Daming female local tyrant

Shen Wan told her: "I don't have cash in hand."

"..." Jing Lan stopped what she was doing, turned around and looked at her in a daze, "Girl, are you joking?"

Shen Wan shook her head: "I'm not joking, it's true. The old lady doesn't allow me to take a penny away, and she doesn't allow the Shen family to support me. With my second uncle watching over me, my parents don't dare to take money from me." , Otherwise, if I get discovered, I will really be expelled."

"Then, what is the girl going to do? This..."

"Is it about to use silver?"

"By the way, Miss, I still have five taels of silver here, and two golden hairpins that you rewarded me. Otherwise, I will pawn the golden hairpins tomorrow and use them first."

"You don't need to spend your money. Although the old lady didn't ask me to take a penny, all the clothes, satins, big fur coats and cloaks in my house were brought by my mother as a bundle for me. If there is no money to use, just treat them as Some clothes."

Two days ago, Mrs. Yu brought the servant girl from the house to Shen Wan's room to help her pack clothes. Jing Lan was also there to help. Ten pieces.It's just that she didn't know the price of these clothes, but based on what she knew about the sable fur before wearing it, she expected it to be very expensive.

Sure enough, Shen Wan told her: "Those mink fur coats, the cheapest ones are worth more than 60 taels of silver. Even if they are pawned at the pawn shop, the price is reduced by half and they are still worth 30 taels of silver. With 30 taels of silver, I can handle it for a while. And me The gold inlaid buttons on the collars of the beige are worth 20 taels of silver. Dozens of such clothes also have hundreds of gold inlaid buttons, which are also worth 2000 taels of silver. Let me tell you the truth, we won't be so poor that we can't do our best."

While listening to Shen Wan's words, Jing Lan continued to sew the tent, silently making the calculations, 30 taels of silver can be arranged as follows.First give Zhao Siniang three taels of silver to cover one month's living expenses, and find someone to build a stove for the rest of the money and repair the leaks on the roof. Apart from supplies, it can be enough for a while as Shen Wan said.

It's just that the eldest lady who was exiled here by the old lady Li doesn't know when she will be able to go back. Living like a thing is not a long-term solution after all.Even if Shen Wan's valuable clothes and gold inlaid buttons were sold, they would not be poor, but Jing Lan felt unwilling.

For a traveler who has never been to a pawn shop, Jing Lan stubbornly believes that it is better not to go to the pawn shop as much as possible.One is that going to a pawnshop to pawn something is always a shameful thing, and second, when pawning something in a pawnshop, the money you get is more than half of the value of the pawned thing. This is a loss with your eyes open.Unless, you redeem it later.However, most of the people who entered the pawn shop to pawn things were desperate, and only entered the pawn shop to pawn things when they really had no money, and never thought about redeeming them.Third, when things become a habit, there will be no sense of urgency. If you want to change a difficult situation, you will slack off and become worthless.

When Jing Lan thought about it, the curtains on both sides of the tent door were sewn together.She bit off the cotton thread with her teeth, then put the needle and thread into the pouch next to the pillow, then turned to Shen Wan and said, "Miss, then just treat it as the cheapest mink fur jacket, and don't treat it as a thing in the future." gone."

Seeing that she was done with her busy work, Shen Wan had already lifted off the quilt and let Jing Lan into the bed, because it was not yet summer, and although it was not cold at night, she was still worried that Jing Lan would catch the cold after taking off her coat for a while.

When Jing Lan came to her side and leaned on the pillow, Shen Wan pulled up the quilt and covered Jing Lan, and they leaned side by side on the pillow, she smiled slightly and asked Jing Lan: "Why do you only treat it as one?" , are you afraid that you won’t be able to redeem it in the future?”

Jing Lan told her everything she thought of just now.

Shen Wan nodded as she listened, and said: "You are right, my mother told me to pack all the clothes, materials, big fur capes, mink fur coats in the house, just in case I have no money, I can pack them These things are exchanged for money. I never thought of going to the pawnshop to pawn clothes for money. I have lived so long and I have never done this kind of thing. I just feel a little shameless. How can I make you go to the pawnshop all the time and make people laugh."

Jing Lan asked her: "Then girl, how can you make money if you don't treat it like a thing?"

Shen Wan said: "Tomorrow, Mr. Yan will ask me to meet those two heads who are in charge of our family's school field and Yitian. Let me tell you..."

She told Jing Lan what Old Steward Yan said, and after listening to Jing Lan, she also had the same worry, that is, since the two Zhuangtou have been managing the Xuetian and Yitian of Shen's family in Suzhou for 15 years, they have already He was used to embezzling the food that should have been handed over to the Shen family, so how could he spit out the benefits so easily.

"Probably, this is where the old lady wants to test me. If I can't manage the three hundred acres of land, I have to eat myself. Even if I bring some clothes that can be exchanged for money, I won't starve and suffer from cold. , is never a long-term solution.”

