Chapter 23 Mundane Matters

"Oh, young master, why don't you go over to eat, Madame is angry. Li Goudan hurriedly broke in, didn't pay attention to this strange atmosphere, not only muttered in his mouth, but also directly reached out to grab Chen Shanshui, and pulled him to the east courtyard.

"Hmph, they've all grown up, and they've all made their own decisions, and I'll settle accounts with you later. After Chen Shanshui pretended to be fierce and threw a sentence at everyone, the person was already pulled out of the west courtyard by Li Goudan.

Everyone who stayed behind couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, after all, they were still young, and the young man was shallow-minded, and cheered and went to his own room in the west courtyard to cook.

"Hey, Uncle Li, slow down, slow down, this kind of thing, why do you need to run around, just order a little guy casually. Chen Shanshui finally grabbed Li Goudan, who was running away.

Uncle Li looked at Chen Shanshui with disgust and said, "Young master, it's slow, Madame hasn't eaten a bite of breakfast now, so I'm waiting for you to go, let's hurry up." ”

Chen Shanshui couldn't help but feel a little strange, usually he had a late time, and even stayed in the West Courtyard to eat with a group of teenagers for most of the time, and he didn't see his mother like this, this time he thought about what happened, and his mother was very angry.

"It's not that Xiao An made her angry. Chen Shanshui asked.

Uncle Li shook his head: "Young master, I can't tell you clearly for a while, so let's go first and then say, quick, quick, fast." ”

Well, Uncle Li is really still his mother's loyal dogleg, Chen Shanshui had to trot up with Uncle Li, and after a while, he arrived in the dining room of the East Courtyard.

As soon as Chen Shanshui entered the dining room, he found that the atmosphere was very wrong, Daddy was sitting with his head pulled, obviously swallowing saliva from time to time, but he still ignored the table in front of him.

The younger brother who has always been naughty, the guy who never eats well by himself, this time he is very well-behaved and sits alone at the dining table, and even eats a bun with care, or bites it gently with his mouth closed.

As for the head of the family, the old lady, she clutched the chopsticks in her hand tightly at this time, as if she had a grudge against this chopstick, while gritting her teeth, and chattering silently in her mouth, as if she was cursing someone.

Seeing this weird family picture, Chen Shanshui couldn't help but be surprised, he was sure that when Zhao Hu ran out to call him half an hour ago, he should be fine, otherwise, no matter how big the senior brother's heart is, it is impossible to come to him again after eating a round. Then it is clear that something big happened in this half hour.

And the family also saw Chen Shanshui enter the room at this time, the reaction was also quite interesting, the father was obviously relieved, stretched out a hand and slowly grabbed the bun, as for the younger brother, he bared his teeth at him, and glanced at his mother, afraid that this action would be discovered.

As for her mother-in-law Li Xiaolian, after seeing Chen Shanshui, she had a resentful look, and she couldn't help but become crying. This made Chen Shanshui couldn't help but be shocked, and his heart was uneasy, after all, the old lady who has always been strong rarely had this kind of expression, so she hurriedly took two steps, came to her side, and asked: "Mother, it's been a good morning, what's wrong, who offended you?"

Li Xiaolian said with some tears in her eyes: "Xiaoyi, my mother was bullied." ”

The old lady was bullied? This is okay, Chen Shanshui was about to be angry, but suddenly he thought that something was wrong, early in the morning, the old lady stayed at home, who could he be bullied, and couldn't help but look at his father.

"Smack!"

Looking at his son's suspicious gaze, Chen Congxin's hand couldn't help shaking, and the bun he had just caught fell back into the plate, and he said with some anxious eyes: "Little rabbit cub, look at what Lao Tzu is doing, it's not your mother who Lao Tzu bullied, it's the Metropolitan Governor of Ma Shangfeng." ”

"Ma Shangfeng?" Chen Shanshui had some impressions of this name, it was not the identity of this Grand Governor, but when he first heard this name, he almost burst into laughter, but this Grand Governor of Ma didn't seem to have any connection with their Chen family.

