Su Nuannuan's chest rose and fell sharply, then took a few deep breaths, turned her head to the old lady Fang, and regained her usual calm, only to see her give a slight salute, and sighed: "Old lady, what happened to Aunt Jiang today is indeed serious. Wrong, but for the sake of Brother Chuan, let her be spared this time. If she insisted on letting Brother Chuan lie to the end just now in order to save herself, I wouldn't say That's what she said, but since she has softened her heart, I will beg for her this time because she is still a good mother. Old lady, don't refute your daughter-in-law's face, okay?"
Mrs. Fang stared at Su Nuannuan, and when she heard her last sentence with some jokes, she couldn't help but her eyes were wet, and she sighed: "My good boy, it is clear that you are suffering the most at this moment, and you still don't forget Pretend to be so relaxed, alas! This is too wronged for you."
Su Nuannuan felt hot in her heart, and felt that her eye sockets were a little wet, so she quickly wiped it with a handkerchief, and came to the old lady Fang and smiled: "The old lady still understands me, and the granddaughter-in-law is really aggrieved, but Hearing what the old lady said, I suddenly became more cheerful. Old lady, Brother Chuan is still young, and he can't live without his aunt. You don't want to look at the face of the monk or the face of the Buddha. I'm the one who suffers from this lawsuit, so I don't want to pursue it, so why didn't the old lady just sell me this favor?"
"Listen to what she said." Mrs. Fang pointed at Su Nuannuan and sighed at everyone. Mrs. Yang quickly laughed and said: "What Nuan Nuan said is also reasonable, but Aunt Jiang is really too ignorant of the rules. What the daughter-in-law means is that although capital crimes can be forgiven, living crimes cannot be forgiven..."
Before she finished speaking, Su Nuannuan was "filled with righteous indignation" and said: "Yes, my wife is right, so I punished her with half a year's monthly silver. As a punishment."
Duan Tingxuan squinted at his wife, thinking that punishing salaries is only used by the imperial court to punish officials, what are you doing here? Let Aunt Jiang escape so lightly and skillfully? well! After all, you are still soft-hearted. Thinking of this, I don't know whether to be relieved or angry.
Mrs. Yang was also speechless. What she meant was to hit Aunt Jiang twenty times at least. Although he is in his son's room, doing such a thing today is really too much. Don't take a good punishment. Wouldn't those concubines follow suit in the future? Although she is virtuous, after all, she walked all the way in the back house, and she has vaguely realized that today's matter is not that simple.
But I heard Su Nuannuan say again: "If you don't pay the moon silver for half a year, it seems a bit unreasonable. Could it be that they are told to drink the northwest wind?" At this point, she looked at Aunt Jiang and said: "Forget it, I will punish you Half a year. You are only allowed to receive half of the monthly silver, but you have to bring out some old clothes and bedding. In exchange for this half of the silver, I just need these things here. By the way, everyone, please don’t worry about it. Forget what you said just now, sister Yun wants to pay one thousand taels of silver, right?"
Everyone in the hall almost fell down: This guy wants money. Even now I still don't forget to search.
Xu Ranyun was so angry that he almost spurted blood. Today, I really lost my wife and lost my army. Not only did Aunt Jiang not harm that woman, but she got herself into it. That's all, her life and death had nothing to do with her. But this thousand taels of silver is no joke. Thinking of this, the woman couldn't sit still anymore, she quickly stood up and said: "How can I have a thousand taels of silver? Grandma, don't joke."
"Don't pretend anymore." Su Nuannuan had a look of convincing evidence: "I know you are a rich man. Others can't get a thousand taels of silver, but my sister can definitely get it. That's it. Qianliang, how come our eldest room can't let people see the joke, can it?"
"Grandma, I really don't have a concubine." Xu Ranyun burst into tears, she was really scared to cry, if she was forced to accept the money, she would never want to talk and behave in this mansion in the future.
"Okay, Nuannuan, don't force her, isn't it one thousand taels of silver? Grandma paid the money." Mrs. Fang helped Xu Ranyun out of the siege, and saw Su Nuannuan hesitated: "Old man My wife is the old Fengjun, so I only pay one thousand taels, isn't it a little little?"
"Bah! You blackmailed me." The old lady Fang laughed and scolded, but Su Nuannuan said plausibly: "How do you call blackmail? The granddaughter-in-law is also thinking about the status of the old lady. Otherwise, if people I heard that the old lady only gave out one thousand taels of silver, but everyone didn’t know that the old lady was too petty to let it go, and that the granddaughter-in-law and second siblings didn’t know the rules and dared to go over the old lady.”
Shi Yurou's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Sister-in-law is right, and since that's the case, the siblings must not dare to go past the old lady, so they will pay 800 taels..." Before she could finish speaking, Su Nuannuan held her Mrs. Fang's arm pretended to cry: "The old lady should take pity on me. You see, this has not happened yet, and someone wants to take the opportunity to get away."
