Old things in the Red Chamber

"My lord, my wife is not well. Sister Yuanyang hanged herself from the beam."

Mrs. Xing screamed in fright, quickly covered her mouth, and looked back at Jia She, Jia She thought it was so.

"Call Brother Fang and Brother Lang over here."

After a while, the two cousins ​​came in together. They also heard the news of Yuanyang's death. Jia Lan's face was still stained with tears.

Jia Amnesty sent Mrs. Xing away and asked the two brothers to sit down.

"I know about the 3 taels of silver in the old lady's hands. I have repeatedly ordered you not to let your father move the money, but he just couldn't control himself, so he donated 1 taels from Yuanyang's hands."

Jia Amnesty raised her head like this, and Jia Fang couldn't sit still any longer, she quickly stood up and saluted Jia Lan.

Naturally, Jia Lan would not let Jia Fang salute, so she quickly stood up and supported him.

Jia Amnesty waved his hands and let the two of them sit down, "I just want to tell you now, this money must not be moved, even if you want to move it, you have to wait until these princes become common people, or even become a handful of loess." , when no one follows them, you can move this money."

Yuanyang's death didn't cause any waves, and his death was just a few exclamations. The organization didn't take it seriously at all. At best, Jia Lan thought she was a loyal maid.

No one cares about mandarin ducks, but Jia Fang must ask whether the cause of her father's death is related to this money.Jia Amnesty nodded slowly, "Go back and tell your mother, not all silver can be touched, especially this kind of unlucky silver."

Of course Wang Xifeng didn't believe that the money killed her husband. Although sometimes she looked down on Jia Lian and thought he was a coward, but sometimes this person was completely different from when he didn't. After Jia Lian passed away, she herself Sitting in the room, I always recalled Jia Lian unconsciously, especially when I saw Ping'er, it was indispensable to recall the past with Ping'er.

Jia Fang, who asked for leave because of her father's death, saw her mother's downcast appearance, and tried her best to talk to her mother.

When Wang Xifeng talked to her son, she couldn't help recalling her girlhood and her life after marrying into Rongguo Mansion.

Before Wang Xifeng married into the Jia family, the Wang family was also a big family. At that time, her grandfather was still alive, as was her own father. The Wang family was the richest of the four big families.

As for the level of wealth, in Wang Xifeng's words, "At that time, a sweep of the cracks in our Wang's house would be enough for your Jia family to live for a year."

From the prosperity of the Wang family to the prosperity of the Jia family, the peak of the Jia family was when the imperial concubine visited her relatives. Tree candles, you should remember some of them, what kind of poems were written by those outsiders? There is a line called Guidianlan Palace Concubine's Family..."

Jia Fang summed it up in her heart, that is, her maternal ancestral family was very rich, and her own ancestors were also very rich, and in her own hands, the family would become poor.

In order not to make themselves poor, their parents live a miserable life, so they try every means to make money.

When it comes to earning money, it is inevitable to talk about the method of earning money, "At the beginning, put interest money in the house..."

"What did you say?" Jia Fang quickly looked around, "Everyone said that the Rongguo Mansion was seized, and there was a charge of exploiting usury. I didn't believe it at first, but I didn't expect it to be true. I really let the money go. ?”

Seeing his son making a fuss, Wang Xifeng smiled and stretched out his hand to rub his cheek. "What are you afraid of? Your mother has long since quit doing this. It is said that doing this is the worst kind of conscience, and it is easy to suffer private revenge. At that time, I was married to your father for a long time, and I didn't have a boy. It was only after the matter was put away that I had you. I didn’t believe it at first, but because of you, I believed it a little bit, and our family doesn’t touch this anymore.”

Jia Fang breathed a sigh of relief.

But his mother made him get angry again, "Although we don't give away interest money, our family also has other ways to get money. Everyone says that you can enjoy the shade by leaning on a big tree. Your uncle and grandfather have a good relationship. How much?" People who want to follow their path all come to our house to pay homage to the temple gate. Although it can't be of real help, we have not lost the advantage. Especially your uncle was in Jiangnan a few years ago. Hey, let me tell you about Jiangnan It’s a really good place, and the merchants in Yangzhou are the richest, and those salt merchants don’t pay less than that.”

He stretched out his hand and gestured triumphantly towards his son, "Don't worry, I won't let you have no money to marry a wife."

Jia Fang wiped her face, "Is there any other way for our family to get money?"

At this time, Wang Xifeng put away her beaming look, and sighed, "There are only so many ways, and there is no other way. If there are other ways, we have more money than now. It's just that your father is at this critical moment. It's gone..."

