Sister of the Treasure of the Red Chamber is quitting

In terms of this public case, the most pitiful one is Miss Shi.Right now, although my uncle and aunt decided to make her and Baoyu preserve her reputation, but after all, there is a stain. In the future, it will be fine if others say good deeds, but if someone who does not accumulate good virtue speaks out, it will poke people's hearts.However, she couldn't complain. Earlier, she complained to Xiren about the hard work of sewing at home. The next day, even the Ning Mansion in the east knew that the historians were so poor that they cut off their sewing staff.Because my aunt was already unhappy with this matter once, and now she is full of pain and has nowhere to confide in, so she can only swallow it raw.

Fortunately, Baolinghou and Zhongjinghou did not dare to force this eldest niece to death after all. While entangled with the Wei family in the court, they still prepared a dowry with her to marry at an optional date. The dowry left by Xiangyun's mother earlier has been preserved to this day. Except for the material that can't hold, the other ones can still be used, and they are even more decent than the new ones.The two aunts each held some personal belongings with her. In short, after marrying into Jia's house, they would spend their whole lives in the back house and not come out to meet people, so they could get food and clothing in the end.

Baochai didn't know about this until she came back from the three dynasties. The Xue family and the Shi family were relatives across the Jia family in this generation, so there was a bit of embarrassment between them. How did her son-in-law go, so she didn't understand the entanglement here until Shen Yu explained the reason.

The two sat opposite each other in the carriage, and Baochai heard Shen Yu distinguish the reasons and consequences, and finally sighed: "It can be seen that whether there are children in the family is the second, the most important thing is the word of virtue. Nothing. De Wuxing will eventually harm others and herself, Miss Shi is innocent, a girl stays at home well, who is in the way, who is in the eyes, and there is nothing wrong with slander." As he spoke, the wheels of the carriage gradually slowed down, It turned out that the gate of the Shen family was already in sight.

In the west of the city, there are many clansmen and nobles, and the Shen family's three-entry house is quite different from others. It is just a simple whitewashed wall and black tiles, without the color of carved beams and painted buildings. Baochai still likes this Clean and refreshing.This time I came back earlier than I thought in the morning, and Mr. Shen hadn't had dinner yet, so the kitchen had to cook it and send it over.When the big yellow cat saw Baochai coming in, it wanted to rub its hands forward and call out to touch its ears, but it asked Shen Yu to come from behind, pinch the skin of its neck, lifted up the ball, walked up to Mr. Shen, put it on his knee, and said: " How are you today?"

Mr. Shen snorted as a reply, held the cat from head to toe and said, "It's okay, but the taste in the mouth is bland, so it's so boring." Baochai also laughed and coaxed him: "At noon, I asked them to prepare mandarin fish meat. For the fish paste that is made, do you want to make it into noodles with chicken soup or boil it with stewed water shield? It’s better to be light at night, and it’s okay to make meat at noon tomorrow?” Since he heard that there is hope, the old man is naturally happy, nodded and said: “Today Let’s make a water shield soup first, let’s eat meat tomorrow!” When the old man mentioned the meat, his spirit changed earlier, and he stopped humming, hugging the cat, humming a little song, leaning back in the chair and waiting for the dinner from the cook meal over.After everyone was quiet, he turned his face and waved away people: "Go, go, don't come here and get tired of me, go back to your own yard."

Seeing this, Shen Yu had no choice but to smile and hug him, and took Baochai out to the yard. "Grandfather was quite famous in the capital when he was young. Unfortunately, when he was about to become an official, his great-grandfather retired bravely and took the whole family back to his ancestral home to recuperate. Unexpectedly, several old people left the family one after another in a few years, followed by great-grandfather and great-grandmother. Keeping the filial piety has been kept for about ten years. After the filial piety, the situation in the capital has already been turned upside down. Afterwards, there were many troubles. After delaying one by one, I simply gave up this heart. After that, my grandfather just stayed at home wholeheartedly. Teach your children and grandchildren, if it weren't for..." At this point, Shen Yu swallowed the rest of the words, smiled and looked back to Baochai and said: "Don't talk about these old things, there are many places to go today, rest early .Is there any place you want to go around Gyeonggi? My vacation is only half over.”

