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Chapter 922 The Best Family 49
In the past, Master Sun lived in the countryside, so he naturally didn't know that there were such things as silver bills in the world, but after all, he has been in the capital for a few years, so now he naturally knows. ——So this is also the reason why Linlang was promoted to a noble lady and then assigned tasks to the people in the first house, because before, Master Sun had just entered the city and didn't know anything. Even if he was assigned to do something, he probably couldn't do it. But now, he has been in the capital for a few years and knows a lot of things, so he will be much better at doing things.

Of course, we can't rely entirely on Master Sun. Linlang will arrange people to serve as his aides in the future to prevent him from suffering losses due to his illiteracy and ignorance of the ins and outs of officialdom. This is not a difficult task. As long as people are willing to pay, there will definitely be people willing to do it.

Then she could send little bees to monitor the situation and ensure that Master Sun wouldn't cause any trouble.

Of course, this is all a matter for the future. Let's just talk about the present. When Mr. Sun saw that the gift from the other party was actually worth one thousand taels, he was shocked. He immediately wanted to find the other party, but the other party had already left. Mr. Sun had to quickly find the address the other party gave and wanted to return the money.

As a result, when they arrived at that family's house, the housekeeper said that their master had gone out and had not returned yet. As for Mr. Sun's request to return the gift money, the housekeeper refused to accept it, saying that they had no say in such matters and asked Mr. Sun to find their master.

——In fact, the other party had communicated with Mr. Sun before and found that Mr. Sun was a very honest person. He was afraid that the other party would return the money, so he deliberately avoided him.

Seeing that it was getting late, Mr. Sun had no choice but to go home and prepare to return the money tomorrow.

When I got home and told my family about this, the Sun family was also surprised.

Naturally, they also supported returning the money. After all, one thousand taels was too much. The emperor had just given them a job, and they dared not accept any money. If the emperor knew about it, he would get angry and not only take back the job, but also implicate Linlang.

Anyway, they are not short of money now, and they have an extra job to earn money, so there is no need to accept such gifts.

As a result, the next morning, when Master Sun was preparing to continue looking for the rich businessman, people kept coming to his house. They were all wealthy businessmen from various places who had dealings with the Imperial Household Department. They had heard that he would work in the Imperial Household Department in the future, and they came to give him gifts. All of them gave very large gifts, ranging from thousands of taels to hundreds of taels. It was really scary.

Naturally, the people in the eldest wife's house didn't want to accept it, but the wealthy businessmen said that it was a normal gift and allowed the eldest wife of the Sun family to accept it with peace of mind.

I also told them about the customs of offering gifts of honor during the four seasons and eight festivals in Beijing. I told them that if you don't accept gifts during a project, you are already very honest. Such gifts and offerings of honor of honor are very normal.

Master Sun was not sure whether this was true, so he asked several familiar neighbors. They all said that it was normal to show filial piety, and it was also normal for officials to accept gifts and hold banquets to celebrate, but other things should not be accepted. Otherwise, the emperor would not investigate, but if he did, it would be fatal.

If you accept these cold and charcoal tributes, nothing will happen. Even if the emperor investigates, he will not punish you for this money.

After hearing this, the people in the first room were relieved, but not completely. However, they could not find Linlang to ask, and finally they still held a simple idea, thinking that there were too many gifts, how could it not be ordinary gifts, they did not believe that if so many gifts were given, the emperor would find out and not punish them. After all, if officials did not accept gifts in public, but accepted huge gifts in private, it would not be normal.

So the people in the eldest house went to inquire about the officials around them about how much gifts they usually received. Sure enough, they received much less. Although it was much more than the gifts given by the country people, it was at least within the normal range. So Master Sun called all the gift-giving people together, returned their huge gifts, and told them that their family was indeed planning to hold a banquet, but he would not accept so much money. He asked them to give normal gifts if they wanted to.

——In fact, the normal amount of gifts in Beijing has already exceeded the imagination of the first wife, because many dignitaries give gifts between ten and fifty taels, which is too much.

Seeing that Master Sun was determined not to accept these gifts, those people had no choice but to accept them back. The gifts they sent were still quite a lot, but they only gave fifty taels each - Master Sun had made it clear that he would not accept any more than fifty taels, so these people gave the maximum amount of fifty taels.

The people in the first house thought that many wealthy families in Beijing would accept fifty taels of silver as gifts, and thought that the money should be safe, so they did not refuse it this time.

It has to be said that although the people in the first house came from the countryside, they were pretty smart. Although no one told them not to accept too many gifts, they discovered it themselves. Of course, the main reason was that they knew it was not right to accept so many gifts and felt that they should not be greedy, so they did not accept any. Otherwise, if they accepted too many, Linlang's enemies or Master Sun would find out and use the gifts to deal with the first house, and they would be punished for sure.

Linlang was relieved to see that the eldest wife knew not to accept too many gifts. If they didn't know, Linlang would expose the wrongness of tying up lawsuits, just like she did last time. She would choose a family nearby that accepted a lot of gifts and expose it to them to let them know that they should not accept so many gifts.

In fact, even if Mr. Sun was not the kind of person who accepted gifts, and only accepted normal gifts of gratitude, the family's income would have increased rapidly, because no matter how small the amount they received was, if there were many people giving it, it would still be a considerable income.

So, just as Master Sun Er had thought, the first wife's property was increasing rapidly, even faster than the second wife's property, because although the second wife also had gray income, it was obviously not as much as the gray income that could be obtained from such a lucrative job in the Imperial Household Department.

Of course, they all knew that these properties were brought by Linlang. After all, if Linlang had not been favored and found a job for Master Sun, there would be no such good thing. So they were very grateful to Linlang and were thinking about how to contact Linlang and ask her if she needed anything in the palace.

In addition, as more and more people came to visit and banquets were often held, the house they bought before was too small to accommodate the banquets. They could not eat in a restaurant every time, as that would be too troublesome and too expensive. So the eldest wife bought a larger house nearby.

Although it was not a house with three or five entrances or even a garden, it was just an ordinary courtyard house, but it had many more rooms than their previous small house, so at least it could accommodate banquets.

In addition to buying a bigger house, the people in the big house started buying shops, but after buying more and more, they could not resist the temptation of land and planned to buy land as well.