Old things in the Red Chamber

From Jia Huan's point of view, this is a very good thing. He already knew that this family will be divided in the future, and he will not get too many things. He made it clear that this family will belong to Baoyu in the future, and now everything is lost. Baoyu is naturally like himself, and will be empty-handed at that time.

The schadenfreude on his face was so obvious that Jia She had no choice but to slap him on the head.

"What a rambunctious boy, you are so happy that there was a thief in your house. The old lady knows it, and she will expose your skin."

The smile on Jia Huan's face changed from wretched to frightened, and he believed that the old lady who was furious would really beat him up.

"You are busy, my lord, I will go back to study now."He oiled his feet and fled as soon as possible.

Speaking of which, the children in this family are not stupid. If Jia Huan was well-bred, not to mention talented, he would be a scholar anyway. At his age, his sister has not yet married, so naturally he would not make marriage arrangements for him.He's such a big man, and he spends his days at home, so he doesn't know what Jia's second child is thinking.

With his hands behind his back, Jia Amnesty changed the expression on his face to a vicious look, and went to the place where the warehouse was.

In addition to the guards of the Jia family, there are also government servants from Shuntian Mansion guarding the warehouse.

Things at home are stolen, and for the stolen family, it is inevitable to cry several times, and it is also necessary to swear and curse, to find the thief back.But the servants of Jia's family couldn't find the slightest bit of unhappiness on their faces.It wasn't until someone saw Jia Amnesty approaching that they quickly put away the laughing expressions on their faces. From the eyes of the yamen servants, the masters of the two mansions were not at all excited. On the contrary, even these yamen servants were gone. It's a bit of an anomaly for the cops.

The head of the yamen servant from Shuntian Mansion came over and looked around, "Master Jia, we took a look at the storeroom of your mansion. The door and lock were not damaged, but the contents of the storehouse were missing. According to our inference, This matter is probably done by house thieves. Moreover, the courtyard walls of your mansion are layer upon layer, you said, how did you move out such big things in such a grandiose way?"

Jia Amnesty's face was immediately filled with anger, "Could it be true that, as the lord said, this is a house thief?"

"Judging from the evidence we have found so far, this may be very big. Which master in your mansion can make the decision, or I will discuss it with all the masters and masters of your mansion, let us search, these things should be returned In your mansion."

Jia Amnesty's expression turned into a sinister pattern again, "According to what you say, don't you want you to raid our house once?"

The policeman said blankly, "I'm also responsible. According to the records of your warehouse entry and exit, the things you lost are really not a small amount when converted into silver."

Jia Amnesty thought about it, and said to the policeman, "Come with me, we need to ask our old lady to agree to this matter."

Not surprisingly, Shi Taijun would never agree to this matter, let alone Taijun, even Mrs. Wang, she would bite to death and refuse to agree.

Let the servants of Shuntian Mansion inspect their own homes, just like what Jia She said, this is no different from ransacking your home, everyone’s furniture will be spread out in the sun to dry, what was lost in the house before, it is precious How did the things get into their warehouse, and the mouths all over the body would not be able to explain.

Everyone knew that there must be tricks in this matter, so the opposition of many people was also expected by Jia She.

In the eyes of others, the elder of the Jia family has always been a person who likes to mess up.At this moment, no matter whether there are outsiders or not, there is a quarrel in the hall immediately.

"Don't forget, old lady, our family still owes the money in the national treasury. Even if we don't talk about the money, don't we need money for the weddings and funerals of the younger generation in the future? Don't talk about weddings and funerals, just say that we will have it soon Dragon Boat Festival, what to give to others as a gift?"

"Then you can't copy your own people. It's not your turn to talk about rituals. What you can think about now is Cong'er's marriage in the future. They are all my grandchildren, and I don't favor anyone. , took out 3000 taels from my private house and gave it to Cong'er, and this money will be used by him to marry his wife in the future."

After finishing speaking, I remembered that there was still a Yamen servant from Shuntian Mansion standing in front of me, and politely said to him, "Please come here, everyone, we have some good tea here, take it back and share it with everyone. Tianfu decides for us."

After the yamen servant heard this, he clasped his fists together, said, "The duty is here." He turned around and left.

Yuanyang took a plate of tea and a plate of silver to comfort the servants of Shuntian Mansion.After taking the money and presents, they naturally wouldn't say much about it, but in their minds, it must have been done by a house thief. In the end, these things still didn't leave their house, probably not in some wife's room, It's in some grandma's private treasury.

The field survey was only this time, and they would not enter the gate of Rongguo Mansion again in the future.In private, after these people returned to Shuntian Mansion, when they talked about this case with other officials, they all laughed and didn't take it to heart.

