Jia Ke waited until more than ten o'clock in the morning to see Lin Zhixiao and the housekeeper come back. Lin Zhixiao walked in front, and the housekeeper followed behind with the account book.

After Lin Zhixiao stepped forward to salute Jia Ke, he said, "Uncle, the Lai family has all been copied and inspected. There are more than 20,000 acres of land alone, not counting those in Wangjiatun, there are hundreds of gold and silver jewelry. There are also hundreds of other valuable antique calligraphy and paintings. The stolen things have been placed in the courtyard next door, do you want to go over and take a look? ”

Jia Ke said: "Of course I have to take a look, I haven't seen so many valuable things piled up." After speaking, he got up and walked out, Lin Zhixiao and the housekeeper hurriedly followed behind and walked to the courtyard next to him.

When everyone came to the gate of the courtyard, they saw that there were several personal soldiers guarding the gate, and when they saw Jia Ke coming, they all saluted like him.

Jia Ke asked them to excuse themselves, and then went into the courtyard. As soon as I entered the yard, I saw that all kinds of things were piled up in the yard.

Jia Ke stepped forward to look through them one by one, and the housekeeper quickly took the account book next to him and gave Jia Ke pointers one by one. Jia Ke opened the box and asked the housekeeper next to him while looking at it: "What is your name and how many years have you been working here?" ”

The housekeeper said excitedly: "The little one is called Qian Mao, and he has been a housekeeper in the Lai family for twenty years. ”

Jia Ke said: "You are meritorious this time, I promised you that you will not lose your word, you will be my person in the future." Pick out your family and put them in an empty house first. I'll have a big reward when I'm done. ”

Qian Mao was overjoyed, he used to be a member of the Lai family, separated from Jiafu by one floor, but now the Lai family is unlucky, and he originally felt that he would have to follow the food. didn't want to have such an opportunity, not only jumped out of the fire pit but also climbed to the high branches, he will be regarded as a real servant of Jiafu in the future.

Jia Ke didn't have the idea of taking care of the money trade, continued to walk forward, and when he got to the side, he saw a large pile of silver jewelry on a table, all of which were relatively rough, and they looked like maids.

Jia Ke asked Qian Mao, "What's going on?" ”

Qian Mao hurriedly said: "Although these are the jewelry of the maids, they are also considered to be the Lai family after all, so I took these jewelry down and put them here to see what the masters mean." ”

Jia Ke said: "Then pile up here first, and talk about it later." ”

Then I saw small wooden boxes on the tables next to me, one after another. Jia Ke opened a wooden box and saw that it was a delicate piece of jewelry, which was studded with pearls. It's worth a lot of money at first glance.

Jia Ke asked Qian Mao: "Are these boxes like this?" ”

Qian Mao replied: "Your uncle's words are like this. ”

After Qian Mao finished speaking, he led Jia Ke in front. When you get to a few large boxes, go up and open them. said to Jia Ke: "Uncle, this is the most valuable thing." ”

Jia Ke stepped forward to take a look, and it turned out to be a piece of scroll calligraphy and painting. Jia Ke knows that the golden antiques of the troubled times, and now this dynasty is in the heyday, and every piece of celebrity calligraphy and painting is expensive, and the value of the calligraphy and paintings in these boxes may exceed the price of the silver in the silver treasury.

Jia Ke didn't move forward after reading these calligraphy and paintings, turned around and said to Lin Zhixiao: "Let the master's little servant go back and tell the master, and ask him to come and have a look." Lin Zhixiao agreed and went out immediately. After Jia Ke finished giving the order, he returned to the hall with Qian Mao and waited for Jia Zheng's reply.

Jia Ke was already early in the morning, so he said to Liu Yu: "You take someone to pick out the people in the kitchen, let them cook some hot meals for the brothers, boil some hot water, let the brothers eat and drink enough, and tell the brothers that they can't relax yet, and everyone will be rewarded when today's matter is over." ”

Liu Yu listened to Jia Ke's words and quit, and prepared a meal for the mainland project.

Besides, Jia Zheng took leave from the yamen today and did not go to the yamen. I've been waiting in the small study, Jia Ke's news. It wasn't until almost noon that the little servant he sent to help Jia Ke came back to report, saying that Jia Ke had asked Jia Zheng to come over to take a look at the scene.

