Zeng Rong lived in Xu's house for one night, and the next afternoon moved to a room in the west of the backyard of Xu's house, this room was arranged for her by Yang's family, the owner of the house was a housekeeper mother beside Yang's side, in her thirties, her man's name was Zhao Dasheng, and she was also a housekeeper of Xu's house, responsible for the purchase of the stove house, and Zhao's mother was responsible for the daily travel of the ladies in the house.

This Zhao's mother, who didn't deal with Zeng Rong in her last life, suffered a lot under her.

It turned out that this Zhao's mother also had three children, the first two were daughters, the eldest was ten years old, called Chun Tao, the younger was seven years old, called Chun Xing, and the youngest son was just two years old and couldn't walk.

Because this Zhao's mother was brought by the Yang family from her mother's house, and the Yang family is now half of the housewife of the Xu Mansion, Chun Tao entered the Xu Mansion early as an errand and became a third-class maid by Xu Jing's side, responsible for sweeping the floor, watering the flowers or something.

And after Zeng Rong entered Xu's mansion in the previous life, Xu Jing asked her to his side, although he also had the name of a maid, but Xu Jing didn't let her do anything, not only that, every time she came back from school, she was afraid that she was bored, she was homesick, and she was afraid that she would not be adaptable, either pulling her to the back garden to play or teaching her to read and write, and later, he taught her piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and Zeng Rong also became half of the master around Xu Jing.

At that time, Zeng Rong, no, should be called Zeng Hua, was undoubtedly jealous and excluded by the maids around Xu Jing, and the first to bear the brunt was this Chun Tao, without him, because Zeng Hua's arrival seriously threatened Chun Tao's status.

The reason why this Zhao's mother put her daughter by Xu Jing's side early was to have a place by Xu Jing's side in the future, so that she could save herself from marrying a poor boy, and her future children would still not be able to get rid of their slave lives.

For this reason, this Zhao's mother gave her a lot of stumbling blocks, but Zeng Rong didn't expect that in this life, she would fall under her so quickly.

Unfortunately, she didn't have a choice.

Fortunately, this time she didn't come to Xu Jing, and the yard of Zhao's mother's house also has several benefits, facing the street, easy access, and an independent well in the yard, so you don't have to worry about going out to fetch water.

Another point is that Zhao Dasheng's family of five lives in three upper rooms, and the two Zeng Rong sisters are divided into a west wing room, which is relatively independent and less likely to affect each other.

There is one point, this west wing room was used by the Zhao family to pile up sundries, and it has not been inhabited for many years, so although the house has been vacated, the dust inside is not ordinarily large, the window paper is also tattered, and there are no daily necessities in the house except for a large kang and a stove for heating.

Fortunately, Zeng Rong has also exercised in the past three months, and she is no longer a rich aunt who does not touch the spring water with her fingers, so when she saw the situation in the house, she put her things down, rolled her sleeves and went to the well to fetch a few buckets of water, and pulled Zeng Hua to clean the house for an hour.

After the house was cleaned, Zeng Rong opened the doors and windows to let it smell, and then took Zeng Hua out of the door, didn't dare to go far, and bought a few necessities at the corner of the alley, washbasin, bathtub, gong bucket, hand towel, Xiangyizi, fire candles, Korean paper, and also bought a few baked cakes for dinner, because it must be too late to buy this set of things for cooking.

After coming back, she sorted things out briefly, Zeng Rong borrowed a ladder from Chunxing, and she wanted to paste window paper.

When the two sisters were busy, Zhao Dasheng's family came over with two mothers-in-law, saying that they had sent them two sets of summer bedding on the order of the Yang family, and also sent them half a bag of rice and a few vegetables by the way.

Seeing that the two Zeng Rong sisters were pasting window paper, Zhao Dasheng's family patted their heads and said, "I'm also busy and confused, I forgot that this house has not been inhabited for so long, and this window paper has long been broken." Blame me for this, blame me, when I came, the eldest lady still asked, what are you lacking, I brought you everything I could think of. ”

"Thank you Mother Zhao for bothering to think about it, and I also bothered Mother Zhao to thank the eldest lady for me, you have helped us too much, but I'm sorry to keep bothering you, and we will try to do what we can do ourselves in the future." Zeng Rong glanced at the things in the hands of the two mothers-in-law and said with a smile.

Although she was a little dissatisfied with the Yang family for driving the two sisters out so quickly, and she was also a little disgusted by Zhao's mother's insincere words, on the other hand, this was also what she thought in her heart, and there was nothing wrong with coming out to be independent early, so why should she keep looking at other people's eyes under the roof?

It doesn't seem right to say that, she still lives in someone else's house, and she still stands under someone else's roof.

Thinking of this, Zeng Rong hurriedly asked, "Mother Zhao, can you ask, how should this rent be calculated?" I'm sorry, but I'm a newcomer and don't know any of that. ”

In order to live harder, when she asked Mrs. Xu to enter Beijing, she did say that she would pay the rent, but at that time she didn't know that she would receive a meeting gift when she entered Xu's house this time, so she thought that the rent had to be owed first, and she had to wait for her to receive the salary before paying, but after returning to the room last night, she sorted out the purses given to them by several wives and aunts of the Xu family, which were basically one or two taels of silver ingots. So she doesn't have to owe rent.

Zhao Dasheng's family obviously didn't expect Zeng Rong to mention the rent, so after hearing this, she glanced at Zeng Rong carefully, and saw that Zeng Rong didn't seem to be joking, so she hurriedly smiled and said: "Where is this, you are the life-saving benefactor of our eldest son, and our eldest wife is afraid that there will be a place where there is a bad greeting, if you mention the rent, doesn't it mean that our Xu family is ungrateful?" Spread out, the face of our Xu family... ”

"Mother Zhao, don't say that, Mrs. Xu made a special trip to send Granny Ding and Granny Tang to the door to thank her, and when she entered Xu's house yesterday, the wives and aunts gave a good meeting gift, but we can't rely on a life-saving grace to rely on your Xu family for a lifetime, right? One yard to one yard, our sisters came to Beijing to earn some money to support their families, not in a day or two, not in a year or two, so what to do, this is the long-term way. Zeng Rong said.

Zhao Dasheng's family definitely couldn't be the master of this matter, so he quickly diverted the topic, ordered the two mothers-in-law to bring things in, and also asked Zeng Rong to come down, and let the two mothers-in-law help them paste the window paper.

Zeng Rong really can't do this job very well, if someone helps, she won't be polite, and it just so happens that there are still a bunch of things in the house that need to be cleaned up.