Datang Happy Landlord

Chapter 505;

Chapter five hundred and seventh; we can't have a bad conscience

Rong Niang looked at Lin Wu with a smile and explained again;

"Aye, don't think that you are a prodigal. If you have the ability to earn money, of course you are not afraid to spend it. Let's talk about the way you make wine. I don't know how much money you can make back. Aye, think about last year. Isn't it just getting 200 million silver coins back?"

Although Lin Wu knew that the patriarch was capable of earning money, he still frowned and said worriedly;
"Last year's money was really scary, but it still takes a lot of money to buy millet and make wine. It can't all be counted as ours. How can we use it to eat mutton?"

"Aye, don't worry, even if you had to buy millet to make wine last year, didn't you still make it this time?"

Lin Wu took up the tea bowl disapprovingly;

"What do you think the captain brought back this time? It's not even half of what it was last year. How dare we talk about the fact that the whole clan eats meat and drinks milk?

Alas... you guys!I don't even know the value of money. Back then, Aye, I beheaded two heads to get the reward of silver coins from the imperial court. I'm overjoyed.

After getting back 10,000+ points, you think you can spend them indiscriminately?How can it stand the toss of the whole clan? "

Lin Wu couldn't help smiling, then shook his head vigorously and started to drink tea. The captain did bring back dozens of carts of silver the day before yesterday, and Lin Wu also took his brothers to the mansion to help carry it to the door of the warehouse.

But well!According to Lin Wulang's estimate, it may be 10,000+ guan at most. Of course, it is best to accumulate this money to start a family business, but what if it is used to feed the whole family to eat mutton and goat milk?Lin Wu dares to take the head to guarantee that he will be able to eat and drink in five or six years!
Lin Wu on this side didn't take it seriously, and Lin Rongniang on the other side was even more unconvinced, and stubbornly continued to explain;
"Your Majesty has already told me that less than one out of ten of the people who have been pulled back this time are kept in the household department of the imperial court, waiting for our Li family to pull them back. You can do it at any time." It's just that Steward Liu has been arguing with Steward Ji's family for the registration of household registration and has no time to solicit money."

Mrs. Lin heard that 10,000+ pennies is not a big head, so she swallowed and spit and quickly followed up;
"My son, you still don't care about 10,000+ coins? Could it be that you got another 200 million this time?"

Lin Rongniang looked at the old lady sitting above who was scratching her head when she heard it, and she was so shocked by the 10,000+ number on her face, she said proudly;
"I'm sure, Auntie, don't you see what the gentleman is capable of? Even if the important officials of the court obediently drag out their belongings, how can they still manage those big families?

This time, there is more movement than last year. Mr. Lang said that the court will give us five or six million guan this time, but the court will not suffer. I heard from Mr. Lang that this time the court got tens of millions of guan. To replace Sixteen Guards..."

"Pu Chi...Hah Chi..."

Lin Wu took a sip of tea and didn't have time to swallow it. He was listening attentively to his daughter telling the truth, but he didn't expect to pop out five or six million cups all of a sudden, God!
In just a moment, the tea in Lin Wu's mouth choked out from his mouth and nose!Lin Wu, who was choking, coughed violently, tears streaming down...

"Aye!"

Father and daughter bonded, Lin Rongniang saw that Aye was choking like this, and she didn't care to be serious with the old Aye, she hurried forward with concern, and wiped the old Aye's nose and mouth with the maid Xiaoqing.

"Ah...cough...cough..."

The two of them were patting their chests and stroking their backs. They were extremely busy. The old lady who sat scratching her head looked at her dazed daughter. Where does the concubine know how many millions are?

I don’t even know what tens of millions means. She can understand when you say 10,000+, but her hands and feet are trembling with fright, but she can’t help asking about the bigger excitement, so the old lady leaned forward Very anxiously asked my daughter;
"My son, hurry up and tell Auntie, how much is that 600 million, if I don't understand it here, I will be impatient, right?
And there's more, tell me about the tens of millions and how much, my son, you know that I am a good-looking and lively person, and now that this baby is back, I won't tell you everything!
You see, you stop talking after talking halfway, is it lively this time?No nonsense, I'll go out to bask in the sun in Zhuangzi tomorrow, if those old sisters ask me, I won't be able to learn everything..."

Lin turned her head blankly, looked at her mother, and muttered to herself;

"Five to six million guan! My God, if a person spends 600 guan every day, it won't last in ten lifetimes?"

This time the old lady can understand, but the old lady of five hundred guan is well aware that the entire wealth of many wealthy families is only about five hundred and one thousand guan.

"What? Spend five hundred guan silver every day? How dare you spend your entire life? Ten lifetimes? What a waste of money, is that? How can you say that you can't spend it all in ten lifetimes?

My God, the five or six million yuan is really scary, but the money will be passed down as a family business, so how can I spend five hundred yuan every day to waste it?Simply a beast who doesn't feel sorry for his ancestors?

No matter who he is, he, Aye, will definitely kill him. This kind of person who wastes money every day should be beaten to death in order to keep his ancestors' family business!

