"Is this still lying to you?" Banniang said with a smile.

May cried with joy: "Can the slave really learn to read and write like Sister July and Sister September?" When the sisters came back in July, the slave and maid told them to go, and asked the two sisters to help me more. ”

She would be so happy, Banniang was a little surprised, I hadn't seen this girl show the strength to read and write, but when I think about it, I can understand.

Although the education level of the girls in the Great Song Dynasty is quite high, it has not yet been popularized to the level of compulsory education, and the family has little money to spare, who can let the daughter's family go to the school to read and write? But everyone knows the benefits of literacy, and it is not surprising that May will envy them in July and September, especially when Alan compares them there.

smiled and joked May: "Our family is a scholarly family, out of me such a copper coin, pure accident, if you really have the heart to learn, our family has nothing else, but the book is more to be proud of, if you really have a heart, you just want to learn to be a female gentleman, Miss Eight I also support you." ”

May was embarrassed by what she said, and it was rare to be playful, and she said angrily: "Miss Eight loves to beat people and make jokes, where can a slave become a female gentleman?" Sister Alan doesn't dare to compare, as long as she can have half of the two sisters in July and September in the future, she will be satisfied, and she will be able to take better care of Miss Eleven in the future. ”

The two talked all the way and arrived home. After lunch, Banniang went to the shop by herself.

The business in the woodware shop is getting better and better, although it has just begun, and it is not going anywhere, but there are many customers who come to buy some small things every day, and there are also one or two customers who come to buy some large items, and every two or three days, they can also come to order a set of household goods.

Banniang designed the pattern of the Qin family, drew a draft, and took it to let the ancestors and grandchildren of the Qin family pass it, settled it, and took it to the woodwork workshop to do it, so that the customer information sorted out before July and September was carefully classified.

In the blink of an eye, it was September. A few days earlier, Wang Zhizhi led Liuniang to Linchuan to visit his grandmother, and Xu Shisan also returned home from Fuzhou, and Zijian also returned with him. Zijing also happened to come back from the countryside. When the brothers met, they were all over the place.

I asked the third uncle, the third aunt, and Yun Xian how they were doing, and Zijian answered with a smile. At night, the family sat together, and Zijing went to the countryside for a while. People are a lot darker, but they are becoming more and more calm, and when it comes to farming, they are also the first to go. The soybeans planted in the summer planting season were harvested early, and they were bought from Lu Seventeen's oil mill, and according to the market price, there were more than 200 guan income, and this season's rice harvest was also very good, deducting the chewing used at home, there were also nearly 200 guan inputs, which was calculated to be 400 guan. And Sanniang and Banniang's grange, although they have only been planted for one season, because of the smooth wind and rain this year, the harvest is also good. The rice produced was also sold, and more than 50 of them were sold.

This money may not be anything to the Zeng family today, but it is a bumper harvest year and a great joy, and everyone is very happy when they hear it. Wu is the eldest sister-in-law, and she wants to go to Zhang Luo for a sumptuous dinner, one is to treat Zijing, and the other is to wash Zijian's dust. Banniang felt that she hadn't cooked for a long time, and her hands were a little itchy, so she went to the kitchen with Wu and cooked a dinner for the two brothers.

Zijing and Zijian, two brothers, one is not good at eating on the road, the other is in the countryside that has good ingredients, and they can't find a good chef who can make delicious food.

And Xiao Jiu and Jue'er Gong'er were also infected by these two brothers, and they even added more bowls of rice than usual, Wu looked funny, and only said on the side to eat slowly and eat slowly, for fear that a few people would choke.

Because it was autumn, although it was warm in the south, it was getting cooler day by day, so Wu made autumn shirts for the family. The people went to the ready-to-wear shop to order it. Eight Niang and Qi Niang are all big girls, so they are naturally exquisite, where can the Wu family be busy, so they carefully selected the clothes and specially invited the best needlework master in Nanfeng City to tailor them. And a few sons and daughters of all sizes in the family were not ambiguous, and one person made a few bodies, and they all rushed out together with winter clothes.

Banniang's body has been so big this year, and she can't wear the old clothes anymore, so she has made a few more.

After finishing the matter of clothes, Wu was urged by Aunt Zhang again, and finally found the space, asked Xu Shisan's meaning, and also explained the character of Zhang's Xiuniang in detail.

