Chapter 417: Not confused

As dawned in the east, the sky was getting white, and Zhao Jia woke up.

In the past two years, she has become lighter and lighter, and she often only slept for two hours at night. Instead of getting up immediately, she touched the cigarette pipe and the cigarette pot by the side of the kang, thinking about eating a few bites of cigarette to refresh her mind.

Her cigarette pot was made of a copper waist and a cigarette mouth of Hetian white jade. She carried a pot of cigarette from the cigarette pipe and pressed it with her hands. While sending the cigarette mouth into her mouth, she touched the scythe next to her.

The cool white jade cigarette holder put into her mouth, which made Zhao Jia feel a little awake. She then recalled that she could not eat cigarettes today. Yesterday, she sent a reply to the Chunwang Mansion Garden next door. Today, she wanted to take the fourth sister and Wuer to visit the garden.

If you eat cigarettes, you will feel rude in front of the concubines.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jia put down the tobacco pot and remembered Cao Song, who was called back to the city by Cao Yong yesterday, and felt a little dissatisfied. What could happen? He called his brother back? He kept drinking like this, and he didn't care that his brother wanted to study.

I thought that most of March had passed, and April was in a blink of an eye, and then there would be another expense. Fortunately, several gentlemen were paid for their younger brothers by Cao Yong. They had already given Shu Xiu. They didn't need to pay money from the second house, so they saved a lot, otherwise Zhao Jia would be tighter.

In addition to the farm that Cao Yong first gave to her in Shangjing, Zhaojia sent someone to buy two farms in Fangshan last month. The three places were counted together, with 80 hectares of land.

The land rent is determined at 40%. If the profit per hectare of land can be more than 30 taels in a good year, even in an ordinary year, there will be more than 20 taels. In a year, it will be at least more than 2,000 taels of silver. This is not counted as other poultry meat, grain, vegetables, etc., but several times the salary of Cao Song.

Zhuangzi's income and Cao Song's salary combined, he could make up 3,000 taels a year. However, the expenses were also high. In addition to the monthly money of fifty or sixty people from the second house, the relationship between people in Beijing was also large.

Fortunately last year, if Zhao Jia left the favor, he just needed to talk to Chu Yu and told him that he had made preparations according to the favor. Now, since he had already said that the big house and the second house had to be divided into different kitchens, Zhao Jia didn't have the reason to open his mouth again.

This is during the filial piety period, and relatives have less contact. If filial piety is paid, it will be a big expense.

The original money was less than ten thousand taels left in Zhaojia's hands except for the one who bought the banker. According to her intention, she wanted to wait until August to produce filial piety, and then beg her brother to decide the marriage between her son and niece Ruhui, and to marry her by the end of the year or early next year, which was a cheaper one.

As for the fame and honor mentioned by her brother and sister-in-law, Zhao Jia did not take it seriously. She thought that as long as she was filial, she would go to Cao Yong or the Prince's Mansion to ask them to find connections to make up for the lack of guards for her son. She was both decent and clean, and those who made friends with each other were nobles. After a few years, she would be like his brother, and she would be a parent who would be a part of her parents.

After the elder son's marriage was completed, the remaining few young people became older. Although the old lady left five thousand taels of marriage for each of her grandchildren before her death, if it was an ordinary marriage, there would be no need for any expenses. If a wife married, one or two thousand taels of silver would be handled very decently. The remaining silver would be used to separate the remaining money from the family.

Thinking of the word "dividing family", Zhao Jia suddenly felt something was wrong and sat up all of a sudden.

The big house is rich, and only Cao Yong is the only one. His status is there, so he will not be bothered with her widow-sister aunt. However, in addition to the three legitimate sons, there is also a concubine son Cao Xiang.

Zhao Jia was unconscious about the "Law of the Qing Dynasty", but he knew that the division of the family should be divided equally.

When she arrived in Jiangning early in the early years, she couldn't stand the old lady's scolding, so she thought about splitting up the family. She was afraid that the second house would suffer a loss, so she found several sensible people seriously and asked clearly.