Baochai saw that he was obstinately moving the subject away, so she did not continue to ask, but quietly walked aside and said: "Tomorrow, I will rest at home first, and I called the shopkeepers to come over. Since we have made an appointment, it is not good to come again." Go outside." Seeing what she said, Shen Yu couldn't help but follow her, but she couldn't sit still after being idle for the past few days, so she always wanted to run to the side.

On the second day, after breakfast, Bailu came in and reported to Baochai: "Grandma, the shopkeeper and some stewards of our dowry shop are waiting outside." Waiting in the flower hall, I called in one by one in the west wing to meet.The shop that Xue's dowry was married to was originally opened by Baochai, and the people they used were familiar people, who naturally knew how to do things, and it was very convenient to check the accounts one by one.The only two shops that Wang's family paid to accompany Baochai, they had told them to bring their account books tomorrow morning, but today they are still empty-handed and arrogant.

Baochai was too lazy to bother with them, so she just went through the previous accounts, comforted the stewards with a few words so that they could go back to work with peace of mind, and said to Bailu alone: ​​"You leave Miss Wu and Mr. Shi to sit in the outer flower hall. I'm afraid I have something to trouble them later." The two shopkeepers of the Wang family stood stiffly, and then they showed mercy: "Call them in!" The two shopkeepers immediately adjusted their clothes and followed the young lady. The girl entered the west wing, and saw that there were tables, chairs, books, and two shelves for filing and accounting books under the window, and a screen was placed on the other side to cover the low couch for rest.Their current master is sitting next to the desk and pulling the beads of the abacus, and asked casually while doing it: "Tell me first, what do these two shops do for a living?"

A thinner and taller one stood up with cupped hands and said, "Going back to my master, the younger one is surnamed Li, and the shop under his hand is engaged in Wenwan. That one's surname is Zhang, which happens to be a silk and satin shop." Baochai looked at him. With one glance, he asked again: "How much is the running water on the book, and how much is there in the warehouse?" The man looked up and said, "Master, you have lived in the inner house for a long time, maybe you don't know, our two shops are only in Beijing. You don't have to worry about it if you come to buy it at your door, and if you don't sell it, you don't have to worry about it, just sit down and eat convenience food every month. This is the old practice at the old shop." After hearing this, Baochai sneered and went to see Yinger, saying: "I don't know who owns the shop. The owner just sits in the room with his eyes darkened and waits for the profit? I don't know whether it is profit or interest!"

The shopkeeper Li hurriedly made a distinction: "This is the case in the old case. Why does the boss want to make a fuss in such a hurry? If you want me to say, you can't go out, and you can't see people easily. It's just that one more thing is worse than one less thing." ” He thought that Baochai’s full force would not be sixteen, and he was sure that he wanted to deceive her when she was young and soft, so he didn’t think that Miss Xue would dare to deal with them as soon as she left the school.Baochai had dealt with many unruly servants in Xue's house earlier, and such people were the most ruthless and soft-hearted.There is a reason why these shopkeepers dare to say this.

It turns out that in the early years of the dynasty, there was an order that all relatives, nobles and officials of the clan were not allowed to engage in business affairs, but the salary has never been changed.Compared with the matter of land and acres, merchants come in faster, but where does the money come from?I have no choice but to put it in the hands of the concubine under the name of "running the dowry" or operate it, and there must be a shopkeeper walking outside with the name on his head.After all, you can’t say who’s doing what kind of business on the bright side, it’s all in the name of the shopkeeper who wrote the contract and hired him.That being the case, there are loopholes and people taking advantage of them.If the master's house is tight, the subordinates are timid, and at most they can spend money and money from the account, which is great; It's not that the wives and grandmas of every family go out to lend money to earn interest, and many of them come from this.In case of leaking the news in the future and attracting officials, these shopkeepers can just say that they are obeying the orders of the boss, and they can get a few boards at most.Baochai didn't know about these market conditions at first, but it was only after Xue Biaotete shared with her that he suddenly understood.Now the shopkeeper Li might have done this too, otherwise how could he not even carry the account book, and he tried his best to get rid of the owner's control while talking.

