Rebirth of a famous family: Mala's first wife

Chapter 36 Private Room
Facing ten neatly stacked bank notes, Fu Heng felt very uncomfortable.In the past two years, Tong Yuanyuan followed him and handled tens of thousands of dollars for him!Now there are only 1 taels left, which really looks like a big joke.

Seeing her son's silence for a long time, Mrs. Fu naturally guessed what was going on based on her understanding of him.She didn't want to embarrass her son, she just asked Hao's mother: "Hao De's family, that aunt named Tong gave you this brocade box and didn't say anything else?"

"Returning to the old lady, the old slave also asked Aunt Tong, but there is nothing to explain. Aunt Tong said that in the past two years, the elder has also rewarded her with some money here and there, but it is a pity that she is young and ignorant. I don't know how to be frugal, so I spend all my time on dressing up, welcoming and sending off. She said that she felt very ashamed. She originally wanted to do more for the Fu family, but it was a pity that she was powerless." Mrs. Hao was calm He replied calmly, without any emotion.

"Hmph, I, Fu Heng, am really blind, and I have such a wolf-hearted thing by my side!" Fu Heng was so angry that his beard was raised, he flicked his sleeves, and said coquettishly.

Mrs. Fu frowned and pondered for a while before she said: "Looking at her appearance, she must have made preparations before coming here. Maybe before coming to Jincheng, what should be transferred and what should be concealed has already been dealt with. .She is willing to take out the 1 taels now because she is not afraid of us to investigate. If my wife is right, even if we go and search immediately, we will not find anything." She slowly Shaking his head, "Forget it, brother Heng, you just need to be careful about this matter. We can also discuss other things in the long run, so we won't be able to take advantage of her like this! But right now, since she is still pregnant with you For the sake of it, I don't want to touch her. The 1 taels of silver, let's use it first... In short, you can listen to Wei Niang's advice, you can play outside, but you must have a limit, don't do anything Take them all home! And you must pay more attention to family affairs! Now that your children are grown up, even for their sake, you have to be polite to your daughter-in-law, lest they see Keep it in your eyes, keep it in your heart, you will be the one who suffers in the future!"

Fu Heng shuddered when he heard it.What his mother said was exactly what he had been secretly worried about recently.When he came back this time, he found that his son Junfeng had grown up a lot, and his daughter Junya was also very slim. Both of them were extremely smart and sensible, which made him feel much older in an instant!Moreover, the two children seem to be very protective of their mother. If they know that their father is not good to their mother, it will be difficult for them to be filial to themselves wholeheartedly in the future..." What the mother reminded was, The son has already saved it, and will pay more attention to these things in the back house in the future."

Mrs. Fu nodded, "It's good that you know." Sighing again, she brought up the matter of going to Beijing, "Brother Heng, you only brought 4 taels of silver with you this time. It is very difficult to accomplish anything here.... How about this, I will write a letter to your cousin Cui Shilang, hoping that he will take care of you for the sake of my old cousin.... There is a word from him , maybe it can save you tens of thousands of taels of silver, so what you have is probably enough."

Fu Heng was overjoyed when he heard the words, and said excitedly: "My son, thank you mother! My cousin, Mr. Cui, is the servant of the Ministry of Punishment. He has been in Beijing for many years and has a deep foundation. If he can get a few good words from him, my son will be successful in no time. Come to the top day!"

Seeing that her plan had made her son so happy, Mrs. Fu was not without pride.But he still said with a slightly condensed face: "Okay, in fact, I'm not sure that this matter will be done. After all, you know the grievances between the eldest family and the third family of the Cui family. Back then, I married To your father, and their third wife, because they are concubines, almost have no place to stand by your grandmother...

"Your cousin is able to be what he is today. The hardships he has experienced and the hard work he has made are beyond your imagination. And although I never spoke ill to him back then, in the final analysis, I never had any practical favors... ...If your cousin never forgets the humiliation of our long house, and you will definitely not sell me this favor, then I have nothing to say. The reason why I dare not use this relationship easily these years is because of this ask for contempt.

"Now, I want to understand. I am already in my sixties, and I don't have a few years to live. If I still guard this relationship and don't use it, I will take it to the grave. Go, isn't it stupid? So, no matter if it succeeds or not, you have to try it."

The old lady said this long paragraph slowly, and it was really a heartfelt speech.Fu Heng's heart was already sore when he heard it, and he managed to hold his voice and laughed: "What does the mother say, the son only wants the mother to be healthy and happy, and live to be a hundred years old! The son has already passed the age of thirty, But still let mother worry about it again and again, and fail to serve her all the time, that is the extreme of unfilial piety!
"So, my son just wants to let nature take its course whether this thing can be done or not. If the old man insists on embarrassing me, I won't be too persistent. Please rest assured, mother."

