【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

Chapter 207 Grandmother Jia 9

"No one knows what will happen to the family in this lifetime. If there is a mistress who can always stay sober in the most difficult times, it is a blessing for the family and also the most precious thing."

"I'm relieved that you can figure it out."

Soon, Jia Zhen's fiancée was decided. She was Gu Qinghe, the eldest daughter of Gu An, who passed the imperial examination in the previous year. Lady Gu was now a fifth-rank academician in the Hanlin Academy. She had a very good future and would gradually rise in the ranks to become a close minister to the emperor.

The Gu family was also a family with a clean and upright family tradition, and the Ningguo Mansion's reputation had not yet deteriorated. He promised to buy her son an official position as the deputy commander of the Five Cities Military Department, a seventh-rank official, after the marriage, so that he could do his job well. The marriage was quickly settled.

As for Yun Xi, she, as a tool, had nothing to do. Jia Hu had received education in school and was taught very well. Jia Lian was still young, and the two children were being raised by their mother.

Therefore, she prepared to teach Jia Min well. She felt that the music, chess, calligraphy and painting that Jia Min had learned were really not practical. They were only used for romantic occasions. But was it reasonable for a mistress of a house to engage in romantic pursuits?

"Mother, Min'er greets you. What do you want to talk to me about?"

Jia Min walked over gracefully with a faint smile on her face, and her manners were very standard.

"Why are you still acting like that when you're here? Come and sit down." Yun Xi pulled her to sit beside her and said affectionately, "I've been free lately, so I have to teach you. Here's a deed for a two-story shop on East Street. It was previously rented out for a cloth business. Now the contract has expired and the other party hasn't renewed the lease, so I want to give you this shop to practice."

Jia Min held the deed in her hand and said in surprise, "Mother, there's no need for that. The servants will take care of it anyway."

"You silly child, quickly throw this idea away, throw it away completely. You are marrying the eldest son of the Lin family and the only heir, not those second sons and illegitimate sons. In the future, you will be the head of the family and manage all the family assets. If you don't understand, you will be fooled by the servants and embezzled." Yun Xi tapped her forehead unhappily. "The Lin family has been a marquis for four generations. It has been a single-line family for several generations. It has only income and no expenditure. The dowry of the mistress of the house alone is probably several times more than yours. Add to that the accumulated wealth, the number is enormous. If you don't learn how to manage it well, won't people laugh at you for being a girl from the Jia family who is only good-looking? What will your niece Yuanchun say about them in the future?"

"Not to mention ours, which can't even compare to the Lin family. Earlier, I took your eldest sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, and you to check the accounts at the shop and the farm. The corrupt shopkeeper, the farm steward who falsely reported drought and hail in the farm, were all servants the Jia family once trusted. Weren't they all tempted by profit and betrayed?"

"There are also various rules and regulations that you must learn. Didn't you see that after your father passed away, mother dealt with the items that were not in accordance with etiquette and the extra servants, and arranged the house in accordance with the standards of the Earl's Mansion. By the way, she also dealt with some careless servants. There is a lot of knowledge involved."

Jia Min's expression changed several times, and finally she listened attentively with a red face.

"Officials of different ranks use furniture of certain specifications, and they should have a certain number of servants. These are all very particular. Otherwise, if you violate taboos, you will be labeled as a rebel and the whole family will be destroyed. When you go out to socialize with other people's wives, give gifts during festivals, and so on, if you don't understand etiquette and can't speak well, it will also affect your partner's career. As the mistress of the house, if you don't learn this time, who do you want to do it?"

These words left Jia Min speechless. Zhang, who was about to come in, quickly picked up Jia Lian and left.

Jia Min stammered, "Mother, I'll just learn it."

"That's right. You can practice your skills in this shop. I'll give you a farm to practice on at the end of the year. Your dowry is missing some gems and precious medicinal herbs, and I need to prepare them for you. Being a mother is really stressful, and I'll be worried about you when you have children, too."

Yun Xi said she was thirsty, so she sent Jia Min away, sipped the fine Laojunshan tea, and pondered the original work.

Another quarter of an hour later, Zhang came and said, "The daughter-in-law pays her respects to the mother."

Yun Xi came back to her senses, "Why are you here, Boss's wife? Please sit down."

"Mother, several more children want to come to our school today, and I'm here to report." Zhang hesitated and said, "There are also some things from the public treasury that I was allocated earlier. I found a basement in the main storehouse. There are, there are, two hundred thousand taels of gold and two million taels of silver."

Yun Xi opened her eyes wide. She had counted the things in the public treasury before and thought that each of the two brothers could get treasures worth more than 500,000 taels of silver. She didn't expect that this was only the small part, and the big part was still below.

Yun Xi understood Zhang's intentions. If they were to spread the news, the second wife would have to share half. Who would want that? According to the rules, giving half of the family property to the second wife was a unique practice in the capital. In most families in the capital, the majority of the family property was left to the eldest son to avoid the property being divided up. The law stipulated that the sons would share equally, but who would actually do that? The law was the law, and the ancestral rules were the ancestral rules.

"As for the school, any family with a good reputation can accept it. If there are not enough teachers, I will let Sheer find a way. These will be connections in the future."

"As for the gold and silver, don't tell anyone about it. Leave it to Hu'er in the future. If he chooses to be a civil servant, it will be difficult to get a title. This title will be passed down from generation to generation, and there will always be a day when it will be gone. With money, you will have the capital to rise." Yun Xi said after thinking about it.

Did she covet the money? No, because she had given one-third of the silver ore, gold, silver and jewelry she collected on the previous mission to Lian Cheng and his team, one-third was distributed by the system to the PLA in various planes, and one-third was kept.

The money Zhang mentioned was not even one-fifth of the money in her space. She had 20 million silver coins and countless treasures.

Zhang's eyebrows were filled with joy. "Thank you, old lady, for thinking about Hu'er."

"You, on one side are the ancestral rules, on the other side are the laws. Don't blame me for being partial. Before your father-in-law passed away, the late emperor wanted your eldest wife to inherit the title, and the second wife to live in Rong Xi Tang and inherit the family property, intending to split the Jia family. Fortunately, God has a vision. This is all your mother can do for the eldest wife. You should persuade the eldest wife to please the emperor and don't let this matter be exposed."

Yun Xi pulled her close and whispered in her ear. Zhang's eyes widened, her heart chilled. The Jia family fought for the imperial court, and the first Duke of the two mansions died early from injuries. The father of the neighboring Jing Ge died even earlier. The father-in-law here also inherited the Duke's position through his own efforts, but he died early, and he was still suspected...

Yun Xi gave her a detailed analysis. "It's good that you understand this matter. Your father-in-law and Jing'er are tactless. Your father-in-law has inherited the title of Duke, but he has sent She'er and Jing'er to serve as the Crown Prince's companion and supporter, respectively. What is he trying to do? Do he want to create another family with two Dukes? How can the royal family not be wary?"