The Red Mansions

Chapter 49 Silver Ingots

The attacker ran out, but Jia Yun failed in the end.

"You go to sleep for a while, I'll cook some delicious treats for your Xiren sister." Jia Yun said to Meiren.

Charming shook her head and replied: "No, after resting for a while, I've recovered, and I don't need to stay under the quilt anymore, after all, it's a bit outrageous."

Jia Yun smiled, nodded and said, "Well, it's fine if you get up, and you can talk to Xi Ren. She just came here, and she probably felt a little uneasy in her heart. You need to enlighten her more."

"Understood, I'll persuade her without your telling me." Charming smiled.

The two were tired for a moment, and reluctantly came out of the bed.

Under the eaves, Xiren's cheeks were flushed, Jia Yun chuckled, stepped forward to hold her in salute, and said with a smile: "Since you are here, you can rest in peace and live in my house from now on, okay?"

"Well, even if I want to live in your house, I don't want to live anywhere else!" Xiren nodded and said bluntly.

Jia Yun carried the baggage in one hand, and led Xiren into the house with the other, curiously said, "Your baggage is quite heavy, what did you put in it? Could it be money?"

Xiren was surprised and said, "How do you know it's silver? You can't put anything else?"

"Haha, the last time the charming came over, there was a lot of money in the bag. Do you maids like to save cash?" Jia Yun laughed loudly.

Xiren smiled slightly, and replied with pursed lips: "It's not that we like to save cash, but that the monthly bonuses and the rewards that we often get are all scraps of silver. After accumulating a small amount, we changed it to a bigger one by the way. .”

"In fact, to be honest, our annual income is only a few tens of taels of silver, which is not enough to exchange for bank notes. When we save enough money, we will be reluctant to exchange it for bank notes when we see so much silver."

Jia Yun chuckled, and didn't ask Xi Ren how much cash she had here. These were all the hard-earned money she had worked as a maid for more than ten years, and Jia Yun would not be greedy for her.

Even the money that Mei Ren put on him last time, he found an opportunity to return it to Mei Ren during the Mid-Autumn Festival. After all, they are all big girls, how can they not use the money?
Back in the room, Jia Yun specially set aside a wardrobe for Xiren to use, with a lock on it and a key hanging on it.

"This cabinet will be yours from now on." Jia Yun said to Xi Ren, then turned to Mei Ren and said, "Mei Ren, go get some new clothes and change them for your sister Xi Ren."

Now that the family's living conditions are better, Mrs. Pu and Meiren usually have nothing else to do, but they have made a lot of clothes, shoes and hats.

As for the clothes she used to wear in Jia's mansion, she can't wear them anymore, although those are all high-quality clothes, they are still worn by maidservants.

After a while, Xiren changed into the new clothes brought by the charming, a peach-colored cotton-padded jacket, cotton trousers and cloth shoes, no makeup, pure and beautiful, pleasing to the eye!

"Much better than wearing that maid's clothes!" Jia Yun nodded in praise.

Then he looked at Mei Ren at the side, she was wearing a blue-purple padded jacket, cotton trousers and cloth shoes, standing with Xi Ren, like a pair of sisters, fat and thin, each with their own beauty.

After Xiren changed his clothes, he couldn't stay idle, so he led Meiren to tidy up the things in the house.

She didn't have much of her own, but Jia Yun brought back a lot of books from the academy.

Xiren looked at those books, they were all turned out to be old, he looked back at Jia Yun, and said, "When you bought the books at that time, I looked at them a few times, and they were all brand new books. In half a year, it was all refurbished..."

Reading is harder than imagined, Xiren knows it.

At the beginning, Jia Zhu in Jia's mansion was under too much pressure because of studying and hanging out with the maids, and finally died of exhaustion. At that time, Xiren was already very old and knew many secrets.

So at the moment she admires Jia Yun a little bit, saying that she really puts her heart into reading when she reads, unlike Jia Baoyu who fishes for three days and spends two days drying the nets. Happy.

This is also an important reason why she chose Jia Yun instead of waiting to be Jia Baoyu's aunt in Jia's mansion.

The decline of the Jia Mansion, let alone a shrewd maid like Xiren, even Bao Erye's servant Mingyan, can clearly see the decline. In the past, Xiren had no choice but to follow the trend.

But since she got to know Jia Yun, she had a choice, and she would naturally choose the reliable one.

There is a saying that men are afraid of entering the wrong profession, and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man.

They don't want to be rich and powerful as maids, but at least they must ensure that they will have no worries about food and clothing in the future.

Anyway, in Xiren's perception today, Jia Baoyu is an invincible master. Even if Jia's mansion has gold and silver, it will eventually run out one day, so Xiren can't help but leave as soon as possible.

Jia Yun didn't know Xiren's thoughts, even if he knew, he wouldn't find it strange.

In the original book, Jia Yun met and fell in love with Lin Hongyu, Jia Baoyu's maidservant. Lin Hongyu was the daughter of Lin Zhixiao, the housekeeper of Jia's house, and she changed her name to Xiaohong because she tabooed the names of Baoyu and Daiyu.

Although Xiaohong is shrewd, compared with Xiren, she may not be superior in skills. Although Jia Yun won the post of managing flowers and plants in Rongguo Mansion at that time, she must not be as successful as Jia Yun now.

Comparing the two, it's not surprising that Xiaohong can see Jia Yun at that time, and now Xiren can naturally see Jia Yun now.

Jia Yun chuckled when she heard the words, and murmured: "Speaking of books, I have discussed with Mei Ren that I will teach her to read and count when I have a chance. The family will be prosperous in the future, and we can't leave the housekeeper alone."

"Now that you are here, Xiren, you have to learn from me. You don't need high knowledge, but you must know how to read and manage accounts."

Xiren's eyes lit up, he nodded and said: "This is a serious matter, brother Yun, don't worry, as long as you are willing to teach us, we will definitely learn with your heart."

Seeing that she agreed, Jia Yun was naturally happy. In order to reassure Xiren, he walked to the foot of the house, opened a wooden box, and asked Xiren to come and have a look.

Now the Luzhu shop has been open for seven or eight months, with an income of at least 60 taels a day, nearly 2000 taels a month, and more than 4000 taels in eight months.

But in fact, there are more than 6000 taels of silver in the wooden box, that is to say, the daily income is more than 60 taels.

As for the family's income, only Mei Ren and Jia knew about it, and even Bu Shi didn't know much about it.

Xiren stepped forward in a daze, saw a box full of silver ingots, exclaimed, counted with his fingers, and found that there were a total of one hundred silver ingots weighing twelve taels on the top floor.

"How many layers are there?" Xiren asked curiously.

Before Jia Yun could reply, Mei Ren said, "On the sixteenth floor, there are still extras in the closet."

Xiren was shocked, and asked Jia Yun, "Brother Yun, why do you have so much money here?"

Jia Yun chuckled and said, "Of course I earned it by opening a shop."

"What, how profitable is your stewed restaurant?" This surprised Xiren even more.

Jia Yun nodded and said with a smile: "Hehehe, didn't you see it? The store looks ordinary on the surface, but in fact, the daily income is enough for your monthly income for many years."

Meiren chimed in and said, "Sister Xiren, don't be surprised. The price of a bowl of stewed stew sold in Brother Yun's shop is around three or four hundred renminbi. If you sell a few hundred bowls every day, you will get dozens of taels of silver in your account."

"Think about it, how much does he cost there? The rent is only a few taels of silver per month, pig offal is even cheaper, and the only thing that is more expensive is spices, but it is nothing compared to the income, so shouldn't it be right to make money? "

(End of this chapter)