Chapter 248 Timber Business

“Two thousand less, how could this happen?”

Faced with this unexpected result, Jia Zhen was a little shocked and asked hurriedly : "Could it be that the prince deducted it from it?"

"If it was the prince's intention, I'm afraid it would be more than just two thousand less."

Jia Lian smiled , said casually.

Jia Zheng nodded when he heard this, "You are right. As a prince, he should not do such a disgraceful thing.

These two thousand taels , it was probably Han Zhe who intercepted it.

But no matter what, he is the person close to the prince, and it is not good to offend him for such a trivial matter."

Jia Zheng Zheng was worried that Jia Lian would be angry and impulsive, so he advised him.

If these close ministers around the prince are offended, who knows when he will set a stumbling block or something like that, then the gain will outweigh the loss.

Regarding Jia Zheng’s worries, Jia Lian smiled and said: “What I said is true, it’s only a mere two thousand taels of silver, and it’s really not worth it.”

In fact, according to Jia Lian It seems that if Han Zhe did it alone, it would be easy to handle. I'm afraid that Han Zhe may not dare to do it alone, and there is no telling how many people around the prince may benefit from it.

If you go to war for these two thousand pieces of silver, it may indeed cause some unnecessary trouble and offend many people. Perhaps this gave the other party the confidence to take his two thousand taels of silver.

No more, no less, two thousand taels, within the range that normal people can tolerate.

Jia Lian really doesn’t want to argue with these people because there is no need.

But this small thing made him feel that the prince might not be worth working for him.

The prince obviously wanted to win over him that day, so he promised King Beijing three thousand taels of silver. He also intended to have a better relationship with the prince, and even wanted to take care of the prince's mood. He also made a special trip to send him a famous painting handed down from generation to generation.

The result is this.

If the prince asked to keep these two thousand taels, it means that the prince is a person who is not open-minded and has no vision.

If not, someone behind his back did it, which also means that the prince’s subordinates did not know.

The so-called lack of intimacy, his relationship with the prince is shallow, and there is no point in complaining to the prince, so this mute suffers a loss... It is not a loss, it is regarded as a guarantee fee for the prince. .

After all, if he asks the Zhou family for it himself, the Zhou family may not give it to him!

So he didn’t care much and asked people to carry the money home.

Wang Xifeng is becoming more and more obedient now. According to her words, there is nothing she can do with the money given to her. So you might as well let her take care of all this, make that woman happy, and get some unexpected gains.

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Two days later, it took several people to lift the money to move to Sister Feng’s children’s yard. Such movement will naturally arouse the excitement. The attention of the government.

Mrs. Wang was numb and a little lucky. She still remembered that day she said that Jia Lian could not collect the 10,000 taels of gambling money. Who would have thought that she had no intention of collecting it herself, but Let the prince take action...

Fortunately, he shut up early that day, otherwise the face of his wife would have been lost.

However, this Jia Lian is like a demon possessed. How long has it been since he has already established a relationship with the prince?

If this continues, who will be able to cure him in the future...

In Sister Feng's Children's Home, under the propaganda of the women who came in with money, the matter of two boxes of silver , naturally everyone knew it immediately.

When Wang Xifeng was not there, Ping'er took the initiative to carry all the things into the inner room and rewarded them with two slings of money. The women who worked as coolies went out happily.

When Tan Chun saw them, he smiled at Dai Yu and said, "Now, the second sister-in-law Lian's family is very rich!"

Dai Yu and Tan Chun were sitting and playing chess. After hearing this, He glanced at her and replied: "This may not be a good thing."

"How do you say this?"

"Since ancient times, wealth should not be revealed, and so on. , one person is rich and everyone claims.

Now everyone knows that they are rich, won’t they be remembered by others?

If nothing else, there are only five dozen people across the mountain. The autumn wind is annoying enough, so it’s better not to be rich."

"Haha, it’s unreasonable."

The gossip of the two sisters happened to be caught by Jia Baoyu heard it.

"What Sister Lin said is that money is something external to the body. If you need so much, you can do it as long as it is enough."

Tanchun was dissatisfied and said hurriedly: " Then what second brother Yibao said, how much is enough?"

"Then I don't know, the money in my house is managed by Xiren, I don't know how much I need to use in a month. I know. Besides, if I want to buy anything, I just have to tell my wife or the old lady, and I don’t have to spend any money myself.

I think that throughout the year, I won’t need one or two hundred taels of silver."

The speaker is unintentional and the listener is interested.

What does Jia Baoyu need?Jia Mu and others said that was enough, but Tanchun only had the two taels of silver at his disposal every month.

Growing up, she often had times when she didn’t have enough money and felt tight.

Especially, she has a biological mother who is shallow, philistine and mean. Whenever she sees her life is better, she wants to beat her "Autumn Wind"!

She was very angry about this.

Thinking of this, Tanchun no longer had the interest to discuss this topic with Jia Baoyu.

