When Tong Ying faced others again, he gradually returned to his original cheerful and frank appearance, even if someone tempted, ridiculed or provoked him, he mixed up in four or two. However, compared to before, he spent more time in his small home, except for going back to Prince Jian's mansion on the fifth day to invite An, even his father and brother saw less than before.

Perhaps because he was ashamed, and he heard that Tongying's Guogong Mansion had reduced the number of people, and the head of internal affairs had left, Prince Jian motioned to his eldest son to allocate some manpower. Among them, Lin Ji'an is a small steward, and he has done many tricks to grab this errand, but he is aiming for the position of the head of internal affairs.

As soon as Tong Ying heard about it, she knew it in her heart, but the housework had always been managed by Shuning, so she handed it over to her wife. Shu Ning saw that it was someone sent by Prince Jian's mansion, and she was afraid that there would be any entanglements, so she took Tongying to see it together.

The servants of the eight men and four women, except for Lin Ji'an and the four guards, were mostly ordinary servants, but they were all well-behaved and could be seen to be trained. But the most surprising thing is that the two seventeen or eighteen-year-old girls said that they were girls, but judging by their appearance and demeanor, they didn't look like they were here to do work.

Shuning glanced at them a few times and raised an eyebrow at Tongying. Tong Ying glanced at her and asked, "Who are these two?" Don't tell me you're here to do rough work. ”

Lin Ji'an wanted to sell it to the new master, so he ran up and said with a smile: "If you go back to the second master, they are all the stewards of the southern industry, and there are a total of four people who come up, and the second master of light will come here." The one on the left is called Huang Ying'er. It is a beautiful woman in Shu who grew up in the opera troupe and is the best at singing. The one on the right is called Yijun, a beautiful lady in Jiangnan, a serious official lady, Lao Tzu is a prefect, and she was beheaded for a crime last year, and she was confiscated from the official register. However, he was redeemed before he could pick up the customer. She has been reading and reading since she was a child, playing songs, and discussing poetry. The prince and the prince mean that they want them to relieve the boredom of the second master. After a pause, he quickly added two sentences: "The second master can rest assured that the paperwork is complete, and there will be nothing wrong." ”

Shuning saw that his style was not pleasing to the eye, so she just looked at the two girls. The one named Huang Ying'er is pretty, with a pair of phoenix eyes, and she is smart. Although the name is Huang Ying, the voice does not have the kind of bird's Wan to turn and listen: "Although the slave family grew up in the opera troupe, it was Xiaosheng who let the slave family sing delicate songs." I'm afraid that the lord and the lady won't listen to it. She ignored Lin Ji'an's eyes, still stood in place, and had no intention of going up to be coquettish.

The other one is called Yijun, which is not very beautiful, but has a watery and gentle temperament. The manners are also Sven. It's like a lady. She had listened to Lin Ji'an ever since. He bowed his head with a sad face, and there were still tears on his face.

Shuning didn't have any ill feelings towards them. It's just that I can't figure out their minds for the time being. After this period of hardship and hardship, the relationship between her and Tongying has increased greatly, and the tacit understanding is deeper than before, so she quietly took a sip of the tea bowl and did not speak.

Seeing this, Lin Ji'an swallowed his saliva and retracted his neck slightly.

Tong Ying said casually: "You don't need to relieve your boredom, you can't stand the noise when you read and paint, but you can't calm down with them." If they don't know how to do needlework and cleaning, they should be sent back to the palace. Now the lord is not what he used to be, and he has no spare money to raise superfluous people. ”

Good master, as long as they wait, you are not an idler. Lin Ji was relieved to smugly in his mouth, but he still accompanied him carefully: "Second master, rest assured, Huang Ying'er has been able to do some flowery fists and embroidered legs since elementary school, and she can do some cleaning work with some strength." That Yijun also knows needlework. It will never be an idler. The second master will leave them, so it is the intention of the prince and the prince. ”

"Oh? Speaking of which, they are not unusual in appearance and figure, will it be too aggrieved to be a maid? Do my Amma and eldest brother have anything to say? Tongying raised an eyebrow.

Lin Ji'an hurriedly said: "Of course, Yahuan is the second master who specializes in waiting for the second master and his wife, and the second master of Yahuan can do whatever they want." After that, he also showed a lewd smile.

