"A penny is hard to beat a hero." Jia Yu couldn't help but sigh, "The construction of the garden in our house has been completed, and I have seen them one by one in the past few days, it is indeed very spectacular and gorgeous, but there are still many things missing, but this requires silver, second brother, what should we do?" ”

Jia Zheng was also silent.

In order to build this garden, the whole house was basically vacated, and the old lady also moved a lot of it, and now he has to add more things, which is not two or three thousand taels of silver can stop, and I don't know where it comes from.

Now listening to the meaning of the eldest brother, I also want to learn from the Mei family to borrow money from Haitong Yinzhuang, but it is simple to borrow money, but what to use as collateral? Is it possible to pledge this garden?

"Lian'er, what do you think of it?" Jia Yu saw that Jia Zheng was silent, and asked Jia Lian directly.

"Master, if you want to borrow money from Haitong Yinzhuang, the pledge is necessary, and it must be verified to confirm that the value of the pledge is in line with it." Jia Lian glanced at Jia Zheng.

This should be a matter of the second room, although the eldest girl coming back to save her relatives can indeed make Rongguo Mansion beautiful, but it is difficult after the scenery is a reality, how to solve the problem?

If the eldest girl comes back to save her relatives and can make the house a little light, to be practical, it is also cost-effective to be able to make a living with some inputs, but if it is so beautiful all of a sudden, and there is nothing else, then this expense is really not worth it.

Jia Zheng sighed, "Lian'er, if we take the back part of this mansion, that is, the land deed of the garden, to Haitong Yinzhuang as a pledge, how much silver do you think we can borrow?" ”

Seeing that Jia Zheng really planned to borrow silver, Jia Lian was also a little reluctant, in his opinion, it was easy to borrow money, what to pay back?

"Second uncle, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to take the garden title deed to offset it." Jia Lian pondered for a while, "The title deeds on our house are all confusing, if you want to only take the garden title deed to mortgage, then you have to divide it, and what you need to report to the government for approval, it is too late to say it, and once this spreads, then the reputation of our house will be ruined." ”

Jia pardon Jia Zheng's face has changed, this is a thing, if it is rumored that the Jia family will divide the house and mortgage it, not to mention that the reputation of the Jia family who is a swollen face and a fat person in the province of Guifei Niangniang will spread, I am afraid that the Jia family will really collapse in everyone's minds in the future.

But if you don't use this garden as collateral, what else can you mortgage it with?

In addition to the large amount of flowers, trees, stones, masonry and silver owed, this year's reward for the maids and servants in the house is also indispensable.

The current situation of Rongning Erfu is unknown to outsiders, but several of them know it.

Thirty-five years after Yuanxi, the two mansions can only be regarded as barely maintaining, to the second year of Yonglong, the population in this mansion breeds, there is no moderation, bought in, voluntarily surrendered, family children, just Rongguo Mansion in this short period of more than ten years, from seven or eight hundred people increased to more than a thousand people, the expenses are increasing, but the income has not increased.

Not to mention those livelihoods, there are still many livelihoods that are not good and have a lot of losses, and the income of the fields and granges is still like that.

It turned out that the Zhen family in Jiangnan also invested some silver to make a living, and it was said that the first two years were not very good, so only 50,000 taels of silver were left on the Zhen family's side, and now even the 50,000 taels of silver have been taken back and used.

It can be said that the situation of Rongning Erfu is getting worse now, and the silver in the public is beyond its means every year, which makes Wang Xifeng scratch his heart and lungs, and in the end he can only turn a blind eye to the old lady, and the big guy carries some antique calligraphy and painting old objects out to mortgage, and some of them can be redeemed after the year after the façade, but most of them can only become dead and disappear silently in the pawnshop.

Fortunately, the two or three pawnshops that can cooperate are also old acquaintances, knowing the foundation of the two Rongning families, the things they take out are all good things, and they generally don't reduce the price too much, so the two houses of Rongning seem to adapt to this situation, it seems that the old objects in this house can be endless, and only this family is like ants on a hot pot at the end of every year.

It's just that this year's situation is not ordinary, the construction of this garden is really a bottomless pit, basically the Jia Mansion inside and outside are tossed up, and the rest are some big things that can't be shot.

"How is it going this year on the east side?" Jia Yu asked suddenly.

Rongguofu is struggling, and Ningguofu is also having a hard time.

If you talk about the past, Ningguofu is not as good as Rongguofu.

But this year, Rongguofu has spread out such a big hole as repairing the garden, although Ning Guofu is also subsidized by the same side, but after all, this is the big head of Rongguofu, and Ningguofu is only a fraction of thirty or forty thousand taels of silver, but even so, Ning Guofu is also hurt.

Jia Lian has had a lot less contact with Jia Zhen and Jia Rong and his son in the past year, but since Jia Lian came back from Yangzhou and now has taken over the business of this Haitong Yinzhuang Jingshi, Jia Zhen and Jia Rong and his son have immediately been stained like kraft candy.

