Chapter 9:

Ning Yanting was in front of him, so Ning Mu took out the account book, reset the abacus, and gave him a good calculation.
"Your salary and monthly bills were all sent to you at the beginning of the month. Because you still have entertainment and walking, I will give you an extra eighty taels of silver each month. These eighty taels of silver can be spent by ordinary people for many years. Although the prices in the capital are high, eighty taels are more than enough. Even if you buy something for Anuan and Lang'er occasionally, it is enough.
At this point, Ning Mu lifted his eyelids and glanced at him, seeming to sneer inadvertently. , The voice was very soft, but Ning Yanting still heard it.
Ning Yanting was a little uncomfortable.
Sure enough, I heard Ning Mu said: "You rarely buy anything for A Nuan and Lang'er. But this is not important. It was originally for you. What is missing in A Nuan and Lang'er, I will just make up for them."
Ning Yanting became more uncomfortable. He looked away and said awkwardly, "I will remember it later."
Ning Mu said coolly, "It would be better if I remember."
Ning Yanting: "..."
Ning's mother continued to calculate, "But these eighty taels of silver are not enough for you."
"Impossible." Ning Yanting retorted subconsciously: "That's eighty taels of silver!"
"At the beginning of this month, I have already given you eighty taels of silver. After that, you asked me again, saying that the silver was spent. I was worried that you were not enough, so I gave you another hundred taels." Ning's abacus shifted here, stopped, looked up and asked, "It's only the seventh day of the seventh day. You have spent all this hundred taels?"
Ning Yanting: "..."
He wanted to shake his head to deny, saying that he was unlikely to spend so much money, but when he met Ning Mu's eyes, he touched his pocket again, and suddenly lost his voice.
If it is not spent, where did his money go?
Ning Yanting recalled carefully, and then he said: "At the beginning of the month, the second brother went to have a drink and bought a vase from the front. The third brother fell in love with a few ancient fans, so... "
Ning Mu said coolly: "You stay in the palace, can you meet them?"
"The second and third brothers forgot to bring the money when they went out, and sent a small servant to come to me, and I gave them a mat first."
"Your government office is quite far away from this market. Instead of sending a small servant to find you, it's better to go home directly, or to Ning's palace closer." Ning Mu said: "You have to remind them later. , Why bother to be near and far, right?"
Ning Yanting thought about it carefully and said it made sense, and said with confidence, "I will remind them that next time."
Mother Ning lowered her head with a sneer at the corner of her mouth, and said, "Since the second and third brothers will not come to you for money anymore, your expenses are not big. I usually give you 80 taels a month. On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, I will give you 40 taels."
Ning Yanting frowned: "Forty taels?"
"Why? Not enough?"
"This... my third brother wants to buy Mr. Soseki's paintings. These forty taels are probably not enough."
Mother Ning pretended to be surprised: "He wants to buy Mr. Soseki's paintings, why come to find you?"
Ning Yanting told him what happened today.
The expression on Mother Ning’s face was even more surprised: "You can't give the money, so he can go back to Ning Mansion to get it. You have said to his little servant, can this blame you?"
"If it weren't for me, my third brother would not be laughed at by friends." Ning Yanting apologized: "His silver was used to pay for the wine, and there is no more silver to buy Mr. Soseki's paintings."
With a "pop", Mother Ning reset the abacus to zero. She closed the account book and sneered: "Since he has the money to pay for alcohol, why should he come to you?"
Ning Yanting was startled.
He has always been responsive to his brothers' words. This has become a habit. When two younger brothers speak, they will immediately agree without thinking about it. Now Ning Mu suddenly asked, he didn't know how to answer.
Yes, if you have money, why should you come to him?
It’s just that the trust in his younger brother has been haunted for many years. Ning Yanting didn’t think much, and said to Ning’s mother in a good voice:
But I have promised the third brother. The gentleman can’t chase after a word. Give me money and let me buy Mr. Soseki's paintings for him."
"What about after that?"
"what?"
"If they come to ask you for this gentleman's paintings and those gentlemen's books in the future, will you agree to them all?"
Ning Yanting should be honest: "They want it, naturally they want to give it."
Ning Mu said coldly: "Since they want it, why don't they pay for it by themselves and ask you to get the money? Your salary and monthly bill are given to them. This is originally yours, so I won't say anything. But for everything else, apart from these eighty taels, I won't give you any more points. You are willing to let them take advantage of it and let them take it, but they don't want to worry about my pocket."
"You... why did you become so unreasonable to make trouble?" Ning Yanting frowned deeply: "You weren't like this before."
"I was a fool before, and I won't be so stupid in the future." Mother Ning lowered her head again, picked up another account book, and continued to read: "Either take forty taels and leave, or don't get a single cent. Take it, you can figure it out."
Ning Yanting's face was gloomy: "What use is it for you to guard these silver!"
