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Mei Niang was served by the maidservant to comb the bride's bun, and pulled up Jiang Chuye, who was also dressed neatly, and walked out.
She has also been to the General's Mansion many times, so she naturally knows how to go to the General and Princess Zhenyue, and she has to give tea to her mother-in-law on the first day of marriage, and she will be teased if she goes late.
Jiang Chuye shouted to slow down as soon as he got together, his head was really hurting, and just looking at the crooked steps didn't look like he was pretending.
Mei Niang was speechless, Jiang Chuye's alcohol consumption was really bad, who could believe that he would be the Jiang Xiao General who made the enemy fearful?
After pouring another bowl of sobering soup and resting for a while, Jiang Chuye was able to walk the road in a straight line.
When they came to the front hall, the eldest princess Zhenyue was sitting in the right seat, because General Jiang had no relatives, there were no relatives here, except for the three sons and three young ladies standing next to him, there were no extra people.
These young ladies have seen and have never seen them, they should all be Jiang Chuye's younger brothers and sisters, and the most familiar of them are Miss Jiang San and Jiang Chuji.
At this time, Miss Jiang San looked at Mei Niang's eyes with hatred and fear, presumably she was very shocked by Dong Wenwan's death last time, although she had a lot of thoughts, Mei Niang was still very wary of her.
Those concubines of General Jiang are not qualified to be present, and the masters of the Jiang Mansion should have arrived, but they did not see the shadow of General Jiang.
The husband and wife asked the eldest princess of Zhenyue to say goodbye, Meiniang offered her daughter-in-law tea, and the eldest princess of Zhenyue said a few words of admonition, and rewarded a pair of crested hairpins.
Jiang Chuye's younger brothers and sisters offered tea to Mei Niang, and Mei Niang had to prepare gifts.
Jiang Chuye asked casually: "What about my father?" ”
The eldest princess of Zhenyue picked up the cup of tea that Mei Niang had given before and moistened her throat as if she hadn't heard it, obviously, General Jiang was really not in the mansion.
Mei Niang exhaled silently, but saw Jiang Chuye's face cold like frost, and Mei Niang's heart rose again.
After that, the eldest princess Zhenyue ordered someone to set up a banquet, which was also the first meal after Miss Yuer married into the general's mansion.
Although the eyes of the uncles and sisters-in-law have been sweeping around their bodies all the time, Mei Niang eats elegantly and calmly, and she doesn't care at all, as if everyone else is a background decoration, which makes Jiang Chuye's brothers and sisters look at each other differently.
Mei Niang knew very well in her heart, don't look at the mansion with the eldest princess Zhenyue pressing, those concubines don't dare to jump openly, but once they feel that she is so deceitful, it is possible to secretly make some evil.
Don't look at these younger brothers and sisters are all concubines, after all, they are all the children of the generals, and the concubines are also the proud sons and daughters of the sky, and ordinary people really don't look down on them. What about the Yu family? It's just a very rich businessman, and if the woman of the Yu family can marry into the General's Mansion without anyone to protect her, her background will inevitably be criticized.
If you lose your momentum at the first dinner table, you will be difficult and bullied everywhere in the future.
Fortunately, Mei Niang's every move was taught by the female officials in the palace, and Mei Niang also worked hard, and although she was also integrated into this era, after all, she still has self-confidence in her bones that is different from this era, and her temperament is naturally stronger than that of the boudoir girl in this era.
In addition, Mei Niang's skin is tender and her temperament is good, she is more like the eldest lady than those eldest ladies, and after a meal, Jiang Chuye's younger brothers and sisters were impressed, and those who had a heart of negligence and wanted to make some stumbling blocks also disappeared.
After the meal, the eldest princess Zhenyue asked people to put a stack of account books in front of Mei Niang, "Daughter-in-law, now that my mother-in-law is also old, she is always overwhelmed. If you don't understand anything, you can ask Mr. Lan for advice. ”
Mei Niang didn't think that on the first day of marriage, Princess Zhenyue taught her to take care of the accounts in the house, looking at Princess Zhenyue's face that was believed by people who said that she was less than thirty, Mei Niang really didn't think that what she said was from her heart.
I heard Jiang Chuye say that the accounts in the house have always been controlled by Princess Zhenyue, and she, as a princess, is too lazy to care about those trivial things, usually the people she brought from the palace are in charge.
Those people are the talents selected by the emperor himself for his own sons and daughters, not to mention the management of the small accounts of a government, or the management of the big accounts of the country is not a problem, and those people are all officials who are directly paid by the treasury, if you want to say that there will be a problem with the accounts in this palace?
Of course not, but I really taught her the account, she doesn't have the capable talents under Princess Zhenyue, nor does she have the noble identity of Princess Zhenyue, so it's really not easy to manage this account and the people in the house.
It is difficult for Qing officials to cut off family affairs, how to manage the accounts of the General's Mansion well is indeed a problem, she can't learn from Princess Zhenyue, continue to ignore it gently, even if she wants to, she doesn't have such a high status.
Of course, it's better to be a family, and it's better to value harmony.
