Chapter 465 Account
Mrs. Zeng told Xia Zihan, "I have fifty thousand taels of silver, which I have made in Zhuangzi in the past few years. I planned to use all of it to buy a dowry for you. Now, you and Brother Xi will have one share each. I don't favor anyone." .”
It has been eight years since Mr. Chu Ge passed away. There are six villages in the Chu family, with a total income of seven to eight thousand taels of silver per year. There are also three shops with a rent of one or two thousand taels of silver each year. There is also a dowry for Chu Jiahui. Several Zhuangzi have an income of six to seven thousand taels of silver every year.
These profits, according to calculations, should be left to Xia Zihan, but Xia Zihan refused to accept this income from the beginning.
She said to Manager Lu and Mrs. Zeng, "I will take away all of my mother's dowry in the future, but before I get married, the income from the village and the shop will be put into the account in the front yard. I won't take it." ”
Calculated in this way, the Chu family earns nearly 17,800 taels of silver a year. However, the Chu family has a small population and saves money, so it cannot spend even 10,000 taels of silver a year.
The Chu family was attacked twice and many servants died. Zeng paid two pensions. Otherwise, Zeng could have saved more money.
Xia Zihan would also add some silver to the Chu family's account every month for daily chewing. In eight years, Zeng had saved fifty thousand taels of silver.
"The 30,000 taels of silver will be used to buy some family property for Brother Xi, and the other 30,000 taels of silver will be used to buy your dowry. The remaining 20,000 taels of silver will be left half for me to handle the funeral affairs, and the remaining half will be given to Brother Xi. He is now working as an errand in Yinlin Guard, so these expenses will definitely be indispensable..."
Mrs. Zeng gave a detailed account of the silver in her hand, and then said, "Grandma knows that you have silver in your hand, but it belongs to you. Grandma gives it to you because of her heart. You can't refuse."
"You should keep the Zhuangzi and the shop. When you get married, you should also keep the Zhuangzi and the shop that your mother was married to. I won't lose Brother Xi here either."
"I will divide the treasures in my warehouse into four parts. One part will be used as a dowry for you. You take it to the Chu family and leave it to your children in the future. One part will be used as a betrothal gift for Brother Xi, and the remaining two parts will be all Give it to Brother Xi to support the facade in the future.”
"Also, I have a house in Jiangnan, a separate courtyard in the capital, and a hilltop outside the city, all planted with trees. That hilltop was a dowry given to me by my mother. In the first year of my marriage, The trees have been planted for forty years, and they are probably ready to be cut down. Mr. Lu estimated that the trees on that hilltop can be purchased for at least one hundred thousand taels of silver. I plan to leave these to Brother Xi."
Zeng made such a distinction, and it was obvious that she regarded Chu Yuexi very seriously and truly regarded him as the continuation of the Chu family.
"Grandma divides things like this, Yuniang, do you blame grandma for turning towards Brother Xi?" Mrs. Zeng stared closely into Xia Zihan's eyes.
You know, those Zhuangzi shops are not worth much money, the trees on the top of the mountain are really valuable, and the treasures in her warehouse are also really valuable things.
But she didn't leave a single tree for Xia Zihan. Even the treasures in the warehouse, she only left a small part for her, and a large part for Chu Yuexi. She was worried that Xia Zihan would say she was partial. , after all, if she had not adopted Chu Yuexi, all these things would have belonged to Xia Zihan.
Xia Zihan's expression stiffened for a moment, then her eyebrows turned into curves, not angry at all, and she said happily, "Grandma, it would be better for you to be more considerate to your brother. The better off your mother's family is, I will go to Chu's house in the future , the waist can be straighter and straighter.”
How could she covet the Chu family's property now that she holds gold and silver in her hands? Even if her grandmother left all the Chu family's property to Chu Yuexi, she would not blame her grandmother.
The Chu family adopted Chu Yuexi, and everything about the Chu family should have been left to him. This was something she had thought through before adopting him.
If she cared, she would not have suggested that his grandmother adopt him from the beginning.
But...
Grandma has a hilltop. This is the first time she knows about it.
The trees on that hilltop were more than forty years old and could be cut down, and could be sold for one hundred thousand taels of silver. This news, it must be said, shocked her.
She was shocked, not that the Chu family still had this family business, she was shocked, but she was shocked by this matter.
In the previous life, when my grandmother was dying of illness, she told her the funeral arrangements, but she did not tell her about the mountain. Instead, she told her that she had handed over all the Chu family's properties to General Manager Lu, saying that General Manager Lu would take care of them. She takes care of everything.
At that time, with Song Huai around, her grandmother didn't explain clearly and just asked her to go to Manager Lu.
Later, her grandmother passed away. She was immersed in the pain of losing her loved ones and didn't care about anything.
After his grandmother was buried, Song Huai coaxed her to take back all the things in Manager Lu's hands. Then, Song Huai said that Manager Lu was corrupt and forced him to leave.
Then, he talked sweetly and sold everything she had.
A total of more than 50,000 taels of silver were sold, and only more than 10,000 taels were given to her.
