Chapter 61

They were all in an uproar.

They all wanted to plead with Jia Hui and were unwilling to leave.

Jia Yun lowered his face:

"Leave now, and you can get 5 taels of silver as severance pay."

"If you refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit, then you get nothing, and you'll all be beaten out with sticks!"

This was the first thing Jia Hui entrusted to him as the new steward.

He absolutely had to do it well.

Lin Gui and the others were terrified when they saw Wei Xu and the others, who were murderous and carried knives and sticks.

They didn't dare to make trouble.

Obediently, one by one, they took the money.

Then they left the Jia Fu dejectedly!

No one felt good about being driven out of their home in the middle of winter.

Fortunately, the five taels of silver warmed their bodies and hearts a little.

And from this point on,

after Lin Gui and the others left,

except for Jia Yun,

there were basically no outsiders in the Jia family.

Sister Sister Xiren and Hearing Hearing Qingwen were Jia Hui's servants.

Plus they had already surrendered their hearts.

And Jia Yun was also loyal to Jia Hui.

The others were all loyal to the death.

From then on, both the inner and outer courtyards were Jia Hui's confidants.

He didn't have to worry about what he said.

Even how many times he did things with women wouldn't be passed on to others.

Unlike the Rong and Ning Prefectures, which were completely Love Love Like a sieve.

Every word and action of theirs,

who they met,

what they said,

time, place, person, process!

It was all in the hands of the two emperors and the Retired Emperor.

After dismissing the people,

looking at Jia Yun who was reporting back, Jia Hui nodded with satisfaction: "Very good."

"Now let's go shopping."

He told Jia Yun about the need to purchase a large amount of materials for the Jia Fu, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea,

as well as the matter of purchasing betrothal gifts for the Qin family.

Jia Yun was mentally prepared for this.

He agreed immediately.

Then the group went out in a grand manner.

Wei Xu stayed at home with 100 personal guards.

Jia Hui, Jia Yun, Sister Sister Xiren, Hearing Hearing Qingwen, plus 50 servants and 10 Bingzhou Wolf Riders left the Jia Fu in a grand manner.

They went to the commercial street in the East City.

As for Gao Shun, early in the morning, at dawn, he quietly took 50 soldiers of the Trapping Formation to the Flying Wolf Camp to take over the work, holding Jia Hui's order.

It was especially cold in winter, and the snow was more than a foot thick.

Fortunately, the weather was very clear today, and the sun was hanging high above everyone's heads.

Jia Hui rode a horse.

Sister Sister Xiren and Hearing Hearing Qingwen sat in a sedan chair.

It was a high-spec treatment.

Making the two women very happy.

When they arrived at the market to shop,

they were very lively.

Jia Yun was mainly responsible for purchasing firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea for the family, as well as quilts and various other things.

Jia Hui asked him to purchase according to the standard of 300 people first.

This was certainly not the total of the future Jia family.

Later, he would buy and recruit a large wave of cooks, nannies, and maids.

For example, Lady Yan, how could she be his concubine? At least one or two maids to serve her?

Plus these women were certainly not all.

The future was promising!

So Jia Hui's estimate of 300 people was still conservative.

Jia Yun, Sister Sister Xiren, and Hearing Hearing Qingwen were secretly tongue-tied and shocked when they heard this!

"Sister Sister Xiren, our Jia Fu is almost catching up with the Rong and Ning Prefectures."

Hearing Hearing Qingwen whispered to Sister Sister Xiren.

Sister Sister Xiren thought for a moment and nodded: "In the layers of courtyards of the Rongguo Prefecture, there are nannies, great-nannies, grandsons, great-grandsons, brothers, sisters-in-law, children, legitimate and illegitimate, totaling twenty or thirty masters, and three or four hundred servants, it is indeed catching up with the scale of the two prefectures."

Although it had not yet reached the scale of the two prefectures!

But it was already very exaggerated!

One must know.

The Rong and Ning Prefectures had this scale only after several generations!

And this was Jia Hui's first generation.

One master, just starting, a Viscount's mansion had this scale.

It was truly shocking!

"How much money will this cost."

The beautiful Hearing Hearing Qingwen felt that white silver and yellow gold were flying away from Jia Hui.

Sister Sister Xiren hesitated for a moment.

"Roughly calculating, for about 300 people, the annual expenses for food, drink, and clothing for our mansion will be about 1,100 taels of silver."

"And that's just the expenses for our servants."

"Not counting the masters'!"

"Adding the monthly wages, according to the standard of the Rongguo Prefecture, the mansion issues monthly pocket money to everyone, from the old lady down to the smallest maid. The highest is twenty taels per month, which is for the old lady, the wife, and Li Wan. Jia Jia Baoyu, Jia Huan, and Jia Lan get two taels per month. Big maids get one tael, and small maids get five hundred coins per month."

"Adding it up is an astronomical figure."

"As far as I know, the monthly wages for everyone in the mansion, year-end bonuses, food, clothing expenses. Take Sister-in-law Wan as an example, she has an income of four or five hundred taels of silver a year, not just monthly wages, but also year-end bonuses, powder money, snacks, pens, and ink money for the school, etc. expenses!"

"The entire Rongguo Prefecture, just the normal necessary expenses total about ten thousand taels a year."

"Adding gifts, honoring superiors, repairing projects, planting flowers and trees, raising horses... summing it all up, it's an even bigger number."

"The whole mansion for a year, at least twenty thousand taels of silver in expenses!"

The more she thought, the more shocked she was.

She felt her scalp tingling!

The more he thought about it, the more alarmed he became.

He felt his scalp go numb!