【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

Chapter 202 Grandmother Jia 4

Jia Zheng lowered his head and agreed. He felt a little uncomfortable. Before his father left, he wanted him to inherit the family property, but now everything has changed, and he can't say it out loud. It's really frustrating.

"Finally, there are too many servants in the house. They don't conform to the earl's regulations. Both the Ning and Rong families are in the same situation. Don't delay in cutting them out. The Jia family must also keep a low profile in the future."

There is nothing wrong with what Yun Xi said. The Jia family in the Dream of Red Mansions is really ignorant of the times and the rules. The Duke is dead and his title has been demoted. The royal family's face is not the basis for the Jia family to act so presumptuously. Many things that are not in line with etiquette should be changed, but the Jia family not only did not change them, but also acted with confidence.

"I, an old woman, am being too generous. I will also deal with the servants of the Ning Mansion. The first group of people whose names are called out will have to pay 200 taels of silver to redeem themselves. If they don't have the money to redeem themselves, they will be taken away by human traffickers when they come."

"Madame Lai's family, a total of twenty people, four thousand taels of silver, Zhou Rui's..."

These servants have not yet reached the stage of rampant corruption, after all, Jia Daishan has just passed away. However, those who need to be laid off must be laid off to prevent the situation from becoming too serious.

Other mansions would at least have servants from outside to check and balance the group of servants born in the family, but the Jia family did not have that. They listened to one side of the story and believed it, so a member of the Lai family was able to act arrogantly outside and rely on the name of the Rongguo Mansion to harm people and break the law. Seeing this, how could the emperor not be anxious to eradicate the Jia family?

After Yun Xi finished reading, she gave Jia She and Zhang a look. They took the men Jia Daishan had left behind to collect the money. The servants all looked grim. Wouldn't paying for a redemption indicate corruption? After all, who could possibly earn hundreds or even thousands of taels of silver from monthly wages and rewards? But if they didn't pay, she'd be kidnapped by traffickers and sold to who knows where. What choice should they make?

After this reduction, there were only thirty maids and servants with clean backgrounds who lived alone in the mansion. It was definitely a small number, but it did not exceed the limit.

Yun Xi felt very tired after dealing with all this, so she asked the tribesmen to have a meal and then rest for half an hour.

"Glass, start packing and try to move to Rongqing Hall today."

Yun Xi has six maids around her: Yuanyang, Amber, Jade, Glass, Pearl and Parrot. They are not the later ones, but the previous batch. After these maids got married or were redeemed, the ones who were replaced were still called by the same names. She was a first-rank official, so having six maids was not beyond the limit.

"Yes~"

On the second day after the family division, Yun Xi moved to Rongqing Hall in the west, retiring after completing her mission. Zhang officially took over the Jia Mansion and became the new head of the inner house.

That morning, Zhang first handed over the property she had received to the second wife, and completed all the necessary transfers and registrations before moving in the afternoon.

"I didn't expect the servants of the Jia Ning Mansion to be so rich."

Zhang, the daughter of the Crown Prince's tutor, was very perceptive and had already noticed the decline of the Jia family.

Jia She took the list and glanced at it, his face turning grim. "My family received 30,000 taels of silver, and the Ning Mansion received 25,000 taels of silver. Before the family split, I didn't even have that much money. These servants are so presumptuous!"

His grandfather and father left him some manpower, nearly nine hundred retired soldiers, plus their wives, children and some veterans, more than two thousand people in total, all settled in a village outside Shendu. This time, he needed their help to deal with the servants, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with them.

"The people my mother left behind are all of clean background and have no interpersonal relationships in the two mansions. The families of the several head maids around my mother do not work in the mansion either." Zhang seemed to be thinking about something.

"Let's take care of other things first. The servants' affairs are not urgent."

On the morning of the third day after the separation, Zhang announced that she would give the remaining servants an extra month's salary. In the morning, she found a few agents to buy twenty young maids and servants as a reserve force for the future.

Mrs. Wang from the second wife also took charge of the household. Although they still lived in the Rongguo Mansion, their property was separated and they lived their own lives from then on.

