Sweet Beauty Chapter 23: Mrs. Bai

Master Bai Er listened to his mother asking about his business in Shuzhong, so he hurriedly explained, but he was a little depressed while explaining.

He is not familiar with the common affairs, and he is not a fool. Seeing his mother asking about his property over there, he also thinks of the "explained" and special arrangements made by his wife before he left, and every time he talked to his mother in the past. , or writing a letter, it is always inseparable from saying that the cost of the Bai Mansion is huge, and the difficulties of the elder brother and the younger brother make him "subsidize" the family more.

He used to have his wife to worry about, he never thought about it much, he just followed his mother's filial piety. Now that his wife is pregnant, he will put all the silver taels and several account books of different versions into him before leaving, and let him It was only when he dealt with the Bai Mansion and his mother, Mrs. Bai, that his scalp felt numb.

The ledger is even hotter.

According to his wife, because she was pregnant, every account on the account book was sorted out by her daughter Jing Shu from the big account book at home and then transcribed.

Knowing that his daughter had transcribed this kind of thing really made his cheeks get hot.

Second Master Bai saw his mother staring at him with deep eyes, and was obviously still waiting for his next sentence. He was a little helpless, and finally handed the hot account book in his hand to his mother.

While handing it back, she explained helplessly: "Mother, the house over there has been sold, and all the belongings have been emptied, and only 10,000 taels have been freed up, and my son has left 3,000 taels for Ah Ning to let her. I bought a dowry for Sister Yu, and I took another 8,000 taels to prepare for employment, and the rest were all gifts for returning to Beijing and filial piety for you and my father."

Old Madam Bai was not relieved after listening to the explanation. On the contrary, the more she listened, the more ugly her face became. She flipped over the account book handed over by her son. "Brush" it went black.

On the account book, it was impressively recorded that his second son came to Shu as an official sixteen years ago, and then married Chen's annual salary, Bingjing, Tanjing, and all the total income, and then sent back every year. The filial piety money given to the Bai Mansion in Beijing, the cost of gifts, and the money for the second room subsidy for the dowry, dowry, dowry, dowry, dowry, dowry, dowry, dowry, and dowry for each birthday in Beijing. This account book records that the son has to lose at least a few thousand taels every year. It is a loss of tens of thousands of taels.

There is absolutely no consumption expenditure of the son's family in Shuzhong. Obviously, this is what Ben specially remembered and sent it to the Bai Mansion, or in other words, it was for her to see!

Old Madam Bai's hand holding the account book trembled with anger. She threw the account book on her son, blushing and scolding angrily: "What do you mean? This is to settle the account with me. What do you mean? Even the gifts you gave me over the years are discounted to show me. Have you read the books in the dog's stomach over the years? I, how am I, born... raised you such a white-eyed wolf... "

Obviously, Mrs. Bai was **** off by the account book, and she actually scolded the worst words that she had never scolded since the second master of the confession.

Master Bai Er was scolded and looked embarrassed and embarrassed. He also knew that the account book was a bit... straightforward, but his wife was pregnant. He dealt with his grandmother, don't let people misunderstand his mother, saying that it was the mother who would not use the dowry to make up the white mansion.

Even the youngest daughter secretly brought over the boxes of the silver she had saved over the years and some gold and silver gifts to him. He said that if he exchanged those, it would be worth at least five or six thousand taels of silver. Beg him to let him explain it well in front of his grandmother, so that the grandmother also understands their situation, don't misunderstand the mother.

The daughter is also worried that maybe her grandmother will be angry and will send someone to take her mother back to Beijing, saying that if she asks him to do this, she will turn the matter around. The mother is not in good health and the younger brother is not easy to come by. If he is forced to return to Beijing, he is afraid that Not only will the younger brother not be protected, but the mother is afraid that it will be in danger.

Of course he couldn't ask his daughter to save money for many years, he could only answer the matter for the younger daughter. No matter how embarrassed he had promised his daughter, he had no reason to go back on it.

Mr. Bai Er was even more soothing about his daughter's worries. He knew exactly how his wife's body was. How could he dare to let her go to Beijing with her pregnancy? I believe that the mother will also put her own children first and consider it carefully.

It's all the wicked slave who made the wife and daughter feel overwhelmed with their mother.

Thinking of this, Mr. Bai felt uncomfortable for a while.

He looked at the ledger on the ground, clenched his fists and released them. After a while of silence, he finally seemed to have made up his mind and said to Mrs. Bai: "Mother, my son knows that the family is difficult, and my father is clean and retiring now. , the elder brother taught at the academy with a meager salary, and the third younger brother had no job at home, but in recent years, the family's dowry has been sent back to Beijing, and the son did not buy any property. The cost is huge..."

Feeling that his mother looked at him with a mocking and icy gaze, Master Bai finally gritted his teeth and said, "My son knows that there is still a father's birthday to be arranged next year, and that's the case, why don't he hire the 8,000 people who are looking for a job for his son? The two spare half of it to supplement the family, and the rest of the sons will go to see..."

