Chapter 34: The Return (Part II)
The characters named by Jia Yu are all old men with heads and faces in this mansion, they are either in power or in power, and their children are also in charge, and their forces are intertwined. And among their next generation, there are Wu Xindeng, Dai Liang and others who will be in charge of the power of Rongguo Mansion in the future.
And the first one is the father of Lai Da that Jia Yu wants to clean up the most, that is, the husband of the Lai family next to Shi now, Steward Lai.
Steward Lai is the son of the family in the house, and after marrying the maid next to Shi, he began to be reused. Shi has been in the house for so many years, Lai Steward and his wife Lai are the people she needs the most, that is, her right-hand man, although the status of Lai Steward has not yet reached the point where his son, even the younger generation of masters, should be called "Grandpa Lai" - this is the most unbearable for Jia Yu now, and the master is called a subordinate grandfather, which is simply a joke - but it is also very decent, and, compared with Jia Yu, he usually gets closer to Jia Zheng, Shi's favorite second master.
And now, what Jia Yu has to do is to remove all the people who have been used by the Shi clan led by Steward Lai, as well as the minions that the Wang clan has placed in the Wang clan - this is a slap in the face, he knows it, but he doesn't want to endure it anymore.
- Why do people always dare to attack Jia Hu? Except for Zhang Xian, who also holds the right to be a housekeeper behind Jia Hu, and the old lady with the most status in the house, Jia Hu's accident can deal a fatal blow to these two people, but he didn't make any powerful counterattacks in the first few times, so that people thought that he would endure it forever and became more and more arrogant.
But now, the master is gone, he is the head of the family, and since someone dares to stretch out his hand to his son and daughter, he doesn't mind cutting off the other party's outstretched hand!
It's just an excuse for grace, I'm afraid I can't let these people go away on their own.
These are the big housekeepers and stewards in the house, staying in the house, eating and drinking spicy, usually there are people lining up to give gifts to please in order to get a good errand from them, and when handling the money, you can get the silver that ordinary people can't earn in their lifetime; went out to report the name of the national government, and it was even better to say a word than an official, how could they give up such a life and become a small good citizen.
Even if they are not big stewards and just some ordinary slaves, it is estimated that they will not be willing to leave the mansion to become ordinary people, even if they will change from slave status to good status, and future generations will have the qualification to be officials in the imperial examination.
Good people sound good, but these days, it is much better to be a slave of a family than to be a good citizen.
What is a good citizen? There is also a synonym for good people, called "grass people"! has no power and power, humble as grass, anyone can go up and step on it, and when you encounter a lowest-level petty official, you have to bow your head and bend down and laugh, and people don't necessarily pay attention to you; Seeing the year's soil and food, in the famine year, selling the land and selling the children and daughters are light, and the flat-headed people who starved to death on the roadside in the disaster year are still few!
In contrast, how comfortable it is to be a domestic slave of a powerful family, not to mention that food, clothing, housing and transportation are guaranteed, the master is in a good mood and gives a reward, and there are various rewards during the New Year's holidays, that is, the lowest-class slaves who pour night incense feel that they are superior to the commoners around who are not well fed and clothed when they go out; As for the big slave with high status and face, ouch, that's the prime minister's seven-rank official, and as soon as he says which house he belongs to outside, which one is not in a hurry to stammer? If you can get the master's blue eyes to help donate an official, it will be the ancestral tomb with green smoke, and you will have jumped from a slave to a parent official, and you will change the court!
There are so many benefits of staying in the mansion, and these people can see it clearly, so none of the families who were named were willing to go out, so Lai Butler immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Jia Yu: "Uncle Mingjian, we have served in the mansion for many years, and our lives are in the mansion, and if we go out, we don't know where to go, so we really don't want to leave."
Several other big housekeepers and stewards also knelt down one after another, and for a while, the pleas of "Uncle Mingjian" and "Uncle Kaig" were more and more sad than the other, and people in their forties and fifties kowtowed to Jia Yu, who was in his early twenties.
Jia Yu said in a hurry: "I know your merits, and loyalty is also in my eyes, it is precisely because of this that I want to release you from the house, in addition to slaves, their descendants can also be officials in the imperial examination, isn't it better than calling people from generation to generation, so it is not only good for you, but also for doing good deeds and accumulating virtues for the lord." Or," his tone suddenly became stern, "do you think you have been wronged by being let out for the sake of the master's blessings?" β
The big stewards were miserable for a while: except for the slave for their good? That's right, without the status of slaves, their children and grandchildren can take the imperial examination, but they still have their children and grandchildren, at most they can learn some words and recognize the account books, the imperial examination articles, which are heavenly books, it is not easy to understand, where can they write, and where can they compete for fame with those scholars who come out of the family of cultivation and reading? And after they go out, they can no longer use the name of the Guogong Mansion to get benefits, how can they be willing?
But on the contrary, Jia pardon pressed down in the name of accumulating blessings for the master, and it was the lord's kindness for their sake, if they were unwilling, they would be too ignorant, and they couldn't help it!
