Chapter 174: Baoyu Goes to the Daiyu Family
After Jia's mother went back, she began to have a low-grade fever, and her chest was stuffy and she had no appetite, because she wanted to send Baoyu and Jia Lan's uncle and nephew to the exam, so she didn't let the mandarin ducks make a noise, and quietly asked the imperial doctor who often came and went to cut her pulse, only saying that the imperial doctor Wang came to visit Jia's mother as usual. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After seeing it, it was diagnosed as an infection with wind and cold, the old lady was very old, and she had to take care of it, so the imperial doctor prescribed it to the mandarin duck, and told her that the most important thing was bed rest, and not to let the old man overwork.
After breakfast the next day, Grandma Liu took Ban'er and Qing'er to the house, first greeted Jia's mother, and then went to thank Mrs. Wang. It turned out that Ban'er didn't delay reading at home before entering school, Wang Gou'er had limited learning, and the enlightenment taught him the four books and five classics to be affordable, since he entered Jiafu private school, Ban'er studied very diligently, Jia Dairu said that what he learned was compared with Baoyu, and Mrs. Wang asked Baoyu to take the exam with him, and they also took care of each other.
Lin Daiyu personally packed up for Baoyu, Li Kun also packed Jia Lan's things early, and the uncle and nephew set off to say goodbye to their ancestors, and Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang were sent outside the street gate.
Li Gui and two old adult house slaves waited outside the street gate for a long time with five or six small servants such as tea, cigarettes, hoes, and sweeps, the first car was specially used to pull luggage, and the second car was ridden by a few of them, and the slaves followed behind the car on horseback.
Although when she was in the house, Tanchun insisted on following the identity of her granddaughter, and refused to mess with the etiquette at home, and when she went out of the gate of Jiafu, the family naturally wanted to pay tribute to Tanchun according to the court etiquette, so the stars hugged her like the moon, and even Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang were behind her.
Lin Daiyu and Mandarin Duck supported Jia's mother, Qing'er supported Grandma Liu to follow Jia's mother, although Aunt Zhao could only follow behind with her aunts, she thought that Tanchun had earned dignity for her, and her heels were all showy.
Jia Huan hid behind his mother in a daze, unable to raise his head in front of Qing'er. Even the country boy can participate in the Autumn Festival, but Jia Dairu, the poor Confucian, said that he was not hot enough, and his wife wanted him to continue to study hard at home, and even the eldest man said that his wife was obviously afraid that he would steal the limelight of the second brother.
Sending Baoyu and Jia Lan away, Jia's mother felt that her body was getting worse and worse, and Grandma Liu was about to say goodbye and go home, she didn't stay guests, and said that she would come to sit down when she was free, and she didn't let Mrs. Wang and Daiyu serve them, but drove everyone away and went to the house to rest by herself.
Lin Daiyu asked Mandarin Duck and learned that Jia's mother was fine, but she was tired these days and needed a good rest, so she didn't bother her, and sent Grandma Liu home first, but left Qing'er, and the two went back to the council hall to discuss things together.
Tanchun wanted to ask Qing'er about the news of King Hengjun, but when she saw that Daiyu had taken her away, she had to give up. Mrs. Wang didn't let her meddle in the affairs of Jiafu, she naturally didn't go to the council hall, and she didn't go back to Qiushuangzhai, and took the maid to Xue Mansion to chat with Baochai.
Li Kun is indifferent by nature, he is not very enthusiastic about family affairs, he just orders in the council hall every day, Ping'er is willing to solve problems for Lin Daiyu, but he only manages some trivial affairs, and he can't take on big responsibilities, and now when he sees Qing'er, he wants to discuss with her, hoping that she can stay in the house to help herself.
The women in charge of the house were all waiting outside the door of the council hall, waiting for Lin Daiyu's orders.
Miss Lin is different from Wang Xifeng, she doesn't play prestige to her subordinates, but understands their suffering, and the monthly silver everywhere is never in arrears, and it doesn't matter if she has a face or a faceless, if there is a happy event or a difficult situation at home, she will be rewarded the same, and the subordinates respect her from the bottom of their hearts and voluntarily support her.
Ping'er did her best as she did to Sister Feng, serving Daiyu to sit down first, and Zijuan personally brewed Longjing tea for them.
"Qing'er, now my eldest uncle and second uncle are idle at home, although there are 200,000 taels of silver, this family always has a time to sit and eat empty, if there is anything else, maybe it will be empty again, so, I have to think of some ways to make money, I heard Sister Bao say, you have a good brain, and the ideas you come up with are very effective, so, I want to ask you to partner in business, you come up with ideas, I give silver, and if you lose money, we will divide the money you earn, do you think it is okay?"
Qing'er has been thinking about the 200,000 taels of silver for a long time, she has the heart to borrow chickens to lay eggs, and she will also get a piece of the pie, but she is embarrassed to mention the matter of sharing, but she didn't expect Miss Lin to open her mouth first, it can be seen that Lin Daiyu's biggest strength is different from Sister Feng'er's greed, she knows how to sympathize with the hard work of the staff, and knows how to make it beneficial to others to achieve a win-win situation.