He even thought about it, if he went to Beijing this time and spent all the capital he collected from the officialdom, but still couldn't find a good way out, then he would simply say he was sick and resign, and go home to be a farmer and enjoy his family. Joy is also good.After all, it is not easy to be an official in the Tian family. If it is a picture name, his father has never been an official in his life. Isn't his reputation the same?If it is for profit, the salary is actually not much, and it is not as good as some landlords and gentry.There are also those shady money, which are taken, but they can't make people feel at ease, even when they sleep at night, they frown...

Fu Heng revealed his true feelings, and the old lady was also touched when he said it, and nodded with a smile: "That's good. My mother knows that you are filial, and I also know that you have a high temper. If you really want you to bow your knees, that's not what I want to see for my mother." .”

The mother and son talked about other things, nothing more than what to pay attention to on the way to Beijing, how to arrange some things at home, and so on.Mrs. Fu then signaled Mrs. Hao to take out another brocade box from her bedroom, and handed it to Fu Heng.Fu Heng's hand sank, wondering what was in this brocade box?
"Mother, what do you mean?" Fu Heng asked in a daze.

"Heng'er, open it and have a look." Old Madam Fu smiled, in a very good mood.

Fu Heng suppressed the surprise in his heart, and carefully opened the brocade box.Seeing this, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.It turned out that the box contained another neat stack of banknotes, thicker than the brocade box Aunt Tong brought earlier!

"Hehe, here are 2 taels of silver bills. When I was in charge of the house a few years ago, I bought some houses at a low price and sold some houses... This money was originally saved for you brothers, except for me. , only your father knows... The reason why I didn't show all this in front of your daughter-in-law was because I didn't want her to have some unreasonable thoughts and disturb the cleanliness of me, a bad old woman, but it's not You want to make things difficult for brother Heng on purpose... You are my own son, as long as it is for your brother's benefit, what can I not give?" The old lady's vicissitudes of eyes slightly contained some water. , half proud, half self-deprecating smile.

"Mother!" Fu Heng's tears came down at some point, he suddenly lifted his robe, knelt down on the ground, and put the brocade box at the old lady's feet, "Mother, I can't take this money from my son!"

"Confused!" The old lady changed her face, leaned on her crutches suddenly, and asked loudly, "Tell me, why can't you take this money?! Don't you want your own future? Don't you want it?" The future of our entire Fu family is on the line!"

After some shouting and asking, Fu Heng lowered his head guiltily.But he meditated silently for a while, and finally raised his head, met Mrs. Fu's expectant eyes, shook his head slowly but firmly and said: "No, mother, son, I have really thought about it carefully. The son can't have it anyway!

"The son is not saying that the future of the son and the future of the Fu family are not important, but that if it is necessary to exchange these tens of thousands of taels of silver for a satisfactory official position, it means that the son's abilities in all aspects are not enough. Far from being good at dealing with the ghosts and ghosts in the officialdom, then the son is simply not worthy of being an official!

"Mother, do you know that in Danyang these years, my son has done a few things, and he has also been contaminated with some bad habits in the officialdom... The son knows that some things on the scene have to be done, but if you become an official, you only have Those things on the scene, the son asked himself, such an official is worth mentioning!
"My son remembers that when his father was dying, he told his son never to forget that the foundation of the Fu family was the family tradition of poetry and etiquette. But now, the son's foot has stepped into the dye vat of officialdom. Sometimes, the son really I really want to get out of my body and live my life upright and innocent like my father...

"It's a pity that my son can't turn back at this time. Then the only thing the son can do is to save his mother's life's hard work and not be stained black by this black dyeing vat... So, not only the twenty thousand taels of silver that the mother just took out, The son won't take half a penny, even the 1 taels that Gui Fen asked his mother for earlier, the son is not prepared to take it at all!"

Mrs. Fu looked at her son quietly for a long time.Yes, she had already understood what her son said.This heart is really mixed!Like joy, like pride, like disappointment, like helpless.well!After all, my son is grown up, and he won't listen to himself in everything anymore. In some matters, he is really screwed with the old man!

"Okay, it turns out that Brother Heng, you are only planning to bring 3 taels of silver... Mother's [-] is really so clean and heavy, you don't even want to get it dirty..." Old Madam Fu's lips There was a wry smile on the side.

(End of this chapter)