Chapter 36 Daily Life
Su Ruojin added the salary from Shutong for the past two years and the commission from the past two months' wages, which was more than thirty taels, which was considered a little rich. Anyway, he didn't need it now, so he asked Su Ruojin to save it.
Su Ruojin said: "I won't use your money to buy someone, I'll save it for you to marry a wife."
Shu Tong seemed to have triggered something, "When I have a wife, can I stop buying maids and women?"
Su Ruojin: ...
Could it be that if one person is enslaved, the whole family must be enslaved? She is not that evil!
Su Ruojin finally rejected Uncle Shu Tong's kindness. Besides, she had made a lot of money from Shanzha in the past two months. Excluding costs, labor and other miscellaneous expenses, her net profit was more than two hundred taels. Adding the money she earned from selling breakfast, she now had three hundred taels in her hands.
Three hundred taels!
Su Ruojin planned to open a breakfast shop and make the breakfast business a source of daily expenses for the Su family. From then on, living in the great capital of Bianjing, they would no longer have to worry about where to eat.
However, this matter should not be rushed. You need to take your time to look for it. Once you find it, it will take a long time to manage it. Don't be careless or impatient.
After the tenth day of the first lunar month, Shu Tong and Mother Dong set up the stall as usual. Su Yanli also put his words into practice and ran around looking for opportunities to save his aunt.
At home, Su Ruojin is like a little adult when she is busy. In her free time, if the sun is shining, she will go to the alley to play crazy, kicking shuttlecock, throwing sandbags, just like any other kid, enjoying the fun of childhood.
When his left neighbor Xue Wulang came to study with Su Dalang, his sister Xue Liuniang would always come along. In order not to disturb the two young men's studies, Su Ruojin not only had to take care of her own older brother, but also had to take care of the spoiled Xue Liuniang.
Mrs. Xue, the neighbor on the left, didn't seem to like the Su family. Su Ruojin didn't want to interact much with their family, but Xue Wulang seemed to like studying with Su Dalang. In order to make her brother not alone in his studies, she ignored Mrs. Xue's attitude. They were all innocent children, so they didn't need to care about the adults' attitudes.
Yang Si Niang also disliked Xue Liu Niang, but if Ah Jin could endure it, so could she. They squatted on the ground and played with pebbles. The three of them took turns. Su Sanlang was too small to join in, and he was so anxious that he lay on Su Ruojin's back and cried.
The girls were unwilling to play with the three-year-old boy, and the boys older than three thought the three-year-old was clumsy and wouldn't play with him. Poor Su Sanlang could only squeeze his sister, crying anxiously, "Sister... Sister... I want to play... I want to play..."
Su Ruojin asked Yang Siniang and Xue Liuniang to let their brother play. Yang Siniang readily agreed, but Xue Liuniang refused. She held the pebble in her hand and refused to give it to Su Sanlang.
Yang Si Niang became angry when she saw how domineering she was. She reached out to pick at her fingers and tried to get the pebble out, but Xue Liu Niang refused and held on tightly.
The two of them started doing it again without realizing it.
After a while, Xue Liuniang, who was one year younger than her, was defeated. Her fingers were red and painful from being scratched by Yang Siniang. She let go as if to protect the pain. The stone was immediately snatched away by Yang Siniang and given to Su Sanlang.
Su Sanlang burst into laughter through his tears.
Xue Liuniang cried, "I will never play with you again!" She turned around and ran home. Her little girl stamped her feet in anger and said, "Tell our wife and let her beat you."
Su Sanlang, who hadn't even started playing with the stones yet, was stunned by the maid's yelling. He asked his elder sister and Yang Siniang, "Why doesn't she want to play with us?"
Su Ruojin: ...
Why do I feel like a little brat who got an advantage and is still acting like a good kid?
Yang Si Niang was also angry. She stood up and angrily walked towards the Xue family. "Humph, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, my parents were planning to invite the neighbors to my grandparents' lantern shed to watch the lanterns. Now they don't want to invite her."
Madam Yang on the right—Zheng Huanyan, the illegitimate daughter of a concubine’s son in the mansion of Duke Zheng of Dayin. She is similar to Cheng Yingzhen, both are illegitimate daughters of illegitimate sons, but the Zheng family is a duke’s mansion, while the Cheng family is just an earl’s mansion.
The five nobility are: Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount and Baron.
In general, the titles and honors of each dynasty were cut off after five generations. If one did not want them to be weakened generation after generation, the only way was to have capable people among the descendants who made meritorious services and were appreciated by the emperor, so that the title could be kept from being downgraded.
It has been nearly a hundred years since the founding of the Dayin Dynasty, and several generations have gone by. In the first two generations, the emperor was not executed after five generations, but starting from the third emperor, if the noble families did not have outstanding sons and daughters serving the country, their titles would be reduced from generation to generation.
The Cheng family has been downgraded from a marquisate to a baronate. If no outstanding sons emerge from the Cheng baronate's family, the next generation will be a viscount and will not have any fiefdom at all.
In Su Ruojin's opinion, since the Cheng Bo Mansion could raise a bastard like her grandfather, his next generation would probably not be able to keep the title of earl.
But the case of Duke Zheng's Mansion is different. From the founding of the country to the present, the descendants of the Zheng family have been active in important official positions in the Dayin Dynasty. Otherwise, how could they have always been the title of Duke, and how could the sons and daughters of illegitimate children marry Lord Yang, the Censor who has real power.
Yang Si Niang, Yang Birong, smiled and hooked Su Ruojin's arm, "My mother said she would treat you!" She always gave her delicious food. Yang Si Niang liked Su Ruojin very much.
Su Ruojin smiled and shook her head, "Someone has already invited my father, I will go with him."
Yang Si Niang felt very disappointed when she heard this, and shook her arm unwillingly: "No, I want to watch the lanterns with Ah Jin."
Mrs. Fan was interested in her osmanthus cake, so Su Ruojin had to go to the Fan family's lantern shed with her father to see the lanterns no matter what. However, she was not a real child, so she could naturally coax a real little kid.
"When the time comes, you go to the lantern shed where I am, and I'll go to the lantern shed where you are. That way, can we have an extra place to enjoy the lanterns?"
Yang Si Niang: ...
You are right!
The little kid was instantly delighted and didn't even want the colorful stones he had finally found. He said, "Give them to Sanlang to play with."
Su Ruojin smiled secretly. The lantern stand of the Minister's Mansion and the lantern stand of the Duke's Mansion were probably one at the beginning of the street and the other at the end of the street. The levels were so clear, it was impossible for a little kid like her to just go to either of their houses whenever she wanted.
I'm sorry, Arong, Su Ruojin thought to herself. When she comes back, Yang Si Niang will definitely come to settle the score with her, and then she will have to prepare something delicious to fill her mouth.
As the sun was setting, the alley became cold and gloomy without the sun, and the children went back to their homes to look for their mothers.
Su Ruojin led Su Sanlang back to the courtyard. Coincidentally, Xue Wulang also came home with a book. "Where's my sister?"
"Go back with the girl for a while."
Su Ruojin didn't say much, but Xue Wulang could tell that his sister was quarreling with them again. He smiled helplessly and bowed to Su Ruojin like a gentleman, "Sorry to bother you, Ah Jin."
Su Ruojin waved her hands and said, they are just little kids, it doesn’t matter!
Xue Wulang was very polite and said goodbye again before turning around and leaving the hospital to go home.
Seeing that tomorrow was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, when Su Yanli came back, Su Ruojin asked his father: "How is the matter with Auntie going?"
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