But think about it now, that piece of mountain is not worth the price.
She guessed that Song Huai must have not sold the hilltop, but was waiting to cut down the trees and sell the wood.
Otherwise, it is not worth fifty thousand taels of silver.
The Chu family's house, the six villages, three shops, and a courtyard could all be sold for 50,000 taels of silver.
And the treasures in grandma’s storehouse.
The Chu family house was also sold by Song Huai, and Song Huai also handled the contents. She had never seen any of the treasures in the warehouse, and she knew that Song Huai must have embezzled them.
At that time, she lost her grandmother and was seriously ill. She didn't want to take care of anything and relied on Song Huai to take care of everything. Now that she thinks about it, the Song family has almost all the Chu family's family property, not the superficial one hundred thousand taels she thought. Property of silver.
Song Huai...this wolf-hearted thing. After getting hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the Chu family, not only did he kick her, but he also watched her marry a gambler and didn't even support her with a penny.
Xia Zihan's heart boiled like hot water. She suddenly wanted to catch Song Huai and beat him severely.
And Xia Ziying.
Xia Ziying got all her dowry, which was tens of thousands of taels of silver, but she refused to borrow even a few hundred taels of silver from her, and even asked her mother-in-law to beat her to death.
These two people...
Thinking of the hatred from his previous life, Xia Zihan suddenly felt that the revenge given to Song Huai was not enough.
And Xia Ziying... hum, this is just the beginning.
Not only did she want her to be ruined, but she also wanted her to live in pain all her life, unable to survive or die.
She wanted her to live a life that would be worse than death for the rest of her life.
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After learning about the Chu family's hilltops, although he could earn a hundred thousand taels of silver in one fell swoop, Xia Zihan still felt that the Chu family's family fortune was a bit thin.
In the capital, there are many families with hundreds of shops, hundreds of villages, and thousands of hectares of fields.
As for Chu Xuanyu, he has bought hundreds of shops and more than sixty shops. She once heard Chu Jingqi mention that Chu Xuanyu bought a whole street of shops in a big city in the south of the Yangtze River, hundreds of shops, one year. The rent is tens of thousands of taels of silver.
Chu Xuanyu's property has an annual income of more than 100,000 taels of silver. Although the Chu family's income on the top of the mountain is 100,000 taels of silver, that is the income that the Zeng family accumulated over more than 40 years. Calculated on an annual basis, the income is only 2,500 taels of silver per year, which is not much at all.
Even if Mrs. Zeng buys some more property for Chu Yuexi, the land near the capital is expensive, and every inch of land is precious. How many houses can she buy with thirty thousand taels of silver?
Excluding the income from Chu Jiahui's dowry and Zhuangzi's shop, and Zeng's purchase of some more, the Chu family's annual income is only about 15,000 taels of silver.
It was still pitifully small, not as much as her shop's annual income.
After Xia Zihan returned to the study, he hid in the study alone, writing and drawing, thinking about what kind of property he could buy for the Chu family.
Chu Yuexi was a promiscuous person who didn't like to take care of the common affairs. She probably didn't even bother to listen. The second housekeeper Cui was taking care of the common affairs outside the house.
But the second steward Cui is only one person. No matter how capable he is, he can't do all the work. If there are too many properties, he may not be able to handle it all by himself.
Therefore, it is better to buy a shop and rent it out, which is easier than buying a shop. If you buy a shop, you still have to prepare the shop owner and long-term workers. If there are more people under your hands, there will be more things to do, and Butler Cui will be overwhelmed.
After much thought, Xia Zihan decided to buy some more shops for the Chu family, just as she would provide some pocket money for Chu Yuexi and Qinghui's children.
Xia Zihan smiled when he thought about this.
The next day, she wrote a letter to Nuanxiang, asking her to buy shops in Jiangnan, preferably street by street, so that they could rent them out and collect rent, so that the shops would not be scattered and it would be difficult to collect rent. convenient.
He also found the head of the farm and asked him to take the money to Huaihuai City to see if there were any shops or villages and buy some.
Huaicheng is close to the capital, and the property is easy to manage. She plans to buy some more villages for herself.
"Go to He Donglin and ask him to give you some guards."
Finally, Xia Zihan said to Tianzhuang again.
Gianzhuang bowed his head and responded quickly.
He Donglin came on duty on the fourth day after getting married, and Hongmei stayed at home, doing housework and sewing, and would come over to talk to Zeng in the afternoon.
"Princess, the old lady came to see you and said that she has something to discuss with you." Qingya knocked on the door and walked in, followed by Silk Grass who was guarding outside.
"I'll go right away." Xia Zihan stood up, smoothed her hair from her forehead, straightened her clothes, and then followed Qingya to Zeng's house.
Mrs. Zeng came to her to discuss adding makeup to Xia Ziying.
"Anyway, she is your half-sister. I will also give her a make-up, and you prepare another one for her."
Although she didn't like Xia Ziying, she, the Chu family, couldn't ignore this principle and let people talk about it.
(End of chapter)