Evening Shaohua in the Red House

Seeing that it was the end of November, but there was still no movement on either side of the farm and shop, Fu Ling frowned and said, "It's almost December, why haven't the prospects of the farm and shop been handed over this year?"

In previous years, it was usually delivered in early November, and it has never been so long late like this year.

Li Wan leaned on the smoking cage to read a book, flipped through a page, and said casually: "Don't worry, it will be delivered sooner or later."

Before the words were finished, Mei Xiang came in from outside the house and said with a smile: "Grandma is really smart, my father came back from Jinling and said that everything that grandma told me has been done."

Li Wan nodded, smiled slightly, and said, "It seems that the rent from Zhuangzi should be paid in about two days."

Fu Ling was startled when she heard the words, and thought deeply.

The next day, Fuling was ordered by Li Wan to deliver things to the Yingchun room, and then she returned to the courtyard. She saw her mother Liu Shi coming from afar, she couldn't help being a little surprised, stood still and waited, and said with a smile: "It's so early, why did mother come here?" ? Have you had lunch yet?"

Aunt Liu said: "I just came over after dinner, but grandma is sleeping in the middle of a rest?"

Fu Ling smiled and said, "Brother Lan just had a quarrel for a while, grandma hasn't stopped yet, what's the matter, mom?"

Aunt Liu said: "This morning, the Zhuangtou in the south brought over the rent for autumn, and grandma's two shops have also finished calculating the ledger a few days ago. They are waiting outside. I will call grandma back."

Fu Ling found out that it was exactly as her grandma expected, and she was even more surprised, so she hurried into the room and replied.

Hearing this, Li Wan smiled slightly, called Aunt Liu to come forward, and asked her to hand over the ledgers and shopkeepers the ledgers on the table, "There is no need to say anything, just let them take it back and have a closer look, and then talk back after reading it."

Aunt Liu was a little puzzled, but she didn't dare to ask more questions, so she took the account book and went out to spread the word.

The head shopkeepers looked through a little bit, and saw that the several accounts they falsified were circled in red circles, and the amount of ink they corrupted was written on the side.

Everyone's complexion changed suddenly, and they were dripping with cold sweat. They all knelt down and begged for mercy, "I beg my sister-in-law to go in and tell grandma, saying that we were deceived by lard, and I will not dare to do it again in the future, begging grandma to forgive me!"

They used to rely on Li Wan as a housewife who didn't understand the accounts, so they acted recklessly. Now that they were scolded, they remembered that their master was the master of the Rongguo Mansion, and they knew very well what the Rongguo Mansion did. To investigate, if they don't die, they will lose half their lives.

Aunt Liu sent a woman in

I went to pass the message, and after a cup of tea, the woman came out and said: "Grandma said, since you know your mistakes, you should know what to do in the future. You go back and sort out this year's account books, and I will send them to grandma for review tomorrow. "

Everyone was stunned for a moment, then understood, and immediately relaxed, and hurriedly said: "Let's make up the money that is greedy immediately!"

The next day, all the shopkeepers of the Zhuangtou handed in a total of more than [-] taels of silver, a full [-]% more than in previous years.

Li Wan looked at it carefully and found that it was almost the same as what Liu Fu found, so he nodded.

The three Zhuangzi sent 300 taels of silver converted into various grains and livestock, as well as [-] catties of silver frost charcoal, [-] catties of regular rice, [-] catties of green japonica rice, a bag of royal rouge rice, and dried rice. Shrimp, seafood, hazelnut, pine, peach, apricot pulp, chicken, duck, pig, sheep, game dried vegetables, etc.

One of the two shops sold rouge, gouache and gold and jade jewelry, and the other sold silk, satin, spices and embroidery. This year's total income was 800 taels, and several stewards also bought dozens of silks and satin and a dozen or so high-quality sheets for Li Wan. Leather and two sets of heads.

A set of nineteen pieces of purple jade head and face, earrings, rings, hairpins, hairpins, and pendants are all available. The jade color is crystal clear, like smoke flowing, and the carving is exquisite and unique, which is very precious.

The other set is a thirteen-piece head-mask with golden phoenix inlaid with silk and sapphires.

Another brocade box was opened, and inside was a pair of watery and green jadeite bracelets, transparent and flawless, with rich greenery.

There is also a box of southern pearls, the grains are round, the grains are transparent, round and delicate, of average size, extremely rare.

Mei Xiang was packing up her things at the side, and said with a smile when she saw this, "These two sets of masks and pearls are fine, and this emerald is only good in color, so it's not worth anything."

