Red Mansion: No Empty House Fight

After seeing off Feng Yuan, Xue Pan went back to the inner courtyard to see how Xue Wang and Baochai were doing.

Baochai was better, but she just collected some close-fitting clothes and utensils, and prepared another one for Yinglian, and it was over.Mrs. Xue Wang was different. He felt that he should bring the tea set for drinking tea, and he thought it would be better to bring some utensils for food, and he thought it was cold on the mountain and he needed to bring more clothes. Whether the bedding has been used by others should also be prepared.In short, there is quite a momentum to move.

Xue Pan silently exited Xue Wang's yard, and decided to ask Baochai to persuade this "tourism=moving" mother! "Go to the girl's yard, tell the girl about the wife's affairs, and ask her to persuade her quickly." Xue Pan sent a girl beside him to run errands, and waited at the entrance of the yard by himself.

When Baochai came, he said: "What do we need to prepare when we go out, and do we need mother to clean it up? Just sit and wait and see if the scenery is not good. You can also persuade mother."

Baochai covered her mouth and smiled: "It's not free. Mom used to collect some things for father, but now I can only collect things for myself. Forget it, let me tell you, I have to go to the nunnery today no matter what! I'm still waiting for the vegetarian meal in Yuting Nunnery! My brother only has to wait another hour, so it's easy." After speaking, he helped the big girl Yinger's hand into the yard.

Seeing that someone took over to solve the problem of Xue Wang's family, Xue Pan started from Xue Wang's yard and took a good look around his own house.I have to say, this house is really big!The scenery in the middle of each courtyard is also good, but it is too tiring to walk!

As Xue Pan, who took decades of loans in his previous life to get a two-bedroom house, he couldn't help but feel like "turning over and singing as a serf"—look, it took a lot of effort to get a shelter , and now there is a villa at the Nth power level!I am rich too!

Then he thought that there were still a bunch of moths in the store at home, and Xue Pan calmed down again.It is said that the inside must be settled first in order to fight against the outside world. Should he clean up the shop first, or the house?It's better to come to the house first, but the manpower is definitely not the thugs that the Xue family is used to.But first, he needs a list of all the servants of the Xue family.It is also necessary to find out whether these people were born at home or bought later.

Thinking of this, Xue Pan didn't have the mood to continue shopping any longer, so he turned around and went out of the inner courtyard to his study.To say that this study is really the original one.It's just that most of the books that Yuan body read here are "The West Chamber" and "Peony".In the original book, there was a Baochai who said in a couplet with Daiyu, "How beautiful is the beautiful day?" Immediately, she knew that Daiyu had read miscellaneous books, and it was Xue Pan's study!

But Xue Pan thinks, little girls, who didn’t watch romance novels and idol dramas when they were teenagers?As long as you have self-respect and self-love, don't ruin yourself. Read more things in the book, and you won't be fooled by some tricks.Therefore, he didn't deal with all these books as soon as he took over the original body.

Xiao Yao, who was guarding the study, saw Xue Pan enter the room, and immediately wanted to prepare refreshments.Xue Pan waved his hand and said no: "Go and find the butler."

Xiaoyao didn't dare to be negligent, so she turned her head and went out to find someone.After waiting for a while, Xue An, the chief steward of the Xue family, entered the room and bowed to Xue Pan: "What orders do you have, sir?"

"Give me a list of all the servants in your family. You must mark whether it is a child born in the family or bought later, whether you are related to other servants in the mansion, whether you have contact with people in the store, where you work, what to do. After a few years, what rewards and mistakes have you made? You must summarize them one by one in detail!"

"Master, this..." Hearing Xue Pan's order, the butler felt a little uncertain, vaguely feeling that something big was going to happen.

"I will ask for it tomorrow at the latest. You and the accountants in the mansion are both literate, and you can write everything in one night. I recently saw a few people who were not pleasing to the eye, and I want to re-select someone. You just have to work all night. Let's smooth it out." Xue Pan was afraid that the housekeeper was not a good one, so he simply found an excuse.

