Red Mansion Daiyu, the Rise of the Lin Family

Chapter 138 Mother, I can’t lend you this money

"She is so much better than Jia Min's daughter."

After Mrs. Wang finished speaking, Aunt Xue nodded repeatedly.

"Sister is still the one with strategy. I depend on her for everything."

Mrs. Wang sighed, "Children are all debts. Aren't we all living for our children?"

"Since my younger sister has come to rely on me, I will naturally be able to benefit from my older sister in the future."

Aunt Xue's eyes sparkled.

Yes, I can't rely on my son anymore, I can only rely on my daughter.

Only when his daughter marries into a wealthy family can he enjoy wealth and glory.

I can't let my daughter be like me and marry into a merchant family. No matter how rich she is, it will be useless if she doesn't have status.

The only high-class family he could get hold of now was his elder sister, the mistress of the Rongguo Mansion.

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"Borrow money? Visit your parents?" Lin Ruhai looked at Jia Min with a frown.

"How much do you need?"

"We still need more than 500,000 taels." Jia Min's words sounded very bitter. For this reason, she not only called Lin Ruhai, but also called her two children.

Once this money is lent out, who knows when it will be repaid?

It’s easy to ask relatives for money, but I’m afraid I won’t be able to open my mouth to ask for money.

If I ask my brothers for money, wouldn’t that make me embarrassed?

It is easy to borrow money but difficult to ask for it back. I know this truth.

"What do my uncles say?" Lin Ruhai asked Jia Min.

Jia Min replied helplessly, "My brothers are not here. Maybe we asked them to sign the IOU after it's settled."

I guess the mother is afraid of hurting my brother's reputation?

"Mom!" Lin Daiyu saw that her parents were in a difficult situation, so she spoke up.

“This money cannot be borrowed.”

"I borrowed it but never returned it."

"My grandmother's family has been spending more than they earn for the past decade. Could it be that my eldest cousin has suddenly become a concubine and has suddenly had more income?"

"Besides, there have been no newborns in the palace for more than ten years. It's not credible that my cousin will have a child just because she is a concubine, right?"

"Mother, have you ever thought about this? If my grandmother's family falls into poverty, you can help them out by keeping her property."

"If you lend them all out, we'll all be broke."

Lin Daiyu felt that she had to make clear the interests involved in this matter.

In the book, Jia Yuanchun was not pregnant, nor did she bring much glory and benefits to the Jia family.

On the contrary, she is now somewhat certain that in the original book, the Jia family might have really taken money from the Lin family.

I don't know the exact number.

Given Lin Ruhai's character, it is impossible for him to let Lin Daiyu enter the Jia Mansion penniless.

Lin Ruhai seemed to have made up his mind when he heard this. "Madam, you don't have to worry about this matter. I will go and talk to my mother-in-law about it in person later."

When Jia Min heard that Lin Ruhai and Daiyu both refused, she became a little anxious.

"My husband, no matter what you say, you must let me know the bottom line in my heart. If I refuse my mother, how can I go back to my mother's home in the future?"

Although she was unwilling to go out, she couldn't do it if she refused so blatantly.

She was also afraid that Lin Ruhai would refuse directly, which would hurt both of their reputations and her ties with her family would be severed.

Lin Ruhai reached out and took out a sign with the word "Lin" engraved on it.

"Madam, please look, this is the main card of the Yonglin Pawn Shop. I will tell my mother-in-law about it later."

"Yonglin Pawnshop has shares of my Lin family. You can borrow money. I need my two uncles to act as guarantors and some property as collateral. I can charge the lowest interest or no interest at all."

"If you don't charge us, we will keep the income from the industry. If you charge us the lowest, the Yue family will still take care of the industry and the income."

"Hundreds of thousands of taels is not a small amount. We can't just talk about it without any evidence."

Jia Min stared at Lin Ruhai without blinking.

"When did we get a share in the pawn shop?"

"I do not know how?"

