[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

Daiyu and Xing Xiuyan have been together for more than a year, and they have a very good relationship. They read and write together, the housekeeper settles accounts and learns manners, writes letters to Shi Hui together, and often eats and sleeps together.On weekdays, either Xing Xiuyan sleeps in Tinglan Courtyard, or Daiyu rests in Wutong Courtyard. Xing Xiuyan realizes the great dream of traveling through sleeping fairies.

As for the butler, Xing Xiuyan and Daiyu also came up with a variety of methods, including the practical operation of learning from Tanchun Baochai, and the modern method of dividing the farm for tenants and nearby retail investors to bid, contract, and rent. What do you plant, people will give you silver at the bidding price within a year.

This has greatly improved the enthusiasm and income of farmers in production, guaranteed the income of the Lin family, and reduced the room for corruption in the head of the village.

In Xing Xiuyan's previous life, her grandmother's family was a rural farmer, and she is also a poor girl in this life. A Piao also went to the farmland in the past 20 years. She knows everything about the growth period, yield per mu, season, and weather of various crops. In the original book, it is impossible for Wu Jinxiao to fool her like Jia Zhen.

In Xing Xiuyan's heart, there is a big problem with being soft-hearted towards the enemy, but there is no problem with her ability to work, otherwise Huazhuzhu would not be jealous of her, and recruited her best friend and boyfriend in order to grab resources.

But Xing Xiuyan has preconceived ideas that he must protect Daiyu, who is only in the first grade of junior high school, and anyone who has someone to protect and cherish will be strong for it.Therefore, when she reconciles accounts with shopkeepers and urges rent, she can shrewdly expose their common sense lies and loopholes.For example, if the steward said that the yield per mu was 100 catties, she knew it was more than that, at least 200 catties, and sweet potatoes at least 1500 catties; if the steward said the weather was bad, she would say that the weather is normal during the 24 solar terms, and the weather is good for farming; If it is said that the water source is insufficient, it is not such a big problem except for rice; if it is said that the food price is too low, she will quote the price of the food last month.

The manager has no choice but to cry and call the master and wife, and wait until Wei Fu Jin Yiyi copies out the family wealth of the rogue slave that does not match the income, and then calls Lin Ruhai.

In this way, she has the assistance of the four great nuns, Wu Youwei's Jinyiwei, and Lin Ruhai's support, assisting Daiyu to catch three or four slaves who bully the master and stand in charge, and rewarding the loyal models generously. Everyone dared not believe in Daiyu.

Daiyu didn't like ordinary things, but she has a strong personality and a great thirst for knowledge. It is also interesting to learn some knowledge about agriculture, astronomy and geography. And because she heard Xing Xiuyan say that taking care of the family well is the greatest filial piety to her father, so she put away the family property. They are also included in each item.

Daiyu presides over Zhongfei, the knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and double-entry bookkeeping can be learned as soon as she is taught.This made Xing Xiuyan sigh and feel inferior. It was much harder for her to learn back then. Is the head of a fairy smarter than that of an ordinary person?

In fact, Daiyu has greatly increased her knowledge. She has learned the housekeeping method of first researching and collecting evidence, making a good model, and giving some benefits while being strict. In this respect, she admires Xing Xiuyan's logic and order.

But now, Daiyu greets Xing Zhong and his wife. Daiyu is wearing almost the same style of clothing as Xing Xiuyan, but her jacket and short jacket are water blue and embroidered with green bamboo.Daiyu is no longer sick and weak, with a pair of loving eyes that seem to be happy but not happy, and a pair of willow-leaf eyebrows, she no longer looks like a sick child, but has a more vivid and romantic charm.

Mrs. Xing and Li exclaimed: "Where did such a fairy-like person fall, I only think that Yan'er is the best, and there is such a daughter as Miss Lin. I have finally learned a lot."

Speaking of which, Mrs. Xing and Li couldn't help but took Daiyu to look up and down, and then took out the gift prepared for Daiyu. Under the guidance of Nanny Yun, Mrs. Xing and Li learned a little about the way of getting along with the noble women and the etiquette exchanges .

Mrs. Xing and Li gave Daiyu a purse embroidered by herself, which contained the golden scorpions of the twelve zodiac signs, and gave Daiyu a duck blood stone warm jade pendant.

Mrs. Xing Li said: "I often hear Yan'er's letter mentioning that the eldest girl is so outstanding, and she is no different from ordinary sisters. This jade pendant is three pieces of the same rough stone. Yan'er keeps one piece and gives you one piece. I also listen to Yan'er. I am thinking of a young lady from the Shi family, and I will leave the last piece to her." Mrs. Xing and Li had such a meeting gift, of course it was a suggestion from the mother around her.

