When the sixth young lady walked into Marquis Lin Huai’s room, Marquis Lin was working on her accounts.
Originally, Marquis Lin Huai’s wife is well-maintained, age-freezing technique, more than forty years of age, the face is only more than thirty years old, but this period of time, the crow’s feet at the corners of the eyes of the uncontrollable crazy growth, the face is also from more than thirty years of age, into forty years of age of the middle-aged woman, in short, is the word, showing old age.
Especially at this moment, Linhuai Marquis wife more turn over the account book, the more frowned, face also more show the vicissitudes of the years.
There is no way, the deficit on the account book is too much, serious income does not meet the expenditure, green and yellow, the account can be used only a few silver.
If it goes on like this, the Marquis House will have to eat dirt …….
Every time she looks at the account book, Marquis Linhuai’s wife feels that the number of white hairs on her head is increasing by a few!
“Giggle, mother, I’m back.”The sixth young lady entered the inner room, smiled daintily and curtsied to Lady Marquis Linhuai who was reading the account book.
She is a concubine, but since childhood are raised in the Marquis Lady Linhuai in front of, on the relationship is not as good as the first born second young lady them, but also considered close.
“Zhu’er came back, see you so happy, but the old five agreed that you help her look after the shop ……”Linhuai marquis wife saw the sixth young lady face can’t hide the smile, can’t help but heart a happy, thought is to reach the wish.
“No, fifth sister said that the shop outside does not need her to bother on weekdays, and does not need my help ……”
Sixth Miss shook her head.
“Then what are you happy about ……”Linhuai marquis wife heard, can not help but reach out and nodded the sixth young lady’s forehead, did not have the good sense to say, “You these days with me in charge of the family, what is the situation in the house you also know. Other people don’t know, think that our marquis family is big, the house is piled up with mountains of gold and silver, but in reality, it’s all empty shelves. Our house industry is not as good as a year, less and less income, spend out is more and more, whether it is daily spending or holiday gifts and monthly money and so on the size of the matter, have to follow the rules in the hands of the old ancestor, if the frugality, can not help but to be laughed at by outsiders, the old lady is also aggrieved, the old lady is from our marquis house in the glory days over, not to mention the old lady, your sister and the following people will also complain about me!Small-minded and mean ……I can only hold on. You know how much effort I’ve put into running this family over the years, and it hasn’t worked out well. Now this period of time, it is even more difficult to continue, and so on, a large family have to drink the northwest wind to go ……”
Linhuai marquis wife is really no way out, in this way, either use the dowry subsidies home, can last a few days counting a few days; either ignore the face, ignore the old lady and the family aggrieved complaints, ruthless frugality ……
Otherwise, it is not so anxious to hit Li Shu shop idea ……
“Mother’s hard work, Zhu’er is seeing it in her eyes and pain in her heart, and she doesn’t want to help mother share it all the time.”Sixth Miss curtly came forward to help Marquis Linhuai’s wife to press her shoulder, inviting credit as if to say, “Zhu’er although did not persuade her to hand over the shop to me to look after, but it is to persuade her to pay a large sum of money to take over the Zi Zai Lou.”
“Since in the building ……”Marquis Linhuai’s wife couldn’t help but raise her eyebrows.
To be honest, even though the food and lodging integrated Zi Zai Lou has been losing money in recent years, she has no intention of selling it out.
It was one of the few properties she had left.
Lady Marquis Linhuai knew in her heart that in order to earn silver, she still had to rely on her industries, and her mansion’s fields and villages had enough revenue for what she was doing.
“Mother, Zi Zai Lou has been losing money for years, not only can’t it give the house an income, but it also needs the house to subsidise the silver month after month, every extra day it holds, it loses one more day, like a bottomless pit, it’s a burden that’s hard to bear.”The sixth young lady analysed with her fingers, “It would be better to disclose it, not only to get rid of the burden, but also to account for a sum of silver.”
Lady Marquis Linhuai was noncommittal and asked, “How much silver did she offer?”
“With some effort on my part, she can offer a thousand taels of silver.”The Sixth Miss craned her neck in triumph.
“One thousand taels of silver?!”Marquis Linhuai’s wife couldn’t help but open her mouth wide in surprise when she heard this.
“She’s really willing to offer one thousand taels of silver for Ziyou House?!”Marquis Linhuai’s wife could not help but be moved.
The market price of Zi Zai Lou was only seven hundred taels of silver. Li Shu was even willing to pay a premium of nearly three hundred taels, offering one thousand taels of silver!
If she had this thousand taels of silver, the silver in the house’s account would be spacious for three to five months.
With this money, one can have someone take the silver to go out and put the stamp money, and the interest will also be a few hundred taels of silver ……
“Mother, naturally it’s true, why has my daughter ever lied to mother ah.”Sixth Miss swore, and then raised his chin to invite credit, “Daughter persuaded her to take over from the building, and then cost, persuaded her to take over from the building behind the barren slopes, this piece of barren land is priced at a full one hundred taels of silver oh.”
“Really?”Marquis Linhuai’s wife was once again shocked.
According to the current market, the barren slope behind Zi Zai Lou is worth at most ten taels of silver, and according to the usual practice of buying Zi Zai Lou, that piece of broken land is a hitch, Li Shu is even willing to offer one hundred taels to buy this piece of barren land.
“Naturally it is true.”Sixth Miss nodded firmly.
“And allow me to think about it.”Although Marquis Linhuai’s wife was very moved, she hadn’t made up her mind for a while.
“Mother still needs to think about it for a few more hours.”The sixth young lady heard this and couldn’t help but urgently advise, “She’s a human spirit, right now it’s a pregnancy that’s stupid for three years, I’ve convinced her with purity, she’s in a feverish state right now, what if when she calms down and thinks it through, she reverses her decision? Moreover, I heard that in a few days, when the snow melts, she will leave for the south to look for her fifth brother-in-law. This is one thousand one hundred two silver it, after this village can not have this shop ……”
“Well good.”Linhuai marquis wife also made up her mind, nodded, “this matter will be handed over to you, in order to avoid the night is long and dreamy, later you will take the land deed, house deed to look for her, and then make the outer courtyard steward to find the Yamen to quickly do the handover formalities. In addition, pro-brothers clear accounts, silver can not be one or two less.”
“Mother, you can rest assured.”Sixth Miss patted her chest and made a statement, her heart leapt with joy, not only did this not only make a mark on her mother, leaving a good impression of being able to do the job, but also the village aunt’s fifth sister had fifty taels of silver as a thank you gift.
At the time when the Sixth Miss and Marquis Linhuai’s wife were agreeing on the matters of the Self-contained House, the Jingxiang Garden was also talking about the Self-contained House.
“Miss, the business of Zi Zai Lou has been in the doldrums, it is a bottomless pit of losing money, every month it has to lose ten or so pieces of silver. Why are we spending money to buy a money-losing product? Moreover, we go to Da Jue Temple incense also passed by the self in the building, it is out of the city in the middle of nowhere, the location is not good, it is estimated to be worth six or seven hundred silver, Miss why spend one thousand silver to buy a money-losing inn, but also the back of the deserted slopes, ten silver is not worth it, the Miss is even priced at one hundred silver. We are not into the wrongdoer it, is to buy, also have to ruthlessly press down the price ah.”
Qin’er asked with a puzzled face.
“Injustice? Lol ……”Li Shu narrowed her eyes and laughed, “When have you ever seen me being an ingrate?!”
