Men, listen, grab the top of the mountain and stand in the center position

Half an hour later, Qin Xiuyuan dragged Ji Laoer, who was wearing gold and silver, to Ju Zaojun to find Nanny Xia.

"Wangshu said to move all the items in the west wing to the back room and connect them into one room. Put out some extra charcoal braziers that day and set up eight tables there. Set up two tables in the east wing hall to entertain the relatives of my father-in-law and mother-in-law. You set up a table at the Kitchen God House and keep one table with some food."

After delivering the message, Qin Xiuyuan gave the nanny thirty taels of silver.

"Why would I need so much? I have plenty of food at home..."

"Mammy, Shushu likes dried fish, beef, and mushrooms. Leave some for her."

Qin Xiuyuan once again felt that there wasn't enough dried fish left. Lately, she'd been craving braised dried fish, and she was afraid that Nanny would finish it all in a flash.

"Okay, okay, the banquet is just missing one dish: braised dried fish with mushrooms. It's no big deal. The dishes are already very rich."

The nanny pointed to Chun Yang, Chun Liu, Ji Shou and the coachman that the brother-in-law bought from Yongzhou last time to go together to prepare the ingredients for the banquet.

"Mammy, why did the young lady think of inviting the martial arts school people as well? Those monkeys can't even wear coats and cotton shoes that are worthy of being on the stage..."

Having a place to stay in a martial arts gym and two meals of coarse flour steamed buns every day was something I never dared to think about before. Now I am even invited to a banquet. "I am afraid it will be embarrassing!"

Winter clothes and cotton shoes are a considerable expense for ordinary people.

"The young lady has invited you, so come now. Go order clothes and cotton shoes this afternoon." Nanny Xia knew that he was paying for Hou'er's martial arts school tuition and meals, and his pockets were probably empty. "Nanny has saved some money, so you don't have to worry."

Ji Shou was not polite either, "Madam, Ji Shou will return it." He said a little embarrassedly at the end, "Hey, I was planning to ask the young lady to pay me two months' money first, but I haven't seen her yet."

"You monkey!" The nanny knocked him on the forehead. "You have your eyes fixed on how much money the family has spent in the past six months, right? And you want to get your monthly salary in advance?" She pulled his ears up and said, "You don't know how expensive firewood and rice are until you run the household."

"I was wrong, I was wrong!" Ji Shou pulled the cart and had nowhere to escape, so he could only admit his mistakes repeatedly.

Chun Yang and Chun Liu laughed. "Mammy, there's no idle person in the house. Money can be spent and earned back!" The young lady was worth a lot of money from neck to toe.

Nanny Xia released Ji Shou and said to the others with a solemn expression, "Honestly, the money earned from the master's private school is not enough for him to support the old lady and the students... Madam embroiders, but the young lady needs a maid to take care of her, and she has to pay a monthly salary. The young lady needs money for food, drink, and toilet, and the money she earns from embroidery is obviously not enough... The young lady is smart and sent Nanny Li and me to Wangxian Tower so that she can sell more. But teaching an apprentice will only starve the master to death. Nanny Li and I won't earn much money in the past two months. Taotao and Ji Shou make pickles, but the money they earn from pickling is probably not enough to pay the monthly salary for all of us."

The two families had nearly two dozen servants, and Wangshu treated them well. "You only see Tang Bo's huge martial arts school, with thirty apprentices bustling about, but each apprentice gets so little money. I'm afraid it won't even cover the cost of repairing the house and buying those tools in half a year. And the fire in the house has to be kept burning all day, relying on the son-in-law to take risks and bring back some goods for the young lady to sell for money. That money is not easy to earn. You saw it last time, even if I didn't tell you."

It was almost deducted and I couldn't get it back.

