The child is tired and heals quickly, not to mention that although Lu Shuo is four and a half years old, everyone in the second room loves him like a golden pimple, and he is still hugged by the girls and mothers-in-law on the way here, so after taking a nap for an hour, Lu Shuo's fatigue is gone, and the whole person is alive again. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhu Yi got up with him, changed his clothes, scattered his hair again, and put his hair in a bun again. When everything was cleaned up, without waiting for Zhu Yi to hug him, Lu Shuo ran out of the pear blossom cabinet by himself.

The pear blossom cabinet is close to the west room.

Ningxiang Yuan is a typical northern courtyard structure, the courtyard is the main house in the middle, two rows of side rooms in the east and west, the south is the hand verandah and the shadow wall, out of the hanging flower door, and there is a row of inverted seats connected with the courtyard door. There is a small cross courtyard on both sides of the main house, and behind the main house is a row of back cover rooms, which are generally where the girls live.

There are five upper rooms in the main room of Ningxiang Yuan, a large one in the middle is the Ming Hall, which is generally a place to meet guests and a family to eat, to the east and west sides are the rooms and the second room, and there are several rooms in the back for the girl's mother-in-law to be on duty, which is generally used as a tea room and a small bedroom for the girl on night duty.

Yuan opened up the partition between the piggyback room and the secondary room on the east side and used it as Lu Yun's back study, while the pigback room and the second room on the west side were arranged into two bedrooms. Yuan's bedroom is arranged in the west room, the west room is very large, divided into two places by Yuan, the outside is arranged as a small living room, the inside is Yuan's bedroom, the middle is separated by a semicircular carved arch hanging beaded curtains. The pear blossom cabinet during Lu Shuo's lunch break is located in the west room, the west room is smaller, and the overall layout is roughly the same as that of the west room, and the second room and the room are separated by two layers of pear blossom wood mallet fans.

Yuan was not in the bedroom, and Lu Shuo ran out again. Seeing Lu Shuo running over, Jade and Amber hurriedly lifted the bead curtain, and Zhu Yi behind him shouted while trotting, "Brother Shuo, slow down." Lu Shuo ignored her, and at a glance saw Yuan sitting on the Luohan bed reading the account book, Yuan's mother and Coral were standing straight beside her, and there were three mothers who replied below. Lu Shuo ran to Yuan's side as soon as he slipped away, threw himself into Yuan's arms, snuggled up to her, and called his mother. A smile spread across Yuan's face just now.

The purple gold incense burner in the middle of the room was curling green smoke, and Zhu Yi chased it in at this time.

The Luohan bed was next to the window, and it was only a noon time, and there was an ink-colored long-necked jade bottle on the long bar against his back, a gold-painted plate that Lu Shuo couldn't name upright, and a white jade Buddha's hand. The backrest and pillows on the Luohan bed have also been replaced with bright apricot yellow, embroidered with large clusters of twig roses, which is very different from the plain duck blue fabric of the noon day. In the middle of the Luohan bed is a small sandalwood table with a tea cup, a few plates of snacks, a box containing many jade plaques of different colors, and a stack of thick ledgers next to it.

The changes are not small!

Lu Shuo knew that the Yuan family had something to do, and he didn't need to be hugged by a maid, so he climbed to the other side of the Luohan bed and sat down, saw the hibiscus flower roll on the plate, picked up one and took a bite, it was still warm, a sweet aroma, sweet and glutinous.

Zhu Yi stood beside him, handing a handkerchief and water, serving.

Yuan saw that he was eating well, and he didn't care about him anymore, turned his head and continued to tell the three people to take care of his mother. Lu Shuo saw the familiar Zhou's mother, Zhou's mother is still very young, but she is in her 30s, medium in size, very white skin, is Yuan's dowry maid, because she doesn't know her name, and later married the foreign housekeeper Zhou, she followed her husband's surname and changed her name to Zhou's mother, Zhou's mother is very capable and very valued, and has always been Yuan's right-hand man, and has been serving him by Lu Shuo's side when he was on the boat before, but since Zhou's mother changed to another boat and went back to the house to arrange the affairs of the house, Lu Shuo never saw her again. Lu Shuo couldn't help but stare at her several times, and Zhou's mother seemed to feel something, and looked up at him and smiled kindly.

Lu Shuo couldn't help but look away.

Yuan's voice was clear, and he arranged the things in each room and everywhere in an orderly manner, and Lu Shuo listened intently while eating.

Yuan first instructed a short and fat mother-in-law on the left to call Mother Hua, said the dishes and amounts of three meals a day in the future, as well as the extra snacks and regulations for each room of the four masters, and specially instructed her to present bird's nest porridge and milk soup to the two little masters every morning, and after everything was arranged without omission, she was handed over a pair of cards, and Mother Hua bowed and retreated.

Ao, Lu Shuo nodded in his heart, Mother Hua is the housekeeper in charge of the stove, no wonder she looks so blessed.

And then there is Yu's mother, Yu's mother, like Zhou's mother, is also the big girl who married Yuan's side, but her identity is a little more special, she is Yuan's mother's daughter, that is, Yuan's sister, Yuan's mother-in-law died early, leaving only one daughter, her husband's family couldn't tolerate her, so she took her daughter and sold herself to the Yuan family in Weizhou. The mother and son are loyal and are the most trusted people in the Yuan family. After coming to the Lu Mansion, Yu's mother married the chief steward of the outer courtyard. Yu's mother has been walking between the inner house and the outer house, and many of the income from the field shops in the second room have to pass through her hands, and many news from the outer courtyard have also passed through her, which shows her weight in the second room of the Lu Mansion.

