Keqing hesitated for a moment and then looked at a pair of tree frogs hugging each other on the tree. Although they felt disgusted, they couldn't bear to disturb them. Mrs. Qin had a generous heart after all, and what she disliked was only Li Wan's identity and the possibility that it might affect the peace of the East Mansion in the future.
As Grandma Dongfu Rong and the future mistress of the house, the peace of the inner house is the most important thing to her. What I'm thinking about now is how to hide this matter, or how to persuade the uncle that it would be better.
He glanced at the study again, thinking about taking Ruizhu and leaving with the two little maids. After passing the corridor, Grandma Rong ordered: "The maids and women in the correctional office should not go to Conglutang when they have to do errands."
Ruizhu bowed her head and responded.
The people in the room over there knew that the people outside were leaving, and they became even more aggressive.
Brother Rong looked at Li Wanqing's plain and delicate face with a charming look, and felt even more beautiful and charming. Li Wan is conservative and simple. Even if her clothes are fragrant, even if she wears a little makeup, or even if she wears pendants in her ears, she can't hide her pure and simple spirit.
There was a noticeable blush on her plain face, and her fair jade neck was completely pink.
What a charm.
Brother Rong was very happy in his heart, and he was also arrogantly proud, his hands and feet were trembling.
The sound of frogs outside the room came and went, falling in Brother Rong's ears, but it also became a wonderful accompaniment.
But he didn't know that Ke Qing had already found out about what happened today. Maybe even if you know it, you should still do whatever you want to do now. Because he also knows Keqing's temperament best, he has always been kind-hearted and warm-hearted, and he has some calculations to make the house as orderly as Li Wan's.
"Rong...Rong...want...Suyun...Yun'er...to serve...you."
The palace judge said this with a grunt.
It’s really too hot in the early summer.
It was like taking an extremely scalding hot water bath. The hot water consumed all the energy in my hands and feet, and my whole body became soft and limp without any strength. Another strange feeling came over me, and I felt unbearable. Being invaded by the hot sun, I couldn't help but tremble like chaff for a while, and breathed out my foul breath to scare away the croaking frogs outside.
Regardless of his appearance, Li Wan just lay down on the cold desk, and he was not afraid that the writing and ink on the desk would get on his body. Looking sideways at Brother Rong's appearance, he waved his hands helplessly and said out of breath, "Let's change to Suyun."
Li Wan would not have been able to say such words at any other time and place. But today she still said that she really had no other choice.
Brother Rong looked at Suyun. This maid was considered to be one of the best in the house, and her temperament was as pure as Li Wan's. Just like her name, she is as plain as a cloud. However, Brother Rong was reluctant to move in his heart, regardless of his appearance. What matters is the whereabouts of these maids in the future.
The maids around Li Wan can't come to the East Mansion. After all, it's hard for Li Wan to live in the East Mansion, let alone the maids around her. If they move, Brother Rong will always feel a little uncomfortable if these maids marry outsiders in the future. Even though he might not care about outsiders or the maid, he still felt bad and even felt guilty.
Suyun also blushed after listening to her grandma's words. Then she saw Uncle Rong's slight remark and felt even more disappointed. After a little guessing, I understood Uncle Rong's concerns.
After all, she was not a maid in another house, and unlike Xi Ren and She Yue, her master was a man. Even if Hong Wan lost her partner, her husband's family would have been mentally prepared. Her grandma was a chaste woman. No matter whether she left the house to get married or had a servant in the house, her body should be clean.
Otherwise, letting her husband's family know about it would only ruin Grandma Zhu's reputation.
She secretly glanced at Uncle Xiao Rong, feeling shy and nervous. Look at grandma again, she has no strength at all. After a little calculation in his mind, he knew that Uncle Rong treated the maids very well, so he knelt down and said, "Suyun is willing to serve grandma all her life."
"..."
As night fell, Brother Rong felt refreshed by the cool breeze. The frogs were still croaking in the water stream, and now he felt free to sit on the waterside verandah and enjoy the scenery.
He murmured to himself: "I need to rest for a few days."
After sitting for a while, seeing the night getting darker, I returned to the inner courtyard.
