Early the next morning, Gege told Hongcui to get up and wash. Hongcui was lazy, turned over, and still curled up in the quilt and hummed: "It's not dawn yet, why are you getting up so early?" ”

Gege said: "It's not Jinxiulan here, since you sleep until three poles in the morning, get up quickly, in case someone comes in, don't make people laugh." ”

Hongcui muttered, "Jokes are jokes, jokes can't be used as beds." ”

Instead, he woke up with the painting screen outside the screen, got dressed and got out of bed and said to Gege: "I'll come, let Sister Hongcui sleep a little longer." "Let's talk about it, and the picture screen waits for Gege to get dressed and washed. As soon as I cleaned up, I heard a burst of laughter outside, and a crisp female voice said: "I heard the lord say that there are distinguished guests living in this house, I have to see, where are the distinguished guests?" ”

Gege said in his heart, listening to the tone of his voice, he was definitely not the subordinate who was waiting in the house, could it be that Li Hao's main room was here? Just as he was thinking about it, he heard the footsteps stop at the door, and the female voice rushed into the house and asked, "Is Qing Gege up?" ”

Gege winked at the picture screen, and the picture screen hurriedly lifted the curtain. But he replied, "Come in." ”

The picture screen just lifted the curtain of the door, and a woman about forty years old, with a round face, a big nose, a thin mouth, and a plump body walked in. The woman was followed by four or five women, all dressed up in fancy clothes, looking at their appearance, and they looked quite standard. There are more than a dozen maids in the back, all of them handsome, and they are very beautiful. So many women poured in at once, it was like entering the Grand View Garden of Jiafu.

As soon as the woman caught a glimpse of Gege, she immediately stepped forward and grabbed Gege's hand. looked up and down at Gege, and said enthusiastically: "It's really a character in Beijing." Look at this look, look at this figure. Tsk, it's said that it's a fairy in the sky, that's not false at all. Qing Gege's arrival can compare all the sisters in my house. After that, he looked at the women behind him and said, "Sisters, do you think I am right or not?" ”

The women Yingying Yanyan said: "That's what my sister is right. Gege Tianhuang is noble, and he is naturally better than us country women. ”

Gege wanted to promise a few words, but he didn't know who it was, so he had to laugh and not answer. Hongcui, who was lying on the bed, heard this excitement. Hurriedly opened his eyes, put on his clothes and got up and asked, "Who are these sisters, what are you doing just holding my family's hand?" ”

Only then did the woman see Hongcui and asked, "Who is this girl?" ”

Gege replied, "She is Hongcui, the one who follows me. ”

The woman looked Hongcui up and down again, and also stepped forward to take Hongcui's hand and said, "Tut, oops, look at the little appearance of Hongcui girl, her nose is a nose." The mouth is mouthful, so handsome. ”

Hongcui shook her hand and said, "Nonsense, it's strange if the nose is not the nose." Tell me, who are you? ”

The woman laughed twice. Then he said: "Well, the distinguished guest just call me Sister Dong." ”

A woman in the back replied, "She is the grandmother of our house." ”

Hongcui sighed and said with a smile: "Oops." It turned out to be Mrs. Dong. I'm sorry, Hongcui has a quick mouth. Don't mind. ”

Dong said: "Miss Hongcui is polite. She caught a glimpse of Gege still standing, and hurriedly took Gege's hand and said, "Please sit down." How can I afford to stand like this? It looks like I'm here. It was as if the guest was restrained. I will say ugly things first, come to my house, and no one will be polite to me. Whoever is polite to me will look down on my old face. ”

Gege was pulled down by her, and he couldn't speak for a while. She watched coldly, and said in her heart, this Dong's mouth is really neat, and he is really a shrewd and clever person. Not to mention anything else, just like Xing Feng yesterday, I knew that Dong's was not a fuel-efficient lamp. Those women are dressed up as bewitching. On the surface, he was very respectful to Dong, but in fact, there was a lot of dissatisfaction between his demeanor and demeanor. If she guessed correctly, these women should be Li Hao's concubines.

Hongcui pulled her hair at will, washed her face, and when she saw the women, she asked, "These sisters are very good-looking, Mrs. Dong will introduce them." ”

Dong Shi listened to Hongcui praise them, smiled on his face, and said: "Miss Hongcui is really good at looking, these sisters are carefully selected by my master, how can they be ugly?" After that, he introduced from left to right: "The first one is our big sister Hua; That one is the second sister of our family; The one in the middle is the third sister of our family; This is Shi Si's sister; The last youngest, who only entered the door last year, is only seventeen years old this year, and is the fifth sister of Feng who is the favorite of my lord. ”

After all, Feng Shi was young, and he relied on being favored, and said with a smug smile: "Why does the master like me?" I don't see it. But who doesn't know that Madame is holding our family's silver, that's the most powerful, sisters say yes? ”

Among the five concubines, the Ming family and the Yuan family were relatively weak, and they did not dare to squeak. Only Hua and Shi said in unison: "That's it." Outsiders only say that the old man is powerful, but the eyes of the people in the house are bright, and the lady is the housekeeper of our house. ”