"Thank you, auntie." Daiyu really liked this metaphor very much.

In the evening, Lin Ruhai held a small banquet in the main courtyard, and they sat at the same table. Although Xing Zhong and his wife were reminded, they were still a little cautious.Master Chen Yan and his wife Yin Shi were also present.

From the words, Lin Ruhai heard that they mistakenly thought that he was the one who saved Xing Xiuyan and promoted them, but Xing Xiuyan didn't mean to explain, and he couldn't explain this matter involving a saint, so he had to explain it vaguely.Let's not mention this matter for now.

Xing Zhong and his wife temporarily lived in the Lin family, living in Xiangxueyuan.

On the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, the Lin family cleaned up and down. Daiyu, Mrs. Xing Li and several maids on duty crowded into the Indus Courtyard.Xiuyan and Daiyu love to read, but Mrs. Xing and Li don't know how to read very much, so they had to be female celebrities together.Xing Xiuyan couldn't hold a needle, so she sat on the kang and drew patterns. Daiyu was making a big woolen robe for Lin Ruhai herself, while Xing Li was embroidering a skirt for her daughter Xing Xiuyan.

Suddenly I heard Cui Mama next to Xing Xiuyan come in and said with a smile: "Miss, something has been delivered from Beijing."

Xing Xiuyan raised her head, feeling overjoyed, she hurriedly got up from the kang, and the maids on duty, Qingxuan and Jinyao, came to help her.

Xing Li was surprised and said, "Why are you so flustered?"

Xing Xiuyan lied first: "Last time, I...sent a few people to Beijing...to do business. I'm afraid I brought a lot of good things when I came back this time."

Mrs. Xing and Li couldn't help feeling embarrassed, looked at Daiyu, and said, "Lord Lin is too expensive."

Daiyu has been with Xing Xiuyan for a long time, so she naturally knows that Xing Xiuyan has a backer, Xing Xiuyan believes in Daiyu's character, and has already told her about "Uncle Emperor".

It's just that the story was adapted a bit, but it also said that her relationship with "Uncle Emperor" is very good.Daiyu is a beautiful character, and it is not easy for Lin Ruhai to hint that she understands her, but Daiyu is pure in heart and only thinks that she is really "uncle and nephew" with the saint.

It must be known that this is ancient times, and Daiyu is a lady after all, and now there are 8 nuns around the two of them, even a smug writer like Xing Xiuyan would not dare to poison her with impure things.Not to mention that Lin Ruhai peeled her skin, those foster nuns would not allow her to "degenerate" like this.

Daiyu only said that she was afraid that it was something about the saint's court, so she could only smile awkwardly, and kept silent, letting Lin Ruhai take the title.

Zhao Quan and Su Qing led the servants to carry the goods from the cart into Wutong Courtyard. A servant named Wang Fu under Zhao Gui, the owner of East Factory, came in and bowed down, "Greetings to the girl."

Xing Xiuyan smiled and said: "You have worked hard all the way, Cui Momo and Jin Yao, go and arrange tea and water for the father-in-law, Qingxuan, go to Wang Momo to prepare a residence." Wang Momo is Daiyu's original nanny .

Wang Fu smiled and said, "Thank you, Miss, for your sympathy. This is a list of things, please check it." Mammy Zhao took the list, and Wang Fu asked someone to open a box, which contained several cloaks.

Wang Fu took out a snow-white fox fur cloak without any stray hair on his body, and all the girls and daughters-in-law present couldn't help but love it when they saw it.

"This is the fox fur outside the pass, which is different from the one inside the pass. It is specially prepared for girls."

Wang Fu opened another box, but inside were women's mink fur-lined Hufu clothes and Hu boots, which are rare in the south and boudoirs, even in Kyoto, not many people actually wear them, only those who live in Shuofang, Hexi and Yi for a long time. Aristocratic women in the pear area will wear Hufu.Xing Xiuyan and Daiyu are now running a clothing store, and they don't like the ordinary styles in the palace, except for the good leather materials and novelty Hufu and boots that are not available in the south.

There are also two boxes of ginseng and bird's nest tonics, several boxes of jewelry, a box of tribute fabrics, soaps that girls and daughters-in-law are crazy about, exquisite mercury mirrors and other items.

There were not too many things, but they were all of great value, but Xing Xiuyan carried the small box that Wang Fu handed over to her and drifted away.

A few other nuns were called in to arrange these things, but Xing Xiuyan ran back to the study alone to read the letter.