Not to mention the small abacus of several aunts, Chen took a sip of tea slowly, and said slowly: "Among them, the most difficult one is the storage of dishes, cups and pots. By the way, I have to explain here that the porcelain to be used in the house this time is not the coarse porcelain bought at random on the street, nor is it the general goods rented in the restaurant, but borrowed from the houses, the complete set of firing fine porcelain, valuable, broken is not a matter of one or two, but a whole set of compensation, if each set is broken so one or two, our lord's annual income is not enough to compensate. Compensation is secondary, and the most important thing is face. ”

Hearing her say this, several aunts showed surprised expressions on their faces.

Originally, it was just to marry a concubine, and the biological mother was not from a high background, and the husband's family was not a rich and noble family, as long as the face was passable, and no one was said to be thin, and there was no need to borrow valuable porcelain from door to door. But what do you want to do with such fanfare?

The second aunt was thoughtful, the third aunt was full of gratitude, and the fourth aunt was jealous. There are three reasons why she deliberately did it so grandly.

The first is to please Master Cai. Master Cai Ding was worried about his recovery, and he was the protégé of Emperor Zhong Taifu, which was very beautiful, but this scenery could not be shown on weekdays, and it could only be shown by the opportunity of red and white ceremonies; The second is that Master Cai Ding has been worried for three years, there is no income in the family, and the population is still large, and he has to deal with Zhong Taifu and a number of people under him in Beijing every year, but the result of not being able to enter and exit is to cause the treasury to be empty, and he has to take this opportunity to make a lot of money; The third is for Chan himself. She just got married, and she hasn't stood firm yet, so she has to take this opportunity to give full play to her ability and establish her image of being capable, virtuous and generous in Master Cai's heart and the upper echelons of Shuicheng Mansion - she can't work for nothing, right?

She is not afraid that no one in Shuicheng Mansion will come, or it will be perfunctory. First, the key figures of her mother's family, such as her uncle and prefect, aunt and prefect, and Mrs. will definitely appear at that time. The prefect and his wife, the number one person in the Yamen of Shuicheng Mansion, have personally arrived, who would dare to think that this wedding banquet is not up to grade for marrying a concubine, and the excuse is not coming? The advantage of the big family is this, no matter how dirty it is in ordinary times, but it is always necessary to stand together at critical moments.

Second, Master Cai is also the number two person in Shuicheng Mansion and a protégé of Master Taifu, who would intentionally save his face? Anyone who is in the middle of the scene, this face will be given no matter what. The matter of borrowing porcelain is actually her disguised opportunity to inform the governments that the Cai Mansion intends to hold this marriage grandly, please watch it.

Chen said: "Because of the importance of this matter, I decided to hand it over to my second aunt to do." In order to facilitate management, while being responsible for distributing and counting porcelain, it is necessary to manage the matter of serving the dishes together, so as to save the porcelain from passing through more manpower, multi-head management, and some people shirk responsibility. She looked at the second aunt with a smile: "I think about it, my sister has been in charge of the family affairs for three years before, and the situation up and down the family is also very familiar, so it is most suitable for you to do this." Except for you, my lord and I really can't trust anyone else. ”

Ming Fei had already roughly sorted out the cause and effect of the matter at this time, and the Chen family had a plan to kill two birds with one stone. not only took the opportunity to please Master Cai, but also dug a pit for the second aunt to jump, but the second aunt knew that it was a pit and had to jump down with her eyes open.

Because there was a Master Cai in front of her, she didn't dare to openly dismiss Master Cai's face, so even if she was unhappy, no matter how difficult it was, she had to grit her teeth and take it, and she didn't dare to say that she couldn't do anything, after all, this was what she asked for in front of Master Cai!

Imagine this happy event, there are many people with mixed hands, even if the servants are careful in every way, there are also careless guests, how can it be possible that not a single dish is damaged? What's more, it couldn't be easier to make an accident happen to the dishes. If the second aunt doesn't want to compensate herself, she has to calculate the loss to the steward, and the steward has to calculate the loss to the person who is specifically responsible. The people who are specifically responsible are all small servants, where is the money to pay? What should I do if I can't pay for it? It is inevitable that they will try their best to shirk their responsibilities, and there will be contradictions when this responsibility is pushed back and forth.

When the cup happened, the second aunt only had two choices, one was to take her own money to compensate, and the other was to make a fuss, chasing the chickens and dogs below, causing anger and resentment, of course, in the end, it also reflected her ineffective work. Needless to say, it's a thankless task.

The second aunt has been a person for many years, how can she not know the catty and mystery of this, her face is not good to look at at the moment, but it is not easy to excuse herself, so she can only keep a dark face and not speak.

is only responsible for managing porcelain and serving, which sounds simple, but it is actually the most bitter and annoying and does not benefit from it, and the two are strung together, and the second aunt has no excuse to shirk her responsibility.

The fourth aunt's little red mouth shrank back suddenly, and she grinned: "Sister Mu, the lord and the lady really value you, and you are the only one among us who is worthy of such a big responsibility, don't live up to the trust of the lord and the lady." ”

"I'm going to do my best to get this done." The second aunt stabbed the fourth aunt fiercely, but the fourth aunt didn't care, she was very complacent about her "worthy of a big responsibility", and she also learned to lose her words.