"Hmm." Tong Ying turned around and smiled at Shu Ning, "Since it's Yahuan, I'll leave it to Madame, just send some errands, lest they be idle, ......" Shu Ning smiled and said, "Didn't Steward Lin already say it?" Huang Ying'er will do some rough work in the outer courtyard, and Manager Yin will arrange these things. As for this Yijun girl, go to the needlework room to try it out and see how the craftsmanship is. ”

Tong Ying nodded in agreement, but Lin Ji'an's eyes widened unexpectedly, thinking to himself, this lady looked virtuous, but in fact, she seemed to be jealous, would she offend her by selling to the second master today?

Then he heard Shuning say: "Steward Lin is new to the house, and the things are not clear, so let's follow Steward Zhou to take care of some chores first, and then get familiar with it." He immediately regretted it, and said that he should have said behind his wife's back, and it seemed that he had to think of something else.

Steward Zhou is Shu Ning's accompaniment, and Zhou Fu is honest and thoughtful, under the subordinate of General Manager Yin, he manages the flowers and trees everywhere in the house, although it is fat, but it has nothing to do with the duties of the chief of internal affairs. Shuning didn't intend to let Lin Ji'an manage the inner courtyard from the beginning, she didn't know the bottom and absolutely trusted, she would never let outsiders enter her private life.

After everyone retreated, Shuning said to Tong Ying with a smile: "Little grandfather, so glamorous, look, those two beauties want to be delicate and spicy, some are delicate and spicy, some are gentle and talented, and some are gentle and talented, don't be immersed in the gentle township and can't get out." ”

Tongying couldn't cry or laugh a little: "I'm still upset, and you're still making fun of me?" The eldest brother doesn't know what it means to make such a play. I see that these two women have some backgrounds, and I don't know who is connected to them on the other side of the palace. Be careful not to let them into the inner court. Everyone else is also arranged in the outer courtyard. ”

Shuning pursed her lips and smiled: "I think so too, but in this case, I can't escape my jealousy." How are you going to compensate me? "Eye waves circulated as he spoke. Tong Ying put on a worried look when she saw it: "How to make up for it?" Not...... There you have it...... Compensate like this! ”

He pounced on Shuning as he spoke. Oh, she was tickling, she couldn't stop laughing, and begged for mercy until a chrysanthemum voice came from outside: "Grandparents are here, waiting outside." He stopped.

Shu Ning gasped as she straightened her clothes and said, "Xiao Sun always likes to come at this time." You're here for our food, right? Just now, the palace sent a few baskets of dried shrimp, just packed up, and the stewed beef brisket will be eaten at night. Beef is Sun Mingze's favorite food.

Tong Ying couldn't help laughing: "I also love to eat this good radish brisket, don't let him share it." Then he laughed and went out.

When he arrived in the front living room, he saw Sun Mingze probing his brain outside the door, so he slapped him and asked him what he was looking at. Sun Mingze said with a smile: "Just in the past, the two beauties took a few more looks. It's kind of funny to be glared back by one of them. Who are they? ”

Tongying smiled: "What about the girl who was transferred from the palace?" Do you fancy it? ”

Sun Mingze hurriedly waved his hand and denied it, thinking to himself, how could such a beauty be a girl? Presumably an alternate concubine, right? Tong Ying didn't care and said, "What's this?" If you like it, tell me. As long as the girl nods. I'm not going to stand in the way. ”

Sun Mingze's eyes rolled, and he didn't say anything more, just pointed to a big lotus leaf bag on the tea table: "The sauce beef I bought from Liu's shop is still hot when I send it quickly." Kiriye. How? Two drinks? ”

Tong Ying's expression was a little strange. I remembered what my wife said. I couldn't help but laugh.

The new servants all settled down in Shuning and Tongying's house, and at first they were all living in peace for a long time. Some people slowly showed some bad habits, and some people wanted to climb up, deliberately slapping Shuning's husband and wife and housekeeper. Shu Ning coldly watched and knocked a few of them, and there were two of them with worse plots, so they let them be publicly scolded in the front yard, and it didn't take long for them to be honest.

Huang Ying'er and Yijun are both quite honest. Although one has a strong temper and refuses to be angry, the other has to cry every day, but it doesn't seem to be wrong. But although they are safe, some people will not let them relax.

