Chapter 15:37 Bow your head
Jia Lian is a son, and as long as Jia Yu is in the family's house and land, he is not qualified to handle it. All he can do is to look at his income and expenditure and know how much income his family can make each year.
has the right to speak on the land, Jia Lian is not only inferior to his sister, but even his two cheap nieces are harder than his waist.
Jia Qian and Jia Qing's age has also arrived, and Jia Yu has prepared the dowry of the sisters early. Not to mention anything else, each person has 50 hectares of Zhuangzi, that is, 5,000 acres of land, of which 1,000 acres are the best watered land, and the middle land is half of the mountainous land. Such a dowry Zhuangzi, as long as it is cleaned up well, will be used for eating, drinking, and chewing for children and grandchildren in the future.
In contrast, Jia Lian does not have any real estate in his hands. Because he is not married, even if he is in his twenties, he still asks his father for money. What kind of silver and rice, what ice and charcoal, all handed over to the public middle school, and then received the monthly money from the public middle school. Because he is an official and has entertainment, Jia Lian has to make up some subsidies in addition to his monthly money, otherwise, he can only live by pointing to the monthly bill of a few taels of silver per month.
In terms of money, Jia Yuke has never treated his son badly. When Mrs. Wang was in charge of the house, Jia Yu had to pay money, and it took a lot of effort. At that time, Jia Yu was still a serious family owner, and Rongguo Mansion was still Jia Yu's family business. After Jia Yu took back his belongings, he greeted the account room, as long as it was Jia Lian's silver, no more than three hundred taels at a time, Jia Lian would withdraw it casually.
I don't know if Jia Lian is too honest or for other reasons, in short, Jia Lian really hasn't spent any extra money.
He went in the Ming Arithmetic Division. The officials who came out of the Ming Arithmetic Department were originally more sensitive to money. He is a little less confident than the officials who came out of Jinshike. Therefore, the officials who came out of the Ming Arithmetic Department were originally more pragmatic. I don't like to have a treat. In addition, Jia Jiu takes good care of his brother and often sends some food boxes or something to his brother, so that his brother can eat with his colleagues, so Jia Lian has a good relationship with his colleagues, but the money spent is really not much. Jia Lian's monthly money is about ten taels per month, and there is also money for snacks and pen and paper. These bits and pieces, the amount of money may not seem large, but there are many types. Cumulatively, there are twenty or thirty taels of silver a month.
Twenty or thirty taels of silver doesn't sound like much, and in a family like the Jia family, which pays attention to pomp and circumstance, it really can't be used. But put it outside. The annual expenses of a wealthy family with a house and land and can afford to hire a girl are only this amount. Many officials with the same grade as Jia Lian and from a slightly poor background have only three months' expenses for the whole family.
Therefore, Jia Lian is very satisfied.
He felt that his monthly money was a lot, and there was no need to look down on others. The only thing that made Jia Lian frown was the way her sister Jia Jiu spent her money.
Jia Jiu is rich, Jia Lian knows, Jia Jiu will spend money, and Jia Lian also knows. Jia Jiu's fortune in those Zhuangzi to the north. Some are supplied to the border gates. And these accounts have to go through the hands of Jia Lian, the head of the Ministry of War. Jia Jiu's wealth. Not only Jia Lian knows, but even Jia Lian's colleagues know it. Therefore, Jia Jiu gave those Zhuangzi to Princess Changle so easily, which is a great thing for Jia Lian, a son and brother who was born in Qiluo Cong, a wealthy township, not to mention Jia Lian's colleagues from a slightly humble background.
These days, the relevant officials in the ministry walk like a dream, fluttering. Jia Lian explained to his sister outside for a unknown number of times, but when he got home, he still didn't say anything.
Jia Lian is not stupid, and naturally knows the political significance behind those Zhuangzi. If you change to someone else's family, if you have so many fields in the family, it is enough to make people look at them, not to mention that these fields have a relationship with the palace.
To be honest, when he saw those palace people respectfully and respectfully to him, Jia Lian's heart was still at the bottom, but now, the stone in his heart can be regarded as falling.
Jia Lian is not stupid, and he has sources, but for the people over there in Daguanyuan, it is not necessarily.
Mrs. Wang didn't know that Jia Jiu had given those Zhuangzi to Princess Changle, but this did not prevent him from coveting the silver money in Jia Jiu's hand. It's just that Mrs. Wang didn't want to ask Jia Jiu in person, so she asked people to convey this meaning to Jia Tanchun and Xue Baochai.
When Tanchun learned this, he felt bitter, but he had to find a chance to talk to Jia Jiu. Xue Baochai also knew that one day in the future, he would not be able to ask for Jia Jiu's head again, so he didn't dare to open this mouth with Jia Jiu.
