The floor-to-ceiling Western chiming bell, decorated with a white ribbon for the funeral, rang a few times.

Little Peach, the little girl who had not yet honked the bell, stretched her neck to look at the crickets on the clock face, and then turned to tidy up the big girl's Western duck egg-shaped bed with a veil.

Mrs. Zhang loves fresh Western goods, and the eldest girl's room is decorated according to the habits of Western princesses.

The deputy lady in the princess's room, the little girl who is the most favored by the eldest girl, is a little worried.

The eldest girl refused to wear shoes inlaid with pearls, nor did she wear flowers inlaid with pearls, and even her loosely tied hair was only allowed to use two white head ropes, and no more than one was allowed.

"What's the matter, what kind of look does the big girl look like this with her head so plain."

The big girl's current dress has exceeded the cognition of the little girl's peach, which has made her thinking fall into a dead loop, how can a woman not wear a headdress, the ladies are always full of pearls, even if it is a tenant's mother-in-law, a few hairpins must be inserted on the head.

Peaches reached out and touched her head, as the most favored personal girl by the big girl, she also wore four beaded flowers on her head.

But as the most favored personal girl by the big girl, Little Peach knows how much the big girl is loved, so she has to dress up according to her instructions.

In Honghu Courtyard, Mrs. Zhang, who was sitting in the main room, took her hand as soon as she saw Zhang Meixi, and shouted:

"Why are you so plain? What does it look like? ”

"How do you take care of the big girl?"

Mrs. Zhang said a total of two sentences, the first sentence was said to her daughter, and her tone was like a warm spring sun. The latter sentence said to the girls, the momentum was like a cold winter wind.

The little girls Peach and Apricot who followed Zhang Meixi, the two little girls completely lost their usual cleverness, and were swept away by Mrs. Zhang's eyes, and knelt down with a poof, which made Zhang Meixi embarrassed, and quickly asked Peach and Apricot to get up and explain to Mrs. Zhang:

"I made them comb their hair like this, I don't think it's tiring to wear flowers."

Hearing her own girl say this, Mrs. Zhang immediately felt distressed:

"Yes, your child's house, the scalp is tender, the heavy is tired and panicked, and the little girls are also hairy, so I should find you a special combing lady."

"No, I'll be fine like this in the future."

Mrs. Zhang felt sorry for her eldest girl and was reluctant to ask her for rules.

While thinking that it is now the Republic of China, there are many fashionable women on the month card, and there are also those female students who cut their hair short.

But in the old house of the Zhang family, if it doesn't work, it is better to send a telegram to the housekeeper in Shanghai, asking them to send a few more hats with fresh Western patterns, and it is also suitable to wear them on their heads.

At this time, the lady in charge came to pass the word, and the old lady said that she was in good spirits today, so let the wife and the eldest girl go over to talk.

Zhang Meixi followed Mrs. Zhang to the Songfeng Courtyard where the old lady lived, and she had long known the style of this old Zhang family, everything had to be piled up into a mountain, and she was still shocked by the hundreds of boxes of all sizes piled up in the old lady's yard.

Mrs. Zhang smiled and looked at her daughter-in-law's eldest granddaughter to salute and greet her, waved her hand and beckoned her granddaughter over, pointed out a box to her, and asked her to open it herself.

The box was very easy to open, probably a long time ago, but it was just covered with a shh

At this time, the old lady spoke:

"Looking for you here, there are two things, the first is the old lady's jewelry, let the eldest girl take it, this is also what the old lady meant.

The second thing, now that it is the Republic of China, they all pay attention to the new fashion, the old lady's household goods and clothes, you must not like to wear or use, just share them with my aunts and girls, now I am also old, I don't need so many people to serve, things are divided, just send them out. ”

After the old lady said this, the first person to be frightened was Aunt Li, her eyes were dark, her legs were weak, and she fell straight down.

There were a bunch of more than a dozen old lady's aunts in the back, and they also fell to their knees.

