Pan Jinlian's petty bourgeoisie life

She can't be kicked out of the house at will.It's just that if she offends Chai Wang's housekeeper now, it will be very easy for her to trip her up in the future. It is not impossible for her to find an excuse to let herself sweep the snow and do rough work.

While thinking about it, he slowly returned to his yard. Chai Wu was fixing those things that hurt his hands and feet. When he saw her coming back, he hurriedly greeted her with a smile, but suddenly stopped:

"Didn't you go to Madam, why are you in such a mess? Could it be Madam..."

"No, something happened, I'll tell you tonight. All these things are piled up in the wing room and frozen, and Ying'er and I can clean them up tomorrow. You just came back anyway, go back to the house and rest, I'll make some tea Talk to you again."

Seeing that her face was full of depression, Chai Wu didn't dare to ask more questions, washed his hands and went back to the house.Pan Jinlian asked Ying'er to put the hot water on the stove, and then brought the hot tea back to the house, the cage inside was burning, very warm.

"If the wine shop you're looking for is reliable, wait until the New Year's Eve and bring it over. If you can't sell wine first, I have a recipe called Qiuli Paste that I've come up with recently. It happens to be eaten in winter and spring to nourish the yin and nourish the body." The lungs can cure cough and tuberculosis, and it can be concocted by adding fire to a large pot. Do this first, and then change it to wine after the government approves the deed. Are you willing to go out with me to live, or can't bear to part with this glorious and rich family?"

Pan Jinlian stared at Chai Wu and said word by word, but Chai Wu's mind turned quickly, so he hurriedly pulled her and asked:

"What wronged you? Did your wife and those two young wives bother you? The two girls in this family are honest and quiet. Even the second young master's wife is gentle and amiable, but the eldest young lady The lady is really savage, you should avoid her when you see her on weekdays. Jinlian, let me tell you one thing, we must go out when we go out, as long as our wine shop is open and we have our own business, what else do we need? If the Chai family falls down in the future, I will support him, but now the two elder brothers and the few wives and concubines in the family already make him happy, so naturally there is no need for us Caring, so I only have you in my heart."

Pan Jinlian smiled coldly. Sure enough, Chai Wang's unpopularity has spread to the ears of these men outside?It's just that Chai Lin's family is not easy to provoke. It seems that he has done enough on the surface, and he looks like a Bodhisattva.The two girls of the Chai family were really silent. They only made Mrs. Chai happy all day long. As for the trivial matters at home, the servants ignored them. It is just a pleasure for Madam to support them, and she does not really think about these two, so naturally she did not deliberately train them to manage the house, and everyone lived in peace.

Hearing this, Chai Wu sincerely wanted to live with her, and Pan Jinlian felt better, she blushed and said with a smile:

"I know your heart. It's just that I got into a disaster today, so I thought we'd go out and live alone in the future. Although this big family has no shortage of money, and the deep house is full of beautiful things, it's just uncomfortable, and it makes people feel uncomfortable. It's like a human constraint."

When Chai Wu saw that she had calmed down, he didn't ask what the trouble was. He just promised to go to the owner of the wine shop to discuss the sale of the shop after the new year, and then he spared himself to take care of his own business:

"I also noticed that if there is a suitable house available, within a year or so, if the wine shop makes money, we will go to the new house for the New Year. At that time, no one will dare to bully you anymore, but you will buy a few by yourself. A girl is ordered around by others, so it’s better to be a wife who speaks but doesn’t do anything.”

Pan Jinlian rolled her eyes, spat, and cursed with a smile:

"I don't want to be a mother-in-law. As long as we live in peace and tranquility, that's fine. If there is a maidservant, I will have it. If I don't, I will die of starvation and exhaustion."

The two were chatting and laughing, it was getting late, Ying'er had already washed the vegetables, and Pan Jinlian didn't have the heart to do this, so she put the roast pork, pork ribs, eggplant, beans, yam, cabbage, and vermicelli into the pot in order, adding Chicken stock is covered and made into a simmer.Although this dish is thicker, it is also famous in the Northeast. All things from all over the world are just stewed in one pot. It has the same effect as the Buddha Jumping Wall, but it is not as expensive as it.

After a quarter of an hour, the smell was overflowing from the pot. Pan Jinlian opened the pot, filled a large bowl, and took out two small dishes she made from the jar, and put them into two plates. The three of them had a meal and welcomed The son went out and locked the gate of the yard. Ever since Mrs. Chai wanted to set up a stove in the yard, the kitchen simply didn't even look like anything, and there was no trace of food.

