"I called you here mainly to talk about family studies. During the day, I went to hold a parent-teacher meeting. In fact, I just wanted to say that the problem with Jia family studies is not the students, but the parents. Look, the sky is bright and clear, and everyone is called They are all here, which shows how lazy they are. That’s why I said that families who are willing to send their children to be apprentices are good and have good brains. Therefore, we should pay more attention to these families. Then help me think about the rest. , what can they do by studying?" Ou Mengmeng closed the box with the dowry list and started talking about serious things.
"Grandma, if you don't even take care of the clan members, our Rong Mansion will not be able to continue." Yuan Chun hurriedly pressed Ou Mengmeng, after all, this is not a big problem. But since she came back, she has been looking at the problem without really solving it. She was actually a little anxious. So she didn't want her grandmother to escalate the matter any further.
"Yuan'er is good. He is practical in everything and knows how to eat one bite at a time." Ou Mengmeng nodded. Now Yuanchun was driven crazy by Rongfu's financial problems and thought about it, "Then tell me, what else do we have now?" Nothing done?"
"As I said before, we were going to open a drug store, but it's not open now; we asked Sister Lin to teach the girls how to read, but we didn't do it; and we said we'd go play, but we didn't go." Xichun raised her hand and said like a grandma.
When she said she was going to play, she meant touring the village, and now, the village heads probably thought she was just taking the girls to play. She is still a little baby, and she was just a toy before. Now Ou Mengmeng has come and raised Sanchun and Daiyu together. With understanding people like Yuanchun and Qin Keqing to take care of her, although Xiao Xichun has not learned much yet, she has someone to take care of her. She looked different from the one who didn't care, but now Yuxue suddenly became cute.
"Well, our Xi'er is so smart." Ou Mengmeng smiled and looked at Jia She, "What about you, what else have you not done?"
"The house has been improved. The servants in the house need to be trained again. After all, the housekeeper now has some things to rearrange. Also, the warehouse is a bit messy. This..." Jia She nodded and said smoothly. , but stop there.
"Where are you, second brother?" Ou Mengmeng nodded and looked at Jia Zheng.
"I'm fine. I've been studying very well recently. Some elders often read the books. Now my son asks the children in school to write an article every day. I ask the elders to read it for me, and my son also learns a lot. Now. I think the place my eldest brother chose for my son is really good." Jia Zheng said honestly.
"So, you see, what is the biggest problem facing our house now?" Ou Mengmeng nodded and looked at the room full of children and grandchildren.
"Increase revenue, reduce expenditure, and rectify internal affairs." Yuanchun decided not to point at these people, but to summarize it himself!
Why did she let Sanchun and Daiyu read the account book before? Just want to know the difficulties in this house. I only earn 20,000 taels of silver a year, but end up spending 50,000 taels of silver. Does this make sense?
Moreover, the number has increased year by year since her mother took office. She wants to shake her mother's neck and ask where the money went. The shortfall of 30,000 taels was naturally due to Lao Ku's money. This time, Zhou Rui's house and Leng Zixing's antique shop were raided, and the account books were obtained and the money owed to Rong Mansion was filled back.
Of course, Yuan Chun took the other pieces that Mrs. Wang could use, which were also given by Zhou Rui's family. Of course, she was even more speechless. Co-author, my mother has been working for free for them all these years. They eat meat, but she can't even taste the soup. Not to mention anything else. Yuanchun did not give the money he received to Mrs. Wang. It was regarded as the private property of the second wife. In the future, Baoyu, Huan'er, Tanchun and Lan'er would all have to be spent!
Now, she talks to Jia Zheng about everything, otherwise, if Jia Zheng can make money, she will take it back. There are also antiques he bought before. Regardless of whether they are real or fake, he doesn't keep them in his private house anyway.
The second bedroom does not owe the father-in-law any money, and the father-in-law will still have a share from the second bedroom. But Yuanchun was still in a hurry. The public property only had so much. Once the second brother's child was really sent away, she felt depressed for the first brother. So we have to give Dafang some way to survive, right?
These days, she is also a little anxious and angry, like Wang Xifeng, who has been scolded by her several times.
For example, the flowers, trees, and gardens in the mansion were originally all outsourced, and everyone had their share of the money. Like Li Wan, who didn't have much dowry, so the old lady gave her a share of the garden money, and she received dividends at the end of the year. A year's income of four to five hundred taels of silver was obtained.
Then the tribesmen asked her to be a disciple, and brought in a batch of flowers, plants and trees, amounting to tens of thousands of taels a year. The accounts of the flowers, plants and trees that came in and out were unclear, and it was Rongfu Gongzhong who suffered losses both inside and outside.
Wang Xifeng was also stunned. She only knew that it had to be done anyway. Since it had to be done, she would naturally do it for the Jia clan members with whom she was close, but she did not expect the issue of in and out.
Nowadays, there are so many things like this in housework that Yuanchun is about to collapse. As a result, the old lady was still talking about whether these things were available or not.
"Really, oh, you have been in the palace for five years, and I don't know how you survived. Mr. Cai'er told me that Baoyu used to pay eight taels of silver for pens, ink, and snacks in school, and then every month Baoyu received On the account, there are another two taels of silver for the same expenditure. He said it was a duplicate, so he wanted to cancel one item. Please tell me, is it a duplicate?" Ou Mengmeng tapped Yuan Chun and turned to a few children.
Baoyu shook his head quickly, but did not dare to speak.
Ou Mengmeng lightly scratched his nose and turned to the others.
When the others saw Baoyu shaking his head, they knew that the money was probably not duplicated, but they really didn't know why, so they looked at Ou Mengmeng together.
"Baoyu, tell me." Ou Mengmeng smiled and nodded at Baoyu.
"The eighty-two-yuan year was not for the family to study, but was given to the teacher before. The teacher my grandson hired before, eighty-twoyuan every year, was left at the teacher's place, so as not to pay for the small miscellaneous expenses sometimes needed for studying. When I come back to collect it, of course it is also some allowance for my husband; twenty taels per month is the cost of my grandson’s daily expenses for buying books and paper.”
"Did you see it? You sir don't know. After looking at the account book, I felt that the money was duplicated. So I have to ask. There is also what Yuan'er said before about the income of the garden in the mansion. The flowers, plants and trees in the garden were taken care of every year. It's also a bit promising. And there are flowers, plants and trees in the garden, so you really take it for granted. You only see that there are people managing and making money on one side, and on the other side, you have to spend money to buy flowers and plants. Just looking at the accounts makes you feel This is redundant. Why don’t you ask carefully, what are the regulations for this in and out?”
Ou Mengmeng just wanted to talk about this. I heard Yuan Chun talk about it before, and I felt that she was very perceptive, but she didn't reply at the time. These details were not in Jia Mu's memory, so she had to ask for details. Thinking about it, I became discouraged again. The twists and turns in a Rong Mansion are also overwhelming.
In fact, when I looked at the housekeeper Tanchun, I had some doubts. Could it be that Mrs. Wang is not as good as Tanchun, and some Xiao Gui and Cao Sui are not like this. So think about it, there are actually many ways in the middle, and we are also in the factory. It is not how we save or waste what we see on the surface. Sometimes what seems like the most wasteful way is the opposite, which is the most correct way.
