Chapter 099: The Grace of the Ruling Family
Qing'er saw Xue Baochai smiling and didn't answer, so she said playfully: "I just thought that my grandmother can also grow crops and raise flowers and weave flower baskets, but unfortunately, there are too many people waiting for errands in our Rongguo Mansion, if I let my grandmother contract farming, I will inevitably be gossiped about, and I think I rely on my aunt's grace to take advantage of the house." The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Sister Ying'er is her cousin's girl, doesn't my cousin want people to complain that she is pretending to be a public servant and assigning Qiao Zong'er to her own people?"
"Hey, this little girl is really a human spirit, she knows better than we all do!" Tan Chun laughed first.
"Exactly. Baochai touched Qing'er's face, picked up the pen with a smile, and wrote a name on the roster, and then smiled at them: " I'll come up with someone for you, that is, the old Ye mother of Yihong Courtyard, she is the mother of the roasted tea, and my Ying'er and her mother are the best on weekdays, the two families often move around, if there is something you don't understand, you will naturally ask Ying'er Niang to help her, so let her contract, even if the old Ye Ma is willing to partner with Ying'er Niang to manage flowers and plants, it is also their private friendship, and it has nothing to do with us, so as to save those people from being idle and slandering behind their backs. ”
"That's it, and, this, this person, all write ...... together" Tanchun took the roster and reported his name, and pointed to a name and said to Xue Baochai: "Fortunately, this person has been cleaning the yard in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Miss Lin is the most nostalgic, if she goes to another person, I am afraid that Miss Lin will be unhappy." ”
After a while, the flowers, plants, fields, fruit trees, and ponds everywhere were also distributed, and at the beginning of the spring, I calculated that according to the mother-in-law's own meaning, the silver money handed over every year alone added up to four or five hundred taels, not counting the cost of cleaning and maintaining the garden, and it was five hundred taels of silver.
Seeing that she was fiddling with the abacus beads and calculating extremely seriously, Xue Baochai smiled faintly: " According to me, even the annual silver does not need to be handed over, and the government does not care about the extra few hundred taels of silver, it is better to let the contracted mother-in-law sum it up by themselves, according to this number, at the end of the year, the silver will be put together, and then evenly distributed to those mothers-in-law who have not received things, so as not to complain that those people are acting unfairly, and also save them from deliberately trampling those flowers and plants because of jealousy, but it will cause some trouble, if everyone can get some benefits, benefits, but will help her, and the relationship between the people can be harmonious。 ”
"Miss Xue said very well, I was still thinking just now, if the mother-in-law bothered to take care of the garden, instead of giving her the money to work, but let her hand over the silver, and spread the word that people say that we are harsh to our subordinates, but it will ruin the reputation of the house, wouldn't the gains outweigh the losses? Or Sister Xue thought about it thoroughly, so let's do it. ”
Li Kun nodded in agreement, and the probe also felt that it was more secure, Mrs. Wang valued the reputation of the house and outside, so she saved an extra 10,000 taels of silver every year, and she was afraid that she would be blamed by her wife.
Tanchun looked at the roster, picked up the pen and added Baochai's suggestion to the back, which allowed the mother-in-law to find the circled mother-in-law, officially assigned it according to the rules, and drew a charge on the booklet.
The mother-in-law was still happily communicating about how to manage the garden, so they heard Tanchun ring the alarm bell and said: "Don't just think about making money, put the work on your head, the first is to manage the garden well, and it is convenient for the masters in each house to use things, if you don't provide vegetables and flowers for each room as usual, or you are complained that the things sent are not good, don't do it again in the next year!"
"Girl, rest assured, the things that should be supplied to each room will be delivered on time, and those that should be sent to the kitchen will also be selected from those who are top-notch, the eldest grandmother, the third girl, and Miss Xue have raised us like this, we naturally have to do a good job and add brilliance, if we deduct the supply again, are we still human?" The mothers-in-law expressed their attitudes one after another, promising to satisfy the girls in each room.
"It's best if you can think like this, there is a way that everyone holds firewood and the flame is high, the eldest grandmother and the third girl are sympathetic to your hard work on weekdays, and come up with such a method, mainly to let you get some benefits, if you don't do a good job and slap her in the face, this matter will not be able to continue. ”
Xue Baochai then announced that at the end of the year, they would put together the silver by themselves and disperse it to everyone, and the mothers-in-law heard that they didn't have to deal with Sister Feng'er, and they didn't need to hand over the silver, but let them do the favor themselves, and they were even more excited to dance, and the flattery was endless......
A few people were busy with this matter, and it was just at noon, when Lin Zhixiao's family asked someone to report, saying that the doctor who invited him was here, and Ping'er was busy with orders to take him to the Wuyuan, where the big girl Shi had a cold and was resting.
Li Kun, Tanchun and Xue Baochai went to visit Shi Xiangyun in Wuyuan, but Mrs. Wang had not come back yet, so Qing'er naturally followed suit.
Xue Baochai instructed in advance not to ask her fiancé when she saw Xiangyun, half of her illness this time was due to heart disease.
The two of them felt strange and asked, "Could it be that the marriage has changed?"
