Time travel from the red building

After the day was over, Jia Min thought for a long time, and finally accepted Yun Qing's suggestion, listed all the problems she could think of, found time to go back to her mother's house, first went to Jia Mu, and discussed with Jia Mu what to do. Mother Jia was silent for a while after listening, finally sighed, and said: "I don't know what you said, but it's hard to get back, even if you have the heart, how can it be changed overnight?!"

"Don't talk about anything else, you said that you need to increase income and reduce expenditure. This is true, but what should you do? First, let's talk about increasing income. As far as your brothers' virtues are concerned, it is already blessed by the Bodhisattva to keep the ancestral property from shrinking. If you have more, you can't count on it." ;As for throttling, human relations cannot be saved, and what can be reduced is the daily expenses of the family. There are so many people in the family, even if I am willing to save, can others have no objection? Moreover, the expenses of the family are not extravagant and extravagant , It’s just to maintain the dignity of the Duke’s Mansion, it’s too frugal and it doesn’t look like it..." Jiamu listed the difficulties of the family one by one.

Jia Min listened, and the more she listened, the more panicked she became. She found that there was a big difference between her mother's perception and her own.

In Jia's mother's view, the food and clothing expenses of the Jia family are not considered extravagant. Most of the expenses are normal and necessary. It has been like this for ten years. The current power of the family is not as good as before, but the property has not been reduced, so there is no need to lower the living standard at all, and it is not really poor that cannot eat. You must have the decent ostentation that you should have, otherwise Wouldn't it really be a broken house?

But in Jia Min's view, the life of her mother's family is too extravagant and wasteful. No matter it is for food, it's fine if the masters don't know how to love and cherish it. Incisively and vividly, Jia Min did the calculations, and the daily production expenses of her mother's family were less than 2000 taels. Did all this money really go to the master?According to Jia Min's observations, half of them are too much, but the big heads are used on the servants. Is this normal?
Jia Min felt that it was abnormal, but the rest of the Jia family didn't respond, and they said that "when the water is clear, there will be no fish". Jia Min didn't laugh angrily at all.

In short, Jia Min has been married for more than 20 years, and her thinking has long been different from that of Jia's family, so she disagrees with Jia's mother on many things. After listening to her, he summoned Jia She and his wife, Jia Zheng and his wife, Jia Lian and Jia Baoyu, and circulated the questions Jia Min listed to them one by one. Said: "My sister is getting more and more petty now, staring at these trivial things all day long, is there something wrong with the family now? Why did you say that you are going to go to the street to beg for food tomorrow? I didn't say it, you If you have time to watch over your natal family, why not take care of your nieces and nieces..."

Jia Amnesty still had a lot of complaints to make, but when he saw Jia Min's flushed face, he held back the rest of his words, after all, he couldn't bear to embarrass Jia Min in front of everyone.

Mother Jia watched coldly, Mrs. Wang kept a straight face and said nothing, Mrs. Xing wrote "it has nothing to do with me" all over her face, and she was eager to watch the fun, Mother Jia lowered her face, and used Jia Amnesty as a pretext, Rebuked: "What are you talking about! If your sister is not thinking about her mother's family in her heart, what are you doing? What is it that hinders her? No matter how expensive you are, you can't spend a penny on her, and no matter how bad your reputation is, you will not treat her well." It doesn't matter; what's more, if you strive to make progress, do you need her, a married woman, to worry about your mother's affairs? She is only for your own good, so you don't appreciate it, and you shouldn't make irresponsible remarks..."

Jia Amnesty was trained to bow his head, and casually bowed his hands to Jia Min as an apology. Jia Zheng said in a deep voice, "I think my sister is very considerate. The family is not as good as before. The annual income is the same as before, but the expenses are increasing day by day. Yes. There should be a change..."

The meeting of Jia's family lasted for two full hours, mostly Jia Mu, Jia Min and Jia Zheng were talking. Jia Mu herself didn't agree with Jia Min, but she couldn't see her son and daughter-in-law opposing her, so she supported Jia Min. With Jia Zheng's support, Jia's amnesty is all right, as long as it doesn't affect his enjoyment, he doesn't bother to object. Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, Wang Xifeng, and Jia Baoyu have four ears, so there is basically no decision. Therefore, Jia Min's majority opinion was adopted in the end.

First of all, it is about the debts of the Jia family. The Jia family borrowed a full 43 taels back then. Fortunately, Jia Daishan has made calculations. He has prepared gold and silver and locked them in the warehouse. Whenever he asks for an account, he can get it immediately. When they came out to pay back the money, Jia Min repeatedly emphasized that the money must not be moved. Jia Amnesty and the others were a little disapproving at first, but suddenly thought that she had a deep friendship with Master Yun Qing, and she might have obtained some inside information. it.

Secondly, what Jia Min has emphasized many times is to strictly control the family members. They are not allowed to do anything wrong outside, they are not allowed to bully others, and they must prevent servants at home from doing evil in the name of their masters. No one objected to these, but no one She was willing to take matters into her own hands, but no one said a word. In the end, Mother Jia made a final decision: "Second brother, you usually keep an eye on it. If you have any problems, you should deal with them early. Don't let the people be lawless. Who dares to bully others under the banner of master? I will be the first one not to spare him if he ruins the reputation of the manor!"

Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng also took on an errand, which was to rectify the servants in the mansion. Originally, Jia Mu and others didn't care about the corruption of the servants, thinking that they were only greedy for petty gains, but Jia Min let them forget it. Although she didn't know who ate how much, she also clearly pointed out that at least half of the account was evaporated. As soon as the account came out, everyone from Jia She to Wang Xifeng was angry. They didn't have the spirit of selfless dedication, so they immediately decided The idea is to let those people spit out what they ate, and let people know that their cheapness is not so easy to take advantage of.

Jia Min thought again of what Yun Qing said, that the younger generation should use it, so she asked Jia Baoyu if he had any comments. Jia Baoyu had been listening for a long time, although he was still ignorant, but he also realized that the situation at home was not good. As he thought he was singing and dancing, there were many problems and crises that he had never been aware of. Seeing that Jia Min was seriously asking for his opinion, he panicked all of a sudden, hesitated and couldn't speak. Seeing Jia Zheng His face became more and more ugly, so he had no choice but to say that he had no clue, and he would report to his aunt after thinking about it carefully when he went back.