Dai Liang's father, Steward Dai, finally found a reason: "Uncle, we are all children of the house, and we have been in the house since we were children, and we are really reluctant to let other people in the house be; And we don't know where we're going to go when we go out, and we don't have a place to stay! β
Jia Yu said: "You don't have to play tricks with me, since you can be a housekeeper, you must have some net worth, and after you go out, you can either go back to your ancestors' old hometown, or buy a house in Beijing to live in. There are also things that you are reluctant to give, and it is okay for you to go out and come back to talk to the old guys. "As for the fact that the people in the mansion are still unwilling to pay attention to these old people who are out of breath, then it is not for him to control.
All in all, in general, you just hand over the power and go out, don't worry about anything else!
Steward Dai was immediately choked and his face was flushed, and he couldn't find any other reason for a while, seeing that Jia Yu ignored their kowtow and was about to ask someone to take them and their families to be counted and brought down, he couldn't help but glance at Steward Lai, and exchanged a look with the person next to him, secretly twisted his thighs, and directly turned from kneeling to rolling on the ground, tears and snot and crying: "I want to go to Jinling to cry master!" We have served the old man for so many years, but there is no merit and hard work, and now that the old man's bones are not cold, there is the villain who is making waves and instigating the old man to drive us old people out, and we will fend for ourselves!"
Someone took the lead, except for the two who were hesitant and didn't dare to be rude to Jia Yu, the remaining big housekeepers all did the same, crying bitterly and telling their merits, and Lai Steward even knocked his head loudly, Jia Yu had to wonder if his forehead was bloody: "We don't ask for anything, just ask the uncle to give us old people a cold meal and a place to stay, as long as we don't drive us out of the house, even let us go to the horse guard shed to pour night incense!"
Other men from these families also rushed forward, crying bitterly and begging: "Uncle is gracious! β
As a result, Jia Yu's "good intentions" of "thinking about their children and grandchildren" were distorted by them into old slaves who could not tolerate their efforts in order to take power, and they wanted to drive them out and live on the streets.
Jia Yu's adjutant Ah Rong and He Wu, as well as his henchmen Sun Lin, Sun Qing's brothers and a group of cronies were all by his side, He Wu had a temper, and when he heard the words, he scolded: "Fuck your mother, the uncle is kind enough to let you out, but you are here to slander the reputation of the uncle, be careful that I cut them all down!"
Jia Yu's two adjutants, Ah Rong turned out to be the son of the Jia family, and followed Jia Yu to join the army and became an adjutant, except for slavery; This He Wu was saved by Jia Yu on the battlefield, because he was an orphan, he fed the whole family and was not hungry, and he was a guy with clear grievances, Jia Yu accidentally saved his life, and he followed Jia Yu from then on, and with Ah Rong calling Uncle Jia Yu, even his name was given to him by Jia Shu.
He Wu has a big throat and is full of anger, and the housekeepers usually fight to the death and talk slowly, killing people quietly, and at this time he was frightened by He Wu's roar like this, and the cry was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't get out for a while.
Jia Yu gave He Wu an appreciative look, and at the same time raised his right foot and moved it a little away from the housekeeper Dai who was rolling on the ground and was about to crawl to his feet now, and said lightly: "You said that you have served the old man for decades, how can I remember that you only served the old man?"
The man raised his head: "The uncle is young, and there are some who don't remember, when the villain's father and grandfather followed the grandfather to fight the country, the uncle was not born yet!"
Jia Yu smiled slightly: "Really? In this way, it is really hard work. β
The housekeepers thought he had changed his mind, but he suddenly got up from the chair and kicked Steward Dai out a few feet away.
Everyone in the courtyard screamed at the same time, but the kneeling man shouted, "Steward Dai."
Jia Yu's cronies shouted: "Uncle has a little heart and boots."
Jia Yu wanted to kick again, but the surnamed Dai rolled too far away from him, so he just stood in place, pointing to someone on the ground who couldn't get up and scolded: "What you say is better than singing, but you don't show me the face of your elders here, when I really don't know what you are doing down there when you are loyal on your face!" Originally, I thought that for the sake of your generations of service, I let you go out without accountability, which can be regarded as accumulating blessings for the master, who would have thought that you would slander and threaten the master one by one! Since you don't know what to do, then I will settle the accounts with you one by one, and save you from being unconvinced to accuse Sang and scold Huai!"
Steward Lai crawled to Jia Yu's feet, and only begged bitterly: "Uncle spare Steward Dai, he has followed the master out to fight and was injured, and he really can't withstand the uncle's kick!" β
He didn't say anything about Jia Yu, only said that Steward Dai had made the past, but this made people feel that Jia Yu was unreasonable and mistreated the old slave, plus he has always been majestic, and at this time he crawled on the ground with his hands and feet, and his clothes were full of soil, which made people feel that Jia Yu didn't miss the old love.