"That's not it, I heard my brother say that the new imperial court has set up a falcon bureau to rectify corruption, Wei Ruolan shouldn't have done it, and before the scientific examination, she drew a picture of plum bamboo and sent it to the examiner, and she was denounced. ”
Li Kun sighed: "It's no wonder, according to the time she said when she came last time, before Wei Ruolan took office, she would handle the marriage so that she could take her to the post together, I wondered why I didn't receive the post." ”
Tanchun was puzzled: "Just such a little thing is scared like this? Didn't the Shi Hou family come forward to help? I think the old lady doesn't know yet, if the old lady asks people to come forward to dredge up, this matter will be a big thing and a small matter." ”
"Yesterday, the second master of Erlian went to inquire in person, saying that the 'scientific research case' was not handled by local officials, and was investigated and handled by the Falcon Bureau himself, and it is said that the Falcon Bureau has greater power than Dali Temple, and only accepts the command of the emperor, and the person in charge is Wang Jinyao of Hengjun. ”
Before Xue Baochai's words fell, Tanchun asked in surprise: "Young Master Jinyao, is the lord the king of Hengjun who will praise the second brother once as long as he teaches him a lesson?"
"You know King Hengjun very well. Xue Baochai smiled knowingly, did not poke her, and continued: "I heard this from Lord Jia Yucun, saying that only the emperor knew about the falconry bureau when it was first established, and after checking a few cases, the courtiers knew that this department existed. ”
"He's still alive, Young Master Jinyao is still alive......" Tanchun's voice suddenly choked, and tears couldn't be contained.
Li Kun heard her strange voice, turned his head to look, and found that her face was full of tears, so he quipped: "Why are you so excited to hear the news of the little prince?" Oh, I remember, that day we took the name of the flower, and signed that you were going to marry the prince, don't you be this Hengjun King named Jinyao, right?"
Listening to the name "Jinyao", Qing'er felt as if she had seen these two words somewhere, and after thinking about it again, she suddenly realized that her heart was beating suddenly, and the jade ring, the nine dragon rings that Jingcheng's brother hung on his waist, were engraved with the word Jinyao.
King of Hengjun, Jin Yao, legend has it that he was killed in Qingzhou when he conquered bandits, and then, he miraculously survived, as well as the Buddha of the "Qingqing Fruit and Vegetable" store, and the fear of the servants of the palace in Jinling Mansion......
This information was combined and confirmed in her mind, and Qing'er quickly came to the conclusion that Jingcheng was probably Wang Jinyao of Hengjun, and she was lucky enough to meet him, probably because he was hit in the brain, or he was drugged, in short, he had amnesia......
So, he said that he was a slave of the palace, but he was deceiving me, why did he do this? Or, he didn't fully recover his memory, and he himself was not sure, he was Wang Jinyao of Hengjun?
Tanchun was teased by Li Kun and felt embarrassed, so he quickly wiped away his tears, and found that everyone was secretly laughing, and felt more and more embarrassed, so he took a sip of Li Kun with a red face, and said angrily: "The eldest sister-in-law also learns from the second sister-in-law, and her nonsense is annoying!"
"Hahaha, the third girl is in a hurry, don't be hit by what I say?" Baochai and the others laughed, Li Kun suddenly slapped his forehead, grabbed Ping'er and asked with a smile: "I remember, the little prince of Jinyao came to our house once when he was young, it seems that because of the matter of our Uncle Zhu, Princess Beijing brought a teenage brother with a high nose bridge and a red mouth, and they all said that they were more handsome than the young master in Western paintings......"
Ping'er also became excited, clapped her hands and smiled: "I also remembered, the little prince and the third girl really have a fate." You didn't know when you came to the house, the third girl was only five years old at the time, and I had just married with our grandmother......"
"Puff......" Hearing Ping'er say that she had just married with her grandmother, Li Kun couldn't help laughing.
Ping'er also realized that she had made a mistake, blushed, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
"It's funny for me to hear it, grandma, and listen to her finish. Xue Baochai has always been very calm, but at this time, she couldn't hold it back, so she hurriedly urged Ping'er to tell her to hurry up.
"At that time, the virtuous princess had just been elected to the palace, and she hadn't been a princess yet......"
"Isn't this nonsense?" This incident evoked Li Kun's memories of her husband, so she was extremely excited for a while, and couldn't help but gag and laughed: "Let's get to the point, these two are anxious to listen." ”
"Uncle Zhu was happy that year, he just married his grandmother, and he was admitted to the lift, which is simply a great honor......"
Before Ping'er finished speaking, Li Kun interjected again: "At that time, there were few children of the family in the capital who devoted themselves to studying, and most of them relied on the merits of their ancestors, hereditary titles, or the emperor's favor to give them fame, so my uncle was regarded as giving Jiafu a long face, and because of this, he was particularly rewarded by the emperor, and even several princes such as King Beijing and King Nan'an also brought their families to congratulate them, and the old lady also said that I have Wangfu luck, how do you know......"
Before he finished speaking, Li Kun was so choked up that he couldn't speak anymore...... (To be continued.) )