But the Rongguo Mansion still expected them to find out where the money was, and Shuntian Mansion's repeated refusals were beyond their expectation.

"It's almost a million windfalls. How do you say that sentence? Horses don't have night grass and don't get fat, people don't have external wealth and don't get rich. Although this sentence is not the truth that educates people's hearts, but judging from the things in front of us , still makes some sense.”

Jia Gu put the list in front of Jia She, tore it in half in front of him, and handed the top half to Jia She, "Don't say that being a younger brother treats you badly, all the valuables are on this one. Take a look at the calligraphy, painting and antiques above. There are gold, silver and jade wares. Which one can you take out, and you won’t be allowed to exchange it for thousands of taels of silver? It’s a pity, there are a few authentic works of Mrs. Wei in the warehouse, and they are eaten by moths after getting wet. Otherwise, it’s still a treasure to give away, and there are quite a lot of damage to this kind of thing, if you know such wild people, you might as well find some people to repair it.”

After speaking, he waved the second half of the list in front of Jia She, "I said that I won't take a single cent of the money. I gave all these things to my subordinates. Some furs, woolen clothes, wood materials, and some things are considered good things. I will also use these for them. It can be used, especially for some furniture, those good woods only need to wipe off some marked places and change them, and they can still be used as family heirlooms."

In fact, Jia She was not happy, he put away his list unhappy.Because it was too obvious, even if Jia Gu didn't want to know, he could see it at a glance.

"What's the matter, do you feel sorry for the old man in your heart?"

"You feel the same way?"

Jia Gu nodded, "I'm always afraid that he will come to me in the middle of the night. I'm an unfilial son. If you say that the two of us did this, did you dig the foundation of your family?"

Jia Amnesty also thinks the same way. Even though he thinks this way, you can never put things back. The road has already been gone, and you must not turn back.

"I saw the old man in the underworld someday. I will explain this to him. If you want to beat him or scold him, you can do whatever you want. When you see him, you can just blame me."

This was the first time Jia Gu saw Jia Amnesty willing to take responsibility, and felt that the vote was worth it.

He patted Jia She on the shoulder to comfort him, "Don't think too much, that's fine, even if it's in our hands, it's not in the hands of outsiders, of course, it's in the hands of outsiders in my half, but those Things are worthless, and they are not good things. The real essence is still in yours. If you think so, it means that one day the fake dick has committed a crime. Do you think this thing will be in our hands by then? No. gone."

This is also a kind of self-deception.

The thing has already happened, it can be regarded as seamless, Jia Amnesty only thought about how to digest the money, he discussed with Jia Gu, "I want to transfer these things to Jiangnan to sell, sell some and keep some, and sell them in Jiangnan. If we buy some family business, we won’t be able to get along in the capital in the future, and we can still go back to the south as a family.”

"It's your family going back there. If I can't stay in the capital, I will take my family back to the north. But you are right, money and other things will always be spent, and buying real estate will last for a long time."

Jia Gu stood up and walked around the study a few times.

"To tell you the truth, if there is one more ant in the capital, the emperor will know that this kind of thing happened under his nose. Do you think we should take advantage of it and let the emperor not talk about it."

Jia Amnesty stood up, and what his brother showed was to spend money to avoid disasters, or to put it more vulgarly, to pay the emperor to shut up.

"How should the money be spent? What I'm afraid of is that the money has been spent, but the work has not been done? If the emperor backtracks, our matter itself will not be so upright."

"To put it bluntly, this kind of thing between us means that there is internal strife between our brothers. We two can't understand that my mother is partial to Jia's second child, and wants to get rid of the ancestral property. In the final analysis, this is also a matter between our brothers. He is right. Go to the Golden Luan Hall and say that the reputation of the two of us is a little bad, but in fact it doesn't hurt too much. The law can't control the family law. What I'm worried about now is that Jia Laoer has not been repaying the deficit, and this foreign money must be taken out Part of it has paid off the deficit."

Jia She let out a long breath, "If that's the case, it's a trivial matter, only a few hundred thousand taels of silver."

"You are rich now, only a few 10 taels of silver. Don't go anywhere tomorrow, go to the household department with me, and let's talk to the old man in the household department to ask how much silver the Rongguo Mansion owes. Quietly return the money, so that no one will notice it, and then go to the palace, and as long as the emperor doesn't shout about it, no one will know."

Jia Amnesty had already agreed to do this in his heart, but he was still a little worried, "You said that we are not doing this properly, if the emperor really wants to take advantage of us..."

