I'm in the Red Mansion

Chapter 165 Aunt Xue's Marriage Proposal

Originally, Nanny Lai, Lai Da and Lai Er were still hesitant.

Although Lai Shangrong has made great progress, he is now a county magistrate.

In the future they will definitely have to escape from slavery, otherwise it will inevitably affect Lai Shangrong's path to promotion.

However, the reason why Lai Shangrong was able to become the county magistrate was all thanks to the Jia family.

If they were to escape from slavery now, it would inevitably displease the Jia family.

What's more, Lai Da and Lai Er were reluctant to leave the Jia family at that time.

Although the Jia family has declined, their fortunes are getting worse every year.

But a lean camel is bigger than a horse. In a year, the two brothers earned at least 30,000 to 20,000 taels of silver.

If I leave the Jia family, I will lose this extra income.

Therefore, the two brothers decided that it would not be too late to stay in the Jia family for a few more years before leaving.

But now, they have no choice but to leave.

If they don't leave now, I'm afraid all their property will be lost here.

After the discussion was completed, on the next day, Lai Da wanted to resign from the position of housekeeper on the grounds of old age and lack of energy.

He also begged Lady Jia for mercy, prepared to use silver to redeem himself, bought a contract, and got rid of his slavery. In the future, he would go to work for his son Lai Shangrong and live with him in his old age.

Of course, Grandmother Jia refused.

He also knew that Lai Da was disappointed because of Jia She's audit, so he made an excuse to resign.

However, Grandmother Jia did not expect that Lai Da really wanted to resign. He wanted to leave as soon as possible.

I'm afraid that if I leave too late, Master Cong Sanye of the East Palace will take action and check his accounts thoroughly.

I’m afraid that by then, he won’t be able to escape unscathed.

Therefore, on the second day, Lai Da resigned again.

He asked for resignation for many consecutive days, and even Nanny Lai came to plead for mercy.

Although Grandmother Jia was reluctant, she finally had no choice but to agree.

In the end, not only did he not ask the Lai family for a penny of the indenture money, but he also rewarded them with a lot of things.

The Lai family's mother and son, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law and others, except for Lai Er and his wife who had broken their limbs and could not come, all came to kowtow to Lady Jia.

Then on the next day, the family packed their luggage, loaded the car, and went to join Lai Shangrong.

After hearing this, Jia's mother felt that the Lai family's departure was caused by Jia She's audit of the accounts.

He then called Jia She and gave him a severe scolding.

In fact, the real culprit can be traced back to Jia Cong.

But now Jia Cong simply doesn't listen to Grandmother Jia, and Grandmother Jia can no longer call him over and scold him as she did before.

Therefore, he had no choice but to vent his anger on Jia She.

In Ningguo Mansion, Jia Cong was shocked to hear Lai Da resign and the Lai family escaped unscathed.

Jia Cong had never expected that the Lai family would be able to escape unscathed.

If it is true that Jia She is incompetent and Grandmother Jia is confused, it is no wonder that the Jia family fell into decline.

He's done a good job here!
Lai Er embezzled more than 200,000 taels of silver in Ningguo Mansion, so how could Lai Da be a good person?

Jia She checked the accounts for a while, but found nothing.

This Jia She is indeed incompetent!

If it were Jia Cong, even if he didn't find anything in the account books, he would just confiscate the Lai family and be done with it!
Although he had confiscated 225,000 taels of silver from the Lai family some time ago, their family still had many good things!

There would be no problem in confiscating another hundred or two hundred thousand silver coins.

The Lai family is a family of servants. Where did they get so much money besides the monthly salary and the reward from their master?
At that time, a crime of having a huge amount of property of unknown origin can be used to prove that they have embezzled the master's money.

However, Jia She, who was very tyrannical at home, did not dare to actually execute Lai's family first and then report to them. He was indeed incompetent.

Besides, Lady Jia was the one who embezzled more than 200,000 taels of silver from the Jia family because of Lai Er.

Even though he broke the limbs of Lai Er and his wife, he was generous enough to let the Lai family go.

As for evil slaves like the Lai family, if they were beaten, they would be beaten to death with a stick, so that they would never be able to stand up again. Even Lai Shangrong's county magistrate was dismissed without hesitation.

But Lady Jia, out of her old confusion, let the whole family go easily.

This made Jia Cong couldn't help but shake his head.

Forget it, forget it. It’s Rongguo Mansion’s family affair anyway, and Jia Cong is too lazy to care about it.

In the past few days, Ningguo Mansion has finally completed the personnel replacement issue.

But I'm afraid it will still be chaotic for a while.

Because there are too many new servants, most of them are not familiar with their own duties and need time to adapt.

During these few days, Jia Cong also sent gifts and wrote letters to Lin Daiyu, Sanchun and other girls.

Yan Ming said that although he had moved to Ningguo Mansion, he had just offended his ancestor.

It’s not a good idea to hold a banquet to entertain them.

After this period of time, it won’t be too late to invite them to a banquet in the mansion.

Lin Daiyu and the others also wrote back.

……

Let’s talk about the Xue family, after Jia Cong moved away.

The mother and daughter of the Xue family also moved back to Lixiangyuan again.

Well, to say they moved back isn't quite accurate.

Because the mother and daughter had never really moved out of Lixiangyuan.

Now that Jia Cong has inherited the title of Ningguo Mansion, Aunt Xue has really started to have some ideas.

Now it seems that this Congge is indeed a more perfect candidate than Baoyu.

Cong Ge'er is not only handsome, but also talented in both literature and martial arts, and he values ​​friendship and loyalty.

Moreover, Baoyu will not have any title to inherit in the future.

Therefore, no matter from which aspect, Congge is more outstanding than Baoyu.

If Baoyatou could marry him, it would be the best thing ever.

However, with the change in their status now, if they want Baoya to marry him, it would be considered too high for the Xue family to marry into this family.

Now it turns out that Cong Ge'er may not look down upon the Xue family.

However, this matter needs to be mentioned in person.

What if it happens?

Thinking of this, Aunt Xue went out and quietly went to Ningguo Mansion.

Aunt Xue is just a relative of the Jia family, and is different from Lin Daiyu.

Aunt Xue was not afraid that the Rongguo Mansion would know that she went to the Ningguo Mansion, not to mention that Jia Cong had saved Xue Pan's life.

Soon, Aunt Xue arrived at Ningguo Mansion.

When Aunt Mei heard that Aunt Xue had arrived, she happily welcomed her in person.

Aunt Mei always likes quietness, but she also looks forward to having a few people to chat with.

And she didn't have many friends.

Aunt Xue was probably the only one.

Therefore, when she heard that Aunt Xue was coming, she was naturally happy.

After bringing Aunt Xue in, Aunt Mei took Aunt Xue to visit Huifang Garden.

The two of them seemed like close friends, with endless things to talk about when they were together.

Of course, this is also related to Aunt Xue's determination to make friends.

The two of them strolled for a while and felt a little tired, so they sat down in the pavilion to have some snacks and tea.

At this moment, Aunt Xue finally had some free time, so she asked casually:
"Sister, I heard you mention a few days ago that you wanted to find a marriage for Cong, I wonder how the search is going now?"

(End of this chapter)