How the Xue family and the Jia family coordinated, I know they knew it. Anyway, no matter what happened, the Jia family's garden still started to be built. Even in the cold weather, they still started to work.
As a result, business in the surrounding area also picked up.
For example, in Yu's small restaurant, they basically work in shifts, with no rest for twelve hours. In the pot is bone radish soup, and then there is a pot of simmered cabbage, cold radish, etc.
Various kinds of pickles are cooked in more than a dozen pots in the back kitchen, cooking thick porridge. There is no room in the store, so the workers squat at the door to eat. Each of them brings a bowl, or pays one penny for a bowl of porridge, or two penny.
It cost me a bowl of soup and half a portion of pickles, and I ate it with the dry food I brought, and it was hot.
There are people pulling materials constantly on the construction site at night. These people's wages are high. In the middle of the night, it is most comfortable to find a clean restaurant nearby and serve small dishes and strong drinks to keep away the cold.
Shao Hua told Lin Yutong that dozens of taels of silver would be credited to his account a day.
The Jia family looked down upon such a small amount of money, but they didn't know that if they earned such piecemeal money to build their home, they would have to make a small profit of ten thousand taels.
Fourth Master has also started work on the mountain side, and he told Yu Liang in advance.
As a result, a shed was built there early, and a temporary restaurant was opened by temporarily deploying people. Some women in the associated village also made a living. Just washing, washing, sewing and mending was enough to make a living.
The family is old and young.
The fourth master went out that day, and Lin Yutong was not idle at home, making clothes for the children.
Snowflakes were falling outside, but the narcissus inside the house was blooming just right. The young girl was in her own room, embroidering with the fourth sister. She just asked someone to ask her what she wanted to eat today, but she came outside and said
It's Baoyu who's here.
Why did Jia Baoyu's phoenix egg come here?
Lin Yutong asked someone to welcome him to the main hall in front, then wrapped himself in a cloak and went out.
"It's such a cold day. I don't stay at home to play with my sisters. I just go out and run around. Let the old lady know, what should I do?" Lin Yutong saw that he stretched out his hand and even wanted to help her. She finally
Impatient, the two of them held hands face to face and looked at each other. Seeing that he stretched out his hand, he handed over the hand stove in his hand: "Hurry up and cover it."
He took it and only smiled shyly, then said: "I have something to do with Sister Tong."
Lin Yutong couldn't think of anything serious that he could do, so he casually agreed. It was just some children's play, no big deal.
Jia Baoyu came over and said, "Sister, do you know the brother-in-law of Ronger's wife?"
Qin Zhong?
Lin Yutong thought for a moment before saying: "He's the little brother of the Qin family. I've met him in a trance. What's wrong?"
It must have been a year since Qin Keqing died.
When Jia Baoyu heard that Lin Yutong still remembered it, he hurriedly said: "Sister, I don't know, but now the Qin family is also in ruins. The master of the Qin family has gone, and Qin Zhong is left... but he is sick again. He doesn't even have a reliable family member...
…I asked someone to bring money over there, but I didn’t dare to ask the old lady where to find a good doctor. My second sister-in-law was busy and there was nothing I could do. When I left the house, I didn’t know who to ask, so I thought of Tong.
Sister. I originally wanted to find my cousin from the Yu family, but my cousin went out with the second brother. I don’t know how early or late he will be back, so I came here at the right time. See if I can ask Sister Tong to ask an imperial doctor to come over...
…”
Who can hire an imperial doctor if they want?
Moreover, Qin Zhong violated many taboos! He even dared to ask the imperial doctor.
Lin Yutong said: "Okay, I will send someone to take you with you. Find a good doctor and get two good medicines. You don't need to worry about anything else. Once you come out, I won't dare to keep you. I can't send you away again."
A few people will personally take you back and hand you over to the old lady, so I can rest assured."
The requester sent a servant of the family with Baoyu's servant. It was the servant who came forward, and the servant of the family paid the bill.
After finishing the matter, the people below came in and reported that the doctor only said that he was asking for funeral preparations, but it seemed to be of no use. When asked what the disease was, he couldn't explain the reason.
Lin Yutong had some idea. It was either that he couldn't explain the reason, or that he either hadn't been diagnosed, or that although he didn't know what caused the disease, he roughly guessed the cause, which was hard to explain.
Let this be ignored. If Baoyu is sent back, Mother Jia will probably restrain Baoyu and not tell Baoyu these messy things.
