Jia Ke waited until more than ten o'clock in the morning before seeing Lin Zhixiao and the housekeeper return. Lin Zhixiao walked in front, and the housekeeper followed behind holding the account book.
Lin Zhixiao stepped forward and saluted Jia Ke, and said: "Uncle, the Lai family has all been inspected. The land alone is more than 20,000 acres, not counting those in Wangjiatun, and there are hundreds of gold and silver jewelry. Others.
There are hundreds of valuable antique calligraphy and paintings. The copied things have been placed in the yard next door. Would you like me to go over and take a look?"
Jia Ke said: "Of course I have to take a look. I have never seen so many valuable things piled up together." After saying that, he stood up and walked out. Lin Zhixiao and the housekeeper hurriedly followed behind and walked towards the yard next to them.
Go.
When everyone came to the gate of the courtyard, they saw several soldiers guarding the gate. When they saw Jia Ke coming, they all saluted him.
Jia Ke asked them to excuse themselves and then entered the yard. As soon as he entered the yard, he saw that all kinds of things were piled up in the yard.
Jia Ke stepped forward and looked through it one by one. The housekeeper quickly took the account book next to him and gave Jia Ke instructions one by one. Jia Ke opened the box and asked the housekeeper next to him while looking at it: "What is your name and how much have you done here?"
Years old?”
The steward said excitedly: "The younger one's name is Qian Mao, and he has been the steward of the Lai family for twenty years."
Jia Ke said: "You have merit this time. I promise you that I will not make a mistake. You will be mine from now on. I will pick out your family members and put them in an empty house first. I will have some more after the work is done."
Great reward."
Qian Mao was overjoyed. He used to be a member of the Lai family, which was one floor away from the Jia family. Now that the Lai family was unlucky, he thought he would follow suit. Not wanting to have such an opportunity, he not only jumped out of the fire pit, but also climbed onto a high branch.
From now on, he can be regarded as a real servant of the Jia family.
Jia Ke didn't care about money and trade, and continued to walk forward. When he got to the edge, he saw a lot of silver jewelry piled on a table. They were all relatively rough. At first glance, they belonged to the maids.
Jia Ke asked Qian Mao, "What's going on?"
Qian Mao said quickly: "Although these are the jewelry of the maids, they still belong to the Lai family after all, so I took these jewelry off and put them here to see what the masters want."
Jia Ke said: "Then let's pile it up here first and talk about it later."
Then he saw small wooden boxes placed one after another on several tables nearby. Jia Ke opened a wooden box and saw a piece of exquisite jewelry inside, studded with pearls and emeralds. It was worthless at first glance.
Philippines.
Jia Ke asked Qian Mao: "Are all these boxes like this?"
Qian Mao replied: "What your uncle said is like this."
After finishing speaking, Qian Mao led Jia Ke the way. When he arrived at several large boxes, he stepped forward and opened the boxes. He said to Jia Ke, "Uncle, this is the most valuable thing."
Jia Ke stepped forward and took a look, and it turned out to be pieces of scroll calligraphy and painting. Jia Ke knew about antiques from the golden age of troubled times. Now that this dynasty is in its prime, every piece of famous calligraphy and painting is of great value. The value of these boxes of calligraphy and painting is probably
They all exceeded the price of the silver in the treasury.
Jia Ke stopped walking after reading these calligraphy and paintings, and turned around and said to Lin Zhixiao: "Let the master's boy go back and tell the master, please come and have a look." Lin Zhixiao agreed and went out immediately. Jia Ke took the instructions with him
Qian Mao returned to the hall and waited for Jia Zheng's reply.
It was already getting late, so Jia Ke said to Liu Yu: "Take someone to pick out the people in the kitchen and ask them to make some hot food and boil some hot water for the brothers so that they can eat and drink enough."
, tell the brothers not to relax yet, everyone will be rewarded heavily when today’s work is over.”
After listening to Jia Ke's words, Liu Yu resigned and prepared meals for the Mainland Project.
As for Jia Zheng, he took leave from the Yamen today and did not go to the Yamen. He has been waiting in the small study for news about Jia Ke. It was not until almost noon that the boy he sent to help Jia Ke came back to report that it was Jia Ke.
Ke asked Jia Zheng to go over and take a look at the situation.
Jia Zheng looked at the boy and asked, "Does the Lai family really have that much money?"
