[Red House + Space] Falling Spring

Jia Zheng thought that all he needed to do was appease the people in the mansion, but he didn't think about the subsequent impact of this book.First of all, although Mr. Chen came to the mansion this time, he did not confiscate the house, but Mr. Chen and Jing Zhaoyin brought the people from Wucheng Bingmasi into the mansion in a mighty manner, but everyone outside saw it. As for what happened inside, They don't know, and they can't know, they can only judge based on their own imagination.When they saw Mr. Chen coming out of Jia's mansion with a bunch of things, the scene was enough for them to imagine, so soon, many merchants who had business dealings with the mansion came to Jia's mansion to ask for it. account.

For a family like Jia's, the purchase of some things is not paid directly, but settled every quarter, half a year, or even once a year.It's like, the mansion invites the imperial physician to come to see a doctor, and every time they come, there is no one who pays, but it is a gift from the large group of four festivals every year, which is a certain annual rule.The daily life of Jia's mansion is extravagant, and all the things they use are of the highest quality, so the amount owed is naturally not small, and the merchants who can open shops in the capital and make their business into the prince's home have backers. If you really want to tear yourself apart, if you want to pay with the Rongguo Mansion, you may not be afraid of the power of the Rongguo Mansion.

What's more, Jia Zheng changed his family property to repay the debts of the national treasury. The emperor specially pointed it out when he was in court, and issued a decree to praise him. What should we do?Originally, the "Four Kings and Eight Dukes" were synchronized, but the Rongguo Mansion suddenly made such a move, which was tantamount to breaking the alliance, so the other families of the Four Kings and Eight Dukes successively sent people to ask for an explanation, which made the Jia family very anxious.

Those merchants who came to ask for accounts, although they later learned that there was nothing wrong with the Jia family, were instructed by their backers to continue to ask for accounts, which caused a headache for Sister Feng who thought they had already dismissed these merchants.At the beginning, she was still clamoring to teach these disobedient merchants a lesson, but Jia Lian, who was running outside and knew a little bit about the situation, stopped her: "My good second grandma Lian, please save yourself trouble, because you think our family is not enough. What a mess! My second uncle almost offended all civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty. It’s not a day or two for our family to deal with these merchants. Some of them started from our ancestors, and we have been in contact before you married, not to mention so many years. What's more, there is a saying that "the people don't fight with the officials". If there is no support behind them, how could they suddenly change their faces? Since they are here to ask for money, then you can settle the bill with them. After clearing the accounts, they must have nothing to say, and they will save themselves from blocking the door every day and making a mess."

When Jia Lian said this, Sister Feng understood that the way of using power to overwhelm others would not work.Under such circumstances, it is right to do what Jia Lian said, but Sister Feng has a strong personality, and in the relationship between husband and wife, she always has the upper hand, so she felt that she could not be suppressed by Jia Lian this time, so she groaned angrily. He said: "Oh, my good second master, it's easy for you to say, when you touch your upper and lower lips, you say that you have settled the account with them, but what about the money? Where does the money come from? If there is no money, what should I give them?" Pay the bill?" He stretched out his hand, "Why don't you take out some of your private house and give it to me, so that I can go pay with them."

Seeing that Sister Feng was still thinking about pushing herself under such circumstances, Jia Lian said angrily: "Okay, what time is it, you still care about this. Where do I have any private house? You can't compare it with me here. Playing sloppy eye, no money, how could there be no money? Isn’t there tens of thousands of taels of silver in the account originally intended to be used to build the provincial villa, and it was discussed when Qiang’er went to the south of the Yangtze River to buy it. Now the garden does not need to be built, and the money is old. I didn't take it when the adults came, and there is no other place to use it for the time being, so I just took it out to pay the bill."

Sister Feng sneered and said, "What do you mean there is no other place to use it? Could it be that the cannibals in this mansion all fell from the sky, and could not be blown by strong winds? Besides, the second uncle made such a fuss, and all the places in the mansion were destroyed. The old lady didn't say anything, but most of the savings over the years have been lost, so how can I not make up for it? Also, master, madam..."

Seeing Sister Feng acting as if she wanted to "settle accounts" with him, Jia Lian waved her hands with a headache and said, "Forget it, just pretend that I didn't say anything just now, and you can do whatever you want, and arrange it up to you." After finishing speaking, He got up and walked outside, showing his attitude, he let this matter go.

Seeing Jia Lian running away, Sister Feng couldn't help but give a "bah" to his retreating back, and instructed Ping'er who had been in the room: "Ping'er, pour me a cup of tea!" Ping'er poured tea as he said. Sister Feng gurgled, drank half of the cup in one go, took out a handkerchief to wipe off the water stains around her mouth, and said: "If there are any more merchants who come to ask for an account, let the accountant report the amount, according to what your second master said. I will settle the account with them."

"But didn't grandma tell the second master just now, isn't there another use for this money?" Ping'er asked a little puzzled when he heard the words: "Grandma settled the bill for them, and there will be other uses in the house later. What about the money department?" Sister Feng sighed, waved her hands and said, "I don't care, let's just fool around with what's in front of me. If something happens later, let's think of a way." Seeing what Sister Feng said, Ping'er still went out ordered to go.

