Yu Jin accepted the cloud head shoes given by the second sister, and the white muslin socks embroidered with begonia flowers given by the third sister, both of them were good at embroidery, obviously they were all attentive. The younger brother gave him the moon cakes he was reluctant to eat, Aunt Meng gave a silver hairpin inlaid with emeralds, and Aunt Ding gave a silver hairpin inlaid with pearls.

Yu Jin listened to her younger siblings in the house, and Mother Cao, who was beside her mother, came in and saluted and said, "Miss, all the male servants in front have gone to the ground, and Madame asked me to take you to the study to meet the master."

Yu Jin followed Cao's mother to the front yard, in fact, there is no difference between the front and back yards, this is the nearest farm in the original Hou Mansion, because Yue Sanye was separated from the family, and asked for all the silver to Yu Jin to pay for the medical expenses, this is the temporary residence, I didn't expect Yue Sanye to make up for the lack of holy decree for a long time, and it became like this. The family now has enough money to live, and they can't afford to use a large sum of money to repair the house. There are many simple huts outside the courtyard, which seem to be temporary shelters for domestic servants.

Cao's mother stopped at the door of the study, and after Yu Jin entered, she first saw that the main hall was hung with her father's handwritten Liu Yuxi's "Burrow Inscription", the hall was very small, Yu Jin saw her father sitting on the top with a serious face, and her mother was looking at Yu Jin on the side.

"My daughter has seen her father." Yu Jin saw that there was a futon in front of her father, so she hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down to salute.

Yue Zhiyi is nearly forty years old, tall, with a long face and a slight beard, and has been a local parent official for a long time, and his momentum is very majestic and dignified. His eyes were sharp, and although the eldest daughter came in and read the cursive writing in the hall, although it flashed very quickly, he still caught it, and his heart couldn't help but move, remembering that when the eldest daughter first came to recognize her relatives, she was wearing a cloth dress and a skirt and carrying a strange bag, without any ornaments, but her movements were neither humble nor arrogant. Yue Zhiyi had a delusion at that time, if he showed doubts and disgust, he was likely to lose this daughter completely.

Yue Zhiyi was very glad that as soon as he saw the girl who was almost seven points like his second son, he recognized her at that time. Now that her daughter came in, she didn't pretend to be polite, or panicked about what the family had done for her, it seemed that her daughter had a valley in her chest, and she was really not an ordinary girl who didn't know anything.

"Get up! Dr. Zhuge deserves to be called a miracle doctor, it seems that he is not lying, you are really good. Madam, since your daughter has already reached the end of the house, you will leave the household accounts to your daughter to take care of. Dayu, you are the eldest sister, don't forget to take your two younger sisters with you when you take care of the housework, if you have anything unclear to ask your mother, you can also come and ask me. Yue Zhiyi's face was serious, and he had the intention of testing his eldest daughter in his heart. Mrs. Wu on the side was full of surprise, and kept looking at her husband and eldest daughter.

Yu Jin did not give in modestly, and took the initiative to respond: "Yes, my daughter remembers her father's orders."

"The pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table are gifts from your father." Yue Zhiyi was overjoyed in his heart, the eldest daughter was really literate, and he pointed to the stack of things he had just bought next to the desk on the left and said.

Yu Jin was facing the direction of the desk, and saw that the bookboxes in the room were all stacked together, and there was only a small space for the desk to use. Next to the desk was the new Four Treasures of the Study, which had obviously been placed on the table a long time ago and prepared.

"My daughter thanked her father." Seeing her daughter's generosity in taking care of the affairs of the family, thinking that her daughter could not only read but also settle accounts, she was very excited, tears welled up at once, and she hurriedly wiped it with a handkerchief.

Seeing that her husband didn't speak, Mrs. Wu stood up and said, "Master, I'll go and get the account book to my daughter."

"Go ahead!"

"My daughter quit." Yujin walked to the desk, picked up her things, and walked out of the study with her mother.

Yu Jin walked in the courtyard and glanced around, she had already seen a rough idea of the situation here, Xi Nu took the things, and Mrs. Wu was very relieved to pull her daughter back to the backyard.

Seeing that her parents didn't want her to visit her grandparents, Yujin went back to the house to change into new clothes, put on her cloth dress and began to calculate the family's accounts with her mother.

There is nothing to hand over the accounts now, my father came back from out of town and did not take office, he lives far away from the inner city rich circle, the key is that the family is poor, and now there are no friends to deal with. In one day, Yujin understood it. It turned out that most of the domestic servants in Guide Mansion were the old men brought out by Mrs. Wu and the Hou Mansion, and the tent office invited resigned because they were old and unwilling to leave home. I originally thought that the capital would be equipped with a new servant, but I didn't expect to be separated in less than a month, and the luggage didn't have time to be opened in a hurry, and now it is all piled up in two courtyards.

There is a small courtyard in the inner city of the capital where Mrs. Wu is married, which has just been recovered from the hands of the tenants, and now lives the eldest young master Changbai, the second young master Changqing and their scholars and long-term followers, and all the valuable furniture is piled up in that small courtyard.

There are eighty-three taels of silver in the house, and the monthly household compression expenses are only about five taels, and now the weather is getting cooler, and many things have to be added, and the monthly cases of the people have not been sent for two months, but fortunately, these people are all honest, and the family is doing things in the house, but no one has chewed their tongues.

Yu Jin has had more difficult days outside, and there are not a few times when she eats and lives in the wild, but now her family is stretched thin because of her, and she must change the status quo.

