An old lady's life

Before the end of the exam, before lunch time, Hongye looked at the sky and said, "Boss and second can go down to rest. Today next month will be the same exam time. Please arrange your study time in private. After the lunch break, you Remember to come to mother, I have other tasks to arrange with you."

The drooping Jia Amnesty and the tense Jia Zheng, the two brothers just nodded and left with their own test papers. Jia Zheng also took the standard answer sheet with him.

Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Wang fell behind, following behind their master.

But as soon as he walked out of Rongxi Hall, Hongye heard that Jia She was robbing Jia Zheng of the standard answer, "Second, give me that answer." He wanted to go back and compare it.

Jia Zheng thought the same way, how could he give it to him, even if he was the eldest brother.

"Brother, I also want to correct my mistakes by referring to it."

They refused to give in to each other, so the two brothers immediately entangled their hands and feet, and Zhang and Wang opened their mouths in disbelief.

In the end, Mrs. Zhang sighed, "Why don't you read it together, Master and Uncle, the study outside the front hall is empty."

As soon as Jia Amnesty heard that this method was feasible, he let go of Jia Zheng's hands and feet, and pulled Jia Zheng's sleeve instead, "Let's go to the outer study together."

Zhang and Wang, who originally planned to go back to the courtyard with their master, had to go their separate ways, and they went back to the East and West courtyards respectively.

Hongye took a sip of tea, amused in her heart, Jia Hu and Jia Zhu came out with a small head at the door, Hongye waved when she saw this.The brothers came in.

"Grandmother, is the exam difficult?" Jia Hu had already heard the test scores of his father and uncle. He knew that [-] was a perfect score, and just now he heard that [-] was a passing score. Both his father and uncle did poorly in the exam.

Jia Zhu rolled her eyes and stared at her grandmother like her elder brother. He still didn't know what an exam was.

Hong Ye patted Jia Hu's little head, "It's not too difficult, it's the first time, your father and uncle are not used to it yet, you can do well in the exam next month."

Jia Hu stuck out her tongue and prayed for her father and uncle, once a month, hehe, father must work hard!

Jia Zhen came to the Rong Mansion after waiting for her grandfather to fall asleep again. Under the signal of the housekeeper, she went directly to the study outside the front yard. Before she arrived, she heard the voices of the two uncles arguing.

"What are the two uncles arguing about?" Jia Zhen asked after knocking on the study door.

Jia She raised his eyes and glanced at Jia Zhen. Jia Zheng didn't even lift his eyes. There was no time. Jia She waved his hand directly, "Go, little boy, don't disturb uncle's reading."

As he spoke, he pulled the standard answer between the two of them towards himself. No one from the brothers greeted Jia Zhen. Jia Zhen stretched out her head and looked again, and saw that the two uncles were scribbling on the scroll. There are big red fonts, and he saw two scores of 'twenty points' and '34 points'.

Jia Amnesty glanced at Jia Zhen again, then covered his paper, and chased away people like flies: "Brother Zhen came to see uncle's joke?" And in fact, strictly speaking, only three points or ten points, this is really embarrassing.

Jia Zheng also hurriedly covered his paper, but it was too late, Jia Zhen had already seen that he made a face at the two uncles, then ran out of the study with a smile on his face, then ran out of Rong Mansion, and returned to Ning Mansion Then he ran directly to find his mother Xu.

After hearing Jia Zhen's words, Mrs. Xu didn't know what to say, because the current imperial examinations only recruit students based on the examiner's subjective impression. What does the aunt's credit mean?

Around Weishi, Jia Daihua woke up, and during lunch, Jia Zhen asked the question back to his grandfather.

Jia Zhen only knew two numbers, she didn't know anything about Rongfu's exams, and Monk Zhang Er couldn't figure it out when she told her grandfather about it. Jia Daihua half-lyed on the bench and squinted his eyes, realizing that it was actually quite interesting.The next time his nephew comes to visit, he'll have to ask the inside story.

Jia Amnesty, who was supposed to take a nap at this time, was lying on the bed unable to sleep, excited, thought for a while, turned over and got off the bed, called someone to pour a basin of cold water, his whole head soaked into the basin, and suddenly felt more awake.

Wiping his face, Jia She thought to himself, he couldn't sleep anyway, so why not go to his mother.

After arriving at Rongxi Hall, Jia She only saw Jia Zheng sitting upright in the main hall, and his eyes widened. This nerd came earlier than him.

The little girl in Rongxi Hall quietly served tea and snacks to the elder, pointed to the inner room, opened her mouth and whispered: "The old lady has not woken up from her afternoon nap, if the elder is not in a hurry, please wait."