"Okay, okay, seeing that you are crying pitifully, and you are filial on weekdays, I will give you five thousand taels." It was obviously a tense atmosphere, and Su Nuannuan warmed up again in a few words, Mr. Fang The Taijun was very happy, so he was willing to help the favorite granddaughter-in-law to support the situation. After speaking, he pointed at Shi Yurou and smiled: "Did you hear that? You are not allowed to lose a penny."
Shi Yurou said with a smile on his face: "Yes, since the old lady said so, even if the granddaughter-in-law sells everything, she has to collect all the money and give it to sister-in-law." Hope, just "snap" again to shoot people into the abyss again.
"Sure enough, it's the old lady who just loves me. It's not in vain that my granddaughter-in-law has honored you with so many delicious food." Su Nuannuan smiled contentedly. It was a surprise. Naturally, she refused to let Xu Ranyun go, and after deceiving Mrs. Fang's money, she looked at him.
Xu Ranyun's heart skipped a beat, knowing that he couldn't escape today anyway, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "I don't have a private treasury, and now I can only take out three hundred taels of silver, no matter how much, even if I kill me, I won't be able to get it." Come out." At the same time as the words came out, she felt as if a knife was cutting her flesh, so much so that her face could not help but twitch twice.
Even Mrs. Fang has paid for it, so how can others fall behind? So Mrs. Yang, Liu Min and others all donated their pockets one after another, or five hundred or two hundred. In less than a while, they collected more than ten thousand taels of silver. After Su Nuannuan quickly counted the number, Duan Tingxuan said with a smile from the side: " That being the case, as an official of the imperial court, I naturally cannot fall behind others. It just so happened that some local officials came to Beijing a few days ago. Ten thousand taels, which happens to be an integer." This was an activity initiated by his wife, so the young master naturally wanted to fully support it.
Twenty thousand taels, used to buy cloth and cotton, can almost support all the victims of the disaster. If you squeeze a little bit, you can also help some poor people. Those poor people don't have to worry about it this winter. Su Nuannuan was elated, and when she raised her eyes, she saw Aunt Jiang was still kneeling on the ground numbly, and Duan Maochuan was snuggling beside her with her little head hanging down.
It was so eye-catching, but everyone in the hall seemed to have forgotten about these two girls. She sighed in her heart, and said to the old lady Fang: "Old lady, the granddaughter-in-law has to go back and make plans, so I won't disturb the old lady."
"Bah! It's clear that you're going to be busy, and you still want to make a fool of yourself, saying that you don't bother me. Let me tell you, the five thousand taels of silver are not free. If you have any good snacks, get some as soon as possible, that silk-drawing one." Even if you can’t eat more, it’s okay to get some to taste.”
"Yes, yes, my daughter-in-law would like to follow the old lady's instructions." Su Nuannuan stood up and saluted, seeing that she was leaving, the others also left one after another, Duan Tingxuan said to Aunt Jiang: "What are you still doing here? I'm afraid Isn't the old lady angry enough?"
Only then did Aunt Jiang get up with a face full of shame, and took Duan Maochuan's little hand and staggered away in a daze.
As soon as she returned to Chunfengyuan, Su Nuannuan took out a pen and paper and began to calculate the accounts. She had long forgotten the abacus calculations she learned when she was a child, so she didn't know how to use an abacus, but mathematical formulas are not at all more difficult than abacus calculations. Duan Tingxuan stood beside her, watching quietly as she filled two sheets of paper with strange formulas, and then designed a form to fill in the prices of some items that had been investigated before, including the items.
Young Master, who is that? The really smart genius, after just two glances, realizes the benefits of this form. The required items, item prices, total price, various expenditures, etc. are all clear at a glance. Yin then sat down and said, "Nuannuan's bookkeeping method is very simple and easy to understand. Teach it to me quickly, and it will save trouble in checking accounts in the future, and there will be no tricks to escape."
Su Nuannuan smiled and said: "You are right. In fact, this is just the most basic form. I don't know how to complicate it. But it should be more than enough for you to check accounts." She took accounting courses in college , because he doesn't have any talent, so it's only a level of less than half a bottle, but it is indeed enough to add a skill to Duan Tingxuan.
When Duan Tingxuan asked for advice on the formulas on the paper, he had a good foundation in arithmetic, and after asking Su Nuannuan to explain it for a while, he understood everything, smiled and nodded: "This is also a simple method. It can be used in practice. , not slower than the abacus, and the more difficult the abacus goes, this is not such a disadvantage.”
"That's it." Su Nuannuan was proud: Although it was just a very simple multiplication and division and a binary equation, it was the crystallization of the wisdom of countless ancestors and withstood the test of history.
The husband and wife chatted a few more words, Duan Tingxuan was silent for a moment, then looked at Su Nuannuan seriously, and said softly: "Nuannuan, this matter... are you really going to let it go?"
Su Nuannuan froze, knowing what Duan Tingxuan was talking about, she bowed her head in silence for a while, then raised her head and said calmly: "What can I do if I don't let go?"