"Madam, the servants know that Madam doesn't want to get involved in business and official circles. It's too dark and people's hearts are dirty. Those officials are too shameless!"
"In order to get promoted and make a fortune, they eat, drink, and entertain with ease, and some even send their own wives, sisters-in-law, aunts-in-law, sisters, etc. to the Shangguan's bed!"
"As long as you can get promoted and make a fortune, who wants to lose face? Master Zhu Bao buys a few actors and takes this dirty path as a last resort!"
"If you want to be independent these days, you must have the ability to be independent! Madam and Third Master have brought a lot of business to the Fucha family, and it is true that each family can receive hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year..."
"This is the intention of Madam and Third Master. No one in the family has any complaints, and this money is really a lot. If it had been left in the Xianfeng period, it would have been like a flower!"
"But madam, you haven't made a living among the people for a long time. You really don't know what the prices are like in today's world! One hundred thousand taels was really a lot of money more than ten years ago, but it is really a lot of money now. It’s a small amount of money!”
"Master Zhu Bao is seeing that the cost of running the officialdom is rising. He wants to talk to his wife and third master but he doesn't have the courage, so he has to live carefully with more than 100,000 taels of silver a year!"
"It's not enough, it's really not enough... He embezzled the river worker's money. In fact, it was really a helpless move. Madam, you have to put yourself in his shoes and think about it. The officialdom that Zhu Bao and they live in now is completely different from the past! "
"The extravagance has increased tenfold, but their income has only doubled... With such a huge difference, if he doesn't find money, can he drink the northwest wind at home?"
Fu Hui was not a pretty girl growing up. She had no habit of eating minced meat. When she was a child, she was a big-footed girl who ran around, making her neighbors laugh a lot!
Although the family can be fed and clothed, it is impossible to be richer. There are so many favoritism elements in the Eight Banners, and brothers have to spend money to run official positions, so Fuhui really had a headache for money for a long time when he was young!
She borrowed money from relatives, begged princes for mercy, even went to pawn shops to pawn antique calligraphy and paintings, went to several acres of vegetable fields on the outskirts of Beijing to file lawsuits with tenants... She did this kind of thing all the time!
She understands the suffering of the people better than anyone else, but it was only after she got married to Xiao Letian that she relied on a man's skills to be a wealthy wife for several years!
She has indeed separated from the people in the past few years, and the calculations in her mind are still stuck in more than ten years ago. The property she is looking for for her family must be sufficient. She really didn't expect that the world today has changed a long time ago!
Fuhui is a smart person who can tell the truth at once. When she thinks carefully about the current economic situation, this is really the truth, and the anger in her heart gradually disappears!
When Ping'er and Qingwen saw that their wife had stopped talking, they knew that the matter had finally come to an end!
You have to strike while the iron is hot. Qingwen whispered, "Madam! No matter what happens... your mother's family is also your support! Look at the second lady, the Fan family's business has spread all over the world. The second lady is in Fusang with the princess. What’s the difference!”
"The shopkeeper Fan Jin who told me about these economics is just an ordinary nephew of the Fan family, but now the business he talks about starts at several million taels!"
"How can someone like Lord Zhu Bao save hundreds of thousands of taels of silver?"
"Madam, you can't do this anymore. You have to act coquettishly when you meet the master this time. You have to take the initiative! Only when your family is well can you be well!"
"To put it bluntly...sooner or later you and the second lady will have to fight over the heir. Don't you think about your own future? Don't you think about the future of the future eldest young master?"
"We have to make arrangements in advance. We have been to so many Buddhist and Taoist temples. So many people have approved the horoscopes for my wife and have seen the orientation... You are Yinan's destiny, it's just sooner or later!"
"Is it okay if you don't make preparations for the eldest young master at this time? No matter how bad this Zhu Bao is, he is still the future eldest young master's cousin and has blood!"
"When it comes to war, aren't the people who work hard as guns a member of the family? Now, Madam, you have to think carefully about it!"
Fu Hui's face became paler and paler. She rubbed her temples and closed her eyes, "You guys go down, I'm tired, stop talking nonsense!"
Ping'er and Qingwen covered Madam with a quilt and carefully exited. As soon as they arrived at the door and before leaving the room, they heard Fu Hui say coldly, "If I hear someone chewing on this tongue outside, it's you aunties." Don't blame me for turning against you and being heartless when the time comes!"
Ping'er and Qingwen quickly knelt down and bowed their heads, "I don't dare, I just said this once in front of my wife. I don't dare to say it again!"
The two of them left the room, breathed a sigh of relief, and walked through the back garden under the moonlight to their bedroom where they rested. At this moment, Zhu Bao had already exited the second door, and was waiting anxiously outside the second door with his wife and concubine.
As soon as they saw Ping'er and Qingwen coming out, the whole family hurriedly stepped forward and bowed flatteringly, and the enthusiastic words of flattery poured out one after another.
Qingwen sneered and said, "It goes without saying that these are vain. If it weren't for the fact that you are helping Sister Ping'er find a bride, would we care about you?"
"Don't fool people with those worthless souvenirs, and don't expect me to be worthy of your favor... Is there anything the master has given us? What do you want that we haven't seen before at all times and in all countries?"
"Haha... you also embezzled money from the river workers. Look at how little you have achieved. There are so many businessmen in the Chinese family. Isn't that one worth a million?"
"Those who are doing business in the Second Madam's family are all as rich as the rest of the world! It's so embarrassing to be like you! You can earn more than 100,000 yuan a year without knowing how to make money, and in the end you have to steal money from the people!"
"Let my eye look down on you, hum!"
Qingwen's words made Zhu Bao ashamed. His face turned purple and he didn't dare to refute. Qingwen cursed a few times but found it boring, so she turned around and went back to her room to rest.
Ping'er's character is somewhat gentle. She reached out to help Zhu Bao's wife and eldest daughter, "Don't be angry, Qingwen has that temperament, and she doesn't speak harshly!"
"I wish you, Mr. Bao, to communicate more with your wife and Third Master. There will be more opportunities to make money. Why bother looking for corruption from the common people?"
"Today's matter, the two of us tried our best... and it has eased a bit!"
"Ouch! I'm kowtowing to my aunt... You really saved the lives of my family!" Upon hearing the relief, Zhu Bao's knees softened and he knelt down.
"Oh... why don't you kowtow to me? Hurry up! I just said it was possible, but I didn't say it would definitely happen..."
"It still depends on what Madam will say when she wakes up tomorrow. If you don't have a good rest tonight and you get angry when you wake up tomorrow, be careful then!"
"Oh, by the way... the famous doctor in Jinan you found for my wife before dinner is very agreeable to his medical theory... I just drank a little of the decoction he prescribed. Before leaving tomorrow, let the doctor take your pulse again!"
When Zhu Bao heard this, he quickly smiled and said, "Oh... if Aunt thinks it's good, let the doctor follow you all the way! I'll tell him that I can get this done no matter how much money I spend!"
