Add two more cotton-padded jackets, and it might turn into a ball made of two snowballs!
"Mom, I'm very hot now." Sweat was forming on my head.
"When you go to the academy, you have to listen to Master's teachings and don't be too naughty, you know." Mrs. Qiu wiped the corners of her eyes and said with a distressed look on her face: "My mother will come to pick you up personally when I'm on vacation. You have to be good in the academy, ah."
"I estimate that this trip will only last a month. The Beijing Academy will definitely let you back. After all, it's almost the New Year." Mrs. Qiu babbled as she sent her daughter out and put her chubby little girl on the carriage.
Mr. Jiang stuck his head out of the car speechlessly and said to his wife, "Okay, it's cold outside. You can go back. It's not like you don't know your body. If you can't bear the cold, don't pay more attention to it."
Mrs. Qiu wiped the corners of her eyes and watched her daughter's carriage leave.
Two carriages loaded with goods followed suit.
Jiang Nai entered the warm carriage and found that besides Mr. Jiang, there was a little girl sitting on the side of the carriage.
The little girl's clothes were plain and simple. She didn't wear a luxurious ferret fur cloak like her. She was wrapped in thick leather inside and out and formed into a ball.
"Sixth sister?"
"I've met Fourth Sister." Jiang Nianjiao stood up to greet her.
Mr. Jiang waved his hand and said, "Okay, it's not convenient to be in the carriage. Why do we need to be so polite when we are our sisters."
"What father said is that the sixth sister does not need to be so outspoken." Jiang Nai smiled and nodded, twisting her small body and crawling to sit next to her father.
Mr. Jiang scolded him funny and angrily, "Look who looks like you. Going to a college is as funny as moving! You brought everything in the house with you."
He then recalled the stunned expression on his face when he saw the two loads of luggage brought by his daughter before getting in the car.
He couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth secretly.
The little girl pouted her little mouth and said in a sweet voice, "Didn't the father tell his daughter to bring everything with her? Besides, my daughter asked someone about it. They said that in the Beijing Academy, daily necessities are ridiculously expensive!
If my daughter is so poor and cannot afford anything, she may freeze to death or starve to death. Wouldn’t that tarnish her father’s reputation?”
Mr. Jiang glanced at her speechlessly, took out a few banknotes from his pocket and gave them to her, "You earn twenty taels every month. It's not enough to go to the academy. This is to supplement your father's expenses. Save it."
The flowers must be used until the end of the year at least!"
It seems that the old father must have made a lot of money last night!
The mine's income for one and a half years was said to be 70,000 to 80,000 taels of gold, but Jiang Yao had embezzled 58,000 taels of gold. The rest was probably given to the old father by my grandmother as compensation.
The old father generously gave a thousand taels of silver notes, but Jiang Nai accepted it disrespectfully.
Suddenly I felt Jiang Xiaoliu's gaze and raised my eyes.
Jiang Nianjiao lowered her head in a hurry, but Jiang Nai never missed the trace of envy that flashed in her eyes.
Jiang Nianjiao was indeed envious.
As a concubine, she only had twelve taels of silver per month.
But for the girls and masters of ordinary wealthy families, how can they live on this monthly salary and have no private property in their hands?
Jiang Nianjiao's mother used to be a rough girl, and she was lucky enough to have a daughter when she was accidentally teased by a drunken second master.
Although I got the second wife's permission to take the concubine, I didn't have much money in my hands from the beginning to the end. Even if I became the master's concubine, I still had to live on the eighty taels of silver every month, and my life was very tight.