Shi Xiangyun didn't know that Jia Jiu had thought about it for so long for a while, he was a pampered person, and he couldn't stand being wronged, seeing Jia Jiu talking about him, he was a little unhappy at the beginning, thinking that Jia Jiu was bullying his cousin who grew up together for the sake of the two outsiders, and when Jia Jiu finished speaking, he remembered that although the two sisters Jia Qian and Jia Qing were safe and did not make trouble, there was indeed Princess Changle standing behind them, and even the current emperor might help them. If this word reaches the ears of his uncle and aunt today, his uncle and aunt will also count themselves down.

Thinking like this, Shi Xiangyun's anger in his heart calmed down. At this moment, he is not in a hurry to deal with Jia Qian and Jia Qing, but he is worried that this cousin will not look down on him.

A year ago, when Jia Qian and Jia Qing had just been knighted, Shi Xiangyun looked at their scenery and avoided the two of them. It is also thanks to the two sisters that they are safe, and on weekdays, they only go to Jia's mother to ask for peace on the specified days, or if Jia's mother summons, the two sisters will appear in front of Jia's mother, so even if Shi Xiangyun is very jealous in his heart, he will not show it.

Over the past year, Shi Xiangyun saw that Princess Changle preferred to call Jia Jiu to accompany her, but instead threw Jia Qian, the life-saving benefactor, aside, thinking that Jia Qian had lost the favor above, which is why she has today's words. However, he patronized and was happy, patronizing to vent his jealousy, but he forgot about it, even if Jia Qian's favor was not as good as Jia Jiu's, but after all, he was the life-saving benefactor of Princess Changle.

Jia Jiu said it simply, and Shi Xiangyun also knew that he had made a mistake.

Children who have no parents since childhood will look at people's eyes, and the same is true for Shi Xiangyun. He saw Jia Jiu's gentle expression. In his eyes, he only worries about himself, but he doesn't blame him. At the moment, I have peace in my heart.

As long as this sister doesn't annoy him.

Shi Xiangyun pouted and said, "I knew that the second sister was biased towards them." The second sister should also think about the third sister, he is your serious cousin, but he is not as good as the two outsiders. ”

Jia Jiu lowered his head and took a sip of tea. No, I don't.

Even if Tanchun is his cousin, the two families have been completely separated, and his cousin can't control this cousin, let alone it. There is also someone's sister-in-law sitting in this room.

Li Kun got up and said, "In this way, it's not my sister-in-law." ”

Only then did Shi Xiangyun realize that he seemed to be stabbing Li Kun, but he did not apologize. only said: "Why did my sister-in-law say that?" ”

Li Kun had to explain to him: "In the early years, Hou Ye separated from our master, and Hou Ye had words back then, and he would not raise children for our master. So. Even though Baoyu and the third sister live in the old lady's courtyard, this month's money is taken from our master. When my eldest sister was in charge of the house, she cut a lot of expenses because of the huge expenses at home. ”

That's right, Jia Baoyu and Tanchun's monthly money was originally set according to the rules of this Rongguo Marquis's mansion, but when Jia Yuanchun was in charge, under the pretext of the family's large expenses, he cut the dim sum silver and fat powder money. Jia Baoyu invited Mr. before. Although the gentleman was angry and left, he had nothing but monthly money in the house. also received two taels of silver for a month's snack fee, and even Tanchun, even if it was a little girl, there were two taels of silver fat powder money every month. Li Kun is a widow, so he naturally doesn't use fat powder, so he is not affected, and Jia Baoyu has Jia's mother to make up for it, so naturally he doesn't think it, but Tanchun is missing half of his input.

Shi Xiangyunqi said: "Is it difficult, is it really so difficult for the second master?" Didn't you say that when the family was separated, a lot of property was given in this house? ”

Shi Xiangyun has heard of it.

