Jin Tingjiao

Chapter 49 What about the money?

It's impossible to die because of saving He Lianren, and let the court confiscate even his private property, right?
She said: "When my parents were alive, did you still have the account books of our second room?"

Judging from all the signs, even if Aunt Pei was not Hu's right-hand man at that time, she must be her confidant.

So the ledger should also be in her hands.

Hearing that she wanted the account book, Aunt Pei raised her head, stared at her with her mouth half-opened for a while, and then said, "Account book?"

"Yes." Shen Xi cleared his throat, and took a sip of tea, "I have to learn how my mother manages the money, don't I?"

Aunt Pei let out a cry, quickly put down her needlework and stood up, walked out of the door and went back to her room.

In less than a moment, he came back with a small square bag.

"This is the account book left by the original wife when she was there. Although it should be useless, but I can't read much, and I don't know whether it is important or not, but I brought it with me.

"The other two are the account books that the girl kept, and I put them away together. If the girl wants to read it, she can take it."

The four corners of the baggage are worn white because of wrapping them for too long.

Shen Xi opened it, flipped through it casually, and it turned out that it was all the private property books and some journals left by the Hu family back then.

Two of them are vaguely remembered, and the handwriting is not like the previous few books, presumably it is the original owner's handwriting.

In addition, there are several transcribed lists in Hu's running account, which turned out to be Hu's dowry list.

After a quick look, there are 6000 taels of silver in the box alone.In addition, it does not include furniture and antiques, gold and silver jewelry, lacquerware, silk and satin, and so on.

For ordinary official households in the capital, such a dowry is quite affordable.

However, although the property is rich, there is no profitable land on the list.

Presumably because Hu's family is far away from Beijing, they didn't care about these things at the time.

And the Zhuangzi where they went to the banquet, as well as the Zhuangzi's house in Qingshi Town, must be the family property earned by the two after marriage.

It's a big deal for such a large family fortune to disappear!
In order not to make Aunt Pei suspicious by asking too many questions, she sent her back to her room to rest before reading the tent under the lamp.

The light stays on until the early hours of the morning.

Needless to say, Ji's heart was depressed after being defeated this time.

But she is not a person who can't hold her breath, she doesn't believe in a mere Shen Xi, even if she wins this time, she won't fall into the hands of the head wife in the future!
Right now, it's important to get the long room out of the capital first.After the power of the family in hand is preserved, it will be a blink of an eye to tidy up the second room.

However, it is obviously impossible for the Huang family to leave the capital in the near future as she wishes.

Just after breakfast that day, Mrs. Ding sent a letter, saying that she was going to come over to visit her.

Upon hearing the news, Mrs. Huang immediately sent Nanny Lin to prepare refreshments, hoping that Mrs. Ding would arrive sooner.

Although it was said that in the Liu residence that day, there was no chance to speak in front of Mrs. Liu, Shen Chongyi's transfer back to the capital was hopeless, and the honorable old Mrs. Han had never met, but luckily it was Shen Xin's. The marriage has some eyebrows.

The female family member of the Yang family that Mrs. Ding mentioned last time met her and Shen Xin yesterday under Mrs. Ding's recommendation.

Because the old lady of the Yang family is seriously ill, it is uncertain when she will pass away.

As Mr. Yang was of early marriageable age, Mrs. Yang was in a hurry to marry her son before the old lady died.

Madam Yang was quite satisfied to see the handsome daughter of Shen Shilang's mansion.

Ding did his part and became a matchmaker.

That day, Mrs. Huang left Liu's mansion first, while Mrs. Ding walked with Mrs. Yang, and went to Yang's mansion to sit for a while before leaving.

Tuoba people have always been quick in marriage, if they are interested, the two parties can discuss marriage conveniently, usually within three months before and after, and not more than half a year later.

Of course, dolls are an exception.

Mrs. Huang had heard earlier that the situation in Yang's residence was satisfactory. After meeting Mrs. Yang, she was naturally more satisfied when she saw that she was as imposing as anyone else.I just don't know how Ding's talk these days?

But after breakfast, the sky turned cloudy. Before noon, after a few thunderstorms, the sky began to drizzle again.

"There has been more rain this year than in previous years."

Holding the washed clothes, Pearl stood on the porch looking sadly at the wet sky.

This has suddenly changed, but how can she let her dry the clothes.

Shen Xi, who was at the desk in the room, raised his head and raised his eyebrows upon hearing this.

She also felt that there was a lot of rain this year. Yanjing is located in the north, so the rain in spring is not as much as in the south.She remembered that Xiao Shi often sighed at that time, saying that the spring in the south of the Yangtze River was like fine wine that had been cellared for many years.Especially in misty and rainy days, the rude village women will also be infected with a bit of tenderness.

She closed her account books, got up and walked out.

"Where is the girl going?" Zhu Zhen hurriedly handed the copper basin to Yuan Bei.

Shen Xi walked out as he spoke: "Go and have a look at Minxiangyuan."

Go out the door and walk along the corridor, and you will enter the west courtyard.

Go in through the Moon Cave Gate on the north side of the Xikuayuan, which is the Mingxiangyuan with the gate locked.

In the past few days, she first read through the journal account that Mr. Hu wrote down, and then checked the account book. After reading it, she was speechless.

Apart from the fact that Hu's dowry is locked in the public treasury, Erfang has accumulated a lot of property over the years.

There are 2 taels of silver bills in the bank alone. In addition, there are more than [-] pieces of antiques, more than [-] pieces of jade ornaments, some calligraphy and paintings, and Hu's jewelry heads, and three boxes of copper boxes measuring one foot square.

There is also a [-]-acre farm in the suburbs of Beijing, a [-]-mu farm in Qingshi Town in the southern suburbs, and a small courtyard with two entrances.

Counting all the sevens and eights, it's no wonder that Pearl said that the second wife was well-off.

But what they have now, except for some jewelry heads and antique calligraphy and paintings that are Hu's dowry, which have been cleared out and locked in the warehouse after their death, there is not much left.

In particular, the money stored in the bank and the Hetian house are all missing, and the accounts kept by the original owner are also messy, and they don't match at all.

But what is certain is that at least when they moved to Xing'ergou, these things were still in their hands.

There was never any record of Shen Ruopu confiscating their family property in all the accounts.

Judging from all indications, there is no possibility of Shen Ruopu snatching their property.

The original owner's account was only recorded until the summer of the second year when they went to Xing'ergou, and then it disappeared.

Judging from the items registered above, it wasn't that she was lazy and never wrote down, but that she couldn't write down later.

Because all the items are only out but not in, and the reasons for the outflow are either daily expenses, or the needs of the farm and the house, and some are not remembered at all.

This makes people wonder, such a large family property is enough for them to live comfortably.

Why did they all disappear without a trace in less than two years?

(End of this chapter)