Chapter 166: Buying Ice
The Zhu family, who had just been promoted to be in charge, quietly stirred up.
Tomorrow morning, I will definitely buy the freshest rose grapes and send them to my grandmother.
Zi Su, who was standing behind Zhen Miao, resisted the urge to hold his forehead.
Girl, you are so open that you want to eat, you want to eat!
Mama Yang couldn't help but smile, and remembered that when she went to Jian'an Bo Mansion, the grandmother she met for the first time invited her to eat cucumbers.
It's still a child, but it's better than she thought.
Zhen Miao put on a serious look and continued to look at the account book.
Fortunately, this is a daily flow account, except for the one thing just now, it is almost the same as in the past, Zhen Miao looked through it and put it down.
A mother-in-law stood up and said, "Grandma, the slave belongs to the Wang family." The ice in the ice cellar is not enough, how to adjust the amount of ice in each courtyard? โ
Rich and noble families have their own ice cellars, and they hide ice in the cellars every cold season and enjoy them in summer.
Because it is not easy to hide ice, the price of ice is particularly high in the hot summer, if you do not store enough and need to buy it, it will be a large expense, and sometimes, you can't buy it with silver.
Therefore, once you find that the ice stored is not enough to support the dog days, you will either have to spend a lot of money to buy ice, or you will have to save it.
Mama Yang glanced at the mother-in-law.
This mother-in-law asked very interestingly, and directly asked the grandmother how to adjust the dosage of each hospital, without mentioning the word "purchase", that is, to introduce the grandmother in the direction of adjustment.
But the grandmother housekeeper reduced the amount of ice used by the masters of each courtyard on the first day, wouldn't it offend the masters.
Mama Yang got the old lady's hint that she should take a good look at how the eldest grandmother takes care of the family and whether she can use it in the future.
Although she is an assistant butler, she has to speak less.
In this way, although Mama Yang had a good impression of Zhen Miao, she just looked at it coldly.
"Don't have enough ice?" Zhen Miao was stunned.
That's bad news.
The ice is not enough, what does she use to make milk and fruit? And what about ice cheese?
"Yes, grandma, if you still use the previous amount, I'm afraid that the ice will be useless until the beginning of August." The woman behaved properly.
With the Qian family's wolf bรจi in front, she didn't dare to show it at this time no matter how proud she was on weekdays.
Early August?
Zhen Miao was relieved to hear this.
By then, she won't have to be a housekeeper for a long time, and if it's not enough, that's what the second aunt should worry about.
So he stretched out his hand and took a sip of water from the teacup on the small table, and said with a smile: "You can still use it until the beginning of August, what are you going to do by adjusting the dosage now, and you will tell you at that time." โ
The woman was dumbfounded, and it took a while to relieve: "Grandma." After that, there will be a family banquet, and maybe there will be guests from Beppu or something, so how can this ice be used and not left at all. โ
"Uh, that's it-" Zhen Miao nodded in agreement, and said very happily, "You're right, then go buy it, just buy it for the amount that can be used until the end of August." โ
As he spoke, he glanced at the cheat sheet: "I remember that there are still three hundred taels of silver in the account of the consumption of ice charcoal and firewood, which is enough!" โ
The woman's face was as if she was constipated. Almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood.
Grandma, don't take you like this, you have a trick up your sleeve, what should you do after it's all spent?
Zhen Miao really didn't think about how to live in the future. At the end of August, she didn't care about what she was doing at home, and what she was most worried about was whether there was ice to make frozen cheese now!
So he waved his hand: "Buy two hundred taels of silver ice first." โ
"Grandma, this. This can't be done, right? "The woman was in a hurry.
What the hell is going on, obviously asking the grandmother how to reduce the ice used in each courtyard, why did it become so much silver to buy ice?
To know an ordinary family. The annual cost is only a dozen taels of silver, although the Guogong Mansion is rich, it can't be so bad!
"Why not?" Zhen Miao was dissatisfied, "The ice is not enough, do you want your grandfather and grandmother to be hot, what if you get a heat stroke like your second aunt?" โ
Speaking of this, he suddenly realized: "Hey, the second aunt must have felt that the ice was not enough, so she saved it, so she suffered from the heat stroke, right?" Let's just say, there are ice basins in the house in the summer, and they usually don't go out of the house, so why do you get from the heat of the heat. โ
As he spoke, he quickly glanced at the cheat sheet and sighed: "The second aunt used thirty taels of silver to see a doctor and catch medicine, how many ice basins do you have to top?" Uh, of course, I'm not saying that the second aunt is a big loss because of a small one, the second aunt is a housekeeper, and it is understandable that she is dedicated to saving for the public, but you should know the proportions of doing things as a subordinate. Since I am in charge of the house, I can't let the elders suffer anymore, don't you say? โ
"Yes, yes." A room full of chicks nodded their heads as if they were pecking rice.
Zhen Miao waved her hand domineeringly: "Wang's family, hurry up and buy the ice back, you can't let the masters heat up anymore." โ
When the woman stepped back, she was still dazed.
Who can tell her why she just wanted the grandmother to reduce the amount of ice, but it turned out to be two hundred taels of silver to buy ice.
She, how should she explain to the second lady!
Zhen Miao glanced at the housekeepers' daughters-in-law who had quieted down all over the room, and asked with a smile, "Does anyone else have something to tell?" โ
"It's gone, it's gone." Everyone said in unison, and they all broke out in a cold sweat.
