Number of People

  Chapter 67 The Jiazijuan Family

"My son, why did I suddenly think of asking this? I didn't ask much about the family affairs. Your aunt is in charge of it. Your aunt Su and Aunt Xie also take care of it. They report accounts quarterly and settle accounts every year. What's wrong?" Feng The mother laughed, "Could it be that you are going to let the mother hand over the family to you? Even if you want to get married, it will take two years. If the bride wants to take over, you have to learn, right?"

   "No, my son is thinking about it. We are sitting and eating in Beijing, especially my father's recent consumption is very high. If we don't open up more money, I am afraid that this kind of life will not be able to last for too long." Feng Ziying thought for a while, and still confessed.

"In addition, my son returned to Linqing this time and found that the Feng family has declined in Linqing. Although they are still among the top three families, they are actually far from the Zhou family and the Ren family. The other houses of the Feng family have become ordinary. There are a lot of lowly laborers and servants in the family, and even many of their children have robbed and robbed. It is very regrettable for the Zhang Fuzun of Linqing Prefecture and He Tuiguan to talk. This is still in front of his son, and he may turn his back on it. , I am afraid it is contempt and disdain."

  Mother Feng's complexion suddenly turned ugly.

Although the Feng family has been away from Linqing for many years, everyone knows that the Feng family can be ranked among the top three families in Linqing. The revitalization of the family actually fell on the husband.

The revitalization of the Feng family is actually not that simple. It involves a lot of expenses, the repair and even construction of the ancestral house, the expansion of the Feng family's ancestral hall, and the education and advancement of the children of the Feng family. These are all things. Hey, but how can the Feng family afford such a big expense with the one or two hundred acres of land and a few shops in Linqing?

  After Feng You came back, he had vaguely mentioned what his son did in Linqing, which made Feng's mother very unhappy.

  Of course she wouldn't blame her son, but why Feng You didn't stop Brother Keng's behavior. Now that her son brought up this matter again, Mother Feng couldn't help but feel a little different.

Mother Feng also knew that under such circumstances, some things could not be avoided. If her husband lost the reputation of the three great masters of Linqing, he would be stabbed in the back wherever he went in the future. accepted.

Seeing that her mother was silent, Feng Ziying also knew that her words had touched her heart, and continued: "Father is considered the head of our Feng family in Linqing, the uncle and uncle are gone, and the Feng family in Suzhou is too far away. , We don’t seem to have much contact, and in the future, whether it’s Linqing or Suzhou who mentions our Northern Feng family, I’m afraid they will focus on father first, so father and mother still need to consider this matter.”

  Feng's mother hesitated, and seemed to feel that her son's words were not unreasonable. The Feng family in the north seemed to be looking at her husband. If Feng's decline, I am afraid that everyone in the family will scold him in the future.

"Son, you are also aware of the current situation at home. Your father is still at home. He wants to return to Datong in the foreseeable future. The money is sent out like water, but there is no response. If only relying on the current situation at home Support, I'm afraid it won't last long, if there are other expenses, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult."

Feng's mother sighed, "If you want to say that our family is relatively economical, look at other people's homes, not to mention other things, just say Jinxianghou, Shoushanbo, Jingtianhou, which family is not one or two hundred How can someone be so frugal and save money like our family? I’m still thinking that it’s not possible, so I’ll let some people out and save some money.”

  Feng Ziying is speechless. With her own family like this, is she still called to save money on food and expenses?

  Of course, if you want to compare with the Jia family and the Wang family, you must be much inferior, but they have many branches, and they are a family of two countries, or they are now the Jingying Jiedu envoy and the right servant of the Ministry of War. How can you compare? It's so different.

"Mother, we can't compare ourselves with others. As the saying goes, it's good to look at the vegetables and eat, and tailor clothes. My father is still unemployed now, and there are hundreds of people in the family to support, and the more this is the time, the more we can't cut people casually, otherwise the rumors If the rumors spread, our Feng family will have to be disgraced even more." Feng Ziying said hastily.

  In this era, it is not as easy as sending people away, but the sour words behind it are really quite ruinous.

It is going to spread that the Feng family can't even support the servants, women, maids, and servants. What does that mean? Those civil servants who want to gain fame are more likely to be regarded as a sign of family decline.

  Feng's mother didn't expect her son to think so far-reachingly. When she thought about it, she really did, and she broke out in a cold sweat.

  She really thought about this idea. There are eighty or ninety people in the family, and there are probably a lot of idlers. It makes sense to send some out, but she didn't think of this level.

   "My son, in your opinion, what should I do now?" Duan slowly figured out that his son might have some ideas, so he came to talk to himself specifically.

  No matter what the husband does, he only knows about the annual income and expenses of the family, and she and his sister are in charge of it. But now that the husband has a lot of expenses, his livelihood has not changed from before, so he has to think more about it.

  It would be fine if the husband can really get back together, but it seems that it is not sure yet, and in two or three years, my son said that he will face the matter of marriage negotiation.

  If a bride is married, the house must be small.

It turned out that I had discussed with my husband to expand the rear. If possible, it would be best to buy the dilapidated yard next door. In addition to rebuilding the layout, the cost of this and that will be a sea of ​​money. It is estimated that it is not a hundred thousand. 80,000 can't beat it.

Thinking of this, the Duan family is also a little worried. These are all real expenses on the surface, not counting all kinds of unexpected expenses. Every year, the expenses of this big family are so large, but the income has never increased. problem.

"Mother, it's actually very simple. Increase income and reduce expenditure, but reducing expenditure is easy to cause problems for our family now. If father is used by the court, it would be a good thing to reduce expenditure and lay off people, but it is definitely not appropriate now. We even need to supplement the manpower appropriately." Feng Ziying said calmly: "The best way is to open source, we can't always keep this one-third of an acre of land to make a living, we have to find other ways Only by making a living can the Feng family not fall."

   "It seems that you have found a way?" Feng Tang's voice came from outside the door, obviously coming over just after waking up.

  Feng Ziying hurriedly stood up and saluted, "Father."

   Ask for support!

  (end of this chapter)