Seeing that Tao Xiaosan would not be in the palace at night, the old lady hurriedly called Tao Yanlan out and asked her to cook for her brother in the kitchen. While instructing her daughter to cook, the old lady was not idle and ran to the kitchen to say that she wanted to cook for the third brother.
The kid rolled out some of his favorite noodles when he was little.
After working hard for a long time, a large bowl of noodles with soybean paste was brought to Tao Xiaosan, asking him to eat it while it was hot.
Tao Xiaosan's eyes became wet unconsciously while eating the fried noodles made by his mother and younger sister. In order to cover up his mood swings, he quickly wiped it with his sleeve, and then wolfed down the food into his mouth.
Seeing her son finish the meal quickly, the old lady asked him if he was not full and wanted to make another bowl quickly.
"Mom, one bowl is enough! You can't eat any more."
"Sanba, you have to eat enough. Our family is not short of food now. You send money home when you see the moon. Your eldest and second brothers also send money, and they also bring things from the factory. Your sister and I
How can anyone use all this money?"
"Mom, I'm really full. Just spend the money we give you, but don't be reluctant to spend it. Now that the three of us are making money, you can't treat yourself any more."
"Oh! I'm not worried about your eldest brother and second brother. They now have a place to earn a living and their marriage has been decided. The one I worry about the most is you. Although you are making money in the palace now, you still have to save money.
You are spending money to protect yourself from old age. You suffered a lot when your family was poor, and now there is nothing you can do to remedy it."
"Mom, I don't have to worry about taking care of myself in old age! Your Majesty is considerate of those of us who are suffering, and you will still be paid monthly wages when you are old. Last year, the elderly in the palace began to receive them. I went to see them a few days ago.
My godfather is retired, and he still gets his monthly salary and food, so his life is pretty good."
"When you can't do the work, can the emperor still give you money?"
"Yes! Even if you leave, you will still have to burn the money and receive the same treatment as the officials of the current dynasty. You don't have to worry about old age."
When Mrs. Tao heard what her son said, she was mostly relieved, but she asked worriedly: "Although the emperor has given you a favor and paid you to take care of your old affairs, just having money will not do it.
It’s still not possible without someone close to me to look after me.”
"Mom, the emperor and the eunuchs in the palace have also thought about this. The palace raised money to build a nursing home next to Zhongguan. Those who want to live there can pay some money every month to live in it. Specially hired people
We have someone to take care of us, and we don’t have to worry about food and housing! The monthly payment is not much, not even half of our retirement salary, so it’s not worth it.”
"It's not considerate to spend money to ask others to take care of you. I have already made arrangements with your two brothers. When the time comes, they will adopt two babies for you to support you. Third baby, you don't have to worry about old age. I think you don't have to worry about it."
"The old lady thinks that her son will still be able to receive money every month when he is old, and he still has two sons who can take care of him, so he shouldn't have to worry about providing for him in his old age!
After listening to his mother's words, Tao Xiaosan responded vaguely, and then called his sister to come over and help pack things so that they could move in the middle of the night. Tao Xiaosan had no idea about letting his two elder brothers adopt his nephew.
How warm. After being a eunuch for so many years, he understands the warmth and warmth of people best. A few years ago, some eunuchs who left the palace went to find their nephews to support themselves in old age. As a result, they were kicked out after their nephews defrauded all the money they had saved.
After leaving school, he ended up going to Longfu Temple to become a fake monk. Many biological parents could not count on their sons to support them in old age, let alone their own uncles.
It is precisely because they know that everything is worse than relying on themselves that the eunuchs in the palace are very concerned about raising funds to build nursing homes. People like Wang Chengen, Liu Dachang and others even donated tens of thousands of taels of silver to the nursing homes as start-up funds, which moved the eunuchs the most The most important thing is the emperor's concern for the nursing home. Every year, the eunuch nursing home will receive a special allocation of one hundred thousand taels of silver.
