The Red Mansions

Chapter 154

Chapter 154

In Honor Hall——

Mother Jia also stood up, with an unbelievable expression on her face, and trembling lips, she said, "More than 60 taels of silver, why so much?"

Even though Jia's mother has gradually ignored the common affairs in recent years, she also knows what this number means, not 6 taels, but a full 60 taels.

Mrs. Wang also stood up, fixed her eyes on the mandarin ducks, the knuckles of the Buddhist beads in her hands turned white, and said, "Did the Dongfu recover all the money?"

What is money touching people's hearts, this is it.

With a joyful face on Tanchun's face and bright eyes shining brightly, she knew that Big Brother Heng would not go after the target indiscriminately, and once the accounts were checked, he would definitely ask for the principal and interest.

Under Dai Yu's smoky eyebrows, there was a hint of thought in her bright Qiushui eyes.

Baoyu frowned, more than 60 taels of silver... a lot?

Facing the scalding, fiery, anticipating, curious... or confused gazes of the couple in Rongqing Hall, Yuanyang smiled and said: "Old lady, Master Heng copied Lai's house and made up most of the shortfall. The next plan is to sell the fields and shops of the Lai family to pay back."

Jia Amnesty was short of breath at the moment, and said anxiously: "Mother, Lai Da must have corrupted us a lot of money, this account has to be investigated..."

Mrs. Wang didn't know if it was due to her banknote ability, her eyes were vaguely more kind than before, she smiled and asked: "Yuanyang, how do you check the accounts in the East Mansion? I paid 7000 taels of silver..."

Hearing this, Jia She felt that his old face was a bit unbearable. Why did he work so hard and only checked out 7000 taels of silver?

However, he also pricked up his ears to listen to Yuanyang's words.

Jia Mu also stared at the mandarin duck closely.

"Master Heng called the officials of Jinyi Mansion. There are master bookkeepers over there who are used to copying. They hold the account books and they can see clearly at a glance." Yuanyang explained.

"The people of Jinyi Mansion, no wonder..." Mother Jia suddenly realized, and met the gazes of Mrs. Wang, Bao Dai and others, smiled and said, "These people who are used to copying the house are very poisonous in checking accounts."

As he said that, he took a look at Jia She, her son was not good enough, so he insisted on making his own decisions, finding out 7000 taels would be like a treasure.

The result is good, now a good dish, I ate a raw rice.

Not only Mother Jia looked at Jia She strangely, but Mrs. Wang and Li Wan also glanced at Jia She.

It was really unbearable to be stared at like a "fool", Jia She's face turned blue and red, he felt ashamed that he had no place to hide, and his heart was filled with jealousy and hatred.

More than 60 million taels!

With so much money, how many times does he have to send Lian'er to Ping'an Prefecture?

Suppressing the jealousy in my heart, I looked at Mother Jia, forced a smile, and said, "Mother, why don't you let... the people from the east come over and help check the accounts?"

Everyone in Rongqing Hall: "..."

Although they didn't say it, they all had the same emotion:

Shameless especially!

People want face, trees want bark!

Daiyu glanced at Jia Amnesty, for some reason, a thought suddenly came to her mind, there are such brazen people in the world?

But then he realized that this kind of slander towards the elders was not very respectful, his eyes lowered, and he buried his thoughts, but subconsciously glanced at Sister Tanchun from the corner of his eye.

Under Tan Chunying's eyebrows, "disgust" flashed in the depths of Jia She's eyes.

As an uncle of hers, her behavior of being arrogant and respectful, jumping up and down, is really unrespectable from the bottom of my heart.

Mother Jia sighed, and said: "You were not allowed to investigate before, but you just went to investigate! Now that you have found nothing, you are going to ask Brother Heng again. I didn't believe it at first. Like a person, Brother Heng is a big deal, he is willing to help check the accounts, and let Feng girl accompany you, you still doubt him, and now you don't know what he thinks."

Jia Amnesty was embarrassed by what he said, and he only said yes.

In front of Yinzi, he forbeared it for the time being.

"Yuanyang, go and call Brother Heng and Maid Feng to come over and see what the rules are for checking the accounts." Mother Jia said a few words in front of the junior, and she felt the same, so she just opened her mouth.

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But it is said that Jia Heng returned to Dongfu with a few carts full of them.

"Move them all to the warehouse, register and register, and handle with care!" Jiao Da directed the servants back and forth, his face flushed like drinking fine wine.

Sister Feng also brought Zhou Rui's family with her. When she came out of the main hall, she happened to meet Jia Heng coming towards her with a smile on her face, and she said with a smile: "My Lord Heng, these full carts are enough to make up for the shortfall, right?"

Xu Shi saw that although Jia Heng was cold and hard, he was reasonable, so Sister Feng also made a few jokes.

Jia Heng just raised his eyebrows, and thought to himself, your uncle Heng, but he didn't take Sister Feng's teasing jokes seriously, the woman in front of him has a strong temperament, even Lian Er would not allow her to change her posture.