"Equally divided by all the sons", eighty hectares of land, each of the four brothers has twenty hectares. Not to mention whether the land price will rise in the future, just say that the two farms purchased by Zhaojia this time were bought for top-quality fertile land, and they were all purchased at a price of seven taels of silver per mu.

Not only did it count as money for marrying a wife, but also had to pay 14,000 taels of land. Thinking of this, Zhao Jia felt a trembling heart.

The more than 40,000 taels of silver from the land bought were mostly saved by Zhao Jia for half of her life, except for embezzling some of the marriage silver left by the old lady.

Zhao Jia really wanted to slap herself in the face, why was she so anxious to buy Zhuangzi? Cao Xiang is already fourteen, and he can get married after two years, and he can get married and have another one. How can this be the best now?

She let out a long sigh. Although the concubine's son was shaking around in front of her, she felt disgusted, but for the twenty-acre farm, the plan to divide the family was to be put aside first. After ten or twenty years, she would take back the capital of the farm. Otherwise, she would have worked hard and endured all her life, and it would be like saving money for others.

Thinking of this, Zhaojia didn't feel that there was too much land on the farm. Thinking of the fact that Cao Yong bought only twenty hectares of farms and twenty hectares of farms and the bins he bought for Cao Yi, Zhaojia felt uncomfortable.

I remembered the second wife's two daughters. Cao Yi married a red belt and the general's mansion. Zhao Jia was also a little regretful. Because she couldn't bear to lose face and couldn't bear to buy a dowry for Cao Yi, she stopped her husband and refused to accept the concubine's daughter.

Now, if the old lady left behind a 5,000 taels of marriage, even if it is for the sake of being good-looking, how much can her parents spend? She is just a short-sighted and can't bear the money.

Green ju put a blanket on the ground for the night. When she heard Zhao Jia's movement of getting up, she also got up, put on her clothes rustlingly, and said, "Madam, are you going to get up?"

Zhao Jia felt uncomfortable, and even her interest in paying respects to the Chunwang Mansion Garden was reduced. She complained: "After all, it's because of her status as inferior to others. She also has to come to the door to pay respects. Today I have to comb my hair and can't wear flowers. It's bare, it's really ugly."

Lu Ju was puzzled when she heard that she was complaining. Before going to bed yesterday, her wife still said happily about going to the Wangfu Garden to visit the garden today. Why did she get a little bored after just one night?

Zhao Jia had already got off the kang and sat in front of the dressing table with her shoes. Looking at the dressing table, there were a few silver hairpins, white jade hairpins, etc., she couldn't help but feel a little sad.

I am a widow, I haven't worn flowers for three years and I will never be red again...

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Xicheng, Cao Mansion, Wutong Garden.

Although there was no court meeting today, Cao Yong got up quite early. The day after tomorrow, the Holy Lord escaped the summer heat, and he and Tang Zhiyu, the young minister of the Taipu Temple, wanted to follow the escort. There were still many errands in the yamen that needed to be arranged in advance.

Chu Yu was about to get up, but was stopped by Cao Yong. Yesterday, he was a little shocked, and Chu Yu was a little unhappy and fell asleep very late.

Because Cao Yong said something, she couldn't open her eyes, so Chu Yu did not go downstairs.

Xiyun and Xicai served Cao Yong to wash up.

Thinking of the members of Dong E's family and relatives from Jinghui's mother's family, maybe coming to the door today, Cao Yong said to Chu Yu: "You ask Jinghui your own idea. Why do you say that we are a little far away from her relatives. If she wants to go to other relatives' houses, don't stop them too much."

Chu Yu opened his eyes in a daze and looked to the door of the bedroom. He happened to see Cao Yong calling out clothes outside. She touched her belly and replied, "You don't need to give me instructions. I can save this. When I talked about family matters in Yizhou in the early years, Jinghui said that except for the aunt who married her to the Fucha family, other relatives rarely interacted with each other. Since I was in a disaster yesterday, I could think of coming to our mansion, so we were destined to be close to us. I was afraid that she would be too careful and look at my body, it would be better for me to stay in our mansion."

