By Jia Xiuzhen

Jia Zheng looked at the box of gold bars neatly in front of him, each with the word "Jia" on it, and heard Baochai say something about the Duke's entrusting a dream, so he couldn't help crying. He knelt outside the house and said, "Father Lao Worrying so much, children and grandchildren are not filial!"

Baoyu and brother Xun came forward to help him up, but he said, "In that case, settle down quickly and enshrine the ancestral tablets."

Baoyu didn't know this, Baochai had expected it when he saw those things.Hearing Jia Zheng's words, he hurriedly said: "Yes, master, don't worry, I have entrusted someone to search for it and selected a few places. I will invite the master to take a look at it tomorrow so that I can make up my mind."

Just then Jia Zheng nodded, and said to Baochai, "This is the money left by your ancestors for your children and grandchildren. You should collect it carefully and take good care of the house. It will never be the same as before. We are a family that has gone through a lot of trouble. Don't worry." Don't forget how to manage your family and save your life just because you have got this money now." Looking at Baoyu again, he said, "Especially you! If you let me know that you have committed the same mistakes as before, hmph, see if I don't break your legs !"

Baoyu had no choice but to agree.

In the evening, when chatting with Baochai, he said: "I said that money is really not a good thing. You see how pleasant the master treats me when something happened in my house. But today I got this money, so I said I would interrupt it." My leg is gone."

Baochai was thinking about managing the house, and when he heard his childish complaints, he smiled helplessly: "It's always because the master wants you to make progress. When you were in such a situation, it was because you wanted to play around again." Go, it’s up to you. Now that you have the legacy of your ancestors, the master is naturally afraid that you will like to spend extravagantly as before.”

Baoyu held his chin and said, "How did I ever like extravagance before?"

Baochai shook her head with a smile and said, "Then I don't know, just ask about your favorite shoes and the decoration of Yihong Courtyard."

Baoyu thought for a while, then leaned on the bed and said: "That's not what I like. But I have done everything, I don't wear clothes, I don't have clothes, and I really let Lingluo down. I am also a person who has suffered from cold and starvation. Are you still so ignorant?"

Baochai nodded casually and said, "It's best to be so natural."

Seeing that she had something on her mind, Baoyu stopped bothering her and turned over to sleep, closing his eyes and thinking about things.

But Baochai was thinking, this is not bad for the cost of doing business now.There are thousands of taels of gold in the jar, which is more than 1 taels of silver.If this money were to be kept in the past, I am afraid that neither the Jia family nor the Xue family would pay much attention to it.But at the moment, it's really life-saving money.

Now everyone is penniless, no matter what they were in the past, but now they all know that it is inappropriate to continue to do so when they have got such a lot of money.Just as in the previous mansion, the monthly money of ten taels or eight taels a month is not so much. How to do it well is really not an easy task.Thinking of this, I agree with Baoyu's words just now. Sure enough, gold and silver are really troublesome.

Naturally, Baochai had learned to be in charge of family affairs, but she had learned from people like Xue's family in Zhangjia's mansion. Now she suddenly changed into this appearance, and even the rules are not ready-made. Even if she is as tall as Sister Bao, she will have to worry .

After three or five days, Baochai took out the charter and discussed it with everyone.I just said that they are all following the example of the former mansion, although the total number is not that many, the big airs are still the rules of the ancestors.In Jia's mansion, after the men get married, there is only a sum of money in the foreign account every year, and those who are not married get the monthly money from the wives and girls.In addition, at the end of the year, each house receives dividends according to the regulations. This is because it is based on the house, and those who are not married are naturally not counted.Both of these made Jia Zheng stop.

He said: "In the past, the men were all on errands, and it cost a lot to communicate with each other. That's why I said this. Who has such a thing in front of me?! Whoever seeks an official position in the future, let's talk about it. Late. One more thing, the distribution of dividends according to the house is now the ancestor's pity, and only got a little wealth to start a family. How can there be any place for it?! There is no need to keep this rule. "

Baochai and others had to follow one by one.Jia Zheng originally thought that it would be good if he had to pay the monthly money - he had enough food and clothing, so what is the need for the monthly money!It was Rui'er who persuaded: "Now that I live here, I have to make a living, and I have to communicate with outsiders. Everyone has no money to live with, so why let the grandmothers figure out their own way?! The master doesn't want it either. It's too much to correct." Jia Zheng was so choked that he had nothing to say, so that's all.The monthly payment was also set at an extremely low level, and each of them only had one or two halves. Everyone had just come from a time of hunger and cold, so there was nothing too small.

