Chapter 8 (Accounting)
and the touch was still real.after all, he had never been a ghost before, and Chen Jingzong didn't know if this was normal. His eyes fell on his exposed upper body, and Chen Jingzong suddenly frowned...Chen Tingjian and his son quarreled when they met with fire and water, but Chen Tingshi, who was waiting outside, shrank his shoulders.
Chen Tingshi has lived in the shadow of his own brother since childhood.
my elder brother is a prodigy of Tianzhong. He won the Tongsheng exam at the age of nine, became a scholar at the age of 12, was raised at the age of 16, and was a 19-year-old champion!
Chen Ting-shih didn't have the talent to read. He wasn't very clever in the first place. The more he was compared with his brother by people around him, the more he couldn't get into the book. In the end, he simply broke the jar and broke it. Instead of earning fame, he went to work in his own field. Facing the loess and turning his back to the sky, although he was physically hard, no one expected him to read any more. Chen Tingshi's heart was very relaxed, as if he had finally unloaded a big stone!
Chen Tingshi, who honestly works the land, is not because of his brother who has resented him. On the contrary, he is very admired and grateful to his brother.
if his brother hadn't become an official, he and his mother would not have been better off in their hometown. If his brother hadn't become an official, he wouldn't have married the most beautiful girl in town!
"Brother, I just stood up first. Don't blame Jingzong."
when Chen Tingshi came back in, Chen Tingshi exhorted him with a look of shame, blaming him for getting up to meet his nephew and causing his nephew to be scolded.
Chen Tingjian waved his hand and didn't want to talk more about his own races.
Chen Tingshi looked at the letter on his desk and asked nervously, "is the princess's letter for the emperor" Will you dislike our shabby home "
Chen Tingshi, who has grown most of his life, never thought a princess could live in his family!
the princess did not show up many times after she came over, wearing a veil every time, but just looking at the figure and the blurred eyebrows under the veil, you can see that she must be a fairy beauty.
Chen Tingshi's forehead began to sweat when he thought that the princess would complain to the emperor. Reading those two letters was like an reminder.
Chen Tingjian looked at the words on the envelope for a while, touched the beard that grew to his chest and said, "you worry too much, the princess is reasonable, and you will never waste your pen and ink on these trifles."
look at the princess's writing, brisk and peaceful, and then think of yesterday's wife said that the princess actually called her mother, and knew that the princess was not dissatisfied with the arrangement of the family, except for the fourth.
Chen Tingshi believes him. His elder brother has been like this since he was a child, and he has everything in mind.
he glanced at his brother's beard a few more times.
my brother is not only ten thousand times more talented and handsome, but he didn't mention it when he was young. now that he is 50 years old, he is still elegant and personable. his long beard is smoother than a woman's hair and has clear roots, which does not make people feel sloppy and bloated at all.
are all the officials in Beijing fond of this kind of beard
Chen Tingjian suddenly said, "I also want to write a letter to the emperor. The second younger brother will go back first."
Chen Tingshi nodded, called for the boy, and carried the two boxes of account books back.
their room lives in the east courtyard of Chen Zhai. They are Chen Tingshi, Qi's husband and wife, and their son Chen Jizong and his family of three.
Qi is sitting in the hall.
like Sun, she only wears a white filial piety dress and does not use rouge gouache on her face, but Qi is gorgeous and good at maintenance, showing no sign that she is 40 years old. She has the shrewdness and ability of a wife in charge. Chen Tingshi usually stood beside her, unlike her husband, more like a steward, obedient to her.
when he saw her husband carrying the ledger back, Qi flipped his lips and smiled: "Big Brother didn't read it, did he"
Chen Tingshi sighed, "the eldest brother believed us and told us to continue to take care of it."
Qi drank tea slowly, and when all the people left, she whispered sarcastically: "believe it or not, it is the eldest brother who is in the capital, with high officials and generous salaries, with both the emperor's reward and the filial piety of the officials below. He doesn't like the land and shop industry of our family at all. If he is not worried this time, but is rejected by the emperor and lost his official, the first thing he does when he comes back is to compete with us for family property."
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Chen Tingshi didn't like to hear this, so he reasoned to her: "our family's ancestral property is only 50 mu, but now there are more fields and several shops have opened. It all depends on the eldest brother sending money home every year. Even if the eldest brother really wants it back one day, he still deserves it."
Qi's: "Bah!" He did send money, but it was his duty to honor his mother, and it was only a little money. If I hadn't carefully chosen the land today and looked around at the right place to buy a shop tomorrow, and racked my brains to let the silver continue to give birth to more money, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to collect my mother's medicine money! "
Chen Tingshi: "you are lying with your eyes open. The amount of silver sent home by the eldest brother in the past 30 years has totaled three or four thousand taels. Before returning to Beijing this time, he sent back another 5200."
with a bang, Qi slammed the tea bowl on the table.
Chen Tingshi shuddered on his shoulder and looked at it with three points of fear.
Qi stared at him and said, "Don't say what I sent in the past. Seven, seven, eight, eight, seven, eight, eight, For the 5200 yuan sent this time, it took more than half of the time to build the Siyi Hall between the fourth and the princess, and the stepping bed in the princess's house alone cost 1520. The bed was sent by you staring at people, did you forget that Did I cut corners somewhere "
Chen Tingshi drooped his head. Siyi Hall was very expensive. Even the locust trees in the yard and the peonies in the flower beds were all famous products that he could talk about. He could not appreciate them, but he knew that they were very expensive.
Qi: "5200, more than half of it was spent in Siyi Hall, and the rest was spent on mother's grand burial. In order to wait for the eldest brother to come over for burial, how much did he buy just to buy ice, and we even subsidized 1200 from the public account, which he could not count in his mind as an old cabinet worker" It's obvious that our two families pay the money together, but you think it's all from the eldest brother. You're so stupid. No wonder you can't even pass the examination of a scholar! "
"here is the ledger, and every expense is written clearly. See for yourself!"
Qi opened a box, took out the ledger at the top and threw it directly into Chen Tingshi's hand.
Chen Tingshi instinctively grabbed the ledger, but did not open it.
what are you looking at every time his wife spends a lot of money, he will whisper it in his ear, and he will soon recite it.
he is a rough man, and it is true that his wife has taken care of everything in the family these years, including taking care of the shop, including repairing the house and picking up people and things.
the eldest brother gives money and his wife contributes, but he is useless.
"forget it, forget it. Anyway, eldest brother, they seldom come back to stay for two years. Let's not argue about silver money. It doesn't look good to go out."
Qi sneered: "I don't want to quarrel. You only have your own brother in your eyes, but you don't treat me as a human being."
Chen Tingshi sighed helplessly, and then no matter what Qi said, he never talked back.
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Chen Tingjian writes folding son in his study. Chen Bozong delves into his knowledge. Chen Xiaozong is in charge of teaching his son and nephew's homework. Father and son all have something to do.
only Chen Jingzong, trapped in a small courtyard, was bored.
yesterday's bow and arrow has been made, and he still wants to go into the mountain.
"when I go, I may come back at dusk. If the old man is looking for me, you can find an excuse to help me muddle through."
with a bow and arrow on his back, Chen Jingzong came to discuss with Huayang.
he was dressed in gray cloth, looked at his figure without looking at his face, and was a mountain hunter.
in the past, Huayang did not like him to run into the mountains every day, which not only violated the etiquette of mourning, but also failed to do his job.ave worked hard for my fourth brother, I have the nerve to accept it. Mammy, you stew the fish and chicken later. I'll take the fish and leave the chicken to the princess to mend her body. "just as Ma...