Evening Shaohua in the Red House

After Ping'er left, Fu Ling and Mei Xiang registered the things, put the clothes and jewelry in the cabinet one by one, and put the four silver ingots into the money box separately.

Li Wan looked up and saw the silver ingots in the box, and suddenly said: "How much silver do we have?"

After passing through for so long, she has been busy adapting to the environment. Although she has inherited the memory of the original owner, she only knows that the dowry is not thin, but it is not clear how much property she has.

Although they now eat and wear official clothes and do not need their own money, in the future Jialan will spend money on everything such as going to school, marrying a wife and having children, and taking the imperial examination.

What's more, it is not clear exactly when the Rongguo Mansion ransacked the house, nor what will happen to the rest of the Jia family. After all, she is a member of the Jia family, and if something happens to the Jia family, she can't stay out of it.

The decline of Rongning and Ningfu is inevitable, and she can't change the ending, she can only save a few more people within her power.

If she wasn't prepared and didn't have enough money, they wouldn't even have a place to settle down when things came to an end.

Unless she really had to, she didn't want to go back to the Li family in Jinling. Although it was the original owner's family, she was a married daughter after all. The so-called married daughter splashed water, even if she went back to her own family, she was still an outsider. better off.

And all these require silver.

The accounts in Li Wan’s room are all in charge of Fu Ling. Hearing this, he thought about it carefully, and then did a quick calculation in his heart. Fang said: “Except for grandma’s money in the box, the annual income of the farm shop that grandma married is about the same in the past two years. There are 3000 taels; the annual rent for the leased yard is 180 taels;

There are about 5000 taels of silver left by the uncle before, and the monthly silver that the uncle and grandma have received in the past two years, excluding daily expenses, there are 300 taels left; and a box of fragmented gold and silver coins, about 200 taels more than enough. "

Li Wan pondered for a moment, then said to Fu Ling: "After the things are registered, I will put them away for now. Go and find out the red sandalwood box carved with hundreds of flowers when I got married, as well as the two shops and Zhuangzi's account books for the past two years. Come here and let me see."

Fu Ling agreed, but she was a little puzzled in her heart. She was Li Wan's confidant, and knew that the red sandalwood box contained Li Wan's dowry list and real estate title deed, and said with a smile: "These are all locked in the mother-of-pearl cabinet in the small warehouse of Xinuange. , I’ll go get it right away, but why did grandma suddenly think of seeing this right now?”

Li Wan sighed slightly

He breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Now that the uncle is gone, there are only me and Lan Er, orphans and widows, and Lan Er will study and get married in the future. Naturally, I have to make a good plan."

Fu Ling and Mei Xiang were startled for a moment, then came to understand, nodded and said: "Grandma said that we have two respectable eyes and a rich heart in our house. My brother will study and become an official in the future, but it will cost a lot of money." , you have to plan ahead.”

After a while, Fu Ling and Mei Xiang really went to fetch a red sandalwood box and a thick stack of account books, and said: "All the account books are here, grandma, look at this."

Li Wan nodded, took the key to open the red sandalwood box, took out a thin booklet and read it carefully, even though she had already known the outline from the original owner's memory, she was still a little surprised to see this dowry list at this time.

I saw the above list: a three-entry courtyard, eighteen hectares of fertile land, two shops; two calligraphy and paintings by famous masters, four postcards, four sets of rare ancient books; two boxes of new book engravings and manuscripts; , a pair of dragon and phoenix jasper pendants, a box of south pearls, a box of agate gemstones, 120 pairs of heads and faces of various kinds, and 180 pieces of jewelry hairpins of other kinds; [-] sets of clothes for four seasons, and various furnishings of gold, silver, copper and tin utensils Furniture made of chrysanthemum pear and red rosewood, such as beds, screens, dressing tables, porcelain, medicinal materials, and various colors of feather satin, feather yarn, Shu brocade, Lu silk, Ning silk, colored satin, foreign satin, makeup satin, python [-] pieces of satin, Japanese satin, gold flower satin, xiangyun yarn, pomegranate damask, organdy, soft smoke, dorone and other silk and satin.

Among them are five bolts of gold and silver silk satin, which are bright red, lotus green, moon white, royal blue, and light yellow. These gold and silver silk satins are all tributes from foreign countries, and one horse is worth one or two hundred gold, which is extremely valuable.

When she read books, she saw that Li Wan was very frugal. Like most people, she thought that the original owner's family background was ordinary and she might not have much wealth, but she never thought that the dowry was far beyond her imagination.

It stands to reason that Li Wan's father was born in the Guozijian Jijiu. Although he is noble, he is not a rich man. There is a reason why he can afford such a generous dowry.

Li Wan only understood the reason after looking through the memories in his mind. It turned out that half of the dowry was a dowry gift from Jia's family when he was hired.

They are 1000 taels of gold dowry gold, 120 silks and satins of various colors, 46 sets of four-season clothes, [-] pairs of red gold dragon and phoenix bracelets, [-] sets of red gold heads and face inlaid with gemstones, and [-] pairs of golden bead hairpin rings.

Jia Zhu is the eldest grandson of the Rongguo Mansion, and a descendant of the second wife.

