The heavens start with letting the bullets fly

Chapter 556

Rongguo Mansion is used to laziness, everything can only be done after urging and urging.

But sometimes when someone asks for something, Sister Feng will use all her means to push her. So that day when Chen Zhao returned from the yamen, he saw a few sedan chairs parked by the porter, called a servant and asked, "There is a guest at the house." ?"

"Returning to the master, it was a woman in charge of Jia's mansion surnamed Zhou who brought a few wives and sent four servant girls over, saying that the old lady of Jia's mansion sent them to serve the uncle."

"Oh, send a maid?" Chen Zhao never imagined that Jia's mansion would be so bold that one side would send a bear's paw, and the other would send a living maid.

It is estimated that Sister Lin was right next to her when Mother Jia was giving orders, which gave her a headache.

But after thinking about it, Xiangling is regarded as the future aunt, and it's nothing more than a little vinegar for Daiyu, just a few maids, it's nothing, even Daiyu may not take it to heart.

So he asked, "Are the people from Jia's residence still there?"

"If you want to reply to your lord, Steward Sun has already taken care of it. He has written a letter of reply and sealed a few envelopes of money as rewards for people in the Jia family. The woman in charge said that she wanted to go back in a hurry to reply, so she has already left."

"Where's Butler Sun?"

"Butler Sun is explaining things in the front yard."

Chen Zhao stepped into the front yard, and saw four girls standing at the head, all of them were only twelve or thirteen years old, wearing new clothes, combing their horns, standing there crisply.Beside them stood six or seven women, and a dozen rough girls.

Sun Xiaodong stood in front and said in a loud voice: "We, the head of the Chen family, were knighted by His Majesty as a salt merchant and paid the salt tax. Therefore, the army marched in the house, and the servants and guards were divided into four squads to patrol day and night. There were archers and crossbowmen. War, you must not run around indiscriminately, especially at night. Everyone stays in their own courtyards and do not move around at will. If you want to leave the courtyards, you must report it to the person in charge of each courtyard, and then notify the night guard foreman. Take You can act only after you have the number plate and the waist plate. Otherwise, you will be captured with weapons, regardless of death or injury. Do you remember everything?"

"Remember." Everyone responded.There are old voices, hoarse voices, and even the sweet sounds of silver bells.

Sun Xiaodong raised his head and saw Chen Zhao coming in, he cupped his hands and said, "My lord."

The four maids bent down and saluted, and called out: "This slave has seen the master." The rest of the women and servant girls also hurriedly saluted, and sparsely shouted: "Young slave, I have seen the master."

It seemed that these people had done their homework when they came, and knew that Sun Xiaodong was no ordinary housekeeper, but a temporary housekeeper, and would be an official in the future.

So Sun Xiaodong shouted "Master".

They shouted "Master".

"Get up." Chen Zhaoxu raised his hand and said.

Sun Xiaodong handed over a booklet and said in a low voice: "Sir, this is the roster sent by the Jia family. It contains the details of the four maids. I have already placed the deed of sale and will send someone to Daxing County Government tomorrow to pay the seal for the deed tax. The transfer is done."

"Okay." Chen Zhao hummed, took a look, and saw that "Qingwen" was written first on the roster.It says her surname, parents, and hometown are all unknown, and her age is estimated. She is 13 years old now, and her birthday is the second day of June. It is probably made up randomly.

It was Lai Da who bought her from Ren Yazi back then, and Nanny Lai nursed her well, and often took her into Rongguo Mansion to meet Jia Mu.When Jia Mu saw it, she liked it very much, so Mammy Lai honored it to Jia Mu, and named it Qingwen after returning to Jia Mu.

The origin was written very clearly, and Chen Zhao nodded while reading it.As expected, the Jia family is a family of princes, and they are very aware of these things. They know that the most taboo thing for a wealthy family is to use maids and servants of unknown origin.

