By Jia Xiuzhen

Yingchun and Xichun stayed at Li Wan's place until the second watch. Jia Lan accompanied the two aunts home, and then brought the wives back.Yingcao and Qingyu were waiting in front of Li Wan, and they sighed with a smile: "Our brother acts like an adult even more than an adult. We said we would go with him, but he said, 'I sent it off just because it was so dark and easy to startle." Aunts, go back. What kind of trouble are you making!' We are afraid that my brother will be afraid of the dark, so we want to give him courage."

Li Wan laughed when he heard this: "He is still afraid of the dark? It's good that the dark is not afraid of him! You don't have to worry about it, just rely on him."

Primrose laughed: "The many sisters around Master Bao are too busy. We usually want to ask, what can we do? Apart from making two sets of clothes for my brother, we really have nothing to do." You can do other things. I usually send some things to a few girls, but now my brother has come back and kissed himself, and we can’t even run errands.”

Li Wan said: "Don't be anxious, he doesn't need you, I use you. When the time comes, you all follow me."

Just joking, when Jia Lan came back, Madam Yan went to pick her up but didn't follow her in.Jia Lan said with a smile: "The two women have heard something new and want to tell Mammy."

When Mammy Yan came in, Li Wan asked what was the matter, because now Li Wan was following the housekeeper, and Nanny Yan didn't ask more about outside matters, fearing that she would miss the opportunity as before.This time I also heard the same thing, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, it's just some tricky girls who started trouble. It is said that the little girl in Baoyu's room recognized a woman as a godmother, and the woman washed her own daughter I used water to wash her hair, and there was a fuss. I almost asked Miss Ping to go."

Li Wan nodded and said: "This old woman is also a bit of a trample, and she has to make money even if she is cheap, it's really annoying."

Yan Momo said: "That girl is not troublesome, all the little girls here come here like that, and she is the only one who can't be touched like a piece of iron. But she is not convinced, and she argues with that woman No matter what you say. I really don’t like it. I don’t want to worship this godmother, but let the big girls take care of me. It’s okay, if it’s going to happen like this. This grievance has been settled, and there will only be more and more things in the future.”

Everyone gossips a few words, and each rests without mentioning it.

As the day of seeing off the spirit was getting closer, there was a lot of hustle and bustle in the upper room, and the things to be brought back to the checkpoint to check.On the day of departure, Aunt Xue and You Shi took people to see Mrs. Jia Muwang and wait outside the gate, and they would not come back until all the cars and horses had left.Lai Da took people to close the door and lock the courtyard, and sent additional people to patrol at night without mentioning it.

Tanchun and Li Wan said with emotion: "Although the old ladies are too busy these days to ask questions, after all, they can calm down some people here. Now that the Buddhas have left, will the ghosts and ghosts below stop showing their heads?"

Li Wan said with a smile: "A few days ago, someone told me a truth, saying that people should be careful in their thoughts. If you don't hope for good things, you always hope that people will make trouble. It will really hurt us."

Tanchun smiled and said: "You can believe this too! If this is true, the world will be peaceful if I only hope for peace every day? Then there is no need for the Lord Chaotang, and all I have to do is offer incense to the Buddha."

Li Wan shook his head and said: "You say 'hope', so you can see that the thought is on 'nothing'. If you don't believe it is 'nothing', how can you practice 'hope'? Therefore, this 'hope' is a reflexive thought." Now, what peace can there be?"

Just as he was talking, he saw Ping'er bringing two daughters-in-law over. Baochai said with a smile, "Okay, let's stop at the front of the game. It seems that you are really looking forward to it."

Ping'er led the people to stand still in front of the hall. After seeing the ceremony, he reported: "These two are in charge of the broken things in the warehouse. Because this time I met Guoxiao, my wife asked me to put away some festive things first. Next year Let’s talk when we’re full of filial piety. These two people who were watching people collect their things inside had a quarrel, and someone called me over. Seeing that the two of them couldn’t make up their minds, I decided to bring them here and let them talk about it.”

Tanchun asked someone to come up and said, "Speak one by one. If one can't understand clearly, then talk to the other. Don't chat together, we don't have time to listen to useless things, can you hear clearly?"

