Chapter 909: Taking Joe
The day after the conversation with the emperor, Xia Zihan wrote a letter and sent Chu Lin to go to Huaihuai City to deliver the letter to Tianzhuangtou.
The letter told the head of the farm to sign over the grain produced every year by several of the Ma family's manors, and she wanted to buy it all.
In addition to the Ma family's manor, there are other estates. Sign as many as you can. If you encounter someone selling a estate or estate, just buy it directly.
In addition to the letter, Chu Lin also asked Chu Lin to bring 200,000 taels of silver notes.
After Tianzhuangtou received the letter, he went to Ma's house with Chu Lin the next day.
In today's Ma family, Ma Tong, the Ma family's son-in-law, is in charge of matters in the front yard, and Ai Shi, Ma Tong's beloved concubine, is in charge of matters in the inner courtyard.
As for Mrs. Ma, she is already dead, and Ma Qiuxia has been ill since Mrs. Ma's death. No matter how much medicine she took, she was not cured. Now, she is terminally ill and only has one breath left.
On weekdays, there was only one old woman to serve her, but she could not eat, drink or have sex. Ma Qiuxia's food was always deducted by Ai Shi in various pretexts. She could not eat good food on weekdays, and even the soup and medicine for her treatment were missing. A meal.
Ai Shi said that her illness could not be cured, and drinking decoctions and medicines was a waste of money, and more than a hundred people in the Ma family had to eat. The household spent hundreds of taels of silver on chewing food every day, but several manors were sold in a year. If all the remaining silver was consumed by Ma Qiuxia's decoction, what would everyone in the Ma family eat and drink?
Ai Shi's words were eloquent, and Ma Qiuxia was furious, but she could not compete with Ai Shi as a patient. What's more, Ai Shi had Ma Tong's help. Even if Ma Qiuxia was not sick, she could not compete with two of them alone.
After Ai Shi got Ma Tong's help, she became even more harsh on Ma Qiuxia. She canceled all the snacks and fruits she usually received, and only gave her two bowls of porridge, a plate of pickles, and two large steamed buns a day for her to eat twice. .
There wasn't even any vegetables or meat to be seen.
Ma Qiuxia's body itself collapsed due to childbirth. As a result, her body and bones were getting worse day by day.
When Tianzhuangtou brought Chu Lin to Ma Mansion, Ma Qiuxia was already in the sunset.
As for Ma Tong, when he heard that the head of the farm wanted to sign several of his large estates, he was stunned for a moment. Serious illness, daily decoction and medicine Now, my wife has passed away, and I have spent a lot of money. Now, Ma Mansion can no longer make ends meet. No, these days I am considering whether to sell two manors to ease the family's expenses."
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Ma Tong revealed that he wanted to sell the manor.
The name he used was justifiable, because he wanted to provide medical treatment for his brother-in-law and his wife. In this way, even if he occupied the Ma family's property, he would be praised by the blind people for his filial piety and benevolence. Not only did he support a paralyzed child in bed His brother-in-law also had to support a wife who was seriously ill in bed.
No matter what happened to Ma Mansion, the head of the farm was very happy when he heard that he was selling the manor, and immediately negotiated the price with Ma Tong, "Before, my princess bought the manor from Mrs. Ma for 45,000 taels of silver. One, although those manors are not as big as the ones you have, let’s add two thousand taels of silver, what do you think?”
Ma Tong's face immediately dropped, "Tianzhuangtou, Mrs. Ma would sell it so cheaply at that time. Others didn't know the inside story, but I know it. You can't always make us suffer, can you? Even if the princess comes, she can't force her There is no such thing as buying and selling. ”
Back then, Mrs. Ma would sell the manor to Xia Zihan at 20% off the market price. That was because Xia Zihan rescued Ma Qiuxia, who had been kidnapped, intact.
Mrs. Ma was willing to suffer a loss out of gratitude.
But now, Mrs. Ma is dead, and the kindness that the Ma family owed to Xia Zihan has been repaid when Mrs. Ma was alive. Now, if he wants to sell the manor, he doesn't need to sell it at a 20% discount based on who's face.
Why should he give them a discount?
Huh... isn't he just a princess?
She couldn't control him.
Ma Tong, who once gained power, thought so proudly that he even forgot that he was once just the meanest servant in Ma's house. The head of the farm frowned, "Then what price do you want to sell it for?"
"Seventy thousand taels of silver each. Sell four of them together, not even a penny less." Ma Tongshizi said loudly.
Today, Ma Mansion still has five manors.
Three of Ma's original ten manors were sold to Xia Zihan, and one was sold to Butler Cui. When Mr. Ma died, Ma Tong secretly sold one, and it was also bought by Xia Zihan.
He sold 50,000 taels of silver and gave 10,000 taels of silver to his parents to buy a house and shop. The remaining tens of thousands taels of silver were spent on the funerals of Mr. Ma and Mrs. Ma, and more than half of them were spent on the funerals. The remaining bits and pieces were spent bit by bit. He gave Ai Shi some jewelry and clothes.
As for the Ma family's chewing expenses, they use the annual income of the five manors.
Now that Ma Tong had no money, he wanted to sell the manor so that he could keep the money. At the same time, he saw that Ma Qiuxia would not live long, and he was worried that once Ma Qiuxia died, relatives of the Ma family would come to snatch the property.
After Ma Qiuxia dies, and once Master Ma dies and the Ma family is gone, the Ma family's relatives will have the right to take away the Ma family's property.
If it was the manor and relatives of the Ma family came to rob it, he couldn't stop it. After all, he was just the son-in-law of the Ma family, not the young master of the Ma family.
But if it is money, he only needs to hide it. Even if the relatives of the Ma family come, they will not be able to find the silver. And the manor was sold to Princess Chu Yu. The relatives of the Ma family are afraid of Princess Chu Yu's power and will not dare to mess around.
However, he couldn't sell all the manor, he had to keep one.
As long as those people got some advantages, they wouldn't bother him. If he didn't keep any money, he would lose his life even if he had so much money.
Relatives of the Ma family are not easy to fool.
Ma Tong had a small calculation in his mind, but the price quoted was not much more than a penny.
I heard that Princess Chuyu is rich and has a lot of money. She shouldn't care about spending more money, right?
Ma Tongxin looked at Gianzhuangtou nervously, and when he saw that Gianzhuangtou was just beautiful, he didn't say it was expensive or buy it.
Ma Tong became anxious and repeated, "Seventy thousand taels of silver each. If you don't buy it, I will sell it to someone else. There are many people in Huaicheng who can buy large estates. As long as I let the news out, I'm afraid it won't happen." After two days, someone will come to your door.”
At the end, Gianzhuangtou was slightly excited.
Tianzhuangtou has been with Xia Zihan for many years, and he has seen a lot of people in the world. What kind of person has he not seen before? Ma Tong... He was born as a young boy, and he became the master of the Ma family with his wife's financial resources. Pretend in front of him, bluff, pretend to be a wolf with a big tail, and want to take advantage of him, hum...
The head of the farm saw through Ma Tong's plan.
He stood up without changing his expression and said, "Okay, then you can spread the word first, and I will come back in a few days."
(End of chapter)