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

Chapter 34
If it was normal, there would definitely be people who would make a fuss, thinking that Gu Qingling was too much, and would not even let them use her as a servant.

But now the Yao family has just owed 8000 taels of silver, and there is no balance in the account. Even if someone wants to open their mouth, there is no way to do so.

Gu Qingling stopped back after saying a word: "Okay, you want to buy it with your own money, but I don't have any money anyway."

Not only did the servants "reduce", Gu Qingling also felt that the family's food and clothing expenses were a bit high, so she took the account book and reduced everything.There are too many varieties of afternoon tea snacks, so there is no need to prepare so many servings, waste, and how many should be reduced; why girls make too many hairstyles and clothes every year, how many should be reduced; what kitchen...

"Okay, that's all for the time being." Gu Qingling took the account book and calculated carefully, "In this way, our monthly expenses can be reduced by [-]%, plus how many servants we have sold, we can squeeze out some balance in the account no matter what. .”

"It's been hard work for everyone during this time. The Yao family is in trouble. Only when everyone works together, can the Yao family get through."

"After a while, the family will not be so difficult, and then I will consider making up for everyone."

……

Aunt Chen didn't think about whether to make up for it or not, she just asked one question: "Old Madam, is your reward of 100 taels of silver still countable?"

"As a count, we will start checking in a month, and whoever recites it well will give it to someone." Gu Qingling looked at Aunt Chen, finally showing a smile on her face, "Aunt Chen, I am very optimistic about you, come on!"

Aunt Chen was heartbroken: ...

--I bother!
——I still want you to look after me?
——Damn, in order to pay back the money for your son, even our monthly bill has been reduced, are we still human?
Aunt Chen was only thankful in her heart, fortunately she had a smart mind, Second Master Yao pretended to be poor when borrowing money, otherwise he would be "trapped" to death by this bitch.

After going back, Aunt Chen told the third daughter-in-law to hide her dowry well, and don't let that old woman find out. Now that the Yao family is so poor, be careful to be "detained" by that old woman.

"Yes, mother." Third Mrs. Yao lowered her head and responded softly.

In fact, Mrs. Yao didn't dare to reveal the money she kept at the bottom of the box without Aunt Chen telling her.Although she came from an official family, she was just an unfavored concubine, and her dowry was not much.

With so little money, how could she "reveal" it for others to see?
On the other side, Miss Yao Qi and Miss Yao Ba followed Aunt Zhang back to the yard. They were a little disappointed because the people in their yard had also been sold.

Originally, as a young lady of the Yao family, even if they are concubines, each of them has four big maids, two maids in charge, and other maids and servants who clean and wash clothes.

It's all right now, except for the two big maids, there is only one woman in charge, and one maid for cleaning and one for washing clothes.As for the others, they have their own servants.

Yes, it is "public".

In addition to the servants of each court, Gu Qingling proposed a new concept, that is, "common servants".

It can't be said that it is a new idea. In addition to the servants of the various courts, there are many other servants who are not on duty in other places. They are just equivalent to this kind of servants who are closer to the master. "Inferior to others" is not taken seriously.

But it is different now, Gu Qingling does not allow the courts to keep too many so-called "insiders", instead reuses these servants on duty who do not belong to the courts, but only belong to the "Yao family", and will re-divide their work responsibilities , and work guidelines.

Gu Qingling's big operation directly disrupted Aunt Zhang's previous layout. She looked dumbfounded, but in fact she had already exploded with anger. It can be said that she was even angrier than Aunt Chen.

"bump--"

In the Buddhist hall, Aunt Zhang was so angry that she threw the wooden fish out.

For a long time, Aunt Zhang didn't even pick up the wooden fish.

However, when she opened the door and called the servant girl in, she regained her kind and calm "Aunt Zhang's face".

Some of the family's servants were sold off, and the quotas of various courts were also reduced, but to Mrs. Yao, these were not the most important. What she was more worried about was the money owed by the Yao family.

Back in the yard, Mrs. Yao sent her daughter back to rest, and she turned cold when facing Uncle Yao.

She has been married to the Yao family for so many years, and she has always been "the husband sings and the wife follows", but she did not expect that this time, when it came to borrowing money, Uncle Yao didn't even say hello to her.

—what does he mean by that?
—Did you not take her to heart?

——Did she not know that he sold the whole Yao family one day?

"Uncle Yao, you are quite capable when you come back!"

Uncle Yao was originally happy that he was valued by his mother, but when he saw Mrs. Yao's cold face, he felt worse.

He knew that Mrs. Yao had always had a problem with his mother's holding on to the family power. Before that, she had finally found an excuse to "take" the family power back. As a result, when his second brother had an accident, his mother made excuses to take the family power back. After going back, it can be said that "once back to before liberation", it is no wonder that Mrs. Yao is not angry.

Uncle Yao doesn't blame Mrs. Yao for wanting to take power, but that's his mother, and there's nothing he can do about it.

"Cough cough..." Uncle Yao coughed uncomfortably, and said, "A few days ago, Xia Tao was still saying that you were not feeling well, just taking advantage of my mother's housekeeper, you should take good care of her..."

Before he finished speaking, Mrs. Yao became angry: "Nursing, what to raise? You didn't tell me about such a big thing as borrowing money. I was almost pissed off by you. What more to raise, what more to raise?" It's better to die of anger earlier, so as to move the position behind."

"Yu'er, don't be angry..." Uncle Yao kept his head low, called Mrs. Yao's nickname, and coaxed in a low voice, "Sister Xin is still young, if you have any troubles, sister Xin and I What can I do? Do you really want to leave us alone?"

"You...you know how to talk about Sister Xin." Mrs. Yao was so angry that she poked his forehead directly with her white and tender fingers, "Talk about it yourself, just like your second brother, what is he doing? How long will it take to pay off the money? In the end, the big house will not pay it back? It’s not tens of taels, hundreds of taels, so much money, how long will it take?”

Mrs. Yao was annoyed that the housekeeper was taken away, but she was even more annoyed by this.

Her man, who did such a big thing secretly, didn't even say hello to her, didn't he just ignore her?

She doesn't mind that Uncle Yao talks about brothers, but no matter what, he can't take the big house, right?
Hearing Mrs. Yao mentioning the money, Uncle Yao finally realized: So his wife "misunderstood" that he borrowed the money.

His mother did attribute the credit to him, saying that he borrowed it, but in fact...

Uncle Yao patiently explained the origin of the money to Mrs. Yao.

"Auction?" Mrs. Yao was stunned for a moment, "What auction? What is that? Didn't it mean that you borrowed it from outside?"

(End of this chapter)