97 097 Courage
◎Sincerity. Please show me a way out.◎
The reason why it is called a siege is entirely because of the recovery of Mrs. Jia.
This is something that has never happened before.
Mo Yu still doesn't think so, but Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu know how rare and difficult this matter is - after all, in the past few days, anyone who has been complained by their brother Mo has all stopped and become depressed, and can no longer be their original self...
The main thing is that this kind of complaint often carries the nature of "prophecy", which really makes people afraid.
In fact, Mrs. Jia had already experienced this "magic power" of Mo Yu when she hosted a banquet for him last time.
At that time, the old lady's performance was no different from that of all others.
Shock, confusion, anger, embarrassment...Although the emotions are complicated, they are normal reactions.
This time is also the case.
At least it was like this before dinner.
What made this old lady calm down again in just one meal, and chat with them as if nothing had happened?
This state of mind is really beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu looked at each other, and saw confusion and worry in each other's eyes.
The main reason was that Mo Yu had never known that his inner voice could be heard by others, so in his opinion, it was just that the old lady of the Jia family was seen through and rejected by their family, so she was angry and embarrassed.
How could he know that his "wonderful comments" were heard clearly by everyone.
Others have also been humiliated, but how could Mrs. Jia have ever suffered such injustice in her life?
At least, she has never suffered such humiliation since she became the actual head of the Rongguo Mansion.
She is still angry and can only listen without any way to refute...
Firstly, these things are indeed true, and secondly, Mo Yu's "supernatural power" has the "mute" effect.
Anyway, Mrs. Jia is very angry, and the consequences are very serious... The original plot development should be like this.
But what surprised everyone was that Mrs. Jia did not do this.
However, after a meal, she calmed down and restored the demeanor and courtesy that the old lady of the Jia family should have.
This was so fantastic that even her own daughter Jia Min was shocked when she saw it...
So they also immediately realized that Mrs. Jia had a backup plan - if what she wanted was not so great, there would be no need for her to do so given her current status and position.
What could make a noble old lady, the wife of a duke with a super-class imperial title, submit to a young child? There must be some big conspiracy - ah, no, it's a big plan...
Although Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu smiled and chatted with everyone, they were actually secretly cheering up in their hearts - no matter what the old lady's motivation was, it was absolutely impossible for her to plot against their Mo Ge'er or their Lin family... If
Mo Yu could also have the ability to read their minds, he would definitely be moved by their idea - thank God, his efforts over the past year have not been in vain, Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu finally faced the reality and knew who is their family.
God knows how scared Mo Yu is that the mother and daughter will be plotted against by Old Lady Jia because they can't let go of their family ties with the Jia family.
How does that saying go?
After all, they are biological mother and daughter, and even if the bones are broken, the tendons are still connected.
This is the case with Jia Min and Old Lady Jia, and it is also the case with Xiao Daiyu and Jia Min. Therefore, as long as Jia Min is soft-hearted and can't control herself, then they will definitely be eaten to death by Old Lady Jia, and in the end, the entire Lin family will be eaten up together...
It's really scary.
Fortunately, the two of them finally woke up and knew who the real relatives were, and they didn't turn their elbows out.
Although Mo Yu didn't know so many thoughts in their hearts, he knew from their expressions that they were worried about him.
Although Mo Yu felt that he had always been quite calm, he could not help but feel a warm current at this moment - it is indeed a good feeling to have family.
Don't worry, I will take care of everything.
A mere old lady Jia can't do anything to me...
As soon as Mo Yu had this thought, he saw that strange expression of wanting to say something but not saying it appeared on the faces of everyone present.
Before he had time to think about it, old lady Jia held his hand again and said with a smile:
"Mo Ge'er is really smart and clever, look at his eyes rolling around, what are you thinking about writing all day long?"
Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu were surprised again when they heard her ask this.
Mo Yu replied nonchalantly, "I'm not thinking about anything, just some boring stuff."
Okay.
This means that everything in the Jia family is boring, and old lady Jia is a boring thing...
Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu couldn't help laughing, but everyone in the Jia family was very embarrassed... Although it was really a little funny, they still couldn't laugh. After all,
the whole Jia family was scolded...
In the awkward silence, old lady Jia took a deep breath, and then forced a smile on her face, and continued to ask Mo Yu, "Since that's the case, grandma has something to ask Mo Ge'er, I wonder if Mo Ge has any good ideas?"
After saying this, even Mo Yu couldn't help but feel curious.
