Seeing that Jia Lian had already asked, the mandarin duck didn't plan to stay here and stay longer, so he immediately stood up, looked at Jia Lian, and said, "Since the second master also asked, then if there is nothing else, I will go back first, so as not to find no one for the old lady and it will be inconvenient."

Jia Lian shook his head when he heard this, and hurriedly persuaded the mandarin duck, and continued: "My good sister, the old lady naturally has other maids waiting in the house, sit down again, brother, I still have something to ask for, I want to ask you for help."

Saying that, Jia Lian scolded the few little girls standing next to him, and said, "You don't have long eyes? Why are you still standing there? Why don't you make good tea and give it to your sister! Quickly take a clean bowl and make a bowl of the new tea that I brought up yesterday."

After scolding the aggrieved little girl standing next to her, Jia Lian hurriedly looked at the mandarin duck again, drew closer to the relationship, and said, "In the past two days, because of the old lady's thousand years, all the silver in my hand is only a few thousand taels of silver, and all of them have been taken out.

Several rents and land taxes in the house can only be collected in September, and I am also suffering from the lack of money in my hands, and I can't take it for a while.

Ming'er, I have to go to Nan'an Mansion to give gifts, and I have to prepare the New Year's holiday gifts for my mother, as well as the red and white gifts of several families close to our family, at least three or two thousand taels of silver, and it is difficult to find someone to borrow so much silver for a while.

Even if others are willing, our family is a relative of the emperor, and we can't lose our dignity, and I'm afraid that it will be difficult to ask for help, and lose the decent status of the mother and the emperor.

As the saying goes, 'It is better to seek from others than for yourself.'"

I can't say, my sister is not responsible, and for the time being, I will steal out a box of gold and silver that the old lady can't find, and temporarily hold a thousand taels of silver, so that I can support it for a while. xь.

When it comes to collecting ground rent and so on in the fall, there is always an account entry.

I'm afraid that it won't take half a year, and when the money comes, I'll go to the pawnshop and buy these things back, and let you return them to the old lady, and I can't let my sister end up in front of the old lady and be infamous."

It's just that after listening to Jia Lian's words, the mandarin duck couldn't help but ponder in his heart: This second master is really ridiculous, this son actually made me the pickpocketing thief, if the old lady knew about it, I would die well.

The mandarin duck is just a maid, and it is just a maid.

Even if Mother Jia likes mandarin ducks, however, mandarin ducks also know that there are some things that can't be done.

Once these things are done and someone is caught, even if the mandarin duck carries Jia Lian out, I am afraid that Mrs. Wang and Jia Mu will not punish Jia Lian, but will punish her on the top of her head. xь.

However, the mandarin duck didn't dare to refuse Jia Lian directly, and offended Jia Lian to death, so his face changed slightly, and he said with a smile: "You will change the law, how did you come up with such a bad idea." To steal from the old lady's house, no one would have the guts, I wouldn't dare."

Jia Lian smiled indifferently before saying, "Sister, it's not like I'm lying to you, saying something deceiving, making you embarrassed.

It's just that there is such a situation in our family, and you probably know it in your heart.

If you talk about ability and ability, in addition to my sister, there are also people who have thousands of taels of silver in their hands, but they are not as brave as you know.

If I speak to them, I will frighten them.

So I'd rather hit the bell than break the drum three thousand."

Just when Jia Lian was flattering the mandarin duck, before he could say a word, a girl suddenly walked in outside.

Seeing this little girl, everyone also knew each other, and knew that this person was the maid in Najia's mother's house.

I saw her hurriedly come to Jia Lian's house, look for the mandarin duck, and said, "The old lady has been looking for my sister for a long time, but we haven't found my sister there, but I didn't expect my sister to settle here."

The mandarin duck heard the little girl say that Mother Jia was looking for herself, so she quickly got up and did it immediately

Go see Jia Mu.

Jia Lian saw that it was Jia's mother who summoned the mandarin duck, so he didn't dare to keep and stop him, so he had to let the mandarin duck go.

There was no one in the whole room, and Jia Lian also scolded unhappily in his heart: "What kind of world is this! Thinking about it, in previous years, our family was also the master of magnanimity, and there were millions of taels of silver in the treasury, and there was never a shortage of silver. Now it's a good thing, but even these thousands of taels of silver will make trouble."

Jia Lian really needs silver.

Things inside and outside the house, expect Jia Baoyu to not work at all.

And Jia Huan was too young and stubborn, and was spoiled by his biological mother, Aunt Zhao.

Jia Yu doesn't care about anything, he only knows enjoyment and pastime, and even the court is not active.

Jia Zheng is now serving in other provinces and cannot return to preside over his family's affairs.

But all the exchanges between people and ushering in and sending them are all handled by Jia Lian alone.

In the past, there was a Wang Xifeng beside Jia Lian who was in charge of Rongguo Mansion, and after a frugal search, he could still subsidize the family and cope with it.

Now, this family is poor.

The monthly expenses of the house were very large, and the amount of money that could be recorded was very small.

In addition, Lai Da and others *** filled their pockets and took the family property of Rongguo Mansion for their own use.

Even Jia Lian, the master, is not as good as day by day, and the more mixed up the worse it gets.

It's even far less big than the house slave Lai of the Rongguo Mansion.

When this grand view garden was built, I thought it was a prosperous family, but who knew that it was a deep curse.

So much so that even the current Jia Lian is quite complaining and complaining about this, and can't help muttering, "In my opinion! Even if the days in the home are difficult if you don't repair this big garden, you can still cope with it for a few more years, but now that you have built this big garden, you will have a serious deficit and become more and more unlucky."

The previous dream of the emperor's relatives has gradually become sober at this moment.

Jia Yuanchun was named a noble concubine, and the treatment and blessings he enjoyed did not fall on the top of Jiafu's head.

On the contrary, because of this incident, the economy of Jiafu became more and more difficult and slipped into the abyss.

Just as Jia Lian was pondering, someone came outside again.

Someone came in and replied, "Second Master, Xia Taifu sent a small inner eunuch to speak."

When Jia Lian heard this, he also hurriedly raised his spirits, frowned slightly, and said, "What kind of bastards, they have come over again and four times throughout the year, and after a year, they are about to empty our house, so we should be content!"

It turned out that Xia Shouzhong, the eunuch of the six palaces in the palace, sent someone to ask for a bribe again.

He has no silver in his hand, and he lacks silver, so how can he still take out the silver to bribe the big eunuchs and small eunuchs in the palace?