When the Jia family made trouble, his two uncles talked about it with their wives behind their backs, and he also heard about it. The Jia family's family business is originally big, and those minions are greedy, but they have the ability, can operate and make money, and they do a lot of things to oppress the good people, but even if this method is not glorious, it is also the official government. After these minions were raided and questioned, their family business naturally went into Jia Yu's hands. Although Jia Yu hated his younger brother and sister for not giving him a way to live, he was thinking of his siblings and family affection, and under the pressure of so many officials, he gave Jia Zheng 10% of the property in the public middle school other than the ancestral property, including the family property of these slaves who had been collected.

Shi Xiangyun remembers it clearly, his uncle personally said that it was a family property worth at least 200,000 taels of silver, with a house and land, and the annual income was not less than 4,000 taels of silver, which was not less than a fortune or something, I don't know how many times higher. At that time, his aunt still sighed with the henchmen around her, if their Shi family had so much silver, the family would be much easier, and their sisters would be able to have two more clothes on their bodies, more jewelry on their heads, and looser hands, and they would look much better when they went out in the future.

Shi Xiangyun is the girl of the Shi family, and she also receives the monthly money of the Shi family, which is not as good as the current Tanchun, not to mention Jia Jiu. He had only a few dollars a month, just to buy a flower, and to save up for months, unless he made it himself out of scraps of fabric that he had at hand.

Because he was short of money, he knew the amount of money, and because he couldn't help but pay attention to the treatment of the girls of the Jia family, he knew that Tanchun had much more money than him even if he only had two taels of silver every month.

However, he also knew that the Jia family, especially in front of Jia's mother, and when Mrs. Wang was in charge, the Jia family was extremely lenient with the following, even if Tanchun was the young lady of the Jia family, he had to take care of it. Therefore, Tanchun can't save much money in his hands. is not better than him, in front of Jia's mother, Jia's mother treats him only one line worse than Jia Baoyu, and those girls and mothers-in-law are too late to please him, where do you need him to spend money? !

It's just that Shi Xiangyun is still very curious about this kind of thing. Women are naturally quite sensitive to money and numbers, and Shi Xiangyun is no exception.

Shi Xiangyun's question, Li Kun's face was hot.

Even if Jia Yu only gave one-tenth of the property of the public middle school, it was not because the Jia family's family business was large, and the slaves of the Jia family would collect wealth and be fat, so in the end, Jia Zheng got no less than 200,000 yuan.

What can 200,000 taels of silver do? Donating a five-grade dragon forbidden lieutenant is only a thousand taels of silver. The family business worth 200,000 taels of silver, many people who have been officials for a lifetime will not see so much silver. Not to mention accumulating such a large amount of family business.

Even Li Kun himself couldn't say a word that Jia Yu didn't come. Not to mention, Mrs. Wang not only swallowed the Tibetan silver in the Jia family's treasury, but also in the name of this mansion. borrowed more than 500,000 silver from the treasury, but this deficit was borne by Jia Yu, and Jia Zheng was not allowed to produce a copper plate.

The annual income of 4,000 taels of silver is already comparable to that of the palace. Jia Zheng is just a five-grade petty official, as long as he doesn't pay attention to pomp and circumstance, as long as Jia Zheng pays a little attention. This income is enough for three generations of their family to live comfortably.

But Jia Zheng is the kind of person who is not sober-headed. has been rejected, and still has those scavengers. Even if he lived in the back, he still chanted poems and paintings, drank and feasted with those Qing guests, and spent money like water every day, and even Jia's mother couldn't stand it. I can only talk to this son in person. Let Jia Zheng send those guests away.

Jia Zheng for the sake of fame and for the sake of fighting with Jia Yu, but every Qingke sent a thick ceremony, so that the furniture worth 200,000 taels of silver shrank by more than half.

When those little guys saw Jia Zheng like this, they also came to their senses, and tried their best to get money from Jia Zheng's pocket. Not only did they try their best to get money and rewards from Jia Zheng. also hooked Jia Zheng to buy all kinds of calligraphy, painting, toys and antiques, and I don't know whether the things are true or false. The cost is extremely high, and he even did something to the Zhuangzi in Jia Zheng's hand, making the books on the Zhuangzi more and more ugly.