Why do you have to ask this little kid so seriously?
Oh, is it because of the reputation of that "child prodigy"?
I am so funny, I am just pretending.
But I may be able to give you some advice on what you want to ask, but I don't know if you have the courage and determination to do it according to my advice.
Mo Yu made up his mind to listen to Jia's mother's questions, but he didn't know that in this situation where he expressed his inner thoughts, all his thoughts were transparent to everyone.
Although this situation is very embarrassing, once you accept this setting, communication will become more efficient.
Anyway, the old lady Jia had completely calmed down and even smiled again - this smile was much more natural than the previous one.
This made Jia Min and especially Xiao Daiyu once again have a new understanding of her character - their old lady was really not an ordinary ruthless person, basically she could be considered a wolf...
Mo Yu was very welcome to this. When it comes to communication, the more direct the better, not only can it improve efficiency, but also enhance the effect.
The premise is that this old lady of the Jia family really has the courage, determination and ability to turn the tide. As expected, the old
lady Jia directly put forward her request.
She actually asked Mo Yu directly what they needed to do if the Jia family wanted to revive...
As soon as she said this, everyone was shocked.
What kind of horrible topic is this? Should they really be here?
Mo Yu was also shocked by the old lady's courage.
Then he couldn't help but sigh.
On the one hand, he was complaining in his heart about how the Jia family's mansion was about to collapse, how useless the men in the Jia family were, and most importantly, how jealous Master Kang was of their family and how much he wanted them all to get out...
On the other hand, he was also preparing to say a few polite words - after all, he really didn't want to get involved in this mess of the Jia family...
He didn't expect that before he could finish his thought, Jia's mother had already grabbed his hand tightly, with red eyes:
"Mo'er, grandma is not afraid of you laughing at me. I asked you to come here today just for this matter. For the sake of your wife, please give your grandma and uncles some advice."
An old lady said so much with tears in her eyes, and even though Mo Yu was not a soft-hearted person, he couldn't help but be moved.
Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu had already been infected, and their expressions were completely different from before. They looked at Mo Yu with a pleading look.
Is this what everyone wants? They all want him to say this?
Mo Yu thought for a while and said, "Old lady, please don't be so excited. It's not that I don't want to take care of it, but this matter in your house is not easy to deal with..."
Jia's mother hurriedly said, "It doesn't matter if we can't deal with it in one or two times, but we just need to trouble Mo to show us a clear way."
Seeing that Jia's mother's attitude was very good, Youshi, Li Wan, and Feng Jie'er all begged with her, and even Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang, who always made their own calculations or acted arrogantly, did not dare to say anything, so Mo Yu had to say a few words reluctantly.
"The first problem of the Jia family is internal rectification. Let's not talk about anything else. Do you know the Lai family?"
After saying this, Mrs. Xing was the first to get excited: "But the family of General Manager Lai and Madam Lai?"
Mo Yu nodded and said, "That's right."
Seeing that everyone showed a look of eating melons, Mo Yu was a little helpless. In fact, he didn't want to say so much, but System 006 didn't know what was wrong. As soon as it noticed that Mo Yu had this idea, it immediately showed him the information of the eight generations of Lai's ancestors.
It turned out that this Lai family was a servant of the Jia family.
Since the time when the old Ning Guogong and Rong Guogong brothers followed Huang Taiji, they had followed them through life and death.
They started out as servants, and because they did their jobs well, they gradually gained the trust of the old Duke of Ning and Duke of Rong.
When Lai Laoye, the husband of Nanny Lai, came to power, he was already the chief steward of the Duke of Ning's mansion. Nanny Lai even became Jia Zheng's wet nurse and the steward of the Rong's mansion.
The couple controlled both dukes' mansions, and since there were no powerful people among the other servants, Nanny Lai and her husband became more and more powerful.
People say that the masters got a share, and they wanted half, which shows how serious the problem of "taking bribes" is.
After doing this for most of their lives, they made the Lai family almost half the size of the Jia family.
When Old Man Lai and Madam Lai retired gloriously, the matter was not over yet. Do you think that they would be done after they retired? It was impossible.
How could such a lucrative position that they had finally got in their hands be given to outsiders? There must be a successor.
Fortunately, the Lai family had two sons. Wouldn't the couple help their two sons to take over before they retired?
The result was no surprise. The two sons of the Lai family served as the chief stewards of Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion respectively, and their wives also served as the housekeepers of the two mansions respectively...
