The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Jia Lian watched them busy packing things, got up to receive Quanfu, Quanshou and went back to Rongguo Mansion. When he went out, he saw a group of good people standing on the street and muttering, but he didn't bother to pay attention.

"Bullying! Is this how your Jia family deal with loyal old people?"

Hearing a childish cry suddenly, Jia Lian turned his head and saw an eight or nine-year-old boy in a beautiful suit and two young children guarding in front of the sobbing Lai Shangrong, fighting for the Lai family.

"Second Lord, I'll go and teach that boy a lesson." Quan Fu's eyes were sharp, and seeing that the boy was handsome but only had two young children following him, he guessed that he was not a child of a rich family, so he did not let him go. in the eyes.

"Why do you care about him? If he really wants to complain, tell him to buy Lai Shangrong's family back." Jia Lian said.

"Yes." Quan Fu drove his horse over, and when he reached the child, he said condescendingly, "This Lai Da swept away hundreds of thousands of dollars from our family, and made our family unable to uncover the blame. Can't we get some back? This little boy If the young master fights against injustice, our second master is very merciful, the second master said, if you want to buy back this Lai Shangrong family, young and old, he will sell him to you first."

The kid said with a chivalrous heart: "Okay! Buy it now, I'll ask someone to fetch the money now!"

"You mustn't do it! Chief Lai's relatives are very valuable, let's..." An old slave came out, put his arms around the child and waved to Quan Fu ashamedly, telling him to go and ignore the child.

"Why not!" The child sneered, and when he heard Lai Shangrong's cry, he was filled with righteous indignation.

Quan Fu said with a smile: "Young master is very arrogant. Since this is the case, we will wait for you to redeem him." Without talking nonsense, he caught up with Jia Lian.

It was evening now, and Jia Lian rode his horse back to Rongguo Mansion from the west. After entering the mansion, he saw another door opened on the whitewashed wall in front of his study yard from a distance. Someone came in and out of the door, so he asked: "Who lives behind that?"

Quan Fu glanced at it and said hurriedly, "That's the courtyard of Baoyu's four nanny Li Zhaozhang Wang's family."

"Haven't you moved away yet?" Jia Lian frowned.

Quan Fu said: "Those four are old ladies, they are from the mansion..."

"Tell them to move to the garden in the east quickly. How can we raise a nanny for Baoyu?" Jia Lian frowned slightly. He didn't know that Baoyu was gold and precious, and the nanny's status was also unusual; The size of the nurse's yard, seeing that the yards of the four nurses combined were about the same size as the garden on the east side, she told Quanfu, "I'll clean up the first yard when I turn around, and wait for the gentleman recommended by Master Li to come and call me." Mr. lives there. The rest of the yard is empty, maybe we will invite Mr. in the future.”

"Hey." Quanfu agreed, not going back to Jiamu, nor going to the four nannies immediately, just went out of the corner gate again, and went to the east garden to find Jia Zheng, and Jia Zhu asked their people to move away.

Jia Lian took the rest of the servants to the outer study and went straight into the outer study. In the yard, he saw only a few potted plants in the spacious corridor of the outer study, and said to Quan Fu: "I just looked at Lai. Everyone’s pots of Laomei’s bonsai are pretty good, they were lifted up and placed on this porch, and filled them up for me.”

Quan Fu agreed, and immediately waved for someone to do it.

Only then did Jia Lian enter his outer study, and saw that the outer study consisted of three big rooms, and there were three spacious rooms behind the big room, which were reserved for servants to cook tea and rest.

There are red lacquered bamboo curtains hung in front of the three bright and dark rooms. When you open the curtains and go in, you can see a picture of beautiful rivers and mountains. There are two Taishi chairs under the painting in the middle hall, and under the Taishi chairs, they are placed left and right. Eight chairs.

Jia Lian went to the room on the right first, and saw that next to the window in the room was a huanghuali cross-connected square arhat bed. Kang with embroidered mattresses.

