Chapter 50: Unwillingness
Chen Wenhui thought about the Bai family's maid, and suddenly understood, yes, he was going to train his own manpower. He nodded: "I'll ask them what they want to do when I go back in a while, and then let them learn." It's not something you can learn in a year or two. ”
Bai Shi smiled: "You are still young, what is the hurry now, just adjust it slowly." ”
Chen Wenhui said again: "The eldest brother, the second brother is older, have you trained them all?" “
Bai smiled even more: "Your eldest brother and second brother are boys, and in the future, they will be served by your sisters-in-law with good maids." ”
Chen Wenhui realized that her mother asked her to train the dowry maid now, and immediately blushed.
Bai laughed even harder.
The matter was settled, Qingshuang went to the treasury to get the money, and went to the Grange to build a perfume workshop with Li Huan and Ziyu.
In fact, there was not much money in the treasury when the New Year was settled, because it was all used to pay off the bills. Fortunately, Chen Yuanheng was the county magistrate, so he went to Wang Yihe's money village and borrowed 20,000 taels. Because it takes money to open a restaurant and a ready-to-wear shop in Deqing Mansion, Wang Yihe borrowed 20,000 taels. In fact, when Wang Yihe lent Chen Yuanheng last year, it was purely an investment, thinking of spending some money to buy a backer. Although he said that he didn't want interest, in fact, Wang Yihe didn't even plan to ask for the capital. Unexpectedly, the Chen family returned the money in the first half of the year. It was really unexpected by Wang Yihe, and Chen Yuanheng also partnered with Wang Yihe to do business, and he made a lot of money this year. So now Chen Yuanheng borrowed money again, Wang Yihe borrowed it happily, and once again stated that he did not want interest. Chen Yuanheng was not polite to him.
After Qingshuang left, he soon came out of the New Year and entered February, and in the middle, every once in a while, the Bai family invited the Hu family to come to the house to play. Mingzhu and Wen Hui also played very well.
On this day, Bai looked at the yellow calendar, chose a date, and asked the family to prepare to feast on the guests, which was to recognize Mingzhu as a righteous daughter.
In fact, it is very simple to prepare. The invitations were all written by Chen Yuanheng with Chen Cai, and the dinner was in Qinghe Building, which was also deliberately closed for a day and did not entertain foreign guests, and held a banquet.
What the Bai family had to do was to ask Feiguang's Cui Jinlou to tailor a set of gorgeous clothes for Mingzhu, and then went to Wanjia Yinlou to order a set of red gold heads as a gift.
After all this is done, it is also time to come. This Tian'an City has a head and a face of people have come to Qinghe Building, the ceremony of recognizing the righteous girl is very formal, the incense case, the fire candle cannon is the same, after the ceremony, Bai and Chen Yuanheng took out the clothes and heads made for Mingzhu in front of the guests, and suddenly the guests praised it. It is said that the Chen family is from a big family, and it is magnificent.
The faces of the pearl and the jewel were both blue, especially after the set of red gold jewelry was taken out, the gold sparkled their eyes. If it was the things that Mingzhu had obtained before, such as the greeting gifts given by those ladies when he went out to meet them, they were all looted by them after returning home. Now don't talk about taking Mingzhu's things, both of them were ordered by their father to give away a lot of Mingzhu's things. Thinking of this, the two of them were even more angry.
Aunt Sun stood in the crowd, watching the lord and Mrs. like a couple with a deep relationship, thanking the two couples of the Chen family together, and returning the salute to the guests together, and she could only be in the corner, because she was an aunt who couldn't get on the stage, and for the first time in many years, she found that the gap between her aunt and the lady in the main room was so big. Too big for her to bear.
The ceremony was soon over, and everyone was happily eating.
The consequences of this incident were unexpected by the Chen family. First of all, Chen Yuanheng found that his status in Ancheng Shilin suddenly increased. Before that, he held a chrysanthemum poetry meeting, although he was integrated into the Anseong Shilin, but his status has not been high. Because he's just a lifter.
Scholars are high-minded, and they are generally reluctant to associate with these noble children, but now they have a relationship with Chen Yuanheng because he is also a member of the imperial court. Now it's not ordinary, Chen Yuanheng underestimated Hu Zhili's status in Shilin, he recognized Mingzhu as a righteous daughter this time, purely for the sake of his wife's kindness, but he didn't expect that unintentionally inserting willows won him a righteous name in the snow.
Now not only the scholars of Ancheng are respectful to him, but even several well-known people in Deqing City and even Qingyang City have written letters to him. There are also some prestigious literary societies that invite their father and son to participate in the cultural gathering. Chen Yuanheng was naturally very happy to participate.
Chen Wenjun and Chen Wenlin were even happier, and suddenly there were many partners of the same age, because these scholars have been studying for generations, and they like to bring their children and nephews to participate in the cultural meeting. This made the two Chen brothers very happy.
Bai also inexplicably accepted the invitations given by many scholars' wives, inviting her to go to banquets and flower appreciation, poetry meetings and the like. Fortunately, the Bai family was born in a big family, read books for many years, and is a very intelligent person, it is still difficult for her to compose poetry, which has won her a reputation as a talented woman in Anseong.
