The return of Fengxi of the Red Chamber

Grandma Liu got a few prescriptions here, and Mrs. Liu also successfully passed the test of Mammy Xie. Starting from tomorrow, she will come here for an hour and a half every afternoon, and learn the etiquette and rules of dealing with people from Madam Xie.Wang Xifeng and several of Yingchun's personal maids were also serving tea and water, and secretly learning a thing or two.

Wang Xifeng felt relieved and started a life of peace of mind.Most of the housekeeper's affairs in the day-to-day are also handed over to the maids and daughter-in-laws around her.

On this day, Wang Xifeng sat with her stomach in her arms again, watching Ping'er check the account book for the past ten days through the curtain.

Today's Ping'er is also 16 years old. Compared with the previous life, when he was caught between Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian, he racked his brains every day to balance left and right and maintain his own safety.Today's Ping'er is much sharper and more capable. He only needs to follow Wang Xifeng's instructions, and he doesn't need to think too much about others. He can be regarded as Wang Xifeng's right-hand man.

As for Jia Lian, he felt guilty towards Ping'er in his heart, but now he clearly knew that instead of getting closer, he moved further away, and he just made up his mind to find a good family for her and that's all.

Wang Xifeng propped her head up and thought about something, thinking about finding a reliable and responsible family for the maidservants around her, and it would not be in vain that they have served her once in two lifetimes.

She was in a daze, when she heard Ping'er outside.There was a quarrel with a shopping lady in the kitchen.

"Mrs. Wang, in the past ten days, the account of the big kitchen has been better than that of the last ten days. Why, is there something we don't know about the big kitchen, do we need to buy extra?" Ping'er stared at a shopping woman in the kitchen. The son asked with a cold look in his eyes, "Our mansion has always been lenient, and the big kitchen is also famous for its rich oil and water. You must not make a mistake and go astray."

The Wang Po didn't see Wang Xifeng's figure, but she was calm in her heart. Hearing this, she giggled, licked her face and said, "Look at what the girl said, how dare I have such courage. It's just that the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching recently, and the things on the market The prices have all increased, although the increase of each item is not much, but I can't stand the large quantity required by the mansion. If it is added together, it seems that the big kitchen is used too much. Our family has been in the mansion for several lifetimes, and it has always been How dare you work diligently and conscientiously."

Hearing this, Ping'er couldn't help sneering: "This is to see who is a fool. There is a ready-made Zhuangzi in the mansion who is in the suburbs, and he will send vegetables, chickens and ducks every morning and evening, and the other ones that need to be bought are just small heads. .”

Only then did Mrs. Wang correct her attitude, but she still didn't admit her mistake, and she was wronged inside and outside the words: "Oh, my girl, you are really not in charge of the family. You don't know the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt. It's almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the sugar and oil in the house Condiments, dried seafood, don’t they all have to be added? It’s written in the account book, these are the regulations of the mansion, just check it!”

Ping'er choked, last year these were all handled by Wang Xifeng, and at that time the eldest family of the Jia family had just seized the Rongxi Hall, when the house was in chaos, she really couldn't remember if it was a rule in the house .

Seeing that Ping'er remained silent, Mrs. Wang cheered up, like a rooster that had won a fight, and shouted loudly: "Young lady is someone close to Second Grandma, and she was raised with pampering since she was a child. I don't know that these trivial facts are really normal. It's just that those of us who work hard, don't feel chilling when we are suddenly covered with a hand-length hat, do you think this is the reason?"

"Let me advise the girl, she has not yet become a member of the house, so don't put on airs in front of us. Usually they work for the house. Who knows what the future will be like for everyone in the future? Now relying on grandma Like, just blindly use us as a raft, what's the matter?"

Hearing this, Ping'er was so angry that he was shaking all over, and tears were about to fall out.

Conscience of heaven and earth, ever since Wang Xifeng got married, Ping'er has never thought of being Aunt Tongfang.Although she occasionally sees the second master's flair and handsomeness, and treats Wang Xifeng with all kinds of smallness and tenderness, she is not envious, but Ping'er has self-knowledge.

I am just a maid who sells herself, but Jia Lian is the man in charge of the Duke's mansion, and now he has won the title bestowed by himself by relying on his own ability. No one would praise a young talent.And there is Wang Xifeng standing there, her appearance, family background, talent and wrist are all one of a kind, how can she be compared with a servant girl like herself.

Ping'er could see clearly, but whoever is not blind, how could he abandon Wang Xifeng and choose himself instead?

Even if you become an aunt's roommate, it's just a man's novelty for a while, and it's forgotten after a while, what good can it get?Now there are people in the rooms of Mr. She and Mr. Zheng. Aunt Zhao gave birth to the third girl, and now she is pregnant with another, so she has to close the curtain in the second wife's room.

She was angry, anxious and ashamed at the same time, wishing to have a fight with Mrs. Wang, so that everyone could understand her sincerity.But after all, she is still a girl who has not left the cabinet, she is thin-skinned, how can she fight with others in public, so she has to endure this tone, thinking about getting it back later.

But Ping'er could bear to be angry, but Wang Xifeng couldn't. She was planning to find a good family for Ping'er, but she was slapped in the face in a blink of an eye.

