Chapter 206 How much property did Lin Ruhai leave behind?
"My aunt will go outside and wait for a while. Everyone else will leave, except for Brother Yun."
At this time Jia Mu suddenly said.
Everyone was puzzled, but a few people guessed the reason, such as Wang Xifeng.
Immediately, everyone exited the Rongqing Hall, leaving only Jia Mu and Jia Yun in the hall.
Jia Yun thought playfully:
Mother Jia is so mysterious, could she be like Bu Wuniang last night and suddenly tell me a shocking secret?
Last night, Bu Wuniang suddenly told me that I was not her son, not a bloodline of the Jia family, but a bloodline of the Beijing Palace.
Will Mother Jia suddenly tell me an equally shocking secret today?
Jia Yun just thought about it for a moment. In fact, he had already guessed the reason why Jia Mu left him alone to talk this time!
As expected, Jia's mother said to Jia Yun: "Brother Yun, according to what you said, the emperor has forgiven Lin Yatou's father. So, the Lin family's property will not be confiscated?"
Jia Yun said "haha" in her heart, knowing that this old lady was thinking about Sister Lin's family property!
There is a common view in the past life that Lin Ruhai left a large amount of family property after his death. This property was brought to the Jia Mansion by Jia Lian, and then occupied by the Jia Mansion and used to build the Grand View Garden.
Many people even believe that the amount of the family property has reached two to three million taels of silver. The reason is that Jia Lian said a nonsense to Wang Xifeng: "It will be nice to make another three to two million taels of silver now."
Already."
Jia Yun found this statement ridiculous.
The original work writes that when the Lin family reached Lin Ruhai's generation, its branches were not prosperous and its descendants were limited. Lin Ruhai had no direct descendants, only a few clans.
The original work also wrote that the Lin family has really lost its population. Even if there is a clan, it is far away and none of them live in Suzhou. They live in various provinces.
The world of Red Mansions is a clan society. Lin Ruhai's ancestors did not have a lot of family property. Otherwise, a clan similar to the Jia family would be formed. How could several branch clans live in exile in various provinces?
What is the concept of two to three million taels of silver? Even when the Jia family and the Xue family were the richest, the combined assets of the two families would not have that much.
If there are really two to three million taels of silver, there is only one possibility, and that is that Lin Ruhai was extremely greedy during the few years he served as the salt censor of the Huaihe River!
However, although the position of the Lianghuai Salt Inspector is a lucrative position, it is absolutely unimaginable to embezzle two to three million taels of silver in a few years. The Lianghuai Salt Industry is corrupt from top to bottom.
How could Shi be so greedy as to get two to three million taels of silver?
If Lin Ruhai really embezzled two to three million taels of silver, how could he have a good ending after his death? How could Lin Daiyu have the chance to give him a funeral? Lin Daiyu would probably have suffered as well.
Besides, the Jia family dared to use Lin Ruhai’s corrupt two to three million taels of silver to build the Grand View Garden?
If the construction of the Grand View Garden cost two to three million taels of silver, then the Jia family would probably have suffered a long time ago.
Even if Lin Ruhai only embezzled hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, the Jia family would not use such money to build the Grand View Garden. If nothing else, Jia's mother and Jia Zheng would definitely not agree.
And now Jia Yun is certain that the Lin family does not have much property!
Zou Jin, the newly appointed Salt Censor of the Huaihe River, has already inspected Lin Ruhai's property, including real estate, antiques, calligraphy, paintings, books, etc. The total value is only more than 10,000 taels of silver, some of which was corrupted by Lin Ruhai.
Lin Ruhai's corruption cases were almost all minor corruption in social entertainment, such as receiving gifts for birthdays. It was inconvenient for him to refuse such things. If he refused, he would be incompatible with the officialdom and business circle of Lianghuai Salt Industry...
Although there was some corruption, in Emperor Tianzhi's heart, Lin Ruhai was already considered incorruptible.
His ancestor was a hereditary marquis, and he himself was a civil servant with a background of Wentanhua. He also worked as a salt censor on the Huaihe River Patrol for several years, but his family property was only worth more than 10,000 taels of silver.
This is also one of the reasons why Emperor Tianzhi forgave Lin Ruhai this time. To be honest, even the greedy Emperor Tianzhi would not look down on such a small family fortune now.
And Jia Yun had already expected in advance that it might be true that the Jia family was concerned about the Lin family's property.
In the original work, Jia's mother asked Jia Lian to escort Lin Daiyu back to Yangzhou, and also asked Jia Lian to take Lin Daiyu back. Perhaps one of the reasons was to bring back the Lin family's property.
So this time, when Jia Mu dismissed everyone and left Jia Yun alone to speak, Jia Yun guessed that Jia Mu was probably thinking about the Lin family's property.
