Daming female local tyrant

"Come, come, come, Alan, come to me." Sitting on a red sandalwood open-carved five-blessing holding longevity pattern arhat couch in Fuhai Hall, Feng Shi smiled and nodded to Jing Lan.

Jing Lan walked over obediently, walked up to Feng Shi and softly called out: "Old ancestor."

Mrs. Feng took her hand, agreed with a smile, then turned to look at the women and young ladies standing in the hall, and introduced Jing Lan to them: "This is Jing Lan, the eldest daughter of Erfang Xueshan. Back then..."

She told everyone in detail how she found out how Zhang Tianshi had wronged Jing Lan, causing Jing Lan to be carried away from Lu's house, and then she found someone to find Jing Lan and brought Jing Lan back.

As soon as Mrs. Feng finished speaking, the people below started whispering and discussing.

The well-informed head of the house soon found out about Jing Lan's return to Lu's house yesterday, so the women and young ladies in the head house were not too surprised. What they were talking about was Jing Lan's long portrait.Luo Shi and Li Shi of the long room had met Jing Lan's mother-in-law Tan Shi, and when they saw Jing Lan, they couldn't help saying that she looked like her mother, but she was also tall, like her father.

The Hakka family and the Miao family in the third room didn't know about Jing An's return to the Lu family. They were shocked when they saw Jing Lan and what Feng said. They were discussing in private that Tan's death Too wronged.

If it wasn't for the nonsense of Zhang Tianshi and Jing Lan hadn't been taken away, Mrs. Tan would not have been overly sad. When she was born, she had dystocia and injured her body, and died of illness within a few months.

Although Mrs. Feng is 67, she still has good ears and eyesight. She also listens to what the daughter-in-law, granddaughter-in-law, and great-granddaughters are talking about.

"Okay, everyone is quiet, you all come here, meet Alan, let her recognize the person." She raised her hand to signal everyone to be silent, and then said.

Feng Shi spoke, starting from the eldest room in the Lu family, several women and young ladies came to Feng Shi one by one.

The first one to come up was Feng's eldest daughter-in-law, Luo Shi. Feng said to Jing Lan, "This is your uncle's first wife, you have to call her uncle."

Jing Lan followed her instructions and called her uncle and grandma.

Luo Shi agreed with a smile, said a few words to welcome Jing Lan home, and stepped aside.

Then Luo Shi's two daughter-in-laws, Li Shi and Ran Shi, came forward, and Feng Shi introduced who they were to Jing Lan. Jing Lan should call them eldest aunt and second aunt.

Although Ran's husband is the second son of the eldest house, Luo's, he is younger than Jing Lan's father, so Feng asked Jing Lan to call her second aunt.

After saluting Li Shi and Ran Shi and calling them, they also stepped aside.

The next ones came up were the ladies of Changfang and Jinglan's same generation, but they were all younger than Jinglan.

The third lady, Lu Jilan, is only 12 years old. She is the eldest son of the house, Lu Xuechuan, who is also the husband of Li Shi, Jinglan's eldest aunt, and the child born to his concubine Liu Shi.

So Miss San was born of a concubine. She has two older brothers who were born to her aunt Li.

Lu Jilan looked very demure and refined, she stepped forward to salute Jing Lan respectfully, and then called her big sister.

Feng said: "This is your third sister, born to your uncle and Aunt Liu."

Jing Lan returned the salute politely, and then called her Third Sister.

Behind, Lu Xueyan, Luo's second son, Ran, who Jing Lan called second aunt, came with one of her daughters and Aunt Zhong's daughter.

The fourth lady, Lu Xiulan, is 11 years old this year. She looks very bright and charming. She has a hearty personality at first glance.

She came up generously and called Jing Lan "big sister", Feng said to Jing Lan with a smile: "This is a monkey, she is your fourth sister, the youngest daughter of your second aunt, and there is another girl on top of her." Brother. Today, your brothers and sisters all went to school early, and the school will only have a holiday on the Ghost Festival. Then we will have fun together as a family, and you will be able to see them."

Jing Lan nodded, then pursed her lips into a smile, and called out to Lu Xiulan, "Fourth Sister."

Unexpectedly, when Lu Xiulan saw Jing Lan smiling, she was stunned, and then yelled: "Elder sister's smile is really overwhelming..."

Jing Lan smiled embarrassedly upon hearing this.

But Ran came forward and dragged her daughter down, saying that she was impolite and yelled in front of her ancestors.