The daughter-in-law on the left hurriedly said: "Go back to the girl's words, I heard clearly. Let me talk first."

Tanchun nodded.The daughter-in-law said: "I'm in charge of the damage on the warehouse. The rules of the house are that all the damaged things in the warehouse must be piled up first, and all gains and losses will be recorded one by one. When the time comes, the accounts will be checked. The master It can only be carried out for disposal after being signed and pledged. This time I am doing the accounting, but there are two things that are not right.

I didn't dare to suspect people casually, and was about to confront them again, when I saw someone among them carrying the curtain and going out with something inside.They obviously caught the thief and saw the stolen goods, but relying on the large number of people, they not only refused to admit it, but also wanted to attack me.Hence the noise.I brought all the accounts and things with me, and someone in the library saw it at the time, which can prove that I did not lie. "

Tanchun didn't say a word, and asked the other one, and the other said hurriedly: "Go back to the girl. Our group was ordered to put away the happy ones, and take out the useful ones first. The curtains are piled up in one place in the warehouse. They all went in and hugged them out one by one. How did we know that there was something wrapped in it? The thieves set a trap for us because she guarded and stole it by herself. At that time, she said there was something inside, so we stopped and opened it. There were indeed two silk curtains wrapped inside. The color was not suitable, so I quickly took them out and sent them back.

Who knew she went crazy, and stopped us insisting that we stole Curry's things.The funniest, and said we stole her damaged items!If we really have that ability, instead of stealing good ones, I would steal those broken ones that are being accounted for? !There is a hole in my brain, and everyone in the world is a fool.No matter how we say it, the thieves just insisted on not letting go, and even began to curse with obscenities.How could we not be angry, so we moved our hands. "

Tanchun looked at Li Wan, both of them felt that things were not that simple.So he asked the steward from the warehouse to come over, and when Dai Liang's family came over, You Shi also happened to come over.Quickly went forward to kowtow and salute, said in his mouth: "The servant was just now counting things in the front, and when he was away for a while, he caused this oolong, disturbed the peace of grandma and girls, it should be hit."

Tanchun laughed and said, "Oh? It's an oolong?"

Dai Liang's family hurriedly said: "That's right. The daughter-in-law of the Qian family has just taken the job, so I don't know yet. I'm anxious just because I don't see it right. In fact, not all the damages she is in charge of are in the warehouse. This is different from the sacrificial vessels in the ancestral hall. Those are not used outside the house. If they are broken, they will be put aside and put on the account. They can always be counted. In our warehouse, there are hanging outside. The silk curtains and window screens were broken or broken, and I had to get another set from the warehouse at the master's request, but the damaged ones might not be returned. Sometimes we also asked people to ask, but most of them didn't do anything. It's all common.

Because there were many people going out with the old ladies and wives this time, a lot of people were mobilized to come up.This is all just taken over, and things have not yet been explained clearly.However, this daughter-in-law was impatient, she grabbed someone and started yelling.It is also because of the poor care of the slaves.This time, if I take it back, I will give her a good breakup.Let her make an apology to the sisters in the council room. "

Youshi smiled and said, "I'm telling you. After hearing what they said, they are all reasonable. So it's the inside story, so that's right."

Tanchun nodded and said: "Since that's the case, you brought people down. There is something wrong with them. They acted indiscriminately. If you don't hand over your own affairs clearly, it is also a crime to rely on others. Those who take the lead steal a month's worth of rice, and if they commit the crime again next time, it will not be so easy."

Dai Liang's family hurriedly responded, and the two daughters-in-law also kowtowed to accept their punishment.Tanchun said again: "Now that the old lady is not at home, everyone's bones are tightened everywhere. It's time for everyone to turn big things into small things, and live in peace and harmony in the house. You don't talk about a little bit of business, don't talk about it carefully. You are still the boss, just behave like this, let the people who follow you see and learn? This time I made a note, if you still behave like this in the future, I may have to change you. The place is waking up."

A few people hurriedly said no more.This made them retreat.

After breakfast, when it was time to take a lunch break, Tanchun asked Li Wan, "Sister-in-law, what do you think of that incident just now?"

Li Wan smiled: "What's the matter? Isn't it all settled? What are you thinking about?"

