Dowry maid's daily life [Red Mansion]

Just after the Cold Clothes Festival on the first day of October, it was time for Jia Lian and his wife to move.

Early this morning, Wang Xifeng still went to Jiamu's house to ask for a compliment, and her servants took care of moving and arranging things in the yard.Ping'er and the others led a group of people to take care of the various places. Even Du Yun'an rushed over from Rongqing Hall early in the morning. Because she was literate, she was in charge of sealing and registering the dowry items that were not commonly used, and moved them to the Dangui Garden. Go to the warehouse.

In the Dangui Garden, Ping'er is only in charge of the layout of the main house where Sister Feng lives, and all household items need to be arranged after asking her, while Shun'er is responsible for cleaning and displaying the rest of the house. When the heart works together, it looks pretty good.

But the east courtyard is not peaceful, Xi'er should box up all the things that are not taken away from this courtyard and put them in the ear room, and Le'er will have people cover the expensive furniture that Sister Feng's dowry in this room with cloth curtains, And asked the two of them to appoint someone to stay and look at the house here, one is to prevent theft from being stolen, and the other is to take care of the whole set of old rosewood furniture.Telling them to decide to choose and keep someone from Sister Feng's servants, this is a dignified and good job, but these two people are not happy, they only feel that there is no future in managing the moved yard, even Shun'er climbed to the top of them up.Xi'er beats and beats, scolding one for a while, scolding another for a while, Le'er is more stable, and also keeps her face hanging.

"Hey, why do you look like this? If you have the skill to make a face for us, you should go find those tough people to vent your anger on!" Yan'er leaned against the door and sneered.

Nong Nong raised her brows slightly, hugged her own baggage, and said in a disinterested manner: "Forget it, what do you tell them, let's go over and clean up for the second master."

"Bah! Little Sao Dazi, don't put gold on your face! Second Master's study needs you? Don't care about the front yard and backyard, it's our grandma who is in charge of Second Master's place, you count that onion! Be yourself Really and the second master 'You Nong Nong Nong', it's just an old dress!" Xi'er became jealous, and immediately gave up Yan'er to top Nong Nong.

Le'er also looked at Nong Nong bitterly, and Yan'er, who was the first to provoke, flinched, watching the two girls deal with Nong Nong together.

It turned out that these beautiful girls lacked some knowledge of articles due to illiteracy. They used to be unhappy because of the intimacy of Nong Nong's name. Unexpectedly, the girl from Zhou Rui's family who was married to an antique dealer came in to say hello, and happened to meet Nong Nong. Zhou Rui's daughter said: "Nong Nong...Your name is so embarrassing, I only know the source of a 'love poem', what's 'You Nong Nong, I'm so affectionate'..."

Nong Nong was exposed to the deep meaning of Jia Lian's name for her by Zhou Rui's daughter, and she was ashamed and flustered.What's more, when Jia Lian named her, it was true love, but Lian's second master was an uncertain romantic person, and later he spoiled the newcomer, so he put Nong Nong back a step, step back step by step-fortunately, Jia Lian was not long. Love, but he is a nostalgic person. Although Nong Nong is gentle and docile, he has a bit of scheming. He often used the old love to divide the police to lure Jia Lian, so he firmly established Jia Lian's No. 1 seat.

Nong Nong himself has all kinds of grievances that he cannot tell, and he is laughed at by Zhou Rui's daughter, how can he not be annoyed.It's just that before she got angry, the few motivated people who learned the meaning of the word "Nong Nong" were already jealous, and all the people in the house called her name in a strange way to make fun of.

A few people were chattering and talking bitterly, completely ignoring the behavior of a group of low-class servants winking at each other to hide.Unexpectedly, Mrs. Xing came in suddenly holding the hand of Wang Shanbao's family, and shouted: "When your master is not around, you will go crazy, and my house will not be peaceful due to the noise!"

Wang Shanbao's family hurriedly said: "My wife has no reason to get angry with them, just wait for the second mistress to come and tell her to deal with it."

Mrs. Xing sneered and said: "I was about to ask her, why is it that her girl is the only one in the house who doesn't see anyone? Go! Tell your second grandma to come and see me!"

