After a while, Hexiang led a few maids and brought food. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Yulu took someone out to pick it up, and set up a meal in the left ear room. When the food came out of the lunch box, it was still steaming, and it was obvious that it was ready and delivered directly. Mrs. Xu has already responded, and the "Qingzhu Garden" will take care of her own expenses in the future, and the Lin family has transformed into a hospitable hostess.

The Xu family has three masters, Mrs. Xu, Xu Wanzhen, and Xu Wenyu, and Mrs. Xu has always eaten lightly at night and has a small amount of food. Xu Wanzhen had just woken up from sleep, feeling that her lunch had not been digested and she had not eaten much. Xu Wenyu is a child again, how much can he eat?

A table full of sumptuous dishes, with only a few of them, ended the dinner. Old Madam Xu instructed Yulu and said, "Withdraw them all, you can take these dishes and divide them." ”

The daily diet of the big girl is not much worse than that of the master. But for the rough envoys at the bottom, they can eat these dishes several times a year. They all had a full meal.

Xu Wanzhen helped Mrs. Xu in the courtyard, taking a walk to eat. Sorting out the thoughts in her mind, she said slowly: "Grandmother, I have arranged for a stop in life. After a little calculation, I found that there was still a shortage of manpower. ”

Old Madam Xu patted her hand and motioned for her to continue.

"Now that we have settled down and plan to live for a long time, we have to say that we are fully equipped in terms of manpower, but we can't be too short. Yu'er, I dialed a rough mother-in-law over, but at least two little maids were missing. Grandmother here, there are four little maids. After a pause, he didn't shy away from mentioning himself, and said: "Granddaughter, only one Sangzi is not enough, there is still a big girl and two little girls." ”

She is compared to the Xu family's manpower in Suzhou, although it is not as good as the Beijing family. For example, Fang said that in the Tu family, the Lin family, as the old lady in charge, has four first-class maids. Tu Bowen's wife, Li, is two first-class maids and four second-class maids. But after all, the Tu family is only a temporary residence, and the place is limited, so there are enough people.

"Hmm. Old Madam Xu nodded: "The rank of the maid is also the same as that of the Tu family." In the future, the big girl will be a first-class maid, and the little maid will be a second-class maid. Yu'er is still young, but Mother Liu can't have the final say in the room, the little maid can't do it, she needs to be matched with another first-class maid, and she must be able to handle things. ”

"That's a total of two first-class maids and eight second-class maids. Grandmother, look, are you choosing from the Tu family's children?"

"You can let it go, pick half of it in Tu's house, and let people bring people to pick it. "Old Mrs. Xu thinks about it like this, not only can she take care of the Tu family's children, these servants of the world, which family doesn't have some children to find a job?

Xu Wanzhen responded softly.

Mrs. Xu said, "Zhen'er, I'm old. In the future, you will be in charge of the accounts in this courtyard, and if you don't understand anything, you can ask me again. "This is to delegate the power of the housekeeper to Xu Wanzhen.

Xu Wanzhen was surprised, "I'm still in charge of my grandmother, and I'll help from the side." There are many important things that need to be decided by my grandmother. ”

Old Madam Xu smiled lovingly: "That's exactly why I want to take charge of the house by Zhen'er while I'm here." When you can't make up your mind, I can help you with a little bit of detail. When filial piety is born, Zhen'er is going to discuss marriage, and if she marries her husband's family, her mother-in-law may not be easy to talk to. Only when you are really in charge of the house can you understand the doorway of many things. If you help from the side, you can't see it. ”

This is to prepare to take Xu Wanzhen with her and teach her the duties of a housekeeper as a housewife. For Xu Wanzhen, this is a wealth that can accompany her for the rest of her life. In the Gao Mang Dynasty, there were not many stages for women to perform. Whether it is a farmer's daughter or a daughter of a large family, whether she was carefully cared for and raised before she got married, or raised with coarse tea and light rice. Once a woman gets married, she has only one fate: a husband and children.

And in a high-ranking family, if you are the eldest daughter-in-law, there is still a place to show your strengths: to be in charge of the feed. But it is not an easy task to keep the mansion of a few hundred people in order. At that time, you will find that the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting you learned when you were a girl can't help, and even the female celebrity and cooking skills are just icing on the cake.

Even if she is not the eldest daughter-in-law, she must know all the things in the back house, and she will not make stupid mistakes and lose the favor of her husband. Therefore, when marrying a daughter-in-law, there is an unwritten rule that the first consideration is a young lady who is taught by her mother-in-law. Only by marrying can the house be stable and teach the children.

Mrs. Xu's good intentions, Xu Wanzhen can naturally understand. She now lacks her mother's teaching, but she is raised by Mrs. Xu, and with Mrs. Xu's reputation back then, she can make up for this shortcoming. Ying said: "Grandmother, don't worry, I will study hard." ”

It was getting dark, and the faint sound of reading from the outer courtyard was gradually becoming less and less common. The entire "Songxi Academy" gradually lit up with candles and slowly quieted down.

Wu Niangzi untied Mrs. Tu's bun, waited for him to rest, and talked to him: "Wanzhen is really a rare good girl as Mrs. Xu said in her letter. ”

Hearing this, Old Lady Tu showed a smug smile, as pure as a child, and said, "Where can the children taught by Qionghua be so bad?" twisted his beard and said, "But I still need to take a good test tomorrow." There is also Wen Yu, a child, who heard Qionghua say that he has completed enlightenment, let me see if he is reading material. ”

Wu Niangzi pursed her lips and smiled, and when she received the news that the Xu family was going to Beijing in the old year, Old Lady Tu's spirit has always been very good, and even her illness has been healed most of the time. When I finally saw the three ancestors and grandchildren of the Xu family, although I didn't show it on my face, I was extremely excited in my heart.

Wen Yan said: "In this case, the old lady has a good rest today. Tomorrow will have the spirit to test the great-grandson. ”

Wen Han was inside, Tu Bowen rubbed his forehead, he had already heard about what happened in the flower hall after lunch. The greed for money shown by his mother and his attitude towards the Xu family made him feel deeply powerless and had a splitting headache.

Li stepped forward, stretched out his plain hand, and gently helped him massage his head and temples to relieve his headache.

Tu Bowen leaned on Li's arms tiredly, and asked weakly: "You say, did I give up my career to do business, so that my mother could not value money?"

Li married him at the age of eighteen, and the two have always been husband and wife, and their relationship is deep. She has an elegant, gentle and considerate demeanor, and has been cared for by her husband for many years, her face is radiant, and she looks much younger than she actually is. If it weren't for the fact that after giving birth to two daughters, there would be no child, and under the compulsion of the Lin family, the eldest girl Pan Qing next to him would have opened her face and become Tu Bowen's roommate.

But Li is a smart person, and he never goes against his mother-in-law Lin, nor does he take Lin's accusations against her to heart. After Aunt Qing gave birth to her eldest son, Tu Bowen spent most of the time when she returned to the back house.

As a son, how can he be dissatisfied with his mother's behavior? If he shows it, he will be accused of unfilial piety. Today, the emperor governs the country with filial piety, and once the hat of "unfilial piety" is confirmed, there will be no future in his career. Tu Bowen can only complain to his wife.

When Li Shi heard this, he was taken aback and said, "Husband, you must not have such thoughts. It was only when my mother was poor when she was young that she cared so much about money. There is no intention of letting the husband resign and start business. ”

(To be continued.) )