Chapter 859 Ji Zi Juan has a good harvest and worries
Since the afternoon, Jia She and Jia Zhen led a group of people to suddenly take down Lai Da and Lai Sheng, and locked them in a room for interrogation. Lai Da and Lai Sheng naturally refused to admit it.
But when Lin Zhixiao and Wu Xingdeng began to persuade the servants in the mansion one by one, and when Wang Shanbao and Zhou Rui also appeared in front of the interrogation of Zheng Haoshi and several servants who were usually close to Zheng Haoshi, these original servants soon became The servants who were still a little lucky understood that this was the cooperation between the eldest master and the second master.
But when Grandma Lai asked to see her ancestor all night but was turned away by Yuanyang on the grounds that her ancestor was in poor health and could not see anyone, everyone knew that the Lai family was in doom.
Without the indulgence and favor of their ancestors, how could one of the Lai brothers be the chief steward of Rongguo Mansion and the other the chief steward of Ningguo Mansion? This would be almost impossible for other families. Now that the ancestors have withdrawn their support for the Lai family, it is natural that the trees will fall and the hozens will scatter, and everyone will take care of themselves.
Lin Zhixiao led Wang Shanbao and Zhou Rui to be responsible for the internal investigation and verification of the Jia Mansion. Wu Xingdeng and Shan Daliang were cleaning up the various accounts of the Rongning Mansion's external purchases and repairs over the years, and Jia Rui was responsible for dealing with outside affairs. The merchants contacted and communicated, with Ni Er's help, and a lot of preparations had been made some time ago, so the progress was quite fast.
Wang Xifeng is mainly reorganizing the accounts and connecting with external merchants, striving to completely rebuild the system.
After all, Rongning Second Mansion consumes a lot of money every day. This kind of rectification will inevitably have an impact on the operation of the entire Rongning Second Mansion. Although those merchants initially had to cover up for the Lai family when encountering this situation, they later discovered that The Lai family has no hope, and the Rongning and Rongning mansions combined have more than a thousand people with daily purchasing expenses. Therefore, when Wang Xifeng showed some intention to cooperate, these people immediately sold out the Lai family. net.
Even the merchants who cooperated with Rongning Erfu a few years ago hoped to regain this customer and were willing to frankly explain the past situation one by one. This was almost the last coffin board for the Lai family.
When Jia She led Lin Zhixiao, Jia Rui and others into action, Feng Ziying no longer cared.
After spending so much thought and making so many preparations, even Jia She, Jia Zheng and his second wife had a rare agreement. The Jia family is now in such a dilemma. If they can't overthrow the Lai family, then Feng Ziying thinks it's the Lai family. The eldest son is even more illegitimate than the illegitimate children of the Jia family.
Fortunately, the news kept coming back, and the Lai family's stubborn resistance did not have much effect.
After all, the master is dealing with a slave who has a bad conscience, and Lai Shangrong is just a man who has just obtained the qualification to donate an official position. Even in filling the vacancy, he only got a verbal promise from some people who have benefited, and has not yet been officially handed down by the officials. Not really a character.
So when this storm swept through and the Lai family's biggest supporter, Jia Mu, avoided seeing her, the Lai family had little room to resist.
"So Lai Da still refuses to give a thorough explanation?" Feng Ziying asked Ping'er who was standing by the door with a smile, "Why are you standing so far away, afraid that I will eat you?"
Ping'er felt a little shy and glanced at the door while holding her sweat towel. Although there was no one there, she still felt uneasy and would rather stand at the door.
Feng Ziying is not selfish. In broad daylight, it is impossible for him to do anything with his bestiality.
"What's the attitude of the old lady?" Feng Ziying asked with a smile: "You're not going to be soft-hearted, are you?"
"Mama Lai went to her ancestors three times last night and this morning to beg her. The first two times she didn't see her. The last time she couldn't bear it, she met her anyway, but her ancestors didn't give her any help. I just left a message and asked Lai Da to clarify the matter first, investigate the matter clearly, and then finally tell me how to deal with it."
Ping'er introduced the situation, "More than 10,000 taels of silver were found in the cellar under the bed of Mr. and Mrs. Lai's house, as well as 8,000 taels of banknotes, as well as the land deeds for the fields and shops. Last night, Jia Rui also brought People went to check where Lai Shangrong lived and found several thousand taels of silver and some land deeds. Lai Shangrong and Jia Rui almost had a fight, but later I heard that Jia Rui found someone to take care of Lai Shangrong."
"It looks like the harvest is not small. Can Sister Feng feel relieved now?" Feng Ziying nodded, "If you calculate it, you can get more than 30,000 taels in cash and banknotes. Have you calculated the land and shop land deeds and how much they are worth? ?”