"Miss Lin, if I say that I don't share your worries for you, it will be too unkind, for a while, I can't think of a very good way to make money, but, as the saying goes, no farming is not stable, no business is not living, your two tens of thousands of silver, it is better to divide half of it, buy more fields near the capital, and there is no need to raise some slaves to take care of it, so it will be rented to tenants for farming, and the rent will be collected according to the convention, so as to ensure that the family has no worries about food and clothing, I heard Sister Qingwen say that a Zhuangzi owner next to her village has committed an accident, and is about to pawn it, I have asked Qiao Da to help inquire about the market, buy that place first, and Sister Qingwen can also help you watchγ β
"Then please ask Miss Qing'er to do this, even if there is more silver, I have long thought about buying a few Zhuangzi, if there is land for sale in Liujiatun, tell me." β
Qing'er heard Lin Daiyu mention buying land in Liujiatun'er, and laughed secretly in her heart, if you go to my territory to grab food, then how can I, a small landlord, make a fortune.
"I also keep an eye on Liujiatun's land, half of the land there belongs to the Liu family, and the villagers are basically tenants of his family, where is there land to sell. β
"As soon as I said that, I also asked the housekeeper to inquire around, and as you said, I bought the land with half of the silver. Lin Daiyu saw that it was almost noon, so she asked Chunqian to tell Liu's mother to add two more dishes to entertain Qing'er, and said to Qing'er: "I don't know anything about business, Baoyu is afraid that it is not much better than me, you can tell me, what to do with the rest of the silver." β
"I thought, there are less than twenty masters in this mansion, so that hundreds of servants are waiting, in other words, it is to feed hundreds of more people, no wonder the emperor stared at the silver in the mansion, and thought that Jiafu still had a great business and a deep foundation. Qing'er teased the black tiger while talking, this guy is not guilty of medicine now, he looks round and very interesting.
"Snow goose, take the black tiger out for a walk, getting fatter and fatter, and if you don't wander around, you won't be able to walk anymore. Lin Daiyu was anxious to listen to Qing'er's next words, thinking that the black tiger was in the way.
Qing'er said: " I heard that Miss Xue used her dowry silver to redeem the pawnshop, her family's ready-to-wear shop and workshop have also reached the deadline, if this month is not redeemed, it will become a dead pawn, and it will be auctioned by the money village, which is a one-stop shop for production and sales, and several merchants in the capital are staring at it and want to buy it, if the price is expected to be two or three percent higher when the auction is held, it may not be able to grab it, it is better to let the Xue family come forward to redeem the shop, Miss Lin will add one percent of the silver to buy, which is good for both parties, and her family must not be able to support those many guysγ β
"That's the best, sister-in-law, please go to Rongxi Hall, ask Mrs. to show me, if you can get Mrs. to go out in person, go and tell Aunt Xue that this matter will be done." Lin Daiyu was also anxious, so she immediately asked Li Kun to tell Mrs. Wang.
"No merit, this shop, I don't participate in the sharing, I have an idea, the use of this garden, the Grand View Garden is built for the imperial concubine, the girls lived, now, the Spring Festival girl is married, I estimate that the happy event of the three girls will be in the spring of next year, Miss Xue will naturally not come back to live, the spring girl has now made up her mind to practice with Miaoyu, those gardens are empty, but you have to spend money to hire someone to take care of it, it is better to wait for the second master of Bao to do the marriage, you will still live in the Rongguo Mansion, and accompany the filial piety of the old lady, in addition to Daoxiang Village is still left to the grandmother to take care of, just hand over the Daguan Garden to me to manage for you, The house is now each room to eat their own meals, I can't support so many idlers, and the extra people are also handed over to me to use, we will run the Grand View Garden into the largest leisure and entertainment center in the capital, not afraid of no money to make. β
"Can this be done?" Lin Daiyu felt a little unreliable when she heard what she said.
Qing'er explained with a smile: " Horizontal houses and people are ready-made, unlike buying ready-made clothing shops and workshops need ready-made silver, even if you lose money, you can't lose anywhere, if you make silver, I don't want thirty percent, even if I am twenty percent, it stands to reason that I shouldn't mention the sharing of things, but, with common interests, everyone can work together, have the strength to make one place, I think that the other one percent of the dividend will be distributed on the heads of the people in the house, in addition to the monthly routine as usual, to the next year, they also expect to share the dividend, not afraid that everyone will not have to plan for the owner. β
"I also want to give them more benefits, those house slaves are also to support their families, pointing to the master's pleasure to reward, not pleasing to the eye on the no, after all, it is not a way, since you give up a dividend, I also give up a percent, Jiafu accounts for sixty percent of the profit, you two percent, and the slaves share twenty percent. β
Although she has no score in her heart, Lin Daiyu still chooses to believe in Miss Qing'er, she also feels that there are fewer and fewer people living in Daguanyuan now, it is very deserted, and it can't be sold.
"I heard that the musical instruments and outfits of the troupe that Niangniang bought when she was in the province have not been sold, just let Fang Guan'er and them set up the troupe again, and they will open the lotus lotus champs into a drama garden. β
As he was talking, Li Kun came back and said with a smile: "Mrs. said that Miss Qing'er's idea is very good, so she will go to Xue Mansion and tell her aunt to go, let Miss Lin prepare a banquet to entertain Miss Qing'er, and when she comes back, there will be things to discuss with Miss Qing'er." (To be continued.) )