Chapter 8 Interfering in the affairs of the government
Su Jian was confused for a moment when she got up. She didn't expect Zhan Lei to be there. Seeing him guarding her side, his eyes would look at her porridge from time to time. She pushed the porridge to Zhan Lei.
Zhan Lei swallowed a mouthful of saliva and shook his head with difficulty: "I ate it, and my sister-in-law doesn't have to eat it."
"Ha... It's not like that, it's just a bowl of white porridge." Su Jian touched Zhan Lei's head, and then looked at Goose Huang: "I saw that you were absent-minded when we came together today, and you didn't complain. It seems that you put what I said yesterday aside.
It got into your heart, so you changed immediately?"
"Miss..." Goose Huang looked at Su Jian with a complex expression: "Miss, why don't we leave the house quickly?"
"Huh?" Hao Duanduan mentioned leaving the house again.
Zhan Lei's attention instantly shifted from the porridge to Su Jian, his face full of fear. By the time he reacted, he had already grabbed Su Jian's sleeve: "Sister-in-law, don't leave."
Su Jian patted Zhan Lei comfortingly, and then looked at Goose Huang.
Their eyes met, and Yan Huang told Su Jian everything she had discovered.
Su Jian was silent. After a long time, she sighed. It seemed that the situation in the General's Mansion was more severe than she imagined. Although she had no obligation to care about the life and death of those people, she was not that great. She wanted to help them eat every meal.
Meat, but she lives here! Since she wants to live a good life, she cannot eat well alone. If everyone around her cannot eat well, her stable life will not last long.
"Go and find Liniang, um... also call the blind man Xiong, Xiong Da, Xiong Er, Xiong San and the accountant Song Siqi, and instruct them to bring the account books of the mansion."
The yard was very quiet, the only sound was the turning of book pages.
Su Jian was not in a hurry to look through other accounts. She only took a cursory look at Song Siqi's account book first. The more she looked at it, the more frightened she felt. Even though she had expected this result, but she really saw her eyelids.
Jumped uncontrollably.
"Monthly expenditures and yearly expenditures are all beyond our means." Su Jian said and looked around: "It is also difficult for the General's Mansion to keep out the wind and rain."
Su Jian was really speechless against Zhan, and once again she didn't know what words to use to describe him. This was the first time in her life that she saw someone doing good deeds, and they could really do it regardless of themselves.
Song Siqi was frightened. Now that the general is not here, Su Jian is the most powerful person in the house. He needs to explain and cannot let Su Jian think that there is something wrong with the accounts he made: "Madam, there is nothing wrong with the small account book. The general is not here now. If the general is here,
, he will definitely prove it for the little one.”
Su Jian glanced at Song Siqi and said nothing, then continued flipping through other ledgers. She had heard from Xiong Xiongzi that the second class Xiong Daxiong was in charge of Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi in ancient times was usually farm-based. She looked at it carefully.
The grain output of the fields, I thought... Ha! Looking at the extremely small number, the corners of her lips twitched: "How many people are there in the house?"
Liniang took a step forward: "There are twenty women and maids serving in the house, forty-three guards, and the total number of people in the three villages is eighty-seven. However, among these people, not counting the madam and
Goose Huang, not counting the three people in the young master’s yard.”
"That means there are a total of one hundred and fifty-five people in the mansion."
"yes."
"One hundred and fifty-five people, living on the annual output of only a few hundred denier of food, and the expenses, I understand why you can't eat meat for a whole year." Su Jian looked at the people in front of her, and was speechless: "What if
If you do nothing and let you continue, how long can the black-faced steamed buns persist?"
Blind Xiong opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he lowered his head.
Liniang hesitated to speak, but in the end she didn't say anything.
The courtyard fell into silence for a moment.
Su Jian silently looked at the men and women in the yard, all of them lowered their heads and said nothing. Although she knew they were ashamed to speak, she looked at it and felt that she was bullying them, and she could no longer remain silent.
"Yesterday, I asked you to cook all the meat I bought. At night, I heard the thanks from the brothers, but when the meat was distributed to them, it probably didn't even smell much of the oil, right?" Although it was a question.
, but Su Jian said it for sure.
"We are very grateful that Madam can share food with us." Blind Xiong raised his head and spoke seriously: "We dare not have too little."
"..." It's really missing, hey!
"lady……"
"Stop, let's get straight to the point. There are more than a hundred people in the house now, and it's impossible for me to call them all to come and give instructions, just a few of you. I'm just asking you, do you want to have meat every day?
Eat." As she spoke, Su Jian couldn't help but look at them one more time: "Of course, I might be able to buy myself some new clothes."
Liniang raised her head suddenly and did not notice that Xiong Xiazi and others also looked at Su Jian with burning eyes after hearing the words: "Madam, the dowry is yours."
"Madam, is she going to use the dowry to help the brothers?"
The voices that sounded almost simultaneously made Su Jian choke on her words. They all mentioned her dowry. It seemed that they were thinking about her dowry deep in their hearts. At this moment, Su Jian was glad that her decision was right.
Sure enough, you can't live a good life alone, otherwise, danger will come sooner or later.
Seeing Su Jian's silence, Liniang thought that Su Jian was really going to take out her dowry, so she said anxiously: "Madam, your dowry cannot be touched. If the general knows about it, he will not let us go."
"Yes, although we want to eat meat, we must not do anything to disgrace the general." Blind Xiong said firmly.
Su Jian paused slightly, her eyes flashing with light and shadow, they didn't touch her dowry again?
"Madam, the general has been very kind to us. If we people touch the madam's dowry, it will be nothing." Blind Xiong said again.
Su Jian lowered her eyes, closing her dowry out of gratitude for Zhan Zhan, but thinking about her dowry was also because of Zhan Zhan. After all, if the house was in order, how could she feel that the house was "dangerous" and survival was difficult?
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"Who told you that I was going to touch my dowry?"