However, in order to maintain the dignity of these noble families, the servants did not dare to use too little, lest they be said to be petty.
Then, the clothes of the upper and lower servants, including the servants, should not be too bad. When people come, the banquet should not be bad. Moreover, no matter what, there must be several banquets a year to be worthy of the honor of the nobles, and a banquet like this , the money spent is more.
Even if you don't have money, you still have to eat and drink, and in order not to make people laugh, the food and drink should not be too cheap. Therefore, a noble family needs a lot of money just for food and drink every year, which is not what the small salary can afford.
In fact, most of the money of the poor noble family is wasted on eating and drinking. If they don't often move around each other, they will eat at this person's house today and that person's house tomorrow, and then when they come back, they will have to pay it back to their own house. You can save a lot of money by not eating at other people's houses all the time, and not hosting banquets all the time.
This is why a noble family will become poorer and poorer if their children have no future, because there are too many places to spend money.
Linlang was not worried that marrying into such a family would make her poorer.
Because, when the older generation is still alive and everyone lives together, the Ye family will take advantage of each other's background and show some respect to each other.
After the older generation dies and the family is separated, the main branch may become poorer and poorer, but her fiancé is the second son and will have no title to inherit in the future. After the family is separated, they will be an ordinary Yinguan family and do not need to maintain any honors. Those with noble dignity will not hold banquets from time to time in order to maintain their dignity like the main branch. The poorer they get, the more they get poorer, they will live very well relying on the income from the family division and her dowry.
If her life was not good, Linlang would not be willing to get married. After all, she did not come to these times and spaces to live a hard life.
After Ye's father agreed to a second wife, he went to Linlang's fiancé's house, which was Uncle Zhongyong's house, to inquire about the matter.
The ancestors of Zhongyong's Mansion started with military exploits, and they were not hereditary. Like Anding's Mansion, they could only be inherited for five generations.
The only good thing is that some nobles were inherited by the fifth generation without being demoted.
The current head of the family, Uncle Zhongyong, Linlang's future father-in-law, is already the fourth generation. In other words, his fiancé's brother will be the last earl. After that, his husband's nephew will have no title, just like the future children of Linlang's family. .
Because considering that in the future, if the grandson has little potential and cannot make any progress in the imperial examination, without a title, he will at most have a minor official with a shadowy title. By then, the glory of Zhongyongbo Mansion may be completely gone, so Zhongyongbo Mansion will Like other noble families who have no money, they choose to marry into a merchant family because they want to rely on this marriage to save some family business so that the descendants of the main branch will not fall too hard in the future.
In fact, the action taken by Zhongyongbo Mansion was too late. Many families married merchant families when they ran out of money. Zhongyongbo Mansion had fewer people and had to consume less in order to survive to the fourth generation. Only then did he marry into a merchant family.
Because there had been no war in the court in recent years, the status of generals in the court had declined. In addition, after Earl Zhongyong obtained the title, the people in the palace wanted to change to a civil servant with a better status, so starting from the second generation Earl, he began to study. Preparing for the imperial examination, it is a pity that no one in the family has passed the imperial examination for several generations. The best result is just passing the imperial examination.
This led to such an embarrassing situation: I wanted to take the path of civil servants, but failed; then I lost the path of military commanders, not only on both sides, but I didn't pick up the watermelon and even lost the sesame seeds.
In other words, Earl Zhongyong's Mansion not only has no money, but also no power. This is why they will marry merchants, because if they are still powerful, they can attract money and there is no need to marry merchants.
Since they had no money and no power, when Ye's father came over and asked them about this matter, the loyal uncle of this generation, the future father-in-law of the Ye family, was embarrassed and said: "Exile is not something I can handle. .As you know, I actually have a cousin who married into their family. Something happened this time. Their family found me and asked me to help. I actually tried, but couldn’t help. The Holy Spirit personally intervened. Where has the case been moved? So I can only say sorry for what you asked about."
Speaking of which, in fact, according to common sense, exile will affect the people related to it. For example, cousin Ye's exile will actually affect her natal family. It will not only affect the second bedroom, but also the eldest bedroom. After all, they are still a family now. No separation.
The reason why Earl Zhongyong's Palace is affected by marriage with them is because there are too many masters in the Wang family, and there are too many marriages with merchants and official families in the capital. If it is said that it is affected, then almost all families in the capital can be affected - This is also the reason why Wang Xi married almost all the families in the first place, just to create a large network of relationships - even in Count Zhongyong's house, there were also people who married into the Wang family, the cousin mentioned by Count Zhongyong. In this way, everyone Being affected is equivalent to not being affected, so what happened to cousin Ye did not affect Linlang's marriage.
Otherwise, under normal circumstances, there would be no such good thing.
Father Ye was not surprised after hearing what Uncle Zhongyong said, because before he came, he had expected that the second room would ask him to find help from Earl Zhongyong's Mansion. I'm afraid Earl Zhongyong's Mansion might not be able to help as the second room thought. After all, he must be able to help. Just like what Uncle Zhongyong said, he had not fished out his cousin earlier. He couldn't even fish out his cousin, so how could he fish out cousin Ye.
So when Father Ye heard Uncle Zhongyong's apologetic words, he shook his head and said: "What are you talking about? In fact, I also know that this thing may not be possible. It's just that my brothers at home are worried about their children, so they insist on me coming over to ask. I have no choice but to Come and ask."
After explaining the situation clearly, Father Ye went back and told his second wife what Uncle Zhongyong had said.
Then he said: "...If they can't do it, you should find someone else to help."
Naturally, the second wife couldn't accept it. Second Aunt Ye was literally in tears these days because she was worried about her daughter's life and death. Now she heard Father Ye say that Uncle Zhongyong couldn't save people. Because she was worried, she couldn't help but speak with resentment, saying: " He is an earl. With such a high status, why can't he save people? Isn't it because he doesn't want to try his best? "
In fact, what she wanted to say more was whether Father Ye didn't try his best.
After hearing Aunt Ye's complaint, Father Ye couldn't help but said unhappily: "How can you doubt others like this? If he could really save him, he wouldn't be able to save his own cousin. You know, his cousin also married into the Wang family. of."
After all, who can be blamed for this, or the second wife himself? After all, Ye's father had warned the second brother-in-law to let his cousin reconcile, but he was scolded by the second brother-in-law. He felt that he was jealous of their second brother-in-law, didn't want to see their second brother-in-law live a good life, and wanted to harm their second brother-in-law.
