The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Seeing that Jia Lian's approachable appearance was different from when she left Jia's house, Dong'er didn't dare to say more, but also felt that she would not be cut down, so she hurriedly said tenderly: "I have sent people to send the clothes, shoes and socks to the police." Huan Zhai, if the second master is missing something, ask Xiao Yaoer to come and ask for it."

Jia Lian hummed, let the two younger children hold the lanterns, and went forward again, entered the Jinghuan Zhai from the hallway of Rongxi Hall, looked up and saw a golden plaque hung in front of the Jinghuan Zhai, I could still vaguely hear the sound of things being dumped in the warehouse next door. When I entered the courtyard, I saw the parrot starling in the warm pavilion standing in the cage and falling asleep on the shelf.

Quan Fu and Quan Shou, the four servants who served Jia Lian, had been traveling with Jia Lian for a day, and they were still outside watching people move things.

Quan Xi and Quan Lu waited for Jia Lian to come, and hurriedly opened the curtain to invite him in. Hot water had been prepared in the room, and after putting down soap, handkerchiefs, and a change of clothes, they went outside to wait.

Jia Lian took a bath, and when he came out of the room, Quan Xi and Quan Lu had already set out a glass of Western wine in a wide-mouthed glass bottle, a plate of pheasant and melon, a plate of artemisia reed, and a small bowl of oil-skimmed wine. Chicken Noodle Soup.

Seeing Jia Lian coming out in his inner clothes, Quan Lu urged people to heat up the kang again, and hurriedly said: "It's late at night, I'm afraid that the second master will accumulate food, so I don't dare to ask someone to bring greasy food."

Jia Lian didn't care how native or foreign the match was, so he sat down and said, "This is enough." Thinking that he didn't eat, the two of them must have eaten too, so he asked them to eat too, and after drinking After eating noodles, after rinsing his mouth, he heard Quanlu say, "All the money has been sent to the west room. In the front hall, according to what the second master said, the wall was covered with "The Analects of Confucius"; Baoyu's four nannies We’ve also moved out, and tomorrow we’ll have someone paint the walls and roof.”

Jia Lian yawned, and went to the west room to take a look, doubting that he would not get up tomorrow, so he wrote letters to his sworn brothers Li Bizhou and Yuan Jingfeng in the west room, asking them to quietly inquire about the debts owed by the Rongguo Mansion for him. How much money is in the national treasury, "I'm afraid I won't be able to get up early tomorrow, so I will send the letter to the uncle and the second master."

Quan Lu was not so confused that he didn't know who the uncle and the second master were, so he quickly accepted the letter, and when Jia Lian went to Dongjian Sanjin to lie down on the beech babu bed, put down the layers of curtains, he hurried outside to call Zhao Tianliang Send the letter early tomorrow morning.

Sure enough, Jia Lian didn't get up until noon the next day. When he got up, he looked at his slightly swollen eyeballs in the big full-length mirror. After eating breakfast, he heard Quan Fu beaming and saying that Jia Zhendong wanted to check Lai Er's house, but Jia Jing called him. I went to the Taoist temple to smoke a lot, and then went to the backyard to greet Jia Mu and Jia She. This time, when I went there, I saw that Jia Mu was sick and Jia She hadn't woken up, and I heard that Yingchun wanted to talk to him. Please welcome Spring to Jinghuanzhai to speak.

Yingchun has never been out of the hanging flower gate of Jia Mu's courtyard, and now she leads Siqi and Hongyu from the corridor through the wall. Fortunately, when she was serving Jia She, she had already gotten to know Quanfu's four young men well. Embarrassed, just looking at the elegant courtyard, I can't help but think that if their family still lives in the East Garden, the courtyard they live in will not be so spacious.

When I arrived at the hall, I saw Jia Lian plastering "The Analects of Confucius" all over the wall as he did when he was in the old house. After Jia Lian sat down on the edge of the chessboard, he asked Lin Hongyu to kowtow to Jia Lian.

Jia Lian glanced at Lin Hongyu and saw that Lin Hongyu was not very old, but her eyes were very bright, so she woke her up and asked Yingchun, "Don't you have something to tell me?"

Yingchun said in embarrassment: "My wife is not here. The old lady sent someone to ask about the New Year last night. The old lady meant to ask me to take care of it, but how could I do this?"