When Baochai wanted to discuss things like buying land and starting a business, Jia Zheng let her go and let Baoyu run away.As soon as Baoyu hesitated, Jia Zheng asked, "You can't get fame in the first exam, and you can't come to the land in the second class. If you can't take care of some common affairs, what's the use of you? You still want to be the same as before, doing everything well." My dear son, let your daughter-in-law worry about Zhouquan for you, it won’t work for the rest of your life!" Baoyu lowered her head, and dared not say anything.

The small shopkeeper of Sihai Commercial Bank has finished his business in the south, and Grandma Liu also bid farewell.People in Jia's mansion felt his loyalty, and even Jia Zheng was sent to the door.Grandma Liu shouted that she would lose her life, and dared not claim it any more.When I arrived at the door, I saw several parcels on the parked cart, and she was about to decline, but Baochai said, "Grandma, don't refuse. They are just some local products from the south. It's also a good idea to share them with distant relatives and neighbors when you go back." She stuffed Qing'er with a small pouch, and said with a smile, "I don't know when we will meet next time, so let's use this as a make-up for my sister." After saying that, let Qing'er accept it, and thank Baochai again.

Baochai held her back, and said sincerely, "Grandma is in good health, no matter how old she is, and she has traveled here and there for our family. We are grateful to you. You are a bodhisattva with a heart, Buddha The Bodhisattva also blesses you to be more and more healthy. When we return to Beijing, our sister-in-law and sister-in-law are here, I have sent the letter, and we will walk around as relatives from now on, don't think we are young and impolite."

Grandma Liu waved her hands and said again and again: "Where can it be, where can it be."

Although she refused very much, Baochai still took Sheyue Yinger and sent her to the guild hall of the Four Seas Trading Company. After seeing her meet with acquaintances, they were all settled before returning home.

On the second day, a group of people from the Four Seas Commercial Company took the wind to board the ship as soon as the sun was shining. Baochai and Baoyu had already brought people to wait at the pier, and Grandma Liu was so moved that she burst into tears.After the boat sailed farther and farther away, and the figure disappeared, all the people boarded the car and went back.

When she turned around, she saw Miaoyu standing by the water on the other side. Baochai saw it and didn't say hello. She just got into the car and sat down, then lowered her head and smiled and breathed a sigh of relief.

After a few days, I found Xue Biao and Liu Xianglian to discuss things like buying a house and land.Naturally, Jia Zheng would not ask questions, only Baochai and Baoyu made up their minds.Xue Biao said: "I only know that saying now, the poor have three treasures, and the ugly wife has a thin and torn padded jacket. It's really kind."

Seeing that no one answered his words, he drank a sip of tea by himself, and Shi Shiran said: "If a poor man has a piece of fertile land, a rare fur, and a beautiful wife, that is not a blessing. It’s the root cause of family ruin! Don’t worry about me, I know that justice is in the heart, but when it comes to one person and one thing, the justice probably hasn’t realized it yet, and it’s time for ashes to ashes and ashes to ashes here.”

Grinning, he said again, "So, the only businesses we can do now are those that are not eye-catching and unobtrusive. If you change to a self-made man, with two years of money earned, you can still go to the official road If you connect the two, when the time comes, officials and businessmen will protect each other, and they will naturally grow bigger and bigger. But what about us, at this moment, Jia Wang Shixue’s name is still there. Even if we are willing to condescend, who dares to get involved in this matter?! Even blood relatives I can’t wait to get rid of it, let alone others. There are so many merchants in the world, and there are seventeen or eighteen hands who want to hand over money. If you pass us, no one will starve to death. Do you agree with this truth?"

Everyone was silent for a moment, Xue Biao smiled and said: "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles. This is not only the case when the two armies are facing each other, but what is not the case in the world? The more you know about yourself and the people around you, the more secure your path will be. aren't they?"

Baochai was still thinking about revitalizing his family business, but after hearing Xue Biao's words, he gradually came to his senses.At that time, the four great masters followed the founder of the country to establish the Dingding Dynasty. They were civil and military heroes, and they were family friends.After three to fifty years in this way, several companies can truly be said to be deeply rooted and prosperous.It is precisely by relying on such a big tree that the Xue family turned to business in response to the situation, and was able to achieve a wealth as rich as pearls and gold in one or two generations.But now, although he has a lot of assets and talents, he is a rootless duckweed.Not even duckweed.There are still people in the court who are unwilling to let go of Jia Lan, a lingering branch of the Jia family, so how can they allow any of the four major families to revive and return to prosperity?