I'm so busy, this year's New Year is just around the corner.
The annual gifts distributed by the clan are getting more and more year by year. This year, five carts were sent, which I couldn’t even use for my own food. Fortunately, they were divided into three parts. Jia counted one share from the Qian family and gave it to Yu.
The three families, namely the Jia family, the Qi family, and the Zhang family, divided one portion among them, and the remaining portion was kept for the New Year.
Nowadays, gifts at home are not only for the Yu family, but the Qi family and the Zhang family are also serious in-laws. In the second half of the year, the fourth master had sent Jia Xia directly to the Qi family's academy, where he became a disciple of his father-in-law.
The fourth master also bought a small village and built a courtyard at the foot of the mountain where the academy is located. Jia Xia could occasionally live in his own courtyard.
But this also expresses their position. If the Qi family is willing in the future, after marrying their daughter, they can ask the young couple to live there.
This is the most considerate arrangement for a family who loves their daughter.
The Qi family is halfway up the mountain, and the Jia family's small village is at the foot of the mountain. It only takes a quarter of an hour to get on the sedan chair, which is the most convenient.
Jia Xia came back when she had some free time and said that it was very nice there and that her mother-in-law took good care of her. No, the New Year was about to come, so all the New Year gifts were sent to her by others, and they also returned the gifts, but Jia Xia was
But he hasn't come back yet. He only sent word that he will be back before the new year.
I thought I would have to wait until the 27th or 8th day of the twelfth lunar month to see anyone around the New Year. But not three days after I heard this, Jia Xia came back.
It was already dark when we came back, and it was almost time for curfew.
"I'm afraid something might happen." Fourth Master said and went to the front yard.
Lin Yutong ordered people to prepare meals and went forward.
When I entered, I heard two brothers talking.
Jia Xia's voice was a bit anxious: "... She said she came from the house, but the girl is a distant relative of the Qi family. The family is in some difficulties. She is from a serious family and is not an actor. Why did she come here from Caimai?
My mother-in-law cried all the way to Beijing and found me at the door of my father-in-law’s house. This was not a slap in the face. My father-in-law asked me to go over and ask if there was any misunderstanding. I said that I had only been there for half a year.
I went home and didn’t know much about it, so I’ll go back and ask.”
Lin Yutong understood. He was talking about going to the south of the Yangtze River to purchase actors. It seemed that he had forcefully bought a decent girl.
Jia Zhen sent Jia Qiang, but also the two sons of housekeeper Lai, accompanied by Shan Pinren and Bu Guxiu.
When I went to Jiangnan, I didn't bring any money at all, saying that I wanted to use the 50,000 taels stored in the Zhen family.
The 50,000 taels from the Zhen family were not originally given as gifts to others.
Thirty thousand taels are used to buy people, and the remaining 20,000 li are kept for buying lanterns, candles, tents and other items.
But whoever buys it will have to spend thirty thousand taels of silver.
A neat girl only costs twenty or thirty taels of silver, and a girl who has studied opera only costs a hundred or so taels. Even if you buy a hundred of them, they are not worth thirty thousand taels. These people not only waste money,
He also secretly bought a girl from a good family and used her for other purposes.
The fourth master frowned: "You go and wash up, eat and rest. Tomorrow, you will go out early after the city gate opens. I will edit a letter and you will give it to your father-in-law. The rest, I will just listen to you."
Just let your father-in-law take care of you."
"Can this matter be taken care of?" Jia Xia was a little unsure.
"Can you ignore it?" Fourth Master sent him: "If you don't ignore me anymore, I'm afraid you won't be able to get your wife back."
Jia Xia was a little embarrassed, laughed twice, and then said: "The mansion is getting more and more arrogant now. The door of Cheng'enhou Mansion is closed tightly, and no one is waiting for guests? There are two children in the academy, both from the queen's natal family.
My nephew is usually very low-key, humble, and never bullies others. But the people in the house are really nice... Sometimes after listening to their behavior, I feel embarrassed to face my classmates."
As he said that, when he saw Lin Yutong coming in, he quickly saluted: "How are you, sister-in-law?" Then he looked at Lin Yutong's belly: "How is my nephew?"
"Everything is fine!" Lin Yutong urged him: "Hurry up and have a rest, ask someone to send you food, and rest early. Your brother has to worry about everything."
After sending Jia Xia away, she went over to read the fourth master's letter.
