After that, the shopkeeper said mysteriously, "Girl, this is still an ordinary embroidery girl's house, our most precious embroidery girl doesn't stay here, they have a separate room, and better lighting." ”

Jia Lu glanced at the hollow curtain wall and the two stout pillars outside, obviously this hollow curtain wall could not bear the load, so the two pillars that were added, I am afraid that this has achieved the best lighting that can be done in ancient times, what better will it be?

Thinking like this, the shopkeeper Wang walked through the courtyard with two entrances, and there was an upside-down seat behind the second courtyard, which was a small attic, and before he entered it, Jia Lu was shocked and speechless.

"God, it's all made of glass?"

It turns out that this small attic is not big, only three or four rooms in total, but these rooms are made of glass windows, you must know that in this era, glass can not be self-produced, all of them are bought from overseas, even the wealthy people do not dare to use glass as a window, usually more than an ornament or something, such as the jade jade house in the dressing mirror that can shine a body is already extremely enviable, here can be extravagant to make windows?

"Exactly, these are miscellaneous glasses, the color is turbid, and most people can't look down on them, so the cost is lower. The king's shopkeeper replied.

"No matter how low the cost is, it's also glass, how did you get it?" Jia Lu asked.

"This, this, I can't answer, these are all pretended by the lord's family. The shopkeeper replied ambiguously.

Jia Lu looked at Mama Li and Mama Qian, Mama Li shook her head, she had always followed the girl in the inner courtyard, and she was not very clear about the things outside the Ning Mansion.

Mama Qian smiled, she had already been instructed by Jia Jing, if the girl wanted to know, she could tell her, said,

"Girl, do you know what our family relies on?"

Jia Lu thought about it, she often saw Wang Xifeng's family when she was in Rongfu in the past, and she knew a little bit about it, and replied,

"I'm afraid there are a few people like us, one is the gentleman's Lu Lu and the nobles will have Lu silver every year, which is also the most serious entry, and there are three festivals and two ceremonies of filial piety, but these alone are not enough to support their own people, let alone hundreds of domestic servants in the royal family.

Therefore, the real big head should be in the grange and shop of each disposal, such as the rich embroidery village here, like the black mountain head village at home, because the businessman is cheap, it is not good to buy a large number of shops, so more is to buy fields, the formation of grain farms, this is the biggest entry of our family. ”

Mama Qian smiled and said, "The girl is wrong, the biggest income in our house is not the Grange, the weather has not been good in the past two years, and the life in the Zhuangzi is not good, our house has reduced the rent for several years, and now it is just maintaining a balance of income and expenditure, so that the villagers are better, where to say what the income is." ”

He added, "Girl, do you know that there are any people in our house who are involved in overseas business?"

Jia Lu thought of the rich colonists in the Age of Discovery, could it be?

"Isn't it true that our maritime merchants have earned a lot of silver? Didn't we say that our family was a war soldier who was a landlubber, and he didn't even know how to water, although he earned a lot, but the risk was also great, and he sank a few boats? ”

Qian Mama replied, "The girl is also good, not to mention the first two years, not to mention the earnings, but the loss has been a lot, but with the persistence of the old lady, even if the loss is to continue, so that after three or four years, there will be more water, plus the Wang family's already very good water helm sailor, it is like a tiger with wings, and now a trip to the sea can earn 10,000 taels of silver." ”

Jia Lu's ears were pointed, "Wang family, which Wang family?"

"Which other Wang family, the maiden family of the wife next door and the second grandmother of Lian, their family was in charge of overseas businessmen in the early years, and there are not too many people who know water. ”

"How could our family be involved with the Wang family?" Jia Lu was a little anxious, the Wang family, as the leader of the four major families, the prince vacated the throne and was powerful, but in the end he died in an unknown way, wasn't Daddy Jing reborn?

Mama Qian didn't know Jia Lu's anxiety, and replied,

"The master of the Wang family is the inspection point of the nine provinces, and he runs outside all year round, except for Wang Ren, there is no other man in the family, Wang Ren is small and ignorant, and in the past few years, the family industry has consumed a lot, so he thinks about his in-laws.

I originally wanted Rongfu to take over, after all, two generations of aunts and grandmothers are in Rongfu, but the old lady seems to be frightened by the losses of our family in the first two years, and the second master doesn't like these very much, so he refused.

As for the Xue family, orphans and widows are also useless, just because our family intends to participate, we took over the power of the Wang family on the sea, let the Wang family become a shareholder, and dividends will be distributed in the future. ”

Jia Lu knew that there was probably something going on here, but she was just a girl's family, and now she could see it clearly, no matter how favored she was in Rongning Erfu, she would not tell her about these things related to the future of the family, so she could only follow the big ship of the family.

She also slightly felt the grief and helplessness of Jia Tanchun when he was managing his family in the Red Mansion, that is, Jia Lu was not an ambitious person, and at this moment, she also had the thought of "If you are a man, you can go out, you must go out, and set up another career".

"That's it, Mama, go on!"

Qian Mama smiled, "After that, there is nothing to say, I went to sea, bought and sold a lot of popular clocks, glass, spices, etc., and earned a lot of silver, people in Kyoto still love flowers and plants, and our family also collected a lot of miscellaneous plants, such as June persimmons and so on." ”

Hearing this, Jia Lu came to his senses and asked, "Where are all these things placed?"

Mama Qian said, "The slave maid remembered that it seemed to be put on the village in the suburbs, and it was taken care of by the old farmer who had accumulated years. ”

Jia Lu listened to this matter and took it to heart, she had heard that the weather had been bad for several years, and there was a major drought in Shanxi before, she knew that several high-yield grains were mostly imported from overseas, and she couldn't say that there would be one or two of them that could be used, and she would have to inquire about it after returning home.

But what matters now is the matter of the embroidery village, Jia Lu glanced at the small attic again, and said,

"Can you go in and have a look?"

Shopkeeper Wang hurriedly said, "Naturally, the girl is invited." ”

Jia Lu walked around the small attic, and saw that the embroidery girls were tailor-made, embroidered and sewn one by one, so she didn't bother much, so she left again.

After Jia Lu had the heart to take a look at the account book of the embroidery village, the shopkeeper Wang invited Jia Lu to sit in the wing room on the second floor in front of him, and after a while, he went out to get the account book.

The bookkeeper of Fugui Embroidery Village is the nephew of the shopkeeper Wang, he followed the shopkeeper all the way, and also saw the young girl of the main family, and wanted to fool him, so he said,

"Uncle, which account book shall we take?"

The shopkeeper scolded him, "Call the shopkeeper, for fear that others won't know about our relationship!"