After finishing the opening remarks, Mrs. Zhang began to read the names of the maids and servants in three or five together, explaining that all their personal things could be taken away by themselves, and they also divided the clothes and fabrics, and foreign yuan copper yuan. There were too many things, and they couldn't hold them themselves, so Mrs. Zhang asked the people on her side to help them carry them out.

Most of the maids and servants kowtowed and thanked them for their things and left, and a few clever and slick cursers swore that they would stay and serve the wife and the eldest girl.

Mrs. Zhang didn't speak, but the housekeepers and ladies around her persuaded one after another:

"Eldest sister, get up quickly, eldest sister, let's go out, the eldest girl has us to serve there, if the eldest sister is not at ease, she can come over and see it in the future."

These clever servants had to kowtow a few more times and go out with a lot of things. Each of them had three or five people who carried them out on their shoulders, and although they were very enthusiastic about helping, they were not allowed to go around in private, and it seemed that there was a certain sense of supervision in them.

The maids and servants sent them away, the famous aunts came up and kowtowed one by one, and each of them had more than ten times more things, the old lady seemed ruthless, and sent them away with a wave of his hand, in fact, the things given were enough for them to have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime, and the aunts all knew their own family affairs, and knew that they couldn't get close to the old lady, so they all kowtowed quietly and silently.

In the end, there was only one Aunt Li left, this was the most decent one in the old lady's room, and she received the most things.

Since yesterday, I have passed out several times in a row, and at this time I was helped out, and my face was haggard, as if I was several years old.

Aunt Li was about to kneel, and Mrs. Zhang asked her to move a stool for her to sit on.

Aunt Li naturally didn't know how to sit, so she knelt on the ground in the courtyard, dressed in a white filial piety dress, lonely, as if she had lost a whole circle of weight than yesterday.

Mrs. Zhang showed her the deed and the things that had been given to her.

Aunt Li begged bitterly, she didn't want these things, she just begged to stay in the Zhang family in the future, to give the gods and Buddhas who were offered to the old lady, and the old lady's tablet to be incense.

Mrs. Zhang naturally disagreed, Aunt Li was the one who served the old lady and the old lady, and it was not easy for them to keep it, but Zhang Meixi saw that this Aunt Li looked happy and easy-going, and she was very capable. A few more questions.

It turned out that this Aunt Li was originally from a scholarly family and knew how to read, but she was robbed by Xiangma more than ten years ago, she and her family escaped, and encountered a great famine, and was sold by her family at the price of twenty catties of cornmeal.

Aunt Li was frightened, thinking that outside Zhang's house was a cannibalistic world, even if she took that large sum of money, she couldn't keep it if she went out.

Peach and Apricot covered her mouth when she heard Aunt Li's words, and she was also frightened, and Mrs. Zhang and the eldest girl Zhang Meixi both had unchanged faces.

Mrs. Zhang is also in her thirties, she is a well-informed housewife, Zhang Meixi is well-read, and has a careful liver of vicissitudes.

Because this Aunt Li is usually a little thin in Zhang's house, and now she looks pitiful, so Mrs. Zhang can't refuse her immediately, but just ordered someone to take her back to the room to rest first.

I also took my daughter back to the main room to rest, and in the old lady's yard, there were naturally housekeepers and ladies to deal with it.

In the Honghu courtyard of the main house of the Zhang family, the furniture is a full set of European-style layout.

Uncle Zhang and Mrs. Zhang sat opposite each other, sipping the bitter coffee produced in Europe with a calm face, Mrs. Zhang drank it for most of the day, and the soy sauce-colored coffee in the cup was not less, pulled out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth, and said:

"Aunt Li usually looks at doing things very properly, and the service is also thoughtful, I still think that the old lady is gone, and she can be in the old lady's room, who knew that the old lady suddenly came out like this, and everyone let them go, and the things were divided."

Uncle Zhang's interface:

"The old lady moved to the back alley of the cow and horse house in the front yard, and gave it a name called the nursing home, all these years for the sake of Dingkou's affairs, the old lady has not taken any concubines, and now the old lady has gone, he has let it go, this is completely discouraged."

Mrs. Zhang originally said it casually, but she didn't expect to pull out the heaviest topic of the Zhang family, and quickly changed her words and said:

"This Aunt Li, let her stay, put incense on the old lady's tablet, and take care of the gods and Buddhas that the old lady used to worship, and the degree is still according to the past. I don't know if the old lady will be angry if he finds out. ”

"It's if you don't want to trouble the old lady, he doesn't have anything to do, you can look at it, don't talk about the old lady, the Zhang family is like this, I see those aunts, their legs are a little sore."

Uncle Zhang made a joke, which was out of place, but it was from the heart.

Mrs. Zhang hurriedly smiled:

"Uncle, you're still young."

Uncle Zhang took a sip of bitter coffee and closed his eyes silently.

Since then, Aunt Li has been worshipping the Buddha and burning incense, behaving and talking, really like she has gained some kind of Taoism, so that the servants below are extremely admired, she used to serve by the old lady's side, how to look like a beautiful aunt with eight faces, and now how to look like a monk who does not ask about the world.

Zhang Meixi, the eldest girl of the Zhang family, is ten years old this year, and her father, Uncle Zhang, in addition to Mrs. Zhang, also accepted ten beautiful concubines, because Uncle Zhang really doesn't love women, so these aunts are also hollowing out their minds to find a way out, and there are a few who really have no confidence in themselves.

Because Mrs. Zhang is very fond of foreign goods, Uncle Zhang's aunts also have some knowledge, they went to Songfeng Courtyard, and finally pointed out the correct ceremony of visiting Our Lady to Aunt Li.

As for the dismissed aunts, the money around them is very rich, and they are all hot goods in the marriage market outside, and now it is a new era of the Republic of China. For a time, there were dozens of happy marriages in nearby counties and townships.

Although the funeral of the old lady of the Zhang family is hurried and simple in the eyes of his own people, in the eyes of outsiders, it is already decent and generous enough, so there is nothing to talk about.

As the only heir of the third generation of the Zhang family, who initially planned to give birth and recruit a son-in-law in the future, plus the fact that the eldest girl had spoken out in housework for the first time in so many years, the old lady thought that her granddaughter was still a little insightful.

This Meixi's day became nervous.

The night before, a girl came to pass the word, asking the eldest girl to go to the big study to read early the next morning, Zhang Meixi has now completely inherited the memory of the original owner. I flipped through and prepared for most of the night.

Knowing that he was enlightened at the age of five, he has already read several enlightenment books with the surname of a hundred families in the three-character classic, and he has also learned some famous poems and songs, because it is now the Republic of China, and he has not learned any women to tame, let alone four books and five classics. My father personally taught some historical records and the like, and invited Mr. Kong from the county primary school to come and teach some calligraphy and musical instruments.