Ding Tian's Ancient Life

When I came to Rumengju again, Meng Fanhua was losing her temper. It was said that the dinner was not to my taste, and I insisted on asking someone to make another one for her.

"What does Aunt Meng serve for dinner?" Mrs. Lei asked Xiao Lazi directly.

"For Mrs. Hui, it's Daoxiang Rice, Mushroom and Rapeseed, Fresh Fish and Goat, and Shuanglian Pork Rib Soup." Two dishes and one soup, one concubine's room, is already very good.

"Then what's not satisfied with Aunt Meng?" Madam Lei gently "scratched" Meng Fanhua with her eyes.

"My concubine... I want to eat something light..." Meng Fanhua shuddered, you can see that she can plot people behind her back, but she really slammed her face to face, but she gave up instead.

"Then remove the fresh fish and sheep soup and Shuanglian sparerib soup, isn't this light enough?" Mrs. Lei ordered: "Bring a plate of sesame oil and shredded pickles for my aunt."

The specifications of this meal... It's not even as good as the meals of the rough maids, at least because they have to work hard. At noon, the staple food is braised pork or other meat, served with sesame oil and pickles Damn, Aunt Meng suddenly felt ashamed.

She had eaten this kind of food when she was a child, and after she got better treatment, she had never eaten such a simple meal.

And this meal also represents a person's status in the mansion.

The concubine's room is just two dishes, one soup and one staple food.

But the wife has four dishes and one soup, the master has six dishes and one soup, and the young masters have five dishes and one soup.

For example, my wife has three dishes and one soup. The staple food includes rice and pasta. There is no limit to this. If you like to eat, I will bring you ten or eight pasta, as long as you can eat it.

The most important thing is that if the master comes to her to have a meal or stay overnight, she will eat as much as the master, and she can also order bird's nest porridge and ginseng stewed chicken for breakfast.

Even the pickles, they ate high-grade side dishes like "Red Oil Money Crisp", instead of shredded pickles with sesame oil, which can be eaten by servants who empty the toilet at home.

But now in front of Mrs. Lei, Aunt Meng can only knock out her teeth and swallow it in her stomach.

"Don't be in a hurry to eat. Madam Ben asks you, where are all the fabrics that the master gave you?" Madam Lei sat in the main room, her aura was fully open, and the suppressed Aunt Meng didn't dare to lift her head: "It's all in the warehouse. , and some of them were made into dresses."

"Well, move them here!" Mrs. Lei ordered lightly, and the twenty or so rough women outside began to dump the fabrics in the warehouse.

Jin Buhuan whispered to Ding Tian while drinking tea, "Madam did it on purpose?"

Ding Tian pursed his lips and snickered: "It was definitely on purpose."

They just go in and check it out, and they have to empty it out... However, there are a lot of fabrics, and thirty or fifty pieces are put together, which is very shocking

sense.

There are many high-quality and precious fabrics in the materials, and now they are all thrown in the middle of the hall, piled up as high as a hill, and Aunt Meng's face turned red with anger.

No matter how good the material is, how can she wear it?

They all fell to the ground, because there was no room for them to fit on the table in the house, and those thick-handed women didn't cherish these good materials at all. There were several pieces of material, because the women's hands had rice sticks, and they were rough. Very soon, the soft silk material was scraped off.

There are quite a few of these fabrics in various colors and patterns, but none of them are bright red. The most conspicuous one is silver red, which is already the most conspicuous color that Aunt Meng can wear. As a concubine , There are too many rules, even wearing a red pomegranate flower is not allowed, this is the shackles of class.

The only one who can wear bright red and true red is the wife of the first wife, even if she is a farmer's wife, she can wear a big red flower, and the concubine, even the emperor's favorite concubine, as long as she is not the queen of the palace, she can't wear it. May be red.

"No big red? Madam, I have read the account book. My master rewarded you with a big red silk half a month ago. Where is it?" Madam Lei asked casually.

