The prince of buns

Of course, talking without practicing is not enough, he also squeezed out two heroic tears in a timely manner, to match his feeling of loss and desolation at this time.

Mrs. Ruan's throat was choked by what he said. According to the logic of normal people, she should be ashamed to find a hole in the ground at the moment, but she is very talented and eloquent. She grabbed Qi Mu'an's hand and looked at Master Qi wept and said: "Good boy, you are my mother's darling, how could my mother be willing to kill me! Now my mother only asks you to say something nice for your mother in front of your father. The reason why my mother did these stupid things is because of your mother. It's all for our family!"

So I repeated what I just said to her own son Qi Muwen, such as that the situation in the mansion is getting worse every year, and all the expenses are high. I had to think of this way to work around it.

"My son, you are the eldest son of the family. If the family is in trouble, you have to find a way to help. Now my mother just loves you. You have never had anything at a young age, and you told me about such an unsatisfactory marriage. I can't bear to share with you." That's all you said, maybe you understand the painstaking efforts of mother?"

Whoops, these two lips are up and down, and it's me who steals my things.

Qi Mu'an couldn't listen anymore. The sensational route was not his style in the first place. Now that his stepmother had already confessed himself, he didn't want to pretend to be a grandson anymore. His temperament of a little bully who is used to being the only one who respects himself, once he gets hurt emotionally, he will naturally There was a severe attack.

So I stood up and wiped my nose vigorously, "Mother, you said it, the conscience of heaven and earth, my son can't tell the good from the bad when I talk to you now! Since you have so many difficulties in your heart, why don't you talk to me?" Tell dad straight, it’s all right now, my uncle thought it was my dad who swallowed the dowry of the princess’s mother, dad heard what he said just now, and he has to report it to the court! Our family has not only lost eighteen lives in this case People, I'm afraid I'm going to provoke officials to go to jail!"

The ancients paid attention to the fact that a person should not be punished by a doctor, and should not be inferior to a common man. Of course, he would not be bound to jail if he was in the position of Wei Guogong, but the culprit who was handed over by him might be.

If Master Qi pushes Madam Ruan out, all that is waiting for her is a letter of divorce or exile.

Mrs. Ruan was shocked when she heard this. If this matter is left in the Qi family, she will coax Qi Mu'an, a fool, if she doesn't want to be careful. If he doesn't like it, she will You can label him as a family ugliness and not thinking about the overall situation!

But I didn't expect that in such a short half a day, things would have turned into a big mess.

Immediately, she was so scared that she couldn't even cry, God, she was used to enjoying the glory and wealth all her life, but she couldn't bear the pain!

Suddenly remembering that he still has three children, he was grasping at straws, so he hurriedly threw Qi Muan off and begged her for a man, "Master, if you don't look at the monk's face and the Buddha's face, the concubine will have to work hard even if she doesn't have merit in this family. If this As the news spread, Song Ya's marriage was about to turn yellow, and Mu Wen, who was only 15 years old, just came out and learned to run around with the master! What about the bright future? The most pitiful thing is our Mu Li, we have to Seven years old, if the concubine goes away, who will take care of him at such a young age? Master, please spare the concubine this time for the sake of the three children! Hey, hey..."

Qi Mu'an had expected that she would bring out her three children to speak out. In fact, even if she had no children, Master Qi couldn't afford to lose his wife who stole his ex-wife's dowry. He would definitely cover it up for her, let alone divorce her. Well, she wasn't the only one who was crying, several generations of ancestors of the Qi family wanted beef bowl noodles.

In order to save the face of Duke Wei's mansion, even if Mr. Qi scolded her to death at home or locked her up and beat her hard, he would not touch her status.

This is called dying to save face and suffer.

However, he loves Qi Muwen so much, and he wholeheartedly entrusts him with the family business. Of course, he cannot have a mother who is pointed at by others for stealing. You must know that if he becomes a noble in the future, his glory will be the honor of the entire Duke of Wei's mansion. Glory, and his personal disgrace will also be the disgrace of the entire Duke Wei's mansion.

He can figure it out, and he doesn't expect this father, who has never regarded himself as his own son, to give up the face he values ​​more than anything else in order to get justice for himself, and he doesn't even expect him to regard himself more than anything else. The second son, Chong, would be moved a little because his ineffective eldest son was emotionally hurt.

