The struggle of the Nanny of the Red Chamber

It is said that after Tang Chao was busy in the kitchen for a while, the family members all left work one after another.He took out the meals that had been cooked and heated in the pot a long time ago.While ordering Li Shu to serve dishes and rice, he also asked Li Jue to set up dishes, chopsticks and stools.

Mrs. Tang can now borrow all her daughter.The girl's cooking and so on can be much better than when she first got married.

But even when cooking, the habit of pouring oil vigorously has not changed.

Li Goudan was the last one to come back as usual, covered in ashes, Tang Chao felt a little numb.Li Goudan smiled honestly, went to wash up first, and then sat down at the dining table.

After dinner, like every day before, those who read books read, and those who do housework do housework.For example, Tang Chao and Mrs. Tang sat together, chatting about the gossip in the Tiantian mansion or the lower street in the backstreet.

"I was in the mansion today, and I saw your Aunt Zhou. You are so thin that you are almost out of shape." Mrs. Tang bit off the needle and thread that closed her mouth with her teeth, and said to the girl with emotion.

"Even if Sister Zhou is the daughter of three children in a row, isn't she still young? Why does her husband's family have to take concubines?"

"What do you know? That's marrying a second wife. Otherwise, just taking a concubine, your aunt Zhou can get angry like that in a hurry."

Tang Chao was a bit disapproving of taking concubines, but when he heard that it was the second wife, he felt sad for the girl who held her hand and gave her fruit with a smile when they met when they were young.

This era, or the time and space where the Tang Dynasty is now.A man can have many women, but the status of each woman is different.

The first wife is higher than the second wife, and the second wife is higher than the second wife, and the second wife is higher than the concubine, and the concubine is higher than the Tongfang girl.Among them, some aunts were hired from outside, and some had children from servants' families.Those hired outside here are a bit higher than those born at home.

If Leng Zixing married the second wife, and if the second wife gave birth to a son, then Zhou Rui's daughter would know the future without even thinking about it.Maybe one day he died, the second room was straightened up and became the second wife.

"The second room is not the most annoying, who do you think this second room is?"

"In the mansion?"

"Bah, no matter how careless the people in our house are, they can't do such a thing that makes people rub their bones." Mrs. Tang spat out a mouthful of melon seeds before continuing, "It's the niece of Mrs. Leng's family."

Tang Chao had an enlightened look on his face, "Cousin and cousin, sister Zhou's life is over." In this day and age, cousins ​​are the most hated.

It is said that this cousin will always be the first wife's nemesis, natural enemy.

"Who says it's not? Since she gave birth to the third child, the bones of the Zhou family's girl have been broken. Originally, confinement is dependent on support. The mother-in-law of the Leng family always points at Sang and scolds Huai. She not only scolds the Zhou family's girl, but also If you scold Aunt Zhou, confinement can still be good. No, I took her niece here before confinement is over. "

Mrs. Tang looked at Li Jue, who was practicing calligraphy with Li Shu, and then at Li Ning, who let her father ride as a horse. She lamented that the girl's belly was up to date, and at the same time, she was glad that the Li family didn't have any close relatives of mother-in-law.Otherwise, how could this day be as calm and leisurely as it is now.

Let's cut another two catties of pork tomorrow, and satisfy my son-in-law's greed.Well, when you buy meat, you have to ask the butcher to add two stick bones to cook soup and eat noodles.

Tang Chao told his old mother about the Zhou family, feeling quite uncomfortable.But sometimes, Tang Chao would also wonder whether people who fail in one aspect will succeed in another.For so many years, Zhou Rui's family has always been the confidant of the second wife.No one ever pushed her down.

It turned out that she didn't like Zhou Rui's family very much, she always felt that this person was very powerful.Not a good character in the original either.But for so many years, Zhou Rui's family and Mrs. Tang have been getting along very well, and they have also treated Tang Chao's family very well.At this time, the Tang Dynasty no longer had the feeling towards Zhou Rui's family when he read books and watched TV dramas.However, Tang Chao always felt that poor people must have something to hate.Even if there is no retribution on oneself, it may be on the family members.

"Li Ning, come down for me. Your father has been tired outside all day, why do you still ask him to be your horse all over the place? If you want to ride a horse, let him take you with you when your father goes to work tomorrow." Go." Just finished lamenting about Zhou's family, when she looked up, she saw her daughter beckoning her father to ride her as a horse.

When the father and daughter heard Tang Chao's words, they quickly smiled flatteringly at her.Tang Chao didn't even know what to say.

Leaving aside the pair of father and son, Tang Chao and his mother-in-law continue to be the master of the east and the son of the west.Whichever one has something new, the mother and daughter can chat for a long time.

Li Shu raised his head and glanced at the couch where Tang Chao and Mrs. Tang were, with a look of admiration in his eyes.

