In his previous life, Situ Yue complained that Chinese New Year was not a New Year, but in this life, Situ Yue cursed in his heart that it was too fucking New Year.

At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, the concubine Xianmin and her side concubine's natal family came to the palace to pay a visit. Since Situ Yue was the emperor for the first year, the heads of each family brought their promising juniors.Situ Yue took the six Fuyuan brothers and Zhu Dan out to welcome the guests, and was flattered by a bunch of cousins ​​and returned a bunch of gifts in return.

Next, it is Prince Xianmin's grandfather's house. This family cannot be neglected. It is the emperor's father-in-law's family. It has a big shelf and many scholars in the family. In the past, the first emperor greeted them. Now Situ Yue can only bite the bullet and stand against the emperor. With the title of Cheng Yue, I had an awkward chat with a group of old men and old pedants who are close to Zheye. Most of the time, they said that Situ Yue listened in a cloud, and those old pedants all spoke with allusions. The more cowardly he didn't dare to say a word at the time, he relied entirely on Cheng Yue to support the situation, and he harvested a bunch of thread-bound books as gifts from the year, and Situ Yue returned a lot of gold, silver and cloth.

A few days later, Empress Zhao's family also arrived in the capital. The first two groups left directly after visiting. Empress Zhao's family wanted to stay in Beijing and not go back.It is worth mentioning that compared with the natal family of the emperor's empress Situ Yue's grandmother, Empress Zhao's natal family is really not on the stage. The daughter married him, and the concubine daughter of the Zhen family went to their Zhao family, and she looked at people from the corner of her eyes, which showed that the Zhao family was really not a virtuous and talented family.In the end, Empress Zhao's parents died, and the Zhao family pushed back and forth to Empress Zhao, not wanting to support her, so Empress Zhao was missed by her grandmother who was a concubine and came to live in the Zhen family.

No one expected that the short-lived Empress Zhao would have such a fortune.When she was a princess, her grandfather made the decision and adopted her uncle's cousin to her father, and her uncle's family moved to the capital.Now, the members of the Zhao family in their hometown know that she has become a queen, and her other uncles are going to the capital to "enjoy their blessings".

However, Situ Yue is the most famous son-in-law in the world.

Knowing the purpose of the Zhao family's coming to Beijing, Situ Yue sneered, and called the eunuch who was in charge of etiquette at the 24th Yamen, "Learn the rules first, when you learn the rules, start to learn the style of conversation, and only after you have learned the way of style, let them The female relatives of the family are going to visit your master and concubine."

The adopted younger brother of Empress Zhao was not included. In the afternoon, he changed into new clothes and brought a red gift list to the Chongzheng Hall. After kneeling down, he held the gift list and gave it to Zhu Dan. The imperial court is very busy here, so I can only wish you and my sister a new year greeting. There are a few little rabbits for the young master, and a few golden pheasants for the princess."

Situ Yue took the gift slip from Cheng Yu's hand without looking at it, and remained on the table, saying to him, "Brother Xing, sit down."

"How about living in the mansion? In the newly built Marquis' mansion, your sister specially asked someone to set up a kang for you, just in case you couldn't stand the cold in the north in winter."

"It's really warm. I sleep on it in the winter. I bought a good fox fur in the world. It's to honor my sister and make a hand warmer for my sister. There will be no one better than my sister. Missing me."

"Your sister is naturally thinking of you. After all, you are recorded under the name of my old Taishan. You are also grown up. As a foreign relative, you have a salary and a title, but you are not ready to study, and you can't rely on the imperial examination for a while. Glory to the lintel, start a family early, your marriage, I and your sister are naturally concerned, I will marry you a noble girl, pack your things for you, take care of the housework, and go to the palace to greet your sister. Please save your uncle Mother and your sister-in-laws came, and they didn't finish three sentences, which made the queen cry."

Zhao Xing immediately stood up and listened to the lecture with his hands down.

"Sit down, I know you used to be young, but you are also a man of honor now, it's time to stand up, especially the family, you must control it well, I have received the report, your third uncle is on the way to Beijing, ruining I found a girl from the people. When they found her, he proudly said that his niece was the queen. This kind of disgusting thing also involved my queen. I really thought the queen would take care of him, but the queen was soft-hearted and took care of it for him. I'm not soft-hearted about this matter, and I still want to stop it. I don't want my children to have such a bad relative. Tonight, the Ministry of Criminal Justice will come to your house to arrest people. Don't stop him. He has already forced that citizen to death. Daughter, the whole family has sued, and now the sufferer is under the supervision and protection of the Ministry of Punishment. From now on, the clansmen will be restrained. If you are not obedient, you can form your own branch, and I promise you."

Zhao Xing only felt the rumbling ringing in his ears. He was cowardly. When he was at home, he listened to what his uncle said. When he arrived in Beijing, he saw a lot, so he knew a lot, but he still relied on his family. Although the family has fallen.

He couldn't make up his mind.

