Qinglan was full of interest, and pulled Wu's mother to discuss the affairs of the poetry club, and sent Chunling to Lin Dongqi to ask for experience. It was only when this proposed charter that I realized that everything was trivial and difficult to calculate. It would be difficult to invite anyone first, Lin Dongqi is a young lady, just invite the wives and young ladies of other families, but Qinglan is an aunt, if you don't invite the concubines of other families, you will inevitably not understand your eyes, and you will be excluded in the circle of officials and relatives in the future, but if you invite it, you are afraid of making the grandmothers of the main house upset, so the list alone will not be exhausted. Then there are fruit dishes, silver two expenses, going out to buy, and the title of the poetry club, etc., and so on.

Qinglan was born in a small portal, and he has never learned this since he was a child, and he has no experience in moving around with people, and he has no experience in ushering in and sending him to the top, and he has nothing to do, listening to Mother Wu and Chunling, I am annoyed. She was impatient to do this, but the words had already been spoken, and now she had to carry it hard, and she had to carry it with her head before, but the more she pointed out, the more chaotic it became, and then she either said that she had a headache today, or that she had a backache and left all the affairs to Wu's mother to deal with. I still want to take the lead, and I tell you to be rigorous and brilliant in everything. Mother Wu and the others worked hard to finish a matter, Qinglan was picky in every way, and after four or five days, there was no progress at all.

Qinglan didn't ask Xianglan to take care of this matter, but asked her to run errands. Pandan is also happy to be idle. On this day, Xianglan was making small clothes in the room, and when she saw Wu's mother walking in with her waist, she hurriedly got up and said, "Mom, what's wrong?" ”

Mother Wu sighed: "Grandma's words told us to break our legs." "Sit down on the pandan bed. Xianglan poured a cup of tea for Wu's mother with her own cup.

Mother Wu sighed and said, "Our aunt and grandmother don't know what to think, the list of people who come has not been set yet, and the invitation is not written, but she is thinking about what dishes to serve every day." I said to invite the famous chef outside, my aunt and grandmother are too expensive, but the cook at home does not like her well, so she buys food outside, and she crosses off half of the list that has been listed, and tells me that no matter how expensive it is, it can't cost fifty taels at once, and it can only cost ten taels of silver at most...... This and this, this and this want to be embarrassed, and I don't want to spend money, I can't do this old bone, who is willing to do it, who will go! He took a sip of tea and sneered: "I don't have that diamond diamond, I want to take a porcelain job, and in the end, I don't do it and pick and choose. ”

Xianglan listened to Wu's mother complaining and frowned slightly. Qinglan is just a good concubine that Lin Jinlou values a little, but Wu's mother is Lin Jinlou's nurse, although she is a subordinate, she is decent in front of his wife. Mother Wu took care of Qinglan to give birth, and she was somewhat instructed by the Qin family. It is not so much to "serve" the aunt and grandmother, but to use the identity of Wu's mother to deter the wives and concubines of each room, so that they don't have to think carefully. But this Aunt Lan didn't seem to understand Qin's intentions, but really aroused Mother Wu's current people. Mother Wu has been a servant at the gate of the mansion for decades, and she has long been an old fritter with joy and anger hidden in her heart, but now she openly satirizes Qinglan that "the small family is shrinking her hands and feet", which is obviously very dissatisfied.

In addition, if a large family invites guests to make a banquet, what they want is this face, since they want face, they have to throw a lot of silver into it, and it is rare not to waste it, but it is impossible to think about it without extravagance. Qinglan is generous to her subordinates on weekdays, but she also appreciates some of her worn clothes or jewelry that she doesn't like, which are all small bits and pieces. Now that the real money has come out, it is naturally painful.

