Chapter 373: Mrs. Xing, who is self-inflicted
"Hey, why did you mention such a sad thing again?"
When Mrs. Jia Mu saw this scene, she also hurriedly stood up to play a round and spoke.
Everyone saw that Mrs. Xing was so disregarded about everyone's decency, and even publicly called Wang Xifeng the second grandmother.
At this moment, they also knew that this Mrs. Xing was clearly not angry.
Calling Wang Xifeng like this is undoubtedly to make it clear to everyone that she, the mother-in-law, has long been fed up with the anger of her daughter-in-law Wang Xifeng, and she has long been dissatisfied with Wang Xifeng.
When Lin Daiyu saw this scene, she was also miserable, and couldn't help but think: "This Rongguo Mansion is not as good as that, and even the Lin Mansion is incomparable, and there are many things to hide dirt and dirt." The people of this big family are far from the scholarly family in terms of pattern and vision, or their mind and ability. ”
Jia Tanchun looked at this scene helplessly, "As the saying goes, a hundred-legged insect dies but does not stiffen. This huge big family is afraid that it will commit suicide and destroy itself, and it will never recover. ”
"Madam, I didn't ask about your daughter-in-law, but I asked you how much silver is still in the treasury of this Rong Mansion, and tell the truth."
Jia Yu's face suddenly changed slightly, and he looked at Mrs. Xing with a little anger, and then said.
"It's only a hundred thousand taels of silver!"
Mrs. Xing was not confident enough and said timidly.
She thought that Rongguo Mansion still had a lot of silver in the treasury for them to spend, and after she became the chief housekeeper of Rongguo Mansion, she could make her life better.
Who would have thought that after Mrs. Xing really went to the treasury of Rongguo Mansion to look at the accounts with her own eyes, she found that this matter was not as simple as she imagined.
When Wang Xifeng was the chief housekeeper, he still needed to rely on private printing money and all kinds of shady tricks to collect money to maintain the daily livelihood and various expenses of Rongguo Mansion, which shows how bad the financial situation of Rongguo Mansion was at this time.
Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver can be regarded as a very amazing wealth for ordinary people.
However, for a wealthy and wealthy family like Rongguofu, but also a relative of the emperor, it is not spent at all.
Once the expenditure is raised, it must be spent like flowing water, and it can be squandered all at once, becoming a clean and miserable situation.
"Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver? How is this possible? When did we become so poor in Rongguofu? ”
Jia Yu looked at Mrs. Xing in disbelief and said in shock.
He has experienced the glory days of Rongguofu.
At that time, the silver in the treasury of Rongguo Mansion was at least millions of silver.
So much so that these people are extravagant, and they never worry that they will have no money to spend.
It's just that the times have really changed now, the income of the entire Rongguo Mansion is pitiful, and in order to maintain the extravagant life of their imperial relatives and top magnates, the daily expenses and human activities are amazing, and the financial situation is also declining, and it is gradually becoming stretched.
At this time, Mo said that it was Jia Amnesty, even Jia Zheng and Mrs. Jia's mother also looked at Mrs. Xing with shocked faces and asked, "Is there really only so much silver in this treasury?" ”
"The daughter-in-law doesn't dare to deceive the old lady, there is really only so much silver in the treasury of this Rongguo Mansion."
Originally, Mrs. Xing thought that after she became the chief housekeeper of Rongguo Mansion, she could profit from it, fill her own pockets, and get more oil and water from the treasury of Rongguo Mansion, but when she saw the real financial situation of Rongguo Mansion, she knew what a big fire pit it was.
But she jumped into it willingly and willingly, and she couldn't find a place to cry if she wanted to.
Mrs. Xing didn't say that she had embezzled the treasury silver, but she didn't dare to take an extra tael of silver from the treasury of Rongguo Mansion.
Because, Mrs. Xing always thought that the silver in the treasury of Rongguo Mansion was only so small that it must be a mess deliberately left by Wang Xifeng, Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian had embezzled more than half of it before, but they were waiting for her to take the initiative to jump into the trap to ask for her own hardship.
Therefore, Mrs. Xing's hatred for Wang Xifeng is even deeper.
"Didn't you do anything to defile this silver, and stuff it into your own pocket!"
At this moment, Mrs. Wang, who has always been like a mud bodhisattva, suddenly opened her eyes, stared at Mrs. Xing coldly, and said: "I want to order someone to go over to check the accounts, how to use every sum of silver, there must be a reason and come and go, some people have what calculations in their hearts, I am a clear door in my heart." ”
Mrs. Wang's words deeply pierced Mrs. Xing's heart.
I saw that Mrs. Xing immediately puffed out her lips and counterattacked: "Who doesn't know that the silver in this treasury was in the hands of your Wang family?" It must have been some person who had done something wrong and stole the money from him, but now he has framed me in turn. I don't care about that, and I will never be a scapegoat! ”
"......."
Mrs. Wang was so angry that she was just about to tear Mrs. Xing apart, when she heard Mrs. Jia's mother take the lead in anger and shouted: "Enough, look at you like this, but there is still a family's harmony there?" How? You don't even pay attention to me, an old lady, can't you? I'm not dead yet! That's it. If I die, you will not leave this house? ”
Mrs. Jia Mu is a sensible character, and she can't see such a thing in the nest.
Mrs. Jia's mother also heard about the financial situation of Rongguo Mansion, so she also knew the difficulties of Wang Xifeng's housekeeper.
After Mrs. Jia stopped the dispute between Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing, she immediately looked at Lin Daiyu and said, "Granddaughter, come here, I have something to say to you." ”
"Hmm!"
Lin Daiyu walked over obediently, looked at the old lady Jia's mother, and said, "What's the matter with the old lady?" ”
"Shouldn't your Lin family have an inheritance? Now that your father is gone, we can be regarded as your mother's family, if you enter the Yun Mansion and are bullied by that Yun'er, you will have to rely on our mother's family to support you, right? ”
"Therefore! I'm wondering, are you telling Brother Yun to ask him to return part of the Lin family's inheritance? The left and right are your future dowry, so that we will not subsidize the silver. At least your Lin family has been a prince for generations, and you are a scholarly family, you have always been thrifty and virtuous, and you have a heavy inheritance, how can you let him take it all like this? ”
"If he treats you badly in the future, won't he be ruined?"
Seeing that there was really no silver expenditure in Rongguo Mansion, the only way for Mrs. Jia's mother to think of at present was to find Lin Daiyu and ask Lin Daiyu to find Jia Yun to return the Lin family's inheritance as a dowry when Lin Daiyu married in the future.
In ancient times, the marriage of a man and a woman must be a dowry for the man and a dowry for the woman.
In the future, there is only a bride price, not a dowry.
Lin Daiyu is the orphan daughter of the Lin family, and the inheritance of the Lin family naturally belongs to her.
Originally, Mother Jia's old lady had sent Jia Lian to escort Lin Daiyu back to handle Lin Ruhai's funeral, but she also had this in mind.
It's just that Jia Yun made a stumbling block from it, and cut off the beard halfway, and it was no longer over at this time.