Dowry maid's daily life [Red Mansion]
Chapter 47 Red Crow's Mouth
It's funny to say, Mrs. Wang didn't know what to think, after the girls greeted her today, she specially left Yun An to talk.
"You guys go first, I'll leave you Sister An to talk." When Mrs. Wang said this, even Tanchun and Xichun's eyes showed doubts.
Baochai got up first and said with a smile: "My brother found two good hams outside, today I simmered soup for a while and sent them to everyone."
When the sisters went out, Dai Yuyin quietly said to Yingchun, "But what's going on with Aunt Wang?"
Yingchun shook her head, wondering too.These girls are all ice-snow and smart, in fact, no one can see it. My wife has always liked girls who are dignified and simple like Sister Bao, and she is indifferent to Yunan and Daiyu who are good-looking and have distinctive personalities.Especially Du Yun'an, who is still a dishonest young lady, my wife doesn't like her very much, because Aunt Wang's family really treats her like a daughter, so my wife has gradually taken her seriously in the past two months, but It was only by chance that she verbally ordered Sister Feng not to treat Yun Yun poorly, so it was the first time in the world that she left the girls to talk intimately.
Yun An originally expected that it might be something about Mrs. Li, but after a few words, Mrs. Wang took her hand and cared lovingly: "I have been ill these days, but your Sister Feng has been messing around, throwing those The miscellaneous things are all divided up by you, and she just pushes them out to be quiet, but she doesn't know that you children are in trouble. Don't mention anything else, just say that there are not enough things, but what should I do? ? Good boy, you are different from their sisters, I’m afraid that some people will bully and fool you because of this, you girl is thin-skinned, don’t you feel wronged!”
As she spoke, she let out a long sigh: "It's just that the old lady has agreed. There is no old lady who nodded yesterday and changed her reasoning today. She has to be patient for a year or so. Now you are raised in my house, and my heart and I Your daughter is not bad, so you child must be honest and sensible. If you are missing money or things, or if you have a girl or wife, just tell me, and I will not let you feel wronged. "
After saying this, people who are not close to him on weekdays still held hands, making Yun An feel uncomfortable, and the hairs on his arms under his clothes were puffed up, and he quickly thought about what Mrs. Wang Hulaba said as another show of favor. .
But still hastily smiled on his face and said: "If I feel wronged again, what kind of person will I become? Isn't it the kind of villain that people say that 'if I have one blessing, I want two blessings, and if I have meat, I hate tofu'. " Speaking of this, he stood up and replied seriously: "I want my wife to know that I am fine, Sister Feng and her younger sisters are fine, and the people below are also fine. Thank you for your kindness, madam. Please take care of your health first."
Mrs. Wang waved her hand and sighed: "You don't need to describe them for them. What kind of young lady still cares about the food, drink and clothing of the servants in her yard, and also counts the money and compradors? It's really unreasonable! It's just fresh for a while, and after a long time, you will know that you are troubled and have a headache. It's just that your sister Feng has taken advantage of the horns and insisted on doing so. It's also my fault that I have been ill these days and put all the things on her, so I also I don't want to talk too much about her, but I just think that you are the most wronged here—others still have something to ask for help to make up for, but you child would rather bear it by yourself."
Yun An opened his mouth, only to feel that this remark was meaningless and ridiculous, if the girls don't learn how to be a housekeeper, when will they learn?Besides, she has her own brother and her own family, so why ask others to subsidize it.
Mrs. Wang didn't ask Yun'an to retort, and said: "I already know that your house doesn't have enough carbon in winter, good boy, it's really hard for you. Now that there are new rules in fashion, I'm afraid it will be more difficult for you here. I'm sorry, so I leave you with a word of advice..."
Huo Han asked a lot of questions, Madam Wang smiled again: "Now that it's warmer today, your mother is in better health, you should go visit her often. You are a child who is too careless, and you never want to cause trouble for others. In fact, what's the matter, a family of flesh and blood, if you want to go home or go out, just tell me, even if I personally take you out, I should be responsible."
At this point, Yun An realized something, so he smiled and said, "I've made a note. To tell you the truth, I'm going home to visit my mother these few days. I just don't dare to work on my wife, so I just invite my sisters to come with me. "
Mrs. Wang nodded, and fondled her for a while.
After finally getting out and returning to Pingming Building, Fang entered the hall and saw Ping'er drinking tea while looking at Yingchun and Daiyu looking at the hospital's account books.
"What did you say?" Seeing her coming back, Ping'er asked with a smile.
Yun An raised his eyebrows: "You guys have good ears, you only stayed with me for a while, and then you came."
Ping'er giggled, taking this opportunity, grandma dismissed many "out-of-mind" and "wrong-hearted" people. Now in this family, grandma's speech is ten times better than before, a hundred times better.
None of the three people here could not see the symptom of Sister Feng and Mrs. Wang's growing estrangement. Not only that, but they also heard in their ears that "the wife has filled her own pockets and spent all the money from the officials." That's why she doesn't want to be a housekeeper" and "Second Grandma Lian fell out with her wife because of money" and other gossip.
"My wife is afraid that we won't be able to manage the bills in the yard, so I want to tell her if something is short." Yun An said with a smile: "My wife misses my elder brother and sister-in-law, and ordered me to go home in a few days to take a look."
It's just an understatement, and Ping'er didn't understand anything, so he agreed with a smile: "Our grandma said the same thing, girls who are in need of things or have ideas, just send someone to say it... ...Grandma has made two spring shirts for my uncle and wife in the past two months, and I will pack them for you in a while."
Yingchun and Daiyu don't argue, it's always a fight between gods and mortals suffer.
Not long after Ping'er left, Lin Zhixiao's family came to the door to deliver cloth: "Fabrics for spring and summer, three pieces each of makeup satin, feather satin, palace silk, and feather yarn; foreign satin, foreign crepe, Lu silk, and Songjiang silk. There are two silks each..."
After reading the list aside, Lin Zhixiao's family members were all smiles: "Second Mistress said, maybe the girls she picked are too vulgar, so please take care of them."
"If the girl has a pattern and color she likes, but there is no one here, please send someone to tell us, and I will change it for the girl right away. It's not troublesome." Lin Zhixiao's family is very thoughtful and meticulous.
Siqi waited for the big girl to send her out and came back laughing: "Second Grandma has punished them severely. How could these housekeeper grandmas talk so well in the past."
Yunan and the others flipped through the account books, but shook their heads and said, "Look at the quotas assigned to us these days, it's too extravagant. Calculated for this big family, one year's expenses in the house alone are equivalent to We got tens of thousands of silver, but how many of us do we have in total?" Only those who are assigned to each courtyard know that if this example is followed, every young lady's usual attention to food and clothing will not be clear even after double-checking , and can already save a considerable amount of private house.