The butler also knew that his master had always said that the wind was the rain, so he suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and took the order.Anyway, everything Xue Pan ordered was recorded in the roster, but a dozen people were asked to copy a copy.

Xue Pan was not in a hurry, he turned his head and asked the young lady next to him to go out again: "Go to Jinling Mansion to pay a visit to the new Mr. Jia, and say that Xue Pan will pay a visit tonight."

"Master, why are you going to pay a visit to the official when you are so good?" Xiao Yao asked casually because the housekeeper asked him to pay attention to the matter of the uncle before leaving.

After hearing his question, Xue Pan replied impatiently: "Yesterday, sir, I sent a kidnapper away! Now, of course, I'm going to ask if there is any result? I heard that this newcomer from Jinling The mansion was recommended by my uncle, and I will go to Beijing with my mother in the future, so I will naturally visit the officials recommended by my uncle."

Xiaoyao thought so, and took Xue Pan's order to go to Jinling Mansion to talk to Jia Yucun, and when she came back, she also told the housekeeper about the matter.After hearing this, the butler felt that something was wrong no matter what he thought about it, but he couldn't explain why, so he ignored it.

An hour later, Xue Pan accompanied Baochai, mother, daughter and Yinglian to Yuting Nunnery on a big horse.When it comes to choosing Yuting Nunnery, Xue Pan also has his own ideas.When eating at the restaurant outside yesterday, Xue Pan got the memory of the original body. He vaguely remembered that the original body had heard from his cheap father that when Yu Ting Nuan was picking up the driver from Zhen's house, he also remembered It is unclear whether it is the queen mother or the princess.Therefore, some of the aunts in Yuting Nunnery are skilled in kung fu.

Moreover, at this time in Yuting Nunnery, there happened to be a few family members of the official family who were also worshiping the Buddha, so they would definitely clear the place and guard the mountain gate.In this way, it can prevent Xue Wangshi and Baochai's close servants from making any changes.

After sending the three female family members into Yuting Nunnery, Xue Pan turned around and entered the yamen of Jiayu Village, Jinling Mansion.Seeing Jia Yucun, Xue Pan didn't wait for the other party to talk nonsense, and went straight to the point: "There are some black-hearted evil slaves in my family. I will take care of the housework tomorrow. I am afraid that these evil slaves will do something to bully the master. I want to talk to your lord. Borrow some yamen servants to help me clean up the place. Naturally, the more people the better, just let them all wear the official uniforms of the yamen! If you need some wrestlers to help move things, don't ask for anything else, as long as your hands and feet are honest and obey the command. good."

Jia Yucun also knew about the official protection talisman yesterday when Xue Pan sent someone to deliver the kidnapper. Naturally, he was very happy with the thing that could win Xue Pan's favorability, and immediately agreed.

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Xue Pan didn't stay any longer: "Your Excellency, you don't need to stay, I will trouble you again in a few days! After everything is settled, I will definitely entertain you. Your Excellency must reward you!"

"Definitely!" Jia Yucun saw that Xue Pan really didn't want to stay, so he didn't stay any longer. He just sent him to the gate of the yamen and watched Xue Pan ride away before turning around and entering the yamen.As soon as he came back, he immediately asked people to recruit people, and also said that if someone leaked the news, he would go home and eat by himself immediately.Therefore, among the more than 60 tolerances that were recalled, no one talked too much.He recruited people to go to the tooth shop again, and asked them to "rent" fifty wrestlers before going back to sleep.

On the second day, Xue Pan took a rough look at the list given to him by the head steward, compared it with the memory of the original body, and he also had a bottom line in his heart.Before Sishi, let the butler call all the small 200 people serving in the mansion to the main hall of the outer courtyard.

These 200 people also crowded the Xue family's main hall to the brim.Xue Pan sat with a smile on his face, waiting for these people to calm down.

When the noise basically subsided, Xue Pan opened his mouth: "It's like this, I think our servants are a bit greedy, so I plan to deal with it today. Before starting to use violence, I want to first Ask, has anyone turned himself in? If he turns himself in, I'll save some face for him, otherwise don't blame me for being abusive."

