Cao Mansion, Wutong Garden, East Chamber.

Tian sat on the edge of the kang, Niuniu and Tianhui sat on the stool next to her, and all three of them looked at Chu Yu.

"Sister-in-law Tian, the two brothers on the left are getting older, and a few days ago, the old man said that the children were divided. There must always be someone waiting around here, and while I am entering today, my sister-in-law will also pick a few little girls and train them for a few years, and then I will be called. Chu Yu said with a smile.

When Tian heard this, he hurriedly said, "What Mrs. said is true." ”

Although there is no shortage of people waiting in her yard now, Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng also have maids and old mothers waiting for them, but except for the little walnut mother and daughter, they are all children of the Cao family.

After all, it's not the Cao family, and when the children are older, they will always have to set up another door. When the time comes, it will be difficult for the Cao family's children to follow the past, so it is natural to train some people to come out first.

The property left by the Ning family has been doubled several times in the past few years, and now Cao Hao has bought the land in the name of Zuozhu and Zuocheng.

Because they are still young, they are still many years away from marrying a wife and having children, so Cao Hao is not in a hurry to buy them real estate. However, the money to buy a house for their brother, Cao Hao had already prepared.

He, the father-in-law, always has to do something for his two children.

Tianhui and Niuniu were a little curious, and Niuniu asked, "Sister-in-law, how old is the little girl, is there such a big girl as Niuniu?" ”

Chu Yu replied with a smile: "This time, the main girl is the little girl, and they are all inseparable from you." ”

Niuniu listened, and her eyes lit up.

She was raised by Sister Liqiu, surrounded by maids from the Banyan Courtyard. There are six maids, two second-class, four third-class, and the youngest are a few years older than Niuniu.

Seeing this, Chu Yu couldn't help but regret that he was too late.

Because the Banyan Courtyard is a guest house, it has a different status in the house, and Chu Yu is not easy to meddle in the internal affairs there. Sister Lianqiu and Sister Xiqiu have limited knowledge, so they hold all the silver in their hands and praise Niuniu's dowry, but they can't think of training the little girl.

Niuniu always has to get married, do you want her to marry alone?

"Take a good look and pick out eight later." Chu Yu said to Niuniu.

"Eight, will you give them all? More than the people around my mother and aunt? Niuniu was a little puzzled and looked at Chu Yu and said.

Not only was Niuniu surprised, but even Tian was surprised when he heard "eight".

immediately thought that Niuniu was eleven years old this year, and she would reach the age of leaving the cabinet in three or four years, and she also understood Chu Yu's intentions.

Before the aunts and grandmothers of the Cao family left the pavilion, they were all waiting for four big maids and four little maids around them.

Although Niuniu's identity is not as good as theirs, but pick a few more people, but spend a few more silver, go one time, enter a few more, and then slowly look at the character.

"You pick eight first, first train for half a month, and then pick out two to send to your mother and aunt, and then pick out two to send to the old lady and me, and keep four for yourself. It's a Niu Niu helping herself to train people with us, okay? Chu Yu thought for a moment and replied.

I said this because the house in the Banyan Courtyard was limited, and it was too crowded to enter the eight little girls, and there were not so many errands. In addition, Niuniu is still a child, and I don't know if I can regulate a good person.

In this way, if the few around Niuniu are not like words, before Niuniu comes out of the cabinet, she will give her the four around her, and there is no need to pick someone temporarily.

She knew that in her husband's heart, he treated Mr. Zhuang like a father, and treated Niuniu, a little junior sister, like a sister, so she was willing to plan for her.

Niuniu has no fathers and mothers, no relatives in Beijing, and two half-sisters, who can't be counted on if they live far away, and it's pitiful to say.

"Okay, okay, sister-in-law, that's it. Niu Niu designated to teach them to understand the rules and serve people well. Niu Niu smiled.

Everyone was talking lively, and Tianhui was watching from the sidelines, and she also showed a little curiosity.

Seeing this on the side, Tian was a little strange. She thought that since Chu Yu brought Niuniu and Tianhui with her, then this person also had Tianhui.

Unexpectedly, I only told her and Niuniu, there was nothing to do with Tianhui.

After thinking about it, Tianhui is only eight years old after all, and he is not very sensible, how can he regulate people?

She didn't know that Chu Yu was also ready to let her daughter pick someone, but she didn't pick outside, but in the family child.

When the eldest aunt and grandmother of the Cao family and the second aunt and grandmother went out of the pavilion, they were all married maids who waited for the little ones, and the family had children. Even if there are concubines, they don't dare to turn the sky upside down; Like Cao Jia's side, the four personal maids have become the housekeeper's lady and the arms of the housekeeper's director.

The only three aunts of the Cao family, because when they went north, the big maids around them pointed to people, only a few little maids, and later bought four dowries outside, causing a lot of trouble, making people worry.

