The clever maid of the red mansion

The next day, before Mrs. Zhang went to work, she went to Lin Zhixiao's house with a happy face, and she was not empty-handed, and she carried two boxes to make snacks.

This is not rewarded by the master of Jia's mansion, or filial by the stewards, but by the "big filial son" Uncle Feng. Jia's mansion is also rewarded during the New Year's Eve, but this person who is not year-round, always has some Good stuff delivered.

Lin Zhixiao's family knew about Liu'er's confession for a long time. They were all a little surprised when they saw Mrs. Zhang coming so early, but they also served tea politely. I am happy to follow my daughter to enjoy the blessings."

Mrs. Zhang smiled and nodded, "We are happy together. The old lady has endured hardships for half her life, and now she has finally come to the end of her hardships. She is also lucky to meet that girl Liu Er, haha." Now Mrs. Zhang is so happy that her smile can't be stretched.

Lin Zhixiao's family flattered her, and she couldn't help asking, "My old sister came here early this morning, is there something to do? Is there anything I can do to our husband and wife? Even if my sister says, anyone who can help me even a little bit, I will do my best." .”

Mrs. Zhang thanked her, and then said: "That's the case, my sister must have seen it too. I think Liu'er and I have stayed in this mansion for a long time. Once we women discuss it, it's not a good idea to live under the fence. Thinking, A few days ago, I asked my brother-in-law to inquire about the house. I don’t know what to do. I hope to help inquire about it as soon as possible. If it is suitable, I will settle it. The price is easy to talk about.”

Lin Zhixiao laughed when he heard it, nodded and said, "Sister Zhang didn't need to say, I was looking for you today too. I went to look for it a while ago, and there are more than 20 rooms in the courtyard that I entered three times. It is also true that the furniture is ready-made. Although it is not very good, ordinary people can use it. If it looks unsatisfactory, you can buy it again. It was thirteen hundred silver, and there is still room for research, but someone wanted to buy it yesterday. That tooth Knowing the reputation of our house on weekdays, they came to tell us that they would sell it to us if they wanted one hundred silver more. I thought they would not dare to fool me, and it was true, and the original price of the house was not too expensive. Now I only read the news from my old sister. gone."

Mrs. Zhang nodded, "Both of us, of course, believe in your eyesight. You have bothered me, and I am very grateful." As she spoke, she reached out and took out a purse from her sleeve, and took out a silver note of 500 taels from it, saying, "But I have to ask the big brother, we don't have to go to see it, just ask the big brother to hurry up, find someone and ask for favors, if you should help me, let's help. If there is an extra one hundred taels, I will ask the big brother to ask the people to wait to eat." Get some wine. Even if we are a married couple, it is inconvenient for us to show up in public even if we move. It is all up to the big brother to make a fuss, so it is not good to invite the big brother to drink this wine, it is just a little bit of our kindness."

Lin Zhixiao and his wife refused after a while, but finally accepted it. It would not cost much to act as Lin Zhixiao, and there would be someone who sold his face.However, this face was also earned through many years of struggle. He also had to manage up and down, and he also had capital, and everyone knew it in his heart.

However, more than half of the 100 taels can fall into the hands of the couple.

Seeing that he had accepted the bank note, Mrs. Zhang was relieved, and took a look at Lin Zhixiao. Usually, Liu'er said that the two were safe and well-mannered, so she seemed to be on the sidelines, and said, "There is one more thing to do. Trouble brother. You also know that Liu Er and I have no relatives except in this mansion. To be honest, the sisters naturally have nothing to say, but the Fu family is still separated by a floor. If it is convenient, please also Brother, help me to inquire in detail, what is the origin of this Fu family and what is going on inside, we know it well, and it will be easier for relatives to get along with each other in the future."

Lin Zhixiao is a man, so his thoughts are naturally slightly different.When you get a relative, the one who rushes towards it with a cloud of heat is probably a woman.Lin Zhixiao, who is used to the world, naturally has to scan and understand first, and then discuss whether to recognize relatives or not, how to treat getting along and so on.Now that Mrs. Zhang mentioned it, she couldn't help but look at it differently. I didn't expect that this woman was cautious, and it wasn't a big deal, so she agreed immediately.

After receiving money from other people, it is natural to do things happily. Regardless of whether Mrs. Zhang is still a slave, she still got the deed of the house in her name that night, and the deed of an old janitor, which will not be mentioned later.

Just talking about Liu'er, the godmother's appetite was aroused the night before, and she finally gave her a reassurance: "It's lucky that you are here, otherwise Liu'er would have lived with her sister. My brother-in-law has exploded now, and my sister is born like that. After all, it’s not a problem. Now there’s nothing to say, we had to move out together. It happened that my sister’s house also lived in that Huazhi Lane, but on the same street that Mrs. Lin mentioned a few days ago, she simply bought a house in the name of her mother. , It’s not natural for a daughter to live with her mother. Living separately, with relatives to take care of them, is a hundred times better than living together, not alone, and it is also a way for relatives to get along with each other for a long time.”

