Chapter 65: The Short and the Long (1)
Although the dishes on "Bafanglou" are indeed delicious, they were disturbed by He Nansheng. Shen Rui and Chen Jue walked on the street for a while and went to two antique calligraphy and painting shops and were in a state of great pleasure.
However, when he reached West Street, Shen Rui slowed down with Chen Jue's pace.
Compared with East Street, West Street is more crowded with pedestrians, and shops are everywhere on both sides of the road. However, the restaurants, silver houses, antique shops, and silk shops on West Street are different. The places where guests are approached by inns, cloth houses, tea houses, and rice shops are concentrated here.
Chen Jue stopped and pointed to a two-story corridor in front and said, "That store was originally an industry under Aunt Yuan's name, but now it is under Shen Jin's name."
Shen Rui looked up and called the plaque that said "Huilai Inn" and a waiter came to him in front of the door, and the business looked good.
Shen Rui couldn't help but be surprised. Although Juren Chen is not as ignorant as he was three years ago, he doesn't seem to be able to manage business industries. After taking a closer look, he saw something was wrong. The plaque is new, but it doesn't seem to be of age.
"Has this inn been rented out?" Shen Rui said.
In recent years, Shen Rui has received news from Chen Quan or Chen Jue. No one has mentioned the follow-up of Shen Jin's half-drawing industry. Shen Rui only knew that after the distribution of the childbirth, it seemed that these industries were taken over by Shen Juren, and he did not ask about the follow-up. Otherwise, it would be like he would be reluctant to share the half.
Chen Jue nodded and said, "I heard that Uncle Yuan had been holding on for two and a half years, and it was not until this summer that he couldn't hold on. So he followed Aunt Hong's method to end several businesses and rented out the shops. The one who took over this inn was the third bedroom."
Three years ago, in the four-bedroom cemetery, Shen Rui and Chen Jin followed the order of Sun's family and divided the industries under the name of Sun's family by catching eunuchs. Shen Rui's name is a farm with twenty hectares, two cotton fields with eighteen hectares, a satin shop, a grocery shop, and three houses; Chen Jin's name is a farm with forty hectares, an inn, a rice shop, a cloth shop, and two houses.
Chen Jue didn't talk about this in vain. He actually saw that the fourth house didn't even prepare a carriage for Shen Rui yesterday. He felt uneasy. After returning home, he complained to the clan leader and the clan leader, Lao An was unkind. As a result, he realized that the fourth house is in a bad condition now. In recent years, Chen Juren helped Chen Jin manage that industry. Not only did he not make any money, he also lost a lot of money. Many people in the clan didn't like Chen Juren, and they were waiting to see him laugh at him.
I don’t know what the third bedroom said, but Juren Chen actually “smiles away his grudges” with them and rented several stores under Chen Jin’s name to the third bedroom. The third bedroom still opened an inn, rice shop and other business, but only changed the signboard and rented the fourth bedroom.
"I asked my grandfather carefully. Not only did Uncle Yuan’s shop deficit in the past few years, but he was also chased by the third and the ninth house three years ago. He had no money in his hand, but you saved money from the aunt in the fifth house. He carefully found a reason to ask for money from you. If you really want to open your mouth, how can you, a son, not give it?" Chen Jue said seriously.
There is no need to find a reason? Isn’t it a big deal that requires money?
This is a bad reputation for money to marry his son, but Chen Juren has a bad reputation, so he still cares about this?
Shen Rui said with some confusion: "Why can Aunt Hong think of this? Why don't you tell me?"
Chen Jue snorted softly, "You are thinking too much when doing things. Aunt Hong helps you manage your industry and avoid suspicion. If she mentions the half-in-property under Shen Jin's name to you, it would be like to provoke you father and son. The five houses have always been cautious in their actions, so how could they make such talk? However, Aunt Hong is a sensible person and truly cares about you, so she should be prepared. If you don't tell you, you are probably afraid that if you guess wrong, it will affect your father and son's relationship."
After hearing what Chen Jue said, Shen Rui remembered something.
Before Chen Li went to Beijing in October, he went to Xilin Zen Temple with the eldest wife of the fifth house and the eldest wife to see Shen Rui. He only said that he would go to Beijing to return to Beijing and need to buy property in Beijing. He also wanted to be filial to the officialdom. He didn't have enough money and wanted to borrow money from Shen Rui's name, so he would pay it back within three years.
The rents for the two shops and houses under Shen Rui's name are limited, only three to four hundred taels a year, and the cotton fields and the farmhouse are big. There is more than two thousand taels of silver a year for good weather. In three years, Guo has saved more than eight thousand taels of silver.
Shen Li had to use silver, and Shen Rui was completely unexplained. Shen Li wrote the IOU carefully, and the Zen Master Shen Hong and Hong Shan were the middlemen, borrowing 8,000 taels of silver from Shen Rui.
Shen Rui didn't think so much, because Chen Li was a Hanlin official, Qingshui Yamen, and was born in a branch of the nine-bedroom house, so he had no ancestral property. Even if Xie had a dowry, a big man would not be able to use his wife's dowry when he encountered a big event in buying a house. Chen Li did not want to use his wife's dowry when he encountered this.
