Chapter Forty-Four

in debt

For a moment, Qin Jun's grandfather called out, causing everyone to feel nostalgic for the past, sobbing sounded in the hall, Mrs. Zhao knelt on the ground and wept aggrievedly, and Mrs. Zhou had to half-kneel on the ground with her mother-in-law.Iron men like Li Yezhen and Li Yuechuan also had red eyes.

Mrs. Zhao burst into tears: "Princess, I was the one who was disrespectful that day! The uncle was fined and scolded when he returned home, and you don't remember the villain's mistakes... go back, huh?"

Qin Jun: "..."

"Auntie, get up." Qin Jun's mouth twitched and ordered Jin Xiu to take off Mrs. Zhao.

Taking advantage of the situation, Mrs. Zhao cried a few more words of persuasion, got up and took the handkerchief from her daughter-in-law to wipe away her tears, and said, "Princess, is she forgiving my aunt?"

Qin Jun: "...Yes, you don't have to worry about Auntie."

Mrs. Zhao breathed out for a long time, and laughed, "Princess is still general, not a little woman like me!"

Li Yuechuan: "Don't want to be cheap and act like a good boy!"

Ji Si hooked the corners of her lips and smiled with unknown meaning.

Outside the door, Nanny Tian blessed Fuli and walked in slowly, "I have seen the princess, the prince, the uncle, and the two ladies."

Li Yezhen looked at Nanny Tian in surprise, "It's Tian Rong, you actually..."

Nanny Tian nodded: "The old woman was ordered by the former queen to live in seclusion in the villa for fifteen years. You Xin lived to wait until the prince."

Nanny Tian is very old, her temples are all white, and her face is full of withered lines.She guarded the villa alone, and the hardships she endured for fifteen years, a short summary, has already moved everyone.

Li Yezhen: "You are a loyal servant."

Mrs. Zhao persuaded: "This... since this is the case, why don't you invite Nanny and the princess to go back to the palace together?"

Mrs. Zhou: "Yes, mother, if you want to be lonely in the mountains, why don't you go back to the mansion with the princess?"

Mother Tian was slightly angry: "Ten years ago, I didn't follow to Capital. Now that the princess has returned to the villa, why does the old woman still go to Lao Shizi's palace?"

Zhao: "..."

Li Yezhen's face darkened.

Mrs. Zhou persuaded softly: "Nurse Tian, now that you have completed your master's instructions, you can go back to the palace for Anxiang's old age."

Li Yuechuan frowned and said, "Jun'er, please persuade Mammy."

Grandma Tian got even more angry, and slammed the ground with her cane, "I won't go! That ruined palace is not half the size of my Yanyun Villa!"

"Nurse," said Mrs. Zhao dissatisfied, "Aside from other things, the current situation of Yanyun Villa is not as good as that of the Wangfu. Look at how the paint on the tables and chairs has been peeled off. I can sit on these chairs, and I can't bear them."I feel my waist shaking..."

Li Yuechuan reprimanded in a low voice: "Shut up!"

Mrs. Zhao resentfully turned away her face and said, "...I'm telling the truth."

Ji Si and Jin Xiu looked at each other without speaking.

Li Yezhen coughed twice, and everyone fell silent immediately.

"I won't go, I want to stay here. Grandfather is the land left by my mother. If I can support the villa, it will also fulfill my mother's wish." Qin Jun hugged Li Yezhen, "Grandfather, let me be fulfilled.".”

Li Yuechuan: "It's not easy to support hundreds of people and a villa. Jun'er, listen to your uncle and go back to the palace with your uncle. Find someone to take care of this villa. In the future, you can come and live if you want."

"That's right, these two mountains are forest wastelands. For fifteen years, there was only one guardian of the mountains, the mother, and they were not stolen by farmers for private cultivation. Presumably, the land is barren. How can they make a living?" Zhou said.

"Planting tea and raising silkworms won't starve to death." Ji Si said behind Qin Jun.