Daiyu saw Tanchun's thoughts and whispered to Tanchun: "Don't pay attention to him. He is a rich and idle person, how can he know the life of our poor people.

In my opinion, as long as money is not enough, one hundred taels a month is not too much, and one tael is not too little, you can live on."

Although Dai Yu was kind-hearted, but Tanchun still felt speechless after hearing this.

She looked at Daiyu and thought to herself, are you from a poor family?

Don’t think we don’t know, Uncle Lin is afraid that you will be wronged in our house, so he will have people send you money and things every half a month!

In the past, the old lady was afraid that you didn’t have enough money for things, so she often gave you more. Now, even the old lady knows that you are rich, so she doesn’t give you more money...

Daiyu didn’t know what Tanchun was thinking, so she quietly looked back with innocent eyes.

"My aunt and Miss Bao are here."

Hearing the noise coming from the door of the courtyard, Tanchun and others hurriedly looked outside. Sure enough, it was Aunt Xue with Bao. Chai came over, so he stood up to greet him.

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After Jia Lian finished the crowning ceremony, he returned home without staying outside longer.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw that the courtyard was full of fragrance, including the fragrance of flowers, wine, and beauty.

"Brother Lian is back!"

When everyone in the courtyard saw Jia Lian coming back, they all came up to congratulate him in a hurry, and each said something auspicious and festive.

Jia Lian responded one by one, then came to the top and bowed to Aunt Xue: "I have met Aunt Xue."

"Today is a good day for you, There is no need to be polite. But we are here to bother you again."

"Auntie is joking, both I and Feng Yatou wish that auntie and sister Baochai would come and bother us every day."
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　"Haha, what he said is right. I have wanted to invite my aunt and sister Baochai over several times, but you have all declined. Today, I have invited you."

Wang Xifeng has already prepared lunch.At that time, he agreed with Jia Lian, then tilted his head and said to Jia Lian: "Go back quickly and change your clothes."

Jia Lian was still wearing the crown and gown prepared by Jia Zheng, although it looked very conspicuous. Good figure, but not suitable for dining.

Jia Lian nodded and went into the house as instructed. Wang Xifeng asked Ping'er to greet the outside and followed Jia Lian into the house.

When they arrived at the inner room, Wang Xifeng was undressing Jia Lian, while staring at the two boxes with an excited look on her face and saying, "How much are these in total?"

"Eleven thousand Two."

"Well, how can it be eleven thousand taels? Isn't this the ten thousand sent by the Zhou family?"

"There are also three given by the prince. One thousand taels."

"Oh...huh?"

Wang Xifeng immediately noticed something was wrong. How could ten thousand plus three thousand be eleven thousand? Do you think she can't count?

Jia Lian glanced at her and said, "What, too little?"

Wang Xifeng's expression paused for a moment, then changed, and said with a smile: "How could that be? Mr. Lian is willing to take these home and I have already burned incense. How can I find it too little?

I am afraid that you only take two thousand and it will not be enough, so I ask, if it is not enough, how can I use it again? It makes sense to take more. After all, Mr. Lian and Shu Lian have taken so much money home, and there is no room to put it at home, so we have to lose some and go out."

Jia Lian smiled, this Sister Feng always said one thing after another. She was clearly questioning why he wanted to deduct two thousand yuan. Seeing that he was displeased, she immediately changed her tune.

"Don't be so weird to me. I will tell you the whereabouts of those two thousand silver coins later.

"I have one thing to ask you, what happened in the new year? At that time, I was talking about the clothes I made for Yingchun and the others. Qian'er seemed to have heard from Ping'er that they were ready. Can I send them to Yingchun and the others?"

"Not yet, but they are all made. I have put them all in the west wing, and I am planning to let them take them home after today."

"Well, that's very good."

After a while, I changed my clothes and came out, ready to eat.

Because in this courtyard, except for the cross-shaped road in the middle, which is paved with bluestone, the four separated areas are all dirt, with some flowers, plants, trees and the like planted in them.

Wang Xifeng placed three tables in the east, west and north directions. Although the layout seemed reasonable, it did not meet Jia Lian's wishes.

"Today there is neither a troupe nor a storyteller, so why should the tables be spread out like this? It would be better to put three tables together and let us all sit together, which would be more atmospheric.. "

When Jia Lian said this, Jia Baoyu was the first to raise her hands in agreement.

"Haha, I wanted to say this before, but I just saw how hard Lian’s second sister-in-law arranged it. , sorry to mess up her layout.

If it’s really boring to sit together, why don’t we sit together and sit together, chatting, laughing, and making drinking orders? Wouldn’t it be interesting? "

Jia Baoyu almost applauded.

In fact, it was divided into three tables. Daiyu sat at the same table with the Sanchun sisters early in the morning, and he couldn't join in. He went to talk to Baochai. Sitting together, I am afraid that Daiyu will be angry...

It is better for everyone to sit together.

Sanchun and Daiyu sisters just wanted to do other things, but when they heard the drinking order, they came immediately I am very interested.

