Chapter 173 People are stupid and have a lot of money
(Cat flutter Chinese) The eight girls stood in two rows like eight delicate flowers, bent their knees to see the salute, the warbler Yan language was good, Li Tian enjoyed listening to it, and looked the eight people up and down carefully with a smile before ordering: "What is the name?" How old is it? Where did you go on an errand in the past? Who is in the family? Tell me about them one by one. The latest free chapters of the book can be found here. ”
The girl standing at the front subconsciously glanced at Mama Qiao, hesitated and cautiously stepped forward and bent her knees: "The maid's name is Baoyan, eighteen this year, she was originally on an errand in Gyeongbokgung Palace, and she has parents, a brother, and a brother and a sister at home. ”
"Where are my parents and brother on errands? Did my brother get married? Which girl did you marry? How old are siblings? Have you received an envoy? Li Tian's series of questions asked Baoyan couldn't hide the astonishment on her face, so she had to answer in a daze: "The servant's father received a treasury steward's messenger in the household department, and his mother didn't do an errand, and his brother received the second-class guard of the Jian'an County Palace, and he has already married the eldest girl of the inner library king's housekeeper's family, and his younger brother didn't work as an errand boy. ”
The smile on Tian's face remained unchanged, and his voice dragged on for a long sentence, turning his head to look at the next flower and asking, "What about you?" ”
"Back to the princess, the maid's name is Yu Lian, she is seventeen this year, she was originally on an errand in the Shang Food Bureau, her father is a gardener in Yujin Garden, her mother did not receive an errand envoy, her maid has an older sister, two younger brothers, the elder sister has been married, the eldest brother follows his father to learn to raise flowers, and the younger brother is young and has not yet received the messenger."
"Which family did my sister marry into?"
"Married to the Lin family." Yu Lian said vaguely uncomfortably, Li Tian smiled and said, "Is it the housekeeper of Dongyang County's Wangfu Lin?" ”
Pity replied in a low voice, Li Tian looked at her and praised her with satisfaction: "What a smart child." In a word, Yu Lian's face changed, she praised her for being smart, because she wanted to avoid her sister marrying into the housekeeper of Dongyang County's palace? Mama Qiao's fingers trembled, and she forcibly suppressed the wild beating in her heart for a while.
Li Tian looked away from Yu Lian, looked at the third flower and motioned for her to continue, all the way, these eight flowers either have a deep relationship with Gyeongbok Palace, or they are inseparable from the Dongyang County Palace, so they were carefully picked up by Li Tian in public, and Mama Qiao only felt that her temples suddenly jumped as if they were about to burst, only to jump so that she was dizzy and disgusting, and she could barely stand.
"Sure enough, they are all carefully selected good children, and Mama bothered." Li Tian praised sincerely, Mama Qiao lowered her head and lowered her hand and didn't dare to respond, the room full of women was silent, Li Tian frowned and thought about it seriously: "Good steel should be used on the blade, so let's go to the East Courtyard to wait, the East Courtyard is the prince's inner study, one is that the important documents are in it, and the other is that the prince is only afraid that he will have to rest in the East Courtyard most of the time in the future, that is the most important place in our house, and only those of you who are one in a million can serve the prince, what about Yuye?" Bring them over, hand them over to the red-sleeved girl, and tell the red-sleeved girl that they are all extremely rare good children, if you want to say that there is anything wrong, that is, you have never served the prince, and you don't know the prince's preferences and tempers, let her train her carefully. ”
Yuye agreed, and was about to take someone out, Li Tian seemed to have just remembered, raised his hand to stop Yuye and smiled: "There is one more important thing, I almost forgot, Green Lotus remembers, from today onwards, the monthly case of the red-sleeved girl will be increased to five taels, well, add the share of two little girls to her, and let her choose it herself, the monthly money, five hundred yuan a month for one person, Yuye said to the red-sleeved girl by the way." ”
Mama Qiao looked at Li Tian in a daze, and the housekeepers and mothers-in-law in the room also looked at Li Tian in a daze, and they couldn't react a little, adding to five taels, and then two girls, this is an example of my aunt!
Yuye agreed, and led the eight flowers out of the door and went straight to the east courtyard. Yingluo took Li Tian's signal, dismissed the housekeepers, and called in the fifty housekeepers who were waiting outside.
Unlike the housekeepers, Li Tian almost didn't say anything, only let everyone introduce themselves, said their own messengers, and asked Lan Mo to write down, except for announcing that the outer tent room was not used for the time being, and all the branches should be withdrawn from the green lotus, he didn't say a word else, and just sent the foreign stewards out.
