Daming female local tyrant

"Have you ever made a mistake in front of your great aunt?"

"Is my aunt easy to serve?"

"Are you afraid when you serve your aunt?"

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Cuizhu and Chuntao asked questions they were interested in one after another.

Jing Lan told the truth, saying that she herself didn't know what was wrong, anyway, it was just like that, and her aunt and grandma were not difficult to serve, and she was a little scared when it came to it.In fact, even if she thought that Shen Wan was picky and fussy, she would not say it in front of the two maidservants in front of her. If she wanted to say it, she would say that Shen Wan was good, for example, Shen Wan even gave her some snacks.

The two of them looked at each other after hearing this, and there was only one feeling, that Jing Lan must be another great aunt who was serving.

Because they knew that the aunt of the Shen family was a cold and serious person, and all the servants who came to serve her were cautious, for fear of making mistakes.If you make a mistake, you will be punished severely according to the family rules.Therefore, if the servants of the Shen family don't have the ability to serve people well, they won't go to the aunt to serve them.

They concluded that either Jing Lan was lucky and did not make a mistake when she went to serve her aunt, or her aunt was in a good mood, so Jing Lan didn't care about making mistakes.

Jing Lan thought about it for a while and slept all night last night. She didn't know whether Shen Wan woke up at night. This should be an obvious sabotage and a mistake, but Shen Wan didn't punish herself.

So she said: "I guess it should be the latter."

Cuizhu and Chuntao laughed and said, "We think so too, or both."

Jing Lan didn't want to talk to the two of them about serving Shen Wan last night, so she changed the topic to the matter of Shen Wan going to Qixia Temple to worship the Buddha today.

As soon as this was mentioned, Cui Zhu jumped up and said that she asked Jing Lan for her blessing, and her aunt asked her to go to Qixia Temple with her.Ever since she entered Shen's other courtyard as a maid, she never went out once, let alone Qixia Temple.

Qixia Temple is more than ten miles away from Qingxi Village. It is quite famous. Jing Lan who passed through has never been there. It's gone, and all that's left are memories of family members.Even the neighbors of the Lin family and the villagers of Qingxi Village were gradually familiar to her later.

Chuntao said: "I went to Qixia Temple once with the second wife and fifth lady of Shen's family room. Not to mention the golden statues in the temple that look like real Bodhisattvas and Buddhas, the vegetarian food in Qixia Temple is a must. The meat made of tofu is as delicious as real meat, and it is not greasy. And those pumpkins and wax gourds, I don’t know how they make them, they are so delicious that you can eat your tongue... Tsk tsk, right now Speaking of it, I'm still drooling..."

Cui Zhu also said that she had heard other maids mentioned the vegetarian food in Qixia Temple, and it was just like what Chuntao said, it was delicious.

Jing Lan laughed and said, "Can tofu taste better than meat? I don't believe it. There are also winter melon and pumpkin, which are so delicious that you can eat your tongue. I don't believe it either. I guess it's because you eat well in Shen's other courtyard." , go up the mountain to eat the tofu and pumpkin in the temple, because they make it differently, you will feel different."

Chuntao answered: "To make vegetarian dishes taste better than meat, of course you need craftsmanship. You are right to say that the method is different. It's like a fish, cooked by different people, can make hundreds of kinds of dishes Come on, because the culinary skills are high or low, the fish they cook can be divided into delicious and bad. I think it is precisely because there are monks with good cooking skills in Qixia Temple that the vegetarian dishes they make are famous far and wide. , let people praise you."

"My sister is so reasonable!" Cuizhu clapped her hands and praised.

Jing Lan also stopped eating melon seeds, listened, and then clapped her hands together with Cuizhu, thinking that Chuntao's words were very reasonable.

"Since Sister Chuntao said so well, then Cui Zhu and I will go to Qixia Temple to worship Buddha with our aunt today. It seems that we will have a real treat."

"Yeah yeah!"

When the maids were talking happily here, the curtain outside was lifted, and a little maid ran in to pass the word that the aunt and grandma called Jinglan and Cuizhu to go, and they were about to leave the house.

As soon as Cuizhu heard this, she immediately jumped up from the stool. She was so panicked that she patted the melon seed husks off her body several times, then pulled Jing Lan up from the stool, patted the melon husks off her skirt, and then pulled her Just jump outside.

It was Jing Lanlin who thanked Chuntao for entertaining her and Cuizhu to eat melon seeds before leaving the house.

Chuntao smiled when she heard the words, and waved them to go quickly.

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Shen Wan changed into an ice blue skirt with folded branches and flowers, a white skirt with thread, a gold headband and a gold bracelet inlaid with sapphires.

This made Jing Lan a little surprised when she saw it, and felt that her high-end and elegant body looked very aura, and it faintly fit her ice and snow beauty temperament.

"Let's go." Shen Wan simply ordered, and walked outside Huixiangju.

Apart from the two maids, An Chun and An Dong, Jing Lan and Cui Zhu, and two other maids whose names Jing Lan didn't know, followed Shen Wan out. These two people were probably brought by Shen Wan from the Xiao family this time. They came to the other courtyard of the Shen family, anyway, Jing Lan didn't talk to them.These two servant girls are about fourteen or fifteen years old, older than Jing Lan, and younger than An Chun and An Dong.

Although she only went to Qixia Temple more than ten miles away to pay respects to the Buddha, and she went back on the same day, but when Shen Wan went out, the maids who went with her had to bring a lot of things.For example, you need to bring two changeable clothes, an umbrella, a tea set and tea leaves, various snacks and fruits, special bowls and chopsticks, a chair, a toilet, and so on.So none of the maids had anything empty, including An Chun and An Dong.

