Xing Xiuyan went back to the courtyard of the East Road to see his parents, Xing Zhong and his family lived in the upside-down hugging building on the west side of the East Road, which was the first place where Jia Cong lived in the past, and the scenery was quiet, but now the heavy snow covered everything, and the birdsong could not be heard.

"This north is much colder than the south, not to mention the distance of several provinces, the same orange tree, the south bank of the Huai River and the north bank of the Huai River, it is different, the girl should add more clothes, don't make people laugh at us." Xing Zhong is dressed in a foreign suit, and if he has money, he will be generous, if he has no money, he is afraid that he will also be in the same league as Jia Huan, Wang Ren and the like.

The Xing family also bought the maids, and Xing's mother asked them to add coal, looking at her daughter's warm temperament: "Xiuyan, we are not wrong, we originally planned to wait for your aunt to say yes before letting you hand it over to him." Now that you are arguing like this, we will also get rid of you, it is really difficult to live a poor life, and there will be no store in this village, and Ming'er will also add a girl to you to call. ”

Xing Xiuyan only looked down at the cotton skirt: "Mom, don't be public, save others from talking, let alone decent, no matter how beautiful you dress, no one will look at it." ”

Xing's mother only felt that her daughter's words were weird, and when she went out, Xing Zhong couldn't make up her mind: "What do you say the Xue family is good?" Or is it better to be Cong'er? ”

"Xue Zhen's room, we went to Beijing together, and it seems that there is no shortage of money." Xing Mu calculated.

"What do you mean, it's better to be a wife? Now the Xue family and our family have a little surplus wealth, and they are the right ......."

"It's not what it used to be, and we can't generalize." Xing's mother calculated: "At the beginning, the Xue family was rich, the harvest year was snowy, the pearls were like earth, gold and iron, and the famous four families of Jinling were so majestic. That's because they lead the royal treasury to procure money, and their money is not royal, but in the name of the imperial merchants, they do not have to pay commercial taxes and tariffs, and the officials will not be difficult to be imperial merchants, so the business will naturally be rich. ”

"Now the times are different, the wealth is not more than three generations, the Xue family has no name as an imperial businessman, even if there are ten thousand taels of gold, there is a time when it is lost, don't you see the dumb overlord enter the prison? The family went to see how much money they had to pay, and the enemy had to claim compensation...... Xue Zhen's room, without a royal signboard, how can he do business from all over the world in the future? It's not going to work anymore......"

Xing Zhong felt that it made a lot of sense: "That's still beating my sister's joints, and now that you are an official, how many people don't want to have a group of wives and concubines?" ”

"Our girl is light, and her heart is also a little arrogant, the grandmother in the main house over there looks virtuous, and she doesn't see the girl who sent Cong'er away...... No matter how much money there is, it can't compare to power, we are a private household, a girl from a private household, and it is not illegal to be a concubine, besides, your sister is not reliable except for Cong'er, the second master of Lian, these few months, depending on the face, it can be done. Xing's mother said, a little sad.

"But we're just such a girl." Xing Zhong was reluctant.

"So what? Cong'er's character is still good, and she can take care of her wife and concubine, although the concubine is humble, if she is a good master, she will not be too sad, you and I have a place to rely on, in previous years, they got along with each other, and they were very close, I think my daughter is not unwilling, but she can't accept the identity of the concubine for the time being. ”

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Xing Xiu Yanyun walked out of Baoxia lightly, and part of Jia Yu Garden was transformed into Daguan Garden, so the East Road and Daguan Garden were connected, but this side did not open the door, she had to go out from the black oil gate, go around most of the circle, go out of the hall, and see Wang Ren, Jia Huan, and Wang Shanbao's three.

Wang Ren and Jia Huan turned west with a smile as they walked, and went to the middle road, Xing Xiuyan pretended not to see them, "Sister Wang, what's going on?" ”

"Ouch, Miss Xing, this matter is lively, the family is preparing for the New Year, my man and the man of the Zhou family on the other side of the second room, each took the land rent and the silver from the house to come in, we are handling it ourselves, and the second room is handed over to their silver treasury Wu Dengxin's family, it is said that the second wife instructed the grandmother of the second wife to return the silver from the book to the silver treasury, and the master Cong took someone to the account room."

Wang Shanbao's schadenfreude, saying that this Mrs. Xing's companion room, and Mrs. Wang's companion Zhou Rui's house are wrong, the above two concubines have mustard, and the same is true for their respective companions, when the Daguan Garden was raided in the Red Mansion, Zhou Rui's family did not give an inch, and humiliated Wang Shanbao's family fiercely, and lost face.

"Oh, I'm going back to the garden, Sister Wang, walk slowly." Xing Xiuyan didn't want to ask more about these things.

The two are on the same road, obviously, this is a gust of wind, how many people know it all of a sudden, when they arrived at the hall outside the account room on the middle road, Xing Xiuyan hesitated, or returned to Daguan Garden, but Aunt Zhao in the East Courtyard was fond of gossip, and she came to see the partnership with Wang Shanbao's family.

When I entered the hall, I saw that outside the door of the account room, there were dozens of girls, daughters-in-law, mothers-in-law, maids, and men, all of whom were in charge, Zhou Rui and Lin Zhixiao were paying money to the account room, and they were here to pay the money.

Lin Zhixiao's wife is Wang Xifeng's goddaughter, Wang Xifeng was hit back then, Lin Zhixiao was almost withdrawn, but because he was in charge of the housing fields of the east and west mansions, and later the east mansion was confiscated and the west mansion was alone, and the wife sent her daughter to Jia Cong's room, and as soon as Mrs. Xing came forward, she was saved.

