Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Historian
"Third master, third master, we're back!"
Li Wanji's voice came from outside the study, Jia Huan's eyebrows raised slightly, he was becoming more and more rare to see Li Wanji so excited and gaffe.
"Come in."
Answering casually, Jia Huan continued to bow his head and copy the notebook.
This is the homework that Jia Zheng left for him after coming to Zhuangzi half a month ago and seeing their mother and son.
Thinking of Jia Zheng's face when he looked at Zhuangzi now, the corners of Jia Huan's mouth couldn't help but bend.
But then he couldn't laugh again.
Before Jia Zheng left, Jia Huan proposed to return the silver taels that were given to him by the people in Jiafu when he left the mansion and the last time he returned to the mansion, because he was no longer short of silver.
But he didn't want to, Jia Zheng, who had been proud of his son for a day and a night, suddenly changed color, and asked him sharply, do you want to cut yourself off from Jia Jiaye?
Gee! The rage......
In fact, Jia Huan just wanted to test it, but he didn't expect the old man to be so sensitive.
But then again, Jia Huan didn't really want to completely cut ties with the Jia family.
Not to mention that there are still too many people in Jiafu who make him reluctant to give up, just after leaving Jiafu, after leaving the blessing of the black cloud above Rongguofu's head, it is a question mark whether the business in his hand can support him for a day.
Since Li Wanji and others spent ten days paving the road for the Zhuangzi of the Zhenguo Mansion a month ago, and received a reward of 1,000 taels of silver, Jia Huan can really be described as making money every day in just over a month.
Zhuangzi formed two engineering teams and attacked in all directions, and then the silver rolled in.
When Li Wanji came back that day with a big dragon silver ticket worth 1,000 taels of silver, Jia Huan was a little skeptical that the silver ticket was forged.
However, since he personally visited Niu Jizong at the Zhenguo Gong Zhuangzi, he understood the reason.
Although Niu Jizong sent him out without saying a few words to him, he still explained to him that the thousand taels of silver were not for those roads, but to fund him to use martial arts, which could be regarded as a good start for his business.
Of course, all this is for the sake of the face of the late Rong Guogong.
Otherwise, just a Jia Laosan, I'm afraid people won't be able to clip their eyelids.
Moreover, if Jia Huan is not surnamed Jia, then even if he can make cement, a family like the Zhenguo Mansion will at most send a team of family members to the door, throw down a few taels of silver, and get it back.
The Zhenguo Mansion is indeed off to a good start.
The first-class uncle of the Zhenguo Mansion personally opened the price of one thousand taels of silver, and those mansions after that, especially the mansions that were about the same as the Zhenguo Mansion, were embarrassed to offer prices lower than this number?
As for the gateway that is lower than the Zhenguo Mansion, it will not be even worse.
People are noble first-class uncles, and they can't do things that bully others, so you are not as good as others, can you do such things?
Besides, Jiajia Zhuangzi is not something that a cat or a dog can bully casually, right?
Before you want to use your brain, you must always consider whether your own gate can carry the black cloud in Jiafu.
As a result, there was a situation in which Li Wanji was getting happier and happier day by day.
Because Jia Huan handed over the management of the two engineering teams to him.
Looking at the large amount of silver tickets that were withdrawn every few days, Li Wanji didn't mention how ironing he was.
"Third master, I'm back!"
Li Wanji's voice interrupted Jia Huan's thoughts, and Jia Huan, who came back to his senses, looked down at the ink stains dripping on the desktop paper, threw down the brush depressedly, grabbed the paper and crumpled it into a ball, and threw it into the wastepaper basket, and then looked at Li Wanji and said, "The Zhuangzi on the Bowling Marquis's Mansion is also finished?" ”
After what happened just now, Li Wanji calmed down and said, "Back to the third master's words, the paving is over." ”
Jia Huan frowned and said, "Did you take their money?" ”
Li Wanji rarely saw Jia Huan frowning at him, and when he saw it at this moment, he suddenly panicked, and hurriedly explained: "Third master, I told them to be in charge, saying that you have confessed that our two families are close friends in the world and do not accept cash." But the person in charge also said that their Hou Ye personally ordered it, and it was precisely because he was a close relative of the world that he could not take advantage of the third master, your junior, with a thick face. So ......"
