The Agricultural Tycoon of the Red House

"Lai Da." Jia Lian looked at Jia Mu and blinked slowly.

Mother Jia was taken aback for a moment, she couldn't believe what she heard, and asked tentatively, "Who?"

"Lai Da's family." Jia Lian specifically referred to the family.

Jia's mother was sure of what she heard, and looked at Jia Lian in disbelief.In the past two years, many people in the Rong Mansion were moved by Jia Lian, but she didn't ask much.It's just that Lai Da is not an ordinary person.His elderly mother, Nanny Lai, is an old man in Rongfu. She served her mother-in-law. At that time, she was still a daughter-in-law, and she wanted to please her mother-in-law. Became an ancestor.Mother Jia has always thought about this kindness, and rewarded Mammy Lai's son with face, which is why Lai Da became the chief manager of Rongfu.

Later, after Lai Da became the general manager, he lived up to her high expectations and kept Rong Mansion in good order.This person is reticent, but very capable, and he is many times stronger than those shallow servants in the mansion who become rampant when they gain power.

When Jia's mother suddenly heard that Jia Lian was going to touch someone under her name, she was naturally very unhappy.

Her face suddenly fell, and she was dissatisfied with Jia Lian: "Him? Why did he mess with you?"

In Jia's mother's eyes, Jia Lian's disposal of people depends entirely on his own will. To put it bluntly, she thinks this child is selfish.

"Taking advantage of the housekeeper's convenience, I didn't deserve it. According to rough calculations, he has profited at least 3 taels of silver from our house over the years."

Jia Lian didn't care what Jia's mother thought. He had dealt with Lai Da's family as a foregone conclusion. If he didn't say anything today, he would say it tomorrow.As long as this is said, it is not a solicitation for opinions, but a simple notification.No one is qualified to refute Lai Da's matter!

Jia's mother was frightened by the number Jia Lian said. Originally, she thought that Lai Da's family had no credit but hard work, and it would be fine if they were greedy for a few hundred taels of silver. 3 taels! ?This number is enough for her to prepare a heavy dowry for each of the Sanchun sisters.

"So much?" Mother Jia was astonished, with some doubts in her heart.Jia Lian is a shrewd person. Perhaps in order to get rid of Lai Da and expand the influence of his own people in the mansion, he deliberately exaggerated and sowed her good relationship with Lai Nanny's family.

Mother Jia knew that she would have to argue about this matter for a while, so she calmed down and asked Yuanyang to help her back to the top seat and sit down.She snorted twice and stared at Jia Lian coldly.

Jia Lian is already a person who often meets the saints, so naturally he is not afraid of Jia Mu who is furious at this moment, and calmly meets her old man's eyes.

Jia Mu: "Do you have evidence?"

"Yes, it's been a long time ago. Because there are many festivals during the Chinese New Year, it's not easy to make you angry, so I haven't found a chance to talk to you about it in detail. I planned to find a time to talk to you after the spring Well, such a thing happened to happen today, just by the way." Jia Lian didn't talk nonsense, and sent someone to get the evidence.

Soon, a contract to buy real estate appeared in front of Jia Mu.

"This is the house that Da Lai helped the Lin family to find, and he negotiated the price, 3000 taels."

Mother Jia glanced at it and nodded, "Your aunt mentioned this to me, saying that it was the house you Lai Da went to find. I also saw that mansion. It has good Fengshui, is spacious and bright, and the garden layout is similar to that of Suzhou and Hangzhou. The sides are very similar. It’s just a bit worn out, and you asked someone to repair it for two months later.”

Jia Lian nodded, "This is the house." After Jia Lian finished speaking, he presented another confession.It specifically stated how the house seller had a private transaction with Lai Da. It also said that as long as the transaction was successful, the seller would pay 3000 taels of intermediate fees to Lai Da.

"Lai Da told the house seller that there were two houses he was in love with at the same time, and whoever he chose in the end depends on his sincerity. Anyway, Lin's mansion is a century-old foundation, rich, and the price is not bad. Besides, the house Whether the price is right or not is up to him to fool around. As long as the house seller is willing to add 3000 taels to the price he offered, and count the added money as his own, he will buy the yard immediately. Anyway, the original price didn’t change, so it didn’t affect them, and they could sell it quickly, so they signed the contract. The seller here charged 2 taels, and Lai Da took the contract to ask Lin Fu for 3000 taels. , he got [-] taels 'safely' from it." Jia Lian explained.