The second one is "Zijuan". Zijuan also has surname, parents, and hometown all lost, and is alone without any brothers or sisters.It was also bought by everyone Lai from Ren Yazi when he was eight years old. Later, Mammy Lai honored Jia Mu and stayed with Jia Mu, and named it Zicuckoo.He is also 13 years old, and his birthday is the second day of May.Hehe, these guys are really trying to save trouble.

It seems that Jia Mu saw that Daiyu had a nanny and a maid by her side, and that the pomp was as good as Jia Mu's, so she didn't send Zicuckoo to Daiyu, and now she gave it to Chen Zhao.

Xiuluan and Caixia have their origins and origins, and their origins are clearly written. Chen Zhao took a quick look at them and found that one was 12 years old and the other was 11 years old.

"Who is Qingwen?" Chen Zhao asked.

"Sir, my name is Qingwen." The woman in front of the four stood up and saluted.I saw that she had a frown on her face, her eyes were furrowed, her face was charming, her waist was slender, and she was slim and graceful. She was unique in her own way, and she was the prettiest among the four maids.

As expected, Chen Zhao nodded and continued to name names.

"Who is Zicuckoo?"

"Back to the uncle, the servant is Zijuan, please greet the uncle."

Zicuckoo has a slender figure, delicate eyebrows and eyes, and has a quiet and elegant temperament.

"Zicuckoo? Did your original name be Parrot?"

"My lord said that the maidservant was originally called Brother Ying. Because it was similar to the name of Yingge next to Ms. Lin, Ms. Lin gave her the name Zijuan, and the old lady agreed."

Zicuckoo saluted slowly.Qingwen stood beside her and glanced at her with a complicated expression.

Chen Zhao named Xiuluan and Caixia again, and said: "From now on, the four of you will serve in the inner courtyard.By the way, Old Sun, what is the monthly money rule in Beijing? "

"Returning to your lord, the big servant girl pays a penny every month, and the average house maid pays five hundred cash, and gets two new clothes every year."

"Then let's pay a monthly fee first. It is a rule to have new clothes for each season of the year. They are all growing taller, and the clothes will no longer be worn when the new year comes. Let's do as they grow. The house is not short of that much money. "

"Good sir."

"Thank you, sir." Qingwen, Zijuan, Xiuluan, and Caixia all showed joy.It's not bad to hang the monthly money, but the key is to make the clothes as you grow, which is terrible.The four of them can also see that the new owner's family is really kind and kind.

Chen Zhao lived in the main room on the left side of the inner courtyard, and the connecting room on the left side was his study.He is not a pampered master, and he has never had women and maids to serve him. In the past, he only had a few women living in the servants' room and the concierge.

Now that there is an "aunt" Xiangling, and a few more beautiful maids, the necessary arrangements will naturally need to be readjusted.

Qingwen, Zijuan, Xiuluan, and Caixia went to place their luggage, pack the beds in their respective rooms, and the left and right rooms for night duty.Chen Zhaozi was reading his book in the study.

Two quarters of an hour later, the four of them stood at the door of the study, and Qingwen asked, "Master, can we help clean up your study?"

"Come in." Chen Zhao raised his head and saw the four maids, waved his hands, and said kindly.Four people came in one file at a time and stood in front of the desk.

Standing next to Chen Zhao was a girl who was slightly older than Qingwen and the others. It was Xiangling who came from Xue's house, and they all knew each other.

"Meet my aunt." Qingwen saluted.

Xiangling blushed, and was about to say goodbye, when Chen Zhao waved his hand and said, "Xiangling, you all know each other, right now she is just like you, she will follow me to handle the affairs of the inner courtyard, and there is no need to call her 'Auntie' first, after a while Her family has been found, let's talk."

"Yes." Several servant girls looked at each other, not knowing why.

Xiangling is so beautiful, she is obviously a stunning beauty, but Chen Zhao said that there is no need to call "Auntie" first, and it is obvious that she has not been brought into the house, so she is a polite person.

