Chapter 117: Xu Fugui is taught a lesson and first proposes to formulate family rules

In the evening, the Xu family held a family dinner in Shouzhu Courtyard. Xu Yaozu was very happy to see his daughter coming home. He wanted to have a few private words with his daughter, but unfortunately he couldn't get close to her.

It was because Xu Fugui and Xu Youliang were surrounding Xu Nian and talking to her about various matters of the medicine house. Xu Nian looked at the high-spirited Xu Fugui and gave her a few reminders.

"Uncle, now that our medicine shop has gained a reputation, we can make money, but it will also naturally attract people's envy, so you must be more careful in what you say and do when you go out, especially when it comes to things like pie in the sky, you must not believe it easily."

Xu Fugui had lived through a hard life and now he was finally living a good life. When he heard that someone wanted to harm him, he became even more alert and humbly asked:

"Nian'er, Second Uncle's brain is not very good, you should talk to Second Uncle in detail."

Xu Nian said with a smile: "Then let me give you a few examples. For example, someone tempts you to go to a casino, and at first they promise you a small profit to whet your appetite, and then in the end they make you lose everything. Another example: someone invites you to a brothel and offers you a beautiful woman, but in fact they are planting a spy in our Xu family. In the end, I'm afraid we will lose more than just business..."

Xu Nian explained all the possibilities, which made everyone in the Xu family terrified.

Seeing his second son's face pale with sweat on his forehead, Old Man Xu angrily slammed the table and said, "Did you really do something stupid?"

"How dare I..." Before Xu Fugui could finish his words, Old Man Xu had already taken off his shoes and ran towards his second son. Fortunately, Old Man Xu was in good health, otherwise he would have fallen flat on his face after such an action.

Before the Xu family could react, one of Old Man Xu's shoes had already imprinted Xu Fugui's face. Just as Old Man Xu was about to take off the other shoe, Xu Youliang hugged him from behind.

"Dad, please listen to what my second brother has to say first."

Old Man Xu broke away from his third son, took a few deep breaths, pointed at Xu Fugui and said, "You talk, I listen to you."

Xu Fugui lowered his head, "Someone did ask me to go to the casino before, because he said he had good luck recently and won a bet. I admit that I was tempted at the time, but I hesitated and didn't go in the end."

"Really didn't go?"

"I really didn't go." Old Man Xu knew his sons very well. Looking at his second son's expression, he knew that he was not lying.

When the Xu family saw Old Man Xu sit down, they all breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't expect that Old Man Xu could be so scary when he got angry.

Xu Fugui also wiped his sweat secretly, he didn't expect that his father was still chasing him vigorously and he was sweating all over. He touched his face again, his father was really willing to waste his energy.

Xu Ling and Xu Cai were also frightened by the fight just now, and they hid in their mother's arms and watched secretly.

Wang couldn't help but complain to Old Man Xu, "You old man, you made such a big fuss without knowing the truth. You ruined the family dinner."

Old Man Xu glared at them and said, "What do you know? If anyone of them dares to gamble, I will break their legs."

Old Man Xu sighed and told about the experience of his tea friend Mr. Li. It turned out that Mr. Li was in the tea business, and if he was not one of the top figures in Wansheng County, he also had a considerable fortune.

He never expected that his eldest son, whom he had high hopes for, would become addicted to gambling. By the time he found out, most of the family property had been sold by his eldest son. In the end, Mr. Li could not persuade his eldest son and divided the property among his sons, thus saving some of the family property.

Old Man Xu sighed, "Nine times out of ten you lose at the gambling table. How can you take advantage of them?" Old Man Xu glanced at his four sons, and finally said to Xu Yaozu, "As the saying goes, every country has its own laws and every family has its own rules. In the past, our family was just peasants, and we had to muddle through. Now that we are also a family of officials, we must set up rules.

Yaozu, you should set up the Xu family rules in the next two days, and when the three brothers of Ji'er come back, we will announce the Xu family rules."

Xu Yaozu nodded in agreement. He naturally agreed with the idea of ​​establishing family rules. As the saying goes, there is no order without rules. If a family wants to go far, it cannot make any wrong steps.

After being scolded, Xu Fugui calmed down and sat obediently on the chair, no longer asking Xu Nian for advice.

Despite this incident, the family dinner was still very heartwarming.

Xu Yaozu thought of the new grain seeds and told Xu Nian about this year's harvest. Xu Nian felt relieved after hearing the data. Although it was far from the modern yield of 10,000 catties per mu, it was unprecedented in the prosperous dynasty.

"Lingshan County Magistrate Wu also wrote to me. The highest grain yield per mu on our farm has reached more than 13 shi. Even the wasteland in Wanying Village has a yield of 6 shi per mu."

"This is really God's blessing. If we continue to plant like this, the people of Sheng Dynasty won't have to go hungry anymore," said Old Man Xu, with tears in his eyes. He had experienced hunger before and knew the importance of food to the lower-class people.

Xu Nian was also very happy. With this batch of grain seeds, more farmers in northern Xinjiang will be able to grow sweet potatoes next year, which is definitely a blessing for the people.

"Dad, when will this batch of grain be delivered to the royal city?"

"I have already sent an expedited document to the prince. I think there will be news soon."

"Now that the grain in Lingshan County has been harvested, let's go to Xinyunlai Wansheng County."

"Nian'er and I have the same idea. I sent a letter to Magistrate Wu early this morning."

Speaking of grain, Xu Nian thought of the farm in Lingshan County.

"I wonder how much the farm's profits are this year?"

Talking about the profits from the farm, Tian couldn't stop smiling.

"The head of the farm wrote to me. This year, the farm planted the vegetable seeds you gave us. We sold these vegetables alone for more than two hundred taels, not counting the income from grain."

Xu Yaozu explained: "Because the prince has not replied yet, the exact value of those sweet potatoes is still unknown."

Xu Nian nodded in understanding, but she estimated that the public school's income this year would not be small.

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The next day, Xu Nian accompanied Doctor Zhen to the courtyard of the third room.

"Nian'er is here, and Dr. Zhen is here too, please sit down."

Xu Nian helped Xiao Wang sit down and said with a smile, "We are all family, so please stop being busy, Dr. Zhen came here specially to check your pulse today."

Little Wang was very touched that Xu Nian cared so much about her, and she obediently stretched out her wrist and placed it on the pillow.

"There is Dr. Lawrence."

"You're welcome, ma'am."

Doctor Zhen was very serious when taking the patient's pulse, which was very different from her usual expression. Seeing Han Zhen like this, Xu Nian was even more determined to help her. Moreover, helping Han Zhen was helping all women in the world, including Xu Nian herself.