The first paparazzi in the Red Chamber
Chapter 22
Seeing that Mother Jia was sullen, all the servants did not confront the Elder Master from the beginning to the end. It is expected that the old lady will not be able to do it this time either.
The old man is really powerful now, he seems to be filial to the old lady on the surface, but he turns around and replaces the people around the old lady, and the reason is justified, so that no one can find fault.The old lady can't beat the old man here, and as for the second room, she can't count on it.It's ridiculous when you think about it, the second master and the second wife were forced to cry and beg three times by the elder master, so they were able to move out of Rongxi hall and live in that dilapidated doghouse on their own initiative.They must be extremely angry in their hearts, and they can't let out the anger, so the second room has also subsided in the past two days, after all, there is nothing they can do about it.
It can be seen that the sky in this Rong Mansion is about to change, if they don't keep their eyes open to accept the new master, stick to their duties, and be prudent in their words and deeds, they will only die.
As the housekeeper's daughter-in-law, Wang Xifeng quickly felt the changes in her subordinates.In the past, those housekeepers smiled and took the job, and when they turned around, they tried their best to be lazy and procrastinate.Now all of them are conscious, they handle things very quickly, and they don't dare to steal.All this is due to the master's intimidation.
Jia Lian was not convinced when he heard this, "The three generations of the Lai family have served the Rong Mansion, and the master just sent him away like this. It seems a bit mean and ungrateful. I'm afraid that the people in the mansion will be chilled, and they will not dare to be sincere in the future. Sincerely do things for us masters."
"I don't like to hear what you say. What are you mean and ungrateful? Allow them to be servants who pretend to be big and greedy for money to enjoy happiness, and we are not allowed to say that they punished them as masters? Confused right and wrong! Yes, they rely on their family to serve them The Rong family has made merit, but no matter how great the credit is, it cannot be put on the head of the master. After greedy for so much property, the elder is willing to let them go, that is a great kindness, who dares to say anything! Who the hell!" Wang Xifeng said, glaring at the housekeepers who were waiting for an answer at the door.
Jia Lian lost her mind and smacked her lips, "Look at you, I just said casually that I am worried, what are you so good at?"
"What a random word, I think you're just a newborn son of a bitch, you just know that breastfeeding is useless." Wang Xifeng gave Jia Lian a disgusted look, and sent him to go out to do errands, and she had to deal with the housekeeper who answered these questions.
The first lady who answered opened her mouth and reported: "Second Mistress, the accountant just came to report, and the old man took another 2000 taels of silver and went out."
"What did you say?"
The old lady shook her head.
Wang Xifeng thought for a while, then said: "From now on, when the elder receives the money, just put it in the account, don't ask too much."
……
Jia Amnesty did his own calculations, he received a total of 7000 taels of silver, and he would set aside 3000 taels of silver at the printing workshop, and the remaining 4000 taels of silver Jia Amnesty planned to use to buy a shop, mainly as a stronghold for delivering news Use it, and do business by the way.
Jia Amnesty remembered the last time when he was drinking tea at Wangde Tea House, he heard from the waiter that their boss intended to change hands of the shop.He asked Zhu Mao to take the bank notes and took them to Fangzheng Road, and they went to Tongtai Street together.
Two days ago, Jia She specially asked someone to inquire about the land price around here. The area at Dongjiekou of Tongtai Street can be purchased for up to 2000 taels.
"I'll leave the bargaining to you." Jia Amnesty patted Fang Zhenglu on the shoulder.
Fang Zhenglu was overwhelmed by the flattery, he hurriedly expressed his guilt and dared not.
Jia She raised his eyebrows, didn't speak, just stared at him.
Fangzhenglu immediately understood what Jia Amnesty meant, and hurriedly nodded in response to the errand, and went into Wangde Teahouse with Zhu Mao.
Finally, Fang Zhenglu told the shopkeeper that the transaction was 700 taels.After signing the paperwork and passing the deed, the purchase is considered complete.The shopkeeper of Wonder Tea House was quite happy, he didn't expect the shop to be sold so quickly, he immediately asked someone to pack up the things, and it was cleaned up in the afternoon.