Chen Wenhui is a mixed bag. I am glad that I went out with my mother to many scholars' homes, and these ladies brought their daughters, so she was able to see the life of the scholars and made many friends. The worry is that these little girls should not be underestimated, they can all make poems, Chen Wenhui can do it, and besides, she is an engineering graduate, where do you know this. Fortunately, she pulls Mingzhu every time, and these girls from reading families all respect Mingzhu very much for Mingzhu's grandfather, so they treat her well, besides, she has a good reason not to do poetry, that is, she is young.
That's a good reason, no six-year-old is forced to compose poetry. But Chen Wenhui is a little worried, what should I do when I get older in the future? Looks like I'm going to have to work on this.
Compared with her, Mingzhu is really worried. She used to follow her mother and knew some words, but she had never read poetry books. At that time, I couldn't eat enough, where did I have the spare money to buy poetry and books. Now she is attending a banquet with her stepmother, and watching these girls of the same age make poems, she is very anxious, and she will tell her mother when she goes home.
Hu Shi is a genuine talented woman, when it comes to housekeeping and scheming, there is a difference of 108,000 miles between Bai's and Bai's, but when it comes to composing poetry, it is easy to catch. The Hu family is now very free in the house, the monthly money is paid on time, and he has plenty of money in his hands, so he bought poetry books and taught his daughter attentively. Mingzhu is worthy of being Hu Zhili's granddaughter, and she is better than her mother in poetry books. This made Hu very happy.
Now Hu Shi lives in the upper room, during which Xu Zhijie still licked his face to live in the upper room, but was sent away by Hu on the grounds of physical discomfort. After a few times, Xu Zhijie knew that the Hu family was really unwilling to accept him, so he didn't go anymore, anyway, he was not interested in the Hu family now. And after this time, he lost interest in his aunt Sun, who was regarded as a treasure. He suddenly realized that he had been wrong before. Why do you want to dislike your own hair-tied wife, what you want to be more beautiful is that you are really stupid to Aunt Sun for more than ten years.
Now he doesn't raise his aunt anymore, but he has found several maids in the room, and the most favored is Aunt Sun's personal maid Lanxiang. Now that the house is full of smoke and miasma, the Hu family guards his daughter every day, sometimes going to the literary meeting, sometimes going to the Bai family to play, and he doesn't care about anything in the house. Aunt Sun is still in charge of things in the house, but she has fallen out of favor, and Lan Xiang and the others will drink Aunt Sun as soon as they encounter something. Now, Aunt Sun has no prestige, and she can't control her subordinates, and the house is a mess.
On this day, Aunt Sun was checking the account books with the housekeeper to distribute the monthly money, and Lan Xiang suddenly rushed in and gave the housekeeper a big slap when she went up. Aunt Sun's motherly hands trembled: "Lan Xiang, what are you doing with this little hoof, who gave you the guts?" ”
Lan Xiang was not afraid at all, so she said in a hurry: "I said aunt, I am not your 'little' aunt's maid now, I am the master's maid, we are all the same people, you don't open your mouth and close your little hooves." ”
Aunt Sun sneered: "Even if the master is here, I also have to ask, why can I beat people so well?" ”
Lan Xiang looked at her red nails and said, "You ask this mother-in-law, why hasn't my monthly money come down this month yet?" ”
The housekeeper covered her face aggrievedly: "I'm still reconciling the monthly money with the second lady, and it will be sent tomorrow, and your monthly case of 500 big money is indispensable." ”
Lan Xiang raised her eyebrows when she heard this: "Who is five hundred big money?" I was promised by the lord himself, two taels of silver a month. The lord said that I have worked hard to serve, and I will give my aunt a monthly example from this month. Hmph, what's the matter, didn't you hear what the master said? ”
Aunt Sun already knew about this matter, because it was the master who said it to the housekeeper's wife, so she deliberately pretended not to know, and deliberately wanted to lose Lanxiang's face. turned out that this orchid was a pungent one, and it came directly to her face.
Where did Aunt Sun suffer this, thinking about the life she has lived in the past month or so, she is really living in hell. All of this is because Mingzhu has entered the eyes of the Chen family, and it is all because the lady trembled again, and she suddenly became an aunt from the second lady. She's unwilling, she's really unwilling.
Although he hated it in his heart, he could only coax Lanxiang away, and he couldn't make enemies anymore before he knocked Mingzhu's mother and daughter down. But this orchid is a shrewd one. Knowing that this period of time is the time for the aunt and the lady to compete for favor, it is her opportunity to climb the bed, and at this time, she will not make the majesty more when, so she will make a lot of trouble. It made Aunt Sun upside down. Finally Lan Xiang left, and a few girls made a fuss, and the people in the courtyard all pouted and looked at Aunt Sun's jokes. Aunt Sun was disgraced, but what Xu Zhijie knew was the cry of the Lanxiang Demon in tune, and immediately asked the girl to go to Aunt Sun's to scold.
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