Zijuan knew that she could not communicate with Jia Lian, so she took the medicine bowl again and went out.
When Daiyu saw that there were only her and Jia Lian in the room, she felt inexplicably cramped. Seeing that Jia Lian was just tasting the tea while looking around her room, Daiyu thought for a while, got up, picked up the teapot, and added some tea to Jia Lian.
After drinking tea, he pretended to be casual and asked:
"What are you doing lately, brother? I can't see you in the house. I heard from sister-in-law Lian that you went outside the city."
"Well, I went to run errands outside the city."
"Brother Lian, do you really like being an official that much?"
Daiyu suddenly became angry.
She remembered that since she was a child, her father had been busy running around to be an official, leaving her and her mother in Suzhou for many years.
Later, when he moved to Yangzhou, he had time to bring her mother and daughter to his side, and the family spent several years enjoying themselves as a family.
"I don't really like being an official..."
Jia Lian suddenly turned around and cast his deep gaze on the girl in front of him, taking in her eyes and heart as she began to take on a smart and elegant appearance.
Daiyu waited for Jia Lian to reply. She didn't see the last part of the sentence for a long time. She looked up and saw Jia Lian looking straight at her, so she hurriedly lowered her head and went down.
After a while, he finally felt embarrassed and lightly stamped his feet and said: "Second brother, what are you looking at..."
"Haha, it's nothing. I just see our sister Lin getting more and more down-to-earth and acting like a fairy. I wonder which lucky boy will be taken advantage of in the future, and I feel very unhappy."
"Oops~"
Jia Lian's laughter made Daiyu's eyes suddenly mist, her face flushed, and she glared at Jia Lian with shame and anger: "You bully me~~!"
After speaking, he gave Jia Lian a hard look, then quickly returned to the desk, burying his face on the desk and not daring to raise it again.
Her small body was leaning on the table, looking increasingly thin, as if just blowing on the table could knock her over.
Jia Lian took another look at the two little squirrels jumping around in the cage in front of her head. Seeing that they were obviously much fatter than similar animals, she felt funny in her heart.
The little girl can't take care of herself well, but she makes pets fat and interesting.
So he stood up and said to Daiyu: "Okay, I'll come to see you another day. You should take good care of yourself.
I met my uncle yesterday and he asked about you. I was afraid that he would be worried, so I said you were very good.
If you don't take good care of yourself, and your uncle sees you later, he will say that I lied to him.
If you have nothing to do, don't stay in the house. It's also good to go sit in our courtyard and play with Xiang Ling and the others.
I'm leaving, you stay."
When Daiyu heard that Jia Lian was leaving, she got up to see him off.
When Jia Lian asked her to stay, he smiled at her and then turned around and disappeared from the door without getting up.
I finally came to see her once, but I just sat there for a while and then left...
After all, I don't know whether he was really busy and didn't want to spend more time here, or whether brother Lian was observing etiquette and deliberately didn't stay in her room for too long.
Thinking of Jia Lian's words again, my face felt hot, so I quickly took out the mirror from the drawer and took a look.
But seeing the person in the mirror with flushed cheeks and Daiyu's self-envy overpowering peach blossoms, I was stunned.
Suddenly she heard a soft "squeaking" sound and looked down. It turned out to be two greedy squirrels staring straight at her with their heads tilted.
Daiyu felt embarrassed as if someone had read her mind. She stretched out her hand and patted the cage. The two little squirrels almost hugged each other in fright. They looked at Daiyu in horror. She seemed to be thinking about the huge figure in front of her who often gave them delicious food.
Why does the owner of the food get angry...
…
Wang Xifeng has been waiting for Jia Lian at home.
It was hard to say something in front of the elders just now.
So when Jia Lian came back, she began to interrogate Jia Lian about his plans.
Jia Lian did not intend to put aside all his thoughts and explain it to her, but only talked about it from a perspective that Wang Xifeng could better understand.
For example, if you have paid 20,000 yuan, you will have a strong backbone and can legitimately intervene in the affairs.
For example, if this money is invested in an official, Mrs. Xing will not remember it, so as not to fight the famine with her.
Wang Xifeng can still understand, but what she understands even more is: "Those things belonging to the eldest master should be worth more than 25,000 silver, right?"