Now, facing Jia's mother's inquiry, Jia Yun responded: "Yes, the Lin family's property will not be confiscated."
Jia Mu then asked: "Do you know how much property the Lin family has now?"
Jia Yun said calmly: "We don't have much property, including real estate, antiques, calligraphy, paintings, books, etc. The total value is only over 10,000 taels of silver."
Jia Mu frowned: "That's all?"
Jia Yun couldn't laugh or cry: "Old lady, it's better if you don't have a lot of property. If you have more, the emperor will confiscate your property!"
Mother Jia's brows suddenly widened again: "That's right, not too much is better!"
"Although the Lin family's property is not much, there is still some at least. I have asked you, Uncle Lian, to bring the Lin family's property back and keep it as a dowry for Girl Lin in the future."
"Just now you said that you would take the imperial edict of forgiveness issued by the emperor to Yangzhou. You are also a high-ranking official who went to Yangzhou to handle the emperor's mission. You should also help with the matter of your second uncle Lin bringing back the Lin family's property. With your help, this matter
That’s it.”
Jia Yun said "haha" in her heart again.
He did not doubt Jia Mu's statement, and felt that the reason why Jia Mu was concerned about the Lin family property was indeed for Lin Daiyu's sake, and she wanted to leave this property to Lin Daiyu as a dowry in the future.
However, it is not difficult to imagine that in the original work, the Lin family's property was brought into the Jia family, and later it was misappropriated, and even embezzled by the servants. Later, the Jia family suffered a loss, so that Wang Xifeng counted on Jia's mother when considering Lin Daiyu's marriage.
I came out with the ladder...
Jia Yun paused deliberately and said: "Old lady, the Lin family's property is said to be worth more than ten thousand taels of silver, but more than half of it is in cash. If these properties are to be converted into gold and silver as soon as possible, they will inevitably suffer some losses."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Although Mr. Lin has no direct descendants, there are only a few clans that live in various provinces, but these clans also need to give some money."
"Master Lin still has several rooms for concubines in his house. These rooms also need some money. Even the servants need some money."
"In addition, Mr. Lin's funeral and burial will also cost a sum of money."
"Even if we try to reduce expenses as much as possible, the remaining amount will probably only be 10,000 taels of silver."
Jia Mu said, "It's a little less, but ten thousand taels of silver is enough to give Lin Yatou a dowry in the future."
Jia Yun said: "Old lady, I plan to give these ten thousand taels of silver to Lin Yatou to keep by herself. What do you think?"
Jia Mu said: "Let her keep it by herself? It's not appropriate for a girl to keep so much money. It's better to leave it to the public servant in our house to keep it."
Jia Yun said: "It's better to leave it to her to keep. For one thing, the income and expenditure of the public house are complicated. If this money is put into the public house, there is no guarantee that it will not be misappropriated."
"Secondly, Girl Lin is now a pitiful orphan. She has ten thousand taels of silver by her side, so she feels comforted. If she needs to spend money in the future but is unable to ask the old lady, she can ask this person to do it.
That’s a lot of money.”
"In that case, let's do it." Mother Jia sighed, and then glared at Jia Yun, "Humph, look at what you mean, as if you are afraid that our family will take advantage of Miss Lin's money!"
Jia Yun smiled and said: "The old lady thinks too much, I just think about Lin Yatou."
Jia Mu said: "I didn't realize that you actually took good care of her. I like your concern for her. As you said, Lin Yatou is now a pitiful orphan. You
Although you are her nephew in terms of seniority, you are a powerful and high-ranking official, so you must take more care of her in the future."
Jia Yun smiled and said: "Don't worry, old lady, if anyone dares to bully her in the future, I won't take it easy!"
I quietly added in my heart: including the big-faced baby!
But having said that, in the original work, because of Jia Mu's doting, no one in the Rongguo Mansion dared to bully Lin Daiyu to her face. Even Wang Xifeng treated Lin Daiyu as a noble lady to her face. Lin Daiyu's food, clothing, housing and living expenses were better than those of Sanchun.
The main reason why Lin Daiyu often sheds tears is because she is too sentimental.
On the contrary, Lin Daiyu often criticized people in Rongguo Mansion, including Wang Xifeng.
Not to mention that Jia Baoyu didn't want to bully Lin Daiyu at all. Even if he wanted to bully, he couldn't bully her. Sister Lin's temper was really no joke. Because the two had a subtle male-female affair in the original work, they tortured each other to death.
Lin Daiyu died tragically because she was already suffering from a delicate disease and was too sentimental. It was also because of the downfall of the Jia family, and probably because her longed-for marriage to Jia Baoyu failed to come true...