Qiu Yi and Linglan have been keeping to themselves since their companions were married to Changping Zhuangzi, hoping to come out in the future. But after Huang Ying'er and Yijun came, their appearance was better than them, the latter was still very popular, and the needlework was good, and their minds were a little complicated. Among them, Linglan was jealous and hateful, and always felt that they were in the way of their way, so when she went to the needlework room, she insinuated and said some sour things to Yijun, especially the fact that the other party was an official prostitute. Yijun didn't want to offend people, so he couldn't bear it, but the needlework next to him couldn't see it, and he also informed Huang Ying'er of a few words. The latter rushed over to quarrel with Linglan, she was clever and Linglan couldn't argue, so she sarcastically mocked her for being unruly and laughing with guests all day long. Where can Huang Ying'er endure it? As a result, the two almost fought, and in the end, it was Frangipani who came to let people pull away to control the situation.

Su Xin said to Shu Ning afterwards: "That Linglan and Huang Ying'er are not good-looking, and Mrs. Di wants to fight, especially Linglan, I don't look at her as a peacemaker, but Qiu Yi's girl still knows some sense of proportion and knows how to help me fight." ”

Shuning thought for a while and said with a smile: "Let's let it go first, give Linglan more work, don't allow Qiuyi to help her, lest she be idle all day long and have nothing to provoke others." Huang Ying'er also asked the people in the outer courtyard to arrange more errands. It's Yijun who has been wronged this time, I heard that she was already a little depressed, so let's go back and let Holly unravel her. ”

Frangipani nodded and looked left and right and asked, "What about Holly?" Shu Ning said: "Fang Cai is still on the ground, maybe he went back to the room." Su Xin jumped off the kang and said, "I'll go find her." But in a panic, Shuning hurriedly stopped and called Ju Xiang to find Holly, and turned back to Su Xin and said, "Are you confused?!" Why are you still babbling like this now? In the past few months, you should have been at home to give birth, but as a result, you ran around, not to mention, and went to the rack, what if you bumped? ”

Su Xin said slightly embarrassedly: "Can't I be idle?" If you tell me to do nothing, stay at home all day, and I'm going to suffocate to death. I didn't go to the rack myself, but I called someone else to stop me. ”

Shu Ning sighed: "It's not boring for you to walk around, it's okay to ask some gossip when you go, but you have to be careful between actions." ”

Frangipani replied and asked, "Master is not in the courtyard." But went to Mr. Jiang's side to carve stones again? Shuning smiled and nodded: "It seems that I've been learning to carve small seals recently." ”

Tongying is now at home, not only painting, reading, and practicing martial arts, but also interested in things such as gold and stone seals. Every morning, I went to Mr. Jiang to learn engraving, painted in the afternoon, and chatted with his wife in the evening.

Shuning is supportive of his new hobby, but there is only one thing: he can't spend too much money. After all, it costs a lot of money to collect good things. And the financial situation of their homeland. There is no way to support such a thing.

Tongying's title has dropped a few grades, originally the silver and Lu rice were 1,300, but now it is only 500, and there is a lack of second-grade official land, Lu and various subsidies, and the income has decreased a lot. Although the harvest of the three Zhuangzi is okay, because Tongying sent silver to subsidize people who are younger than the family a few days ago, she in order to save some reputation for Tongying, and by the way, accumulate some yin virtue, so the land rent of the three Zhuangzi was reduced by one percent. added money and food to be sent to Huguo Temple to do good deeds, and she had to be fined for the next year, so she could only be careful with her calculations.

Fortunately, the title has been lowered, and the specifications of gifts have to be reduced by two or three percent. This year, the cost of sending it to the palace to congratulate the Empress Dowager is less than in previous years, and the social expenditure has also been reduced, so there will be no problems with money for the time being. As long as you wait until the land rent and the income from the store are collected, you will be able to get through it smoothly.

Tong Ying also knows the situation at home. Therefore, only ordinary stone stones are used for engraving. After Lian Duanning heard about his new hobby. A pair of Qingtian stones and a litchi jelly were put away and refused to be used.

After lunch, Tongying spoke with his wife. Speaking of today, I saw him wearing a new cotton robe at Mr. Jiang's place, which was a little familiar, and I remembered that I had seen Holly make a similar style, so I asked. Mr. Jiang only said that it was done by Tuo Dongqing, and nothing else, but Tong Ying felt that there seemed to be some inside information, so he asked Shuning to ask what was going on.