As long as he can get his own losses back in this trouble, other debts can be calculated slowly in the future, won't it last forever.

Right now, buying a new house requires money, and investing in shops and real estate also requires money. He can't let Jian Yunchen follow him without a title and drinking northwest wind, right?Then he can still be considered a man?

Sure enough, Mr. Qi was also in a dilemma. If he said that leaving his wife and going out alone could solve everything, he was not reluctant.

But the so-called husband and wife are one, but Ruan's actions also implicated himself and his son, so he really had to be cautious.

So he pointed at Madam Ruan with wide eyes and said angrily, "Don't gossip about things like this, I'll leave this whole family to you, you won't take care of the family and cause so many losses Come on, is it because we made you poor and forced you to reach out? Then I want to ask you, how many lives have we had as a big family? My mother, my grandma, and my grandma, how did they behave? Family? Their deceased original spouse left a lot of money for them! How can our family be passed down to my generation?"

What he said was reasonable, and Madam Ruan's face was red and her ears were red and she was speechless. Qi Mu'an sat on the side without saying a word. Of course, he would not think that he was being fair just because of the old man's words, so he just waited quietly. God turned around.

Sure enough, Mrs. Ruan wept bitterly for a while, and Mr. Qi coughed twice and said: "Well, how did you get the boss's things, and you can send them back to me, and you can't lose a penny. His, first level up this hole so that I can give the Xue family an explanation, and I'll come back to figure it out with you later! Don't try to fool me again, this matter can't be finished tomorrow, so you can clean it up for me Pack up and go back to Suzhou! At that time, I don’t care about any children who have lost their mothers. Back then, the eldest lost his mother. Didn’t I continue you?”

After finishing speaking, he lifted his feet angrily and walked away, regardless of Madam Ruan covering her face and collapsing on the ground crying almost breathless, he had seen enough of this stupid son and stupid daughter-in-law, it was nothing to make him suffer so much. When you get angry, you have to find a place to make up for it.

Who knew she was about to go out, but was blocked in the back garden by a fragrant body.

"It's getting dark, master, where are you going? But forget about Bai'er, the poor man misses you so much!"

Xie Bai hugged Master Qi's waist and twisted his waist to act coquettishly. Taking advantage of the night, he boldly reached out and rubbed the place under the man, making Master Qi lose his soul. If you want to go out to have fun, won't there be some fun coming to your door right now?

Immediately he smiled and hugged him in his arms, and said with the strength of the wine in the first place: "Come on, let me go out with the master, let's have a good night! This is such a mess, I don't want to stay anymore, master!"

Qi Mu'an was so angry that he received the news that Master Qi took Xie Bai out to open a room in his own room, he laughed out loud, this old man is not a repairman, his family is a mess, and he still has the mind to mess around with his son's little wife.

Thinking about being alone is worse than being happy with others, such explosive news must be shared by someone, so he said to Fen Xiang: "I don't need you to be on duty today, go down and rest, and tell Hui Xiang about this interesting story. "

Huixiang was the eyeliner Mrs. Ruan put on him. Some time ago, he found some excuses and cleared a few of them, but he kept her.

Mrs. Ruan's people, you can use them when you need them!

Mrs. Ruan was holding her heart in the room while watching the two confidant maids moving things out of her perennially locked big cabinet, while clutching her heart and liver, she almost fainted with anger when she heard the news from Huixiang. past.

But she is not confused, knowing that now is not the time to faint, she can only put this matter aside first, and concentrate on filling in the shortfall on Qi Muan's side.

If the girls moved one piece, Mother Liu would make a note of it, but even if they handed over all of them, there were still some that they would not be able to pay back.

So it was necessary to send someone out overnight to inform her that the third sister and third brother-in-law were helping Zhang Luo, some of them were still in the pawn shop and knew their whereabouts, and they had to post money to buy them back at a high price.

In the afternoon of the second day, Mrs. Ruan crackled and beat the abacus beads. Most of the things were recovered, but they paid double the price when they were sold. Not only did she not get half of the benefits, but Fill in all the body parts I have saved over the years.

Things are okay, but what is even more troublesome is the white silver pattern.

