Old things in the Red Chamber

"You are too bad. Now that the old account of old sesame seed and rotten millet is found out, they may not be able to find everything for you."Seeing that the weather was getting hotter, Jia Gu waved his fan, and he and Jia She were enjoying the cool in the courtyard. Looking at Jia She, he knew that he was holding back his heart.

"You don't know. When I went there yesterday, I didn't think about taking Lian'er's damn things back. I also know that there is nothing in the warehouse now. I just wanted to let them know that the emperor sent someone to come. With such an oral order, in the future, even if someone finds out that there are items belonging to the Jia family in the mansions of several princes, there will be someone to talk about it. But their actions yesterday made me very angry. Why do you think it is based on it? I'm also the son of the old man, and Jia Lian is still my son, so why should there be a ranking among the old lady."

"Have you ever thought about what will happen to them in the future if you do this? They must know that there is no money in the family, and they will think of all kinds of crooked ways."

Jia Amnesty said nonchalantly, "This has nothing to do with me. Unless I rebelled, I would not be implicated in other crimes. Besides, they have done crooked things before."

"When the time comes, they really won't be able to get their things back, and they won't be able to get their money back. How will you end up? Maybe you have to go to Dali Temple to sue them."

Jia Amnesty thought for a while, "You don't know about the old lady, for a person like her, the most important thing is face, why the family is still holding on to the airs, isn't it because they can't let go of that face? Between things, she will definitely give me what I want."

"The age is too old. In the past ten or twenty years, the fabric can be put to rot, let alone other things, even some gold and silver have already changed color."

"I know, as much as I can, but now I have completely torn skins with them. I came today to discuss this matter with you. You send a letter to Jiangnan and detain the two brothers. When my grandson returns When you go home, you just ask your people to stop at the gate of the palace and take you home. I am only this grandson now, if something happens to him, it will make me feel more uncomfortable than killing me, let alone , I am also afraid that he will learn badly, he follows his cousin every day, if he fails to learn, the prince in the palace will also lead badly, when the emperor wants to chop off my head, it will be easy."

"Things are not as bad as you think, don't worry."

"A few years ago, I heard that my sister-in-law's white jade hand stove was broken. How did the Lai family's mother-in-law hold it?"

Mrs. Wang didn't care about other things, but was very angry at herself for throwing out a lot of money. At this time, the best way to divert the conflict was to find a common enemy.

After hearing what she said, Shi Taijun was very angry.Just now he was bullied by the eldest son, not to mention breaking the fortune and eliminating disasters, even the mother and son were torn apart.At this time, the daughter-in-law is going to beat her up again, making her look like the sun is setting, and she can't control the ghosts and monsters below.

Mrs. Lai is her confidant, and the Lai family is the old man's confidant.When Shi Taijun is getting older, he will be more comfortable with these people who have followed him all his life.In addition, for such a long time, he has been holding the power in the mansion, which has long made his daughter-in-law dissatisfied.The daughter-in-law is not alone either, the servants he has recruited over the years, and the companions brought over from his mother's house, all watch helplessly as there are lucrative errands in the mansion.

Mrs. Wang thought it was a good opportunity to seize power.

There are many benefits of taking action at this time. First, it can alleviate the crisis at home.The second is to make a sum of money to get through the current predicament.Thirdly, being able to wipe out her mother-in-law's power in one go, it is a matter of course for one's own people to succeed immediately.

She ignored Shi Taijun and Jia Zheng to discuss this matter.

Jia Zheng's biggest worry about this matter is that he is afraid of bad reputation.

"Those officials in Shuntian Mansion say so, saying that our warehouse is the work of a family thief. If what the old man said just now is true, the rats in the house are really daring, and it's fine to steal a little at ordinary times. Well, this time we actually emptied our storeroom. If this news gets out, the master will have a reputation for not being strict with the family..."

When Jia Zheng heard this, he thought about it. If it was true, if the slaves stole the incident, although he would be offended by laxity, he would be a victim anyway.

Mrs. Wang and his husband and wife for so many years have already figured out the changes in his expression.

Judging by his current attitude, he knew that this matter had been agreed.The husband and wife said a few words.Some of the juniors here don't understand, and some already understand.

Mrs. Wang said, "This kind of thing is expensive because of the quick character and the stable character. It is better to hit the sun than to choose a date. Let's send people to each house today to have a look. If the things in our house don't stick to the authenticity , take it back and talk about it later."

Shi Taijun was so angry that he patted the couch, "How dare you think about this idea. The adults outside didn't come to our house to search the house. You have already searched yourself first. You have lost the face of your ancestors for several lifetimes."

