Zhu Men Ji Shi

Chapter 155 Secret (5)

Yeah, the first time is always the hardest.Once raw and twice familiar, there is always a process of adaptation.

Shen Yuechen nodded as if tacitly acquiescing in her heart.

In any case, her efforts were not in vain. The Ruan family finally accepted their father's invitation, and probably accepted her as a stranger.

Thinking of this, Shen Yuechen's mood improved a lot, and her good mood lasted all the way back to Shen's house.But when she saw Shen Zhiyun's smirking face, her relaxed and happy mood immediately faded a bit.

Because he couldn't visit Ruan's house in person, Shen Zhiyun was really depressed for a long time.

He has been sitting at home waiting for them to come back, hoping that the two of them can bring him good news.

Shen Yuechen and Mrs. Shen's relationship is getting deeper, but she still chooses to keep a distance from Shen Zhiyun, especially now, looking at his seemingly kind and kind face, asking this and that with concern, but in fact, what she wants to hear the most is about Ruan home's answer.

Shen Yuechen didn't make a fool of himself, and directly told him what the Duke said, verbatim.

After hearing this, Shen Zhiyun's expression became slightly agitated. If he hadn't maintained his elder's face and posture in front of Zhu Jintang, he would have clapped his hands and laughed happily, and wandered around the room.

Shen Yuechen could see that he was being patient, and Zhu Jintang could naturally see it too.

Shen Zhiyun didn't want to make himself too obvious, so he turned his head and told Yao Shi: "Let the servants prepare the dinner, I want to have a drink with my son-in-law today."

Hearing this, Shen Yuechen frowned slightly, and hurriedly said with a smile: "We have already eaten at the Ruan's house, and drinking is harmful to our health."

When Shen Zhiyun heard this, he naturally couldn't hold on, so he just let them go back to their room to rest.

After they left, Yao Shi came to his side and said with a half-smile, "The Ruan family really still values ​​the Zhu family, the Master's painstaking efforts before are not worth what Zhu Jintang said."

Yao shi said this very lightly, which made Shen Zhiyun a little displeased, "As long as the matter is done, why do you say such fussy things, it's disappointing."

Yao Shi also frowned when he heard that, "I don't want to spoil your interest, but I feel that it's a pity that so much money wasted for nothing before, and it hasn't been done to people's hearts."

If I knew it was useless, why bother to waste money and shame.

For his wife Yao's nagging, Shen Zhiyun felt bored from the bottom of his heart.I don't know if it's because she's getting older or her personality has changed. Although she used to value money very much, she didn't always care about trivial things like this...Because in the early years, Yao's natal family helped him a lot, so Shen Zhiyun treated Yao Shi has always been good, she usually gives in as much as she can, and accommodates as much as she can, but now, every time he sees her smug and stingy appearance, he feels very upset.

Human patience is limited. I used too much in the past, but now I don't have enough patience.

At this moment, Shen Zhiyun and Yao Shi returned to their own room, and after freshening up, the maids all retreated quietly.

Seeing that there were only the two of them left in the room, Shen Zhiyun said, "Now is the right time, don't keep putting your money where your mouth is, what if the children hear it? How embarrassing."

Yao Shi snorted and said, "Master, you don't care about family affairs, and you naturally don't care about money, but I'm different. I don't care about big and small things in the family, and I have to take care of my mother-in-law and raise children. Ying is already betrothed, and the dowry is bound to cost a lot."

Although Shen Zhiyun has been an official for many years, he doesn't have much savings.In Laizhou before, a lot of money was spent on decorating the new mansion.Afterwards, they moved to the capital again, and everything needed to be rearranged for basic necessities of life, such as food, clothing, housing, and transportation, all of which made them empty out their entire family.

After Shen Zhiyun took office, he was busy contacting contacts, and every time he visited, he gave gifts, almost all of which were generous.

This gift is decent, but Yao shi has to do his best to save money from other places.However, it is not a long-term solution to always make up for it like this, and make ends meet.

The more Yao thought about it, the more he felt aggrieved, so he simply got up and went to the cabinet, took out the family account book, flipped through a few pages, spread it out in front of Shen Zhiyun, and said, "Master, look carefully for yourself, just these three In the past month, how much money have you moved from your family to go out to socialize?"

Seeing that she had dug out all the ledgers, Shen Zhiyun became very impatient, and without looking at them, he just said, "What are you doing with it? I know it in my heart, it's only about 1000 taels."

His seemingly confident answer seemed ridiculous to Yao Shi's ears. She chuckled lightly and said, "Master, let's see for yourself. It's not 1000 taels but 2000 taels."

She couldn't help but feel distressed when she thought of all the white money being lost and gone forever.

"So much?" Shen Zhiyun sat up straight, looking very surprised. He had always had a rough idea in mind, and he was busy with various things recently, so he was a little uncertain for a while, but he didn't expect him to spend so much. A lot of money, he took the ledger and looked at it again and again, only to see that Yao had clearly marked the cost of a sum of silver taels, which made him unable to deny it even if he wanted to, and his expression became slightly embarrassed: "Okay , since it is spent, it is spent, and it is useless to be distressed, and our family has nothing to spend money on now, so we will come back to be diligent and thrifty in the future."