Jia She asked people to remove all the things in the tea shop lobby, and replaced them with bookshelves and display racks on the north side, which were used to store books, rice paper scrolls and other things.There is a long counter in front of these shelves that divides the lobby into north and south, on which brushes, inkstones and other things can be displayed.In the large space in front of the stage, there are twelve mahogany rectangular tables arranged neatly in two rows, with three chairs placed on each side of the rectangular table for sitting opposite each other.In addition, a few paintings were hung on the wall, and some high tables were placed in the spare space by the wall, and orchids were placed.On the windows are hung gauze curtains, and when the sun is out, the curtains are closed with silver hooks with blue tassels.
After such an arrangement, the whole teahouse has the aroma of books, which is much more refined and elegant.As for the rooms upstairs, Jia Amnesty asked Fang Zhenglu to roughly do it like the downstairs, so he didn't worry about it.
Five days later, the shop had been completely remodeled into a bookshop and named Neighborhood Xuan.
The shopkeeper is the servant Wanfu, but he is just a showman, and Fang Zhenglu is the real manager of the bookstore.He can read and write, and it is somewhat more convenient than others in managing bookstores and handling news.Although there is never a shortage of literate and competent people in Rongfu, but because this bookstore is related to the core of "Secrets of the Neighbors", Jia Amnesty had to choose someone who he thought was absolutely reliable to be in charge.
When Neighborhood Restaurant opened, it was very quiet, without firing firecrackers, or beating gongs or drums to announce it, but just unveiled the plaque and opened the door.
In the first few days after opening, only two or three scholars patronized, not many people.Later, someone discovered that the first and second issues of "Secrets of the Neighborhood" that only the rich and powerful had been displayed on the bookshelf of the neighbor's house, and everyone began to discuss it, spreading it to ten, ten to hundreds, within a few days At that time, scholars all over the capital came to the neighbor's house to watch, but there were not many people who actually bought books.The reason is simple, the books are too expensive, and the shopkeeper of Neighborhood Xuan even called out a high price of five taels of silver for each book.An ordinary poor scholar would not be willing to spend a whole year's money on food, clothing and reading to buy a miscellaneous book.
However, the news has been spread for a long time, and some people actually came to the neighbor's house to buy books.Some are local rich men and playboys who spend money like dirt and buy them casually just to satisfy their curiosity.There are also some people who buy books not to read, but to show off their status.There are many officials in the capital who are not high but also low in rank. They are not convinced because they have not received the letter of dispatch. They always feel that their status is worthy of a king and grandson. , just to show off in front of others and show off your identity.
The most typical example of the latter is Mrs. Wang's brother and sister-in-law.
In fact, Wang Ziteng, as the governor of the Beijing camp, can be included in the scope of Jia Amnesty's letter.But Jia She held a grudge, so he was too lazy to waste a book worth more than 100 Wen in the Wang family, so the two deliveries of "Secrets of the Neighbor" were deliberately left behind by the Wang family.
This is due to personal preference, no big deal.But Jia She did not expect that the Wang family would care about this matter.
Just today, Mrs. Wang's sister-in-law Mrs. Li came to the door.
After Mrs. Li watched Mrs. Wang's dilapidated yard first, she and Mrs. Wang went to meet Jia Mu.
Wang Ziteng holds an important position. When Jia Mu saw Li Shi, there was no reason to be negligent. She hurriedly entertained her to the table and ordered someone to brew high-grade tribute tea to entertain her.Jia's mother expected that Mrs. Li came here to support Mrs. Wang, so she quickly explained that the reason why the second room moved out of Rongxitang was all because of a book.When Mrs. Li heard this, she hurriedly said that someone had sent this book to their family secretary, and even showed the second issue of "Secret Stories Next Door" for everyone to read.Afterwards, several women began to scold the author of the book together, saying that the content in the book was nonsense, it was all written indiscriminately, and so on.
Although Jia Amnesty was not present, he knew everything about the situation and what everyone said and did afterwards.
Naturally, Jia Amnesty didn't care about those women's unreasonable slander.Jia Amnesty was very interested in Li Shi's behavior of bringing "Secrets of the Neighbors" with him when he came to Rongfu.Li's vanity act just proved one thing, it seems that owning "Secrets of the Neighbor" has become a status symbol in the aristocratic circle of the capital.
Jia Amnesty suddenly became interested and checked the accounts of the neighbor's house.
It has been 300 days since the opening of Neighborhood Restaurant, and Lin Lin finally made a total income of 55 taels.Among them, "Secrets of the Next Door" sold 270 copies, with a total of 80 five taels of silver.It is really rare for an outdated magazine to sell for such a price.After careful calculation, the printing cost of the two issues of the magazine is evened out, and there is still a surplus of more than [-] taels.
