Chapter 66 The son in the palace sent life-saving money
In a slum in Nancheng, the Tao family were all gathered in a small bedroom. The old lady of the Tao family was lying on the bed, breathing weakly, and the Tao family boss sat helplessly on the threshold and sighed.
"Brother, I'm afraid Mom won't be able to survive this!" Tao Laoer glanced at my mother on the bed, and ran over helplessly to discuss the matter with his eldest brother.
"Oh, this is the only way! I brought a letter to the mistress in the palace. I thought he could bring some money from the palace, but there is no news yet. It seems that I can't count on it."
"The third child is also heartless. Ever since he entered the palace, he has never sent money to his family once. My mother really raised him in vain."
"He is just a white-eyed wolf! He enjoys the good life and drinks in the palace and doesn't care about the life and death of his family. How much did my mother care for him back then? What happened to her heartache?"
The two brothers thought that Tao Xiaosan had not cared about his family all these years because he was heartless and resented his family for sending him to the palace. They had no idea what a helpless little eunuch was like living in the palace.
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"Brother, please stop complaining about Third Brother! His life in the palace may not be as good as you think. I heard others say that if the chamberlain in the palace did not become a minor official, his life would not be easy.
I've been bullied all day long." Tao Yanlan, the younger sister of the Tao family, heard her two brothers complaining about the third brother and was so angry that she stood up to speak for Tao Xiaosan.
"Having a bad life? No matter how bad your life is, it's not difficult to send one or two taels of silver home, right? They have monthly stipends. How do you think Mom got this disease? Isn't she hungry? Our whole family has been there recently.
They all drank porridge, and my mother didn’t get any oil or water at all, so her body was starved to death.”
Just when the Tao sisters were arguing about Tao Xiaosan's lack of filial piety, a neatly dressed man came outside their house.
"This is Mr. Tao Zhenggong's house in Willow Lane?"
The Tao family members, whose quarrel was suddenly interrupted, saw someone coming outside the door and quickly stood up to talk. "It's the Tao family. I don't know what the business is here for?"
"I am the official of Minsheng Bank. The day before yesterday, Mr. Tao Zhenggong asked our bank to send you money, and I just sent it today. I don't know who is the person in charge of the Tao family, so that I can go through the handover procedures."
When Tao Boss heard that Tao Xiaosan had sent money, he quickly stood at the front and replied enthusiastically: "I am the boss of the Tao family and Tao Zheng's biological eldest brother. Now I am in charge of the family."
"Dalang of the Tao family? Were you the one who sent the message to the palace a few days ago?"
"Exactly the small one."
"That's good. This is the receipt for sending the money. You make a deposit and stamp it with your fingerprints. Click the money again. The total is four taels. You have to be more careful. I won't take care of the accounts after you leave this door.
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The Tao family boss quickly took the money and weighed it with his hands. He was still worried, but there was no scale at home and he couldn't weigh the money on the spot.
Seeing Tao Dalang scratching his head anxiously, the clerk at Minsheng Bank had no choice but to take the two Tao brothers to the drug store on the street and borrow their scales to weigh the money, and then the delivery procedures were completed.
After completing the formalities, the clerk from Minsheng Bank left the Tao brothers and continued to send money to the next family. The Tao brothers were still busy with the money. The two brothers turned around and returned to the Chinese medicine store to buy a few packages of medicine for their mother. Then they went
I bought some noodles and miscellaneous things from the grain store.
After returning home, Tao Boss said eagerly: "Xiaolan, hurry up and cook the medicine for your mother, and use the newly bought noodles to make a good meal so that your mother can have a good meal too."
"Brother, third brother sent you more than four taels of silver. Why did you buy so much? You didn't even mention giving your mother a pound of meat."
"You girl! Do you think four taels of silver is a lot? The prices in the capital are ridiculously high now, and you can't buy much at all! These things your second brother and I bought, including the money for medicines and the money sent by the third brother
There isn’t much left, and you still want to eat meat?”
"Oops! If you can't afford big meat, buy some of the canned meat that the palace recently bought from the store in Nancheng. I heard people say that canned meat tastes good and is cheap. Let's eat the meat after we buy it, and return the canned meat.
I can still get some money back. The Chinese New Year is the day after tomorrow, and there will be some turbidity in the house no matter what. My mother’s disease is that she keeps eating porridge when there is no turbidity."
"Meat in a jar? I heard about it and forgot about it! I'm going to ask your second brother to go out and buy another jar. I don't know if your third brother will send money home in the future."
Maybe the medicine had an effect, maybe the noodles and lunch meat she bought had an effect. Old Mrs. Tao, who was lying in bed, miraculously woke up the day before New Year's Eve. The old lady woke up and spoke.
Asked: "Lanzi, I'm afraid I'm dreaming? Why does it feel like there's a meaty taste in my mouth?"
"Mom, you are not dreaming. The third brother who came to the palace heard that you were sick, so he asked someone to send money. Fortunately, the money arrived in time, so the eldest brother and the second brother had money to buy medicine for you and also bought a jar.
Meat, I mixed some noodles to make pimple soup for you, and then you woke up!"
"Did Sanwazi send money? Is he okay in the palace? There has been no news for these years, but I am so worried about my mother's death."
"How are you doing, Third Brother? Can you send money home? Mom, just take good care of your health. Maybe Third Brother will become more prosperous in the future, so you have to live and enjoy the blessings."
After hearing the news about her third child, Mrs. Tao felt much better. She felt that her illness was more than half better, and she was able to get out of bed that night.
The old lady got out of bed and kept looking at the clay pots that her family bought for potting meat. In the old lady's opinion, this was the best filial piety that her third child could give her. Looking at the old lady, she started to cry.
, the family was poor and had no choice but to force her to send the third child to the palace, and she became a eunuch who was neither human nor ghost. Over the years, she thought of the scene when the third child was about to enter the palace and leave home countless times. Every time she recalled it, she
Tears fell like rain. I don’t know how he lived after arriving in the palace. Did he have enough to eat and was he bullied by others? I can’t think of leaving him for so many years. The third child is still thinking about the situation at home. This time I heard that my mother
If you are sick, just send the money over quickly. Poor Sanwazi, I don’t know how easy it is for him to save this money.
Early the next morning, the neighbors heard that Mrs. Tao had recovered from her illness, so they came in to see how the old lady was doing. Nowadays, everyone's life is not easy, and they can't even bring anything to see a patient, and they are all empty-handed.
They came over, took a look and left. The lack of material means that everyone can't even express basic human feelings, but they still have feelings for their neighbors.
When she met her neighbor, Mrs. Tao kept saying that her third son, who had entered the palace, was filial. If he hadn't sent him the life-saving money so that the family could buy medicine, she wouldn't have been able to survive this hurdle.
There is a son of the Tao family who has entered the palace. The neighbors generally know about this, but they have not seen his family get any glory in these years. Unexpectedly, he actually got involved at the critical moment. Is it so good to enter the palace? It's quite a lot.
The neighbor was so excited by this incident that he even began to think about whether the next time someone came to the palace, he would also send a son there.