novelonline Chapter 126 I'm going to save face and suffer! (Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription!
Chapter 126 I'm going to save face and suffer! (Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription!
Chapter 126 I'm going to save face and suffer! (Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription!)
Listening to the conversation of the two quietly, Jia Heng sipped the tea.
Qin Keqing asked Sister Feng why she came here, and said, "Sister-in-law Feng, are you here to find my husband?"
Sister Feng smiled, and her bright Danfeng glanced at Jia Heng, and said, "It's nothing else, I just want to discuss a business with Uncle Heng."
When Jia Heng heard this, she put down the teacup, her heart moved slightly, she somewhat guessed the reason for Sister Feng's visit.
What kind of business can Sister Feng know?
Just put usury.
Usury is such a thing, nine out of ten and thirteen out, it is the most wicked thing.
Qin Keqing thought it was a serious matter, looked at Jia Heng and said, "Husband, sister-in-law Feng said that she wants to do business with you."
Jia Heng nodded to Qin Keqing, and asked: "The second sister-in-law of Lian is really timely, she is here to solve my urgent need."
When Sister Feng heard this, the smile on her charming and beautiful face became more and more prosperous, and she said: "Brother Heng, can you take a step to speak?"
Jia Heng smiled and said, "Second sister-in-law Lian, why is the business so mysterious? Is it still shameful?"
Sister Feng covered her mouth with a handkerchief and said with a delicate smile: "Brother Heng was joking, so you can't be seen anywhere. I just want to find a quiet place to discuss with Brother Heng. It's more appropriate. If Brother Heng thinks that the business is not good and the business is not righteous, We don't lose face."
Jia Heng looked pale, and glanced at Qin Keqing.
Qin Keqing smiled sweetly and said: "Husband, why not go to the wing room and have a cup of tea with Sister Feng, and talk slowly."
Jia Heng nodded, stretched out his hand to invite, and said, "Sister-in-law Feng please."
Sister Feng winked at Ping'er, then smiled, holding a pink handkerchief, and said, "Brother Heng first."
Jia Heng didn't refuse at all, walked through the door of the wing room with his head held high, bypassed a screen, and sat down on a few tables beside him.
Sister Feng was also holding a pink handkerchief, and sat down on the side table.
Jia Heng lifted the teapot at the side, took a jade cup, poured a cup of tea, looked up at Sister Feng, smiled lightly, and said, "Sister-in-law Feng, your business can now be negotiated."
Sister Feng didn't hold back at all, she smiled and said: "Earlier, there was still fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver in the East Mansion, Brother Heng doesn't have any money to make a living now, so it's not a problem if you want to sit and eat like this."
"Although 1 taels of money from the Dongfu Duke will be allocated to build the ethnology, but the government will also save money and save on daily expenses. It will not be a problem to support it for two or three years." Jia Heng said lightly.
He is not Jia Zhen, he pays attention to ostentation when going in and out, even if it is a public silver, he has to spend it wisely.
"Where is it going to be paid for two or three years? However, if such a sum of cash stays in the mansion, you might as well move around and do some business, and you can earn some profits." Sister Feng said with a charming smile.
Jia Heng said lightly: "Sister-in-law Feng means to take out the money for loan?"
When Sister Feng heard the words, her crystal-clear and beautiful face changed suddenly, her thinly rouged Danfeng eyes were filled with surprise, and she said in a trembling voice, "You...how did you know?"
Looking at the beautiful woman's stunned jade face with her mouth slightly open because of surprise, Jia Heng's eyes were fixed, his face remained cold, and he said loudly: "It's not that you can't do business like lending money. There is nothing wrong with that, but lending usury, nine out of ten and thirteen out, is detrimental to morality."
Although later generations often criticize banks for "borrowing umbrellas on sunny days and collecting umbrellas on rainy days", there is no doubt that finance still has a positive guiding effect on the real economy.
But usury is purely immoral stuff.
Sister Feng took a deep breath, put away her surprise, Dan Feng's eyes lowered slightly, and her calm expression gradually recovered on Yurong's face, but her smile was still a bit forced, "Brother Heng, how can it be as powerful as you said? I'm just a small business, and I force people to sell their sons and daughters."
Jia Heng put down the teacup, with a calm face, and said in a deep voice: "Sister-in-law Feng, whether it's a small business or not, I advise you not to do such a thing. Those loan sharks are either gamblers or desperate poor people. When you are forced to sell your sons and daughters, and your family is ruined, when you are alone at night, don’t you feel uneasy about your conscience?”
As he spoke, his face was stern, and he looked at Sister Feng aggressively.
Being oppressed by this awe-inspiring momentum, Sister Feng's heavy conscience trembled, her jade face paused slightly, she turned her head, subconsciously avoiding Jia Heng's sharp gaze, waving the pink handkerchief in her hand from side to side, and sneered Said: "Brother Heng, what you said makes no sense. It's not that I begged them to borrow it, but they borrowed it on their own initiative. I solved their difficulties. Why do I have a bad conscience?"
Jia Heng said in a deep voice: "Sister-in-law Feng, you can borrow money as soon as you borrow money. No one can afford the high interest that comes out of nine out of ten. What will you do then? Why don't you use the power of the Jia clan to persecute them?"
Sister Feng pursed her pink lips, her face became a little uneasy for a while, she snorted coldly, her pink lips curled up in a sneering arc, and said in a strange way: "Brother Heng is becoming more and more patriarchal, I will introduce you to the family with good intentions, It’s good for you to teach me a lesson instead!”