Lin Ruhai explained, "Madam, this was given to me by Brother Lin."

"Aren't all our properties with you?"

Jia Min's heart trembled, "That kid, did he invest in the pawnshop?"

Lin Ruhai said calmly, "Yes,"

I thought, not only did he invest in pawnshops, he also had countless other businesses.

That child's mind is so secretive that it's frightening.

"Mother, why didn't you let my cousin come to the Jia Mansion?" Daiyu asked subconsciously when she heard Lin Ge'er mentioned.

Jia Min rolled her eyes at Lin Daiyu and said, "Daiyu, it's not that your mother doesn't want him to come, it's that he has decided to go wherever he wants and your mother can no longer control him."

"If he wants to come, he will come naturally."

Jia Min also understood a little bit. It turned out that something happened in her family, and the Prince of Nannan knew it clearly.

Does he have other people stationed besides Shantou and Shuiwei?

Lin Daiyu also smelled a mysterious scent at this time.

"Mom! Who is he?"

When Lin Daiyu asked this, Jia Min was startled.

"He's your cousin, who else could it be?"

"This kind of nonsense must not be heard by others."

Lin Daiyu saw Jia Min's attempt to hide her guilt and said, "Mother! Your expression is not firm enough."

"Ah! Your expression is cracked!"

Jia Min was so angry that she closed her mouth and stopped talking.

I kept reinforcing myself in my heart, telling myself to be patient, he was a good child, and it would take him less than two years to go.

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"Mother-in-law, two uncles, this is my opinion. Do you think it is feasible?"

"If it is feasible, I will send someone to handle the formalities." Lin Ruhai looked at Lady Jia quietly and expressed his opinion in a firm tone.

Grandmother Jia's eyes were gloomy and she did not express her opinion immediately.

As soon as this son-in-law came in, Grandmother Jia knew that Jia Min had failed.

Jia Min didn't have the face to refuse, so she sent her son-in-law over.

Everyone thought that Jia Min was too shy to refuse, and looking back now, her dowry was a bit too much.

That's why we had the situation today, but I didn't expect to be tricked by the young and naive Jia Min.

Grandmother Jia looked at her two sons who were full of energy and talking eloquently just now, and now their eyes were wide open with anger.

Yes, it is hard to accept. It is really hard to accept. I originally thought that Jia Min was my own sister, and those things used to belong to me.

It's already a great honor to ask someone to borrow your own things.

If the couple divorces, won't they all be taken back to the parents' home?

Shi Yifang is like this. However, Shi Yifang is not much, Jia Min is different.

Jia Min once married a scholar who had won the third place in the imperial examination. In order to show the determination of the Ning and Rong mansions to marry into civil officials, they once put all their efforts into it.

Now it is not enough to borrow it by myself. I also have to mortgage the existing property of Rongguo Mansion.

How poisonous it is!

Jia Zheng tapped his knees with his knuckles and thought quietly.

Jia She was a bit reckless, "Brother-in-law, you are right, I will sign, my niece is already a concubine, we are both the emperor's father-in-law."

"Besides, the money keeps going back and forth, not from one hand to the other. It's our own money, and it won't go to outsiders."

Jia Zheng glanced at his brother.

I thought, it’s easy to say, one is from the Lin family and the other is from the Jia family, how can they be one family?

If we are really a family, can we still sit here and discuss loan procedures?

When Jia She saw that no one agreed with him, he slammed the table and proposed a plan that he thought was extremely clever:

"Mom! Isn't this a simple matter?"

"Whose dowry does my sister's family have? Isn't it my niece's?"

"I just heard from Ru Hai that all of this is for my niece."

"Then can't my niece marry here?"

"If I had another son of the same age, I would definitely mention it to my sister."

"It's a pity that my son has already married someone from the Wang family."

When Grandmother Jia heard this, she met Jia Zheng's eyes.

Jia She is such a fool!

Even if you have this thought, you can't say it to my face.

Which wealthy family could be so blatant in using their daughter-in-law's dowry?