Jia's mother was shocked, as if Jia Lian poured cold water from head to toe, her whole body was numb, and her whole expression became stiff.This Lai Da was someone she single-handedly promoted and relied on, and now he actually did something to cheat her daughter and son-in-law!This is a slap in the face forcibly!

Mother Jia touched her cheek subconsciously, it was so hot that she felt that her skin was about to fall off.

"As expected of the big housekeeper of our family, he has a bit of 'measurability'. Being greedy for money is like committing everything, without any guilt, as usual, what to do, and after being greedy, you will not feel guilty at all. Forget being petty, you can still get some money from the food and clothes of the masters every day." Jia Lian also submitted specific evidence in this regard, including the confessions of the shopkeepers of tailor shops, cleaning shops, etc., comparing the recent accounts , a subtle difference can be seen.Compared with Mrs. Wang's behavior seven years ago, Lai Da's method is a bit more sophisticated. Unless he checks his accounts carefully, he can't see anything by just looking at the accounts.They understand the principle that little accumulation makes more, and they strive for victory in stability.

"Call Lai Dalai to confront him immediately!" Mother Jia shouted.

Jia Lian sneered: "The evidence is convincing, there are a lot of witnesses, what's the point of confrontation? He is guilty. It's good for the old lady to let him go, but Jia Qiang and Jia Qin won't meet him, nod and call him 'Grandpa Lai' Hmph, those who don’t know think we have an extra old man in the Rong Mansion!”

Mother Jia was so angry that her face flushed with embarrassment, she stomped her feet and scolded: "I can't spare him! It's in vain that I have favored and trusted their family all these years, and they have let me down so much!"

"Don't be soft-hearted, the old ancestor. You want to let him pay back the money and let it go. This fish is seen by the people of Rongfu, and must be severely punished. Why don't the old ancestor deal with it now? According to Zhou Rui's family, immediately send people to search the house of our good house slave." After Jia Lian finished speaking, amidst Jia Mu's sighs, he waved his hands and ordered people to go straight to Lai's big garden.

After a stick of incense, I heard the crying of an old woman outside the courtyard, and then someone came to say that Mrs. Lai and his wife came to see him.

Jia Lian replied happily, "No see."

An hour later, five large boxes of things were carried into the courtyard.Gold, silver and jade wares, antique calligraphy and paintings are all available.Those who didn't know thought it was a big family that was copied!There is also a half box of cash and a locked box, which is full of 100 taels of silver bills, stacked in stacks, and each 1000 taels are tied into a bundle.

The amount found was far more than twice the amount Jia Lian reported.

Jia's mother was so angry that she opened her eyes and panted so hard that her cheeks swelled, as if she was about to suffocate with anger. Jia Lian looked at Jingxin and pulled her to stand beside him.Jing Xin was going to serve Jia's mother, but when Jia Lian dragged her away, she realized that she couldn't go.

"You bastards with no conscience! It's in vain that I trusted them so much in the past!" Mother Jia scolded endlessly, with tears in her eyes, and ordered someone to bring in Lai Da's family.

"In my opinion, just throw the person to the government, and let the government handle it. Why should the old lady worry about accountability, it's not worth hurting her own body." Jia Lian yawned lazily, but he didn't have time to worry about it. Play with these people.

Yuanyang gave Jia Mu a favor, while echoing: "Second Lord is right, since they are all a bunch of ungrateful and useless bastards, why should the old lady be offended by these people, she simply throws it out and let the government deal with it Well, you too can be quiet!"

Mother Jia took a breath, and after hearing what Jia Lian and Yuanyang had said, she nodded her head in agreement.She rubbed her forehead, her whole body felt exhausted, her heels seemed to be her own, and she really couldn't get angry any more.Mother Jia sighed, got up tremblingly, and said that Jia Lian should deal with this matter.

At this moment, Jingxin hurriedly went to help Jia Mu, and after sending her to the back room to comfort her for a while, she guessed it.

Then Jia Lian came out with Jing Xin.When Jingxin was thinking about what kind of attitude she should take to face Lai Da's family at the door, she found that the courtyard door had quieted down, and the crying had disappeared.Jingxin took a special look at Jia Lian, saw that he walked out of the yard as usual, and looked at the newly grown hibiscus plant by the wall as usual, and took her back with her.

