[Red Mansion] Chronicles of a Girl in the Lin Family

After listening to Lin Ruhai's explanation, Jia Zheng finally fell down on the chair with a slumped face, muttering: "What can I do, what can I do!"

Seeing him like this, Lin Ruhai stepped forward to comfort him and said, "Brother, don't do this, there will always be a way."

Jia Zheng smiled wryly, and explained to him: "The garden project is at a critical juncture, and it is time to spend money. Not to mention the future, even now, the money is not enough. If it takes a long time, what if it delays my mother's family visit?" manage."

Lin Ruhai asked: "I wonder how much uncle spent on the garden in the mansion?"

After hearing this, Jia Zheng thought about it carefully, and said with some hesitation, "About four to five million taels..."

"There are so many?!" Hearing the figures reported by Jia Zheng, Lin Ruhai gasped.It's not that his Lin family can't afford so much money. The Lin family is a single-generation family, and it's a scholarly family. In addition, the dowry brought by each mistress when they get married is extremely generous.Up to now, the entire Lin family's family property is not to mention rich, but there are still two to three million.It's just that if he was asked to take out the four to five million taels of silver just to build a flashy garden, he would not be willing anyway.

Seeing Jia Zheng looking at him, Lin Ruhai subdued the shock on his face, and said, "These four to five million taels of silver should be more than enough to build a garden. How can it be less?"

Jia Zheng never cared about these mundane things, he was afraid that talking too much about this stuff would spoil his dignity.On weekdays, if there is anything you want, you can just ask the cashier to withdraw money and ask someone to buy it, so you don't know the price of anything outside.

This time when Mother Jia called him to find Lin Ruhai to borrow money, although he was also very suspicious about where the money went, but after listening to Mrs. Wang talking about where this money was used and where that money was used, he felt that It seems to be quite reasonable, and the second is impatient to listen to these things, so I put it down.

Hearing Lin Ruhai's question at this moment, he thought that Lin Ruhai didn't understand as much as he did.In addition, he heard Lin Ruhai say that there was nothing he could do to help him, so he stopped thinking about asking Lin Ruhai for help, and just poured out his bitterness with him: "At first, I thought that this much money would always be enough. But a few days ago, my wife told me , The garden’s money is no longer enough. After asking, I found out that Mr. Guangshan Yezi’s plan cost 5000 taels of silver. In addition to the rest of the purchases, the maids he bought, and the construction work Such things, these have to be the best. After calculating it, it costs a lot. If some of the wood is not taken directly from Xue's house, the cost will have to be raised by a whole lot. lift."

As soon as Lin Ruhai heard it, he knew that Jia Zheng had been deceived by Mrs. Wang, or that even Mrs. Wang had been deceived by her subordinates.No matter how exquisite the garden is, it is only three and a half miles in size, so how could it cost four to five million taels.

It's just a bad thing to say, he was happy to see that Jia's family was unlucky, so he just said a few words veiled in Jia Min's face, as for whether Jia Zheng heard it or not, it was out of his control. up.

Looking at Jia Zheng's still frowning expression, I'm afraid he didn't hear it.

It's just that Lin Ruhai found it incredible that the Jia family could scrape together four to five million taels of silver.Although he didn't know what the Jia family was like now, but from the last time Jia Amnesty would rather share half of the family property with Jia Zheng in order to repay the owed silver, it can be seen that the Jia family does not have much silver in the public right now.That being the case, it is indeed surprising that the Jia family was able to collect so much money in a short period of time.But Lin Ruhai can think of it, and it is probably just borrowed from relatives and friends.

Of course, there is no need to mention the disappointment with Jia's family after being amazed.With so much money, instead of thinking about repaying the debt first, they went to build some kind of Lao Shizi garden. Although there are reasons why other families did not pay it back, in the final analysis, the Jia family is short-sighted.

In the end, Lin Ruhai managed to get the words out of Jia Zheng's mouth, and it was exactly as he expected. The grandpa only paid 50 of the 5 million taels of silver.For the rest, Mother Jia took 10 taels, Mrs. Wang gritted her teeth and took out 20 taels, Aunt Xue borrowed 5 taels, and Jia Amnesty also took out [-] taels under Jia Mu's hard and soft measures. After a little bit of money, I managed to scrape together so much money.