Wang Xifeng didn't call for anyone, she came out of the back room slowly, and said with a smile: "Oh, tell me, Mrs. Wang, how can Ping'er salute and apologize to you, so as to be able to expose this trouble?"

Mrs. Wang didn't expect that Wang Xifeng was also there, she was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat, and collapsed on the ground with a thud: "Grandma, why is grandma here?"

Wang Xifeng was still neither angry nor angry, and there was a bit of a smile in his voice: "You are asking a strange question, who am I and where have I been in this mansion, and I have to tell you?"

Mrs. Wang couldn't speak well, so she just stammered and defended: "No, nothing, it's the old slave who said something wrong. What kind of person is grandma? You are the master, we are servants, where are the servants?" It's up to the master."

When Ping'er saw Wang Xifeng's few words, she trembled with fright at Mrs. Wang, who was still arrogant just now, and dared not argue. While feeling refreshed in her heart, she also admired Wang Xifeng even more.

She hurried a few steps, supported Wang Xifeng to sit down, and muttered: "Grandma is heavy now, and she needs to keep her alive. Why did she come out and get angry with these people again? I can handle it well."

Wang Xifeng didn't refuse either, and sat down with Ping'er's hand, and then glanced at Mrs. Wang: "When did the errands purchased by the mansion for the New Year's Eve come into your hands? The things you mentioned were on the ship that the mansion came back last month. , could it be possible that you didn’t bring it back?”

Grabbing the ground with her head, Mrs. Wang was silent for a long time, but after a while, a puddle of sweat formed on the bluestone floor, which showed that she was anxious and flustered.

"It seems that I've been lazy recently, even if you all lost the rules and forgot what happened to those people from Zhou Rui's family in the past." The women were so frightened that they knelt down on the floor.

Last year, she and Jia Lian teamed up to clean up the entire Jia family, except for a few people whom Jia Shishi valued, they escaped by chance.The rest of the servants, no matter if they were the first or second servants, had all been dealt with if they did something wrong.Some were kicked out and others were directly copied and sold. Anyway, few of them ended well.

After beating the servants, Wang Xifeng said to Ping'er again: "This kind of scumbag is tied up and handed over to Lin Zhixiao's family. Find some other people and go to her house to search. Everything in the house is There is a definite number, she pays twice for the same item, and if she finds anything more, she must have hidden it. If you really find something, don’t return it to me. The whole family will be sent to the forest in the northeast, and they will not be allowed to return to Beijing for three generations!”

Not to mention that Mrs. Wang was full of grievances, but the winking woman gagged her and dragged on.

Ping'er and the others were extremely happy in their hearts, nodded hurriedly and said: "Thank you for teaching, grandma, we will know in the future, and we will not let grandma bother you anymore."

With this act of killing chickens and monkeys, the following things will be much easier, and there will be no more thorns who dare to challenge the authority of Wang Xifeng and Da Fang.

After finishing this mess, Wang Xifeng led Ping'er and others back to the East Courtyard. After slowly drinking a cup of red date tea, she only left Ping'er, An'er, and Le'er in the room. Here, the other servants have all been dispatched.

Seeing the uneasy faces of the three maids, Wang Xifeng didn't go around in circles, and asked: "We all grew up, you serve me wholeheartedly, and I can't let you have no future. It's just that I asked you earlier A few, said that none of them have the intention of being the second master Lian's roommate, so I have other arrangements, and I will tell you first today."

"The first Xi'er, she is now served by the second girl. The second girl is young, and Xi'er can get around [-] no matter what. The second girl can only talk about other things when she has other useful people around her. Another Le'er and An Son, I'm only fourteen or five years old now, the rules in the house are to wait until later to get married. But you two are brought by me, if you really have a good marriage and you like it, you can go out a year and a half in advance, if you want to come No problem."

"The last is Ping'er, who will be 17 years old. I have asked the second master to help him watch. If he knows someone so good, I will first inquire about his character and family background. In the future, Ping'er can also be a regular person." The first lady. The same goes for you two and Xi'er, when you reach the age of marriage, I will cancel your life contract, and you will behave in a dignified manner in the future."

"When you get married, each of you will get a dowry from my private treasury, so you won't lose face."

The three of them were surprised and delighted when they heard Wang Xifeng's words, and hurriedly thanked Wang Xifeng.

Those of them who are maids have a fixed future, or they will be the housekeepers of the male master and spend all day in the back house.Or marry a servant to take care of things, and your grandparents have been slaves for generations, and life and death are not up to you.No matter how good it is, it's just letting go of the contract and going out to match someone, and getting married indiscriminately.

But as a maid, without the support of the master's family, she would be looked down upon when she went out. Most of them came to propose marriage against their will because they took a fancy to their property.

But Wang Xifeng's words today gave them a reassurance that Jia Lian's favorite person must be a small official in the yamen, who can always support the family business.And Wang Xifeng also personally said that they will prepare dowry for them!

Wang Xifeng has money on hand, and has always been generous, so the dowry will definitely not be frivolous.Compared with men, dowry is their confidence, so how can we not make everyone happy.