Jia Juan of the New Red Mansion

"Ma'am, I don't understand what you mean." Zhuzhu pulled herself together, and she no longer had the arrogance she had just now.Everyone in the room cast contemptuous glances at you. Everyone knows that you are Sima Zhaozhi, but you still have the cheek to say that you don't understand what it means.

Jia Juan couldn't help but find it funny. Is this pearl a paper tiger? I thought she was so difficult to deal with, but it turned out to be nothing more than that. Shi Taijun stuffed such a person, probably because he took a fancy to her color, thinking that Hou Ye would be so young when he was young. If you are greedy for beauty, pearls will naturally fall into the eyes of Lord Hou.

"I heard that you are still living in the guest courtyard. What kind of words does that sound like? Master Hou is the same. You are in the aunt's room anyway, so how can you be left there casually?" Jia Juan smiled. Looking at Pearl with a non-smile.Pearl thought to herself, obviously you were the one who threw me in the guest house, but you pushed me on Master Hou.

Pearl hurriedly said, "Your servant is just a servant, how dare you bother Lord Hou to think about you." Lord Hou won't miss you, I'm afraid you have already thought of Lord Hou. "You live in that guest house. You don't look like that. Mother Chen, you arrange a small courtyard for her to live in, and then send a little maid to serve her." Jia Juan changed her posture with the help of Autumn Equinox. The life of this pregnant woman is really hard, just sitting for a while, I feel sore all over.

"Slave, thank you Madam." Pearl was overjoyed, and finally she could move to the backyard. As long as she was in the backyard, she would have a way to get close to Master Hou.

Jia Juan ignored her, "Mother Chen, Aunt Ma, Aunt Liu, and Aunt Li, what is the monthly schedule?" The mother in charge of Jia Juan's room.

Like Rongguo Mansion, this should be Auntie's standard salary.Jia Juan thought for a while, "The rules can be changed. Mother Chen, please write down. From now on, each aunt's monthly rule will be added one or two more. Our Hou's Mansion is also associated with the royal family. We must not be too petty."

The three aunts looked at each other, usually Madam seldom talked to them, but today she actually sat down with them drinking tea and chatting for the first time, and suppressed the preparatory aunt sent by Rongguo Mansion in front of them.This time, their monthly routines will be brought up again, not to mention Aunt Ma, even Aunt Liu and Aunt Li are starting to fidget.

"Master Hou?" Mother Chen asked in a low voice.

"Of course Lord Hou knows about it." After the two of them finished exercising last night, Shui Fang was in high spirits. If it wasn't for Jia Juan's inconvenience, he would like to do it again.He couldn't sleep because of his anger.Jia Juan, however, was tossed and drowsy by him, unable to fall asleep after being quarreled by him, so he could only chat with him under the thin quilt.

I learned from Shui Fang that Aunt Liu's mother's elder brother and a nephew were also found by the old Hou Ye, and they lived in a small courtyard in the back street of the Hou Mansion. Easy, only agree to live here temporarily, but don't want alms from the old Hou Ye.I set up a small stall on the street to make a living.

Jia Juan sighed unceasingly, the Liu family used to be a family of officials, but now that the two children have been reduced to such a state, one does not know who offended them, and thus brought about the disaster.Jia Juan had always sympathized with Aunt Liu's life experience and her shady love. After hearing what happened to Brother Liu, she admired Brother Liu's integrity.

Jia Juan offered to add Aunt Liu's monthly schedule, so that she would be able to help her brother. After all, it was barely enough to support herself with the few coppers Liu brothers earned from setting up a stall, not to mention that his family had to support him. For a nephew, it’s okay for adults to suffer, but for children, if they don’t eat something nutritious, how can this work?

Shui Fang said that if you want to mention the monthly regulations, you should mention them all. The rules of the Hou Mansion are too old-fashioned. We changed the rules at this time. But a decent family can't let Madam be looked down upon every time she goes there.

"My 20 taels won't move anymore." Jia Juan doesn't care about the 20 taels. In addition to the monthly regulations, the wife of the head of the family also has the royal salary issued by the court. These alone are enough for Jia Juan to be a rich woman in ancient times. up.

"The maids next to my aunt can't look too shabby, they should all be raised to second class. From now on, there will be a second class in my aunt's room, a third class, two younger maids, and one for the mother-in-law. Who is missing in the room? Yes, let everyone in Qin make up for it." In the past, in the aunt's room, there was only a third-class maid with five hundred hanging orders, a handyman maid, and the mother-in-law.

There are four first-class maids, four second-class maids, and four third-class maids in Jia Juan's room, and the other four are handymen and women. Compared with them, the number of servants in the aunt's room is relatively small.

This was like a big pie falling from the sky. Aunt Ma and the other three were still immersed in the joy just now, and when they heard the addition of the maids and mother-in-law in the room, they all beamed with joy, and they respected and loved Jia Juan even more.

The big maids next to the three aunts knelt down to thank them with tears in their eyes. From now on, they can get a dime a month, and they will be decent maids in the mansion.In the past, they were always inferior to others. Although they seemed to be my aunt's personal maids, they were like third-class maids.