It turns out that Mrs. Xing is sick in her heart.All the other things can be forgiven, except that Sister Feng, a new daughter-in-law who has not accomplished an inch, flattered the old lady and asked her to help the housekeeper. I thought to myself, 'When you go there, you will be the housekeeper grandma, will you also have a housekeeper when you come back here in the future?That's right, although the old lady is partial, the master is a dutiful son. You only coax the old lady to help, so it's hard to guarantee that the master will not listen', and then think, "You are my daughter-in-law. I expected you to flatter the old lady to get some benefits for my family. Who I want you to stir-fry vegetables with chicken feet. '

Mrs. Xing already has a bit of a problem, and the confidantes around her are all people who are coaxing Mrs. Xing's life and affairs. They wish to make them proud. It is a daydream to expect these people to persuade Mrs. Xing to calm down.Du Yunan thought to himself that he had to be driven out from the warehouse at the back, and said with a smile: "Madam! You are the most kind and tolerant, and everyone in the family knows..."

Just now Yun'an asked someone to copy the path to tell Wang Xifeng and Ping'er that he knew.Here she said some clichés that "Madam, please take good care of your health". For the time being, she held up Mrs. Xing, and she only hoped that they would run faster, and don't ask the two wives sent by Mrs. Xing to catch up.Those two women were gearing up, obviously they wanted to take advantage of Mrs. Xing's power, and they wanted to question Wang Xifeng in front of others, which would embarrass her.Wang Xifeng is a new daughter-in-law with a thin skin, but she can't stand her mother-in-law's questioning and scolding.

"What a smart girl, are you deaf! You don't care if they are yelling here, now when you see your wife is annoyed, come out and be a good person, don't take a piss and talk to your wife according to whether you are worthy or not !" Madam Xing hadn't spoken yet, Wang Shanbao's family members were already jumping up and down, spitting everywhere.

Mrs. Xing just looked at Du Yun'an all over her body, and after a while, she raised her foot and entered the room, obviously meaning to let the two companions do what she wanted.

Seeing this, the other lady who accompanied the house fee sneered and said, "Why is she unworthy? She is a servant of another family, and she dominates the old lady's yard. The old lady still likes it, even the mandarin ducks and amber Being nice to her shows that she is born with a foxy temperament and is used to bewitching people!"

"..."

"Little prostitute. I don't want to clean up..."

The Rongguo Mansion's family has a great career, and the servants at the bottom rely on the power of their masters to form cliques to fight openly and secretly.It's just that Mrs. Xing is not favored by Jia's mother, and Jia She is not favored by Jia She, and the filial piety of the second master Lian is only a matter of face, so her servants inevitably lose power, can't play awe-inspiring, and can't make money.For example, Wang Shanbao's family and Mrs. Fei have accumulated countless resentments and dissatisfaction for a long time, and they are looking for opportunities to make troubles.

The two of them had better listen to the gossip and know that although Du Yun'an is in the Jia family, he is actually a member of the Wang family, but he has only been here for a year or two.He had long wanted to use her as a raft to show off to the people in Second Grandma's house, so now he started shouting more and more, thinking that this girl is not from here, so she will only suffer from boredom, no matter how prestigious the uncle's and wife's family is Outsiders, can they control them?

It was the first time for Du Yun'an to experience this kind of battle, and only then did he know what it means to be a slave.

Wang Shanbao's family bullying her is not a servant of Jia's family, but this is not Du Yun'an's advantage. I saw this small and exquisite sister, holding up an elm box containing crude benzene in the courtyard with no expression on her face, "Kang Dang " With a sound, he threw it in front of the toes of the two wives, only missing two fingers from hitting their feet.

When the box fell to the ground, there was a burst of dust, and there was a chaotic sound inside, which showed how heavy it was.

Du Yun'an looked at the two women, and then blankly scanned the other four people in the courtyard. The four girls, Nong Nong Xi'er, saw that the girl's face was like a brick, but said softly, "Both of you Mom, be careful, the yard is busy right now, it would be bad if you tripped over by boxes and cabinets."

cabinet?The eyes of the six people unconsciously looked at the floor-to-ceiling cabinets that were taller than people standing in the courtyard—they were used in girls' houses, they were thick and clumsy, and if they fell on them, they would not be able to explain with a broken toe. Afraid of taking half your life to get in?

