After dressing as a superb old woman, I am bound to the power system

Duan Mingjing looked at the tea cup and his thoughts drifted away. When he came back to his senses, he felt that the room was eerily quiet. He remembered that he had not replied to his mother and said what he had been thinking about for a long time.

"My son wants to take another look. If he can't find a suitable one, he can work as an accountant in the county. He will earn two hundred copper coins per month..." Duan Mingjing gritted his teeth.

Being a bookkeeper was his last line, but he was still a little reluctant.

Qiao Lan wasn't moved at all after hearing this, just as she had imagined. She planned to hang out until the end of the month, and then find a job if she couldn't anymore.

Duan Mingjing is like this now. Qiao, as the "mother", has a great responsibility. She pampered her second son too much and failed to educate her well. She let him live comfortably in the rich and powerful nest for decades, and nothing happened.

No. Fortunately, my temperament is not very evil, but I don't have much ability either.

After taking back the land, Qiao Lan started thinking about making extra money by making some products from the family's small workshop.

The buying and selling of things must be taken care of, and this responsibility naturally falls on the men of the Duan family. If the men in the family don't want to do it, Qiao Lan will not force them.

Duan Mingqing and Duan Mingchen have done well in their homework. If the imperial examination is resumed in the future, they will both take the exams for merit. Occasionally helping the family take care of the business and entertaining guests is a small thing, but they are afraid that doing this too often will not be good for their reputations.

But Duan Mingjing was different. From the age of 14 to 24, he failed to pass the scholar examination for ten years. His father gave up on him and asked him to stop studying. It was not that Qiao Lan thought he was not good, but that

He really can't do it.

The first candidate to bear the brunt is Duan Mingjing.

This job is not difficult. He doesn't need to work hard. He just needs to go out and say a few words to show his face.

It's just that Qiao Lan knows Duan Mingjing too well.

She knew that if Duan Mingjing was asked to stand up and negotiate business with passing merchants on behalf of the owner of the Duan family and urge the villagers in the fields to work, he would start quarreling in a few days and show off his reputation as the second master of the Duan family.

Those who come to please those who agree with him will be like a crucian carp crossing the river.

So she had to suppress Duan Mingjing and make him behave honestly and do things down-to-earth.

Qiao Lan doesn't expect how much money he can make, but he must contribute to his family.

Qiao Lan: "Can you settle accounts? Can you explain accounts clearly to others?"

Duan Mingjing said in a very low voice, "I should be able to."

Qiao Lan picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Hey! She often saw cannon fodder in TV dramas begging for mercy, saying that there are seniors and juniors, and the whole family is counting on him to support him.

If Duan Mingjing is left alone, he will nibble on the old at the top and the young at the bottom. After he has eaten his mother, he will eat his son.

Duan Mingjing: "Mom, why are you sighing?"

Qiao Lan: "I sigh because I'm afraid that if you don't handle the accounts well or do something wrong, those people will come to your house to ask for money, but you won't get your wages, and they will also use your own money to pay for it."

After hearing this, Duan Mingjing's eyes widened slightly, with a look of surprise on his face, "Can you still bully people like this?"

Qiao Lan:......

"You'd better stop looking for work and work at home. You don't have to pay one hundred copper coins per month. You work hard and I will give you some more wages, but you have to remember that when you work

You can't be lazy." Qiao Lan said trying to calm down her inner helplessness.

Duan Mingjing saw the displeasure on his mother's face and thought not to make her angry, so he agreed, "Mother, my son will listen to mother and work well."

"Tomorrow you get up at three quarters for me. You have to go out at three o'clock. Take the hatchet and the basket on your back and go up the mountain to chop wood. Only when the basket is full will it be counted as a penny. Do you understand?" Qiao Lan ordered.

At three quarters after three o'clock, it is equivalent to getting up at half past six and going out at seven o'clock.

Duan Mingjing felt sad after hearing these words. Mr. Duan had not gotten up so early for many years. The last time he got up early was when he just went to the academy for enlightenment.

The academy is not in the mansion, so we have to go there early.

"But what's the dissatisfaction?"

"No, no, mother, my son will definitely listen to you." Duan Mingjing quickly expressed his determination.

"Okay, then starting from tomorrow, you will chop three baskets of firewood a day, and each basket must not be less than ten kilograms. The firewood will be piled in the room next to the kitchen. I will go and see it, you know?" Qiao Lan suggested.

There are many ways to cheat and cheat. If he is not restrained, Duan Mingjing may bring back a bunch of fluffy hay slivers to her tomorrow, so she has to find a way to restrain her.

Duan Mingjing responded sadly, "I understand, mother."

Thinking about cutting firewood tomorrow, Duan Mingjing didn't enjoy dinner very much. In the past, Mrs. Shang always served her husband an extra bowl of rice, but when she saw that her husband only used one bowl today, she thought for a moment.

Under the dim light, Shang took out the old clothes from the cabinet.

All the valuable clothes of the Duan family had been pawned before, leaving mostly worthless old clothes. Because he had to go out to find work, Duan Mingjing picked and picked, and finally chose a slightly better silk dress. Unfortunately, before

There is a hole in it and you can't get it out.

Mrs. Shang heard her husband complain a few times at night that he didn't even have any good clothes. So he squeezed in some time and mended the tattered clothes that Duan Mingjing thought looked good.

"Second Master, I've mended this dress and embroidered some green bamboo leaves. Second Master, let's see if it fits. If you don't like it, I'll take it apart and embroider something else." Mrs. Shang said, trying hard to please her husband.

Duan Mingjing lay on the bed, nodded, and hummed.

Mr. Shang: "Then I'll put these clothes outside. The second master will wear them when he goes to the county tomorrow..."

Before Shang finished speaking, he was interrupted by Duan Mingjing, "I'm not going."

"Why don't you go?"

"I promised my mother that I would stay at home and work instead of going to the county to find work." Duan Mingjing said decadently.

After hearing this, Mrs. Shang smiled brightly. It would be better not to go to the county! She knew that her men were not meant to work, so it was better to stay at home and get closer to her youngest son. She happily picked up the embroidery

He picked up Qingzhu's clothes, "Then I'll put these clothes back in the cabinet and pick up some clothes for the second master to use for work."

The briskness in Shang's tone was very obvious. Duan Mingjing listened, and Youyuan looked at Shang's busy back for a while, then covered him with the quilt.

If Mr. Duan was so worried about his poor life that he couldn't sleep in the past, now he is so worried about tomorrow's life of chopping wood that he can't sleep.

Mr. Shang often wakes up his daughter at night.

In the past, Duan Mingjing went to bed early and didn't know this. It was rare for him to suffer from insomnia tonight. Hearing Shang's booing for a while, thinking that he still couldn't fall asleep, he felt even more depressed.

It wasn't until he was exposed even more deeply that he closed his eyes in a daze.

Early the next morning, Mrs. Shang woke her husband up.

The daughter-in-law of the Duan family gets up very early every day, preparing breakfast and cleaning the house early in the morning.

When the rice was almost cooked, he went to the house to wake up the children and family members. This was how Duan Mingjing was woken up. Duan Mingjing sighed a long stale breath on the bed and reluctantly sat up to get dressed.

Put on rough clothes for working.