Jia Lian pinched the chess pieces with sore eyes and said, "What's so difficult about it? According to the old practice, order the kitchen, ask someone to lift the tables, chairs and screens, and set up a few tables in the old lady's yard."

"Having said that, there are some people who are filial and some who are not. There are hundreds of people in the family. How do you set up the stage?" Yingchun said in a difficult way. I have appointed a new teaching mother, but after all, I have a lot of worries because I have to deal with big things at the first moment.

Jia Lian said: "In the future, you don't need to ask me such trivial matters. Isn't Hongyu's mother just in charge? I called someone to go over the old rules and follow them. As for the hundreds of people, I'm afraid you will be the ones in the clan. Irrelevant ones are also counted, there is no need to invite those people. Since our family has filial piety, no one is allowed to sing opera."

Yingchun was taken aback, Siqi hurriedly smiled and said: "That's what I persuaded the girl, but the girl said that this is a matter of the first meeting, and she must be full of color and taste, and there must be no mistakes."

"If you can't make a mistake, I'll teach you a trick." Jia Lian smiled while pinching the chess pieces.

Siqi and Lin Hongyu were still young, although they knew about the defense between men and women, they still didn't know why, so they all looked at Jia Lian and waited for him to talk.

"Delete the complicated and keep it simple. Our own home is as cheap as possible. From now on, let's use the words 'less but better' as a good example of housekeeping." Jia Lian smiled slowly.

Yingchun hurriedly said: "There is no such thing." Even so, she also understood that she was too worried. Today is different from the past. No one dares to find fault with them. Seeing someone outside looking for Jia Lian to answer, he dare not stay here for a long time. He led the people out through the back door.

It was Lin Zhixiao who was talking back and forth.

Lin Zhixiao first showed Jia Lian the roster after the reduction of redundant staff. Jia Lian saw that there were fewer people and the division of labor was clear. A good father-in-law stands out from the crowd, so he needs to strive for perfection in everything, so he asked Lin Zhixiao to give her more dowry to marry her off, and told Lin Zhixiao to say: "There are fewer people, but the errands are still the same. Think about it and work for the rest. money."

After Lin Zhixiao left, Jia Lian found a book to pass the time. Two days later, Jin Cai led Dai Liang and other stewards to show Jia Lian the accounts calculated by a group of more than a dozen accountants who stayed up all night. , but because he was thinking about returning the money to the treasury, he looked calm and said, "That's it, and report to me once a month. The family is small, and I know what is used and what is not used."

Shan Daliang, Dai Liang and the others only thought that Jia Lian was showing Jin Cai's face, and quickly agreed. After being sent away by Jia Lian, they looked at each other outside the door, not knowing what to say to their current colleagues. Go home.

Jia Lian tried his best to read the book once. After two or three days, he heard that the house for the husband was almost cleaned up, so he led people to have a look. After adding some things, he arranged it in the yard again. A few women sweeping the house; 27 On that day, Jia Lian received a letter from Li Bizhou, but he hadn't opened it in his study outside. Get up from the teacher's chair and go out.

When the golden vines and red lacquered bamboo curtains were drawn up, Jia Zheng led Jia Zhu, who was extremely haggard, to come.

After Jia Zhu entered the door, she first clenched her fists and coughed. She was dressed in pine and cypress green clothes, which made her face more and more lacking in blood, and she was not at peace for several days due to the incident in Rongxi Hall, and her spirit was also very low.

"Second Master, Brother Zhu is here." Jia Lian smiled and invited him in.

Because this was originally his study, Jia Zheng was embarrassed and refused to look at the room, but just stared at the bright red felt strips on the floor.

"Brother Lian was disturbed." Jia Zhu was a little reluctant, as if Jia Zheng forced her to come here.

Jia Lian laughed and said, "I don't have much to do, but I haven't read a letter."

"...you should read the letter first." Hearing Jia Lian's words, Jia Zhu didn't even know where to put his hands and feet. After asking Jia Zheng to sit down on the chair in front of him, seeing that Jia Lian really went to the south to read the letter, he hesitated to follow. After entering, he saw that the two walls of the south room were covered with classics from the Four Books and Five Classics, so he deliberately smiled and said, "Can you read the books like this?"