Jia Zheng looked at the little guy and asked, "Does the Lai family really have so much money?" ”

That hour replied, "I don't know about any other place, I took a look in the courtyard next to the hall, and there was no pile of things." ”

Jia Zheng was silent when he heard this, in fact, in his heart, he didn't want Lai Mama to grow old and have such an end.

Jia Zheng was silent for a while before taking a few people to Lai's house. When I arrived at the gate of Lai's house, I saw a few personal soldiers holding hands, allowing anyone to enter and exit. When those pro-soldiers saw Jia Zheng coming, they all hurriedly saluted and made way for him to enter.

Jia Ke had already heard the report that Jia Zheng was coming, and he had already been waiting outside the hall. Jia Ke welcomed Jia Zheng into the hall and asked the money trade next to him to take the account book and show it to Jia Zheng.

Although Jia Zheng heard from Xiaowu and copied a lot of property from Lai's family, he didn't expect that there were so many. He asked Jia Ke in disbelief: "Is this true, how can there be so many, it can't be a mistake, right?" ”

Jia Ke replied to Jia Zheng and said: "Father is true, there is no problem, I personally took someone to take inventory of the silver treasury, and I also took other things with my own eyes." Due to time constraints, there may be some small discrepancies, and the daring side will not be a problem. ”

Jia Zheng said to Jia Ke: "Take me to the silver vault to have a look, I still don't believe it, Mama Lai is heartfelt to my family, how can she embezzle so much money, doing it is simply moving out of our family's silver vault." ”

So Jia Ke took Jia Zheng to the silver vault, or passed through two doors, entered the silver vault, and looked at the boxes of gold and silver on the ground, Jia Zheng completely believed it. Jia Zheng felt that his anger could not be suppressed, Jia Zheng felt that this was the most shameless betrayal, he trusted his family so much, and almost handed over the affairs of Jiafu to his family, but he didn't expect the Lai family to trust him like this.

In addition to the silver vault, they went to the courtyard of the east and west again. Looking at the antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and jade all over the yard, Jia Zheng was already angry and had nothing to say. The value of these things has far exceeded the value of the silver in the treasury. Not to mention that there are still more than 20,000 acres of land outside. Even Jia Mansion can't raise so many things at once.

Originally, Jia Zheng wanted to say a few good words to the Lai family in front of the old lady, but seeing this situation, he didn't care.

Jia Zheng said to Jia Ke expressionlessly: "I don't care about his family's affairs, and I can't take care of it, you can just return to the old lady by yourself." After saying that, he left without looking back.

Jia Ke sent Jia Zheng out of the door, and then returned to the hall, asked Lin Zhixiao to prepare all the accounts, and then prepared to go with him to meet the old lady.

Jia Zheng took Lin Zhixiao and asked the two soldiers to press Lai Mama to enter from the corner gate of Rongguo Mansion, stop in front of a hanging flower gate, and let the gatekeeper go in to report to Jia's mother, and the mother-in-law saw Jia Ke pressing Lai Mama, knowing that the matter was important and did not dare to slack off, and quickly went in to report to Jia's mother.

After a while, a few more mothers-in-law came out and took over Mama Lai from the hands of her own soldiers. Jia Ke took Lin Zhixiao and followed him into the inner courtyard of Jiafu.

When they arrived at Jia's mother's house, the mothers-in-law locked Lai Mama in the foot room next to her, and the maid on the steps saw Jia Ke coming, and said to Jia Ke while going up to open the curtain: "The old lady has been waiting for the uncle." Then I heard someone in the house, "The master is here." ”

Jia Ke took Lin Zhixiao into the house, and saw the white-haired Jia Mu, sitting on the bed wiping her tears, and a few maids next to her were comforting.

Jia Ke and Lin Zhixiao both stepped forward to give gifts to Jia's mother, and Jia's mother looked at them and said weakly: "Is there a result?" Let's be honest. ”

Jia Ke stepped forward and replied: "The copied out of 180,000 taels of silver, more than 15,000 taels of gold, more than 22,000 acres of fields, other antiques, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, jade, ornaments. It's all in the ledger, so I won't report it to the old lady one by one. After speaking, let Lin Zhixiao hand over the account book.

A little maid took the account book and passed it to Jia's mother. Jia Mu took the account book and carefully flipped through it page by page. Jia Ke and Lin Zhixiao didn't dare to make a sound, and waited quietly below.