Originally, Mrs. Tai wanted to hand over the power of the housekeeper to the fifth wife, and she didn't want the fifth lady to be demoted because of the fifth master, but then she quietly inquired, and she knew that she was being manipulated by the big house by taking advantage of the power of the left minister. One hates the big house in his heart, and the other is afraid of the power of the left minister, and when he hears that the young grandmother wants to take care of the house, where do he dare to fight with her. I also inquired that in the past two years, the government has received less income and more output, and I am afraid that there is not much money in the account, so I am even more reluctant to take this hot potato.

When Mrs. Tai asked about her, she found an excuse to excuse herself, and Mrs. Tai vaguely understood in her heart that she only hated that the big house had climbed close to Zuo Xiang's side, even if she was reluctant, she had to give the right of the housekeeper to Sun Xiluan, the eldest grandmother.

As soon as this grandmother Jun got the right to be a housekeeper, it was really full of spring breeze and triumphant, and she immediately took office as a new official with three fires, and implemented her new policy in Uncle Anyuan's mansion in a big way. The first thing was to invite a female gentleman to several girls in the house to teach women the six arts.

In the words of Grandma Jun, "Now the first-class lady in Beijing, which one has not invited a female gentleman to teach this woman the six arts!" My sisters should learn some talents, and when my aunt holds a peach blossom banquet next year, I will take you out, so that you can show your face in front of all the ladies and ladies, and you can't say which lady has taken a fancy to you, and you can still say that you are a good family! ”

The second thing is to add four maids to each young lady, saying that the maids of the girls before were too few, and they were afraid that they would lose face in the uncle's mansion if they said it.

It's just that these two preferential treatment for the girls are not the share of the three cousins who live in the Qiutang Courtyard, and no one invited them to the new women's classes in the Bofu, and the maids did not add to them, saying that there are only a few rooms in the Qiutang Courtyard, and if there are more people, there is not even a place to live. Although they didn't add any more people, they replaced the two little girls who were originally assigned to Cai Wei, Niu Er and Buckle, with two other girls, one called Shen'er and the other Huan'er.

She was already under the fence, and these two girls were originally assigned to her by the Bofu, so Cai Wei couldn't say anything, so she gave Niu'er and Kou'er a penny each, and gave them several clothes, which can be regarded as a master and servant. Although the newcomers Shen'er and Huan'er look honest, Cai Wei still quietly asked the four maids she brought to pay more attention to the two of them in private, and everyone should be cautious in their words and deeds in the future, so as not to be framed or caught by the four rooms.

Xu is Zhao Yifei is busy recuperating her face, hiding in the house all day long and not going out, and she has no time to trouble them, so Cai Wei will have a fairly stable life in the next month. Although the two newcomers looked a little uneasy, and occasionally looked around when they entered Cai Wei's house, they didn't make any trouble because everyone watched closely.

As for not being able to learn the six arts of the woman, Cai Wei didn't care about it at all, she had enough of the things her father taught her, so she didn't want to be vassal. But although she didn't care, there were people in the Qiutang Courtyard who cared.

When she went to greet Aunt Zhao on this day, because breakfast was two quarters of an hour late, Aunt Zhao complained to her: "Even though you are not a serious lady in this uncle's mansion, but in the end, you are also the grandson of the old lady and the niece of the uncle, so you don't give you face, and you have no face for yourself." Whoever is a wealthy family treats their relatives like this, they are all close relatives, and they even divide them into three, six, nine and so on, so they treat us like this! ”

As he was talking, the maid finally came up with breakfast and put it on the table one by one. When Aunt Zhao saw the simple two kinds of noodles and gruel on the table, her heart became more and more angry.

There is only one large kitchen in Anyuanbo's mansion, and there is no courtyard with a separate small kitchen, and the meals in each courtyard are picked up by the people in each courtyard.

Cai Wei remembers that when she first moved to this Qiutang Courtyard, there were at least four kinds of noodles for breakfast every day, and there were also four kinds of side dishes, including meat and vegetarian, and two kinds of porridge and rice were delivered every day, and they were not the same within five days.

But in the past two or three months, the meals distributed to them in Qiutang Courtyard have become more and more streamlined, and now the breakfast they have brought back is only two small dishes in addition to steamed buns and flower rolls, and the side dishes for the next meal are only two small plates, and they are all vegetarian dishes. As for the porridge, they have been drinking white porridge for a month, and it is still boiled with japonica rice, and the red date longan porridge and eight-treasure red bean porridge they used to drink before have not been seen for a long time.

Lunch and dinner were not much better, not only were they not as rich as before, but they were much worse in taste, and they were always late, either a quarter of an hour or a quarter of an hour in the evening. I don't know if someone deliberately sent a message to treat them coldly, or if the people below saw that the newly appointed Grandma Jun didn't take these poor relatives seriously, they followed the face of the boss and perfunctory to them.

Aunt Zhao was angry in her heart, how much could she still hold back, but she had a gloomy face, her daughter Wu Wanke couldn't do such a cultivation effort, so she directly threw away the ebony chopsticks, pouted and refused to eat.

Wu Juan timidly glanced at her mother-in-law with a calm face, then at her sister-in-law who lost her temper, and finally looked at Cai Wei at a loss.

Cai Wei also sighed in her heart, although eating these things every day is a little greasy, but under the eaves, if you are really angry and don't eat, you will not be hungry in the end. Although the taste was unpalatable, when she first entered the Uncle's Mansion, she also felt that the dishes in the Mansion were too unpalatable to her taste, and they were unpalatable, and she didn't eat them obediently later.

She was thinking about how to persuade her aunt and cousin to move the two chopsticks first, otherwise she and Wu Juan would not be able to move! I saw a mother-in-law followed by a few maids, holding large bags and small bags in their hands to deliver things to them.