His sister-in-law often said, "Wanghou general, Ning has a kind of call?"Ah Shu of their family should not be wasted like his brother and her.Lai Shangrong from the Lai family can be released to serve as an official, why can't their family's A Shu.

His sister-in-law also said that those who donate with money are officials, and those who pass the examination are also officials.But it's like real and fake.What is true is true and what is false is always false.

So his sister-in-law told him that no matter what, he had to get his own fame.

He has always kept these words in his heart.

Can pass the imperial examination to become a master, who would like to be a slave to the family.In the past, I only thought that the greatest achievement in this life was to become a small tent after leaving the country.

He didn't expect that one day, he would have another way to reach the sky.

Li Shu knew in his heart that his sister-in-law planned all these for him, so he was always grateful.I respect and love the Tang Dynasty from the bottom of my heart.At this time, I understood the phrase 'a long sister-in-law is like a mother'.Sister-in-law treats him like this, and if he gets fame in the future, he will definitely live up to his sister-in-law's painstaking efforts.

For so many years, just to make his sister-in-law happy, Li Shu would study even harder. Even Li Jue calmed down and studied hard with his little uncle.

Seven-year-old Li Jue, under the tutelage of his mother and uncle, as well as his mother's years of hard work, finally joined Jia Cong's family school when Jia Cong started studying.

Of course, this family study is family study.Rather than the ethnology in Dream of the Red Chamber.The family school is located in Rongguo Mansion, with masters and students personally selected by Mrs. Zhang.It is completely different from the Jia family school.

The Zhang family is the Zhang family, and the Jia family is the Jia family.So ever since the eldest son reached a certain age, Mrs. Zhang never sent him to the Zhang family.The same is true of the second son Jia Lian.But learning cannot be discarded, so for the sake of his son's future, Mrs. Zhang sought Shi's opinion and set up a family school in the mansion.

Children in homeschooling must be eager to learn.They are studying with their own children. These people will get along well in the future, and they are also a network of contacts, so Mrs. Zhang is very strict.

Tang Chao's Li Jue was able to enter, not only because of Tang Chao's face, but also because of Li Jue's own efforts.

In fact, during that period, the Tang Dynasty wanted to send the eldest son to study in a private school outside.But in the private school outside, one teacher taught dozens of students.In this way, the Tang Dynasty felt that teaching in large classes rather than teaching in small classes would benefit students more.

That's when the Rongguo Mansion family school came up with the idea.

It's just that Tang Chao was afraid that he would really get his son in. If his son didn't learn well, he would learn to be servile.What can I do.

But many things are not what you want to do.

Tang Chao's many years of goodwill made Shi, Zhang, and Wang's mother and daughter all like Tang Chao very much.So in the first two years, when Mrs. Zhang wanted to start school for her youngest son, she thought of her son in the Tang Dynasty.

The younger brother-in-law of the Tang Dynasty has been by Jia Lian's side.Although Jia Lian himself didn't like learning, he got the true teaching of his fault of being a teacher from Jia Hu.

No matter what I have learned, I will turn around and teach Li Shu, and I have to test it every day.But because of this, even if Jia Lian doesn't study anymore, he still has knowledge.

Anyway, even if Jia Lian didn't like to study anymore, his questioning of Li Shu was unshakable.Because of this, Mrs. Zhang is so relieved about Jia Lian's studies.

Because of his love for the Tang Dynasty and his good impression of Li Shu.It successfully made Zhang think of Li Juelai who was born in the same year as her youngest son.

So there was a matter for Li Jue to study at home.

The Tang Dynasty, as a traditional petty citizen, absolutely couldn't do anything that was cheap and didn't take advantage of it.To send my son out, I have to give him a gift. Now I can not only study for free, but also connect with each other. Why not do it.

The night passed quietly.Early the next morning, Tang Chao entrusted his daughter to a neighbor. Tang Chao walked slowly in the corridor of entering the mansion with a basket on his shoulders, thinking that next year will be the year of Dabi. The courtyard she bought in this capital Is it possible to increase the rent?

Before she gave birth to Li Ning, she bought a courtyard in the capital through her relationship.There are three main rooms, three wing rooms on the left and right, and three inverted seats opposite the main room.

One of the best things about this home is the sweet water well in the corner of the yard.Drinking water is much more convenient.

Because their family still lived in the house provided by the Jia family for the servants, they never moved out.And the more uninhabitable the house is, the easier it will be dilapidated.The couple of the Tang Dynasty, who were very good at living, rented out the yard.

The three rooms in the main house are rented by a family.There is also a family on the left and right.They are all ordinary small families, and they are all responsible people. Even if Li Goudan asks for the rent every quarter, they will honestly never default on it.

Isn't this nonsense, if you don't give it, Mrs. Tang will call the door.Who dare not give it?