It's just that the three of them are actually not from here, and it's hard to say much, so I just ordered Xiuju and Xuelu to cut the fabric according to the upper and lower ratios and distribute it to everyone, and register the rest in the warehouse.
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When the rules were first changed, everyone was unavoidably not used to it, but the three people in the yard could write and count, and the eldest girl could also do it. Besides, there were less than 40 of them in total, so they sorted it out quickly.This is the comfort of living a small life at home by closing the courtyard door. No one really wants to change back to the original rules.
The five or six rooms that had been vacant before were also cleaned up, some of which were turned into public treasuries, and some were used by the two new needleworkers.Du Yun'an ordered Mrs. Hua to hire a few nurses, and swiftly changed a room next to the back corner door into a tea and snack room.The small kitchens of Pingming Courtyard are located in four or five small houses not far from this courtyard. Sister Feng was worried that the girls might not like the smell of oily smoke, so she acted as a good person and moved the two places together. The vacant space was allocated to two groups of girls as kitchens.
Sister Feng's behavior is also due to the fact that the girls' yards are not neat houses with three entrances, and they are not comparable to Rongxitang, Rongqingtang and Danguiyuan where her husband and wife live.In this way, Aunt Zhao was out of luck, and Mrs. Wang pointed her to a nearby house to set up a kitchen.Because Aunt Zhao was favored at a young age, she also contributed to raising children. On that day, she was allocated a small courtyard on the west side of the Rongxi Hall courtyard. Although there was only one main room in this small courtyard, it was a layout of one light and two shades. , but it is Aunt Zhao's own place, and it is also considered clean and elegant. Jia Zheng rests here more often.Now that the front room is used as a kitchen, it's not a bad thing to be noisy and annoying. It's just that when the spring breeze blows, the smell of oily smoke will pour into Aunt Zhao's room. No matter how Aunt Zhao smokes the house, it's useless. When I was resting here, I didn't sleep for half an hour when I realized that there was a smell of greasy smoke in the bed tent, and I left after getting dressed.The angry Aunt Zhao kept cursing Sister Feng behind her back, and even went to Zhiyuanzhai to explore the spring, which greatly disturbed the interest of the three girls to "enjoy the scenery in spring with Qushui Liushang".
This is another word, for the time being, it won't disturb Yun An's three happy days.
The three of them couldn't care about anyone else at this time, they were all focused on making Kou Dan.
"This color is right!" Daiyu clapped her hands and laughed.
The girls around stretched out their hands: "Try with my hands!"
Even the most stable Mei Yue and Xue Lu stretched out their hands. Du Yunan took out the smallest brush and trimmed the tip of the brush. Apply a thin layer on nail caps.
Meiyue curled up that finger a few times, refusing to blow it with her mouth, for fear that it would be wrinkled by the strong wind, so she only slapped it lightly with the other hand.
After about a cup of tea, Yun An touched the red nails with his hands, and they were already dry: "Okay, go wash your hands and try."
The girls scrambled to wash their hands, Mei Yue was careful, and rubbed her red nails specially, and laughed loudly, "It won't fade."
The others became more and more interested, and hurriedly begged Yun An to paint them too.
Yingchun smiled and said, "Don't worry." As she spoke, she picked up a small plate, and put some gold foil paper cut out pieces and petals in it.
While the turpentine in the porcelain plate was still wet, Du Yun'an painted it on several people, and then Yingchun and Daiyu either lightly sprinkled a little gold powder on the nails, or poked the petal-shaped gold leaf with a needle Pasted on it...the nails of several girls are red, some are shining with broken gold, and there are two vermillion with gold leaf petals floating on them.
After it dries, the gold foil is indeed glued together.
"Mei Yue, come here." Yun An smiled, cut off a piece of thick cotton cloth only a little bigger than the nail cap, soaked it in the shochu, and then pasted the wine cloth on her dyed nails, "I'll try it later , repaint it for you."
Mei Yue just laughed: "I like this color today, and I also love that light pink. Good girl, please reward me."
While the two were talking, Yun An wiped off the vermilion paint on her nails.
The rest clapped their hands together and congratulated: "It's done!"
Du Yun also breathed a sigh of relief: It's not easy. After coming here for so many years, Su finally came up with a new thing - nail polish!
But it turned out that when the three girls were worrying about what kind of shop to do, Xuelu led the people to open a small place in the garden, saying that it was going to sow impatiens.
"It will be used to dye the girls' nails in two months." Xuelu said with a smile at the time.The rest of the people remembered that the yard was originally empty, and it could not grow many impatiens by themselves like the old lady's flower field in the upper yard where there were seeds from the last year's impatiens.
Everyone praised the Snow Heron for being careful, but somehow they begged for more colorful seeds and sprinkled them all.
The embroidered shoes were all dirty, and the little girls were chattering excitedly. One said: "I want to dye three times, and I want bright red." The other said: "Three times is still too light, I want to dye it six times, last year That's how I did it, it's so red, it looks so good! It won't fall off for several months!"
Even Yingchun also talked about the interesting story of dyeing her nails in the past.
This gave Du Yun'an a flash of inspiration, and she remembered a message she had read before, which said that a young man made his girlfriend's nail polish with resin and pokeweed fruit... This kind of nail polish can be compared to impatiens juice and alum to dye nails The several steps are much simpler, more bright and bright, and there are many tricks.You don't have to keep it for several months like impatiens, you can change the color anytime you want, and you don't have to be limited to the flowering period of impatiens to dye your nails...
Everyone fell in love with the first Kou Dan that Du Yunan made with turpentine oil and ochre. After several experiments, not only did the colors become more colorful, but even Daiyu and Yingchun also learned the skill of "nail art" without a teacher. A young lady came up with gold leaf decorations, and also discussed using pine oil of other colors to paint on the nails.
"That's fresh!" Yingchun said with a smile: "I said earlier that we also make rouge powder and silk flower purses, although they are good, but there are always some new things missing, how can we let people know that our products are good? Now that I have this, I don’t have to worry about not being able to stand up a signboard anymore!”
Xu Shili was in charge of the yard, which made Yingchun feel motivated. Whenever she decides to do something now, she must do her best to do it well before she can feel at ease.Yun'an and Daiyu also had the same heart, that's why the three wealthy girls haven't decided what to do in the shop for a long time.
"I have heard people say that in the harem of the previous dynasty, lacquer made from the secret recipe of buttercup flower and acacia glue was used to dye the nails of the maidens red or black, but it is a pity that this method was lost later." Zui Er smiled: "Now that we are asked to make this, I feel in my heart that it is better than those of the ancestors."
As he spoke, he recited a line of poetry: "'Treat the golden phoenix core guarding the palace at night, and replace all ten points with red crow's beak'." The little rascal laughed, "Not only the red crow's beak, but also the green crow's beak and the yellow crow's beak. "
"Why don't we call it 'Red Crow's Mouth'?" Yun An suddenly asked with a smile, "I think it's a good name!"