Jia Zheng took a sip of the tea, feeling that the tea was very sweet. He glanced around the corner, saw a large ceramic jar, and thought to himself, that should be the mountain spring water that his mother wanted, and it was indeed sweeter than ordinary water.

Jia She is a drinker with no sense of art. He smacked his lips and thought the tea was delicious. He drank two more cups and closed his eyes to fall asleep, but he didn't want to fall asleep with his head tilted like this.

After a while, the snoring sounded, and Jia Zheng glanced at his big-hearted brother, and was speechless for a moment.

Hongye took a nap, Liuli served her, and said by the way: "Old lady, the old master and the second master have been here for a while, and are waiting in the main hall."

Hongye was quite surprised, it was halfway through now, that is to say, those two people came at least an hour earlier, were they flustered by the exam?

As a result, as soon as she opened the curtain and came out, she saw Jia She, who was sleeping in the dark with his head up on the chair, and Jia Zheng, who was facing him with his eyes closed, might have heard the voice, and Jia Zheng opened his eyes immediately. .

Jia Zheng stood up immediately, "Mother, how did you take your lunch break?"

Hongye nodded, and the maids quickly served tea to the old lady, "Have you been here for a long time?"

Jia Zheng shook his head with a serious face. In fact, his mother was very quiet here, as if his soul had been cleansed all at once.

Jia Amnesty opened his hazy eyes, and saw the face of the hated second brother who seemed to owe him millions of silver, "Second brother, what are you doing?"

The corner of Jia Zheng's mouth twitched, "Mother is already awake, and brother, don't you feel unwell?"

Jia She almost jumped three feet, got up from the chair, and immediately wailed: "Oh, my neck and my waist..."

Hong Ye looked at him with a half-smile, Jia She stopped immediately, and said politely, "Mother, did you have a good lunch break?"

"Xiang, my mother thinks that my two sons will come back and share some things for me, why not Xiang?" Hongye said with a bit of a smile, and took a step forward, "Follow me."

Walk to the study next to it, "Liuli, stay at the door."

Jia Amnesty and the two brothers were confused and didn't know what their mother was going to do.

There are many books in Rongxi Hall's study room, which was used by my father in the past, but after my father fell ill, he mostly recuperated in Lixiangyuan, so the study room is just a decoration.But now the study room is full of people, and the ink is very fragrant. It is obvious that the mother often goes in and out of the study room.

There was a pile of account books on the desk, and Hong Ye handed over one of the account books, "Look at this." As for whether the two brothers could read or not, Hong Ye knew well.

The two brothers were a little confused, and approached timidly. Jia Amnesty took it first, and Hongye handed Jia Zheng a copy.

"This is the account book I have sorted out in the past few months." Starting from the price, the income of the shop, the income of the farm, etc., I sent reliable servants to the farm to inquire about the climate of the previous few years, whether there was a disaster year, which affected the harvest of the crops etc.

The only sound left in the room was the sound of turning the pages of the book. After the pages were finished, Jia She still looked at his mother in a daze, "Mom, what's the problem?" So he didn't understand.

Jia Zheng didn't understand.

Hongye sighed, teaching is really a long way to go!

The head of a family can't read the account book, doesn't he deserve to be deceived by his servants?

Hongye had no choice but to tell the two brothers from the beginning to the end. The brothers went from bewildered to angry, and all the money that was so greedy belonged to them, especially Jia She, who was the eldest son of Xijue, and the family business would be divided in the future. Giving him [-]% is unbearable as a miser.

As for Jia Zheng, he is the second son. It would be fine if he was capable, but now he has realized that he is not capable enough. After a hundred years from his mother, he will move out of Rongfu. Even if he only gets [-]% of the family business, the more he has The more points you get.

Hong Ye said leisurely: "Now I will give you a month to find a way to rectify the Rong Mansion by yourself, and you can't hurt your muscles and bones, and you can't let outsiders gossip about our Rong Mansion. What should be cut by the servants in the mansion, you can write it after you implement it. Give me a list, and I'll single out certain people to forgive at my discretion."

"You can take these ledgers back and have a look, but don't lose them, this is the last one in the house, otherwise there will be no evidence if you lose it." Hong Ye glanced at the ledgers, still casually said.

"Sit down now, let's talk about another matter." Hongye suppressed the angry Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng with a few words.

At this moment, the two brothers were preoccupied with finding the servant to settle accounts, and they just sat down mechanically after listening to their mother.

