Several legitimate sons quarreled. The fourth master lowered his head and said nothing. He suddenly poured a glass of wine and drank it. He did not speak or eat the food. He just sighed and felt endless sorrow in his heart.

Everyone looked at each other.

The women even breathed lightly, and their faces turned pale with fear.

Mrs. Tong said: "I don't understand what the elder said. Your brother has come here to celebrate the New Year for the first time in decades, but you can't even add an acre of land? I have an account book here.

It was obviously your wife who embezzled the money, how could you still blame it on others? I was planning to give you a peaceful year, but instead you came here and forced me to be a good person."

Mrs. Tong's previous embezzlement was finally settled by paying back the money to Gong Zhong. Because of this, the old man wanted to ask what the family had purchased, but because the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were fighting over each other, they were not busy with it.

So there was no time to add land.

Mrs. Tong said: "The account book at home is very clear. Ru Niang, please report the account so that everyone in the family knows what is in the house, and no one can fool anyone."

As soon as the old lady said this, the people in the second room and even the fourth room immediately said: "The old lady is wise."

"It just won't work if there is no old lady in charge of this house."

"That's right. If the old lady had come to take care of the family earlier, I guess the family would have gained hundreds of acres of land."

Mrs. Tong's face turned pale with anger at these words.

There was a daughter-in-law beside Mrs. Tong who reported the bill clearly.

At this time, there were more than a dozen tables in the house, and even the children were afraid to sit there motionless and listen to the report, even though they could not understand it.

This is the liveliest family since Yuan Wense traveled through time, except for the emperor's family. There are dozens of masters, and they only need hundreds of taels of silver every month, as well as food, clothing and housing. I really don't know what it will be like all year round.

How much money will it cost?

The main income of the Tong family is definitely not the salary income of a few men. Of course, their salary income must be paid to the public. This part is almost two hundred taels of silver.

Then all gifts coming and going have to be paid to the public, and you can earn almost 1,700 taels of silver from this part.

The rules of the Tong family are similar to those of today's big families. Except for the wife, the son cannot have private property. All the shop land bought with the money earned belongs to the public property, so whatever Lao Shi wants to buy, he must use Yuan Wense's name.

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Then the output of these public properties is the main income of the Tong family.

The Tong family's gray income from being an official in the past few years has been adding more shop land every year. The past few years have been good, so they only increased production and did not sell it. The family accumulated more than 1,400 yuan in the suburbs of Beijing.

With multiple acres of land, this output is almost enough for everyone’s daily expenses in a year.

There are also shops facing the street, three large and seven small, with more than 4,000 taels of silver a year.

Excluding normal expenses, the net profit is one thousand one hundred taels a year.

However, not only was this silver missing from the accounts, but there was even a deficit. The more than two thousand taels of silver coming in and going out must have leaked out of the steward's hands.

This account was extremely clean and easy to calculate. The old lady even counted the monthly and annual accounts and all the totals were very clean.
Chapter completed!