All the girls in the hall refused, Yingchun also said: "Jin Fengrui is much stronger, why do you only listen to Hongyazui?"
Daiyu clutched her chest and couldn't stop laughing: "I recruited it all, it's my fault."
Then Michelin still has tires rather than ice cream, so the name should be novel and easy to pronounce.Yun An thought, feeling more and more that the name "Red Crow's mouth" is good. The ancients called the dyed nails "Koudan" because the impatiens was also called Koudan flower. At this time, they named the nail polish Red Crow's mouth, maybe A hundred years later, people will refer to the slender and slender face of the beauty as "Red Crow's Mouth"!
Mei Yue, Heyue and the others have experienced the "Du Family Medicinal Wine", and they have all seen their girl's majestic black dog named "Hu Zi". The "Red Crow's Mouth" picked out of the book has already added some literary style.
In any case, five days later, a small shop specializing in women's items opened on Dongxi Temple Street in Duzhong. The signboard of this shop has three big characters "Jinfengrui" written on it.It didn't take long before it was reported in Beijing that there was a shop on Dongximiao Street that dyed women's nails.
In another month, even the girls in the boudoir knew that there was a very beautiful nail called "red crow's mouth", so every temple fair, the street was crowded with ladies, and it was twice as lively as before.
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Du Yun'an and the three of them really have gaps in their hearts. Once they have this insight, they will be able to understand everything.
The reason why I say this is because of where the shop is set up.As Daiyu said before, the capital city is huge, and there are countless shops in the market, so it is not easy to choose a price, flow of people, and location that are suitable for everything.
They are running a shop frequented by female customers, so for the sake of long-term planning, they must be more cautious.
Fortunately, reading the mansion newspapers for the past few months was not in vain. The three ladies did not travel all over the capital, but they were told to find a good place between the lines.This is exactly what Temple Street is.The so-called East and West Temple Street, as the name suggests, is the market between the Longfu Temple of the East Temple and the Huguo Temple of the West Temple.Because the two temples are famous for their flower factories, there are peaches and apricots in spring, jasmine in summer, osmanthus and chrysanthemums in autumn, and narcissus in winter. Therefore, the monthly temple fairs are full of visitors from all over the world, and most of them are those who are looking for beautiful scenery.What surprised the sisters even more was that the servants reported that there were a wide variety of shops on both sides of this market, not only featuring flowers, birds, insects and fish, but also ordinary department stores such as calligraphy, painting, antiques, silk, pearls and jade.
Without hesitation, the three pooled their money together to buy a shop. At this time, Kou Dan, nicknamed "Red Crow's Mouth", hadn't been seen yet.
The shop, which cost 650 taels, was empty for half a month. The neighbors only saw that people dressed as shop assistants would deliver goods in, and they would clean the place all day long. They just waited and waited for the shop to open for business.Seeing that the goods were nothing new, such as grass silk flowers, embroidered purses, and other women's odd-use items, they all murmured behind their backs that the owner might be a novice, and they couldn't crowd the other two similar shops on the street.
But who would have thought that this shop would be up all of a sudden, as if it had bribed the God of Wealth.Even the courtyard at the back was used, no matter whether Xiaojiabiyu or everyone was a lady, everyone condescended to visit.This is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being.
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"Your mother and sister-in-law have needlework, or can tie flowers, or tie knots well, and they can sell them in 'Jinfengrui'. The shop takes [-]% of the miscellaneous fees, and [-]% goes to the individual." Yun An The three summoned the people in the Pingmingyuan together and said.
"Girls are sympathetic, we should be grateful!" Mei Yue and other big girls looked at the crowd below: "It turns out that the girls are kind-hearted, thinking that each of us has a big family, maybe we are the only ones in the family who are on errands to get monthly bills, old lady Brothers, sisters-in-law and sisters can't find food to eat, and it's not easy for the whole family to live on a monthly salary..."
Saying this, the little maids and some women who are rough envoys nod their heads and wipe their tears. Although they are the honest and kind people among the servants, they were not dismissed back home when the mansion was reorganized. But the family has also been affected a lot, the most important one is that there are not so many people in the house, no matter the loyal or the treacherous, most of them will go home and lose their livelihood. Isn't it difficult.
"There are female shopkeepers and female workers in this shop. It is no different from the properties under the names of wives and grandmas. The girls don't care about anything other than looking at the account books-whether the things you make are accepted by the shop, and the price is the same. The girls have nothing to do with it, just save some discussions between your own family and the shopkeeper Tang, and you must not come to the girl's door for this. If there is such a thing, not only will you not accept your things, but even worse, it will annoy the girl. If you close the shop, your family will be outraged, think about it before doing things personally..." Xiuju stepped forward again and slapped her face.
Heyue comforted her again: "The shopkeeper Tang appointed by our girls is the most honest person. As long as the work is meticulous and eye-catching, he will definitely treat you the same. At that time, someone will write down how much you charge, how much you sell, and what the price is. If you figure it out, you can get money and handprints, so you can rest assured."
"It doesn't matter if you don't have handicrafts at home. If you know anything, such as making a rattle or making a big fortune doll, you can save a place and set up a stall in front of the shop during the temple fair. Isn't that right? Is there an entry..."
As soon as the phone call came out, everyone's hearts were very hot, and they even asked if those who weaved baskets, raised flowers and raised rabbits could also sell them at the temple fair.Xuelu just laughed: "The place in front of the shop is not small, how many things do you have as a family, if only the same kind gather together, five or six stalls are enough."
"Be careful, if there are relatives' things that are really good, we don't care if they sell them, you all need to discuss them. If you play tricks and make trouble because of this, the girl won't say anything, just say a word. And cut this matter, rent the place in front of the door to others."
The matter was announced, and the next day Mrs. Hua came in and reported: "A lot of people came to the front of the shop today, not only cleaned the place very clean, but even smoothed out the uneven places, and even the terrace of the shop. The rubbing is shiny. They are also sincere, and the men don’t come close. They are guarding the shop under the far wall, and the women help to clean it. When you ask them, they just say thank you Bodhisattva sisters.”
Siqi quietly told the three elder sisters: "This is the most difficult family, and women don't know how to do it, so I didn't choose it before. I only raise some rabbits, and grow some vegetables behind the rent. They set up a stall, and they have a lot of money. I heard that there is a family where the woman is the most agile. The rabbits in her family are white and white. They could only be sold for two yuan for their skins. Now that they have this grace, they called her a man all night yesterday. I made a dozen or so small round cages, and I’m going to sell the white rabbits to the girls at the temple fair—as far as I know, this one is very easy to sell.”
Daiyu sighed suddenly: "It's not that they couldn't, it's just that they didn't have the opportunity before."
Yingchun and Yun'an also nodded, it took only one night and one day, and the people in this courtyard have come up with a lot of business. I heard that there are boys from the mother's family who make flower shuttlecocks and spinning tops together. The mothers and daughters also brought in a few very beautiful ones, saying they were filial to the girls.