According to the corporate job configuration, the general manager and financial director of the two mansions were all taken up by the four members of their family.
Even people who don't understand business management can see at a glance that the general manager and the financial director are from the same family, so the chairman can only be deceived.
In fact, the situation of the Jia family is like this.
The Lai family is the most typical family.
The servants of the family relied on the big tree of the Jia family to turn their own family into a "small duke's mansion". This kind of thing is simply unheard of.
The key is that the Lai mother of the family is particularly confident to invite the masters, including the old lady Jia, to play in their home - every year during the New Year, they would invite these masters in their Jia Mansion to play in their own home.
The women are in the inner house, and the men are outside. What's more amazing is that their family even invited masters from other families who have a good relationship with the Jia family.
No matter how you look at it, it seems like a small gathering of the powerful circle.
However, Nanny Lai, the two sons Lai Da and Lai Sheng, and their wives are still servants of the Jia family and have not left their citizenship.
But Lai Da's son Lai Shangrong has left his citizenship. The son of this servant not only took the imperial examination, but also donated a fifth-rank prefecture...
Of course, this matter was also borrowed from the power of the Jia family.
But no one felt that there was anything wrong. This matter itself was very terrifying when you think about it carefully...
While Mo Yu sorted out this information in his mind, he picked out a few important words and said them to Jia Mu and others.
Originally, he had not intended to expose the matter - after all, the Lai family had been running the Jia family for several generations, and the power was deeply intertwined. The master-servant relationship had lasted for decades, and even Mrs. Jia had to respectfully address Mrs. Lai as "old sister". It was estimated that Mrs. Lai must have served Mrs. Jia as her mother-in-law or even her great-grandmother before...
It was estimated that only Sister Feng could have such a sense of friendship and status gap with a character like Yanyan.
If this happened, it would be very difficult to deal with.
The key is that these things are the family affairs of the Jia family. What do they have to do with the little kid of his Lin family?
So Mo Yu said it, but he didn't think about saying it thoroughly. He just wanted to stop at the right time to avoid causing trouble and annoying people.
But he didn't know that his complaints were heard by everyone present. For a while, everyone felt mixed emotions, especially Mrs. Jia, who felt even more heartbroken.
Everyone knew the Lai family, and they had all been invited by Lai's mother to have New Year's wine or other festive banquets at their home. They even knew about the celebration banquet when Lai Shangrong passed the imperial examination. Some people gave gifts and some people went there.
But no one thought that there was anything wrong with this matter.
They all thought it was normal.
If what Lin Jia Mo Ge said was true, then all of them were deceived by the Lai family?
This family of servants actually dared to do this, it was really infuriating.
Perhaps because they had a common enemy, even Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang, who had always been at odds with each other, joined forces, as if they would roll up their sleeves and start fighting as long as Mrs. Jia gave the order.
The same was true for Youshi and Qin Keqing, and Feng Jie'er and Li Wan.
The women of the entire Jia family were suddenly full of energy, which made Jia Yuanchun dumbfounded, and she whispered to Jia Min.
Jia Min was also greatly shocked, but on the surface she still maintained her composure. When Jia Yuanchun came to ask, she responded with a smile, very politely and without making any biased remarks... The standard of the high-end version of the Duke's daughter and the head of the Lin family is so high, you can't help but admit it.
Little Daiyu was dealing with little Tanchun - I never thought that little Tanchun was so outstanding at the age of only four or five, and she was thinking about understanding the chaotic world of these adults. It's really amazing, worthy of being a woman who will be a princess in the future.
Mo Yu silently gave her a thumbs up, and then watched the women of the Jia family discuss the division of labor very excitedly - it really seemed like they were going to wipe out the Lai family at the end of the year.
This group of them fell into a state of madness, and there was really a kind of beauty that didn't care about the lives of others...
Fortunately, in the end, the old lady of the Jia family said, "There are guests today, these small matters will be discussed tomorrow", and everyone calmed down.
Everyone realized belatedly that all the credit was brought by Mo Yu.
If he hadn't "said" so much, how could everyone have so many clues to make a fortune?
For the pampered women of Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion, there are very few things that can excite them.
But making money is different.
Especially since the money originally belonged to them, it would be a shame not to make a fortune.
Therefore, because of Mo Yu's words, the female members of the two Jia's mansions were unprecedentedly united and full of energy. They were ready to go to the Lai's house to settle accounts.
At this time, Jia Min took Xiao Daiyu and Mo Yu to leave together, which would be very smooth and without any obstacles.
