Daming female local tyrant

"Sister, why are you sitting here and not in the room?" Lu Chengze walked up to Jing Lan and asked suspiciously.

Jing Lan said "Oh", pointed to the Zhixiu Building, and said: "Just now you also heard that sister Shu Lan moved upstairs, and the maids cleaned the upstairs, making a lot of noise, and there is no room for people to sit. .”

After hearing this, Lu Chengze thought about it for a while, and then he guessed why sister was sitting outside.

Presumably, after Shulan moved upstairs, she was very dissatisfied, so she asked the maids and women under her hand to make a lot of noise, making sister unable to stay in the house any longer.

In order to verify his own thoughts, Lu Chengze then walked towards the ground floor of the embroidery building, and Jing Lan naturally followed.

Seeing Cheng Ze's gloomy face, she was a little worried that he would run to find Shu Lan and quarrel with her after a while. It was only his first day in Lu's house, and they turned their brothers and sisters against each other. If Qi knew about it, she would think that she was with Cheng. Ze's siblings are bullying Shulan.At that time, it is estimated that they will blow pillows in front of their father again, saying that they have caused the other children to have a bad relationship.

After returning to Lu's house, Jing Lan focused on forbearance, after all, she hadn't figured out the relationship between this family.

For example, she didn't know what the relationship between Cheng Ze and Qi's two children was like. She only heard Cheng Ze said that they didn't get close to him, so was this not close because they were estranged or because they both had a face-to-face relationship.

Anyway, although Cheng Ze and them were not born to the same mother, they are from the same father and are related by blood. They have grown up in the same house for more than ten years, so the relationship may not be so bad.

When Chengze and Jinglan were walking towards the ground floor of the embroidery building one after the other, Guo's mother who was by the window on the second floor saw them, she immediately called Lu Shulan over to take a look, and said that the third young master wanted to know that she had just messed up. It's about Jinglan.If the third young master told the old master, Shu Lan would be scolded by the old master, not to mention, if the third young master told the old ancestor, both Shu Lan's mother and Shu Lan would be scolded.

When Guo's mother said this, Shu Lan was also a little flustered.

If it was in the past, she would not be afraid of Chengze, the eldest brother, at all, and would not take him seriously.But since Chengze was selected as a juren, she was called by her mother to tell her not to offend Chengze, the eldest brother. It is best to please him and improve the relationship between siblings, otherwise Chengze will become a Jinshi and become an official in the future. Not only will the younger sister not get any benefits, but she may also be punished for offending Cheng Ze, so she is a little afraid of Cheng Ze.

Shu Lan immediately grabbed Guo's mother's hand and asked her what to do.

Guo's mother said: "It's not too late to mend a dead sheep, girl, you immediately ask a few maids to help clean and wipe, just say, just now you asked them to clean up the house and made a lot of noise, so they didn't get dirty. In this way , the third young master has nothing to say when he sees it."

Shu Lan immediately said: "Then do as mother said."

So she ordered the maids who had been knocking hard on the floor just now to go down and clean up the ground floor, and told Danju to tell the third young master what Guo's mother said when she saw Cheng Ze later.

So next, when Cheng Ze and Jing Lan walked into the embroidery building, they saw Shu Lan's maids working hard to clean the house, sweeping the floor, and wiping the ashes.

Seeing this, Jing Lan couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips.

He thought to himself, after all, my younger brother still has status in the Lu family, and even Shu Lan, who is used to being domineering, should be afraid of his younger brother.

Danju saw Lu Chengze walking in, and hurried forward to tell Chengze what her master had told her.

Cheng Ze nodded, telling them to clean the room spotlessly, then asked Jing Lan to sit on the chair under the south window, and ordered some tea, and the two sat facing each other and talked.

Danju and the others who were sent by Shulan to clean the ground floor saw that the third young master was here, and none of them dared to be lazy, and cleaned the ground floor spotlessly according to Cheng Ze's instructions.

While admiring the hard work of the Shulan maids in front of her, Jing Lan drank tea and asked why Cheng Ze came here.

Cheng Ze smiled and said: "Just now I was talking to her at the old ancestor's place, and the maid in Dad's room came over and said, Dad asked me to come and have a meal with you, to congratulate you on returning to Lu's house... I came here, When I walked to the gate of Tongchun Hall, I wanted to come and see my sister, who would want to..."

Speaking of this, he glanced at Danju and others who were working around, and Jing Lan also understood what he meant.

"By the way, sister, my ancestor and I have already picked a date for the treat." Cheng Ze continued, "It will be on the nineteenth day of next month. The ancestor said that I will handle all the treats this time, and I will write it tomorrow." Send out the invitation, and then take the pair of cards and go to the accountant to collect the money, and order someone to prepare wine for the show."

Jing Lan nodded: "That's very good."

The siblings chatted and laughed for a while, and a few servant girls came in front, respectively inviting Jing Lan, Cheng Ze, and Shu Lan to the front hall, saying that the banquet had been prepared, and the Fifth Young Master had also arrived.

Jing Lan and Cheng Ze walked side by side, Shu Lan followed far behind, and the three of them entered the side hall of Tongchun Hall.

In the side hall of Tongchun Hall, there was a large red lacquered round table, on which was a table of delicacies from mountains and seas. Lu Xueshan and Mrs. Qi were sitting on the mahogany arhat couch at one side, drinking tea and talking, while Lu Chengyuan, the fifth young master, was standing at the other side.