"Yes, yes, yes. Dad nodded his head quickly like a chicken pecking rice, looked at his son who was still puzzled, turned his head and stared viciously at the side to look at his nose and nose, nose and mouth, and stood aside as a transparent person Li Goudan said, "Dogdan, what are you still standing there stupidly, hurry up and tell Xiaoyu clearly." ”

"Young Master. Li Goudan ignored his father and said to Chen Shanshui, "That's the case, when I went to the county seat in the morning, the county government just posted a notice, saying that there is a phenomenon of water demons gathering at the Qiantang port now, and I am afraid that it will enter the West Lake along the Qiantang waterway and attack Qiantang County. For this reason, Lord Fujun also sent ten giant tooth ships of the Jiangnan Naval Division, with a total of 50,000 officers and soldiers of the Naval Division. It's just that now the imperial court is financially constrained, and the Jiangnan Navy Division camp has not paid food and salary for several months, so now the Navy Commander ship is stopped halfway, and the Metropolitan Governor Ma Shangfeng asked the county monarch to make up for the 500,000 taels of silver, otherwise he will not be able to dispatch the 50,000 sailors and soldiers, so the county monarch asked the gentry of Qiantang County to share the 500,000 taels of silver. ”

Chen Shanshui listened, I felt that there was nothing wrong, the government does not pay salaries, who still serves as soldiers to fight, although it is a bit too much to distribute all the food and salaries of the water division of the government to Qiantang County, but who called you Qiantang County happened to be hit by a disaster, and it is not reasonable not to knock on the sky at this time.

It's just that from Chen Shanshui's point of view, his mother should not be so unreasonable, so this question should appear on the apportionment, and he couldn't help asking: "Uncle Li, since you want to apportion, do you know how much silver my Chen family wants to share?"

Li Goudan blinked, said a terrifying number, and said, "Two hundred thousand." ”

"Smack!"

Li Xiaolian slammed the chopsticks in her hand to the ground, and said viciously: "Why, why let the old lady give 200,000 taels of silver, the old lady's silver is not blown by the wind, there are several families in this Qiantang County who are richer than my Chen family, why do they only pay thousands, at most only tens of thousands of taels, the deception is too much, the old lady is looking for them to fight." ”

Chen Shanshui couldn't help but be dumbfounded and incredible, is this county gentleman crazy or crazy, this is simply a blatant deception, it is still the Chen family of the Qiantang County wang clan who is bullying, does he not want to be this county official.

Chen Shanshui hurriedly grabbed the excited mother, pressed her back to the chair, and sat down himself, only feeling that the world was really more troublesome than cultivation, rubbed his eyebrows, and said: "Mother, you don't care about this matter, just leave it to the child, and promise to deal with it properly for you. ”

Li Xiaolian took her son's hand with some emotion and said: "Xiaoyi, my mother knows that you are a little smart, and your idea is right, since you were a child, your business is your own idea, even if it is a name, you were only a few years old at that time, but you were just over a year old, you don't want your father to give you a name, but this good name was given to your brother." ”

"Your father is a person who has no ability, this mother has known it for a long time, but fortunately, your father has a peaceful temperament, does not fight with others, and his heart is not evil. ”

was so incapable of being counted by his daughter-in-law in front of him, Chen Congxin didn't care, he should eat, he should drink, he really had a big heart, and he was very peaceful.

"And your younger brother, since he was a child, he has seen that his mother doesn't know, he is not literate, martial arts, and he will not have much interest when he grows up, but his mother doesn't care, she just hopes that he can live a safe and peaceful life, without disasters and difficulties, and when the time comes, find him a powerful daughter-in-law to take care of him. ”

Chen Shanshui glanced at Chen Ping'an, who looked ignorant, but cast a sympathetic look at this guy, looking at his mother's appearance, the daughter-in-law he found for his younger brother was afraid that she was also similar to her mother.

"Xiaoyi, you are devoted to practicing martial arts, and you don't care about family affairs, the West Courtyard also raises so many teenagers, my mother really doesn't know what you want to do, what ambitions do you have, and my mother doesn't want to ask, but my mother can see it, I am afraid that you don't look down on the Chen family's big family property at all, which makes my mother sad, so I don't want to see you." ”

Seeing that the old lady said so much in one breath and looked a little dry, Chen Shanshui hurriedly handed her a glass of water, and said while she was drinking water: "Mother, the child knows what you mean, don't worry, even if the child does not inherit the family business, he will still accept you and his father's knees, and when you are old, I will honor you." As for the family business, didn't my mother say it, when the younger brother is older, find a daughter-in-law like my mother for the younger brother, and give birth to a big fat grandson for my mother, so that our family will still be prosperous in the future. ”