Houmen Fenghua: Meet the best evil mother-in-law

chapter 13
At that time, the Yao family was actually "exporting more than taking in", and they had been spending the "savings" of the Yao family.

It's just that Hou Ye was favored by the emperor not because of the salary to support his family, but because of the emperor's rewards and all kinds of invisible income.But as Lord Hou got older and the old emperor passed away, the Yao family became less favored.

The salary is still the same, and the favors are still those favors, but the emperor's rewards are gone, and the invisible income has also decreased.

If at this time, the Yao family had cleared their minds and married a mistress who knew how to run the house, they wouldn't have gradually fallen into the current state.

However, it is a pity that Mrs. Hou Ye is not a particularly discerning person, so she married the original owner.

As the founding prince, the old Hou Ye is not useless. For example, he knows that he is in charge of the military power, and he is too favored. He didn't intend to teach a particularly outstanding son to catch the emperor's eyes, so he "abandoned" the old man Yao .

When he was alive, old man Yao was okay, as long as he listened to his father, it was fine, but once he died, old man Yao was not good--he was not smart, and he was easy to be praised by others.

In addition, the original owner was also holding back, enjoying the lingering shadow of Lord Hou's mansion in the past, but never thought, if Lord Hou died, whether their Yao family could still maintain such a scene.

So, when Lord Hou died, all the invisible income of the Yao family was cut off except for the [-] households owned by Mr. Yao, but no one in the Yao family realized that their family had a big business, and that a skinny camel was bigger than a horse. , still hitting the swollen face to fill up the swelling, trying to maintain the grandeur of Hou Ye when he was still there.

What good results can this kind of behavior of sitting and eating nothing have?

Once Master Yao died, the Yao family would only be left with an empty shell.

It wasn't until this time that the original owner was shocked to realize the truth: the Yao family, who "worked hard to maintain the status of the Lord Hou", had long been reduced to a joke in the capital.

The original owner vomited blood, but she is a backyard woman, so what can she do?

She came up with a "coquettish idea"--using the excuse of being sad because of the passing of Mr. Yao, she moved with her family.

But this woman is a fool, wanting to save face, even if she "relocated", she couldn't bear the glory of the Yao family. She just sold some of the maids and servants, and some of them stayed in the capital to look after the Yao family's yard; Yangcheng.

What she thought was that the maids and servants in the capital only need to keep an eye on the gate of Yao's family and sweep the door behind closed doors. Firstly, they can spend less money, and secondly, they can save Yao's family's face.

As for Yunyang City, which is some distance away from the capital city, it is not a small town. Not only can it spend less money to meet the daily expenses of the Yao family, but also support it for a few more years; It's a little farther away, but it's not that I've completely left the circle of the capital.

Gu Qingling: "..."

When Gu Qingling dug out these contents from the memory of the original owner, he almost wanted to vomit blood.

If you move, you can move, don't you know that you can move back to the Yao family's ancestral home?
Wouldn't it be more honorable to move back to the ancestral home?
However, the original owner did not, because the original owner felt that it would be too embarrassing to move back to the Yao family's ancestral home, and she did not want to see the face of the Yao clan.

Following Gu Qingling's narration, the abacus on the account side was rattling, how much the Yao family needs to spend every year to support the maids and servants, how much it needs to spend on building and repairing the house, how much is the daily expenses of each house...

Adding up these oddities and comparing them with the Yao family's income, the disparity immediately became apparent.

"Hmph!" Gu Qingling said with a blank face, "Have you seen clearly? Our family's way of spending money, no matter how rich it is, is not enough for you to spend. Not to mention, the uncle is just a viscount. There are five hundred households, but how much is five hundred households? Compared with the money you have to spend, it is a drop in the bucket. Tell yourself how much you have contributed to the Yao family, and the Yao family is worth spending so much money for you ?”

Everyone in the hall was stunned: Damn it!No way, the Yao family really has no money? !
No matter whether they were born in the Yao family or entered the Yao family later, they never thought that the Yao family has so much money, and there is still time to spend it? !

But you can say no, they help to settle accounts on the spot, one after another, how much the Yao family spends a year, how much income a year, it is clear.

Even for those stores that are in operation, let alone, they have been losing money, and there is not much time to make money.

Even so, there are not many shops left.

"Mother..." Second Master Yao's voice trembled, he looked at Gu Qingling in disbelief, and asked, "Our family really has no money?!"

"What money is there? Is the calculation not clear enough? From your grandparents, how much money is in the account of the Yao family, is clearly recorded in the account book, and how much money is received and paid out every year. It's clear..." Gu Qingling stared at him and said, "Even the dowry I brought in when I married your father was included in it, but you can see for yourself, how much is left? What's the matter? , you still want me to include your sister-in-law and your wife's dowry together?"

The hearts of Mrs. Yao, Mrs. Yao, and Mrs. Yao suddenly rose. Although their dowry was not much, they didn't want to lose even this little money.

Forget about the old lady’s dowry, what would it look like if I added the dowry of my sister-in-law and his wife?Didn't he just become a little boy who eats soft food?Second Master Yao quickly shook his head: "There's no need for this, mother, as much as you can count, how can a man count his wife's dowry..."

Second Madam Yao breathed a sigh of relief: Fortunately, her man is still a thing, no matter how absurd, she also knows that her wife's dowry cannot be moved.With what he said, if the old matriarch dared to make an idea of ​​her dowry, she would dare to fight it.

——But, is the Yao family really that poor?
——Isn't it too bad that she planned to marry into Yao's family back then?
Mrs. Yao frowned slightly, but she had been married into Yao's family for many years, and even had two children, so it seemed too late to regret it?
Now that the matter has come to this point, she has to think about how to live in the future.

Not only the Second Mrs. Yao, but also Mrs. Yao, Mrs. Yao, and even Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Zhang are all thinking about how to live in the future.

However, compared to Mrs. Yao and others, Aunt Chen and Aunt Zhang, the two old women who have dealt with Gu Qingling all their lives, feel that Gu Qingling's sudden mention of this matter today may not have left behind.

——No rush, just wait a little longer.

——They want to see what this woman wants to do!
Aunt Chen even started thinking about the merchant's daughter: It's really not possible, let her son marry her. Although she is a merchant's daughter, at least she has a dowry.

Not only she thought this way, but her son Yao Liuye also thought this way: dare you, the mistress asked him to marry a merchant's daughter, it was actually for his own good?

——If he had known that the Yao family was already so poor, he shouldn't have made such a fuss.

——Although she is the daughter of a merchant, at least she doesn't have to worry about running out of money in the future.

At this moment, as long as they are the unmarried sons and daughters of the Yao family, they will panic.

No way, if the Yao family has no money, then their dowry/betrothal gift...

——No, it’s not just the dowry, it’s ourselves, I’m afraid it’s over too!
——Who knows if the mistress will marry them into some messy family for money!
Ms. Yao Qi and Ms. Yao Ba looked at each other and squeezed each other's hands worriedly.

(End of this chapter)