Tao Xiaosan and others trust the nursing home because every eunuch can have a say in the operation of the nursing home. All eunuchs who stay here have the right to vote of confidence in the management team. If most of the eunuchs are not satisfied, the management team will have to be replaced. They
You have the right to speak when your own interests are involved.
Tao Xiaosan and his sister, with the help of my mother, had almost finished packing the things they were going to move out until midnight. In fact, there were not many valuable items in the house, but it was worth tens of thousands of dollars to break the house. When it came time to actually pack it up, my mother and sister had nothing.
I can't bear to leave it and want to move away.
In the middle of the night, the agreed-upon moving truck arrived at the door of the house. Tao Xiaosan and the others hurriedly put things on the carriage, and then stopped when the cart was upright! After loading the truck, Tao Xiaosan took the girl, and my mother followed with the oil lamp.
He drove to his home in the car.
"Brother, this is close to your coal plant. Are you renting a building for your mother?" Tao Yanlan couldn't help but exclaimed as she looked at the destination she was about to arrive at. She knew the coal plant where my brother worked, so she came here.
Where have I found my brother?
"It's in the family courtyard of our coal factory. You and your mother will live here from now on. Our factory will move out of the city in a while, and you and your mother will move there with me."
"Do you have a house here? Do you want my mother and I to move into your house?"
"There is a house. I have been living alone. It will be convenient for you and your mother to move here."
"You have a house, but you didn't tell us earlier! My mother and I are worried about having no place to live. Is your house big? Can you give me a house too?"
"Don't worry, there's enough room for you little girl. There are three bedrooms. The three of us can share one room each. You can tell me more if you don't mind."
The brother and sister had no time to talk when they arrived downstairs at Tao Xiaosan's house. Carrying the oil lamp, Tao Xiaosan took his sister and his wife upstairs first, opened the door of the house, and lit the oil lamp in the room. Tao Xiaosan asked his sister and his wife to take a look first.
The environment of the house was poor, and I went downstairs to move things up with the coachman.
"Lanzi, go and help your brother and the others to shine a light. What do you think you are talking about here? Let's wait until the house is moved!" The old lady was looking at her son's house with great interest, but she saw that Tao Yanlan had no eyesight.
Seeing that she didn't even see her, she joined in the fun, so he scolded her to go downstairs and help people move things.
After going back and forth several times, he moved the things to the living room upstairs. After paying the coachman and sending the coachman away, Tao Xiaosan returned to the living room to prepare a simple tidying up and let my mother and sister take a nap for a while.
I cleaned up the house well. When I arrived at the house, I found that my mother and sister were already busy.
"Brother, my mother and I have already decided which house we want to sleep in. Your yard is better than ours. They have big glass rooms and such a big living room. When the eldest brother and the second brother came to the city during the holidays, let
They will sleep on the floor in the living room first." Tao Yanlan was very familiar with it and began to allocate a place for her family to live.
"Sanwa, your kitchen is a bit small, but the place you live in is quite spacious. Looking at the way the kitchen looks like, you probably haven't turned on the fire very much, right? If you don't turn on the fire, you still have such a big stove. You won't know when people leave.
Let the fire go out, it will cost a lot of coal!" My mother has already looked at the layout of the house, complaining that her son does not know how to save, while arranging things quickly.
"Mom, just let the stove burn. It won't cost much coal. These houses are all heated by this stove. It can't be bigger." Tao Xiaosan saw the posture of his mother and sister and knew that there was definitely nothing he could do now.
After going to bed, I quickly came over to help my mother pack her things.
"Brother, there is only one stove in your house, why is it so hot? It feels like there are fires in every house."
"This stove burns a fire wall, and each room is connected by a fire wall. Naturally, only one stove can warm the whole house." Since there was no heating in this era, in order to solve the problem of building heating, Zhu Youjian asked someone to design
There is a fire wall that can heat several rooms at the same time. With this thing, only one stove can be burned in winter, and the whole house will be warm.