Although the Zeng family has the mother-in-law of the Zhu family, but the family is the Wu family when the family is in charge, Xu 13 has been working in the Zeng family for more than a year, and he also knows the character of the Zeng family very well, and will never say that unrealistic words, the young grandmother in charge is also very trusting, listening to the words of the Wu family, she was silent for a while, and then said in a muffled voice: "The villain's business, sister-in-law will give you an idea." As long as the Zhang family really doesn't mind the villain's situation, it's fine. ”

Wu thought that he agreed, and he was also happy for Xu Shisan, that Zhang Jiaxiu Niang is indeed a good little lady, not to mention anything else, Xu Shisan has such a virtuous help, he can not only have a home, but also manage his life well.

Although the two parties have reached an agreement, a family affair is not said to be successful, and the procedures that should be followed should not be less, Wu said: "The Xiuniang of the Zhang family is also seventeen or eighteen, and she has reached the age of marriage, and the family has delayed the family affairs because of the family, and the Zhang family is in a hurry to marry a daughter. You are now working in our house, and I told you earlier that you should clean up the few rooms at the back of the academy and the library pavilion, and you will choose a new house when the time comes, and there is no need to go out and waste that money by renting a house. The other is, I don't know how much money you have on hand now, the Zhang family is good to Xiuniang, I heard Xiuniang and her mother say that the dowry is quite decent, and when the dowry comes, if you are tight, just pay some from me, and slowly deduct it from the monthly money in the future. ”

Xu Shisanlian didn't need it, he had some savings in the past, he had been in the Zeng family for so long, and the clothes for the four seasons were supplied by the Zeng family, and there was no place to make money, and he also saved it, counting it, there were also seventy or eighty deposits. He told the Wu family how much money he had, and said: "The villain has no relatives, and the matter of getting married is all thanks to sister-in-law Zhang Luo." ”

Because Uncle Huang was by his side, Uncle Huang smiled when he heard this: "In this way, congratulations to Thirteen, you also have a family." ”

Wu got the right words and knew the situation of Xu Shisan, so he invited Aunt Zhang to come and put the family affairs in a righteous manner, and Aunt Zhang was naturally happy like something, so she invited a matchmaker to come over and give the family affairs according to the procedure.

That Aunt Zhang didn't boast about Haikou, the Zhang family's dowry list was as she said, and based on the situation of their family, it was really decent. The wedding date is set for next spring. Xu 13 also had no objection.

At the end of September, a letter came from Linchuan, saying that the 28th was an auspicious day for the zodiac, and Zeng Budo and Zhu were going to pick up the old lady's house.

Banniang thought that the old grandmother would come back, and Qi Niang naturally followed to come back. Now she lives in the east wing, and there are a few maids to follow her, Ah Lan has always slept in the outer room of her house, and lives in Pixia in July and September, if Qi Niang lives with her again, it will be a little crowded, and then she is sometimes busy at night, and when she stays up late, it is not good to call Qi Niang to sleep well.

The West Chamber is always empty, so it's better to clean up the West Chamber, and when the time comes, Qi Niang and Xiao Shi will be the boudoir. Although Qi Niang probably has to keep vigil for her grandmother most of the time and live in the main house together, she has to prepare.

And because he wanted to live in his grandmother's house, he had to pick up his grandmother's outer room. Winter is coming soon, and the house still needs to be warm and comfortable.

Then there is May to take care of Xiao Eleven, Qi Niang followed her grandmother, if Xiao Shi lives in the West Chamber, there will be no one to take care of, in July and September, a few people are busy with things in the shop during the day, and it is not good to call them on errands at night, this time, the family is not enough, Qi Niang sees that it will not be long before she will get married, a family like the Wang family, you have to prepare two maids for Qi Niang to marry, so I think about it, I will discuss with the Wu family, and buy a few maids.

Wu was also thinking about this, so he took the word to the tooth shop, and after two days, the tooth shop brought people to come, Wu thought that the people who came could be used as soon as possible, and picked four twelve or thirteen-year-old girls, one is this age, and they are sensible, and things are easy to teach, and the other is that they have just been cultivated for a year or two, and those who can do things will have to be used, and they can spend less thought.

And Banniang's side, thinking that Qi Niang has not been at home for two years, she has to be comfortable at home before she gets married. As for the accessories, they are also exquisite.