Ai Ruo's life in the red mansion

The Lin family is busy getting married, and the New Year is just a cloud.The Jia family lived a quiet and peaceful New Year, which is how it is every year anyway.As for the Dongping Palace, it can only be described as busy.

Of course, Jia Yuan is not the one who likes to seize power. Some things can be handed over to the sister-in-law, and she will make friends with the sister-in-law. She just keeps an eye on it occasionally, but handing over some things to the sister-in-law does not mean that she will be fine. busy.

I was busy clearing the inventory before, but I was actually preparing for the New Year. When the government was opened and the government was built, the relationship between people and people could not be the same as before, only in and out, so I cleaned up the inventory and entered it in the account book, so I could arrange it.

There is another very important thing during the Chinese New Year, which is to collect accounts.Every year when the end of the year comes, the accounts have to be reimbursed and written off by people from various places. Before that, Jia Yuan had already sent someone to check the accounts of the mansion. From the accounts, it can be seen that Madam Ding has been a housekeeper for these years, and her income is good. However, this It can only be compared with the previous accounts, not with Jia Yuan, who has been strictly educated by Ai Ruo since he was a child, can read and compare.She doesn't care about the money she collected before, but when the year comes, she just waits for the people below to reimburse and write off the accounts.

For shops and the like, the income seems to be fixed. Basically, Jia Yuan doesn't want to move them for the time being, so he pays the bill and lets them go, leaving only Zhuangzi's stewards.Like Wuzhuangtou in the Dream of the Red Chamber, they sent all kinds of Zhuangzi's products and brought them into the mansion.Naturally, Jia Yuan would not look at those products, but would only stare at the list.

Nanny Ding used to be very good at housekeeping, but she was locked up in the palace all her life. She still doesn't know enough about the outside world. She finally knows that chickens are born by chickens, but how much is a chicken? have no idea.So there are many things that she doesn't quite understand.

So think about it, after seeing Zhuangzi's production, Jia Yuan actually sighed a little, but she was too lazy to do anything, finally finished reading, put down the list, she didn't speak, and stared at the stewards instead.

The stewards were sweating all of a sudden, and they knelt down immediately with a smile on their faces.

"Princess Wang, this year's harvest is good. In previous years, Nanny Ding said that there were no masters in the mansion, so she asked the servants to exchange things for money so that it would be easy to accept. This year, thinking that the young masters are all back, it is natural to be filial. Others The account has not been sorted out, and the old slave will come back to pay the account later."

In fact, Mu Geer has been sitting with Jia Yuan on the kang and listening. Although he doesn't speak, sitting here is an attitude in itself.Ben was listening, drinking tea slowly. Hearing this, he couldn't help but look up at the reply, and then look at the one who was still wiping sweat behind him. He's not stupid, he just didn't care about his own family affairs , but he followed Jia Zhu to prepare to build a library, followed Jia Zhu to the military camp, and stayed in the Jiangnan officialdom. He has a very good mind. Look at that clever man. A sip of tea.

Jia Yuan didn't look at Mu Ge'er, looked down at the list, nodded, and smiled, "I see, there are so many people this year, and everyone is in a hurry. I'm young, and I don't want to offend you. Everyone is a family too. I don’t want to be too old for the New Year to make everyone unhappy.”

"Yes, yes, the servants must keep an eye on them when they go back, and they will pay the bill later." The man wiped his sweat beads again.

"Let me tell you, I have already checked the treasury in the mansion, and I will go to the Zhuangzi to check the treasury later. Please tidy up, and I will take someone there after the Chinese New Year." Jia Yuan smiled and said softly .

The people below were stunned, but they didn't dare to say anything, only dared to say, 'Yes. '

Jia Yuan sent people out, and the sisters of the Mu family looked at their sister-in-law. Nanny Ding was not there at the moment. At the beginning of Chaku, Nanny Ding didn't care. For her, she knew very well that her hands and feet were clean. So she knew with confidence that Jia Yuan couldn't catch her own feet.But what she didn't expect was that Jia Yuan never thought of catching her, all she wanted was the dowry of the two younger sisters.

Nanny Ding waited for Jia Yuan to check all the inventory, and sorted things out by the way.Nanny Ding originally thought that she was a good housekeeper, but Jia Yuan straightened her out, and she felt a little ashamed.

It's not that she doesn't manage well, but that everything in Curry is there, but many of them are rotten.Yes, she strengthened the management, no one steals, but no one cares.This is worse than being stolen. If someone steals it, it is stored in someone's home. When you turn around and copy someone's home, the things will come back and you can get some interest.But if you let it rot, you will be blind for nothing.

After disposing of some people, Nanny Ding was ashamed and asked to leave the house.This time it's not about taking Joe, but really shameless.But Jia Yuan might not be sure, so he comforted her.So at this time when Zhuangzi came to pay the bill, Nanny Ding was afraid of being provoked, so she didn't come out.

