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Chapter 304 New Family Business

When it was time for dinner in the evening, Qiuyu had already taken the child home, and Second Uncle Lu went back to the eldest young master's house as an errand director when he woke up.Only four members of the Lu family were left sitting in the main room for dinner.

Mother Lu seemed to be embarrassed about what happened at noon, and took several pieces of meat for her husband and daughter. Because her son was clamoring to eat, she hurriedly stuffed him with a chicken leg, and said to her husband in a somewhat embarrassing manner, "What happened today?" ...Don't be angry, I gave you the private money I saved on weekdays, and I dare not touch you. Anyway, she is my old lady, and I can't leave her alone..."

Lu Yougui took a sip of his wine, didn't look at her, and said indifferently: "Your mother is my mother-in-law, is there any reason to care about her life or death? It's just that your brother, I don't think it's very reliable, I'm afraid he will take the money. In the blink of an eye, it was given away for nothing, and your mother can't afford to lose half a cent, and your younger siblings will take away the coffin book so that you can buy noodles and rice. Next time, it's better to just buy something and send it away."

Lu's mother felt a little uncomfortable: "Why don't I worry about this? It's just the situation last time. You saw it too. I'm so confused. I just scolded me for not being a messenger to Brother Qian, saying that my arms were turned outwards, and that I would lose my eyes when I got rich." There is no one in the room. The unpleasantness is more than that. The doctor said, don’t let her get angry, she will get sick easily. I want to go quietly, and don’t let her know, but my younger brother and sister are always busy every time. After I was busy, I wanted to tell all the neighbors that I was back, and I couldn’t hide it! I had no choice but to do this. I bought something and gave it away anyway. If Quangui wanted to gamble, he could exchange the things for silver. If you buy something they don't like, it will be useless." After a pause, she saw that her husband's face was still not very good-looking, so she apologized and said with a smile: "Don't worry, that kid Quangui, he was unreliable in the past, but since he was ill Mother, he also knows the seriousness of the matter. I have asked his wife. Every time he gets money, he will buy medicine and delicious food for mother to make her happy. He doesn’t move his wife’s monthly money. To support the family, I usually go out to help others run errands, and ask for rewards to supplement the family. Gambling...just as a pastime, I don’t mess around like before.”

Chunying has been listening silently by the side, and when she heard this, she couldn't help interjecting: "Mother, I see that uncle is staring at the money today, I'm afraid he still likes to gamble. We want to subsidize grandma, so we should buy something to give away. It used to be good. Even if my uncle wanted to sell his things for money to gamble, at least he couldn’t take all of them to the gambling house. Whenever my aunt had a dispute, she would keep her share of food. I’m not saying that mother can’t help her mother’s family. I would rather let the people in the gambling shop get all the money in the family, but grandma can't even come up with medicine money."

Mother Lu also knew her brother's character in her heart, but she felt ashamed when her daughter said this: "As I said just now, your uncle has already left money for the medicine! His family has a lot of food now, you still don't want to buy it?" What are you talking about?! All I gave was private money, which I saved little by little on weekdays, and I never touched the family money!"

Lu Yougui was not happy when he heard this: "Didn't my daughter and I earn your daily household money?! Why are you shouting at Chun'er?! Sister Qiu's face is offended today! You don't know that all the maids and cooks in her family are here What?! In the past few years, our family has not lost the help of her and his wife. If the son-in-law is not honest, our family can save the current family fortune?! I know that you are loose now. Seeing that your mother’s family is not doing well, Helping a few taels of silver from time to time, one is filial piety, and the other is showing off, making your mother and your brother regret treating you poorly before! But don’t you think about it, are we a rich and powerful family? Chunying gave Hu Xiaoge that 100 taels, the 1000 taels of silver we earned back, plus our own savings, after buying a few properties, we have used up several hundred. You have to live in a big house, and spend money on painting and new furniture. The money for making clothes, paying filial piety to her mother’s family, sending Shuxiu to Mr. Xiaohu, and the rewards given to his maid, mother-in-law and servants when he lived in the son-in-law’s house before, all of them are mixed up, and there is only less than 500 taels of silver left in total. If you continue to use it like this, sooner or later you will have to sit and eat. I was thinking about finding one or two incomes, and I would definitely spend money. If you send money here like running water, you don’t know how to think about home?! Chun’er went out The dowry has not yet been paid, let alone the money for Xiaohu to marry a wife in the future! Are they still young when you look at them?! Chuner is only a year or two away, and Xiaohu is about to be nine years old, and he is only six or seven years away from getting married Kung fu, how much did our family earn in the past six or seven years?!"