"Grandma asked someone and estimated that it could be sold for more than 20,000 taels." Ping'er came out to report the situation on the one hand, and to listen to Feng Ziying's suggestions for the next step.
Ping'er couldn't help but shuddered when he heard Feng Ziying's unceremonious idea of using Lai's eldest son to threaten Lai.
"Do you think I'm a little too cruel?" Feng Ziying also saw the change in Ping'er's mood and smiled, "Being friendly to your enemies is being cruel to yourself. Lai Shangrong is in his late twenties, is it possible that he can't He knows what his parents are doing in Jia's Mansion. If you don't believe it, if you check the money hidden in his house, he will not know. Is his name written on the land deed? Fools can settle accounts. His parents are also in Jia's Mansion. He is just a servant leader, and even if he is valued by the old lady, he can earn a few hundred taels of silver a year. Where do these tens of thousands of taels of cash and land come from?"
Ping'er couldn't help but nod.
To be honest, these tens of thousands of taels of cash and the land deed of the farm shop, to be honest, people like them could not imagine that there would be such a large amount. If it were a few thousand taels, everyone would think it was reasonable, but this time it was only tens of thousands of taels. , completely beyond imagination.
Even the family background of Second Master Lian and Second Grandma is only 30,000 to 50,000 silver in private money, which was accumulated by Second Mistress bringing a lot of wealth with her as a dowry and doing a lot of work outside.
But the whole Lai family has been in the mansion for decades. Lai Shangrong was raised outside and was raised like a young master with at least a few hundred taels of silver every year. Anyone can understand the fishy nature of saving so much money.
"So, Ping'er, put away your pitiful compassion. The whole family is spending tens of thousands of taels of silver lavishly to pursue the aspirations of the officials. You and Sister Feng are the masters and servants. Isn't it a bit ridiculous that both cities are still worried about the Jia family's monthly income next month, but they still worry about showing mercy to others?"
Feng Ziying's semi-taunting words made Ping'er blush, and she couldn't help but squeal: "Why do you speak so harshly? Who can pity them? I just feel..."
"What do you think? Do you think they are pitiful now that their masks have been exposed? Then when hundreds of boys and girls in your house work hard from dawn to dusk for a few hundred copper coins every month, they sit in the house with peace of mind and wait for those... The merchants who deliver goods to the government take the initiative to give him hundreds of thousands of taels of rebate money every month, do you still feel sorry for them?"
This statement is too straightforward and contrasting.
Even for a girl like Ping'er who has the reputation of being a maid, her monthly salary is only twenty-four taels, and in a year it is only twenty-four taels. Including the year-end bonus, it is only five or sixty taels of silver, but like Lai A guy like this who only gets the official eight hundred monthly salary and bonus rewards from the government is no less than four or five hundred taels every year, but he is still not satisfied, and has to reach out to all aspects of the government. Now that the ship has capsized, is it worthy of pity?
Then the boat didn’t capsize?
Finally shaking her head, Ping'er's mood also calmed down. She did feel a little pity for the Lai family before, especially when she saw the old lady who was usually surrounded by everyone kneeling in front of the ancestor's door, and saw that the Lai family's disheveled hair was covered by two rough men. The mother-in-law dragged him into the woodshed. When she went to Dongfu, she heard that Lai Sheng was whipped by Uncle Xiao Rong in the woodshed and screamed. She felt a little soft.
However, after hearing what Feng Ziying said, I slowly came back to my senses.
The human heart is not as good as a snake swallowing an elephant. If you walk at night for a long time, you will encounter ghosts. You can live with it if you do what you do.
"Okay, Ping'er, don't worry about this. Sister Feng knows how to do it. With the ancestors here, it won't make the Lai family have no food to eat, but if you want to imagine that you have to be as windy as before, If it rains, I'm afraid it's impossible. I can just find an errand to do in Zhuangzi peacefully, that's about it."
Feng Ziying closed the coffin and concluded, "I can think of Sister Feng as having an explanation for this matter. She won't stab someone in the back and curse me anymore, right? I can go to Yongping Mansion to take up my post with peace of mind."
Hearing what Feng Ziying said, Ping'er remembered that Feng Ziying was leaving Beijing soon, and felt panicked, "Master, why don't you go and see grandma? Grandma misses me so much..."
"I'm afraid she's busy dealing with the Lai family's money and property right now, right? How can she have the time to take care of this?" Feng Ziying laughed, with a half-smile on her face. The smile was intriguing, "Why, is Ping'er missing me?" Or does Sister Feng miss me? I’m afraid I won’t be able to come back for a year or so."
Ping'er blushed, hesitated to speak, and finally turned around, with her back to Feng Ziying, and said slowly: "Of course I will miss you, but I have big things to do, and grandma also really cares about you. I often mention Ye in my daily life..."
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