silence in the hall again.

Gentle felt a strong hostility emanating from the four people in front of her, she had already expected how many complaints Xiao Jingtang would receive, she felt happy when she thought about it, knocked the melon seeds and spit out the skin, and said freely: "It's best if you can understand me, this matter is so decided, and it will be implemented at the beginning of the month." ”

The four aunts got up and left without saying a salute, their backs full of anger. Gentle shivered, and muttered in a low voice: "How these women are a little strange, completely different from what I imagined." ”

"What do you think they look like?" asked Shu Fang.

Gentle gesture: "Little concubine, there must be some short-tempered, some of the city is deep, and if you have nothing to do, you will come to grab my position in the main room, and then the fight in the courtyard will not stop." ”

glanced at her with a strange expression, and said clearly: "Master is not strange, slaves and maids tell the truth, these aunts are all in their own ways, and there has never been any fight between them, and there are very few competitions for favors." It's just that you used to be quite angry with them, and you would trouble them from time to time. ”

Gentle was dumbfounded: "They don't compete for favor?"

"Don't argue, the second young master has a specified day to go to their yard every month, and when the time comes, he will leave, the aunts prefer to buy things than to compete for favor, which is what gives the second young master a headache. ”

How bad is Xiao Jingtang's charm? There are so many women who really marry back, and none of them robbed him? Wen Wen felt that something was wrong, every woman was jealous, and there were many women in a yard, so naturally there would be all kinds of conflicts because of jealousy, why was the Xiao family's backyard so peaceful?

There is only one possibility, these women don't love Xiao Jingtang, and they were forcibly married back by him!

Women can be rational when they don't love someone, not only gentle and virtuous, but also considerate and not clingy, not pretentious, and give men absolute free space.

Although hypocrisy and acting are not good things, especially those who go too far and use love as a cover deserve to be dumped, but if you don't do it at all and don't be jealous, then you must have no feelings, don't think about it.

Poor Xiao Jingtang, good-looking, rich, and young, can't even handle this bit of a woman?

There is no other reason to explain it than not to mention it!

Gently sighed, thinking that this would be more reassuring, at least his innocence would be preserved. However, poor Mrs. Xiao was bent on holding her grandson, but her son was ...... Alas.

Xiao Jingtang was busy outside for a day, and when he came back, he smelled the smell of medicine in his yard.

"What's that?" he frowned.

Steward Xiao said with an embarrassed face: "The second young grandmother sent you a table of medicinal food, saying that you can enjoy it." ”

Diet?

His brows relaxed, he pursed his lips and continued to walk inside: "She's sensible." ”

It's rare to care about him, the last time I cared about him was more than half a month ago, right?

Sitting down at the table, Xiao Jingtang took a bite of the medicinal food on the table, and couldn't see what it was, so he ate it first.

"It tasted good. After eating, he put down his chopsticks, Xiao Jingtang wiped his mouth and asked, "What kind of meat is this?"

"......" Steward Xiao didn't dare to answer, his legs trembled: "Why don't you go and ask the second young grandmother?"

"It's fine. He got up, thinking that he might be full, he had strength all over his body, and he felt hot when he walked, so he simply walked to the west courtyard.

Wen Rou felt that he was really the benefactor of the Xiao family, and there were all kinds of aphrodisiac herbs in the box in front of him, and Ming'er had to make another table for Xiao Jingtang, and then go to ask Mrs. Xiao for credit.

"What are you doing?" Walking to the gate of the West Courtyard, Xiao Jingtang was already sweating, feeling that something was wrong, and he didn't dare to enter the door: "Could it be that I have eaten something strange again?"

"Huh, why are you here?" looked at his appearance, and said gently, "Go to my aunt's yard, what are you doing here?"

Xiao Jingtang was a little dazed: "What do you mean?"