Old Mrs. Bai exploded when she heard this, gasping for breath in annoyance, scolding: "You, what do you mean? Are you... so difficult on your side that you need to free up the money from your conspiracy to support the family? Or are you threatening me in this way? You..."

What she means is that she wants to say that the giants of the Chen family, your daughter-in-law has a large dowry, and it is so difficult that you need to free up the money of your government officials to supplement the family?

But these words can't be expressed in words. She has a strong desire to control, but she hasn't forgotten her identity, the identity of the Bai family, so she can't say such words.

Bai Er's expression was even more depressed. He opened his mouth to explain, but he couldn't explain it, but he really had nothing to do.

"Enough, you go down first."

Master Bai was in embarrassment when a stern voice came from an old man. He was relieved and a little ashamed. He hurriedly turned around and saluted the white-haired old man who came in with the curtain lifted: "Father."

Old Mr. Bai walked to the front of the hall, sighed, and said, "You go down first. Men can't be limited to the hands of women in the inner court, you go back and think about it."

Second Master Bai was startled, but he didn't dare to speak or ask any more questions. He only said respectfully, "Yes, my son retire." He bowed again to Mrs. Bai before he retired.

After Mr. Bai left the room for a while, Mr. Bai went to the opposite of Mrs. Bai, sat on the armchair, looked at the old wife with a gloomy face, and said helplessly: "Yourong, why are you doing this? The second child has always been filial. He must have no choice but to tell you this. Has he refused the family's demands over the years?"

Old Madam Bai snorted coldly and said, "That's why I'm so angry, have I ever lost my temper with him over the years? It's just that I just got pregnant, and I immediately exposed my nature, and it's not inappropriate to drive around and refuse to Entering Beijing, even on your 60th birthday and sister Yu's wedding, you refused to come back, and you forced Zhong Qian to bring back such an account book, what does this mean?"

The more she talked, the angrier Mrs. Bai became. She picked up the account book and threw it to Mrs. Bai, while continuing to say angrily, "The businesswoman married into a family like ours, she could only be a concubine, but Zhong Qian insisted that she tolerated her. Entering the door, we haven't had a child for so many years, and we didn't say anything, and now, this has not yet given birth to a son, and the arrogance has reached such a level that she thinks she is something!"

Mrs. Bai has a long history of disliking the Chen family. Over the years, she has asked Chen to live in Beijing to serve her several times, but the matter has been rejected by Mrs. Bai. She thinks it must be the Chen family. He blew the wind in his ears, and then the son asked Mrs. Bai to talk about it.

When Mrs. Bai heard this, he flipped through the account book again, and his face also showed a look of forbearance and anger, while angering his daughter-in-law for not knowing what to do. It was just some change, and now he copied the account book and sent it over. For him, it was a direct humiliation, and on the other hand, he was a little angry at his old wife's open mouth.

He rubbed the account book, threw it on the coffee table aside, and said with a hint of anger: "Enough, anyway, she is your daughter-in-law now, what are you talking about, she is ignorant, will she be in the future? Are you not in Beijing? What are the rules, you can teach them slowly in the future."

"You know the situation of our family. Zhong Qian's return to Beijing to seek employment this time is very important to our family in the future. In the future, Yan Hui and Yan Yang will also need Zhong Qian's care. Even the marriages of the granddaughters will be affected by his position. As for the expenses at home, as well as my birthday, I can make it as simple as possible, and it's not like we didn't come here from hard times."

Old Mrs. Bai's eyes turned red when she heard this, she said: "Do you think I'm just for a little money? I'm angry that Chen's behavior is too disgusting, and I didn't expect Zhong Qian to condone her. To this extent, if it goes on like this, is this son still our son?"

Speaking of this, her mind suddenly flashed, her face slowly turned cold again, but her tone became calm and cold, and said, "No, I'm looking at the new year, her fetus is stable, so I'll take her in. Why do I think it's so strange that I came to Beijing to give birth? I haven't had any movement in my stomach for so many years, and suddenly Zhongqian has it before returning to Beijing. I can't get tired of traveling, so I want to stay in Shuzhong to get a baby? Hmph, what is the businessman? I can't do it, I'm afraid that the blue mammy thing, it's not known whether it's true or false!"

Old Mrs. Bai has arranged a lot of people on her second son's side. Even if the second master Bai deliberately suppresses the matter of Lan Ma, it is impossible to completely hide it from her.

Grandpa Bai was shocked when he heard the words. He frowned and looked at his old wife, wanting to reprimand her for "nonsense", but he didn't know why he was wrong, and he couldn't say what he reprimanded.

Old Mrs. Bai glanced at him and seemed to know what he was thinking. She snorted coldly and said slowly, "If you don't know where to get something out and mess up Zhong Qian's children, this is no trivial matter."

Speaking of "disturbing Zhongqian's sons", he said word by word, only to say that the old man's face was blue, and when he stared at her as if he was about to explode, the old lady Bai changed her words and said indifferently: "Hmph, I think you don't need to worry about this. I will tell Zhong Qian separately and ask him to bring his daughter-in-law back to Beijing after the new year."