Jia Qiang's Ordinary Life

Not long after Qin Keqing's burial, there was a decree from the palace to make Yuanchun the Shangshu of Fengzao Palace and confer the title of Xiande Concubine.Everyone in Jia's family was overjoyed, and they were even more insolent in their usual actions.The response from the palace was also very strange. In addition to allowing the family members of the concubines to visit the palace, they also granted permission for the next year's Lantern Festival to allow the concubines to go home to visit their relatives.

Jia Qiang looked at the Jia family's overjoyed look with cold eyes, wishing to celebrate with each other, and sighed in her heart, if she wants to take it, she must give it first.He also said that if God wants to destroy him, he must first make him crazy. The Jia family has already stepped on this line.If they can act in a low-key way, maybe there will be nothing wrong in the future. The problem is that the Rongning Second House and the clansmen who depend on them don't even know what it means to be low-key.Anyway, Jia Qiang already knew that the population of Rongguo Mansion has been increasing in the past two years, and they don't know how to be diligent and thrifty in managing the family. In the heap of beauties, wouldn't it cost money to keep a beautiful maid?Jia Zheng's salary is only more than 200 taels a year, but he has a group of Qing gentry, who spend more than this amount in a month, plus Jia Baoyu, who wished to pile up gold and silver since he was a child, and Yuan Chun in the palace. The village also needs to be managed from time to time, so the cost is increasing day by day, especially in the past two years, there have been frequent droughts and floods in Guanzhong, and the crops in Zhuangzi are not good, and the Rongguo Mansion has a tendency to make ends meet.Mrs. Wang is someone who is only willing to take advantage and not to suffer. She pretended to be a bodhisattva and gave Wang Xifeng the power of housekeeper. After the first dowry jewelry, she didn't know who was instigated, she took the money in the public account and started loan sharks, that is, usury, and there is no problem now. After all, people who do this kind of thing have backgrounds. What happened to the family, this is another big crime!

It's a pity that the eyes of this family are only focused on their own family, so they don't think about the long term.Not to mention Ningguo Mansion, although their absurdities have gone too far, at least there are few people in the family, so they don't have so many calculations.Rongguo Mansion is different. Jia Amnesty is the eldest son of Xie Jue, but he can only live in a side courtyard. Mrs. Xing has no son to accompany her. Quan, becoming more and more bitter, dislikes everyone.Don't look at Mrs. Wang who eats fast and recites Buddha all day long. She is more sinister than anyone else in her bones. The old lady is old and she doesn't care about the affairs below. Well, isn't this old lady trying to get in their way?There was constant fighting in the inner house, and they didn't know that Jia's family was often a joke in the eyes of outsiders.

Li Cheng hurried over and warned: "Zhizhong, be careful in what you do in the future, don't get involved with the people in those two mansions anymore!" It seems that he knew something inside, so he came in a hurry Remind Jia Qiang.

Jia Qiang sneered, "Hmph, apart from my deceased wife, what relationship do I have with Jia's mansion!" He thought of Jia Zhen's treatment of the two funerals of his biological mother and daughter-in-law differently, and he wished that Jia Zhen would be unlucky sooner. , Go down and plead guilty to Mrs. Xu.

Li Cheng was stunned for a moment, seeing Jia Qiang's tone of resentment, he couldn't help comforting him, "That's fine, look at the behavior of the people in the two mansions, blindly flamboyant, ignorant of the slightest restraint, it is really a way to bring disaster, you stay away from them It’s a good thing.” But I was thinking in my heart, what else in this Jia’s mansion has annoyed Jia Qiang, you know, Jia Qiang is very generous in many cases, if he can’t be offended, she can’t say anything. easy to say.

After those few days passed, Jia Qiang felt sore whenever she thought of Mrs. Xu. When she was free these days, she was always copying Buddhist scriptures to calm her heart. A person who is good at observing words and expressions, saw his situation, and said with a smile: "It's rare to have time today, how about going out for a drink or two together, it's also a relief."

Jia Qiang was also inconvenient to evade her friend's kindness, so she nodded in agreement, and ordered her servants to send the Buddhist scriptures she had copied these days to the Ci'en Temple outside the city, and offer them to the Buddha, and took another 100 taels of silver for them to take there to make sesame oil money , invited several eminent monks to pray for Mrs. Xu to read the scriptures for a few days.Then, they went out with Li Cheng.

