The journey of the heavens by Jia Huan, the salted fish

Chapter 155 Preparing to Build the Grand View Garden

In the end, the Jia family only collected more than two hundred thousand taels of silver, and two or three hundred thousand taels were not enough.

Mother Jia sighed: "I can only ask my relatives to borrow it."

This so-called "borrow" will not be repaid.

The relatives of the Jia family knew that the money was their investment in the Jia family, the concubine's natal family, and they never thought about paying it back.

Among them, Aunt Xue paid [-] taels of silver for her daughter to join the Jia family.

What a fool.

The Wang family and the Shi family also paid in silver, but the family only had [-] taels.

The Lin family paid more than the other two families, and Lin Ruhai directly paid [-] taels.

This made Mother Jia feel better.

Even though Lin Ruhai married Xuxian, she didn't alienate the Jia family!

On the day of visiting relatives in Yuanchun, call Lin Ruhai to welcome the imperial concubine together.

Lin Ruhai: Thank you very much!But no need!
Wang Xifeng started to get busy, there were too many things to do to build the garden, so she called Yingchun Tanchun and Baochai to her side again, and asked them to help her share part of the work.

Only in terms of running errands, Wang Xifeng lacked manpower.

Jia Lian was going to work in the household department, Jia Rong was thrown into the barracks by his wife, Jia Qiang was the only master who could run errands for Wang Xifeng.

The shortage of manpower left Wang Xifeng in a state of desperation.

"This requires making gold and silver utensils, purchasing wood and stone, purchasing antiques from opera actors, and finding someone to draw drawings..."

Wang Xifeng complained bitterly: "Everyone needs someone to run errands, but the housekeeper at home is busy enough, and Brother Qiang only has one person, so I don't know how to do it."

Yingchun gave Wang Xifeng an idea: "If those clansmen in the back street are capable, let them help."

Wang Xifeng listened to this opinion, and immediately called Ping'er, and asked her to find out about those Jia family members in the back street, who is capable, who is honest, who can speak and do things.

Yingchun heard from Jia Huan that some people living in the back streets live worse than the servants of the Rongguo Mansion. She thought that since she had the opportunity, she could help these people.

For example, there is a junior named Jia Yun among them. Brother Huan said that this person has some abilities, is also a dutiful son, and has a good character.

The conditions of this person's family are not good. Giving him a job now will allow him to earn some money and improve his family's life.

Not long after, Wang Xifeng found several clansmen, and Jia Yun was among them.

His ability is really good, he is the best among these clansmen.

Wang Xifeng was very satisfied with Jia Yun and assigned him more responsibilities.

Jia Yun handles affairs carefully and conscientiously, and he has completed all these matters perfectly.

Wang Xifeng admired Jia Yun even more, thinking that she would not send Jia Yun home until the construction of the Grand View Garden was completed, and stayed in Rongguo Mansion to continue running errands.

After Jia Lian found out, he was very interested in Jia Yun, and asked someone to call Jia Yun over to meet him.

"He's a smart one." Jia Lian said to Wang Xifeng, "I'll take him out to get to know a few more people after he's done with the work at hand. From now on, I'll leave some affairs outside the house to Brother Yun."

After hearing Jia Lian's words, Jia Yun knew that the couple wanted to cultivate herself vigorously, she was overjoyed, and hurriedly saluted the two, calling "uncle" and "aunt" very affectionately.

The two also liked Jia Yun's dexterity and sweet mouth, and kept Jia Yun for dinner before sending her back.

Jia Lian collapsed on the couch after dinner, looking very tired.

Sitting beside him, Wang Xifeng reached out and patted Jia Lian's thigh, and said, "Why do you look more tired than me?"

Jia Lian: "The household department is very busy with accounting these days. I don't know what the emperor wants to do. We have to list the accounts of the previous ten years in detail."

He didn't know, and Wang Xifeng didn't know even more.

The two didn't think much about it, and after chatting about some homely things, they took a rest.

Both of them are very tired during the day, so they don't have the energy to do things like husband and wife at night.

Jia Lian didn't know what the emperor wanted to do, but Jia Huan, who had mastered the script and an official official like Lin Ruhai, knew the emperor's plan, so he was going to collect the bill.

The treasury was empty, and the emperor stopped paying attention to the arrears borrowed by officials.

Damn, all the debts are not repaid, are you taking him, the emperor, as a fool?
Lin Ruhai was not worried about the emperor wanting to collect the arrears. Although the Lin family also borrowed money from the treasury, the amount was not much.

The Liehou family of the Lin family has a rich family property, but they are not upstarts like the Rongguo Mansion, and they don't need to borrow money from the state treasury to live.

The Lin family borrowed money at that time, but they just followed the trend and deliberately borrowed [-] taels of silver, lest their family be out of tune with other officials' families.

Lin Ruhai chatted with Mrs. Li in the room, and told Mrs. Li to set aside [-] taels of silver, it would be useful to him.

Mrs. Li responded with a smile.

She would not ask Lin Ruhai what she wanted the money for, just as she would not complain about Lin Ruhai giving the Rongguo Mansion [-] taels of silver.

Li knew that she was just a successor, or the emperor's eyeliner around Lin Ruhai, Lin Ruhai should be wary of herself.

Therefore, she only did what she, the wife of the Lin family, should do, and didn't ask much about the rest.

Even on Lin Daiyu's side, she didn't intervene much.

Lin Ruhai is quite satisfied with this lady, she is very knowledgeable and interesting.

Therefore, he did not embarrass Li Shi.

Not long after Mrs. Li got married, she gave the accounts of the Lin family to Mrs. Li and asked Mrs. Li to be the housekeeper.

Of course, Lin Ruhai did not let Mrs. Li know about some of his own private accounts and some secret properties of the Lin family.

"The Jia family sent a letter to pick up Sister Yu to live in Jia's house for a while. I thought, the Jia family is now seeing the concubine's family visit garden, it's too messy. Sister Yu still can't go, why don't she go to the house?" The little sisters from our family came to live with us for two days.”

Lin Ruhai said: "The old lady misses her granddaughter, so you can invite me to sit for a while. What do you think?"

Naturally, Mrs. Li would not object: "I will listen to the master."

Lin Daiyu was very happy when she heard that she was entertaining her grandmother and several sisters, and wrote a post with her own hands, asking people to go to Rongguo Mansion.

Mother Jia saw the post and knew that Lin Daiyu would not come to Jia's house. She felt a little uncomfortable, but she quickly thought about it.

It is true that the Jia family is busy repairing the garden and it is noisy, which is not suitable for Lin Daiyu to live in.

If you want to increase the relationship between Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu, you can do it in the Lin family.

Jia Baoyu is Lin Ruhai's student now, and has many opportunities to meet Lin Daiyu.

Thinking of this, Jia's mother was happy again, and asked Yuanyang to prepare things for her trip. She was going to the Lin's house to meet her granddaughter.

Mother Jia only took a few young girls to the Lin family, and Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing did not go.

Mrs. Wang was a little upset about this, but there was nothing she could do about it.

(End of this chapter)