The story of the struggle of the poor girl who crossed

Chapter 123
However, Nancheng is also divided into three areas, one is where the royal relatives live, the other is where dignitaries live, and the other is where ordinary officials and wealthy businessmen live.The house bought by Mai Xiang's family is in the area where ordinary officials and wealthy businessmen live.

I bought five houses in this place, and spent almost 8 taels of silver on Mai Xiang.Every house has three entrances, neither big nor small.With these five houses, everyone in the Liang family will have a foundation in the capital in the future.

Mai Xiang handed out the house deeds to everyone: "You keep the house deeds yourself. Once you have a house in the capital, you can gain a foothold in the capital if you have a job in the future! I will give each of you 1 taels of silver. In the future, you You have to rely on your own efforts to live the good life you want to live!"

The owners of the deed are Pinellia, Poria, Licorice, Coptis and Liang Gaoshan. The 1 taels of silver was also given to these people.In addition, Mai Xiang also gave 500 taels of silver to each of her grandparents.

Fahrenheit looked left and right, and said indignantly: "Everyone has a share, why don't I have it? I'm your mother, why should I not give it?"

Mai Xiang couldn't help frowning slightly: "If I gave it to my father, wouldn't it be the same as giving it to you? Besides, my father and Licorice are all worrying about the family affairs. You don't care about anything, and you don't go out often. What do you want money for? Let's talk about it." , I have actually given you a lot of silver these years, and now you have at least 1000 taels of silver in your hands, right?"

Fahrenheit sneered: "What is 1000 taels enough for? Mrs. Zhao's set of head and face jewelry is 600 taels, and a hairpin of Mrs. Tan is more than 1000 taels. The 1000 taels of silver go out and wander around the street." One click, it’s gone! No, don’t you have silver, and I don’t want more, just give me 5000 taels!”

When Mai Xiang heard this, she couldn't help but sneered: "Five 600 taels for hair, and more than 1000 taels for hairpins, what a big deal! You have to have a lot of money at home to buy such expensive jewelry? Are you willing to buy it?" A family that spends money like this is either doing big business at home and has plenty of money. Or it is because there are big corrupt officials in the family, otherwise, except for the prince and princess, who would spend so much money like this?"

Ordinary ladies and wives wear hairpins of five or sixty taels at most.For most families, a red gold hairpin only costs about twenty taels of silver.

Fahrenheit couldn't help blushing a little, but argued forcefully: "I'm your mother, you are now the fiancee of Prince Rong's son, didn't the son give you a lot of bride price? Besides, the dividends for welcoming guests for a year must be very generous .Give me 5000 taels of silver, what can I do? To you, it’s not a drop in the bucket?”

Mai Xiang couldn't help shaking her head, and said amusedly: "Hey, mother, you have learned to use idioms. Not bad, you've made great progress! However, it's obviously inappropriate to use the word "one-of-a-kind" to me! The dowry is for the dowry. According to the rules of the capital, the dowry has to be doubled for the amount of dowry and dowry!

Besides, there is actually not much bonus for welcoming guests, and it is all used to expand the store.The money that has come to me over the years is just over one hundred thousand taels.Now that I bought five houses and gave my father and younger siblings 5 taels of silver, I have no more money in my hands!Now, I am still waiting for the monthly salary! "

Ban Xia couldn't listen anymore: "Mother, you don't need to worry about the family affairs, and the elder sister bought you a lot of jewelry. I say you can be content, we are originally a small family, don't learn from those You are a lady. When you go out and wear such expensive jewelry, you are not afraid that someone will snatch it. At that time, it doesn’t matter if the jewelry is robbed, you are afraid of hurting someone! Besides, you see, the eldest sister has always been simple when she goes out. Simple dress. She has never been full of pearls and emeralds. I don’t think she has as many valuable jewelry on her body! Mother, you can be content, don’t think too much! If you have this time, you might as well be good Learn from the nanny in charge, how to manage the kitchen well! The kitchen is a big deal, mother should use snacks, and nothing can go wrong!"

Licorice also said: "Mother, that's it! If Fuling and I get married in the future, we still have to take care of this family, we can't rely on the woman in charge for everything!"

Fahrenheit glared at her: "What are you talking about? When you are all married, your second elder brother will be married long ago. At that time, your second sister-in-law will be the housekeeper!"

Ban Xia couldn't bear it anymore: "Don't worry, I'm under 25 years old, and I will never get married!"

The two younger sisters are not married, and Huang Lian has not grown up, so he will not get married.If his wife is a bad one, wouldn't his younger siblings suffer a lot?As a woman, she is very pitiful. Once married, most of them will not have a good life.So, before Licorice and Poria get married, he hopes to give them a better life.

As an elder brother, he can't do anything for them. The only thing he can do is to let them live a carefree, comfortable and happy life before they get married!

"What? We didn't get married until we were 25 years old? Hey, Mai Xiang, it's you, a dead girl, who brought Pinellia to ruin!" After hearing his son's words, Fahrenheit was furious.

