Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chapter 42 Salted fish eating melon 14
However, in order to maintain the dignity of these noble families, the servants did not dare to use too little, lest they be said to be petty.

Then the clothes of the subordinates, including the subordinates, should not be too bad, and the banquets should not be bad when people come, and in a year, no matter what, you have to hold several banquets to be worthy of honor, and such a banquet , spending more money.

Even if you don't have money, you still have to eat and drink, and in order not to make people laugh, the food and drink should not be too cheap. Therefore, a noble family needs a lot of money just for food and drink every year, which is not what the small salary can afford.

As a matter of fact, most of the money was wasted on eating, drinking and drinking. If they don’t walk around each other often, if they go to this family to eat today and tomorrow to that family, and then come back, their own family will have to pay it back. You can save a lot of money by not eating at other people's homes all the time, and not always hosting banquets.

This is the reason why noble families will become poorer and poorer if their children are worthless, because there are too many places to spend money.

Lin Lang was not worried that if she married into such a family, she would become poorer and poorer.

Because, when the older generation is still alive and everyone lives together, the Ye family will take advantage of each other's background and show some filial piety to each other.

After the older generation dies, the main branch may become poorer and poorer after their families are separated, but her fiancé is the second son, and there will be no title to inherit in the future. The noble and decent will not be like the main branch, in order to maintain their dignity, they hold banquets from time to time, and the poorer and poorer, they will live well by relying on the income from the division of the family and her dowry.

If life is not good, Lin Lang will not be willing to marry, after all, she did not come to these time and space to live a hard life.

After Ye's father agreed to a second wife, he went to Linlang's fiancé's house, which was Uncle Zhongyong's house, to inquire about the matter.

The ancestors of Uncle Zhongyong's mansion started with military exploits, and they were not hereditary successors. Just like Uncle Anding's mansion, they can only be inherited for five generations.

The only good thing is that some nobles were inherited by the fifth generation without being demoted.

The Zhongyong uncle who is currently in charge of the family, that is, the future father-in-law of Linlang, is already the fourth generation, that is to say, the elder brother of the fiancé will be the last generation of earl, and after that, the husband's nephew will have no title like the future children of Linlang's family .

Because considering that in the future, if the grandson has little potential and cannot make any progress in the imperial examination, without a title, he will at most have a minor official with a shadowy title. By then, the glory of Zhongyongbo Mansion may be completely gone, so Zhongyongbo Mansion will Like other noble families who have no money, they choose to marry into a merchant family because they want to rely on this marriage to save some family business so that the descendants of the main branch will not fall too hard in the future.

In fact, the action of the Zhongyongbo Mansion is too late. Many people marry merchants when they have no money to spend. The Zhongyongbo Mansion is due to fewer people and less consumption, so it can last until the fourth generation. Only then did he marry merchants.

Because there have been no wars in the court these years, the status of generals in the court has declined, and after Earl Zhongyong's mansion won the title, the people in the mansion want to change to civil servants with better status, so starting from the second earl, he started to study, Preparing for the imperial examination, it is a pity that no one in the family has passed the imperial examination for several generations. The best result is just passing the imperial examination.

This led to such an embarrassing situation: I wanted to take the path of civil servants, but failed; and then I lost the path of military commanders. On both sides, I didn't pick up the watermelon and even lost the sesame seeds.

In other words, the Earl of Zhongyong's Mansion not only has no money, but also no power, which is why they will marry merchants, because if they still have power, they can attract money, and there is no need to marry merchants.

Now that there is no money and no power, so when Father Ye came over and asked them about this, the Zhongyong uncle of this generation, who is also the future father-in-law of the Ye family, said embarrassingly: "Exile is not something I can handle." As you know, in fact, I also have a cousin who married into their family, and something happened this time. Their family found me and asked me to help. What happened to the case. So I can only say sorry for what you asked. "

Speaking of it, in fact, according to common sense, exile will affect the people related to it. For example, cousin Ye's exile will actually affect her natal family. It will not only affect the second bedroom, but also the eldest bedroom. After all, they are still a family now. No separation.

The reason why the Earl of Zhongyong’s Mansion married them was that there were too many masters in the royal family, and too many marriages with merchants and officials in Beijing and China. If it was affected, almost all the families in the capital would be affected—— This is also the reason why Wang Xi married almost all the families in the first place, just to weave a big network of relationships—even in Uncle Zhongyong’s mansion, there were also people who married into Wang’s family, and they were the cousins ​​that Earl Zhongyong mentioned. Being affected is equivalent to not being affected, so what happened to cousin Ye did not affect Lin Lang's marriage.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, there is no such good thing.

Father Ye was not surprised after hearing what Uncle Zhongyong said, because before he came, he had expected that the second room would ask him to find help from Earl Zhongyong's Mansion. I'm afraid Earl Zhongyong's Mansion might not be able to help as the second room thought. After all, he must be able to help. Just like what Uncle Zhongyong said, he had not fished out his cousin long ago. He couldn't even fish out his cousin, so how could he fish out cousin Ye.

So at that moment, Ye's father heard Uncle Zhongyong's apology, shook his head and said: "What did my in-laws say? In fact, I also know that this matter may not be possible. It's just that my brother is worried about the child, so I have to come and ask. I have no choice but to Come and ask."

After explaining the situation clearly, Father Ye went back and told Erfang what Uncle Zhongyong had said.

Then he said: "...If they can't do it, you should find someone else to help."

The second room naturally couldn't accept it. The second aunt Ye was crying because she was worried about her daughter's life and death these days. Now, hearing father Ye say that Uncle Zhongyong can't save people, because he was worried in his heart, he couldn't help but feel a little resentful when he spoke, saying: " He is an earl. With such a high status, why can't he save people? Isn't it because he doesn't want to try his best? "

In fact, what she wanted to say more was whether Father Ye didn't try his best.

Hearing Aunt Ye's complaints, Father Ye couldn't help being a little unhappy and said: "How can you be so suspicious of someone? If he can really save him, he can't save his own cousin. You know, his cousin also married into the Wang family. of."

In the final analysis, who could be blamed for this matter, and Erfang himself?After all, Father Ye had reminded the second wife to let Tangmei Ye reconcile, but he was scolded by the second bedroom, thinking that he was jealous of their second wife, didn't want to see their second wife live well, and wanted to harm their second wife.

(End of this chapter)