While Xing Xiuyan and Miaoyu were still in prison, Jiafu didn't notice anything abnormal.

Xing Xiuyan was only a marginal person in the house, and she was allowed to live in Daguan Garden because she was a girl's family, and she was also a relative of Mrs. Xing, plus Xing Xiuyan had an excellent temperament and was liked by others, so she was allowed to live in the garden, and Xiuyan also chose the most simple and plain Lu Xueguang, of course, this is also her favorite simple and elegant scenery here.

At this time, Jiafu was already shrouded in a tense atmosphere.

"Back to the ancestors, since January, the tea and fruit of the clan study are gone, and the lunch is much worse, these trivial things should not come to alarm the ancestors, but many of the children who come to the clan to study are outside the house, in order to encourage the children of the clan to study and progress, they also said that they are in charge of lunch and tea and fruit between classes, and they have won the love of the children in the past two years, and they all know that it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, there is no now, and this gossip began to increase. Sun Er is also thinking that if these words spread more and more, it will definitely have a great impact on our Jia family, and if outsiders know, they will probably think about it,......"

Jia Rui stood in the hall, his tone calm, but the hidden meaning in his words was obvious.

"I also went to ask the second sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law said that the current house is difficult, slightly reduced, tea and fruit is not as much as the original is a fact, but lunch is still according to the original rules, the grandson went to the back room to ask, said that the price of vegetables and rice noodles outside has increased, tea and fruit simply decreased, fill in the lunch,......"

Jia Yu and Jia Zheng both sat on the side with gloomy faces, and Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang over there also had very ugly faces.

Reasoning about such family matters, it is not the turn of the old men to get involved, but this time it was the news that the two brothers Jia Yu and Jia Zheng heard when they went to attend the 80th birthday of Chen Ruiwen's mother in the Mansion of Qi, which made the two of them lose face, so they rushed back to ask what was going on.

Dingcheng Hou Xie Jia, the head of the Xie family, is now a guerrilla in the fifth military camp and jokes that the Jia family can't even open the pot now, which has attracted everyone's ridicule, and the two brothers Jia Zheng don't know what the stalk is, they were extremely embarrassed at the time, and they only found out the reason after coming down.

It turned out that the children of the Jia family were originally studying in the family studies, and they were originally in charge of lunch, and there were tea and fruits between classes, but now the tea and fruits are gone, and the lunch is much worse.

"Later, the grandson went to the daughter-in-law of the Liu family, who was in charge of the kitchen, but the daughter-in-law of the Liu family said that this was arranged by the steward, and the purchase and purchase office was also in accordance with the requirements of the housekeeper in the back room,......

The kitchen manager is in charge of the daughter-in-law of the Liu family, but the back room manager in charge of kitchen procurement is Zheng Haoshi, including the kitchen, firewood room, etc., all the expenses are under the management of the back room manager, and Zheng Haoshi's daughter-in-law is Lai Da's distant sister, Zheng Haoshi is Lai Da's cheap brother-in-law, and he has always worn a pair of pants with Lai Da.

Jia Mu's face was extremely ugly, and she snorted lightly, "Brother Rui, what else do you want to say?" ”

"My grandson also thinks it's very strange, this year ago, the price of vegetables, meat and eggs was going to rise, but after the year, according to the convention, the prices of these things will fall by a cut, and my grandson also heard that last year's grain harvest in Jiangnan Huguang, the price of rice and noodles transported from the canal was about 10% lower than the year before last, and even the price of everything with it has dropped a little, why did it go up a lot to our Jia family?"

Jia Yu and Mrs. Xing remained silent, while Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang changed color slightly.

Jia Zheng is in the Ministry of Industry, so naturally he can also hear some news, he naturally will not ask about the price of grain in Jingshi City, but Jiangnan and Huguang did have a bumper harvest last year, of course he knows the news, Jingshi grain is from Jiangnan and Huguang, and the grain is cheap in good years, so naturally the price cannot be sold, why does the Jia family buy here but say that the price has risen a lot?

But Mrs. Wang is much more sensitive than Jia Zheng.

She also knew from Wang Xifeng that the whole house had such a huge cost on repairing the garden, and even affected the monthly money distribution of the people in the house, but Yuanchun was the eldest girl in her own family, and she was a concubine, so no matter how she had to support this scene.

Now the hole in the public middle school is too big, and the people below have opinions, and she knows it, but in this case, there are still people who engage in this kind of business in the purchase of the back house, and even the notoriety has spread outside, and she is a little angry in her heart.

It's just that the Lai family is the old man in front of the old lady, although Mrs. Wang's heart is angry, but it is not easy to attack immediately, but she can get a glimpse from the uncle's gloomy silence and Mrs. Xing's excited sneering expression.

"Rege'er, what do you mean, what's the reason for this?" Jia Yu pondered for a long time, and then he slowly swallowed the truth.