It's a pity that Baochai didn't intend to put the hat of the crime of profiteering on her own head, so she only glanced at Bailu, and the girl turned around and went out, bringing the dowry boy in and twisting the two under the hall.Shopkeeper Li didn't expect that this aunt would be someone who wouldn't be scared at all, so he raised his voice and shouted: "Grandma, you can't do it, grandma, every household in Beijing is like this. If you are different from others, you will have to ask for help when you go out." Being discussed, the little ones are all thinking about grandma!" If it was an ordinary little girl, she would have to reason twice and put down her anger if she heard others like this, but Baochai didn't, she turned her head and said to Bailu: " You ask Mr. Shi to tell the second master, please go to the town and bring the account book with me. If there is an IOU, you must not let it go. human stuff!"

Bailu went out to pass on the message, and Shen Yu nodded after listening to it, took a few servants and looked for it according to the place, and found one right.If this kind of thing happened to other people, the shop assistants would dare to come up and yell, but once Jin Yiwei's official uniform was exposed, no one came up to make a sound.It took only half an hour to go back and forth, and he asked him to pull out the internal and external second-hand accounts and an interest book and put them on Baochai's desk.Baochai didn't even bother to read the brand-new book, but opened the worn-out one to browse through it, then took the interest book and looked at the coupons one by one. Bailu confessed: "You and Ying'er together, send this shopkeeper Li and all these accounts to your aunt, just say that our Shen family does not do this kind of business, and this kind of talent is still good with the Wang family. Besides, those Please ask my aunt to order the servants to remove the goods in the warehouse, leaving me with a clean room."

First put shopkeeper Li aside and wait to be dragged to Wang's house, Baochai turned to look at the shopkeeper Zhang of the silk shop, and saw him sneering and cupping his hands: "Grandma, I beg grandma to show you some respect. Come together, he told the younger one that you would definitely not be able to read through so many account books in one day, you just recognized your face, so the younger one was confused and didn't bring it. Or should I go back and get it with you?" Baochai knocked. Knocking on the table, he smiled and said, "No need, I know very well what kind of account flow a silk and satin shop should be. You don't have to hit the stone with an egg. The ready-made example is lying there. I will count with you for half a year." Monthly money, once the contract is released, you can go on your own, and it’s still a thread, how about it.” The shopkeeper Zhang first saw her and smiled and said that he could get over this hurdle, but unexpectedly when he turned around, he was ruthless all of a sudden. I didn't plan to use them in the first place!

Baochai took a sip from the tea bowl, and said to the two shopkeepers below in an unhurried manner: "All the old people around me know that the shopkeepers and fellows outside are all rich in bonuses and silver, so I don't want to call Then they try to scribble on the account book again. If people don’t know, unless they do nothing, who are they looking to fool? This kind of thing, if you catch it once and count it a hundred times, I dare not use two more. Li The shopkeeper is charged with the crime of profiteering, so shopkeeper Zhang is still innocent, so we have to send the former one back to the Wang family to wait for your old master to judge, or is it not shopkeeper Zhang who also wants to see his old boss?"

Shopkeeper Zhang doesn’t want to be told to go to Wang’s house. Their own deeds are indeed good documents released, but they can’t stand the fact that the family members are still holding them under the hands of the masters. But when he turned over, his tail was suddenly grabbed, and it was really too late to fix it.Like the shopkeeper Li, I'm afraid he can't escape the whole family and sell it; as for himself, he only needs to say that he resigned because his new owner became suspicious, and he has half a year's monthly payment.After doing the calculation inside and out, he shut his mouth and didn't make a sound.

After waiting for a while, Bailu saw that Baochai had no other orders, so he got up and called Yinger to go to Wang's house together.In the middle, Shen Yu got up and wanted to escort Li the shopkeeper, but she asked Baochai to stop her and said, "Second master, don't go. If the second master goes, he will do small things and make big things. On the contrary, it seems that we are unreasonable. Ask the two maids to take care of it in private. Now, it won’t hurt the face of each family even if it spreads out.” Shen Yu stopped to think about it, and called the old housekeeper to order him to go with him.

