Seeing that Qin Keqing lured Wang Xifeng away, Jia Mu spoke again. She also smiled and echoed Jia Mu: "Since the old lady has offered three hundred taels, there is no way we can get past the old lady. Just offer two hundred taels."
I also bought eighty kilograms of sesame oil. It was considered as a blessing for our uncle."
Wang Xifeng looked at Qin Keqing with some jealousy, and couldn't help but feel sour in her heart, "Your family doesn't have enough money for this. With our uncle's income, even a single hair from his waist is thicker than ours."
When Qin Keqing heard her talk about money, she immediately covered it up and said: "It's not what you said. You don't know that we have horse breeders outside the Great Wall. The money we earn every year is not enough for them to eat. I have to pay for it every year."
Spend a lot of money to subsidize it."
Wang Xifeng only heard a little bit about this matter. She knew that Jia Ke had a group of slaves raising horses outside the Great Wall. What was the specific situation? She knew nothing about it.
Now listening to what Qin Keqing and the others said, they were a little worried about Jia Ke, "Since it's a loss-making business, why do we do it? We might as well drag those people to the village and become serfs."
Qin Keqing was immediately stopped by Wang Xifeng's question, and he didn't know how to answer. She didn't know anything about Jia Ke, so she was just the cashier responsible for the ups and downs of Wuyang Hou Mansion every year.
Jia Ke quickly came over to rescue Qin Keqing, "This is not possible. Even if it is a loss-making business, we have to continue. Otherwise, where will the horses in the border come from?"
When Jia Mu heard this, she glanced at Jia Ke meaningfully, and then said to Wang Xifeng: "You don't know the hardships of raising horses. From birth to adulthood, half of those horses can survive. That's why we
This is because there are few cavalry in this dynasty."
After Jia Mu said these words, her eyes couldn't help but turn red, and she said to the juniors below, "You don't know the difficulty of the lack of horses. My brother, Mr. Shi Laohou, in that war, if there were thousands of horses,
Where can lives be lost around them?"
Thinking of this, Jia's mother couldn't help but feel even more secretly. How glorious their Shi's Mansion was back then, no less than Rongguo's Mansion. At that time, his brother was the Marquis, and her eldest nephew was the one she watched grow up.
However, because his mother gave birth to him prematurely, his eldest nephew was in poor health after birth.
It is a pity that the old Marquis Shi used infantry to fight against the Tatar cavalry. In the end, he was trapped on the hill for several days and nights, and the whole army was wiped out and died. Even the corpse was that of Rongguo Gong Jia Daishan, who sent someone to bribe the Tatars.
It was finally found.
Poor his eldest nephew, who was already in poor health when he heard that his father had passed away, passed away after a few years of suffering, leaving his widowed daughter to live in the hands of others.
As for the current two marquises in the historian family, the second one was lucky enough to inherit the title of Marquis of Bowling from his father due to the death of his eldest brother.
The title that the third child got was a bit strange. But when Jia Mu thought about it, it was probably the incident more than ten years ago that made him so successful.
And because Jia Mu took a lot of care of the orphan and widowed mother when they separated, she offended the two princes of the Shi family, and now they are somewhat related to Jia Mu.
And the reason for the estrangement between the two families is not just this one thing. The third Marquis in the history family got the title strangely, and Jia's mother always suspected that he was climbing on the shoulders of the Jia family.
The relationship between the two nephews is somewhat unfamiliar.
But the two princes of the family saw that the Rongguo Mansion was beginning to decline, so they did not rush to repair the relationship with Jia Mu.
By the time Jia Ke rose to prominence and took charge of the imperial court, it was already too late for the two princes of the Shi family to repair their relationship with Jia Mu.
In fact, Jia Mu was actually distant from the two of them, but she still missed her mother's family, but she couldn't say it explicitly. She could only often bring Shi Xiangyun to live in the house for a period of time, so that she could be relaxed and relaxed in her place, and secondly, she could also live in the house.
She knew the current situation of her two nephews.
When Wang Xifeng saw this conversation, it aroused Jia Mu's sadness, and she quickly acted as if she was ignorant and said, "Oh, now I know how difficult it is for our uncle. How much money does it cost to achieve military merit?"
Jia's mother was immediately amused by her, "You hozen, you don't know how to shut up quickly. Can such military achievements be bought with money? According to what you said, all the rich people in the world have not yet become marquises."
Wang Xifeng's gag immediately adjusted the atmosphere, and Jia Mu also put aside the sad incident just now.
Everyone was joking once, but seeing that it was almost night time again, they dispersed and went back to their houses.
Jia Ke and Qin Keqing came out of Jia Mu's room and did not go back to Wuyang Hou Mansion immediately. Instead, they waited in front of Jia Mu's door for a while.
This is because Jia Ke met Jia Yingchun in Jia Mu's room today and remembered what her mother had entrusted to him back then.
Jia Ke received great benefits from Aunt Zhang back then, and the space ring is still worn on Jia Ke's hand.
Since you have benefited from others, you cannot act unfaithfully.
