Chapter 15: How Much Does It Cost to Raise a Girl (Part I)
Ou Mengmeng returned to the West Courtyard, Lin Daiyu was still frightened, she didn't expect that she would only come for one day, and the Rong Mansion would become like this, she wanted to cry again.
"Crying for what? I can't die yet, but I'll be able to protect you for a few years. Ou Mengmeng patted her and thought, "Your father is a genius, you can be regarded as a student, right?" ”
"Yes!" Lin Daiyu nodded timidly.
"Go find a "Thousand Character Text" and come back, open a primary school, let the children in the girl teach the children in the academy to read and write, save yourself from running around, the people in the West Courtyard, don't run around, pinch the tip and stir up trouble, don't go back to me, the whole family will go out. Hear clearly, it's a family, not a person. Ou Mengmeng looked at the mandarin duck and commanded coldly.
The mandarin duck trembled in his heart, but he didn't dare to say anything, so he obediently responded. Seeing that Ou Mengmeng was still standing, "Old lady, do you want to help you sit down?" ”
"What to sit, the more you sit, the more you can't move, tomorrow I want to go out, I have to know that my legs are my own." Ou Mengmeng sighed and looked at Lin Daiyu, "Let's go, go out with me, you too, you look like bean sprouts, when you go back and return you to your father, it's still like this, your father can't say that he has a thousand taels of white flowers a year." ”
Lin Daiyu was stunned for a moment, thought of the silver ticket before going to bed, woke up, the silver ticket was still on the table, and the old lady put the silver ticket back into the box and let people take it to Daiyu's room. Or let her nurse watch. Daiyu's brain is not bad, so she knows that the old lady doesn't want the money, let her keep it herself. What does this mean now?
Ou Mengmeng slowly spread out in the West Garden with a cane, and Daiyu followed slowly beside her
"Generally, if you have a yard, there must be four first-class girls and eight second-class girls in the house, and there are a few rough yards. There is a lot of work in the yard, taking care of flowers and trees, cleaning and cleaning, and there is a distinction between inside and outside the yard, inside and outside the house. Plus your jewelry, clothes, fat powder, as well as body supplements, Mr. for reading, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, books, etc., as well as your own pocket money, so a thousand taels a year, raising you is not much. Ou Mengmeng said casually, Lin Ruhai sent a thousand taels, he was afraid that he thought it was a lot. In fact, if you really raise it according to everyone's rules, this money is not enough.
"So much?" Daiyu was also shocked, and now she knew why her mother wanted to say that her grandfather's family was different from other places. With such wealth, it is no wonder that my mother is full of pride every time she talks about it.
"What is this, that's how your mother raised her, and she invited a grandmother from the old family at the beginning. The mother's upbringing is eight hundred taels a year. Your uncle is a five-grade outsider, and if you add some ice and charcoal a year, it is only 1,300 or 400 taels. Ou Mengmeng shook her head, she walked more slowly.
She flipped through Jia's mother's memory, Jia Min's original cost was very amazing, otherwise, Mrs. Wang would not have said just now that Sanchun plus one piece could not be half of Jia Min's expenses.
However, now the expenses of the masters of Jiafu are not large, but the expenses of the subordinates are large, and there are only a few masters in the first mansion, but there are three or four hundred subordinates. If things are done well, forget it, and as a result, there are more people, and there are more things. It really cost money, but the home is even more chaotic. This is also after Mrs. Wang's housekeeper, while replacing the people of the previous Zhang family, and trying to empty Jia's mother, over the years, there have been more and more people, and the three parties are the same as black-eyed chickens, all used to fight, but no one comes to work.
Yes, so Mother Jia doesn't like Lin Ruhai, and she wouldn't like it if she did. The child I raised at such a large price was married back by you, and the result? You didn't treat her well, a room full of concubines was disgusting, and you said that my daughter was not good to give birth to. No one can swallow this breath. And Jia Min's dowry is also amazing, who didn't say that the daughter of the Jia family was married. Now that you're alive and my daughter is dead, I didn't look for you to fight even if my family has a good temper.
Lin Daiyu was stunned for a moment, thinking about it, "Then how much money does my father have a year?" ”
"Are you wrong about the point? In a second-class family like us, you are a concubine, and you will marry someone in the future, and you will marry a similar family and be the mother of a house. Therefore, your father sent you here to receive such an education, money is a trivial matter, and he is afraid that you will be blinded by money! Ou Mengmeng looked down at Daiyu, thinking about it, how smart can the Lord who can come up with tears to save his life?
She looked at Jia's mother's memory, Sanchun really asked an old scholar to teach him a few words, as long as he didn't open his eyes and be blind. Then every day at home, I do some needlework with the nanny and grandma, and then play together.
How old is Yingchun Du, and has the nine-year compulsory education been completed? Thinking of this, Ou Mengmeng felt heartbroken. Nine leaky fish in a room! Could it be that God asked her to complete this important mission, so that everyone in Jiafu could finally complete the nine-year compulsory education? Not to mention becoming a newcomer, don't harm the society!
Therefore, if you raise it according to the three springs, Lin Ruhai will give a thousand taels, which is too much. Because she just said that there are two premises, one is according to everyone's rules; The second is that she has her own yard and a whole set of teams, so she has such an expense. The question is, you sent your daughter from a long distance, and she should have been educated like her mother, right? Does this also mean that Lin Ruhai actually agrees with the level of Jia's goddaughter? He saw the results in Jia Min's body, so he was relieved to hand over the child to Jia's mother?
"Why?" Lin Daiyu didn't understand what her grandmother meant.
"You have to look at the details, for example, if you come, it's the same as Sanchun. The monthly money of two taels of silver per month, and the cochineal pollen money of two taels of silver, is that the amount that arrives in your hand in one month is four taels of silver, and 48 taels a year; And like Mama Wang and Snow Goose, one is one or two silver, and the other is five hundred dollars. When Ming'er is free, you have to learn to pick people, and at least four girls around you must be matched. Because you live with me, you don't need anyone outside the house, and now count, how much silver do you need a year for your monthly money? ”
"Mama Wang 1 tael, snow goose 500 yuan, and three 500 yuan, a total of 3 taels, is 36 taels per year. Add my 48 taels and that's 84 taels. "Daiyu is very fast.
"Well, the snow goose is 500, but the first class I give you is calculated as 1 tael. Like Sister Mandarin Duck, it is 2 taels. Because she helps me take care of important matters, in addition to the one or two taels of silver in the house, I will make up another tael. Ou Mengmeng shook her head and said casually.
Think about it, is there a problem with the salary system of Lao Jia's family? There are only one or two grandmothers, but there are also one or two first-class maids. They are all domestic slaves, they sell death deeds, and then these monthly money is their pocket money. And the masters, but there is not much, so, just like the modern nanny living in the villa, the owner is busy making money, and the family lives for the nanny. It felt like the owner was working for the babysitter.