On this day, Jia Jiu took Jia Qian and Jia Qing sisters to the suburbs again, and Xue Baochai saw that Lin Daiyu and Xing Xiuyan were not there, so he immediately asked: "Why don't you see Sister Lin today?" β
Jia Jiu replied: "It's not because of the chapter test? Whether it is the head of the case or the son of the child has been watching for two days. In the end, it's my own brother, why doesn't Sister Lin care? Naturally, it was waiting at home. β
Tanchun said with a smile: "I remember that when Brother Lin came to our house, he was only a little bit older, and now he is actually going to take the Xiucai exam." It's unthinkable. β
Xue Baochai replied, "I also remember it." At that time, how old was Brother Lin? is just because of his aunt's guidance, his age is there, no matter how talented he is, I'm afraid he won't learn much. Later, he was filial piety, and he couldn't go to Dongfu to study with Cong'er. When their sisters and brothers were filial, the eldest lord of Dongfu went to Qing Xiu again. I want to think about it, I'm afraid that Sister Lin will personally guide him. β
Jia Jiu replied: "Exactly. During the days when Shouxiao was studying, Sister Lin grasped Brother Lin's homework very tightly. Even I, because of the etiquette, didn't dare to disturb Sister Lin every day. β
Hearing Jia Jiu say this, Mrs. Wang's heart also moved.
Mrs. Wang knows that the future and future of her son Jia Baoyu have already been decided, and Jia Baoyu is a person who can't endure hardships, and the future wealth and glory will still be tied to her daughter-in-law. Therefore, Mrs. Wang's requirements for Jia Baoyu's future wife are still very high.
Not to mention the background, family background, and dowry, the most important point is to be able to teach each other and children, even if you can't urge Jia Baoyu to make progress, you must be able to teach your son and train your son to become a talent. At this point, whether it is Xue Baochai or Shi Xiangyun, they are not qualified.
Shi Xiangyun won't talk about it, he himself is a master with low eyes, greedy for pleasure and not motivated. The two ladies of the Shi family are not kind to him. asked Mr. to guide him in his homework, and taught him needlework, if Shi Xiangyun had a heart. I'm afraid that this housekeeping thing has also been learned. It's a pity that Shi Xiangyun is a person who doesn't know how to improve, not to mention that the homework arranged by his aunt can't be completed, and he also does needlework for the girls in Jia Baoyu's house, and even arranges the elders behind his back.
Such a person, Mrs. Wang will not look down on him in any case.
Although Xue Baochai is Mrs. Wang's niece and daughter, what is the situation of the Xue family. Mrs. Wang saw it all in her eyes. In Mrs. Wang's opinion, if Xue Baochai was a calculating, she should have thought about restraining Xue Pan a long time ago. Instead of Xue Pan making trouble outside.
Mrs. Wang can see that in the Xue family, it is a good thing for Xue Baochai to grab money and power, but it is not good to teach the men in the family.
A family. If you want to get rich. It's still up to the men. And Xue Baochai happened to put the cart before the horse, he was busy holding the things at home firmly in his hands, but he forgot to restrain Xue Pan, his own brother.
If it weren't for Jia Jiu and Lin Daiyu, if it weren't for watching Jia Jiu support Jia Lian single-handedly, if it weren't for seeing Lin Daiyu's younger brother Lin Yu rely on Xiucai, Mrs. Wang would have won Xue Baochai without saying anything. But with Jia Jiu and Lin Daiyu Zhuyu in front, of course Mrs. Wang didn't like Xue Baochai.
In addition, in the past two years, it has been for the sake of silver. Xue Baochai and Mrs. Wang didn't know how many scenes they had behind their backs, and Mrs. Wang looked down on Xue Baochai more and more.
Merely. Mrs. Wang also knew that if she wanted Jia Baoyu to marry Lin Daiyu, she would first have to nod her mother. Therefore, Mrs. Wang went to see Jia's mother as soon as possible.
When Jia Mu heard this, she immediately sighed and said, "It's so simple for you to take the imperial examination?" This big competition once every three years, plus Enke, do you know how many jinshi there are each time? How many young people went up? is Lin Daiyu's father, when he was in Tanhua, he was also in his twenties. For the sake of this imperial examination, Lin Ruhai ignored the status quo of the Lin family's several generations of single transmission, and insisted on resisting the expectations of his old mother, refusing many family affairs, and preparing for the exam wholeheartedly, which led to the later high school Tanhua. Brother Lin looks young now, but this Jinshike is not easy to walk. Three years, three years, three years, time always flies. What the future, who knows? β
Xue Baochai listened, and hurriedly said: "It's still the old lady who is well-informed, if we change and hear too many stories about it, I'm afraid it's extremely easy to be in front of Sandingjia." β
Jia Mu smiled: "How do you know that those words turned out to be the imagination of readers. It is because it is not easy to enter the Shike that so many people are thinking about the title of the gold list. β
Aunt Xue suddenly interjected: "Although Brother Lin is still young, Miss Lin is not too young. The old lady can naturally be in charge of his affairs. If Brother Lin really comes out, Miss Lin's future will be easier. β
This doesn't sound like much, but considering that most of the people sitting in this room are girls, it is naturally a little inappropriate.