"This matter is so dishonest, but the emperor also knows that no one will pay back the debt until the money is in your hands. If the money is still in the hands of Jia Laoer, let alone this year, it will be next year, the year after next, Mr. He won't pay back the shortfall in the next year either. If he doesn't pay it back now, the family will spend all the money in the future, so who do you think the emperor will ask for the shortfall?"

Jia Amnesty nodded, and I will deal with some inconspicuous things first, and replace them with ticket numbers. Tomorrow, the two of us will go to the yamen of the household department together.

Jia Gu reminded him, "You also count the interest."

A man in black appeared in the imperial study room quietly, and the court ladies and eunuchs standing in the imperial study room acted as if they hadn't seen him. The man in black put a piece of paper on the desk, and made no sound backed off.

The emperor picked up the piece of paper and looked at it.I laughed silently.

"Xuan Tonger, come here."

The eleventh son, who was still studying, rushed over in a hurry.

"Father called his son for something important?"

"Can't I let you come if there is no urgent matter?" The emperor teased him.

The little prince who was kneeling in front of the desk scratched his head, he was not as smart as his brother, and he was not as likable as his brother, but in the eyes of the emperor, this kid had one good thing, and that was truth.

Especially the two older sons, who always fight like black-eyed chickens.And the tenth prince, who was a little older, also plunged into it.The eleventh prince, who was a little more sincere in heart, naturally gained his father's attention.

"Father asks you, what has your ninth brother been up to lately?"

"It's just reading every day. When we're not studying, let's visit our little brother. But brother Jiu committed a crime and offended father?"

"That's not true, I just want to ask if you have contacted outside the palace recently?"

After speaking, let the eleventh son of the emperor stand up, and threw him a big apple on his desk.

The eleventh prince picked up the apple and thought for a while, "A few days ago, my uncle went south, and we wanted to go out of the palace to give it off, but we didn't go there because we had something to do in those days. Oh, yes, I also heard that the seventh brother seems to want to marry the princess Brothers and brothers all sent people out to find out who the girl is. Other than that, I didn’t do anything else.”

"How do you say that? It's better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. You should go out for a walk when you have nothing to do. You can't stay in the palace every day. By the way, is one of your companions the nephew of your mother and concubine? "

"Yes, when I went out of the palace to see that he was the only son of the Jia family, and the son's companion was sick, I had no choice but to let him enter the palace to take the position of companion."

The emperor nodded, "I asked you to come today and there is no other meaning. Not far from the imperial city, there are several princess mansions. It's just your aunts and aunts..."

He paused when he said this, and skipped the topic, "You also know that land in the inner city is hard to find. The most wonderful thing is that there are three princess mansions connected together. How about it? Go and see and build a mansion for you and your younger brothers and sisters." How about it?"

The eleventh prince's eyelids twitched, he didn't dare to ask clearly, is the three mansions the mansions of their three brothers, or just his and his younger siblings' mansions?To be more blunt, he didn't dare to ask where his brother's palace was.

If Brother Jiu is only thrown in the palace, does that mean that Brother Jiu is the candidate for the crown prince in Father's mind?But what if the emperor threw it out to confuse people?

At this time, the emperor sat on it, his eyes oppressing him. 11 The prince had no choice but to quickly kneel down and thank him.

"Father, does the emperor mean to let the minister go out of the palace today to take a look? It's just that these mansions used to be lived by princesses, and I'm afraid it's difficult to vacate them in a hurry. Besides, these mansions are still relatively new, and my son is still young... ...Is the father going to let the sons move out?"

The emperor shook his head, "You are still young, when will you marry a wife, and when will you move out. I just want you to go and have a look. Although the Princess Mansion is good, it will be your usual place in the future, and it is not comfortable to live in. It’s not good if it’s over, you go and see if there’s anything that needs to be modified, and just ask someone to modify it.”

After the 11 princes left, the emperor smiled and called an eunuch beside him.

"You go to Rongguo Mansion, you don't need to find anyone else, just go to Jia Amnesty, and you just say that I want to leave the mansion of the three young children of Concubine and Concubine outside. He is the biological father of Concubine and Concubine, so he can't be stingy, what are the three mansions lacking?" ? Let him watch and put it inside. Presumably the imperial concubine knows it, and she will also be grateful for her father's heart below."

When Jia Amnesty received the news, he and Jia Gu were sitting around a brazier, throwing the certificates they had brought back from the household department into the brazier and burning them one by one.

Hearing this news suddenly, Jia Amnesty's hands trembled.When no one stood in front of him, he said to Jia Gu tremblingly, "It seems that the money can't cover his mouth."

Jia Gu thought for a while, "Jia Zhen and the others are going to die now. The emperor is not asking you for things from the Rongguo Mansion, but he is asking you for money from the Ningguo Mansion. I am puzzled. Jia Zhen jumped up and down. Jump, why is no one staring at him, it turns out that he has been staring at him for a long time."