"When Xiangling came in, I asked her if she could read or not. Xiangling knows one or two hundred characters. What about you?"

"I can know one or two hundred words when I go back to the uncle." Qingwen said first.

"What about you?" Chen Zhao turned to the other three women.

"I'm the same as Qingwen." Zijuan replied.

"Slaves are stupid, they only know a few dozen characters." Xiuluan replied weakly.

"Me too." Caixia lowered her voice.

"This is not good, as you all know, I am a Jinshi in the new department, and I have a room full of books to read. Since you are the maids in my room, how can you only know a few words? What books and newspapers should I read in the future? , you don’t know it, and you can’t help, so what to do.”

Chen Zhao mused as he spoke, "If you have nothing to do at night, just learn to read. Tomorrow, ask the housekeeper to prepare two tables, four chairs, and four sets of four treasures for the study. You should learn "Thousand Characters" first."

"Master, the mother who taught us how to read before said that a woman's ignorance is virtue. Knowing her own name is enough. No matter how many characters she knows, it's useless. It's better to spend more time learning how to be a needleworker." Grandpa Why do we need to be literate? Do we need all of us to be female talents?" Qingwen asked curiously.

"This 'It is virtue for a woman not to have talent' was made up by the incompetent outsiders in order to oppress women. You must know that you are all still young and have a long life in the future. It will be of great use if you know the words and can read. Trust is also a skill. If you can read, you can read, and if you read, you can understand the truth, and you don't have to be a fool for the rest of your life."

"What the uncle said is really interesting." Qingwen said with a smile.

Zijuan said, "What the uncle said makes sense."

After hearing this, Qingwen glanced at Zijuan again, bowed her head and said nothing.

"Uncle, can I learn to compose poetry after I become literate?" Xiang Ling, who had been silent, interjected and asked.

"Of course, you can read "Anthology of Tang Poems" over and over again after you know more characters, "Read [-] Tang Poems by heart, even if you don't know how to compose poems, you can recite them."

"That's great, sir, tomorrow I will read Tang poetry while learning Chinese." Qingwen said happily.

"I am currently selecting the most popular and well-known poems in Tang poetry and Song Ci, among which are easy to recite and especially important, and compiling an anthology of Tang poetry and an anthology of Song Ci with genre as the classic and time as the latitude. The book is limited to about [-] poems. After you have learned the characters and read the poems, you can be my editor. At that time, I will leave a name for you in the preface of the book."

"Really, sir?" Xiangling asked in surprise.

"You will be the closest people to me from now on, can I still lie to you?" Chen Zhao replied with a smile.

Hearing this, not only Xiangling, but also Qingwen and the other four were all elated. They cleaned up the study together. Qingwen was the most interested, pointing fingers and becoming the commander of the study.

After all, Xiangling is the "aunt" of the future. After another busy day, Chen Zhao sent her, Xiuluan and Caixia to rest.
Zijuan saw that Chen Zhao had put the books away, thinking that he was about to take a rest, so he quickly went to prepare a copper basin of hot water and towels.Qingwen looked at it, stamped her feet, and turned around to make the bed.

After waiting for a while, Zijuan and Qingwen didn't see Chen Zhao entering the main room. They were surprised and walked to the study through the side door, but no one was there.I heard a noise coming from the back garden of the inner courtyard.The two of them went over to take a look and saw Chen Zhao dancing his sword under the moonlight.

For a moment, the sword was like a swimming dragon, flying up and down, under the moonlight, it was like pear blossom water training, it was indescribably beautiful, the two girls could only look at it with ease and joy.

They didn't wake up until Chen Zhao retracted his sword and called them.

However, Chen Zhao did not let them serve him, but went to wash and rest by himself.

Qingwen volunteered to be on duty, and the sound of rolling and turning under the moonlight was extremely slight. At about three o'clock in the morning, the entire inner courtyard returned to tranquility under the light of the bright moon.

(End of this chapter)