Lu Xiulan pouted dissatisfiedly, and muttered softly: "Eldest sister is beautiful in the first place, I'm not talking nonsense..."

Ran told her to shut up, otherwise she would be punished when she went back, so Lu Xiulan dared not speak.

After the mother and daughter stepped aside, it was Aunt Zhong's daughter, Sixth Miss Lu Yulan, who came up to salute Jing Lan.

Lu Yulan is only nine years old this year. She wears a bun and looks very introverted, a little timid.

She stepped forward to salute Jing Lan, lowered her head, and called Jing Lan "big sister" with a voice like a mosquito gnat, Jing Lan struggled to hear clearly.

"Sixth Sister." Jing Lan called her politely after returning the gift.

Lu Yulan lowered her head, and slowly backed away, all the way behind Ran Shi and Lu Xiulan, completely hiding herself.

After the people from the long room came up to meet Jing Lan, the people from the third room of the Lu family came to meet Jing Lan.

The Keshi of the third bedroom of the Lu family is Jinglan's great-uncle. She gave birth to an only son named Lu Xuekun and married his wife Miaoshi. Miaoshi bore him two sons and a daughter.

Today Miao is accompanied by her youngest daughter, Lu Yilan, the Fifth Miss of the Lu family.

Lu Yilan is only ten years old this year, because her mother dotes on her very much, so her temper is quite similar to Jinglan's younger sister, Shu Lan, the second young lady of the Lu family.Her appearance is not bad, but she is not outstanding among the young ladies of the Lu family, she is roughly the same as Shu Lan.

According to the instructions of her ancestors, Jing Lan called Miao's third aunt and Lu Yilan's fifth younger sister.

After Lu Yilan raised her chin and called Sister Jinglan, she added: "I used to be Sister Shulan, but now the eldest sister has changed, Shulan has become the second sister, and I have changed from the fourth lady to the fifth lady. She has become that cowardly Yulan..."

Before she finished speaking, her mother, Miao, had already told her to shut up, and she didn't hurry to back down.

Lu Yilan was reprimanded, so she realized that she couldn't speak well enough, so she said something that offended the new eldest sister Jing Lan, and the old ancestor seemed to value Jing Lan very much. Offended the ancestors.

Thinking of this, she sneaked a glance at the old ancestor sitting above, and sure enough, seeing her unhesitating expression, she immediately became nervous, and hurriedly retreated with an awkward smile.

After Mrs. Feng let the ladies of the Lu family meet Jing Lan, she ordered the maids to cook.

In Feng's place, no matter whether they are descendants of concubines or concubines, they all sit and eat with her at the same table, but a few granddaughters-in-law stand beside them, serving food and vegetables for those sitting.

When the whole family eats, there is still only the sound of bowls and chopsticks clinking.

After Feng and the others had finished their breakfast, they moved to the Xici room to have tea. The maids took down the cups, plates and chopsticks and set up the meal again, including Qi and his granddaughter-in-law before sitting down to eat.

Qi and the others finished their breakfast quickly, and rushed to the Xici Room next door to serve their ancestors and their respective mothers-in-law.

While having tea, Mrs. Feng announced another thing, that is, on the nineteenth day of next month, she will have a treat to celebrate the return of Jing Lan, the eldest daughter of the Lu family, back to the Lu family.

When Qi and Yuan first heard about it, they thought that their ancestors were going to leave this matter to them.

Unexpectedly, Feng later said that this matter should be handed over to Cheng Ze, because Cheng Ze volunteered to undertake the matter, and Feng also wanted to see his ability to handle things besides studying and taking exams.

Regarding the decision of the ancestors, all the daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law naturally agreed.

Only Qi was a little uneasy for no reason.

After announcing this, Mrs. Feng asked them to separate, and the ladies in each room went back to get ready to go to the school.

As for Jing Lan, Feng Shi asked her to take a step slowly, and she asked people to bring up the two little maids who had been picked out for Jing Lan.

The two little maids, one named Ming'er and the other named Guo'er, were only about ten years old.

Mrs. Feng said that they entered Lu's house when they were six or seven years old, and they have learned to serve others in the past few years, and they are smart and diligent, so she entrusted these two little maids to Jing Lan.

Seeing the two little maids who were only in their early ten years old, Jing Lan really felt a little bit uncomfortable to manipulate them, after all, they were still little girls.Before she put it on, it was a proper fourth grade elementary school student.

However, she also knew that in the eyes of her traveler, they were only ten years old, but in this era, most girls were married when they were 15 years old, and even in some remote places, girls married at the age of thirteen or fourteen. all have.Because of the short life expectancy of ancient people, early marriage and early childbearing were recognized by both the people and the court.