Let me tell you, our Lin family can't have such a prodigal son, otherwise our Lin family will be ruined in a day or two. My son, you little man, you must take care of it. Spending [-] guan per day is definitely not acceptable..."

"Oh, auntie, where is this and where is this? Don't worry, that bastard dares to ruin the family property of the elders in such a way in the future. Let alone five hundred guan, I can break his legs with a hundred guan! Rong Niang's monthly allowance for a month's hard work is only fifty guan, who dares to waste like that, isn't it killing me?"

"What? My mother, your daughter dares to pay fifty pennies for a month's money from our precious lump?"

"Ah! What's the matter, Auntie? That's what Rongniang got here!"

"I bother!"

The old lady pouted Lin's head and face vigorously, and said with gritted teeth;
"You don't feel ashamed when you speak, and you earned it through hard work? I ask you, how did your daughter work so hard?

She doesn't do any work, and she is assigned two maids to serve her, and there are small pots of rice for three meals a day, and the kitchen can cook whatever she wants. Is this also called hard work?When you are an aunt, have I never seen the world? "

Mrs. Lin was not annoyed by the old lady who spat a lot, took out a silk scarf and wiped her face, and explained in a low voice;

"Oh, auntie, don't make any more trouble. The current world is not what it used to be. Besides, Li's second wife is not what it used to be. Don't feel sorry for these small money..."

"Then tell me what's going on in the world now? Could it be that the current [-] guan is not as good as before? The current [-] guan is not used as money or is it a drop?"

"Oh, I don't mean that, Auntie, I mean that our Li family is very powerful now, and there is no shortage of these!"

"If you don't lack, you can't cheat the patriarch, right? Do you really know nothing when you are an aunt? When you were not a concubine, your aunt also served as a maid.

After a month of hard work, washing clothes and sweeping the floor, I was only paid 23 cash a month. Even so, the income among the dozen or so villages nearby was very high.

Do you really think I am old and confused?Our little patriarch is too clueless. We pay so much money to those in charge, how long can this family business last?

No, you have to ask Wulang to tell the little patriarch, you can't waste money like this, besides, our baby Pidao doesn't do much work, how dare you have the audacity to take fifty guan for a month?

God, how many rich peasants have never accumulated fifty guan in their entire lives, can you tell me?Don't tell me that the old man went to find the little patriarch himself,
We are being served by others and we still have to take fifty pennies for a month, son, we can't break this conscience, my son, the patriarch is still young, you can't fool others like this, this... this bad conscience... "

This old lady has been chanting according to the old scriptures handed down from her ancestors all her life, how could she stand the stimulation of Rongniang's fifty-month routine?What he said was so exciting that it made Lin Wulang's whole family feel dizzy.

Everyone looked at Mrs. Lin, and Mrs. Lin knew that she had to go out to persuade her, so she was patient;
"Auntie, you don't understand. You used to be a maid for a small rich family like me, Aye. How could you know the rules in such a big family with tens of thousands of people? The third-class maid of Li's second room costs hundreds of dollars a month. Where is the big money?

Look at Xiaoqing Xiaoyu and the others for a month. It’s not nonsense, everyone in charge is like this. If you don’t believe me, you can ask Goro. He has been honest all his life. If you ask him, he should believe it, right? "

The old lady felt relieved when she saw the maid and Rong Niang kept nodding, but she still turned her head to look at Lin Wu;

"Well, the old man believes in you the most. It's true for you to say it? Does Mrs. Li offer so much money for example?"

Lin Wu looked at the old lady and nodded and said;
"Auntie, it's not all like this. The third-class maid costs a few hundred dollars, the second-class maid pays for a month, the first-class maid pays for two, the second steward pays for two, and the senior steward pays twenty. The chief steward can only get fifty guans per month, and there is only one person in the entire mansion who is the chief steward of the inner house with a monthly rule of fifty guans.

But well!It's like being in charge of this big job twice a month, including Liu Duwei, who is in charge of Liu, and Zou, who is in charge of farming, and the new King Ma Bin, who is in charge of the Silk Road. It is also two guan, but because the handwriting is good, there are more guan, so he is an exception and three guan.

The rules of our Li family are one for family members and another for outsiders. This has been passed down for hundreds of years. As long as you are not a member of the second wife of the Li family, the chief steward will always do things twice a month.

Only the chief stewards of the second-family members of the Li family can get [-] yuan a month, and the son can get [-] yuan a month starting next month.

However, at the end of each year, the patriarch will give another reward to the chief executives from outside. The patriarch said that this is a compensation specially for the chief executives outside.
Just like at the end of last year, the patriarch rewarded each of us outside chief stewards with one hundred guan as a yearly reward, such as Chief Manager Xiao in the brewery, Chief Accountant Liu, Chief Manager Zou, and me,

Those of us have all received a reward of one hundred silver coins, so no one dislikes the fact that the two monthly rules are too small. After all, there are year-end rewards. The same monthly cases, not much less.

