The Second Master Lian of the Red Chamber

Mrs. Wang read the two gift lists from beginning to end slowly, then put her eyes down on the table, and went to get the teacup on the side.Li Wan, who had been waiting by the side with her handkerchief pinched, was about to lift her foot forward, when Zhou Rui's family, smiling all over her face, went past her and quickly took the teapot, refilled Mrs. Wang's tea respectfully, and stood there meticulously and thoughtfully. Mrs. Wang squeezed her shoulders behind her.

"Your maidservant has the courage to say something superfluous. The wife is so troublesome as the housekeeper, so you should take care of yourself. If you are exhausted, how can you make this family better?" Zhou Rui's family has been with Mrs. Wang for half his life, so he can see it naturally. Mrs. Wang's anger was suppressed in her neither sad nor happy face, and her words became more and more flattering.

Mrs. Wang sighed slightly, tasted the fragrance of tea quietly for a while, and then said quietly: "There are so many masters and slaves in this mansion, and how many of them remember my benefits. It's just that I need it. Take care of one or two, look back, people close the door and only care about themselves, who cares how much hard work you have."

The people in Zhou Rui's family are like fine people. They don't know that Mrs. Wang is annoyed by the gift list brought back by Jia Lian.The maids and women in the house are the most talkative, and at this moment, the thickness of several gift lists is likely to be judged by caring people.On the side of the main courtyard, I really lost face.

Carefully looking at the case, she became more cautious in kneading Mrs. Wang's shoulders, and echoed in a low voice: "I thought that someone like Mrs. Lin was teaching me, but Second Master Lian could be more sensible and understand Mrs. and Mrs. Years of hard work, who would have thought that he is really cold-hearted? Not to mention, how many old relatives he has offended along the way, which of the Nan'an Palace and the Zhen family doesn't want his wife to help him describe it afterwards? What? Even the uncle helped to deliver the message. If you get into trouble, you just brush off your clothes and leave, and come back as if nothing happened.

Although the Lin family's gift to the eldest and second bedroom was almost generous, but before there would always be a few extra copies of the four treasures of high-class study specially prepared for Jia Zheng, Jia Zhu and his son, but this time they are gone.Although Jia Lian didn't get anything, he could be accepted by Lin Hai as a disciple. How could there be fewer such objects?

Not to mention that this time more than half of the things were taken away by the big house and carried directly into the warehouse, let alone in the main courtyard, even the old lady's people couldn't take a look.The servant of the big house said it was Tu Yi, even if she asked the woman sweeping the floor in the flower yard, she would not believe her.

No matter what, the main courtyard has been worrying and worrying for nothing this time, and there is no benefit at all.The big house quietly raised a man's sperm, and used their house as a maid.

These few words of Zhou Rui's family can be said to hit Mrs. Wang's heart.She had been unhappy since Jia Lian entered the house, and when she went to the room, she was suppressed by the old lady and could not beat Jia Lian on the spot. She was already full of anger, but she went back to the yard, and there were only two gift lists.

One is the food items given by the Lin family to the masters of the second room, and the other is the local products Jia Lian gave to the second room.As for the others, the girl from Jia Lian who brought the boxes said in a soft voice that they had already been handed over to the old lady and the eldest lady respectively.The implication is that the people in Mrs. Wang's yard are talking too much.

Since Mrs. Wang took over the housekeeping power from Jia Mu, the etiquette sent from outside has never passed her hand first, and then entered the public treasury or taken back by each house. When will someone be like Jia Lian? Have you ever been presumptuous?It's really not paying attention to her like this, without any rules.

But if Mother Jia didn't speak, Mrs. Wang couldn't find a chance to make trouble.After all, she was able to overstep her authority over the housework of the big house all these years, but it was only because Jia Lian's biological mother left early, leaving a mess, and the Xing family, who was remarried, couldn't get on the stage, so she was given the excuse to take the house's internal affairs into the palm of her hand. inside.As far as rules are concerned, the ancestors of the Jia family really didn't leave this one behind.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that she had been slapped in the face by Jia Lian. Mrs. Wang only felt that the anger that had been calmed down a little by calling for bitter tea began to rise again.She took another sip of tea before turning to the demure Li Wan, and said lovingly: "Zhu'er daughter-in-law is really a sincere child, I am absorbed in thinking about things, you don't know how to sit and rest for a while, these girls are really serious No wink."

Napkin nodded her lips, Mrs. Wang ignored the little girl who was looking frightened to move the house, and continued to say to Li Wan who wanted to squat down to give a blessing: "Although there are many people in the family, they all have their own interests. , but we only have to take care of one day, so we can only work for one day. I know you have worked hard to take care of the old lady these days, but sooner or later this big family will be handed over to you. No matter how reluctant I am, some things still need to be You do it."

Li Wan was stunned, and there was a little gratitude and joy in his expression. He obviously didn't expect his mother-in-law to be so considerate and considerate of him. Standing firmly behind her, Zhou Rui's family went to help Li Wan up.

Seeing Li Wan take the handkerchief and wipe the corners of his eyes with a blushing face, Mrs. Wang smiled and said: "The housekeeper and the director are all trivial things that consume energy and energy. Today you will tidy up the things that your brother Lian brought back. For a whole day, the gifts of the Lin family and Lian'er are divided into two places, if there is anything you don't understand, just ask this old fellow from Zhou Rui's family. If there is anything wrong with her, you can just come back to me."

Mrs. Wang's caring words, Li Wan was also moved, but Zhou Rui's family who responded with a smile, lowered his head and curled his lips in disdain, secretly thinking that Grandma Zhu is really a stick.The wife is obviously impatient to look at the things brought back by the second master Lian, and she is too lazy to take care of it, so she just grabs her to replace it.Then I sent myself there, so I didn't even need to give the key to the warehouse.What big grandma, just a housekeeper girl who doesn't take the key.

That is to say, looking at Uncle Zhu's face, she has to respect her a little bit, otherwise, something is wrong, how can she tolerate the old people around the wife like them?But the wife said, if there is something wrong, just go back and forth, and don't care about it after you get back, it's not her grandma who has the final say.

When Zhou Rui's family served Li Wan respectfully and went out, Mrs. Wang sat silently for a while before getting up to look at Baoyu who was resting in the wing room.As she walked, Mrs. Wang said with emotion to the big girl beside her: "In my whole life, when I can see Baoyu grow up, I will have nothing to ask for."

Accompanied by Mrs. Wang today is Caiyue, who has just been commissioned for a short time.There was a smile on her round face, and she said briskly: "When the second master Bao gets married like Uncle Zhu and has children, and the whole family of grandchildren and grandchildren surround the wife to talk and amuse, the wife will really only care about the grandchildren, and then There's nothing left to ask for."

After all, Caiyue is a bit younger, and she hasn't figured out Mrs. Wang's growing dislike for Li Wan in private. She only wanted to please her master, but she didn't expect that she would make trouble with a few words, and she was still ignorant Helped Mrs. Wang to move forward.Mrs. Wang didn't speak, just nodded slightly, and went into the house to see the youngest son.

In the warehouse on the west side of Rongxi Hall, while Zhou Rui's family was checking the fineness of official kiln porcelain, Li Wan's dowry maid, Chi Su, looked at Li Wan with concern, as if she wanted to say something, but Li Wan gave her a dull look. stopped.