Yu Jin looked at all the items in stock and carefully calculated what to do. Yuming's parents took Cao's mother and Xinu to rent an ox cart with sheds, and Cao's mother's husband, Steward Xing, personally drove the ox cart into the inner city, and Yu Jin, at her mother's insistence, put on new clothes and put on her mother's hooded hat to go out.

"Miss, here is twenty-two acres of land on our house, because the construction of the bridge and the construction of the official road occupy one acre and two points, now there are eleven acres in the south of the road, nine acres and eight points in the north of the road have been planted with wheat, and the vegetables and radishes planted in the south of the road have not been harvested." The criminal steward pointed to the land on both sides of Qiaotou Road and said.

Yu Jin lifted the curtain on the ox cart and looked out at the location of her vegetable field, all of which were close to both sides of the official road, and the other end was close to the river bank, and saw that the reeds and puzi on both sides of the river had turned yellow, and there were cargo ships under the bridge constantly passing under the bridge, "Steward Xing, when was this bridge built, do you know?" “

This bridge is a three-hole stone bridge that began to be built during the period of the first emperor, and it took two years to build it just in the spring of this year, called Xibian Bridge. The bridge had just opened when we lived, and entering the city from this bridge was dozens of miles less than going around the bridge on the other side of the bridge in the past. “

"Do these reeds and pampas have owners?" Yu Jin asked, pointing to the reeds and puzi on both sides of the river.

Steward Xing said with a smile: "The river belongs to the official's family, and the reeds and cattails are wild, whoever wants them wants it, because it is not easy to harvest in the water, otherwise it will be harvested long ago."

"Steward Xing, if you want to get some pu sticks and reed flowers, I can use them, let the wind out, and we will buy them with silver."

"Yes, Miss. After harvesting the radishes and cabbage in the field, it will be fine, and I will lead people to pick some of them, so I don't have to spend money to buy them. “

"Miss, what's the use of those things?" Cao's mother asked puzzled.

"The puff stick can be dried to fill the pillow and some small things, as for the reeds can be woven with hemp rope to form a cage, it is the kind of high wooden bottom Xie Gong clogs, which can be worn in rainy and snowy weather in winter, if there are enough reed flowers picked, you will each enjoy a pair." Yu Jin explained to Cao's mother very face-saving.

"Yo, thank you Miss, the old slave is most afraid of rain and snow in winter, stepping on wet shoes, throwing both legs wet mud." Steward Xing smiled and thanked him.

Yu Jin didn't speak all the way, and she began to bow her head and ponder. As long as there are outsiders, Xinu generally does not speak. Cao's mother wanted to open her mouth several times, and now she is Yu Jin's house, and she wanted to ask Yu Jin what she wanted to buy today, but she had to keep silent when she saw Yu Jin's serious expression.

"Miss, you're about to enter the city, please tell me where to go." Steward Xing broke the silence and asked for instructions. The people of the village are accustomed to calling the downtown area of the inner city on the other side of the river as the city, but in fact, the farm itself is also within the city walls, but the outer city.

Yu Jin pondered, "Steward Xing, you go and inquire about the prices of bricks, tiles, stones, wood, doors, and windows, as well as how much they have in reserve, can you give credit and deliver the goods to the door." By the way, I asked the foreman who has a good job, how the salary is calculated, and whether there is time to build a house now. By the way, I bought twenty catties of salt, ten catties of high-quality cotton, six large jars for pickles, and some pig bones. Xi Nu, you count out five taels of silver for Steward Xing, and Steward Xing will wait at the entrance of Jinqiao Street after finishing his errands, and go back in the middle of the afternoon. “

"Yes, eldest miss, the old slave will send you to the entrance of Jinqiao Street."

"Steward Xing, can I send bricks and tiles by water? The location is Xibian Qiaotou. Yu Jin remembered the cargo ship in the river and added.

"The old slave has written it down, miss, it has arrived at the entrance of Jinqiao Street, and the ox cart is not easy to enter." Steward Xing jumped out of the car and put down the small bench, Xi Nu stepped on the car first, Cao's mother got down, and the two of them escorted Yujin out of the car one by one.

Yu Jin took Cao's mother and Xi Nu all the way down, and had a general understanding of the market of items on the street, and entered the hotel at noon to eat a bowl of noodles per person, and was about to go out of the hotel, when the sound of two people talking came from outside the door, a clear voice couldn't help but be louder, Mrs. Cao's face was happy, and Xi Nu whispered: "It's the voice of Aji next to the eldest young master."

Yu Jin hurriedly stopped and stopped the two of them from speaking.

"Young master, you just let the little one go back to find his wife to get some silver, you have eaten black flour cakes for three days, and you have to study and study every day, you can't stand just eating cakes and drinking water."

A deep voice scolded, "Shut up, don't you have anything to eat?"

"Young master, you are a daughter, you can eat small rough skin and thick meat with cakes, but you can't! Besides, it's already cold, and you should wear a jacket in autumn. I'll go back, and I'll bring back the clothes of the second young master. “

The eldest young master pondered for a while, and then said in a low voice: "Aji, wait for two more days, my mother is busy with my eldest sister's illness, and I may not take care of it, if you go back and ask for your mother, you must be sad to see it, thinking that you are negligent of us."

After eating the cakes, the two walked away with the book basket on their backs, and Yu Jin went out only to see two thin backs, one tall and one short, "Miss, it's the eldest son of the eldest young master and the old slave." Cao's mother was going to go out, but was stopped by Yu Jin, she has not officially seen the eldest brother, and from the words, she heard that the eldest brother is a steady and filial person, and she can't explain it when she goes out at this time, she didn't come to the hotel to eat, but to investigate the hotel market.

A few days after Yu Jin took over as the housekeeper, no one reminded her to send silver to her two brothers, which was Yu Jin's negligence.