Jingxin thought that Jia Lian must have driven them away, so as not to make a fuss in front of them.That's fine, but Lai Da's family has never been explained, I'm afraid they still feel wronged at this moment.It is estimated that the whole family is baffled, looking forward to seeing the master to understand clearly.Little did they know that they didn't even have a chance to explain, and this time they were bound to die in court.

Those who are slaves who illegally embezzle and steal more than one hundred taels will be sentenced to death.

With the money Lai and his wife have been greedy for so many years, it is enough for them to die hundreds of times.

When the house was suddenly raided and searched, Lai and his wife were still in a daze.But the matter of Soujia made them understand that it was suspected of corruption by the masters.Although they couldn't explain the corruption, but with Mammy Lai's old face, she had a lot of face in front of the old lady.Lai Da felt that as long as he moved his old mother out and talked about the old relationship in front of Jia Mu, the old lady would be soft-hearted and spare their family.Anyway, there is no evidence from the old lady, as long as there is a slightly sympathetic reason to say it here, the old lady will definitely believe it.

On the way to Laide, Lai Da was still unwilling to pretend to be calm and told Lai Nanny what to say when she saw the old lady later.Nanny Lai wrote down one by one, and spent a lot of time planning her speech in her stomach.

At this moment, Mrs. Lai and Mrs. Lai, together with Nanny Lai, were dragged to the back door.Lai Dacai realized that something was wrong.What's going on here?The old lady didn't want to see them, didn't even listen to an explanation?

Lai Da, who had been calm all this time, suddenly panicked, yelled to throw off the two wives who were fighting him, and suddenly took out his housekeeper's airs and yelled at them, which really frightened the two wives.

Xing'er rushed over with four newcomers, and immediately asked someone to restrain Lai Da, dragged the three of them to the back door, and dragged them into a broken car.

"Where are you taking me?"

Xing'er smiles and winks at the two boys.The two took out the rags and ropes they had prepared earlier from their waists, tied the hands of the three of them, and gagged their mouths.As soon as the carriage moved, Xing'er rode a horse, carrying a bag of evidence, and followed them to the Yamen.

Seeing that he was sent by Lord Shangshu, Yin Zhaochen of the Dogleg Mansion naturally did not dare to neglect him, and started the interrogation immediately.After seeing the incriminating evidence, Zhaochen shouted: "There is no need for a trial, and the death penalty will be imposed immediately!"

"My lord, the villain has been wronged!" Lai Dayi was so frightened that he almost peed his pants, hurriedly climbed to the front, kowtowed hard, and explained his difficulties to Zhaochen, saying that the money was for others to bribe He took the initiative to give it away, and he didn't do any crime of theft.

"Hmph, you're still quibbling," Zhaochen took out the evidence of the house purchase, and slapped Lai Da in the face, "Could it be that you asked the government to invite Mr. Lin to confront you?"

Lai Da frantically picked up the paper on the ground and looked at it. His hands shook more and more, and finally his legs shook, and he was so scared that he peed his pants.

Seeing this, Lai's daughter-in-law and Nanny Lai panicked even more, crying and asking him what happened.

Zhaochen waved his hand and asked someone to take them off, sent someone to question the witnesses as usual, went through the cutscene, and then patted the gavel to prepare for the sentence.

All capital crimes must be reported to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for the record, and can only be issued after approval.

Jia Lian had nights and dreams, and besides, he didn't want to get dead on his hands, so he greeted Zhaochen, "Don't kill him."

Afterwards, Jia Lian didn't inquire specifically, but heard Jingxin mention it by chance, saying that the family was sent to Yunnan, which seemed to be the place where Sun Shaozu went, and was sentenced to death.

Lai Da used to be the benchmark of the Rong Mansion. When Lai Da died, many people in the Rong Mansion became afraid, and they dared not to play tricks behind the scenes like Lai Da. They all knew that it is serious to serve the master wholeheartedly.For example, Xing'er, Feng'er, etc., they all get a lot of rewards during the New Year's festival, and the second master Lian has never been stingy with rewards.At least those who work faithfully in front of him will surely be able to live on one meal for three days.

Jia Lian took advantage of the victory to pursue, and in the next few days, he dealt with several representative small stewards one after another.