Lessons from the past, how could Chu Yu arrange a little maid outside for her daughter?

Today, it is said that the people are mainly prepared for the boys and Niuniu in the house.

At this time, Le Chun came in and said, "Madam, the Cao Fang family has brought someone over......

Chu Yu's eight maids who married in his early years married one after another, and now the big girl ring of Wutong Garden is arranged with the word "music", spring, summer, autumn, winter, green, red, blue, and purple.

Le Chun and Le Xia are the first of all the maids, Le Xia took Le Qing two, and went to the Rehe Courtyard in April, which Le Chun replaced the position of Xiyun and Xicai in the early years, and became Chu Yu's left and right hands.

Chu Yu nodded and said, "Tell her to bring someone in." ”

When I was a little younger, I saw Cao Fang's family come in, and then followed by two rows of little girls, all of whom were pleasing to the eye, wearing clean blue coats and braids, the younger ones were seven or eight years old, and the older ones were twelve or three.

Entering the house, these little girls stood in two rows in a regular manner, with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, and looked very well-behaved.

Seeing this, Chu Yu nodded secretly in his heart, it seems that Renyazi has already taught the rules, and they have all made a profit.

This kind of person who does house business knows that large families pay the most attention to rules and love cleanliness.

"Madam, Mrs. Ma knows that Mrs. is going to come in, so she sent forty little girls over, there are twenty people here, and there are twenty waiting in the courtyard." Cao Fang's family bowed.

Chu Yu nodded, and the Tian clan picked first. How can the Tian family take the lead? I don't want to. Niuniu is also a crystal heart, and she only said that she would be the last to pick.

Seeing this, Chu Yu had no choice but to raise his head and signal Le Chun to step forward.

"Who does needlework well? Take a step forward. Le Chun had already received Chu Yu's explanation and asked.

This girl from a poor family, who was a popular girl in school since she was a child, asked Lechun, and half of the little girls stepped forward.

Le Chun stepped forward and asked them to reach out, and when they saw the thin callus on the belly of their index fingers, they nodded; and those who do not have them, or those with thick calluses, tell them to go back.

There were six people left, Chu Yu nodded to Le Chun, and Le Chun called them out of the column and stood aside.

Then Lechun asked who could cook, who could read, and who took care of the children at home, and singled out six people.

Twelve people, I picked enough.

Chu Yu said to Le Chun: "Take it to Mama Liu to learn needlework." ”

Le Chun leaned over and answered, leading the twelve little girls down. Chu Yu asked Cao Yuan's family to bring in all the little girls from outside and let the Tian family pick people.

Tian thought that he was different from the Cao family, and he couldn't compare to being so rich. The Cao family chooses the capable ones, and it is impossible for her to choose the ones with good colors.

And she looked at those who were twelve or thirteen years old, who could be called at once. She also learned Chu Yu and asked, who can needlework, who can cook or something, and picked out four tall and capable people from them.

Cao Fang's family was beside him, and when he saw his wife and Grandma Tian being so provocative, he couldn't help but raise his arm and rub his eyes.

Could it be that your eyes are spent, and you can't tell the difference between beauty and ugliness?

Why are all the little girls she looked at left?

Although Chu Yu asked Tian to pick a few more, Tian was only willing to pick four.

She thought that when she really moved out, she would sell two more houses and a few little girls, and it would be enough. After all, now that they are in Cao Mansion, it is not good to replace them with their own people.

In addition, she is distressed about the monthly money. After all, this girl was bought from her mother and son, and it is not good to call Cao Fu out of the moon again.

Chu Yu saw that she was insistent, so she stopped persuading each other and looked at Niuniu with a smile.

There were still twenty-eight little girls left, standing in three rows.

Niuniu got up and pulled Tianhui two, and the two little girls bit their ears a few times.

Then, the two stepped forward hand in hand, starting with the first little girl in the first row, and asked one by one.

"What do you love to do?"

"What do you like to eat?"

When these little girls answered tremblingly, Tianhui picked up her glasses, raised her head, and took a good look.

Chu Yu and Tian glanced at each other, so they couldn't laugh out loud.

The little girl's answers are varied, and the things she knows, from the female red needlework, to the mountain to collect medicine, to fishing and catching shrimp, everything that children will know, is about to say everything.

When a little girl said that she liked to eat "rock sugar bird's nest", Chu Yu looked at it twice.

This thing is not something that ordinary people can eat, and then look at this little girl, she really has a bit of a good attitude, and she is quiet at a young age.

Niuniu walked around twice with Tianhui and ordered a few people to come out. These are big and small, some are good-looking, and some are mediocre.

Chu Yu looked at it, she was a little confused, and she didn't know why Niuniu picked them.

There were still two people left, Niuniu looked at these people from the beginning again, picked out two more, and together with the previous ones, made up eight.