It seems that it has become a very feasible thing in the elite circle of the capital to make money just by selling magazines.
"Right now, seven or eight people have asked whether "Secrets of My Neighbor" will be released, and whether the new issue can be pre-ordered. The small ones dare not talk nonsense, so they just reply that they don't know." Wanfu reported truthfully.
Jia Amnesty nodded.
"By the way, a young gentleman dressed in fine clothes came to a shop yesterday, and behind him were several people in brocade clothes with knives, who looked very unusual. He asked me if I was from "Secrets Next Door" "The author, I said no. Then he asked me how I got these books, and I followed what the master said before, only saying that someone secretly delivered the books to the door and left a letter for them to sell. He also asked me what to do when I turned back After returning the money, I took out the letter I had prepared and showed it to him, and told them that the method of withdrawing the money is a temporary notice, which has not yet been decided."
Jia Amnesty: "What does the other party look like?"
"In his 20s, with a medium build, a round face, and unusual eyes." Wanfu described.
Jia Amnesty couldn't figure out who it was, and guessed that this person might come again the next day.The next day, Jia Amnesty dressed up as a scholar, went to the neighbor's house early, and chose a window seat in the lobby to read.
Not long after, there really was a luxurious carriage parked at the door.Jia Amnesty opened the window screen, and saw the tall and tall person getting out of the car, looking up and down, and after a closer look, it turned out to be Song Xi.Jia Amnesty was a little disappointed, and immediately buried his head in his book.
Song Xi entered the door, squinted his eyes to the south, and saw Jia She sitting under the window at a glance.He sent his entourage to the counter to buy two copies of "Secret Stories Next Door", while he went straight to Jia She and sat down opposite him.
"I guessed that I could meet you here." Song Xi tapped his fingers on the table, turned his head to look around the environment of the shop, and then said to Jia She, "Your shop is doing well."
"This is not my shop. The shopkeeper's surname is Wan, and it's over there."
After Jia She finished speaking, he pointed at Wanfu at the counter.
Wan Fu smiled in this direction very cooperatively, and at the same time marveled at the appearance and demeanor of this noble man, it was so good to see the sky.
Song Xi smiled when he heard Jia She's words, and didn't comment, just looked at Jia She and said: "I heard from the beggars that if you have news, you can come here to sell."
The old man is really powerful now, he seems to be filial to the old lady on the surface, but he turns around and replaces the people around the old lady, and the reason is justified, so that no one can find fault.The old lady can't beat the old man here, and as for the second room, she can't count on it.It's ridiculous when you think about it, the second master and the second wife were forced to cry and beg three times by the elder master, so they were able to move out of Rongxi hall and live in that dilapidated doghouse on their own initiative.They must be extremely angry in their hearts, and they can't let out the anger, so the second room has also subsided in the past two days, after all, there is nothing they can do about it.
It can be seen that the sky in this Rong Mansion is about to change, if they don't keep their eyes open to accept the new master, stick to their duties, and be prudent in their words and deeds, they will only die.
As the housekeeper's daughter-in-law, Wang Xifeng quickly felt the changes in her subordinates.In the past, those housekeepers smiled and took the job, and when they turned around, they tried their best to be lazy and procrastinate.Now all of them are conscious, they handle things very quickly, and they don't dare to steal.All this is due to the master's intimidation.
Jia Lian was not convinced when he heard this, "The three generations of the Lai family have served the Rong Mansion, and the master just sent him away like this. It seems a bit mean and ungrateful. I'm afraid that the people in the mansion will be chilled, and they will not dare to be sincere in the future. Sincerely do things for us masters."
"I don't like to hear what you say. What are you mean and ungrateful? Allow them to be servants who pretend to be big and greedy for money to enjoy happiness, and we are not allowed to say that they punished them as masters? Confused right and wrong! Yes, they rely on their family to serve them The Rong family has made merit, but no matter how great the credit is, it cannot be put on the head of the master. After greedy for so much property, the elder is willing to let them go, that is a great kindness, who dares to say anything! Who the hell!" Wang Xifeng said, glaring at the housekeepers who were waiting for an answer at the door.
Jia Lian lost her mind and smacked her lips, "Look at you, I just said casually that I am worried, what are you so good at?"
"What a random word, I think you're just a newborn son of a bitch, you just know that breastfeeding is useless." Wang Xifeng gave Jia Lian a disgusted look, and sent him to go out to do errands, and she had to deal with the housekeeper who answered these questions.
