Chapter 9 Moving to a New Home
Yujin asked Zhang Yue to take away a large bag of bean sprouts and porridge noodles to give to Huang Fuzi, and when he came back, he bought a cart of soybeans and two bags of millet. Bean sprouts are in high demand, and the number of beans needed is large, so buy more and stock up while it is cheap, and keep some beans and millet to process into porridge noodles.
Xinu now has a certain right to speak in Yuefu, and after Yu Jin took charge of the house, all the monthly silver owed was repaid in place, and the servants were rewarded with a set of winter clothes, which were made by Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Chang. Now no one dares to question Xi Nu's words, because everyone knows that behind her is the eldest lady, and the Yue Mansion is actually the family.
Yujin cashed in the dividends of the first batch of clothes sold according to the size of her contribution to making clothes, and their enthusiasm was ignited, and now they can even walk. Zhang Yue began to frequently go into the city to deliver ready-to-wear clothes, either Li Shizi's friends or Liao Gongzi and Tang Ergongzi's friends asked for clothes, and they all received them according to eighty taels of silver. For each color of clothing, there are only five pieces with the Pegasus mark. However, there are small variations in each piece, either buttons or sleeves, sometimes belts, and the clothing team is very busy!
The construction site of Xibian Qiaotou is in full swing, stewed cabbage in big bone broth at noon every day, there are soybean sprouts in it, in order to let the workers make buns, there will be a bowl of cut dried radish, each person is limited to two spoonfuls.
Vigorously do odd jobs here, since the first time he ate dried radish, he saved all the dried radishes and took them home. There are many workers who do the same and store dried turnips and send them home at night. Work hard, be diligent and discerning, and never spare any effort. Sometimes, when others wash their hands before eating, he also helps chop wood.
Yue Sanye was troublesome to go home for dinner, so he often stayed on the construction site to eat. Vigorously found Yue Sanye before eating, and said, "The villain has seen the big master."
Third Master Yue had already noticed Dali, and didn't understand what was going on with him, so he nodded with a smile and signaled that Dali would say something if he had something to say.
"Sir, my younger brother is a scholar, and he is too thin to do heavy work. He can write, settle accounts, and can help with bookkeeping and fires on the construction site. My brother doesn't need to be paid, just take care of a meal at noon, do you think you can let him help? “
"Let him come over tomorrow, I'll see." Yue Sanye agreed.
vigorously agreed to run to dinner happily, and Master Zhang asked with a smile: "The adults want to accept him."
"Well, this kid is good, with a sense of justice. There are cheaters and tricks, and he can't get used to it, so he teaches a lesson, saying that the master's family is in charge of the broth and boiling water, and he is sorry for the master's family if he doesn't work well. If his brother is really good at settling accounts, and there is still a lack of an account room in the house, it is not impossible to take them in together, and you can send someone to inquire about the situation of his family. “
"Yes, I have been paying attention to him for a long time, he brings pickles home every time, he is a person who cares for his family, and now he still cares about his relatives."
"Master Zhang, the bean sprouts taste really good. I'll go back and ask you for a prescription, and it will be hard for a while, and it will be fine when I take office. “
"Thank you, my lord, it is Zhang Bingshui's blessing to be able to follow my lord."
"Don't thank me, my daughter came up with the idea. Don't worry, I'll tell you the good news again, you see that this is the courtyard built by my daughter according to the medical hall, and Dr. Zhuge may open a medical center here, and then your wife's illness may have the rule of law. Third Master Yue stretched out his hand to the courtyard being built next to him.
"That's a good feeling, thank you, sir! I'll go back and tell my lady that she must be happy. “
"I agreed with the foreman to complete it in early October, it seems that it will be ahead of schedule, and this weather is good, and it will be completed by the end of September."
"There is a reward of five taels of silver for completing the work a day earlier, and they are not enough. It's so dark that you can't see before you go, and you go to work as soon as the morning dawns, and it's twenty or thirty taels of silver five or six days in advance! “
Yue Sanye sighed, "It's not that the drawings are clearly marked, and the materials are complete." Foreman Zhao is capable, the workers are highly motivated, and the speed of building the house is really fast enough. “
"It's an adult's clear rewards and punishments, and the bone broth is full of flavor and warm every day. There are food, drink, and rewards, and the salary is settled every ten days, and there is no delay or arrears, how can it be unhappy. Zhang Bingshui echoed.
"Don't rent your house, everything is expensive to live in the capital, and the old yard over there will be empty after I move, and you can move there." When I moved in, I simply repaired the house, and there was a well and a kitchen in the yard, which was convenient for the market and saved me from sending someone to watch the yard. “
Zhang Bingshui hurriedly saluted, "Thank you for your love, I will discuss with the lady when I go back, she is afraid of causing trouble to the adult, so she may not agree." “
"It's not just you, Zhang He, Ji Qing, Scope, and Zhao Zuo all moved into that courtyard first. The four of them have to protect the safety of my house, and you have to come over often to discuss matters, and it is difficult to walk in the cold weather if you live too far away. You are crammed for a while, and you can live together and take care of each other. I reckon it will be time for me to be appointed in a few years at most, and it will be more difficult first. “
"My lord, Master Zhang, the meal is ready, please come over and eat." Zhang He came over and said.
Huang Fuzi repeatedly postponed his departure from Beijing, and guided Changbai and Changqing to study every day. Now Ah Ji and Zhang Yue alternately go back and forth to get food from home, first taking bean sprouts, and later mung bean sprouts, pea sprouts, fried dough sticks, soy milk, steamed buns, tofu brain, tofu, egg pancakes, sauce pig's trotters, roast chicken, Xinu develops new dishes every day to send out, and is very busy.