"Madam, what you said makes sense." Ji Shou also became serious and quietly revealed a secret, "Anyway, my son-in-law is quite poor. The last time he went to Wangxian Tower to pay the bill, he was left with half a tael of silver and a few copper coins. He takes the second young lady out every day. Others see the second young lady wearing gold and silver and try to sell her, but my son-in-law won't even buy a candied haws. The second young lady sometimes just grabs snow and stuffs it into her mouth."

Aunt Xia: ...

Others: ...

"Is that lady rich?" Chun Liu asked weakly.

Ji Shou didn't know. "But she rented horses for racing last year. The master's horses were converted into carriages... Erhuang was sold, Yibai was sold, and even the Shuangseqiu was sold..."

The more I think about it, the sadder it gets.

"I hope the beauty will give birth to more pups this time. If they are well-raised, each will be worth ten taels. If she has five, that will be fifty taels."

Mammy remembered that on the Second Young Miss's birthday, she had said she would sell them for ten taels each. She couldn't set a lower price.

Several people worked together to bargain with the owners of several butcher shops, haggling over every penny. The masters were in trouble, and the servants were in a panic, even breaking a copper coin in half to bargain.

The day before the first birthday party, Qin Xiuyuan and Ji's father went to visit the student in person.

"... He ended up eating the eggs. His mother even knelt down to see him not eating them... He fetched water because his mother had been away for a few days with relatives and there was no water at home... cough cough... He harvested the wheat because his mother was too sick to get out of bed..."

Father Ji was a little unable to continue. Facing Wangshu's expectation of winning the victory after the answer to the mystery was revealed, he couldn't lose face alone, so he signaled his son-in-law to take over.

"He wanted to help, but his mother was stubborn and insisted he focus on his studies. Everyone she met praised him for his filial piety and talent, believing he would achieve great things in the future... He secretly did odd jobs, but he was also very reckless. He was thin and had a bony figure. His mother would not let him get involved in money, often threatening him with kneeling or hanging. But he spoke decently and wrote with talent on the spot. Xiuyuan's writing was inferior to his."

Everyone had mixed feelings.

"A mentally ill mother who pretends to be noble and a foolishly filial son who is good at nothing but tops the class in his studies."

Everyone's mood became more complicated.

Qin Xiuyuan really envied her courage to speak her mind and her ability to judge people incisively.

"Shushu... this filial piety is natural..." Father Ji thought about the scene in the afternoon where he kept kneeling... He felt physically uncomfortable and couldn't continue. But it really...

Ji Laoer, who was playing on the ground, giggled at the right time.

"Haha! Ji Lao Er is laughing at you!" Wangshu was the first to break his composure, "Daddy, haha, keep talking...haha..."

Everyone laughed now.

When Qin Xiuyuan, who was staring at her covetously, pressed her down at night, she could no longer laugh and cried a little twice.

One year old party.

Wangshu was in a bad mood when he woke up early. When he saw the person sitting next to him, his resentment doubled. He bared his teeth and let him feel a little punch of love.

"asshole!"

"Asshole you!"

Qin Xiuyuan held her tightly, letting her punch and kick...hand massage. Last night, cough cough, he had thousands of thoughts, and he couldn't show any pride. "Shu Shu, okay, let's get up."

Get up, how did you get up? Qin Xiuyuan regretted it when he saw her strange duck-like walking posture, "I... I pressed it for half the night."

To no avail.

Unable to help but shiver, Wangshu sat down at the dressing table. He touched his head, revealing a scar, and accused the murderer.

"What...what's going on?" Qin Xiuyuan frantically searched for something to apply to her. Oh, now he remembered. The second time, she'd struggled so hard, and he'd been so overwhelmed with pleasure and excitement that he couldn't hold back, causing her to crash against the bedside. She was in pain all over, and he'd only taken care of one end. Looking closely, her eyes were still a little swollen and red...

Wangshu refused to let him wipe it. He looked around the room, which seemed to be tidy. He opened his mouth and revealed everything. He said in a hoarse and low voice, "Call my mother!"

Mother-in-law! The man almost knelt down in front of her, begging for mercy.