"If it's all right, let's all step down."
"Yes." The crowd hurriedly retreated.
Far away from Yi'an Hall, the two daughters-in-law whispered.
"Tsk, I can't see that the eldest grandmother is young, and she is a first-time housekeeper, so she is a master."
The corners of the other daughter-in-law's mouth twitched: "Where is the master, in my opinion, it should be a killer." โ
"Hey, whether it's a master or a killer, I think we'd be honest these days."
"Yes."
The two daughters-in-law walked away side by side.
As soon as the flower hall was gone, Zhen Miao breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at Mama Yang: "It's over, I've been worried about what will happen." The second aunt still has a good eye and will choose people, if it weren't for the reminder of the Wang family today, there would be no ice in two days, it would not be a joke. โ
Mama Yang's eyes flashed slightly: "The Wang family is the daughter-in-law of the old prince." โ
Zhen Miao blinked: "Uh, she used to be a second-class maid in the second aunt's house, right?" โ
Mama Yang was shocked.
The eldest grandmother only got such a thick roster last night, and it was already very surprising to be able to write down these housekeepers' daughters-in-law, and she even knew that the Wang family had been a second-class maid in the second lady's courtyard?
You know, this was more than ten years ago!
Could it be said. Big grandma is a housekeeper's genius?
Mama Yang was shocked, but Zhen Miao was very relaxed.
It's like an exam, the hardest thing is to sprint before the exam, it's already fateful to go to the exam room, and she actually passed the test, in addition to being relaxed and happy, does she need to think about anything else?
As for being able to know the Wang family in such detail, this is thanks to Zhen Miao's good cheat sheet.
She was accustomed to the point-to-face review method in her previous life.
Since the focus is on these housekeepers, all the relationships surrounding each housekeeper have been sorted out by her.
Not to mention that the Wang family had done things with the Tian family, it was where the Wang family's daughter did things. She's written it all!
After Mama Yang went back, the old lady asked about the housekeeper.
Mama Yang was a little hesitant and didn't know what to say for a while.
"What's the matter, could it be that something happened to the eldest daughter-in-law?"
"Nope." Mama Yang hurriedly talked about the flower hall, and then said, "Don't hide it from the old lady, although the eldest grandmother doesn't seem to be shrewd and exposed, she knows it in her heart." According to the slave maid, the old lady can rest assured in the future. โ
The old lady also smiled: "Ugh." Not only did she know that the Qian family was the daughter-in-law of the Tian family, but she also knew that the Wang family had been the second-class maid of the Tian family? โ
"Isn't it?" Mama Yang thought of Zhen Miao's pride, and couldn't help laughing.
The old lady didn't say anything more, but there was a sentence that rolled in her heart.
This is the steward of the Manchurian house. It seems that there are too many people in the Tian family?
On the side of Xinyuan, there was also a mother-in-law who talked to Tian.
"What, grandma is going to take out two hundred taels of silver to buy ice?"
"Yes, Second Lady. What do you think the slave should do, whether to buy this ice or not? The Wang family looked embarrassed.
"Buy, why don't you buy it!" Tian gritted his teeth. "You're going to buy one today!"
That little hoof, is it trying to spend all the money in the account and make a big hole to give her a headache?
Then let her poke it, and wait for the charcoal to run out of money to buy it, and see how she is!
On the same day, two carts of ice entered the door of the Guogong Mansion.
When Second Master Luo came back in the evening, he ate an ice bowl and reminded: "Tian, let's save some ice in the house." โ
Tian leaned on the big red pillow and sneered: "What do you save, the eldest daughter-in-law is the housekeeper for the first time today, so I asked the steward to buy two carts of ice back, and I will use it until the end of August!" โ
Second Master Luo was stunned when he heard this, and his face became very weird.
Tian saw that something was wrong, and tugged at the sleeve of Second Master Luo's shirt: "Master, what's wrong?" โ
"Dalang's daughter-in-law bought two carts of ice?"
"Yes."
Second Master Luo's face was even more strange, and he muttered: "This thing is strange, the official cellar where the ice is hidden has run out of water this afternoon, and the entire ice cellar has been flooded, I'm afraid that the price of ice this summer is higher than gold." โ
"What!" Tian felt dizzy.
Second Master Luo straightened his face: "Tian, I know that you left the housekeeper's affairs to Dalang's daughter-in-law because you wanted to see her make a fool of herself, but now the shape is different, you have to grasp the power of the housekeeper firmly for me." โ
Women are short-sighted, what's the use of fighting back and forth in the inner house, their biggest obstacle is Dalang!
Why do you feel more and more powerless lately?
Obviously, Da Lang's marriage was a bad situation, but they didn't go the way they wanted, and Da Lang became more and more stable.
Jin Linwei went straight to the sky to listen, and he was in charge of the inspection and secret visits to hundreds of officials, and now the court officials are not afraid of a few points.
If it goes on like this, it won't be him who calculates Da Lang, it's time for Da Lang to clean him up.
On the side of Qingfeng Hall, when Zhen Miao made ice cheese and invited Luo Tianhuo to eat, Luo Tianhuo heard that the matter of buying ice was also incredible, and he knocked on the side for a long time before he was sure that it was really a mistake, and he couldn't help sighing.
Compared to luck, it's really more popular than people!
Uh, it's okay, that's his daughter-in-law. (To be continued......)
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