The second aunt was unwilling to be arrested, looked at Chen and said: "Sister, this matter is very important, and there are many guests here, I'm afraid I can't be busy, why don't you let the fourth aunt give me a hand?" "If you want to be unlucky, everyone will be unlucky together, and she won't believe that it's all her fault in the end.

When the fourth aunt heard this, her face turned pale, and she shook her hands wildly: "Guangyao's illness is not cured yet." I haven't taken care of household affairs, so not only will I not help you, but I will make trouble. ”

Chen frowned and said, "If you haven't managed it, you have to learn!" You have to take care of Guangyao, that's right, but you can't just do nothing because of this, and hide to the sidelines. From tomorrow, there will be guests coming to the house one after another, and there are many people and things, and it is most likely to make mistakes. The most important thing is to tighten the girls and mothers-in-law in each room and courtyard and guard the door. What you have to do is to start tonight, and bring people to patrol every house, courtyard, and storehouse every day, and you must not make mistakes! ”

She likes to do things that are majestic, and she can also take the opportunity to stumble on people, the fourth aunt laughed: "This concubine knows what to do, and the lady is one hundred and twenty rest assured." ”

Chen Shi blew the tea foam and said lightly: "Also, the ladies have listened well, you are not allowed to walk around if you have nothing to do in the past few days, let alone make trouble." In extraordinary times, please keep everyone in charge of the people in their own courtyards, which courtyard people dare to make trouble, the crime will be increased! No mercy. Fourth aunt, after you disperse, you will go to the courtyard of several sons to spread my words. Okay, I'm done with what I'm going to say, let's get the right cards and do things. ”

Mrs. Yu took the key and opened the box, took out the pair of cards and handed them to the second and fourth aunts.

"Sister, I have already greeted the ladies of the heads of the various provinces in advance, so you can arrange for people to go to the various mansions to carry the things over and count them into the book." Chen looked at the second aunt with a smile, and handed over a densely written piece of paper, "This is the guest list, a total of ninety-one tables." When you come back with the porcelain, remember to arrange it first, and you will have to divide it into several rounds, who should serve the food first, and what is the order of serving, so straighten it out. ”

The second aunt's face had softened, and she took the pair of cards and the guest list with a smile: "Sister, sister must do this well." ”

Seeing that she had cleaned up her mood so quickly, Chen was slightly surprised, and said with a smile: "I'm relieved to have your words, everyone must work together to handle this important matter." ”

The third aunt snorted, "Madam, what is the concubine doing?" ”

Chen laughed: "What you have to do is to be responsible for making our second lady happily marry and let her eat and sleep well." "People like the third aunt don't threaten themselves at all, if Mingya gets married, if she has something in her mother-in-law's family, she has to rely on herself to give her a head, as long as she asks for something, she will be jealous, and there is no loss in showing favor and wooing.

The concubines of other families are going to get married, and their biological mothers can only secretly say a few words in the dead of night, and they are afraid that their mothers will know. When I got married, I didn't have any qualifications in the near future, so I could only watch from afar. This is a special opportunity for her mother and daughter to get together, the third aunt was so grateful that tears rolled in her eyes, took two steps forward, and bowed deeply to Chen: "The concubine thanked Mrs. ”

Chen smiled slightly, told the aunts and ladies to disperse, and ordered the housekeepers and mothers-in-law to come up and consul. Ming Fei took Mingyu's hand and walked to the door, Yupan stepped forward with a smile to stop the two: "Didn't the third lady say the day before yesterday that she liked the handkerchief made by the slave?" There are many slaves and maids, how about asking the third lady to go to the next room and choose one? ”

Ming Fei said: "Aren't you worthy?" ”

Yupan glanced at Chen and said softly: "It's okay, it's just a moment's work, and it won't be delayed for long." ”

At this time, do you have something to say to yourself? Ming Fei responded with a smile. Seeing Mingzi and Mingpei stretching their necks to listen, he asked them with a smile: "Do you want the two sisters to go and sit in my room for a while?" ”

Before Mingpei could speak, Mingzi said disdainfully: "Don't go, I'm afraid I'll get bad luck." ”

I already knew that this would be the case, Ming Fei smiled faintly, handed Mingyu to the nurse, and asked them to go to their room first, and then turned around and followed Yupan to the small room next door.

There are a few benches around a square table, and a cabinet against the wall, this is the pantry used by the girls on duty to rest, but everyone is busy outside at the moment, and there are only two people in the room, Yupan and Ming Fei.

The jade pan took out five or six pink handkerchiefs from the drawer and showed them to Ming Fei: "How does the third lady look at this pink embroidered wisteria flower?" It matches exactly what you're wearing today; Look at this again, the light green embroidered chrysanthemum is also good. ”

"It's all pretty good, let me pick and choose." Ming Fei seriously picked up the handkerchief, Yupan took the opportunity to walk to the door and look around, seeing that there was no one around, he quickly came back and touched a box from the depths of the drawer to open it in front of Ming Fei: "Third Miss, this is what Madame asked the slave to give you." ”

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A few old books that have ended:

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