"Is the master really confused, or are you making fun of me? Our family has too much money to spend now. Not to mention, the Zhu family's share, just preparing the Ruan family's gifts, can't afford to spend less .Also, the Dragon Boat Festival will be half a month away, and there will be a lot of housekeeping inside and out, and I don’t know how much it will cost?” Yao was so worried that his heart was on fire, and he wished he could break every penny in half. Flowers can be down-to-earth.

Hearing what his wife said, Shen Zhiyun frowned slightly and said, "There's nothing you can do about it, just figure it out. We're new here, and if we're not generous, we'll be looked down upon by others."

Yao shook his head dumbfoundingly: "I'm not the God of Wealth, how much do I want? There's really no other way, I can only borrow some money from my natal family first. Sigh...it's the same as last time, it's really embarrassing ah."

Speaking of which, since she married Shen Zhiyun, she has contributed a lot of money to the Shen family.

Although the Shen family can be regarded as a scholarly family, they have almost no family background.Shen Zhiyun's father left early, and the Shen family had almost no savings, only living on that pitiful family property.At the beginning, the reason why Yao Shi didn't care about his family background and betrothal gifts, but rather wanted to marry him, was because he valued his appearance and talents, and hoped that one day he could become a dignified official wife.

Now, her wish has finally come true, but the situation before her is completely different from what she expected.Leaving aside the pomp and pomp, just worrying about money and gifts every day is enough to make people feel depressing.

If I had known earlier, being an official's wife in the capital would be so useless, why not stay in Laizhou all the time?

Shen Zhiyun actually didn't want her to go back to her natal family to borrow money, but if it really came time to need money, the only thing he could think of was Yao's natal family.

However, Yao shi didn't think so in her heart, she thought of the Zhu family.In terms of money, who in Texas can compare with the Zhu family?If such a big benefactor is not used, why bother to search for the little money from her natal family?

Yao shi's tone softened quickly, and he said softly: But, think about it carefully, isn't my natal family's boss, Yuechen, that kid here?Is there not much money left in my natal family?Isn't that child Yuechen back? "

Shen Zhiyun only felt that there was something in her words, so he frowned and said, "What do you mean by that?"

Could it be that he wants to borrow money from his son-in-law?

Yao shi said: "When Yuechen got married, we spent a lot of money..."

Before she finished speaking, Shen Zhiyun immediately interrupted: "Nonsense, is there no food or drink at home, or what? How did you think of this..."

Just now, relying on Zhu's family to do something, how could it be possible to borrow money at this juncture?
Shen Zhiyun said righteously: "I know exactly what you think in your heart. Even if our family is short of money, it's not enough to borrow money everywhere. Also, don't even think about it, how much money we have had because of Zhu's family. It’s cheap, how can you still think about greed for money?”

Seeing him a little annoyed, Yao shi didn't speak for a while, but thought in her heart, what's wrong with me just being greedy?That's better than you who have one thing on the surface and one thing behind the other.

Shen Zhiyun explained a lot of reasoning to her in one breath, and finally added: "You are usually so shrewd, why can't you even figure this out. When I get promoted in the future and gain power, how much money do you want? It's so boring to have to worry about this now!"

Yao Shiyuan was just thinking about it, and didn't really intend to risk his face and shame. Hearing Shen Zhiyun's words, he pondered slightly: "I'll come back after all the money is gone. I can't wait, but I'm afraid that if that child Yuechen gets out What kind of variable, when the time comes to throw it out to the Zhu family, we won't be able to get anything."

Shen Zhiyun also knew that Shen Yuechen's health was not good, but seeing how close she and Zhu Jintang were to each other in the past two days, she felt at ease in her heart. After thinking about it, she said, "Is it all right after a year? Maybe, wait a minute." There will be good news later. The doctor also said that this is not a disease, and sooner or later there will be a good day."

Shen Zhiyun was only thinking about her bright future, and really didn't want to worry about such a thing.

However, Yao shi was exactly the opposite of what he thought, because it had been a year, and the more delays, the more dangerous it would be.

After running for two days in a row, Shen Yuechen and Zhu Jintang were a little tired and wanted to take a good rest for a day.

Shen Yuechen knew that Zhu Jintang had dealt with the family affairs and had a lot of business matters to deal with, so she asked Mama Wu to cook him a lot of delicious and nutritious food.

Now Zhu Jintang has become like her, only getting used to Mama Wu's cooking.

In the evening, the two of them had just finished their dinner when they saw a servant girl rushing to deliver a message, saying that the Ruan family had sent someone to send a letter for Zhu Jintang to have a look at.

Although they are in the same city, the Ruan family and the Shen family are somewhat far away, it is better to send messages on a fast horse than to visit the door in person.

Zhu Jintang took the envelope and opened it directly, only to see that it was in his aunt's handwriting, and the ink on it was still fresh, so it looked like it had just been written.

(End of this chapter)