"It's more than that." Xiuju continued: "Those boys are the most open-minded. The old mothers said they still plan to buy fish to keep in the water tank. They will sell goldfish at temple fairs in spring; That kind of small water lilies are sold in small tanks; they also discussed catching crickets and selling cricket cages... nothing they couldn't think of."
Yun An laughed: "Be careful, those mud puddles are no joke."
Just as he was talking, Siqi asked with a blushing face, "Can we also sell the things we make to the shop?"
The other big girls in the room all looked over, Yingchun saw the scene and said, "Do you want it too?"
These sisters are all dexterous, and almost all of them can do needlework. They nodded hurriedly when they heard it: "We work when we have nothing to do, and we have saved a lot of things. It's a pity to let them go for nothing." They were all busy expressing Mind: "Never procrastinate."
Du Yun'an and the others didn't count these people who were on duty, especially they didn't allow the maids in the house to do the same. Firstly, it was because they were close-fitting people, and it might be bad if the needlework leaked out; Errands, if you can also do work and make money, you may not be as dedicated as before.
But looking at it now, I can't help it. These few people came to ask because they were loyal. Then there must be other people who secretly mixed up the work they did with their families and gave it to the shop.
"We read in the books that there are still many palace people in the palace who sell needles and thread for a living. .Aren’t the things we sell in our shop made by women?” Didn’t think about it, but Daiyu was the most enlightened: “The New Year’s Day is the 'wisdom pattern' we saw in the old lady’s house, which is a living example."
Yun'an and Yingchun thought about it, and agreed: "First record your things in our room, and then hand them over to Nanny Hua, and tell Nanny Hua about the embroidery thread and fabric you want, and she will write it down for you You." In short, there must be records for inspections when entering and exiting.
"Other people in the courtyard also follow this example. You take turns to take care of this. If there is anything, we will only come to you."
At this time, it was still playing chess, biting her lips and saying embarrassedly: "Good girl! Since ours is ours and we don't stay with the family, we will also keep the money for ourselves!"
The three of Yun'an laughed, and the name "Pan You'an" flashed in Yun'an's mind. When he looked carefully at the chess game, he saw that the girl's eyes were shining, but she was a little determined.
"Okay! You are right! Sure!"
The girls were all grateful and smiling, and they became more and more active in serving them. When they were not on duty, they would sit in twos and threes with the little girls to work in the bright place. On the contrary, there were fewer small accidents of bickering, fighting, and frolicking flowers and birds. It was a pleasant surprise.
The Pingmingyuan has more and more meanings of "Pingming", which makes people see the sky light and live a more hopeful life.
But in the past two or three months, there was another wife who was getting more and more depressed, complaining about everything, wishing she had nothing to look forward to.
It was Mrs. Wang who was talking about.
Mrs. Wang left Du Yun'an to talk that day, and the latter showed her affection again, in order to tactfully report the complaint to Wang Ziteng's ears.Because of this, Du Yun'an was repeatedly instructed to go back to the palace to visit her sister-in-law, and Yun'an did as well, bringing all the sisters who were willing to go with her every time, as if it was a spring outing.
Mrs. Wang eagerly asked two or three confidantes of Yache, such as Zhou Rui's family, to bring them along with her.
It's just that these few people went a few times, Madam Wang didn't wait for Madam Li and even Wang Ziteng to hear anything, finally couldn't bear it, and went there for a kiss.
It's a pity that Mrs. Wang was fascinated by Wang Ziteng's previous behavior of supporting her in front of Jia Mu Jia Zheng. She didn't expect that Wang Ziteng and his wife were really annoyed by her audacity.When there was no one around, Mrs. Li asked the question on her face: "We were all thinking about our niece, and when we paved the way for her to ask for help, you made trouble behind your back. At that time, did you ever think about your brother begging for help? Ever thought that Baba, my sister-in-law, would go to Xie’s house to hint at others? When something happened, you shrank your neck, got sick and fainted, but your brother has been running around for a long time, how many times he has been harassed by others, not to mention Mention that all the girls in these families almost have to be sister-in-laws! You are good, you have something to do again after a while, Brother Feng is your own niece, and you will lose all the money of the whole family for what you do You can't tolerate her thinking of a way to live frugally! I just ask you if you have any grudges against your family, so that everyone can live a peaceful and comfortable life for a few days!"
Mrs. Wang, who was scolding, couldn't lift her head, and Mrs. Li was so angry that she dropped the last sentence: "Your brother said it himself. He advised my aunt to live in peace and not to care about your family's affairs in the future! If you don't die in the future, in front of everyone, Jia There are two aunts of my Wang family at home. If you still don’t repent, we will only have brother Feng and one aunt Jia!”
"Send off the guests!" Mrs. Li sneered, now that Brother Feng is in charge of the housekeeper of the Rong Mansion, her only worry about Wang Ruoyu's embarrassing An'an is gone, so she will give her face now.Save face for her again, I'm afraid she will act boldly and indulgently again, and everyone's life will be missed again and again.
Mrs. Wang fell ill again when she went to the house, but she knew she was afraid, so she ordered Zhou Rui's family: "Quietly collect the account left outside, and when the money comes back this time, stop this matter for the time being."
Zhou Rui's family agreed, and hurriedly told her the man to do it.
Now Zhou Rui's original job in charge of the rents in Spring and Autumn has also been removed, and now he is serving in the main courtyard, and now he only takes care of Baoyu's going out, and he has been in a hurry to find a new job. We must finish it as soon as possible, and show off well.
Unexpectedly, he was so eager that he forced a family to sell their sons and daughters, and the grandmother of that family almost hanged herself in front of his house.The commotion became a little louder, and it disturbed the person Wang Ziteng left behind to take care of the situation in the capital. The person did not dare to neglect, and made a secret investigation before reporting the matter to the authorities.
Therefore, before the Duanyang Festival this year, Wang Ziteng was so angry that his chest hurt for a day after returning home. Mrs. Li sneered: "You still want to take care of her?"
Wang Ziteng set the note on fire, and said with a gloomy face, "I, Wang Ziteng, will never forget what I promised! I don't care if I say I don't care, but you are looking for an opportunity to tell your niece, don't tell her to be as stupid as her aunt! "
"It's a matter of causing trouble to the whole family?" Mrs. Li still didn't believe it, she looked at him and asked.
Wang Ziteng leaned back, stretched out his hand to pull his wife into his arms, and said casually: "So what, it's not my family who is burdened. Jia Cunzhou can bear it himself."
"It turns out that I have taken too much control, and she doesn't know the heights of the world. If I still want to take care of it—madam, believe it or not, if she dares to lend money today, she will be involved in the fight for the throne tomorrow without knowing it!" Wang Ziteng rubbed his temples: "Because of Yuaner's affairs, most of my hair has already turned gray. If this continues, Madam won't despise me as an old man!"
