I'm reborn, so it's not too much to kill the one who traveled through the book, right?

The old master of the West Mansion has more than twenty legitimate and illegitimate sons.

After those sons got married, they had sons again, and their descendants all lived in half of the house. If the Pingyang Marquis Mansion was not so big, there would be no room for them at all.

In fact, the courtyard on the west side of the mansion really can’t accommodate everyone.

Gong Shaojia was better off as he was the legitimate son. His family occupied two courtyards, with the couple living in one courtyard and the two sons living in another. However, many of the other illegitimate sons lived with two or three brothers living in one courtyard.

Of course, those who are capable have already moved out, and those who have no other options have followed their old father, Old Master Gong, under the euphemism of being in his arms.

With the help of Gong Shaojia's brother who was an official and the support of Pingyang Marquis' Mansion, the illegitimate sons had a place in the capital. At least the conditions of their marriage partners were better than those of ordinary commoners.

In the past, there was a Beijing official named Gong Shaojia in the West Palace, and since it was a courtyard separated from the Pingyang Marquis Mansion, no one said anything inappropriate.

But now their father is dead, their brothers have lost their official positions, and the whole family has become commoners. To put it bluntly, they are no longer qualified to live in this place where the powerful and wealthy gather.

What's more, they in the West Mansion have completely offended the Pingyang Marquis Mansion. They are too ashamed to stay in the west of the city. If they go out, they will be criticized.

Several masters of the West Palace discussed it and decided to sell the house to the East Palace.

They also didn't want to sell the house to the East Palace. They knew that the East Palace had not been well off over the years, and it wouldn't be cost-effective to sell it to the East Palace. However, that half of the house belonged to the Pingyang Marquis' Mansion, and it was bestowed by Taizu. It wasn't something they could sell to others just because they wanted to. Unless the East Palace didn't want it, they would sell it to others and the people in the East Palace would have nothing to say.

The brothers discussed it and decided to sell the house and divide the property. They could share the money from the sale of the house and buy a small courtyard in the south of the city, which was a good choice.

Therefore, after several masters discussed and worked out the rules, they went to the house in the dark while it was still early.

When the old lady heard this, her brows furrowed tightly.

Of course she wanted to buy back that half of the house, but a house in such a location, even if only half of it, would cost 10,000 or 20,000 taels of silver.

There was so much silver that even if she mortgaged everything in her house it would not be worth that much silver.

During those years, my son was in poor health, and a lot of supplements were sent to his yard, which almost drained the little money in the family.

The family is currently strapped for cash, and even if she wants to buy it, she doesn't have that much money!

But if she had to watch half of the house being sold to someone else, it was one thing that she was unwilling to see her ancestral property fall into the hands of others, but the most important thing was that if this half of the house fell into the hands of someone other than her, she was afraid that many people in the capital would laugh at her.

"Aunt, please say something! If you don't want to buy it, we can only sell it to outsiders. We are all poor now, and we can't live in a yard like this whenever we want. If you don't buy it, we can only sell it to someone else. I'm sure that even if the emperor knew about it, he wouldn't say anything." Master Gong Er saw the old lady's embarrassment and simply explained his purpose.

They knew that Dongfu couldn't afford it, so they came just to ask, but actually they wanted to sell the house to someone who could afford it.

"Yes! Now that the old man is gone, we brothers have discussed dividing the family property. You know the situation in the mansion, and we are just waiting for the money from selling the house to settle down!" Master Gong San echoed.

The other masters also looked at the old lady with agreement.

Speaking of that half of the house, the old lady couldn't help but think of her father-in-law's generation.

When families divide up their property, the ancestral home is usually given to the eldest son in order to preserve the foundation. However, my father-in-law's father favored his younger son, who had accomplished nothing. Before he died, he gave half of the Pingyang Marquis Mansion to his younger son.

The mansion was transformed into a weird place after an alley was built in it.

Later, the adult men in the mansion died on the battlefield, and the other side actually set their sights on the title. The old lady thought about what her foolish grandfather had done, and it was impossible for her not to be angry.

The old lady's tone was slightly heavy, "How much silver do you plan to sell it for?"

The masters of the West Mansion looked at each other, and the second master stretched out his hand and made the number three.

The old lady's face darkened and she said, "Half of the house is sold for 30,000 taels of silver. How dare you ask for that?"

The location of Pingyang Marquis Mansion is good, but no matter how good it is, it only has half of the house, and it has no front entrance. It only has a side entrance. It can be sold for at most 20,000 taels of silver. But this old guy still dared to ask for such a high price.

Master Gong Er sighed and said in a pretentious manner, "Madam, we don't want to either. You know how many brothers we have. Thirty thousand taels of silver may seem like a lot, but if so many of us move out, everyone will have to buy a new house, not to mention that two of our younger brothers haven't started families yet. We don't know if this money will be enough to divide!"

"Yes! We plan to buy a house in the south of the city. A small house would cost at least one or two thousand. But you see there are so many of us. Even if we divide 30,000 taels of silver, it's not enough to buy a house."

"We didn't open our mouths wide because we were relatives."

Several old men talked one after another, telling us about the difficulties they had.

The old lady looked very unhappy. "You don't have to think about selling that half of the house to someone else. There was no deed to this house in the first place. If you can reduce the price by half, I will consider it."

The house cannot be bought by outsiders, and the price cannot be determined by what they say.

In just a moment, the old lady suppressed the thoughts of several people with her words.

When the masters of the West Mansion saw the old lady cut off half of the fruit as soon as she opened her mouth, they became anxious and said, "Old lady, you can't do this. This is what my great grandfather gave to our branch. It has been approved by the elders of the clan."

"Yes! This is the house of our branch. Do you want to disobey our ancestors?"

The old lady waved her hands and said, "I didn't say it's not yours, but whether it's the East Mansion or the West Mansion, it's all the Pingyang Marquis Mansion. You've borrowed the name for so many years, you can't deny it now, right?

You are selling the Pingyang Marquis Mansion, but we in the Pingyang Marquis Mansion are still alive, and the title is still there. If we don't want to, no one can buy it.

I am willing to pay to buy back my ancestral property because I don’t want my ancestors to worry about their unworthy descendants, but you should not treat me as a sucker. "

The old lady's words were rough but her point was valid, and the eight grown men were speechless.

Master Gong sighed, "We have a better idea of ​​what the days are like in your Dongfu these years. Fifteen thousand is too low, twenty thousand is about right.

Besides, whether it is 15,000 or 20,000, you in the East Mansion can’t afford it, so you might as well let us sell the house happily, so that you can live a more peaceful life in the future.”

"Yes! Fifteen thousand taels of silver is really too low. Why does the old lady have to embarrass us? Besides, it's not just us brothers who are sorry for your Dongfu."

"Yes, aunt, my eldest brother did such a thing, and we brothers feel ashamed to live here anymore, so we want to move out. But we brothers have no ability, so we can only rely on selling the little inheritance left by our ancestors to make a living. Please be flexible!"

The masters of the West Mansion all knew that the East Mansion could not afford to buy half of the house, and the second master offered 30,000, which was also intended to make the old lady give up.

But I didn’t expect the old lady to bargain with them. Could she afford it?

Several old men were also worried.

Several people looked around the empty main hall and quickly dispelled this speculation.

The East Palace has only had income but no expenditure over the years. If their West Palace warehouse had not been burned down, the East Palace would be worse than them!