"Standing and watching for a while can be regarded as exercise." Jia Lian opened Li Bizhou's letter, then frowned tightly, and then showed the letter to Jia Zhu.

Jia Zhu declined first, and waited for Jia Lian to ask him again and again, before she took the letter and read it. Seeing that the person in the letter claimed to be the elder brother, she wondered why Jia Lian had made another elder brother. When she saw that the letter mentioned that the Rongguo Mansion owed 180 yuan to the treasury Yu Wanliang couldn't help being speechless, fearing that Jia Zheng would get sick again, coughed twice, and asked in a low voice: "This...is your elder brother reliable?" Sitting on a square stool next to the desk.

"Brother Zhu, don't worry, since I attacked the Rongguo Mansion, I will naturally pay back the money, and I will definitely not let you get involved with the second uncle. It is just to let you know my difficulties, and don't think that I have taken advantage of me like others "The Jia family is doing well now, they only owe so much, and it will be even more difficult to recover in two years.

Jia Lian took the letter from Jia Zhu, heard Jia Zheng coughing uncomfortably because of his words, ignored him, and called Zhao Tianliang, Zhao Tiandong brothers, and Jin Caihe, who is now in charge of the bank, Jia Lian's nanny Zhao San came over, "Now go to the accounting room and get the receipt, I will sign and draw a deposit, you have received the money, after dark, quietly ask Uncle Li to lead it, and go to the household department to return the money, even though it is New Year's Eve But there is a master on duty there, and the household secretary is also surnamed Xu, who will help you take care of it. Be sure to ask them to write down the written records, and ask them to remember that in the future, if someone goes to pay money under the guise of Rongguo Mansion, just don’t worry. Send those people away. Later, I will send wine and food to the master on duty in the household department."

Zhao San said honestly: "Second Master is going to pay back the money from the treasury? This is not a bad thing, why do you want to send someone quietly?"

Seeing that Zhao San was so simple and honest, Jin Cai took the ticket and asked Jia Lian to sign and draw it as a deposit, and said with a smile: "You are honest, but you are too honest. Our family is not the only one who owes money, and the background is much bigger than ours." What's more, even the saints have nothing to do with them—otherwise the money would have been taken back. No one has ever thought about paying back the money. Now that our family has started to make trouble, it seems that it is not good for them not to pay back the money. Isn't it just revenge!"

Zhao San seemed reasonable when he heard this, because Jia Zhu was sitting inside and Jia Zheng was sitting outside, and he didn't dare to talk too much as Jia Lian's nanny, so he followed Jin Cai and others to go to the next door to get money.

As soon as Zhao's father and son left with Jincai, Jia Zhu fidgeted again and said, "It's hard for Brother Lian, I didn't know about this."

Jia Lian shook his head and said with a smile, "If Second Uncle separates the family later, at least 10,000+ will belong to Second Uncle."

Jia Zhu followed Jia Lian's words and thought about it. It seemed that Jia Zheng deliberately refused to pay back the 10,000+ so he didn't want a penny from the public. Originally, he was full of disdain for Jia Lian after listening to Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang's words, but now he saw that Jia Lian was Repaying the money honestly is not like the money-greedy and domineering appearance Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang said, and somehow felt ashamed for Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang, blushing and sighing: "Hate me for being incompetent, otherwise, also..."

Do you really believe it?Jia Lian stared at Jia Zhu feeling ashamed, and thought to himself, could it be that good people don't live long, and the disaster will last for thousands of years. In a red building, those who die early are all good people?Seeing Jia Zheng pacing in again, he hurriedly invited Jia Zheng to sit down with Jia Zhu, and when tea was served the other day, he thought that what Jia Zheng said was to intercede for him, so he opened his mouth and said, "Second uncle, Zhu Don't worry, big brother, I just wait for the old lady to celebrate the new year happily, and I will write the scriptures after the fifteenth day of the new year, and send them to the palace for the sage to review."

Jia Zheng coughed and said, "Understood." After a long silence, he caught a glimpse of Jia Zhu clenching his fists and trying to hold back, so he said, "I want to tell you about your elder brother Zhu."

Jia Lian said, "What's the matter?"