"You guys go first, I'll leave you Sister An to talk." When Mrs. Wang said this, even Tanchun and Xichun's eyes showed doubts.
Baochai got up first and said with a smile: "My brother found two good hams outside, today I simmered soup for a while and sent them to everyone."
When the sisters went out, Dai Yuyin quietly said to Yingchun, "But what's going on with Aunt Wang?"
Yingchun shook her head, wondering too.These girls are all ice-snow and smart, in fact, no one can see it. My wife has always liked girls who are dignified and simple like Sister Bao, and she is indifferent to Yunan and Daiyu who are good-looking and have distinctive personalities.Especially Du Yun'an, who is still a dishonest young lady, my wife doesn't like her very much, because Aunt Wang's family really treats her like a daughter, so my wife has gradually taken her seriously in the past two months, but It was only by chance that she verbally ordered Sister Feng not to treat Yun Yun poorly, so it was the first time in the world that she left the girls to talk intimately.
Yun An originally expected that it might be something about Mrs. Li, but after a few words, Mrs. Wang took her hand and cared lovingly: "I have been ill these days, but your Sister Feng has been messing around, throwing those The miscellaneous things are all divided up by you, and she just pushes them out to be quiet, but she doesn't know that you children are in trouble. Don't mention anything else, just say that there are not enough things, but what should I do? ? Good boy, you are different from their sisters, I’m afraid that some people will bully and fool you because of this, you girl is thin-skinned, don’t you feel wronged!”
As she spoke, she let out a long sigh: "It's just that the old lady has agreed. There is no old lady who nodded yesterday and changed her reasoning today. She has to be patient for a year or so. Now you are raised in my house, and my heart and I Your daughter is not bad, so you child must be honest and sensible. If you are missing money or things, or if you have a girl or wife, just tell me, and I will not let you feel wronged. "
After saying this, people who are not close to him on weekdays still held hands, making Yun An feel uncomfortable, and the hairs on his arms under his clothes were puffed up, and he quickly thought about what Mrs. Wang Hulaba said as another show of favor. .
But still hastily smiled on his face and said: "If I feel wronged again, what kind of person will I become? Isn't it the kind of villain that people say that 'if I have one blessing, I want two blessings, and if I have meat, I hate tofu'. " Speaking of this, he stood up and replied seriously: "I want my wife to know that I am fine, Sister Feng and her younger sisters are fine, and the people below are also fine. Thank you for your kindness, madam. Please take care of your health first."
Mrs. Wang waved her hand and sighed: "You don't need to describe them for them. What kind of young lady still cares about the food, drink and clothing of the servants in her yard, and also counts the money and compradors? It's really unreasonable! It's just fresh for a while, and after a long time, you will know that you are troubled and have a headache. It's just that your sister Feng has taken advantage of the horns and insisted on doing so. It's also my fault that I have been ill these days and put all the things on her, so I also I don't want to talk too much about her, but I just think that you are the most wronged here—others still have something to ask for help to make up for, but you child would rather bear it by yourself."
Yun An opened his mouth, only to feel that this remark was meaningless and ridiculous, if the girls don't learn how to be a housekeeper, when will they learn?Besides, she has her own brother and her own family, so why ask others to subsidize it.
Mrs. Wang didn't ask Yun'an to retort, and said: "I already know that your house doesn't have enough carbon in winter, good boy, it's really hard for you. Now that there are new rules in fashion, I'm afraid it will be more difficult for you here. I'm sorry, so I leave you with a word of advice..."
Huo Han asked a lot of questions, Madam Wang smiled again: "Now that it's warmer today, your mother is in better health, you should go visit her often. You are a child who is too careless, and you never want to cause trouble for others. In fact, what's the matter, a family of flesh and blood, if you want to go home or go out, just tell me, even if I personally take you out, I should be responsible."
At this point, Yun An realized something, so he smiled and said, "I've made a note. To tell you the truth, I'm going home to visit my mother these few days. I just don't dare to work on my wife, so I just invite my sisters to come with me. "
Mrs. Wang nodded, and fondled her for a while.
After finally getting out and returning to Pingming Building, Fang entered the hall and saw Ping'er drinking tea while looking at Yingchun and Daiyu looking at the hospital's account books.
"What did you say?" Seeing her coming back, Ping'er asked with a smile.
Yun An raised his eyebrows: "You guys have good ears, you only stayed with me for a while, and then you came."
Ping'er giggled, taking this opportunity, grandma dismissed many "out-of-mind" and "wrong-hearted" people. Now in this family, grandma's speech is ten times better than before, a hundred times better.
None of the three people here could not see the symptom of Sister Feng and Mrs. Wang's growing estrangement. Not only that, but they also heard in their ears that "the wife has filled her own pockets and spent all the money from the officials." That's why she doesn't want to be a housekeeper" and "Second Grandma Lian fell out with her wife because of money" and other gossip.
"My wife is afraid that we won't be able to manage the bills in the yard, so I want to tell her if something is short." Yun An said with a smile: "My wife misses my elder brother and sister-in-law, and ordered me to go home in a few days to take a look."
It's just an understatement, and Ping'er didn't understand anything, so he agreed with a smile: "Our grandma said the same thing, girls who are in need of things or have ideas, just send someone to say it... ...Grandma has made two spring shirts for my uncle and wife in the past two months, and I will pack them for you in a while."
Yingchun and Daiyu don't argue, it's always a fight between gods and mortals suffer.
Not long after Ping'er left, Lin Zhixiao's family came to the door to deliver cloth: "Fabrics for spring and summer, three pieces each of makeup satin, feather satin, palace silk, and feather yarn; foreign satin, foreign crepe, Lu silk, and Songjiang silk. There are two silks each..."
After reading the list aside, Lin Zhixiao's family members were all smiles: "Second Mistress said, maybe the girls she picked are too vulgar, so please take care of them."
"If the girl has a pattern and color she likes, but there is no one here, please send someone to tell us, and I will change it for the girl right away. It's not troublesome." Lin Zhixiao's family is very thoughtful and meticulous.
Siqi waited for the big girl to send her out and came back laughing: "Second Grandma has punished them severely. How could these housekeeper grandmas talk so well in the past."
Yunan and the others flipped through the account books, but shook their heads and said, "Look at the quotas assigned to us these days, it's too extravagant. Calculated for this big family, one year's expenses in the house alone are equivalent to We got tens of thousands of silver, but how many of us do we have in total?" Only those who are assigned to each courtyard know that if this example is followed, every young lady's usual attention to food and clothing will not be clear even after double-checking , and can already save a considerable amount of private house.
It's just that the three of them are actually not from here, and it's hard to say much, so I just ordered Xiuju and Xuelu to cut the fabric according to the upper and lower ratios and distribute it to everyone, and register the rest in the warehouse.