Sure enough, when Bai Lu and Ying'er came back, they brought Mrs. Chen's new scented dew from overseas, but the Wang family didn't know that these bold slaves opened a stove outside and put money out, these novel scented dews It was to thank my niece for finding out such a silverfish.When Baochai saw the woman sent by Wang's family, she took the things in front of her. The woman said again: "Our wife said that grandma is a relative of our own. At the beginning, you were troubled because of my uncle. Since the store was paid for by you, how can there be any reason to take away the warehouse? You have to bother grandma, but the family is so lightly controlled that such mistakes have occurred."

Baochai said: "In this case, I will send it to my aunt after I have cleared the treasury and see how much money I have folded. After all, it is the family's business, so it has come to this point. I will only call the original manager of my family to keep these two shops." I took over the care, and now all the affairs of the Shen family's inner house are left to me, and I don't have time to take care of the outside shop on weekdays, so I did a thorough investigation as soon as I came up, because I was afraid that these slaves would become too big and difficult to deal with later. Auntie, please don't blame me." After sending her mother-in-law out, Baochai called Qingwen and Shi Wuzi in again, Qingwen changed a lot from before, she simply put her hair up in a bun and wore a jacket and skirt Very bright.She was originally a pretty girl, and after cleaning up, she seemed to be somewhat glamorous in it.The stone nerd was still the same as before, wearing a green shirt, standing under the hall, bowing his hands and saying hello to Baochai, and then stood there motionless after speaking.

Yinger came up to change another tea, and Baochai pointed to the seat and said to the two, "Sit down, I left you at the end for the sake of these two shops. A Wenwan shop is in the hands of Mr. Shi, and the silk and satin shop is the same as that of the two." Qingwen takes care of it. If you need help, come back and say that there is no use for the servants in the family to stay in the porter, or if you don’t know the account book, it’s okay to ask Bailu to help you.” She cupped her hands again and still didn't speak, Baochai was relieved of them, knowing that there was no need for further explanations, so she let the two go out.

Qingwen withdrew, thinking in her heart as she walked outside. There must be new and old goods in this silk shop, and I don't know what's going on in Curry.She is also a high-minded person, and she needs to pinch the sharp point in order to be happy when things are in her hands, so she is "sharpening the knife to the pigs and sheep" with all her strength.The stone nerd walked back and forth with her, thinking that in this life, he could only live in Xue's pawn shop and help out, but he didn't know that there was still time to make decisions with Wenwan.He was both happy and panicked in his heart, needless to say he was happy, he only thought that if there was a good item in the shop that people liked, he would have to sell it, so he was blocked for a while, and instead looked sad.

Shen Yu has been nestling on the low couch in the east wing reading idle books, if it weren't for the egret in the middle who came to invite him once, he might be able to nest for a day.When he came back with the account book, he didn't go out, but he walked around and sat behind the screen, thinking that he couldn't help and not hold back.Seeing that Baochai had arranged everything before coming out again, she stretched out her hand and yawned: "Thank you for your hard work, grandma, the daily chores are endless."

Baochai got up with a smile and took a new tea bowl, filled it up and handed it to him, saying, "Isn't that how life is at home, with a lot of people and a lot of business, there are naturally many things to do. Wax." Shen Yu took a sip from the tea bowl, picked up a chair with a smile and sat down casually: "As long as you don't get bored, take your time, don't get tired." The two sat and chatted for a while, Suddenly I remembered that when I coaxed the old man yesterday, I promised him that I would have to eat meat today.At noon, Baochai personally instructed the kitchen to burn a tender lamb leg. The crispy skin and meat were finely sprinkled with spices and could float ten miles in the wind.It looked like a lot, but in fact it was just that much. Even if Mr. Shen was greedy, he couldn't go anywhere. Finally, the old man stopped complaining about the lack of meat.

The author has something to say: I am much better today, at least my head is not muddled...I didn’t know what I wrote yesterday, and my whole body was broken.