Jia Ke was finally able to come down after dealing with these things.

During this period before the Chinese New Year, Jia Ke was really busy. In the past, most of the things were handled by the emperor, and he didn't think anything about it, and when he was in charge of the world himself, he knew how trivial these things were.

But you can't help but do it, because just a small thing, out of the gate of the Prime Minister's Yamen, you have to pass the world, and no matter how small things are, it is a big thing, such as how much firewood is needed in many northern cities, whether there are beggars who starve to death in winter, and if they starve to death, then who will collect the corpse, and where to bury it in the end, these things have to be passed from Jia Ke here.

In addition to these things, the most important thing is the pacification of the army all over the country, these things Jia Ke never let others interfere in, they are all controlled by himself.

In Layue, Jia Ke also walked through all the three major battalions and the Xiaocai battalion near the capital, sat with these soldiers below, ate and lived together, in order to win over feelings.

By the time of the 23rd day of the first lunar month, it can finally be sealed. In the past, the seals were all placed in the palace, and this time all the seals were stored in a secret room of Yan Guogong, and there was nothing unusual to see outside, but in the secret passage, there were dozens of personal soldiers guarding day and night.

After Jia Ke was sealed, he took Li Deshan back to the Yanguo Mansion, and as soon as he entered the lobby, he saw Qin Keqing with Shi Xiangyun, where he was discussing the way to celebrate the New Year this year.

After Shi Xiangyun came to the Yanguo Mansion, Qin Keqing handed over some things to Shi Xiangyun to dispose of, but because Shi Xiangyun was young, he dealt with some trivial things.

Lan Xiang, who used to help Qin Keqing deal with these things, didn't know what was going on, and had long been idle by Qin Keqing, Jia Ke never interfered in these things that Qin Keqing was responsible for, that is, Lan Xiang complained several times in front of Jia Ke, but Jia Ke didn't intercede with her in front of Qin Keqing.

As soon as Qin Keqing saw that Jia Ke was back, he quickly got up and led Xu Xiangyun to lead Jia Ke into the lobby, and then patted the snow on his body, and Shi Xiangyun had already served hot tea beside him.

Li Deshan stood respectfully at the gate, waiting for a few masters to summon him.

Jia Ke took the tea and took a sip, sat there and asked them, "How are the preparations for this year's New Year?" ”

Shi Xiangyun is now standing obediently behind Jia Ke and giving him a non-stop beating on the back.

And Qin Keqing sat next to Jia Ke and said with a smile: "It's almost ready, and the New Year's gifts from everywhere have also been delivered." ”

Jia Ke nodded, and then said, "How many New Year's gifts have been received from officials from all over the country?" ”

Now Jia Ke not only wants to accept the ice and carbon tribute, but also adds one more, and wants to receive New Year's gifts from officials from all over the country.

Qin Keqing said with a smile: "This year, there are more gifts than in previous years, and there are about seven or eight hundred thousand taels. ”

Jia Ke silently pondered for a moment, and then said, "Don't touch this money, just keep it in the warehouse, I still have it to use it." ”

Qin Keqing nodded after listening, and then said: "Uncle, the annual gifts in the past few years add up to 2 million taels, and you don't let it move, what use are you?" ”

Jia Ke glanced at Qin Keqing, and then smiled casually and said, "What can it be for?" It's just that I want to add some more land to us, so that our children and grandchildren will have a place to eat in the future. ”

Qin Kexin smiled after hearing this, and didn't say anything anymore.

At this time, Ruizhu, who was standing aside and waiting, spoke, "Uncle, this morning Mrs. sent someone to ask when this year's filial piety will be sent?" ”

Shi Xiangyun was a little strange when he heard this, "What filial piety? What is this statement? Why haven't I heard of it? ”

Qin Keqing hurriedly explained to him with a smile: "A few years ago, it was more difficult in the house next to me. At that time, your uncle had just become a marquis, and his life was better than that next to him, so he had to give 50,000 taels of silver to the next house every year, and it became a common practice. ”

Shi Xiangyun was a little stunned after hearing this, "Fifty thousand taels of silver? That's a lot, that's a lot? ”

Qin Keqing looked at her and said with a smile: "It's not much, it's just a dozen boxes." I'm going to check the library in a few days, and if you follow me to take a look, you'll know how many there are. ”

When Shi Xiangyun heard this, he immediately said happily: "That's good, you can remember to call me then." ”

Jia Ke looked at the pure smile, and a smile appeared on his face, and then he grabbed Shi Xiangyun's immature little hand with his hand and patted it and said, "It's like I haven't seen it, after I go in with your grandmother in a few days and lock you up in the library and sleep with Yinzi for a day, you won't want it anymore." ”

Shi Xiangyun said disapprovingly: "Even if I am asked to sleep with the silver every day, I don't dislike it." ”

Her words made Jia Ke and Qin Keqing laugh.

Qin Keqing laughed for a while, and then said: "This year, there is a little sadness in the mansion next to me, otherwise it would be impossible for Feng Yatou to come in a hurry to ask for silver." ”

"What does that mean? There are people in the house next to it who go to give gifts every day, is it still short of these silver taels? ”

After Qin Keqing listened, his face became serious.

