Turning the tide in the Red Chamber

Chapter 99 [099] Serial plan, Jia She is dying

Jia Lian looked at Jia Chen's deep phoenix eyes, and felt more and more that this cousin was deep and wise, with a serious demeanor, and he was definitely not a thing in the pond.

Although Jia Chen didn't say it clearly, Jia Lian reckoned that Jia Chen must have made a plan, and he just had to act according to the plan.

After about two sticks of incense, Jia Lian and the boys transported all the ledgers to the wake hall in a carriage.

Jia Chen asked the servants to move the two big beds to the top of the cellar.

"Second brother Lian, there are two beds just right here, let's sleep here tonight!"

"Okay!" Jia Lian had exactly this intention. If he dug up so much treasure, he would definitely not be able to sleep if he didn't stay by his side.

Even though the treasure is now in the cellar under the bed, Jia Lian can't sleep because of tossing and turning, worrying about gains and losses, sometimes thinking about how to spend the huge sum of money, and sometimes worrying that the money will be robbed by the old lady and the second wife.

On the other hand, Jia Chen was calm and calm, and soon fell asleep peacefully.

In the early morning of the next day, Jia Chen sent someone to call Jin Cai and his wife to the wake hall.

Jia Lian was in a drowsy sleep, but when she heard that Jincai and his wife had arrived, she couldn't fall asleep anymore, and sat up vigilantly, her thin lips were tightly pressed, her face was tense, and her hands were firmly grasping the edge of the bed to prevent Jincai and his wife from opening the bed. The bed robbed Jiamu's private money.

Seeing this scene, Jia Chen couldn't help laughing, and comforted him:
"Second brother Lian, don't be nervous. Jincai and his wife are just servants of our Jia family. They definitely dare not rob him openly. Moreover, after today, they won't even think about secretly."

Hearing these words, Jia Lian felt at ease. Hearing the overtones of Jia Chen's words, it seemed that he had already figured out how to deal with Jincai and his wife.

After a while, Jin Cai and his wife were brought into the wake hall by the servants.

As soon as they entered the room, Jia Chen suddenly patted the table next to the bed and shouted:
"Come here, tie up these two slaves who are rich in private pockets and greedy for the money of the Mo family!"

As soon as the words were finished, four servants rushed over from both sides, knocking Jincai and his wife to the ground.

Jincai and his wife were so frightened that their faces turned pale, they looked bewildered, startled and frightened, they were speechless for a long time.

"Drag these two diabolical slaves out to play twenty big boards first!"

Another yell from Jia Chen brought Jin Cai, who was so frightened out of her wits, to her senses in an instant.

"Uncle Chen, please forgive me! The old bones of our old couple can't help but beat."

Jia Chen sternly said: "Then you guys should be honest, why do you want to fill your own pockets and steal public property?"

"Wrong! We are all honest and responsible people, how dare we do such a rebellious thing?"

Jin Cai kept crying for grievances, but her cloudy old eyes peeked under the bed from time to time, with unconcealable panic and suspicion flashing in her eyes, obviously worried that Jia Chen would find the treasure buried under the bed.

Jia Chen sneered, picked up an account book, threw it viciously at Jin Cai's face, and angrily said:
"Then let me ask you, why is this account wrong?"

In fact, one of the important reasons why Jia Chen wanted to seize the old lady's private money hidden in the wake hall was that the old lady handed over the power of the Jia family to Jia Zheng and his wife.

Jia Zheng's official wife, Mrs. Wang, is likely to be behind the murder of Lin Daiyu.

Jia Chen naturally didn't want Mrs. Wang to continue to be the head of the Rong Mansion, so she had the conditions to assassinate Lin Daiyu.

Dai Quan has already sent Lin Daiyu back to Beijing. As long as Lin Daiyu stays in Rongfu, she will be threatened by Mrs. Wang.

Only by depriving Mrs. Wang of her power as the head of the family can her ability to murder Lin Daiyu be weakened.

Taking away the money from the old lady's private house hidden in Jinling was the first step in Jia Chen's plan to seize the power of the housekeeper of Rongfu.