If you think about the joints, the rest will be easy to talk about.In half a month, Jia's mansion found a house in a small town outside Jinling City, and bought two hectares of land in a village near the town. I went to nearly 500 taels.I also bought two tea mountains nearby at a cost of nearly 3000 taels.In addition to buying a house and buying bits and pieces, almost half of the dug up children's wealth has gone.

Baochai was not sure about the workshop, so she didn't dare to try it casually, so she had to put it aside for now.Her hands were not limited to the affairs of the Jia family, but also the affairs of the Xue family. Aunt Xue later focused on the matter of adopting incense to Xue Pan in the future. All the family wealth was taken and returned to Ku Yin, but this matter cannot be abandoned just because of this.

There is only one house and a few old servants left in the middle of the capital. It was originally to prevent Third Sister You from going back, fearing that she would not have a place to stay, but now it seems that there is no need for it.When writing a letter to the capital, he asked Li Wan to rent out the house by the way.Back then, the Xue family collected all the businesses in Jiangnan, but there were still a few hectares of land and a few houses left.

It's just that the field was entrusted to the tribe to take care of it in the past, but now Baochai wants to take it back and take care of it by himself.If Xue Biao and Liu Xianglian were not there, let alone taking it back to take care of it, even the renter who hadn't had time to ask about it in the past few years would have been in vain.Even so, it took quite a while before the cooking was finished.When Xue Biao exchanged the rented son for silver and handed it over to Baochai, he persuaded him, "Brother, the matter of adopting the stepchildren must be done as soon as possible, otherwise I'm afraid they will still have trouble, and then I will have trouble speaking."

There is no one living in the Xue family now. Father Xue Biao and Baochai have separated the family a long time ago. Now Baochai is taking care of it, but if things fall into her name, others will see them as belonging to Jia. Now that we are home, we naturally have something to say.Baochai frowned and said, "It doesn't mean that there are some. You have to look after me. It's better to be younger. The most important thing is to have a clean background. Parents and fathers must be honest and clean."

Xue Biao said with a smile: "Dragon begets dragon, phoenix begets phoenix, the son of mouse can make holes. I know about this, sister don't worry."

Baochai said with emotion: "If it weren't for you, I would really be blind."

Xue Biao smiled, and suddenly said with a serious face: "After all this circle of things, I really feel that if this person can live, it is God's life. Really, if you want to die, you will die, it's really a blink of an eye Hey, let’s just talk about us, if we didn’t happen to meet my brother-in-law that day, where would we be now? Is there any fate to talk about.”

When Baochai thought about the bandit incident last time, she couldn't help but feel lingering fear, and nodded again and again.

After Baochai collected all the family assets of the Xue family in the south, those who had tenants re-signed the contract, and those who did not have new tenants. All the houses except the ancestral house in Jinling City were rented or sold. In addition to buying two other shops with the money, the rest was rounded up and entrusted to Liu Xianglian to buy shares in the boat-sharing business of the Four Seas Trading Company.

Just when the affairs of several ends gradually became clear, Xing Xiuyan looked for him with tears in his eyes.Baochai thought it was something wrong between her and Xue Biao, but it turned out to be Miaoyu's fault.I don't know if she has figured it out or not, she talked with Xing Xiuyan all night, and on the second day, when Xing Xiuyan was not at home, she asked the kitchen woman to fry a spoonful of soybeans, and while it was hot from the frying pan, It was directly spread on the face.Now he has a face full of burnt foam, how can he still look like a human being.

Xing Xiuyan's heart felt as if it was cut by a knife.But she carefully opened her mouth and said lightly: "This is a long-term solution. Didn't you persuade me that you have a stinky skin? Now that I see it, you are crying like this. It can be seen that your cultivation is not as good as mine after all..."

When Baochai heard this, she was so frightened that she closed her eyes.Busily asked Yinger to find medicine, and then remembered, where do I still have those medicines at home!It was Xiangyun who came over in a hurry, took a white porcelain box in his hand, pulled Xing Xiuyan and said, "Hurry up, I'll go with you, I have burn ointment here." They thought that Xiangyun was a doctor.