"The monthly salary of these servants is more than 700 taels. Adding the monthly salary of the master's generation, the expenditure exceeds a thousand taels."
"This does not include the silver reward given to the servants."
Lin Jiayue looked through the account in her hand and saw that the monthly rewards for her servants totaled more than ten pages. She made a rough estimate and found that this item alone had an extra two hundred taels of silver.
"There are also house repairs, cloth, paper and ink, supplies for various warehouses, food procurement..."
Those accounts make people dizzy and frightened.
"Although the Hou Mansion still has several profitable businesses, like Zhuangzi, but they all rely on the weather and annual income. The income from my ice shop and rouge shop is now the main source of income for the Hou Mansion."
Lin Jiayue pursed her lips, feeling increasingly unwilling.
She is almost entirely responsible for the maintenance of such a large Hou family, but she still has to look at people's faces everywhere?
Throwing the account book with a bang, Lin Jiayue raised her eyebrows in anger and sneered: "No wonder when we were playing cards, my wife praised me as someone who can make money, and I thought she was praising me for making cards for her."
"Now that I think about it, she was talking about my two shops."
"No wonder she would mention it every time, intentionally or unintentionally, asking me to find another way to make a living. She was originally waiting for me here."
Lin Jiayue gritted her teeth and was furious.
She originally thought that she could get the richest gift in the house because she was clever and smart, and she made Jiang's mother so happy every day that she didn't even care about the old lady's life or death. Little did she know that they had already planned to hand over this hot potato to her.
After all, looking at this mess, if she really had any money-making projects in her hands, would she not take them out?
Lin Jiayue's face turned pale as she clenched her hands into fists.
Jiang's mother was right. Even if she didn't have a profitable business, she would still create a few.
When she first entered the Marquis's residence, the old lady and Jiang's mother regarded her as if she was nothing. No one would even pay attention to her words, as if she didn't exist. But after earning money from Bingpu and Yanzhipu, how did Jiang's mother treat her? How did the servants treat her?
In the inner courtyard of the Hou Mansion, she has no name, no status and no background. If she wants to defeat Song Wan, she must prove her ability and hold the power of the manor!
Lin Jiayue understood that people must prove their worth before they are qualified to be looked upon highly, but...
She just wasn't willing to give in.
Song Wan is just from a better background than her, so he can stand in the clouds effortlessly, but she needs to support these vampires while trying to please them!
"Qianbi..."
"The slave is here."
Lin Jiayue lowered her eyes and spoke hesitantly after a long time: "I have become the concubine of the Hou family. If I want to leave, what can I do?"
Qian Bi was so frightened by her that she screamed and quickly stepped forward to cover her mouth.
"Auntie, please don't talk nonsense."
Qian Bi hugged Lin Jiayue and whispered in her ear: "Although I have never read or read, I understand human relations. My aunt is different from ordinary women. You are a heroine, more powerful than many men."
"In Xiuyan Pavilion, my aunt never treated us as servants, and she never disliked us eating and sitting together on weekdays."
"But no matter how powerful my aunt is, she can't get out of the palace."
"Don't think it's hard for me to speak harshly. I am a lowly person, and there is no difference between me and the servants. If I want to leave the master's house, I have only three ways to go."
"Either he made a mistake and was sold by the master, or given away by the master, or rewarded to other servants or guests."
"Servants who are sold out usually do not have a good end. They will shed their skin even if they are not dead. However, the Marquis has never given a concubine to entertain guests."
Lin Jiayue murmured: "What about the third item?"
"Escape from the house privately."
Qian Bi said: "My slave once heard that a concubine of a certain family had an affair with a servant in the mansion and wanted to run away from the mansion to elope. But in a place like the Marquis Mansion, it is absolutely impossible for my aunt to escape."
"There are people everywhere in the west part of the house. Even if you want to go for a walk in the courtyard when you get up at night, there will be women asking. Not to mention that there are corner gates in each courtyard. On the corner gates, there are not only women keeping watch, but also patrols. Even if she is lucky enough to get out of the Lan courtyard, it is absolutely impossible for my aunt to get out of the inner courtyard."
Qian Bi squatted down and restrained her voice a little: "Even if you really escape, you will definitely be captured within three days."