One letter is for the Qi family, and the other is for King Zhongshun.
These two letters became the last straw for the Zhen family.
It’s the New Year after Laba, but on this day of Laba, the Dengwen drum is beating.
The Jia family, which was prospering in the capital, was sued for buying a daughter of a good family.
When the news reached the Jia family, Jia Zheng was furious. He called Jia Zhen and Jia Lian and gave him a scolding. Was Jia Lian aggrieved? Jia Zhen had arranged this matter. When he found out, he asked Jia Qiang specifically and told him about it.
Although it is not very big, there is something hidden inside.
But I didn’t take any of these words to heart.
After coming out of the study, he went back to change his clothes, and then gave Wang Xifeng a good meal and said: "I said these little brats are not working as errands at all. You also said that you have never eaten pork and you have never seen pigs running. You just said that I am worrying about them. They
It's not a big deal if I want to get some money behind my back, but I'm afraid it won't involve money. I'm the old one doing the errands. When I go out, I have to call up my cousin from the Yu family. There are two of us.
We have discussed and discussed, but are you afraid that one of you will accidentally step into the mud? You are good! One by one, you just let it go. Now that you are causing trouble, you ask me to go out and take care of things. You just go out to ask for help.
Is it so easy to handle? Do you really think that anyone can buy our family’s face if you have a mother-in-law? You are so immortal, what are you doing buying a girl from a good family? Who is not born and raised by my mother? What if someone kidnaps the eldest sister of our family?
Son, we must not go out and fight with others. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do. If you do such an immoral thing, what should I say to others?"
Wang Xifeng didn't say anything, she only served him to dress, looked at his face, and then said in a low voice: "It can't be said that our family is unreasonable. Why do so many families forcefully buy their girls?"
Even their family has bad things."
"Just Hu Qin." Jia Lian grabbed her clothes and refused to serve her: "What's bad about me? The bad thing about me is that the girl in her family is good-looking, but she's still poor and poor.
The unlucky one made them take notice, and somehow used some tricks to throw away a few coins and take the person away. It's just a matter of going out and fooling people, but you are still saying this at home. How dare you do this outside?
Just wait and see if someone spits in your face."
As he spoke, he took the big cloak and hurried out: "Hurry up and prepare ten thousand taels of silver. When you are ready, ask someone to send it to Brother Heng. I have to sum up this matter with him."
Wang Xifeng was choked up by what she was saying, so Ping'er said, "I'll take the money right now."
"Stop." Wang Xifeng waved his hand: "Why do you have to take this money from us? This mess was not caused by the people I sent out." After saying that, he asked the waiter to get dressed: "Prepare the carriage! In the East Mansion,
go."
When the carriage entered Dongfu, all the servants were flattering.
She didn't have time to report, so she went straight inside. She scolded the person who wanted to report, and they didn't dare to move.
It can be seen how powerful this person is after taking charge of things in Dongfu.
Jia Rong hurried over to meet her, but Wang Xifeng slapped her head in the face.
He was stunned for a moment, then raised his smile, knelt down on the ground, and hugged Wang Xifeng's legs: "If aunt is angry, just take it out on her son. If the sons don't live up to their expectations, they will bring trouble to aunt again."
"Are you causing trouble for me?" Wang Xifeng sighed: "What did your uncle warn me that day? As a result, all these bastards refused to take it seriously. Where is your mother? Don't bother me here, I will follow you.
You can't tell me, just talk to your mother."
With that said, he kicked Jia Rong away and went straight inside.
Seeing that she couldn't hide, Jia Zhen had to keep smiling: "Why is the eldest sister here?"
"Why am I here? How could I not come?" Wang Xifeng raised her eyebrows and raised her eyes: "The Zhen family only has a total of tens of thousands of taels of silver, so many things can be done based on that. What's the result? You sent people
Go, what are you doing in such a sneaky way? You want to convert the little space you freed up into money and earn it back? You guys went back and forth without posting it, but you asked us to join in for nothing.
Some money still needs to be given as a favor..."
The things that Jia Qiang did in private were said to be Jia Zhen's instructions. Even the initial willingness to set aside the area of the garden in Dongfu to build a garden was said to be unwilling and generous on the surface.
, but in private he gave back.
Jia Zhen's face changed when she said this: "Sister, I don't dare to say that, it makes me shameless." After saying that, she scolded You: "Why are you standing there in a daze? Why don't you get ten thousand quickly?"