Because of the need to build a pro-protestant's house, he raised money from east to west, and there were tens of thousands of taels of silver in the public account at once.Although the money is less than a fraction of Yuanzi, this is the richest moment in the account since Sister Feng took charge of the family.Originally, Sister Feng thought that after the settlement with the merchants outside, there would be a lot of money left over, but after all the accounts were settled, the remaining silver in the account was less than a hundred taels. , from which they enriched their own pockets, but after a search, they found that although the debts outside were fragmented, the amount was not considered large, most of them were a few hundred taels, and at most no more than a thousand taels of silver, but the amount could not be supported, so Accumulated, the tens of thousands of taels of silver in the account disappeared in one fell swoop.After finding out the reason, Sister Feng was extremely depressed, feeling that after Jia Zheng's troubles, the family would become more and more difficult to manage, and thinking of the loss of her private house, she couldn't help complaining secretly.

After this incident, the pressure in the mansion has been low for several days, and the only people who are not affected are Baoyu and Luochun.Baoyu supported Jia Zheng's approach because he felt that repaying debts was justified. What's more, although there were a lot fewer antiques in the house, his food and clothing and quality of life did not decline as a result. Moreover, both Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang treated him as a child, tried to hide from him, and tried their best to show him a good side, so he didn't treat this matter as a big one, and at this time his mind All of them were put on Qin Zhong who was seriously ill and dying, and he didn't care about other things at all.

As for Luochun, the current situation is caused by her imitating Jia Zheng's handwriting and secretly replacing Jia Zheng's memorial. She had already thought of this when she replaced Jia Zheng's memorial, so it was expected. , it has no effect.What's more, for her plan, all this has just begun, and now she is busy with the next step, so she doesn't care whether the atmosphere in the mansion is weird or not.

Shazhi was carrying a big food box and walking towards Luochun's small courtyard. On the way, she met people in the mansion. When they saw them, they asked a few questions curiously. The dim sum from the century-old shop, this time when she came home, she specially bought it from outside to honor Luochun. While talking, she opened the food box and took out the dim sum for people to taste.Just like that, Saori unhurriedly carried the food box to Luochun's yard.As soon as he entered the room, Luochun kicked out all the people serving in the room, Pinxiu glanced at the food box that Shazhi brought, without saying a word, he led the little girls and women back out, And drove them away, sitting on the porch not far from the door of the house, doing needlework while guarding the door.

Saori put the food box on the table in the middle of the room, wiped the sweat from her forehead and said: "But I was scared to death, I was thinking that I should not meet people along the way, who knows, the less I think about it What’s more, I somehow met so many people along the way. After this experience, I realized that there are quite a lot of idlers in our mansion.”

Luochun saw that Sazhi was still in the mood to joke, so she knew it was all right, but she still asked: "Nobody saw the flaws, did you reveal your secrets?" Sazhi smiled complacently, and said, "Why? Don't even look at it." Who am I? Don't worry, girl, no one will see." Pausing for a while, she thanked Luochun for her father and mother: "Thanks to the good idea of ​​father and mother, father put the ledger in the food box, so I mentioned it, and my mother went to Piaoxiangzhai to buy pastries and put them on top to cover them up. I met someone on the way and took out the pastries for them to eat. Everyone thought I brought pastries from outside. , I never thought that it contained a ledger, so this time the matter is very secretive, and no one will find out."

While talking, Sha Zhi opened the food box, took out the cakes on it, exposed the account book under the oil paper, and said: "Father heard from Ni Er that they will have a lot of account books in the future. All the ledgers were sent to the girl, but there were too many ledgers to fit in a food box, so I only brought some of them. My father said that the girl should look at it first, and if there is more to come, he will find a way to give it to the girl. Bring it in."

Luochun nodded, picked up the topmost account book and flipped through it, and asked: "How much did you bring in?" Saori thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "About one-third. "Luochun saw that there were some messy marks besides the rows of numbers on the ledger. She pointed to these marks and asked: "Xazhi, do you know the meaning of these marks?" Shazhi took a look and said, "Oh , my father said, some of the marks on it are special marks for money lending." He took out a piece of paper from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Luo Chun: "Father asked Ni Er to understand it. After telling me, I was worried that I would remember it wrong. So I wrote it all down on this piece of paper. There are also some marks, and Ni Er doesn’t know what they mean, but according to what he said, it’s just like the pawn shops outside, and each pawn shop’s pawn tickets have their own marks mark, otherwise, if there is no such thing, wouldn’t it be possible to take the pawn ticket from this pawn shop and go to another pawnshop to redeem the pawn, in that case, it would be a mess. So he didn’t understand, if the girl wanted to know, just Those who can ask the bookkeeper are welcome."

"That's not necessary." Luochun took the paper that Shazhi handed over, and said: "What I want to look at is just the book figures. It's good to know what these marks mean. It doesn't matter if you don't know, it shouldn't have much impact."

Although she knew that there were only her and Luochun in the room, and Luochun had kicked out the others, Sazhi subconsciously looked around, then leaned into Luochun's ear, and said in a low voice: "Ni Er never After Wanna got these account books, he read them first, and then told my father, “Laiwang lends money. There are two layers of accounts. It's five-fifths, and if he expects it to be correct, the four cents will be reported to Lian's second grandmother, and the latter one will be his profit from it."

As soon as Luochun heard this, he understood. It seems that Ni Er was afraid that Sazhi's father would not be able to deal with Laiwang, so he provided such "heavy news" to Saori's father. With this "killer weapon", As long as the report is submitted, even if Laiwang has three heads and six arms, he will not be able to turn over.But it's also true that those who beat a snake will not die but will suffer from it. Those who are fools in the Tao can't understand it very well. Naturally, they will not make such a mistake. Since they have made a move, they must be beaten to death with a stick!Luo Chun nodded, expressing that she understood, this also taught her a lesson, she should also keep this truth in mind.