"Then give it or not?"

"Of course I will. Don't you understand what the emperor means? If the house is confiscated in the future, the money will be confiscated into the national treasury. Now that you have evacuated their house, the money will not go into the national treasury. In his opinion Come on, it’s not a disadvantage to spend it on his sons. After all, in his opinion, if the meat rots in the pot, the ultimate benefit will fall on his son and your grandson. If you do this It's so beautiful, he doesn't say anything, and, if the Rongguo Mansion is really involved, your branch can still be preserved."

Seeing Jia Amnesty's appearance, Jia Gu thought he was reluctant to part with the money.

"You don't really want money, do you? Think about it carefully, this money is not yours in the first place, and the means by which you obtained it is not fair and aboveboard. To put it another way, you are in the mouth of the emperor." Li Hukou snatches food..."

"Don't talk about it, I know what to do. Even if the meat rots in the pot as you said, in the end the money is spent on my grandson, which is not a loss. I have lived to this age, and now it is only them Six juniors, this money should be spent."

Seeing him stuffing the arrears certificates into the brazier, he stood up and patted the robe on his body.Looks like you need to go out.

"What are you going to do?" Jia Gu asked him.

"I'm running to the gate of the palace city now, blocking the Eleventh Prince to see which three mansions it is, and chatting with my grandson by the way, to send things to their mansion earlier, this matter will be cleaned up sooner, Your Majesty With all my heart, I keep this money in my hand, and I always feel that I will bite my hand."

Seeing him rushing out, Jia Gu sighed, "Sure enough, the capital is not a place where you can get quick money."

The Dragon Boat Festival is just around the corner, and this time is the most difficult festival for the female relatives of the two duke mansions.

First of all, if you want to hold on to the shelf, you must use your own private money to make up for it.But then again, not everyone is willing to subsidize.

The female relatives in Ningguo Mansion are seriously ill.It's so heavy that I can't sit up. As far as this situation is concerned, it may not get better after a year or so.

In Rongguo Mansion, Mrs. Wang immediately began to have a headache.

In addition, during this period of time, the housekeeper was not her, but Xue Baochai, Xue Baochai felt as if he had coptis in his mouth.

At this time, let her go outside to mend things, no matter what she thinks in her heart, there is no expression of resistance on her face.This is something that Wang Xifeng also admires.

But in the dead of night, only Xue Baochai and Yinger were left as master and servant.A maid will inevitably complain for her master.

"Silly girl, who are you telling this to? Some people who shouldn't hear it will chew their tongues behind their backs."

"Second Mistress's words made my mouth water, just the two of us said in private, the wife has saved so much private house money, everyone said that it will be the second master's in the end, I don't think this is necessarily true, others are not It is said that Uncle Lan must also share some. You don’t even know that Grandma Zhu is going to serve the wife every day, but she was not so diligent before.”

"Calculating petty profits all day is not a long-term solution. Let me say that doing some business is the serious thing."

"That's true. It's just that when the time comes, there are many masters in the mansion, and they won't fall into your hands. Don't you understand now? No matter how much money is invested in this mansion, it will be spent on everyone. There are not many zier, and they were all peeled off layer by layer by old ladies."

The master and servant here did not discuss any good solution. The next day, Jia Amnesty appeared in front of Shi Taijun with a crying face.

"Is this true?" Shi Taijun paused, looking at Jia Amnesty who was crying.

"It's the emperor's oral order. It's not difficult to inquire about it. You know how many things your children and grandchildren have, old lady. Three mansions, not to mention others, just displaying one can make your son hard to die. Please ask the old lady Madam, take pity on my poor son, take out the things in our garden and dedicate it to the royal family."

Mrs. Wang immediately disagreed, and the principle was to build it for Concubine Jia.Although so many years have passed, it is a royal courtyard in name.In fact, those who use these things are their own family members.In her opinion, these things will also be passed on to Baoyu in the future. Now that they are taken out, can they be taken back?

Mrs. Wang disagreed, sobbing and crying behind her.The female family members had to go to persuade them in a panic.Not to mention Mrs. Wang, even Shi Taijun disagreed.

She didn't feel distressed because this thing belonged to someone else.Instead, I feel that the things placed in the garden are not grand enough to be placed in the palace.It's just that at this time, the things in my house have just been stolen, and I don't have the capital to slap my face to pretend to be fat.

She thought and thought in her heart, and felt that the only thing she could use for the current plan was her own private room.

But the private house that I saved will be left to Baoyu.

The old lady is now in a dilemma, undecided whether to give this to the royal princes, or to pass these things on to her children and grandchildren.