Dong was excluded, but he still smiled on his face, shook his hand and said: "Sisters, don't laugh, there are distinguished guests in front of you." Let's think about how to entertain guests in the evening. If you want me to say, let's get together, each of us take out a piece of silver, and let the kitchen prepare a good table and put it in our backyard. At this time, the weather is neither hot nor cold, and we use the pavilion to drink and chat, do you say it is good or not? ”

Before the five of them could say anything, Hongcui was the first to cheer. At this time, Gege found an opportunity to say: "Madam, don't be polite! Ruoqing came to visit rashly, lived in the house, and had a lot of disturbances. If you set up a banquet again, let the sisters break the bank, if you don't dare to do it. ”

Dong took Gege's hand and said, "Gege, don't be polite to us. Gege is coming, it's too late for us to like it, how dare we say that it is bothering? This guest is definitely going to be invited, if Gege doesn't come, will he look down on us? ”

How could Gege say that he looked down on him, so he had to say again: "If you want to have a treat, how about this host?" ”

Dong shook his head again and again and said, "I can't do it." Gege is coming, but Gege is going to spend money, where is our master's face placed? If I don't talk about anything else, everyone in the house will scold me for being ignorant. ”

After that, Dong said to a few of them: "What do you say? ”

Speaking of this, although they were unwilling to spend money, they had to endure it. At this time, Gege couldn't fight anymore, so he had to say: "Let Madame bother." ”

Dong Shige stood up with a smile and said, "That's right. I said, my five sisters and I each contributed one tael of silver, made up six taels, and asked the cook to buy some good wine and food, and make a good table of noodles, and we would be regarded as picking up the wind and washing the dust for Gege. ”

Xiao Feng said dissatisfiedly: "Madame's words are wrong. What is the identity of the lady and what is the identity of us? Huang Tao only entered the door last year, and now it is only four or five months, and the monthly silver is less than one or two silver, and there are various expenses, where can I save the next two silver? According to Huang Tao, since the sisters and sisters enter the door first, they should come out first. Mrs. is the biggest, so naturally she has to have an extra part, and then decrease by 200 Wen according to this, is this fair? ”

Hongcui laughed when she heard this. Everyone didn't know what she was laughing at, and asked, "Miss Hongcui, why are you laughing all of a sudden?" ”

Hongcui pointed at Dong's finger and said 1,000 Wen, then pointed at Hua's and said 800 Wen, Ming's 600 Wen, Yuan's 400 Wen, Shi's 200 Wen, and finally pointed to Feng's and said: "Hongcui Xiao's aunt is really good at settling accounts." If you reduce it like this, your aunt will have to eat white food. ”

When I heard it, it was really true, and I was surprised that Feng would settle accounts. As for Hongcui, she is naturally shrewd, and Feng's little abacus was exposed by Hongcui at once.

However, Feng Shi reacted lightly and said with a smile: "It's all guessed by Miss Hongcui." Huang Tao is young, and she doesn't have any money at hand, no more than these sisters, she has been in the door for a long time, and she has some private money in her hands. It is said that in order to catch the wind and wash the dust, Huang Tao should be a part, but it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and Huang Tao does not have it in her hand, how can Huang Tao come out of this? ”

One or two pieces of silver is nothing to Gege, but Gege said in her heart, this is a family matter, but she is not easy to mix, so wait and see how the Dong family will deal with it.

said that ginger is still old and spicy, Dong said: "It's wrong for Huang Tao to say that." In our house, one wife and five concubines, which one is not serving the master? When it comes to serving the master, which of you doesn't serve more than me? Which of you does the master treat badly? And those who serve will receive money. Speaking of which, I'm old, and I don't want to be nosy, but my heart can be bright. Who takes less than whom? ”

Although these words were not obvious, they were knife-like, forcing them to have nothing to say. In the end, it was Ming who opened his mouth to persuade: "Madame is right. After all, Gege is noble, and coming to our house is a big face for our family. This host must be invited, but how to invite must be a compromise method. ”

Feng said angrily: "What do you say is decided? You are all big, only the yellow peach is small, so naturally what you say is what you say. ”

Ming Shi thought about it and said, "Where is the identity of the lady, it is indeed a little inappropriate to be the same as us." According to Qingping, Mrs. is still one or two pieces of silver. A few of us don't say who is big and who is small, how about 500 Wen? This adds up to three, two, five hundred, but it's too late? ”

Gege said: "What is slow and not slow? It's all up to Mrs. to decide, Ruoqing naturally has nothing to say. ”

Dong nodded and said, "That's it." After a while, he handed over all the silver to Xing Feng and asked him to procure things. ”

Feng snorted: "Xing Cheng? Why don't you hand it over to Li Jin? These three taels of silver, in his hands, it is estimated that there are only one or two halves left. ”

Dong only pretended not to hear, smiled and said a few polite words to Gege, and still took a few of them out of the house.

Gege watched a few of them go out in a slim way, and said slowly, "We have a good show." (To be continued......)