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When the rules were first changed, everyone was unavoidably not used to it, but the three people in the yard could write and count, and the eldest girl could also do it. Besides, there were less than 40 of them in total, so they sorted it out quickly.This is the comfort of living a small life at home by closing the courtyard door. No one really wants to change back to the original rules.
The five or six rooms that had been vacant before were also cleaned up, some of which were turned into public treasuries, and some were used by the two new needleworkers.Du Yun'an ordered Mrs. Hua to hire a few nurses, and swiftly changed a room next to the back corner door into a tea and snack room.The small kitchens of Pingming Courtyard are located in four or five small houses not far from this courtyard. Sister Feng was worried that the girls might not like the smell of oily smoke, so she acted as a good person and moved the two places together. The vacant space was allocated to two groups of girls as kitchens.
Sister Feng's behavior is also due to the fact that the girls' yards are not neat houses with three entrances, and they are not comparable to Rongxitang, Rongqingtang and Danguiyuan where her husband and wife live.In this way, Aunt Zhao was out of luck, and Mrs. Wang pointed her to a nearby house to set up a kitchen.Because Aunt Zhao was favored at a young age, she also contributed to raising children. On that day, she was allocated a small courtyard on the west side of the Rongxi Hall courtyard. Although there was only one main room in this small courtyard, it was a layout of one light and two shades. , but it is Aunt Zhao's own place, and it is also considered clean and elegant. Jia Zheng rests here more often.Now that the front room is used as a kitchen, it's not a bad thing to be noisy and annoying. It's just that when the spring breeze blows, the smell of oily smoke will pour into Aunt Zhao's room. No matter how Aunt Zhao smokes the house, it's useless. When I was resting here, I didn't sleep for half an hour when I realized that there was a smell of greasy smoke in the bed tent, and I left after getting dressed.The angry Aunt Zhao kept cursing Sister Feng behind her back, and even went to Zhiyuanzhai to explore the spring, which greatly disturbed the interest of the three girls to "enjoy the scenery in spring with Qushui Liushang".
This is another word, for the time being, it won't disturb Yun An's three happy days.
The three of them couldn't care about anyone else at this time, they were all focused on making Kou Dan.
"This color is right!" Daiyu clapped her hands and laughed.
The girls around stretched out their hands: "Try with my hands!"
Even the most stable Mei Yue and Xue Lu stretched out their hands. Du Yunan took out the smallest brush and trimmed the tip of the brush. Apply a thin layer on nail caps.
Meiyue curled up that finger a few times, refusing to blow it with her mouth, for fear that it would be wrinkled by the strong wind, so she only slapped it lightly with the other hand.
After about a cup of tea, Yun An touched the red nails with his hands, and they were already dry: "Okay, go wash your hands and try."
The girls scrambled to wash their hands, Mei Yue was careful, and rubbed her red nails specially, and laughed loudly, "It won't fade."
The others became more and more interested, and hurriedly begged Yun An to paint them too.
Yingchun smiled and said, "Don't worry." As she spoke, she picked up a small plate, and put some gold foil paper cut out pieces and petals in it.
While the turpentine in the porcelain plate was still wet, Du Yun'an painted it on several people, and then Yingchun and Daiyu either lightly sprinkled a little gold powder on the nails, or poked the petal-shaped gold leaf with a needle Pasted on it...the nails of several girls are red, some are shining with broken gold, and there are two vermillion with gold leaf petals floating on them.
After it dries, the gold foil is indeed glued together.
"Mei Yue, come here." Yun An smiled, cut off a piece of thick cotton cloth only a little bigger than the nail cap, soaked it in the shochu, and then pasted the wine cloth on her dyed nails, "I'll try it later , repaint it for you."
Mei Yue just laughed: "I like this color today, and I also love that light pink. Good girl, please reward me."
While the two were talking, Yun An wiped off the vermilion paint on her nails.
The rest clapped their hands together and congratulated: "It's done!"
Du Yun also breathed a sigh of relief: It's not easy. After coming here for so many years, Su finally came up with a new thing - nail polish!
But it turned out that when the three girls were worrying about what kind of shop to do, Xuelu led the people to open a small place in the garden, saying that it was going to sow impatiens.
"It will be used to dye the girls' nails in two months." Xuelu said with a smile at the time.The rest of the people remembered that the yard was originally empty, and it could not grow many impatiens by themselves like the old lady's flower field in the upper yard where there were seeds from the last year's impatiens.
Everyone praised the Snow Heron for being careful, but somehow they begged for more colorful seeds and sprinkled them all.
The embroidered shoes were all dirty, and the little girls were chattering excitedly. One said: "I want to dye three times, and I want bright red." The other said: "Three times is still too light, I want to dye it six times, last year That's how I did it, it's so red, it looks so good! It won't fall off for several months!"
Even Yingchun also talked about the interesting story of dyeing her nails in the past.
This gave Du Yun'an a flash of inspiration, and she remembered a message she had read before, which said that a young man made his girlfriend's nail polish with resin and pokeweed fruit... This kind of nail polish can be compared to impatiens juice and alum to dye nails The several steps are much simpler, more bright and bright, and there are many tricks.You don't have to keep it for several months like impatiens, you can change the color anytime you want, and you don't have to be limited to the flowering period of impatiens to dye your nails...
Everyone fell in love with the first Kou Dan that Du Yunan made with turpentine oil and ochre. After several experiments, not only did the colors become more colorful, but even Daiyu and Yingchun also learned the skill of "nail art" without a teacher. A young lady came up with gold leaf decorations, and also discussed using pine oil of other colors to paint on the nails.
"That's fresh!" Yingchun said with a smile: "I said earlier that we also make rouge powder and silk flower purses, although they are good, but there are always some new things missing, how can we let people know that our products are good? Now that I have this, I don’t have to worry about not being able to stand up a signboard anymore!”
Xu Shili was in charge of the yard, which made Yingchun feel motivated. Whenever she decides to do something now, she must do her best to do it well before she can feel at ease.Yun'an and Daiyu also had the same heart, that's why the three wealthy girls haven't decided what to do in the shop for a long time.
"I have heard people say that in the harem of the previous dynasty, lacquer made from the secret recipe of buttercup flower and acacia glue was used to dye the nails of the maidens red or black, but it is a pity that this method was lost later." Zui Er smiled: "Now that we are asked to make this, I feel in my heart that it is better than those of the ancestors."
As he spoke, he recited a line of poetry: "'Treat the golden phoenix core guarding the palace at night, and replace all ten points with red crow's beak'." The little rascal laughed, "Not only the red crow's beak, but also the green crow's beak and the yellow crow's beak. "
"Why don't we call it 'Red Crow's Mouth'?" Yun An suddenly asked with a smile, "I think it's a good name!"
All the girls in the hall refused, Yingchun also said: "Jin Fengrui is much stronger, why do you only listen to Hongyazui?"
