Chapter 13: The Matter of Money
"Girl......" Mo Ran sneered: "The slave maid's family can have today's dignity, it all depends on you, and the slave and maid will definitely not do anything that humiliates your reputation and disgraces you." ”
At the end, she put away her smile and got serious.
Mingyue nodded lightly: "It's good for you to remember, you must pay attention to proportion." ”
Mo Ran hurriedly bowed his head and said, "Yes, the slave can save it." ”
"I usually pay attention to the correspondence between the house, and if there is anything abnormal, report it to me as soon as possible."
After thinking about it, Mingyue said again: "In addition, find a way to buy the Di newspaper, don't let others know." ”
"This ......" ink dye looked embarrassed.
"What's the difficulty?"
"Girl, you need to go to the chief secretary to buy a newspaper-"
Mingyue chuckled: "Don't worry, there are always some people who compete for the benefits of baht, look for it carefully, and buy it from those people." ”
How does the girl know this?
Mo Ran forcibly suppressed the strangeness in his heart, and then asked, "Girl, the slave maid is not allowed to go out for no reason on weekdays, can you entrust this matter to the slave maid's brother?" ”
Ink-dyed brother?
Mingyue rummaged through her mind, and there seemed to be no memory of this person.
She looked at Mo Ran: "How are people?" ”
Mo Ran hurriedly replied: "Brother slave is very strict-mouthed, and he will not reveal your big things." ”
The scholar on the side also helped to speak: "Girl, the brother of the ink dyeing is really good." ”
Mingyue pondered for a moment before nodding: "Then hand over the matter of buying the mansion to him first, and see his ability." ”
Ink dyed with joy on his face, and then as if he thought of something, he looked at Mingyue and stopped talking.
Mingyue picked up the celadon teacup, took a sip, and then looked at the ink dye: "What's the problem?" ”
"Girl, Di Bao is definitely not cheap......"
The bright moon froze, and his eyes revealed a little dazed.
Ink Dye smiled awkwardly.
Soon, Mingyue came back to her senses and asked Shuxiang, "How many silver taels do I have?" ”
Shuxiang didn't even open the money box, and directly bowed his head and said, "You still have fifteen taels left." ”
Mingyue frowned: "Why is it so little?" ”
She neither goes out shopping, nor does she need to give gifts, clothes and jewelry are all arranged by the house, in addition to the monthly silver in her memory, her mother and brother also give her subsidies from time to time, where does the silver go?
Shuxiang's face remained unchanged, and he began to count: "Half a month ago, you spent fifty taels to buy a blue and white pattern purple stone inkstone, a month ago, you spent three hundred taels to buy a "Luoxia Lonely Picture", and two months ago, you spent five hundred taels to buy a "Moon Sticker" ......."
Mingyue suddenly realized, she raised her hand, and the fragrance of the book stopped, and continued to stand respectfully aside.
She rubbed her eyebrows gently, her heart full of helplessness. After being reminded by Shuxiang, she remembered it all.
In her previous life, because she loved to read, she used all her money to buy books and monuments, and she was never tired of it, her mother and brother did not subsidize her, but she took it to exchange calligraphy and painting in a blink of an eye, because of this, although she was the eldest daughter of the dignified Jiang family, she was not as much as her maid's money.
The Di Bao sold by Xiao Dao'er is not cheap, and it comes out every five days, and her money for five or two months a month is probably not enough to buy Di Bao.
It is self-inflicted, and you cannot live!
However, in any case, Di Bao could not help but buy it.
You'll have to find a way to make some money.
"First take ten taels of silver for ink dyeing, and let her brother go to buy the newspaper."
The scholarly bow should be.
Mo Ran spoke: "Girl, the slave maid doesn't mean this, this silver slave maid can still afford to pay in advance, but, with your current situation, if you buy every issue of the newspaper, the slave and maid are worried that you will wronged yourself-"
After all, the girl only has a total of fifteen taels left, and if she takes out ten taels of silver, the girl will only have five taels of silver......
Mingyue was silent.
She's been reduced to such a point!
Even the maids around her are richer than her!
Shuxiang had already taken ten taels of silver, and Mingyue looked at Mo Ran lightly: "Take it, I'll find another way for the rest." ”
Mo Ran hesitated for a moment, and when he received the girl's unquestioning look, he took the silver, turned and walked out of the room.
Mingyue's eyes moved out of the window again, it was the same sky, but she didn't have that good mood at the moment.
Before the old problems are solved, new problems have emerged.
How to get more silver has become an urgent problem that cannot be ignored.
There are many ways to get money, and the easiest of them is to get rid of the useless things you bought in the past.
But no matter in anyone's eyes, she is an extremely bookish and stylish person, such a person, suddenly want to sell calligraphy and painting for money, it is really eye-catching......
But if this method is ruled out, there is only one option left: business.
Mingyue is reluctant to get involved in business, Shinong Industry and Commerce, since ancient times, the status of businessmen is low, and she has no intention of this.
It's just that now, she has no power or power, and she can't do anything without money, so doing business has become a path that must be taken.
What's more, the people of the Jiang family today are very open-minded about doing business.
Mingyue's grandfather, the predecessor of Lord Jiang Shoufu was an open-minded and uninhibited person when he was alive, Mingyue's second uncle, the second master of the Jiang family, was sent to Jiangnan by his grandfather to study business because of his lack of knowledge, and he made some achievements in a short time, so he took over the affairs of the Jiang family after the wedding, and worked hard for many years, and gradually became a well-known Confucian businessman in the Jiangnan region, providing strong financial support for the Jiang family.
The Jiang family, who lost Jiang Shoufu, fortunately still has this financial support, so that they can continue to maintain their former glory.
Mingyue couldn't help but think, now that she has no one to walk and send outside, and no money to use, it is not easy to do business, can she seek help from her second uncle?
As soon as this idea came out, she immediately rejected it herself.
Not to mention that Jiangnan is far away, and it is inconvenient to contact, if you want to tell the second uncle, your father and mother will definitely know about it, so it is too exciting for the teacher to move the public, and she is not easy to explain to everyone.
Besides, she just wants to make some money, and she doesn't plan to take care of it herself, and she is always inferior in business, and as a boudoir woman, it's not good for her to be too contaminated.
Mingyue sighed, this matter still needs to be considered in the long run, and it is useless to rush it at the moment.
"Scholarly." She called softly.
Shuxiang, who had been standing aside, immediately responded: "Girl, the slave is here." ”
"I'll leave the outside to Mo Dye, and I'll leave the inside to you."
"Please rest assured, girl."
Mingyue's gaze turned to her, and her eyes searched: "Do you know what I mean?" ”
Shuxiang replied calmly: "The slave doesn't know, the slave only knows, do what the girl wants the slave to do, keep what the girl doesn't want others to know, there is no right or wrong, everything is based on the girl's wishes." ”