Chapter 1274 Dilemma
Xia Zihan had been married for six or seven years, and for the first time, Xia Shiming received the New Year's money from his son-in-law. Looking at the gift list and red envelope, Xia Shiming, a grown man, actually turned red with excitement in front of his servants.
In this life, in Xia Shiming's heart, the most guilty thing was that he had wronged Chu Jiahui and let Chu Jiahui, who had a deep love for him, die tragically in the hands of his mother.
The second person who felt guilty was Xia Zihan. He felt sorry for his eldest daughter and made her live under the influence of others in the Chu family since she was a child.
Although the Chu family had never treated her badly, she was still the legitimate daughter of the Xia family, but she grew up in the Chu family. He knew how much criticism she had received from childhood to adulthood. This made him, as a father, feel guilty no matter what he thought about it. ashamed.
Therefore, over the years, he did his best to compensate Xia Zihan.
Xia Zihan's treatment of his father gradually increased from being indifferent to him in the beginning, and then he became close to him and recognized his father. However, Xia Shiming was still cautious when dealing with Xia Zihan, keeping it in his mouth for fear of spending money. Hold it in your hand for fear of falling.
Xia Shiming had always respected Chu Jingqi and never dared to act like his father-in-law in front of him.
Every New Year, when receiving the annual gift from the Chu family, Xia Shiming would also hope that his son-in-law would honor him, his father-in-law, with the New Year's greetings, which showed that his son-in-law respected him as his father-in-law, and truly regarded the Xia family as his in-law family, instead of just treating Chu as his father-in-law. The family is regarded as the Yue family, and the Xia family will always be ranked behind the Chu family.
However, in the past few years, the New Year's gifts sent by Anjun Prince's Palace did not include New Year's money. Xia Shiming was disappointed and did not dare to mention this to his daughter.
He didn't care about the money. What he cared about was his status in the heart of his daughter and son-in-law.
Unexpectedly, the New Year money that he had been looking forward to for several years would be seen at this juncture. Xia Shiming was excited beyond words.
However, is this New Year's money too much? Moreover, what do so many red envelopes mean?
Xia Shiming Yumugada couldn't figure it out, so he looked at the housekeeper who came to give New Year's gifts and asked the questions in his heart.
The housekeeper bent her knees and saluted, and told him with an apologetic look, "The prince said that due to negligence in the past few years, he forgot to pay New Year's greetings to the in-laws and his wife, so he made up for all the money in those years. .”
"This...is this all a red envelope pretending to be the prince's?"
"Well, my princess also asked my slave to tell my in-laws and my in-laws' wife that the New Year's greeting money came from my own pocket, saying that it was specially given to my in-laws and my in-laws' wives."
Xia Shiming had a total of six red envelopes in his hand, and it was exactly six years since Xia Zihan married into the Chu family, so the annual New Year's money was all paid in one go.
In fact, Chu Jingqi ordered Gan Song to pack this red envelope last night, but when he got up in the morning, he forgot to ask Gan Song to give it to the housekeeper.
However, as Chu Jingqi's personal servant, he had to worry about his master's urgent needs. Therefore, even if Chu Jingqi left early in the morning and forgot to tell Gan Song about it, Gan Song learned that the stewardess was going to send a gift to the Xia family today. When the New Year gift came, he quickly gave him the red envelope that Chu Jingqi had left for him.
The reason why Chu Jingqi gave so many red envelopes to the Xia family was because he and Xia Zihan talked about giving New Year's money to the Xia family last night. After thinking about it over and over again, he always felt very sorry for his father-in-law.
After marrying such a good and virtuous daughter-in-law like Ayu, she returned home, but he was so petty that he never gave his father-in-law a penny for New Year greetings for five or six years. Chu Jingqi felt very guilty for her father-in-law when she thought about it.
Although the daughter-in-law grew up in the Chu family, she is also her father-in-law’s biological daughter after all. Moreover, the daughter-in-law respects her father-in-law very much as her real father, and she also loves her two brothers-in-law very much. Even Mrs. Xia Er, her stepmother-in-law, she loves. She respects him very much.
After Chu Jingqi thought about it, she felt that she should do something more to be worthy of her father-in-law. .
So, Chu Jingqi secretly packed a few red envelopes behind her daughter-in-law's back, and made up for the New Year's money she owed her father-in-law in one go. The amount he pretended to be was exactly the same as Xia Zihan's, both were five thousand taels of silver.
Chu Jingqi is now in charge of some general affairs of the Chu family, and also has some businesses under her own name. She earns a lot of money throughout the year, and she can get 30,000 taels of silver.
But Xia Shiming was in a dilemma holding six red envelopes.
Should he accept the money or not?
Take it, if he takes all the money, he will feel uncomfortable, as if he has become a thief and stolen someone else's things.
But if he didn't accept it, he wouldn't be able to bear it.
This was the first New Year's money given to him by his son-in-law, and it was also the first time that he enjoyed the pride of being a son-in-law who respected his father-in-law. Moreover, with his son-in-law's temper, if he didn't accept it, would he be angry?
Xia Shiming thought about everything and was in a dilemma.
He looked at the red envelope, finally made up his mind, and said to the Chu family's housekeeper, "Go back and tell the Crown Prince that I will accept this year's New Year's money, but this supplement... you should take it back. ”
Xia Shiming only left one red envelope, and handed the remaining five red envelopes to the housekeeper.
The housekeeper didn't dare to reach out and take it, and said with a pale face, "My dear, are you angry with my son-in-law?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? How could I be angry with Aqi?" ? If you don't answer, you are angry with the prince, and you are blaming the prince for not sending new year's money to your father-in-law in the past few years? "
Having said this, the red envelope in Xia Shiming's hand was hot again. It was neither accepted nor accepted. Finally, Mrs. Xia Er came forward and said, "Master, since this is a filial gift from my son-in-law to the master, then just accept it. This is my son-in-law’s devotion to you.”
There is no reason to extrapolate the New Year's money that the son-in-law pays for his filial piety. Isn't this disrespectful to the son-in-law?
Although it is a bit against the rules to give so much New Year's money at once, people have said that this is to make up for the New Year's money from the first few years, so it will be difficult for the Xia family to go back.
"When the gift is returned, let's make it a little thicker." Mrs. Xia Er discussed in a low voice in Xia Shiming's ear.
Xia Shiming thought too much.
Did the son-in-law see that he was short of money to buy the mountain, so he deliberately found a pretext to give him money?
No matter what, this is the son-in-law's wish.
After Xia Shiming thought about it for a while, he finally accepted it.
A few days later, Xia Shiming invited Zheng Qing's father, Chu Jingqi, Manager Zhang of the Chu family, Doctor Bai, and Master Qi to go to Orion Village with him.
Relocating an ancestral cemetery for a new family is a big deal. It is a top priority for Fuyin's descendants. Xia Shiming does not dare to be careless at all.
(End of chapter)