Daiyu clutched her chest and couldn't stop laughing: "I recruited it all, it's my fault."
Then Michelin still has tires rather than ice cream, so the name should be novel and easy to pronounce.Yun An thought, feeling more and more that the name "Red Crow's mouth" is good. The ancients called the dyed nails "Koudan" because the impatiens was also called Koudan flower. At this time, they named the nail polish Red Crow's mouth, maybe A hundred years later, people will refer to the slender and slender face of the beauty as "Red Crow's Mouth"!
Mei Yue, Heyue and the others have experienced the "Du Family Medicinal Wine", and they have all seen their girl's majestic black dog named "Hu Zi". The "Red Crow's Mouth" picked out of the book has already added some literary style.
In any case, five days later, a small shop specializing in women's items opened on Dongxi Temple Street in Duzhong. The signboard of this shop has three big characters "Jinfengrui" written on it.It didn't take long before it was reported in Beijing that there was a shop on Dongximiao Street that dyed women's nails.
In another month, even the girls in the boudoir knew that there was a very beautiful nail called "red crow's mouth", so every temple fair, the street was crowded with ladies, and it was twice as lively as before.
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Du Yun'an and the three of them really have gaps in their hearts. Once they have this insight, they will be able to understand everything.
The reason why I say this is because of where the shop is set up.As Daiyu said before, the capital city is huge, and there are countless shops in the market, so it is not easy to choose a price, flow of people, and location that are suitable for everything.
They are running a shop frequented by female customers, so for the sake of long-term planning, they must be more cautious.
Fortunately, reading the mansion newspapers for the past few months was not in vain. The three ladies did not travel all over the capital, but they were told to find a good place between the lines.This is exactly what Temple Street is.The so-called East and West Temple Street, as the name suggests, is the market between the Longfu Temple of the East Temple and the Huguo Temple of the West Temple.Because the two temples are famous for their flower factories, there are peaches and apricots in spring, jasmine in summer, osmanthus and chrysanthemums in autumn, and narcissus in winter. Therefore, the monthly temple fairs are full of visitors from all over the world, and most of them are those who are looking for beautiful scenery.What surprised the sisters even more was that the servants reported that there were a wide variety of shops on both sides of this market, not only featuring flowers, birds, insects and fish, but also ordinary department stores such as calligraphy, painting, antiques, silk, pearls and jade.
Without hesitation, the three pooled their money together to buy a shop. At this time, Kou Dan, nicknamed "Red Crow's Mouth", hadn't been seen yet.
The shop, which cost 650 taels, was empty for half a month. The neighbors only saw that people dressed as shop assistants would deliver goods in, and they would clean the place all day long. They just waited and waited for the shop to open for business.Seeing that the goods were nothing new, such as grass silk flowers, embroidered purses, and other women's odd-use items, they all murmured behind their backs that the owner might be a novice, and they couldn't crowd the other two similar shops on the street.
But who would have thought that this shop would be up all of a sudden, as if it had bribed the God of Wealth.Even the courtyard at the back was used, no matter whether Xiaojiabiyu or everyone was a lady, everyone condescended to visit.This is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being.
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"Your mother and sister-in-law have needlework, or can tie flowers, or tie knots well, and they can sell them in 'Jinfengrui'. The shop takes [-]% of the miscellaneous fees, and [-]% goes to the individual." Yun An The three summoned the people in the Pingmingyuan together and said.
"Girls are sympathetic, we should be grateful!" Mei Yue and other big girls looked at the crowd below: "It turns out that the girls are kind-hearted, thinking that each of us has a big family, maybe we are the only ones in the family who are on errands to get monthly bills, old lady Brothers, sisters-in-law and sisters can't find food to eat, and it's not easy for the whole family to live on a monthly salary..."
Saying this, the little maids and some women who are rough envoys nod their heads and wipe their tears. Although they are the honest and kind people among the servants, they were not dismissed back home when the mansion was reorganized. But the family has also been affected a lot, the most important one is that there are not so many people in the house, no matter the loyal or the treacherous, most of them will go home and lose their livelihood. Isn't it difficult.
"There are female shopkeepers and female workers in this shop. It is no different from the properties under the names of wives and grandmas. The girls don't care about anything other than looking at the account books-whether the things you make are accepted by the shop, and the price is the same. The girls have nothing to do with it, just save some discussions between your own family and the shopkeeper Tang, and you must not come to the girl's door for this. If there is such a thing, not only will you not accept your things, but even worse, it will annoy the girl. If you close the shop, your family will be outraged, think about it before doing things personally..." Xiuju stepped forward again and slapped her face.
Heyue comforted her again: "The shopkeeper Tang appointed by our girls is the most honest person. As long as the work is meticulous and eye-catching, he will definitely treat you the same. At that time, someone will write down how much you charge, how much you sell, and what the price is. If you figure it out, you can get money and handprints, so you can rest assured."
"It doesn't matter if you don't have handicrafts at home. If you know anything, such as making a rattle or making a big fortune doll, you can save a place and set up a stall in front of the shop during the temple fair. Isn't that right? Is there an entry..."
As soon as the phone call came out, everyone's hearts were very hot, and they even asked if those who weaved baskets, raised flowers and raised rabbits could also sell them at the temple fair.Xuelu just laughed: "The place in front of the shop is not small, how many things do you have as a family, if only the same kind gather together, five or six stalls are enough."
"Be careful, if there are relatives' things that are really good, we don't care if they sell them, you all need to discuss them. If you play tricks and make trouble because of this, the girl won't say anything, just say a word. And cut this matter, rent the place in front of the door to others."
The matter was announced, and the next day Mrs. Hua came in and reported: "A lot of people came to the front of the shop today, not only cleaned the place very clean, but even smoothed out the uneven places, and even the terrace of the shop. The rubbing is shiny. They are also sincere, and the men don’t come close. They are guarding the shop under the far wall, and the women help to clean it. When you ask them, they just say thank you Bodhisattva sisters.”
Siqi quietly told the three elder sisters: "This is the most difficult family, and women don't know how to do it, so I didn't choose it before. I only raise some rabbits, and grow some vegetables behind the rent. They set up a stall, and they have a lot of money. I heard that there is a family where the woman is the most agile. The rabbits in her family are white and white. They could only be sold for two yuan for their skins. Now that they have this grace, they called her a man all night yesterday. I made a dozen or so small round cages, and I’m going to sell the white rabbits to the girls at the temple fair—as far as I know, this one is very easy to sell.”
Daiyu sighed suddenly: "It's not that they couldn't, it's just that they didn't have the opportunity before."
Yingchun and Yun'an also nodded, it took only one night and one day, and the people in this courtyard have come up with a lot of business. I heard that there are boys from the mother's family who make flower shuttlecocks and spinning tops together. The mothers and daughters also brought in a few very beautiful ones, saying they were filial to the girls.