That hour replied: "I don't know about other places. I took a look in the yard next to the hall, and there was no room for anything there."
Jia Zheng was silent when he heard this. In fact, from the bottom of his heart, he didn't want Grandma Lai to end up like this when she got old.
Jia Zheng was silent for a while, and then he took a few people to Lai's house. When he arrived at the door of Lai's house, he saw several soldiers holding handles to let anyone in and out. When those soldiers saw Jia Zheng coming, they quickly saluted and let them go.
Clear the way for him to enter.
Jia Ke had long heard that Jia Zheng was coming, and had already been waiting outside the hall to greet him. Jia Ke welcomed Jia Zheng into the hall and asked the money trader next to him to take the account book to Jia Zheng for review.
Although Jia Zheng heard from the boy that a lot of property was confiscated from Lai's house, he didn't expect there to be so much. He couldn't believe it and asked Jia Ke: "Is this true? How could there be so much? It couldn't be records."
Is it wrong?"
Jia Ke replied to Jia Zheng and said: "Father, it is absolutely true. There is no problem. I personally led people to take inventory of the bank, and I also looked at other things with my own eyes. Due to time constraints, there may be some minor discrepancies. I dare not
There won’t be any big problems.”
Jia Zheng said to Jia Ke: "Take me to the bank to have a look. I still don't believe it. Aunt Lai is sincere to my family. How could she embezzle so much money? She has simply moved all the bank of our family."
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So Jia Ke took Jia Zheng to the bank, passed through two doors, and entered the bank. Looking at the boxes of gold and silver on the ground, Jia Zheng was completely convinced. Jia Zheng felt that his anger could no longer be suppressed.
Jia Zheng felt that this was the most shameless betrayal. He trusted the Lai family so much that he almost handed over all the affairs of the Jia family to his family. He did not expect the Lai family to trust him so much.
In addition to the bank, they went to the east and west yard to look around again. Looking at the antiques, calligraphy, paintings, and jade in the yard, Jia Zheng was so angry that he had nothing to say. The value of these things was far more than the money in the bank.
The value is too high. Not to mention that there are more than 20,000 acres of land lying outside. Even the Jia family cannot raise so many things at once.
Originally, Jia Zheng wanted to say a few nice words to the Lai family in front of the old lady, but seeing this situation, he didn't care.
Jia Zheng said to Jia Ke expressionlessly: "I don't care about his family's affairs, and I can't control them anymore. Just report back to the old lady yourself." After saying that, he left without looking back.
Jia Ke sent Jia Zheng out of the door, then returned to the hall and asked Lin Zhixiao to prepare all the accounts, and then prepared to go with him to see the old lady.
Jia Zheng took Lin Zhixiao and asked two soldiers to press Nanny Lai into the corner gate of Rongguo Mansion. They stopped in front of a hanging flower door and asked the janitor to go in and report to Jia's mother. The mother-in-law saw Jia Ke pressing down.
Aunt Lai knew that the matter was serious and she did not dare to neglect it, so she quickly went in to report to Jia Mu.
After a while, several other women came out and took Aunt Lai from the soldiers. Then Jia Ke took Lin Zhixiao and followed her into the inner courtyard of the Jia Mansion.
When they arrived at Jia's mother's courtyard, the mothers-in-law locked Aunt Lai into the foot room next to her. When the maid on the steps saw Jia Ke coming, she went up to open the curtain and said to Jia Ke: "The old lady has been waiting for me.
Here." Then I heard someone inside the room say: "The uncle is here."
Jia Ke took Lin Zhixiao into the house and saw the white-haired Mother Jia, sitting on the bed wiping her tears, with several maids comforting her beside her.
Jia Ke and Lin Zhixiao both stepped forward to salute Jia Mu. Jia Mu looked at them and said weakly: "Is there any result? Tell it truthfully."
Jia Ke stepped forward and reported back: "The copied silver amounted to 180,000 taels, more than 15,000 taels of gold, more than 22,000 acres of farmland, and other antiques, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, jades, and ornaments. They all appear in the ledger.
I'll report it to the old lady." After saying that, he asked Lin Zhixiao to hand over the account book.
A little maid took the account book and passed it to Jia Mu. Jia Mu took the account book and read it carefully page by page. Jia Ke and Lin Zhixiao did not dare to say anything and waited quietly below.