But in order to maintain the decent situation, the servants dare not use too little, so as not to be called petty.

Then the clothes of the superiors and subordinates, including the servants, should not be too bad. When the person comes, the seats should not be bad. Moreover, there must be several banquets a year to be worthy of the dignity of the nobles. And when holding a banquet like this, it will cost more money.

If you don’t have money, you have to eat and drink. In order not to make people laugh, you can’t eat and drink too cheaply. So a noble family only needs a lot of money to eat and drink every year, which is not something that little salary can withstand.

In fact, most of the money is wasted on eating and drinking. If they don’t usually walk around each other often, they will eat at this place today, eat at that place tomorrow, and then return to their own house. After all, they can’t eat at other people’s house all the time, and they won’t always hold banquets, which will save a lot of money.

This is the reason why the nobles will become poorer if their children are unpromising, because there are too many places to spend money.

Linlang is not worried that marrying into such a family will get poorer and poorer.

Because, when the older generation is not dead and everyone lives together, the Ye family has to rely on the other party’s background and will give the other party some filial piety.

When the older generation dies, the main branch may become poorer and poorer after they split up, but her fiancé is the second son of the legitimate son and there is no title to inherit in the future. After the split, they are ordinary officials and do not need to maintain the dignity of nobles. They will not hold banquets from time to time like the main branch in order to maintain decency, and they will live a good life by relying on the income from the division of the family and her dowry.

If she doesn't live well, Linlang won't be willing to marry. After all, she doesn't come to these time and space to live a hard life.

After Ye's father agreed to the second wife, he went to Linlang's fiancé's house, which is Zhongyong's mansion, to inquire about this matter.

The ancestors of Zhongyong Bo Mansion started their military achievements, but they did not inherit their past generations. Like Anding Bo Mansion, they could only inherit the five generations.

The only good luck is that they did not surrender their titles to inherit the Five Dynasties, and some nobles were still surrendered to the other party.

The current loyal uncle, Linlang's future father-in-law, is already the fourth generation. In other words, the brother of his fiancé will be the last generation of counts. Later, her husband's nephew, like the future children of the Linlang family, has no title.

Because considering that if the grandson has no future in the future, he cannot make any progress in the imperial examination. If he does not have a title, he will at most have a small official with a title. At that time, the glory of the Zhongyong Bo Mansion may be completely dispersed. Therefore, the Zhongyong Bo Mansion will choose to marry a merchant family like other wealthy noble families, and want to rely on this marriage to save some family business so that the main branch will not fall too much in the future.

In fact, the Zhongyong Bo Mansion is too late to do so. Many families marry merchants when they have no money to use it. Because Zhongyong Bo Mansion has fewer people, it consumes less so that it can last until the fourth generation before marriage with merchants.

Because there was no war in the court over the years, the status of military generals in the court decreased. In addition, after the Zhongyong Earl's Mansion was awarded the title, the people in the mansion wanted to change to civil officials with better status. Therefore, starting from the second generation of earls, they began to study and prepare for the imperial examination. Unfortunately, no one of the people in the mansion passed the imperial examination, and his best score was to pass the imperial examination.

This led to such an embarrassing situation: I wanted to take the path of a civil official, but I didn't succeed; then the path of a military general was lost again, and both sides were not satisfied, but I didn't pick up watermelons and even lost sesame seeds.

In other words, the Zhongyong Earl's Mansion not only has no money, but also no power. This is also the reason why they will marry merchants, because if they still have power, they can attract money and do not need to marry merchants.

Since he had no money and no power, when Ye's father came over and asked them about this matter, the loyal and brave uncle of this generation, the future in-laws of the Ye family, said in embarrassment: "I can't handle such exile. You know, in fact, I also have a cousin who married into their family. This time something happened. Their family found me and asked me to help. I actually tried it, but I couldn't help. The case that the emperor personally asked about was not touched. So I can only say sorry for what you asked."

Speaking of which, according to common sense, exile will affect the people related to it. For example, cousin Ye's exile will actually affect her parents' home. Not only will it affect the second house, but also the eldest house will also be affected. After all, they are still a family now and have no family separation.

The reason why the Zhongyong Earl's Mansion was affected was that there were too many masters from the Wang family and too many marriages with the merchants and officials in the Beijing area. If it was affected, almost all families in the capital could be affected. This was also the reason why Wang Xi married almost all the families in the capital at that time, to create a big network of relationships - that is, Zhongyong Earl's Mansion, and some people married the Wang family, which was the cousin mentioned by the Wang family. In this way, everyone was affected, which was equivalent to not being affected. So when cousin Ye had an accident, Linlang's marriage was not affected.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, there would be no such good thing.

Ye’s father was not surprised to hear the words of Zhongyong Bo, because before he came, he expected that the second house asked him to ask the Earl Zhongyong Mansion for help. The Earl Zhongyong Mansion was afraid that it would not be as the second house thought, but it would be possible to help. As Zhongyong Bo said, he had not taken out his cousin early, and he could not even get out of his cousin, so how could he get out of Ye?

So when Ye's father heard the apologized words of Zhongyong, he shook his head and said, "What do you mean by my in-laws? Actually, I know that this may not be possible. It's just that the brothers at home are worried about the children, so he insisted on me coming over and asking. I have no choice but to come over and ask."

After explaining the situation clearly, Ye's father went back and told the second wife that Zhongyong's words.

Then he said, "...they can't do it, please ask someone else for help."

The second wife naturally couldn't accept it. Aunt Ye was crying because she was worried about her daughter's life and death these days. Now, when he heard Ye's father say that Uncle Zhongyong could not save anyone. Because he was worried, he couldn't help but feel resentful when he spoke, saying, "He is an earl. With such a high status, he can't save anyone? Could it be that he doesn't want to do his best, right?"

In fact, what she wanted to say more was whether Ye’s father didn’t do his best.

After hearing what Ye Er Aunt Ye complained, his father couldn't help but say unhappy: "How can you doubt others like this? If he really can save him, it is impossible for him to save his own cousin. You know, his cousin also married into the Wang family."
Chapter completed!