Sometimes even the servant girls in the wife's room will bully them, because they are serving the aunt, so they can't hold their heads up.Madam not only mentioned the aunt's rules, but also followed suit with those who took them as personal maids, and they no longer felt that it was a bad thing to be assigned to the aunt's room.

"Ma'am, you mentioned their monthly records, so how many are in your room..." Mother Chen looked at Autumn Equinox's face, and seeing that there was no change on her face, she nodded in satisfaction, this is what a maid should have tolerance.

The first-class maids in the madam’s room are paid one tael per month, the second-class maids are paid one dime, and the third-class maids are paid five hundred taels. The benefits they get are ten times more than the maids serving elsewhere. This idea, such as money, is nothing to them.

Jia Juan sighed in his heart, this is the sad part of class society, even the maids are divided into grades, since Madam Chen said so, Mother Chen dared not have any other opinions, seeing Jia Juan showing fatigue, "Madam, are you If you feel uncomfortable, please ask the imperial physician to take a look." "It's okay, but my stomach is heavy." Jia Juan waved his hand.If the imperial physician finds out that he was overworked last night, he would be ashamed to death.

The aunts helped to persuade Jia Juan, "There is no one so delicate. I am bored lying in the room all day, and talking to you is a good way to pass the time." Jia Juan said with a smile.

"I almost forgot, since Miss Pearl has entered our Marquis's Mansion, of course the monthly payment cannot be paid out of Rongguo Duke's Mansion. From now on, Miss Pearl's monthly schedule will be the same as that of the autumnal equinox." Pearl's face instantly turned ashen, this time The word "girl" is particularly harsh.

The corners of Aunt Ma's mouth raised, "Congratulations, Miss Pearl." Pearl clenched her lips tightly, so what if she was not reconciled, this road was chosen by herself, and I can only blame myself for having shallow eyelids and only seeing the superficial scenery.

He thought that his wife would praise him in Shi Taijun's face, but he didn't expect that he guessed wrong. Now that his status is neither slave nor master, he looks more and more embarrassing.

In front of Shi Taijun, my wife called my sister to the left, she is beautiful, and said to the right, I am relieved to have a sister to help take care of Lord Hou.Said it so that Shi Taijun smiled and praised his wife for being virtuous and sensible.

Turning around, he put himself in the guest courtyard and ignored him. He mustered up the courage to come to pay his respects to his wife. He was ready to be ridiculed, but his wife summoned him uncharacteristically.

I was overjoyed, and I took it for granted that Madam just wanted to give him a bad impression, so she deliberately pretended not to like him and asked him to come in, it must be flattering him.

After hearing Madam's words, Pearl finally understood that she was always a high-ranking servant girl, she could not complain to anyone, she was a servant girl bought from outside, and she was not as good as those who gave birth to children. rely on yourself.

Pearl respectfully knelt down and kowtowed.Jia Juan paid special attention to Pearl's expression. Apart from her complexion, she couldn't see any anger. It seemed that she had underestimated her before, and she was considered a smart person to be so resilient. "Your matter is settled. It's still the old rules. If you want to add anything to the house, just ask the manager, as long as you don't go beyond the rules."

"You all remember that although our Hou's mansion is not considered rich and powerful, I will still give you the dignity it deserves. Of course, if you make a mistake or have other thoughts, you don't care about it yourself. If you are decent, then I will not cover it up for you, and deal with it according to family rules." Jia Juan showed the aura of being a cashier supervisor when he was at work.

Jia Juan's gaze rested on Pearl's face, Pearl trembled, and the little thought that appeared just now was instantly extinguished.Who said Mrs. Hou is a clay bodhisattva, she is obviously not easy to bully.

When Jia Juan was speaking, the three aunts stood up and listened to his wife's lesson.Aunt Ma has been at ease for a long time, and she almost forgot Jia Juan's method of punishing Aunt Tai when she did not come out of the cabinet. After hearing what Madam said, she dared not underestimate Madam.

Although Aunt Liu and Aunt Li are transparent people in the Hou Mansion, except that they have to go out every morning and evening, they stay honestly in their small yard on weekdays, guarding their little days and ignoring the affairs of the palace, but they After receiving the favor of the Hou Mansion, he naturally regarded the Hou Mansion as his safe haven.

They also heard that Pearl had only been here for a few days and had been at odds with Mrs. Ma, which made the backyard of the Hou Mansion uneasy. Half of the reason they were able to stay in the Hou Mansion was that there were not many people in the backyard of the Hou Mansion. It can be regarded as Qingning.

Now, there is such an extra person, and he came from Rongguo Duke's mansion. The two aunts are not calm anymore. They are afraid that Lord Hou will be greedy for beauty for a while, causing bad things and ruining their clean place. .

Now they are relieved, Madam is not attached to the Ningrong and Duke Mansions as she appears on the surface. Judging from her behavior today, Madam has her own considerations and plans. This is the right way. , How can we let relatives intervene.