"What are you fooling around about?" Brother Rong looked at Xiao Que'er and sniffed around, then he hit her on the head and said, "How old are you? You're still as unruly as before."
The little bird snorted, looking sideways at the uncle, and then at the little maid on the other side. Said: "Who, go to the back kitchen and bring uncle's soup."
"What soup?"
Xiao Que'er replied angrily: "Of course it's a soup for our uncle to replenish his health."
"Don't be in a hurry to eat that stuff." Uncle Rong frowned, stared at the little bird and asked, "Where did you and your grandma go this afternoon?"
As soon as Jia Rong heard that Xiaoqueer had made soup, she suddenly felt bad. I thought this girl also followed Keqing to Conglutang today, but Suyun didn't notice Xiaoqueer.
"Where else can we go? Grandma was called out by my wife at Yixia Pavilion later in the day. I'll leave Yixia Pavilion to take care of the other grandmas." Xiaoqueer hummed. I was very dissatisfied when I saw the uncle coming back smelling like another woman. I have been staying in the house for several years. I serve here every day, run errands there, and often make soup and medicine for the uncle.
There is hard work without credit.
No matter how you say it, it's your turn to queue up.
Rui Zhuozhu, two maids who were grandma's dowry girls, were not counted. Even Xiangling, the later silly girl, was now an aunt, and she was surrounded by other maids to serve her. Not to mention the other Grandma Feng, Sister Ping, Miss Bao, etc. in the house, how could they interfere with others.
angry!
Brother Rong couldn't help but laugh and rubbed Xiao Que'er's head. He said: "Okay, stop being so arrogant. It looks like a toad, which is not good-looking. Tell the maids to bring more water. I'm sweating today. I'll take a bath first before drinking your soup."
Little Que'er's face improved when she felt the intimacy, and she ordered the other little maids to fetch water. He hummed: "Master, it's better to exercise moderation and rest more. I'm running out of energy just because I've only been using it for a short period of time."
Brother Rong grinned and nodded.
Mentally, he smiled bitterly, knowing that Ke Qing had discovered it.
When the maid came to fetch water, Xiao Que'er insisted on serving it herself and supervised Uncle Rong as he drank the soup. Only then did he feel relieved.
"Uncle is here." Qin Keqing saw Uncle Rong coming over after taking a bath and got up hurriedly.
Jia Rong went over to hold hands and asked, "What are you busy with?"
Keqing picked up the things on the table and showed them to the uncle, and said softly: "Two days ago, the kilns in Ping'an Prefecture and Jinling sent me the meeting tickets, saying that they were the profit distribution from last year to the end of May this year. Although the kiln factory left Half of it was given, half of it was divided, and the total amount sent was about ten thousand taels of silver."
"It turns out that our pockets are rich." Brother Rong laughed and said, "Half of it is only ten thousand taels of silver, which is not much. What we spent from the government last year was tens of thousands of taels. According to this calculation, It will take several years to recover the capital.”
Qin Keqing gave the uncle a faint look and said: "How can it take a few years for the kiln to be used and not just silver? The land bought and the kiln built are also all silver."
Brother Rong smiled, this is still the first year of the two big kiln factories, and when the time comes later, they will make more money. He said: "Ke'er, what does this mean?"
Keqing explained: "The rent for the first half of the year from the village outside the city has also been delivered. Although it is not as much as that from the kiln factory, it is still a few thousand taels. There are also some that were sent from Heishan Village a few days ago. The total amount of the house's warehouse is There was actually a hundred thousand taels of wealth. So the daughter-in-law thought about finding an opportunity to cancel the government's debt in the household department first, leaving 20,000 taels for daily use, and the rest for purchasing family property and expanding the clan school. "
This prodigal bitch.
It's true that I have been poor for a long time and then got rich, and I don't know how high the sky is.
The reason why there are one hundred thousand taels of silver in the warehouse now is because Wu Jinxiao, who copied Heishan Village, first sent tens of thousands of taels of silver from Heishan Village to prepare the house for emergencies. According to her thoughts, it was a good thing that Heishan Village did not send all the silver, otherwise the more than 100,000 and 200,000 taels of silver would have been turned into family property by her.