All of the above are the rules that have been handed down by our second wife Li for many years, and it has always been like this, so don’t worry, you old man, the fifty guan that our Rong Niang took is not a bad conscience, our second wife Li is too big, so An aunt who is different from many families. "

The old lady started scratching her head again this time, even though he believed Lin Wulang's words very much, he still felt that he was too prodigal;
"But no matter how big our Li family's business is, we can't waste it like this. After working for a month, we can get a lot of money to go out. Isn't this shameful?"

Mrs. Lin picked up the futon mat she made for the old lady, which she sat on when she went out to bask in the sun. Mrs. Lin held the mat in one hand and supported her aunt to go out with the other, still trying to persuade her;

"Oh, auntie, my dear auntie, when you were at Aye's side, you had this problem, you were nosy, how many times did Auntie deal with you because of this, but you still didn't change, look at Aye and leave No one came to see you for the next two years, don't you know why?"

The old lady chattered as she walked out;

"I know what the old man knows, don't you just don't like me meddling in other people's business, but the old man has never done anything evil, he is always warm-hearted..."

"Hi! Others don't care what your thoughts are. Your meddling thoughts are never flattering. Aye can protect you for the rest of his life. Thinking about it carefully, he really has a lot of love and righteousness for you."

"Isn't it? You, Aye, were very kind to me all your life when you were alive. When you were young, you spent half a month in the aunt's room, but you were so angry with the big lady in the house. There is no way, auntie, I was as beautiful as you when I was young, and you Aye are happy every time you see me!"

Many wrinkled old ladies used to be young and beautiful. Now when they think of their youthful beauty, they are still full of pride when they recall it. However, when they mention the harm done to him by the housewife, they are very angry. It was dark again in an instant;
"Speaking of the big wife in the house, that vicious woman of your mother is not a thing, she is harsh on us and my aunt all day long!

But you, Aye, are sincerely kind to me, so I dare not say a word about you, Aye, for the rest of my life.

But having said that, Auntie, I’m just a nosy person, and I’m fine in other places. You are the meat born in my belly, Auntie, and I was raised by Auntie with shit and pee.
Now that you, Aye, are no longer alive, alas...the person who loves me the most is gone. When you are free some other day, find a carriage to pull me up. I want to go and see you, Aye.

Talk to him, you Aye like talking to me the most, I haven't talked to you Aye for two years, I miss him.

You, Aye, are really good to me. They always give us money secretly, and always ask the kitchen to add extra meals for us. From time to time, we give us a few pieces of meat for our aunt and daughter. Auntie I will serve him as a concubine in my next life, to repay you, Aye, for your kindness to me..."

Lin's nose became sore when her aunt mentioned Aye, who she liked the most, and the old lady continued to chatter;

"I have completely left your Aye's house now, you can't dislike my old lady, otherwise my old lady will have no place to go..."

Lin's soft-hearted and lovely Aye, when her aunt suddenly said this, Lin immediately had an expression of "Oh, I'll go";
"Oh, my dear aunt, it's not a problem to take you to my Aye's grave. You can also borrow a carriage, but I don't dare to say anything that dislikes you. Don't you old man go out and buckle on my head Shitpot, son and husband are not the kind of unfilial animals."

The old lady just said by the way, how can the daughter she gave birth to not know her temper?

"That's that, how can my old lady not know in her heart, you husband and wife are always doing good deeds, you are the most filial, so your daughter is so powerful, this is God's kindness in return to Wulang, you know? Hey, I Tell me, isn't it time for me to go out for a walk today?"

Lin responded casually;
"Auntie, I just checked the time. You old man went out for a walk and almost all of your old sisters came out. Remember to come back early to eat before dark!"

"Oh, I remember, go back, go back, my old lady has to go to the yamen behind Zhuangzi today, and she has said that she will go for several days..."

After sending off his aunt, Lin was about to go back to the courtyard when he saw a member of Li's family, wearing the clothes of a servant in the mansion, wandering over, and after a while, he came to salute;
"The villain pays respects to the lady."

Lin looked at it strangely and responded with a smile;

"No courtesy, please in the room."

"Don't dare to be, if you go back to your wife, you don't need to enter the house. The villain is in charge of the chariots and horses. He works under the steward Liu. Our family's chief steward asks the villain to send an invitation card. Please ask the steward Lin if he can get it tomorrow." Kong, bring your wife to go there, we will prepare a banquet tonight, and tomorrow I will invite Manager Lin and my wife to show respect."

After the servant finished speaking, he saluted respectfully and then handed over a post with both hands. Mrs. Lin accepted it in a very strange manner, coping with it;

"Go back and report to your steward Liu, and my steward Lin will come to the appointment on time tomorrow."

"only!"

"The villain is leaving first."

"allow."

"Thank you, lady, please leave, villain."

The visitor had done enough etiquette, Lin also greeted him with a smile, sent the visitor away, Lin put the invitation in his arms, and returned to the main hall to look at Rongniang;

"Rong Niang, it's been a while since you came back, why don't you go back to the mansion, what if my little gentleman needs you to serve him?"

"Oh, that's right, it's been more than two hours since I came back, okay Aye, Niang, please leave."

"Yes, yes."

"Go, go, kid."

(End of this chapter)