The old lady calmly commanded a servant woman to see Aunt Li, entrusted the affairs of Songfeng Courtyard to Mrs. Zhang's mother and daughter, and then calmly walked out with her hands behind her back, her body was thin, and her clothes were fluttering, and she lived in the front yard that day, and never came back to this courtyard.

Zhang Meixi took a large box of jewelry from the old lady back to her daughter's house, and sorted out the registration one by one.

The old lady's jewelry is very distinctive, the shape is very old, but the things are very new, it looks like they have not been used, one of the eight-pound phoenix crowns is composed of hundreds of lifelike gold phoenixes; There is also a string of 24 jade bracelets with turquoise translucent, which at first glance are unused, and it is really hard to imagine who would carry a dozen bracelets on each arm.

She didn't know that this bracelet contained a secret wish of the old lady, even if the family was not prosperous, how good it would be to have twelve granddaughters and share them among them.

The clever little girl Peach began to figure it out again, to say that the big girl likes these jewelry, she refuses to wear any of them, if you want to say that she doesn't like it, she looks at it very carefully.

If you want to say that the big girl likes it, look at her calm little face, caged cigarette eyebrows, there is no meaning of liking, if you want to say that she doesn't like it, this box of jewelry has been tossed back and forth for a day.

The little girl Peach can't think clearly, because Zhang Meixi herself can't tell what mood she is, gold, silver, pearls and jade, everyone loves her, and she is no exception.

The big welfare package is in hand, and this box is enough for her life, but can she keep it? Warlords scuffle, ringing horse bandits, buried in the ground and returned to the state, although the same wife is false propaganda, but other horrors are truly verified.

The landlord and the old rich man are the first targets of these people, big fat meat.

The only way out to survive is to go to sea across the Pacific Ocean and bend down to work hard as a second-class citizen.

Zhang Meixi sighed, full of helplessness about the gloomy future.

After sorting out the old lady's jewelry, she sorted out the property of her daughter's house.

The residence of several generations of single eldest girls of this rural rich landowner, the name is simple and straightforward, and it is a golden residence.

The furnishings are all the most popular Western styles, crystal lights, furniture, sofas, large glass mirrors, monthly pictures, and even a record player that can sing Peking Opera.

These things can be regarded as antiques in the future, although the technical content is not high, but the workmanship is high-quality, this taste, it does not seem to be an ordinary rural landlord's house.

In the end, Zhang Meixi made a decision, since God made her a member of the Zhang family, she always had to plan for the Zhang family, and Mrs. Zhang gave her these things easily, and Mrs. Zhang didn't say anything and let her deal with it at will. This proves that these things only account for a small part of the Zhang family's property.

I don't know what Mrs. Zhang's plans are for the future, such a big landlord always has some plans.

The parents of the Zhang family love her very much, and the most important one is Mrs. Zhang's pain, which is completely unprincipled and temperless.

This time, Mrs. Zhang instructed the stewards to let the eldest girl read the account book and listen to the eldest girl's arrangement. In fact, after so many days, Zhang Meixi only put forward a few opinions, and Mrs. Zhang is still responsible for everything.

After Zhang Meixi packed up her things, she got up to find Mrs. Zhang, and followed a bunch of girls and housekeepers behind her.

Mrs. Zhang is still dealing with the old lady's things in Songfeng Courtyard, of course, she is mainly the one who deals with the old lady.

There are more than a dozen famous concubines and more than 20 servants in Mrs. Zhang's backyard.

Mrs. Zhang did not enter the main room, but sat on a large chair in the courtyard, set up a large table, and piled up a few stacks of account books and deeds on the table, drinking tea while talking leisurely.

"Now it's the Republic of China, the new era, stressing democracy and people's livelihood, signing a deed of sale for the new government is not recognized. Our Zhang family won't be stuck, and you don't have to worry, wait for the name to be read, and I'll burn it all. ”

After saying that, he asked people to set up a charcoal brazier far away from him.