"No one, whether military or civilian, can get out more than a hundred miles without a road to lead them."
"My aunt doesn't have a house sticker or a fish scale charm, so where can I get directions?"
As she spoke, Qianbi shed tears: "Auntie, please don't think too much. There is no better place in the world than the Marquis Mansion."
If Lin Jiayue ran away, she would be the first to die! No matter what, Qian Bi wants to give up her idea.
"Now my aunt is deeply loved by the Marquis, and she has just taken over the power of managing the family in the mansion. When you give birth to the eldest son of the Marquis in the future, the entire Marquis' mansion will be under your control. Is there anything that my aunt wants?"
"Auntie, listen to this slave's advice and don't make any mistakes."
Raising her hand to wipe away the tears on Qianbi's face, Lin Jiayue nodded to show that she understood.
After regaining her composure, she took out the charcoal pen and paper and was slightly lost in thought.
One wrong step, one wrong step after another, he followed Jiang Xingjian into the Hou Mansion without knowing why, and now it is difficult to get out. And she did have feelings for Jiang Xingjian, and she was not willing to leave him like this.
Feeling unwilling to give in under the pressure, Lin Jiayue began to write and draw.
Early the next morning, she went to Jiangxiangyuan with a stack of drawing paper.
"Madam, how do you feel today? Are you still feeling tired?"
Jiang's mother smiled and said, "It's much better."
Lin Jiayueyan smiled at Yan Yan and said briskly: "Yueer thought about it all night yesterday and came up with a shop that can make money."
"Oh?" Mother Jiang's eyes were bright and the smile on her face was much more sincere: "What kind of business is it?"
"Yueer wants to open a shop selling groceries."
"groceries……"
Seeing that the smile on Jiang's mother's face faded by seven or eight points, Lin Jiayue lowered her eyes to hide the coldness in her eyes: "Yueer's grocery store is different from ordinary people. All the things sold in my store are sold in the whole of Shangjing... and even in the whole world. It’s the only one.”
"It's just that Yue'er is uneasy and wants to ask Madam for a correct word."
After hearing that there was only one in the world, Jiang's mother knew that this business was no different. She looked Lin Jiayue up and down and said after a moment: "If you have any requests, just tell me."
"Jia Yue comes from a humble background and has no support behind her. Although my wife and the Marquis treat me well, Yue'er is always scared and uneasy."
"Although I am now in charge of the central government in the mansion, I am still... not sure about it."
Jiang's mother frowned slightly when she heard this and thought for a long time before asking Yuanyang to bring a tooth plaque.
"This is my dental card. Just take it. You will be the one to make the decision in the future. But you must be cautious. If you are unsure about anything, just come and ask me, or ask the aunt in the mansion."
Lin Jiayue took it, agreed with a slight smile, and turned to leave.
Seeing this, Jiang's mother-in-law's mother-in-law raised a worried voice: "What are you doing, madam? Giving that little whore such great rights? In the future, when grandma sees the tooth tag that symbolizes your status, she will have to step aside. In this way, you and the big lady Grandma is completely divorced."
"So what if you are separated from your heart and not separated from your heart?"
Jiang's mother sighed: "In a family like ours, there are only two uses for marrying a wife. One is to make a good marriage partner and help Yi'er in his career. The other is to spread the branches of the family and carry on the family line and give birth to children who will inherit the ancestral business." people."
"Now that Song Wan can't do anything, what use do I need her for? And..."
Pressing her forehead gently, Mother Jiang's expression was rather stiff: "How many months have it been now? In Zhongqiu, I still have to make progress for the empress in the palace, and the pawprint of the Supervisor of Ceremonies has always had a terrifying appetite."
"In previous years, when Yi'er didn't come back, we all had to grit our teeth and tighten our stomachs to send him away for the sake of my mother-in-law. Last year, even the most promising Zhuangzi gave it away. I originally thought that this year I would have to sell the land of the tenants. How can I expect that a little bitch will pop out and solve my urgent need."
Lying on the couch with her forehead in her hands, Jiang's mother said quietly: "If she hadn't been in trouble over this little money, I would have kicked her out of the house on the spot at the previous banquet. How can I still allow her, a lowly person, to negotiate terms with me?"
