The contemptuous eyes of several maids, to be honest, stinged Xu Hao a little, and also made him realize that blindly low-key life does not seem to be advisable, in the end, he is a young man, even if he is a human in two lives, he is still a young man.

When he came out of the main room with Qiu Xiang in his heart, he saw that the women guarding the hall were talking to each other, and without waiting for Xu Hao's words, Qiu Xiang asked one of the women about forty years old: "Mother, what are you talking about?" ”

The woman is Qiu Xiang's mother, named Hua'er in her early years, and she is one of the personal maids of the Xiao family, and she was given to Li Laosi, the descendant of the Xu family, who grew up with Xu Hao's father Xu Qingtang, and the four brothers are all four, Li Laosi's father, Li Laosi, is now regarded as the housekeeper of the second room, and is known as Li Lao's housekeeper to the outside world.

At that time, there were a total of two family members who were married, and Noble's mother was also one of Xiao's personal maids, who died of illness the year before last, and she was promised to Hua'er's brother Wang Xi.

After Hua'er got married, he was called Li Sijia with the surname of her husband's family, and when she heard the words, she said: "Oh, it's amazing, the gate is crowded with middle-sized families who come to take refuge, and everyone says that the three rooms are developed now." ”

Other women followed over and chattered, some said that the old Xie family in the village was crying and shouting for refuge with a hundred taels of silver and the deed of the house, and some said that the Qian Shanren from the next village knelt at the door, just to be a housekeeper, and many families came with their families just to be a subordinate.

No wonder the ancients were all inferior, only high in reading, Xu Hao was thoroughly taught, it seems that if you want to be a rich man, the first premise is to have a talent status, so that you can be exempt from harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and be exempted from hard labor.

But the problem is that he really can't read the Four Books and Five Classics of the cheat, and the difficulty of the road to the imperial examination is much more difficult than the college entrance examination in later generations, Xu Hao sighed, bowed his head sullenly and walked into his room.

Picked up a book from the bookshelf casually, barely read it for a while, Xu Qinglian and Xu Hongye came over with their respective maids to visit, Qiu Xiang hurriedly stepped forward, poured tea and served water, and was very busy.

"Don't be busy, you're not an outsider." Xu Qinglian said to Qiu Xiang, who was busy, and Qiu Xiang smiled shyly.

Xu Hao put down the book and said, "Why are you here?" Who's accompanying my mother? ”

Xu Hongye pouted and said: "Sanniang led the girl from Luzhu over, I didn't want to see her two showing off, so I pulled my sister out to look for you." ”

"Oh." Xu Hao understood a little in his heart.

However, Xu Qinglian was very open to this, and said with a smile: "The third uncle is just a few villagers, and he reluctantly accepted a few families, but the third aunt came over and said that she didn't need so many people over there, and planned to transfer two rooms for the time being, and I and Hongye would just do it, seeing that you are busy with a Qiu Xiang in this house, you should also add one or two little girls to share the burden for her." ”

"I don't think so." Xu Hongye's face was full of unhappiness, and shouted: "I don't know the roots, I don't worry about using it, who knows when I will be asked to go back by Sanniang, what is it?" Besides, our family is not unavailable, before the mother saw that we were still young, and had the intention to save some money, but now the fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, according to me, Sanniang is fake, and the heart is true to force the palace to see the joke. ”

"That's right." Xu Qinglian listened to her little sister's analysis and nodded.

Xu Hao has been here for a while, and he understood his sister's words in an instant. This matter is a long story, when the uncle Xu Yaozu married the daughter of the Wang family, who was a member of the rebel army in Fengyang's hometown at that time, the Wang family later became the founding noble, and the status of the Wang family rose with the tide, and no one at home looked down on anyone except the old lady.

The problem is that the Wang family was originally from a peasant family, and he was almost inferior to his wife in terms of appearance, knowledge, and knowledge, and at first he was just a little jealous. And the uncle Xu Yaozu later followed the second grandfather Xu Da several times to the north to conquer the outside of the Saiwai, a soldier with iron blood, Wang was very afraid of her husband, in order to please her husband, so she diligently recruited a few concubines, and the mother's side was a Hedong lion's roar, and the cheap father didn't even dare to look at the woman more, so back and forth, Wang felt more and more uncomfortable.

It is precisely because of the barbarism of the old lady that the Wang family is arrogant on weekdays, so in the marriage of the third uncle, the old lady chose thousands of choices and chose the daughter of the Liu family, a small landlord nearby.

Such a wish is achieved, but it has also planted a competition between the three daughters-in-law, the difference in birth and growth environment, and the woman's family, which is a small matter, naturally cannot get along peacefully, but whether it is in terms of personal quality and interpersonal means, or even secretly using local relationships and money, the energy of the Xiao family is not trivial, far from the Wang family in the capital who is trembling to survive and the Liu family who are not deep-rooted.

Now that the third room is developed, the third aunt is here to sweep away the grievances over the years. And according to the temperament of the old lady, people will definitely not accept it, and it is inevitable to add people.

The question is, where does the monthly money come from? Originally, the old lady said at home, the income of each room is to be unified into the account room, the cost of the long room used to be a monopoly, the second room and the third room are almost the same, now with the third uncle as an official, the expenses must be increased significantly, the family is standing still, the palace is allocated so much every month, the maid has increased to pay more monthly money, clothes for the four seasons, rouge gouache, weekday rewards and even food, etc., so the corresponding other expenses will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.

No matter in any era, human relations are the bulk of a family's expenditure, who will be happy if it is short? The mother, who has always been arrogant, would rather grit her teeth and treat herself badly, and would never let outsiders make irresponsible remarks, this is probably the ultimate intention of the third aunt, right?

Xu Hao, who figured it out, couldn't help but feel a big headache, and was glad that he was bored back then, and watched some palace fights, and he was not a stupid old man in terms of women's fighting.

Listening to the girls' discussions, Xu Hao's silence did not attract their attention, after all, under the tradition of male and female protagonists, Xu Hao's non-participation is normal.

Xu Hao slowly summed up alone, for a family, it is nothing more than open source and throttling, since he doesn't want to see throttling, then increasing the outer block is the only way out.

And his age and identity do not allow any out-of-the-ordinary behavior now, so the only place to settle down should be on the cheap dad.