Xi'er's throat tightened, and she swallowed subconsciously.Only then did Wang Shanbao's family come back to their senses, and sat down on the ground with an "Ai yo", and Mrs. Fei's knees were weak and her legs were shaking non-stop.

As the saying goes, the soft is afraid of the hard, the hard is afraid of the horizontal, and the horizontal is afraid of death.But when it comes to Du Yun'an, it becomes 'those who are afraid of killing people'.

Du Yun'an was also angry, if she backed down a step today, others would have to follow suit and bully her, if she just kept giving in, she would be degraded to the point where everyone could be bullied.These two women are really hateful, what kind of "humeizi" prostitution.The women "fantou" and "dirty things" just open their mouths, and ten Du Yun'an are not the enemy of one person just because of this lip service, so they might as well drop ten meetings to see if they dare.

"Good mother, I am weak and weak, and I am the most timid person! It's just that I am timid, but I also know that if people do not offend me, I will not offend them. If people offend me, I will be courteous. !' reason."

"My mother also said, I'm not from here, but I've only lived here for a year. If I accidentally 'offend' you a little bit, and there are uncles and wives around, the wives here will still care about me? Mama Wang, what do you say? Is this the reason?" Du Yun'an learned how to smile without a teacher, staring into Wang Shanbao's eyes and asking.

Wang Shanbao's family only felt that there was an evil spirit hiding in those black eyeballs, and nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, Miss Yun'an, we dare not." Mother!It's not easy to injure or maim a few people with this kind of strength, and they can break out in a cold sweat as long as they imagine it for themselves.

This kind of person will only calm down once they are frightened.

"Why don't you dare?" Outside the courtyard, Wang Xifeng came in holding Ping'er's hand, and asked with a smile.

"Hey, what's wrong with Wang Mama?" Sister Feng said.

From the corner of Wang Shanbao's house, he caught sight of the well-behaved and pleasant Du Yun'an, his neck felt cold, and he apologized to Wang Xifeng with a smile: "I have cramps in my calves. Thank you, Second Grandma, for your concern. It's okay..."

The first two girls who reported the letter looked at each other as if they had seen a ghost. How could this old man change his face faster than turning the pages of a book?Ping'er and Shun'er looked at Yun'an worriedly first, especially Shun'er, seeing that Yun'an's hair was not messed up at all, he let go of his heart hanging in his throat.

"I'm late! I told my wife to wait for a long time, I should call!" Wang Xifeng walked into the hall and said with a smile, just as Mrs. Xing came out from behind, obviously she had already been inspected once.

Sister Feng hates it in her heart, but she is affectionate and attentive on her face: "How do you serve me! Hurry up, Ping'er serves good tea!"

"I just got a new tea yesterday. Everyone said that the autumn white dew tasted the best. I'm young and don't understand this. Madam, would you like to taste it?"

Like a cannonball, this Sister Feng said again: "Now that the weather is changing, I bought some winter clothes for my wife, but the needlework is not very good, so please don't dislike me..."

Not long after, Ping'er came in with a small tea tray, on which there was not only a tureen made of sweet white porcelain from the official kiln, but also a small silver tea caddy.Xifeng held tea for Mrs. Xing herself, and held the small pot again: "Look, ma'am, it's just as big as a fist. The entire tea garden of the Li family got a total of a hundred pots. My aunt specially sent me ten pots." Son, this taste is indeed different from spring tea."

Mrs. Xing just missed the best opportunity to get angry, and now she deliberately smashed the gaiwan, but was caught by the silver tea pot in front of her, "Isn't this made of tin?" Besides, Wang Xifeng called Mrs. Li 'aunt', Not being the "uncle and wife" of Mrs. Wang also made Mrs. Xing feel a little better.

"My wife has a good eye, but it's not silver. There's also a set of tortoiseshell silver tea sets—Ping'er, hurry up and ask someone to bring in the box I'm going to honor my wife."

