Chapter Ninety-Six: The Difficulty of Stewardship
"I called you here, mainly to talk about the matter of family studies, I went to have a parent-teacher meeting during the day, in fact, I just want to say that the problem of Jia family studies is not the students, but the parents. You see, the blue sky and the daylight, when everyone is there, you can see how lazy you are. That's why I said that people who are willing to send their children to be apprentices have good families and good brains, so these families should pay attention to them. For the rest, you can help me think about what they can do when they study? Ou Mengmeng closed the box with the dowry list and began to get down to business.
"Grandmother, if we don't even manage the clansmen, our Rong Mansion will not be able to continue." Yuan Chun was busy pressing Ou Mengmeng, after all, this is not a big problem. But since she came back, she has been looking at the problem and has not really solved the problem. She was actually a little anxious. So she didn't want her grandmother to expand the matter any more.
"Yuan'er is good, everything is practical, and he knows that he has to eat one bite at a time." Ou Mengmeng nodded, now Yuan Chun was driven crazy by the financial problems of the Rong Mansion and thought about it, "Then tell me, what else are we not doing now?" ”
"As I said before, we were going to open a pharmacy, but now it's not open; said that Sister Lin didn't do anything to teach the girls to read; I also said that I was going to play, but I didn't go. Xichun raised her hand, grandma said.
When she said to play, she meant patrolling the village, and now, the head of the village probably thought that she was just taking the girls to play. She is still a little milk doll, she used to be just a thing, but now Ou Mengmeng is here, raising Sanchun and Daiyu together, with people like Yuanchun and Qin Keqing who understand, although Xiao Xichun can't learn anything yet, but someone cares and no one cares about herself, and now she suddenly becomes Yuxue cute.
"Well, we're so smart." Ou Mengmeng smiled and looked at Jia Yu, "What about you, what else is there to do?" ”
"The house has been renovated, and the people in the house have to be trained again, after all, now the housekeeper of the big house, some things have to be re-placed; Also, the warehouse is a bit messy, this ......" Jia Yu nodded and said casually, but he also stopped at it.
"What about you, second child?" Ou Mengmeng nodded and looked at Jia Zheng.
"I'm fine, I've been reading very well lately, some adults often come to read, and now my son asks the children in school to write an article every day, and I ask the old gentlemen to help me read it, and my son has learned a lot of things. Now I think it's really good that the eldest brother chose a place for his son. Jia Zheng said honestly.
"So, you see, what's the biggest problem in front of us right now?" Ou Mengmeng nodded and looked at a room of children and grandchildren.
"Open source and reduce expenditure, rectify internal affairs." Yuan Chun decided not to point at these people, so let's summarize it myself!
What did she do before letting Sanchun and Daiyu look at the account books? It is to know the difficulties in this house. It only earns 20,000 taels of silver a year, but it costs 50,000 taels, is this reasonable?
And it has increased year by year since her mother took office, and she wants to shake her mother's neck and ask where the money went. The deficit of 30,000 taels in the middle was used by the old treasury. This time, he copied Zhou Rui's house, plus Leng Zixing's antique shop, got the account book, and filled in the money owed to Rongfu Gongzhong.
Of course, Yuan Chunshun took the other things that Mrs. Wang could use, which was also the one that Zhou Rui's family confessed. Of course, she was even more speechless. Co-author, the old lady has been working for them all these years, people eat meat, and she doesn't mix it with soup. Not to mention anything else. The silver he got was not given to Mrs. Wang by Yuanchun, it was regarded as the private property of the second room, and in the future, Baoyu, Huan'er, Tanchun, and Lan'er all had to be sent away!
Now, she also talks to Jia Zheng about everything, otherwise, Jia Zheng can make money and get it back. There are also antiques that he bought before, whether they are real or fake, he doesn't keep a private house anyway.
The second room does not owe money to the public middle school, and then the public middle school has a second room. But Yuan Chun is still in a hurry, there are only so many properties in the public middle school, and as soon as she really sends the children in the second room, she is depressed for the big house. So I have to give the big house some way to live.
These days, she is also a little anxious, like Wang Xifeng has been scolded by her a few times.
For example, the flowers and trees in the house, the garden was originally contracted out, and each had a share of money, like Li Kun, who had no dowry, so the old lady gave her a share of the garden's money and a year-end dividend. The income of four or five hundred taels of silver in a year.
Then the clansmen begged for her door, and entered a batch of flowers and trees, tens of thousands of taels a year. This one is in and one out, the account books of flowers and trees are not clear, and then it is Rongfu Gongzhong that loses money inside and out.
Wang Xifeng was also stunned, she only knew that she always had to do it anyway, and since she had to do it, she would do it for the Jia clan people with good relations, but she didn't expect that there was a problem of going in and out of the house.
Now there are a lot of such things in housework, and Yuan Chun is about to collapse. As a result, the old lady is still talking about these things.
"Really, alas, you've been in the palace for five years, and I don't know how you got through. The old man told me that Baoyu used to learn eight taels of silver pen and ink dim sum money, and then every month Baoyu's account, there were two taels of silver for the same expenditure, he said that it was repeated, so he wanted to cancel one item, you talk about it, is it a duplicate? Ou Mengmeng tapped Yuan Chun and turned to a few children.
Baoyu shook his head hurriedly, but did not dare to speak.
Ou Mengmeng scratched his nose and turned to the others.
When the others saw Baoyu shaking his head, they knew that the money was not repeated, but they really didn't know why, so they looked at Ou Mengmeng.
"Baoyu, you say." Ou Mengmeng smiled and nodded Baoyu.
"The eighty-two year was not for the clan to learn, but for the gentleman before. The west seat that the grandson invited before, eight taels a year, is placed in the husband's place, and sometimes some small miscellaneous expenses for studying, if you don't save it, you have to come back to get it, of course, it is also for the husband some allowances; Two taels a month is the cost of buying books and paper for grandchildren on weekdays. ”
"See, you don't know, I look at the account book and think that this money is not duplicated. So you have to ask. There is also the fact that Yuan'er said that the garden in the house is interested, and the flowers and trees in the garden are taken care of before, and they are also a little productive every year. And the expenses for flowers and trees in the garden, you really, take it for granted. You only see that there are people to manage and make money, and on the other hand, you have to spend money to buy flowers and plants, and just looking at the accounts you feel that this is redundant. Why don't you ask in detail, what is the charter of this in and out? ”
Ou Mengmeng just talked about this. When I heard what Yuan Chun said before, I felt that she was very keen, but she didn't reply at the time, and these details were not in Jia's mother's memory, so she had to ask clearly. Thinking about it and getting discouraged, a Rong Mansion, with its twists and turns, is also a big head.
In fact, when I looked at the housekeeper of Tanchun, I was a little puzzled, could it be that Mrs. Wang was not as good as Tanchun, and some Xiao Gui Cao Sui would not be like this. So think about it, there are actually a lot of doorways in the middle, and we are also in the factory, not how to save and waste on the surface. Sometimes looking at the most wasteful way, the opposite is the most correct way.