In the past few years, even if Li Kun tried his best to support him, Jia Zheng did not trust him as a daughter-in-law because of Mrs. Wang's affairs and Jia Yuanchun's affairs. Jia Zheng trusts his little guy and his long-term follower even more, so Li Kun has no way to clean up those little guys and long-term followers, and he can only watch the family business shrink further.

Today, less than a quarter of this belongings worth 200,000 yuan remains. If it weren't for Jia's mother who often helped and saved one or two thousand silver from her own expenses to send to Li Kun, Li Kun wouldn't know how to run the house.

Of course, Li Kun is not good to tell Shi Xiangyun, Miss Shi, about these things. However, he was a little annoyed with Tanchun.

You said that you are a little girl's family, and you are raised in front of Jia's mother, and the fake compassionate grandmother above is also in the Buddha hall, how much can you spend? Even if you are really short of money, isn't it good to talk to my sister-in-law? If you don't say, how can I notice that your monthly money is not enough? I don't live with you. Now, I actually let Shi Xiangyun, an outsider, cut my face in front of my cousin, knowing that I believe that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, but I don't know, I still think that I, a sister-in-law, deliberately mean you.

Although she is a widow and is silent, Li Kun is not without any ideas. At the beginning, his mother's family was completely ruined because of the Jia family, and the future of his father and brothers was lost, and his sense of belonging to the Jia family was not high.

Thinking about it like this, the embarrassment on Li Kun's face did not disappear, but the anger in his heart came up.

Jia Jiu saw that Li Kun's face was not good-looking, so he hurriedly played a round: "It's no wonder, sister-in-law." There is a way to go from thrift to luxury, and from luxury to thrift. When there was no separation, the second uncle was comfortable, and in addition to going to the yamen every day, he would inevitably be with those Qing guests when he came back. In the past, when the second aunt was in charge, she always tried her best to meet the expenses of the second uncle. After the separation, the second uncle still raised those Qingke. Sister Yun also said just now, the second uncle's family business is so much, how can he afford such an expense method? So, it quickly became impossible to make ends meet. It was the old lady who spoke, and the second uncle sent those Qing guests away. It's just that on the second uncle's side, the income is still a lot less. The second uncle is the head of the family over there, so naturally he can't be wronged, and there are many girls and maids in the house, and the monthly money can't be less. The input is always not enough, and there is no way to do it. ”

Shi Xiangyun nodded as if he didn't understand.

He only knew that if Jia Yu was replaced, the family's expenses would be large, and Jia Yu would send so many servants in the family first. For example, in the previous Jia family, there were thousands of slaves below, but after the separation, Jia Yu immediately cleaned up those guilty minions, even if there was no fault, there were such slaves who relied on the old and sold the old and tried to manipulate the master, they were all sent away. Even if some people were added in this house one after another, they were the servants of the Jia family. Including the nursing homes, the total number is still no more than three hundred, which is much less than the previous number.

Shi Xiangyun originally thought. The second old man Jia Zheng he knows has overwhelmed Jia Yu everywhere, this kind of thing, Jia Zheng should handle it better than Jia Yu, at least he won't raise so many people who eat white rice.

He had no idea that this would be the case.

Jia Jiu doesn't want to be crooked in this kind of thing, you must know that Shi Xiangyun is not Jia Jiu's family, nor is he Jia Jiu's clansman. Compared with him, Jia Zheng's uncle is naturally closer, even if Jia Zheng himself has no ability. There is no character either.

Moreover, Jia's mother would not want to see her son underestimated by outsiders, even if that person was Shi Xiangyun.

Jia Jiu immediately said: "Sister Yun, Her Royal Highness the princess rewarded me with a few pieces of dragon and phoenix group tea. Would you like to try it? Or rather. My sister prefers the tea sent by the door? ”

Shi Xiangyun immediately clapped his hands and smiled: "Then I am blessed, I spared the second sister's body tea." ”

Jia Jiu said with a smile: "What kind of self-tea is just the family's share, the reward of the palace and Her Royal Highness the princess, the sect's share and the filial piety outside." Among them, I rarely eat filial piety outside, and I use it at home on weekdays. It's rare that Sister Yun likes it, and she said so, so what does Sister Yun want to eat? ”

Hearing Jia Jiu say this, Shi Xiangyun was stunned. Of course he wanted to try it. The most popular tea for today's princess Banzai, but the tea of this door cannot be bought by the rich and powerful.

