Jiang Xiumian asked, "What if we can't get it back, or if we get it back, it's taken away again?"
"Is there anything I can't get back?" Jiang Xiaomi couldn't believe it and felt insulted: "If it's stolen, I can get it back. If I can't get it back, I'll try again."
Jiang Xiumian: "."
"I give you a little red flower, you know the art of talking nonsense."
Jiang Xiaomi shook her pigtails proudly.
No longer worry about whether to grab it or not.
Jiang Suying then spoke softly, "Xiaomi, I can't say that the problem you are worried about will never happen, but you have to believe in your father. Believe that he loves me, you, and our family, so he won't take risks with us."
"Mom?" Jiang Xiumian couldn't believe it. There were only four people in the family, and you raised three of them, leaving me alone. How come?
"Oh, I love you too." Jiang Suying said this very carelessly, and turned to continue to say to Jiang Xiaomi: "Every step your father takes is carefully considered. Since he thinks that County Magistrate Chen is trustworthy, then he is trustworthy at least at this stage."
"When we bought food in the county, we had no problem using the name of Jiang Family Restaurant. But not long after your father went to the county government, the yamen runners came out to control the amount of food we could buy. This shows that the county magistrate is a good person. At least he believed your father's words and knew how serious the matter was. He cared about the lives of ordinary people."
"This doesn't rule out the possibility that he wants to keep the food in his own hands to ensure that he lives longer, right?" Jiang Xiaomi said.
Jiang Suying choked. She felt that he shouldn't be influenced by her, so she said, "I don't think he would do anything to rob her."
"You... think, I should?" Jiang Xiaomi blinked her eyes: "Are you serious, mother?"
Mom, how can you be so naive? Can such an important matter be decided based on personal feelings alone?
"Yes!" Jiang Suying helped Jiang Xiaomi shut up manually, wondering if she had given birth to an ETC.
The lifting of the bar was so stressful that it made her feel dizzy.
She calmed down, let go of Jiang Xiaomi's mouth, looked at her and said, "Let's talk about the second point now. Will the servants you mentioned betray their masters? Those who stay in our house now have been carefully selected by your second uncle and third uncle. They are all reliable people and their whole family has signed a contract to sell themselves. Your second uncle and third uncle have been in business for more than ten years, so they still have some vision."
Jiang Xiumian nodded in agreement.
Businessmen have sharp eyes and can measure the value of everything they see.
Jiang Suying: "Besides, you may not understand human rights in this era. People who sign a contract to sell their bodies can no longer be called human beings. They are objects, commodities, and can be bought and sold freely. In serious cases, they will not be held legally responsible even if they are beaten to death. The owner will at most be accused of being cruel or something irrelevant."
Jiang Xiaomi: "…"
She knew this from the few novels she had read.
The maids and subordinates around the heroine are so loyal that eight hundred of them died just to give the heroine a chance to survive.
Jiang Xiaomi propped up her chin, thinking about cultivating some...confidants?
"So at this stage, the servants all put their masters first, which means they put us first. The world will be in chaos for a long time, but there will definitely be constant disasters, which will be enough to make them realize the reality. Betraying their masters is definitely not the best option for them."
"Besides, their entire family is in our hands. Family is a concern, a motivation, but also a constraint and a weakness. If all the slaves unite to stab us in the back, it can only mean that we are cruel and incompetent, but are we?"
Jiang Xiaomi said: "Of course not."
Jiang Xiumian also shook his head.
"That's it!" Jiang Suying said with a "tsk tsk" sound. "Your history is really bad. The slave mentality of the people cultivated by the feudal dynasties is deeply rooted. At the critical moment of life and death, many slaves sacrificed themselves for their masters. What we need to do is to establish our prestige and treat them well. Believe it or not, this can bring unexpected gains."
Jiang Xiaomi nodded, so she also had to think of some ways to cultivate some confidants and have fun being a heroine.
"Of course, you can't have your way with them. You have to use both kindness and force to control them. Oh! These things can't be explained in a short time. Look at your father more. You already have half of his mind. Try to grow back the other half." Jiang Suying said annoyed.
"Do I have a lot of tricks?" Jiang Xiaomi laughed.
"You and your father have eight hundred tricks in your body, but they can't stop you. Unlike your brother, you can't get a single fart even if you hit him with ten sticks!" As he said this, he glanced at Jiang Xiumian.
Jiang Xiumian: "…"
You used to say that I was your pride, but now you say that I can't even fart?
Jiang Xiaomi was not happy with it. "My brother is a little stupid, has poor social skills, and can only focus on research. He has been single for 30 years and still can't find a girlfriend. But! He is very capable. He started developing precision instruments before he graduated from college, and he went straight to the National Research Institute after graduating with a doctorate. We will rely on him for a lot of things in the future. I don't allow you to say that about him!"
Jiang Xiumian: "…"
You are the one who should shut up!
"Look at how you protect your child! I won't say anything about him, will I?" Jiang Suying tapped her forehead, "Just eat and drink, and grow a little fatter and taller. Look at your small body, it's barely 1.6 meters tall! But your brother, he's only 17, and he's already 1.8 meters tall."
Jiang Xiumian is still very satisfied with his current height, even though he was also a 1.83-meter-tall man (? ) before he traveled through time.
"You all can relax. Your father, mother, grandparents and uncles are there to take care of the rest. Your father was an official of some magnitude. Even though these relatives are a little hesitant about giving money to harvest rice now, you will see in the evening that they will definitely open the ancestral hall. They have a very thick filter for your father."
Jiang Suying's family of four all have the memories of the original owner, so they naturally know Jiang Yipei's status in Jiangjia Village.
As the only one in the Jiang family who has embarked on a career in politics, Jiang Yipei is viewed through a thick filter by most of his relatives. It seems that everything he says is right and everything he does is right.
It is said that Jiangjia Village was the last place where our ancestor settled after fleeing. Our ancestor and his first wife had three sons, so the Jiang family in Jiangjia Village was divided into three branches.
The room where Jiang Yipei lives is the big room.
Throughout history, the status of the eldest son and grandson is unquestionable.
Although it is not as important among the common people as in the royal family and clans, under the influence of deep-rooted ideas, Jiangjia Village has always been headed by the eldest branch, so the position of village head is almost hereditary among the eldest branch of the Jiang family.
What's more, this generation of the Jiang family's eldest branch also produced Jiang Yipei, the most gifted child in the history of the Jiang family.
(End of this chapter)