Here’s two silver notes.”
But where did Youshi have ten thousand taels? With a look of embarrassment on her face, Wang Xifeng spat hard twice, and Jia Zhen took advantage of this opportunity to ask the waiter to quickly go to the accounting room to pay the money.
After taking the money, Wang Xifeng didn't want anyone else to give it to him, so he gave it to Jia Lian himself.
Jia Lian and Fourth Master were talking in the study. Lin Yutong met Wang Xifeng at the second door and asked someone to deliver things to Jia Lian.
Wang Xifeng and Lin Yutong went to the back to talk: "...Where did that savage come from? What kind of frivolous complaint did he make? Are we going to ask someone to come to the house to tell us whether we will return his daughter to him? Or maybe we are the ones who treated him harshly?
Do you want to torture people to death? Look around at home, if our girl goes out, other people's girls may not be able to catch up. When it comes to how many people are let out, all of them are crying and shouting that they don't want to go out. I don't know.
There are such ungrateful people in this world who come here to enjoy the blessings, but they deserve to suffer. They are all uncreated seeds, causing such a thing. But I suffered a lot of ostracism for nothing."
Lin Yutong said: "Everyone has his own ambitions, and some people are unwilling to leave me. If I buy him back, it will just be a gift to the house. I am afraid that I will have shady thoughts and treat other people's good girls."
It's a disaster. Then send people to that dirty place, or simply make yourself a dirty place to escape. Do you know all about this?"
Wang Xifeng's eyes widened: "Brother Qiang doesn't dare to do this even if he has the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard."
Lin Yutong laughed: "Brother Qiang doesn't have the courage. But I'm afraid that Brother Qiang is not the one who makes the decision. Think about it, who in this house has the courage to hide the truth. If nothing else,
Let’s just talk about the Lai family. The Lai family also cultivates a garden at home. The garden they cultivate is not half as big as your garden, but naturally it costs about half of your family’s money. Where does this money come from?
"Can you calculate how much silver this half is worth?" You are doing all kinds of calculations for those three melons and two dates. One year is only one thousand eight hundred taels of silver. I don't know how many people secretly scolded you.
Well. Don’t you know that every time your money passes through other people’s hands, you won’t peel off a layer of skin. She reminded: “It’s true that this servant belongs to the master’s family, but are there other people who are not from the master’s family?
"
Wang Xifeng really doesn't know about the garden construction there, which shows how closely they keep it a secret. You bastard, where did you get all the materials for the garden construction?
Lin Yutong said this not to expose this matter in advance. It is really that the Lai family's garden is a bit disgusting.
For the Jia family's garden, a piece of space was taken out from the east and west mansions. The servants' houses were demolished and so on, and this was enough space. But where did the Lai family's land come from? It was a lot of people in the alley called Yuliang.
They all gave the yard to their family. The main entrance of the Yu family might have to face the back wall of the Lai family's garden in the future.
That's all. The key point is, I heard from Yu Liang that Sun Shaozu gave his family's house to the Lai family for free. The Lai family helped Sun Shaozu take the Jia family's post to the Ministry of Officials, but Jia She and Jia Zheng didn't know about it.
have no idea.
If this incident hadn't happened, Wang Xifeng would probably have refused to touch the Lai family, and it's useless for anyone to say anything. But now that there's this lawsuit, can Wang Xifeng not touch the Lai family?
What a good excuse!
Jia Lian was the one who fished out the money from the frying pan and spent it. Wang Xifeng was even worse than Jia Lian. She dared to spend the money fished out of the sea of blood. What's more, the Lai family was already guilty of this crime.
Besides, it was such a huge sum of money. The master was running around at home, and the money was not enough no matter how much he calculated. The slave actually made a fortune.
Comparing before and after, I can't help but feel unbalanced.
When Lin Yutong said this, Wang Xifeng narrowed his eyes: "Is there really so much?"
"I'm afraid it's no less than what your family has now." Lin Yutong said this conservatively. In fact, I'm afraid it's really much more than what the Jia family has.
Wang Xifeng took a breath. She knew Lin Yutong and had never spoken out of turn.
If she said it was like this, then it must be like this.
Lin Yutong also reminded: "Lai Shangrong is a free man. If the property belongs to your servant, you can check it no matter what you want. I am afraid that these properties are recorded in Lai Shangrong's name, so this matter will not be easy to handle."
