Don't panic, my mother and I are dressed as Houfu mother-in-law and daughter-in-law!

Chapter 102 The Beauty of Thinking

The parties didn't realize it, and even felt that it was far from enough.

Gu Qingyou flipped through the ledger of the mansion's daily expenses, the more he looked, the deeper the lines between his brows became.

Regarding debt repayment, she discussed with Xue Lan that it was nothing more than increasing income and reducing expenditure, but now the increase in income has not yet been settled, so she can only start with reducing income.

In the huge Duke's Mansion, there are more than 200 masters and servants in total, and this is not counting the mansion soldiers and the servants sent to each village to manage affairs. There are always as many as five hundred people.

Not to mention the monthly money of these hundreds of people, just eating and clothing is a huge consumption.

Even counting the aunts, there are only nine masters in the mansion. Needless to say, Song Hengye has almost only one Budu beside him, and there are a few servants in charge of cleaning, and there is not even a maid in the yard.

Because Song Chengye lives in Xue Liner's Tingyuxuan all year round, he also employs many people, with more than 20 people inside and out.

Needless to say, Gu Qingyou, on the day she came here, there were two little girls guarding the door, and there was no one else around, and now she was eating and living with Xue Lan, so they didn't know where they were arranged.

"Mom, there are too many servants in your yard, and there are only six people who are responsible for cleaning the yard. Shouldn't they be cut off?"

The courtyard where Xue Lan lived was the largest in the mansion, but it was only three to four hundred square meters, and it didn't feel crowded at ordinary times, and there were as many as thirty for a pair of rosters.

In fact, Gu Qingyou had already seen it the first day after wearing it. There were seven or eight people waiting for washing and changing clothes in the morning, not to mention cleaning, tidying up the yard, planting flowers and plants, making beds and stacking quilts...

The light from Gu Qingyou's eyes turned into copper coins, and she couldn't help complaining: "This Mrs. Xue is too vain, how much money wasted in one year?"

Zhang Yong was sweating when he heard it. How could a daughter-in-law say that her mother-in-law is not right to her face, but she was not annoyed when she saw his wife, but she agreed very much: "It's really too much. Let Zhang Yong reduce the number of people later. Distribute them to various Zhuangzi or shops according to their proficient skills."

After all, pointing the country on the roster, more than half of the originally densely packed names instantly became popular.

"Okay, Zhang Yong will gather the selected people later, arrange additional places to go, and don't move the rest for the time being."

In fact, according to the idea of ​​taking care of Qingyou, except for the necessary laundry, sanitation and kitchen work, other matters can be done by myself, but I still have a dozen more people than expected due to concerns about the meeting at the Duke's Mansion.

For a hundred people, each person's monthly food and drink expenses and monthly money are about three taels of silver, 300 taels a month, and 600 taels a year, which are more than what a small family can earn in a lifetime.

In addition, in the past, Xue Shi and Xue Lin'er had to make new headgear almost every month, which cost no less than a few thousand taels, tens of thousands a year, and this money had to be saved.

The two of them listed all the ways they could think of to save money on paper, and when they were added together, it was easily 10,000+ taels of silver.

"Mom, don't forget, it's not these things that cost the most money, but that prodigal son."

Gu Qingyou took out an account book, which was dedicated to recording Song Chengye's expenses. In the past year, he spent nearly [-] yuan on dinner alone, and every time he came back from the flower house, he had to give some extra jewels for fear that Xue Liner would be jealous. The first flower is also a lot of money.

For other cockfights, dog fights and cricket fights, it is commonplace to lose hundreds of thousands every time. The most recent time was two days before Song Lian died.

The red characters "3000 taels of silver" dyed Xue Lan's eyes red, and said to Zhang Yong, "Go! Call the prince here!"

In her previous life and present life, she hated men's gambling the most. She had seen too many young men in their prime, and in the end their wives were separated because of gambling. Therefore, Song Chengye must stop this bad habit, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

The servant sent by Zhang Yong went around but couldn't find Song Chengye, and learned that he had taken Xue Lin'er to Xue's residence, so he hurried back to report.

Thinking of what Xue Lin'er said just now in the kitchen, Gu Qingyou vaguely guessed: "Is he going to Xue's house to borrow money?"

Xue Lan hummed angrily: "This Xue Lin'er, who just warned her not to spread the matter of her debt, turned her head around and urged Cheng Ye to go back to Xue's house. It's really hateful!"

Gu Qingyou didn't think it was strange, and said with a smile: "People don't kill the world for themselves, if the Xue family is really willing to come forward to help the Duke's government pay off the debt, then she will become the number one hero, and then the Xue family will have enough reasons to let you Force me away and vacate the position of Mrs. Shizi."

"Oh, she thinks beautifully!"

Xue Lan sneered disdainfully: "I know Xue Aokun and his wife too well. These two people have always been useless. When the Duke's Mansion was in full swing, they held on tightly. Now they will only hide as far as they can. No wonder."

In the past, Xue was confused and only thought that they got close to her for the sake of brother and sister. However, in Xue Lan's view, Xue Lan's various behaviors were full of loopholes.

Gu Qingyou didn't understand all kinds of things in the past, thinking that Xue Lin'er was spoiled and spoiled since she was a child, she must have a deep relationship with her parents, if she went back to act coquettishly and say some soft words, as a parent, she wouldn't have the heart to stand by and watch.

"Look, it's like when I get married in the future, and my in-laws' family encounters difficulties and needs a lot of money to pay for it. Would you choose to sit idly by?"

"How can it be the same?" Xue Lan rolled her eyes, "I love you only because you are my daughter, nothing else, Xue Lan's brother and sister-in-law may not."

In Xue's impression, Xue Lin'er, as the eldest daughter of the Xue family, was not taken seriously when she was born. Because the Xue family has been passed down for several generations, the desire for a male is particularly strong.

Xue Aokun has been married for many years, his wife Lin has been unable to conceive, the two searched for famous doctors all over the place, the strange thing is that they can't see anything wrong, they only say that the fate has not come.

Feeling ashamed, Mrs. Lin started praying to gods and worshiping Buddha since then, and visited almost all the Guanyin temples in Dajin, and finally became pregnant in the eighth year of marriage.

This child is not easy to come by. It is reasonable to say that regardless of gender, the couple should be as precious as jewels, but Xue Aokun has other ideas, only worrying that if it is a daughter, it is still unknown whether the wife can conceive again, so he burns incense every day, hoping to get a boy in one fell swoop. .

As a result, she became pregnant in October and gave birth to a baby girl.

Driven by a huge psychological gap, Xue Aokun accepted the newcomer into the mansion on the third day after Lin gave birth to Xue Lin'er.

Later, the concubine lived up to expectations and gave birth to a boy for him. Although he was only a concubine, he still had a good life and never cared about Xue Lin'er ever since.

Because of this, Lin was left out in the cold, so she vented her resentment on Xue Lin'er. Whenever she saw the concubine at home, she would always scold Xue Lin'er who was still in the ignorant stage when she returned to her room. .

Of course, Xue Lin'er didn't remember much at that time, so I'm afraid she didn't know her parents' faces.

(End of this chapter)