"Auntie, are you saying that Sister Huaisu can't be trusted?"
Lin Jiayue shook her head: "If she wants to show her kindness to me now, what she says must be true, but it's hard to say what will happen in the future."
After making a bowl of ice cheese for Qian Bi, which the little girl loved to eat, Lin Jiayue thought carefully about Huai Su's words.
She had made fools of herself several times before, all because she didn't understand the current rules, etiquette, customs, etc. She didn't understand how important those red tapes were to this group of people, so she made mistakes in them many times.
Although Lin Jiayue felt that both Song Wan and Huai Su were hypocrites, she had to admit that it was right to follow the locals.
"You sew a purse for me today, and then put some broken silver into it. Also prepare one yourself and put some copper coins in it."
Qianbi blinked: "How much silver should I put in?"
"Just put three to two or five taels every day."
Qian Bi was a little embarrassed: "But there is not much money left in my aunt's makeup box."
"How can it be?"
Lin Jiayue opened the makeup box containing valuables and saw a few broken silver ingots inside, which only amounted to fifty or sixty taels.
"My aunt only has one tael of silver per month. There was some money in the makeup box before, but during this time you were playing cards with the old lady, and it has already hit the bottom in a few days."
Lin Jiayue frowned hard, feeling a little uncomfortable.
After arriving at the Hou's Mansion, her food and clothing were distributed by the Hou's Mansion, and she was locked up in the backyard together on weekdays. She never went out since she came in. She had no place to spend money, so she naturally forgot the importance of money.
The silver and the bag of golden beans in the box now were given to her by Jiang Xingjian when she first entered the house. She had never rewarded servants before, but just now she saw that Huai Su was tight-lipped and generously grabbed a handful of golden beans for her, just because she felt that there was no need for money in the Hou Mansion.
"If I had known earlier, I would have arrested fewer people."
Lin Jiayue bit her lip, feeling increasingly awkward.
She was busy all day long helping the Hou Mansion to open a rouge shop and an ice cream shop, and the money she earned flowed into the public accounts like water every day, but she ended up with no money at all?
"No, I have to open a few shops for myself."
Qianbi said: "How can my aunt open a shop? I have never heard of a woman opening a shop."
"Why can't women open a shop?"
Qianbi nodded: "To open a shop, you need to write a deed. How does a woman write a deed?"
Lin Jiayue was puzzled: "Why can't women write deeds?"
After thinking for a long time, Qianbi eyes said with confusion: "I don't know why, maybe the law doesn't allow it. Otherwise, I want to find the steward from the outer courtyard, and my aunt can ask her?"
Lin Jiayue nodded, and Qianbi quickly brought back a middle-aged woman wearing indigo silk.
"Just now Qianbi said that women cannot open shops, is this true?"
The woman smiled and said, "It is true."
"When a woman marries her father and follows her husband at home, she cannot have private wealth, and it is not easy for a woman to appear in public, so how can she get involved in the business of a merchant? The only private wealth a woman can have is the dowry. Although there is some Zhuangzi pavilion in the ordinary dowry, but Most of them are under the name of the shopkeeper."
"These shopkeepers are all born into the same family, or they are in the hands of their masters, so they are considered safe."
Lin Jiayue bit her lip, becoming increasingly depressed.
dowry……
Of course she doesn't have that kind of thing anymore, she's a concubine!
"Besides dowry, there is no other way for women to buy property?"
"Yes, there are. If you go to the Yamen and set up a female household, you can also do business. However, this female household needs to have no men in the family, that is, a widow without a husband and children."
“……”
Lin Jiayue frowned fiercely.
"That means I want private property, but is there any way?"
The mother-in-law looked shocked: "What did my aunt say? How can a woman have private property? Hiding private money is equivalent to theft, which is one of the seven crimes, let alone a private property shop."
No wonder those women in the inner house broke their heads for the right to be the head of the house. How can they live in the back house without any wealth or dowry?
The more Lin Jiayue thought about it, the angrier she became. Bingpu and Yanzhipu had already been handed over, so how could they get them back?
The money was first introduced into the public school, and even Jiang Xingjian couldn't spend a cent, let alone her.
With a bang, Lin Jiayue slapped her palm on the table: "It seems that I have to fight for the right to be the head of the family, whether I want to or not!"
After thinking about it, she took the bag of golden beans and led Qianbi to the house to find someone to exchange for silver.
In the next few days, Lin Jiayue changed her usual style of doing things and took care of things very carefully. When visiting Jiang's mother, she always kept in mind the rules, words and deeds taught by Grandma Li.
However, after pretending for five or six days, Jiang's mother happily handed over the palace to her at the card table.
"I wrongly blamed you in the past and thought you were not doing things well."
After happily taking the money from Lin Jiayue, Jiang's mother looked at the drawer full of harvests and smiled from ear to ear.
"Yuanyang, bring the pieces of yarn given to you by the palace last year and let Aunt Lin and Huai Suhaosheng choose between them."
She casually grabbed a handful of broken silver from the small drawer and happily rewarded it to the maid in the house.
The money was nothing to her. Even if it were multiplied a hundred times or a thousand times, it would still not buy half of the soft yarn that was given to the two of them.
But what you win from others is to make people feel happy, which is far greater than its own value.
"Thank you Madam for the reward. Madam's card goes smoothly. Jiayue will no longer be polite to you."
Da Fang chose a piece she liked, and Lin Jiayue pulled Huai Su to choose one too. The two of them walked out of Jiangxiangyuan holding the cloth. She suddenly said: "Do you have any plans for this cloth?"
Huaisu shook his head: "But what does Aunt Lin want to do?"
Passing the cloth in his hand to Lin Jiayue, Huaisu said, "If Aunt Lin likes it, just take it."
"Then I won't be polite to you."
Lin Jiayue didn't explain and took the horse from Huai Su's hand.
At noon the next day, she carried two sets of almost identical long dresses to Huai Su's room: "Yesterday I asked Qian Bi to send them to the embroidery room in Fuzhong to have them made. Come and see which one you like?"
Huaisu was startled when he looked at the floor-length skirt, and chose one at random under Lin Jiayue's constant urging.
The two of them changed into their clothes behind the screen. Lin Jiayue said with a smile: "It really looks good. Why don't I show my wife the clothes and make her happy?"
Before Huaisu could refuse, Lin Jiayue pulled her and ran out of the house.
As soon as they left the Xiuyan Pavilion, they met Song Wan in the Lan courtyard, who was collecting impatiens flowers with Heng Zhi Heng Wu and preparing to dye them with cinnamon.
Song Wan raised his eyes and looked at the two people who were dressed exactly the same, with a slight smile on his lips, but Huai Su's blood faded, and he lowered his head with a white face.
Lin Jiayue glanced at her and said to Song Wan with a smile: "Grandma is very interested. I wonder if she will be busy for a while? Madam handed over the imperial gift to me yesterday. There are many things I don't understand, and I need to ask you for advice." yes."
Looking back, Song Wan said in a warm voice: "I'm not busy, I'll be waiting for you at any time."
