Chapter 218 Who is difficult for whom

Mama Qiu's face turned red, she squinted at the jade button, her eyes swept over Li Xiaonuan, and when she saw Li Xiaonuan picking up the cup, she drank tea leisurely, she was stunned, and she smiled reluctantly and bent her knees to accompany the salute.

"I was negligent."

"It's not a big deal, grandma is old, and it's common sense to forget it after a while, what's the important thing, so that grandma threw away so many big things and waited all morning?"

Li Xiaonuan put down the cup, also smiled, and asked without being salty or light, Mama Qiu's face turned blue, why did this young lady speak so harshly? The gentleness in front of the princess in the past was not pretended?

"Back to the young lady, I'm just here to ask, where should the third lady sit at the family banquet in the evening?"

Li Xiaonuan stared at Mama Qiu for a long time, and asked slowly:

"Where did you sit in previous years?"

"Back to the young lady, the third lady has been sick in previous years and has not participated in the winter solstice family banquet."

"Well, if you follow the old routine in the house, where should you sit?"

Mama Qiu looked at Li Xiaonuan and replied hesitantly:

"Back to the young lady, the old rules in the house are not suitable, and the young lady also knows that there has been no concubine in the house for several lifetimes, this ......"

"You have been waiting for the princess since you were a child, you have been married with the princess, and you have been the chief steward for so many years, tell me and see, where is the appropriate arrangement?"

Li Xiaonuan looked at Mama Qiu and asked gently, Mama Qiu looked at Li Xiaonuan, opened her mouth, and didn't answer, no, Li Xiaonuan looked at her with a smile, and then said:

"The first day I came to this chamber, I asked Lan Chu to say the rules of this matter, everything is going on, you have to have the charter first and then ask for instructions, is it difficult for Mama to forget it? If you forget, Mama is old, it is inevitable, I don't care about Mama, Mama will retire first, come up with a charter, and then ask for instructions. ”

Mama Qiu's face was blue and red, and she was stunned with her hands, Li Xiaonuan looked at her with a smile in her eyes, turned her head and ordered the jade button,

"Go and ask the mother-in-law who is waiting outside, if there is anything, hurry back and forth."

The mother-in-law quickly glanced at Mama Qiu, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, saw Li Xiaonuan raised his finger, hurriedly got up, took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, and replied clearly:

"Back to the young lady, the slave maid is the steward of the oil candle warehouse Zhao Daqi's family, there are two things to report to the young lady, one is the lamps and candles and fireworks purchased by the comprador outside this year, all entered the warehouse yesterday, a total of four hundred and sixty-two boxes, the slave and the maid and Tian Mama together, one box has been checked, the others are good, only one hundred and fourteen boxes of barrels of flowers do not match the list, Tian Mama and the slave do not dare to be self-contained, please show the young lady, whether to return it, or keep it."

Zhao Daqi's family paused, looked up at Li Xiaonuan, Li Xiaonuan listened carefully to her words and asked:

"What's the law?"

"Mrs. Hui, the fireworks in the house, are all regulations, according to the rules must be from the Yanzhou Mansion Lu family, the Qian family, the Ning family, the Wan family to buy everywhere, which is divided into box flowers and fire, the box flowers in the thousand zhang chrysanthemum, pearl curtain, Changming Pagoda and other seven kinds are regulations, if the four have a new box flowers, and then buy separately, the fire is not limited to the variety, but there are also regular routines every year, among which the bucket flowers are used the most, this time and the list does not match, are all barrel flowers, the comprador said, this year Yanzhou Mansion four barrel flowers are not enough, he found another person to buy, The slave maid and Mama Tian looked carefully, and the flowers next to these buckets were fine, but the portion was insufficient. ”

Zhao Daqi's family said while paying attention to Li Xiaonuan, and when he saw her, he frowned slightly, and hurriedly explained:

"Young lady, that's the case, if it was the bucket flowers of the four families in Yanzhou Mansion in previous years, the fire tree silver flower at the beginning, only thirty-six bucket flowers were enough, and now this bucket of flowers, Mama Tian and the slave maid have carefully calculated, I am afraid that at least fifty will be enough."

Li Xiaonuan understood, looked at Zhao Daqi's family, and asked gently:

"Since there are rules in the house, fireworks must be purchased from the four houses in Yanzhou, and this comprador buys them separately, who in the government is allowed to do so? Have you ever asked Mama Tian? ”

"Mrs. Hui, I have asked, but the comprador said that the matter is urgent, and I am afraid that it will delay the New Year's use in the house, so it is too late to report."

Zhao Daqi's family looked at Li Xiaonuan carefully and replied, Li Xiaonuan squinted his eyes and laughed, looked at Zhao Daqi's family and said:

"Return the one hundred and fourteen boxes of buckets of flowers to the comprador, tell him that this is something to be used for the New Year, and half a cent can't be wrong, give him three days to think about going, if he can buy it, he will buy it according to the rules, if there is really no way, don't be embarrassed for him, just report it, and three days later, I will send someone to Yanzhou to buy it."

Zhao Daqi's face was full of smiles, and he agreed repeatedly, paused, and then said:

"This second thing, it's not urgent, but it's extremely important, yesterday the slave maid and Mama Tian checked the outer wall of the fireworks library together, near the back garden in the north, there are a few cracks on the wall, you can't see it if you don't look closely, but this crack ......"

