The cannon fodder of fast wear, she chooses to farm

What Xu Yin said was indeed deceptive, but it was not just a lie or a baseless lie to her mother-in-law.

She went to Songxueyuan to see Xue Zhaojin again this morning. She still refused to let him go. She fed him a tube of special nutrient solution and a few sips of Linghu water. Then she turned him over, massaged him, and stimulated his acupoints with acupuncture.

When I felt his pulse, I found that his heart rate seemed to be a little more stable than the previous day. It could be seen that the Linghu water or nutrient solution was working. If he continued to feed and stimulate, there was still hope for him to wake up.

The reason why the half-year deadline is given is because the mother-in-law's body needs at least half a year to recuperate.

By that time, even if Xue Zhaojin did not wake up, her mother-in-law would be disappointed and return to the embrace of the Buddha - fasting, eating vegetarian food, kneeling and chanting sutras, her body would be strong again, wouldn't it?

Zhong Minhua saw that his daughter-in-law spoke so clearly and thought that she had lived in the southern temple for so many years, and couldn't help but believe it.

Maybe it’s more of a prayer, praying that what the daughter-in-law said will come true—that the son will really wake up in half a year!

Half a year, right? I’ve waited for three years, so what’s half a year? She waits!

"Okay! I listen to you!"

Zhong Minhua choked with sobs:

"As long as Zhao'er wakes up, I can do anything you want!"

Xu Yin didn't let her do anything, he just asked her to eat well and be calm.

But he didn’t let her do it at all. If she got bored, would she go to the family temple to recite sutras without being able to kneel down?

So he said: "Mom, our east courtyard really needs to be tidied up. Although the second aunt sent people over the past two days to repair the roof and paint the courtyard walls, mother, you didn't see these people working, so what's the point? They are like beads. They only move once you pluck them. If you don’t pluck them, you won’t know what to do. According to me, we have to pay more attention to our own yard. Otherwise, at this rate, when Brother Zhao wakes up, he will still be there. It’s so messy that you can’t even see it.”

Zhong Minhua originally didn't think that the servants were working hard.

First of all, she didn't know how much time it would take to repair the roof, replace the tiles, and paint the courtyard walls. Before she got married, she was a wealthy lady, so she didn't need to worry about these trivial matters. After getting married, although she was the mother of a house, there was an old lady above her. Husband and wife, they are in charge of big things. As long as she says something about small things, someone will naturally run errands to do it. I never thought about whether the people below are doing the work.

Now that it involves his son, Zhong Minhua is naturally concerned: "Yin Yin, what do you think we should do? This is the total number of people your second aunt has called. If you ask her again, there will be no gossip."

"Don't ask Second Aunt, there is no one in our East Courtyard. Mother, please sit here for a while, I'll ask Cuibi to get the roster. We two will work together to re-adjust the positions of the servants in the East Courtyard. .”

Since the family has not yet been separated, the roster in the hands of the eldest family is just a roster. Most of the servants' contracts of sale are in the hands of the old lady, and a small part is in the hands of the second wife.

The main house does not have the right to add or remove servants at will. If the manpower is insufficient, you can apply for additional servants. If you see which servant you don't like, you can apply for a replacement. If you make a serious mistake, you can be whipped and thrown out of the east courtyard. But in the end, it is better to sell or not. The punishment is determined by the master who holds the bond of sale.

This is the benefit of stewardship.

It’s no wonder that women in the ancient back houses fought overtly and covertly for the power of the house, and the house fights never ended.

Don't think that "house fighting" only revolves around the male master. In fact, most of the time, what the housewife women really want is the power to run the house and the right to speak.

It's just that in ancient times, the husband was regarded as the heaven. Whoever the male master's heart is in, who is in the house, whoever is favored by the male master and becomes pregnant with the male master's heir, will be one step closer to the power of the family.

Based on this analysis, this ancient man seems to be more like a tool man than modern men?

At this moment, the guard guard stood in the courtyard and reported that Mr. Xue had sent someone to bring several boxes of ingredients over as an apology gift. Ever since Uncle Xue passed away and Mr. Xue fell into a coma again, whenever the master needed to come forward to deliver something to the eldest son, it was the second lady who came. Mr. Xue had not stepped through the gate of the east courtyard for a long time. This time he was purely here to clean up the aftermath for his wife.

Seeing the depressing scene in the east courtyard, he scolded the second lady in his heart. Was this something done by a human being? The courtyard where I live has white walls, black tiles, and red rafters and columns. It is painted as brightly as possible. Looking at the east courtyard, if I don’t know better, I would have thought it was the residence of some unloved concubine. How can I tell that it is serious? The courtyard of the big house. If word spread, outsiders would think how much his younger brother bullies his widowed sister-in-law.

Second Master Xue gritted his teeth and temporarily asked his servants to go to the west courtyard to bring the pair of enamel flower vases from his study and add them to the apology gift list.

But in order to avoid suspicion, when he arrived at the gate of the courtyard, he directed his subordinates to carry the things in, and he did not go in.

When Xu Yin accompanied her mother-in-law to the gate of the hospital to express her gratitude to Mr. Xue, her brain was still thinking about the theory of "male master and tool man". When she saw Mr. Xue, she unconsciously showed a look of sympathy.

Mr. Xue: "..."

Is he disheveled or is there something wrong with him?

Why do my niece-in-law’s eyes look so strange?

Even with Xu Yin, the daughter-in-law, uncles and sisters-in-law should not spend too much time together. Mr. Xue said a few polite words, naturally nothing more than "My wife is ignorant, please don't blame my sister-in-law", and then left. went.

Xu Yin accompanied her mother-in-law to the front hall to look at the apology gift sent by Mr. Venison, bear paws, ham, fine nectar, etc.; common ones include chicken, duck, goose, pig, dried fish, dried shrimp, various eggs, and all kinds of condiments...

Needless to say, the delivery was just in time, as the small kitchen needed these ingredients.

Because it was an apology gift from the second wife, these would definitely not be included in the public accounts. They would have been spent on either the second master’s or the second wife’s private money. If the second master had no private money, then the second wife could only have paid for it out of her own pocket. I wonder if a few more teacups and dishes will be thrown tonight.

However, these have nothing to do with the East Campus.

Xu Yin smiled and ordered her servants to put these things away. The expensive ingredients were taken to the warehouse and picked up when needed. The ordinary ones were carried directly to the kitchen.

She drew up a recipe for three meals that were different every day, seven days a week, and asked the cook to cook according to the recipe, which not only gave the small kitchen time to prepare, but also saved her from having to ask what to eat today every day.

Seeing that her method was good, Zhong Minhua imitated her and drew up a menu, and asked Mrs. Wen to visit the courtyard of the concubines and concubines to ask them to follow this method.

Since her son fell into a coma and she voluntarily went to the family temple to chant sutras and pray for blessings, she no longer had to worry about the concubine and concubine in the morning and dusk.

But starting from today, this rule can be restored.

In addition, she planned to announce that her daughter-in-law would take care of the affairs inside and outside the east courtyard from now on when everyone gathered. When the family separates in the future, the daughter-in-law will be the head mother of the family.

As a mother-in-law, she only wanted her son to wake up, nothing else, nothing.