In the lobby of the account room, Jia Cong sat in the main seat without giving up, expressionless, sitting steadily, attracting a lot of eyes and whispers from time to time.

The people brought by Jia Cong include Sun Fu, Long Aotian, Jia Qiang, Jia Yun, Jia Rui, and many mudworms, this Jia Rui is also tied to Jia Cong, ready to hug his thighs, if there was no butterfly effect of Jia Cong, he would have received a boxed lunch in the original book.

In addition, there are Pan You'an and others who can be named, as well as Jia Qiang's later little servant, there are a total of more than a dozen big men.

But only Jia Cong sat alone, including the patriarch Jia Qiang, and he had to stand aside, who called him a low senior.

Jia Cong's status has long been different from what it used to be, and no one knows what he is going to do when he looks at this posture.

Wu Dengxin glanced at his wife, and Wu Dengxin's family came forward and replied: "Master Cong is here to receive the monthly example?" But the monthly case of Cong Ye's room is allocated by the big house, and it doesn't come here, I heard that the eldest lord and the eldest lady don't need to send it to Cong Ye's monthly case, everything is Cong Ye's own place, I don't know ......"

"yes." Jia Cong said indifferently: "I don't understand why! Although the two rooms of the big house are a family, their respective monthly cases have long been separated, and the sister-in-law of Lian was the housekeeper at the beginning, and she couldn't manage the people in the big house, but now I, the son of the big house, have to get the money obtained from the hard work and night battles, and I want to get the second room to manage! My room has been allocated some supplements to each room, even Aunt Zhao's grandmother, and there is no shortage of her share! Now someone doesn't want me to live! Don't you know? ”

The inside and outside of the hall suddenly quieted down, Wu Deng's new family was not ignorant of the news issued by Mrs. Wang, but she had already suffered Jia Tanchun's loss, she despised Jia Tanchun as a concubine girl, young, ignorant, and was swept away by Tanchun's counterattack, not to mention that this Jia Cong in front of him was still an official who had seen the emperor, and the etiquette and teaching of entering the palace were different, so Jia Cong looked a little powerful, how could she be willing to be a bird?

Zhou Ruijia sneered, came in and pushed Wu Dengxin's family to the back, and said: "Master Cong, this family is the second wife's order, and the old lady ordered it, and now the money in the house is beyond its means, and it is overstretched, the second wife ordered it, there is nothing inappropriate, right?" Besides, the grandmother in Master Cong's room has already agreed. ”

"Good, good, good." Jia Cong clapped his palms, Sun Fu immediately ordered the little servant to bring out two boxes of silver, a box of two hundred and fifty taels, a total of five hundred taels, the approval of Shiwen is very profitable, not to mention that Jia Cong is famous, this is the same as the modern examination materials, Ding Chou's income in October, Jia Cong's pure dividends, there are five hundred taels, and of course there are profits from other books.

Long Aotian opened the box, and suddenly two boxes of broken silver shone in the sun, these broken silver have not been reforged, many people see that their eyes are shining, is Master Cong soft?

The corners of Zhou Rui's lips smiled, and he couldn't hide his smugness, in terms of etiquette, filial piety, and clan righteousness, Master Cong still didn't dare to disobey!

"This is December's receipt, are you sure you want to return to the public?" Jia Cong's face is harmless to humans and animals, and she doesn't call her Sister Zhou at all.

"Yes, that's what my wife commanded." Zhou Rui's family didn't give an inch, she didn't believe that Jia Cong dared to resist.

"Good! Very good! Jia Cong said lightly: "Sun Fu, smash this silver!" Smash hard! If someone dies, I'll be responsible! ”

Jia Qiang wanted to persuade, but Duo Mudworm and others had already held down Zhou Rui's family, Sun Fu led people up, grabbed the silver and smashed it on Zhou Rui's body, Zhou Rui's family hugged his head and protected his face, and cursed resentfully: "I want to go back to my wife!" I'm going back to the old lady! ”

Jia Cong turned a blind eye, got up and came out of the hall, faced everyone, and said loudly: "Even if it wants to be returned to the public, my silver should also belong to the patriarch and be distributed by the patriarch, why listen to the second wife?" When others call you Sister Zhou, that's respecting Mrs., but your identity is still a minion! Very good! If you want, you'll get all the money! Enjoy! Have a good New Year! If you can't get enough, come and get it! I, Jia Cong, will accompany me to the end! ”

Jia Tanchun dared to beat Wang Shanbao's family, why didn't he Jia Cong! I can't beat you Mrs. Wang, I can't clean up your companion room! It's the other way around!

Inside and outside the hall, the crows were silent, including Aunt Zhao, who loved to tear apart, all opened their mouths wide, looking at Zhou Rui's family with bruises and dying, Zhou Rui didn't dare to resist, Zhou Rui's family scolded silently, only his eyes were dragged out viciously, and everyone looked at Jia Cong in horror, who would have thought that Jia Cong was so cruel! Resolute! You insert a needle in me, and I give you a stick!

Zhou Rui's family represents Mrs. Wang's face, and now he is not slapping Mrs. Wang's face, but stepping on it fiercely!

Next, let's see!

Jia Cong turned a blind eye to this, and looked at the worms: "Go to the gate and see, is the Sima master of the household department here?" The law of the land is above, and today I will make it clear to you that the gentry will pay the grain as one, and the four or five hundred acres of land collected in my name will also have to pay taxes! When loyalty and filial piety can't be both, I, Jia Cong, am loyal first and then filial piety! If you don't pay taxes, get out of here! ”

Wu Dengxin and the others were completely stunned, which involved Jia Yu again, and Wang Shanbao's face was ugly.

A storm is about to hit Jia Fu in full force.