Zheng Long, his wife and son usually live in Kushui Alley on the street east of Chengenbo Mansion.
Come out from the east gate of the uncle's mansion and turn a corner to reach it.
Zheng Long came out from Xu Chunjun's side and returned directly here.
His wife Feng made dumplings and boiled the wine, waiting for him to come back.
At the end of autumn, the weather was cloudy and sunny, and now it was raining lightly.
Zheng Long's house has a small courtyard and only three rooms. In addition to a main room in the middle, there are two main rooms in the east and west.
There were only some rough furniture in the house, and nothing valuable could be seen.
He and his wife live in the east room, and his son and daughter-in-law live in the west room.
"You came back so late." His wife said as she handed him clean clothes, "But isn't everything going well?"
"It's all done, what's wrong with it?" Zheng Long said as he changed his clothes.
"Go and put the dumplings on! Don't overcook them." Feng ordered the little girl beside her.
After there was no one else in the room, Zheng Long asked: "My wife is not at home?"
"She went over there," Aunt Feng pursed her lips towards the north, "Dahu is not at home these days, so I asked her to go and see the child. I told the family that her mother-in-law was sick, so she went to check on her."
Zheng Dahu's daughter-in-law, Bai Shi, is also working in Chengen's house. Zheng Dahu went to the Eastern Capital to accompany Zheng Wuji and has not been at home these days.
Mrs. Bai wanted to have a child, so as her mother-in-law, Mrs. Feng decided to let her go.
"I haven't seen my grandchildren for some time," Zheng Long said, "I miss these two little things."
"Aren't you busy these days? Let's go take a look when you have some free time." Ms. Feng smiled, "I went there the day you went to the countryside. Sister Mei has already recognized a lot of words.
, Brother Bao can also recite the Three Character Sutra."
"Why did you go again? Didn't you say go there less? It would be bad if someone saw you." Zheng Long frowned slightly, feeling a little unhappy.
"You are too careful! Who knows in such a big capital? Even if we meet each other, we just say they are relatives, how can we still hold on to him?" Feng curled her lips.
Their grandchildren were taken to other places to raise them not long after they were born.
It was a house in the north of the city, but it was much more respectable than the one they lived in now.
There was a nanny and a maid inside, so the two children lived the life of a young lady and a young master.
Zheng Long was a son of the Zheng family. His father fled the country and signed a death contract.
Since Zheng Long already had a son in the family, his son Zheng Dahu was born as a slave.
For so many years, what the father and son wanted to get rid of most was their slave status.
But this is too difficult, almost impossible.
Therefore, they tried to find ways to let the next generation live a life of slaves and maidservants, wearing gold and silver.
Therefore, the two children were sent to a house they had purchased before they reached the age of three. They were told that the family could not take care of them, so they were sent to Bai's natal family in the countryside.
"Be careful and make a thousand-year ship," this sentence is Zheng Long's motto, "but don't get into trouble because of carelessness."
"Don't worry, we are all careful," Feng said.
Asked him again: "You ran away while you were talking. You haven't said why you came back so late. I heard them say that you entered the house long ago."
"Grandma has left me to talk, how can I not listen?" Zheng Long sat by the brazier, and the hot charcoal fire made his legs very comfortable.
"She doesn't think there's anything wrong with the account, right?" Feng asked quickly.
"She's a woman who can't even read the account books, and she's just here, what can she tell?" Zheng Long changed his respectful attitude in front of Xu Chunjun, and couldn't hide his contempt in his tone, "She just told me something
He came to cut off half of the people in the house and asked me to weigh it to see who would be left. Secondly, he told me that the money to pay off the uncle’s debt had been collected, and any remaining money would be put into the account.
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"Is there actually going to be layoffs in the government? How come I didn't hear any news before?" Aunt Feng was very surprised when she heard this.
Logically speaking, she is the lady in charge of the house, so she should hear more or less.
"Hmph, if I'm right, this must be the trick the Xu family played on her when she went back to her parents' home to borrow money." Zheng Long sneered twice and said, "Then the Xu family still relies on the relationship with the aunt.
What clever tricks can you come up with when you come back?"
"You haven't been at home these days, and my eyelids keep twitching," Ms. Feng said. "I feel very panicked and feel particularly uneasy. How about we find a way to get out? Anyway, it's almost done now. We have saved up all these years."
Our wealth is enough for us to live anonymously and live without worries."
"You women are the most annoying! It's either your heartbeat or your eyelids that are constantly twitching." Zheng Long was somewhat impatient.
He had long been tired of seeing Feng's old face.
But firstly, there is an old saying that a wife of wretched men should not stay in court, and secondly, when two people are suitable for him, one is in charge and the other is in charge of outsiders, he can better exploit the Zheng family.
The two of them are not only husband and wife, but also co-conspirators.
"We are both very old, and we are half buried in the ground before our eyes." Feng couldn't help but feel sad, and said while wiping her tears, "Having been a slave all your life, shouldn't you enjoy happiness when you get old?
Your legs get sore and uncomfortable when the weather changes. I have worked hard for most of my life and I am also full of diseases. Besides, we have saved enough over the years, so the Zheng family doesn’t have much money left. Why should we be reluctant to part with you?"
"Listen to me, the grandchildren are still young now, so we don't have to leave in a hurry. Besides, with this grandma here, the house is still worried about the lack of income? Apart from other things, it's impossible for the Xu family and the Lu family.
Seeing that the Zheng family is unable to expose the pot." Zheng Long's attitude softened and he turned around to persuade Feng, "Although the Xu family has fallen into decline, her third aunt is really well married. Although her uncle Chen Erye is not an official,
It is said that the repair and polishing expenses alone cost tens of thousands of taels of silver every year. If we have to be patient for three or four years, we will still have to get a few thousand taels of silver every year.
Think about it, what kind of business nowadays can make so much money in a year without any cost or effort? Besides, if we really want to leave, most of the houses and fields in the capital will have to be sold. We can go to other places, although we can
If you buy it, the harvest will be incomparable."
In fact, the Zheng family and his son had already made a plan. When they made enough money, they would lie and claim that something unexpected happened while they were out on business, and they couldn't even find the body.
Of course, the Zheng family will not pursue the case, and will even give a large sum of money as a pension.
They have been with the Zheng family for so many years and know that this will definitely work.
As for Mrs. Feng and her daughter-in-law Bai, they can always get away by pretending to be sick or pitiful.
Then a few members of the family concealed their names, collected money, traveled far away, chose a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to settle, and suddenly became high-class people.
