"How can the little one be joking," said the old butler in distress, and Bai Huahua's eyebrows were tangled. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"You're not kidding," Xue Pan clasped his hands around his chest and made a defensive gesture, "Although I'm ignorant, I've heard that sentence, ouch, why can't I remember it for a while?" What is that? ”

"Amulet?"

Xue Pan suddenly realized, and said in surprise, "Yes, yes, it's the talisman, the harvest year is good and snowy, and the pearl is like earth, gold and iron." Isn't that our Xue family? Xue Pan Xue Wenlong said happily, "Our family has money, well, it's not bad money, this pearl is like dirt, how can there be no money?" Don't be funny, old butler, I'm young, but I can't make a joke. ”

The housekeeper hurriedly stomped his feet and cursed and swore again, "If the uncle doesn't believe in the little one, just let the five thunders annihilate me!" ”

Xue Pan's face froze for a moment, and he smiled awkwardly, modern people have no taboos, but ancient people, swearing at a curse is such a thing, but they believe it very much and will never take it as a joke, his face stiffened a little.

"But isn't our family rich?" Xue Pan swallowed his saliva with difficulty, "Well, let's do business for generations, right?" ”

"Yes, our Xue family has been in business for more than ten generations." The old housekeeper raised his head proudly, "In Jinling City, no one in the family has been doing business for as long as ours." ”

"Yes, I'm not mistaken," Xue Pan was talking to the old housekeeper, "Then what's more, by the way, we are imperial merchants, I heard it just now, our Xue family is an imperial businessman!" ”

Well, the imperial businessman, what does this mean, according to Xue Pan's thoughts, it should be a person who specializes in doing business and making money for the imperial court and the royal family, probably a bit like a hereditary state-owned enterprise with self-financing profits and losses, right? Of course, the emperor takes the big head, the Xue family takes the small head, and earns a little living expenses, you must know that no matter when, as long as it is a business with the government, it will never be lost.

Imperial merchants are not glamorous on the surface and bitter on the inside, right?

"Yes, we are imperial merchants, but ......"

"Say it quickly, I'm really in a hurry," Xue Pan stomped his foot and said, "What the hell is going on?" ”

"Our family has too much business," the old housekeeper sighed, "Uncle, don't you know, there is too much business, a lot of money has been released, and it has not been recovered, and the rest of the shops and shops should be managed by the public middle school. ”

"This is the situation in Gongzhong."

"This is understandable, that is to say, the industry is too big, and there are some problems with the capital chain, right? It's okay, it's okay," Xue Pan reluctantly smiled, "Just get through it slowly." ”

"It's a difficult thing to break up the family outside," the old housekeeper was worried, he was really heartbroken for the Xue family, "I don't know what to do next." ”

"Then what else is difficult to do besides those unsuccessful starters outside?" Xue Pan hurriedly asked, Damn, this matter, but you must figure it out.

"It's the master's funeral," the old butler couldn't help crying, he kept wiping his tears with his sleeve, "The master's funeral, I don't know how to end it now!" ”

Xue Pan listened to the crying sound is really a head or two, he is the most impatient to cry, but the old housekeeper is now worried to cry, he should be very loyal to the Xue family, so to speak, he can't scold him, so he stabilized his mind and comforted him, the old housekeeper cried for a while, which was a little better, he said respectfully to Xue Pan with red eyes, "In our family, the most trivial and troublesome thing is to worship the ancestors, but the most money-consuming thing is the red and white happy event." He took out a booklet from his sleeve and handed it to Xue Pan, "The plain cloth curtain is three hundred taels, the sacrificial utensils are one thousand taels, the treasure building sandalwood paper silver candle lamp is six hundred taels, all kinds of wood and other materials are one thousand taels, the monk and the nun water and land puja are three hundred taels each, all families come to mourn, here, the lord's longevity utensils, this is another except, the longevity utensils our family originally had, but unfortunately this is not always ready, the lord's business, too sudden, the longevity board everywhere is not suitable, and another one will be transported from Guangzhou, It's just a hundred taels of freight, but this," the old housekeeper looked at the price of the coffin board carefully, "The longevity board is one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three twenty-six cents and three cents, which has already been spent." ”

Xue Pan only heard it in shock, Mom, rich and noble people, such expenses are really too scary, even if it is a rich family, such expenses are not affordable by ordinary people, you must know that in any dynasty, although the proportion of silver and copper coins in the currency is different, but the approximate level is still known, not to mention the dream of Red Mansions, Grandma Liu sighed, "A few taels of silver can make the croppers live comfortably for a whole year." ”

No matter what dynasty, silver is a very expensive precious metal, a coffin board actually costs two thousand taels of silver, this is really incomprehensible to Xue Pan, and these things that don't want to do cost money, the old housekeeper wants to give Xue Pan the account book, Xue Pan shook his hand, "That's it, I won't understand this thing for a while, just tell me, how much spare money do we have in our account?" ”

The old housekeeper looked left and right again, and mysteriously said a number in Xue Pan's ear, Xue Pan's eyes widened, he thought that the old housekeeper had already told a joke today, but he didn't expect that this was another joke that Xue Pan couldn't help but want to laugh when he heard it, so he quickly put it in front of him.

Xue Panmu stood up, "I'm a little sleepy, I want to take a rest, butler, you take care of the front, don't let those villains pounce in again, I'll ask my wife what she means." ”

"But sir," said the butler, tucking the ledger back into his sleeve, "you have to kneel before the spirit to thank all the families for worshiping, and you are inseparable from this." ”

The housekeeper's eyes signaled Xue Pan to kneel on the futon immediately and play the role of a filial son and grandson, Xue Pan only remembered at this time that he was not an indispensable rich second generation, but a poor worm who had lost his father and was facing the palace forced by relatives.

Xue Pan was stunned, turned his head to look at the pitch-black coffin placed in the mourning hall, he had never met before, and he actually encountered such a strange scene in such a strange world and at a strange time.

Xue Wenlong prides himself on not being a big person, he usually goes to work, gets off work, occasionally gathers with friends on weekends, chats and drinks, eats some skewers at night, is in his thirties, his belly is slowly getting bigger, he occasionally eats vegetarian, and more often he is still a big fish and meat, he is currently single, and the beauty can't look down on himself, a good girl who lives a good life, but he still can't look down on it, this state is not too good, because Xue Wenlong will not spend a lot of effort to make himself a hard worker.

But now, he actually has to face such a difficult thing by himself, Xue Pan shook his head, "I'll go first and ask what my wife means, and then we don't have any money," his lips twitched, "Everything can't be too wasteful and extravagant!" ”