Steward Dai was kicked, so he rolled on the ground and couldn't get up, touching his heart and shouting pain: "Why does Uncle treat us like this, can't even we old slaves tolerate it!" β
Wu Xindeng's father, Steward Wu, cried: "Let's just run to death and follow the master, and save the uncle from seeing us as a thorn in the flesh!" Master, take a look at the spirit of heaven, uncle is going to be a loser if he does this! β
Several other people also cried, this one shouted the master, the other said that he was going to die and followed the servant master, the scene was chaotic for a while, in the end, but bullying Jia Yu was young, thinking that "the law does not blame the public", Jia Yu can't really do anything to them, it must be to appease them, and in this way, they can not only continue to be in the house, but also hold Jia Yu hostage.
Jia Yu was so angry that the corners of his forehead jumped, and he first pointed to Steward Dai and ordered: "Come on, this surnamed Dai once borrowed his father's name to take over the lawsuit, collected five hundred taels of silver from the family, and then asked the county official to judge the bitter lord to lose the lawsuit, and forced the bitter master to death, you tied him up and beat him with twenty big wrenches, and then sent him to the yamen to punish the crime!" β
Then there is the leader of this group of people, Steward Lai: "This person is deeply trusted by the master, but he embezzled tens of thousands of taels of silver when he was the housekeeper, and he was also tied up and beaten first and then sent to the yamen, such a slave, our family can't afford to raise such a slave!" β
Lai butler kowtowed and defended: "Uncle, don't listen to the villain's nonsense, the little one is loyal to the master, even the gold and silver mountains will not move a little, and he has never been greedy for a penny of money in the house!" β
Jia Yu was unmoved, and then pointed out the crimes of several other people one by one: "All of them are tied up, and each one will be beaten twenty times first!" It turned out that I found out that you were behaving inappropriately and wanted to let you go for the sake of praying for your father's sake, but who knew that you rode on my head! Since that's the case, then don't blame me for being ruthless, and don't say anything about the old man being unhappy and the wife being unhappy, my father is gone, I am the head of the family, and if there is no master of the family to send a slave, it depends on what the slave thinks!"
It turns out that in the face of absolute force, it is useless to sprinkle and roll around. The cronies quickly tied up the people according to the order, and then pressed them down on the stool and made the board, and for a while the sound of crackling was endless.
At the beginning, those people also shouted "to chase the master to the end", a few boards down, it became "uncle spare", and when the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was finished, these pampered "uncles" on weekdays were already looking at the more breath and less breath, only the housekeeper Lai gritted his teeth from beginning to end and did not say a word, and he was the loyal minister who was scolded by the faint king's staff, and he actually made the little guy who played the board more and more hesitant.
Jia Yu glanced at it and gave Sun Lin a look, Sun Lin understood, walked over and snatched the board from the little guy's hand: "You haven't eaten, you don't have any strength at all, let me come!" β
So this time the "loyal" housekeeper Lai suffered, but Jia Yu turned his attention to the two stewards who were named and did not follow the trouble for some reason and escaped - not that he couldn't bear to look at it, but that Steward Lai couldn't escape, this is still light, and when he sent someone to send them to the yamen, he would ask someone to "take care" of this person, and when the time came, he could ask about some things that he was not good to ask here, and he was not afraid that he would not speak.
Fighting snakes must be killed at once, these people are all big or small help from the Shi family, and he didn't plan to really let them all out like this.
The two chief stewards, one surnamed Guo and the other surnamed Li, saw that the old people who were higher and more powerful than themselves were all in this situation, and they were so frightened that they kowtowed: "Uncle Mingjian, the little ones are willing to go out to accumulate blessings for the master, and every morning and evening they go to incense and chant scriptures to pray for the lord."
Jia Yu didn't speak, Li and Guo couldn't help but be frightened when they couldn't hear the answer, and thought that the uncle would not let him go, but after a while, he heard Jia Yu say lightly: "In this case, I can treat the mistakes you have made as if I didn't see it, and the net worth you have accumulated over the years can also be brought back to your hometown, which should be regarded as a reward for your years of service." β
If there is a punishment, there must be a reward, he doesn't mind letting these two people make an example, telling others what will happen if they don't obey the order, and what they can get if they obey the order, but these two families just escaped by luck, and they can't live in the capital anymore, otherwise he doesn't mind letting people bring a message to the people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division.
The two stewards originally thought that they would be grabbed and sent to the official - who can do this position without a few pigtails? I didn't expect that not only would I not be punished, but I could also go out of the house with my family wealth, compared to the people who were already much better than Lai Butler, I couldn't help but be surprised and happy: "Uncle Xie, Uncle Xie, Uncle is very kind, and the small family will not forget it!" β
Jia Yu narrowed his eyes and said softly: "Uncle? β
The two stewards didn't know why for a while, looked up at him, and waited until they met Jia Yu's gaze before they suddenly reacted, and lowered their heads deeply: "Thank youγ»γ»γ»γ»γ» master!" β
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