Brother Rong smiled helplessly and said: "It's enough to buy the family property with a few thousand taels. You can also buy hundreds of acres of land. A few hundred acres is neither too much nor too little, and it is easy to arrange for the clan members to take care of it."
Qin Keqing said: "If hundreds of acres are divided among the clan members, each family won't have much left. Like Brother Yun's family, it's better for Brother Yun to follow the uncle to make a living. Otherwise, the sick widowed mother will starve to death in the back street home." .”
Brother Rong said speechlessly: "Ke'er robs his own family of wealth and helps others' poverty."
"That's not true." Keqing said angrily. Didn’t the uncle have enough fun with Aunt Zhu last night? While he was talking, his hands were unruly. Grandma Rong complained a little and explained: "The family property belongs to the whole family, and it is not privately owned by any one family. Whether it is an eight-bedroom apartment in Beijing or a twelve-bedroom apartment in Jinling, our family is the direct descendant. Even if there are any activities in the clan, even if the profits are divided, our family will be in charge. Even if there is a big disaster in the family in the future, with the clan property, the family will not be without daily use."
Brother Rong smiled and said: "What kind of disaster can there be? If you put one tael of silver at home, the family can use one tael; if you put one tael of silver in the clan, the family can only use half of it. This is true, doesn't the daughter-in-law Understand?"
But Qing shook his head, thinking about the heavy rain in the south not long ago, and there were rumors that the uncle would suffer because of this. Although she didn't say anything, she felt very nervous. Nowadays, the uncle is becoming more and more famous, but Qing is getting more and more nervous. They are all princes and princes who come and go. Although they are majestic, they are also surrounded by dangers.
She was born into a poor girl and was used to being frugal when she was young. Although she was obsessed with wealth when she first got married, as she took charge of the family longer, she began to have wild thoughts again.
Qin Keqing knows very well that the closer you are to the court and the royal family, the more dangerous it is.
Who can not be dazzled by wealth?
Even Buddhist temples are lending money and collecting rent, and some even raise hundreds or even thousands of monks and soldiers to enclose the land and become kings.
Now there are empresses in the family, and all of them have become more impressive, and their eyes are all dazzled. Seeing this, she felt a sense of crisis in her heart.
"With the uncle here, our family will not encounter any serious difficulties. But in seventy or eighty years, the uncle and Ke'er will be a hundred years old, and the head of the family will also be the descendant. Who knows what it will be like by then. The world The royal family is always the one who calls the shots. To the royal family, our family is like Jiao Da in the palace." Qin Keqing expressed his worries tactfully.
But Brother Rong was confused. He held Ke Qing's hand and said, "Where did you hear this fallacy?"
"I heard my wife talking about a lot of past events today, and I was just thinking about it." Ke Qing said softly: "When the second Duke was there in Zeng Nian, he naturally regarded Jiao Da as a life and death brother. Later, Hua Gong took charge of the family, and I also appreciate his contribution. Treat Jiao Da kindly. The great master treats Jiao Da respectfully, but the master has long forgotten Jiao Da's kindness. Now that the master is the master, he does not send errands and keeps him rich and powerful. But the people below look down on him, just because Now it is the other stewards who are favored. In the eyes of the royal family, what is the difference between our family and Jiao Da."
Qin Keqing sighed quietly, and continued: "Although I have been granted the title of empress, and I can be famous by my talents, how many years can I keep the two houses for several generations? Nowadays, the people in the family are all princes and princes, and everyone is thinking. It’s complicated, if something dissatisfies the royal family..."
Brother Rong smiled bitterly.
This girl really thought she had something with the Princess of Beijing County!
However, when he thought carefully about what Ke Qing said, there was some truth in it.
No matter how secretive Jia Jing's work is, there is no guarantee that there will be no mistakes. And the King of Beijing is not as simple-minded. There is no guarantee that the Jia family will still have to wade through troubled waters in the future. Buying family property now can ensure food and clothing in times of disaster.
Brother Rong smiled and said: "With a shrewd grandma like Ke'er at home, there will be no trouble in our family."