But Tanchun ordered the daughter-in-law in charge: "You go to the warehouse in a while and bring me the damaged account book. It's okay if she hasn't finished checking it, just bring it right away, and I'll go through it."

Li Wan glanced at her and sighed, "Why are you doing this?"

Tanchun smiled and said, "Even if you want to turn a blind eye, you have to know it. I don't want to be fooled by others."

Sure enough, the daughter-in-law went, and when she mentioned that she wanted to get the account book, the manager was busy and hadn't finished checking it, so the daughter-in-law said with a smile: "The girl said, it doesn't matter if you haven't finished checking it, she will take it to look through it." Pay it back to you immediately. I came here on command. If you insist on refusing, why don't you take the account book and go with me, and return the girl face to face, so that I won't understand what I said, and it will be against you in time. .”

The daughter-in-law had no choice but to give her the account book.Seeing people walking away, he hurried up to Dai Liangjia's place.

Tanchun took the account book and hurried through it, sighed, and handed it to Baochai.After Baochai turned it over, he handed it to Li Wan, but Li Wan didn't look at it, but returned it to Tanchun.Tanchun asked the daughter-in-law to take the account book back.Only then laughed and said: "This is only marked out, how many have not been seen."

Baochai persuaded with a smile: "These disadvantages are common to every family. The more the family members are, the more this is the case. How can the masters have so many things in a day, how can they ask them one by one? These low-level people wait for everything in their hands. If you have power, you can think of a way to benefit. You have always been more relaxed in this regard. Don’t talk about anything else, just talk about Baoyu’s place. How many glass bowls and agate dishes were knocked out in a year? Who will go? Check? Compared to this, these are nothing."

Tanchun said: "When Ping'er comes over later, I'd better tell her about it and ask her to tell her grandma. It's fine if you don't find out about these things, but if they come out one day, you have to know it. Don't worry about it." At that time, let people finish the game and put it on some unlucky person, and let the good people be fooled."

Everyone nodded.Li Wan said with a smile: "I thought to myself, I should persuade Sister-in-law Zhen to go back and order the things in the ancestral hall, that's the first important thing."

Tanchun smiled and said, "I won't say that. Since you want to, why don't you say it."

Li Wan shook his head and smiled, "That's all. I'm afraid that the thief may not blame me, but sister-in-law Zhen will blame me instead."

Everyone knows Youshi's good nature, who only loves the reputation of being virtuous and virtuous, and they can't help but smile when they hear this.

As the spring warmed, flowers bloomed in several places, and the disadvantages of the method of dividing and ruling the huge garden also appeared.It used to be that in this garden, seeing the flowers bloom and the fruits ripening, it was common practice to pinch this one and pick another one, and no one took care of it seriously.Now that it is in the hands of individuals, and they are allowed to collect money from the sale, naturally everyone is very concerned about it.The little girls all laughed and said: "It's not pinching flowers, it's actually pinching their hearts, livers and lungs!"

In this way, naturally there will be more verbal disputes.Fortunately, the women are new to this matter, and they also know how many people around them are waiting for them to make mistakes, so they can take it over.So even though I deeply hated those girls for being shapeless, I didn't dare to go too far.As for the offering bottles and so on sent to each house, they are even more meticulous, lest the girls who have lost their masters will not be satisfied at all, and it may not be their turn next year.

After several incidents like this, Baochai laughed: "Third girl, did you take this into account when you set the time for the universe?"

Tanchun smiled bitterly and said: "Now I can probably understand what Baoyu said. These women, who have obtained such benefits, have become more and more stingy. They really value the word 'profit' more than anything else. These are just flowers, and when the fruit in the garden is ripe, it is time to add something to it. I heard people say, 'One thing more is worse than one thing less', so this is a lot to me."

Baochai shook her head and said: "The reforms of the past dynasties have never been achieved overnight. You just encountered some minor accidents when implementing the new law. After all, it didn't hurt the root cause. If you get discouraged like this, it's not like you."

Tanchun sighed: "Although it is a good way, it must win good people. It's just a muddleheaded way. No matter how good the way is, it will be used crookedly. No matter how energetic I am, I can only sigh."

Li Wan listened carefully to the conversation between the two, and shed tears of sympathy for Tanchun's hopeless ambition.Good looks are born in the end of the world, so what is the power? !