Xianglan didn't want to care, but seeing that Mother Wu's face was tired, she couldn't bear it, she was kind and kind, she lowered her head and thought about it, and said: "It's better to go to the second girl and ask, which lady did you invite to run a poetry club last time." ”

Mother Wu said: "The identity of the aunt and the second girl is different. ”

Xianglan understood as soon as she heard it, pursed her lips and smiled: "Mom is confused, and she is still worried about this, is it possible to invite an aunt from which family to write an invitation alone?" On the post, he directly said in a general way, 'Please bring the relatives of such and such a family', and when the time comes, they will bring whoever they like. ”

Mother Wu was stunned, clapped her hands and smiled: "No, we are confused." It's all aunts and grandmothers, and I have to confirm everyone who comes, so I don't have a square inch. ”

Xianglan said: "It's enough to estimate the approximate number of people, but who is good with whom, who is not in harmony with whom, and who should sit at the same table as whom, must also have a charter." In addition, what are the taboos in eating, which wives believe in Buddhism to eat vegan, and which wives love to eat meat, these are important. ”

She thought about it so intently that she didn't pay attention to Mother Wu's stunned look at all, and said: "You don't have to invite too many people, a dozen people with heads and faces are enough, counting the wives and ladies of our family, there are more than 20 people who are just lively, and it is not beautiful to have more." The aunt gave less silver, but there was also a way to have less silver. Big families don't get tired of eating, and those delicacies from the mountains and seas have long been eaten, so it is better to pull some fresh fruits and vegetables from Zhuangzi. I remember that the uncle opened a Shunfu Building, and I heard that the chef there would use flowers to cook, which was novel and beautiful, so it was better to invite him to make a flower feast, not for what to eat, just for a freshness. How many flowers and plants do you want to pick in our garden? It's just that ten taels of silver is still less, and it will cost at least thirty taels to make such a banquet......"

As soon as she said this, Yindie walked in, and saw Wu's mother sitting on the pandan bed, and the two seemed to be talking intimately, so she felt a little uncomfortable, and said: "I just went to the kitchen and asked for a piece of lotus root to make porridge for my aunt and grandmother, Mrs. Fang was not there, and the person in charge asked me to say hello to my mother." When her eyes slipped away, she saw the white porcelain cup in Wu's mother's hand, she thought that the cup was hers, so she became more and more uncomfortable, and muttered to herself: "I will use other people's things to do favors." He looked over the table and saw that his cup was still on the table, so he shut his mouth.

Mother Wu saw it in her eyes but pretended not to see it, and said lightly: "I know, you can go." As soon as Yindie left, she asked Xianglan again: "According to your meaning, where is this poetry club?" Auntie's meaning also let it be done in the autumn pavilion. ”

Xianglan thought for a while and said, "Mrs. likes to cut the autumn pavilion, wouldn't we go there to fight with her?" It's not that it's still empty, but now it's a flower room, so it's better to go there, it's clean and clean, there are many flowers and trees, and it's good to do some poems. ”

Mother Wu smiled and bent her eyes, took Xianglan's hand and said, "My good girl, I didn't even see it, you have such a vision, you really compare the one in the house, how do you know this?" ”

Xianglan was vigilant in her heart, bowed her head and said, "I heard from my cousin that she used to talk about the banquet at home, and I overheard it. Mom, don't praise me, I'm just talking nonsense. ”

Mother Wu just smiled and patted Xianglan's hand.

Silver Butterfly stood outside the door with a probe, lifted the curtain a crack, and peeked for a while, because the two of them had low voices and couldn't hear what they were saying, so they scratched their hearts and livers. Her eyes rolled, and she ran to Qinglan to complain: "Xianglan has felt that she is superior since her uncle rewarded her with the ointment, and now she is trying her best to please Mother Wu, and I am afraid that I am hiding a traitor!" ”

Qinglan has never looked down on Mother Wu as a despised character, and she doesn't like Yindie, so when she heard this, she reprimanded: "Be good at your errand, don't bother me with these things that you don't have!" ”

Silver Butterfly had no choice but to walk away.

Since then, Wu's mother has often asked Xianglan about running a poetry club, and after Xianglan finished speaking, she still thought about it, but gradually, she felt that Xianglan's idea was much more clever than her. Later, she asked Qinglan to ask Xianglan to help take care of the affairs of the poetry club, so that everyone else could listen to Xianglan's call, and she just sat in the back. Xianglan wanted to shirk it, but Wu's mother said: "When the matter of the poetry club is over, I will grant you half a month's leave, and another month of monthly payment." ”

Xianglan gritted her teeth and responded, and said: "There is only one section, which only says that I help my mother manage it, and it is all the credit of my aunt and mother who do a good job, and it has nothing to do with me." ”

When Mother Wu heard this, she looked Xianglan up and down a few more times before she nodded and said, "Okay, then it's up to you." ”

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