"Uncle doesn't know, the food and clothing in the house next to him are now a few grades higher than before, if it's just these, there is still some surplus. But there are a few of them that have been built hard, and you can't help it. ”

When Jia Ke heard this, he understood that the masters of the Jia family were probably using money as dung now.

Among them, Jia Yu is the most exaggerated, and now there are seventeen or eighteen of his famous aunts, not to mention that there are more than a dozen girls who are just starting out and have not yet given their official names, and it costs a lot of money just to raise these women a year.

In addition, Jia Yu loves to play antiques, and I don't know if it is deceived or what, every year boxes of silver are moved out in exchange for a pile of broken copper and iron.

The other is Jia Zheng, he doesn't have any bad habits, but he has four or five Qing guests, these people accompany him to drink and chat, eat tea and enjoy flowers, and the most important thing is that they often buy some ancient paintings to appreciate, which requires a lot of silver.

In addition to these two grandfathers, the sons below are also doing the same, and now they all have their own problems.

Jia Ke sighed and said, "Fortunately, our family can afford it now, otherwise we would have sold the house and would not be able to afford these people." ”

"Then the uncle means to send the silver over?" Qin Keqing actually didn't want to send any more silver, in the past, it was difficult for Jiafu, so he helped them with 50,000 taels of silver every year, but now they took advantage of Jia Ke's relationship to not only accept Bing Jing and carbon respect, but even began to take over lawsuits and sell official beards, and now the money is not enough to spend, who can stand this?

According to Qin Keqing's calculations, Rongguo Mansion now spends at least 1340,000 taels of silver a year. This is already the first in the capital, and even those princes and nobles are not so extravagant.

Jia Ke sighed, "What can I do?" It's not my grandmother, it's my father's. I could watch them starving. ”

Qin Keqing is also a little helpless, these relatives are still very close to Jia Ke, and they can't get rid of you if they want to.

Jia Ke pondered for a moment and said, "This year, the little gangsters from the infantry commander Yamen have sent me about 100,000 taels of silver. I'll send it to the treasury in a moment, and you take 100,000 taels of this silver and send it to the next house. Don't let the people next to you say, let's eat and drink spicy food now, so that our parents can't eat. ”

Jia Ke had to sigh again when he said this, there was no one in the Rongguo Mansion next to him who could support him, but some of them were able to exercise a little by themselves, and they were also the parents of one side.

Thinking of this, he remembered that he hadn't seen Jia Zhu for a long time.

"How is Second Brother Zhu doing? Why haven't I seen him lately? ”

Before Qin Keqing could answer, Shi Xiangyun hurriedly said: "I know, I know, Second Brother Zhu is not in good health now, I went to see him a few days ago, and his face seemed to be sick." ”

Jia Ke was a little worried when he heard this, "What is the specific, isn't his illness again?" ”

Qin Keqing shook his head and said: "We don't know the specifics, we just went to see it and left, it seems that Mrs. is very strict in covering up, and I am afraid that no one in the house knows the specific situation." ”

Jia Ke was also a little helpless after hearing this, he judged that he was afraid that Jia Zhu's illness would attack again, in modern times, I heard people say that as long as you smoke that thing, it will not be easy to quit in the future, even if you quit for a while, I am afraid that you will be guilty of it after a long time.

When Jia Ke and the others were talking here, they didn't know that in a small courtyard in front of the Yanguo Mansion, Qin Zhong was there, in a dilemma.

How are you? It turned out that Qin Zhong often mixed up with Jia Baoyu, although Jia Ke and Qin Keqing were strictly guarded, but he couldn't stand his own willingness, so in the end, Jia Ke and Qin Keqing let go.

As a result, something happened when he got close to Jia Baoyu, it turned out that Jia Baoyu often went, and went to the Mantou Nunnery outside the city to make a vow, and Qin Zhong naturally followed, and as a result, he was a little unclear with a nun in the Mantou Nunnery.

If it's just like this, it's nothing, after all, a son-in-law looking for flowers and asking willow is to spread out, and people won't say anything too ugly, after all, this is much stronger than Long Yangzhi's.

But this Qin Zhong was in trouble, this nun seemed to have a deep love for Qin Zhong, and she was pregnant, and asked Qin Zhong to marry her.

This look scared Qin Zhong a lot, to say that if Qin Zhong was the son of an ordinary family, marrying a nun would not be nothing, but now Qin Zhong is Jia Ke's brother-in-law, and there are many daughters of powerful families in the world waiting to marry him, so naturally his vision is high.

Now where is Qin Zhong willing to associate with this nun again, but he can't stand this nun running to Rongguo Mansion twice in three days, which makes Qin Zhong feel very uncomfortable, afraid that this matter will be known by Jia Ke and Qin Keqing.

And among them, he originally wanted to discuss things with Jia Baoyu, but he knew that Jia Baoyu was a pity for jade, and he actually persuaded Qin Zhong to accept this nun.

This made Qin Zhongke a little angry, this nun, you Jia Baoyu have also been in the hands, who knows if the child she is pregnant with is yours or mine, and now she has pushed this matter on my head.

So Qin Zhong got angry and wanted to deal with this matter himself.

What he was waiting for was a gangster who specialized in helping people deal with these chores on the street, and now Qin Zhong really didn't make up his mind, whether to let this gangster deal with this matter, after all, people have feelings, no matter how to say that this nun and himself are also a husband and wife for a hundred days.