"What are you talking about!" Zhao said dissatisfiedly, "Princess, don't look at the size of this villa. It's not easy to clean it up. There are thousands of land on the two mountains and you have to pay a land tax of several hundred taels a year! If you cut down all the mountainsTree, maybe it can last a year, and then you still have to reach out to the palace! Why are you swelling one's face up by slapping it to look imposing!"

"Master Zhao!" Li Yuechuan hated that iron cannot be made into steel, "It seems that you didn't kneel enough in the ancestral hall the day before yesterday!"

Mrs. Zhao was also very angry, and turned to the side to pant for breath. Mrs. Zhou had no choice but to calm her down with her hands, with a troubled expression on her face.

Qin Jun went to the table and sat down, holding a teacup, said: "I have a calculation in my mind, if I can't make achievements, I won't rely on the palace to help me."

Li Yuechuan really wanted to beat and scold Mrs. Zhao on the spot, and said to Qin Jun, "That's not what your aunt meant..."

Qin Jun drank tea with downcast eyes, with tears at the end of her eyes, but her expression was stubborn and arrogant, and she did not express anger.

Mrs. Zhou tugged at Mrs. Zhao's sleeve, "Mother, how can you... Jun'er is a princess!" How could you be short of several hundred taels of tax money a year?

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Zhao took a look at Ji Si, stared at her contemptuously, and turned Byakugan hard.

Qin Jun: "?"

Jin Xiu: "..."

Ji Si pulled her lips towards Mrs. Zhao, glanced at her, then moved her eyes lightly, with an elegant and disdainful expression, comparing Mrs. Zhao's ugly expression to heaven and earth.

Everyone: "..."

Mrs. Zhao: "You—"

"Enough!" Li Yezhen tapped his palm on the table, signaling to be quiet.

Zhao: "..."

Li Yezhen got up: "Where is the tablet of Yueying?"

Qin Jun got up and took Li Yezhen and others to the ancestral hall she set up for Li Yueying.

Everyone put incense on Li Yueying, and the deceased was the most important, so they stopped arguing immediately.Be quiet and let the servants set up the dinner and pass it on.

The table was set up in the courtyard of the front hall, and the dishes were served. Everyone faced the sky in all directions, and ate under the fiery red sunset.

The meals during the banquet were extremely exquisite. Like Qin Jun in the Capital Princess Mansion, a bowl of dishes with two mouthfuls of food was set up on a large table. Qin Jun usually eats one chopstick to be full.

Mrs. Zhao was shocked: "This, this... what is this way of eating!"

In the past, the cooks in the princess mansion only took care of Qin Jun’s meals, while the palace servants cooked their own meals. Seven or eight cooks took care of Qin Jun’s food and drink alone.So, Qin Jun hasn't eaten like this for a long time.

But when the cook saw the prince coming to the door today, she probably wanted to support Qin Jun and cook such a table of flashy dishes, but she didn't want to flatter her ass.

Li Yuechuan and Li Yezhen couldn't put their chopsticks down for a while, but they couldn't open their mouths. They randomly picked up two chopsticks, tasted them and had to admit that the dish was really delicious, and they couldn't stop their chopsticks.

Qin Jun told the cook face to face: "Don't do these fancy things anymore, it will be simple in the future."

Li Yezhen's complexion improved a lot, and he began to eat with peace of mind. After the meal, the dishes were removed, and everyone watched the scenery from the patio.

The patio is not high but extremely wide. The corridors on both sides are all open. Behind the corridors are rockery, trees and stones and corridors connecting to the backyard.Built in this way, not only will the courtyard not feel stuffy like a cage, but it will also appear to be spacious.

The gates of the villa are also lavishly built, thick and heavy wooden doors, each of which is hundreds of kilograms, open to the scenery outside the mountain. In the morning, the mountainside is shrouded in smoke and clouds, like a fairyland on earth. At noon, the sun is shining brightly, dignified and solemn.Thick fog filled the air like a mirage.

The pond in the front hall has not been dredged yet, it will be dredged in the future, and lotus flowers will be planted. There are large water tanks in the four corners of the courtyard, and towering sycamore trees in the southeast corner stretch straight into the sky. If you stand on the trunk, you will surelyIt can capture the scenery of the Mid-Levels in your eyes.