Jia Lian went to the room on the left again. Seeing that this room was used for serious reading, he first flipped through the books on the shelf where the 24 histories were placed, and then sat comfortably on the large grand teacher's chair, groping for the high and low books on the desk with his hands. He picked up a pen holder, a white brush washer, and weighed the beast-body paperweight. Finally, he saw the books on the book case that Jia Mu asked someone to sort out before he came back. According to the method Wu Xindeng said earlier, he probably saw the falsification in the account books, because Jia Zhen Yifang was completely expelled from the office, and those cumbersome things would naturally disappear, so he didn't bother to look at those accounts. He pushed all the ledgers forward, raised his head and pondered, thinking that if he himself committed a crime, it would be fine if his house was ransacked;

The reason why the Jia family is bad is that the population is diverse, even if the Jia family in other provinces do bad things, they will be counted in the Ningrong Second Mansion.And the Jia family in the capital is also restless. For example, Jia Qin, who caused scandals in the family temple, etc., absolutely cannot be with these people; What exactly is identity?What if it really is some kind of extraordinary person who is harboring.Even if Jia Rong has no way to win the title again, he is still the young master of Ningguo Mansion. It is too inexplicable to ask him to marry a daughter who has to raise money everywhere even to send his son to study, and the daughter was adopted from outside. .

There is a saying that a gentleman does not stand under the wall, knowing that these people are all wrong, why should he force himself to be with them?So he said, "Call the literate brothers Cao Zhijian, Cao Zhicheng, and Cao Zhirui."

After hearing this, Quanfu immediately went out and sent a young boy to call for someone.

The Cao family brothers were convinced, and rushed over immediately, and asked in unison, "What is the second master's order?"

"The three of you, give me a booklet of the people in the eighth house of Jia's family in Beijing, the number of people in each house, men, women, old and young, and their character. If you can find out what lawsuits they are involved in, that would be great. and write down how many relatives with other surnames live with you in each room." Jia Lian rubbed the psychic treasure jade.

"Second Master, is this going to..." Cao Zhijian asked puzzled.

Jia Lian said: "I am not wronged if I fall to my death. If I am dragged to be a backer, I will be wronged. Pick out the three-bedroom family members who are honest and have no money. Don't care about the money and do a good job. Wait for the year After you have some free time, let’s divide the clan with the Ningguo Mansion.” One family and two masters sound prestige, but it must be that the grandchildren of the two houses are all good, and now there are some unfilial and unworthy people who only know how to fight chickens and dogs, why bother? Still tied to die?What's more, only by clearing out the population can we avoid outsiders. For example, Jia Yucun and others, because their surname is Jia, they abused themselves as the nephew of the Jia family.

Cao Zhijian, Cao Zhirui, and Cao Zhicheng wished that Jia Lian could become the patriarch. If he became the patriarch, Jia Lian would have to take care of the ancestral fields of the four houses. Wouldn't this be more income?So he smiled and agreed.

"Ask people to tarnish the reputation of Rongfu in Ningfu, especially around the Chinese New Year. All the relatives in the past have neglected Ningfu a little bit, and just spread rumors that our Rongfu was involved." Jia Lian suddenly thought of Uncle Xing. , and said again: "When you are free, invite Uncle Xing to come and return their Xing family's things to the wife's dowry list."

Cao Zhijian sat on the high stool with his feet on his back and wrote down Jia Lian's words with a pen, and said with a smile: "That's right, a younger sister of the eldest wife has not yet married because she has no dowry. The second master just did a good deed, called Xing Uncle hired a matchmaker and married that aunt."

Jia Lian nodded and said: "At least they are relatives, and I will give the aunt something to marry for the eldest wife." He took out the account book, and turned to the page of family education, thinking that the Jia family's family school should be enshrined by the patriarch Jia Zhen, but I don't know when it became Ningrong and Rong's two houses who gave money to worship together, but how many Jia family members are there in that school?How many people are serious about reading?No one spent money and was taken advantage of by those who ate and drank, but suddenly stopped enshrining the family school, which also damaged his reputation. After careful consideration, he would rather spend several times more money according to his temperament. He refused to let anyone take him for a fool, so he said: "Stop the offering to the family school, tell the family that I am very disappointed in the family school, now I have to pick someone who is willing to make progress, and invite him to the Lixiangyuan on the southwest corner of Rongguo Mansion I study seriously with the famous teacher I hired here, and when I come here, not only three meals a day and morning and evening snacks and tea, but also money for paper, pens and books. , Seeing a slip of paper with delicate small characters written on hairpin flowers, after smelling it, there was a fragrance of powder, so I asked, "Where did this come from?"