Chai Wu lit the oil lamp, the room was dim and yellow, and the north wind began to blow outside, whistling loudly, but it became more and more quiet and warm.Pan Jinlian sat by the stove and recorded today's expenses in the account book. Since she came here, she has gradually learned to write with a brush, but they are all simple characters or numbers, and even Chai Wu can't help but click her tongue She was so unhappy about the ghostly drawing of talismans, she casually placed it on the table as a password book, and was not afraid of others reading it.

"It costs [-] yuan to buy vegetables, [-] yuan to buy ribs, tendon and lean meat, [-] yuan to snacks, [-] yuan to seasonings, sugar, tofu, etc., [-] yuan to make clothes, and [-] yuan to make couplets. The wife's annual gift is [-], and the two young wives add up to [-]. After the new year, there will be lucky money for the children in the family. After the new year, it is always impossible to get enough money."

After much calculation, Pan Jinlian realized that the money in ancient times was also unavoidable to spend, and Ying'er had to give some change to buy things here, so the child can't have a bad year, right?As for Chai Wu, she spent a lot of money on the housekeeper of the master and young master of the Chai family. Her head began to hurt, and she never thought that she would become a young man all year round.

Looking up at her closet and boxes, everything at the bottom of the box was still there. Pan Jinlian slowly heaved a sigh of relief. This year, a portion of her own tens of dollars was spent on wine shops. As long as you give some more money, you can buy the shop, and it is not a loss, and Chai Wu's money is twenty guan, and you have to spend ten guan on the outside, and the rest is reserved for the shop just during the Chinese New Year. Shopkeeper, I have ten pennies here to support my family's expenses and now I still have a surplus, but it will be hard to say after the new year.

"I remember that the few hectares of land on the title deed were rented and planted. Didn't someone send the rent at the end of the year? We can save a lot without taking money as long as we only need those things."

Chai Wu thought for a while, then took out the title deed for a closer look, and then said with a smile:

"Those lands are all connected to a big village. On weekdays, those farmers don't pay their own rent. They just calculate the annual rent and hand it over to the village head, so that the village's stewards can send it home. Come on, naturally it will not be distributed to us alone, so although the land deed is in our hands, the rent is all handed over to the family."

"Then why don't we collect the rent with the land deed?"

Pan Jinlian was very depressed, the Chai family knew how to do business, so Chai Wu could only persuade with a smile:

"It's just as if we paid the rent. I also know that a few pieces of land are not good places, and I guess they won't be able to produce much food. If they make wine as you said in the future, let them separate them. It’s good to grow grapes elsewhere.”

Seeing Chai Wuyi's generosity and tolerance, Pan Jinlian felt that she was being stingy. Since she lived in someone else's house, of course she had to pay some rent, which made sense, so she suppressed her anger and let it go.

The two discussed for a long time, and felt that although the money was a little tight, it would still be able to support the coming year, and the small accountant at Mrs. Chai's said that she would allocate some money to her, which would be enough for her daily expenses.

33 New Year's Eve

It was the New Year's Eve, and Chai Wu got up early to wipe the gate clean, and let Ying'er boil the paste to properly paste the couplets and door gods he bought.Then the windows of the bedroom were pasted with window grilles, and the small door was hung with big red blessing characters upside down.

Pan Jinlian hid in the bed and listened to his commotion outside, covered her ears and burrowed inside, but she still couldn't escape, so she had to put on her clothes and get up, opened the window to ventilate, and said to Chai Wu outside:

"Master, Gong Xi Fa Cai!"

Chai Wu looked at Pan Jinlian standing by the window and smiled at himself, so he couldn't help but also stopped, holding a bunch of firecrackers in his hand, waved to her with a smile, and shouted:

"Happy Chinese New Year, lady, I'll leave it to your housekeeper to get rich! Come out quickly, and you'll light the fire later when I set off firecrackers."

"Don't think about it, I don't want to join in the fun. Yesterday I heard that the reunion dinner at noon is eaten by the family around the table. We will eat it at night. I will prepare what you want first."

Pan Jinlian was also happy, she smiled and washed herself, and she took out a five-phoenix Chaoyang filigree gold hairpin inlaid with pearls from her jewelry box, and put it on her head, and changed it into a peach red silk jacket, and a moon white cotton She wore a long skirt, wore two gold bracelets with twisted flowers on her wrists, and put on a cloak and walked out slowly.

Over there, Chai Wu had already hung the firecrackers on the door frame, lit them with a torch, and they immediately crackled.Ying'er also changed into a new water-red cotton coat. She ran out with a big red headband and two double-loop braids laughing, stood under the porch covering her ears and shouted at Pan Jinlian:

"Lady, Happy New Year, officer!"

"Happy Chinese New Year." Pan Jinlian smiled and pulled her into her arms, took out a handful of dozens of dollars and put them in Ying'er's pocket, "Take