When the state government has not yet reached the end of the year, the year is just right, and the eldest grandson marries a wife, and the dowry gift is naturally very decent, not to mention that the Jia family is the housekeeper of Mrs. Wang, so naturally they will not treat their son badly.

Moreover, Mrs. Wang was born in the royal family of Jinling, and her own dowry was also very generous. She has been a housekeeper for nearly 20 years, and her body has doubled several times.

Forty percent of the remaining half of the dowry came from the Li family, and the other [-]% was privately subsidized by Li Wan's mother.

The Li family is a well-known eunuch in Jinling, a scholarly family. Although the family's wealth is not as high as that of a high-ranking family, it is not weak after a hundred years. Otherwise, if the Li family is really poor, the Jia family will not get married.

The original owner married the eldest grandson of the Rongguo Mansion, and the dowry was so generous, so in order not to make people laugh, the dowry should not be too thin.

Therefore, in addition to silk and satin furniture, antiques, calligraphy, paintings, headgear, and jewelry, Gongzhong also married a village of eight hectares, a shop, and 5000 taels of silver.

Li's mother is also from a great family, and the dowry is quite generous. She manages the family well and is very good at business management. Over the past 20 years, the dowry has doubled several times.

Mother Li only gave birth to one son and one daughter. The eldest son had already married a wife and had a son. On the eve of her daughter's wedding, she divided her dowry into three shares. [-]% was given to her son, [-]% was kept by her, and passed on to her grandson after death. Forty percent was given to the original owner as a dowry.

In addition to the 300 taels of gold and silver, there is also a shop in Guxilou Street, Kyoto, and a ten-acre Zhuangzi in the south, as well as various head and face jewelry, silk and satin, etc., totaling about 1 taels of silver. .

Although generally speaking, the dowry is given to the woman's parents, but as long as they take some face into account, they will not keep it, and they will put it in the daughter's dowry and take it back to the husband's house.

Father Li is a scholar, so his behavior will naturally not be criticized by others, so he put all the betrothal gifts from the Jia family into the dowry of the original owner.

Therefore, plus Jia's 1 taels of betrothal money, the total is 8000 taels of pressed silver, which is 800 taels of gold.

Jia Zhu also left over 3000 taels of silver in her private savings. Except for the rewards she received over the years and what Jia Mu gave, most of them were subsidized by Mrs. Wang privately.

Mrs. Wang even worried that Jia Zhu would not spend enough on socializing and entertaining after she was selected as a scholar, so she specially allocated a small village of five hectares to him from the dowry. .

After reading the dowry list, Li Wan briefly looked through the account books of the farm store.

The income of each quarter is 600 taels of silver, and the spring and autumn seasons of a year are 1000 taels; the annual income of the two shops is also 2000 taels of silver, which is [-] taels in two years.

The location of the three-entry courtyard is good, and it costs about 200 taels of silver to lease it out for a year.

Including the 300 taels of silver saved over the years, the original 8000 taels of silver in the box, and the savings of more than 3000 taels left by Jia Zhu, the total is 400 taels of silver.

Li Wan breathed a sigh of relief. The situation was much better than she had expected. He closed the account books in his hands and said to Fu Ling and the other two: "Keep the account books of the farm and shop. I'll take a closer look at them later. I'll sort things out together."

The three of them came to the back room, where all kinds of decorations were piled up. The cages were filled with porcelain and medicinal materials, clothes for the four seasons, etc., and several large crates were filled with various silks, satins, silk yarns and other fabrics.

Most of those silks and satins are for practical use, and will not look outdated even after more than ten years. The more than 100 sets of dowry clothes are also made of good materials, and the colors and embroidery are very exquisite and unique.

The Xinuang Pavilion was used as a small warehouse, and several boxes and cages were filled with valuables, antiques, calligraphy, paintings, gold and silver decorations, dowry, etc.

Fu Ling took out the key from her waist and opened the door of the warehouse, pointed to the three boxes on the ground and said, "These are grandma's pressed box silver and all the income from the farm store in the past two years, as well as the savings left by the uncle earlier. 7000 taels of silver can be converted into 700 taels of gold."

Then he pointed to several gold-painted cages on the ground nearby, and said, "These are grandma's head jewelry."

After all, I opened the box and looked at it with Li Wan. Each box was full of hairpins and pendants, either inlaid with beads or inlaid with treasures. The craftsmanship was very exquisite and unique.

Li Wan casually opened a small box, inside was a whole set of red gold and silk dots emerald inlaid with pearls and stone phoenix tin, the mouth of the tin was decorated with a golden phoenix, and the mouth was strung with jewels and stone tassels. Although the weight was not heavy, it was very elegant.

In addition, there is a palm-sized cloisonné enamel brocade box, which is full of pigeon blood stones, sapphires, cat's eyes and other rare treasures. The color is even and even, which is very rare.

The bottommost huanghuali jewelry box contains a pair of top-quality suet white jade bracelets, which are not carved or carved, but the texture is delicate and moist, pure white and flawless, as moist as crisp, and as tender as suet.

These are all the treasures in Li's mother's body, and they all made box jewelry for her daughter.

The rest of the more than 100 sets of heads are mostly dowry gifts from the Jia family and dowry from the Li family, as well as rewards from Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang in the past two years. , the patterns are very light and delicate.