Shi Xiangyun has gradually become governor. also began to compare with others, consciously or unconsciously. He has no parents, his uncles and aunts can't get close, and the words of the Shi family's elders can't listen to them, and the people who can make him quiet and listen to the words are none other than Jia's mother, the people of the Jia family.

The problem is that Jia's mother is now so bent on how to save Jia Baoyu's life and how to save Jia Zheng's life, and she can't even take care of her own granddaughters, where can she take care of him?

In Jia's mother's heart, Shi Xiangyun is the girl of the Shi family in the end, and his affairs are naturally worried about the two Hou masters and the two Hou Ladies of the Shi family, where do you need him, a person who is half in the loess, to plan for him?

Therefore, even if Shi Xiangyun is very close to Jia's mother, Jia's mother only treats him as no different from other girls in the Shi family.

Speaking of other girls in the Shi family, Mother Jia also has a fire in her heart.

Shi Xiangyun's parents died, and it was impossible to bring much help to Jia Baoyu. What makes Shi Xiangyun lose points in Jia's mother's heart is that Shi Xiangyun is a spoiled little girl, and she doesn't know the importance of her mother's family to a lady in the inner house, and she doesn't know that she needs backing to gain a foothold in the inner house. At this point, Xue Baochai didn't know how many times better than him. Even though the relationship between Xue Baochai and the Jia family is as thin as paper, he still asks Jia's mother every day, flatters Jia's mother every day, laughs with Jia's mother, and makes Jia's mother happy, just for Jia's mother's blue eyes. Because Jia's mother's blue eyes are the backing and bargaining chips for him Xue Baochai and the Xue family.

But Shi Xiangyun is not. Compared with Xue Baochai, who is working hard to accumulate chips, Shi Xiangyun is throwing chips everywhere. His uncles and aunts turned out to be his dependents and his bargaining chips, but Shi Xiangyun didn't know how to hold on to them. In Jia Mu's opinion, this alone has already made him shake his head.

It turned out that Shi Xiangyun and Jia Baoyu's marriage index was not much higher than Xue Baochai's, and now Jia's mother's granddaughter Lin Daiyu is coming, and Jia's mother will choose Shi Xiangyun.

In Jia's mother's opinion, only her granddaughter is worthy of the grandson she raised.

Although Mother Jia didn't say anything on her lips or show it on her face, girls have always been careful in this regard, and Shi Xiangyun is good at observing words and feelings, although she didn't guess Mother Jia's thoughts, she also instinctively felt the threat of the upcoming Lin Daiyu.

Today, he came to Jia Jiu to find out what the people here think of Lin Daiyu, and most importantly, whether Lin Daiyu will become Jia Baoyu's fiancée.

Therefore, when Shi Xiangyun heard Jia Jiu ask him what kind of tea he was eating, he immediately said: "I heard that there is a kind of tea in Gusu called Scaring Fragrance, I don't know if the second sister has it here." ”

Jia Jiu immediately said: "Sister Yun is talking about Taihu Biluochun?" Sister Lin did send two boxes of Biluochun's autumn tea in my birthday gift before. Although it is not as fresh and lovely as spring tea, it is a new tea last fall. Eating too much green tea is not very good for the spleen and stomach, but it is okay to eat it once or twice once in a while. ”

Shi Xiangyun stared at Jia Jiu's face and said, "I heard that this Sister Lin is a few months older than me?" What does he look like? Is your temperament good? ”

Jia Jiu smiled: "I haven't seen Sister Lin before, how do I know this?" However, since she is her aunt's daughter, she is naturally not bad. As for the temperament, he won't know until he comes. ”