Quan Fu called the servant guarding the inner study to come to question him.

Qian'er was waiting outside the door, but now he came in with his hands down, and replied: "This is two days before the second master came back, eldest girl..." I called it wrong for a while, so I quickly changed it, "Miss Yuan asked someone to send it. She said that the old lady mentioned that the second master must be busy when he comes back. The eldest wife is not in good health and the second master is young and unsophisticated. Order people to do things."

Jia Lian took a look and saw that except for Feng Ziying's family who could still come and go, the others were people he wanted to alienate on purpose; and it would not be good for Yuanchun to meddle in the affairs of the Rongguo Mansion, "If there is no me in the future, don't go to the study indiscriminately." deliver something."

The former son hurriedly agreed.

After a while, Zhao San said back and forth that the things from Master Lai and Wu Xindeng's house had been brought into the mansion. Jia Lian called for Jia Amnesty and Yingchun to watch the men and women put the things into the warehouse respectively; The changed contract was given to Jia Lian, and Jia Lian ordered them to put Lai Da's shop, Zhuangzi, and fields into the public account; And the other children of Lai's family glanced at the post and saw that it was an unimportant family named Liu, so they asked Quan Fu to take care of the matter.

At the first watch, Quan Fu came over with a bag of money in his arms, and said with a smile: "Then Lai Shangrong is really lucky. He was released just after he was born, and he was praised for more than ten years like a young master. Now he is still alive. There is a righteous boy who bought his old lady for him."

"How much silver in total?" Jia Lian asked.

Quan Fu smiled and said: "Mrs. Lai, Lai everyone's rough-skinned old meat, the small ones ask for 50 taels per person."

After hearing this, Quan Shou said again and again: "The price is a bit too low. He used to have millions of dollars in his pocket."

Quan Fu proudly said: "But the two girls from the Lai family have never worked as a job since they were young, and they are raised by Miss Qianjin. These two, the youngest asks for 800 taels each."

"This price is also very reasonable. In the past, the old man bought a concubine who can play and sing, didn't it cost five or six hundred?" Quan Shou and others booed.

"Second Master doesn't know, the old slave in that kid's family is already crying to death, but that kid is even more loyal. I see, their family has no decent master and wife, so they let that kid mess around." Quan Futuo Show Jia Lian the silver.

Jia Lian said: "Send it to the inner study, and leave 20 taels for you to buy wine and eat."

Quanfu, Quanshou and others quickly agreed.

Quan Fucai sent the Lai family's money away, and Jincai came over. After he entered the door, he saw that the yard was very lively. There were people keeping accounts with ledgers and pens, and people rushing to carry things around. He didn't bother to ask. Then he hurriedly came back to Jia Lian and said, "Second Lord, the Wang family refuses to keep anyone, saying that the married daughter is not a member of their Wang family."

"In that case, have you sold it?" Jia Lian asked.

Jin Cai said with a smile: "There are so many people, where will they sell it in a while? It's just that Zhou Rui's son-in-law wants to buy Zhou Rui's family."

"Sell it, tell Leng Zixing, if he dares to do business in the name of the Jia family in the future, he will wait for a lawsuit." Jia Lian said indifferently.

Jin Cai repeatedly agreed, and said: "Such people will not be sold out in the capital for a while, and they will be talked about in vain. There is a person from the south who wants to estimate a round number, and buys people regardless of gender, age or age."

"Then sell it like that." Jia Lian laughed.

Jin Cai hesitated and said: "I reckon it's the Wang family who first thought that the second master would not dare to sell the second wife's house, so they refused to accept it; now seeing that the second master is really about to sell, they are ashamed to ask her back again, lest Those people were scattered and sold, and the more embarrassing the Wang family was, they had to buy them all and send them to the village."

"Never mind them, just raise the price a bit."

Jin Cai agreed, and stretched out four fingers to Jia Lian. Jia Lian nodded, and Jin Cai immediately went out to talk to the "Southern" man Yazi. Sure enough, after some bargaining, she brought back more than [-] taels.

Although there are only four thousand, but considering that Mrs. Wang's accompanying room has not been mixed up with the status of Lai Da and Wu Xindeng, it is understandable that the daughter of the family is not as delicate as others. Jia Lian said: "Keep one thousand, and reward Those who have done their best, the rest will be sent to the second wife."