Mai Xiang was terrified, and just about to refute, she heard Ban Xia angrily say: "Mom, it's my own idea to get married at the age of 25. I want to start a career first and then have a family. What's the matter with my eldest sister? You are so unreasonable, nonsense Ba Dao is really chilling and disappointing!"

Fahrenheit was about to go mad: "Why is it none of her business? If she hadn't come up with something to get married when she was full, would you have thought of getting married at the age of 25? Look at the people around you, which one? Don't people's children get married when they reach the age of 15? But she is proud and arrogant, and she wants to be different from the world. The girl is an old girl! She wants to get married when she is full, I can't control it, and I don't want to! However, licorice He and Fu Ling must get married when they are 15 years old! You must also get married when you are 16 years old! This is my bottom line, if you are still filial, don’t disobey my will! Otherwise, I will not recognize You, as if you don't have your children!"

Ban Xia was taken aback, and then couldn't help but sneer: "Get married at the age of 16? I can't do it, no matter what, I have to be 20 years old before getting married! This is also my bottom line, if you can't accept it, just pretend it's not My son!"

Licorice also quickly stated: "You can get married at the age of 15, but you must be 17 years old to get married!" The eldest sister's words must be very reasonable, and she must listen.Besides, she didn't want to get married at such a young age, so she could take advantage of these two years to learn more skills.When she gets married in the future, no matter what happens, she will not panic and despair about life.

Fu Ling also said: "Me too, I will never get married if I am not 17 years old! Eldest sister's words are very reasonable, there is no benefit in getting married so early! Moreover, I don't want to marry early and be tortured by my mother-in-law."

Fahrenheit said angrily: "You don't want to get married, so you stay at your mother's house, eating and drinking for free? Don't even think about it. If you are filial, you will marry me when you reach the age of 15! Get married early, so that you can lighten the burden on your second brother." Get married at the age of 17? At this time, how many men get married at the age of 17? Don't drag yourself into an old girl, and let your second brother take care of you for the rest of your life!"

Mai Xiang couldn't listen any longer: "Shut up! I don't spend my money on the food and drink in this house? I am willing to raise licorice and poria cocos. Even if they never get married in their whole life, I will take good care of them." They will definitely not drag Ban Xia down!"

After a pause, she couldn't help frowning and said, "Mother, why did you become like this? When the family was poor, you were so kind, so gentle, and loved your children so much. But, why are life so easy?" You don’t look like a mother?! For the sake of Pinellia, you can hurt me, Licorice and Poria without hesitation. If you do this, you won’t be afraid that the three of us will break up with the Banxia brothers and sisters and cut off contact? I still understand the point of preventing old age, but can you not be so biased?! The son was born by you, isn't the daughter born by you? Or, in your heart, for the sake of the son, you can put Daughter discarded like garbage?!"

Speaking of this, Mai Xiang's heart was filled with anger.

Her eyes swept over Banxia and Huanglian, her eyes were a bit complicated.

Ban Xia was taken aback, and quickly stated: "Eldest sister, don't worry, in my heart, elder sister is more important than anyone else. In this life and in the next life, I will never be divorced from elder sister. Elder sister is very important to our family. Contribution, love and support for me, I know very well in my heart, and I will never forget it! I will work hard, strive to be a promising person, and take good care of my eldest sister, licorice, Poria cocos, and Coptis chinensis in the future! Don't worry , I will not be a person without a conscience, and I will not be an ungrateful person. In the future, if my mother is so confused and messes around like this again, I will never indulge her again! In other words, if it must be between you and your mother If there is no choice, I will definitely choose Eldest Sister!"

As soon as these words came out, Fahrenheit couldn't help being dumbfounded, only feeling that there was darkness in front of him.She couldn't help crying: "Banxia, ​​you heartless, I'm your own mother! You choose your eldest sister, but you don't choose your mother. Are you confused?!"

Ban Xia sneered coldly: "Confused? Do you think I am confused? It is said that there is no wrong parent in the world, and children do not dislike their mother's ugliness. If you are a kind and loving mother, then no matter what happens, I will definitely stand by your side. However, you ask yourself, have you acted like a mother all these years? I won’t dwell on the past, let’s talk about today’s events. Is there any kindness in this appearance?!"

What he said was so loud that his face was full of frost.

Fahrenheit was taken aback by his son, it was the first time Banxia treated her like this.She was very afraid, for fear that her son would abandon her and not provide her with old age.

Liang Gaoshan was furious for a long time: "Fahrenheit, you refuse to change after repeated admonitions, I can't bear it anymore! For the sake of the face of the five children, I can keep killing you, but from today on, let's sleep in separate rooms!"

The Chang family was also very angry: "Gao Shan, how about this, why don't you take a concubine? Find an innocent girl from a good family, and take a good concubine?" The son is only in his 30s, and he is still very young. If you sleep in separate rooms now, how can you survive this day and night?
(End of this chapter)