Some of these external stewards are happy, some are puzzled, and some are sullen, and they have only heard of those who do not have an inner tent room, who has ever heard of a house that does not have an outer tent room? Wang Youdao, the manager of the outer tent room, was even more sore in his chest, what is this called! Could it be that in the future, the income in the Zhuangzi, the filial piety of the investors, the lord's fortune, etc., will be managed by a group of girls? It doesn't make sense! Besides, if this tent room is not opened, how can I keep up with the boss? Wang Youdao took a group of tents out of the outside, and sat sullenly in the courtyard of the outside stewards to rest, meet people, and directors, thinking about ideas irritably, and the henchman tent Lao Gao paced over, glanced left and right, leaned over and whispered: "I told you a long time ago, you still don't believe it, there is no tent yard in the front yard of this mansion at all!" ”
The corners of Wang Youdao's eyes twitched, and he gritted his teeth for a while before he said, "I don't believe that she dares to go against the sky!" Go, go to the gate and wait for the master, I don't believe it, there is no tent room, is it possible that the prince has to take this amount from those girls? ! Saying that, Wang Youdao 'whewed' and rushed straight to the gatehouse with his hands behind his back, his henchmen Lao Gao and Lao Chen hurriedly followed, and the remaining dozen or so tents looked at the three of them, if this external tent room is really not set up, what should they do? In order to enter this prince's mansion as a bookkeeper, they all dug people's minds, went all the way, and spent a lot of money seriously!
The courtyard where the foreign stewards rested was several times more lively than usual, it was simply full of people, and the stewards were excited one by one, when the Jin'an County Wangfu opened to pick people, it was simply a mule and horse walk, the fifth master was loose and generous, and he married a girl from the Li family who had no one to think deeply, but he was faintly thinking about following the fifth master, this is a good thing to do, such a master, even if he is not, what can he do? Without them, Zhang butchers, he would have to eat hairy pigs! Besides, it's really torn face, and they have to have a harsh reputation for each pair, and the nobles are the most face-saving! A few days ago, I saw the dowry of the princess again, and these stewards who finally came in the camp felt that their poor envoy was simply the best fat difference in the world.
Gu Deqing, the head of the comprador who specializes in the purchase of rouge pollen and other matters, didn't think so, he had a cousin who had turned seven or eight times to do a tent in Qianchunfang, although it was not enough to deal with the princess, but when it came to the end of the year and the princess's daughter-in-law who were in charge of the accounts of the daughters-in-law, they were full of praise, those daughters-in-law were clear in their accounts, and they were familiar with all the affairs of the wine shop, and they were no worse than the shopkeepers of Qianchunfang, and the daughters-in-law who managed the accounts were like this, how could the princess be a good fool? Gu Deqing will come to something, and he has more eyes in his heart, even if he thinks of this, he doesn't mention half a word, echoes everyone and laughs for a while, finds an excuse, and goes home.
Gu Deqing's daughter-in-law, Sister-in-law Han, was on an errand in the oil candle division in the inner courtyard, and it didn't take long for Gu Deqing to arrive home, and Sister-in-law Han also came back, Gu Deqing asked in surprise: "Why did you come back so early?" Nothing happened, right? ”
"It's nothing," Sister-in-law Han took off her errand clothes and carefully folded them, while explaining: "The princess called the housekeeper to speak today, who is in charge of what at what time and where, the housekeepers and grandmothers are clearly divided, and we are also clearly divided, I have been on duty in the first half of the night for the past ten days." Gu Deqing was slightly relieved when he heard her say this, for her mission, he spent twenty or thirty taels of silver.
"No wonder your cousin said that the princess's errand is not good, it's true, Mama Wan has trained for half an hour today, saying that the princess has rules, from today on, no matter who comes to receive the lamp oil and candles, you have to say clearly where they are used, from what hour to what hour, you have to take a note to make a good account, you see, this is too fine, which one lights up like this? What kind of palace is this? Even our family has never calculated like this. Sister-in-law Han thought of this bookkeeping, and couldn't help but feel resentful in her heart, if she took care of it like this, how could she still have candles in her house? This candle works so much better than an oil lamp!
"The princess has set the rules for the inner court? Tell me more, what else? Ji Deqing was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, Han's sister-in-law saw that her husband looked so surprised and solemn, and said while thinking about it: "It is said that the princess thinks that there are not enough people in the house, from today on, the west side of the house will be closed, and there are many rules, by the way, Mama Wan is very happy, I listen to the meaning of her words, what will happen in the future, she is past Mama Qiao, and report directly to the princess, next to it...... That is to say, you have to be careful on an errand, and the princess said that the prince is a picky person, no matter what, as long as he is sharp. ”
Ji Deqing walked back and forth in the house with his hands on his waist for four or five circles, stopped suddenly, lit his daughter-in-law and solemnly explained: "I tell you, you have to rest assured about this, from today on, a candle, a lamp or two can't be taken to the house, not a thread can be taken, this matter is not simple, I mean the princess is not a bully, you look at it, or a few days, someone will have bad luck!" Sister-in-law Han was startled, and hurriedly nodded her head in agreement, her husband's famous long-rooted tail is a monkey, and his words have never been missed!
In the east courtyard, the red sleeves looked at the eight flowers standing in front of him weakly, and felt that she couldn't even cry, the princess suddenly gave her a monthly increase, added two little girls, and sent this bunch of girls of unknown origin to her for training, what does the princess mean? The conscience of heaven and earth, she really hasn't even touched the side of the fifth master!
How can the red sleeves care about this pile of warblers Yanyan, casually touched the palace rules and asked those delicate flowers to copy them first, and hurriedly ran to the hall leading to the west courtyard, guarding the door and refusing to leave, no matter what, she has to see the princess today, this is a fatal thing! Cat flutter Chinese