Jia Qiang was not in a good mood, so naturally he drank a few more glasses. Although the wine he drank was good, it was a pity that it had a lot of stamina. After that, he naturally became drunk.Li Cheng looked at his blushing face, as if it had been covered with rouge, and suddenly felt a little dry.Jia Qiang was still sitting on the chair, drowsily holding an empty wine glass and pouring it into her mouth, muttering: "Jia Zhen, you are a bastard! What are you? Ten years, at the end, you don't even want to pretend to be filial! Hehe, you made a daughter-in-law's funeral like a dead ancestor, I'm sorry!"

Jia Qiang scolded Jia Zhen in a daze, and Li Cheng's eyes widened when he heard it. No wonder Jia Qiang hated Jia's family. Tsk tsk, this Ningguo Mansion is really rare. Dai De is happy, tsk tsk, it's ridiculous!He looked at Jia Qiang, feeling almost sympathetic. It is really rare for such a family to raise such a person. Probably, it is also because of Mrs. Xu!Thinking of this in his heart, he looked at Jia Qiang, and his heart softened even more.

After Jia Qiang woke up and didn't know that he was drunk, he vented a lot. He felt that he was in a much better mood, so he thanked Li Cheng naturally, and Li Cheng laughed: "With our relationship, thank you is too extravagant! Otherwise, next time you are free, Taibailou, please!"

"Okay!" Jia Qiang didn't care about the money either.

Since Concubine Xiande wanted to go home to visit her relatives, she naturally wanted to build a family-visiting villa, and the Jia family suddenly became busy.Choose the site, measure the land, hire someone to draw the blueprint, and then go shopping for wood and stone, precious flowers, and antiques. Ningguo Mansion is fine. The look of going in.

At the same time, the same is true for several other families who have concubines visiting relatives. They don’t take money for money. All kinds of precious flowers and trees, as well as such rare birds and animals, poured into the capital through various channels.

Jia Qiang looked at it coldly, and he made a lot of money from it. After all, he has invested a lot in Nanyang in recent years.Even, he had a very vague idea, why can't he own a colony overseas?In that case, even if there are any problems in the future, there will be a way out for myself or my descendants.

He has been to Ningguo Mansion once, and it has changed. The side courtyard he lived in has been demolished, and it has become part of the future family-speaking villa. Recalling his life in that courtyard, he felt a little sad.Yeah, the past can never go back.He listened to Youshi crying poorly on the sidelines, saying that he wanted to borrow money from him for repairing the family-saving villa, and that after the mother-in-law was over, there would naturally be a reward, so Jia Qiang felt chest tightness, and he took a deep breath With a sigh of relief, he squeezed out a smile and said: "Auntie said yes, but part of the cash money my nephew got from the division bought the house I live in now, and part of it is for food, clothing and chewing. Originally, my nephew planned to add another Zhuangzi, add some money, since my aunt needs to use it, and my nephew still has 5000 taels of cash, I will send someone to send it over tomorrow, so don’t be disgusted by my aunt.”

You Shi thought about it for a while, thinking that what Jia Qiang said was true. The two villages he was allocated back then were not productive. Although she had never been to Jia Qiang's current house, she had heard Jia Rong say that the house At least it is worth a few thousand taels of silver. Thinking about it, Jia Qiang still needs to keep some for the account, so 5000 taels is indeed the limit. However, I still said a few polite words, but I didn’t mention that she would not want it at all. The meaning of the money.

Jia Qiang looked at her lazily, said a few perfunctory words, and went home directly. When she got home, she called the accountant and asked him to withdraw the 5000 taels of silver bill, which was sent to Ningguo Mansion tomorrow.Fortunately, the ship that went to Japan just came back a few days ago, and they brought back a lot of coral tortoiseshell and some gold and silver nuggets. There were just tens of thousands of taels of silver in the account, and taking out 5000 taels would not affect anything. Two months ago, there wasn't that much cash in the account.

Jia Qiang was bored watching "Chunqiu Zuoshi Zhuan" in the study, but felt a little cold in his heart. Seeing that his surname was Jia, especially the friendship Mrs. Xu had with him, he always had some affection for the Jia family. , But, this time and time again, that idea and feeling can't stand squandering!