Speaking of which, this is also the first time that Jia's mother has officially confronted Jia Zheng for Jia Baoyu's study. In the past, as soon as Jia Baoyu and Jia's mother were coquettish, Jia's mother sent a girl to the front to explain a few words to Jia Zheng. It was the first time to bring Jia Baoyu back in person like today.

Almost everyone was waiting for the next change, but to everyone's surprise, Jia Mu had no follow-up action, and Jia Zheng didn't seem to have happened. There was a lot of talking. After all, this kind of thing is too rare, only Jia Jiu, Jia Qian and Jia Qing know that this is just the beginning.

In the future, for the sake of Jia Baoyu's study, more and stricter conflicts will break out between Jia Mu and Jia Zheng.

Over and over.

But Jia Jiu didn't have much time or the energy to care about Jia Baoyu's affairs, just like Jia Qian and Jia Qing's sisters said, Jia Baoyu was just a guest, compared to Jia Baoyu's affairs, Jia Jiu had more important things to do, that is, to take over the affairs of Jia's house, in fact, it was monthly money, clothes and jewelry, rouge gouache and daily food and other things.

The monthly money in July should be sent before the begging festival, and the first few months were disposed of by the Zhang family and the concubines, but this month, the Zhang family decided to let Jia Jiu come to send the monthly money, and by the way, let the minions of the Jia family recognize their own girls. The clothes and jewelry of the Jia family are also added according to the season, and now that it has just entered July, there is no need for Jia Jiu to bother, but there are a lot of cats in this rouge gouache, and Jia Jiu is not willing to suffer such a secret loss.

Even if he knew that Jia Qian and Jia Qing were as clear as the two sisters, Jia Jiu still had to call the two sisters to tell him clearly, otherwise it would be his fault.

I heard that Jia Jiu was invited. Jia Qian and Jia Qing both thought it was because of the rumors in the garden after the past two days, but they heard that it was for this rouge gouache. It surprised the two of them very much.

Jia Qing smiled first: "Auntie, although I have only been here for a few days. But I also know a little about the cats on purchasing. I heard that many people who buy are like this, shoddy, and the people outside should not offend these compradors, so they have to take those useless fools and young ladies inside. But this rouge gouache is not an ordinary thing, if it is a good product, it is naturally good, but if you use a bad thing, who knows what will become of your face! Auntie, I don't want to be ugly, or not. Let's get rid of this comprador. ”

Jia Jiu said: "I also mean this, but although you are young, you are older than me, and you will start to learn women's skills seriously in the coming year, so I will ask you what you mean first." It is naturally easy to get rid of this money, but the amount of money saved is also limited. Now there are only three of us girls in our family, and the money we save every month is only a little bit, where is the lack of our expenses at home? I mean, in the past, the fat powder money was given to outsiders to buy it. In the future, they will send it to each person's house together with the monthly money. If you like the fat powder outside, you can still ask a trustworthy person to buy it outside. If you don't like the outside, or you don't have makeup, or you can do it yourself. It's all up to you. ”

As soon as Jia Qian and Jia Qing heard this, they immediately responded.

Jia Qing also said: "My aunt can still understand it." This rouge gouache is the easiest to be manipulated, even if I don't worry about handing it over to outsiders. ”

Jia Qing didn't know what the current situation of the general's mansion was. However, the Jia family built a large view garden in Linlang, and the Lai family built a garden half the size of the Grand View Garden. It can be seen how chaotic the Jia family is in terms of money. It can be said that it is not an exaggeration to say that the minions who are the masters will get the rest in the end.

Money is one thing. What made Jia Qing unbearable was this breath!

Even if it's just a matter of two taels of silver, as long as he doesn't have to pick up the rest of the things, Jia Qing is happy. And judging from the words revealed by Jia Jiu, the current Jia family seems to have okay economic conditions, and there is no need to wronged the girls in the family.

If you have a cheap advantage, you don't take advantage of it, then you are a fool. At least that's what Jia Qing thinks.

But Jia Qian knows a little more than her sister, at least he knows one thing, as early as when Mrs. Wang was in charge, the Jia family had already eaten a lot of food in the New Year, and even the inner bag was almost there. The shelves are big, there are many things, and the costs are large, and most of the masters and servants are prosperous and honorable, and those who can plan are either not there or are excluded from the core power circle. Jia Qian didn't know much about her father's adoptive grandfather Jia Yu in her previous life. But he also knows that under the current situation that everything in the family has to rely on Jia Yu, it is already rare for Jia Yu to be able to take care of the outside, and if he wants to take care of the inside, he is afraid that it will be extremely difficult.