When the people below heard it, they immediately exploded.A few others knelt down immediately, saying that they were going to the ancestral hall to cry for the master.The same is true for the big steward, when he heard this, he immediately knelt down to show his loyalty, and said how he had done his best for the Xue family in the past.

Xue Pan didn't answer, but when the butler wanted to hug Xue Pan's leg and continue crying, Xue Pan avoided it in disgust.Just kidding, the snot and tears on that face, how disgusting it would be if you wiped it on your pants!

On the other side, more than a dozen scriveners under Jia Yucun were leading powerful warriors and yamen servants to sweep and ransack the houses of the people on the roster from house to house.In the beginning, it was the house of the butler.At about a quarter of the time, the crying people in the hall gradually subsided when they saw that Xue Pan did not respond.

Just at this time, two yamen servants and a clerk came with a list of the housekeeper's belongings and the deed of the house.

"Housekeeper, I really don't know what to say about you. The family lives in a mansion and has a lot of property, and they are called 'Master' by the servants of the family on weekdays. Why are you still in my Xue family? How about being a slave?" Xue Pan asked the housekeeper with a sneer as he looked at the items on the list.By the way, he waved the deeds such as his house's real estate deed in front of the other party's eyes.

When the big housekeeper saw it, he immediately withered.After a breath or two, he immediately kowtowed and said to Xue Pan: "Master! Master! I am obsessed! Please forgive me for the sake of my family's dignity!"

"Decent? It's only decent if the master gives it to you! If you don't give it to you, you can steal it. It's a thief! Look at this land deed! It was purchased by your father! This house was also purchased by your father! You are the whole family. You can't afford these houses in five lifetimes! Is your family's dignity in several lifetimes just stealing the owner's property?" Xue Pan looked at the house title deed in his hand and said sarcastically.

After that, he said to the yamen servant beside him: "Our Xue family is a benevolent family, and there is no such thing as a private prison. I don't know..."

Both the clerk and the yamen servant will come, so they immediately said: "Uncle Xue, don't worry, the master said when he came, if Uncle Xue has no room in his house, it is reasonable to lock these slaves in the prison in the mansion for a few days." .”

"In that case, I will trouble you all. His sons are all in my family's business, and I would like to ask you to take them down for me."

"Don't dare! Don't dare!" The scribe didn't dare to accept Xue Pan's gift, so he turned around and went out immediately, and called 20 people back.One is to bring the person back to the Yamen, and the other is to prevent the other servants present from doing anything out of the ordinary and bumping into Xue Pan.

When the big steward heard this, he wailed: "Xue Pan! Xue Pan! All the slaves are like this! The master of every family knows that the water is so clear that there are no fish!"

"Hehe." Seeing the other party staring at him fiercely, Xue Pan also smiled, "The water is so clear that there are no fish, so I won't raise fish! Who told me to be the master and you a slave? You are rich and self-willed! I just don’t like raising fish!”

When the yamen servant heard this, the slave dared to call his master by his name, and immediately gagged him and took him away.The rest of the people were all silent, not daring to speak out.

After a long time, one of the stewards of the outer courtyard knelt down with a "plop": "Master! Master! I said! When I bought the carriages and horses this year, I reported an extra 300 taels of silver for the replacement of the carriages and horses! I bought them for my family. When writing and ink, I reported 200 taels too much!"

With such a beginning, quite a few people also spoke out about their past corruption like beans in a bamboo tube.Xue Pan picked up the roster at hand, and pointed out the length of service, rewards and salaries of these people: "I will give you everything you deserve, and you don't have to go back to your home. Your home belongs to me. I will pay for it myself." If you take your salary as a roommate, I will let you be expelled."

Xue Pan dared to let these people go because they didn't know anything about the secret affairs of Xue Xun, the previous head of the Xue family.The Xue family is just an upstart family of four generations, and there is no secret of the big family, so there is no need to cut the grass and roots.At most, it's just everyday things being talked about.Leaving the Xue family, these people are as fragile as ants that can be crushed to death at any time.

