Every once in a while, Xu Miaojin has to come to Xu Cuiliu to talk about Zen and chanting, today Xiao Yushi has free time, and they come to the highest frost and snow in the garden together, and faintly hear the sound of Cuiliu upstairs, as if training people there.

Walking down the stairs to the upper floor, I saw Xu Cuiliu sitting with a strong expression, her biological mother Aunt Liang was sitting by the window with her head down, her face was flushed, and when she saw Xu Miaojin coming in, she got up to leave.

Xu Cuiliu said with a straight face: "Don't go, I still have something to say." After speaking, he beckoned the two of them into the inner room and sat down, and instructed the maid to serve tea.

Xu Cuiliu spoke again: "It's not me who is a daughter to blame you, but it's too unreasonable." Other people's mothers take care of their daughters and want them to be good, but you only treat your daughter as a cash cow, gambling all day long, and coming to ask for money when you owe debts. If it weren't for the fact that the third brother and third sister-in-law had a lot of money outside for me, there would be a tap of 100 taels every month, and the monthly money alone would not be enough for daily expenses. I ask you, where did the contents of the box go? ”

Xu Miaojin noticed that Aunt Liang was holding a stack of pawn tickets in her hand, but she just lowered her head and didn't speak. Xiao Yushi came out and asked, "Why do you complain about your aunt?" ”

Xu Cuiliu sneered: "You go and ask her!" ”

Aunt Liang wiped her tears and said: "Last year, I kept all my clothes in the shop, and I wanted to ask her to take a few taels of silver and redeem some of them. It's not that you don't know, now the wife of the long house is strapped for money, and there is no reward, Ding is Ding Mao is Mao, and the monthly money of five taels of silver per month, where is there enough to spend? If you don't come to beg the girl, who else can you beg? ”

Xu Cuiliu said angrily: "Thirty or forty taels of silver a month is not enough?" Again, that's the same sentence. I'm not a cash cow. ”

Xiao Yushi said: "Don't be angry yet, how much silver do you need?" Aunt Liang said, "Only fifty taels." ”

"What is this?" Xiao Yushi shook her head speechlessly, "I'll get it for you right away, why don't you worry about this bit of silver, mother and daughter?" ”

Suddenly, Xu Cuiliu shouted: "No, you have a lot of silver, then lend me a lot of money, you paid off the gambling debt for her last month, and the five hundred taels of silver of the old Li family outside have not been repaid." ”

Xiao Yushi was stunned and said, "Auntie, are you crazy?" If you play money, you owe someone 1,500 taels? ”

Aunt Liang was anxious and cried: "People are willing to borrow me, but you are not allowed." I confessed to you in vain. ”

Xu Cuiliu was furious. sneered: "I don't allow it? Who pays these gambling debts? Last time, you and Steward Wang borrowed a hundred taels, Xu Song, you also borrowed twenty taels, Xu Hai was afraid of you, and he saw you from afar. Frightened, he turned around and ran. I borrowed him no less than two or three hundred taels of silver before and after, right? Why don't you go to the third brother to borrow it. Ren is 120,000 taels. ”

Who doesn't know Xu Hao's temper? It's okay to be happy, but if you're not happy, you can't please whether you are an elder or not, Aunt Liang ate the gall of the ambitious leopard. Dare to provoke him?

Seeing her aunt crying with her head down, Xu Miaojin couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Forget it, she is your mother after all." ”

"Is it a mother?" Xu Cuiliu laughed miserably: "According to me, it is not as good as a stranger, a stranger still has some care, she only calculates you, in the early years, I was not treated by the ancestor's wife, she was a mourning star, she turned a blind eye and didn't say anything, and she didn't give a penny." Well, I don't care! Later, the third brother took pity on me and moved over, so I lived a decent life, she came to coax me unusually, and when I saw good things, I would take them, and I would ask for a little silver, and I would steal them if I didn't give them. ”

Aunt Liang cried loudly regardless of it, Xu Cuiliu was speechless and choked, the room was in a mess, Xiao Yushi gave the maid a look, pulled the person out, and secretly handed the aunt sixty taels of silver.

Xiu'er said in a low voice: "There are seven pairs of gold bracelets in the girl's jewelry box, that day I went out to see the three grandmothers, mother and son, my mother came, and when the girl came back, she went, I checked the jewelry at night, and saw that there were three pairs of gold bracelets missing, four rings, and immediately went to find my mother over there to question, she said how to borrow me for use?" You girls were born to me, and it is only natural for me to spend my daughter's money. ”

Xu Miaojin sighed: "Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, but it seems that your aunt spends money lavishly, and it is the first time she has met Lu Lu, and it is also Cuiliu who is the strongest, and she would rather hold it in her heart for so long than mention it to us, wronged her." ”

Xiu'er smiled bitterly: "Actually, half of the reason why the girl didn't marry was because of her aunt, and she went out of the Xu family, what should my aunt do?" Now that she has money, the girl can make her own decisions, and when she marries, it will be the property of her husband's family, and it is impossible to help her aunt in private, who can tolerate it after a long time? ”

Xiao Yushi shook her head and said: "An Aunt Jia and an Aunt Liang are really a pair of living ancestors of our family, and most of the other aunts live their own lives, but they have to make trouble if they don't have anything to do." ”

Xu Miaojin has never had much savings on hand, one hundred and eighty taels is easy, and no matter how much it is, it can't be helped, and Xiao Yushi has nothing to worry about, she has really accumulated a lot of silver over the years, since Cuiliu still owes five hundred taels of foreign debts, she immediately ordered her subordinates to pay it back and accept the note.