Mrs. Xing originally suspected that the words were coaxing herself, but the big mahogany box that was brought up made her suspicious.Sure enough, there were four big woolen clothes in the box, a whole set of silver tea sets and eight silver tea pots, a pair of jade ruyis, some pieces of brocade, and some playthings.

It is obvious that Wang Xifeng is really filial and prepared to honor her in advance.Mrs. Xing was a little bit ashamed, she shouldn't be so suspicious of her daughter-in-law, her daughter-in-law is a good daughter-in-law, only her aunt is hateful.

"Good boy..."

Yin Yin sent Madam Xing away, and Wang Xifeng came back and said, "Xi'erle'er kneel down."

Xi'er and the two of them knelt down with pale faces, and Wang Xifeng said angrily: "I don't know the seriousness of the stupid thing! You have a brain in vain! If you really call me shameless today, see if I don't take off your skin!"

Seeing that Xifeng was only disciplining and scolding Xi'er, Nong, Nong and Yan'er both knelt down and pleaded guilty: "It's our fault, I beg grandma to punish me."

However, Sister Feng only caressed about tea foaming, and after a while she said lukewarmly: "You are the second master's heartiest people, and you made a fuss so that my wife wanted to punish me. How dare I punish you. Forget it, after all, you are the second master. Lord, I just teach him to take care of himself!"

Both Nong Nong and Yan'er's faces turned pale.

The two of them are still girls after all, and the one who is above the sky is regarded as a "half aunt". Not to mention Aunt Feng, I am afraid that they will not be able to serve the second master in daily life as before.

In the evening, when Jia Lian went back to Dangui Garden, he saw that it was new and open, and he liked it, especially the furniture in the three main rooms was made of red sandalwood, which was better than the ones in the previous yard. Jia Lian was also surprised.

Sister Feng smiled and said: "The ones over there were bought by my parents and clan in Jinling, and these were given by my aunt."

Jia Lian nodded: "It is said that the salt merchants are extremely rich, but the handwriting of Auntie is really extraordinary."

Sister Feng also said what Jia's mother liked when she moved today, and ordered Ping'er to present to Jia Lian the list of congratulatory gifts from her servants. , as if we are standing on our own."

But Xifeng stood up solemnly, and gave him a blessing: "Although they mean flattery, but in my opinion, it's time to congratulate—the master sent a message, saying that the second master is getting older, and take care of him After several years of affairs in the mansion, I have experienced a lot, and I want to donate a future to the second master."

Jia Lian got up "teng" and said happily, "really?"

Sister Feng said angrily: "That's still false. My wife said it in front of the old lady today. The old lady likes it very much!"

"How many?"

"My wife said it's a beauty, a fellow of the fifth rank."

Jia Lian thought about it for a while, and was still puzzled when he was happy: "I will only pay my respects to the master, why didn't the master mention it?"

The smile on Sister Feng's face was put away, because she said: "Second Master, now that we are here, we naturally follow the address here. Today I said in the hall, 'I thank the Second Master on behalf of the Second Master', the old lady still It didn't work, so I had to change my mouth."

Seeing that Jia Lian was in a daze, she hurriedly said, "Of course I know that the ones in the east courtyard are our serious masters and wives, but please be patient when you are here."

Jia Lian shook her head, not as happy as she was just now, she still held Sister Feng in her arms and said, "Second uncle treats me well, and my aunt has loved me a lot these years. That being the case, I'll just follow this way outside, and it's just as usual at home." .”

Xifeng looked at his expression, turned around suddenly, and said angrily: "Second Lord is naturally happy to have such a happy event today, but I don't know that I almost have no face to live!"

Jia Lian was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "How can I say this?"

Sister Feng wiped her eyes and quarreled with the four girls, Mrs. Xing took the opportunity to have a fit and so on, and finally said: "Thanks to Yun'an's sudden change, I hurried to tell someone to tell me. I just came down from the upper room and saw the eldest lady's The two women went to the old lady in a hurry... If they really made them have a fit in front of the old lady and the aunt, saying that the whole family is only my girl who doesn't care about anyone, I don't need to live anymore, even our Wang family be ashamed!"