When Mother Jia heard this, she sighed, as if she didn't hear the wrong thing in Aunt Xue's words, and said, "Look at what Mrs. Jia said, the second girl's affairs are not yet complete." After the national funeral, the second girl's affairs are over, Baoyu's family affairs have also been settled, and it is too late to be busy with Lin girl's affairs. Brother Lin is a good person, two years later, I can't say that he can still surprise us, and when the time comes, his sister's affairs will be easier. β
When Mrs. Wang heard this, she immediately remembered what Jia's mother had said, and Jia Baoyu should not marry early.
Although it was said that her niece and daughter were disgusted by Jia's mother, Mrs. Wang's heart was annoyed. It's just that this kind of annoyance is just because she was swept away and her face is not good-looking, and because Jia's mother is her mother-in-law, Mrs. Wang is angry in her heart, and she can only suppress it in her heart. That is, because this anger has been suppressed in the heart, it has become more and more persistent.
But is this niece's daughter more important than her son?
Mrs. Wang just loves Jia Baoyu again, as long as Xue Baochai can bring him limited benefits, or is not comparable to others, Mrs. Wang will give him up.
Mrs. Wang has her own standards for her daughter-in-law, but Mrs. Wang also has to admit that most of what Jia's mother said is very reasonable. Just like Jia's mother herself said, when she arrived at Jia Baoyu, there was that stone, and Jia Baoyu's marriage could not be too particular. Like a young lady from a real power family, then don't think about it. Jia Baoyu's fiancΓ©e candidate is either like Shi Xiangyun, who relies on his uncle and aunt after the death of his parents, or with potential stocks like Lin Daiyu, the Lin family will soar in the future, and Jia Baoyu will also benefit.
Therefore, Jia Baoyu's wife, the family background can't be too particular, the dowry or something, rich is naturally good, if it is not rich, Jia's mother's dowry and private house are also very considerable, enough for Jia Baoyu to live comfortably for the rest of her life. Except for factors such as family background and dowry, the only thing left is the requirements for the other party's appearance and conduct.
Even Mother Jia has said more than once that if the girl has excellent appearance, it is good to take people over and raise them first and teach them slowly.
In Mrs. Wang's opinion, although Jia Mu did not say it explicitly, she said everything in and out of the words, word by word, and everything she said was Lin Daiyu.
If it was two years earlier, when Jia Yuanchun had just been crowned a concubine, of course Mrs. Wang would not look down on Lin Daiyu. But now, after so many things, especially the delay in her daughter's failure to become a concubine, and the canonization ceremony held as soon as her daughter was grounded in the palace, Mrs. Wang also saw that her daughter actually didn't rely on much. Therefore, Lin Daiyu, who is close to Jia Jiu and has Jia Jiu's support, is naturally more advantageous than Xue Baochai.
Jia Jiu was for Lin Daiyu, and he once personally suppressed Xue Baochai.
At the beginning, Jia Jiu helped Xue Baochai speak, but Mrs. Wang was depressed behind her back for a long time, and she was uncomfortable alone for several days, so that everything was as usual in front of Jia's mother. At that time, Mrs. Wang chose to be patient, not for Xue Baochai, but for Jia Baoyu.
Of course, Mrs. Wang knows that her maiden family is no longer done, and her daughter will not be able to do anything, and her son will need to be taken care of by relatives in the future, and Jia Jiu, who has money and power in his hands, will naturally become Jia Baoyu's umbrella No. 1. However, the two families had already broken up before, and in order to catch up with this upstart in the palace again, Mrs. Wang had to find another way. And Xue Baochai happened to get Jia Jiu's eyes, so Mrs. Wang gave up Shi Xiangyun and took Xue Baochai.
It's just that because Mother Jia has something to say, Mrs. Wang has to suspend her actions. Now that there is a better candidate, Mrs. Wang is of course inclined to Lin Daiyu rather than Xue Baochai, who is almost half a waste.
For the current Mrs. Wang, Xue Baochai and the Xue family are just those silvers. As long as he works harder, it is still possible to squeeze out the Xue family's silver. And Lin Daiyu is good for his son's future, of course Mrs. Wang chose Lin Daiyu, even if Jia Min didn't deal with Mrs. Wang when she was at home, even if Jia Min didn't look down on Mrs. Wang after she got married.
In Mrs. Wang's heart, her son is the most important thing. Even if she wants to bow her head to that woman's daughter, as long as she is good to her son, Mrs. Wang can bend down. (To be continued......)