In fact, Liu'er didn't say one more thing. It is necessary to exaggerate the kindness of the godmother. Without the godmother, there would be no Liuer today, and without Liu'er, there would be no godmother's death... It is necessary to serve the elderly to repay one or two things, otherwise my sister Invitation, but other reasons are somewhat evasive.

How could Mrs. Zhang be unhappy, the two of them stopped discussing now and split up the next day.After Liu'er had breakfast, she ordered Dong'er to take care of the house, took Chun'er, followed by two Fu's wives, got into the car picked up by the Fu's, and went to the Fu's.

Speaking of which, one of the two wives who came to pick him up had met Liu'er.After getting in the car, I mentioned a few words to Liu'er, and then I realized that there was a decent woman beside Mrs. Fu.Every time I go to Jia's mansion to pay my respects to the old lady, it is the old lady who takes people there.

Liu'er immediately smiled and said, "I said that Nanny looks familiar, but I have seen it before. Please forgive Liu'er for being blind."

Like a revolving lantern, I don't know how many decent women who come to the old lady's house all day long, Liu'er doesn't remember these, but they are just polite.

The old lady was also surnamed Fu, and she was a distant cousin of the old lady Fu. In the early years, all the family members died of the epidemic, so they went to the old lady Fu and lived with her.At that time, the Fu family could not support many servants, and if they wanted to stay, they had to work.With the arrival of the eldest grandma and the improvement of the family situation, Nanny Fu also became a decent woman who talked to the old lady, and she was out of labor...

Now Mammy Fu feels at ease, every time she comes back to greet Mrs. Jia, she always looks at the big girl beside the old lady, who is surrounded by pearls and emeralds, and Luo Qi is more decent than her girl, and she is envious and jealous in her heart. It's even more unfair.But people are like Alpine snow lotus, they are indifferent to outsiders with smiling faces like them, they look polite and polite, but they reveal the alienation and unattainability of a wealthy family.

Pooh!In fact, he is just a slave, not as good as her!

Now it's good, although this Yang Liu'er has a calm face, she also has a smile on them, it can't be said, relying on their life, it's in the future!

But this Yang Liu'er, the maids around her are well-groomed, she even has a servant girl, this noble slave is different after all.

This Mrs. Fu didn't want to say what she was doing, this Xiaohuazhi Lane was only two miles away from Jia's mansion, and it would take a while to arrive.

Because there was a woman there, Liu'er couldn't open the curtain to look outside, the car also entered the gate and stopped in the front yard, the two women got out of the car first, helped Liu'er down, turned around the screen wall, and came to the second door. The door, her sister has already brought people to wait.

"It's okay on the way, everyone is waiting." The concern on Sister Yang Xiu's face was sincere, Liu'er just smiled, and followed her sister into the inner courtyard, and a little girl flew in to beat the curtain, and announced The notification was lively.

Liu'er took a quick glance, and probably knew it, this is a courtyard with three entrances, the old lady naturally lives in the main courtyard, the three main rooms, one bright and the other dark, are connected to the east and west wing rooms, and the corridors on both sides are connected.There is another corner door on the side, presumably there is a courtyard, this Master Fu is also an official, presumably it is an outside study or a hall for entertaining guests, or there is a garden.

After he entered the inner room, there was a white and fat old lady sitting on the couch facing him, dressed luxuriously, with silver hair on her temples, she looked kindly, Liu'er thought that this must be old lady Fu, so she went forward to pay her respects.

Sister Yang Xiu introduced her sisters one by one, "This is our old lady, this is your brother-in-law, this is my sister-in-law's boudoir name Qiufang, who is a few years older than you, this is the elder sister Qin. This is your nephew Brother Gui, Brother Song I'm still young, I'm falling asleep, see you later."

Except for Brother Guier and Sister Qin, they are all older than Liuer. After seeing each other, Mrs. Fu gave a pair of jasper bracelets as a gift. Liuer glanced at her sister, saw her nodding, and thanked her for accepting , and handed it to Chun'er beside him to keep it.

When I first saw the ceremony, I glanced at my brother-in-law Fu Shi, who was in his thirties, with a black mustache, fair face, clear eyes, and slightly fat.Wearing a homely blue silk gown, by description, he is a gentle and elegant person.

As for my sister's sister-in-law, Fu Qiufang, she can be considered a beauty.It was obviously dressed up deliberately, the full set of emerald emerald hair was too grand.Not to mention the peach red satin jacket with floral makeup, and the extremely delicate willow green and silver thread-stitched skirt inside, and the smokey purple embroidered full court waistcoat on the outside, against a pink and white face, autumn eyes, cherry mouth, Compared with the three girls of the Jia family, this color is not much better.

Compared with that sister Qin, she looks much cleaner.She is the only child left by Mrs. Xian, about eleven or twelve years old, delicate and quiet, she greeted Liu'er, and then stood aside and waited quietly.Liu'er was an elder after all, and gave her a purse embroidered by herself, which contained a pair of white jade cicadas.

Brother Gui is six or seven years old, with a thick head and a thick head, with big black eyes and bright eyes. Chili Gulu looks like a clever man. He went up to kowtow to Liu Er, and Liu Er gave him a set of high-quality stationery, which was considered quite satisfactory.