When Cao Yong heard this outside, he remembered that Amethyst's illness had not yet recovered and said, "If you were afraid that she would take care of it like this, it would be better if you said that she would just keep her at you. Not to mention anything else, remember that when you were pregnant with Tianyou that year, you had a great morning sickness and you were still eating the food made by Jinghui!"

Chu Yu smiled and said "Yeah", but he thought about the marriage between Cao Song and Jinghui. If he really had no hope, he should divide the two into two parts earlier to avoid having a long-term relationship and being in vain in the future.

Cao Yong was about to rush to the yamen, but he didn't have time to talk to Chu Yu. He scattered a few bites of food and went to the yamen.

Chu Yu lay on the kang and remembered Jinghui. Although she loved her personality and treated her like a sister, if her husband was really hard to do because of her marriage with Cao Song, Chu Yu would not agree.

After all, marriage is not a matter of one or two days. Originally, the couple were a little distant from Zhao Jia. If there was another dispute over Cao Song's marriage, it would have damaged Cao Yong's reputation. Whether it was reasonable or not, Zhao Jia would have to be more respectful as an elder.

However, thinking of Jinghui's pitiful situation, Chu Yu's position was a little unstable. How can Jinghui, who has lost her family's blessing, be good in the future?

Seeing Cao Song like this, he really likes Jinghui. If he was in vain in the end, he would not know what he would be sad.

Not to mention Chu Yu’s concerns about Cao Song and Jinghui, let’s talk about Cao Yong’s side.

As soon as I entered the yamen, someone was waiting for him, it was Yiduli.

Yiduli had already put away his past laughter, and his expression became a little more serious. Seeing Cao Yong arrived, he came forward and said, "Sir, what is the details of yesterday? Is that girl Jinghui hurt? There are many rumors in the market, but there are all kinds of people saying everything. Some say that even the entire martial arts are in progress, and I really don't know which one should I believe."

He is the mother and ancestor of Jinghui, and he is Jinghui's cousin.

"Sir, don't worry. Jinghui was in my house, just rubbed her hand while pushing her, breaking her skin, and it was fine." As he said, he briefly said what happened after he met Jueluo yesterday.

Yiduli was startled, then angry, but finally sighed.

This crime of disobedience, where can Gali have a way out?

Cao Yong was thinking about serious errands, but he didn't have time to accompany him to sigh and went to handle official duties.

Yidu immediately saw that Cao Yong and Tang Zhiyu were both busy with the matter of the escort, and couldn't help but feel a little envious on his face, and said, "This is so hot in the capital, the two adults are lucky!"

Because he was Tang Zhiyu's follower last year, it was Yiduli's turn this year. He knew that Kangxi was annoying to see him, and even if he moved forward, he would not make any progress in his future. When he was in the process of mixing oil with Yang Ruixue, he repeatedly begged Tang Zhiyu to change shifts.

Tang Zhiyu was a civil servant, and he was really scared of the fact that he was marching every day. He didn't like to follow the entourage, but Yiduli begged for half a month, and he felt a little worried that Yiduli would do his job, so he reluctantly responded.

This is not to say that he looks down on Yiduli, but to the Manchu officials, going to the yamen is just a drink of tea and making some, but they are not very careful. Those who are usually able to work are still the Han officials.

Cao Yong was not a person who liked to take over power. His previous expression of Wang Jingzeng was just to extinguish his intention to seize power and eliminate future troubles.

Now, since he is about to leave Beijing, he has handed over all the official affairs of the yamen to Wang Jingzeng.

Having the plan to return to Beijing in June, Cao Yong thought that if Kangxi agreed to the situation, it would be that Wang Jingzeng would take over. Therefore, Cao Yong was also unbearable to explain to him the matter of the escort.

Wang Jingzeng was wearing a Hanlin air. No matter how approachable he was, he was not very popular in the yamen. After all, people were alone, and no one knew what Cao Yong thought. Except for a few professional officials, no one was very close to Wang Jingzeng.

It was the first time he heard what Cao Yong said to him.

While secretly remembering the rules of the escort in his heart, he thought about Cao Yong's intention in his heart. Could it be his turn to escort next year, just like Tang Zhiyu and Yiduli.
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