People live for a lifetime, you are quiet and comfortable, Chungui is extremely willing to fight with the world, the right of the housekeeper she is a great way to make people able to work more, but the "housekeeper" is idle and has nothing to do to destroy her quiet and comfortable, then it must be a fight, but as Mrs. Yi said, most of the young daughters-in-law need half a lifetime of training, at least they must first complete the primary task of inheritance before they can become the director of the family, and the goal of the spring return at this time cannot be replaced by Mrs. Peng herself.

Just like she planned, her goal is only to promote the division of Mrs. Peng's housekeeping power, and the third and fourth ladies will assist in internal affairs, so that it will fundamentally shake Mrs. Peng's status in the Taishi's mansion, and the servants and maids will no longer obey Mrs. Peng's words one by one, Mrs. Peng wants to calculate her, and the manpower that can be used will be greatly reduced, and Chungui wants to fight back, of course, there are more manpower to use, so although she has no intention of personally assisting in housework, But an indispensable step is to establish one's own prestige in the Taishi Mansion.

At the morning meeting of Mrs. Peng's handling of family affairs, there is a spring return by the side, although nominally it is just to hone her knowledge, but for many servants, this is also a big signal - sooner or later, the internal affairs of the Taishi Mansion will be handed over to the eldest grandmother, and the eldest grandmother is their future mother, whether you want to be decent, want to be idle, or want to be powerful and wealthy, you can't offend the future housewife, otherwise although the family rules of the Taishi Mansion strictly prohibit killing servants and maids, of course, they can be expelled and sold.

And on the first day of the spring return, he "went to work", and when he saw the eldest girl, he also followed Mrs. Peng.

This is due to the second master's confession, he went to Aunt Meng's small courtyard yesterday, and took the initiative to confess why he went back to the main room first, then he had to complain about Mrs. Peng's "small fuss", Aunt Meng said that in the Wei State Mansion, like the eldest girl, who is close to the lady, the Duchess will let them follow to learn to manage the family, so that when the girls go out of the cabinet to marry, at least they will not ask three questions about the personnel of the house, the second master is not completely dead at this time and the Wei State Mansion to marry, thinking that if this marriage is really done, there is no ability to run the family, But it greatly damaged the tutor of the Taishi Mansion, so he immediately instructed Mrs. Peng to "make amends".

and reprimanded Mrs. Peng, saying that her mother-in-law was not dedicated, that she was virtuous and virtuous, that she was shallow and ignorant, no wonder she taught her two sons to be pedantic and ignorant, and Mrs. Peng saw that the second master actually went back to the main room for breakfast this morning, and used Jin Que's offer while the iron was hot, and proposed to transfer Yulu into the inner house, so that she could justifiably carry her aunt in the future, and the second master agreed to agree, but she didn't miss Mrs. Peng's love at all.

You can imagine how depressed Mrs. Peng was this morning.

It happened to be a steward's daughter-in-law of the reward library, reporting the loss of a vessel, when the little maid wiped the porcelain vase set up in the flower pavilion, she did not pay attention to smashing it, this porcelain vase was newly purchased, and the price on the account was 5,000 yuan, which was not valuable among the many rewards displayed in the Taishi Mansion, and it was classified as ordinary damage, but the housekeeper's daughter-in-law must report to Mrs. Peng to check and cancel the account, and she also brought the porcelain bottle fragments in accordance with the rules, and then handed over to a special person to destroy it.

Taishifu has half of the garden, pavilions and pavilions need to be decorated with rewards from the public treasury, most of them are not precious utensils, and the servants and maids who are responsible for the daily sweeping of these pavilions and pavilions are some rough slaves and maids, it is inevitable that the hairy hands and feet are not meticulous enough, and damage is not uncommon, so the daughter-in-law in charge is just according to the chapter

work, I didn't feel like I would be burned at all.

But when Mrs. Peng was depressed today, this daughter-in-law could be regarded as hitting the mouth of the fire.

"The newly bought utensils were damaged every other month, you really deserve to be a good messenger!" Mrs. Peng snorted coldly, and then explained to Mrs. Jiang, the head of the inner house: "Dismissed her messenger and punished her to the laundry room." ”

The daughter-in-law was shocked when she heard this, but she didn't dare to argue with the mistress, so she only knelt down and kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Chun Gui was about to speak, but he didn't expect to be taken over by the time.

"Mother's anger, some small mistakes, or leniency is more appropriate."

When she returned to the spring, she felt a little surprised - in her impression, the eldest sister has always been quiet and silent and has no quarrel with the world, and in the face of the second sister's unreasonable provocations from time to time, she mostly laughed at it, and never openly contradicted her mother-in-law.

"Some minor faults?" Mrs. Peng's anger suddenly exploded, and half of her eyebrows were raised: "Treasury steward, preventing and reducing losses is one of the duties, if you don't deserve punishment for dereliction of duty, how much responsibility should you make before you should be punished?!" ”

Although he stood aside, lowering his eyebrows, he still argued with reason: "The buildings and pavilions in all parts of the garden are limited to the limit of loss, and if they exceed the punishment, they will be rewarded if they are not lost, and my daughter heard that there are many buildings in the old years that are not lost, but there is no reward, and the ruling family should be rewarded and punished fairly......