Seriously, she and Jia Lian had seen all of Jia She's stuff. Based on her judgment, it was definitely more than what Jia Lian said.
"What do you think?" Jia Lian asked Wang Xifeng with a smile.
Wang Xifeng laughed, raised her eyebrows, and said with a smile: "Take the rest back?"
Jia Lian then hit her on the forehead and cursed: "Don't worry about the remaining money. This family still has little money?
Aren't you afraid that there is too much money hidden in this house and it will be stolen?"
In the past two years, Wang Xifeng could only get in and out except for the five hundred taels of silver she gave him at the beginning.
Larger sums of money were moved into the house, and Jia Lian even knew that if he looked around in the house, he could find white money.
"Oh, who dares to steal our money, unless she doesn't want to live anymore!"
Wang Xifeng said something very disdainfully. After all, she kept it in mind and thought about arranging someone to guard the yard...
He also thought that the money left by Jia Lian was just because he spent money lavishly on himself and did not want to fight famine with her again and again.
She also knew that Jia Lian asked someone to open a restaurant outside. Although she didn't think it would make much money, at least it was considered a serious business, so she left it to him.
"It's okay if you're used to spending money lavishly. If you have the ability, I can't care about the hundreds of thousands hidden outside.
I only have one request. If you want to use family money in the future, you must discuss it with me in advance."
Wang Xifeng covered the forehead that had just been knocked with her hand and still said firmly.
What she was talking about was that Jia Lian wanted to donate family money just now. Fortunately, what she said before was only 5,000. If she had said 50,000, wouldn't it be a heavy loss?
As a man, if you don't know how to budget carefully, you will suffer in vain.
Seeing Wang Xifeng's attitude of guarding against him making another move, Jia Lian smiled and nodded directly: "Okay."
It is a reasonable request, and he is not an unreasonable person.
Wang Xifeng smiled happily and hurriedly changed Jia Lian's regular clothes. She knew that Jia Lian was going to Dongkuayuan to supervise the construction.
"By the way, in order to build a palace for the empress this time, the family spent all their wealth.
The master never likes to take care of these mundane affairs. Probably, this matter will have to be left to us in the end.
A total of more than 200,000 yuan, you said we..."
Wang Xifeng's eyes were rolling, and it was obvious that she didn't have any good ideas.
Jia Lian looked down at her and asked, "Two hundred thousand taels, how much is that?"
In this era, the purchasing power of money is very powerful!
According to the current market price, one tael of silver is enough to buy more than a hundred kilograms of fine rice noodles!
This is why the Duke's government only gives two taels of pocket money to the young masters and girls every month, because it is enough.
Therefore, two hundred thousand taels of silver is absolutely an astronomical figure. It can be said that this amount of money is enough to accomplish 99% of the major events in the world!
However, only for the construction of the Grand View Garden...
Perhaps, Jia Mu and others have no idea how the provincial residence they must build will be a waste of money.
Because even the East Road Garden in Rongguo Mansion and even the Huifang Garden in Ningguo Mansion were not worth more than one hundred thousand taels.
Therefore, Jia Mu and others thought that 200,000 yuan should be enough to build a provincial residence for Yuanchun.
It’s no wonder they don’t know, because there are so many things they don’t know!
They haven't seen the drawings designed by Shan Ziye yet...
They have no idea what the Grand View Garden will look like after it is completed!
The most important thing is that they don’t know that Yuanchun will be promoted to a noble concubine before the wedding ceremony!
Therefore, what Jia Lian has to do is to keep Jia Mu and others in check when they are not ready to go bankrupt and prevent them from building a simple version of the Grand View Garden in order to save money!
Just want to solve this matter for two hundred thousand? Jia Lian shook his head, maybe this was wishful thinking.
In the future, when the money goes bad in the middle of this matter, I won’t be afraid that I won’t be able to get out Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang’s family fortune!
Jia Lian was not worried at all that the Grand View Garden would not be built, because Mrs. Wang relied on the Wang and Xue families and would definitely do her best on the matter of Yuanchun.
As for whether it would implicate himself, how could it be possible? He went all out from the beginning and handed over all his father's inheritance...
So after all the hard work of Jia Mu and others was poured into the Grand View Garden, it would be up to him to have the final say in the Rongguo Mansion.
Even if you are poor, it is better than being bossed around at any time.