Wang Xifeng slapped the table and said with a bit of arrogance: "There is nothing in this world that I want to do, but I can't do it."
In the front, Jia Lian pushed the box to the fourth master: "This has something to do with it. I'm afraid you have to come with me."
The fourth master pushed the money back: "I don't care what brother Lian does with this money. But there is no need for money at all. This time, I am confused about this matter. Why are you confused too?"
Jia Lian sighed: "It's really because I'm not clear in my heart that I'm talking to a sensible person like you. How can I solve this problem?"
The fourth master said: "This matter is difficult to handle. But good things can turn into bad things, and bad things may not turn into good things... The money was originally given to the Zhen family, but we asked for it back this time.
This means that the Zhen family has been offended..."
"It doesn't matter." Jia Lian said: "At this time, at that time, we begged them. At this time, they begged us. As long as we are willing to get the money back, they should feel lucky..."
"They don't refute, how can they feel at ease?" The Fourth Master said: "What's more, this crisis is apparently in the Zhen family, but in fact it is not in the Zhen family. The Zhen family has contributed to the situation where the queen is today. We have contributed.
Knowing this, doesn’t the Emperor know this? Concubine Zhen has repeatedly been in trouble with the empress, does the empress also stand in the same position as Concubine Zhen?”
That can't be done!
Jia Lian said: "Not to mention the emperor, even in our own family, there is no aunt in the family who only cares about the old aunt in the family. After all, the old aunt is not your mother-in-law, so why do you do that?"
As he spoke, he slapped his head: "Aren't you confused?! Now, it's time to draw a clear line with the Zhen family."
The fourth master then nodded: "We have already offended people. Instead of asking them to stare at us like this and come out to bite us out of nowhere. It is better to take advantage of his illness and kill him. Our crisis has been relieved, also called
The emperor knows that our position with the empress is with the emperor."
Jia Lian looked at the Fourth Master with some surprise: "Old Saint..."
"He is a biological father and son." The fourth master said, "Who can be closer than a biological son? What is going on here? How can anyone who has not seen it see through it?"
This is also true!
If the old saint's heart is towards the emperor rather than the concubine, then there is nothing to hesitate about.
Thinking about it this way, I felt that the old saint had any reason to favor Concubine Zhen? Concubine Zhen did not have a son or a half under her knees.
He understood in his heart, so he opened the box, took out five thousand taels from it, put it on the table, and said involuntarily: "If you don't accept it, you will be looking down on your brother. I am afraid that your brother will come to trouble you in the future, so I refuse you."
Thousands of miles away?"
Okay! Just let go of these five thousand taels.
Jia Lian went out and asked someone to call Wang Xifeng inside.
The couple came here full of worries, but returned home in high spirits.
Jia Lian was riding a horse. On the way, Wang Xifeng suddenly called Jia Lian to the carriage. The couple exchanged words and became even more passionate.
As long as the affairs of the Zhen family are for the good of the mother-in-law, it is impossible for everyone from Jia Mu to Jia Zheng, the king’s wife, to refuse to agree.
The people from the Jia family went to Jinling to buy things, so they must have lived in the Zhen family. The Zhen family must have sent someone as a guide to buy this item, which is what it should be.
Then, there is nothing more convenient than to push all these things onto the Zhen family.
Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng went back and called Mrs. Jia Shexing, Mrs. Jia Zheng and Wang to Jia's mother. As soon as they talked about this and that, Mrs. Wang nodded first: "Why didn't you think of this before? Now in our family, everything is done with the mother in mind."
First of all, if you want to be good to your empress, you must first gain the emperor's favor. Once you are favored... you will have a better future."
After this, it means giving birth to an heir. Only by giving birth to a prince can the family be considered wealthy for several generations. Therefore, Princess Zhen was useful in the past, but will be an obstacle in the future. Yuanchun still has to win the emperor's heart first.
Jia Zheng sighed: "That's all. But after all, we are old friends. But we can't show up in front of you. If you are really guilty, at least leave some room for others."
Jia Lian responded quickly.
Jia She snorted: "What if someone finds out?"
Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng looked at each other, but neither of them said anything. The matter was just settled, and it was left to the two of them to handle it.
After coming out, Jia She asked Jia Lian: "Where did you send the 10,000 taels? Did Brother Heng take it?"