As long as the rotten things are ignored, this Zhuangzi is really a palace. If it is well repaired, it must be the most luxurious residence in the entire Jiang Prefecture.

"When I built this Zhuangzi, it wasn't my fief, so I didn't know it was built by Yueying." Li Yezhen said.

Li Yuechuan and Li Yezhen both looked at the gate of the villa, as if they saw Li Yueying on the top of the mountains, looking back at them and smiling, she still looked like she was fifteen years ago.

"You want to manage the villa, it's good to have such pride, why should I force you to go back to the palace?" Li Yezhen said, "Like your mother."

Qin Jun's expression changed.

Li Yuechuan laughed and said boldly, "They are all stubborn."

Li Yezhen: "I just blamed me for killing too many people, and the blood debt owed has been fulfilled on your mother and brother."

Li Yuechuan: "Father!"

Qin Jun put down the tea: "Grandfather, mother will not blame you for the Qin Zhou Jiangshan you guarded."

Li Yezhen smiled, under the setting sun, the former God of War of Qin and Zhou seemed to have aged a lot, looking at Qingshan Nujiang, slowly said: "Yes."

After sending Li Yezhen and others away, the sky was no longer visible at the bottom of the mountain, and the last trace of the setting sun could still be seen in the villa.

Qin Jun smiled and spread her arms, turned around and looked at the people in front of the door, "This will be our home from now on!"

Jin Xiu smiled and nodded towards Qin Jun,

The skirt fluttered slightly, and Ji Si looked at Qin Jun with tender eyes.

In the evening, candles were lit on the table, and Qin Jun was writing and drawing at the table with his coat on, while Ji Si was reading and doing homework on one side, and Jin Xiu was ironing Qin Jun's coat on the other table.

After a while, Xiao Taozi came over with a wooden box in her arms, "Princess, the account book is here."

"If my aunt hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about it," Qin Jun put down his pen and took the wooden box."Did Mammy say anything?"

"The nanny said that she was going to rest when she was old, and also said that from now on, the princess will have the final say on all matters in the villa."

Ji Si looked at the box and said, "I'm afraid she will keep a hand."

The ledger was locked in a small box, and Qin Jun felt anxious. Seeing that the paint on the wooden box had peeled off, she felt even more uncertain.

"You come." Qin Jun handed the box to Ji Si.

Jin Xiu put down her work and came over: "What?"

Ji Si opened the box with a key and took out the ledger. There were more than a dozen sheets of paper under the ledger. Xiaotao and Jin Xiu came forward curiously.

"Want to see it?" Ji Si asked Qin Jun.

Qin Jun raised her forehead, and already guessed what it was, either an IOU or an IOU, and said helplessly, "Let's all have a look."

The three picked up a dozen of them and looked at them separately.

Jin Xiu leaned closer to the candlelight and looked at it: "IOU... the borrower, Tian Rong... lives in Yanyun Villa, and is in charge of his affairs. I borrowed 600 taels of silver from the Jiangnan Life Bank, signed in the 27th year of Junhe, and signed the villa."

Ji Si raised the IOU in her hand: "Jun and Erliu."

Qin Jun: "..."

"What! IOU?" Xiao Taozi turned the box over and rolled a seal wheel, poured out all the written documents inside, and counted them one by one, "Junhe two five, two four, one nine, two two..."

"...I have borrowed six silver from the Jiangnan Bank every year for a total of thirteen years!" Little Taozi roared, "That's seven thousand eight hundred taels of silver!"

Ji Si flipped through the ledger and pushed it to Qin Jun's eyes, "I borrowed it to pay the land tax to the imperial court."

Qin Jun: "..."

Ji Si took out the other half of the silk from a pile of papers: "The land deed."

Qin Jun didn't know whether to laugh or cry, took out the share she was holding, and combined the two halves into one, looking at it carefully and muttering: "No wonder you didn't give me the title deed earlier."

Xiao Taozi was furious: "It's because I'm afraid that the princess will ignore this bad debt!"

Qin Jun: "...how much money do we have?"

Xiao Taozi brought another ledger book, which was brought by Capital, and recorded all the expenses of the Princess Mansion.