Knowing that Lin Ruhai couldn't help, Jia Zheng talked with him again, but he didn't understand Lin Ruhai's point, and finally he could only go back full of bewilderment.As for what Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang thought after returning home, it has nothing to do with the Lin family.Because the Lin family has more important things to do.

I don't know how Shui Jing persuaded the emperor. After half a year after Li Ruoqi returned to Beijing, the emperor finally issued an order to call Li Ruoqi's father, Li Shangyuan, back to Beijing.

Li Ruoqi's original husband's family also had some influence in the court. After getting the news, they searched for someone to find Li Ruoqi's current residence in Xiaohuazhi Alley.

Speaking of Mr. Li's husband's family, it is also inextricably linked with the Ning Rong Second House.Coincidentally, that husband's family was named Liu Ying, the son of Liu Biao, Duke of Li.Li Ruoqi was divorced in less than half a month because of Li Shangyuan's affairs, and then married the daughter of the servant of the Ministry of Industry, Xu Junyan, as his wife.

I don't think their family's feng shui is not very good. After two years, Xu Junyan got involved in the matter of Jinshouyi again, and was sentenced to exile like Li Shangyuan.

The Liu family has already divorced a daughter-in-law because of this matter, and they can't divorce this again, as long as they keep her and place her in a remote yard, they don't call her out on weekdays.She is obviously a big wife married by a bright matchmaker, yet she can't even compare to ordinary concubines of Liu Ying.

As for Liu Ying, not only did she not restrain herself, but she became more and more unscrupulous after she was no longer restrained.Concubines Ji carried them to the mansion one by one, and there was no one who knew how to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble.Naturally, his reputation in the capital is also rotten, similar to what Jia She used to be.

This time, I don't know who came up with the idea of ​​asking him to go to Mr. Li's door every day to cry and beg, and to blame all the mistakes when he divorced his wife on the old lady who has already gone.He also said that he was sorry for her, and after marrying her, he immediately changed the girl from the Xu family to his aunt, and called her Da Yunyun.

Mr. Li had already seen this person's character clearly at the beginning, so he was not so surprised at this time.It is absolutely impossible to ask her to marry him again.

She was very annoyed by this husband's family, and her father was far away in the borderlands and would not be able to come to Beijing for a long time, so she had to come to the Lin family to live temporarily in the name of a teacher.

Mo Yun and Daiyu were also very happy to know that Mr. Li was coming to live in the Lin Mansion. Although they could see each other often in the past, it is not as convenient as living together.Therefore, a special banquet was set up today, just to welcome Mr. Li.

During the period, Lin Ruhai also came, said a few words with Mr. Li, and then left, leaving only the three younger ones to talk with her.

Li Ruoqi stayed in the Lin Mansion temporarily.

Seeing that Li Ruoqi lived in the Lin Mansion, Li Guogong's mansion didn't dare to pester her any more, so they could only put their flags down and let it go.Liu Ying was able to put on a little appearance at the beginning, but it didn't take long before she started her previous debauchery again.It actually made the people in the capital watch a good show!

As winter approached, the affairs of Jia's family became more and more complicated.Before, Xichun was able to come to the Lin Mansion with Li Wan to talk with Mo Yun and Daiyu, but recently, due to a lot of things, she could only stay in Jia's Mansion, and occasionally sent a few letters with the two of them, and there were a few sentences in it complaints.

Mo Yun and Daiyu lived quite comfortably this winter.With Mr. Li as his companion in the mansion, I occasionally hold a small banquet and invite three or five friends to come to get together, or to go out on invitation. I don't know how happy my life is.

I don't know if it's because Lu Ziqiu met Mo Yun last time, but Lu Ziqiu has asked people to send a lot of things these days.

Sometimes it's a few boxes of jewelry, sometimes it's a few horses of good stuff.Although there are not many things, they are endless.

Mo Yun also wanted to tell him not to do this again, but Lu Ziqiu acted as if he hadn't heard, and continued to go his own way.After a long time, Mo Yun didn't bother to care about it anymore, but if he got something new, he would write down and ask someone to give Lu Ziqiu an extra copy.