When Fuhe princess passed the door, apart from accompanying things, the rest had cash!It was very convenient to take out flowers, so she used a lot of them lavishly, a little today and a little tomorrow, and after seven or eight years, more than half of them were used. That's the most important thing.

But what can be done?The most important thing now is to keep the position of the wife of the country, even if everything else is paid, there can always be another plan in the future.

So she had to grit her teeth and take out her old book to make up for it. In addition, she has actually made a lot of money lending money outside these years. She thought she was old and reliable, but she was forced to vomit it all at once.

In the end, there is still a shortfall of 5000 taels that can't be made up. Seeing that it is getting dark and the time limit given by Master Qi is approaching, Mrs. Ruan is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. Someone was looking for her son Qi Muwen, but he still hadn't come at this moment, and I didn't know how many times he urged him, so he couldn't help feeling bitter in his heart, so he just sat down on the chair and cried loudly.

At this time, Qi Muwen finally came in out of breath, and took out a stack of bank notes from his arms with a black face and handed them to her, "I really have no other choice, so I had to pay the price of the gold and silver shop that my father gave me, plus I saved it myself. Here is a total of 3000 taels."

When Mrs. Ruan heard that her son had sold the most valuable shop, she felt pain again. She thought that whoever would really take advantage of the fire to rob him, and that shop in that area was worth twice the price no matter what!

But at the moment, I really can't take care of it, even if I count the money, it's still 3000 taels short!

It was her son who reminded her, "Now there is nothing I can do. Mother just insisted that you only have so much in your hands and that's it. I don’t spend a penny on my own? According to the example of the wife at home, she only gets ten taels of silver a month. The princess brings so many people and is used to spending. How can she make enough if she doesn’t take out the money herself? This is also the Xue family You should understand."

Mrs. Ruan felt reasonable after hearing these words, and with her son by her side, she felt a little more at ease.

When Mr. Qi came back, she didn't dare to ask him where he went yesterday, but carefully told him that everything was ready. Mr. Qi just closed his eyes and snorted, and went into the little wife's room without even looking at her. went.

The Xue family was invited the next day, but the Duke of Lu still did not show up, presumably because he refused to give the Qi family this face, only Xue Huai and a few old stewards of the Duke of Lu's mansion came.

Although Master Qi didn't want to humble himself in front of his brother-in-law who was almost 20 years younger than him, what could he do?

I had no choice but to laugh and count all the belongings Mrs. Ruan found out in front of them one by one, and then told the lie I prepared in advance to the truth in an orderly manner.

To sum it up in one sentence: It was all stolen by a daring dog servant in the family. Fortunately, it was discovered in time, and most of the stolen goods have been recovered. There are still a few that have been lost many times and disappeared. The Qi family will also find a way. Compensate according to the price.

Xue Huai smiled coldly, "It turned out that it was a slave who did it. If Mu An hadn't knocked him out by mistake, that slave would have made a lot of money, and he just secretly shipped it out every day or two without leaving a single one." After half a year, he will become a small rich man. But this is also a wonderful person. Since he got all his property out, why didn't he spend it? How can he still pay back so much? We thought that even if he was caught, he would only Can I ask for money or my life, I really don’t expect to get back so much.”

The implication is that ordinary thieves can't afford to pay, and only the Qi family's financial resources can make it work out.

Master Qi's face turned red and then pale when he was ridiculed, but after all it was his own fault, and it was not easy to refute him, so he had to swallow his anger and just hope that the matter would be exposed as soon as possible.

But he didn't expect that even if they paid back their things, the so-called good things never go out, bad things travel thousands of miles, and the rumors that Qi's family swallowed up the original spouse's property would still spread silently.

Immediately afterwards, someone from Song Ya's in-law's family came, saying that the old man was ill, and asked a celestial master to approve the order, saying that there was something wrong with the fate, and the family would not be able to hold weddings for the next five years.

In other words, if Songya still wants to marry, she has to wait until she is 22 to become an old girl.

As for the two families that Mrs. Ruan managed to recruit to Qi Muwen, one family had been ruined earlier because of Xie Bai's incident, and the other family seemed to be interesting. So he entrusted the middleman to come to the door, and said that there is no need to mention the marriage of the children.

These are all later stories.

He only said that Mr. Qi spent some money to find a scapegoat among the servants and handed it over to the Xue family. The eldest son Qi Mu'an went to guard the door of his room again.