Jia Lian's heart skipped a beat. If he said that he had taken it over there, he would have dared to call Brother Heng to confront him. So he hurriedly said: "Where did he take it away? He and his cousin from the Yu family are both good, and they never shirk their duties.
He never accepted the money. He took me and handed the money to the palace people. We cannot let the concubine know about this in advance, we must seal her mouth first."
This is reasonable and reasonable.
Jia She listened and sent Jia Lian away.
Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng returned to their home and sent Ping'er to watch outside to prevent others from breaking in. The two had important matters to discuss.
"The Lai family has something to do, but we can't let the old lady know about it in advance." Wang Xifeng said this: "Even the old man and his wife, the eldest man and his wife, can't say anything in advance. The important thing about this matter is a 'secret'.
"
Jia Lian rolled his eyes at her: "Don't I know this truth?" He sighed: "You were right what you said in the car before. Lai Shangrong's matter must be dealt with quickly."
Wang Xifeng called Jia Lian to him, crawled on his ear and said: "Earlier, the son-in-law of Zhou Rui's family, the man named Leng Zixing, was reported to have unknown origins. The Zhou Rui family's request is here, and I asked someone to take it from you."
This matter was settled after I posted a message. I heard someone say something before that Leng Zixing and Lai Shangrong are quite close."
Leng Zixing fawns over Lai Shangrong, which is easier to understand.
Jia Lian looked puzzled: "So what?"
Wang Xifeng nodded at Jia Lian: "Why are you so stupid? Brother Heng, since he has collected the money, he must be able to handle many small things. For example, we asked our family's case to be postponed until the end of the year.
I think this matter is easy to handle, but even if we take our people now, it will be useless. The people who went out to do things have not come back yet, and they have already sent people to call, but this does not mean that they can fly back when they come back. Put the case back.
First of all, we need to find the person who handles it, and then we need to arrange the girls who are unwilling. Doesn’t it take time? It doesn’t take long. The New Year is coming soon, and the Yamen will be sealed. It’s just past the first month.
Fifteen, do you think it will be possible to handle this case again?"
Reasonable and well-founded, it also makes.
Jia Lian nodded: "What happens next?"
"With this little time, we can make arrangements." Wang Xifeng held the hand stove and moved her fingers on the hand stove little by little, making a gentle sound of gold and jade colliding: "Find someone first and then report Leng Zi.
Xing. After Leng Zixing is restrained, he will ask the jailer in the Yamen to pass a message to him, coaxing him to say that someone above wants to use our Jia family to establish his authority and let him bite out Lai Shangrong, and then let him out. As long as Lai Shangrong is trapped,
The matter will be easy to handle. Just as it happens, the master is worried, fearing that our people will report directly to the Zhen family, which will make their faces look bad. So we will not report directly, but will pretend to ask the people in the palace to find them privately.
Butler Lai said that in order to save Lai Shangrong, he had to attack the Zhen family. It happened that the people who went to the south to do things were Lai Shangrong's two brothers. It was best for them to handle this matter. The Lai family has always been very courageous, so they kept it secret
After we finish killing the Zhen family, we will definitely be able to say something good for the government when they come back. Before they come back, you will lead people to confiscate the Lai family. You will only say that the Lai family is ungrateful and nothing else. It’s Lao
When the wife asked, we just said that it was for the sake of the mother-in-law. The Lai family treated the Zhen family like this, and when the Zhen family was still alive, we still had to express our stance out of concern for face. The master didn’t ask us to come forward directly to you, maybe it’s not because of scruples.
With this in mind, after all, Concubine Zhen cannot be allowed to vent her anger on the empress in the palace. Even if the old lady is angry, the matter has been settled, but there is nothing she can do. Besides, the Lai family is very greedy. They only gave out half of it.
It's not a small amount to hand over to the public. The superiors and the inferiors will receive money, and we won't be accused of treating the subordinates harshly. Isn't it appropriate?"
Jia Lian looked at Wang Xifeng in surprise: "How did you come up with this strategy of one link within another? From the beginning to the end, we were out of touch?"
Wang Xifeng chuckled lightly: "I didn't ask to give birth to a man..." After saying a few light words, he got back to the topic: "For this matter, I will spend another two thousand taels of silver to Brother Heng, whether it's just to send a message
The little eunuch or the jailer asked him to help us. This way, we can't be found. If it weren't for the Lai family's money, fortunately, even the final job of ransacking the house was asked to be done by others. That would be the case.