Ji Si took out the account book kept by the merchants along the Eternal Border exchange market and Xiao Taozi's account book and looked at it together.

"Before the princess mansion, there were only three thousand taels of silver, one thousand taels of gold, and dozens of pieces of silver. The princess has earned more than two thousand taels of silver after a month of wind and rain..." Xiao Taozi said.

Qin Jun clicked her tongue and leaned into Ji Si's arms in a daze, wondering if Li Wuduan had spent so much money to suppress the bandits?This is really poor and white...

Ji Si touched Qin Jun's cheeks, neck, and ears. Qin Jun didn't respond to being eaten tofu, but felt itchy at the base of his ears. He raised his head and looked at Ji Si.

Ji Si raised her eyebrows, as if she didn't take the debt seriously.

Qin Jun: "..."

Xiao Taozi babbled, counting with ten fingers, whether she would cry or not: "One tael of gold is exchanged for three taels of silver...a total of 8,600 taels, minus the loan of 7,800 taels...there are only 800 taels of money left."It’s spring now, and this year’s tax has not been paid yet! Subtract another six hundred taels..."

Jin Xiu: "..."

Ji Si scratched Qin Jun's chin.

Qin Jun: "..."

Little Taozi wiped away tears, went bankrupt one day, and began to speak incoherently: "Princess... I'm afraid I won't be able to cut the most fashionable clothes every month in the future. There is nothing in the villa. Kasuga originally wanted to put some famous flowers and herbs, butA pot costs a few taels of silver, let alone hundreds of pots."

"In summer and summer, hundreds of people need to spend hundreds of taels of ice. In autumn, they start ordering winter clothes and fox fur. A piece of high-quality fox fur costs fifty taels, and a piece of fur coat costs a dozen or twenty horses...There are always a few pieces to be made every year..."

"In winter, the land tax of a few hundred words..."

"In Capital, no matter how many people are raised in the princess mansion, they all eat and drink from the palace. Now...the guards all have bull stomachs, and they don't do anything on weekdays. One person's food is worth three people...how can this be good?.”

Jin Xiu also became dazed when she heard Xiao Taozi's settlement, and said, "Let the maids embroider and sell it in the market? It might make some money, guards... why don't the guards just let them farm?"

Qin Jun: "..."

Ji Si smiled: "I will accept the soles of my shoes."

"Pfft!" Qin Jun broke his skills completely, slapped the table and laughed, "Hahaha!"

Xiaotao sniffed: "What, it's almost the end of the mountain, and the princess can still laugh."

"I've seen the princess," Xing'er came in with two plates of snacks.

Qin Jun: "There is no need to salute everywhere in the villa."

Xing'er put down her snacks and said: "There are many people in the villa, so it's better to be more polite. Xing'er has heard it...Princess, why don't we go back to Beijing."

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Taozi immediately regained her spirits.

Jin Xiu and Ji Si remained silent.

Qin Jun shook her head and said, "A few days ago, I sent someone to send a message, and told my father about the style of the journey, I like Jiang Prefecture very much, and I won't go back if I don't play enough."

Tao Xing's expression dimmed, "No."

In the villa, unlike in the palace, you are not allowed to talk casually. In the middle of the night, you can occasionally hear the chatting and laughing of the palace ladies playing and working.

"Although the village is poor, it is much happier than the deep palace." Qin Jun squinted his eyes, and put away the land deed, the villa's seal, and the IOUs for Ji Si, "The boat will go straight when it reaches the bridge.Can the princess make you starve to death? Go, wash your face, go to sleep, and count out the money tomorrow so that I can pay off the debt."

Jin Xiu said: "Why don't you write to Capital and ask His Majesty to send some money?"

"Tomorrow, the carpenter will come and write a plaque to He Fu first. From now on, there will be no six princesses in Jiang Prefecture." Qin Jun also has no confidence.

"Ah!!!" Qin Jun threw herself into the quilt and roared, "Why do I owe so much money!!!!"

Ji Si blew out the lamp: "When you go back to the palace, you don't have to slap your swollen face to pretend to be fat."

Qin Jun: "..."

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