Chapter 52: The Trouble Caused by Voyeurism
Although Wang Jingui has not yet married Li Ming, he lived in the Li family as his fiancée. A few days later, her eldest lady's temper gradually appeared.
"I said Xiaocui, you have given me some meals! I heard that the food of my father and eldest brother is the best, and even the two outsiders in Yihong's courtyard are treated like this, do you want to fool me with defective products or don't treat me as a matter at all! ”。 Wang Jingui pointed to the food on the table and asked Xiaocui, the maid beside him.
The meals on the table are also made by the master chef in the kitchen, with four dishes and one soup, and half meat and vegetables. This one is already pretty good.
When the master asked, the little maid naturally had to explain honestly: "These meals are all materials purchased by the two masters in the Yihong courtyard for the kitchen, and the same is true for the master and the eldest young master." There are only these three places in the entire Li Mansion, even Aunt Zhou is no exception, she is also the same standard as you! ”。
can be treated with the future mother-in-law, what is unsatisfactory, the maid didn't say it, but she was a little disdainful in her heart.
If it weren't for the rich man Wang's envisioning a trap for Aunt Zhou to get in, how would you get into the door of the Li family?
In the Osmanthus Pavilion, Wang Jingui began to use means to fight for more rights, and the two in the Yihong Courtyard were not idle. Zhu Shou, who sent away Song Shuang and Ma Zhuozi to find white phosphorus, finally found another novel thing to do.
Taking advantage of the darkness, the young master sneaked under the eaves of the maid, peeked through the crack in the window to see people taking a bath, and was caught.
"Young Master, you have to be the master for me, the slave's body has been seen by this scoundrel!" The maid Jinniang's eyes were full of tears, and she cried softly, accusing Zhu Shou of his crimes.
"Wronged, I only saw her soaking in the bathtub all over at the time, but in fact, I didn't see less!". Zhu Shou knew that the matter was important, and began to defend himself in a panic.
Jin Niang is the most beautiful maid in the Li Mansion, a rare Jiangnan girl, he had evil thoughts for a while, and this made him feel a nervous sense of excitement, so he remembered to peep.
"Ask the eldest young master to be the master, if you don't give an explanation, the slave really has no way to live!" Jin Niang didn't listen to Zhu Shou's explanation, but just begged Li Ling bitterly.
She knew that Li Ling had always cared for the family, and she would definitely not let a little maid of the Li family suffer.
"This, Zhu Shou is not an ordinary person, and everything that involves him must be treated carefully!" For a while, Li Xie Yuan couldn't make up his mind.
"Young Master, you have to be the master of Jin Niang, you can't let Zhu Shou go in vain!"
"Young Master, this kid is doing such a thing now, and he doesn't know what immoral things he will do when he grows up, in my opinion, why don't you send him to the government?"
The family members were talking about it, everyone was a miscellaneous servant of the Li family, and they naturally wanted to go to Jinniang. There are even some men who usually secretly like Jin Niang and have the heart to retreat.
Being looked at by others is a detrimental thing to your reputation.
It's just that the yamen doesn't care about this kind of thing, although this dynasty attaches great importance to the honor of women, but there is no such thing as voyeurism.
"Let him pay the money!".
The final resolution of the family members was to let Zhu Shoubao pay for the silver, three thousand taels, Jin Niang was young, and at the same age, she was offered by Zhu Shou, a "pig", and everyone was not happy if the silver was less.
"It's only three thousand taels, we just give it?". Liu Jin waved his hand, and he didn't take this little money to heart at all. Breaking the fortune and eliminating the disaster should only be a lesson.
But when he put his hand into his pocket, all he took out was a few dozen taels of silver, and these days, in order to live more comfortably in the Li family, the two of them went around rewarding and spent all the silver they brought over.
"Young master, we have no money!". Liu Jin said to Zhu Shou with a wry smile.
The scene in front of them was seen by the family members, and these people agreed that the two were pretending to be poor, and Zhu Shou spent money like water before, why did he have no money now.
"No, you have to get the money out!". The family members are getting angry again.