Jing Lan was arranged by An Chun to carry a red-lacquered toilet bowl, and Cui Zhu was arranged to hold an umbrella and a folding chair.

Jing Lan, who was carrying the toilet, walked last in the group, because although the toilet she was carrying had been cleaned, it was still a toilet after all, so it still had some smell.So, she couldn't go to the front, not even in front of the green bamboo.

When An Chun asked Jing Lan to carry the toilet, he also said that it was brought from Xiao's house. The material of the toilet is sandalwood, which is very expensive. It was brought to Xiao's house as the dowry of the eldest aunt.My aunt is also used to this toilet with the scent of sandalwood, so I have to arrange for Jing Lan, my aunt's favorite maid, to carry it.

Jing Lan was skeptical that this expensive toilet was made of sandalwood, because she didn't smell the scent of sandalwood very much, and the toilet was heavy and heavy, and it was hard to lift, which was all she felt about the toilet in her hand .

Just carrying it from Huixiangju to the gate of Shen's other courtyard, she broke out in a sweat.Jing Lan felt dizzy at the thought of carrying it for more than ten miles on the way to Qixia Temple.

There were three blue woolen sedan chairs parked at the gate of the Shen family's other courtyard. Mother Chen and Steward Fan were there, and there were six young servants acting as bearers.

As soon as they saw Shen Wan coming, Mother Chen and Steward Fan hurried forward to salute, and then reported to Shen Wan how their respective responsibilities were arranged.

Shen Wan nodded, walked to the front sedan chair, the bearer pressed the sedan chair, she got into the sedan chair and sat down.

Mother Chen and An Chun An Dong boarded the two sedan chairs at the back respectively.

Just when the bearer was about to pick up the sedan chair, Shen Wan suddenly lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, called Steward Fan over, and said a few words to him.

Steward Fan nodded repeatedly, Shen Wan put down the curtain of the sedan chair, and ordered the bearer to pick up the sedan chair.

Jing Lan and the others who were following the sedan chair were about to catch up with their belongings when Steward Fan came over and said, "Wait a moment, my aunt is sympathetic to you, let me set you up a carriage, and you can go up the mountain in a carriage." go."

After finishing speaking, Steward Fan asked a servant to go to the carriage house to get a carriage.In less than a quarter of an hour, a carriage was driven out from the Shen family's courtyard, and Jing Lan, Cui Zhu, and two other maids got into the carriage.This carriage can just seat four people, and the things they carry in their hands can also be placed on the carriage.

Jing Lan and the others got into the carriage, Fan Butler got on his horse and said simply: "Let's go!"

He led the horse and started trotting, followed by the carriage carrying Jing Lan and others, and the carriage carrying grain followed.

Although Shen Wan and the others had to walk for a while in the sedan chair, the convoy led by Fan Steward quickly caught up with them, and the group meandered to Qixia Temple on Qixia Mountain.

Sitting on the carriage, Jing Lan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, at least there is a carriage, otherwise it would be a crime to go to Qixia Temple with that expensive sandalwood red lacquer toilet.

When the carriage passed through Qingxi Village, she lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked at the Lin family from a distance. She saw her younger sister, A Guo, playing in the fenced yard, and her grandmother, Gao, hoeing the vegetable field in the yard.There are large and small rapeseed fields near the Lin family's yard. At this time, the golden yellow rapeseed flowers are in full bloom, reflecting the spring sun, and they are very dazzling.There is also a strong smell of rape blossoms in the air, which she has been used to smelling for more than half a month, and the sound of chickens crowing and dogs barking can be heard from time to time.

Jing Lan misses the yesterday, the day before yesterday, and the day before yesterday when she was a free person enjoying the village life...

Different from her melancholy, the other three maids in the carriage were talking and laughing, not to mention how happy they were.When Jing Lan lifted the curtains of the car, they leaned close to the small window, giggled, and pointed to the villagers passing by outside, or the boy sitting on the back of the buffalo, and the washbasin by the stream. Village women in clothes, commenting.

It wasn't until the carriage left Qingxi Village that they were far away, and Jing Lan put down the curtain of the carriage, that they changed the topic to something else.For example, this time, the aunt of the Shen family really showed kindness. They never expected that not only could they follow the aunt to Qixia Temple to worship the Buddha and relax, but they could also go there in a carriage.Although they felt that walking more than ten miles to Qixia Temple with the things in their hands was not a hardship, they could handle it, but it was easy to go there by car, of course they wished for it.

As they talked, they turned the topic to the red-painted and gold-painted toilet sitting beside Jing Lan's feet.

Different from Jing Lan's sympathetic feeling, they really thought that the toilet was a precious thing, and only the maids who the aunts and grandmas admired could carry this toilet.

"This toilet is my aunt's dowry. It is said that the wife of the Shen family specially asked someone to make it after my aunt got engaged to the young master of the Xiao family. It is made of the most precious wood, golden nanmu. Look, inside the toilet It's not painted, but the inside is golden, and it's worth 80 taels of silver at least!" said a maid who was in the same car with Jing Lan coquettishly.

Cui Zhu covered her mouth with her hands, her eyes widened, she was quite surprised.

After a while, she looked at Jing Lan, and said to herself as if realizing: "No wonder Sister Lan is so highly regarded by the aunt, the sum of all of us is not worth as much as this toilet..."

Jing Lan heard this, laughed out loud, and said: "At that time, you will take this toilet, and I will take the umbrella and high chair in your hand. You can also enjoy the feeling of being valued, let's exchange it?"