Chapter 559: Governing the Family

At this time, Chestnut shouted again: "Everyone, listen—" After the crowd calmed down again, he shouted loudly—"Although these people are greedy and deliberately make trouble, the Zhang family is not an unreasonable family, and they feel that everyone is reasonable." These uncles were burned to death because of the fire in the Oak Garden, and since they could not be identified, the Zhang family set aside a piece of land in the Oak Garden, buried them in one place, and built a cemetery. In the future, when family members come to worship, they only need to recite their names at the entrance of the cemetery, and they will not worship wrongly. My Zhang family will also offer incense to them, so as to warn future generations and remember this great disaster. ”

Speaking of this, the little baby's eyes turned cold.

Eventually, the 65 people were buried in the ruins of the Oak Garden, and the enclosed cemetery was five acres in size, near the former site of Zhang's house. A few years later, when this mountain forest is lush again, from the bottom of the mountain, this cemetery looks like a village in the forest, guarding this mountain forest, and there is no gloomy feeling.

Those who made trouble failed in their calculations, and they didn't want to make trouble anymore, so they were quiet for a few months, and after the Zhang family's private school opened and the immediate family members of the dead hired workers were also arranged to work in various parts of the Zhang family, they blushed at the wages again. As a result, there are many people who come to the door in various forms to fight the autumn breeze, for example, the ten thousand mother-in-law often comes to the widowed daughter-in-law's house to loot money for various reasons.

There is no reason for the Zhang family to interfere in these hired family affairs, so they can only let her go. However, this matter was settled by gourds and chestnuts.

After the opening of the Zhang family's private school, the children of the Zhang and Zheng families did not go to the village private school to study, but only studied in their own private school, and went in and out with the children of the hired workers, and ate with their classmates. Under the training and influence of chestnuts and gourds, these little babies gradually learned to deal with relatives who came to fight the autumn wind.

Because of this, chestnuts and gourds have a group of loyal subordinates. This is the unexpected gain.

Let's say that after the hired workers were buried, Zhou Fuzi and Zhao Yun came to Zheng's house and asked Zhang Huai what was going on with the thunder on the mountain that day.

Huaizi smiled: "It was Chrysanthemum who asked people to go to the mountain and buried the big cannon in the cave." As soon as the chestnut shouted, a cannon was lit over there, and the sound didn't sound scary. ”

Zhao Yun laughed when he heard this. Zhou Fuzi also smiled: "I see." I was confused by the teacher, and I thought about it all night and didn't figure out why. ”

After dealing with the dead worker, the Zhang family was still busy. Not to mention that Zhang Dazhuan, Huaizi and Chestnut are busy outside all day, even He and Shallot are not idle.

Suddenly, a huge family is gone, even if you have money in your hand, from food and clothing to housing and transportation, it is not easy to add those miscellaneous things.

After this fire. The most direct loss of the Zhang family is that they have no place to live. They didn't want to go to the market to live, because it was inconvenient to take care of the family business, so they could only live in the Zheng family temporarily, and still lived in the old house bought by the Zheng family.

Then there is the closure of Yamanosai. Because hundreds of bonsai were burned clean by the fire, there was no work for a year or two. I want to bring up a new bonsai. For this alone, the Zhang family lost nearly 20,000 silver.

Instead, he made a workshop for lotus leaf chicken, bought a guy in another place, and immediately opened it; The lap-mei workshop is at the foot of the mountain and has not been affected; The chickens in Zhuyuan were also not lost; The granary is also not on the mountain, so it has not been affected, so there is no need to worry about the food for people and animals in the coming year.

Because Huaizi felt that it was too troublesome to move grain to the mountain, he carved a piece of land at the foot of Zhuyuan Mountain. built a granary and a residence, let Liu Xiaosi live there after marrying, and moved several tenants nearby to guard the granary together. It is precisely because of this that Liu Xiaosi, who usually takes care of bonsai on the mountain, was spared.

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the weather is sunny. Chrysanthemum's body improved, and she finally got up and came to the yard to bask in the sun, while listening to Shallot report to her about family affairs.

Shallot said: "All the clothes outside of us will be handed over to Jishang Garment Workshop to make." Each person first made three sets of winter clothes and three sets of spring clothes. The inner clothes, jackets, shoes and socks are made by the family. ”

Chrysanthemum leaned on the small wooden chair with cushions, rubbed the hand stove in her hand, nodded and said, "This is the case first." This is just an emergency, and if you want anything in the future, you can add it a little bit. It is not appropriate to make it in a hurry. However, underwear, shoes and socks and small jackets should be done with care. Now that the Chinese New Year is also busy, you ask Xiaoxi to send the stained soles to the daughters-in-law of tenants or hired workers to help pay for them, and when we come back, we only need to put on the uppers, which can save a lot of things. ”

Shallot nodded, immediately ordered Xiaoxi, turned his head and told Chrysanthemum about pickles, "I told my aunt, let the workshop help make it, and save time." My aunt told me not to worry about it, and she helped us keep all the pickles. Grandma just took someone to the field to chop snow ferns and pull white radish, let's get these two things ourselves. ”

Chrysanthemum threw her daughter an appreciative look and said, "That's it." These things are not valuable, but if a family does not have them, it will not be easy to get their hands on. Many of these things are used as ingredients and side dishes. We are a big family, and we have to eat until April and May next year, and it is not possible to keep less. ”

At this time, Liu Yunlan also came to sit down after arranging housework, Niuniu handed over the needlework dustpan, she picked up a small shoe with half the upper and continued to pull the thread, and smiled at Chrysanthemum: "Taught Shallot Housekeeper so early?" ”

Chrysanthemum looked at her daughter and sighed with emotion: In a big disaster at home, she and Chestnut seemed to grow up overnight, and they did things with a clear eye. She took the opportunity to teach her. It's not that I want to be lazy, but I think this is a good time for them to grow, and learning more will be good for them in the future.