"Li Jieyuan, can you lend my son-in-law a little money? Loan sharks are OK too! ”。 Liu Jin stepped forward and begged in a low voice.
How can a person under the eaves not bow his head? In a different environment, it is absolutely impossible to want him to succumb, but for the sake of the young master, he endured it.
After the incident, he will find someone to go back to the capital to get the silver, and then he will be able to pay off the debts as much as he wants.
"Yes, but if Brother Zhu wants to borrow money, I have one more condition, I don't know if you can agree?" Li Ling ignored Liu Jin, but asked directly to Zhu Shou, the master.
"We promise, we agree to your conditions!". Liu Jin thought in his heart, Li Ling just wanted a higher interest rate and made more money, it didn't matter, just ask, once you returned to Jingshi, you must repay the interest twice.
"I don't want any interest, but you have to work in my Li family for three months, and you have to listen to my arrangements for these three months?" Li Ling said with a smile, just like an angler waiting for a fish to bite the hook.
The two had no way to agree, although they knew that this was an alliance under the city, but it was better than letting the angry family members beat them up.
Li Ling acted very quickly, and the next day he determined the work done by the two.
Liu Jin only needs to do one thing throughout the day, and that is to take out the manure from the toilet and pull it out of the city in an ox cart to fertilize the crops.
In contrast, Zhu Shou's work was much easier, and every morning he was led by the family of the Li Mansion to the garden to explain the knowledge of this crop. Remove weeds by the way.
In the afternoon, he studied the Four Books and Five Classics in Yihong Villa, and Li Ling personally accompanied him to read.
Li Ming quietly came to the Yihong Villa a few times, and he found that the reading atmosphere here was better than that in the county school, and his brother's explanation was much more interesting than those old pedants?
Is this also called punishment? Isn't it that the eldest brother has taken a fancy to Zhu Shou's intelligence, and he wants to be trained by him to become Xie Yuan.
Zhu Shou's situation can't be hidden from others, especially those gossip families in the Li Mansion.
The news that the eldest young master had the intention to cultivate Zhu Shou spread far and wide, and everyone worked even harder when they came to work in Yihong Courtyard.
The maid Jin Niang also had a different mind, anyway, her body/son was shown by Zhu Shou, even if she found someone else, it would not be so wishy-washy.
The eldest young master has never cared about a person in particular, and even he looks up to the other party, which shows that this kid is extraordinary.
She was only two years older than the other party, so why commit herself to him?
The little girl's mind changed, not only did she not have any dislike for Zhu Shou, but she became more intimate with him.
"Master, since the eldest young master is so capable, why don't you let him teach Ming'er too, if there is one more person in the Li family, wouldn't the master have more face?"
Zhou went to the main house to complain again, the fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders, in his opinion, Li Ling's behavior is clearly not to take their mother and son in his eyes.
Father Li shook his head and ignored Zhou, she was too good at tossing, she just sent Li Ming to the county school, and now she wants to study with Zhu Shou in Yihong Courtyard.
At the beginning, Li Ling neither entered the county school, nor did he specifically invite Mr. Private School, and he was not admitted to Xiucai.
After only a few days of work, Liu Jin couldn't stand it, tired or second, the guy Li Ling assigned to him was too dirty, if he did this for three months, he would stink to death.
"No, I have to think of a way!".
In the dead of night, he was writing hard, and this time even if he was guilty of instigating the young master to flee from home, he had to find a way to get out of here. I can't stand it!
An anonymous report letter was placed on the table of the Nanjing town guard.
The old eunuch gasped, the matter was too important for him to decide.
100,000 turkeys, 800 miles and 300 miles were quickly sent to the capital.
At the same time that the letter arrived in Jingshi, the letter with the same content was also handed to the commander of Jinyiwei, and he did not dare to slack off, so he hurriedly wrote a fold and listened to it.
Staying in the middle and not sending it, this is the emperor's opinion, it is silence, and it is also a kind of acquiescence.
After half a month, there was still no movement, and Liu Jin looked at the two huge dung buckets and was about to cry.