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Chapter 212: Marriage Proposal (5)
Lian Ke said: "This fourth brother can imagine it himself."

Lian Pu asked suspiciously: "Could it be that elder brother is secretly supporting her?"

Lian Ke sighed: "What do you think, if the eldest brother doesn't want her to intervene in business on the Lian family's territory, even if she bears the name of the Lian family's daughter, she may not be able to do business."

Lian Pu said: "But in this case, didn't the eldest brother get all the property of the family into her hands? She is a woman who is about to get married, how can she bring so much property to her husband's house?"

Lian Ke said: "Why are you so brainless? The gold and silver that my daughter earns at home belong to her parents, and getting married is just a small dowry."

Lian Pu finally "understood", and his voice became louder, saying: "Yes, no matter how much property Xianglai has, it is the private property of Dafang and has nothing to do with other families!"

Lian Ke rubbed his face in annoyance, and said, "Why don't I regret letting her come back? Now that she's back, oh..."

Lian Pu Teng stood up and said: "No, I have to ask my elder brother, he saved money on our brother, but he put all the money in his daughter's name, this is clearly playing us for fools! "

Lian Ke hurriedly pulled him to sit down, and said: "Aren't you stupid again? If you ask the eldest brother, he will still say that the money was brought by Xianglai from outside and has nothing to do with Lian's family. You can really find out that Xianglai returned home. Is it the old man from before? It must be a snag if you ask."

Lian Pu said: "Then what should we do? Let's just watch their father and daughter enrich their own pockets and take everyone's money into their hands?"

Lian Ke said: "What else can we do if we don't look at it? Now all the family business is in the hands of the eldest brother, and we have never been allowed to interfere. What else can we do? I think it's better to figure out some private property to support the family."

Seeing that Lian Pu didn't speak, he said angrily, "Oh, I wanted to discuss things with you, but you don't know anything. Forget it, I'd better ask someone else."

Saying that, he left Lianpu's yard and left.

Lian Pu sat there thinking more and more something was wrong, got up and went out to Lian Zhao's place.

He spoke more directly than Lian Ke, and he expressed his meaning clearly in a few words.

Lian Zhao looks jovial on the surface, but he is the smallest one among the brothers, he can't bear others to infringe on his interests, and he has long been secretly dissatisfied with Lian Xiu's practice of not letting them intervene in the business. I am even more convinced.

In this way, the two brothers discussed the countermeasures together, and they didn't discuss the result until midnight. Then they came to Lian Ke's place together, and quietly called Lian Ke who had already gone to bed.

Lian Ke seemed to have forgotten what he said to Lian Pu at night, and asked strangely: "Why are you here? It's in the middle of the night. Can't we talk about it tomorrow?"

Lian Pu said: "It's only at night that we can talk, let's go, let's find a place where no one is around and talk about it."

Lian Ke took the two of them to his study, and the three of them muttered together until midnight.

A few days later, it will be the date to open the money for each house. Usually these things are handled by the servants in charge of each house. The master of the house always feels ashamed to accept money from others, but today there are three houses that need to open money. But the male master at the head came all at once.

Although Mrs. Zhu was in charge of distributing the regular silver, it was all done by the steward she appointed. After receiving the bank notes, the three came to Mrs. Zhu without saying anything to the steward.

Seeing that the three of them came to see her together at this time, Mrs. Zhu also felt that something was wrong, and greeted: "Third brother, fourth brother, fifth brother, how come you are so well together today!"

Lian Ke stood without speaking, and Lian Pu said first: "Sister-in-law, we are here to discuss something with you."

Zhu said: "What's the matter, I still need three people to talk about it."

Lian Pu said: "Sister-in-law, we are all family members now, and we spend a lot of money on weekdays. It's not enough for you to pay such a small amount of money. Can you spend more?"

Mrs. Zhu blinked, and said: "Why is it not enough? Every house is opened according to the head, and even the wages of the servants are paid according to the amount. It has never been less."

Lian Pu said: "The difference is here. It seems fair to divide the money according to the head, but how many people live in the big brother's room? How many people are there in our three families? Does sister-in-law think this is fair?"

Sitting there, Mrs. Zhu's expression remained unchanged, but her heart trembled slightly. Everyone knows that even repairing this house has been taking advantage of it all these years. In the early years, these three younger brothers were young and didn't know how to think about it. I thought they all recognized this, but I didn't expect to bring it up suddenly now.

After thinking for a while, he said, "Well, I know what the three uncles said, but I can't decide this matter. You should talk to your elder brother."

Lian Pu said: "We know that sister-in-law can't make the decision, so I asked the eldest brother of the ward to talk about it, and when he has time, we brothers and sisters have a good talk."

Still smiling, Mrs. Zhu said, "Okay, I will tell your elder brother."

In the evening, Mrs. Zhu was afraid that Lian Xiu wouldn't be able to come to rest at his place, so she specially sent someone to the front mansion to tell Lian Xiu to come over.

Lian Xiu guessed that there was something wrong in the inner house again, and when he arrived, he asked, "What's the matter, but Xianglai is making trouble again?"

Zhu said: "Which is Xianglai. Now I will let her make trouble with that girl. This time, it is your three younger brothers."

Lian Xiu asked strangely: "What's wrong with the three of them? They haven't been fine all the time."

Zhu said: "It was good in the past, but it's not good today. They think the amount of money is too small, so they asked me to fight for it."

Lian Xiudao: "Amount of money? It hasn't been opened like this all these years, why do you want to fight now?"

Zhu said: "Who knows, they seem to have made an appointment, the three of them came together, although only Lian Pu spoke, but the other two also said the same thing, they thought our big house was crowded, and they said that we would divide the people according to the head They suffer from money."

Lian Xiu was silent for a while and said: "Although we have more people in this house, I am the main house, so I should get more than them."

Zhu said: "When the old man passed away, he only said that the Lian family was in your care, but he didn't say that you were the principal..."

Lian Xiu suddenly got annoyed: "As the patriarch, I'm not the main wife, how can I dig out that dead ghost Lian Rui to be the main wife!"

Zhu said: "That's impossible. Even if you dig him out, you will remove him from the genealogy. No one will recognize him as Lian's family anymore."

Lian Xiu said: "That's it. As the eldest son and the patriarch, I'm not the main wife who is the main wife. According to the rules, they can get one-tenth of my share. It's not bad. I don't care if I get a little bit of head money! "

Zhu said: "I think maybe the purpose is not the head money, but other thoughts."

Lian Xiudao: "What's the point besides asking for money!"

Zhu said: "If it's only a little money, you can just say something behind your back, but the three of them came together, it's clear that they are colluding, and the three big men colluded about one thing, it can be as simple as asking for some money. Is it?"

(End of this chapter)