Hongye moved her chair and lowered her voice, "Now I'm talking about your eldest brother-in-law Qi Frame. The problem of Qi Frame is a bit serious. Maybe your eldest sister will become a family member of criminals in the future, and the Rong Mansion will also Get implicated in the same frame."

These words made Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng feel cold, Hong Ye thought in her heart, just to scare you two to death, to see if you dare to compete for the merit of being a dragon.

Hongye first talked about Qi frame's behavior in the past few months, then analyzed Qi frame's psychological changes, and then analyzed the situation in the court, from Sujun King, Prince, Xiangjun King, and Gongjun King.

"In a few days, the third girl from the Zhen family will get married. She will marry the King of Xiangjun as a side concubine. From now on, don't be so active in the affairs of the Zhen family. If you can go far, go far, and if you can't go far, just fool around."

Jia She and Jia Zhengmu nodded in a daze, swiping the screen full of shit in their hearts, staring at their mother, what the mother said was so complicated that they couldn't understand.

These are the first two things, and the last thing, "Hu'er is in good health, so it doesn't affect her normal schooling, it's just that Jia's family education is fine, Huer can't be so troublesome, boss, the task of hiring a husband for Huer is I leave it to you, it's best not to ask your Yue family first, you should worry about your son."

There was another task assigned to Jia Zheng, but Hongye thought about it, let's wait for the brothers to finish the first two tasks, and it will not take ten days and a half months.

The two brothers walked out of Rongxi Hall with a stack of ledgers in their hands, their expressions were very serious, and they didn't go back to their respective yards, but went directly to the study outside the front hall.

From now on, the outer study room will be the shared study room of the two brothers. Anyway, the mother said that there will be an exam next month, and there is also a companion for reading together.

The two sat down silently and started flipping through the books. The study was very quiet, only the sound of flipping through the books, but within a quarter of an hour, Jia Amnesty stood up, holding a stack of books.

"Second, we'll discuss it here after breakfast tomorrow, and I'll go back first." I can't understand the account book, so I can only find foreign aid.

The eldest brother left, and Jia Zheng couldn't stay, because he couldn't read it either, so he had to go back to the west courtyard with a stack of ledgers. On the way, he wondered how to understand it, so that he couldn't bother his mother. After much deliberation, the only candidate was his wife. Wang.

Jia Amnesty returned to the east courtyard, and immediately carried a stack of ledgers into the small study next to the main courtyard. After calming down, he ran up to Mrs. Zhang, "Jingshu, come quickly."

Zhang Shi was full of doubts, Jia She helped her into the study, and asked his servants to rearrange the low couch and chairs in the study, so as not to make Zhang Shi so tired.

The door of the study room was wide open, and Jia She told all the servants to stay away and not to approach if there is nothing to do.

"Jingshu, explain these ledgers to me. The ledgers were given to me by my mother, and I didn't know that there are so many moths in our house. I'm so mad, it's all my money!"

Jia Amnesty lowered his voice, still with a bit of anger, he recounted what his mother told him in detail.

Mrs. Zhang suddenly realized that it was because of this that her mother-in-law had re-read the account books in the past few months.

Seeing that Jia Amnesty couldn't understand the account book, Mrs. Zhang suddenly realized that the mother-in-law was teaching the two sons.

So Mrs. Zhang also became serious. Now that she knew what the problems were, Mrs. Zhang quickly picked out these problems from the ledger. She hadn't seen these problems before.

On the west courtyard side, Jia Zheng also entered the study with a stack of ledgers in his arms. Mrs. Wang, who was learning to read characters with him, immediately came out of the inner room and ran into the study.

Jia Zheng struggled for a while, and sighed silently in his heart. He realized that he was really useless, he couldn't even read the books, and he used to dislike his wife for being illiterate. It seemed that he had no right to dislike her.

Mrs. Wang looked at Jia Zheng curiously, "Master, is this ledger your mother's? What did your mother tell you to do?"

Jia Zheng glanced outside the study room. After two days of good fortune, the study room was only occupied by the husband and wife and no one was guarding it, so he explained it in detail.

Mrs. Wang loves money more than Jia She, especially when she understands that her house is only the second room. After the old lady is gone, they will separate the Rongfu. I will distribute it to my children in the future.

If the subordinates do this, although the big house will suffer even more losses, the second house will not be without losses, especially if they still get a small share, flies are also meat.

Immediately, Mrs. Wang put on a serious face, opened the account book, and explained to Jia Zheng in a targeted manner.

Since ancient times, money has moved people's hearts. It can not only tear people's faces, but also make people work together.