Happiness System - Chapter 783: Fake Gold 9
Happiness System
Chapter 783: Fake Gold 9As Xiao Zhao listened, her face turned blue and purple and finally turned gray. The maternal family that she was so proud of had fallen to this point without her knowing. Was only a bright and beautiful shell left?
In the end, the mother and daughter of the Zhao family hugged each other and cried bitterly, and then little Zhao finally calmed down.
However, the punishment for the mother and daughter still existed. Fortunately, the Bo family was not a mean family. Apart from having to copy the "Instructions for Women" and "Book of Filial Piety" and not being allowed to leave the yard, the mother and daughter were no different from the others.
The second master was angry because his wife and daughter had been treated poorly by his mother and brother, and he didn't want to go see them.
Without Xiao Zhao's supervision, he spent all his time hanging out with his two concubines except when he went to the yamen, and his life was much more relaxed than before.
Xiao Zhao's mother and daughter were not people who could sit still. It took them nearly four months to finish copying the Instructions for Women and the Book of Filial Piety.
From midsummer to early winter, the Bo Mansion is still the same Bo Mansion but it is also not the same Bo Mansion!
The official positions of Bo Luohong and Bo Jingyao, father and son, were both promoted to a higher level. They also invited some close relatives and friends to introduce Sheng Yunyou to everyone and announced her identity as the future mistress of the Bo Mansion.
What made Zhao's mother and daughter most uncomfortable was that Bo Luoxiu's two concubines and two maids were all pregnant. Because there was no one to serve them personally, he took in another concubine. Moreover, the mother and daughter were beaten by the old lady as soon as they were released!
Little Zhao ran back to her parents' home in grief and cried. Originally, her mother wanted to help her find a way to get rid of those children, but who knew that she would be scolded by old lady Zhao again!
In all these years, Bo Luoxiu has only had two concubine daughters besides the children born to Xiao Zhao, and everyone knows the reason!
In the past few months, the Bo Mansion has not sent invitations to the Zhao family for any banquets, big or small. A few days ago, the Zhao old lady and her daughter-in-law met the Bo family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law at the old lady's birthday banquet at the Annan Marquis Mansion. They went over to repair the relationship, but unexpectedly they were warned instead!
In this case, how could they dare to help Xiao Zhao to harm the descendants of the Bo family!
Not only that, they also have to persuade Xiao Zhao to be magnanimous. Xiao Zhao has given birth to three sons and one daughter for Bo Luoxiu. The eldest son is already sixteen years old. As long as she doesn't commit suicide, her position will be very stable!
To put it bluntly, in two years, Xiao Zhao will be a grandmother, so why would she need a man's favor? !
With the family tradition of the Bo family, those illegitimate sons can never compare with the legitimate sons. Even if the family property is divided in the future, they will not be able to take advantage of the legitimate sons!
To put it bluntly, even if Bo Luoxiu took ten concubines and gave birth to hundreds of children, it would be the Bo family's family that would provide for their support, and Xiao Zhaoshi would not be able to spend a single cent!
If you don't like them, just don't let those concubines and illegitimate children come near you. The Bo family will not allow the practice of favoring concubines over wives to happen!
To put it bluntly, Bo Luoxiu can't even support himself, so what good things can he have?
What if she served him well? Could he buy her some decent clothes and jewelry or bring back some resources for his son and daughter?
If you have that much time, you might as well try to please the old lady and the first wife of the Bo family!
Old Madam Zhao has lived to this age and has understood everything, but young Madam Zhao has controlled Bo Luoxiu for so many years, so there is no way she would change her mind just because of a few words.
When she heard her mother advising her to be magnanimous, she became upset and went back to her parents' home crying and left again crying.
The sister-in-law left her parents' home crying. If outsiders saw her, they wouldn't know how they would accuse the Zhao family!
Mrs. Zhao was extremely angry, but due to the tyranny of her mother-in-law, she dared not show the slightest dissatisfaction. She had to suppress her own little thoughts and comfort her mother-in-law.
There are no secrets in a wealthy family. Less than half an hour after Xiao Zhao returned home, Qingdai ran back with a smile on her face, "Miss, Miss, I have something funny to tell you..."
As she spoke, she told the story of how Xiao Zhao had walked away and came back crying, and lowered her voice and said, "I heard that the Second Madam was very cruel in the past. The reason why the Second Master has not had a concubine's son for so many years is because there is a maid who can tell the difference between men and women by the Second Madam's side. As long as the concubines are pregnant with sons, she will take action..."
Zi Luo glared at her and said, "How dare you tell me such dirty things that I heard from others!"
Qingdai pouted, "I didn't just hear it from the outside, these things are all true! Otherwise, why does the second house only have two concubine daughters around ten years old, and no concubine sons or daughters have been born in so many years?
You see, as soon as the second wife was locked up, the concubines and maids all became suspicious right away?
Now everyone in the mansion is betting on whether the second wife can successfully give birth to a child! "
"You still say that!" Zi Luo didn't really blame her, but walls have ears!
Although the young lady has already been married to the young master, she is still young and has not yet married. It would not be good if the Bo family knew that they were gloating over the fun!
Sheng Yunlan did not stop them from playing, and the news Qingdai heard was true!
Later, the reason why the second master, the disaster of the Bo family, committed a serious mistake that implicated the entire Bo family was also because of the seduction of Xiao Zhao and the Zhao family. After the incident, the couple brought up the past again and dug up all the past.
