Aunt Su put down the screen and opened several boxes.

These boxes contain calligraphy and paintings, as well as porcelain vases.

According to the original owner's memory, these calligraphy and paintings and porcelain bottles are from the previous dynasty. Although they are not made by famous artists, they are still worth some money.

Aunt Su doesn't know much about calligraphy, painting or porcelain vases.

She didn't have that kind of elegant talent when she was young, and after she retired, a senior citizen university was opened in the community.

There were calligraphy and painting classes and appreciation classes, but she had no interest in either of them, so she directly chose a dance class.

Therefore, she just took a look at these things and put them down.

Until I found a set of ox horn cups.

"Madam, this set of rhino horn cups was given to you by the old master on your fortieth birthday."

Speaking of this rhino horn cup, it also made the original owner angry.

The original owner had finally celebrated his 40th birthday, so this old man should give him a good gift.

I gave you a set of four rhino horns. Even though they are not of the best quality, they are still something presentable.

But just two days after it was sent, I heard that the old man also gave a set to Aunt Liu!

There are also four of them! It is said that the quality is even better than the one given to the original owner!

This made the original owner, who used to use this set of cups to drink fruit wine, so angry that he put the cups aside and never wanted to see them again.

Thinking of this, Aunt Su was happy.

Well, this old man has been professionally making his wife angry for a hundred years!

Got it!

In that case, don't blame her for bringing this thing to modern times and giving it to her daughter Juanjuan to play with!

"Well, I heard that this rhino horn has many magical uses. It will just gather dust if it's just left there. I'll take it out later. I want to make some fruit juice for it!"

So the original owner was also unable to get over it.

Who cares if Mr. Deng is biased? Since it’s free, let’s just make the best use of it!

She had heard from an old man in a tour group that rhino horn was a good thing, it could improve eyesight, cool blood, and identify poisons...it had many other benefits, but she didn't remember them all.

Aunt Jiao had no choice but to respond.

Aunt Su continued to open the blind box.

If she was interested in something but it didn't mean much to the original owner, she would ask Aunt Jiao to put it aside and prepare to use it somewhere else (to give it to her own daughter), and would not touch anything she was not interested in.

Soon, Aunt Jiao had more than ten items piled up at hand.

After Aunt Su opened the blind box, she went to open the box again.

The original owner's dowry was about six or seven thousand taels. She spent some of it when she came to the Earl's Mansion, and saved some of it. She also gave two or three thousand taels when her daughter got married. Now she still has more than two thousand taels in cash.

All the gold and silver were kept in a big box.

When the box was opened, gold ingots were pressed against silver ingots, and it was sparkling with golden light and full of auspiciousness!

If Aunt Su hadn't been afraid of ruining her image in front of Aunt Jiao, she would have wanted to throw herself into the pile of gold and silver and feel the stench of money!

In addition to this box of gold and silver, there were two boxes of clothing, one box of furs, one box of jewelry and one box of antiques.

Of course, most of these fabrics are not particularly precious, such as tribute silk and satin, but mostly ordinary silk, summer cloth and three-edged cloth.

The jewelry is not all made of gold, jade, or gemstones. Some of the jewelry is made of royal velvet flowers. Although the colors are not too bright, the craftsmanship is extremely fine and the shapes are also very beautiful...

Aunt Su felt itchy when she saw this.

It’s a pity that she is so old and still lives in ancient times. Otherwise, if she could be brought back to the modern times, she would definitely dress up in ancient costumes and wear this flower to take selfies... Who said that aunties can only have three-piece suits?

Although she couldn't wear them herself here, she still picked up a few, put them in a small box, and let them take them out.

He took the things she had chosen, left the small storeroom, and put them away in her bedroom.

Aunt Su was not in a hurry to play with these treasures. She was going to live broadcast them to Juanjuan when she was connected. This is called, if you don't show off your wealth, then you are rich and powerful, right?

She was more careful when she was looking at the servants' roster yesterday.

Since I was free at the moment, I asked Madam Jiao to call the four daughters-in-law and their mothers-in-law over.

Among these four people, two are in charge of sweeping the floor and two are in charge of washing clothes.

They are considered menial workers in this courtyard. They were the original owner's maids and did not have many connections in this mansion. Therefore, after more than 20 years, they still only received third-class monthly salary.

But in these twenty years, these four people have married and had children.

If the original owner had a lot of properties, farms and shops, and these people had children, they would all have jobs.

Unfortunately, the original owner only had a small shop that did not make any money, and he rented it out to save trouble.

In addition, there was a small farm. Because the original owner's family was not from the local area, even if she wanted to buy good farmland near Xincheng, it was not an easy thing. In the end, she had to buy two hundred acres of mountain land and a small farm.

Since it is a mountainous area, it is conceivable that it is not only a bit far from Xincheng, but also a somewhat remote mountainous area.

What can this kind of land produce?

A village head could be managed by his family. The annual income was just some worthless local products, sometimes thirty to fifty taels of silver. In years of famine, it would be good if the original owner did not have to pay for the bankruptcy of the village.

Therefore, the number of servants in the original owner's room doubled, but there was no suitable position to put them.

Now that Aunt Su has kicked out several people, and is planning to build a small kitchen of her own, it is clear that the kitchen will be separated from the main courtyard in the future. So it’s time to select the manpower needed.

"I heard that you have girls and boys in your family, and you are all free?"

"I still need a few workers in and outside my yard. Go back and discuss it. If there are girls or boys in your family who are willing to come in and work, bring them here tomorrow and let me take a look. If they are useful, I will arrange a job for them."

To be honest, the original owner was really bad at running a business.

Although her dowry was decent, it was useless just sitting there.

The only thing that could generate interest was the rent from the small shop and the insignificant income from the small farm.

When the four heard this, they were overjoyed and quickly bowed to Aunt Su to express their gratitude.

The girls and boys born to these concubines were also slaves.

It's not a big deal if there are only one or two kids, but now there are so many people, and they all depend on the monthly income from my parents. How can I afford it?

If there is one more person who can receive a monthly salary from the mansion, as well as clothes for four seasons and three meals a day, wouldn't that be equivalent to adding a large income to the family?

After giving these instructions, and finishing her daily exercises and dinner, Aunt Su dismissed all the servants and went to bed on the eight-step bed.

This time the phone was connected very quickly. After two rings, Su Juanjuan's voice came from the other end.

"Thank God, Mom, you finally called!"

"what's wrong?"

"Hey, Mom, didn't you sign up for a small tour group before you traveled through time? The group leader called me!"

"Ah, ah, yes!"

Aunt Su's mind buzzed and she was confused.

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