Before the separation, Jia Yu came to Jia Yu and Jia Zhen, and asked them to help him say good things when Jia Zheng wanted to divide more. After all, Jia Zheng was going to be divided, and Jia's mother's private house was very rich, but Jia Guogong picked some women who would like it for her when he was fighting, but he was greedy from the public all these years, and Jia Guogong didn't let him pay it back. Jia Zheng just asked Jia's mother to give him all her private rooms, and as a pampered young son, there was nothing out of the ordinary. Jia's mother's dislike for the big house is obvious to all.

His bottom line is that there is half left, Min'er takes 20%, Jia Zheng takes 50%, and Dafang only needs 30%, respectively to Hu'er, Ying'er and Lian'er. Or Min'er doesn't take it, and Jia Zheng takes seventy. Jia Yu thought to himself, anyway, he has a private house given by his grandfather and grandmother, and he has a title, and for the sake of Jia Zheng not doing anything to hurt the big house, this is a few percent, so he should be pitied.

However, if Jia Zheng doesn't fight for it, then, Jia Yu said, don't want it in vain. Jia Zheng is really a person who doesn't know how to do things, or rather, he can't pull off that face, he could stand righteous before, but now he has to argue with his eldest brother for money in front of many clan elders and court officials.

The private room was divided, and the rest was the main event, and it happened that the account books sent by Jia Yu to get were delivered, and they got to the point.

The inventory of Rongfu's assets was carried out by him when Rong Guogong was there, and he had also read these account books, and Jia Jing and they all knew the inside story.

The ledger is divided into two piles.

Jia Yu pointed to a pile on the left and said: "This is the title deed of the mansion built by Rongguo Mansion, the meritorious field given to Rongfu by the emperor, and the imperial gifts accumulated over the years, according to the regulations, can only be inherited by the inheritor." He arched his hand to the few officials who had been silent, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, do you want to see if it is true?" ”

A middle-aged official at the beginning hurriedly smiled and returned the salute: "Uncle doesn't have to be polite, I can naturally trust Uncle." "That being said, let's go through the motions. The young man who nodded at Jia Hu walked over and symbolically flipped through the ledger and stack of title deeds, then calmly returned to his place.

The middle-aged official said, "There is nothing missing, uncle, please continue." ”

Jia Yu said leisurely, "Don't worry, I've already ordered the little guy to get the IOU." ”

"IOUs?" As soon as they heard these two words, several clan elders immediately discussed.

When Jia Zheng caught the excuse, he made a difficulty: "Big brother, do you owe money to others outside?" He frowned, looked at Jia Yu, as if he had done something sinful, and said unbearably: "Big brother, how long has it been since my father died?" You! Alas! ”

Jia Hu pursed his lips, it really deserves to be a hypocrisy, this drama will come as soon as it is said.

Jia Yu's face suddenly turned cold, and he asked gloomily: "Jia Zheng, what do you mean?!" ”

Jia Zheng's brain twitched for a while, and he thought that Jia Yu was still in the filial piety period to gamble, then he came back to his senses and tried his best to make excuses for himself, and said: "I've never heard my eldest brother say anything about the IOU, isn't it just a recent debt?" As he spoke, he became arrogant again, "Big brother, to the point where you need an IOU, it must not be a small amount, right?" Do you have to pay your debts together? He said to several clan elders, focusing on Jia Dairu: "Don't say when the eldest brother made the IOU, the eldest brother also has private property, and there is no reason to let the brother help repay the money." ”

Jia Dairu is a pedantic, he was still on the side of Dafang just now, this time Jia Zheng made sense, and he went to support Jia Zheng again. Jia Daixiu was very disdainful, this younger brother, where is the saint, he just wants to establish an authoritative image and convince others. If he really was a high-minded person who didn't recognize turbidity, he wouldn't have touted Jia Zheng's talent in the first place.

Jia Jing and Jia Yu had already been angry, so they naturally knew what was going on. Seeing Jia Zheng slandering his brother like this, he was very disappointed and angry. He scolded sternly: "Be cautious! ”

Jia Jing is the patriarch, and Jia Zheng is not good at selling his face, so he will be silent. Jia Dairu also stopped knowing Jia Daixiu in the words "It's good to know the specific situation", although he is an elder, his family still has to rely on the two governments, and he doesn't dare to really offend Jia Jing and Jia Yu.

Jia Hu had a smile on his face, looking at the various beings in the ancestral hall, but his eyes were cold. He wasn't curious at all.

The IOU came, Jia Jing motioned for everyone to circulate it one by one, in front of other officials in the imperial court, it is difficult to say that this is the original Ning and Rong Ergong in order to pay compensation and take over, from the treasury, nominally played the IOU, but in fact it was unjust money spent for the emperor. He only said vaguely: "In the past, many officials and eunuchs in Beijing had difficult families, and the Holy Lord Longen allowed them to borrow money from the treasury. It was a common practice to borrow money from the treasury for a while, and it was not easy for our Jia family not to borrow. This is the backup of the Rong Mansion's IOU, and we also have it in the Ning Mansion. ”

The others looked at it, good fellow, 300,000 taels, they didn't believe that the two old princes borrowed so much silver from the treasury in order to follow the trend. However, after several officials and masters read it, they all said that the seal of the household department on it was real, and several IOUs were old, so it could not be an IOU from Jia Yu.

Jia Zheng got it in his hand, and almost didn't call out, 300,000 taels! The cash silver in the public is only 100,000 taels, and if the gold and silver in the old treasury are converted into silver, it is only more than 500,000. Originally, the second son had less share, but the silver shrank by nearly half all of a sudden, and Jia Zheng's heart twitched and he was distressed.

