"Now that Baoyu has gone to the family school, he can go there with eight taels of silver per year." Yuanchun said hurriedly. Now that she was talking about the garden, she was not unhappy, but felt that what the elder just said was right. Since Baoyu Since I no longer have a teacher, I can save the eight taels of silver. Now she can save one or two.
"Originally, it was reimbursed in real terms. I gave it to the teacher before. This year, my husband had family matters and resigned from the library. The money was already in the account and was not spent. It was just that there was such a sum of money." Ou Mengmeng shook her head, thinking I thought, "So you are learning stewardship, what is important? I have just taught you to read the ledger, now you need to be able to read things other than the ledger."
"So the eldest sister said that there is an inside story about buying and planting flowers in the garden?" Tan Chun hesitated and asked hurriedly.
She and Yuanchun are biological sisters. They are much different in age, but they are both married to each other. These days, the eldest sister is getting angry, and she is getting angry too. The wife has a dowry, and the eldest sister and Baoyu have a dowry subsidy from the wife. She and Huan'er can really only rely on the family's income to get married.
Looking at the old rules, a concubine’s wife only costs 3,000 taels, and a daughter only has 10,000 taels (Chapter 55 of The Red Mansion, Wang Xifeng discusses matters with Ping’er.) It doesn’t look like much, but it doesn’t matter to the eldest sister. When she can get married, who knows what the father-in-law will do? I can't get it out yet. Otherwise, why are you so anxious? The eldest sister will not even save Baoyu's eight taels of silver a year.
"You guys have been in Zhuangzi for so long, do you have any ideas?" Ou Mengmeng nodded and looked at Sanchun, but she was too lazy to ask questions one by one, mainly because it was a waste of time. "In winter, is Zhuangzi bare?" , there are some green plants growing beside the hot spring, otherwise, the white snow and black mountains would make people feel depressed. How did the girls do it? Get some green onions and garlic, plant them in flower pots, and put them in the house. Here, you can finally see something green. Right!"
"So every year the palace buys flowers, plants and trees just for the winter?" Yuan Chun was startled. Every year in winter in the palace, flowers and trees are also offered in each palace. For example, the Xue family used to pay tribute to Juanhua. It was used to decorate the palace in winter. She didn't want to be connected together at once.
"That is, do you always need to put a few pots of flowers, plants and fruit trees in each room to add a bit of joy? In order to smell good, fragrant fruits from the south are provided in the house all year round. There are some things here that the women can take care of themselves on weekdays. Some of the things that can’t come out cannot be made out. So, those who can’t be made out have to spend money to buy them. People like us can’t just save all the fruits, right? We don’t want to make people laugh.”
"So my granddaughter-in-law is still not careful enough. Is she aware of this expenditure but not aware of the reason?" Wang Xifeng quickly admitted her mistake. Anyway, she felt that now she no longer knew how to manage the house. I was scolded every day until I doubted my life, but it was okay, and then I took Ping'er with me every day to learn how to read. Now she should come out and admit her mistake first.
Of course, she finally understood something. In fact, when she was scolded before, she also looked at the account book and wanted to explain it, but she really couldn't explain it to her eldest aunt. She didn't have the right before. The next person, the wife said it one by one, and adding another one was just following the old rules. She was the maid who provided the keys, so what right did she have to say no. So when she saw that this expenditure appeared in her accounts every year, she paid it. Who knows the twists and turns inside. But she didn't dare to say that if she even remembered the unit price of the fruit, she really wouldn't do anything else every day.
"This is what I have always said, housekeeping is not easy. You just talk about the ancestral family methods. That is bullshit. The mud on your ancestors' legs has not been washed away. How can there be any ancestral family methods. Doing all these things, you really think you are How many generations of aristocrats have you been? People say that you have to be an official for three generations before you know how to dress and eat. Four generations and five generations, what are you reading? Article! Your master is the third generation. Look, you haven’t learned how to eat, drink, and have fun. By the time you get to Lian'er and Baoyu Generations, they really don’t understand anything. I only hope that Langeer, the fifth generation, can win with his articles." Ou Mengmeng couldn't help but despise them again.
"Talk about the housekeeper, talk about the housekeeper." Jia Zheng hurriedly grabbed his mother. Every day, he cursed at every opportunity and cursed at every opportunity. It was really impossible to live this life.
"When it comes to housekeeping, one person has his own way. Some people catch the big ones and let go the small ones. They think that big things can be reduced to trivial matters. The most important thing is not to regard this house as one's own! Just talk about flowers, plants and trees. In fact, it can be used We will solve it using housekeeping methods." Ou Mengmeng gave Jia Zheng a roll of her eyes, "First of all, we need to know which tribute fruits we use on weekdays, and in winter and during festivals, we generally use peach blossoms, kumquats, narcissus, such as tribute fruits. How to preserve fruits? Is it difficult to grow other flowers such as peach blossoms, kumquats, and narcissus? We have a hot spring village. Is it difficult to build a greenhouse? In winter, you can grow vegetables as well as flowers. Do you think so? Right? Maybe we can be self-sufficient in the first year, and in the second year, we can sell it to make money. So what is stewardship? Put the right people at the right time, invest the right time and cost, To seek the greatest benefit.”
"So what you want is to spend as little money as possible first, and then slowly come up with ways to make money?" Yuan Chun thought for a moment and looked at Ou Mengmeng.
"Let's put it this way, you have seen that the small village on vacation in the countryside produces a hundred eggs every day. They sell it to the market for three to five bucks each. How many eggs do we need every day in our house? Let's make some eggs at the same time. We go to the market to buy eggs, but at the same time, our Zhuangzi’s eggs cannot be sold at a high price. Tell me, how do you calculate this account? How is the family managed? "
"It has always been a rule in the house that only money is needed. Zhuangtou sends some rare animals every year. For the rest, they break off the silver and send it to the house, so that the accounts can be reconciled..." Wang Xifeng hurriedly explained, but at this point, there was no point. I feel like there is something wrong. Yes, the old lady just said that there are no rules. The rules are set by people. Our ancestors can set them like this, and now I can set them like this.
"Isn't it still troublesome? Farmers raise chickens to get eggs, and then sell them to get some oil and salt. We ask them to deliver the eggs to the house, do we give them money? There seems to be a little trouble in the middle. Will the tofu be plated? Meat price? It's not right to be self-sufficient in everything, right?" Yuan Chun patted her head, feeling that she was about to be confused by the old lady. Obviously she is very clear about housekeeping. As a result, now she feels like she is in a mess.
"So, you have to calculate. You have to coordinate and arrange. Otherwise, what will you, the family leaders, do?" Ou Mengmeng shook her head. She almost wants to start a math class. Anyone with a primary school diploma cannot be stumped by this little arithmetic! Alas! Shaking his head, "Let's talk about school first! I'm really not sure about anything else, but I have a lot of experience in opening a school. But opening a school and making money is actually a very long process. Fortunately, investing It’s not big, after all, there are only ten children now. As long as all ten children are selected as scholars, then people will have to come to us with money to beg us to accept students. There is no business in the world that is more profitable than education. "
Watching various food TV dramas in Japan, such as lonely gourmets, and Izakaya Shinkansen, drinking late at night, and avoiding female delicacies, it seems that Japanese people are getting more and more lonely. Even the TV dramas are filmed one after another, even if they are all alone. Have a good time eating drama. Work is work, life is life, it’s fine to live alone, don’t bother me. This is the rhythm of national social terror!