After everyone saw the ceremony one by one, the old lady Fu smiled and said to her son, "Okay, you go and do your own work, let us girls talk freely." Then Fu Shi stood up with a smile, saluted and retired without mentioning it.

The old lady waved at Liu'er, "Good boy, come and sit next to me, there are no outsiders here, so you don't have to be restrained."

Since the old lady moved the drum pier to the old lady, Liu Er had to go to see her and sit down. The old lady took Liu Er's little hand, carefully looked at Liu Er's description, and secretly praised her, what a beauty.

Life and death compared to his own girl!

Although the old lady didn't say it in her mouth, she had to admit in her heart that this Yang Liu'er was top-notch no matter her appearance or her overall demeanor, and she even showed the generosity and elegance of a girl from a big family.

Don't look at her as a slave, she has seen the world after all, and she is different from her own girl.

Needless to say, Liu'er looks small, and she really put a lot of thought into her clothes when she came out today.The clothes are too gorgeous, too flamboyant, and I really don't think there is anything to show off.Besides, I don't know the character of the old lady, which makes people misunderstand, and it is even more unnecessary to criticize my sister.It's not good to be too plain, the elderly are taboo about this, especially when they meet for the first time.

Therefore, a small pearl phoenix hairpin is pulled up in a side bun on the head, and two newly piled gauze begonia flowers are placed on the sideburns, which complement the jade face and vermilion lips.On the white jade ingot-like ears, there are also two big lotus seed pendants dangling.The upper body is a silver-red plum blossom hang silk wide-sleeved small jacket with a stand-up collar, plum red piping, and pearl buttons; below is a moon-white brocade skirt, like water pouring down, making it even more personal and graceful, like a fairy floating up.Dress up, elegant but not gaudy, light but not plain, graceful and pretty.

Liu'er in this life is a bit more rounded than the previous life, she lost two points of her aggressive beauty, and added three points of softness and gentleness, which makes people feel closer.

"On weekdays, I only think your sister is good-looking, but I didn't expect her to be three points more beautiful. What should I do? The old lady is reluctant to let go. It's good to come to my house to live in the future, and I have to take care of my old lady. Keep your eyes open, you might be a few years younger." Mrs. Fu took Liu'er's hand and just smiled.

After hearing this, Fu Qiufang stepped forward and sat down next to the old lady, hugged one of the old lady's arms and shook her coquettishly, "Mom has such a beautiful sister, why don't we forget about us rough people! No, sister-in-law, you have to make the decision for me, did my mother start to be biased after meeting Liu'er and sister?" There was nothing wrong with these words, but the words listened to the sound.

Sister Yang Xiu had a smile on her face, and she felt a little uncomfortable for a moment, so she responded with a few words.

Liu'er hadn't seen anything before, and immediately smiled, "Sister Fu, is she showing off to us motherless? There is such a generous and kind mother as the old lady, but the blessings she cultivated in her previous life are so good, so what's the matter?" After all, I lost my father since I was a child, but I was lucky to meet a good master like the old lady, and live a peaceful life for a few days. My sister looks like a fairy, and now I say it like this, but if I don’t leave some life for us .Today my younger sister is compliant, and I don’t think the old lady will follow, but the old lady is a benevolent person.”

For a moment, Mrs. Fu and Sister Yang Xiu both laughed, and the old lady pointed at her daughter and said angrily, "You, just be content! Don't even think about it, what kind of vision you Liu Ermei have, what kind of world you have never seen, and how much hardship you have suffered. Only today. Usually you always have eyes on top of your head, this time you know how powerful it is!"

After all, Fu Qiufang was knowledgeable about books and etiquette, so she was a little embarrassed, and she didn't want to be looked down upon, so she immediately stood up and gave a blessing, "Sister, please forgive me for being so rude. Seeing that my sister has an extraordinary face and conversation, I was stingy for a while." It’s a slip of the tongue, don’t argue with your sister.”

How could Liu'er really accept her gift, so she hurriedly got up and returned the gift, saying, "What did my sister say? In the boudoir, there are jokes and jokes, so why should I care about it. Liu'er is only crude, and she really deserves it." I don't want my sister to praise me like that."

"Sit down, both of you, and don't feel ashamed when you praise each other. What important things come and go, you will naturally know your temper after a long time. Liu'er is young and has a straight temper. In the future, it is necessary for the girl to mention more, and also It's my sister's heart for my sister-in-law, and I am very grateful." Sister Yang Xiu took the opportunity to laugh and relieved the embarrassment of the two.

Sitting down again for a while, everyone talked for a while, and the atmosphere was harmonious.

Just this back and forth, while Mrs. Fu was worried about her daughter, she couldn't help giving Liu'er a high look.

Even if she had to be under the low eaves, this Yang Liu'er looked at Yanyan who was talking and laughing at the gentle wind and rain, and retreated to advance, but she didn't lose her character. It seemed that her own girl was a bit petty.

The Taoist said that it is better to marry a servant girl than a daughter from a small family.