"Big girl, you came today to listen to the teachings, not to interfere with the directors of the inner house!" Madame Peng was already a little angry.

The posture of the time became more and more humble: "The daughter is at fault and should be punished, but the mother should be fair in managing the deacon, which is also limited by the family rules." ”

Only then did the spring return realize the stubborn side of the eldest sister who did not give an inch in her bones, and secretly thought that this should be influenced by her grandmother, no wonder the old lady once entrusted the affairs of the inner house to the grandmother to take care of it.

So I regretted that the old lady was not firm enough, and if even the second sister was entrusted to the grandmother to raise her, Lan Ting would have one less sorrow now.

However, at this time, seeing that Mrs. Peng was about to thunder at the eldest sister, of course Chungui would not stand idly by: "The sages have a saying, 'great filial piety respects relatives', 'righteousness does not obey the father', all of which are to encourage children to be born offspring, and should have the courage to correct the mistakes of their parents. ”

Mrs. Peng's head was swollen by these words, and she had the heart to reprimand Chungui for talking nonsense, but she couldn't tell whether the original meaning of "great filial piety and respect for relatives" was the literal meaning of "how to respect relatives and how to obey the young", and she was even more unsure whether there was really any sage who said such rebellious words as "obeying righteousness and not obeying father", no way, she only read the fourth book of women, and quoting scriptures is not a strong point at all.

She said this, and Chungui naturally had to make persistent efforts: "And the damage to this piece of equipment is not the fault of the warehouse manager, she just reported it according to the truth, her responsibility is to count the inventory in and out of the warehouse, if it is damaged during handling, she can be held accountable for mismanagement, but the arrangement of servants and maids everywhere in the garden, not her master, is responsible for the little maid who is responsible for sweeping, she does not have the authority to discipline and manage the little maid, where can all the fault blame be counted on her head."

Above? ”

Mrs. Peng became more and more speechless.

The theory can't be argued, but conspiracy can be used, and Mrs. Peng slanted the corners of her lips: "According to Brother Ting's daughter-in-law, the fault should be counted on Mama Jiang?" ”

Mrs. Jiang is not the old lady's companion, but she is Mama Su's cronies, and has always been the head of the inner house, and now she is also responsible for training and teaching servants and maids.

Chungui thinks that Mrs. Peng's methods are really inferior and shallow, and now she can still "stand still" in the Taishi Mansion, and she is really lucky to have this - Mrs. Shen's eldest sister-in-law is an innocent temperament, and the third and fourth ladies are not competitive people, so Mrs. Peng was able to control the inner house and be majestic within a few years, perhaps because of this, she has the confidence of "invincible".

didn't look at Mrs. Jiang, at this time, her brows were already firm, and it was obvious that Mrs. Peng was in trouble.

"The eldest sister just explained that the little maid made a mistake, and within the normal limit of wear and tear, it is not worth punishing and holding accountable at all, even if it is a small punishment and a big punishment, it will only be punished according to the family rules, and it will only be punished for one month's salary."

Mrs. Jiang's brows were loosened, and she received the punishment for her mistakes.

For a "decent person" like her, is her income just a salary? That idea of monthly money will not be taken into account at all.

Mrs. Peng immediately realized that she had made a mistake.

But the words she said were like water, and Mrs. Peng could only suppress her anger and forcibly turn around for herself: "This is the first lesson I taught you, and I hope that in the future, you will have to remember the family rules of Xuan Zhutang based on leniency and fairness, as you do now." ”

Such a blunt way of turning, only Mrs. Peng felt that it was enough to step down, and many of the servants present were all bright in their hearts, and the eldest grandmother dared to openly provoke the second lady, firstly, she relied on the old lady and the uncle to support her back, and she was indeed able to speak with a good temperament, don't look at her humble background, who let her win the favor of the Empress Dowager Shengde and the princess of the Jin Kingdom, but you don't dare to bully her as an orphan daughter of a small family, this is not even the second lady can be theoretical, so she has to avoid its edge? As far as it is now, the momentum is very strong, and when she gives birth to a son-in-law for her uncle, she may be able to make a decision immediately.

The servant woman who has more heart and eyes, and then sees the eldest girl's behavior of daring to disagree with her grandmother in public, and can't help but guess that the second lady is not to mention the middle feed, I am afraid that even the second master's favor has been lost, otherwise the eldest girl is just a concubine, how can she lose the face of her grandmother like this? I'm afraid that the wind direction of the inner house of the Taishi Mansion has really changed, and it can no longer act according to the old yellow calendar.

In this way, when Chungui proposed to "study" the accounts, most of the housekeepers' mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law were very cooperative, so that Chungui easily found out a lot of clever projects to embezzle public funds, she truthfully transcribed those fraudulent accounts, and also handed over to Tang Hui to personally investigate and collect evidence, collect the testimony provided by various firms that have dealings with the Taishifu Inner House, and plan to launch a general attack on Mrs. Peng immediately.

From beginning to end, this battle lasted only a few days, and even after the Double Ninth Festival, Lan Ting returned home again.