To be honest, the contemptuous eyes of several maids hurt Xu Hao, and it also made him realize that blindly being a low-key person seemed undesirable. After all, he was a young man, and even if he had been a human being for two lifetimes, he was still a young man.

With his worries, he came out of the house with Qiuxiang and saw the women guarding the hall whispering. Without waiting for Xu Hao to say anything, Qiuxiang asked one of the women in his forties, "Mom, what are you talking about?"

The woman was Qiuxiang's mother. In her early years, she was named Huaer. She was one of the personal maids whom Xiao gave her dowry. She was promised to the servant of the Xu family, Li Laosi. This Li Laosi was a playmate who grew up with Xu Hao's father Xu Qingtang. All four brothers were there. Li Laosi's father, Dad Li, is now the housekeeper of the second house and is called Li Laosi's manager.

At that time, the family members of the dowry were from two families. Lai Bao's mother was also one of Xiao's personal maids. She died of illness the previous year and was promised to Huaer's biological brother Wang Xi.

After Huaer got married, he was called Li Si family with his husband's surname. He heard this and said, "Oh, it's amazing. The gate is full of middle-aged families who come to join. Everyone says that the three houses are now well developed."

Other women followed him and chattered. Some said that the Xie family in the village was holding a hundred taels of silver and a land deed and cried and shouting to surrender. Some said that Qian Shanren from the next village was kneeling at the door, just looking to serve as a housekeeper. Many families came with their families just to be servants.

No wonder the ancients said that everything was inferior, but the study was high. Xu Hao had thoroughly understood it. It seems that if you want to be a leisurely and rich man, the first priority is to have a scholarship, so that you can avoid undue taxes and labor.

But the problem is that I really can't read the Four Books and Five Classics that I cheated on. The road to the imperial examination is much more difficult than that of the college entrance examination in later generations. Xu Hao sighed and bowed his head in a depressed manner and walked into his wing room.

After picking a book from the bookshelf, I barely read it for a while. Xu Qinglian and Xu Hongye came to visit with their respective maids. Qiuxiang hurriedly greeted her and poured tea and served water.

"Stop busy, you're not an outsider." Xu Qinglian said to Qiu Xiang who was busy, and Qiu Xiang smiled shyly.

Xu Hao put down the book and said, "Why are you here? Who is accompanying her mother?"

Xu Hongye pouted and said, "Sanniang brought the girl Luzhu over. I don't want to see her mother showing off her face, so I pulled my sister out to find you."

"Oh." Xu Hao understood a little.

Xu Qinglian was very open-minded about this and said with a smile: "Uncle San is just a fellow villagers. He reluctantly took several families. Aunt San came over and said that she couldn't use so many people. She planned to transfer two servants to the house for the time being. Hongye and I were fine. Seeing that Qiuxiang was busy in this room, you should also buy one or two little girls to share the burden for her."

"I don't think so." Xu Hongye shouted with displeasure, "I don't know the truth, but I don't feel at ease when I use it. Who knows when Sanniang took it back? What's that? Besides, it's not unavailable for our family. My mother used to think that we were still young and wanted to save some money. Now the wealth is not flowing to outsiders. According to me, Sanniang is fake to send someone, and it's true that she comes to the door to force the palace to watch jokes."

"That's true." Xu Qinglian nodded as she listened to her younger sister's analysis.

Xu Hao came for a while and instantly understood what his sister said. This matter was a long story. My uncle Xu Yaozu married the daughter of the Wang family, who was a member of the rebel army in Fengyang at that time. The Wang family later became a founding nobleman. The status of the Wang family rose with the rise, and no one in the family except the old lady looked down upon.

The problem is that Wang was originally a farmer, and his appearance, knowledge, and talent were almost inferior to his mother. At first, he was a little jealous. Later, his uncle Xu Yaozu followed his second grandfather Xu Da several times to the frontier. He was full of iron-blooded soldiers. Wang was very afraid of her husband. In order to please her husband, he diligently arranged a few concubines himself, while his mother roared the east lion, and his cheap father didn't even dare to look at women. After a while, Wang felt even more uncomfortable.

It is precisely because of my mother's barbarity and Wang's arrogance in her usual manner that when it comes to the marriage of the third uncle, the old lady chose the daughter of the Liu family who is close to the little landlord. She is interested in the Liu family's wealth but not powerful, well-behaved and polite, but not the arrogance of the big clan.

Such a wish was achieved, but it also planted a competition between the three wives. The difference in birth and growth environments, and the woman's family who care about small things naturally could not live in peace. However, whether it was personal quality and interpersonal means, or even secretly using local relationships and money, the energy of the Xiao clan was extraordinary. It was far from comparable to the Wang family, who was trembling in the capital to survive and the Liu family, which had a low foundation. Under all the struggles, it was naturally my mother and her family who were steadily defeated.

Now the third wife is looking to develop, and Aunt San is here to wipe out the resentment of many years. According to my mother's temperament, she will definitely not accept it, so it is inevitable to add a servant.

The question is where does the monthly money paid to the servants come from? Originally, the old lady said at home that the inputs of each house must be unified into the account. In the past, the expenses of the long house were dominated by the family, and the second and third houses were almost the same. Now, with the third uncle becoming an official, the expenses of various expenses must increase significantly. The family is still on the spot, and the monthly payments in the palace are still so much. The maids have to pay more monthly money for the four seasons of clothes, rouge, weekday rewards, and even food. The corresponding other expenses will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.

No matter in any era, relationships are the big part of the family's expenses. Who would be happy if they are short? My mother, who has always been arrogant, would rather grit her teeth and treat her badly than let outsiders talk. This is probably the ultimate intention of Aunt San?

After thinking it through, Xu Hao couldn't help but feel a headache. He was also glad that he was bored back then, so he watched some palace and house fighting scenes. He was a foolish man in terms of women's fighting.

Listening to the girls' discussions, Xu Hao's silent words did not attract their attention. After all, under the tradition of the male lead and the female lead, Xu Hao's non-participation is a normal move.

Xu Hao slowly concludes with each other. For a family, it is nothing more than increasing revenue and reducing expenditure. Since he doesn't want to see the reduction, then adding external blocks is the only way out.
Chapter completed!