Shu Ning was very surprised, Holly never made men's clothes, but remembering what Su Xin had said a few months ago, could it be that the person Holly liked was Mr. Jiang? But Mr. Jiang is nearly forty years old and can be Holly's father! Is this why Frangipani is not optimistic?

But she still went to ask in private, Holly blushed and refused to speak, and she and Sandalwood tried to speak kindly for a long time before getting an affirmative answer. Holly also said that she knew that her identity was not enough to match her master's teacher, and if he didn't dislike it, she would be willing to be his concubine.

Shuning sighed secretly and told Tongying about it, Tongying went to talk to Mr. Jiang, but was surprised to hear that Mr. Jiang offered to officially marry Holly as a house-filler. He didn't care about his identity and the like, and said: "I was living in the gallery, and my identity is not high, thanks to the little grandfather Qingyan making an offering in the house, I have today's scenery." The Holly girl is gentle and virtuous, but she doesn't dislike me, I'm so old, what more can I ask for from my wife? “

The marriage was decided. Shuning returned Holly's deed of sale to her, cancelled her slave status, and prepared a dowry for her, and Tongying also said that this was a rare happy event, and she had to celebrate it, and specially ordered someone to handle it, and she couldn't ignore it. On the west side of the first courtyard, only Mr. Jiang lives in it, so it was simply changed to a new house.

When Tongying and Shuning went to Prince Jane's mansion to ask for peace, they also gave a note to Mr. Shi by the way, when the two gentlemen lived in the same hospital and had a good relationship, Mr. Jiang married his wife, so he naturally wanted to invite Mr. Shi to have a drink.

After asking Prince Jian for peace, Prince Jian said to Shuning: "The third child is going to marry, the courtyard where he lives is going to be renovated, Fujin and your sister-in-law are all discussing, you can also listen to an idea." Shuning answered, glanced at Tongying and withdrew.

Tongying is still smiling and chatting with his father and brother, but compared to the past, as long as others don't ask, he no longer takes the initiative to make any suggestions. Prince Jian didn't feel that there was anything wrong, but the prince Yaerjianga was a little conscious, glanced at his younger brother a few times, and sighed secretly in his heart, but he still didn't say anything after all.

Shu Ning came to the main hall of the inner courtyard, Ji Fujin and the Guerjia clan were arguing about something, and when they saw her coming, they stopped for the time being, but they still had guns and sticks after that. Shu Ning listened carefully for a while, and then asked Guo Fujin privately to know what was going on.

It turned out that when Prince Jian went south, there was a favorite Shu Fujin, also surnamed Guerjia, who was waiting to give birth, so he did not accompany him. Now that she had given birth to a boy who was full moon, but still very thin, she wrote a letter to beg the prince to take her mother and son to Beijing to recuperate, because it was too cold in Fengtian City in winter, and the child might die if he couldn't stand it.

Ji Fujin finally got rid of her. How can you say yes? Just say that the road is hard, there is a bad case, and it is not too late to go south when the weather is warm after the beginning of spring.

Although the Guerjia clan had nothing to do with that Shu Fujin, he questioned Ji Fujin's intentions, and there were thorns in and out of his words, implying that Ji Fujin wanted to make newborns and mothers not survive the winter before people were allowed to go south.

The two sides quarreled again, but they forgot about the original issue, and finally Guo Fujin was in charge. The plan for the renovation of the Azaran yard was set, but it was delayed again for the sake of money.

Shuning told Tongying about the incident on the way back, Tongying was very worried about the little brother she had never met, but she was a little embarrassed: "Am I too easy to soften?" Neither of them is my sibling, and they may not be close to me when they grow up. ”

Shuning smiled and shook her head, "What's wrong with the innocent child who was just born?" Although it is not the same mother, but it is also a brother, it is normal for you to care. If you are ruthless to them. It's not my favorite Brother Tongying. ”

Tongying coughed lightly twice, turned her head and went to the base of her ears, but the roots of her ears were a little red.

Mr. Jiang and Holly's wedding was soon held, and Tongying specially set up ten tables of wine for them. Let the people in the house come to congratulate Shuning's mother's family, and Zhenzhen also brought a few maids who were good friends with her to eat the wedding wine.