The first lady who answered opened her mouth and reported: "Second Mistress, the accountant just came to report, and the old man took another 2000 taels of silver and went out."
"What did you say?"
The old lady shook her head.
Wang Xifeng thought for a while, then said: "From now on, when the elder receives the money, just put it in the account, don't ask too much."
……
Jia Amnesty did his own calculations, he received a total of 7000 taels of silver, and he would set aside 3000 taels of silver at the printing workshop, and the remaining 4000 taels of silver Jia Amnesty planned to use to buy a shop, mainly as a stronghold for delivering news Use it, and do business by the way.
Jia Amnesty remembered the last time when he was drinking tea at Wangde Tea House, he heard from the waiter that their boss intended to change hands of the shop.He asked Zhu Mao to take the bank notes and took them to Fangzheng Road, and they went to Tongtai Street together.
Two days ago, Jia She specially asked someone to inquire about the land price around here. The area at Dongjiekou of Tongtai Street can be purchased for up to 2000 taels.
"I'll leave the bargaining to you." Jia Amnesty patted Fang Zhenglu on the shoulder.
Fang Zhenglu was overwhelmed by the flattery, he hurriedly expressed his guilt and dared not.
Jia She raised his eyebrows, didn't speak, just stared at him.
Fangzhenglu immediately understood what Jia Amnesty meant, and hurriedly nodded in response to the errand, and went into Wangde Teahouse with Zhu Mao.
Finally, Fang Zhenglu told the shopkeeper that the transaction was 700 taels.After signing the paperwork and passing the deed, the purchase is considered complete.The shopkeeper of Wonder Tea House was quite happy, he didn't expect the shop to be sold so quickly, he immediately asked someone to pack up the things, and it was cleaned up in the afternoon.
Jia She asked people to remove all the things in the tea shop lobby, and replaced them with bookshelves and display racks on the north side, which were used to store books, rice paper scrolls and other things.There is a long counter in front of these shelves that divides the lobby into north and south, on which brushes, inkstones and other things can be displayed.In the large space in front of the stage, there are twelve mahogany rectangular tables arranged neatly in two rows, with three chairs placed on each side of the rectangular table for sitting opposite each other.In addition, a few paintings were hung on the wall, and some high tables were placed in the spare space by the wall, and orchids were placed.On the windows are hung gauze curtains, and when the sun is out, the curtains are closed with silver hooks with blue tassels.
After such an arrangement, the whole teahouse has the aroma of books, which is much more refined and elegant.As for the rooms upstairs, Jia Amnesty asked Fang Zhenglu to roughly do it like the downstairs, so he didn't worry about it.
Five days later, the shop had been completely remodeled into a bookshop and named Neighborhood Xuan.
The shopkeeper is the servant Wanfu, but he is just a showman, and Fang Zhenglu is the real manager of the bookstore.He can read and write, and it is somewhat more convenient than others in managing bookstores and handling news.Although there is never a shortage of literate and competent people in Rongfu, but because this bookstore is related to the core of "Secrets of the Neighbors", Jia Amnesty had to choose someone who he thought was absolutely reliable to be in charge.
When Neighborhood Restaurant opened, it was very quiet, without firing firecrackers, or beating gongs or drums to announce it, but just unveiled the plaque and opened the door.
In the first few days after opening, only two or three scholars patronized, not many people.Later, someone discovered that the first and second issues of "Secrets of the Neighborhood" that only the rich and powerful had been displayed on the bookshelf of the neighbor's house, and everyone began to discuss it, spreading it to ten, ten to hundreds, within a few days At that time, scholars all over the capital came to the neighbor's house to watch, but there were not many people who actually bought books.The reason is simple, the books are too expensive, and the shopkeeper of Neighborhood Xuan even called out a high price of five taels of silver for each book.An ordinary poor scholar would not be willing to spend a whole year's money on food, clothing and reading to buy a miscellaneous book.
However, the news has been spread for a long time, and some people actually came to the neighbor's house to buy books.Some are local rich men and playboys who spend money like dirt and buy them casually just to satisfy their curiosity.There are also some people who buy books not to read, but to show off their status.There are many officials in the capital who are not high but also low in rank. They are not convinced because they have not received the letter of dispatch. They always feel that their status is worthy of a king and grandson. , just to show off in front of others and show off your identity.
The most typical example of the latter is Mrs. Wang's brother and sister-in-law.