As he spoke, Li Wanji took out two silver tickets from his arms and handed them to Jia Huan.
Jia Huan raised his eyebrows and said strangely: "He also gave two thousand taels?" ”
Li Wanji smiled bitterly: "No, third master, it's two five hundred taels." ”
Jia Huan's face suddenly sank, and after taking the silver ticket, he looked at it, and sneered: "I really admire these people's style, hey!" ”
Even though Li Wanji has recently come into contact with many high-ranking stewards and has also figured out some etiquette among nobles, he still looks at Jia Huan puzzled at this moment.
Jia Huan threw the two silver tickets on the table, and said with some disgust: "Why did you give him two silver tickets?" They're crying for me. Moreover, he knew that for the sake of the old lady, I would never be able to take his money, and in the end he would have to hand it back. But he insisted on giving you money, why? ”
Li Wanji's face was ashamed, if he wasn't already familiar with Jia Huan's dislike of asking for guilt, he wouldn't have knelt down to ask for guilt at this moment.
After cleaning up the guilt, Li Wanji began to think, and suddenly, he suddenly raised his head and exclaimed: "Third master, has he taken a fancy to our cement?" ”
"Surprised?"
Jia Huan sneered disdainfully, and said, "Recently, I don't know how many people have come to find out how we burned cement, and there are not many of them. ”
Li Wanji's face turned a little pale and said: "Third master, this historian is not ordinary, they are a double marquis, and they are very prominent." ”
The historian now not only has Shi Nai, who inherited the title of Marquis of Baoling, but also a big man who personally opened up another marquis, Marquis Shi Ding.
In today's court and nobles, the historian should be the most top-notch first-rate family.
However, this is not the case.
The reason is very simple, the Shi brothers are not in harmony.
If you want to inherit the lord of your family, you must be martial.
However, if you want to practice martial arts, the root bone or something is naturally the first priority, but there is one more important thing that is as important as the root bone, or even more important, that is, silver.
Jia Huan now consumes thousands of taels of medicinal materials a month, and in the next one and a half and eighteen months, each month's consumption will be one percent more than the previous month.
This is only the consumption of medicinal materials, in addition, he has really become a big rice bucket now, or a meat rice bucket......
The silver goes in and spends faster, and it is really like flowing water.
If it weren't for the brick kiln and cement support, and at the beginning, the Zhenguo Mansion opened a very high price start.
Jia Huan estimated that he would not be able to support it for even half a year.
Jia Huan is so good at making money, so he can barely support it, but the Shi brothers don't have the ability to make money.
Originally, a bowling marquis had already consumed almost the Shi family, and if it stopped here, the Shi family would really be a first-class wealthy family in the Long Zheng Dynasty.
But Shi Nai is not the only one who has the roots and bones of martial arts, and his younger brother Shi Ding's roots are even more than him.
In addition, the previous generation of the Shi family favored young sons, regardless of the fact that the family was almost exhausted by Shi Nai, they just forced Shi Nai to find a way, or sell their ancestral business cheaply, or borrow money from colleagues, relatives and friends.
In short, the Shi family tried their best, and finally created a loyal marquis, Shi Ding.
However, with the help of Lao Tzu, Shi Ding exhausted the connections of the Shi family and achieved the Marquis of Zhongjing, and the previous generation of Baoling Hou finally came to an end, leaving Shi Nai, who inherited the Baoling Hou, a stinky and rotten mess.
The toothache that Shi Nai hated the most was that the previous generation of Baoling Hou gave the last bit of family wealth to Zhongjing Hou before he died.
So there was one of the biggest jokes of the dynasty.
The dignified Hou Mansion is super expensive and noble, but there is a funny situation in which the Hou Mansion Yipin Lady and the ladies of the Hou Mansion do needlework by themselves to maintain the life in the Mansion......
