Chapter 14 Vegetable Grower
Stuffing people into his son's room is the most disgusting way for his daughter-in-law, which is the experience that Gu Qing has gained from countless house fighting novels. Of course, this method is only suitable for the kind of promiscuous son.
Probably the old man took a good head, Li Mao and Li Meng are not good women. When Li Meng married his wife, there were only a few girls around him, and they were not the kind of people who accompanied him; Li Mao and the Fang family have been married for ten years, and they don't have a concubine, and their aunts, Xiaoxing, or anything have never entered the door.
Being a maid in the Xinguo Mansion, if you don't want to climb up, you will be much happier than in other mansions, at least the masters are very benevolent and will not be treated as a plaything. When you reach the age of marriage, you can also get a little dowry.
Li Mao pulled her to retire when Fang's face turned pale, and there was no talk about "adding a few more people" at all. Gu Qing originally threatened casually, so naturally he would not dwell too much, and proudly watched the couple leave in embarrassment.
Hmm, Li Mao is not a scumbag, it's really unexpected.
After solving Fang's entanglement, it will be Li Xiaopang's turn.
Returning to Tian Juri, not long after Yin Shi, Li Rui was woken up by the mother-in-law sent by Gu Qing.
He rubbed his eyes in a daze, it was not yet quite dawn, and he rarely got up so early. Li Rui sat up and waited for the two girls, Cangyi and Cangcui, to open the gauze cover that covered the light.
As a result, after waiting for a long time, the house was still dark.
"Cang......" he shouted.
"Young Master Rui, Mrs. Tai has ordered, from now on, you will have to take care of your clothes and washing by yourself. Miss Cangshu prepared hot water and towels for you, and put them outside. Your clothes are on the couch by the window. The old woman is old and frail, and you have to serve this water yourself, young master. Now that the young master has woken up, the old slave has gone to wait outside, so that my turbidity will not pollute the house. ”
After speaking, the mother-in-law who returned to the countryside looked at Li Rui, who was confused, and squeezed a smile.
In the dim light, the wrinkled face of this old woman was comparable to the old monster who ate people in monster novels, which made Li Rui's heart tremble.
"You, you go out......"
Li Ruiguang, who was completely awakened by the fright of the old woman, stepped out of bed, and the cold floor made him bare his teeth. He walked a few steps to the gauze lamp in front of the bed, pulled down the gauze cover, and the room finally brightened a little. Luckily, the candle was not extinguished.
Li Rui walked back to the bedside, because he was too fat, he rarely bent over, and he was always waiting for a few maids to put on shoes. Now even Cang Shu is not allowed to enter the house to serve, so he has to bend down and pick up his shoes and sit on the edge of the bed to put them on himself.
When he put on his shoes and went out to bring in the basin from the outer room, the water in the basin was not very hot.
……
Will he have to live like this in the future?
In the inner room of the Cloud Holding Courtyard, Gu Qing had just woken up.
The nights in ancient times were very monotonous, especially in the courtyard of the deep house. If you are a husband and wife, you can still "exercise" in the bedroom together, but it is impossible for Gu Qing, a lonely old woman, to pass the time like this. Mrs. Qiu is illiterate, there are no books in the bedroom or study, Gu Qing can't even read books at night, she doesn't know things like Shuanglu and Ye Zixi, and she doesn't want to learn, so she has no choice but to go to bed early.
Go to bed early and wake up early. The sleep quality of elderly people is not very good, Gu Qing once woke up in the middle of the night for no reason, and did not fall asleep again until dawn. Since then, Gu Qing has asked all the mothers-in-law and girls in the bedroom to go out when she sleeps at night and light all the lights.
When you wear it in ancient times, you will find that a room of antique Chinese furniture looks very charming, but at night or when the light is dim, the whole room makes people feel very eerie. Accustomed to living in a modern, minimalist style room, the bedroom with the lights off always makes her feel like she has run into the set of costume horror movies.
Especially the carved bed she slept on, the top of the bed tent was embroidered with a picture of a baby's play, and the figure that woke up in the middle of the night could scare people silly, she only slept for two days, and asked someone to change to a plain one.
It was only here that she developed the habit of sleeping with the light on.
Gu Qing coughed on the bed, and the girl who stayed in the outhouse for the night shouted "Please Mrs. Peace", and the girls outside the house received the signal and began to move.
Xiangyun and Yanyun entered the house and helped Gu Qing up, and another second-class girl named Yunfu stood on the edge of the bed holding a silver basin, which contained hot water that had been prepared on the stove.
Xiangyun wrapped Gu Qing's hands with a hot hand towel, soaked them in a hot water basin for a period of time, kneaded the back of his hands and the joints of his fingers, and then applied balm. Then another second-class girl, Yun Glaze, brought another basin of water, and Yanyun waited for Gu Qing to wash, clean, and apply grease.
It's all over, Xiangyun and Yanyun put shoes on Gu Qing, and Qiyun and Jiayun, who are in charge of clothes and champas, moved to a sandalwood shelf, on which are hung the clothes to be worn today. Clothes with wide robes and large sleeves are particularly easy to leave marks, and the large coats to be worn are usually hung up in a special room the day before, arranged by a girl who specializes in serving clothes, and will be given to the master to wear the next day.