Jia Yu didn't want to carry a huge debt by himself, so he squeezed Jia Zheng: "Second brother, are you loyal to the king?" This treasury owes silver, but it is not my personal debt, and now the Holy Lord has mentioned many times that the treasury is empty, you say, should it be repaid? ”

Jia Zheng squeezed out a word from between his teeth: "Should!" ”

Then he asked, "When will the money be paid?" ”

Jia Yu said: "My father instructed me to pay back 50,000 taels a year in the future, and the second brother doesn't have to worry about the Rong Mansion being treated as the first bird." However, since it is in the name of the Rong Mansion, it is better to put it here with the eldest brother, lest the second brother's house be too small to put down. ”

Jia Zheng was speechless.

Jia Yu smiled happily and praised his eldest son for reminding him in time.

He also comforted Jia Zheng very insincerely: "Second brother don't worry, although the cash is small, the big head is those personal objects and promising fields, after all, no one will keep so much cash, right?" ”

Jia Zheng didn't feel happy at all, because he could get very little of these.

Sure enough, Jia Yu said: "My father only has our two sons-in-law, according to the law of this dynasty, the eldest son gets eighty percent, and the second son gets two percent." What do you think? "The property inheritance system of the Great Zhou Dynasty is very protective of the interests of the eldest son, which is also an important reason why Jia's mother is so unwilling.

Everyone agreed not to mention it, but Jia Zheng was very aggrieved. Although the law says so, in fact, there are many brothers who are five or five or seven or three points.

He didn't want to express it, just because Jia Dairu said: "It should be like this." The other clan elders also agreed, and Jia Jing, as the patriarch, even said implicitly threateningly, "Cun Zhou, the brothers who have grievances among the people, but most of them are ninety-one." ”

Jia Zheng had no choice but to agree.

There was nothing left to say, so Jia Zheng could only watch Jia pardon Jia Jing as if he had discussed it, and quickly divided the things into two piles, and no one could say anything, after all, all of them came according to the rules. Jia Zheng wanted to suspect the unfairness of the division of assets, but he was spoiled by Jia's mother and the Dawang family, and he didn't know the actual value of these things at all.

The deed of separation of family and property was written, Jia Jing wrote his name in the column of the Chinese, and Jia Yu and Jia Zheng also signed their names. Since then, Jia Zheng's house has only been a side branch of the Rong Mansion.

In the end, Jia Yu took out the title deed he had prepared before, and said: "Second brother, this is a five-entry mansion in the east of Beijing, but it cost me a lot of silver, so it should be regarded as a gift from my brother." ”

If Jia Yuken is fifty-five points, how many yards can't be bought! Jia Zheng was not in a good mood, so he endured it and didn't put on a cold face. He wanted to throw down a sentence: "Now that the family has been separated, if there is nothing else to do, let me retire first." Then he flicked his sleeves and walked away. It's a pity that he can't afford to offend his eldest brother without his mother's protection.

Jia Zheng was secretly extremely jealous, and his face was still high, and he refused to accept it.

Jia Yu didn't have time to listen to him say some roundabouts, so he stuffed the land deed into Jia Zhu's hand, and said strongly: "The elder gives it, and you can't say goodbye." "It is impossible for Jia Zheng to move to the place where the backstreet people live, but he was once the descendant of the Rong Mansion, and Jia Yu can't afford to lose this face.

The people in the ancestral hall left one after another.

Jia Hu looked back at the slowly closed black oil gate behind him, which was for his grandfather's rank, and the next time he came in, he didn't know when it would be.

Jia Hu was feeling sad, and suddenly someone hit him on the back, and a hippie smiling voice said, "What, you finally separated your second uncle's family, are you unhappy?" "Your father is very happy." ”

Jia Hu didn't answer, but only asked, "How is the ranking of the township test this time?" ”

Jia Zhen made a bitter gourd face, and said happily: "It's so dangerous!" Just a few places in front of Sun Shan. ”

Jahu was amused.

"Alas, it's a pity that you're going back to Jinling, and you can't drink my son's full moon wine." Jia Zhen was very sorry. When he got married, Jia Hu was in Jinling, and his son was full moon, and Jia Hu was also in Jinling. It's really no fate.

Jia Hu couldn't help but smile and said, "Maybe we can go to the Qionglin banquet together, and I'll have a few more drinks at that time." ”

Jia Zhen originally wanted to ask about the five princes, but when she thought that Jia Hu would be filial piety in September, she was afraid that she would not be able to participate in the township examination that year. I heard Jia Hu say about the Qionglin banquet again, and couldn't help but say: "That's really your good words." ”

On the eighth day of October, Jia Yu took the family of Dafang to help the soul back to Jinling, and kept filial piety in Jinling.

Three years later, Jia Yu took Liu, Jia Ying, and Jia Lian back to Beijing, and Jia Hu went to Jinling Academy to study.

Three years later, in the autumn of Qiu, Jia Hu was the head of the case, and he returned to Beijing. Friends Zhao Yi peers.

On the boat, Jia Hu asked Zhao Yi with a smile: "What, are you willing to leave Pastoral?" ”

Zhao Yi raised his eyebrows and said, "By the spring of next year, isn't he going to Beijing to take the exam?" It's you," Zhao Yi looked at him inquiringly, "obviously you didn't have the intention, why did you provoke Xianzong in the first place?" ”