reborn child bride

Chapter 217 Paying Money (2)
The second master held the tea and said: "Could it be true that those old men are really saying that he is the one who can revitalize the Wei family?"

"Hmph, the more promising he is, the more difficult our life will be."

"No matter how high his official position is, he can still take advantage of the power of the court to bully his uncle. This is the way of the elders. If he dares to violate it, it is his fault. You see, whether Yushi will impeach him."

"It's all because of your incompetence. If you can also pass the Jinshi exam, I'm now the wife of Gaoming. I blame you for everything, and now it's hard to get off the horse."

The second master put the teacup on the table, "You think you are not at fault, you have made so much money from your family over the years, why are so many brothers complaining to me now?"

"We are descendants of concubines, and they are descendants of concubines. There should be differences in the first place."

The second master frowned, "That's not... oh, forget it, I won't talk about it. In short, those things should be stopped, and don't leave any excuses for others. We have so many in our hands. In the future, when Dad leaves, The share in the hand is not thin. Enough!"

"Hmph, that's enough. If Wei Ying didn't show up, it would be the same. I would have to share a big part of it."

The second master said patiently: "For so many years, I have never been short of your food and clothing. Why are you so greedy for money?"

"You're not short of my food and clothing. Hmph, if it wasn't for me, we'd just rely on a little dividend. Our family is still suffering like those people. We are taking care of this family, so why should they sit back and enjoy it? You If you have the ability, you can get me an imperial wife to come back to Dangdang. Now I don’t even have any hope of becoming an imperial wife. That woman’s life is good, and now I have to get an imperial gift. If my father didn’t think about it at the beginning Your father and elder brother are both well-educated people, how could they marry me to you. Who knows that you are a man who can't read or write..."

The second master slapped the table, "So what, I am the patriarch of the Wei family, and you have been able to dominate the clan for so many years because of me."

"The patriarch's wife, that can only be prestige in the Wei family. You don't know how my sister-in-law and two sisters who have become the wife of the emperor taunted me when I went back to my mother's house, but I can't even speak. No. Because you're worthless."

The second master frowned. He was just a scholar. Many people had great expectations of him because he was his father's son, and his eldest brother's younger brother, but he was indeed not that material.In these years, he has done nothing but hard work in managing the family affairs, but in the eyes of those old men, he can't compare to Wei Ying who has only recognized his ancestors for three or four years.Just because he became a Jinshi and became an official, he was born a bit higher than everyone else.

The Wei family has a shop and land, but in these two generations, only Lao Qi and Wei Ying are officials, and Lao Qi has been in official career for so many years before reaching the fifth rank, so the help he can give to the family is limited.If there is no one in the court, a family will always decline slowly.The Wei family had a great reputation in Huaiyang before, but their reputation fell because there were no rising stars in these two generations, and they were actually compared by the Han family and the Dou family next to them.Moreover, there is no support in the officialdom, and Wei's business is greatly affected.This is also the reason why the family's financial resources have gradually exceeded their means over the years.

The income is decreasing year by year. If it is distributed to so many clan members who are just waiting for dividends but do nothing, the distribution to them will be even less.Therefore, the second master actually agrees with the practice of the wife making false accounts and withholding part of it first and then distributing it.They should have taken more.It's just that this caused dissatisfaction among several brothers against him, so he couldn't accept it.

"Master, madam, grandpa, grandma, and third master are here."

The two husband and wife stopped complaining to each other, and the second wife said: "Ask the second grandma to come and see the elder brother and elder sister-in-law." When she married, the eldest brother's illness was already on the mend, and the second master had just passed the exam and looked at him as before. Ascending Chaoyang, my father thought that the Wei family's scholarly heritage was the heir to the family, so he married her over.I really hope that she can honor her husband and honor her wife, and enshrine her wife and son, just like those old princes in the previous generations of the Wei family.But who knows, he only stopped when he was a scholar, and then he couldn't pass the exam no matter what.She had no choice but to come back to manage the family affairs, so that she could not hold her head up in her natal family.There are two sons, the second one is focused on doing business, and the third one has not even passed the entrance exam, even worse than the son of Sifang.Now he is also clamoring that he doesn't want to continue the exam anymore, and wants to come back and manage the business like his second brother.It really pissed her off.

Shen Ji and Wei Ying came in, first delivered the local products of Shu, and then sat down to talk.The second lady then called her daughter-in-law Mrs. Song to come and see her.

Shen Ji knew that the second room had a new daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law gave birth to a big fat boy after a year of fighting against her stomach.So they prepared two meeting gifts, one for Song, and one for the fat baby who was brought out.As for the second child, Wei Feng, who is outside to manage all the business of the Wei family, he is not at home.

Shen Ji smiled and took the fat baby from the nanny, "What's his name?"

Song said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, his nickname is Brother Li, he hasn't given his first name yet, he just turned ten months old."

Brother Li didn't recognize his birth, so he sat on Shen Ji's lap, looking at her with two round eyes, and Shen Ji held his two small fists, "Brother Li, I'm the eldest aunt." Shen Ji was three years older and nineteen years old this year, smiling and watching from the side all the time.

Wei Ying said a few words to the second master, and now he will not put on a cold face when he visits the door.After several years of being an official, he became more and more moody.The second master felt that he could not see through this nephew more and more, and he was very uncertain.He is completely different from when he was making a fuss in the ancestral hall three years ago.

Shen Ji teased Brother Li for a while, making him laugh out loud, he couldn't see his teeth, and then slowly explained his intentions, "Second Uncle and Aunt, we are here to trouble you this time for the third brother's happy event. "Said with an embarrassed smile, "Originally this is a matter of our eldest room. My mother is gone, and my eldest sister-in-law should come forward to help me, but I am young and have never experienced such a major event, so I want to ask my second aunt to handle it. This matter." Anyway, she took over this matter, and the problem in the end was her incompetence, and she needed the second wife to deal with the aftermath.Simply leave it to her at this time, even if she is too timid to undertake it.And the third child was born to the second wife, so she did this to avoid complaining.

The second lady naturally evaded a few words, saying that Shen Ji has been in charge of the family for three years, and it is time to exercise.Afraid that something might happen, she just assists one or two from the side.

Shen Ji smiled and said: "Grandfather is ill, and parents are not here. My nephew and daughter-in-law can only come to see my second uncle and second aunt. You are the close relatives of our husband and wife and the third brother. Our eldest room is the same as the second room, which is more related than other houses. It's different. My niece and daughter-in-law are timid, and the so-called housekeeping in the past was just a small daily matter. Please don't refuse the second aunt. Come on!"

A big box was brought in from outside, and Shen sent, "Second Aunt, this is the 3000 taels that my grandfather brought over when he knew that the third brother was going to have a wedding, and the 2000 taels here belonged to our long house, so you can accept it." .” The 2000 taels is most of the cash Shen Ji has on hand, and she has figured it out, so she should spend money to eliminate disasters.This matter must never be taken over.If the money is gone, she can earn it again. Anyway, in the Wei family, she has a generous image of buying people's hearts. Of course, her brother-in-law has to spend so much to help the wedding.

(End of this chapter)