Jia Yuan stared at the lists. At this moment, she was no longer worried about money. The wealth found from the servants' homes was put into the dowry treasury. Except for the wood of the furniture, it would be very interesting to integrate the rest. .

Originally, I thought that the furniture would not be a problem. If I tidy up the furniture of the two generations of concubines and distribute it to the two aunts, then it will be very rich.But after tidying up the furniture in the warehouse and looking at them one by one, Jia Yuan felt a little bit reluctant.It's not that the things are so good that she is reluctant to give them, but that she is reluctant to make good things new.

The two generations of concubines seem to be very important to the family. The dowry of the old concubine may have been a matter of the previous dynasty. Those who are married can't put more.So for them, furniture is the top priority.

Therefore, the furniture of their two generations of princesses is made of high-quality wood. Although it has been stored for many years, it is obvious that they cherished it before. The things are well maintained. With a light wipe, the original beautiful grain of the wood can be revealed. , and a warm luster.This kind of oily shine is not something that can come out in general, except for the good material itself, the oily quality in the wood is slowly revealed.What's more important is the accumulation of time, and the oil that has been applied before is slowly seeping through.It would be a real pity if these were really sanded off and repainted.She would rather send these things to their new home intact than be a sinner.

So, she could only think of a way again.Checked all the inventory, the leather and silk at home, even if it is repurchased, it will not cost much.It's just that she really has nowhere to look for wood at this time.These days, the real hair is getting gray quickly. Whose family’s wood is not saved by the daughter when she is seven or eight years old, and the Dongping Palace has no such concept. Even though there are some in the house, it is not enough to make a room of furniture. of.

She had heard that the uncle of her natal family sent some back. It wasn't that she hadn't thought about it, but she didn't follow the rules. Even if she bought it from her natal family and spread the word, even the Dongping Prince's Mansion would be lost at once.Now she can only expand the scope of Chaku to see if there are any fish that slip through the net.

Forget about the furniture, and it's not too urgent. She still has to think about the entertainment. These old relatives, new relatives, it's the first time for her to be in charge of the family, and the annual ceremony has to be passed. Will teach daughter not to.Just relying on the things on the list, plus the things that were cleared out of the warehouse before, she quickly weighed them in her mind.

"Sister-in-law, what's the matter?" Sister Mu hurriedly asked, she is now learning housekeeping and managing money from Jia Yuan, and she has learned a lot these days, and now she feels a little weird, and it seems to be full of mysteries.

"It's okay, quite smart." Jia Yuan smiled, and handed the list to Sister Mu, "Guess, what do you think is the matter?"

"Corruption?" Miss Mu Er said immediately, even if she didn't know, she could guess it.Although I didn't want to understand some of the joints inside, I guessed some of them more or less.

"They made a lot of money on Zhuangzi's harvest. However, seeing your sister-in-law looking at them and thinking about what happened in the house these days, she naturally understands that your sister-in-law is not a fuel-efficient lamp. So she immediately turned around and said that she still had money, but she didn't count it. Come out and send it back later. So your sister-in-law said, this is very smart. Yes, it’s too smart!" Mu Geer smiled and put down the cup gently. He had drunk that cup of tea all morning, and He didn't finish drinking, to put it bluntly, the tea bowl was just something he held in his hand to play with when he was free.

"I don't mind giving smart people a chance, because it's more comfortable to deal with smart people. Of course, the premise of this is that you have enough ability to control them. If you don't have this confidence, just learn from my mother and use the system to manage it. That's the easiest, but It's not easy, because the system must be enforced by someone, and as family members, it is very important whether you can be ruthless." Jia Yuan looked at the two aunts. She has actually taught them all these years, and now one of them has If you are married, you have to step up education, otherwise, if you enter the in-law's house, you will not be eaten by others.

"Cruel-hearted?" Sister Mu also knew that she was engaged. Even though it was her sister-in-law's maternal ancestral home, her sister-in-law couldn't protect her for the rest of her life, so she learned by heart these days.Of course, this is my own home, learning things, practicing hands, the natural feeling is different.It's a little bit of a thousand miles a day.

"Yes, be cruel! If the one who made the mistake is your close maid or nanny, who kneels on the ground and begs you, what should you do? Also, if the person who made the mistake is the confidant of the sister-in-law, pointing the sword at the sister-in-law, maybe even There are people in the mother-in-law's house, what do you do?" Jia Yuan sighed softly, "My mother can be institutionalized because she is the eldest in the family. Our old lady doesn't care about things, so she won't be controlled by others. You are different. In the future, you will What you are facing may be a large family, who is really the daughter-in-law who is in charge of the family. In fact, there are mothers-in-law and old women who say that you are the housekeeper, but the girl wears the key and does not take care of the house. Whoever is in charge of the house for three years is always Even dogs hate it. If there is something wrong, you are the rats of the bellows, getting angry at both ends."