But Aunt Meng shivered: "I...how could my concubine be red? I only made some close-fitting clothes to wear..."

"Then show Madam Ben the underwear. Don't worry, Mrs. Ding and Mrs. Jin are both gentlemen and won't look at your things." Mrs. Lei took a sip of tea leisurely.

Ding Tian didn't change with Jin, and turned to look outside at the courtyard.

Jin Buhuan chatted with Ding Tian: "After all, it is Mr. Minister, who has served as a governor, and this courtyard looks more like a dream at night.

It is. ”

"Yes!" Ding Tian sighed very honestly: "How much candle oil is wasted, it's not bad if it is used for scholars."

The yard is now full of red lanterns, like newlyweds, dressed up in a festive manner, against the background of the canna flowers blooming everywhere, the lights and flowers outside the house are red, the green gauze curtain inside the house, the breeze is gentle, the beauty is like jade... how can it be "like a dream" "Phantom" can be summed up?

What a waste!

Ding Tian knew that in this backward feudal era, candles were only used by rich people. Did he just light two candles to celebrate the joy when he didn't see the marriage?

It's not that I don't want more candles, but that I don't have so many candles.

Lamp oil is also something for rich people, and poor people have always "worked at sunrise and rested at sunset", because there is not so much lamp oil to consume.

But here, there are more than a dozen lanterns and several candles just to illuminate the whole yard and house.

Now.

This is just the beginning of the lights.

When the two were lamenting that the Lei family was "really rich", the nanny next to Mrs. Lei questioned Aunt Meng: "Even if a piece of spun silk is made into close-fitting clothes, it doesn't take much. The remaining ruler , it can’t be just this little bit!”

Aunt Meng gritted her teeth stiffly: "The concubine doesn't know about herself."

"Who made clothes for Aunt Meng?" Mrs. Lei put down the teacup: "The people in the sewing room in the mansion dare to seize Auntie's things."

What? ”

Lei's mansion has its own sewing room, and there are more than [-] maids who are good at sewing, all of whom are born in the mansion.

Those who come from outside will not be put into the sewing room, because the clothes made there are almost all worn by the masters.

"No...not..." Aunt Meng's claws are numb now. She never expected that in just three days, the development of the matter exceeded her expectations. It shouldn't be like this.

"What about spinning silk?" Mrs. Lei looked at Aunt Meng coldly.

"Spin silk... I..." Aunt Meng was so nervous that she didn't even call herself a "concubine".

"Let me tell." Ding Tian turned around and looked at the women in the room: "Aunt Meng, your spun silk has been made into dresses for you, isn't it?"

Aunt Meng gritted her teeth, her face turned pale, but she thought in her heart, how did he know?

"Master Ding, how do you know?" Madam Lei asked for her.

"Spun silk is such a precious fabric, I'm afraid Aunt Meng has never seen it before entering the mansion?" Ding Tian gritted his teeth: "Let's not talk about Aunt Meng, the oiran who once dreamed of fireworks, it's me, before I entered Beijing. I haven't seen it before, so this kind of fabric should be very rare and precious, otherwise Mrs. Lei wouldn't have given it to Mr. Lei, but she didn't give it to Mr. Lei and Mr. Lei." "Yes, this is It was given to me by Mrs. Ruyi, whom I have a good relationship with..." Mrs. Lei was a little embarrassed, it was originally hers, but it was taken by her husband as a gift to his concubine, it was still bright red... Really embarrassing.

"This bright red is a very conspicuous color. I think Mrs. Lei has already asked Qiuyue?" Ding Tian looked at Mrs. Lei with certainty.

"I've asked..." Mrs. Lei sighed: "This girl has a big heart. After seeing that Haoer has become a second-class biography, the family will discuss marriage with him. In the future, there will be a young lady. She ... The spring heart sprouted, and she actually made a bright red dress from the woven silk that my wife asked her to cut, and went out to show off, but was afraid of being blamed, so she hurriedly dismantled it when she came back, and cut it into stickers again.