"The silver and a box of gold will be enough. I need to sell some farms and shops. I'll keep an eye on it." Jia Heng said, entering the warehouse.

Sister Feng smiled, followed closely behind, and Ping'er followed closely behind, asking Zhou Rui's family to lead a few maidservants to wait outside the warehouse.

There are three iron doors in the warehouse, and when you go inside, you can see more than a dozen large boxes, which are full of rows, and Aunt Cai is checking the accounts with an old accountant.

Jia Heng nodded to Aunt Cai.

When she was at home, Aunt Cai was actually in charge of his family's accounts. From the accounts in the past, there were no omissions.

"Brother Heng, the silver has been inspected, and the gold is still being counted." Aunt Cai said with a smile.

Holding her handkerchief, Sister Feng entered the triple door alone, and said with a smile, "Brother Heng, how many boxes are these gold?"

Jia Heng nodded, opened the box while speaking, not only the gold, silver and jewelry gave him a glance, but even Sister Feng's cheeks were flushed, and her delicate body was a little unsteady.

It's not like I haven't seen so much money.

It is mainly yellow gold, the impact is too poignant.

Looking at Sister Feng's gorgeous and bright young woman's face, she said: "They are all gold ingots. Sister-in-law Feng can take two ingots later and make some gold collars to wear."

Sister Feng: "..."

She faintly felt that this man's words had a lot of meaning, why make a gold collar?

Jia Heng's face was calm, but a deep meaning flashed in his cold eyes.

Asking Sister Feng to make a gold collar, of course, is not a special hobby, but in the original work of Dream of the Red Chamber, Sister Feng told Pinger to treat my gold collar as 200 taels of silver when she ran out of money...

He was curious at the beginning, how many gold necklaces does Sister Feng have?Don't be one big, four small, a total of five.

Jia Heng pointed to various pearl necklaces, and said to Aunt Cai: "There are some jewelry here, and they should be converted into taels of silver according to the market price, and recorded."

To the Lai family, it's not because of his kindness, but because of his fearsome words. Even if the Lai family is raided, it must be done in a righteous and dignified way, and it will not fall into the shoes of others.

Otherwise, if there were any rumors in Beijing that Jia Ziyu forcibly seized the wealth of the old servant who had lost his slave status, it would be hard to say or not to listen to.

In short, it is necessary to make an iron case that can stand the test of history.

Just as he was thinking about it, he smelled a faint fragrance approaching, but Sister Feng's crystal clear and beautiful face showed a trace of worry, and said: "Brother Heng, are all the money of the Lai family here?"

Jia Heng said: "It's almost here. There are still some farms and shop title deeds. I have already estimated it. It is not a big problem to make up for the remaining one hundred thousand couples."

Sister Feng pursed her pink lips, and couldn't help but said: "What about the shortfall in the money in the West Mansion?"

Jia Heng said: "This... Lai's family still has some furniture, antique calligraphy and paintings. The old man likes these things very much. After he finishes checking the accounts, let him see the sale. Sister-in-law Feng, what do you think? .”

Sister Feng: "..."

Sister Feng took a deep breath, suppressed her emotions, smiled, and said, "Brother Heng, it's not like you don't know, what kind of account can he find out? Just now I heard that he found out 7000 taels of silver. Excitedly, I went to Rongqing Hall."

Sister Feng has been the housekeeper of the West Mansion for several years, and she has her mother-in-law and maidservants to please her, who come to act as ear gods. As soon as Jia Amnesty has checked the account, Sister Feng will know.

"7000 taels? In addition to the 5 to [-] taels that Lai Da confessed, it's not a lot." Jia Heng said.

Sister Feng's face turned anxious, and she said, "Brother Heng, I have to rely on you for a while."

There is no harm if there is no comparison. Here is more than 60 taels of silver, and there is 6 to [-] taels. This is a tenfold difference.

Jia Heng pondered for a while, and said: "Let's watch it after lunch. Later, I will entertain Jin Yiwei and seal Chengyi for them."

Sister Feng Danfeng rolled her eyes, vaguely guessing that Jia Heng wanted to kill her father-in-law, she smiled and said: "Brother Heng, then I will go to Rongqing Hall and talk to the old lady."

Said, turned around and left.

Jia Heng looked at Sister Feng who was twisting and walking away, her eyes were gloomy and her mind was full of emotions.

Through this audit, Jia Shezhi's incompetence can be said to be completely exposed in the eyes of everyone in the Jia family, and almost all his underwear was ripped off. In the future, he will use the incident of Ping'an Prefecture to clean up Jia She, and even Sister Feng will not feel resentful towards him. .

Those who are superior are not afraid of being bad, but of being stupid.

Badness can be intimidating, but once it is recognized as stupid, no one respects it.

Kuang Jiashe is stupid and bad.

"This is where people's hearts stand." Jia Heng suppressed his thoughts and walked towards the flower hall.

Honor Hall——

When Jia Mu heard that Sister Feng was coming, she was overjoyed, waved her hands and said with a smile, "Call Feng girl over quickly."

Accompanied by a group of women from Zhou Rui's family, Sister Feng entered the Rongqing hall, and smiled at Jia Mu and called out to her ancestors.