"Back to the master, this is clearly someone in the back kitchen." Since Jia Rui rushed to publicly find out, he was naturally prepared, "so my nephew was also surprised, so he went to do an investigation,......"

I heard that Jia Rui went to investigate by himself, Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang looked at each other, this has done this, what is this for?

"......, the vegetables, meat, eggs, fruits, and rice noodles in the kitchen are sent to the Gu family in the eastern suburbs of the city, the Tian family in the southeast and the Hu family butcher shop in Jinchengfang are sent again, and these three have been contracted by these three in the past three years, well, including the vegetables and fruits, eggs, and meat of Ningguo Mansion, and the rice noodles are sent to the old ladies and ladies in the house in addition to a little from their own Zhuangzi, and they are all purchased from the Yang's rice shop in the south of the city. The meat is the Xinglong butcher shop in Anfu Fang,......"

Jia Rui Zhenzhen said, "There is also the white coal and musk coal used in the back room, the white coal and musk coal were originally the most famous in the Yinjia Coal Yard and the Lujia Charcoal Farm in western Beijing, with the prestige of our Jia family, it was not a problem to go to the Yin family and the Lu family to buy goods, but I don't know how to go to a special house called the old Zhu Ji Coal House to buy white coal, well, the musk coal is also purchased in this house, and then the nephew went to inquire, it turns out that this Zhu Ji Coal House is also from the silver price coal factory and the Lujia charcoal yard to buy goods, that's fine, if it is close to our house, it seems to be reasonable, After further inquiry, the price of white coal sent by this coal house to our house is 20% higher than that sent to other families, and the musk coal is even higher by 30%,......"

White coal is used to burn kang and burn the dragon in winter, and the amount of musk coal is high-quality, mainly used for roasting in the smoker stove used by the girls and wives, of course, this musk coal must be used to eat barbecue.

Jia Yu's face was gloomy and frightening, and Jia Zheng was also a little unstable, the public middle school in this mansion is now in huge deficit, and even Wang Xifeng is unwilling to take care of things.

However, Jia Mu's face was cold, but she didn't say a word.

"Brother Rui, in that case, since you found out in February, why didn't you say it earlier?" Jia Zheng couldn't help it.

"Back to the second master, this kind of thing is not something that my nephew can ask about, so my nephew just went to ask the back kitchen, and then asked the second sister-in-law, but the second sister-in-law is ,......a little bit of a mess," Jia Rui spread his hands, "Until this time, a friend of mine outside has taken over part of the construction work in the garden and sent stones to the garden since last year, and it has not been settled until March, so he came to ask me, and I also asked the eldest master and Uncle Zhen, Both the eldest lord and the eldest uncle said that after the garden was built, the accounts would be transferred to the second sister-in-law, but the second sister-in-law said that there was no money, so I had to slow down, so I replied to the friend, but the friend laughed at me,......"

Jia Yu and Jia Zheng both asked in unison, "Oh, why are you ashamed?" ”

"He said that it was not that there was no silver, but that there was no silver without it." Jarry snorted.

Jia Yu and Jia Zheng both looked at each other, not quite understanding what this meant.

I didn't understand what it meant, and when I asked again, my friend thought I was pretending, so he asked me directly, how many rebates do I need to settle the account, and said that another person who did the work with him got a sum every year, gave a rebate, and got the last 8,000 taels of silver in March, and gave a rebate of 20%, and asked me if I know why some people can settle all the bills before the year? I was blinded and asked, who paid the bill? Doesn't it mean that the house is difficult, and you can only take a part of it? My friend just said, that's your people in the house doing business in partnership, of course you can settle all the bills, and now everyone is taking the money to donate to the official, and they are going to be the county magistrate,......"

When this last sentence came out, the entire people present, including Mandarin Duck and Amber standing behind the old lady, and Qiu Tong and Caixia standing beside Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang, were all frightened inexplicably.

The amount of money to be spent on this donation is not a small amount.

If it is the stewards in the mansion who are making money with their hands, everyone actually understands in their hearts, hundreds of thousands of people in a Jia Mansion, where can they avoid these, as long as it is not too excessive, then everyone will turn a blind eye for so many years?

But your donation of the official's silver, I'm afraid it's not dozens of hundreds of taels that can be spent, the second master of Lian donated a fictitious title and the same knowledge spent 5,000 taels, this is still the market a few years ago, this Jia Rui said in his words that people are going to take office as a county magistrate, that is a real shortage, but I am afraid that it will not be possible without tens of thousands of taels of silver.

This tens of thousands of taels of silver, even for the current Jia family, is not a small amount, that slave dares to be so bold and presumptuous?

"Who is Regore?" Jia Mu, who had never spoken, finally spoke, her tone was calm, but anyone could hear the anger hidden.

The slave family's donor family doesn't know about it, and the donation is really lacking in the county order, and his own treasure jade has not donated the official, who is so presumptuous? She actually knew in her heart who it could only be, but even if she was eccentric, if she didn't speak out at this time, she was afraid that her two sons and daughter-in-law would rebel.