Jia Yun has always felt that even if he had an affair with Lin Daiyu, he would be looking down on our sister Lin unless he was abused three hundred times in his life.
However, it is Lin Daiyu after all!
Jia Yun still wants to take care of Sister Lin.
It's just that now his own sense of crisis is very strong. Let alone taking care of Sister Lin, if he doesn't take care of himself, he won't even be able to take care of Sister Bao, whom he is about to marry as his first wife.
Yes, taking care of yourself is the most important thing.
Not because of selfishness, but because if he can't take care of himself well, everything he has now will be destroyed. Bu Wuniang, Xue Baochai, Xi Ren, Zicuckoo, etc. will all be implicated, and his time travel will end in misery.
tragic ending.
Jia Yun said to Jia Mu again: "Old lady, call Miss Lin in right now and tell her everything you and I have said this time."
Jia Mu subconsciously said: "There is no need to tell her about this now. You can just tell her when you get to Yangzhou."
Jia Yun said: "It's better to tell her now. The old lady knows that Lin Yatou is not in good health and has a sentimental heart. What happened to her father this time will definitely make her too sad. If she takes this
I was so sad that I traveled all the way south to Yangzhou, and it was inevitable that I would hurt my body due to excessive sadness along the way."
"Now I call her in and tell her about the ten thousand taels of silver. I also tell her face to face that I will take care of her, so that she can feel better. She will feel less sad on the way south to Yangzhou.
, the harm to the body will be less severe.”
Jia Mu nodded after hearing this: "That makes sense. Go ahead and ask her to come in."
Immediately, Jia Yun walked out of Rongqing Hall and called Lin Daiyu in.
After Lin Daiyu came in, Jia Mu and Jia Yun told her what they had just said.
Lin Daiyu cried again after hearing this...
First, because the family property matter made her sad about her father's death.
Second, I was touched. It was great. Even if she became an orphan now and was doted on by Jia Mu, even Jia Yun had to take care of her. Not only did she have to accept ten thousand taels of silver this time, but she also said it to her face.
Take more care of her in the future.
"Thank you Yun...brother!"
While Lin Daiyu was crying, she kept wiping her tears with a handkerchief, and at the same time she did not forget to say thank you to Jia Yun.
Looking at Lin Daiyu who was crying more and more as she wiped away her eyes, Jia Yun thought of a question that many people in her previous life had wondered about in a dumbfounded way: Sister Lin, why do you love to cry so much?
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That night, it was Zijuan's turn to sleep on the outer bed of Jia Yun's bedroom.
In the bedroom, Zijuan was standing on Jia Yun's bed, bending down to make the bed.
The Babu bed is a kind of bedding, and it is a large bedding. The unique feature is that a "cabin" is added outside the bed, just like an independent small house.
In the Qing Dynasty, this kind of large bedding was generally used by wealthy families.
The Babu bed in Jia Yun's bedroom is made of fine wood, well made, and luxurious. This Babu bed alone is worth two hundred taels of silver.
At this moment, Jia Yun was sitting next to the lamp and called out: "Zicuckoo."
"Ah?" Zicuckoo seemed to be frightened.
Jia Yun asked funnyly: "What's on your mind? I see you've been restless tonight."
"I...do I?" Zijuan hesitated, her face turning red.
Jia Yun said: "What are you nervous about?"
Zijuan lowered her head and was silent for a while, then she mustered up the courage to raise her head and look directly at Jia Yun: "Did the Second Master sleep with Xi Ren last night?"
Jia Yun smiled and asked, "Did Xiren tell you?"
Zijuan pursed her lips: "This little hooves will not take the initiative to tell me, I saw it myself. Today she is not feeling well, and I found her having fun, so I guessed the reason. I
When I asked her if she slept with the second master last night, she still avoided it, but later she acquiesced."
Jia Yun said "Oh".
Immediately, Jia Yun lay down on the Babu bed.
Zicuckoo blew out the light and walked into the bed.
Jia Yun knew the truth and asked: "Why don't you go to bed outside?"
Zicuckoo snorted and lay down next to Jia Yun without answering.
After a while, seeing that Jia Yun still didn't take action, Zijuan snorted again, turned around and faced Jia Yun, and put her arm on Jia Yun.
Jia Yun suppressed her smile: "Go and light the lights."
Zijuan felt aggrieved: "Second Master, you don't want me?"
Jia Yun said: "For the first time, I want to light a lamp so that we can look at each other easily."
Zijuan was shy: "No."
Jia Yun said: "Xiren and I lit the lamp last night."
Zicuckoo immediately got up and lit the lamp, then lay down next to Jia Yun again.
Tonight, the fire is still swaying, the two are still in love, and they are still in love...