Chapter 496: Recognizing the Lady (3)
The calm and waveless incense on his face, and his heart really sighed. I was not surprised by the arrival of Xia Cao, after all, even if the peony did not die, as long as the position of the second-class maid was vacated, it would inevitably cause the third-class maid to be regarded as the greatest opportunity. She understands this.
In this matter, if it were her, she would also have some thoughts and thoughts, after all, people go to high places, and water flows to low places. Whether you can get promoted or not is a matter of level, and if you don't fight for it, I'm afraid it will involve some attitude problems. Moreover, deep down in people's hearts, there is a desire for the individual to be high, decent, respectable and eye-catching. Although Ning Xiang likes this rouge gouache from the Western Regions, she also knows that the box sent by Xia Cao is expensive, which is enough to withstand the other party's monthly silver for a year, but her mind knows what she is doing, and she didn't come to recognize her mother.
Seeing that Ning Xiang was Xia Cao, who hadn't spoken for a while, she didn't get a clear answer from her, and she was very uneasy. Standing not far away, leaning forward, with a straight heart, he couldn't help but ask, "Auntie, are you willing to recognize me as your goddaughter?" From now on, I will definitely treat you as my own mother. ”
"What you mean, I see. As for the box of rouge gouache you sent, I'll take it. But I'm not going to get that old! I couldn't help but raise the incense of my left palm, and touched the skin of my face that had not yet relaxed, and I didn't like it because of this, and I looked very calm.
Xia Cao, who thought that she had said something wrong, hurriedly explained to herself: "I really don't mean that. Auntie, you look like you're always eighteen. Seeing her anxious Ning Xiang, she smiled faintly, raised her voice and called the snow goose in. and took out the key he carried, and asked him to go to the cabinet in the back room and take out ten taels of silver and hand it to Xia Cao, intending to buy the rouge gouache sent by the other party at a premium.
Snow Goose, who stretched out her hands and took the key from her aunt, naturally did so. Turning around and walking into the back room, she found the cabinet and opened it, and took out an ingot of snowflake silver of ten taels in an orderly manner. Then he closed the cabinet door, locked it, and walked out again. First, she handed the key back to Ning Xiang, and then handed the silver ingot in her hand to Xia Cao.
Xia Cao, who didn't directly stretch out her hand to pick it up, had an anxious look on her face, waved her hands, shook her head and said, "My aunt can appreciate my rouge gouache and accept my rouge gouache because she has already given enough face." I was here to give it to you, how can I collect the money? Besides, this thing is worthy of someone like the eldest aunt. ”
"I'm still the same sentence. Your wishes, I understand. I also took it. If you insist on not wanting it, I don't want your box of rouge gouache either. "I know that the third-class maids are not as nourishing and decent as the second-class maids, and I also know that they have not saved much money.
Even a little bit of savings came out of the mouth. Although the Li Mansion is responsible for their food and clothing, it seems that there is no expense, but these young girls who came out of poor families. More or less opened his eyes, and he also knew what was good. What is bad, what is fragrant, and what is smelly...... And the same can't escape the small vanity and small comparison in human nature, and so on normal psychological trouble, natural consumption is looking up to the sky. Today is more chic than who gets the hairpin, and tomorrow it will be more fragrant than who uses rouge gouache. It smells better, and the day after tomorrow it will be more beautiful than the clothes that anyone wears......
Ning Xiang is a woman, and she is also a woman who came out of a poor home, and she deeply understands that if she doesn't have a little money around her, she can live in fear. For my past self. Whether it was Narcissus or Xia Cao, whatever she sent, she would treat it as an astronomical amount and be terrified. At the moment, she is regarded as dozens, and a hundred handfuls of silver is nothing. Even if it is hundreds, thousands of silver, it is very calm, after all, it is not that I have never seen it, and even more silver than this has been seen.
Xia Cao, who hesitated repeatedly, was unable to do so, so she had to take the ten taels of silver in Xue Yan's hand, and the expression on her face reflected the real uneasiness in her heart, and she thanked her again and again. The smiling incense is not to buy people's hearts, but just a kind of empathy and thoughtfulness: "It's not too early, you better go back and rest!" Xia Cao, who promised for a while, nodded, her mood was quite complicated, and she had even begun to think about it in her head, after all, she couldn't understand what she meant.
Seeing her walking out of the door of Ning Xiang, after smiling faintly, Feng Yunyun said lightly to the snow goose standing on the side: "This box of rouge gouache, you can take it down and use it!" Although you are still the same age as flowers, you may not really be able to use it, but after using it, it can indeed add color to you. "The snow goose with her eyes wide open, although the days of entering the Li Mansion are still shallow, she can know some good things in her mind.
Faced with this kind of rouge gouache with several taels of silver a box, I was thrilled at the same time, but I was really reluctant to take out the silver to buy it. On the one hand, I really can't afford it, and on the other hand, I think that this amount of money is enough for the whole family to save money for more than half a year. After all, if this is used on the face every day, it will be a matter of half a month at most.
Snow Goose is the most aware that this kind of high-grade rouge gouache is not something that low-level maids like them can afford to enjoy. Even mid-level maids such as Xia Cao will be regarded as luxury. However, once promoted to the position of a senior maid, it has become a daily commodity. Even if she doesn't buy it for use, and the ladies in the house will pay for the makeup that is completely sufficient, after all, the maid who follows her close to her more or less represents a certain amount of her face.
"Auntie, slaves don't deserve such good things. I'm afraid of ......" the snow goose with a red face, and her heart is extremely complicated, on the one hand, it is out of the girl's instinctive desire to try beauty, and on the other hand, she is very afraid that she will never live a hard life in the future, and it will be difficult to extricate herself.
Ning Xiang knew that she was a maid who was rarely favored by Zhao Tian'er, and after this period of careful observation of her, she did feel that she was worthy of being cultivated, trained and cultivated by herself, and while understanding her thoughts, she interrupted and said: "What is not worthy?" If you use it, you will use it. As long as you are loyal to your master and work diligently for the eldest lady, good days are still ahead! (To be continued......)