It's really clean and tidy. It's a pity...it's all because of money. But it doesn't matter, except for you, no one else in the house dares or has the qualification to plunder the Lai family, right?"
Jia Lian sneered: "If it wasn't for money, who would bother to do a circle of pictures or something? That's it."
So, in the evening, Fourth Master received another friendly gift from Jia Lian: two thousand taels of silver.
It's not easy to earn this kind of money.
Is this the only requirement?
The fourth master quickly agreed. He just asked someone to deliver a letter to King Zhongshun. The threats mentioned by Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng were all false. They meant to use money to find someone to pretend to be a fake person. But they didn't know that the fourth master
I can make these all come true.
So, very easily, the incident happened to Leng Zixing the next day.
If Zhou Rui's family goes to Wang Xifeng, it won't work.
Wang Xifeng said: "The lawsuit in the government is still pending. No one knows what will happen. How can we take care of this? Otherwise, you should find someone to go in first. Don't let them suffer injustice inside. Then wait later.
The lawsuit here is over, can I think of another way?"
None of Zhou Rui's family dared to tell Mrs. Wang about this matter, for fear that something like this would make their master angry when the mother-in-law was going to have a wedding.
Wang Xifeng said that she had no choice at all.
But this matter is not a secret. Many people who want to sell Zhou Rui's good family have mentioned this in private: "Second Master Lian and Second Mistress like to discuss matters with the number one scholar and his wife. The official there is not high, but she is a popular person.
Just go and ask for it, and maybe it will be granted."
Zhou Rui's family gritted her teeth. She had offended everyone before, and there was still a patch of hair on her head that had not grown. She felt frightened when she saw that person. But remembering her daughter crying at home, she couldn't care less. She looked for her.
My man went home, discussed it for a while, took five hundred taels of silver notes, and went to Lin Yutong. When he entered the door, he knelt down and kowtowed, saying flattering words and crying.
Lin Yutong really didn't expect that his family would start to make a lot of money because of this incident.
Five hundred taels of silver?
Received!
She handed the money directly to the housekeeper: "Don't be reluctant to spend it, just go and spend it." She also asked Zhou Rui's family to wait here.
Not fooling anyone at all.
Zhou Rui's family also waited on him, sitting on the footrest and beating Lin Yutong's legs, and talking about this and that in the house.
After a while, the person came back.
Lin Yutong said: "Just tell me."
The housekeeper was very clever. He went out for a while and came back with a sad face: "...The matter has become serious. I met Eunuch Xia in the palace today...This matter is not simple. I am afraid that someone in the palace has intervened. This uncle Leng
, I’m afraid I’m being implicated. Most of them are aiming for..."
I won’t say any more at this point.
But the Zhou Rui family understood.
Eunuch Xia was a member of Concubine Zhen, and she often came to the house to ask for money. Others didn't know the origin, but she knew it.
As soon as this name was reported, the Zhou Rui family believed it first, fearing that they might have been offended by the use of the money given to the Zhen family. But what was the reason for arresting their own uncle?
She panicked instantly. But don't say anything you shouldn't say in prison.
Lin Yutong was particularly considerate: "Tell your man to go in and see your uncle. It will be easier to talk to him if he can see what is going on over there, right?"
"Yes, yes!" Zhou Rui's family started to leave in a panic.
The housekeeper was very kind and hesitated to speak, so Lin Yutong said: "If you have anything to say, don't hide it. Tell me quickly. I didn't see Sister-in-law Zhou getting anxious."
Zhou Rui's family nodded quickly: "I'd better ask my elder brother for advice."
The housekeeper said: "You'd better go back quickly and see if there are any other valuable things in the store... Your uncle has an outhouse in Tongzhou, and his son has his property there. This man is about to come out, and there are some
It's easy to talk but hard to do."
ah?
Zhou Rui's family was blessed and went out with a livid face. For a while, they couldn't care less about Leng Zixing in prison.
Just in time, I asked Leng Zixing to recognize him clearly, and if he refused to bite Lai Shangrong, he wouldn't be able to get out.
Lin Yutong accepted the 500 taels handed over by the housekeeper, thinking in his mind, how early and late does Aunt Lai go home, and how much money can she bring with her?
Or maybe she cares about Fourth Master so much.
'You have to help other people count the money after you sell it' is an exaggeration, but he really did it.
Which one of those who brought money was not sold by him?