The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 40
But all the turmoil in the capital has nothing to do with Song Jianming's family for the time being.

Because Fourth Master Song has other things to worry about: his soft rice father brought his aunt and two dude brothers here!
On the day they arrived, the whole family gathered neatly in the main hall. Father Song-Ruanfan sat in the head of the house a little awkwardly, and Mrs. Lin sat on the side with an airs and a straight face. People already took out their best clothes and jewelry to wear on their bodies, but Song Jianming was only dressed in bright red mending clothes, which made the two elders feel like they were sitting on pins and needles.

Although he was sitting on the side, the majestic golden pheasant on the back made people feel calm and majestic just looking at it.

Mrs. Liang wore a thin silk gauze dress and ordinary clothes, and only two simple jade hairpins on her head, but they were full of green, bright in color, full of water, and they were rare treasures at first glance. Putting on her green earrings and the green pendant around her neck, it's such an understatement to compare the whole family who came to the capital from Jiangling into the dust.

Not to mention the few children of the Liang family, all of them are outstanding in appearance and noble in temperament. Even Song Yuxi, born to Aunt Lin, was well-bred. Sitting next to her sister-in-law Song Yaxin, she watched with vigilance. The whole family on the opposite side was confused and scared.

On the one hand, she knew that her aunt was the real niece of the "grandmother" who was used, but she was not close to her aunt at all!Her closest relatives are her elder sister and third younger sister.Song Yaxin seemed to know her uneasiness, and quietly held her hand as a sign of comfort.

Both Song Jianming and Liang Shi sat quietly, but they didn't make a sound, and the atmosphere in the hall was extremely awkward.

"Cough cough!"

Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Song coughed twice at the same time, and they looked at each other. Mrs. Lin glared at Mr. Song. Mr. Song blinked his eyes, which were swollen into two big fish bubbles due to excessive drinking, and shrank habitually. Shrunk his neck.

The old lady Lin cleared her throat again, passed Song Jianming, looked directly at Mrs. Liang, and said, "The eldest daughter-in-law also knows that although the eldest father has separated from his uncles, the eldest has not yet separated from his two younger brothers." family, so according to the law, everything that the boss currently owns belongs to the family."

Song Yuxi's eyebrows twitched slightly, thinking that the old lady's mouth is a matter of family property, isn't this ugly?How could this kind of person be my grandmother?

Song Yaxin squeezed her palms, signaling her to be calm.

Mrs. Liang smiled, but didn't answer, turned to look at her husband, and asked softly, "What did your husband say?"

Song Jianming sneered and said: "My aunt is right. Before the family is separated, I am still a part of the family. Now that the second elder is here, as a son, I must do my best to be filial. Before the second elder and two younger brothers arrived, I The officer has prepared a courtyard for you to live in. We have traveled a long distance and are exhausted, so why not go and have a look at the courtyard? If you are not satisfied, you can tell Madam."

"Wait! Don't worry about dividing the yard!" Mrs. Lin squinted at the emerald green hairpin on Mrs. Liang's head and said, "I haven't seen you for many years, and the eldest daughter-in-law didn't prepare a meeting gift for your sisters-in-law. Isn't it too impolite?"

Without waiting for Mrs. Liang's answer, Song Jianming turned back: "The second elder hasn't given the younger generation a meeting gift, how dare the younger generation go past the second elder? Since we are talking about the meeting ceremony, everyone should show the meeting gift, and the younger generation also recognize each other. Dear, we will be a family in the future."

As they said that, everyone took out the gifts they had prepared one after another. The three eldest sons, Song Chenhai, Song Chenxu and Song Chenrui, each took out a box of Hu brushes. They were definitely not famous products, but wholesale ones. I sent one to each cousin, making it look like a peddler selling pens.The girl's place is similar, just silk handkerchiefs that are not bad at embroidery, each of them has a stack of them, and they distributed one to each of the cousins ​​on the opposite side, and you can't tell whether the handkerchiefs were embroidered by themselves.

Anyway, Song Yaxin's veil was definitely not embroidered by herself, she is not a good girl at all, the embroidery on the veil is not something she can embroider.

Even if these gifts were given to the father's subordinates and children, they would feel shabby. Mrs. Lin turned blue with anger, and her own grandchildren were also full of disappointment.

Among them, the little grandson who was most loved by Mrs. Lin, Song Shujun burst into tears, lying on the ground, kicking his hooves, pointing to the jade pendant on Song Chenxu's waist and said: "Grandma, grandma, I want that! I want that! I don't want a pen, I don't want a pen!"

The eldest Song Chenhai still smiled gently and elegantly, while the second eldest Song Chenxu took his younger brothers and looked at those opposite them as if they were joking.

