Chapter 917 Escort Fee
Xia Shiming has an upright temperament and is old-fashioned. If he knew that his daughter had given him several house deeds and eight thousand taels of silver, he would definitely feel shameless and useless. He could not even support his family, wife and children, and he would still have his daughter to supplement the family income. .
Because she knew him well, Mrs. Xia Er did not mention it and subconsciously concealed the matter.
Xia Shiming took the banknote and went to the street to ask the escort to send the banknote to Jiangning City.
And Mrs. Xia Er gathered all the servants in the mansion together, and except for the servants in the second room of the Xia family, all the others were sent out.
"You are all trained by the eldest wife. Normally, I should keep you, but... to be honest with everyone, the Xia family is divided. The second house and one penny are not allocated to any property. The master is a weak scholar, and he also needs to I have been at home for three years, and my family's fortune is so small that I really can't support everyone. Also, your marriage contracts are all in the hands of the eldest wife. The eldest wife is in Jiangning City and will not return to the capital in the past three years. You can go find her. Madam.”
It means that Xia Zhai will not keep them anymore.
As they are Mrs. Xia's people, they have to follow Mrs. Xia. Even if they stay here, the second room of the Xia family cannot support them.
The dozen or so servants of the Xia family suddenly panicked, and a confidant of the Liu family asked calmly, "Second Madam, since there are no slaves here, the slaves will not shamelessly stay here. However, it is a long way from the capital to Jiangning City. The slave is short of money, how much does it cost to go to Jiangning City?”
The meaning is obvious, he wants Mrs. Xia Er to come out.
Mrs. Xia Er's face suddenly turned cold. She shot her sharp eyes at the steward and said, "The old lady didn't like me, so she cleaned up our second room and left the house. Some of the money in the second master's hand was also used as travel expenses back to Beijing. On the way The cost is gone. The princess will give it to you today. Come and buy me two hundred taels of silver for the New Year. There are many of you. Even if I give you all the two hundred taels of silver, it won’t be enough for you to go to Jiangning City. What’s more, if the money is given to you, we can’t let us masters drink the northwest wind. Right? ”
Since these people are from Dafang and want to go to Dafang, then Dafang should pay for the travel expenses of these people, not her.
Forty or so people, from the capital to Jiangning City, even if one person has ten taels of silver, they still need four hundred taels of silver. Is she stupid to help the big house pay for such a huge sum of money?
Now that she has provided money, Mrs. Liu will definitely not admit it in the future due to her temperament. In this case, she will not provide this money in the first place.
Just like Xia Shiming asked someone from the escort agency to send the money from the sale of the house to Jiangning City to Mr. Xia San, Mr. Xia San should also pay for this escort fee, but when they returned to Beijing, Mr. Xia San didn't even mention it. She didn't pay them the escort fee. Since she didn't pay the escort fee, the escort fee shouldn't come from the second room, so she suggested that Xia Shiming pay the escort fee from the house sale fee.
The fee was 12,000 taels of silver, and the escort fee was 500 taels of silver, which was a large amount of money. If she hadn't suggested that Xia Shiming deduct it from the room fee, she would definitely have paid for it herself according to her husband's honest, upright and dull temperament. , in the future, the people from Sanfang will probably not recognize this money.
The second room of their house is a clean house. If Chu Yu hadn't subsidized the money for them, their family would not have gone to drink the northwest wind. In this way, it would be even more unreasonable for them to subsidize the money for the people of the third room of the big house. .
Although Mrs. Xia Er was honest, she was not a master who would let herself suffer. Without a cent of the money, she drove all the servants of the Xia residence to Jiangning City, and invited Ren Yazi to come and buy a new one. A group of servants.
From now on, only the second room of the Xia family will live in the Xia residence, and Mrs. Xia will take care of both the home and the outside.
Aunt Zhang was not idle all day long. The Xia family did not have a private embroidery room, so she made the clothes and shoes for several people in the family. Sometimes, when she couldn't do it, the maids would help make them together.
As for Xia Shiming, he originally wanted to go to a private school to earn some money, but was persuaded by Mrs. Our two sons are studying, and they have learned how to read, and our second wife has also become successful.”
Xia Shiming thought about it and felt that what Mrs. Xia Er said was reasonable, but... Mrs. Xia Er saw his hesitation and advised, "Don't worry about the money. I still have some dowry money and two more." The income from a few small shops in Xiaozhuangzi is enough for our family. There are fewer servants in the family, and the expenses are also reduced. We can’t spend much money a year.”
This time, she only bought ten servants. Including the original eight servants in the second house, there were only eighteen. She closed off the courtyard where Mrs. Xia and the Xia family lived, and only ordered the servants to come over occasionally. Clean and clean.
There are only six people in Erfang's family, and they live in a large courtyard. It is enough to have eighteen servants to wait on them.
In this way, Xia Shiming stayed at home and devoted himself to teaching his two sons to study. The two sons' knowledge gradually improved. When the emperor opened the imperial examination the next year, both of them were admitted as scholars.
In particular, Xia Ziye, the ninth eldest son of the Xia family, won the first place among the scholars in the capital in one fell swoop. He did better than the seventh eldest son of the Xia family. He was still the youngest among the teenagers who took the exam this year. Therefore, he attracted the attention of many officials in the imperial court. , and was deeply liked by the emperor, who even personally recruited him into the palace to speak.
Well, the emperor will recruit him to speak in the palace. In fact, he is also curious about what this brother-in-law of Chu Jingqi has. He actually won the first place among the scholars in the capital at the age of twelve or thirteen, beating those who studied hard day and night at home. Adult with back.
After meeting Xia Ziye, the emperor's first reaction was that he seemed to have met Xia Shiming from decades ago, and his every move was so old-fashioned that it made people itch.
However, in order to reward them, the court followed the previous reward system and paid tribute rice to the top three scholars every year.
The ninth eldest son of the Xia family won the first place and received the most tribute rice, sixteen shi. Calculated in jin, it was 2,000 jin, enough to feed the six members of the Xia family for a year.
Of course, this is a later story.
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After entering October, Xia Zihan's mood became much heavier. In the past life, it rained in Jiangnan at this time, but in this life, it is almost November, and there is still no rain in Jiangnan.
After a year of drought, the weather temperature in Jiangnan this year is more than ten degrees higher than in previous years. It is clearly entering November, but everyone is still wearing autumn clothes.
The people were not freezing, but seeing how unusually severe the weather was, they felt frightened.
If it doesn't rain, no matter how much water there is in those huge lakes, it won't be enough to irrigate the entire south of the Yangtze River, nor will it be enough to feed and drink millions of people.
Now, the water surface of the three lakes has dropped to a depth of more than one meter.
Chu Jingqi frowned every day and went to the lake to measure. Every time he measured, the lake water would go down a lot. Whenever this happened, his expression would be very embarrassing, and even Chu Yuexi, the Chuanqiong Fox, and the others did not dare to approach.
(End of chapter)