save the bachelors

Chapter 4723 [A New Weather]

In the midst of the excitement, a servant came to deliver a message that the old lady sent her maid Yuanyang to invite her to talk.

The three of them hurried over and saw that Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng were also there. And Nanny Lai was also there, with red eyes, as if she had just cried.

The three of them hurried forward to greet Lady Jia and also greeted Nanny Lai.

According to the rules of the Jia family, servants who have served their masters have face in front of the young master. Lai Ma is a maid that came with Jia's mother's dowry, so she is naturally respectable. Xiang Nan and Wang Xifeng both call her "Lai Ma".

"I heard that something happened in the mansion. What happened?" asked Grandmother Jia.

Xiang Nan then told him about the parchment curse, "Ancestor, anyone who violates the family rules will, without exception, have words carved on their foreheads to expose their crimes."

When Nanny Lai heard him say this, she suddenly understood.

No wonder there were words carved on the son’s face. It turned out that he was cursed because he violated the family rules.

"It can't be a mistake, right?" Jia's mother asked again, "Maybe the person was originally fine, but was injured by mistake?"

"This is a magical method. There is a god above our heads. It is obvious." Xiang Nan waved his hand and smiled.

Nanny Lai couldn't help but look a little embarrassed.

There are words carved on her son's forehead now. When she came to see Lady Jia today, she also hoped to get it pushed away.

"So what mistakes did they make?" asked Grandmother Jia with concern.

"It's better for the ancestor not to ask, otherwise they will really make me angry to death." Xiang Nan waved his hand and said.

Jia Zheng also sighed and waved his hand.

He was so shocked after reading those confessions that he couldn't bear to let his mother read them.

"Yes, ancestor, let the master make the decision on this matter." Jia Lian also said to Jia's mother.

He was also shocked when he saw those confessions. He didn't expect that those housekeepers were so wealthy that they treated the Jia family as their own and were not polite at all.

"Tell me." Grandmother Jia insisted.

"Grandma, these are their confessions, please take a look." Seeing this, Xiang Nan had no choice but to present the confessions to Lady Jia.

……

When Lady Jia took the confession and looked at it, her face gradually turned pale.

She had never expected that these housekeepers would be so bold. It would be fine if they stole and embezzled money, but everyone is greedy.

However, these housekeepers actually took on lawsuits, accepted bribes and committed corruption under the banner of the Jia family, which seriously touched her bottom line.

If this kind of thing got out, the Jia family would not only lose their official positions and titles, but even their property would be confiscated and exterminated. Therefore, these people's behavior was really abominable, and it really chilled Jia's mother, who was so angry that her hands were shaking.

Upon seeing this, Xiang Nan hurried forward, held the old lady's hand, and channeled his internal energy into her to regulate her qi and blood and prevent her from getting angry.

"I never thought that I would fall to this level." Grandmother Jia said angrily, and then handed Lai Da's confession to Lai Ma.

Nanny Lai also knew a few words. After reading the confession, she could no longer sit still and knelt on the ground. "Madam, please calm down. Madam, please calm down. I didn't know he would do such a wicked thing. If I had known, I would have beaten him first and then apologized to you."

However, Grandmother Jia said nothing, completely angry at the crimes committed by Lai Da and others.

It was really abominable. He took more than 100,000 taels of silver from the Jia family and flaunted his power outside under the banner of the Jia family. It was simply unreasonable. "It's all my fault that I didn't teach him well enough and didn't discipline him well enough, which is why he did all these evil things." Lai Mama cried again, "I'm sorry, Madam. I apologize to Madam. I was really wrong!"

As she spoke, she kowtowed, and soon a lump appeared on her forehead.

"Forget it, get up. It's your son who did something wrong. It has nothing to do with you." Seeing this, Jia's mother finally couldn't help but said.

"If a son is undisciplined, it is the mother's fault. This matter is all my fault." Lai Mama cried again, "He is also a failure to improve himself. He actually committed such evil deeds. Madam, you can beat him or punish him if you want. It is all his own fault. I have no complaints. I just hope that you will not alert the officials and spare his life. Please, madam, please, madam."

Grandmother Jia was startled and looked at Jia Zheng and Xiang Nan, "Zheng'er, Baoyu, what do you think?"

"He should be sent to the government for trial, so as to serve as a warning to the rest." Jia Zheng said. He was an upright person and was unwilling to bend the law for personal gain.

"After all, Nanny Lai is an old lady who has served our ancestors, so we should give her some face." Xiang Nan said, "How about this, as long as they make up for the previous deficit, there is no need to go through the government."

"Baoyu is right, sir, please give the old lady some face." Mrs. Wang also spoke.

"Master, what the lady said is right. Don't give face to the monk, but give face to the Buddha." Wang Xifeng also spoke.

"Forget it." Jia Zheng nodded.

Nanny Lai kowtowed quickly to express her gratitude.

……

Afterwards, the Lai family, the Wu Xindeng family, the Lin Zhixiao family, the Shan Daliang family, the Zhou Rui family, the Dai Liang family and others were forced to sell their houses, fields, sons and daughters to pay off the debts they owed to the Jia family.

Because they didn't have much cash. After they got the money, they all bought houses and land, hired servants, and lived no worse than the young men and young ladies in the inner house of the Jia Mansion.

Therefore, to repay the deficit now, they had to sell their houses, lands, servants, and maids to repay the debt. And since they knew they were anxious to cash in and repay the debt, who wouldn't bargain down when buying?

Therefore, these families had nothing left to sell and were still short of a lot of money, so they had no choice but to sell themselves. But because everyone knew that they were sold by the Jia family because they were unruly, who would dare to buy them?

So these people were standing in the market with straw signs on their heads in the cold wind. How miserable they looked.

In addition, Lai Sheng, the chief steward of Ningguo Mansion, is also the son of Nanny Lai.

Now that his eldest brother's crime was exposed, he naturally could not escape the responsibility and was also punished by Jia Zhen, making him spit out a lot of the fat he had swallowed before.

……

After dealing with the four major stewards and the two major managers, the Jia family also sent away a large number of slaves who were suspected of stealing, embezzlement, absenteeism, and arrogance.

Among them, those suspected of stealing, such as Lai Dajia, Wu Xindeng's, Zhou Rui's, and Yingchun's wet nurse, were all expelled. Several women who led the gambling at night were also driven out.

The other maids who committed less serious crimes were each beaten with more than ten or twenty sticks, and part of their salary was deducted as a warning to others.

After such a swift and drastic action, the atmosphere in the Jia family suddenly changed.

Those maids, wet nurses, old women, servant girls, stewards, and housekeepers no longer dared to steal or embezzle money, nor did they dare to act arrogantly or put on airs.

For example, Li Ma, Baoyu's wet nurse, always thought highly of herself and would often scold the maids in Baoyu's room. People like Xiren, Qingwen, Sheyue, Qiuwen, Bihen, etc., were all scolded by her.

Later, because she stole Xiang Nan's food, she was carved with words on her forehead, which made her look embarrassed. Although she was not punished, she was too embarrassed to act arrogantly in Xiang Nan's room.

In addition, there are those old women and maids who rely on their wealth and status and are used to flattering the powerful and looking down on the weak. Now that they see that several housekeepers have suffered and are being sold in the human market in the cold weather, they dare not show off anymore. They are so honest that they are afraid that they will also be sold.

Therefore, in a short period of time, Rongguo Mansion had a new look.