This is at least seven or eight years earlier than the age of marriage that she knew before wearing it. From the perspective of modern people, they can get married when they are adults, but the age of marriage in this era is 15 years old.That is to say, their ten years old is equivalent to Jing Lan's fourteen or fifteen years old before Chuanchuan. In the eyes of Feng Shi and others, they are not children, but young girls.

At this moment, Mrs. Feng continued to talk: "The young ladies in the family are two big maids, two young maids, one foster nurse, and one nurse. As for the rough maids and women who do odd jobs, your mother will mention them. You choose a few envoys. They are not allowed to enter your house on weekdays, do you remember?"

Jing Lan nodded and said that she remembered it.

The old ancestor arranged it like this, so of course Jing Lan understood what she meant, but she still didn't want her stepmother Qi to intervene in her daily life and food, because she was worried about Qi Shi.

Mrs. Feng then asked another woman in her early forties to come, and she told Jing Lan that this Mrs. Wen would be her foster mother in the future, and would teach her all the etiquette that a young lady should know.

Then she asked Jing Lan if she could read a few words, and if she knew how to cook.

Jing Lan said that she would, but she didn't know how high the Lu family's requirements were for the young ladies.

Feng asked again, where did she learn these things? It couldn't be her adoptive mother who taught her.

Jing Lan: "Old Ancestor, you forgot that my great-granddaughter used to be a maid beside Miss Shen, and she taught me all these things."

Feng said oh, think about it, if the eldest lady of the Shen family really taught Jing Lan these things, Jing Lan said she would probably know it, but she still said to Jing Lan: "Now that you are out of school, start from Come here from the school, I will test you, if you pass, I don't need to ask your second aunt to teach you."

At that time, in addition to reading and writing, the young ladies also had to know how to be a female celebrity, and cook and read books to settle accounts.And this is the treatment that can only be enjoyed by the daughter of the first daughter.

Misses born from the concubine are married to be regular wives, but the girls born from the concubine are not sure who they marry.

If you get a concubine lady that your aunt likes, maybe your aunt will teach you a thing or two, but if you don't like a concubine lady that your aunt likes, you won't learn anything.

After getting married, she is lucky enough to be the wife of a man from a large family. At that time, she will be embarrassed if she doesn't know how to host the ceremony. Not only that, but she will also be looked down upon by her in-laws.

Therefore, ordinary wealthy families would not seek concubine daughters for their children unless they wanted to please a certain powerful family or eunuch.

Therefore, most of the concubines would marry someone to fill the house, or be the wife of an ordinary family, or even become the concubine of a man who can bring benefits to the family.

Considering that Jinglan has been homeless since she was a child, and her mother died of illness early, and no one taught her how to host a middle-aged lady, she considered letting her eldest son's daughter-in-law, Ran's, teach Jinglan. orchid.

Even though Jing Lan said that she knew it, Feng still didn't believe it, so she said that she wanted to test Jing Lan.

The author has something to say: There are a lot of characters in this chapter, so let me explain the relationship between the characters of the Lu family:

[Lu Zhong (deceased) + Feng family (ancestor)]

1. Long room

Lu Shiyun + Roche

Child:

a, Lu Xuechuan + Li Shi

The young master, Lu Chengdong (17 years old),

Second Young Master, Lu Chengliang (16 years old)

Third Miss, Lu Jilan (12 years old) [born by Aunt Liu]

b, Lu Xueyan + Ran's

Fourth Young Master Lu Chenglin, (14 and a half years old)

Fourth Miss, Lu Xiulan (11 years old)

Miss Six, Lu Yulan (9 years old) [born by Aunt Zhong]

2. Second room

Lu Shiyuan (deceased) + Yuan Shi

Child:

Lu Xueshan + Tan Shi (first spouse, deceased)

Miss, Lu Jinglan (16 years old)

Third Young Master, Lu Chengze (15 years old)

+ Qi's (step-wife)

Fifth Young Master, Lu Chengyuan (14 years old)

Second Miss, Lu Shulan (13 years old)

Female:

Lu Suyi + Huang Zhide

Give birth to a son and a daughter.

3. Three rooms:

Lu Shitong + Keshi

Child:

Lu Xuekun + Miao

Sixth Young Master, Lu Chenglong (11 years old)

Seventh Young Master, Lu Chenghao (8 years old)

Fifth Miss, Lu Yilan (10 years old)