Clothes earn hard money, but jewelry is different, no matter how fine the craftsmanship is, it does not need to embroider such a long cycle, gold and silver jewelry itself is valuable, but as jewelry, half of it is because it can decorate people beautifully, and the magnates are willing to pay for novelty and exquisite craftsmanship.

Ran Jia thought about it carefully, her heart was full of joy and surprise, she expected at the moment that there would be thousands of taels of income a month, but when she opened it, she was still apprehensive in her heart.

The brocade box was opened, and Ran Jia looked at a pile of silver tickets a little stunned, and the denomination of the silver tickets on it was one thousand taels! She blinked her eyes, took all the silver tickets in her hand, and counted them carefully three or four times, all of them were one hundred and sixty-five, that is, sixteen-five thousand taels of silver!

Ran Jia was a little incredulous, she just drew some drawings every day, and she could get 165,000 taels of silver in a month? The silver ticket was inevitably hot, and she carefully put the silver ticket into the brocade box, hugged it in her arms, and went home in a trance.

Since her morning sickness began, the cooking work was taken over by the two mothers-in-law, and what to eat every day was decided by Ying Key.

"What's wrong?" Ying Jian came back for a long time, only heard Ran Jia's gentle breathing, and didn't get a response after telling her a few words, so he couldn't help but ask with some concern. He actively cooperated with the doctor to treat his eyes, and with the improvement of his own skills, he was already able to feel the light vaguely, and maybe he could still see the birth of his child.

Ran Jia sighed, "Xianggong, are you back?" ”

"What do you want to be so engrossed?" Ying Jian listened to her voice not change much, breathed a sigh of relief, sat beside her with a chuckle, held her hand and asked.

Ran Jia looked around, and saw that people were busy with their own things, so she leaned into Ying Key's ear and whispered: "Today, a shopkeeper Chen sent me a month's worth of silver tickets, it's a bit much, it's scary, could it be that they got the wrong box?" ”

She is Mrs. Hou's personal maid, and for her, Mrs. Hou has almost no secrets. Ran Jia knew that the marriage of Mrs. Hou, who was the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, was 200,000 taels of silver and a number of shops and Zhuangzi. The annual profit of the shop and Zhuangzi is only 100,000 taels, which is still a relatively considerable year, sometimes only 70,000 or 80,000 taels.

And the old lady of the Hou Mansion is a tricky person, I don't know how many things are pulled into her arms from Mrs. Hou every year, not to mention twenty or thirty thousand. After all, the Hou Mansion was an empty shell when Mrs. Hou took over, almost making ends meet, but she couldn't talk to the Hou Ye about these cumbersome things, and the lady didn't value gold and silver, and she used her own dowry to subsidize the expenses of the Hou Mansion.

In this way, it is difficult for Mrs. to save even 10,000 or 20,000 yuan every year.

"How much?" The key is careless.

"One hundred and sixty-five thousand taels of silver, each of which is a silver ticket with a denomination of one thousand taels!" Ran Jia leaned into his ear and whispered, "I've never seen so much silver." ”

All the attention of Ying Jian is on his ears, since he knew that Ran Jia was pregnant, he was reluctant to sleep in a separate bed with her, but he could only touch and kiss his wife every day, just like a boot to stop itching, it was really a sweet torture. "That's right, when you first talked about it, it was fifty-fifty. You don't know how many shops under the name Pinxuan are in the country, and each prefecture has branches of jewelry, ready-to-wear, pastries, rouge gouache and so on.

Each type of shop has its own purchase channels, and even the source of goods is in their own hands.

For example, jewelry, they have their own mines and caravans, the cost is almost only manpower and horses, the jewelry sold by Shang Pin Xuan is very high, and the profit during the period is extremely objective.

said that it was given to you fifty percent, but I am afraid that it will be deducted according to the cost of the market.

Speaking of ready-to-wear shops, as far as I know, Pinxuan's embroidery girls are hundreds in each prefecture and city, can you imagine how many ready-to-wear products are produced in the country in a month?

There is no shortage of rich and noble people in our country, as long as your goods are good, you will definitely be able to sell, and it doesn't matter if the price is higher.

Therefore, 165,000 taels of silver is not much. ”

After Ying Jian finished speaking, he chuckled and said, "The lady is so powerful? It seems that the husband doesn't need to run around every day, and he can serve the lady directly at home. ”

Ran Jia's cheeks were crimson, and she snorted: "That's different, if the husband is not good, our family can't stand it even if we have more silver, or we don't dare to spend it blatantly if we have silver." ”

"That's right," Ying Jian nodded and replied solemnly: "The lady will earn more and more money in the future, and she has to work hard for her husband, otherwise she won't be able to protect it." ”

Ran Jia pursed her lips and smiled in response, touched the brocade box rarely, and muttered: "Xianggong, will we be able to enter tens of thousands of taels of silver every month in the future?" ”

"Pretty much, the house of the powerful can have several to more than a dozen banquets every year, and everyone compares with each other and is never stingy in dress. Every time you have to buy a new set, so many powerful people, contribute several times a year, isn't it more than 100,000 yuan?