Knowing how my father was tortured by his aunt in the past, how he was bullied by his two younger brothers, they must wear a pair of underpants with his father as sons, and share a common enemy!
Face or something, can face be eaten? !
Seeing that everyone in Song Jianming's family was like an iron rooster, Mrs. Lin thought that she would come to reason with Mrs. Liang tomorrow after Song Jianming, an old bastard, went to court. Unexpectedly, her baby grandson burst into tears.

Song Jianming was no longer polite, and slapped the table heavily, and shouted sharply: "Shut up! Whose child is this, so rude! It's embarrassing to our Song family!"

The brat was frightened, and turned his big teary eyes slyly, huddled in his grandmother's arms, twitched and cried even more aggrieved: "Grandma, grandma! Wow!"

"Okay! We just met, you are an uncle, why are you still fussing over a child?" Lin said.

"How old are you?" Song Jianming looked at him coldly.

The child didn't answer, the child's father, Song Jianming's third younger brother was too frightened to speak.

"Uncle asked how old you are! You don't have a mouth?" Song Jianming stared at the child, frightened the child so much that he clung to Mrs. Lin's body, trembling all over.

"Seven years old! Big brother, this child is seven years old!" Song Sanye was so frightened that he couldn't speak clearly.

These two brothers are different from their mother. When they saw the elder brother's scarlet official uniform, their calves cramped in fright. The mother is an elder, so she can treat her elder brother however she wants, but they are younger brothers!Thinking of how the two brothers bullied the elder brother together when they were young, they regretted it so much, how dare they talk nonsense now.

Song Jianming was too lazy to look at these two incompetent younger brothers, and he had no complaints against them in his heart. In Master Song's view, they were just children at that time, and the main fault was the father of Ruanfan and his aunt Lin body.

He can tell right from wrong.

Looking coldly at the nephew who was as strong as a piglet, he said: "This kid needs to be disciplined, otherwise he will be useless."

Third Master Song hurriedly bowed his head and said yes: "Brother is right, younger brother must be disciplined when he returns home."

Mrs. Lin was still unconvinced and said: "No need! I don't know how to discipline my grandson?"

Song Jianming smiled and said, "It's up to you."

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Early the next morning, Mrs. Liang led Yaxin and Yuxi to greet the old lady. The old lady reclined on the eight-treasure bed with a displeased face and shouted: "Hey! Hey, it hurts me! God damn it! ! My old lady is getting old, and she traveled a long way, and traveled more than 1000 miles to get to the capital, ehhhhhh!"

"The old lady is so early in the morning, what's the matter?" Mrs. Liang came in, glanced at the maids who were sent to serve the old lady last night, and saw that all of them looked extremely ugly.

"Boss daughter-in-law, look, look at the place you arranged for me!" Mrs. Lin pointed at the beams, windows, round light shades, and green gauze kitchen in the guest courtyard with her hands. The carvings are a bit simple. , "This, this is for the hostess? Hey, my old lady is getting old, how can I live with such unfilial descendants!"

Xiang Zhuan, the first-class maid who was sent to serve the old lady personally, couldn't hold back even more. She rolled her eyes while beating the old lady Lin's legs.

Mrs. Liang smiled, and sat down firmly. The maid in the room immediately served tea, Yaxin pulled Yuxi to sit down beside her mother, and the two looked at this old lady who was dying with cold faces.

Seeing that Mrs. Liang ignored her, Mrs. Lin yelled even louder: "Hey, you are not filial! You are not filial! Why am I so miserable! I am almost sixty, and when I go back to my own home, I am even asked to stay in the hospital , why am I so miserable!"

Her two daughters-in-law shrank in the corner like quails, lowering their heads and not daring to look at the elder sister-in-law. Liang could tell that these two daughters-in-law were usually bullied by the old lady.

The old lady howled for a while, and suddenly broke her voice because of her dry throat. Song Yuxi couldn't hold back, and burst out laughing. Song Yaxin could hold it back very well. When her younger sister laughed, she couldn't hold back her laugh either.

The old lady made a big fuss and was ashamed.

Liang said with a smile: "Mother-in-law, why don't you drink some tea, your voice is broken, how will you scream in the future?"

Mrs. Lin finally calmed down, straightened up, stared at Mrs. Liang viciously, and asked: "Boss daughter-in-law, let me ask you, where is my niece? Why haven't I seen her since I've been here for so long?"

"Aunt Lin..." Liang said with a smile, "I asked her, but she has converted to Buddhism, cut off her secular roots, and doesn't want to leave the Buddhist hall. If you want to see her, you might as well go to the Buddhist hall to meet her."

"Mr. Liang! You abused my concubine!" Mrs. Lin shouted sharply.