Lu's mother bowed her head when she heard this, why doesn't she know this truth?But that was her biological mother and biological brother, so she couldn't ignore it.In the past, she was not capable of helping, but now that she has money in hand, how can she enjoy the blessings on her own with peace of mind, while watching her mother's family go hungry? !
But about Qiuyu's matter, she also regretted it a little bit. She was annoyed by her brother's matter at that time, so she blurted out such words in a moment of anger, which hurt her daughter's heart.It's just that her mother can't compensate her daughter, can she?Anyway, the daughter's maid and the cook were far away at that time, so they shouldn't be able to hear it. When she makes some new hats and shoes for the little grandson, and send them over, it will be regarded as an apology.Qiuyu is not a chicken-hearted person, so she won't be angry.

Lu Yougui looked at the changing expression on his wife's face, and probably guessed what she was thinking, and became even angrier in his heart, so he drank two glasses of wine in suspense.Chunying looked at it, hurriedly took care of Xiaohu after dinner, sent him out, and persuaded him with a smile: "I also brought some things back today, including the jewelry and other gifts from the top, and the second old lady and the second wife gave me gifts." The dowry is worth a lot of silver, if the family needs money, they can sell it first..."

"You keep those as a dowry!" Lu Yougui interrupted his daughter, "Since it was rewarded by the second old lady and the second wife, it must be a good thing. Brother Hu has such a family background, and you will be decent when you wear it after you get married. Sell If you don’t have it, when you get married in the future, you won’t be able to deal with such things if you have money! Our family hasn’t reached this point yet, so you just keep it. Don’t waste the money you save on weekdays. Brother Hu treats you well. You should keep some money in your house, that is the way to live. Otherwise, you have to ask him for money for everything, and you will be short."

Chunying blushed, answered "Yes" in a low voice, looked at her mother quietly, and said, "How about... Anyway, I have nothing to do at home. I can still make some money by doing needlework in my free time. A little, but it is enough to provide daily expenses at home..."

Lu Yougui still shook his head: "You have free time, go embroider the dowry! Embroider slowly, embroider a little more, and have more time. No matter how poor our family is, we still have hundreds of taels of silver in our property. You are not asked to be a female celebrity every day. Selling, one or two dollars can be pooled to supplement the family! Your mother should not go out to make clothes and skirts for others, just clean up the house. The former sister Qiu also mentioned that she would buy one or two people to come back to help, I don’t think it’s necessary, now that a girl with a clean background and the strength to work is worth at least five or six taels of silver, why spend that money?!”

A look of disappointment flashed in Lu's mother's eyes, but she knew she was wrong, so she could only say sullenly: "Then do what you want, it's just a way to make money, in my opinion, it's better to buy it again, as Sister Qiu and her husband said. Rent out some houses, or buy some fields for rent, and occasionally find some intermediary work on weekdays, just like Brother Hu used to do, the money earned in a year is enough for us to live easily, and you don’t have to be so tired. After all, the capital If your family doesn’t have any property, it’s not decent enough to say it!”

"Do you think the land is cheap?" Lu Yougui married his wife today, "The price of land is increasing year by year. That little money can’t buy half an hectare of good land. If the times are bad and we can’t collect even a grain of rice, our family will go to the northwest wind?! Besides, Chun’er is about to get married, and the family should stay no matter what. You can’t use all the cash to buy land for the dowry. If you only have [-] or [-] mu, it’s better to keep the money and start a small business!”

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, you can make up your own mind!" Mama Lu was annoyed, she threw her chopsticks out of breath, and got up to see her son.

Chunying swallowed the last grain of rice, and whispered: "Father, mother is upset, why are you angry with her? She's just talking, and in the end it's up to you to decide."

Lu Yougui shook his head slightly: "After only a few days of comfortable life, she has become a little bit big-hearted, and always feels that she can live like a rich family. When our family was poor, how could she be willing to sell a few taels of silver? Isn't it Because I think the family is rich and confident enough? If I don’t say something important to wake her up, she will suffer sooner or later. Leave her alone, it will be fine tomorrow.”

Chun Ying and her parents have been together for less than a month. Although she cares about them, she doesn't know much about the way they get along with each other. She also feels that although her mother occasionally contradicts her father, she will still obey him in the end. Tonight's The quarrel was not too serious, so I stopped trying to persuade him, but said: "It's finally time for the family to reunite, and it's time to live a good life. Mother sometimes can't figure it out, so I just need to be patient and tell her. Family and everything will be prosperous." .”