"Cun Zhou, why do I feel uncomfortable about this division of the family?"

"If there's anything wrong, I'll go to the study." The hypocritical Jia Zheng had no words to say, so he snorted coldly and walked out.

"Madam, I'll ask the court doctor to come and see you."

The four maids who accompanied Mrs. Wang, namely Zhou Rui's, Wu Xing's, Zheng Hua's and Lai Wang's families, were all sent away by Yun Xi. Who knows if there are any spies from the Wang family among them.

Now, there are only a few young maids accompanying Mrs. Wang.

"Go and call."

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After two days of rest, Yun Xi felt fully recovered and prepared to take stock of Lady Jia's property, including her mother-in-law's and her own dowry.

Sitting alone at the door of the warehouse, Yun Xi began to take inventory: ten farms, twenty shops, three houses in Jinling, two in Kyoto, ten thousand taels of gold, five hundred thousand taels of silver, ten large boxes each of gold, silver and jade ornaments, fifteen small boxes of various gems, ten small boxes of pearls, twenty-eight sets of jewelry, more than a hundred pieces of precious fabrics such as Yunjin and Fuguangjin, and five rooms filled with furniture made of various precious woods.

Finally, there are ten boxes of precious medicinal materials.

No wonder the Jia family asked Grandmother Jia for money when they ran out of money. That amount of money was enough to sustain the Jia family for more than ten years, but that was all.

"Fortunately, I have money in my space, and there are plenty of gold, silver and jewelry, so I don't need to worry."

Yun Xi, who knew what was going on, had just locked the door when Zhenzhu came running over, smiling broadly, saying, "Madam, there's news from the East Courtyard that the Second Madam is pregnant, and it's been over a month."

That is, Corning became pregnant in September of the 52nd year.

Yun Xi curled her lips slightly. This time, she couldn't get rid of it. This child must be Jia Zhu.

"Wait."

Yun Xi opened the storeroom again and found a pair of gold-inlaid jade bracelets for her. "Tell Boli to register them and then give them to the Second Madam. I won't go to see them."

"Yes."

After finishing her work, Yun Xi went straight back to the house. This child was conceived when Jia Daishan was still alive. She was so lucky. She would never be able to get rid of this daughter-in-law from now on. A daughter-in-law who had a son and had been in filial piety for her father-in-law could not be divorced easily.

The Jia family gradually fell silent because of the mourning period. Jia Jing wanted to become a monk but was stopped by Yun Xi. He said that he could become a monk but had to raise the child first. Otherwise, what good could the teenage Jia Zhen do if he was forced to do something like that?

Except for Jia She who occasionally went to the emperor to entertain him, everyone else in Rongguo Mansion was observing mourning. They were exhausted and thin from eating vegetarian food every day, especially Jia Hu. The child was so thin that his eyes were slightly bulging. Yun Xi felt sorry for him and took him and Jia Min to her side. The three of them would occasionally secretly eat some delicious food.

After ten months of pregnancy, in mid-May of the following year, the second wife gave birth to a boy, whom Jia Jing named Jia Zhu.

Yun Xi:......

Wow, the Regent is really good at naming things.

Yun Xi asked the maid to take gifts to the second room to see the child. The child was Hongtongtong, and looked almost like a newborn baby.

"Has the name been decided?"

Jia Zheng nodded, "Mother, it's settled."

Yun Xi said, "You can choose your full names, and I'll give you nicknames. Hu'er has adopted the huge rock in the back garden as his godmother, so I'll give him the nickname Changshou. Zhu'er's nickname will be Baisui. I hope he can live to be a hundred years old."

"Longevity, a hundred years?" Jia Zheng didn't understand.

Yun Xi: "Yes, everyone will call the child by his nickname from now on. The child will be blessed and live a long life."

The bathing for 300 days and the first birthday were simply handled, with the two families just getting together. Two months after the mourning period ended three years later, Wang became pregnant again. Yun Xi wanted Zhang to help manage the internal affairs of the second house, but she didn't expect that Zhang would also become pregnant in just two months, so she had to take over the housekeeping duties.