Mrs. Liang put down the white porcelain teacup unhurriedly, and said with a smile: "Grandmother, don't talk nonsense. You go to the Buddhist hall and ask her, have I missed or missed her in all these years? No beating or scolding Yes, she is not liked by the master, and I can't think about it myself, but I can't blame me as a regular wife."

Song Yuxi immediately chimed in and said, "That's right, old lady, don't talk nonsense! Mother has never treated my aunt harshly!"

"Which one are you?" Mrs. Lin shot her sharp eyes, scaring Song Yuxi back behind her eldest sister, but she still shouted unwillingly, "I was born by Aunt Lin, what's wrong? You harmed your niece before." It's not enough, don't come to harm me!"

"You! I'm your grandmother! What do you call an old lady? Is this what your mother taught you?" Mrs. Lin caught the wrong place and wanted to make use of it.

Song Yuxi hid behind her sister, biting her lips, but she didn't want to call her grandmother, she cursed the old shrew in her heart, but she didn't dare to call her out.

Seeing that Song Yuxi was in trouble, Mrs. Liang quickly smoothed things over and said, "Don't be too angry, mother-in-law. She's still a child. Why are you angry with the child?"

Mrs. Lin crossed her legs, straightened her body, and said, "Boss daughter-in-law, you won't tell my old lady to live in this guest house all the time, right? I'm your mother-in-law! Boss and his father are also the head of the family !"

Liang said with a smile: "Mother-in-law, don't worry, it's because we got the news too late, the time was too hasty, and we didn't have time to prepare. Besides, when I married my husband, he was poor and had nothing. My mother bought it, so it should be regarded as my dowry."

Lin choked on these words, her eyes rolled around, she raised her chin slightly, and asked, "Is there our boss's name on the land deed?"

Mrs. Liang nodded: "It does have my husband's name."

Only then did Lin feel relieved, and snorted coldly: "When the boss got married, his father also gave the money. You also know that his father also took the money. Since I gave the money, this house belongs to me. One for the old woman, but the eldest daughter-in-law is too thick-skinned to say it is her own dowry!"

That's right, some money was given back then, but that money wasn't even enough to buy furniture.

Mrs. Liang lowered her head and thought for a while, "Grandma is right. I'll go back tonight to discuss it with my husband, and see how I can satisfy you, old man."

It's just that this discussion, the discussion went on and on, and there was no further discussion.

Old Mrs. Lin got anxious and made a foolish move—go directly to the accountant to ask for the account book.She had made up her mind to seize power with the Liang family. After all, she was also the old lady of the Song family, so why couldn't she give it to her in the palm of her hand?Even if they couldn't control all of them, at least some of the butlers had to be snatched from Mrs. Liang, otherwise it would be meaningless for their family to come from Shangshun Mansion in Jiangling City.

A few days later, Mrs. Liang took Song Yaxin and Song Yuxi to reconcile accounts with the stewards, when they heard hurried footsteps from outside, it was the housekeeper Song Quan who came in, with a thin layer of sweat on his head, and said: " Ma'am! Go and have a look, the old lady beat up Accountant Guo, and caught him with blood all over his face!"

Everyone in the room suddenly frowned, this old lady, it's okay to beg for money everywhere for three days, and now she just started beating people!
It happened to be an old lady again, and no one dared to fight back yet.

Mrs. Liang sighed softly, touched the faces of the two daughters, and comforted them: "Don't be afraid, I have my own disputes with your father."

First, I sent Mother Xu to take the money to appease the old lady, then called the accountant Guo to give the money to appease, and then continued to take a few managers to complete the account.

Song Yaxin and Song Yuxi were flipping through the completed accounts, their brows gradually furrowed.

"Mother, this account?"

Mrs. Liang laughed: "It will be handed over to the old lady in the future."

Song Yaxin's eyes lit up, she laughed, and said, "So that's how it is!"

Before Song Yuxi could react, she just felt that this account book was very different from what she usually saw. The figures were much smaller. She looked at the eldest sister in a daze, and Song Yaxin leaned into her ear, muttering a few words, Only then did she suddenly realize that she smiled with her eyes crooked.

Mrs. Lin made trouble for several days and beat up several servants. Finally, Mrs. Liang seemed unable to sit still, and took the account book and ran to the old lady's residence, saying: "Mother-in-law, daughter-in-law sees that you are healthy, and your brain is also weak." You are active, and the affairs of the house are complicated, why don't you let your daughter-in-law take care of the expenses of the second and third bedrooms?"

With that said, she handed over the account book.

As if she was afraid that she would take it back again, Mrs. Lin grabbed the account book and snorted, "I wish I had done this earlier? How unfilial!"