After everything was taken care of, Gu Qing was helped out of bed by the girls and waited to dress. After putting on the underwear, I went to comb my hair again.
In the process of combing her hair, this combing lady also served as telling Qiu Lao Taijun some stories about rural anecdotes, good weather, and karma, and then praised the Xinguo Mansion as a first-class philanthropist, and there must be auspicious words such as good retribution. This is probably equivalent to Gu Qing's "Morning News".
The combing lady still has to learn this trick because Mrs. Qiu spends too much time on combing her hair every day. Some of Mrs. Qiu's hair was already gray, and she had to weave some wigs to cover it, and after all of it was done, she spent more than an hour on her hair.
Gu Qing admired this middle-aged woman very much, how competitive is the combing work in the Xinguo Mansion? This woman had to tell stories for more than an hour every day, and they were not repeated, and they were witty and funny, not vulgar. She had the urge to record it.
In case I go back to modern times in the future, I can still write a "Cloud Holding Morning News" or something.
After combing her hair, she originally had to apply powder, but after Gu Qing wore it, she stopped applying powder. Those fat powders that were said to be very high-grade were distributed to the girls by Gu Qing. Seeing the happy looks of those girls, she felt that she had done the right thing.
Once she came here, it was impossible to seduce any handsome old man, and since there was no possibility of a second spring, there was no need to wear heavy makeup to cover her sallow skin. The second is that she doesn't know what this powder is made of, so she doesn't dare to rub it on her face.
However, the fat powder used in the Guogong Mansion should be high-end goods, right?
After drinking a small bowl of white fungus snow lotus soup to moisten his throat, and using a few jade buns, Gu Qing was going to see how Li Rui's vegetables were harvested in Guitian Juli.
Under the guidance of his mother-in-law, Li Rui walked through the Rice Pavilions and the Hefeng Corridor, and arrived at the most incomprehensible scenery in the Xinguo Mansion - this vegetable field was originally planted with peach trees, and all the vegetables were planted on the level.
This place he hasn't been to before. It should be said that since he was a child, he has not been to any vegetable patch.
So when he saw the large vegetable patch and the ducks running around in the vegetable patch, he showed an unacceptable expression.
'Oh my God! Is the vegetable plot in our house so big? Didn't you say that there were only three acres of land? Three acres turned out to be such a large piece of land? ’
'Grandmother, how did you grow such a large field by yourself?' ’
"This ...... Why is there still a duck in this? Li Rui watched the ducks walk among the ridges with a pale face, and left a bunch of ...... very happily Duck droppings.
He felt the urge to turn around and go back to Qingcang Courtyard. The old lady must have done this on purpose to teach him a lesson! Definitely!
Later, he went to Zhiyun Courtyard and knelt down, swearing that he would never fight again!
"This is Madame Tai's method. Put the ducklings that have just been able to eat grass into the vegetable patch, and the ducklings will eat the leftover rotten leaves, and usually eat the insects in the field. The ...... of these ducks Able to fertilize the field. When the ducks grow up, they can be sent to the kitchen and then new ones can be bought. Mrs. Zhang, who was in charge of taking care of the farmland in Guitianju, pointed to the ducks. These can already be sent away. ”
"It's ridiculous! Master, I'm quitting! ”
"No way!" Old Taijun Qiu appeared in front of the entrance of the vegetable field.
As soon as Gu Qing walked to the entrance of the vegetable field, he was startled by these few acres of land.
She thought that Mrs. Qiu was planting vegetables for fun, but she couldn't imagine that she had really planted so many fields. Listening to Xiangyun, there are four or five mothers-in-law who are responsible for taking care of the fields alone. Not to mention those who raise ducks, those who are responsible for buying seedlings, and so on.
To this day, she doesn't know why she wants to raise ducks. Is there a shortage of ducks to eat in the Shinkoku Mansion?
That's not the point, though.
Li Xiaopang wants to do it? How's that going to work? There is no better way to lose weight than labor!
"Mrs. Zhang, Mrs. Jiang, you look at Young Master Rui, he wants to go out for a step, you just tie him back! Our Xinguo Mansion is also poor and started, how can he raise him without diligence and without dividing the grains! Gu Qing glanced at the green vegetables with a weak heart, and really didn't know anything except the green vegetables.
"Rui'er, you give me three days...... No, so many dishes in five days! I'll watch it every day, and you can't be lazy! Don't let anyone else help! Gu Qing looked at Li Rui, whose eyes were about to fall, "I know you won't accept the dishes." You can learn from these mothers-in-law. ”
"Grandma, shall we change careers? Will you punish me for writing? Or endorsement? I am a young master of the National Mansion, and I went to the vegetable field to grow vegetables......"
"Princes and generals, would you rather have a kind? Were you born to be a young master? Your grandfather, your father, and your grandmother and I have all farmed at home. Why can't you? ”
"It's okay if you don't plant it. Can you be an official? Do you know martial arts? Or can you earn silver? Even if it's just one, you don't have to plant! ”
"When I grow up......"
"You're twelve! The children of poor families have already started the family business at this time! ”
"I'm sitting here today! Xiangyun, bring a chair! Gu Qing grimaced and pointed to the vegetable field in front of him, "A few of you, don't you teach Young Master Rui how to collect vegetables?" ”
"Yes!"
"Grandma, can you spare me!!"