If it weren't really difficult to the point of being very difficult, if there was a little leeway, the ladies of the Shi family would not let Shi Xiangyun do needlework without shame......
The Marquis of Zhongjing has been favored since he was a child, and his personality is naturally inevitably arrogant, not to mention taking advantage of it, and often ridiculing the Marquis of Baoling for being incompetent and unable to maintain his ancestral business.
At this point, the contradictions between the two gradually became clear and public, and finally there was a trend of not getting along with each other.
And outsiders are naturally happy to see this scene, if not, wouldn't the historian be too powerful?
As a result, there are not a few people who contribute to the trouble, and the Shi brothers have become more and more enemies......
For these two uncompetitive nephews, even Jia Mushi Lao Taijun has already given up hating iron and steel.
Therefore, the historian is far less powerful than imagined.
Just by looking at the methods of Baoling Hou today, you can know how big his pattern is.
The most important thing is that whether it is Shi Nai, Marquis of Baoling, or Shi Ding, Marquis of Zhongjing, they can inherit or be awarded the title of nobleman, and they are all on the path of Prince Zhongshun.
They are indeed all martial artists, but their martial arts and military exploits are far from reaching the point where they can obtain the position of marquis.
Therefore, although the Shi family is a double marquis, it does not have a good reputation within the noble family.
Even if the historian has two marquises, in the eyes of everyone, they are far less prestigious than the Zhenguo Mansion that only inherited the first-class earl.
Even the close relatives of the Jia family have no good impression of them......
Therefore, if Baoling Hou wanted to ask him about the formula of cement under the brand of Jia Mushi Lao Taijun, it was a wrong idea.
After simply telling Li Wanji the reason for the inner middle, it didn't take long for the very clever Li Wanji to comprehend the inner situation, and he didn't mention it. However, he still reported to Jia Huan a news that made Jia Huan stunned: "Third master, when I came back, there was a mother-in-law of the Shi family who came with me......
Jia Huan was speechless: "Isn't it? Lao Li, your taste is so heavy? Go do some work and give the housekeeper to the ......"
Li Wanji couldn't cry and laughed: "Where is the third master, I ...... I'm really ...... It's the eldest lady of the Shi family, let the mother-in-law come and bring a message to the third master. ”
"Who?"
Jia Huan was stunned when he heard this, and said suspiciously.
Li Wanji said: "I don't know who it is, the mother-in-law said that it is the eldest lady of the Shi family." ”
"Smack!"
patted his head, Jia Huan said: "I remembered, go, call that woman in." I'd like to hear ......."
After Li Wanji went out, Jia Huan laughed.
He went back to the house twice in the first two months, and he also heard Jia Yingchun, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu mention that every time he went back, he happened to split up with the eldest sister of the Shi family, which made the eldest sister Shi very unhappy, and let them talk to Jia Huan several times.
In the book Red Mansion, Jia Huan has a good impression of Shi Xiangyun, the eldest sister of the historian.
There are only two women who make Jia Huan feel the most heartache when she reads the Red Mansion, and one is naturally Jia Yingchun, who is "golden boudoir and willow, and goes to Huangliang in one load". The other is Shi Xiangyun, the daughter of the Hou Mansion.
In the first eighty chapters of Cao Gong's Red Mansion Book, Shi Xiangyun's ending was not given, of course, the verdict is there, but it is not detailed.
And in the last forty episodes of Gao E's narration, the ending given is too rough.
Jia Huan can't remember clearly.
But there was an ending given in the early TV series version, but Jia Huan remembered it very clearly, because when he watched it at the time, the picture gave Jia Huan a deep and deep shock.
Shi Xiangyun was divorced by her husband's family, and then sold to the Qinglou painting boat to accompany the wine.
When she finally saw Jia Baoyu, who was also down, Shi Xiangyun shouted over and over again by the boat: "Love my brother, redeem my ......"
Love my brother......
Redeem me......
White clouds and dogs, vicissitudes of life, no more than Si.
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