Yu's mother took the pair of cards and saluted as usual.

The last is Zhou's mother, Zhou's mother is responsible for managing the maidens and mothers-in-law in the inner courtyard, except for a few housekeepers, of course.

Yuan instructed, a little tired, picked up the teacup and took a sip, and then asked slowly: "Have you found all the girls and boys you want?" "The second room is placed outside, and the car is simple. When I arrived in Cangzhou this time, the rough girl didn't bring it, and the Yuan family left Cui Sleeves and Zijin to look at the courtyard of the West Mansion, and the Yuan family brought four first-class maids Coral, Jade, Amber, Pearl and the other two second-class maids Zhu Yi and Qingluo. As for the two little masters, Lu Shuo's nurse was knocked out of the house by Mrs. Lu because of unfavorable care, and there were red apricots, green peaches and a rough mother-in-law arranged by the Yuan family before, and there was only one nurse and two little girls around Lu Shunying, so the next person was in short supply.

Mother Zhou smiled, bent down respectfully, and said: "The old slave arrived in Cangzhou, and after arranging the main courtyard according to Madame's instructions, he went to Guanya to find the Ya Po, the Guan Ya knew that it was our Lu Mansion dignitaries, and specially selected twenty smart and clever girls who were not too old, and found a few rough envoys who looked very regular, and now the Ya Po is waiting in the wing room with people, and Madame wants to call her in?" "Since leaving Jingshi, the house is no longer called Lu Yun and the second wife of the Yuan family, but has changed its name to the old lady.

Yuan nodded and said to Zhou's mother: "Just bring those girls and boys over, you don't need to make the mother-in-law useless, you just look at adding a dozen." Those who guard the door, clean the garden, and clean the small yards next to them, as long as their hands and feet are in order, and they look neat and neat, mainly the mother-in-law who is in charge of the stove, you first let the flower mother try their skills before making a decision. ”

Zhou's mother nodded yes. Pearl went to the door of the west room, called Qingluo, who was waiting outside the main room, and went to ask Ya Po to lead people in.

In a few moments, a woman dressed in fancy clothes led a group of people in. Lu Shuo saw that there were five boys, the rest were girls, except for two boys who looked only four or five years old, the rest were mostly about ten years old. They were all dressed in coarse cloth clothes, and they looked clean, and they stood in four rows with their heads bowed in a very orderly manner.

In the few months since Lu Shuo came here, although he has never been around such a servant as a maid and a mother-in-law, it is the first time he has encountered a buyer. These children who are just in their teens, in modern times, that is, when they are in elementary school, are like goods here, they can be bought and sold at will with a few taels of silver, and Lu Shuo seriously realized the strictness and cruelty of the feudal hierarchy for the first time.

Yuan Shi saw these twenty people and nodded with satisfaction. Obviously, the official teeth are attentive, and these people look clean and clean.

Mother Zhou didn't wait for Yuan's orders, so she ordered them to raise their heads, and these people cautiously half raised their heads. Yuan looked at the appearance of these people, they were all white and clean, very delicate, and it made people feel very comfortable when they looked at it. Yuan nodded slightly, and Zhou's mother asked them in detail about their place of origin, age, how they were sold, whether they had been subordinates elsewhere before, and whether they had learned the rules, and the people who were asked answered softly one by one.

Lu Shuo heard the self-"introduction" of these people and felt that their stories could be compiled into a collection of bitter stories. These people are all children of poor families, many of whom have many children in the family and cannot afford to support them, so they were sold, and some of them were sold by relatives after both parents died, and the two youngest boys were like this. It's usually girls who are sold. There were a few girls who had many sisters in the family, and when they had a boy, the parents were reluctant to let their son suffer, so they sold their daughters and bought a field for money. When Lu Shuo heard this, he sighed that patriarchy is really a tradition since ancient times, and he was very indignant in his heart, and remembered the sad things in his previous life, and couldn't help but sigh that it was really difficult to be a girl, and at the same time felt that he was really lucky to be a boy! Because even the girls of a big family, although they have fine clothes and food every day, they are very involuntarily. When I was a child, I had to abide by such and such regulations, and I didn't go out of the door; was accidentally molested, but it was himself who was blamed, either as a monk or hanged himself to show his loyalty and innocence. Many people want to sacrifice their marriage for the sake of the family, but when they get to their husband's house, they get up earlier than a chicken, sleep later than a dog, and endure the half-heartedness of their husbands, and the difficulties of their mothers-in-law.

What a damn system! Lu Shuo has a strong desire to change it.

Yuan felt that these twenty people were very good, so they all stayed. The tooth woman smiled and couldn't see her eyes, and said compliments again and again. Qingluo took them out again, and Coral went out with him, arranging for the newcomers to stay.

Zhou's mother stayed.

Yuan Shi turned his head sideways, and saw Lu Shuo frowning, his eyes were still looking at the direction in which those people walked out just now, thinking that he was dissatisfied with which person, he couldn't help but soften his voice, and said: "Those girls all start from sprinkling and sweeping, and they don't need to wait closely, as for the little guys selected, if you don't like it, I will let Zhou's mother transfer to the front yard and not stay by your side to serve, are you satisfied?" ”

Lu Shuo came back to his senses at this time, knowing that the Yuan family had misunderstood, so he hurriedly made an excuse and said, "No, no, I just don't like that tooth woman, she talks a lot." "After saying that, I want my own tongue, what is the reason? Wouldn't it have caused people to lose the business of the Lu Mansion?

Yuan didn't know about the petty lawsuit in his stomach, and he raised the matter of letting him live in the east wing in the future.