Chapter 62, the heart of a mother
Su Jinyan remembered that in her previous life, these maids in their fifth room, her mother Xie fell ill in bed before she could dispose of them, and then she had been living in the backyard with the people in the fifth room.
For these maids, it is just a month of one tael of silver, and a year is twelve taels of silver, if they can keep to themselves, she doesn't mind persuading her mother to settle them in the south courtyard of this west wind courtyard, so that they have a place to live, if they are restless, then don't blame them for being ruthless.
After all, a maid in the room is only two hundred dollars more than the big maid, and even the nurse around them is not as good, the nurse has one or two silver and two hundred wen, and these maids who should have been sent out to Zhuangzi stayed in the south courtyard, this is not a plain meal for nothing, and the silver is given for nothing, and how much embroidery you have to pay according to the instructions of the lady of the main room this month.
If you meet a merciful hostess, the embroidery delivered every month is just a scene, if you meet the ruthless, this can be squeezed hard, and the embroidery sells for far more than their monthly monthly money of one or two silver.
The concubine room, Xie Shi is not waiting to see them, not to mention these call maids who want to become concubines, Xie impatiently let them go down, go back to the backyard to stay alive, and then how to deal with them, Xie has not yet thought about it, whether to let them go to Zhuangzi, or arrange to work in the shop, or settle in the south courtyard, and spend a little money every month to support them?
Xie's impatience, these maids in the room saw it in their eyes, and they were also anxious, but at this time, they were all interested in not speaking, after all, for them, Xie Shi did not arrange for them to do embroidery or anything at the moment, so that they could still have one or two silver per month, and they had no worries about food and clothing.
After asking for peace, the Xie family left the three Su Jinyan sisters, Su Jingye, and Aunt Zhong and Su Jinxiang's mother and daughter, and the other aunts and concubines were sent back by the Xie family.
Leaving Su Jinxiang and Aunt Zhong is just Xie to disgust Aunt Wu's mother and daughter, if Xie treats Aunt Wu's mother and daughter harshly at this time, he may end up with a bad reputation, so the method taken by Xie at this time is to promote another aunt and suppress Aunt Wu, Aunt Zhong is the most suitable candidate whether it is her mother's identity or other aspects.
"Sister Xiang, how have you and your aunt gotten along in the past two days, but what is wrong with it?" Xie Shi looked at Su Jinxiang and Aunt Zhong, thinking that Su Jinxiang was a child who grew up under his knees after all, and now that he has an aunt, he naturally can't be as close to him as before.
She doesn't think anything, but her aunt can't guarantee that she won't think about it, at this time, Xie mainly wants to ask how the two of them have gotten along in the past two days, whether they feel awkward, or others, if there is, she doesn't mind enlightening them, and now they are also people in the same boat, this can't be any infighting among their own people.
"Back to my mother, Xiang'er and my aunt get along very well, thank you mother for remembering ·······" Although Aunt Zhong is Su Jinxiang's aunt, she is not in a hurry to speak at this time, but is waiting for Su Jinxiang to speak.
She is not Su Jinxiang's biological mother after all, so this can't be done after all, the two of them have no guilt, at this time she wants to hear what her adopted daughter will say, and what Su Jinxiang said is very good, and she is not dissatisfied with her aunt at all.
For Su Jinxiang, this is definitely a good thing, her biological mother died early when she was a child, although she was raised under Xie's knees, but Xie has her own daughter, so it is impossible to treat her like a daughter, and now she has an aunt, she treats her as a daughter, she can't ask for anything to be dissatisfied with.
In addition, she is already eleven years old, and she will be twelve years old after this year, and she will be able to discuss marriage at the age of thirteen in another year.
Also, she and Aunt Zhong became a mother and daughter, when they got married, no matter how they said that they had to give themselves a dowry, although it may not be much, but after all, it is a heart from the mother, and the woman has a dowry, and she can rely on her husband's family, just like her mother.
Aunt Zhong's side also treated Su Jinxiang as her own daughter, and this Su Jinxiang was recorded in her name, first giving Su Jinxiang a jade bracelet of good quality, and then the five hundred taels of silver tickets in her deposit, saying that Su Jinxiang was to use it as pocket money.
Although Aunt Zhong is an orphan daughter whose parents died early, she has a grandmother who loves her, so it was good to marry back then, but the Zhong family is a Qingliu family, and the family background is relatively thin, and Aunt Zhong's dowry is just two shops on the main street of Lin'an City, a Zhuangzi of 50 acres, plus 5,000 taels of silver.
As soon as he made a move, he had five hundred taels of silver, which was also generous, and among the several aunts in the fifth room, I am afraid that only Aunt Zhong could have this handwriting, and the other aunts may not have a total net worth of five hundred taels!
Su Jinxiang has been in front of the Xie family all these years, and sometimes he will get some silver from the Xie family, plus the monthly money of ten taels of silver per month of the Su family, and he has also saved some of his own private money, but it is only more than four hundred taels, less than five hundred taels. Therefore, Su Jinxiang was flattered that Aunt Zhong gave five hundred taels at once.
Although the Xie family is more generous to Su Jinxiang than several other concubines, it cannot be compared with Su Jinyan's sisters, the Xie family is sometimes in a good mood, and the reward for Su Jinxiang is only a few dozen taels, and at most it is not more than a hundred taels.
Su Jinxiang is also a person who knows proportion, so he is reluctant to spend money, but he is willing to spend money for the Xie family, some of the meals that Su Jinxiang pondered on weekdays, there are no procurement materials in the house, Su Jinxiang spends his own money to let people buy it back, of course, this is also the reason why Xie likes Su Jinxiang very much.
"It's all what a concubine should do, to put it mildly, this mother is not good for her daughter, who is good for her?" Aunt Zhong is also relieved in her heart, at least this daughter has been good to herself for the past two days, and she also likes it very much.
Because of her identity, Aunt Zhong at this time will say a word in advance, after all, although Su Jinxiang is a concubine, she is also a girl with a good family, and although she has a high status in her mother's family, those are all in the past, and she is now just a concubine, half master and half servant.