Liu Yunlan smiled at the shallots again: "I have arranged for people to move all kinds of pickles back today and put them in the backyard wing first." Fresh peppers are hidden in the cellar and are ready-made. When your grandmother chops the fern back and pulls the radish back, you can arrange for someone to get both. ”

Nowadays, the crops use plant ash to store chili peppers for the winter, and the Zhang family and the Zheng family store a large number of green chili peppers and red chili peppers every year, not only for sale, but also for the convenience of their own food. The chili peppers in Zhang's collection were burned to the ground, so they had to eat the Zheng family's.

These things are trivial and complicated, and the first time Shallot experienced this, he recorded them in a notepad, and checked them off one by one.

Another daughter-in-law went back and forth with her subordinates, and told her about the things she wanted to buy for the New Year, or remembered the things to be added to the house, and after she checked them one by one, she did not repeat them, so she ordered them to be done according to the list.

This is mainly because there are too many things to add at home, so I have to think of some of them to draw up a list, send someone to buy them first, and add them when I think of them.

Chrysanthemum looked at her serious expression, and said, "You usually know these things, but you don't care about it." Nowadays, it is not very difficult to learn to manage. Everything is according to the analogy of previous years, and if you don't know, ask me and your aunt, or grandma and grandmother. If you can come up with a better way of doing it yourself, you can do it without the old rules. ”

Shallot nodded, moved the small bench to her mother, and said, "In the past, our family was poor, and life was simple, so naturally there were fewer things, but now there are many more things." ”

Hearing this, Chrysanthemum straightened up and said to her solemnly: "I just wanted to tell you this, but I didn't think of it." ”

Shallot was busy listening to her mother carefully, and even Liu Yunlan stopped her needlework curiously and listened to what Chrysanthemum said.

Chrysanthemum said: "Even if you have money, don't make your life complicated, as long as the food and clothing are suitable." For example, if you have money, what kind of fabric you like to make clothes, and what kind of jewelry you like, you might as well buy it; You might as well eat whatever you want, and you can't pick the door so much that you can't even be willing to eat. However, if because you have money, you just put on a show and show about it, then you don't need it. ”

Shallot asked a little confused: "Mother, even if we don't pay attention to those, outsiders have to say it, many of the people who come and go now are rich and noble, and it is not good to lose dignity when dealing with people." ”

Chrysanthemum listened, and said: "Dignity is earned by yourself, not begged for." For example, if your family business is not big enough, putting that extravagant spectrum will only make people say that you are a nouveau riche, and people look down on you from the bottom of their hearts; On the contrary, if your family has a big business and there are many talents in your family, you are a vegetarian food, and people will praise you for your integrity. ”

Seeing that Shallot listened carefully, he simply said in detail: "What my mother said means: Let's just follow the rules we like, and we don't need to learn from others." If you have a bunch of people standing around you to eat, let people help you with dishes, dress clothes, wash your face, and let people help wipe your buttocks, hmph, it's not far from the loser. This article must be written into the house rules, and no one should violate it! Otherwise, what are long hands and feet for? Besides, my mother couldn't see any benefit from these rules in improving self-cultivation. If someone thinks it's enjoyment, my mother thinks, if you stay in front of me, I won't be happy! ”

Liu Yunlan smiled crisply: "This can be said to my heart." ”

Shallot also understood what her mother meant, nodded and said: "I know what my mother means, that is, we only take care of us, if someone looks down on our family and has few servants, so people don't come and go; Those who really value us will naturally not pick this gift. ”

Chrysanthemum smiled: "That's it." Besides, let's not be too out of line, the general rules still have to be followed, just don't make it too complicated and exquisite, even if people dislike it, they can't find fault. ”

Shallot pursed her lips and smiled, "Buff! That's it, our family doesn't have to be a group of slaves, and the young master doesn't have to serve with a bunch of people behind her, let them do whatever they want. ”

Chrysanthemum smiled and nodded.

As he was talking, the chestnut and the gourd waited for the little baby to come back.

On a cold day, they ran with steaming hot on their heads. The gourd and the green cucumber all went into the house to change their clothes, but only the chestnut did not move, and he had no clothes to change.

When Liu Yunlan saw it, she hurriedly called Niuniu and took out a jacket she had newly made for chestnuts and let the chestnuts try it on.

Chrysanthemum said angrily: "Sister Yunlan is just a little better, and there are so many things at home, why bother to help him do this?" Even if he doesn't have clothes to wear for the time being, wouldn't it be the same to borrow the gourd first? ”

Liu Yunlan smiled: "I'm sitting there, if I don't do something in my hands, I'll be bored." The gourd and the babies have clothes, so I don't just think about helping the chestnuts make them. ”

As he spoke, he asked if the chestnut was suitable......

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