Shi Xiangyun said: "Brother Ai must be happy when he knows." The old lady wants to come and would like to see Sister Lin and her brother close, right? ”

Jia Jiu understood what Shi Xiangyun meant, he stared, but he thought of the wording and said, "That's not necessarily." If Sister Lin came to our house, she definitely didn't come alone. He also has three younger brothers and a younger sister to take care of. Moreover, Sister Lin is the same age as you, and their Lin family is the most disciplined, and it is not like our family, which is used to beating. Baoyu just wants to be close, Sister Lin will not have so much time first, second, she has to take care of her younger brothers and sisters, and third, she has a conflict with his upbringing, I am afraid that she will not be happy to see Baoyu running towards him. ”

Shi Xiangyun was a little relieved, but said, "What if this is what the old lady wants?" ”

Jia Jiu shook his head and said, "That's impossible." I heard that Sister Lin's stepmother had a difficult birth and died after giving birth to triplets. Sister Lin still has a year of filial piety. If Baoyu is allowed to lean on it at this time, what will my aunt think? What does Sister Lin feel like in her heart? The friendship between my father and my aunt and my aunt is not bad, otherwise, I wouldn't have responded to my aunt's request and waited for Qingming to go south. Even if the old lady doesn't stick to Baoyu, if she lets her father know, I'm afraid that my father will find the second uncle for tea. ”

When Shi Xiangyun heard this, he was relieved.

He also knows that Jia Zheng has the best face and the most face. If Jia Yu finds him for Jia Baoyu's unruliness, then he will definitely teach Jia Baoyu a good lesson. Even if he doesn't beat Jia Baoyu, he will detain Jia Baoyu in front of him and endorse something.

Although Jia Baoyu's future may be pitiful, as long as Jia Baoyu can be separated from the upcoming Lin Daiyu, Shi Xiangyun is still happy to see Jia Zheng take care of Jia Baoyu once or twice.

Thinking of disciplining Jia Baoyu, Shi Xiangyun's heart felt uncomfortable again.

He knew that Jia Mu hated others disciplining Jia Baoyu the most. If Jia's mother makes a move, I'm afraid that even Jia Zheng can only retreat and kowtow to ask for guilt.

Thinking like this, Shi Xiangyun's feelings fell again.

Jia Jiu's face still had a calm and breezy look, and he didn't know Shi Xiangyun's thoughts. On the one hand, he asked the little girl to take Biluochun, and on the other hand, he asked Xiaohong to take off the brand-new four-cup set of Longquan fine white porcelain tea set on the Bogu shelf, and said in his mouth: "Sister Lin said in the letter, the spring tea and autumn tea of Biluochun taste different, each has its own merits, why don't we come to taste this Biluochun today, and also distinguish his merits." ”

As he was talking, someone outside the window said, "Second sister, what's the wonder?" ”

Jia Jiu hurriedly stood up, it turned out that Xue Baochai was here.

After everyone saw the salute, they sat down, and Shi Xiangyun immediately replied: "Sister Bao, let's talk about the wonders of Biluochun." Sister Bao is from the south, do you want to eat this? ”

Xue Baochai said with a smile: "This Biluochun is a new tea that only emerged during the reign of Emperor Taizu. Biluochun was originally only produced on a small island in the center of Taihu Lake, and the middle-aged island was shrouded in the water vapor of Taihu Lake, looming, and getting the moisture of these water mist, Biluochun had a sweet taste. However, in the previous dynasty, Biluochun was only eaten by locals. At that time, he had a very vulgar name, called scaring people. In this dynasty, because Emperor Taizu liked it, he personally gave the three characters of Biluochun as his name, and appointed them as tribute, which made the gold more expensive. It's almost a hundred years old, because the tea on Biluo Island is limited, so the number of Biluo Spring is not much. Most of them entered the palace as tribute, and even a small part was divided among the powerful and powerful. I ate it twice when I was in the Zhen family, but I didn't expect the Lin family to use him to give it away. ”

Shi Xiangyun snorted and said, "We all know this, and you still use Sister Bao to drop your bookbag?" (To be continued......)