"Yes." Jin Cai refused to go to see Mrs. Wang by herself, so she sent a young man to deliver it, and the young man came back and said, "Second Madam was so angry that she refused to accept the money, Miss Yuan took it for her."

Jia Lian smiled, at this time, who cares whether Mrs. Wang is happy or not.

Jin Cai also saw Lin Zhixiao, Yu Xin, Zhang Cai, Shan Daliang, Dai Liang and others carrying boxes in, and hurriedly stood behind Jia Lian to watch.

"Let's all report the number. Manager Jin is standing aside, and seeing whoever sent the amount is not enough, let's drag him to be with Zhou Rui and others." Jia Lian said.

Jin Cai quickly agreed.

Lin Zhixiao didn't take out much, only [-] to [-], and said in a muffled voice, "The rest are rice, grain, and charcoal delivered from the kitchen, and they have already been sent back to the kitchen through the back door."

Shan Daliang and the others didn't dare to collude at this time, for fear of falling into the same fate as Lai Da and Wu Xindeng, each of them showed Jia Lian the list of their property, and was afraid that living in a big house would attract people's attention, so they had already quietly called The family immediately sold the mansion and moved back to Jia's family room.

Jincai held the lamp for Jia Lian. Jia Lian glanced at the lamp and saw that Yu Xin and others also had a Zhuangzi and a shop offering them, so he said, "I know that all of you are good housekeepers, but the one who leads the Jia family It would be too unkind to distribute one’s own money on an errand. I’ll accept these, and if you come back tomorrow, I’ll allow you to redeem yourself.”

When Zhang Cai heard the words, he quickly knelt down again, laughed and said, "Second Master Lian, if we go out, we will have no way out."

"How could it be? One by one, they accumulated millions of dollars of wealth shrewdly, but they were just humbled because of their background. Now that I let you out, why are you refusing?" Jia Lian smiled lightly.

Several people knelt on the ground and did not dare to make a sound. Jia Lian said again: "You are also smart people, and you all know that the reason why you have so much wealth is that you took Jia's money as capital and used Jia's name. Earned by doing business."

Zhang Cai and the others watched Jia Lian remove the window paper, so they nodded.

"Don't think that I'm one of the three new officials who take office. From now on, no one in the mansion is allowed to buy property outside without authorization. Youdao is one-hearted and can't do two things. While concentrating on taking care of your own property, you can carelessly take care of it. Taking care of the Jia family's property, what's the use of keeping such a person? Anyone who really thinks he is smart and willing to go out to make a living, as long as he asks, I will let him go without saying a word." Jia Lian thought to these people If he really dared to redeem himself, he would still respect them as heroes, but while relying on Jia's family and refusing to leave, while thinking about his own business, he really looked down on such people.

Everyone kowtowed and agreed repeatedly.

"Get up, what should you do?"

Zhang Cai and others hurriedly took the things they brought, and led the former subordinates to register all kinds of things in the warehouse.

"Second Master Lian." Jin Cai admired Jia Lian when she came back and made millions of dollars.

Jia Lian laughed and said, "Then Wu Xindeng's house will be given to you."

Jin Cai quickly declined and refused to accept, and said: "Those people are all fools, they only care about money, and they don't think about Jia's family being impoverished by them, so what good can they get?"

"Who says no, it's a pity that there are too few people who understand." Jia Lian smiled, and led Jincai all the way to the warehouse.

The warehouse in the front yard is located in the yard next to Jia Lian's outer study. Enter through the two oil-green gates, and you will see that the yard is brightly lit. In a row of eight large rooms, the first two are accounting rooms, and the next two are silver warehouses. , two gold and silver utensil rooms, two antique jade calligraphy and painting rooms.

At this time, Jia She was sitting on a chair wrapped in a bell wrapped in a lynx, and looked at Jia Lian with a slight smile. Not only did he feel that Jia Lian was promising, but also that he was better than blue.

"Master, these are all ours now. Whatever the master likes, just ask someone to take them back to the room." Jia Lian laughed.

Jia She couldn't help nodding his head repeatedly, remembering that there were three small yards in front of his house that no one lived in. It would be great to store things in them, so he took Jia Lian's hand, "Lian'er... my yard is empty. With... three side rooms..."

