Bondage

"Auntie means that Sister Huai Su can't be trusted?"

Lin Jiayue shook her head: "If she wants to show favor to me now, what she said must be true, but it's hard to say what will happen in the future."

After making Qian Bi a bowl of ice cream that little girls love to eat, Lin Jiayue pondered over Huai Su's words.

In the past, she made a fool of herself repeatedly because she didn't understand the current rules, etiquette, customs and habits.She didn't understand how important the red tape was to this group of people, so she repeatedly made mistakes on it.

Although Lin Jiayue felt that both Song Wan and Huai Su were a bit of a hypocrite, but she had to admit that it was right to follow the Romans.

"Today, you sew a pouch for me, and put some broken silver into it. In addition, you prepare one yourself, and put some copper coins in it."

Qian Bi blinked: "How much money do you put?"

"It's good to put three, two, five or two every day."

Qian Bi was a little embarrassed: "But there is not much money left in Auntie's makeup box."

"how is this possible?"

Lin Jiayue opened the dressing box containing valuables, only to see a few broken silver ingots in it, only five or sixty taels.

"Auntie only has one tael of silver per month. There was some silver in the makeup box before, but you have been playing cards with the old lady during this period. After a few days, you have already bottomed out."

Lin Jiayue frowned fiercely, feeling a little uncomfortable.

Since arriving in the Hou Mansion, her food and clothing expenses have been distributed by the Hou Mansion, and she has been locked in the backyard on weekdays, and has never been out since she came in. She has nowhere to spend money and naturally forgets the importance of money.

Now the silver and the bag of golden beans in the box were given to her by Jiang Xingjian when she first entered the mansion.She had never rewarded servants before, but just now seeing that Huai Su's hands were tight, she generously grabbed a lot of gold beans for her, because she felt that there was no place for money in the Hou's mansion.

"If I had known earlier, I would have caught less."

Lin Jiayue bit her lip, feeling more and more awkward.

She was busy all day long helping the Hou's mansion to open a rouge shop and an ice shop, and the profitable money flowed into the public account every day, but she ended up with nothing?

"No, I have to open a few shops for myself."

Qian Bi said: "How does my aunt want to open a shop? I have never heard of a woman opening a shop before."

"Why can't women open a shop?"

Qian Bi nodded: "To open a shop, you need to write a contract, how do women write a contract?"

Lin Jiayue was puzzled: "Why can't women write contracts?"

After thinking for a long time, shallow blue eyes were puzzled and said: "I don't know why, maybe the law does not allow it, otherwise I will find a nurse in charge of the outer court, and my aunt will ask her?"

Lin Jiayue nodded, and Qian Bi quickly brought back a middle-aged woman in an indigo silk dress.

"Just now Qianbi said that women can't open a shop, is there such a thing?"

The old woman smiled and said, "It is true."

"Women who marry their fathers and husbands at home cannot have private wealth, and it is not easy for women to show their faces. How can they get involved in business affairs? The only private property a woman can have is the dowry. Although there are some Zhuangzi shops in the ordinary dowry, but Most of them fall under the name of the shopkeeper."

"These shopkeepers are all sons of the family, or the deeds are held in the hands of the master, so it is considered safe."

Lin Jiayue bit her lip, feeling increasingly depressed.

dowry……

Of course she doesn't have that kind of thing anymore, she's a concubine!

"Except for dowry, women have no other way to buy property?"

"There are also. If you go to the Yamen to set up a female household, you can also start a business, but this female household needs to have no males in the family, that is, a widow without a husband and children."

"..."

Lin Jiayue frowned fiercely.

"That means I want private property, is there any way?"

The mother-in-law looked shocked: "What did my aunt say? How can a woman have private property? A woman's possession of private money is equivalent to theft, and it is one of the seven, let alone any private property shop."

No wonder those women in the inner house broke their heads for the right to be the head of the house. If they have no family background and no dowry, how can they live in the back house?

The more Lin Jiayue thought about it, the angrier she became. The ice shop and the rouge shop have already been handed over, so how can they come back?

The money goes directly to the public, and even Jiang Xingjian can't spend a penny, let alone her.

With a slap, Lin Jiayue slapped her palm on the table: "It seems that I have to fight for the right to be in charge of the house, and I have to fight if I don't fight for it!"

After thinking about it, she took the bag of golden beans and led Qian Bi to the mansion to find someone to exchange for silver.

In the next few days, Lin Jiayue changed her usual style of handling things and managed things very thoughtfully. When she visited Jiang's mother, she always kept in her heart the rules and deeds taught by Nanny Li.

But after pretending for five or six days, Mother Jiang handed over the Hou Mansion to her happily at the poker table.

"In the past, I misunderstood you and thought you were incompetent."

Happily taking the money from Lin Jiayue, Jiang's mother smiled from ear to ear as she looked at the drawer full of harvest.

"Yuanyang, bring the few pieces of smoke veils given by the palace last year, and let Aunt Lin and Huai Su choose each other."

Grabbing a handful of broken silver from the small drawer, Jiang's mother happily gave it to the maid in the house.

This money is nothing to her at all, even if it is multiplied a hundred times and a thousand times, it can't buy half a bolt of soft smoke yarn for the two of them.

But what is won from others is to make people feel happy, which is far more valuable than itself.

"Thank you Madam, Madam card is smooth, so Jiayue will not be polite to you."

Dafangfang chose the one she liked, and Lin Jiayue took Huai Su to pick another one, and the two of them walked out of Jiangxiang Courtyard with the cloth in their arms, and she suddenly said, "Do you have any plans for this cloth?"

Huai Su shook his head: "But what does Aunt Lin want to do?"

Handing the cloth to Lin Jiayue, Huai Su said, "If Aunt Lin likes it, just take it."

"Then I won't be polite to you."

Lin Jiayue didn't explain, and took the horse from Huai Su's hand.

At noon on the second day, she carried two sets of almost identical dresses to Huai Su's room: "Yesterday, I sent Qian Bi to Fuzhong Embroidery to make a dress. Come and see which one you like?"

Huai Su stared blankly at the floor-length skirt, and chose one at random under Lin Jiayue's constant urging.

The two put on behind the screen, Lin Jiayue smiled and said: "It really looks good, why don't you wear it and show it to Madam, so as to make her old man happy."

Before Huai Su refused, Lin Jiayue dragged her out of the house.

As soon as they left the Xiuyan Pavilion, the two of them ran into Song Wan who was picking impatiens flowers with Heng Zhiheng Wu in the courtyard of Lan, and was about to dye Kou Dan.

Song Wan raised her eyes and looked at the two people who were dressed in exactly the same way, she curled her lips and smiled slightly, but Huai Su's blood had completely faded, and she lowered her head with a small white face.

Lin Jiayue glanced at her, smiled and said to Song Wan: "Grandma is very interested, I don't know if you will be busy for a while? The madam handed over the family gift to me yesterday. There are many things I don't understand, and I have to ask you for advice." yes."

Withdrawing his gaze, Song Wan said warmly: "I'm not busy, I'll be waiting anytime."