Chapter Twenty-Four: A Qualified Ancient Lady
"Okay, the mandarin ducks listen to the girl, and the girl will do whatever the slave and maid say." The mandarin duck said to Gu Qingjin in blind belief.
Qing Jin couldn't help but smile at the blind belief of the mandarin duck.
Since he decided to learn housekeeping from the Jun family, Gu Qingjin took the mandarin duck to the Jun family's courtyard early the next morning.
In Jun's room, Jun has gotten up, at this time she is reading the account book in front of the bookcase, as the wife of the Marquis of Anji Mansion, Jun has to get up every morning before dawn, arrange things big and small in the house, after breakfast, will check the accounts of the day in the house, listen to the housekeeper report some more important things, in the afternoon, will chat with Shen, that is, Qingjin's grandmother or accompany Shen to read Buddhist scriptures in the Buddhist hall for an hour or two.
As the eldest son and wife of the Hou Mansion, and the housekeeper wife of the Hou Mansion, Jun's day is busy and boring, and the only time left is to worry about the naughty little son, for her daughter, she wants to care, but her daughter Qingjin has been precocious and assertive since she was a child, for this daughter, she feels that her face is bright, but she doesn't know how to get along with her daughter.
Later, after having a son, she spent most of her time on her son, and she couldn't take care of her daughter, the relationship between mother and daughter gradually became more and more rusty as Qing Jin grew up, fortunately, her daughter has become close to herself since she was sick last time, but when she saw her daughter appear in her room, Jun was still stunned, and when she heard her daughter say that she wanted to learn to manage things in the house, she looked at Qing Jin in surprise, as if she found out that her daughter was so old at this time, and she was even close to the age of talking about marriage.
However, she has never thought too much, and after hearing Qing Jin's request, she readily agreed to Qing Jin's request.
Since that day, Qing Jin began to go to the Jun family every morning to learn to preside over the affairs of the house, and in the afternoon, he went to the Shen family's courtyard with the Jun family to accompany the Shen family. For learning housekeeping, Qing Jin went to learn with the Jun family with full patience at first, but after following the Jun family to learn to manage the affairs of the house, the more she slowly understood, the more she knew, Gu Qingjin finally couldn't help but marvel and sigh, it turns out that a qualified ancient lady has to know so much, no matter how much this is done, it is as big as the big things in the mansion, and as small as how much monthly money should a servant in the mansion have?
Not to mention those complicated human exchanges, what can this house send this, but that house can't send this, pay attention to the details need so much, Buddha, why not wear her back to modern society!
Jun saw Qing Jin's bitter and bitter appearance for a day, he was very happy at first, and after watching it for two days, he finally opened his mouth to Qing Jin one day, it is not easy to learn so many things at once, otherwise it should be much easier to learn the management of accounts first, and then slowly understand from the accounts.
Gu Qingjin's eyes lit up when she heard Jun's words, she is good at doing accounts, isn't the modern form very useful? So Qing Jin easily took over this task, took out some modern tables and figures, and it didn't take long to understand most of the things in the house.
But the more she knows, Gu Qingjin becomes more and more lazy in her heart, why do you want to learn this more things, what fun is there in learning this more, let her live a lifetime after marrying someone like Jun's, Qingjin feels that the future is very bleak, but what she should learn is still to learn, she is not giving up halfway, how can she achieve her goal and live her life easily? She must think of a good way, and after thinking about it for two days, she finally came up with a good idea, that is, she can train one or two people to do this kind of thing for her!
Thinking of this, Qing Jin put her burning eyes on the mandarin duck, the mandarin duck has been with her in her previous life, it can be believed, even if there is a case, in this feudal and hierarchical society, she can hold a person to heaven or step on a person to hell, not to mention, she believes that the mandarin duck can not leave her when she was down in her previous life, and her loyalty to her will definitely not be fake.
So Qing Jin began to gradually hand over some things to the mandarin duck, and after a period of time, after the mandarin duck was able to completely use the things that Qing Jin gave her, Qing Jin began to be really idle.
However, the days are too idle, and Gu Qingjin is a little bored, so cultivate one or two hobbies for yourself, everyone in ancient times seemed to have one or two hobbies before and after marriage. Qing Jin thought of the wife who eats fasting and recites Buddha but holds great power in the house fight film, eating fasting and reciting Buddha? Well, this one can be ruled out without thinking about it.
So what else? Qing Jin thought of embroidery in a flash of inspiration, this is good, and it is popular, which woman didn't expect to let her future husband and children wear her own hand-woven embroidered clothes under her flying needle line?
After deciding to learn embroidery, Qing Jin was very interested in asking Jun to find her an embroidery grandmother, but maybe Qing Jin really has no talent for embroidery, and after studying for half a month, she pierced her hands with a few holes, and the embroidered things are comparable to abstract painters.
Once the Jun family came to see the blood hole in Qing Jin's hand, he was distressed for a long time, and he didn't want Qing Jin to embroider anything again.
Looking at Jun's happily sending away the embroidery mama, Qing Jin was a little speechless, hey...... However, she also knew that she really didn't have much talent in embroidery, so she didn't force it anymore.
Once I happened to see the flowers and plants planted in the yard, Qing Jin suddenly had a thought, I remember when I didn't cross over, wasn't my dream when I was a child to plant a lot of various flowers?
Raising flowers and planting grass can also cultivate people's temperament, and since then, Qing Jin has begun to plant peony flowers, so that the people in the house can find all kinds of peonies, and Qing Jin began her life as a florist.
At first, maybe it was just to cultivate a hobby, but slowly Qing Jin fell in love with the process of planting flowers and the joy of waiting for flowers to bloom, and even in the quiet life of planting flowers, Qing Jin felt that she had returned to the quiet and serene life in the temple, and the face of the water mirror dust as holy as an immortal occasionally flashed in her mind, but it was only a flash.
The subordinates in this heavenly mansion sent a few precious seeds, saying that it was a rare peony flower seed, Qing Jin looked at the seeds in her hand, one of which attracted Qing Jin's attention with a metallic luster, she felt that this seed had an indescribable weird feeling, but when she observed it carefully, she didn't find the previous feeling, and handed the seed in her hand to the mandarin duck next to her, so that the mandarin duck planted it first.