Saying something once or ten times is useless, but what about saying it a hundred or a thousand times?
It will always leave a mark on your heart.
Not to mention that because her third aunt was born into an official family, she looked down on her older aunt who came from a peasant background.
Pay close attention, and you'll always find clues.
Although she usually treated her aunt with respect and courtesy, she often carried a sense of superiority with her.
Compared to her aunt, her third aunt was closer to her grandmother, which was actually normal, since her grandmother was her mother-in-law. This also became an excuse for her aunt to sow discord.
And so, Auntie was gradually neglected by Uncle.
And so, despite Grandfather's repeated attempts to straighten the little bamboo, and Aunt's constant hindrance, Uncle San was neither perfectly straight nor particularly crooked; he was just slanted.
Speaking of my fourth uncle, he's a capable person in our family.
She was fifteen years younger than her father and was born to her aunt, Lady Luo.
Luo was arranged to be married by her grandmother.
Fourth Uncle was the youngest son and was spoiled from a young age. Even though Father was already married, he still doted on him.
She was so good at pleasing her grandmother at a young age that she was always happy. She was also very good at reading people's expressions and handling interpersonal relationships.
Fourth Uncle was born in the 16th year of the Shunzhi Emperor's reign. Because he was two years older than his eldest brother when they were young, he often bullied his eldest brother. The adults saw that they were not going too far and let them be. Later, as his eldest brother grew older, the two of them had their own wins and losses, and the relationship between uncle and nephew became better and better through their rivalry. They were so close that they could share a pair of pants.
My fourth uncle passed the imperial examination in the 18th year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign and became a Xiucai (a successful candidate in the lowest level of the imperial examinations). He refused his grandfather's request to continue his studies and instead took over the family business.
During the land enclosure movement, my grandfather knew he couldn't compete with them, so he mostly enclosed land in the suburbs of Beijing. There weren't many shops or plots of land in the city. Once, Emperor Shunzhi bestowed an imperial estate upon him, and my grandfather bought back a nearby mountain estate as his new ancestral home. He was buried there a hundred years later, and my grandmother planted tea on the mountain.
Therefore, our family owns many estates but few shops. However, the household supplies are all produced on the estates, and my grandmother manages them well. The estates also raise livestock and poultry, and tea and vegetables are grown on the two mountains.
Any food that the household couldn't finish eating would be sold off.
The family owns a fabric shop and a jewelry store. Except for special holidays, they rarely buy jewelry and fabric from outside. The allowances for each household come from the estate and the shop. The biggest expense in the household is giving gifts.
But that's not a problem, because wars always make money, and my grandfather was no exception.
My grandmother was very resourceful; she did a great job of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.
After giving birth to three sons, Mother gradually took over the family's businesses. Apart from using the rice produced on the estate for brewing wine, nothing else changed.
The properties owned by the family are all relatively stable.
After taking over, Fourth Uncle's first task was to manage the farm. He found that the farm was already well-managed, with everyone fulfilling their responsibilities. Fourth Uncle was a man who refused to admit defeat, so he packed his bags and moved into the farm, living alongside the farmers.
He went deep into the community and gradually discovered the problems.
Whether they were from the farm or tenant farmers, their enthusiasm wasn't very high; they just lived their lives in a routine manner.
My fourth uncle created a reward system where the heads of different estates competed against each other, and the tenant farmers competed against each other. They didn't compete against others, but against their own performance from the previous year. The prizes were all rice, grains, and tea produced on the estates.
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