It’s all because I usually eat with Jia Mu, and she pays attention to eating but not sleeping, but it’s different today.

Today, the only elder is Aunt Xue, and Xue My aunt is an easy-going person. Besides, we are all of the same generation, so we don’t have to worry so much.

At this moment, with the table full of delicious food and a drinking order, that would be interesting .

So they all sat up.

Wang Xifeng was not annoyed and directly asked the maids to follow Jia Lian’s instructions to put the tables together and all the chairs in a circle.< br />
"Auntie, please sit down..."

Jia Lian asked Aunt Xue to sit due north and look up.

Aunt Xue smiled and said, "Today you You are the birthday boy, so you should sit here. Just sit down and don't worry about me. ”

Having said that, Aunt Xue took the seat on the right.

Jia Lian stopped being polite and sat down.

In this way, To his right were Aunt Xue, Baochai, Yingchun, and Xichun; to his left were Jia Baoyu, Daiyu, Tanchun, and Li Wan.

Wang Xifeng greeted everyone around and sat at the end of the southernmost seat.

There is no way, the status of the married daughter-in-law is not comparable to that of the sister-in-law, and she can only sit at the end of the table.

Although strictly in accordance with the requirements of filial piety, the filial piety period is You are not allowed to drink alcohol. However, alcohol has become an irreplaceable thing among nobles, so there are very few people in the world who can strictly follow this rule. They must not be honest Confucian gentlemen.

So People in the world don’t actually take it seriously as to whether Xiaoqi can drink. As long as Xiaoqi is not like Jia Zhen in the original work, who gathered people to solicit prostitutes, gamble, drink, and make a shocking noise, no one will be too harsh.< br />
So at this time, rice wine is also served during the banquet.

After drinking his first glass of wine, Jia Lian took a quick look and suddenly smiled at Li Wan and said, "Sister-in-law, why don't you bring Lan'er with you?"

Li Wan didn't expect that Jia Lian would still pay attention to Jia Lan. I had to say: "He is very naughty. I let him read at home and didn't ask him to come."

"The way of civility and martial arts is to relax and relax. Sister-in-law, it is better not to be too strict. "

After saying that, Jia Lian turned his head and said to Ping'er: "Go over, bring Lan'er over, and tell him that I asked him to come over."

Li Wanjian He opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything, so he could only acquiesce.

Jia Baoyu didn’t care whether there was one more person or one less person. He just wanted to play the game quickly, so he leaned over to Jia Lian and whispered a few words.

Jia Lian glanced at him and nodded, "Please calm down for a moment. I have one more thing to tell my aunt before we talk about it."

Aunt Xue heard from the side. After saying this, I looked over quickly.

Jia Lian smiled and said: "That's right. Auntie should also know that our house is preparing a garden for visiting relatives. Since it is a garden for visiting relatives, it is inevitable to build a palace.

To build a palace, a large amount of high-quality wood is indispensable.

The mountainous manors and forests where our family lives are mostly in the bitter cold areas of the northeast, or in the south. It would be troublesome to send people to find them. , the other two are probably not enough.

We heard that my aunt’s family is involved in the timber business, so our husband and I discussed it before and wanted to trouble my aunt’s family to help us collect and purchase it. Some wood, mainly high-quality pear wood and high-quality nanmu, I wonder if it is convenient for aunt?"

Aunt Xue didn't want Jia Lian to suddenly talk about business matters, so her mind suddenly started to move.

As an imperial merchant for decades, the Xue family has been involved in a wide range of industries, including timber business, but it is not a big one.

"As for the timber business, our family does do it, but it's not a big deal..."

"That doesn't matter. Since my aunt's family has done this business, it's better than We know some ways.

Please also ask aunt to take the trouble to help us contact some famous and reputable wood dealers to order these woods. Don’t worry, aunt, we will be responsible for all the required expenses. We will not Let my aunt suffer."

"Whatever you say can help you, we should try our best to say whether we are at a disadvantage or not..."

When Aunt Xue was hesitating, she saw the look her daughter gave her and reacted immediately.

The three members of the Xue family, orphans and widowers, all stayed at Jia’s house, even though they said they wereMrs. Wang was reluctant to leave her sister with them, but who with a discerning eye wouldn't know that it was the Xue family who took refuge in the Jia family?

Nowadays, the Jia Mansion needs a large amount of wood to build a garden. This is an excellent opportunity to establish an interest relationship with the Jia Mansion.

So let alone saying that their family is in the timber business, they just don’t do it. It’s rare for the Jia family to ask them questions, so they should take over this matter and help them get it done.

　“Hehehe, please write down a list of the type and quantity of wood you need and give it to me later. We will take it back and add it up. As long as we have it in our store, we will definitely transport it to you as soon as possible.< br />
Even if it doesn’t exist, we will ask the shopkeeper and clerk at home to help you find it as soon as possible.”

“In this case, thank you auntie.”

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