In fact, Wang Ziteng, as the governor of the Beijing camp, can be included in the scope of Jia Amnesty's letter.But Jia She held a grudge, so he was too lazy to waste a book worth more than 100 Wen in the Wang family, so the two deliveries of "Secrets of the Neighbor" were deliberately left behind by the Wang family.
This is due to personal preference, no big deal.But Jia She did not expect that the Wang family would care about this matter.
Just today, Mrs. Wang's sister-in-law Mrs. Li came to the door.
After Mrs. Li watched Mrs. Wang's dilapidated yard first, she and Mrs. Wang went to meet Jia Mu.
Wang Ziteng holds an important position. When Jia Mu saw Li Shi, there was no reason to be negligent. She hurriedly entertained her to the table and ordered someone to brew high-grade tribute tea to entertain her.Jia's mother expected that Mrs. Li came here to support Mrs. Wang, so she quickly explained that the reason why the second room moved out of Rongxitang was all because of a book.When Mrs. Li heard this, she hurriedly said that someone had sent this book to their family secretary, and even showed the second issue of "Secret Stories Next Door" for everyone to read.Afterwards, several women began to scold the author of the book together, saying that the content in the book was nonsense, it was all written indiscriminately, and so on.
Although Jia Amnesty was not present, he knew everything about the situation and what everyone said and did afterwards.
Naturally, Jia Amnesty didn't care about those women's unreasonable slander.Jia Amnesty was very interested in Li Shi's behavior of bringing "Secrets of the Neighbors" with him when he came to Rongfu.Li's vanity act just proved one thing, it seems that owning "Secrets of the Neighbor" has become a status symbol in the aristocratic circle of the capital.
Jia Amnesty suddenly became interested and checked the accounts of the neighbor's house.
It has been 300 days since the opening of Neighborhood Restaurant, and Lin Lin finally made a total income of 55 taels.Among them, "Secrets of the Next Door" sold 270 copies, with a total of 80 five taels of silver.It is really rare for an outdated magazine to sell for such a price.After careful calculation, the printing cost of the two issues of the magazine is evened out, and there is still a surplus of more than [-] taels.
It seems that it has become a very feasible thing in the elite circle of the capital to make money just by selling magazines.
"Right now, seven or eight people have asked whether "Secrets of My Neighbor" will be released, and whether the new issue can be pre-ordered. The small ones dare not talk nonsense, so they just reply that they don't know." Wanfu reported truthfully.
Jia Amnesty nodded.
"By the way, a young gentleman dressed in fine clothes came to a shop yesterday, and behind him were several people in brocade clothes with knives, who looked very unusual. He asked me if I was from "Secrets Next Door" "The author, I said no. Then he asked me how I got these books, and I followed what the master said before, only saying that someone secretly delivered the books to the door and left a letter for them to sell. He also asked me what to do when I turned back After returning the money, I took out the letter I had prepared and showed it to him, and told them that the method of withdrawing the money is a temporary notice, which has not yet been decided."
Jia Amnesty: "What does the other party look like?"
"In his 20s, with a medium build, a round face, and unusual eyes." Wanfu described.
Jia Amnesty couldn't figure out who it was, and guessed that this person might come again the next day.The next day, Jia Amnesty dressed up as a scholar, went to the neighbor's house early, and chose a window seat in the lobby to read.
Not long after, there really was a luxurious carriage parked at the door.Jia Amnesty opened the window screen, and saw the tall and tall person getting out of the car, looking up and down, and after a closer look, it turned out to be Song Xi.Jia Amnesty was a little disappointed, and immediately buried his head in his book.
Song Xi entered the door, squinted his eyes to the south, and saw Jia She sitting under the window at a glance.He sent his entourage to the counter to buy two copies of "Secret Stories Next Door", while he went straight to Jia She and sat down opposite him.
"I guessed that I could meet you here." Song Xi tapped his fingers on the table, turned his head to look around the environment of the shop, and then said to Jia She, "Your shop is doing well."
"This is not my shop. The shopkeeper's surname is Wan, and it's over there."
After Jia She finished speaking, he pointed at Wanfu at the counter.
Wan Fu smiled in this direction very cooperatively, and at the same time marveled at the appearance and demeanor of this noble man, it was so good to see the sky.
Song Xi smiled when he heard Jia She's words, and didn't comment, just looked at Jia She and said: "I heard from the beggars that if you have news, you can come here to sell."
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