But this shouldn't be the case. Can a country girl be unfilial to her elders?
The Dashun Dynasty ruled the country with filial piety, yet a man dared to contradict even his elders like this.
How can a woman like this come from a good family?
Thinking of this, Butler Xie couldn't help but shook his head and sighed.
With her personality, she would suffer if she went to the palace.
He could even imagine Zhou Shuzhi's future life in the palace.
"Go find it, go find it. I'll give you some time to find it, but I haven't seen you find it. I tell you, if you don't agree today, I'll tie you up and send you over."
Old Mrs. Wang pointed her index finger at Zhou Shuzhi and said viciously.
At this time, she had already lost her patience with Zhou Shuzhi.
One night she would ask for money to dress up, relying on her good looks to ask for this or that.
If she had been more obedient, would this family have become like this?
After saying this, Mr. Lao continued to say to Old Man Zhou:
"Old man, let's make this decision. You can't count on her. Look at her personality. Let's count it. One ounce, one ounce."
"What 11 taels? There are still 800 copper coins." Old man Zhou corrected quickly.
Now, let alone 800 copper coins, even 8 copper coins are very important to him.
"But I think these twelve taels are not enough. Isn't it a little too little? If you don't want to give me money, then you can give me some meat."
Zhou Xiaoshan, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke.
He was addicted to gambling and had already owed a lot of debt to the casino.
Fortunately, he is the youngest son in the family and is usually more favored.
With her sweet words, she made Old Man Zhou and Old Lady 뀘 very happy.
There was some extra money in the family before, and his parents were willing to give him some to pay off his gambling debts.
However, as the two degenerate children in the family, his gambling debts continued to drag on.
Look, every time someone comes to urge him, he gets beaten again.
Although this one or two taels of silver was not much, it was enough for him to pay off his gambling debts.
After paying it off there will still be some left.
At this time, Zhou Xiaoshan had long forgotten that in addition to his gambling debts, his family also owed money to many villagers in Zhoujia Village.
He only knew that if he added some more meat, he could have a full meal tonight.
Sure enough, as soon as Zhou Xiaoshan finished speaking, Old Man Zhou and Old Mrs. Xie looked at Butler Xie eagerly.
Butler Xie: “…” He even wanted to ask who were the members of this family?
Now this scene is just a few pieces of meat. Is it necessary to do this?
They didn't even ask Zhou Shuzhi's opinion, but instead asked for meat.
"Thank you, housekeeper. To be honest, you can see my family's situation. We haven't eaten meat for a long time. We don't want too much. A few pieces of meat are not too much, right?"
"Besides, I am a beautiful girl like Shuzhi. I went to be your concubine, but you didn't even want to give me 12 taels. Isn't it too unpleasant to tell others about this?"
"No matter what, your palace is a wealthy and prosperous family."
Because of his gambling debts, Zhou Xiaoshan even went to the county town to work for a few days.
The more you do this job, the better you will be at talking.
When these words were spoken, Butler Xie was really stunned.
"It's not that I don't want to give it to you, but our master wants to give you so much money. How about this, I am also a person who works for others in exchange for money, so how about I pay for a piece of meat for you?"
What Butler Xie said was true. The money in the palace was managed by the Madam.
Normally, whenever they needed to spend money, the lady would calculate every penny clearly.
This is one tael and eight hundred copper coins, not a penny more.
In other matters, the wife may be a little more capable, but this requires finding a concubine, otherwise how can she be more capable?
He also felt that giving Zhou Shuli this much money to let her be a concubine was an injustice to her, and it was too little.
But the fortune teller had said so much, what else could he do?
Nowadays, pork costs 15 copper coins a piece, and a slightly fatter piece costs 18 copper coins.
After all this calculation, he even had to give them a few copper coins.
But looking at the situation of this family, it seems that as long as they are given pork, they will agree.
The family agreed that it didn't matter what Zhou Shuzhi's situation was.
He didn't want anything to happen to Zhou Shuli at this critical juncture.
How was he going to explain this to the master and his wife?
Besides, I can talk to my wife about these few copper coins when I get home, and maybe she will give him some more subsidies.
Thinking of this, Butler Xie looked at Old Man Zhou and said:
"I bought this piece of pork for you with my own money. You can't ask for more. If you don't agree, I can't do anything. It's a blessing for your granddaughter to be favored by our master."
As soon as the words came out, Chen Taohua couldn't bear it anymore.
"What a blessing! My daughter is going to marry a 20-year-old guy. Tell him to dream."
Hearing this, Mrs. Lao looked at Chen Taohua with a frown on her face.
He stood up, walked quickly to Chen Taohua, and slapped her in the face.
"Pah..."
"ah......"
"I let you, a bitch, speak. You have no right to speak here. Shut up."
"Mom, what I said is the truth."
Old Lady pointed her index finger at Chen Taohua and said, "If you say that again, I'll ask Dashan to write a divorce letter immediately."
If it were in the past, Mr. Lao might have taken it into consideration.
After all, Zhou Shuzhi was her daughter. If she really wanted to find a good family, she could live a good life.
What's more, Chen Taohua used to be of some use and could do some work inside and outside the house.
But now it’s different. Now their Zhou family has no more children.
There was no work at all.
If we really talk about work, it's just a few meals a day.
No, the Zhou family no longer has anything to eat.
Seeing the old lady's expression, Chen Taohua dared not say anything.
This family was so noisy that Butler Xie didn't want to stay any longer.
It gave him a headache.
"If you agree to this 12...11 taels of silver, plus these 800 copper coins, then they are yours. If you don't agree, then just pretend I'm not here."
Butler Xie spoke to Old Man Zhou again.
I said this because I was certain that Old Man Zhou would agree.
He finally understood that although it was the old lady who did the talking most of the time in the Zhou family.
But the real master is the old man named Zhou in front of him.
"Our master was able to take out nearly two taels of silver to look for Miss Zhou, so he must have set his sights on your granddaughter. I also know that your granddaughter can find a good family, but they can only get five taels at most. So, my grandfather gave her more than twice as much silver."
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