Lu Chengyuan is more than one year younger than Lu Chengze. He is 14 years old this year. He looks like his father Lu Xueshan, tall and like a bamboo pole.He has a pair of slender eyes, which seem to be inactive at ordinary times, and are always half closed.If he smiled, he couldn't even see his eyes.The servants of the Lu family gathered together to talk about him, saying that he was like a snake, always cloudy, and they never saw his eyes clearly, nor did they see him get angry, nor did they see him laugh.

When Jing Lan entered the side hall of Tongchun Hall, when she saw Lu Chengyuan turn around and saw his face clearly, she felt similar to those servants of the Lu family.

I feel that the young man in front of me is a little gloomy, I can't see clearly what emotion is leaking from his eyes, and I can't guess what he is thinking.

"Cheng Yuan, this is your elder sister Jing Lan." Lu Xueshan introduced Jing Lan to his son Cheng Yuan after seeing Jing Lan.

Lu Chengyuan nodded towards Jing Lan, and politely called out: "Elder Sister."

Jing Lan replied, "Fifth Brother."

The children of the same generation of the Lu family and Jing Lan are ranked according to male and female, and Lu Chengyuan is ranked fifth among the boys of the same generation of the Lu family's three-bedroom family.

Lu Xueshan only introduced Jing Lan to Cheng Yuan, and then invited his wife and children to sit down and eat.

At the dinner table, Lu Xueshan asked someone to bring wine for the first time, and a set of six luminous glasses produced in the Western Regions, and poured a glass for each child.

He raised his wine glass and said with a smile: "Today is the day when my eldest daughter, Jing Lan, returns to the Lu family. Misunderstood by the liar Zhang Tianshi, she suffered innocent injustice and left home for fifteen or sixteen years. Now that her grievances have been cleared, the ancestors personally sent someone to pick her up and go home. From now on, we will be a family. You must love each other, Carry each other, remember?"

Jing Lan and the others raised their wine glasses and said they remembered it.

Lu Xueshan took the lead and drank a glass of wine, and then asked Jing Lan and others to drink too.

He said that because Jing Lan and Shu Lan are women, they can only drink one drink, while Cheng Ze and Cheng Yuan are men, they can drink an extra glass.

Jing Lan ate in silence, while the maids serving them served them dishes, rice and soup from time to time.

For a moment, there was only the sound of bowls and chopsticks clashing in the room.

Except for Lu Xueshan who spoke at the beginning, no one spoke during the whole meal, and the rule of never talking when eating was fully implemented.

Jing Lan thought that although the Qi family of the second room doted on Shu Lan and made her a pampered temperament, the general rules of the family were not bad.

After the meal, the maids took away the bowls and chopsticks, brought tea to Jing Lan and the others to rinse their mouths, and then brought tea to drink.

Everyone moved to the banquet room next to the main hall of Tongchun Hall to sit and talk.

Lu Xueshan told Jing Lan that since she returned home, the ancestors also insisted on keeping Jing Lan at home for two more years, and arranged for her to go to the Lu Family Girls' School to study and learn female celebrities, so let's go to the school with Shu Lan tomorrow. .If there is anything Jing Lan doesn't understand, just ask her sister Shu Lan.

Jing Lan nodded and said yes.

As for Shu Lan, when her father looked at her and waited for her to speak, he also lazily agreed, saying that he would know everything without saying anything, and would do his best to help the elder sister.

Qi then took out 16 taels of silver and gave it to Jinglan, saying it was her monthly allowance for this month.The young masters and young ladies of the Lu family are paid 16 taels of silver every month, and the young masters have an extra [-] taels of paper, pen, ink and inkstone every month.From now on, the money will be distributed on the tenth of every month. As for the maids in Jing Lan's house, they are all from the ancestor's side, and their monthly money will be distributed by the ancestor.The eldest lady Jing Lan only needs to give them rewards on the New Year's Day.In addition, Jing Lan's dresses and shoes are also made by the needleworkers in the house every season, and she can choose the materials herself.Because Xia Yi had been made before Jing Lan came, she could only go to Shu Lan to pick out a few slightly bigger dresses for Jing Lan that she didn't wear.

Jing Lan heard this and said, "Mother, I had a few clothes before I came, and they were new and unworn, so you don't need to buy them for me."

When Qi heard this, she glanced up and down at Jing Lan, smiled slightly and said, "Jing Lan, you don't know that our Lu family weaving workshop weaves tribute satin for the imperial court, right? Our Lu family is the only cloth that fills Jinling City. Although the material of your clothes is good, it is still far from the materials of our Lu family. Tomorrow you will go to the school with Shu Lan, and you must dress like the eldest lady of the Lu family. You cannot let others look down upon you. It's about the face of the second bedroom of our Lu family. You will follow me to Shulan's place for a while, open the box, and pick out two pieces to deal with it for a while. This will be made into autumn clothes soon, and I will ask you to pick them when the time comes Material, ask the tailor to measure you and make eight sets of clothes."

After hearing this, Jing Lan would of course thank Qi for thinking about Zhou Xiang for her.

Shu Lan, who was sitting next to Jing Lan, listened to her mother's words, and her mouth was so pouted that she could hang an oil bottle on it.If it wasn't for her father and Chengze being here, she would have jumped up to object to her mother's words, why should she pick out the unworn dress and give it to Jinglan.She occupied her own room first, and now she has to ask for her own dress, is it over?

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