Jia Lian knew the elegant meaning when he heard the stringed songs, and immediately said to Jin Cai: "After registering those calligraphy, paintings and antiques, send them to the master's yard, so that the master can play with them every day."

Jin Cai quickly agreed, and Jia She became more and more happy when he heard the words.

It was already past the third watch at this time, Jia Lian hurriedly sent Jia She back to his room, then remembered the warehouse in the backyard, and asked someone to take him to see it.

The backyard warehouse is set in the back garden, blocked by a black oil fence in front, and there are several small buildings standing inside.

Hearing that Jia Lian was coming, Yingchun hurriedly led Siqi, Lin Zhixiao's family, Zhang Cai's family and others out holding account books.

After meeting Jia Lian, Yingchun said, "The medicinal material warehouse, silk fur warehouse, foreign goods warehouse, copper and tin warehouse, iron pear and red sandalwood warehouse, glassware warehouse, rare gift warehouse, and variegated furniture warehouse have all been rectified." He hesitated. After a while, he said again: "The old lady's dowry has also been sent to the old lady's yard."

Jia Lian picked up a lantern to look at it, and said, "Pick some good ones and send them to the temple for my wife, so don't make my wife feel wronged in the temple." After looking at it, I saw beautiful pearls and jade and all kinds of precious furs. I thought that these things would not be needed for a lifetime. Instead of leaving them in the warehouse to mold, it is better to take them out and sell them.Thinking of what Yuan Jingfeng said in his heart, dukes like Jia's family have long been used to reaching out for money from the treasury. In this way, he must first pay back the silver taels owed by the Rongguo Mansion. After all, owed money is still owed to the court. Not always a good thing.So he murmured, leaving the stewards to stare, and followed the people to his yard.

"Second master, the old lady also ordered someone to clean up the yard behind Lian's second master." Dong'er, the only maid Jia Lian knew, came to guide Jia Lian with a smile while carrying a lantern.

Jia Lian thought that he should also go to his own yard to have a look. After all, he would use it after getting married, so he followed Dong'er to look around, followed the alley and turned into a spacious yard, and saw a strange stone in the yard pierced through the wall. After that, the verandahs on both sides meander forward, and the double road in front connects the two carved small buildings. After the small attic, and then back, there are five main rooms.

Jia Lian paced in, looking indifferently at the carved beams and painted buildings, gold vases and jade wares that came from the room.

"Greetings to Second Lord." Dong'er led the way, and a group of girls, big and small, all came down to Jia Lianfu.

Under the light, amidst the clouds of silk and satin at the temples, Dong'er, who is full of crescent eyebrows and apricot face with peach cheeks, is smiling, as if she is the crown of all beauty.

Jia Lian was surprised: "Didn't you tell Madam Zhao to leave only a few people to look after the house?"

Dong'er laughed and said, "Second Master was joking. Although Second Master wants to live in the inner study at the front, but there is no one in the backyard, how can it be justified? Therefore, I persuaded Mother Zhao to keep a few."

Jia Lian gave a soft laugh, stepped out and said softly, "You are so courageous. If I send it down, it will become a joke in your mouth." Because the courtyard is very fancy, I walked along the corridor to look more. Take a look at the scenery.

Seeing that Jia Lian was angry, Dong'er hurriedly followed, "Second Master, I didn't make it up on my own, but in case I sent everyone away, and when Second Master came back, the room was deserted and there was no hot tea. But what's the matter?" More importantly, if there is no one in the yard, will Jia Lian still come back to live?If he is willing, she would like to send everyone away.

"You still know that you have made up your own mind." Jia Lian turned around and saw Dong'er's expression of thinking for him, and she continued to move forward.

Tonight was special, the boys at the corner gate were still guarding the gate with vigor, seeing Jia Lian coming over and saying hello.

"Go, tell Mother Zhao, tell her to work with Lin Zhixiao's family to cut down the redundant staff in the whole house in a serious manner. Except for the old lady, the master, and the people in the girl's yard, there is no one in other places. All those on serious errands were kicked out. And my backyard, I don't come to live here, and the jade vase and glass in it are also taken back to the warehouse." Jia Lian dropped the words, thinking that this Dong'er is No. .1 up.