So far, it took Xue Pan a day to get rid of all the moths in the house.There were also some who were released by Xue Pan because their positions were not enough to be greedy. In the end, there were only about fifty people left in the family.

Xue Pan simply sealed off all the unused yards, and had people build walls and open doors. One large house became four or five small houses.Fortunately, Xue Wang's and Baochai's residences are the same as Xue Pan's, which is an old house in the central government, so there is no such thing as changing one family into two.

The next morning, Xue Pan woke up and was about to wash his face.There's no way, the boys and girls around me have the opportunity to serve the master close because the elders are decent slaves.Yesterday, their elders were dismissed, and even the younger ones were also cleared out.Xue Pan wasn't so corrupt that he couldn't dress and wash his face by himself, and there was a sweeping maid and second- and third-class maids. The washing water was brought into the house, so Xue Pan was not dissatisfied.

Because the kitchen steward was dismissed yesterday, Xue Pan thought that he would not be able to eat a delicious meal this morning.I didn't expect the taste to be bad.If you add it up carefully, you will know the tricks in the kitchen—it's just a trick for the superior to suppress the subordinate.

After dinner, Xue Pan went out with the newly appointed Xiao Yao and the bodyguards, and went straight to the main store of Xuejia Mihang.He wants to check the accounts!

The people in the commercial firm are old-fashioned, and the accounts are tight.Xue Pan looked at it all morning, but couldn't find a loophole.From the situation of the main store, it can be inferred that the same is true for other stores.Xue Pan simply didn't bother with that matter, but let people spread the word that the shopkeepers of all the shops would come to Xue's residence with account books at every hour tomorrow.After that, I went to the restaurant to have a meal, and went home leisurely after eating.

On the second morning, there was no shopkeeper who didn't come.Xue Pan checked the books of each store, picked out a few that were not much different from when his father was alive, and put them on the left hand side, and put the others on the right hand side.

"My lord has also read the account book. If there is nothing wrong, we should go back." Seeing Xue Pan divide the account book into two parts, all the shopkeepers present were a little startled.But when he thought of his bookkeeping skills and Xue Pan's reputation as a dude, he felt relieved.They all subconsciously ignored the fact that Xue Pan took care of his servants the day before yesterday.

Xue Pan raised his head and looked at the speaker: "I'm not too young anymore. I thought I should take over all the affairs of the Xue family. I just looked at the account books, but I didn't expect that all the stores were operating at a loss. I don’t think I’m good at doing business, so I might as well close all these money-losing shops. It’s better to find someone else to take over the mess.”

As soon as these words came out, most of the shopkeepers were overjoyed, and began to figure out how to get the shop into their own hands at the lowest price.There were also two or three shopkeepers who were anxious because they were not greedy, and immediately spoke to persuade Xue Pan.

Xue Pan waved his hand, but he didn't listen to the persuasion: "But having said that, since I want to sell the shop, I have to rearrange the positions of the shopkeepers. My father is benevolent, even though you are all signed by my Xue family Qi’s slaves, my ancestors have served my Xue family for generations, but because I took charge of the shop for my father and worked hard, I will treat you as subordinates instead of slaves.”

The first sentence made those shopkeepers with evil intentions happy, but the last few words directly made these people fall into hell.That's right, starting from the first generation of the Xue family's head, all the shopkeepers are family sons trained by the Xue family.It's just that they lived far away from Xue's house for a long time, and the elders rarely mentioned this topic, so these people naturally lacked some self-knowledge.Now that Xue Pan made it clear, those people with ulterior motives all felt that something big was going to happen next.

Sure enough, I heard Xue Pan say: "I heard that there are several shopkeepers whose children have been sent to the academy to study? Reading is a good thing, and you can learn to read and understand. But, I don't know, cheap people can also participate Is it the imperial examination? Why does anyone still want to take the child's examination next year?"

"How are you doing?" Some people who already had poor psychological endurance broke down emotionally because of Xue Pan's words, and asked Xue Pan loudly.