After finishing speaking, he sighed with great disappointment and sadness, "There are also many people who are asking about your cousin now and want to send their girls to the palace. Many people have posted posts asking me to go and see in their gardens. Tangxi, if the time comes to leak a little word of mouth, it will definitely make a lot of money."

"A message from my cousin?"

"That's right, your cousin heard that he's going to be the prince soon. Isn't the prince's harem full of women? You said that there are girls in the family. Who doesn't want to send girls to the palace, and then try hard to let them Once you become a concubine, your family becomes a relative."

Seeing his son's indifference, he stretched out his index finger and tapped his head, "If it wasn't for your aunt becoming a concubine, you wouldn't have had the chance to study with her in the palace. Don't look down on our nepotism, there is no nepotism! I have you today."

"It's not that my son looks down on nepotism, my son just said that you'd better not meddle in my cousin's affairs."

"How to intervene? I didn't even have a chance to intervene. I just said some ambiguous words. Some people are willing to listen from me, and some people are not willing to listen from me. Those who are willing to listen should naturally thank me, thank you Of course I will give something that I like, but I prefer silver..."

Wang Xifeng didn't look at his son's face, and continued to calculate happily, "The princes married their daughters-in-law, and the princess also wanted to find a son-in-law. Good times will come later. Thinking about it now, the old lady's plan is really a lot of money. I started He also said why he sent the girl to the palace, but now that he has seen the benefits, he realizes that sending the girl to the palace will provide them no matter how much money there is, and the benefit will be in the future.”

Jia Fang thought to herself, what the old lady was thinking of was the benefit of the court, but she didn't say it was the benefit of money.

After Wang Xifeng finished speaking happily, she patted her son's head, "It's a pity that your dead father didn't live too early, or in a few years, when your cousin has a future, you can be a good wife, and he can enjoy it too." Good luck to the old man."

But Jia Fang didn't listen to what his mother said. His eyeballs glanced to one side, and he saw Ping'er sitting next to him with a smile on his arms, and he didn't have any opinion on his mother's way of making money. Ping'er has a great influence on her mother. Judging from her calm expression, it seems that she doesn't think there is anything excessive about what her mother has done.

"Actually, my son has something to discuss with his mother today."

Hearing his son speak actively, Wang Xifeng regained his energy immediately, sat up straight, and looked at his son expectantly. "Just say, if you can do it, Mom will do it for you."

"This matter is very easy to handle. I heard that you got 1 taels of silver from Yuanyang not long ago. Now our family can't spend so much money. Why don't you pay them back."

"Put your mother's fart".

Wang Xifeng swears immediately in anger. He tried all kinds of ways for the 1 taels of silver, and finally got his own man in. Now let him pay back the money, don't say it's his own son who said it. Yes, even if she told her own father, she wouldn't do it.

The most important thing is that Jia Lian can't surrender when she is alive. At this time, counting on her son to persuade her to turn around is undoubtedly tantamount to wishful thinking.

"It's fine if you want this money, and let me go find your father, otherwise, don't mention the 1 taels of silver to me." Finally, he rubbed his heart angrily, "That mandarin duck is really good!" He was trained by the old lady, and his ability to calculate people is the same as the old lady..."

Speaking of this, she started to curse, Ping'er hurried to persuade her, the master and servant scolded Yuanyang to death, but Jia Fang was extremely angry.

At the beginning, he didn't believe that his own father died because of 1 taels of silver, but now seeing his mother's expression and cursing words, he felt that it would be strange if this did not happen.

Not wanting to listen to the women's nonsense anymore, Jia Fang stood up, and the boy went straight out of his yard with a sullen face, and went to talk to his grandfather.

"After much deliberation, my grandson thinks that the safest way is to let my mother stay in the backyard honestly. Except for our own family affairs, other matters should not be touched, especially the money exchange, which has passed through her hands..."

Jia Amnesty was the first to disbelieve this, not because he was worried that his daughter-in-law would harm the public and private interests, but because he felt that this matter would never be done. "A person like your mother thinks she is a hero in the makeup team. If she has nothing to do, she needs to find something to show off her skills. You let her stay in the backyard like an old lord, ignoring everything, right? possible."

"There are a lot of capable women, and no matter how capable they are, they have to live, let alone they are in the backyard. If there is no one to help them pass the message, what ability do they have to command the front."

Jia She thought to herself that when the old lady was alive, she dared to intervene in the affairs of the court, let alone the affairs of the backyard and the front yard.