Jia Heng said in a cold voice: "Sister-in-law Feng, what you have done is really insulting my Jia family. Although Heng is not talented, since he is the patriarch, he sees you going astray, so he wants to dissuade you. This business of selling usury, hurry up." Stop it! If you don’t listen, if you don’t know what to say, you will call the young and old in the ancestral hall to discuss right and wrong.”
As soon as Sister Feng heard that she was going to discuss matters in the ancestral hall, she jumped up in a hurry. She stood up suddenly, her brows were raised, her sharp and narrow eyes stared at Jia Heng, and she pointed at herself with the hand holding the handkerchief and said: " I insult the lintel? Master Heng, what do you call this? The whole family in the West Mansion, old and young, let me take care of them inside and out, they are all ignorant of frugality, they always reach out to me for money, I don’t want to make a living, how do I live?"
At the end, she snorted softly, and turned her head away. It was originally an angry remark, but it made her nose a little sore, and she pursed her cherry lips.
"In the West Mansion, how did you get to this point?" Jia Heng frowned, softened his tone a little, and asked in a deep voice.
People like Sister Feng can't do it blindly, they need to beat and cut.
Looking at the young man in the green shirt, she frowned and asked, Sister Feng didn't know why, but the anger in her heart dissipated, she subconsciously sneered, and said mockingly: "Which item in the West Mansion doesn't need money? The monthly expenses of the house, the old lady, the eldest wife, the wife and a few girls are often accompanied by the servants, and the food and clothing expenses of the mothers and maids are greeted and sent by the old relatives. Come and ask me, I don’t give us usury, how can I maintain the ostentation in daily life? You, Uncle Heng, don’t know how expensive money is if you are not in charge of the family.”
Jia Heng frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Since the money is not enough to spend, why not be more frugal? Blindly extravagant and wasteful, what is the use of such a show?"
In fact, he knew why he was not frugal. Zhou Rui's son-in-law Leng Zixing could see the problem of Rong Mansion's extravagance, how could Sister Feng, as the head of the family, not know.
To put it bluntly, it is better to maintain an airs and not to fall, and to save face and suffer.
"You speak lightly." Hearing this, Sister Feng seemed to have found someone to confide in, and she squeezed into a chair beside her with her round body, her face as clear as frost, and said with a cold snort: "We are different from other families. Some of them will make people laugh! Let’s not talk about the distance, a two-foot-high coral tree was given to our house for 1 taels of silver, not to mention other gifts, on the birthday of Princess Nan’an. Here, a daughter-in-law of Concubine Nan'an gave some ready-made words, but you didn't know at that time that Brother Zhen also took half of the money from the East Mansion."
The two prefectures of Rongning and Ningxia are connected with each other and jointly represent the Jia family, so they all contribute together in spending money on office affairs.
Hearing this, Jia Heng frowned, and his impression of Chen Han's honorable group became worse and worse.
Frontier affairs are tight, and rear Xungui is tight.
State affairs and famines are like a bottomless pit. At this time, people still pay attention to food, clothing and ostentation, and extravagance prevails.
Just as he and Emperor Chongping said that day, the trend of extravagance must be curbed.
"You will know at the end of the year. You are the patriarch of the Jia clan. Our Jia family's relatives and friends will go back and forth at the end of the year. You can't come to the door empty-handed, right? Of course, you have no official title. It's hard to tell if you don't recognize you." Sister Feng said happily, and she simply didn't hide her true thoughts, her pair of red and phoenix eyes looked forward to shine, she looked at the young man in green shirt opposite, gloating and said: "You have resigned from the noble, but you have become the patriarch. , Master Heng, you just lost the watermelon and picked up the sesame seeds."
Looking at the straight young man in green shirt, she frowned in thought, and Sister Feng felt a surge of emotion in her heart.
Although this person has a back bone and makes the Eldest Master and the Eldest Wife feel bad, but at least he is reasonable, and he is willing to listen to her talk about these difficulties. If this is the case, she may try to persuade this Uncle Heng.
However, just as she was thinking about it, she suddenly met a pair of bright, sharp gazes that pierced her heart, and Sister Feng's heart skipped a beat, and she pursed her pink lips.
Jia Heng said indifferently: "Daily ostentation should be frugal. Such extravagance and extravagance are not a long-term solution. As for loan sharks, I advise you to stop immediately. There will always be ways to make money after thinking about it."
Sister Feng: "..."
Cooperating with her spent a long time talking and talking, and it was all useless, so this person won't let go?
Jia Heng said again: "Sister-in-law Feng, you are a smart person. You should know how Jia Zhen got in. The conflict between him and me was just the cause. Even if he didn't conflict with me for the immoral things he did, now the Jia family is powerful. It's okay for Sheng to say that if something goes wrong in the future, it will be fatal. Sister-in-law Feng, you are now following Jia Zhen's old path."
Hearing this, Sister Feng felt that Jia Heng was scaring her, but she also felt a bit awe-inspiring, so she curled her lips, Dan Feng glanced at Jia Heng, and said in a clear voice: "Brother Heng, there is a famine in the West Manor right now." , tell me, if there is no usury, where will the money come from? By the way, there is one more thing. Lian Er wants me to tell you that the eldest girl is now in the palace. Without a chance, we thought it was Dai Neixiang's business, and planned to do something about it. Both of our mansions will give out money, and your East Mansion will also look to get some. Of course, I just want to tell you, this money, I know you If you think about it, you won’t take it.”
At this moment, Sister Feng simply opened the skylight to speak frankly. At the end, she lowered her eyes and fiddled with her shaved fingers, clasped her red nails, and smiled softly.
Jia Heng said indifferently: "Using women to seek wealth, I will not take this money."
It was rare for Sister Feng not to refute this time, she said quietly: "This is the life of a woman, besides, the eldest girl is also willing to enter the palace by herself."
(End of this chapter)