14. Inventory (3)
The sixth item is the house deed, land deed, and shops: 200 acres of paddy fields and 200 acres of dry land in Dongyang County, 200 acres of paddy fields and 200 acres of dry land in She County; There are eight shops on 16 roads in Qizhou, two grain stores, two cloth stores, two restaurants, one gold and jade shop, and one pawnshop; There is a three-entry house in Dongyang County, and a three-entry house in Beijing, both of which are placed to collect rent.
The seventh item is the silver in the box: the 500,000 taels that Lu said to Luo's mother is actually a conversion, and the physical thing is 20,000 taels of gold and 200,000 taels of silver; If it is really 500,000 silver, then how many boxes are too conspicuous, so part of what the Bai family gives is gold. However, these 500,000 taels are only on the surface. In fact, the name of the Bai family's "richest man in the south of the Yangtze River" is not mixed with a trace of water, when the Bai family got married, in order to avoid the suspicion of showing off his wealth, some of the dowry property was only written with a few words, including the silver in the box is written "50,000 taels of gold, a number of scattered tickets", and this word scattered tickets has a lot of articles. Green Smoke held a small yellow rosewood box, and when it was opened, it was a silver ticket from Delong Money, a denomination of 10,000 taels, a total of fifty. Therefore, Bai's real pressure box silver is actually one million taels.
In addition to the dowry originally brought by the Bai family, there are also the original private property of the second room in the warehouse, mainly some antique calligraphy and painting, cloth and clothing, and daily utensils.
This is compared, the outside of the Meng family looks glamorous, in fact, the private property of the second room of the Yanzhi is only so much, compared with the Bai family's dowry, it is a big thing, but no matter how small the mosquito legs are, it is also meat, Meng Qingyun also asked Lu Yan and others to count it by the way.
Because Meng Jin has been working as an official outside, these economic affairs in the family are all taken care of by the Bai family, so all the property in the second room is naturally under her control.
Too rich!
Even if Meng Qingyun was a multinational consortium operating from the Republic of China to modern times in his previous life, and he was not particularly clear about the national situation in the present world, he could still speculate that if he only talked about private property, the Bai family was very likely to be the richest woman in the world.
Her body will really be reincarnated.
In fact, the reason why the Bai family prepared so many dowries for the Bai family at that time was that the family was extremely rich, the second was that they loved their daughter, and the third was that they attached importance to the in-laws of the Meng family. But at the same time, there is also a helplessness, in the early days of the founding of this dynasty, it has always been the noble gate lord to control political resources, but from the beginning of the first emperor's implementation of the imperial examination, today's official family adheres to the strategy of the first emperor, two generations of imperial court management, the status of the scholar is much more noble than the previous dynasty, and now the officials in the court, seven or eight out of ten come from the imperial examination, and there is a kind of invisible inferiority to those born in the recommendation system. It is also because of this kind of world situation that the daughter of the rich family is not as noble as the daughter of the scholarly family, the eldest lady Lu's father is a professor of Weishan Academy, and Yu Jiangnan is known as a literary name, and the Bai family is just a business family. If it weren't for this, with the Bai family's indisputable nature, I am afraid that they would be suppressed even worse by the Lu family.
It's a pity that the Lu family has excellent means, she is not only the head of the house, but also hungry for money, and now that the Bai family has passed away, how can this huge wealth not attract her coveting.
After taking this inventory, it took Meng Qingyun's master and servant four or five hours, starting from entering the warehouse in the morning and staying until sunset, and even had lunch in a hurry. Even if it is green smoke, it is just something that comes in and out on weekdays, and after really taking stock like this, I have an intuitive and shocking understanding of the wealth that the Bai family has.
Even she is like this, let alone Bauhinia, Asakusa, and Xiu'er, as for those rough women, don't mention the unknowledgeable looks.
In short, when the master and servant locked the treasury and walked out of the backyard, everyone seemed to have been baptized by the light of the Buddha, and their limbs were sore, but there was also a sense of unreality.
But when they returned to the living room, the flutter disappeared immediately, because Cui's mother was sitting in the room with a puff of eyes, staring at their master and servant as they entered the door.
Previously, Meng Qingyun asked Asakusa to coax Cui's mother to go to the mourning hall, but it was just an expedient measure, and she couldn't stay in the mourning hall all day, worried that Meng Qingyun was unwell, so she came back before lunch, but the house was empty, and when she found the backyard, General Tie guarded the door and couldn't get in at all.
This is also Meng Qingyun's order, taking stock of the warehouse, so that too many people can't see it, so he asked someone to lock the backyard door.
Cui's mother knocked on the door a few times outside, and although she was vaguely heard in the warehouse, no one paid attention to the whole process.
"Yuan Niang is really big-hearted, and now she hides everything from me, it seems that she thinks I'm old and useless......" Cui's mother cried aggrievedly as she spoke, sobbing and accommodating, "I'm really white milk for you, I've fed the dog for more than ten years, since I dislike me, it's better to drive me to the countryside, so as not to hinder your ......eyes here."
Cui's mother cried this time, it was really a rain of tears, and she was very sad and tragic.
Meng Qingyun was a little weak-hearted, and a little big.
She went up and helped Cui's mother on the shoulder and said, "Good mother, don't talk nonsense, how can I think you are old, you still have to watch me get married." ”
Mother Cui snorted and turned around, trying to shake off her hand: "Don't coax me, I don't believe your nonsense." ”
Meng Qingyun simply hugged her neck, lay on her shoulder, and said with a smile: "Really, don't you want to watch me get married and have children, and you will bring dolls for me in the future?" ”
As soon as Cui's mother was hugged by her, her heart softened halfway, but the grievances in her heart were still a little unbearable, and she sniffed and said in disgust: "The girl's family is so ashamed." ”
Meng Qingyun shook her body and was coquettish.
"Oh, oops, don't shake, your head is shaking."
Meng Qingyun pouted and said, "I'm just fainting from hunger, good mother, get me something to eat, I'm dying of hunger." She said and threw a look at Green Smoke and the others.
Green Smoke, Asakusa, Bauhinia, and Xiu'er all immediately called.
"It's just, I'm hungry and my heart is close to my back."
"Me too, mom get me something to eat."
"Why haven't you come for dinner yet?"
A few girls shouted and pretended to be clever at Cui's mother, and sure enough, they diverted her attention.
Cui's mother said distressedly: "Look at you all like hungry wolves, children just don't know how to cherish blessings and nourish their bodies, and they don't have a punctual meal." ”
While talking, he had already assigned the little maid to go to the big kitchen to get dinner, and at the same time he quickly turned out snacks and candied fruits and other things from the chest of drawers for the master and servant to satisfy their hunger.
The big kitchen actually happened to send dinner, and met the maid who went to urge the meal on the way, and soon came to the Huanhua Pavilion.
Cui's mother angrily taught Luyan and the others: "I really don't understand the rules, you also deserve to eat at the same table with Yuan Niang?" ”
The four of them originally served Meng Qingyun and then ate by themselves after eating, didn't they eat breakfast and lunch at the same table today, and they became a little accustomed to it for a while, and they woke up after being reminded by Cui's mother, and hurriedly wanted to stand up.
Meng Qingyun said: "There is no need to be like this, you will all eat with me in the future, do you eat, there are many people." Besides, you are also tired for a day, hard enough, eat early and rest early, tomorrow has another day. ”
These words aroused Cui's mother's doubts again, and she patted her head and asked, "It's all for you." Honestly, what are you doing in the backyard all day today? ”