The moths were removed, and the servants kept themselves safe and performed their duties.Although there are temporarily fewer people in charge of affairs in the mansion, the efficiency of work has been greatly improved.

During the period, there were many complaints that working in Rongfu was hard, and it was not as comfortable as Ningguofu.Jia Lian sent them to Ningguo Mansion very "mercifully", even sending them over with the deed of sale.

The stewards of Ningguo Mansion were more than happy to accept it.Regarding the matter of the housekeeper, Wang Xifeng became serious with Jingxin, and she also restrained the servants, followed by catching 'worms', and caught more ruthlessly.There is only one difference, Wang Xifeng is ruthless and ruthless in her actions, she only has punishments but no rewards in her hands, so the servants in the mansion are miserable and hopeless.Those few people who were sent by the Rong Mansion didn't realize the benefits of following Master Lian until they worked under Wang Xifeng's subordinates.He complained even more, and murmured everywhere that Wang Xifeng was a vicious person and a shrew.

The original intention of Wang Xifeng's subordinates was to use the people Jia Lian sent over to deal with Jia Lian.She never expected that those people she planned to use would bite herself first.

Really smart but was misunderstood by cleverness, Wang Xifeng hated these people who were troublesome, but they had already publicized their reputation as fierce and fierce.If they are moved again at this moment, it will further confirm the rumor.Wang Xifeng had to wait patiently for another two months, and deal with them slowly and secretly.

Jia Rong was very satisfied with her smart, capable and beautiful daughter-in-law. The only thing she was dissatisfied with was that she was too competitive. Originally, Jia Rong was soft-tempered. Take her word for it.Wang Xifeng said that one is one, and he dared not have two in his heart.

Even though Jia Rong is so gentle, Wang Xifeng is still not reconciled, and always compares her with Jia Lian from Rongfu from time to time.The two of them are about the same age, and they have already reached the high position of Shangshu, but Jia Rong is still a dandy who spends his days and studies blindly.Naturally, Wang Xifeng became more and more angry, more delicate and resentful, and his temper became more explosive.

Jia Rong certainly didn't like this, so she gradually moved away from Wang Xifeng. In just a few months, the relationship between the two changed from a honey-smeared sugar bowl to a stranger.Wang Xifeng took care of her family, while Jia Rong just messed around with Jia Qiang and others.

This day when Jia Rong came to return the things, she thought she would face Wang Xifeng's aggressive face when she went back, so she should stay here to procrastinate.It happened that Lian's second aunt had returned to her mother's house, and Lian's second elder brother happened to be tossing around in the courtyard with nothing to do.Jia Rong just watched and joined in the fun.

Jia Lian cut off the stems of the hibiscus in the pot, then cut the stems into pieces with scissors, and threw them in the watering can to soak.

"Second Uncle, what are you doing?"

"Born." Jia Lian waited for a while, then took the pot and poured water into the two rows of flowerpots over there.

Jia Rong leaned over to take a look, and saw more than 50 palm-sized flower pots lined up in two rows. Green grass grew in each pot. The leaves were round, and each stem was divided into three pieces. Half red fruit, also has white flowers.There are two rows of pots, almost every pot has half-red fruit, which is very beautiful.

Jia Rong looked at the fruit, which was egg-shaped and had sesame-like dots growing on it.

"Second uncle, what is this?"

"Strawberry." After Jia Lian finished watering, he put down the watering can and put his hands in the wooden basin beside him to wash.

"So this is a strawberry? It's so rare that it bears fruit so early. It's such a blessing to be able to eat such a bright red fruit in this early spring." Jia Rong stared at a red fruit and swallowed.Last year, he heard a lot of rumors about strawberries. They are really rare, and they have been sold at sky-high prices in the market.

I want to eat!

Jia Rong secretly stretched out her hand towards the half-red strawberry.

Snapped--

Not far away, Jia Lian held a willow stick and beat Jia Rong's hand with one stroke.

"Oh, it hurts!" Jia Rong withdrew her hands in embarrassment, and smirked at Jia Lian, "Second Uncle, we are all a family no matter what, so please be kind to my nephew once, let me have a taste."

"When the peony blooms, I will guarantee you to eat and vomit, but not now. If I say that you eat this one fruit, and you swallow dozens of acres of land, do you still dare to eat it?"

