After the stalls were sold out, Zhu father cleaned up the stalls and told Zhu Pingchuan to lead Zhu Pingan to wait here while he went to the grocery store to sell the rabbit skins.
Because Zhu’s father and the grocery store are familiar customers, the grocery store will not let Zhu’s father suffer, so Zhu Pingan did not insist on going.
Zhu’s father went for a while and came back with a total of five rabbit skins, twelve wen per rabbit skin, totaling sixty wen.
Watching his father receive all the money in the basket, Zhu Pingan’s eyes were glowing with joy, “A lot of money ah, go back to mother, mother must be very happy.”
“No, we can only keep twenty-four wen of this money, the rest has to be given to grandmother.” Zhu father amusedly touched Zhu Pingan’s head and explained.
Oh, come to think of it.
The Zhu Family’s family rules stipulated that the income gained from occupying the time during the day that was supposed to be spent doing farm work was to be returned in full to the public, as for the private income from private evenings or other times when one didn’t have to do farm work, it was also to be turned over 80%.
In ancient times, it was not allowed to have private property without separating the family.
If you went to the mountains during the daytime when you were doing farm work, all the income from going to the mountains had to be returned to the public account; for bamboo weaving, since most of the work was done by your father at night, you had to hand over 80% of the income.
All the money from the sale of rabbit skins had to be given to my grandmother for the public account. In addition to the rabbit skins, all the money from the game was to be handed over, as well as all the fifty rupees that had been earned from the mountain delicacies and wild game.
Of course, there is also the money from my father’s bamboo weaving sale that has to be turned over for 80% of the income. This time, my father’s bamboo weaving has also been sold for one hundred and twenty wen, so if I turn it over, I will have to hand over almost one hundred wen as well.
That is to say, all the things this time were earned by my father’s hard labor, but this time the total amount of money to be handed over was almost 00 Wen. If it wasn’t for his own honeysuckle, father would only be able to land about 0 Wen this time.
As far as Zhu Pingan knows, the eldest uncle’s family seems to have never paid a penny to the family, but instead, they take money from the family’s account from time to time, and the eldest uncle’s poetry, calligraphy, pen and ink, as well as the money for going out to meet friends; the third uncle’s family does pay, but it’s also very little; and the fourth uncle’s family, let’s forget about it, and the fourth uncle and the fourth aunt are all trying to find ways to take advantage of it from the account.
Even though they contributed a lot of money, the grandparents often favored the eldest uncle and the fourth uncle’s family.
The family has something, grandmother also often let the father out of money, the father is quick to pay, this mother Chen’s and father angry many times. Filial piety is deserved, but also have to take care of the family ah. Big brother will be married in a few years, have to save money for big brother to marry a daughter-in-law ah, grandparents have been favoring the eldest uncle’s examination, I’m afraid that not much money. Furthermore, in case there are any changes in the family, you have to be prepared for them.
Therefore, it is necessary to brainwash with the father.
“Why do you want to give it to grandma?” Zhu Pingan tilted his head and asked.
“Because we have to eat, ah, we all eat from home.” Father Zhu explained.
Skimming.
“The honeysuckle was promised to me by my grandmother, so I’m keeping that money, and the silver nakedness was given to me by someone else.” Zhu Pingan made a childish, rogue-like appearance.
Zhu father thought for a moment, En, indeed, when he came back from the mountain the whole family laughed at the flowers picked by swine children, and mother did have the words that the gold and silver flowers belonged to swine children.
“En, okay.” Zhu father head.
“Father ah, when I used to sell bamboo weaving in town, how much could I sell at a time? How much money was given to grandmother?” Seeing that Zhu father agreed, Zhu Pingan felt that Zhu father could still be saved, so he casually asked again.
Zhu father answered as he packed up his household goods, “I used to be able to sell sixty or seventy wen each time, and give about fifty wen to the family.”
“Then let’s sell bamboo weaving this time and give ten more wen to grandmother, give grandmother sixty wen.” Zhu Pingan looked like a filial and good boy.
This way, in addition to the money from the gold and silver flowers, this time the income could leave 60 Wen.
“Ah?” Zhu’s father froze for a moment and laughed, “That’s not how it’s counted swine child, this time the bamboo weaving was sold more as well.”
“Yes swine brother, you still, can’t count.” Big brother Zhu Pingchuan followed.
This method didn’t work, Zhu Pingan had to do it another way.
“Eldest Aunt and Fourth Aunt both have silver hairpins, mother has been coveting them for a long time, she just hasn’t saved up enough money.” Zhu Pingan’s eyes released a scene of his mother Chen envying his great aunt and fourth aunt, which was quite infectious.
Zhu father also thought of Chen at home, for himself for this family to pay a lot, also should save some money to make daughter-in-law happy happy, and then, this time the bamboo weaving to the family to submit the money than the past is not more than ten Wen.
Eventually, Zhu father also agreed to head, will be silver money heart divided into two parts, on the home to the side, the other part of the money heart including gold and silver flowers wrapped up and put on the back of the Zhu Pingan “We are authentic Songhu cotton cloth, is directly from the Songjiang House of the goods, delicate, firm, beautiful, whether it is to do clothes or bedding are in demand tight na, the price is also affordable tight. ” The shopkeeper’s mouth can talk, the ability to read the words and colors is also very strong, as if he can penetrate Zhu father’s heart as if, and finally also emphasize the price is affordable.
Songjiang House clothes are all over the world, Huangdao grandmother merit Ze nine states. It is true, I did not realize that the cotton fabric of Songjiang has spread to the towns at the foot of the mountain.
“How much does this kind of cloth cost?” Father Zhu asked, pointing to a cotton cloth with a peach blossom white background.
“Ten large coins a horse.” The store boy returned, “A piece of cloth like this can make 8 pieces of tops, or 1 piece if it’s for skirts and pants, it’s a good deal.”
In the Ming Dynasty, one pi was equal to four zhang, one zhang was ten feet, and one foot was 0.1 meter when converted into modern units, which meant that one pi of cloth was about twelve meters.