"Why is it useless?" Mother Ning raised her head, looking at him with a smile; "A'nuan's reputation is bad. I don't give her more dowry. What if she is looked down on in the future?"
Ning Yanting choked.
The wife moved her daughter out, but she left him speechless.
He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he felt that he was taking his daughter's dowry if he spoke again, and he couldn't hold back his face.
He stood there for a long time before he said, "Then give me forty taels..."
Mother Ning glanced at him with a faint smile, then opened the drawer, counted forty taels of silver from it, wrapped it in a veil, and handed it to his hand. As soon as Ning Yanting picked it up, she said meaningfully: "Use with care, you only have these forty taels this month."
Ning Yanting ran away.
He escaped from the door, and before taking a few steps, he met Ning Nuan who had come to find Ning's mother.
Ning Nuan asked hello, her eyes were wrong, and it fell into his hand, and suddenly said sadly: "Daddy is going to buy something for Second Uncle and the others."
Ning Yanting's breathing was stagnant, almost unable to hold his expression.
He hurriedly put the silver in his arms, his eyes touched the loss on his daughter's face, and remembered his wife's words that he had never bought anything for a pair of children, his heart suddenly softened, before he could think carefully, he blurted out: "Father ...Father will buy it for you too."
"Really?!" Ning Nuan raised his head in surprise, eyes full of joy and expectation.
Meeting her gaze, Ning Yanting suddenly forgot about the others, and nodded hurriedly: "Naturally, Dad is good at speaking, when hasn't it been counted?"
Ning Nuan was even more delighted. She thought about it for a while and then said, "Daddy, can you buy me Mr. Pillow Liu's book?"
"Just books?"
Ning Nuan opened her mouth, still wanting to say something, but before she spoke, she thought of something and shook her head hesitantly: "As long as this is enough."
Ning Yanting's heart is softer.
His eyes moved up and he noticed that his daughter was only wearing a white jade hairpin today, and her black hair was picked up by the white jade hairpin. Although it looked good, it was very simple. He recalled the exquisite jewelry on the heads of the two nieces, and said softly: "Daddy sees that your dressing up is also very simple on weekdays. How about your two sisters who love to dress up, why not buy you a set of jewelry? "
"Will this be too embarrassing for Daddy?" Ning Nuan hesitated: "Fuzhong will send new jewelry every month, so don't bother Daddy."
Ning Yanting had already made up his mind, and despite Ning Nuan's repeated persuasion, he still insisted on buying her jewelry.
It wasn't until he bid farewell to his daughter that he turned a bend with a pocket of silver, and his smile froze at the corner of his mouth.
broken.
Not to mention that the younger brother wants more than forty-two paintings. Buying jewelry for A Nuan, of course, can't be too bad. It can't be compared to that phoenix butterfly gold hairpin, but...Where did he get so much silver?
Ning Yanting lowered his head to look at the silver in his arms, and then remembered the look of his daughter's expectation, his feet suddenly softened, and he quickly supported the pillar next to him.
Today is only the seventh day...
Oh, why is it only the seventh day of the seventh day today?
As soon as Ning Nuan entered the house, he couldn't wait to tell Ning Mu the good news: "Daddy said, I want to buy me jewelry."
Ning Mu shook her head: "Where does he have so much money."
"What Dad said will always come true." Ning Nuan smiled and sat down beside her: "It depends on whether Dad is going to wrong me or second uncle and the others?"
After she finished speaking, she thought again: "Mother, do you want to put away all the valuable things in your father's room?"
"It's all put away, what will he take for it?" Mother Ning said, "When he is all done, there is nothing to be done. Then the Ning family will naturally not give a good face, don't be too impatient, just wait. Just keep it, I have taken away the things in his house now, and he will complain about me in the future."
Ning Nuan nodded, and said, "I don't know when Dad will wake up. If the second uncle is really good to him, they won't want to take money out of their hands all day long."
Mother Ning sighed and said, "Before this, I have to wrong you a bit. You are so slandered by Ning Qing and Ning Xin, my mother knows, but now you can only bear such a reputation."
"Then wait a minute." Ning Nuan smiled: "If the reputation becomes better, I am afraid that if they see me as a thorn in the eye, I would like to spend more years with my mother, if I am married. , There is only mother in the family, and the second aunt and the others will come to trouble her again, what should mother do?"
Mother Ning was moved, but she didn't think so in her heart.
She said in her heart: When you find a good family, of course you must first decide on your marriage and marry you out early.
If you don't set it up sooner, what can you do if the color of her A Nuan is so good that Wang Anan is attracted to it again? When the time comes for the imperial edict, even if she has the ability to reach the sky, she will not be able to let the emperor take back the will. But if A Nuan already has a marriage contract, even if Wang An is not stingy, he won't be able to make a grab.
...
Ning Yanting only got forty taels of silver, not even enough to buy the paintings of Mr. Soseki that Ning Yanhai said. He went back and looked through the house, but he couldn't find any extra money.