Lu Yougui nodded indiscriminately, and accepted the lunch. After drinking the remaining half of the jug of wine, he burped and said, "Although I said it to anger your mother, your father and I are not talking nonsense. At first I thought about it." Buying land, but the price of land is really high now, and it is inconvenient to see the land further away. I thought about it, since I have some money, I might as well start a small business. Your second uncle promised to introduce me to the people in the yamen, I’m just like Brother Hu and you. I act as an intermediary for others to earn some errand money. If I encounter a suitable business, I can pay for it myself. Our new house is big, and it’s not a problem to store hundreds of pieces of cloth. I am familiar with the business, and I can earn a lot by just doing business with acquaintances. First earn a few years, and when I have enough capital, I will open my own shop!"

Chunying sounded reliable, and nodded again and again: "Father, this is a good idea! If you bring Bra back home, I can help. I also recognize several customers from other places in the past. If they are still doing it now, I will I can also help you with a few words!"

Lu Yougui smiled: "Good girl, I know you are filial, but father is familiar with this kind of thing, so he doesn't need you. You just need to embroider the dowry! When father earns a fortune, when you marry into Hu's family, you will also be embroidered." It can be beautiful."

Chunying was embarrassed: "We are discussing the family's livelihood! What are you talking about?"

Lu Yougui laughed even more happily. Chunying felt ashamed for a moment, and wanted to snatch the flagon in his hand, so he let his daughter go: "Okay, okay, I won't say anything. Girls are so tender!" After a pause, "In two days, you can go back to the East Mansion to say hello, and you will go back often in the future. Although we are released, after all, we have a family. If we can't go back to say hello often, people will poke the spine. If The masters of the East Mansion are happy, your father and I are doing business outside and have been bullied, and we have a backer, so we have the confidence to speak. Now the master of the East Mansion has become a minister, even more respectable than Lord Hou!"

Chunying felt a little reluctance in her heart, she finally got rid of that kind of life, do she want to go back and make amends?But what my father said also has some truths. Now that you are living a life of ordinary people without a backer, you are indeed easy to be bullied, especially when you have some money.After thinking for a while, he said: "I'll just go back, I don't intend to please the second old lady and the second wife to ask for rewards, I just focus on the benefits they have done to me in the past, and occasionally chat with them to relieve boredom, just do my best."

Lu Yougui smiled and said: "That's the reason. We are not like other families, who still rely on the rewards for food, so you can accompany and talk, and do some needlework and filial piety during the New Year and holidays, so that the second old lady, the second wife, and the young master and miss It’s fine if you are happy. If you hear that the mansion needs to buy clothes or something, come back and tell me, I sent the materials there, and I can make some money myself, so as to save the mansion from suffering. Nowadays, people who buy clothes are not very honest. The material, they dare to report five taels! The second old lady, the second master and the second wife are good hosts, why let them let others take advantage of it?!"

Chunying responded, seeing that the meal was almost done, and there were still a few mouthfuls in the mother's bowl, so she got up and went to call her mother, but she heard a few knocks on the door in a hurry, and she was puzzled: "Who is it?"

The answer outside the door: "Is it Miss Chun? I am your aunt! Open the door!"

Chunying frowned, what are you doing here at night?Could it be that the five taels of silver were also lost?Before she could move her feet, Lu's mother ran out from the east wing and went to open the door. Chunying had no choice but to follow.

As soon as the door opened, my aunt Jin's family rushed in, panting, twisting her husband's ear with one hand, and shouted: "Auntie, your brother is confused today and came to ask you for money, he That's a lie, mother is fine! I woke up a long time ago, and I ate half a bowl of porridge in the morning. It's because of his hand addiction that he came here to talk nonsense!" He stretched out his other hand, holding a Old money bag: "Look, he lost more than three taels of the five taels of silver that my aunt gave him, and the remaining one or two or eight cents are here. Auntie took it back, and I will send the rest another day The monthly money will be paid back to you!"

Lu's mother was confused when she saw her brother screaming in pain, she hurriedly said, "What are you doing?! Brother and sister, let go of Quangui's ears!"

"You should let him suffer! What's the use of having long ears?! And you won't listen to people's persuasion!" After saying that, the Jin family let go of their hands, sat down on the ground, and burst into tears, causing the surrounding residents to probe their brains. Let's see what's going on.

Chunying's eyes were wide open, and she couldn't turn her head around for a moment, wondering what the hell was going on?Could it be that my aunt has changed her gender?

(I'm exhausted...I'm in a hurry to go out, so I will post back at night)
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