Jia Qian was silent on the side for a while before she said, "Auntie, I remember that my grandfather said last time that when it is cleaned up, the back garden will be handed over to my aunt to take care of." The niece thought, such a large garden, the annual cost of maintenance, right? But the niece and nephew looked at it coldly, as if the things in the garden were either rotting there in vain, or were taken out and sold by the mothers-in-law. My niece is bold, what charter does my aunt have? ”

Jia Jiu didn't expect Jia Qian to ask this question, and was very surprised: "Since you said so, I think I have a draft in my heart, can you talk about it first?" ”

Jia Qian was very nervous, and hesitated for a while before saying, "My niece just heard that a big family has asked someone to clean up this." Our family has such a big garden, and there are all kinds of flowers and bones, lotus leaves, and pond fish every season, so why do we have three or two hundred taels a year. "I don't know anything else, but Jia Qian knows about the reform of Tanchun, especially the garden of the Lai family mentioned in the conversation between Tanchun and Xue Baochai, which is not as big as this garden.

When Jia Jiu heard this, he immediately understood seven or eight points in his heart, what Jia Qian said was actually the initial reform plan set by Tanchun.

Jia Jiu thought for a while and said, "This garden was originally for us to relax, if we value money too much, it will inevitably make people feel petty." If you give these profits to the mothers-in-law below, I am afraid that these mothers-in-law will quarrel with the girls everywhere for a piece of grass. This yard is said to be ours, but the things were given to those mothers-in-law, our girl folded an extra grass and a flower, and attracted countless words from the mother-in-law below, why bother! But people don't understand whether this garden is the garden of our home or not. ”

Jia Qingdao said: "My aunt can still see it." If I had been replaced, maybe I would have cheapened those mothers-in-law for the sake of false fame, but I would have let myself suffer. ”

Jia Jiu said: "Big families are naturally lenient and benevolent, but there are no rules, and you can't put the cart before the horse." This garden is for us to relax, and for us to get acquainted with the outside. ”

Jia Qing said in surprise: "Familiar with the outside? What's out there? ”

Jia Jiu said: "Our girl has been raised in the boudoir since she was a child, and to put it mildly, the number of times this generation can cross the second gate is also limited. In this way, how much can we know about the outside and the crops? I don't know the grains, I don't know the grains, these eight words are for us. When the ancestors made such a big garden, in addition to giving us a distraction, there is also hope that we will not forget the roots, and do not want to be at the mercy of the farmers outside. ”

Jia Qingdao said: "I see. I've heard that some people outside call taking care of farming a humble government, and more than one family is working in their own back garden, but it turns out that it is not for the sake of beauty, but to raise the children and grandchildren of the family! ”

Jia Jiu said: "Exactly." My father had told me about this a long time ago, and that in the past, there were three hundred taels of silver in the public account every year for the maintenance of the flowers and trees in this garden. My father also said that in the future, a separate account book will be opened in this back garden, and the three hundred taels of silver will also be returned to this back garden. In the future, this back garden will be ours. ”

With money and a place to practice, Jia Qian and Jia Qing were very surprised.

Jia Qian was surprised that Jia Yu was as she guessed, she had never been a short-sighted person, and she was so concerned about the upbringing of her children. Jia Qing was surprised that Jia Yu actually knew about things other than antiques and women.

Seeing that Jia Qian and Jia Qing sisters were so surprised, Jia Jiu only smiled slightly and said, "By the way, Qing'er, the grapes on the Zhuangzi below have been delivered." Didn't you say you could make wine? How about you host in a moment? ”

Jia Qing calmed down and said, "Auntie, you need white sugar to make wine, and you need three catties of white sugar for ten catties of grapes, even if you don't like sweet, you should put two catties of sugar." And the oak barrels......"

Jia Jiu said: "The oak barrel will take a while to be delivered, I wonder if you can use the clay jar first?" Although sugar is expensive, it is also for people outside, and it is easy for us to obtain. I remember you saying that the most important thing in making grapes is the sweetness of the grapes. I don't know if these grapes are sweet enough, so why don't you go with me and see if you? ”

Before Jia Qing could answer, he heard Jia Qian say: "Auntie, the old lady is an elder, I don't know if these grapes will be sent to the old lady after they are delivered?" ”

Jia Jiu said: "This grape was just delivered last evening, and it was also arranged by my father himself. The old lady had a big basket there, estimated to be sixty pounds; Father and mother are small baskets, forty pounds each; Those of us juniors are only half of the old ladies. The two of you are each half a small basket, and my brother Cong'er and I are each half a large basket. ”

At the beginning, Jia Jiu hadn't noticed it, but now that he thinks about it, something is wrong. Jia's mother is Mrs. Tai, and Jia Yu's mother, every time there is something good at home, Jia's mother can take the big head, and there is nothing wrong with it. But if it was before, Jia's mother was sixty catties, and Jia Yu and Mrs. Xing would not add up to this number, but this time Jia Yu was so distributed, he and Mrs. Xing would have eighty catties, which was twenty catties more than Jia's mother, which was completely impossible before. (To be continued......)