Let the two wedding girls brought by the mansion, one spring branch, one catkins, and one carry a stack of account books back to her courtyard in the general's mansion and spring residence.
asked people to move the account books directly to her bedroom, according to Mei Niang's meaning, she wanted to move to the hall, but Jiang Chuye didn't agree no matter what, Mei Niang compromised and promised to go to the bedroom to read the account books.
Jiang Chu Yeyuan still wanted to coax people back to the bedroom, and then beat the people out, the couple kept it warm, but Meiniang accepted the account book thrown by the eldest princess Zhenyue, and wanted to take care of the accounts, how could she still think about that?
If she hadn't figured out the accounts and some things to pay attention to earlier, she would have been the one who would have been embarrassed.
After that, Mei Niang concentrated on burying her head in the accounts, and I have to say that the people under the eldest princess Zhenyue do have two hands, and after reading it all morning, I was stunned that I didn't even find the fault of a penny.
At the beginning, Jiang Chuye touched and hugged him from time to time, and when he saw that Meiniang didn't even pay attention to him, he also felt bored, so he directly snatched half of the account book that Meiniang had read, and the angry Meiniang was about to drive people away. Jiang Chuye reluctantly assured that he would watch from the side and not speak, so Mei Niang reluctantly agreed.
After that, Mei Niang concentrated on reading the account book, originally she was a white-collar worker in her previous life, although she didn't have much contact with this kind of thing, it wouldn't stump her, at least in terms of mental arithmetic, no one in this era may be comparable to her.
It's just that at that time, all the people I came into contact with were Arabic numerals, but here I used all Chinese numbers, and it took me a while to get used to it.
While doing mental arithmetic, he recorded it with paper and pencil, and he was busy until lunchtime, and Jiang Chuye stopped doing it this time.
He really felt sorry for Meiniang, he was afraid that she would be tired of looking at the accounts, and he was very dissatisfied with his mother's behavior of handing over the account books on the first day of marriage.
I haven't finished reading one-fifth of the account book, Mei Niang simply didn't look at it, there is no problem with the accounts at all, and it won't be any different if I look at it again.
However, it is natural to make money, and it is better not to use Meiniang to use her dowry to make up for it.
After having lunch with Jiang Chuye, Mei Niang thought of the Lan manager mentioned by the eldest princess of Zhenyue, so she asked people to invite her, and it was more convenient for Mei Niang to ask directly.
Jiang Chuye's face was cold again, he thought that Mei Niang would forget about the account book if she went out to eat with him so simply, and at this time it seemed that he had to work hard to free her from the account book.
Chief Lan came, a woman in her forties, who was said to be a fourth-grade female official of the emperor's title, holding the third-grade official's salary.
Mr. Lan combed the woman's bun, and the style of her body had to make Mei Niang sigh, the people around the eldest princess were really different, that is, a female official looked more aggressive than other people's wives, and she was a strict person at first glance.
"Chen Zhou's has seen the young lady." Seeing Mei Niang, Manager Lan meticulously asked Mei Niang for peace, the rules were meticulous in the process, Mei Niang couldn't help but sit up straight, in front of such a strict person, she couldn't relax.
It seems that Mr. Lan's surname is Zhou, and her husband's surname is Chen, and Mr. Lan's title is eighty percent because she has the word Lan in her name, and she was called out before she got married, so she didn't change it even if she got married.
Mei Niang asked people to get up, and she was not polite, and directly asked some questions about the accounts in the house, mainly about the property of the General's Mansion, the monthly income and expenditure, how to distribute the monthly money of each house, and the silver money that some people need to use in the world.
Manager Lan carefully explained to Mei Niang one by one, and after talking for a whole afternoon, Mei Niang finally understood it clearly, but fortunately she has an extraordinary memory now, otherwise she may not remember what Manager Lan said.
Rao is like this, she still thinks that there are still a lot of places that need Mr. Lan's help on weekdays.
In her opinion, the young lady is only seventeen or eighteen years old, and even if she is from a merchant family, she may not know how to manage accounts.
Besides, a high-ranking family like the General's Mansion, even if the population of the mansion is simple, there are more affairs than ordinary people, in the past, there was the female power of the eldest princess Zhenyue, and the rooms did not dare to do anything, but now that the eldest princess of Zhenyue has given way to Xian, how can this young lady be able to suppress those people? As a close confidant of Princess Zhenyue, he naturally has the obligation to help this young lady who has not yet gained a stable foothold.
At dinnertime, the two finally came to an end, and Jiang Chuye took Meiniang to dinner again.
After dinner, regardless of Mei Niang's objections, with a wave of his hand, he received the account book into his storage jade bracelet, the storage jade bracelet is different from space, only people who recognize the owner with blood can open it, even if Mei Niang wants to grab it, there is no way.
Zhilu said that Jiang Chuye felt sorry for her, but Mei Niang was not annoyed, she snubbed him on the first day of marriage, and she should be annoyed if she was replaced, and then no matter how Jiang Chuye tossed her, she cooperated, so that Jiang Chuye's cold face smiled, and promised that she would never ignore a resentful husband for accounts or other things in the future, Jiang Chuye promised to return the account book to Mei Niang early in the morning.