The younger generations only then found out that the reason the Second House had no illegitimate children was because the Second Master loved the Second Madam so much that he pleaded for her and covered it up. After the Second House had too many miscarriages, the Second Master got annoyed, and from then on he had someone specially supervise the concubines who served him to drink the contraceptive soup.
In that life, the second branch only had these six children from beginning to end!
The second house has become really lively now. Not only do they have four more illegitimate sons and daughters, but they also have one more concubine. When the two concubines give birth to children, their status will also be raised. By then, they will have one wife and five concubines, which is more than the master!
Xiao Zhao was lucky to marry into a family like the Bo family. If she were in another family, those favored concubines and illegitimate sons and daughters would have angered her to death!
Sheng Yunyou, who was crowned as Bo Jingyao's fiancée, had not changed at all. She was still in that lazy and sloppy attitude. Xu couldn't do anything about her. She could only accept her fate and continue to work hard. However, after that, she began to take care of her body seriously.
After Qingdai and Ziluo finished playing, they saw Sheng Yunyou sitting in a daze on the rocking chair, so they took out a small blanket and covered her with it. "Miss, the weather is getting colder. It will probably snow in a month. The price of silver charcoal will go up soon. Do you think we should stock up on some charcoal first?"
The Bo family would naturally supply them with charcoal, but the price of silver charcoal was not low. According to the share that the Bo family gave to Sheng Yunyou, it could only be said that they would not be frozen to death, but it was impossible to make the room as warm as in spring, unless you were willing to endure the cold in the second half of the month!
"Stockpile coal?" Sheng Yunyou paused for a moment before asking, "What's the current price of coal?"
Zi Luo moved the charcoal basin closer to her master before replying, "We are burning medium-quality silver-thread charcoal now, which costs two cents per pound, and the best silver-thread charcoal costs five cents per pound...
Right now in early winter, charcoal is not in short supply and the price is quite favorable. Once it snows and the temperature drops, the price will increase by 20% to 50%!"
The price of this charcoal doesn’t look expensive, but at least ten pounds have to be burned a day. When the weather gets colder, I’m afraid even twenty pounds won’t feel warm!
And the Bo family allocated charcoal to her according to the share of the eldest daughter, which was only 200 kilograms a month!
Other young ladies have their own mothers to support them and don’t have to worry about these trivial matters, but they have to worry about them first!
If you buy the charcoal early or late, the price difference can be dozens or even hundreds of taels over the winter!
In the entire Bo Mansion, only the main courtyard and the old lady's courtyard have heated walls. The masters of other courtyards rely on burning charcoal for heating in winter, and the charcoal is divided into different grades.
The charcoal that Sheng Yunyou was allocated was medium-quality charcoal, which produced no smoke or odor when burned and was also durable.
There is nothing wrong with this charcoal except its high price!
After thinking for a while, Sheng Yunyou said, "Go ask the eldest lady if we can make charcoal ourselves. If so, ask the Bo family if there is a suitable farm!"
By the time the charcoal is burned, the Bo family will be able to gain some benefits!
Xu also thought so. She knew that Sheng Yunyou had a lot of clever ideas. After hearing Zi Luo's report, she immediately followed him to the guest house.
As soon as she entered the room, she smiled and said, "I heard from Zi Luo that you also know how to burn charcoal?"
Zi Luo widened her eyes behind her. She clearly said that the young lady wanted to make charcoal herself, but she didn't say that the young lady could make charcoal!
But if you think about it carefully, there seems to be nothing wrong with what the eldest lady said!
Sheng Yunyou stood up and greeted Xu, then went over to help her sit down before smiling and saying, "Yunyou doesn't have that ability, I just got two prescriptions by chance and wanted to experiment! I just don't know if they will work?"
"Charcoal is also controlled by the government! But we also have a charcoal shop in the Bo Mansion, and we have obtained the qualifications. If your charcoal can really make good charcoal, we don't have to go elsewhere to get it!"
The charcoal produced by the Bo family is mediocre, and even the rich and powerful don't look down on it, so they just do business with the common people. They can't sell it at a high price, but they sell it in large quantities in winter.
Everyone knows the profit of good charcoal, but the qualifications are difficult to obtain and the formula is not easy to find!
Thinking of this, Xu felt a little embarrassed, as if she was taking advantage of someone.
She quickly made amends, "If you can really make good charcoal, I will ask my mother for permission and give you some dividends, and the recipe will still be yours!"
Sheng Yunyou nodded. She was feeling a little bored recently, so she said, "Then I'll trouble my aunt to arrange it."
Xu sighed, took her hand and patted it, "There is a farm outside our city that is quite suitable, and there is a hot spring pool over there!
I'll ask someone to ask Yao'er when he's going to take a day off, and then I'll ask you to send you and Xuan'er over to play for two days!"
After sending Xu away, Sheng Yunyou asked, "Is the winter hunt coming soon?"
She was thinking that if Bo Jingyao was not available, would their trip be postponed again and again.
Qingdai really knows this. Sheng Yunyou doesn't restrict her, so she will run away from the house from time to time.
Seeing that she was able to find out some information from the outside world, Sheng Yunyou let her do as she pleased, and even Zi Luo stopped nagging her about not doing her job properly.
She told what she knew, "At this time of year in previous years, the government would have already started preparations, but this year there has been no action so far. His Majesty has not been in good health since the beginning of winter, so this year's winter hunt will probably be cancelled."
She lowered her voice and said, "I heard that the enemy country is invading, and the treasury is a little tight..."
Zi Luo covered her mouth, "We're going to fight again?"