Chapter 28 Hou Gongzi's thief heart is not dead, and Mrs. Wang's clever plan is a lesson

The poem says: Lustful gall commits adultery, and the good house meets a thief,

Merry Tai Sui is romantic, and Mrs. Zhang boldly seduces.

It is said that the merry Tai Sui Monkey Kui touched a gray nose at Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Wang, and walked away.

Mrs. Liu gathered the servants of the East and West Courtyards together, especially emphasizing the family rules and family motto, requiring all cadres to be careful and rigorous. When you do things in other people's homes, you follow the rules and do good deeds. To do things in your family, you must add one more thing, that is, you must be a good person, a virtuous person, a person with self-respect, self-love and self-respect. Because your two mothers are young widows, not only must you not stir up trouble, gossip, or pick faults, but you must be cautious in your words and deeds, and you must not gossip a little. As the saying goes, there are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door. To avoid right and wrong, you family members, miscellaneous servants, maids, and mothers-in-law must all be loyal to their duties, control their mouths, don't talk nonsense in the parents, and be careful that the walls have ears.

And add a rule, the east and west courtyards do not accept adult men, especially young little white faces, there is no reason, only rules. The handymen, the youngest must not be more than 13 years old, and the old must be over 60 years old before they can enter the hospital and stay here to do their work. When the family is 13 years old, they are all put outside.

Why did Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Wang add such a rule? Just because the two people were born as palace maids, and there were 3,000 fans in the palace, there were rights and wrongs everywhere, and gossip everywhere, and in the palace, because there were too many people to control it, so they caused many scandals in the inner courtyard of the palace, and they had personally experienced them. Now, if you can't control this little thing in the East and West Courts, let alone say anything ugly, even if there are some gossips, it can completely ruin the reputation of the two of them. Therefore, it is necessary to control these people and these mouths to ensure that the east and west courtyards are safe and sound.

The servants of the two ladies are the same, and in each courtyard, there is a small servant, a handyman, two mothers-in-law, and two maids. These people have been carefully selected by the old butler cow and are very loyal to their masters, so there should be no big deal. After the two ladies had spoken, every servant was doubly careful.

Although these people have been carefully selected by Niu and the old housekeeper, over time, people's hearts are not static. In the process of getting along with the master and the servants, the psychology of these servants also gradually changes, for example, the little servant grows up year by year, and the miscellaneous servant gets old year by year, in fact, these are natural phenomena, there is no fuss. But the biggest change is these maids. The maids are growing up slowly, they are all young girls, their bodies are gradually convex and backward, and they are psychologically emotional, in the words of now, they are in adolescence, not only with changes in appearance, physiological changes, but also psychological changes. The two grandmothers were both palace maids, and each had only one son, so they were very good to the maids and treated them as their own daughters. Therefore, they have a very close relationship with the two ladies, not only are they inseparable every day, but the two ladies will also help them deal with physical matters, chat with them often, and solve psychological problems. As the saying goes, women don't stay, and these maids have to be replaced every three to five years. From their home, take them home, go to their mother-in-law to marry, and the two ladies are very generous, each maid when married, have prepared a rich dowry, not only sent away, has gone maids, but also let the new maids, see hope, full of gratitude. So these maids have never had any problems, just because the two masters gave them things, wanted to be in front, and arranged in front. Nothing has gone wrong in more than a decade.

In fact, the most difficult to manage are those mothers-in-law. These people are all people who have already started a family and have children, and they are forced to come out to be mothers for others in order to live. These people, although they are also women, but because they are illiterate, they are firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea every day, revolving around the pot, revolving around the children, and obeying their husbands. These people who were sold to large families to become old mothers were extremely difficult at home, otherwise it would be impossible to leave their children and husbands behind. The two mothers-in-law recruited by Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Wang are not locals, but old housekeepers, and Niu He bought them from Baoding Mansion. These women are generally in their thirties and forties, and they are very skilled in housework and have a good hand and feet. But there is an objective factor, that is, these people have lived in life, and have lived with their husbands and children for more than ten years, and they have been sold to be old mothers, and once they run away, they will be a year, two or three years, in fact, they are widows. Among these women, the vast majority of them are bound by the three obedience and four virtues, and they will do things very well, but there are also individual black sheep.

Mrs. Qian in Mrs. Wang's courtyard is such a person. Mrs. Qian is in Mrs. Wang's courtyard and is responsible for shopping and cooking. The actual age of this Qian woman is thirty-one or twelve years old, and the charm of a half-aged still exists.

Mrs. Qian is a native of Dingxing County, Baoding Prefecture, and was sold here as an old mother a year ago. This Qian mother-in-law's experience is actually very bitter, she married her husband Qian Hemp at the age of 13, and gave birth to 5 children to him in a row. This former hemp seed is a lazy farmer in the countryside, and everything in the family depends on Mrs. Qian herself. It's easy to get some food and drink, and you still need to hide it for the child to eat, and it's easy to have a little harvest or a little money, you have to hide it, and you can't let the money and hemp find it, otherwise it will all become his gambling money. For his 5 children, to be able to eat and clothe himself, let the eldest child, that is, his eldest daughter Qian Xiu, take care of his younger brothers and sisters, sell himself, and come to the Li family as an old mother.

When she came to Li's house, she was equivalent to entering heaven, first of all, she was not angry with Qian Hezi, and she didn't have to be beaten and scolded by him at every turn. Therefore, he respects and appreciates the two wives of the Li family very much, because the money she earns here for a year is enough for her five children to eat and clothe warmly. This middle-aged woman is just in her early 30s, and some people say that she is thirty like a wolf and forty like a tiger, and she is at the age of a wolf and a tiger. Because she is in charge of purchasing, she often deals with Mr. Bookkeeper, and she gets acquainted with Hou Gongzi after coming and going. At first, it was flirting and scolding, and then it was Lang Youqing, the concubine was intentional, and the secret song was just hiding from the master. Mrs. Qian, as soon as she saw Hou Gongzi like this, the young and prodigal son, she had already left Mrs. Liu's advice behind. The two of them seized every opportunity, hid from everyone, and did those dirty things.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, as the old saying goes, people should not know, unless they do nothing, some gossip slowly spread to Mrs. Wang's ears.

Wang Chunhua is a shrewd person, because there is no real evidence, and there is no way to punish him, so he sent his maid and wife to keep an eye on him. One day they heard that the two of them had made an appointment and had a date in the firewood room late at night. Mrs. Wang didn't want to make a big deal out of it, so she secretly instructed the two maids to prepare a few buckets of cold water, and took action after finding out that Hou Gongzi was coming.

That night, it was the second and third days of the new year, a semi-cloudy day, there were no stars and moons, and I couldn't see my fingers. Just after the third watch, the two maids heard the movement, and after a closer look, it was Mrs. Qian, who secretly walked to the firewood room, and they quietly followed. Waiting for the two figures, they secretly hid in the firewood room, and the two maids didn't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, and poured the prepared buckets of cold water into the firewood room.

At this time, the two of them had just entered the open room, and these buckets of cold water happened to be poured on them, splashing the two of them into soup chickens. This is already the solar term of frost, and the temperature at night is already below zero, and these cold water splashed and made the two of them shiver, turning the original enthusiasm for stealing incense and jade into nothing, and turned into an embarrassed escape. The two maids, seeing all this, were secretly happy, and then went back to Madame Wang.

Exactly: a dark night, a pair of dog men and women,

A bucket of cold water, a schemer.

Mrs. Wang used clever tricks to punish this pair of adulterers and adulteresses, which aroused the resentment of the merry Tai Sui Hou Kui.