Jia Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, let alone whether Mrs. Wang murdered Lin Daiyu, or whether Jia Zheng was involved in planning the poisoning, if the power of the housekeeper of the Rongguo Mansion is allowed to fall into the hands of Jia Zheng, the Jia family will inevitably escape in the end The bad luck of being ransacked.

Because although Jia Zheng seems to be upright and upright, he is actually a mediocre lack of management ability.

What's more, he doesn't know people well, raises a group of clean-ups who eat and drink, and helps the sinister and shameless Jia Yucun many times, and he also indulges in the absurd things about his family's domineering.

The most important thing is that he didn't know how to be an official at all, and he repeatedly showed his loyalty to the Supreme Emperor, which aroused the emperor's fear and resentment, and finally led to the tragic ending of the Jia family's defeat.

Of course, Jia Amnesty is not a good thing either.

But now, he can only help Jia Amnesty regain the power of the housekeeper first, and then strive to hold the real power of Jia's mansion in his own hands.

Thinking of this, Jia Chen asked in a deep voice:

"Jin Cai, let me ask you something! Why is this account wrong?"

In fact, Jia Chen didn't look at the account book at all, but he guessed that there was something wrong with the account book.

Hearing these words, Jin Cai's eyes trembled suddenly, and panic appeared on her face.

Since the treasures hidden in the wake hall were Jiamu's private money, Jincai did not record these treasures in the account.

In other words, these private money are equivalent to the small treasury that Jia's mother kept privately outside the Jia family's public account.

The source of these private money is that the Jincai couple stole part of the income from the Jia family's sacrificed fields, shop rent collection, Zhuangzi's harvest, etc., and came from private greed.

That is to say, Mother Jia, the biggest head of the Rong Mansion, secretly instigated Jincai and his wife to do things that harm the public and benefit their own interests.

Up to now, Jincai was at a loss for words in front of the account books with ironclad evidence, and had no way to refute, so she had to confess arbitrarily:

"Uncle Chen, in fact, these treasures are all the old lady's private money. It's not because I want to hide the old lady's private property on purpose. It's because I'm afraid that Uncle Chen and Second Master Lian will be young and vigorous, and the old lady will find out. .

In fact, not only the small ones, some servants of the Jinling ancestral house also know about this, but who dares to say it publicly? "

Jin Cai had a sad face and a bitter voice.

In fact, buying private property behind the back of the clan is tantamount to stealing, which is one of the "seven outs".

"Seven out" is the standard reason for the ancient men to divorce their wives, referring to: disobedience to parents, childlessness, adultery, jealousy, serious illness, talkativeness, and theft.

Now, Jia Mu's husband, the former Duke Jia Daishan, has returned to the west, and no one will divorce his wife for him, but Jia Mu still wants her old face, so naturally she dare not speak out about her private money.

That is to say, even if Jia Chen, together with Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian and his son, took away Jia's mother's private house money, Jia's mother would not dare to investigate with a big fanfare, and could only interrupt her teeth and swallow her blood.

Since Jia Lian participated in this matter, it is natural that Jia Amnesty cannot be concealed.

In fact, the reason why Jia Chen wanted to pull Jia She and Jia Lian to seize the old lady's private house money was because Jia Chen was only a distant brother of the Rong Mansion and could not interfere in the affairs of the Jinling ancestral house, while Jia She and Jia Lian were the elders of the Rong Mansion. room, has this power.

Seeing that Jin Cai had already "confessed", Jia Chen smiled lightly and said:

"Second brother Lian, go and report to uncle."

Jia Lian was somewhat reluctant, but as a son of man, he could not lie to his parents, and could only tell the truth.

When Jia Lian left the guarding hall, Jia Chen chased him out. Seeing no one around, he said softly:
"Second Brother Lian, you send a letter to the Rong Mansion in Shenjing City, saying that Uncle is dying of illness, I'm afraid time is running out, and we need to prepare for the funeral as soon as possible."

Jia Lian widened her eyes in astonishment, and said:
"My father is actually just pretending to be sick. Why do you claim that your father is seriously ill and dying?"

Jia Chen said:
"Although we have found out the old lady's private money, after the old lady finds out, she will definitely ask us for it. I have come up with a plan to prevent the old lady from getting back the money. I will let you send a letter, yes The first step in implementing this strategy."

(End of this chapter)