Qin Keqing looked at Jia Ke's strange look and was a little puzzled, "Uncle, it's getting late, why don't we go back?"
"There are still some things to do, please wait with me for a moment." Jia Ke didn't say the reason, just stood there.
After a while, Jia Yingchun and his maid Siqi were seen walking out of Jia Mu's room.
As soon as Jia Ke saw Jia Yingchun, he immediately greeted him, "Sister, I don't know how good this time has been. If you have any problems, just come to me, but it's inconvenient, and the same goes for your sister-in-law."
Jia Yingchun was a little surprised to see Jia Ke waiting here in person, but now he said this inexplicably, leaving Jia Yingchun at a loss what to say.
Qin Keqing also wondered why Jia Ke cared so much about Jia Yingchun?
Jia Yingchun first bowed to Jia Ke, and then said softly: "Thank you for your concern, big brother. Everything is fine in my house. There is nothing difficult."
At this time, Siqi next to him kept winking at Jia Yingchun.
Qin Keqing could see clearly from the side and asked, "Just tell me if you have anything to do. Will your elder brother still harm you?"
"It's true that there's nothing wrong. If anything happens, I'll definitely bother you, big brother." Jia Yingchun said still so gently and softly.
Si Qi, the maid next to him, couldn't bear it any longer. She walked past Jia Yingchun and said, "Grandma, please tell our second grandma and ask her to pay our second girl's monthly salary in full."
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Jia Ke frowned and asked: "What's going on? Is our Rongguo Mansion already in such difficulty?"
Qin Keqing quickly replied from the side: "Uncle, don't listen to this little girl's nonsense. If others don't know, I can't know. Our Rongguo Mansion is now rich with thousands of taels every year, how can we default on the monthly payment of the girls?"
Si Qi still wanted to argue, but Jia Yingchun who was next to her hurriedly stopped her and said, "Sister-in-law is right. When did our Rongguo Mansion default on monthly payment? Don't listen to this little girl's nonsense."
Jia Ke knew that the chess player in Dream of Red Mansions was famous for being outspoken and a shrewd person. Otherwise, Jia Yingchun would have been raped to death before leaving Rongguo Mansion.
"You two don't want to say anything, I'm just asking this little girl." Jia Ke stopped Qin Keqing and Jia Yingchun with a gloomy face.
"Tell me, Second Grandma Lian, why is your girl's monthly money so short?"
"Uncle, I don't know since when, Second Mistress Lian's treatment of us girls is different from before. Now we girls, as well as the little girl in the house, can get half of the monthly salary, which is pretty good. Sometimes the food we eat is not bad.
It's what others left." Si Qi, after Jia Ke asked, he told all these things in a babbling manner, as if he wanted to tell all the grievances he had felt during this period.
"Although the monthly salary is short, all meals are arranged uniformly by the big kitchen. How could it be possible that you are short of money?"
"Uncle, you don't know that the people in the kitchen are all snobs, and they don't know who they want to curry favor with, so the food they give us is not only small, but also full of leftovers."
Qin Keqing was also surprised at the side. The current Rongguo Mansion can be said to be extremely luxurious. In terms of food and clothing expenses every year, tens of thousands of taels of silver are not enough. In such an environment, a little girl's monthly salary is deducted. It doesn't matter.
It can't be justified, not to mention that the second girl in the house is starting to have a shortage of food. This is simply impossible.
It seems that there is something hidden in it that I don't know about.
Jia Ke thought for a while and understood what Jia Lian was thinking. The more guilty Jia Lian felt, the less he wanted to see Jia Yingchun. If Jia Yingchun kept dazzling in front of his eyes, he would keep thinking of himself.
mistakes made.
In this way, there will be more hatred towards Jia Yingchun in his heart. Maybe this is what Jia Lian thinks about Jia Yingchun now.
Jia Ke didn't expect that a small Ronghua Mansion would have such intrigues, because the incident that year actually involved the innocent girl Jia Yingchun.
Jia Ke thought for a moment and realized that Wang Xifeng probably already knew Jia Lian's secret, but he didn't know whether Jia Lian told Wang Xifeng or Wang Xifeng found out from somewhere else.
At this time, Wang Xifeng wanted to take care of this matter for Jia Lian, so that Jia Lian would not have to worry about it from now on.
The meaning of this is to slowly let the second girl of Rongguo Mansion disappear from the world. Because as long as this Jia Yingchun dies, then the past things can be cleaned up.
Jia Ke felt that Wang Xifeng had indeed gone too far in this matter. It was just a matter of not compensating Jia Yingchun for doing something wrong, but he still wanted to target him everywhere. What was the reason for this?
This is probably due to the difference in stance. Jia Ke has unknowingly favored Jia Yingchun, but he doesn't know the pain in Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng's hearts. It's because Jia Yingchun stands there every day, so people always think of him unknowingly.
her mother.
As a result, neither Jia She nor Jia Lian had a hard time, especially Jia Lian. Not only did he have to be condemned by his conscience all the time, but he also had to face Jia She's rough treatment. Even the matter of inheriting the title in the future was difficult.
There is no guarantee, how can Jia Lian be willing to do this?