Fu Ling laughed and said, "Although it can't compare to pearls and gemstones, but the color is really transparent, full of water, and the person's complexion is extremely fair, and it only looks good when grandma wears it."

Li Wan was slightly taken aback, recalled it for a while, and then understood a little. The reason for the high-quality jadeite to be extremely precious in the eyes of a person who has traveled here is because of the era she lived in, but at this time jadeite was not Very rare things are incomparable to pearls and gemstones, so this pair of glass jadeite bracelets are priceless treasures in Li Wan's eyes, but they are nothing more than ordinary in the eyes of Fu Ling and the others.

However, these add up to a lot of value, just the two sets of hair and face are not less than a thousand taels of silver, plus the silk and satin, the box of pearls and emeralds, it is far more than the amount they greedy, it can be seen that these few The sincerity of the steward.

Li Wan smiled slightly and closed the box

, and said to Fu Ling: "Put it away, and send someone out to pass on the message to those stewards, saying that I will accept the things, and it will not be an example."

The mother-in-law went out to spread the word, and after being beaten for a while, it can be said that they escaped from death. They hurriedly expressed their loyalty and vowed not to do it again.

Fuling took Danju to register the things, and ordered the mother-in-law to move the rice noodles to the east wing. Now there are two empty rooms, which are just right for these things.

Mei Xiang was a little annoyed, "Those people dare to lie to grandma, why do they keep them?"

Li Wan shook his head and smiled, "When the water is clear, there will be no fish. No one can avoid this kind of thing. It's just a matter of greed and greed."

The shopkeepers in the Tianzhuang shop are all old people from the Li family. Although they are greedy for money, it may not be much better for them if they are replaced by others. If they are not greedy this year, she will not take them.

For example, in Rongguo Mansion, it is common for servants to fill their pockets. The big housekeeper Lai Da is in charge of the big purchases outside, and his son Lai Shangrong has long been released.

The Grand View Garden was built in Rongguo Mansion, and everyone Lai built a garden afterwards. Their family is just a slave, how can they have such a rich family background?It is self-evident where the money came from.

The Rongguo Mansion ate its own food. On the one hand, the Jia family lived extravagantly, and on the other hand, it was also corrupted by the family's servants and others.

Xia Zhu watched people move things, and said with a smile: "With so many rice noodles and charcoal, we can cook some porridge and soup by ourselves in the tea room, so that grandma will not be unable to eat."

Li Wan nodded and said, "Anyway, we have rice noodles, so we don't need to ask the big kitchen."

She grew up in the south of the Yangtze River in her previous life, and had a bland taste, while Jia's food tastes more northerly, with heavy oil and salt. When she was recovering from illness, the food was relatively light, but now it is a regular dish every day, which is really not suitable for her.

Jia's house uses only one or two thousand catties of silver frost charcoal a year, and there are not many houses that can be distributed. In the whole mansion, only Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang have enough charcoal, and everyone else has enough charcoal. For example.

Fortunately, they have a tea room in the east wing. They usually have pots and stoves for boiling water for bathing, stoves for cooking tea, and stoves for decocting medicines. They usually heat hot water for decocting medicines and making tea in this small room. Very cheap.

In a blink of an eye, it was the Eighth Laba Festival in early December, which was also Li Wan's birthday.

The Jia family never had the custom of celebrating birthdays for their wives and grandmas, and they were still observing filial piety, so they didn't celebrate. They just ate a bowl of longevity noodles and everyone gave some birthday gifts.

The most precious thing Jia Mu gave was a set of pearl face masks.

, hairpins, hairpins, bracelets and rings are all available. There are eight pieces in total. They are twisted with silver wire into the shape of pear flowers and leaves, and dotted with pear flowers scattered with pearls. Some are fully open and some are half open. The pearls are round and round, about the size of a lotus seed, and the most rare is the average size, without any blemishes, emitting a faint halo, it is really exquisite.

Fu Ling and the others were very happy, "The old lady looked at grandma, and heard Fei Cui say that this set of pearl hair noodles was originally prepared by the old lady for Mrs. Lin's aunt, but now it is given to grandma."

Li Wan sighed slightly, and ordered Fu Ling to put it away.

Mrs. Wang gave a pair of jasper bracelets and two bolts of satin.

Sister Feng and Youshi also each gave birthday peach noodles and two sets of clothes and shoes of elegant colors. Yingchun also gave a purse made by herself. purse.

The birthday was just over, and it was New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye. Because he was still in Xiaozhong, but the family had a lively reunion, and there was no wine and opera.