Qiao Qiao and Zhu Dan came over from outside the door, Qiao Qiao bowed to Zhao Xing across the screen, and brought something that Queen Zhao gave to Zhao Xing, a luxurious black fur, and a few words to "go to the parents' grave Go early and come back early, and tell them that I am healthy, my children are fine, and the emperor treats me well. Please don’t worry about me. I will tell you about a marriage in the next year. Now that I am fine, I will study more at home and let people clean up Let’s go to the main courtyard in the backyard so that we can marry the bride.”

This is a hint that he moved the uncle's family out of the main courtyard earlier.

Zhao Xing left in a daze.

Situ Yue took a pair of children to the Central Palace. Empress Zhao's complexion has improved a lot since she has been visiting with relatives from outside these days, and it is inevitable that female relatives will come to pay her respects.

"I see Brother Xing, how is it? Have you grown taller?" Queen Zhao asked Situ Yue wrapped in a thick cotton jacket.

"It's grown up, but you don't have a long heart. From now on, people from your natal family will be rejected from entering the palace. They are not married women, and they are not serious relatives. If you want to greet you, it should be Zhao Xing's daughter-in-law. It's not his turn." Aunts and sisters-in-law are here to talk."

Queen Zhao readily agreed, "I listen to you." Anyway, every time her aunt came, she either begged for something or something. Recently, she asked too much. When the child was playing in the palace, the cousin of her aunt's family fell in love with her and wanted to marry him.Empress Zhao has been in the palace family for so many years, and she knows that not just any girl can marry these nobles, let alone a descendant, the emperor pays attention to this, and now every royal family values ​​this even more, let alone the queen's cousin, Even her own younger sister, I guess people would look down on her. The bottom line is that the Zhao family has no background.

At night, there was finally something that made Situ Yue happy.

Qin Wu entered the palace wrapped in a cloak, and put this year's account book in a box, packing more than a dozen boxes.

"Mother, this is the Golden Luan Palace."

"No, the Golden Luan Hall is in front. This is the side hall of my bedroom. Shut your mouth, and the halazi will come out."

"Even if Harazi drowned the little one, the little one was also happy. Master, look at the pattern on the floor tiles, the dragon on the pillar, why did you put the vase into the wall? Can flowers be placed in it?"

Situ Yue ignored him, turned over the bill with his left hand, and calculated with his right hand. After looking at it for a while, he said to Qin Wu, "Turn up the candle a bit. The staring eyes will come out soon."

Qin Wu hurriedly kept his eyeballs from looking around, and poked the candle wick with a silver needle, "Master, I made a little calculation. Your house cost at least 3 taels of silver. The floor tiles need to be ground out." This kind of flower needs a skilled craftsman to work for a year, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so the price is naturally high...however, the price is 500 taels, mainly because the place is big..."

"It took not one year, but seven years for proficient craftsmen. They used marble and white marble, with real gold inlaid in the middle. Under the supervision of guards, 20 people worked day and night. It's just such a side hall. , the paint water on the outside is refreshed every year, and the things inside are not repaired once in ten years, and this is the reason.”

"Can I ask when the floor tiles were laid?"

"My grandfather's grandfather's generation shop."

"Your grandfather is an old sage. The old sage's grandfather is Tai-zu. It's been 100 years. Can you take a look at the tent? Just feel what it's made of."

"It's woven with gold thread, and it's full of drapes. A piece of cloth is a hundred taels of gold. It's what my uncle would put on when he became the emperor. If you dare to touch it, your paw will be chopped off."

"Good things, I don't touch the small ones, they are not cheap, and I dare not touch the small ones. Speaking of which, master, the floor tiles were laid by your ancestors, and the curtains were replaced by your uncle. What did you buy in this room?"

"I'm as poor as I am, what else do I do?"

"You are not poor, look at the account book, look, how much money, according to you as a human being, can fill all your bedrooms, no, it is full. This year, because of your recuperation, we The business here is very good, there are no cruel officials to exploit, no nobles to extort, this time our silver was only distributed to the Prince of the Eastern Palace, and fifteen silver carriages were sent, which were melted into water on the spot, and all flowed into the mold, and became The silver bricks are in the vegetable cellar."

"Master, we paid the tax this year, but the brothers have paid the tax honestly. Can you see it? This year the Ministry of Households has sent a lot of money to the treasury."

"There's a lot of money, not enough to spend. Besides, there's not much food when there's a lot of money. Tell the caravan to pay attention to any high-yield wild animals that you see in various places. As long as they are not poisonous, bring them back and plant them, and spread them if they can be planted. This If you put in more effort and work it out, I will reward you heavily."

"Success. I've left the account book for you. I'll go back now, little one, and pass on what you said to my brothers. This is the last time we go to business this year. Let's get together for a drink. When we're done, we all go back to our business." Everyone."

Situ Yue waved his hand, Qin Wu put on his cloak, and asked Situ Yue, "You have money in your hand, you plan to buy something to put here. If your descendants talk about it later, which dynasty is the floor tile and which pillar is it?" Once you said it once, it didn’t mention your dynasty, so it’s boring.”

"Hmph, what's the point of buying something in the bedroom? If my descendants talk about which piece of land I conquered, which kind of grain I promoted, and which official evaluation started from me, It is more shocking than mentioning these vulgar things, and it can be remembered by future generations."

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