Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

As Dongcao was setting the table, she said to Linlang, "Aunt, your family has sent you a letter. I just brought it over from the concierge."

Then he took out a letter and handed it to Linlang.

Linlang didn't open it and look at it right away, but said, "Let's eat first, and talk about it later."

Dongcao was a little surprised to see that Linlang didn't pick it up and look at it as she did before, but she didn't say anything and started to eat with Linlang.

The meals are all portioned, and everyone eats their own food. The separate dining system is quite clean and hygienic.

——The quality of the food is just average. Although as a concubine, her food is slightly better than Dongcao's, but in Linlang's opinion, it is still quite average. Linlang thinks that she must find a way to live better in the future, otherwise even the food is so bad, which is not what she wants to see.

It was normal that Linlang did not read the letter immediately like her original self, because she knew that most of the letters from the Fang family would say something, which would be nothing more than saying that something happened at home and they needed money. At worst, they would just say that the family was short of money and asked her to give them money.

The village where the original body lived, since the children were for sale, they wanted to send them to the houses of nobles with better conditions. The purpose was naturally to take care of the family when they became rich in the future, so bloodsucking was inevitable.

Being a son might be better off, as he can still hold the money in his own hands, save it, and go home to marry a wife in the future.

Daughters are in a miserable situation, and many of them become dependent on their parents. Before they get married, it goes without saying that all their monthly allowances are sent back home. Even after they get married, their parents' home will continue to suck their blood. This kind of thing is quite common in the original village.

In fact, it is normal. Even in modern society, there are still many people who support their younger brothers and older brothers, let alone this era.

So although she received two taels of silver as a monthly stipend and the mansion also made her clothes and jewelry every year, a lot of it was sent back home by her, leaving her with nothing.

Now that Linlang is here, naturally he won't give her a penny. It's considered good that he didn't ask those people to return what his original body gave him.

Don't tell her that you need to be taken care of in her old age. I'm sorry, but in this era, a daughter who is married off is like water spilled. Taking care of one's family's old age is the responsibility of the men, and it has nothing to do with the girls.

Give all the property to the son, and find the daughter to take care of in old age. It is not easy to have both. This is why the Fang family did not bring up the issue of old age, but just played the sympathy game. Because in this era, there is no such thing as letting girls take care of them in old age. So they can only play the sympathy game and PUA the original body. They give money, but the original body ignores them, and they have no other way. This is much more convenient than modern times. So now that Linlang comes, she ignores them and doesn't give them a penny, and the Fang family has no way at all.

Of course, from the time I entered the mansion at the age of ten to now being in my early twenties, the things I have given to my mother's family in these ten years would be enough for modern elderly care if converted into money.

After all, how much did the Fang family spend to raise the original body until he was ten years old? And in these ten years, the original body gave more than a hundred taels of silver to the family. With such a large amount of money, shouldn't it be enough for retirement? After all, in this world, silver is very valuable.

After dinner, Linlang opened the letter from her parents' home. The letter indeed asked for money, saying that her eldest brother was getting married and was short of money, so she was asked to give some money to the family, not much, just ten taels would be enough.

Ten taels is not a lot. Pah. My original body only had two taels of salary a month and no other income. Ten taels was almost my income for half a year. It's not a lot.

And after half a year, the original body's family will have new places to spend money and come to ask for money. Anyway, they calculated how much money the original body could earn in the palace in a year and took it all away.

When my elder brother got married, I gave him thirty taels of silver. Now it's my eldest brother's turn, and I guess he wants the same amount.

According to the original body's memory, there are four males in the original body's family, in addition to the eldest brother, there are also the second and third brothers. In other words, just for these three brothers who have not yet found wives, Linlang has to prepare ninety taels of silver.

She had these ninety taels of silver, why not buy something for herself to eat? Why give it to them? Unless she was crazy.

So Linlang read the letter and ignored it.

Anyway, the Fang family couldn't break into the palace to cause trouble, so she ignored them and was not afraid of them breaking into her place to cause trouble. It was not like in modern society, where some old men gave their property to their sons and let their daughters take care of them in their old age. But the pension their daughters gave was too little, and they were not satisfied, so they could rush to their daughters' places of residence and workplaces to cause trouble. Now she was in the palace, they couldn't get in and cause trouble, so she was very safe. Why should she be afraid of them? If they liked to write letters, then they could write.

Dong Cao saw that Linlang did not mention the money after reading the letter, so he thought that the Fang family did not write to ask for money this time, so he smiled and said, "That's strange. I thought your family was writing to ask for money again, but it's not this time?"

Linlang showed her the letter and said, "Of course, it's not that. It's just that I have a son now, and I have to think about my own son and save some money for him, so I don't care about my mother's family anymore."

She couldn't say that she didn't want to be a sucker at all, so she just gave some reasonable reasons for refusal in this era.

After all, in this era, as a mother, it is normal and reasonable for her to stop subsidizing her parents' home and save money for her son. It is much more legitimate than saying that she doesn't want to give money to her parents' home.

Dongcao heard Linlang's words and said hurriedly, "Aunt, you are right to think so. But I was a servant before, so it was difficult for me to persuade you."

In fact, Dongcao had been secretly shaking his head and sighing when he saw his original body sending money home all the time.

Linlang had seen in Little Bee that after Dongcao took the letter from the concierge, she kept shaking her head and said that her aunt's money was almost gone again, so she knew that Dongcao did not approve of her sending the money home.

Linlang listened to Dongcao's words, nodded, and said, "I'm in this situation now, I must think it through. After all, I've fallen out of favor, and my status may be gone. I only have a few dollars a year, and I have to send it all back to my parents' home. When the child grows up, other children have money from their mothers, but my child has none. Wouldn't it be blamed on me as a mother for not knowing how to manage the house? I have been in the mansion for many years, but I don't have any money at all? I will have nothing to spend. When the prince passes away in the future, my son and I will move out of the mansion. I have no money on hand and rely on my son for support. Not to mention that I feel bad, but I have no money on hand and have to look at my son and daughter-in-law's faces, which is not good."

Dongcao clapped his hands after hearing this and said, "That's exactly the truth! Thanks to my aunt for thinking it through!"

The royal family members have salaries, but royal family concubines like me do not have salaries. When I move out of the palace, I will lose the monthly salary given to concubines by the palace. If I have no money of my own, I will have to rely on my son for a living.

Even modern people cannot accept spending their son’s money and feel dissatisfied with their parents. Moreover, in this era, one absolutely has to live by others’ wishes.

So the original body was really not very smart. He didn't keep the money in his own hands, but gave it all to his mother's family. How stupid. (End of this chapter)