urge Zhao to marry

Chapter 10 The Letter of Resignation
Old lady Mu is not from a high family background, but she can be considered a shrewd person.

It is said that between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, most of them are not enemies and do not get together.

When the daughter-in-law didn't enter the door before, it was so pleasing to the eye.

When the daughter-in-law really comes in, the young couple flirts with each other in front of the mother-in-law, and many mother-in-laws will feel a little disappointed when they see it.

After all, before the son got married, he would ask his mother if he had anything to do.

At the beginning, Yu Wanniang was considered a low-marriage, and the old lady Mu looked at the loving young couple, and she was indeed a little dissatisfied when she was satisfied.

But at that time, her son hadn't made his mark, so no matter how dissatisfied she was, she could only hold it back.

Afterwards, Mu Youde was finally admitted as a scholar, and got a job in the yamen. In the eyes of Mrs. Mu, her son was regarded as a glorious ancestor.

But at this time, Yu Wanniang gave birth to two sons and a daughter, and in the end they failed to keep the two sons. This made the old lady feel very distressed. Using the excuse that she had no children, she arranged two couples for her.

Later, when she saw that her daughter-in-law and her son were getting more and more indifferent, she also felt a little regretful. She put herself in the shoes of a child and thought, since she lost her grandson, her daughter-in-law must not be her own flesh and blood. Could she not feel distressed?

And even if she didn't arrange a house for her son, Wanniang herself knew that after giving birth to her youngest son, it would be difficult for her to have an heir, and when she recovered, she would definitely arrange it herself.

The old lady was not a wicked person, she felt sorry for her daughter-in-law, so she gave her the deeds of selling the two houses to her daughter-in-law, and she was not too close to their children, but loved Mu Zhaozhao even more.

Therefore, in recent years, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have merged somewhat.

Mrs. Mu looked blessed, and she wore a few gold rings on her already wrinkled hands.There are also a pair of heavy gold bracelets on the wrists.

She was dressed in a purple-blue skirt and jacket, and a lot of her white hair was combed smooth with pomade. There were gold hairpins stuck in her bun, and she could tell that she was an old lady from a wealthy family.

While she was warming up by the fire in the living room, she was muttering to the woman beside her that the Chinese New Year was approaching, and pork and mutton were a few pennies a catty more expensive, when she saw Yu Song and the others walking in quickly.

She raised her smiling face: "Nephew Yu Xian, Xiu'e, why don't you come over here today when you have time, please sit down quickly."

After she finished speaking, she found that everyone's complexion was not very good, which made her feel a little bit worried. She suspected that Wanniang and Xiao Xiu'e had a conflict because of Zhao Zhao and Yu Xiaoer's disagreement.

She knows you now, she is neither deaf nor dumb nor a family member.

Just pretending that I was old and dim-sighted and didn't see their faces, I told the old woman next to me, "Hurry up and serve tea, and then go to the kitchen to prepare some good dishes, and everyone will have a drink in the evening."

Mrs. Liu also saw that something was wrong, so she quickly responded and left quickly at a speed that didn't match her current age.

Yu Wanniang said calmly but simply: "Mother, I want to separate from Mu Youde, I want to take Zhaozhao away, I will take care of Zhaozhao's affairs in the future, I will also take away my dowry, and take away 1000 yuan. Two denarii."

The emperors of the Daqing Dynasty severely punished corrupt officials one by one, but they still treated the officials in the dynasty very kindly, and the prices of goods in these years have been considered stable.

However, there are differences in places, and prices will vary greatly.

For example, to build three or five houses in the countryside is only 30 taels of silver, but to buy a second-tier house in a county town, it costs about 200 taels of silver.

Therefore, no matter what age it is, this house price can make people daunting.

And the waiter in the shop only has two taels of silver per month, the bricklayer has about 20 taels of silver a day, the ordinary yamen servants in the yamen can have about three taels of silver per month, the magistrate has about [-] taels of silver, and Mu You The county magistrate of De only has five taels of silver per month.

However, the merchants secretly, or those who begged him to do something, sometimes secretly gave him several times more 'benefits' than Yueyin.

Like other prices, the price is not too outrageous, pork is fifteen or six yuan a catty, ribs are about ten yuan, mutton is about thirty yuan, and 25 yuan.

Ordinary brown rice and cornmeal cost five to six pennies a catty, while better polished rice and fine noodles cost a few pennies.

Vegetables that are in season are not expensive at all, like cabbage and radishes cost one or two pennies a catty, sesame buns and steamed buns cost one penny, and meat buns and pancakes cost two pennies.

In addition, soybean oil and refined salt are more expensive, costing twenty or thirty yuan a catty.

Thinking that Yu Wanniang would ask for 1000 taels, Xiao Xiuzhu gasped and exclaimed, "Aren't you forcing Brother Yu to accept bribes?"

The old lady Mu couldn't help nodding her head when she heard the words. She was very satisfied with her son giving her five taels of silver every month, and felt that her son was very filial to her.

What's more, she felt that her son was definitely not a corrupt official, and she didn't even dare to think that if her son could take out 1000 taels of silver, would this mean that the Mu family would go bankrupt?
But Mu Youde's face became ugly, and there was a look of horror in the eyes looking at Yu Wanniang.

He has received a lot of benefits over the years, and secretly kept the accounts and hid them in the study room, and sometimes looked at the family fortune he had earned, not to mention how satisfied he was.

The day before yesterday, he had seen it secretly, and he had already saved two thousand one hundred and fifteen taels of silver. While he was satisfied, he also felt a little regretful about traveling in brocade clothes.

However, he did not dare to share it with others, because there is a clear stipulation in the law that if a petty official in the yamen takes bribes exceeding [-] yuan, he must hand over the money to the state treasury. The fame of a scholar.

But now that he heard the money Yu Wanniang asked for, he froze all over, wishing he could go back to the study immediately to see if his account book was still there?
He now expects that Yu Wanniang will just say something casually, instead of knowing his own details, he will take half of his money.

Mu Youde looked at Yu Wanniang with flattering eyes: "I know you are too angry, that's why you said that, for Zhaozhao's sake, let's have a good talk?"

Both Yu Song and Xiao Xiu'e believed that Mu Youde had a lot of money in his hands, after all some businessmen got in touch with Mu Youde through Yu Song.

But they also know that this cannot be said clearly.

The couple looked at each other, and felt that Yu Wanniang had been completely offended before, so Xiao Xiuzhu's plan should not be allowed to fail now, otherwise the husband and wife would simply steal the chicken and lose everything, and would not please both sides.

Seeing Yu Song nodding slightly to herself, Xiao Xiu'e said, "Xiu Zhu is my most beloved sister. When she gets married, I will prepare her a dowry of 1000 taels of silver."

Anyway, she would never pay this money, but she said it beautifully, and she could hide the matter of Mu Youde's bribery.

Mu Youde couldn't help but secretly heaved a sigh of relief, looked at Xiao Xiu'e gratefully, and said firmly to Wanniang: "That's fine, I'll write the divorce letter right away."

(End of this chapter)