Jia Zheng left his seat, knelt on the ground and cried loudly, "There is nothing my son can do. You saw the elder brother's appearance just now. He persecuted his son step by step and did not give his son a way out. Such a big family, after the present situation Guan, it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival soon, so how can you give gifts during the Mid-Autumn Festival without losing face. Maybe the old lady and the daughter-in-law at home should make up for it with dowry.”

Shi Taijun also knows this truth, one side is his own children and grandchildren, and the other side is a servant.I had no choice but to support my head, and said to Yuanyang, "I have a headache from that evil spirit, I will lie down inside."

As soon as Shi Taijun left Mrs. Wang, he quickly called Xue Baochai to him.

"Good boy, I thought about it. In a family like ours, the servants have raised several generations of people. They are all intertwined and connected. Once the news is revealed, they will not be able to copy a tael of silver. Our family It’s shameful. Now you just go back to your mother’s house to ask your mother to borrow someone, and hand it over to the master, so that your family can help us with this matter.”

Xue Baochai returned to her mother's house immediately after hearing what she said.

The Xue family itself lived in a vassal of the Jia family, and within a quarter of an hour, Xue Baochai returned home.

It was already dark at this time, Mrs. Xue looked at the sky outside.Look at Xue Baochai's face again.I was so anxious, "My son, why are you back at this time? If you have something to do in the evening, you can send someone over. If you don't say it, it's over. Why bother to go by yourself. But you have a fight with Baoyu, so you go Once my mother's family ran away, reasonable things became unreasonable..."

The matter was urgent, and Xue Baochai didn't want to chatter with her own mother any longer, "Mom, where is my brother?"

Xue Pan is going to marry a daughter-in-law these days, and stays at home obediently. Hearing that Xue Baochai is back, he also comes to Mrs. Xue's room.

When Xue Baochai met his elder brother, the mother, son, brother and sister told the story in the room.

With such excitement, Xue Pan agreed at that time.

They originally wanted to keep the matter secret, but in less than two days, this matter was discussed in the streets and alleys.

Secrets like this kind of rich family, for some people in the streets and alleys.It's just something for chatting after dinner. For some wealthy families, they feel that they should pay attention to this matter.But there is no second family that imitated their way of inspecting slaves.

It took three days for Madam Tong to find out about it, and she found out about it at Princess Anyang's mansion.

Jia Huan's youngest daughter can already walk a few steps these days.Mrs. Tong took her to the princess mansion. Princess Anyang was bored at home, and this incident happened to happen, and her seniority was about the same. If she talked to Mrs. Tong about these gossips, she didn't worry about her spreading them to the outside world, so she took Tong Ma'am let's talk.

"Have you heard?" Princess Anyang said mysteriously, "The things they confiscated this time are innumerable. It is rumored that seventy or eighty people took all the belongings in the morning."

"Really or not? Everyone spreads rumors about this kind of thing. How many things can a servant have in his home?"

Princess Anyang said to Mrs. Tong, "This is not necessarily the case. There are rumors outside. For example, a slave broke a piece of porcelain on a certain day, month, and day in a certain year, but this porcelain happened to be an ancient relic from the previous dynasty. I found it in that slave's house. Also, in a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, which master of the family lost some gold and silver plates after his birthday, and in which slave's house were these gold and silver utensils seen."

Then he gave Mrs. Tong a look that you know.

Mrs. Tong was amazed when she heard that, "Where is this slave? It's clearly a gang of thieves."

"A few days ago, didn't you say that the things in this family were lost? The warehouse was evacuated, and the Shuntian Mansion came to the door and told the people in their family that this matter is a house thief. Doesn't it look right now?"

The two ladies smiled meaningfully at each other.

If they can think this way, then of course the young and old in the capital also think so.

The censors are also very busy, busy arguing.

This matter is very simple to say, but in the end it was because the slave stole the things of the master's house, was found and caught by the master's house, and the stolen goods were taken.

But not all of these slaves are slaves.For example, in the Lai family, several generations of their family have been slaves, but one of them was released from slavery at birth and became a good citizen.All the money in the family was recorded in the name of the good people. If the Jia family took the things away, it was tantamount to robbing the good people.

Pedantic people say that the Jia family is bullying others.

Some people say that this matter is the lice on the bald man's head, which is obvious.It was an old thief in that family who stole the property of the master's house and put it in the name of a good man.

And why did Lai Shangrong sue the Jia family?From his birth to the present, even if he made a lot of money every day, he still couldn't earn that much money, and the things in their family were of unknown origin.

It was originally a trivial matter, but as long as Shuntian Mansion judged the case impartially, it would be settled within a day or two.But there were waves again.