Xue Pan tilted his head and looked at the man: "My Xue family treats you well, and my father also respects you very much, but people's hearts can't be changed back to wolf-hearted! But whoever eats my food, no matter how much he eats, will be given to you." I'll spit it out! Otherwise, it's just killing a few slaves who betrayed the master, and I, Xue Pan, will take advantage of it!"

After these words shocked these people, Xue Pan sat in the yard to enjoy the shade.After a short pause, a young lady came in to report the message: "Master, the boy next to Mr. Tiao came to pass a message, saying that the second master brought several other masters here because of the shopkeeper's affairs, and asked you to hide quickly."

After hearing this, Xue Pan remembered that Xue's family had eight households.It's just that except for Xue Biao's father, who lives in the same family as his own cheap father and mother, the others are all concubines.The other houses of the Xue family did not have much property after the separation, so they were merged into one and managed by Xue Xun, and the other houses only had to wait for the dividends.

It's just that in recent years, because the other people in the house can only take a small amount of money when they pay dividends, they naturally have other ideas in their hearts, and they start to hook those shopkeepers to do some things of embezzlement.

Xue Pan thought clearly about the cause and effect, and lay back on the imperial concubine's couch again: "It's just raised by a few young women. When you come, just call it out."

After a while, Xiaoyao came to report again: "I followed my master's order, and they all went out. It's just that these people gathered at the door and didn't leave."

"Hmph, a bunch of people who eat soft food! You usually rely on my father to make money while lying down and counting money! Now I want to turn against customers!" Xue Pan turned over from the couch and walked to the father's study, "Follow me If I play this set, I will directly draw my salary from the bottom of the pot!"

That's right, the Xue family still has an errand for the Imperial Merchant.There are two things Xue Pan has to do, the first is to resign from the imperial business; the second is to divide the sect!

The head of the Xue family is his father Xue Xun, and so is the patriarch!Now the eighth house of the Xue family has not found a new patriarch.He might as well solve this problem once and for all, and let the six-room lady raise her own family.

Jia Yucun was very surprised when he received Xue Pan's deed of division as the new head of the Xue family.But Xue Pan's energy is still great, no matter what, Jia Yucun still stamped the red seal on the deed of division, and handed it over to his subordinates for storage.Since then, the Xue family in Jinling has been divided into two families.

Xue Pan didn't inform the other six rooms of all this, and even Xue Biao didn't know about it.So when Xue Biao heard that Xue Pan was looking for him, he thought it was Xue Pan who asked him to discuss countermeasures because of the trouble caused by several masters in the clan.

Unexpectedly, Xue Pan's first sentence when he saw Xue Biao was: "Good brother, now I have asked the Jinling Mansion to divide our Xue family. Our two families are one family, and their six families are one family. From now on There's nothing more to do."

Xue Biao felt that he must not have woken up yet, otherwise how could he have heard the dream talk?

Before Xue Biao could digest this matter well, Xue Pan said again: "You know that you are a scholar, farmer, businessman, and you are the only one in our family who is still a little bit of a student, so why don't you take our father's class? Keep studying hard!"

"Brother, why are you... you are... aunt... business..." Xue Biao's mind was in a mess for a while, and he couldn't say a complete sentence.But Xue Pan still understood Xue Biao's meaning from these intermittent words.

"Don't worry, listen to me. Our family's situation is not the same as that of outsiders. It's just a businessman's family. I also recently cleaned up my father's belongings, so I realized that there is a lot to do here. Now I put the business on the surface. It's over, and I also resigned from the imperial business, because I was afraid that I would get involved. We are two young and ignorant, how can we have the methods of father and uncle?" Xue Pan said, pointing to the north, Pointing to the top again, he gestured like a crown.

Xue Biao is not stupid either, after hearing Xue Pan's vague words, he immediately made up a lot of drama in his head, thinking that the successive early deaths of his father and uncle were caused by the word "emperor".Thinking about how he and Xue Pan looked like, compared to the two elders, he was nothing, and he agreed with Xue Pan's statement in his heart.