Cai Wei heard her two little maids talk about this Fei mother-in-law, who was originally a mother-in-law who did chores in the four-room courtyard, because she would please Aunt Liu, and now she can be regarded as a chicken dog ascending to heaven, and she was assigned a job of sewing clothes in the house all year round.

Mrs. Fei walked in, wearing a newly made dark green silk long jacket with a blue cloud satin skirt tied underneath, meaning that she was blessed with a blessed body, so she straightened up and said with a smile: "Say hello to Mrs. Gu, seeing that April is coming, this is the summer dress of Mrs. Gu and the ladies in the next season." Still according to the example of previous years, Mrs. Gu has six sets of clothes, shoes and socks, and Mrs. Cousin has four sets. After speaking, he asked the little girl in the back to put the clothes and baggage she was holding on the side of the table.

The second aunt sneered as she approached to look at the newly made clothes: "If it were as usual in previous years, this summer dress should have been delivered ten days ago, don't you want to be so late this year?" ”

Fei Pozi said with a dry smile: "Because there are some people on the needlework this year, the eldest grandmother said that the materials we chose in previous years were not good, and ordered us to change a few good silk shops to pick and sell this year. If Mrs. Gu has nothing to do, the old slave will retire first. ”

Aunt Zhao was carefully looking at the clothes that were being sent, and ignored her for a while. Seeing this, Fei Pozi squatted down again, and wanted to turn around and leave.

As soon as she took two steps, she heard Aunt Zhao say angrily: "You come back for me, will I let you go?" ”

Mrs. Fei had to stand still, and said reluctantly: "I don't know what Mrs. Gu has to say, the old slave has to send clothes elsewhere!" ”

"Elsewhere? Are you looking at me I don't know? You have sent all the clothes in the courtyard elsewhere in this house, and finally remembered my Qiutang Courtyard, where else do you want to send clothes? Aunt Zhao said as she threw a piece of clothing in front of her.

"What did you say just now, saying that the grandmother dislikes the bad patterns of the clothes in previous years, and asks you to pick and buy the good silk and satin shops that you have re-selected. This is the good material and good tricks that you have selected thousands of times? Let's not say how many years ago this pattern was fashionable, I don't know how long this material has been stored in the warehouse, and you can use such old materials to make clothes for us? These days, Aunt Zhao has a belly of dark energy in her heart, and she has no heart to use breakfast, and when she sees these clothes made of old goods, she suddenly looks like she has lit a fire letter, and she can't bear it anymore, so she took advantage of this incident to start an attack immediately.

"I just don't know how many wives in your house, as well as your grandmother, use such materials to make clothes, or is it just me in Qiutang Courtyard? I'm going to ask Jun's daughter-in-law today, she is now a housekeeper, but she didn't know that there were treacherous villains like you under her hands, and the good materials distributed in the house were secretly swallowed by you slaves, and they used such old materials to treat their relatives slowly? ”

This question made Mrs. Fei's face turn red, and she muttered: "I advise Mrs. Gu to save trouble!" What kind of person is grandma? is the most smart and capable, but those of us who have some tricks in our hearts will never dare to make ghosts in front of the grandmother. I'll tell Mrs. Gu the truth today, if there is no above meaning, how dare we snub our relatives like this. Besides, we didn't mean to do so, but because of the disaster last year, the harvest of the grange everywhere was not good, and the income of several shops in the house was not as good as in previous years. ”

Aunt Zhao asked her, "Since you say that you want to be thrifty, then why don't you see other places in your house also be thrifty, the wives and ladies in your house are all in the best silk shop in the capital 'Su Kum Kee', I heard that there are ten taels of silver in it." It is also for the ladies to invite the female gentlemen to add maids, and there has been a lot of trouble in the house in the past few days, saying that it is going to hold the 20th birthday of Jun's daughter-in-law, and to hold a banquet for three days in a row, is it so frugal? ”

Mrs. Fei pouted, "Mrs. Gu, you just said that you are just a guest relative in this mansion, although you are more noble than us, but you can't compare with the wives in this mansion." The wives are all going out to meet guests, and they can't go out to visit relatives and friends in old clothes, isn't that a joke for people, and it also loses the face of the uncle's house. The implication of this is that Aunt Zhao is not a door on weekdays, so it doesn't hurt to dress in tatters.

Without waiting for Aunt Zhao to say anything, Mrs. Fei said again: "The ten taels of silver are peony brocade, which was bought for the eldest grandmother's birthday clothes, and it was not used in public money, but was bought by the eldest grandmother's own silver." It was the birthday banquet, not only to celebrate the grandmother's birthday, but also because of the addition of a martial arts test to the saint this year, our eldest young master won the championship in one fell swoop and won the martial arts champion, so the two happy events were combined to do it. And all the expenses are paid by the grandmother out of her own pocket, so she can't afford a copper plate in the house. ”

Mrs. Fei looked at Aunt Zhao's face at this time, and couldn't help but become more and more proud, "Who let our young grandmother bring so much dowry when she marries!" 10,000 pressed boxes of silver, not to mention all kinds of jewelry, just talk about the few shops that came to marry, all of them are on the streets with excellent locations, and there are 20,000 taels of silver every year. If Mrs. Gu thinks that these clothes are not good, why don't you make another one? I also have a family and a business, and I have lived in our house for so many years, but I don't like to have bad clothes? ”

Aunt Zhao almost died of anger when she said these words, her hands covered her chest, her face turned red, and she didn't know how to answer, when she suddenly heard a voice outside the door shouting: "Okay, you bold minion, how dare you be rude to Mrs. Gu like this?" ”