On the second day of November, Rongguo Mansion, East Living Room.
Mr. Jia had gold reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, his round body leaned forward slightly, his two fat and short arms were leaning on the desk, and the thousand-year-old tortoise also leaned his neck, staring at the emerald on the table. Bone fan.
"Good stuff, really good stuff!"
After a long while, he shook his head and straightened his back, carefully closed the jade-bone fan, and put it into the box.
Then, like an addict full of cigarettes, he smashed his entire body into the Taishi chair, his face full of intoxication like mud.
The material of this fan is very valuable, not to mention the authentic work of Cai Xiang, a calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty, so it cost Master Jia 1,700 taels of silver to bring this treasure home.
Redeem the treasure that was mortgaged before, and repay half of the debt [The other half of the creditor's identity and ability is not good enough, Master Jia is too lazy to pay back the debt], and after buying this treasured fan, Jia She can sell her daughter. Now more than 80% of the seven thousand taels of silver have gone away, and the rest is only about a thousand taels.
However, Jia She didn't think there was anything to worry about. Since Sun Shaozu was willing to pay 7,000 taels of silver to marry the Rongguo Mansion, and if he paid another 8,000 yuan, why would it matter
That's right~
In fact, Master Jia never thought of regretting his marriage at all.
Such a golden tortoise-in-law who is willing to take out real money, how would he be willing to push it to others? The reason for the pretentious attitude is just to sit on the ground and raise the price!
Ordinarily, if Sun Shaozong was fooled away the day before yesterday, Sun Shaozu should have come to the door in person in the past two days. At that time, should he open his mouth directly to him, or should he take it slow
These two options…
It's really hard to choose!
"Master, master!"
Master Jia was in a sweet trouble when he saw the housekeeper Zhou Rui burst in from the outside, out of breath and said: "Master, outside... there are people outside... there are people..."
"coming?!"
Jia She jumped up from the chair and said happily, "Then why are you standing here stupidly, why don't you invite someone in!"
In the past few days, he closed the door to thank guests and waited for the Sun family to come to the door. Therefore, Zhou Rui's report made him think that Sun Shaozu must have arrived.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Rui led the order out, and not long after he brought in a middle-aged man dressed as a butler.
Sun Shaozu only sent a housekeeper
Jia She was a little unhappy in her heart. When she saw that the butler held his head up high, he didn't even show any sign of awe, and he was even more unhappy. He thought that you masters are my future son-in-law, a little housekeeper. How dare you be so rude? !
So he didn't wait for the butler to speak, and asked in a harsh voice: "Why didn't your master come over in person?!"
The butler was stunned for a moment, but then he cupped his hands recklessly and said with a sneer, "My lord is busy with official business, so it is inconvenient for him to condescend."
"My lord?"
Jia She was a little dumbfounded, and blurted out, "Which prince?"
"Which prince could it be?"
The housekeeper bowed his hands to the sky and said proudly: "Of course it is King Zhongshun's old man - he is not talented, and he is appointed as the long history of the palace."
"Loyal... Loyal to the King of Loyalty?!"
Jia She's tongue was puffed up immediately, so what's the point of 'the master's respect', he hurriedly smiled and said, "Misunderstanding, this is a big misunderstanding! If I knew that Zunjia was the long history of the Zhongshun Palace. Don't dare to say such nonsense just now!"
"I said."
That Chang Shi sneered, pointed his nostrils at Jia She, and said, "I originally wanted to report back to the lord and let the old man come to the door to ask for advice in person. Seeing what General Jia means, it seems that there is no need for it."
"No need, naturally no need!"
Jia She shook his head like a rattle, and slanted his shoulders flatteringly: "Lord Changshi, please come to your seat—Zhou Rui, where have you died? Why don't you make a pot of good tribute tea for Mrs. Changshi!"
Although this Wangfu Changshi is only a fifth-rank official, he is a first-class confidant of each prince. Offending Changshi is like offending the prince himself, so Jia Shecai keeps his stature so low.
However, that Chang Shi did not intend to sit down, and still said arrogantly: "Xiaguan can't afford that tribute tea, let's talk about the serious business first - the lord heard yesterday that you have taken over from the patrol camp. Sun Can will give him a dowry of 10,000 taels of silver, and he will betroth the daughter of the palace to him."
"My lord loves liveliness the most, and has some friendship with both sides, so he specially sent a subordinate to send two gifts."
With that said, he waved to the door in a rebellious manner, and immediately someone brought in two snack boxes.
The chief officer pointed to the dim sum and said, "A box of 'Bai Shou Tong Xin' is for your house, and the box of 'Hundred Years of Good Harmony' will be sent to the Sun family."
When Jia She heard this, he was dumbfounded. The King Zhongshun only received some money to buy officials. As for me personally interfering in such private affairs
But he knew there that Sun Shaozu was really valued by King Zhongshun, in fact, the business route with an annual profit of more than 100,000 taels!
"how?"
Seeing that Jia She was stunned and didn't mean to go up to take the dessert, Chang Shi raised his eyebrows again and said displeasedly, "Could it be that General Jia is dissatisfied with the reward of the prince?"
"how come!"
It was only then that Jia She came to his senses, hurriedly stepped forward to take it with his own hands, and forced a look of gratitude, and said, "I'm overjoyed, I don't know what to do for a while!"
"That's good."
Chang Shi folded his hand and said, "In this case, the lower official will not bother, just wait for the next year when the palace is overjoyed, and then ask for a glass of water and wine."
Happy next year
Even the date of marriage was set for him!
Is this marrying his daughter by himself, or is the Zhongshun Palace going to marry his daughter? !
Seeing that the palace chief Shi Dajing stabbed away, Jia She's anger exploded in his heart, and he suddenly raised the two boxes of dim sum high, but after hesitating for a while, he finally didn't dare to fall to the ground.
He had no choice but to be careful, put the dessert next to Cai Xiang's fan, then picked up the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table, smashed it in a mess, and finally collapsed on the Taishi chair, panting like a cow.
However, he said that the long history of the palace acted flamboyantly, and when he spoke, he was full of anger. In addition, Jia She's fierce reaction, there was something tricky in it, and naturally he couldn't hide it from the nearby minions.
So after only half a day's work, the news that Jia Enhou sold his daughter for 10,000 taels of silver to General Sun of the Patrol Battalion spread all over the Rongning Second House as if he had grown legs.
Jia Yingchun, the party involved, naturally got the news.
But she just lost her words, as if she had evolved from two wood to two stones.
And the one who responded the most was Jia Baoyu, who has always called himself the messenger of flowers!