[Red Mansion] Biography of Empress Lin

The night before sending Jia's mother to the second room on West Street, Mrs. Zhang made herself look haggard on purpose, and didn't put much makeup on her face, so at first glance, she turned out to be quite old, which made people sigh that she gave Jia's pardon. of concern.

"It's really troublesome for the second uncle and the second younger siblings to take care of my mother for the time being. When my master is well, he will definitely prepare a big gift and come to the door to thank him." Mrs. Zhang said, and asked people to remove the boxes on the carriage, and then went to the door. Mrs. Wang stuffed 150 taels of silver bills into her hand, which made Mrs. Wang starve to death, but in broad daylight, she had to try her best to refuse: "It is the bounden duty of children to serve their mothers. They are all family members. What are you talking about?" Thank you so much? It's so strange."

Mrs. Wang's original intention was to put on a show in front of outsiders. After all, Mrs. Zhang said these words to her at the gate, as if she wanted to rush back to the Duke Rong's mansion to take care of Jia Amnesty.As a result, Mrs. Jia, who was helped out of the car by Mrs. Zhang's companion, twitched her eyes, and couldn't let Mrs. Zhang, who pretended not to understand, come in and talk, so the crowd watching the theater saw the big solid wooden boxes. They were carried into Yuanwai Mansion, and Mrs. Zhang withdrew the bank note under Mrs. Wang's "rejection", and only took 50 taels from it and handed it to Mrs. Wang.

"Hey! It's said that brothers and sisters settle accounts clearly. I know that my brother and sister are kind people, and they refused my sister-in-law's kindness for the sake of our relationship, so I can't say nothing." Mrs. Zhang pretended to sigh Forced the 50 taels of silver bills into Mrs. Wang's hand, seeing the other party's smiling face, I felt really happy: "These money is for sister-in-law to buy candy for nephews and nieces. I look at that girl Tanchun." It's also a sensible age, and you need to dress up carefully."

Both being common daughters, Jia Yingchun from the first room and Jia Tanchun from the second room lived very different lives.

Although Jia Yingchun's biological mother died young, she was raised under Mrs. Zhang's lap since she was a child, and her life is no different from that of a legitimate daughter. In addition, Jia She is only her daughter, so she can be regarded as a collection of thousands of favors.

In contrast, Jia Tanchun, whose biological mother was Jia Zheng's concubine, did not have a good life in the original book.Because Jia Zheng is not good at managing the family, and Jia Yuanchun in the palace needs money to clear the way from time to time, so Mrs. Wang always tries to get money from the concubine and the concubine.

Jia Zheng once quarreled with Mrs. Wang about this, asking her where to use Jia Yuanchun's dowry.

After all, before Jia Daishan passed away, he prepared Jia Yuanchun a large dowry in the style of the daughter-in-law of the Rongguo Mansion, plus the extra makeup that Jia Amnesty voluntarily gave when the family was separated, which added up to 3 to [-] taels of silver. , enough for Jia Zheng's family to live comfortably for more than ten years.

Not only the queens and concubines who entered the palace after a big wedding, but also the daughters of aristocratic families who were elected as the main concubines can also bring a dowry into the palace, and then enter the palace with a ceremonial frame prepared by the Ministry of Rites, and even have a small wedding ceremony.

Lin Miyan was like this back then.

But Jia Yuanchun, who was selected into the palace, did not have this kind of treatment, and even with her current status, she was not enough to possess the above specifications.

Therefore, Jia Yuanchun's dowry can only be part of the cash and brought into the palace privately for her, and the rest of the real estate is in the hands of Mrs. Wang.

"Master is really not in charge of the family and doesn't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are. Sister Yuan spent at least 5000 taels of silver when she was selected into the palace. Even if there is a part of the mother's subsidy, we are not the ones who pay the bulk." Mrs. Wang sneered: " Coupled with the money from the Eastern Palace over the years, the filial piety fee sent to my brother, and the network fee for the master's performance appraisal, it can save two Zhuangzi who are both personal and well-managed, so how can they care about a few concubines? What about women!"

The most unreasonable thing about Mrs. Wang in Jia Zheng's eyes is that she can always say a correct thing in a strange way.

Especially when Jia Zheng was already showing dissatisfaction, Mrs. Wang still added fuel to the fire: "If you want me to say, it is a kindness in every way to keep those aunts and concubines for a bite of food. Is it possible? , and want to use all of Baoyu’s future things? Then there is really no way out.”

The dumb-mouthed Jia Zheng seldom wins over Mrs. Wang, and in the end he always ends everything with a sentence of "unreasonable".

When Jia's mother moved into the already crowded Yuanwai Mansion, Jia Tanchun and Jia Huan's life became more and more difficult.