The decent smile on Mrs. Liang's face didn't change at all because of Mrs. Lin's harsh words, but she sat down gracefully, and said in a calm manner: "Underage sons and young ladies who are born in the first place every May and February Silver, three taels a month for concubines, 30 taels a month for adults, 30 taels for wives, ten taels a month for aunts, and five taels a month for Tongfang."

Mrs. Lin gave her a white look and said, "You think my old lady is too old to be fooled?"

Liang said: "I'm not fooling you, old lady. Our house has always been like this. If you don't believe me, you can read the account books. This is a new rule that was established after coming to the capital. When I was in Guangzhou, it was less than this."

Mrs. Lin didn't believe it, she flipped through the account books desperately, only to find that there were only 8000 taels in the palace!Even less than 1 taels!
"You're lying! The jade pendant on your son's waist is worth several hundred taels of silver! Tell me, he only has five or two months a month? Daughter-in-law, the old lady advises you not to be too extreme in things!"

Liang said: "My son's jade pendant is from my dowry. Is there any problem if I give it to him? Our master is an upright official, and his monthly salary is only 61 shi, plus the rewards from the palace during the New Year. We would not be rich without my dowry."

Snapped!
Mrs. Lin threw the account book in Liang's face, and Liang instinctively dodged backwards, but fortunately, she was supported by Xu's mother, otherwise she would have fallen.

Mrs. Lin pointed at her nose and scolded: "Bah, shameless! You are still a scholarly lady, and you dare to swallow your husband's property. This is how your Liang family taught their daughter! The old woman must go to the government to sue her!" you!"

Clutching her sore nose, she burst into tears, but laughed aloud: "The old lady can sue if she wants to. At worst, our master won't be that Lao Shizi official, and our whole family will go back to Jiangling! There is nothing wrong with my dowry. The account book has been given to you, and the rest of the shopping, kitchen, sewing, etc. are up to you. My daughter-in-law will resign now."

The old lady was shocked by Liang's indifferent attitude, and she really didn't dare to sue the officials!

At any rate, her son and grandson are now benefiting from Song Jianming's official position. As far as the academy is concerned, several of her grandsons have now entered the Song Clan School in the capital, and no one dares to neglect her two sons when they are traveling outside.Song Jianming's official position can't really disappear.

In the afternoon, after Song Jianming returned home, the maids and women around Liang snotted and cried vividly describing how their mistress was bullied. Song Jianming sighed, held Liang's hand and said: " Make Madam tired."

Liang shook her head: "My husband has such parents..."

She shook her head and didn't say any more. There are parents everywhere in the world, and it's hard for the younger generation to say anything.

But the old lady can't be touched, Song Jianming can touch her son, her grandson!
That night, that Song Shujun was dragged into the main hall by a group of servants. Song Jianming asked him a few questions, but he couldn't answer a sentence, so the vicious uncle used the excuse of "not seeking to make progress, disrespecting the teacher, and being lazy in studying" as an excuse, and took a ruler. Smacked the poor little nephew.

Song Shujun's father stood tremblingly by the side, not daring to say a word, his mother slumped down pitifully and wept silently, as for his grandmother, she yelled to take the ruler off the servant's hand, Song Jianming But he picked up another cane and slapped the child's butt.

"I told you not to make progress! I asked you to be late for school! I asked you to sleep in class! You came to the capital to disgrace your uncle?"

The child was beaten and rolled all over the floor, howling and screaming, desperately yearning for the grandmother's arms.

"Grandmother, grandma, ahh! Dog officer, why did you hit me! Why did you hit me, I want to sue you, I'm going to sue you at the Yamen of Shuntian Prefecture! Wow wow wow!"

Song Jianming didn't let him go, ordered his servants to stop the old lady, and said righteously: "Mother, it's only natural for me to discipline my nephew, so don't interfere! Even if I want to discipline my younger brother, you can do it! You old man, go back with peace of mind, my officer If you have a measure in your hands, you will never kill anyone!"

While talking, the thick servants grabbed the child again and pressed him firmly on the stool. Song Jianming relentlessly slapped the little buttocks again, blood was seen on the cloth, and the last slap, the vine The article was interrupted unexpectedly!
The shrill scream pierced the quiet night sky, and the child was knocked out alive. Mrs. Lin slumped on the ground, crawled over, and hugged the child who was bleeding from the clothes.

Song Chenyu, the seventh brother who was snatched by Song Shujun and scolded him as a concubine, hid behind his brothers and laughed happily.Eldest brother Song Chenhai reached out and rubbed the top of his head, mouthing silently: "Be honest!"

Song Chenyu still laughed, and rubbed his head in his elder brother's arms coquettishly.

(End of this chapter)