In addition, the scale of Pinxuan is expanding both at home and abroad, and the profit of each piece may decrease in the future, but the number will increase a lot. Maybe your monthly income will increase month by month. ”

Hearing this, Ran Jia's mouth opened slightly, "Ah, that," she counted with her fingers, "Then don't I have more than 1.9 million taels of silver a year, and I may not be able to hold it?" ”

After speaking, she frowned and walked together, sighed lightly and said: "Some time ago, I was worried about oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, but now I don't know how to spend so much silver." We have a house and a shop, we have to eat and dress properly, even if we raise children, it only costs a small amount of money. ”

Ying Jian hugged her and smiled rarely, "Why, you are worried when you have no money, and you are still worried when you have money, and you are idle for your husband!" Money is not easy to spend? First buy a few houses for the babies nearby, buy some fields and shops.

Even if they don't have the ability to eat in the future, they won't be down. ”

"It's not good," Ran Jia objected first, "The two of us finally got out of slavery, if our children don't achieve anything, then future generations will definitely return to slavery and depend on others to survive." We have created much better conditions for them than having children in their families, they have to study seriously, either seriously study and take the imperial examination, enter the court as an official and seek benefits for the people, or they will honestly run a shop and accumulate family business for future generations.

My daughters have to embroider and cook with me, even if they don't have my ability to draw, they can rely on their skillful hands without relying on others. ”

"Okay, the matter of educating the children is left to you, you sing white face and I will sing red face for you, okay? Lady, let's eat first, and then talk about how to spend money and raise children later. Ying Jian put his arm around her waist and kissed her forehead lovingly.

Ran Jia became a little rich woman overnight, and she is expected to surpass Mrs. Houfu in assets before the year, thinking of this, she sighed deeply for her master. I can't help but think about what I can do to make my master's life better than it is now.

But she got the silver, so naturally she had to let the people who followed her have fun together. People at home and in the store received purses of varying weights.

"Madam, the lady of the Zhong family on the other side handed you a post," Aunt Zhang held a gold-sprinkled red sticker.

Ran Jia took it and opened it to see that it was Xuehua's post for her, inviting her to attend her nineteenth birthday banquet ten days later, and specially told her to participate, saying that she had invited various young masters and young ladies from the Hou Mansion together.

"Madam, the people of the Zhong family are still waiting for you to reply."

Ran Jia pursed her lips, thought for a while, and said, "You tell him first, my lord is more strict with me, and he easily doesn't let me go out to socialize." When the master came back, I got the letter and replied. Send him away, Aunt Zhang, you go to the Hou Mansion again, and ask which young masters and young ladies will participate in Xuehua's birthday banquet ten days later. ”

Aunt Zhang answered and turned around and went out.

She came back in half an hour, brought a basket of fresh fruits, and said with a smile: "As soon as the old slave went to the back door of the Hou Mansion, she met the girl who came out to buy pastries from Mrs. Hou, and she had to take me to see Mrs. Hou with her." The old slave couldn't help it, so he went to ask Mrs. Hou Ye on behalf of Mrs. You," she rubbed her hands embarrassedly when she said this, "The old slave accidentally said what you wanted to ask, Madame.

Mrs. Hou said that the two young masters and young ladies of the Hou family's family were also invited, and the old lady spoke, so let's go to Zhongfu together to be lively. ”

Ran Jia hummed and rubbed her forehead, she could imagine the helplessness of Mrs. Hou.

Mrs. Hou Ye is only twenty-three years old now, she is already the mother of three babies, she gave birth to a son for Hou Ye in the first year of entering the house, and gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses in the second year, but she was injured during childbirth, and she can no longer have children in the future. The second young master and the eldest lady are only three years old, and they are not all pampered at home in which house, for fear that they will die if they can't watch it.

Not many of the children of the powerful families can grow up to adulthood safely, and most of them are damaged in the pickles of the back house. Ran Jia suspected that the master could no longer produce the old lady's handiwork, after all, it was rare for the old lady to go to the master's yard to show the care of the elders.

"Mrs. Hou said, if you go, help take care of the two young masters and young ladies more."

"Well, I see," Ran Jia sighed lightly.

When Ying Jian came back, Aunt Zhang robbed him in the front yard and told him about it, and said guiltily: "It's all because the old slave is honest, and when he saw someone, he handed over the post to his wife." The old slave should wait for the master to come back and deal with it! ”

Ying Key's face was slightly cold, "Don't take it as an example, you will find joy later, and let him tell you the rules again!" ”

After speaking, he strode into the courtyard, found Ran Jia from the soft couch, he sat on the edge of the collapse, stroked her belly, and asked with a light smile: "The child didn't trouble you today, right?" ”

Ran Jia replied obediently, "No." ”

"Aunt Zhang has already told me, if you don't want to go, you won't go, why do you need to accommodate an old and disrespectful person like Mrs. Hou?" Ying Jian heard the sullenness in her voice, so he rubbed her hair helplessly, "Sure enough, what kind of master is there, what kind of girl there is." ”