Jia Mu smiled and said, "Girl Feng, I'm just about to send Yuanyang to you. Have you finished checking the accounts in the East Mansion?"

Sister Feng nodded, and said with a coquettish smile: "Old lady, all the investigations have been completed. There are more than 60 taels of silver, and Ku Yin has been registered and entered the treasury."

Jia Amnesty said anxiously: "Did Brother Heng say when to check our accounts?"

Jia's mother glared at Jia She, his son has no real skills, he just makes trouble out of nothing.

Not only Mother Jia, but everyone in Rongqing Hall looked at Jia She as if they were a clown...except Mrs. Xing.

Sister Feng Danfeng blinked, sighed suddenly, glanced at Jia She, and said: "Brother Heng heard from Ping'er that since the Elder Master sent someone to check the accounts, he will not check, and he has already sent the accountant of Jinyi Mansion to go. After lunch, I plan to seal some Cheng Yi and send someone back."

Jia Amnesty: "..."

When Jia Mu heard this, she was silent for a while.

The smile on Mrs. Wang's face froze suddenly, and she looked at Jia She with a bit of complaint.

Jia She said: "Did you say where to eat? I'll be honest and promise to treat the gentlemen of Jinyi Mansion well."

Sister Feng said: "It's in the courtyard at the west corner of the East Mansion, and we're hosting a banquet, but those few people were all invited by Brother Heng, so I'm afraid they may not be willing to listen to others."

Although she just got the promise of Uncle Heng, after the Lai family repays the money from the East Mansion's public servants first, it will then return the money from the West Mansion.

It's just that she sees that the situation is not good, most of the Lai family's money has been collected into the East Mansion, how much is left?

"The Lai family also has farms, shops, mansions, and antique calligraphy and paintings. If you want to sell them, you can collect more than 20 taels, which should be close." Sister Feng suppressed her irritability as she thought.

The white silver, more than 60 taels, was stacked neatly in the silver box, and she was so envious when she looked at it.

Jia Amnesty's complexion was ugly, and he was so annoyed that he almost broke his thigh because of it. He opened his mouth and wanted to say soft words to ask for help, but felt that it was too embarrassing, so he just looked at Jia Mu.

Looking at her son who was as anxious as a headless fly, Mother Jia couldn't bear it after all. She looked at Sister Feng, smiled and said, "Girl Feng, let's all go and have a look. He made such a profit, so let's fight it too." Beat the autumn wind and eat him, a big family."

Sister Feng said with a smile: "The old ancestor is going to the East Mansion? Why are there so many people at the moment?"

"We went through the backyard instead of going to the front hall. We just heard that Brother Heng's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Qin, is a very nice person. My old lady is also going to see her granddaughter-in-law... Yuanyang put on the fur coat and brought it with her." , and bring two horses of soft cigarettes, and bring the glass screen to Brother Heng, so that they can set it up." Jiamu smiled, and while giving instructions to Yuanyang, she looked at Baodai and Tanxi. , Mrs. Wang, finally her eyes fell on the faces of Jia Amnesty and Mrs. Xing, her smile faded slightly, and she said: "You guys should follow along and have a look, don't be impatient and blindly angry."

On Baoyu's side, he was already scratching his head with joy. He had long heard that Brother Heng's daughter-in-law, Qin Shi, was a first-class daughter in the boudoir, and he happened to see her beauty.

Sister Feng joked with a smile: "The old ancestors talked about playing the autumn wind, but this is not going to play the autumn wind. With these few things, I am envious when I hear them. I went to make a gift."

Everyone in Rongqing Hall laughed, and the atmosphere seemed to be somewhat cheerful.

Jia Amnesty smiled sarcastically, feeling a little uncomfortable.

The old lady is seeing that kid more and more now.

But it was almost noon on Jia Heng's side, and the Jin Yiwei who had been busy for a long time were all in the courtyard, enjoying the food and wine brought by the chef of Zuifenglou.

Qu Lang asked: "Master Jia, do you want to investigate later?"

Jia Heng said: "Let's eat first, we will talk about it later."

Then he looked at the two accountants, held up the wine cup, and said, "This time, I'm sorry for the trouble, and I'll give you the fare afterwards, as a token of my affection."

The two accountants smiled a little, and said with a smile: "Commander Jia is being polite."

If they accepted the errands of the Jinyiwei Mansion, because the mansion has its own salary, they would not get much advantage, but this kind of half-public and half-private errands would get rich courtesy.

Jia Heng and a few others were pushing cups and drinking, and suddenly a young man said, "Master, the old lady, the lady has come to the house through the door at the entrance of the west alley."

Hearing this, Jia Heng put down his chopsticks, excused himself to the two accountants, looked at Qu Lang, and said, "Qu Baihu, call several gentlemen to dinner, I will come as soon as I go."

Qu Lang said: "Since the old lord of your mansion is here, Mr. Jia should go and greet you."

The two accountants also echoed.

Jia Heng nodded, got up and left.

(End of this chapter)