Jia Zhu became more and more ashamed, stood up abruptly, said excuse me in a low voice, and went out.

Jia Zheng was extremely embarrassed, even though Mrs. Wang tried to persuade him to endure the humiliation, she refused to tell Jia Lian at this time, and got up to follow Jia Zhu out.

Jia Lian was at a loss, and didn't care about the abnormality of their father and son. He went to the next door to see the people collecting money. When he heard that Jia Mu invited him to talk, he went to Jia Mu's courtyard.

At this time, there is still more than half a day before the family banquet in the evening, but when I arrived at the hall of Jiamu's courtyard, I saw that there were tables, chairs and screens, and Yingchun was watching people with Lin Zhixiao's family and Zhang Cai's family. , and went to Jiamu's five main rooms. Before entering the door, she saw Pearl quietly making a two-way comparison. Mother Jia said hello, and seeing that there were only mandarin ducks and amber in the room, she chose a stool and sat down.

"Your second uncle," Jia's mother said as soon as she opened her mouth, she already expected that Jia Lian would not agree, but she just thought that Jia Zhu was really pitiful, so she reluctantly said, "I want your big brother Zhu to live behind Rongxi hall."

"How can this be done?" Jia Lian said, although Jia Zhu looks very innocent, but since Jia Zhu and Jia Zheng are going to share a room, they must not be clingy anymore, otherwise, why bother to separate?

Jia's mother wondered: "The Li family said earlier that since they have engaged the girl, they must never withdraw, so they sent your sister-in-law here in a hurry, and cut off contact with our Jia family. Isn't this beating you for nothing? Brother Zhu’s face? Ask him to live in the back of Rongxi Hall, and give him a long face. Besides, the garden on the east side is very crowded. There are so many people in your second uncle, second aunt, and house, how can you fit in?”

Jia Lian said: "Old lady, since we have separated, how can we be so connected? If brother Zhu and sister-in-law Zhu eat and drink at the old lady's place, how can this count as food expenses?"

Mother Jia choked, and then said: "I have lived for a long time, and I have never seen you who are so fussy and ignorant. Brothers can support each other. You help your brother Zhu a little bit, and he will be able to do it in the future." Help you, otherwise, you will be left naked, what will happen in the future? Thanks to your big brother Zhu and sister Yuanchun who don't have the same knowledge as you, your sister Yuanchun heard that you didn't send the annual gifts from several families, so she hurriedly took them first Bring your stuff to you."

"Don't say it's for the Rongguo Mansion. This year, apart from the Wang family and the Shi family, they are still with us. The other families have to know us." Jia Lian frowned, and then stretched his eyebrows again in a moment, thinking that since Yuan Chun is well-versed in human feelings, He let her go, and by the way, Mrs. Wang was convicted of stealing Jiamu's things.

Jia's mother was so angry that she decided that Jia Lian was born to be a loner, and refused to talk to him, so she sent him out directly.

Jia Lian came out of Jia's mother's room and went to Jia She's yard to play with Jia She for a while, staring blankly at all the babies in the house, and then went back to study. The paperwork, knowing that the money has been returned. On the 29th, I got up early in the morning and went to Ningguo Mansion to pay homage to the ancestral hall. I looked at all the men in the family and roughly recognized them. At the [-]th, I went to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors. When I returned to Jinghuanzhai, I suddenly heard that his husband When he came, he quickly sent someone to pick him up, and went to Jinghuanzhai to change his clothes. After hearing the report, he immediately went out of the west corner gate to meet him.

After waiting for a cup of tea, Jia Zhu, who lived in the east, heard that Jia Lian's husband was coming, so she also came out from the Heiyou gate on the east, and walked to the Rongguo Mansion's beast head gate to meet Jia Lian.

Jia Zhu was still embarrassed, so she didn't speak. Seeing Jia Lian, she still told him that this gentleman was recommended by the governor of Liangjiang, and coughed twice, waiting to see who it was.

Seeing the sedan chair and carriage sent by the Jia family come back, Jia Lian wanted to greet him respectfully, but unexpectedly he was hugged on his lap, and when he looked down, he saw an old dusty face hugging his leg and bursting into tears. Crying with snot.

"The second master of the Jia family is bullying others! Seeing the sex, he deliberately kidnapped my little master!"