The little girl who loves to eat "rock sugar bird's nest" is no longer among them.

Cao Fang's family took the rest of the little girls down, and she had to go to the front yard to hand over the deeds of the twenty-four little girls to Ma Pozi.

Chu Yu also asked Niuniu to send the eight people to Rongyuan first, and then asked Niuniu and Tianhui, "It's eating and playing, are you two aunts and nephews specially picking the naughty girl so that they can play with you?" ”

Tianhui just laughed, Niuniu pouted and said, "Sister-in-law has wronged people." I learned from my sister-in-law what I do. Half of them, but those who want to honor their elders, can't pick some lazy girls to come out. When I asked what I liked to eat, I heard my mother and aunt say that the food in our house is good, and we never treat our subordinates harshly. When they entered the house, they were maids; Before entering the house, he had any identity. If you think that the maid's food is not as good as in the past, you won't think about our family's good. ”

At a young age, he has such knowledge, Chu Yu couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Compared with the fourth sister and fifth son of Dongfu, this is more like the girl of the Cao family.

"Then why do you still let Tianhui look at each other one by one?" Tian asked puzzled.

In a word, everyone looked to Tianhui.

Tianhui listened, wrinkled her little nose, and said, "Ruixiang lost her teeth, it's so ugly......" Before she finished speaking, she immediately stretched out her arm and covered her mouth with a fleshy slap.

Ruixiang is the eldest granddaughter of the big housekeeper Cao Yuan, and she is a big one, although she does not enter the house on an errand, but she often plays with Tianhui. The master and servant changed their teeth one by one, and lost their two front teeth, which caused Tianhui to "become hateful...... Everyone was talking and laughing, and a maid from the Orchid Courtyard came to spread the word, saying that the old lady asked her to come over.

Niuniu was excited at this time, greeted Chu Yu, and took Tianhui and the two to the Rong Courtyard.

Chu Yu took Le Chun to the Orchid Courtyard.

Cao Hao came back from the Chunjun Palace, and he was also on his mother's side.

It turned out that the envoy who went to Suzhou Zhao An and his wife came back a few years ago, bringing the news that the uncle and grandfather of the Li family and Gao Taijun had arrived in Beijing.

According to etiquette, Li Xu and Gao Taijun entered Beijing, and Cao Hao went to the dock to greet them. They arrived in Beijing ahead of schedule, and Li couldn't wait to take his son and daughter-in-law to visit his old mother immediately.

But it is not early today, and Li's meaning is to send Cao Hao to go over to ask for peace first, and she and her daughter-in-law will go over tomorrow morning.

Cao Hao also meant this, chatted with his mother and wife for a few words, and then went out again.

Inside the Dongzhi Gate, Li House.

Li Xu had already bathed and changed his clothes and put on homely clothes. The chief housekeeper Qian Zhongrui led someone to send Wen Taijun's coffin to the temple, and now he is back to deal with Li Xu.

Because the Dragon Boat Festival was coming soon, the camp and funeral were too hurried, so Li Xu picked the middle of May, so Wen's coffin was parked in the temple first.

Rao is like this, Li Zhai's side, he didn't wear Bai Xiao up and down, and he also changed into plain clothes. The red lantern outside the door had already been pasted with green paper, and when he heard that the descendants of the Cao family had returned, Li Xu nodded, wondering when Cao Hao would arrive.

Originally, he also persuaded Gao Taijun to go directly to Caofu, but Gao Taijun's intention was to finish Wen Taijun's funeral affairs and then go over, saving him from wearing filial piety and going to other people's homes, which was taboo.

The old lady also has three points of truth, but the "other people's family" is not a side family, it is a daughter's family, and now the aunt is gone, and the grandson is in charge.

However, when Li Xu heard it, he was useful.

For the Li family to take over Gao Taijun to pay homage, he is a hundred willing. In order not to lose the dignity of the Li family, he prepared half a boat of the objects that Gao Taijun often used.

There are also the maids and mothers-in-law who are waiting with them, Xiangyu's clothes and jewelry, and Li Xu asked the Wang family to prepare carefully before entering Beijing.

Wang was annoyed, this posture was not like an old lady going to relatives, but like sending a girl into the palace. But Xiangyu is her own granddaughter, and she also cherishes it a little.

Gao Taijun used a lot of Wen Taijun's old things to fill the number; Xiangyu's side is real, she paid twenty taels of gold from the account, put on a gold collar, bracelet or something, and thought about leaving it to her as a dowry in the future.

Gao Taijun sees things and thinks about people, and only thinks about his nephew and nephew's daughter-in-law, and he doesn't think about it.

The old man didn't look forward to the life of the Cao family.

After all, in the eyes of the world, she is the daughter-in-law of the Li family, not a family with the Cao family......

(To be continued)