In order to squeeze out the money to worship Jia's mother, Mrs. Wang reduced the number of servants of Jia Tanchun and Jia Huan, and reduced their monthly money to one tael a month.

You know, the first-class maids in the Rongguo Mansion have this duty, and in wealthy families like the Lin Mansion, the monthly duty of the first-class maids can reach one or two yuan, not to mention those old mothers and nuns.

However, that was the case, Princess Jingyue, who was less ignorant of the cost of firewood, rice, oil and salt than Jia Zheng, complained that Lin Daiyu's pocket money was too little, and it was not enough for her to spend a few days at all.

The first princess who has not left the cabinet still has more than 800 taels of regular silver every year, except for the usual things. That is to say, Princess Jingyue's monthly pocket money is 70 taels, which is three and a half times that of Jiamu's regular allowance.

This is not counting the usual days when Jinshang, Lin Miyan, and several brothers and sisters with titles would occasionally send some gold and silver melon seeds to Princess Jingyue as rewards.

And when Princess Jingyue gets married, in addition to the due 180 taels of dowry and 18 taels of silver, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will also prepare a prince-sized princess mansion, and the annual salary will rise to an exaggerated 1 taels. This is not counting the rewards during festivals and dowry Zhuangzi's income.

Even though the annual salary includes the expenses of the princess's mansion and the rewards during the festivals, but compared to the concubine princesses who only have 5000 two-year gold, Princess Jingting and Princess Jingyue can still live a more nourishing life than the prince.

This also led to the Dragon Boat Festival gift that Lin Daiyu received, which really has the characteristics of a local tyrant of Princess Jingyue.

A handful of golden melon seeds I got from Jinshang and Lin Miyan.

According to the silver price of 300:[-], these things cost at least [-] taels of silver, which made Aunt Zhao tremble in receiving the gift, fearing that if she was not careful, her ten-year money would be gone.

"I never give away useless things, so these gold and silver things are vulgar, but they are all hard currency, which are far more useful than those flashy things." Princess Jingyue seemed careless, but she was in a certain In some respects, it can be called as meticulous as a hair.

Even sometimes, Lin Daiyu would sigh at Princess Jingyue's sophistication, and then try to learn this from Princess Jingyue: "At our age, we should not have given such expensive things."

"But if you convert those invaluable things into low prices, they will only be more valuable than these golden melon seeds." Princess Jingyue explained: "Things with the palace seal cannot be resold, and they can only be tributed at home. As for those pens, inks, papers and inkstones, calligraphy and paintings, do you think those girls can really use them?"

Speaking of which, Princess Jingyue glanced in the direction of the Anyang county lord pointedly, her eyes paused for a while on the accompanying reader of the Anyang county lord, that is, Shi Xiangling, the daughter of Marquis Bowling, and then said in a low voice: " Not all lord's houses can be like the uncle's house, which can not worry about yellow and white things. If the best wolf hair and inkstone are rewarded, most of these things will be 'transferred' to brothers who need them more. As for those orphan copies Calligraphy and painting, even if they are not immediately pawned off, they will hang in other people's study rooms."

Speaking of this, Princess Jingyue's voice changed: "But the gold and silver melon seeds are different. Even if they accept them in front of their followers, they can keep a few for themselves."

Lin Daiyu remembered that the Anyang County Lord did not send gold and silver melon seeds to Shi Xiangling, and liked to show off his status as the County Lord to Xiangfang, so she would always give something that was extremely flashy in the eyes of Princess Jingyue.

What made Shi Xiangling vomit blood even more was that these things were all stamped with palace seals, and she had to bleed and give away some expensive things worth hundreds of vehicles, which made the poor financial situation of Baolinghou Mansion even worse.

As a result, when Shi Xiangling's cousin went to Rongguo Mansion for a short stay, she would always mention her cousin's extravagance and waste in front of Jia's mother, and even complained openly and secretly that she had been treated unfairly, so she almost pointed at Shi Xiangling's nose and cursed The other party is mean.

The author has something to say: Sorry, I resumed work yesterday, so I am too busy to update the article.

PS: The princess is really rich, and she was frightened when she checked the literature.

The prince's Chengfu is 20 taels, the first princess's is 18 taels, and the concubine's princess is 15 taels.

In terms of annual salary, the concubine princess is equal to the prince, 1 taels, and the concubine princess is equal to the county king, 5000 taels.

Unless the princesses are like Lord Qianlong's Princess He Jing, who have an incomprehensible husband, so they have to spend two parts of the capital and Mongolia's money, otherwise they will live a very comfortable life. After all, they are only responsible for their own expenses, even the main expenses of their children. They are all from the husband's family (of course, they will also subsidize them), so they don't have to raise a house of wives and concubines like a prince and county king, and they also have to raise a bunch of children.