Chang Shi listened to Liu Wujia's words, nodded approvingly: "You think very thoughtfully, the girl is also the time to grow her body, so she wants to make a few more sets of plain clothes." After speaking, he turned his head and asked, "Mother Yan, how many new clothes do you make for the girl every season in your house on weekdays?" How many aunts are there? ”

Yan's mother replied: "The girls are four, and the aunts are two. ”

Chang pondered for a moment and said: "Now that it is different from the past, girls and aunts have to keep filial piety, and many of the clothes in the past are not suitable to wear, so they should make a few more." Let's do this, the girls do six, and the aunts do three. ”

Liu Wu's family responded, and went to Yan's mother to receive a pair of cards to withdraw the silver.

The other servants reported their work one by one, and there was nothing special to report.

Unconsciously, nearly two hours later, as soon as she was free, Hui Yu realized that she was a little hungry.

Chang Shi smiled and asked, "Sister Hui listened to the servants for the first time, but she felt tired?" ”

Hui Yu replied honestly: "I just listened to everyone talk about things, but I don't think so. After hearing this, I felt hungry and tired. ”

"You're good, you can still listen to it, when I first followed my mother to manage the feed, I sneaked to the ear room to eat a few refreshments halfway. I'll be about your age. Chang said, Xu remembered what happened when he was a child, and Chang's face was obviously warm.

When you start learning to manage the feed at about the same age as yourself, isn't it only eleven or twelve years old? learned to be a housekeeper at a young age, and it's really hard to be an official lady.

Chang Shi said again: "Sister Hui'er, can you remember these servants? They are all mothers in charge of various things in this house, and each of them leads two or three girls or mothers-in-law to work. When the clan discussed the resettlement of the four houses, these mothers were the first to say, and as for their maids-in-law, most of them were directly arranged. So you just have to keep an eye on these moms. ”

Hui Yu was very teachable.

Because he still had to go to the long room to discuss matters, Chang's mother left in a hurry.

Huiyu smiled and said to Yan's mother, "Mom, is there anything else?" If you have time, can you enjoy your face and have lunch at Baihuayuan? ”

Mother Yan blessed Huiyu and said, "Thank you for the girl's kindness." The old slave had to go to the account room to check the account again, so he didn't dare to nag the girl. ”

Hui Yu couldn't help but be a little disappointed in her heart, and finally had a chance to talk to the housekeeper's mother, but she was not available. This Yan's mother is also the boss, but who makes the family take care of the money bag.

"However," said Yan's mother, "if the girl goes back to the Hundred Flowers Courtyard, the old slave can accompany her for a while, and the treasury is also on the east side of the house." ”

Hui Yu hurriedly said: "Since it is a journey, I am happy to go along." ”

As he spoke, he walked out. Huiyu and Yan's mother walked side by side, and Caiyun followed behind two steps.

Although it takes half a pillar of incense to walk from Mingsheng Pavilion to Baihuayuan, there is green shade all the way, and the sunlight shines dappled on the ground through the gaps in the leaves, and occasionally I hear one or two birds chirping. It's also pleasant to walk around.

Huiyu thought for a while and said, "Mom has been working hard these days. The daily expenses of the house, as well as the expenses of the funeral, have to withdraw money for everything, so there must be a lot more work in this account than usual, right? ”

"Many of the funeral expenses have to be settled when the funeral is finished, and the money is not much now. The utensils used in the mourning hall were also taken from the treasury and were not specially purchased. Therefore, most of the expenses in the account are still on weekdays. It's not much more work than it used to be. Yan's mother explained.

Hui Yu saw that although she answered the truth, she only stated the facts, without feeling, so she thought that this strict mother was a person with strict rules, and asked and answered in front of the master, without saying a word.

was thinking about how to continue the conversation with Yan's mother, but before she could think about it, Yan's mother took the initiative to answer: "The girl is young, she lives in the boudoir, and her wife has never taught you, so she doesn't care about silver and wealth. Just now, Liu Wujia said that the girl made four clothes in one season in previous years, does the girl know how much silver is in one dress? ”

Hui Yu shook her head blankly.

Yan's mother seemed to know the result, and said: "The cloth in our house is all purchased from Rongji Cloth Village in the east of the city, and the cloth in the cloth village is generally three taels and one feet, and the girl uses the best cloth in the cloth village, which is not less than five taels and one feet." It costs a girl a few dozen taels of silver to make a dress. For ordinary people outside, the annual expenses are thirty or forty taels of silver. ”

Hui Yu couldn't help but say that a piece of clothing can make a family live for a year, isn't these four rooms too rich......

Yan's mother continued: "The subordinates in the house have to make two new clothes a year, using inferior cloth, and one piece of clothing costs five taels of silver. There are more than 20 servant women in charge of the house, and there must be two or three maids or mothers-in-law under each servant woman, plus the steward of the outer courtyard, and the little maid, there are no less than 100 people up and down in these four rooms. ”

Hui Yu's mind spun quickly, and she blurted out: "It will cost about 1,000 taels of silver to wear clothes alone." ”

Hearing that Huiyu had calculated, Yan's mother couldn't help but look at Huiyu appreciatively and said, "It seems that the girl has learned arithmetic on weekdays." This does not include eating, drinking, chewing, and annual festivals, if they are all calculated, the house will spend six or seven thousand taels of silver a year. ”

Hey, six or seven thousand taels, this is enough for the average family to live for several lifetimes. Huiyu suddenly felt that she was so rich.

Before Huiyu got sè, Yan's mother changed her words and said: "Our lord will only pay two or three hundred taels of silver a year, and the income of the grange depends on the year, the rain has been abundant in recent years, the harvest is good, and the field rent can have seven or eight hundred taels of silver a year." The income of the shop is high, and it is stable, and it can have an income of two or three thousand taels. ”

When Huiyu heard this, she was dumbfounded, isn't this more than she can make ends meet? I can't help asking: "How can these incomes afford the expenses of the house?" Didn't my mother take her own silver and put it in? ”

Yan's mother shook her head and said, "Madame's dowry is well kept for the girl." The second master is in charge of the chores of the clan, and what he does to make a living, the old slave is not very clear, but every year each house can get a large sum of silver. Our four rooms got 4,000 taels of silver last year. ”

Hui Yu did the math, and all the money added up, and the balance was less than 1,000 taels of silver in a year. But if it is such an income every year since the separation, then the four rooms will have to save tens of thousands of taels of silver in the past ten years.

Hui Yu didn't want to ask directly how much money was left in the account, so she said euphemistically: "According to what my mother said, there is still some silver left in our house every year, so over the years, hasn't my mother thought of using this silver to buy some property?" ”

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