Holly dressed up as a flower in a big red wedding dress. She is gentle and good-natured. is very popular in the house. Everyone was happy that she had found a good man. Seeing the holly scenery get married. Many people were envious, Qiu Yi watched in the crowd, everyone congratulated her, and changed her name to Grandma Jiang. Thoughtful in the heart.

Sun Mingze also came to drink the wedding wine as a guest, and poured the groom official with everyone. Turning his head to see Tongying, he dropped the wine jug to say hello and said with a smile: "Look at this lively appearance, I also have some itching to marry a daughter-in-law." ”

Tong Ying snorted: "If you want to, are you still afraid that you won't be able to marry?" I think you're just afraid of being constrained. Come to my house all day long to tease Yahuan and be embarrassed to say this? Sun Mingze said with a smile: "How can it be a flirtation? I'm sincere, Master Tong, or you should give me that girl. ”

Tong Ying glanced at him with a smile: "As long as you can make that girl nod herself, I will be the master of what you want her to do?" ”

Sun Mingze touched his nose and changed the subject: "Tong Ye is at home now, have you heard about the big movement in the court?" Scholar Chen began to make trouble again, this time it was the salt merchants who said that they would change the Gang Salt Law to what kind of ticket salt law would no longer allow the salt merchants in Jiangnan to monopolize the salt trade. Obediently, he has been holding back for a long time, and he has fallen out for so many years, and now he has killed this one

Tong Ying raised his glass to stop him: "I don't care about these things as an idler." Today is a big day, let's not talk about these uninteresting things and drink bars. Sun Mingze smiled and poured himself a cup and drank it with him.

Chen Liangben has been playing again these days, and his goal is directly aimed at the salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, which has surprised many people. Some people think that he is already fifty years old, probably thinking about doing more things to make a name for himself. Some people also think that he is unwilling to let the big salt merchants continue to endure for a few years, and finally can't bear it.

No matter what others thought, Chen Liangben seemed to be very persistent this time, and no matter how others objected, he would refute them one by one, and repeatedly complain about the various shortcomings of the old system in front of the emperor. However, he had offended a lot of people last time because of the Cao Yun incident, and now the vested interests affected in the matter of the salt merchant are even more numerous, and the attacks on him are more and more severe, and even the matter of Jingqi Huitun, which he advocated in his early years, has been dug up and said.

Those people accused him of coming up with such an idea as a Han Chinese, so that the land of Longxing outside the Guanxi became a place where merchants were rampant, not to mention, and caused many children of the Eight Banners to work hard outside the Guanxi for many years, if they could become successful, it would be fine, but since Fengtian became rich, the children of the Eight Banners who returned to Tun have been getting better and better, and they are not much worse than the local gentlemen in Beijing. If it weren't for Fengtian's Admiral Zhou Peigong to stop it, I was afraid that these children would be even more unbearable. This is all Chen Liang's local fault.

This statement was accompanied by an attack on another thing that he advocated: sending six low-grade Beijing officials to local training. It is said that this practice is detrimental to the dignity of Beijing officials and consumes money and grain from the state treasury.

For a while, the emperors who attacked Chen upwards saw that the situation was out of control and hurriedly stopped. After thinking about it carefully, he felt that although Chen Liangben's suggestion was good, there were too many opponents and could not be implemented for the time being, so he should delay it for a while. But his previous proposals were all very good, and Jingqi's return to Tun had already achieved results and could not be shaken. Over the years, hundreds of children of the Eight Banners have been trained and have been sent to serve in the local area, and now in Fengtian, those are only going later, and they have not suffered much, as long as some bad behaviors in Fengtian are eliminated, and then people can beat these young people, the problem will not be too big.

As compensation, he reappointed Chen Liangben to a scholar of Wenhua Palace, and gave him a lot of things, so that others did not dare to bite this courtier anymore. In addition, he also had to find a group of young people with better backgrounds from the Jingzhong clan and the noble family, and let them participate in the Jingqi Huitun so as to suppress all opposition voices.

The rumors have spread that many families have tried to hide, no matter what, Fengtian is not as comfortable as the capital, who wants to go there and suffer?

But Tongying's eyes lit up when she heard the news.

(I have a stomach ache today, and I'll stick it back and forth tomorrow...... ）