Su Huai couldn't help but sigh, "It is indeed placed in their boss's room, but didn't the Fourth Master drink too much yesterday? Somehow, he broke in, and the person who was watching at the time didn't know where he was."
"Why does he put such a precious thing on display? He doesn't hide his appreciation from himself, but just puts it out there to show off."
The old man was really angry, and he was a little angry. He also completely lost his patience with this old son.
"How much money? It's not like a family like ours can't afford to pay, it's just a break, and they come to your door, you're really petty!"
The old man scolded him, but when Su Huai raised a finger, he was still a little confused.
"It was said to be one thousand taels, and that's what he took out, and we wiped out the change!"
As soon as Su Huai finished speaking, the old man's roar came as expected.
"What? A thousand taels? Why didn't he grab it? I don't know where it came from. I want a thousand taels for it. Which dynasty did it come from? Which famous master did it come from?"
"It is said that it was placed in the palace by Grand Commander Liang Taizu as a royal gift!" Su Huaiyue said, his voice getting softer, because the old man's face had turned as dark as water.
"I've already had someone identify it, it's true!"
The old man pursed his lips, and then sneered, "Even if it belongs to Liang Taizu, it doesn't require so much money. It would be suspected of blackmail."
The old man was about to ask Su Huai to make a counter-offer, but the thought of doing so would be disrespectful to everyone.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Give it to him!"
The Su family's Liangtianzhuangzi has a lot of potential, and there are about twenty shops. However, the Su family is now prosperous, but there are few promising children. With so many people to support them, and the family has a big business, they can't afford this. What a waste!
"Yes!" Su Huai turned around to go out, but was stopped by the old man.
"Wait a minute! Where are the four old men?"
Seeing the old man's unkind expression, Su Huai also knew that the Fourth Master would definitely be punished this time.
"Just now I heard the fourth master's order to prepare the carriage. I think I want to leave the house."
"It's already dark, and he still has to leave the house? Has Tang been comforted? It's really something Si Liu doesn't understand. From today on, he will be locked up in Wenyang Pavilion to study, and he will not be allowed to leave Wenyang Pavilion. Stay with me until autumn."
The old man was so angry that he took a deep breath. Thinking of how Su Wenqing was smart, studious, well-behaved, and smart when he was a child, and comparing it with his current appearance, he couldn't help but fell down on the armchair angrily.
"Master!" Su Huai was shocked and quickly stepped forward to comfort him.
"Fourth Master has just gotten used to it over the years. Now that you have restrained him, he is already talented and intelligent, so he will definitely win the exam."
Su Huai is the most useful steward around the old man. He has served for nearly thirty years and knows the old man's affairs very well.
The old man's angry expression gradually disappeared, but he suddenly became sad.
"Perhaps, I shouldn't have had so many worries at the beginning. The fourth child is quite talented in reading, but I was timid and let him waste so many years. Now that he has changed his temper, I'm afraid it will be difficult to change."
"Master, you were also for the Su family at the beginning. Now if you put more thought into it, it's not too late for the fourth master to turn back the prodigal son!"
Su Huai couldn't bear to see the old man blaming himself so much, so he comforted him.
"You don't need to comfort me. Although I feel guilty and regretful, now that I think about it, my original decision was the right one."
The old man sighed and felt that he was doing this for the Su family and that he had done nothing wrong.
Su Huai looked at the familiar face in front of him. He was old, and so was the master!
The silver strands in her hair are hard to hide, and the vertical lines between her eyebrows are hard to smooth out. She has already stepped into the coffin, and she doesn't know how many more years she can plan for the Su family.
The master who has been planning for the Su family may not be able to rest assured even on his deathbed.
"Do you really want Fourth Master to take the imperial examination and become an official?" Su Huai asked the doubt in his heart.
The old man was stunned when he heard this, and after a long while, he said: "Maybe it is feasible? It has been so many years, and even the emperors have changed. Who still knows what happened back then?"
"Where's the old lady?" Su Huai asked tentatively.
The old man sneered, "Isn't it enough to rely on her for so many years? Why did the second child go away? She knows better than anyone else. The surname here is Su, not her Bian family. The Bian family is not what it used to be, and it can still take advantage of us.
How about Su?"
Su Huai fell silent as soon as he heard this. The old lady was afraid that she would not give up.
"The fourth child has talent, and the talented ones among the grandchildren are beginning to show their talents. If our Su family is still timid and misses the future of our children, even the Su family will have no hope of revitalization."
The old man thought of the examination of Su Yizhao just now and felt very satisfied.
The fourth child is really smart. As long as he doesn't imitate the fourth child's lackluster behavior, he should have no worries about his future in the future.
As soon as Su Yizhao returned to the courtyard, Yue Qiu greeted him.
"Master! Why did the old lady suddenly call you for questioning? But what's the important matter?"
Yueqiu was a little worried. The old master was ordered by the old lady. Will he and the young master also suffer?
Su Yizhao smiled and shook his head, "It's been nearly three months since I entered school. It's just a test of academic knowledge, nothing important."
After washing his hands and face, Su Yizhao asked about Su Wenqing.
"Alas! This time the master will have to suffer."
"How do you say that?" Su Yizhao was a little curious. Could it be that the cheap dad could not avoid the imperial examination this time?
"I heard that just now the shopkeeper of Yanyu Pavilion came to ask for money. He said that last night he was drinking in Yanyu Pavilion and broke their boss's most precious pair of porcelain bottles. They spent a lot of money to get them."
At this time, Yuerong came in with a food box and continued: "People came to my door asking for money, and the old man used the income from the front yard to compensate them."
"How much money?" Su Yizhao felt that it would definitely be a lot, and just now he was talking about his most precious thing.
"One thousand taels of silver!" Yueqiu stretched out a finger and exclaimed.
Su Yizhao:......
One thousand taels, she could imagine how angry the old man was.
"This porcelain vase is so expensive!" Yuerong tutted. She had never seen a thousand taels of silver.
"It is said that it was placed in the palace of Taizu Liang from the Grand Commandery. We don't know whether it is true or not. The old man is very angry. Doesn't he have to be punished?" Yue Qiu shook his head and sighed.
"What's the fine? Isn't it that the fourth house must pay for the money?"
If the Tang family were allowed to subsidize the dowry and lose money, Su Yizhao felt that the sky would collapse in the four houses. Unexpectedly, Yue Qiu's next words would make her even more speechless.
"The old man said that it would be deducted from the monthly payment of our fourth house until it is paid off."
Su Yizhao took a piece of steamed Babao Pig and put it in his mouth. He almost choked to death when he heard this.
"What? Is that his Yueyin alone, or the four-bedroom apartment?" Su Yizhao asked quickly.
"Of course it's the money from the houses of the four houses! How long will it take for the master to be alone?" After Yue Qiu finished speaking, she covered her mouth and snickered.
"Even if the master of the fourth house has his money deducted, he still has to pay it back in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse!"
Su Yizhao was so angry that she almost vomited blood. When she came to the house, she had only received two months of monthly silver, and she was about to receive the third month. Could it be just like that?