On the contrary, the house that Tang Chao bought with Li Shu's private money has the same layout as theirs, but the left and right wing rooms are still vacant.So it is possible to increase the rent and rent it to those scholars who are going to Beijing to rush for the exam.

In other words, at the beginning, the two houses belonged to the same owner, and they sold food together. When Tang Chao asked people, he heard that the two houses were still connected, and the most important thing was that they both had a sweet water well.

Tang Chao fell in love immediately. She did not lack the money to buy a house, but she didn't want to help Li Shu also buy a house.She also has children to support, so how can she be willing to part with such a large sum of money.Fortunately, the Jia family treated their servants very generously.Li Shu has seriously saved a lot of money in the past few years.Although it was still a little short, but for that fraction, Tang Chao was generous and added it to him.

Before the Tang Dynasty, they always wanted to find a job for Li Shu to make a living, which was the best of benevolence.But get along for so many years.The stone will also be heated.If there is a better way out, why not try hard.This was also the original intention of the Tang Dynasty to let Li Shu study with Jia Lian.

Although he is not too old now, he is not young either.Sooner or later, she will be married and stand alone. With this house, it will be easy to talk about marriage in the future, and it will be worthy of Li Shu's friendship with her over the years.

Li Shu bought a house and had no money left.The rent and monthly rewards became Li Shu's main income.But the Tang Dynasty did not allow Li Shu to spend his life indiscriminately.Because Tang Chao still wanted to help Li Shu buy a few more acres of land in the past few years.

Because of this, even though Li Shu might seem like a respectable servant boy among the younger generation of the Jia family, his hands were tight and ruthless.

For a while, there were many rumors about the mean uncle of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shu was very angry about this, and once fought with others.There was nothing wrong with Tang Chao, and she deliberately brought this matter up in front of Shi Shi and Zhang Shi.

How she had good intentions and how she treated Li Shu.What I said was touching.Both Shi and Zhang were so moved that they almost shed tears.

So Tang Chao, who came here with a little grievance, got another big reward.

Then Li Shu completely convinced his sister-in-law.

A good hand at home.

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Walking to Shi's courtyard, you can hear Sister Feng's brisk words at the door.

Tang Chao bowed his head and smiled. A five-year-old child can only look at the height of his eyebrows.It can be seen that the Wang family has also experienced the warmth and coldness of human relationships.

When Sister Feng was two years old, her father passed away, and then her mother passed away within a few months.So far, she has lived with her ten-year-old brother Wang Ren in the mansion of her uncle Wang Ziteng.

Because they are all in the capital, after leaving the filial piety, the Wang family took over to live for a while.Unexpectedly, after such a short stay, Shi Shi fell in love with this cute-looking, witty little girl.

And looking at this niece, Wang Shi had another thought in her heart.She is Mu Na, but not all the girls in her royal family belong to Mu Na.And she also understood her and Jia Zheng's personalities.So looking at Sister Feng, who is only five years old this year, she often shows her cleverness and fierceness at such a young age.

He often looked at his eldest son thoughtfully.

Her niece, although her parents died early.But she is the eldest daughter of the royal family.Her second brother Wang Ziteng also attaches great importance to and loves this niece.It is not an exaggeration to say that she is regarded as her own daughter.

And her son, Jia Zhu, is just the eldest son of a fifth-rank official.In terms of status, even Jia Lian, who can't claim the title, is a bit higher than Jia Zhu.It is even more difficult to marry back as a daughter-in-law.

Marrying a daughter is high, marrying a daughter-in-law is low.After all, if Wang Xifeng was married low, then the daughter of the second elder brother's family would not be able to marry higher.

As for the age, Wang did not think about it.Although Jia Zhu is eleven and Sister Feng is five.But their royal family has always married women early.

Is this the problem?

In Wang's heart, this is of course not a problem.The question is how to get her good second brother to marry Sister Feng to her son.

In fact, in Wang's heart, she was even more afraid that her second brother fell in love with Jia Cong, who was only two years younger.

Thinking about it this way, Mrs. Wang felt resentful about Jia Zheng's fact that he was still only a fifth-rank official for more than ten years.Even if you go up a level and a half, that's what it means.

The rats in the Ministry of Industry probably have changed a lot, but her man actually guarded the 'throne' of the fifth-rank member Wailang with a posture of sitting through the prison.It is also a miracle.

Sometimes, Mrs. Wang thanked her father-in-law more than once in her heart.If it wasn't for her father-in-law who entered the testimonials before his death, it is estimated that her good husband might still be working hard with his son and nephew at this time.

And she would not have put on the five-rank imperial uniform more than ten years earlier.

But now Wang feels that her father-in-law really knows her man too well, otherwise with her man's ability, when her girl gets married, she will probably be just a talented daughter.