"Don't dare." Jia Rong said.

Jia Lian looked around carefully, and after confirming that there were no insects or diseases, he suddenly raised his head and smiled at Jia Rong, "That's it."

"Second Uncle, what you said is true, this one is set at tens of mu of land?"

"Of course it's true." Jia Lian smiled, turned around and led Jia Rong into the hall.

After drinking tea, Jia Lian drove away Jia Rong when he saw that Jia Rong was not leaving.

"Good second uncle, let me follow you to see the world, I don't want to go home to see that powerful woman." Jia Rong said with a wry mouth.

Jia Lian immediately thought of Wang Xifeng, kept a light smile, and didn't follow up on Jia Rong's words.He doesn't care about Wang Xifeng's affairs.

Jia Rong blinked and looked at Jia Lian, "Second Uncle is not curious about how she murdered me?"

"The matter of your husband and wife, you can settle it yourself." Jia Lian said ruthlessly.

Jia Rong looked mournful: "She is two years older than me, and she is very powerful. She plays me around, not to mention that I am not in her eyes, even my wife is probably not in her eyes." Jia Rong said His wife, of course, refers to Jia Zhen's stepwife, Youshi.

"Shut your mouth." Jia Lian glared at Jia Rong, and sipped his tea.

Jia Rong pursed her lips, knowing that she had offended her second uncle's good mood by saying these trivial things, so she hurriedly apologized and left in a good manner.

Because of the matter of the big family, Jia's mother has just recovered.Hearing about the daughter-in-law and housekeeper in the east of the mansion, I couldn't help but sigh with emotion in front of Jia Lian.

"I thought it was pretty good at the time, but fortunately that happened later, otherwise I would be really blind, and I would choose the wrong person to drag you down. It's better for us to Jingxin, appearance, family background, temperament, everything has nothing to choose. There is only a little difference Some, this child is too virtuous, too obedient to your words, and you have spoiled him!" The second half of the sentence Jia Mu said half-jokingly, but Jia Lian could hear Jia Mu's real meaning in it.

Humans are just dissatisfied. When they have something like this, they yearn for something that they don’t have.

"By the way, what is your second uncle up to these days? He hasn't been home for quite some time." Mother Jia sighed, her youngest son was quite worrying.He hasn't come back since the incident happened at Wang's side.Mother Jia sent someone to ask him to come back, but he prevaricated. Mother Jia just thought about it, and planned to wait for him to come back, but it would take several days.

"I heard that in the Beijing Palace, I probably hit it off with the King of Beijing, sleeping and eating together, right?" Jia Lian chuckled lightly when he said this.

Jia's mother didn't think too much about it, she thought Jia Lian was happy for his second uncle, and said happily, "Well, I'll tell him to get busy first. There are small things in the house, so he doesn't need to worry about it."

"He didn't worry about it."

Jia Lian's words made Jia's mother speechless.

……

That night, when it was still in the dead of night, Jia Lian simply pulled up the hibiscus outside Jiamu's courtyard, and turned around to raise it in his own courtyard.

Now there are fifteen hibiscus trees in his courtyard.These seedlings are affectionately 'overgrown', but are now maintained at a height of about one meter per pot.

From the first tree, Jia Lian conducted research and experiments for many times. Occasionally, a cut branch fell into the water scoop, and Jia Lian then poured water on the grass on the west side of the courtyard.The next day, he found a piece of lush green grass, which was just sprouting yesterday, but it has grown an inch today.

There are probiotic hormones in the rod, and they are in high concentrations.

This is purely plant produced and should be safe and healthy.

Jia Lian slowly experimented a few times and found a set of rules.If the twigs are crushed directly and the green juice is poured over the ungerminated seeds, miracles will appear the next day.

So Jia Lian continued to harvest hibiscus until No. 18, and no new seedlings emerged from that land.

But the replanted Hibiscus hibiscus harvested by Jia Lian still maintains their previous excellent properties.After cutting the branches in half, the hibiscus will grow back to its original height the next day.

In view of the limited number of hibiscus trees, every time Jia Lian cut off the branches, he could only irrigate them with water to promote growth.

Although this growth rate is only relatively fast, about ten days a day, it is perfect for strawberries. The date of the strawberry plan he is eager to implement can be greatly advanced.