"It's more than that." Xiuju continued: "Those boys are the most open-minded. The old mothers said they still plan to buy fish to keep in the water tank. They will sell goldfish at temple fairs in spring; That kind of small water lilies are sold in small tanks; they also discussed catching crickets and selling cricket cages... nothing they couldn't think of."
Yun An laughed: "Be careful, those mud puddles are no joke."
Just as he was talking, Siqi asked with a blushing face, "Can we also sell the things we make to the shop?"
The other big girls in the room all looked over, Yingchun saw the scene and said, "Do you want it too?"
These sisters are all dexterous, and almost all of them can do needlework. They nodded hurriedly when they heard it: "We work when we have nothing to do, and we have saved a lot of things. It's a pity to let them go for nothing." They were all busy expressing Mind: "Never procrastinate."
Du Yun'an and the others didn't count these people who were on duty, especially they didn't allow the maids in the house to do the same. Firstly, it was because they were close-fitting people, and it might be bad if the needlework leaked out; Errands, if you can also do work and make money, you may not be as dedicated as before.
But looking at it now, I can't help it. These few people came to ask because they were loyal. Then there must be other people who secretly mixed up the work they did with their families and gave it to the shop.
"We read in the books that there are still many palace people in the palace who sell needles and thread for a living. .Aren’t the things we sell in our shop made by women?” Didn’t think about it, but Daiyu was the most enlightened: “The New Year’s Day is the 'wisdom pattern' we saw in the old lady’s house, which is a living example."
Yun'an and Yingchun thought about it, and agreed: "First record your things in our room, and then hand them over to Nanny Hua, and tell Nanny Hua about the embroidery thread and fabric you want, and she will write it down for you You." In short, there must be records for inspections when entering and exiting.
"Other people in the courtyard also follow this example. You take turns to take care of this. If there is anything, we will only come to you."
At this time, it was still playing chess, biting her lips and saying embarrassedly: "Good girl! Since ours is ours and we don't stay with the family, we will also keep the money for ourselves!"
The three of Yun'an laughed, and the name "Pan You'an" flashed in Yun'an's mind. When he looked carefully at the chess game, he saw that the girl's eyes were shining, but she was a little determined.
"Okay! You are right! Sure!"
The girls were all grateful and smiling, and they became more and more active in serving them. When they were not on duty, they would sit in twos and threes with the little girls to work in the bright place. On the contrary, there were fewer small accidents of bickering, fighting, and frolicking flowers and birds. It was a pleasant surprise.
The Pingmingyuan has more and more meanings of "Pingming", which makes people see the sky light and live a more hopeful life.
But in the past two or three months, there was another wife who was getting more and more depressed, complaining about everything, wishing she had nothing to look forward to.
It was Mrs. Wang who was talking about.
Mrs. Wang left Du Yun'an to talk that day, and the latter showed her affection again, in order to tactfully report the complaint to Wang Ziteng's ears.Because of this, Du Yun'an was repeatedly instructed to go back to the palace to visit her sister-in-law, and Yun'an did as well, bringing all the sisters who were willing to go with her every time, as if it was a spring outing.
Mrs. Wang eagerly asked two or three confidantes of Yache, such as Zhou Rui's family, to bring them along with her.
It's just that these few people went a few times, Madam Wang didn't wait for Madam Li and even Wang Ziteng to hear anything, finally couldn't bear it, and went there for a kiss.
It's a pity that Mrs. Wang was fascinated by Wang Ziteng's previous behavior of supporting her in front of Jia Mu Jia Zheng. She didn't expect that Wang Ziteng and his wife were really annoyed by her audacity.When there was no one around, Mrs. Li asked the question on her face: "We were all thinking about our niece, and when we paved the way for her to ask for help, you made trouble behind your back. At that time, did you ever think about your brother begging for help? Ever thought that Baba, my sister-in-law, would go to Xie’s house to hint at others? When something happened, you shrank your neck, got sick and fainted, but your brother has been running around for a long time, how many times he has been harassed by others, not to mention Mention that all the girls in these families almost have to be sister-in-laws! You are good, you have something to do again after a while, Brother Feng is your own niece, and you will lose all the money of the whole family for what you do You can't tolerate her thinking of a way to live frugally! I just ask you if you have any grudges against your family, so that everyone can live a peaceful and comfortable life for a few days!"
Mrs. Wang, who was scolding, couldn't lift her head, and Mrs. Li was so angry that she dropped the last sentence: "Your brother said it himself. He advised my aunt to live in peace and not to care about your family's affairs in the future! If you don't die in the future, in front of everyone, Jia There are two aunts of my Wang family at home. If you still don’t repent, we will only have brother Feng and one aunt Jia!”
"Send off the guests!" Mrs. Li sneered, now that Brother Feng is in charge of the housekeeper of the Rong Mansion, her only worry about Wang Ruoyu's embarrassing An'an is gone, so she will give her face now.Save face for her again, I'm afraid she will act boldly and indulgently again, and everyone's life will be missed again and again.
Mrs. Wang fell ill again when she went to the house, but she knew she was afraid, so she ordered Zhou Rui's family: "Quietly collect the account left outside, and when the money comes back this time, stop this matter for the time being."
Zhou Rui's family agreed, and hurriedly told her the man to do it.
Now Zhou Rui's original job in charge of the rents in Spring and Autumn has also been removed, and now he is serving in the main courtyard, and now he only takes care of Baoyu's going out, and he has been in a hurry to find a new job. We must finish it as soon as possible, and show off well.
Unexpectedly, he was so eager that he forced a family to sell their sons and daughters, and the grandmother of that family almost hanged herself in front of his house.The commotion became a little louder, and it disturbed the person Wang Ziteng left behind to take care of the situation in the capital. The person did not dare to neglect, and made a secret investigation before reporting the matter to the authorities.
Therefore, before the Duanyang Festival this year, Wang Ziteng was so angry that his chest hurt for a day after returning home. Mrs. Li sneered: "You still want to take care of her?"
Wang Ziteng set the note on fire, and said with a gloomy face, "I, Wang Ziteng, will never forget what I promised! I don't care if I say I don't care, but you are looking for an opportunity to tell your niece, don't tell her to be as stupid as her aunt! "
"It's a matter of causing trouble to the whole family?" Mrs. Li still didn't believe it, she looked at him and asked.
Wang Ziteng leaned back, stretched out his hand to pull his wife into his arms, and said casually: "So what, it's not my family who is burdened. Jia Cunzhou can bear it himself."
"It turns out that I have taken too much control, and she doesn't know the heights of the world. If I still want to take care of it—madam, believe it or not, if she dares to lend money today, she will be involved in the fight for the throne tomorrow without knowing it!" Wang Ziteng rubbed his temples: "Because of Yuaner's affairs, most of my hair has already turned gray. If this continues, Madam won't despise me as an old man!"
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