I promised my brother early in the morning that he would send the money the next day, but by the next morning, he still didn't collect enough money.
Ning Yanting was panicked, consciously unable to meet Ning Yanhai’s request, and even more dare not to receive Ning Yanhai’s questioning. By the next morning, the genius was just slightly brighter, and he actually went out directly. It was like running away, for fear of being caught.
Ning Yanhai waited left and right, and couldn't wait for him to send the money over. Then he couldn't help looking for him in person, but who knew it was empty, suddenly panic.
But after finishing the morning dynasty, Ning Yanting was still worried when he arrived at the government office.
Not only the younger brother, but also the daughter's jewelry.
Although he escaped in the morning, he still had to go home at night.
If the younger brother asked, he still couldn't bring out enough silver, but if the daughter asked, he still couldn't bring out the jewelry.
The thought of receiving disappointed glances from his daughter and brother made him feel anxious.
At noon, Ningfu brought lunch, but he couldn't eat it, worrying about the money. He was eating and suddenly heard a chat from his colleagues, as if he had mentioned the pawnshop.
pawnshop?
Yes! He can still go to the pawnshop!
Ning Yanting's eyes lit up. After lunch, he immediately took off his jade pendant and sent someone to the pawnshop to exchange the silver.
Before returning home, he went to the jewelry shop. I bought the best set of jewellery lavishly, then went to buy the books and paintings my daughter and brother wanted, and finally returned home. First, I went to my daughter's house to give the jewelry, and I was surprised to thank my daughter.
When the surprise was over, Ning Nuan immediately became worried: "This must be expensive, right? Daddy, do you still have enough money?"
Ning Yanting said lovingly: "Enough, of course enough, A Nuan, how can father make you worry about this? It used to be father's negligence, but now it makes you worry. Don't worry, father will buy you from time to time. Stuff."
Ning Nuan was naturally overjoyed, and quickly thanked him.
Thanks to his daughter's basket, Ning Yanting went to Ning Yanhai with Mr. Soseki's words.
Ning Yanhai didn't have any good expressions all day, and his expression worsened when he saw him appear.
He said in a weird manner: "It turns out that big brother still remembers me. I waited for a long time today, and didn't wait until the big brother sent the money over. I thought that big brother had forgotten me."
"How come." Ning Yanting eagerly unfolded the scroll in his hand: "Third brother, see what I bought for you. I was in a hurry to go out in the morning, so I forgot about it all at once. No, I think You waited for the third brother for a day, so I went straight to buy it for you, so I didn’t save you a trip in vain."
Seeing that painting, Ning Yanhai's expression became even more ugly.
How could it be possible that what he wanted was Mr. Soseki's paintings, just to find someone to make Ning Yanting compensate for his private library!
But now it's good, the painting is there, but the silver is flying!
When I thought that he would go to meet and sell this painting for real, there were so many troubles in the middle, it was not as convenient to receive the money directly. Ning Yanhai's face was even more ugly.
In a bad mood, he didn't give Ning Yanting a good face, so he closed the painting with a calm face, so he drove Ning Yanting out.
Ning Yanting put a cold buttocks on his hot face, and he was not in a good mood.
If it were for normal times, Ning Yanhai's attitude towards him, of course, would not have felt anything. But before he came, he went to see Ning Nuan first. His daughter's excitement and joy were still in sight, and the shout of gratitude made him feel very comfortable. This Mr. Soseki's painting is more expensive than A Nuan's set of jewelry, but my brother didn't even say a word of thanks.
Among them, the difference in treatment was too great, which made Ning Yanting feel very uncomfortable.
He had a calm face. As soon as he returned to the yard, he saw Ning Lang rushing towards him, standing in front of him in surprise, and shouting, "Father!"
"What?" Ning Yanting answered grimly.
Ning Lang didn't care, and continued: "I heard you bought jewelry for A Nuan!"
"Yes."
"Then father, I have also fancyed something recently, can you buy it for me?"
Ning Yanting's face sank, and immediately thought of his younger brother who gave him a bad face.
As soon as he looked up, he saw his son's look full of expectation again, and his reply was stuck in his throat again, unable to say anything.
He thought to himself: A Nuan and Lang'er never ask him on weekdays. Whenever there is any need, they always ask for prayers, even more diligent. But how about his two younger brothers? It seems that it has always been as it should be, as if it is only natural for him to buy things for them.
He remembered his wife's words again.
Yes, why do the two younger brothers always let him pay?
"Father, father." Ning Lang called to him: "You haven't said yet, can you agree?"
Ning Yanting came back to his senses, looking at the ardent in his eyes, his heart softened again: "What do you want?"
Ning Lang's eyes lit up and immediately reported several things to him. Although there are many, they are all inexpensive gadgets.
It's not the same as my brother!
Ning Yanting responded with one bite, and habitually pulled into his sleeve.
took out three pennies.
Ning Yanting: "..."