Isn't it just to let their Mo Geer show them a clear way?
This time the clear way has been shown, so they should be allowed to go back.
Jia Min proposed the closing words of farewell, and Jia's mother of course had to symbolically retain them, and the other female members did the same. This time, they were much more sincere than the last time.
Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang originally thought that this time Mo Yu would definitely expose a lot of dirt about their two families, and Mrs. You was also prepared to be complained about throughout the process - after all, they were both housekeepers of their respective rooms, and they knew all the dirty things in the family.
Mo Yu's character as a "little god" is now very stable. His words are certainly convincing, but his unspoken words are even more unsettling.
These are all "heavenly secrets". Since you have the chance to hear them, you must be extremely careful and make good use of them.
Therefore, if Mo Yu does this, the Lai family will basically go bankrupt.
Although Jia Min felt very sad, she couldn't stop him from doing this. In fact, it's not so much that she can't
stop it, but it's better to say that she doesn't want to stop it at all.
No matter how resolute she sounded, if she really cut off all ties with the Jia family and watched the Jia family go to ruin, she would definitely feel uncomfortable.
Mo Yu said a few words for her sake, but the effect was so good that he had never expected it before.
After the New Year's Eve dinner at the Jia family, the real New Year was getting closer.
Lin Ruhai also had some invitations from his colleagues. Since he had confirmed that he would be promoted to the Left Deputy Governor after the New Year, he would definitely not return to Yangzhou to do the job of Inspector of Salt.
Although his previous official position was Inspector of Salt, he actually still held the job of Inspector of Salt in Yangzhou.
This job of inspecting the salt industry was his main job, but because he was so outstanding, he was given a higher rank.
And Lin Ruhai never let Master Kang down. Not only did he do a good job as the inspector of the salt industry, but he also did a good job as the inspector of the salt industry.
With just a few moves, he solved several major corruption cases and collected tens of millions of taels of silver for the national treasury. This is why Master Kang was so pleased and promoted him again and again.
Because he was really strong. He
was already very strong, and he actually had a little son who could reveal the "secrets of heaven", which was even more amazing...
It would be too unreasonable not to make good use of such a talent.
It is necessary to "make the best use of talents and things", and Lin Ruhai is that talent, and his youngest son is that "treasure".
In response, Lin Ruhai said, thank you very much, Your Majesty, our whole family is grateful to you...
So, what Lin Ruhai has to do is to establish good relations with colleagues in Beijing before the New Year, find some clues, and prepare to take action after the New Year...
Since Mo Yu "spoiled" Master Kang and others last time about many corrupt officials in this dynasty, even more money than in the national treasury, Master Kang has also fallen into a frenzy of fighting corruption.
Now think about it, isn't this similar to the feeling of the Jia family preparing to fight against the Lai family?
This kind of frenzy and madness are exactly the same.
It doesn't matter if Master Kang is too enthusiastic. As Lin Ruhai is his most trusted official in the field of history, he must take responsibility.
Fortunately, Lin Ruhai's skills were strong, and he could hit the target wherever he was directed. The emperor and his subjects cooperated well, and they solved several major cases in just half a year. The
end of the year was the time for harvest. Looking at the treasury that was fuller than any previous year, Master Kang showed an extremely brilliant smile, and immediately reduced taxes in the disaster area and rewarded the heroes.
Lin Ruhai was the first hero, so he must not be allowed to run around and suffer. He only needed to stay in the capital and command the other small historians to do their work. But
Lin Ruhai's idea was not that simple.
The emperor gave you a high position and a high rank so that you could do his job better.
Don't think that being in the capital is a good thing. It often means more responsibilities. If you are not careful, you may offend the emperor, and then you will lose more than you gain.
Although Lin Ruhai is not particularly old, he is very mature in the way of being an official. He
has a kind of stability that is not surprised by favors and humiliations, so even Master Kang couldn't help but praise him for being a very appropriate person. However,
Lin Ruhai was still very humble, doing his own things quietly, and spent a low-key and fulfilling New Year with Jia Min, Xiao Daiyu and Mo Yu.
After the New Year, he went to the Censorate to take up his post. At the same time, Mo Yu also re-entered the palace and began his work as a companion reader in name but an "assistant teacher" in reality.
What he never expected was that as soon as he entered the palace this time, he encountered a big surprise.
[Author's words]
Ah, the New Year is almost over, sigh.
I felt like I was attacked by mixed diseases when I went out. Woohoo, my voice... I
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