Wearing the same clothes and making inner clothes for Haoer...Even if you can't really share Wushan with the young master, you can still wear the same clothes next to your body....

"

A little infatuated, a little innocent, but Lei Jiahao couldn't help but get goosebumps all over his body when he heard it.

"That's the problem!" Ding Tian snapped his fingers: "Qiuyue's show off is seen by caring people, and red is the most conspicuous color, but this kind of material comes from the courtyard of the young master, and my aunt also has the same color here. Material, so, Aunt Meng’s material is made into a dress. Just right, Aunt Meng, you want to plot against Mrs. Lin Ru, but you still need a scapegoat. Just like this, while you plot against Mrs. Lin Ru, let people wear that dress , went to the pharmacy and bought four taels of safflower, if I remember correctly, you haven’t given away the safflower, and there are safflower in the house.”

"Come on, search for me!" Mrs. Lei made a decisive decision and immediately had Aunt Meng's room searched.

"You..." Aunt Meng wanted to stop her, but what is she?

With Mrs. Lei around, she is nothing.

The key is that after everyone searched for a while, they found nothing.

"Ma'am, you are the wife of the royal family. I, Meng Fanhua, a mere concubine, can't let you behave like this..." Meng Fanhua's eyes rolled around, and tears filled them. It disgusted Mrs. Lei.

"Search." Mrs. Lei was also ruthless enough, and said directly: "All the maids, mothers-in-law, search for me."

"Yes!" The people Mrs. Lei brought were all her confidants.

"oops!"

"What?"

"Don't tear my clothes..."

There was a commotion outside, and a woman grabbed a bundle from Xiao Menger's body: "Ma'am, I found red flowers on Xiaoyue'er."

It was indeed a pack of safflowers, quite a lot. Meng Fanhua gave Xiao Menger a hard look, didn't he tell her to throw away the safflowers?Why are you still on me?

Xiao Meng'er slumped on the ground, completely dumbfounded.

In fact, she also wanted to throw it away, but today people have been following her without saying anything, and later she was locked in the yard by the madam, and she was not allowed to go in and out. She has no chance.

"It must be the pharmacy where this girl went to buy safflower?" Ding Tian looked at the safflower: "I have used a lot, is it for Mrs. Lin Ru?"

"You...how are you sure?" Meng Fanhua's eyes were red, and he looked straight at Ding Tian. It was these two people who broke her.

good thing.

"I'm afraid you don't know that this kind of material is very close-fitting. It may be fine for men to wear it, but it is easy for women to show their curves... As long as you know this, you should understand that when Qiuyue wears it, it must be worn only once. And she has never been out of the yard, so apart from her close sisters, only some good women know about it, or have seen it once, but if you spread the rumor, you will believe that she has a big red dress, ha ha, who is the head of the maid? It's flooded, and you wear bright red clothes to serve the master every day?" Ding Tian sneered: "Then the master doesn't get dizzy, does he?"

Anyway, none of the maids in their family wore such bright colors.

Meng Fanhua was taken aback for a moment, and finally, his face turned pale: "I see... But, the maids in my yard are all dressed brightly."

Xiao Meng'er is pink, and the other little maids are also in tender tones of orange and light pink.

And when I was in the building, the girls were all bright and dressed, and red was everywhere, because red set off people's complexion, like the girls in the brothel Chuguan, few of them had a good complexion Yes, if you wear brighter colors, your complexion will look better too

many.

There are also those guests with special hobbies who insist on sleeping with the "bridal wife". There is that girl who wears a bright red wedding dress every day.

Clothes...

"Whether the color is bright or not, Aunt Meng, you have already become a suspect in this case from the informant. I'm sorry, Mrs. Lei, you still need to control the people in this yard and wait for the further trial and investigation of this case." " Ding Tian said bluntly: "Since this is the Lei Mansion, I won't put the seal on it."