Li Xiaonuan frowned, raised her hand to stop Zhao Daqi's explanation, she knew that the outer wall of this oil candle depot is actually a firewall, extremely high and thick, is to prevent the oil candle depot from going to the water in case of water, can block the fire from exploding, will not affect the neighbors, there are cracks in this wall, in case of water explosion, this wall is not strong, the role will be greatly reduced.

"When was this façade last repaired?"

"Mrs. Hui, it's the year before last, and I was a fan once last summer."

Zhao Daqi's family replied neatly, Li Xiaonuan nodded,

"This looks like it's going to enter the wax moon, the weather is cold and freezing, and then it's not suitable to move the ground, but now the fireworks are in the warehouse, this wall is not repaired, you go to find peace, just say my words, let him and the manager of the repair, and then find a few years of old masters, will you and Tian Mama, go to the oil candle warehouse to see the outer wall, this cracked place, first think of making up for it, the wall next to it, let people shovel the outside of the stucco, inch by inch carefully checked, if there are cracks, make up for it, and start repairing the wall tomorrow as soon as the spring begins."

Zhao Daqi's family respectfully agreed and retreated, Mama Qiu stood next to her, looking at Zhao Daqi's family with a slight daze, all the warehouses in the house are in charge of Mama Tian, what is Mama Tian doing? Ready to lean on the side of this young lady?

Li Xiaonuan glanced at Mama Qiu, who was stunned, and ignored her, only signaled Yukou to call the mother-in-law who was waiting outside to come in one by one, and they were all about it.

Mama Qiu was a little uncomfortable, looked at the vacancy, hurriedly took half a step forward, and said with a smile on her face:

"Young Lady ......"

"You wait a minute."

Li Xiaonuan didn't turn her head, she only raised her hand to stop Mama Qiu,

"When they're done, you can talk about it, these grandmothers have urgent matters on their hands."

Mama Qiu retracted her words embarrassedly, stepped back, and the mother-in-law who came in with the jade buckle quickly glanced at Mama Qiu, respectfully bent her knees to Li Xiaonuan, reported in detail, and retreated.

Li Xiaonuan breathed a sigh of relief, leaned back leisurely, took the tea served by the little girl, and while drinking it slowly, she lowered her eyes and asked:

"Mama has figured out the charter?"

"Back to the young lady."

Mama Qiu hurriedly took half a step forward, accompanied her and said carefully:

"The slave maid thought, the third lady is now the only unmarried lady in our house, and it makes sense to place it anywhere, after all, there is no comparison, the princess has always been sitting with several ancestors in the clan, and it must be inappropriate to arrange it on the princess's table, and there is no reason for this, the young lady has to wait for the princess, Zhang Luo has been doing this whole night, but I am afraid that there is no time to sit down, that seat is also fictitious, if you are with the young lady, the third lady will seem a little lonely, and it is not appropriate, the slave maid thought, or, Just put it in one place with a few young grandmothers in the second master's mansion, firstly, they are of the same generation, and it is easy to talk, and secondly, the third lady is a serious master in the house after all, and it is also good to entertain and entertain several young grandmothers in the second master's mansion for the princess and the young lady, the young lady looks, is this appropriate? ”

Li Xiaonuan nodded with satisfaction and praised gently:

"Mama is doing something for the elderly, and she thinks it is really right, I think this is very good, but this winter solstice family banquet is a big event, no matter how cautious everything is, you go and report it to the princess, see what the mother means, if the mother also thinks it is appropriate, then so be it."

Mama Qiu sighed for a long time, hurriedly bent her knees and agreed, and withdrew with her hands down.

Yukou watched Mama Qiu exit the house, pouted, and snorted dissatisfiedly, Li Xiaonuan tilted her head to look at her for a moment, then turned her head to look at Zhu Qing and ordered:

"This girl is getting more and more unbreathable, go back and let her copy the Heart Sutra fifty times, don't let her come in on an errand before she finishes copying"

Zhu Qing agreed with a smile on her face, and Yukou's face became a bitter ball, and she bent her knees to accuse her again and again.

"Young lady, I know it's wrong, I won't dare next time, but don't let me copy the scriptures and jade buckles the most afraid of writing, otherwise, punish me for washing clothes, punish me for washing my sisters' clothes every day, until the New Year"

Li Xiaonuan ignored her, only looked at Zhu Qing and asked:

"Found Kunhe?"

Zhu Qing stretched out his hand and pulled the jade buckle that kept bending his knees, and nodded with a smile,

"Waiting outside, let him in?"

Li Xiaonuan nodded, Zhu Qing lifted the curtain and went out to call someone, Li Xiaonuan turned his head to look at the jade buckle with a bitter face and said:

"The people around me, not only must be literate and transparent, but also have to cultivate a good temperament, go back to our yard, and joke with my sisters, I won't detain you, but outside, so impetuous, you have to cause trouble If you can't change it, I have to send you out."

Yukou became nervous, and hurriedly bent his knees respectfully and agreed:

"Young lady, don't send me out, I'll change it, the jade buckle must be changed, young lady rest assured"

"Young lady, Kunhe is here."

Zhu Qing came in to report, Yu Buckle hurriedly retreated to the side, standing with his hands down, Li Xiaonuan gestured, Zhu Qing turned around and lifted the curtain, Kunhe lowered his head and carefully entered the house

Today's second watch, alas, the law really can't be disrupted, the subscription of these two days is a miserable word

Two watches, cough, plucked up courage, and repeated the old tune: begging for fans, rewarding and rewarding