He has protected him a lot in the past few years, and he is both a teacher and a brother. He is actually very happy to speak to him.
It is not easy to live in the capital, and you are just ready. Otherwise, how can you bear it for a few children? Even if there is a palace, the children of the Shen family will not be able to rely on the Yue family.
At that time, there were only about 500 taels of silver and money left in Guo's hand. Shen Rui then asked someone to take 300 taels from Guo's place, and before Shen Li left, he sent him to Lu Yi. When Shen Rui returned home after the mourning period, the money sent by Guo's hand was 200 taels, and the books were almost empty.
The income from the cotton fields and farms is delivered before the Double Ninth Festival, and only the shop rent will be paid for next year at the end of the year. In this way, before the Double Ninth Festival next year, the books on Guo’s house will be at most the few hundred taels of silver rent.
Shen Rui suddenly realized that he was crazy for a moment. Should Chen Li really borrow money, or did he act like this with Guo to be wary of the Shen Juren?
Shen Rui and Chen Juren are father and son. They can be wary of Chen Juren. As a son, Shen Rui should not think about these things. Otherwise, people will know that no one will pick on Chen Juren and be greedy, and they will only say that Shen Rui is unfilial and stingy.
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Shen’s house, Lao’an’s home, wing room.
Sister Zhang Si stood at the door and looked up from the crack in the door. Sister Zhang San frowned and said, "What are you doing, let me see it carefully?"
"Sister, my grandmother and my cousin quarreled, and my maid sent me out, I don't know what it was?" Sister Zhang was a little excited and said with a low voice.
Sister Zhang put down the shed in her hand, rubbed her wrist and said, "Why don't you do our business? Why bother with this?"
Sister Zhang rolled her eyes and said, "You can't just wait so idle, I'll go and listen."
Sister Zhang frowned and said, "Don't go, let people know that it's another lawsuit!"
Sister Zhang smiled and said, "Sister, don't worry, I'm just going to the back of the house to look for a cat, and I didn't mean to listen."
When they went to the room, the mother and maids were sent out, only Zhang Laoren and Chen Juren were there.
Juren Zhang sat on the chair with a gloomy face and could unscrew the water.
Zhang Lao'an was panting and glaring: "Brother Rui is ignorant, and Brother Jin is also following the same thing. You are like me, and you don't say anything and scold me, but you will take me down. Is there still an old woman in your eyes?"
"It's all my maids, why can't I serve my master? I have to send it to Brother Jin Rui?" Chen Juren snorted coldly, "I still think that my mother only 'respecting' Brother Rui. Fang trained his maid to serve, but he didn't expect that even Brother Jin did not leave. My son was confused. What did An Ren think? He insisted on seeing Brother Jin indulging in women and let him feel at ease if he failed the provincial examination?"
Zhang Lao'an was so angry that his eyes turned dark and said angrily: "Are you father, son and brother, both are close to each other, and the only old woman is a bad person? Brother Jin is my heart and soul, how could the old woman harm him? He is eighteen years later, and he has to go to Nanjing to prepare for the exam. What territory is Nanjing? He is a child outside, who knows if there are any sluts around him and he doesn't learn well. In order to mourn Sun, he has not even had a house in the past few years. How can I not worry? After all, two well-behaved directors were trained to be the housemates with him, but they were not afraid of being attracted to eat outside food. He was afraid that the old woman would be partial, so Fang also gave Brother Rui two. That Dongyue, you took it last night, and if you wanted to keep it, you would stay. The remaining three were left, so please send it to the side courtyard!"
Chen Juren sneered, "I just care about my grandson, so there is nothing else? It is said that mother and son are in love, and Anren even hides his son's behavior now? Didn't he specifically instruct these four maids to let them get close to the two sisters of the Zhang family even when they are in the front yard? His son will leave his words here now, whether it is Zhang Sanjie or Zhang Sijie, if he wants to enter my Shen family, he doesn't have any door, and he can't be even a concubine! Is Anren a member of the Zhang family or a wife of the Shen family? What should he do to destroy my Shen family's future? Not to mention Brother Rui, he is still young, so it's too early to say that he is close; only Brother Jin, if he has a cousin as a precious concubine, then what else would he give his daughter to him? Anren wants to pull the Zhang family, but his son doesn't care. I will definitely not allow it!"
Zhang Lao'an's plot was revealed, his face turned red and white, and he said with a stubborn face, "Listen to the slut, the slutty things, not to talk about the man, but to pull two innocent sisters in. If you don't tell a lesson, you believe these nonsense, what's going on? You are not a young boy, and you're old. When you cherish your body, smelly and smelly, you're really ridiculous. When your son is about to talk about marriage, he also takes care of his body. "At the end, the serious expression of the words also added confidence to the juren who was over 10 years old. He was scolded by his biological mother for being angry and was angry. He stood up in a hurry: "Why don't I care about decency? My family business has been ruined and there is no place to reason, but I just used a few maids to relieve my boredom, and asked Anren to talk! When I take the two in the east wing, it's not too late to say it again!" After that, he shook his sleeves and left with anger.
Zhang Lao'an was so angry that his whole body was trembling, waiting for Chen Juren's back: "This bastard, this bastard, he dared to say even if I think I'm dead..."
Chapter completed!