Xu Cuiliu didn't look at the note, recovered her mood, and said: "I won't say thank you anymore, I don't resent her for money and things outside the body, I just want to have nothing to worry about the day I die." ”

In the evening, Xu Cuiliu came to the inner study alone and whispered directly to Xu Hao, who was buried in the bookcase: "Brother, you give me some silver." ”

"Want to buy something good?" Xu Hao raised his head, got up and hugged his sister's shoulder with a smile, "I happened to send three thousand taels of private money yesterday, you take it, and I will give you another three thousand taels in two days, it's not enough to speak." ”

Xu Cuiliu's eyes were immediately moved, and her tears were like pearls with broken threads, and she fell into Xu Hao's arms.

Xu Hao didn't ask why he was short of money, he felt as if he had been wronged by his sister, his anger gradually rose, and he was about to speak, when he saw Musk Yue rushing in and said, "Miss Luzhu sent someone to report it, and she was killed." ”

Speaking of which, the painting is the Xu family that entered with Qingwen Musk Yue, first followed Xu Hongye and then pointed to Luzhu, who is honest and doesn't like to talk, is careful and careful, never grudges with people, everyone respects her very much, but I didn't expect to marry Mu Yi for only a year, that is, I got a sudden illness and died.

Xu Cuiliu was shocked, and told Xu Hao about his mother in 1510, Xu Hao sighed helplessly when he heard it, after all, it was Cuiliu's biological mother, and he was inconvenient to care.

Xu Hao thought for a while and said: "In a few days, my sister-in-law will come back to celebrate my grandmother's birthday, and you have to be ruthless, even if you have gold and silver in the long run, you can't help your aunt to toss like this, and you have to let your sister-in-law teach her a lesson." ”

Xu Cuiliu breathed a sigh of relief, she was afraid of angering her brother, so she didn't dare to tell, her methods were sometimes too ruthless, and it was best to give it to her sister-in-law who was careful and delicate, and it was just a little money to spend in the past, but recently there were more and more gambling debts, and she was really overwhelmed.

The next day, led by Yuelan Zhulan, all the big girls in the family, a total of thirteen people, and later added more than a dozen sisters such as Xiangyu, tied some white cloth and tied a white cloth belt, and kowtowed together at the flower shrine in the garden, Mu Ningxue and others also rushed to hang incense.

When the coffin was sent back to the capital for burial, they went to the grave to burn paper and sacrifice, and scraped together some money to call the people who came to see the grave, saying that a few pine and cypress holly were not well planted and had to be replanted, and the stone worship platform had to be changed to be more lenient, and all these things did not need to be described in detail.

On this day, I burned four or seven, and returned to Xu's house in a sedan chair, because the old lady's life was near, Zhu Qiaoqiao, who came back by boat, invited the concubines to discuss, and soon decided on deacons and assigned everything.

Mu Ningxue's birthday and the old lady are only one day apart, and they have been together for the past few years.

Not to mention the excitement of the birthday day, Emperor Hongxi gave twelve pure gold arhats, but the old lady did not dare to accept them, so he sent them back to the palace after a day; The queen mother sent eunuchs to send eight golden silk shou screens, and the queen gave a golden magu, not to mention the rest of the gifts.

On the 22nd, on the 23rd, the guests of the Xu family listened to the opera and watched the music for two whole days. There are dozens of high barriers of flowers and trees at the gate of the east and west gardens, and there are five-color chrysanthemums, hibiscus peonies and other flowers in the middle, and the whole yard is surrounded by a large area of flower barriers.

Xu Hao designed a birthday flower stand, and gave his wife a pair of butterflies with round light inlaid with emerald pearls, several golden hairpins inlaid with diamonds, jade pearls pressed across the bridge, pearl surrounding, and jade diamond earrings.

Mu Ningxue wore these jewelry, wearing a stone blue velvet all-gold dragon and phoenix group flower jacket, seven-color Sanskrit moon belt, crimson Su silk sprinkled silver Xiaobaishou loose tube pants, also seven-color moon flower edge, the skirt of more than three inches wide bead network, covered with an all-gold flower West Lake ten scenes tribute satin pleated red skirt.

"How can you see people?" Mu Ningxue, who likes plain colors, can't help but be cautious about her husband.

Xu Hao said with a smile: "This is the same as getting married, although the red and green are vulgar, they are also essential, and the big deal is that patience will pass." ”

Mu Ningxue couldn't do it, so she had to wear embroidered phoenix satin bow shoes, and the toe of the shoes was a three-point Dongzhu Ambilight. After dressing up, come out to the orchid platform in front of the flower shrine to receive the birthday congratulations of the whole family.

This grand scene only saw Xiang Ying and Yin Huan were drunk, especially Mu Ningxue, who was dressed up, and said that this is the appearance of the alluring city and the country depicted in the book.

The whole clan of the Xu family rushed back from all over the place, Xu Miaojin's calligraphy, Xu Qinglian's poems, Xu Cuiyun's silk strings, Xu Cuiliu's paintings, Xu Hongye's sword, Xu Luzhu's guqin, Xu Luge's pipa, in addition, the Xu family maids all have proud talents.

In the future, whenever the second daughter recalled the extremely prosperous scene she experienced when she was young, she was all amazed, but many people noticed that Xu Hao was not among them at that time.

As the so-called facts often flourish and decline, Xu Hao silently took precautions for the sake of the family, stayed alone in the study to make plans, and moving to Shanghai or Hangzhou was the first step away from the right and wrong of the capital. (To be continued......)