"...If it weren't for Yunan's girl who has a good memory, Ping'er just told her what I said, and she collected the box of 'filial piety' without any delay-letting the eldest wife know my filial piety. Grandpa has to kneel in the ancestral hall too, who told you to marry an unfilial wife!" Xifeng was angry, and called "big wife" a few times in succession.

Jia Lian and Mrs. Xing were just affectionate mothers and sons. Hearing her making things difficult for the new daughter-in-law, she felt sorry for Sister Feng and felt that she had hurt her own face.

Sister Feng took the opportunity to sue: "You just say how to deal with these four people! I don't favor my girl, I just follow your opinion!"

Jia Lian said angrily: "If you don't punish the hooves that are killing you, I'm afraid they don't know how powerful they are!"

"Then how should the second master punish me?" Sister Feng half smiled.

After hesitating for a while, Jia Lian softened his heart again: "It's common for women in your family to quarrel and quarrel, and it was originally the wife who made use of the topic. Although they have made mistakes, but fortunately my family has a good wife, and there has never been a big fight—if not, I will punish you. Son, what does Second Mistress think of the monthly payment for a few more months?"

Xifeng sneered: "My girl has already slapped her mouth ten times, and now I will give another punishment according to what the second master said. It's just that I didn't dare to flick a single finger of your two treasures, and I just waited for the second master to replace me. Make the decision and let them go. Who knows that the two slaves in the second master's heart are more important than my grandma. The eldest wife they provoked me today wants to punish me. How can I know that I will be rejected by the old lady tomorrow when I won't be troubled? — Well, I'm also discouraged, so I'll just do as Second Master said..."

Hearing this, Jia Lian didn't like it, so he hurriedly grabbed Sister Feng, and saw that her peach cheeks were covered with tears, and her expression was dull and dull.

"Good grandma, I don't agree with what you say. If that's the case, I'll punish you with another ten mouths."

Wang Xifeng threw his hand away, and said angrily: "Sure enough, the second master didn't hear what I said? I can raise my hand and let everyone else go, only the one who provokes will be severely punished!"

"The instigator? Who is it?" Jia Lian leaned on the soft pillow and looked at Xifeng inquiringly.

Sister Feng ordered: "Bring in all the people who heard their quarrel today, and tell your second master to see if I have even lied at all!"

Immediately, there was a crowd of people standing outside, all repeating the story in one go, and sure enough, Wang Xifeng didn't add embellishments just now.

At this time, Jia Lian was not embarrassed, and said with a sneer, "I misunderstood the second grandma. Grandma only said how to deal with it. I will do everything I can."

Only then did Sister Feng soften her body, and leaned on him and said, "Today's disaster is caused by Yan'er's provocation. I asked those who waited on the second master, and this Yan'er is used to making troubles. This one is not the first one, I can't tolerate her kind of culprit, so I just send it out - I think she has some credit for serving the second master back then, so let her parents marry her."

When Jia Lian heard the words, she immediately felt reluctant, so she wanted to persuade Sister Feng to change her mind softly. Then Sister Feng said again: "This girl has a big heart and refuses to be disciplined, so I asked her to go out. It's okay with Nong Nong. Today's I can't blame her for the incident, she got angry, so she won't be punished. At first, the second master thought I had too many girls, but now one of them is out, and there are five older ones left in our house. It's out of the ordinary."

The implication is that her girl fills in gaps for Jia Lian.

Jia Lian hesitated for a while, then said: "Forget it, I will do as you say. I will reward her with another 100 taels of silver as my dowry."

Suddenly regaining consciousness and laughing again: "How can it be five, you already have five, plus Nong Nong, isn't it six?"

Sister Feng smiled and said, "Not counting Yun'an, I have other arrangements for this girl. The second master can just wait for the old lady to praise you."

Jia Lian wondered: "Yun'an girl's arrangement, why do the old lady reward me?"

Sister Feng just smiled and said nothing.

This section was lifted quietly, only the things hurt other people, and the whole day was full of panic.

But in private, Sister Feng said to Ping'er: "It's true that girl Yun'an is capable, and her temperament is also flexible. I like it very much. But I can't keep such a person with your second master. If something happens one day, Call me bad cook."

After hearing this, Ping'er felt cold all over his body.