"Miss is right. Just now you said that the fields belonging to the Shen family near the old house in Suzhou are all good fields. One mu of land can produce more than 320 catties of grain a year, but the village head only pays 180 catties. Another 15 catties were embezzled by them. I think, even if the laborers are paid 800 catties per mu of land, there are still 15 catties left. This year’s grain price is one tael of silver and two stones of grain, and two stones of grain is about 200 catties. That is to say, the head of the village has to spend more than six cents of silver on each mu of land. Three hundred mu of land is about 500 seven taels a year. They have managed it for [-] years, which is more than [-] taels .Even if there are a few years of famine in the [-] years, the fields will not be able to produce so much grain, and they will occupy a little less, but only one or two hundred taels of silver. Therefore, the amount of silver they embezzled will not be less than two thousand, five hundred taels."

Shen Wan listened to Jing An's eloquence, and she also secretly agreed. When she finally shook Jing Lan's hand, she was surprised and said, "Alan, I didn't expect you to be so smart. It didn't take long for me to teach you how to settle accounts, and you did so. That's clear."

Jing Lan sipped at Chun, saying that Shen Wan taught her well.

Actually, she wanted to say, this kind of mental calculation is just a trivial thing, okay? Shen Wan has never seen her own ability, and she will gradually get to know it in the future.

"Those two villa heads have been greedy for a lot of money over the years. But I'm also surprised, why didn't anyone from the Shen family come down to check the accounts, but let them take advantage of the Shen family?" Jing Lan asked Shen Wan.

Shen Wan explained: "One of the two Zhuangtou is surnamed Liu and the other is surnamed Qi. Their ancestors were all people who worked for the Shen family. Since the Shen family moved to Jinling, their ancestors stayed in Suzhou and helped the Shen family manage Suzhou. Because of this friendship, it is estimated that the masters of the Shen family knew that the output of the fields reported by them was too small, but they did not pursue it. Or they gave gifts to the superiors, and the superiors received the benefits. Turn a blind eye and close one eye, as the days go by, it becomes a custom to hand over [-] catties of grain per mu of land.”

Jing Lan thought for a while and then asked Shen Wan: "Then these two village heads helped the Shen family manage the [-] mu of land in Suzhou, did the Shen family pay them?"

Shen Wan replied: "I paid, 48 taels of silver a year, and every year the old manager Yan came down to collect the grain, and he also paid 56 taels of hard work, adding up to [-] taels of silver a year."

"Since they have been paid to manage the village, they shouldn't be greedy and hand over the grain of Shen's family. But since it has become a custom, it is not easy for them to spit it out. However, since the old lady asked the girl to manage the three hundred acres of land Now, if they don't do what the girl wants, the girl can let them leave Zhuangzi next year and find someone else to take care of it. But if they know how to respect the girl, the girl can continue to let them take care of it. After all, the water is clear Then there will be no fish." Jing Lan said slowly.

She seemed to be thinking while saying this, Shen Wan involuntarily stretched out the other hand to touch her head, smiled and praised: "Alan, this brain has suddenly opened up, even the water is so clear that there is no fish. The words have been spoken."

Jing Lan hurriedly said, "I also saw this in the girl's study."

It was only then that she realized that she seemed to be a little too capable today. Since she arrived at the Shen family's old Suzhou house, she not only handled many things on her own, but also talked a lot with Shen Wan.

These words should not be able to be said by Jing Lan at her current age, that is to say, the original body's level has improved too fast.

If this goes on like this, Shen Wan should become suspicious.

She then pretended to yawn and said to Shen Wan: "Girl, I'm sleepy and want to sleep."

Shen Wan patted her head again, and said with a smile: "My Lan'er is tired today, go to sleep, have a good sleep."

Her tone was so doting, and her words were so intimate, which made Jing Lan's heart skip a beat.

Jing Lan hastily closed her eyes, not daring to look at Shen Wan who was looking at her dotingly.

Shen Wan asked Jing Lan to raise her head slightly, and took the pillow away. Jing Lan thought of something and opened her eyes, took the pillow from Shen Wan's hand, and pressed it against the tent door.

She was still a little worried that if she fell asleep, the oil lamp would go out, and something like snakes, rats, insects and ants would come in.

Shen Wan followed and lay down, and Jing Lan closed her eyes when Shen Wan leaned over, this time closer than ever before.Her head rested on Jing Lan's narrow and small shoulders, her forehead touched Jing Lan's side face, and the smooth black hair brushed against Jing Lan's face, bringing an itchy touch.

Now that the head is resting on Jing Lan's shoulder, naturally the body is also attached to Jing Lan's arm.

Jing Lan could clearly feel the elasticity and shape of her plump breasts pressing against her arms.

And, Shen Wanrulan's breath rushed towards her extremely violently, and it couldn't be stopped, and it got into her nose.

Jing Lan's body became hot all of a sudden, she moved, wanting to move to the side.

Unexpectedly, Shen Wan was faster than her, one hand had already stretched out sideways, hugged her waist, and said softly: "Don't move, Lan'er, let me lean on?"

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