Especially that Jia Rong is next to Jia Lian all day long, and the second uncle of Lian and the second uncle of Changlian are waiting very comfortably, so that Jia Lian is not easy to refuse, and sometimes he also takes Jia Zhen and Jia Rong in and out of some scenes.

In addition, Jia Zhen and Jia Rong have also made a lot of money by joining forces with Jia Yu in repairing the garden, and I feel that this year's Dongfu seems to be more moisturized.

"I don't know this, but looking at Brother Zhen and Brother Rong, it seems that they are still ready to follow the path of previous years." Jia Lian hesitated.

In fact, he knew that Jia Zhen and Jia Rong should be able to pass this year, and after making a fortune from the garden, Ning Guofu would be in charge of their father and son, so they would naturally be able to make up for it.

It's not like this Rongguo here, my father and second uncle are two rooms, and I and Baoyu, Jia Huan and even Jia Lan will be divided into three or four rooms in the future, and each of them has a little ninety-nine in their hearts, who will think about the house?

The money in the public is in the public, and the private money of each family is the private money of each family, for example, who has not been able to get a sum of money in the garden of his father?

But if you want him to take it out to fill the gap in the public school, it is better to kill him.

Just like Sister Feng, she can use the money in the public to lend money to make money, but if she is asked to use her private money to fill the public middle school, then don't even think about it.

Jia Yu snorted coldly, but said no more, Jia Zhen and Jia Rong are willing to fill it, that is Ning Guofu's own business, and it is impossible for him Jia Yu to take the silver out.

Jia Yu was silent, and Jia Zheng's face was even more ugly.

This time, he just wanted to talk to his brother about the New Year in this mansion.

Lai Da has already said to himself and Jia's mother a few times, saying that there are many cats in this garden, and the eldest master and the two masters of Dongfu have made a lot of money in it, and said that as long as he checks the accounts, he will definitely be able to find out many problems, and the silver that shakes out can at least make the follow-up accounts owed to the outside and the expenses of this year's New Year be dealt with.

Mother didn't say much, but in fact, it was the same as Jia Zheng thought, the cost of the garden was more than 450,000 taels of silver, which was indeed beautiful, but to say that his brother was so motivated, except for being able to make money, at least nothing could make him so, and the two in the east were similar.

It's a pity that I don't have the ability and patience to handle this.

Look at the mansion, originally Jia Lian and his family were suitable candidates, but unfortunately Jia Lian is unwilling to do things in the mansion now, and it is impossible for this Sister Feng to go against her father-in-law, and Sister Feng is also having an awkward relationship with Jia Lian in the Cold War, and her mind is not there, so it will become like this.

I wanted to talk to my brother several times, but Jia Zheng still couldn't wipe this face in the end, even his mother had acquiesced to let him talk to his brother, but Jia Zheng still didn't dare.

He knows what his brother's temperament is, and everything else is easy to say, but in the matter of Yinzi, if he dares to talk to him, it will definitely turn his face, and Jia Zheng also knows that his mother's preference for him has made his brother always angry, if he gets into trouble with him in this matter, he will definitely find out many things for you before, then this year will not be able to pass, and Rongguo Mansion will also become a joke in Jingshi City.

In the end, Jia Zheng's sorrow could only turn into a sigh, "Lian'er, what do you say about our house this year?" ”

The second uncle's pick-and-shake made Jia Lian speechless, he had slowly faded out of the house, why did he have to talk to himself?

"Second uncle, the New Year is imminent, the Lantern Festival is less than a month, if you want to think of other methods, it will be a matter of the future, you have to settle down in the house first, in my opinion, it is better to borrow it first."

At this point, Jia Lian still doesn't understand the thoughts of his father and second uncle, this is deliberately setting up a trap to wait for him, and it is estimated that if he comes back late today, he will have to keep himself tomorrow morning to explain this matter clearly.

However, I am afraid that it is not appropriate to keep holding Feng Ziying (Lin Daiyu) like this, Jia Lian thought for a while before saying: "Otherwise, first go to Aunt Xue to borrow 5,000 taels, and then go to the Wang family to borrow 10,000, and then I will go to Ziying's side to turn over 10,000 taels of silver, and grind this year over, what do the two masters think?" ”

Without waiting for Jia Zheng to speak, Jia Yu was already busy nodding, "I think it's okay, the Xue family heard that Daguanlou has a lot of income this year, as for the Wang family, second brother, your uncle is in the position of the governor of Denglai, and it is okay to earn 350,000 taels of silver a year, right?" Ziying, Lian'er, you are going to talk about it, our Jiafu is a person who knows kindness, and we will repay it in the future. ”

Jia Zheng sighed, this is calculated and has to hit these families, and the Wang family is just that, this Xue family and the Feng family are really a little difficult to speak, but what can they do?