Huang Fuzi didn't leave until Changbai and Changqing were about to take the autumn exam, and he brought new cotton clothes with him. There is also a bag of porridge noodles, a bag of round orange cakes, a small jar of pickled dried radish, and a bun in the back pocket.
Huang Fuzi said domineeringly: "If you two don't win, don't say that you are my students from now on, I will personally guide you for more than 20 days and still fail the exam, and the old man can't afford to lose that person."
Xiang Rong, the younger brother of the force, went to the construction site to help record various expenditure accounts every day and helped to light the fire in his spare time. After investigation, it was learned that Xiang Rong's father used to be the magistrate of the county, and died on the way to distribution for being convicted of greedy ink. At that time, Xiang Rong was two years old, his house was raided, and the rest of the family property was occupied by the clansmen.
Xiang Rong was enlightened by his mother, but unfortunately after being a criminal minister, although he was studying, he could not participate in the imperial examination. Dali is a descendant of his servants, three years older than Xiang Rong, and is twenty-one years old this year, he was adopted as a righteous son by Xiang Rong's mother Wang, and he never gave up protecting his sick mother and weak brother.
Master Zhang agitated a three-inch incorruptible tongue, and finally let the family of three sell themselves into slavery. promised Xiang Rong that he could redeem himself when he had money, and his mother Wang would not arrange heavy work.
According to the drawings designed by Yu Jin, the house was completed six days ahead of schedule at the end of September, and Foreman Zhao got an extra thirty taels of silver, and after happily settling the account, he told Yue Sanye that he would come when he built the house again.
It cost a total of 7,800 taels of silver to build a house, and 3,600 taels were owed to settle on the twentieth day of the lunar month, and only the 5,000 taels taken out by Yu Jin were used to build a house at home, and the remaining 800 taels were not repaid after building the house.
Yu Jin promoted Steward Xing to be the chief manager, and Xiang Rong is now the general ledger office. The outer kitchen steward is Zhang Yue's father Zhang bench, and the inner courtyard kitchen steward is Chang Pozi. Xiang Dali became the captain of the guard because of his kung fu skills, and there were four people under him, who were responsible for the defense of the gate and the border gate of the outer courtyard.
Xiang Rong's mother, Wang, was in charge of making desserts in the kitchen, and Mrs. Zhang was in charge of the inner courtyard warehouse. Cao's mother is the steward of Mrs. Wu's hospital, and Xinu is the steward and spokesperson of Yujin Hospital. Yu Yao manages the general ledger of the inner courtyard, Yu Zhuo manages the silver, and does things according to Yu Jin's cards.
In addition to their normal work, Yu Yao and Yu Zhuo process all the clothes cut by Yu Jin in their spare time. There were six people in the clothing group, Cao's mother and Mrs. Chang entered the clothing group, and Aunt Meng became the last supervisor.
Aunt Ding felt that she had suffered a loss, and she came to look for her several times, but she was blocked by Xi Nu. In the end, he became the supervisor of the pickle group, and he opened an extra two taels of silver every month.
The Yue family finally completed the relocation on the sixth day of October, but unfortunately no one came to congratulate them except Master Zhang and Zhang He, and there was no one to send invitations, so they quietly moved to Xibian Qiaotou.
After Yu Jin moved, she had her own yard, and she named it Jinyuan. In addition to the five main rooms, there are matching rooms on both sides, one side is a small kitchen, toilet, bathroom, and the other side is the lower room. Yu Jin and Xi Nu are very happy, and after the end of their wandering life, they finally have their own place and their hearts are settled.
There are seven such courtyards, and Mrs. Wu's courtyard is the largest, in the center. On the left is the yard of the three daughters, and on the right is the aunts, and now there are only two aunts, and there is still an empty yard. Yuyao and Yuzhuo have independent yards to live in, and they are very happy.
The inner courtyard and the outer courtyard each have a public heating pavilion, which has a large warm kang inside, and has been burning the stove and baking the kang after the delivery. Since the beginning of the construction of the house, it has not rained, and the house will dry quickly.
There are bathing rooms on the left and right sides of the warm pavilion, and it is very convenient to take a bath. Because there is a large kitchen and three large pot stoves at the back of the warm pavilion house, the fire has not been turned off since the fire was turned on, and there are two cylinders on the side of the pot stove that have been used with warm water. There are two large baths on both sides of the building, the two large pools in the inner courtyard are used by the aunt and the steward and the maids separately for collective bathing, and the large pools in the outer courtyard are all for the use of the people, and the water supply is bathed once every ten days.
When the autumn test list is released, Changbai and Changqing are all in the middle of the lift, but they are all in the bottom position outside the hundred, and they will participate in Enke next spring, and it is almost hopeless to be admitted to the Jinshi.
The errand who came to report the good news found the old residence only to know that the Yue family had moved to a new home, and originally thought that the Yue family had become poor, and would be stingy and reluctant to reward.
The two errand servants came to the new house listlessly, and struck the gong to salute the third master Yue who came out, "Congratulations to Master Yue, your two sons have all been lifted, this is the list of wins." “
"The two of you work hard, and Steward Xing rewards you heavily." Yue Sanye laughed happily and rewarded.
"Thank you, Master Yue, your family is really a blessed star, double happiness. The two newcomers are young and talented, and they will definitely be promoted to the cabinet in the future, and they will become the elders of Yipin Pavilion just around the corner. The villain is a blessed person at first glance, you look at this house, this location, it is a blessed land, and there will definitely be a big official in the future. "I didn't expect to enter the new house to report the good news, and the third master of Yue was rewarded with ten taels of silver each, and he was so happy that the two errand servants gave good words to him and scraped his stomach as if he didn't need money.