Chapter 303: The Inner House is Busy
Because of the matter of rinsing tea after dinner, Mrs. Ye completely discovered that her daughter, after getting married and giving birth to a child, looked shrewd, could do business, make money, and take care of people, in fact, she was still that confused little girl. 2
"Let's not be better now than when we were in the backing mountain, after entering Beijing, you each have a future to run, you have someone to socialize, there are many opportunities to invite guests to dinner and go out to an appointment, although we don't have to do excellence, basic etiquette is still required." Mrs. Ye said with a slight smile, her eyes started from Xiaohu sitting on her right, looked at the children present one by one, and finally stopped her gaze on Cui'er's face sitting on her left.
"Mother, I see." Cui'er has just made a fool of herself, so she is naturally embarrassed to play tricks with her mother in front of her children, because she is also a mother, so she can naturally understand her mother's hard work for her own good, so she obediently agreed.
"Okay, then three meals a day, you all come to accompany me, let's learn table manners while eating, every day after breakfast, stay here for an hour, you watch me take care of the accounts, every day after napping, come to my side for an hour, I will find a special grandmother to teach etiquette to the children." Mrs. Ye knew that her daughter was lazy, so she gave an order without saying a word, and she could not refuse at all.
When Mrs. Ye was talking, although she was talking about etiquette to the children, her eyes were always looking at Cui'er, and it was obvious that among the children who were taught etiquette, including Cui'er, although she wouldn't say that on the surface.
"Yes......" Cui'er knows that she is at a loss, and she also knows that with her little foundation in modern times and her memory of not practicing optics, it is okay to mix in the mountains and rural areas where there are no big rules. But when you come to this capital, especially if you have to deal with people like General Yang's Mansion, it is definitely not enough, so you can't even accept it if you don't even struggle.
"Alright, let's come to Beijing. There are a lot of cages that have not been placed, take advantage of this time, I will comb the people in this yard, and put the cages brought, you can also watch, go back and look at your own things. Let's put it in the same way. Mrs. Ye looked at the children without the slightest rebuttal, smiled slightly, and took the lead to walk out of the dining room, from the warm corridor to the Xinuan Pavilion in the courtyard of the three entrances, that is, the place that was ready to be used to dispose of household chores.
Cui'er took the child and followed her mother to this Xinuan Pavilion. See the same layout of the West Warm Pavilion and the East Warm Pavilion, are three main rooms, the middle door is the room of the guest after entering, in front of the door is a big screen, after bypassing the screen, it is a finely carved Arhat couch.
Past the middle room, there is a main room on the east and west sides, which is slightly different from the East Warm Pavilion. The east and west rooms of the East Warm Pavilion are round tables and are used by their own families to eat, while the east room of the West Warm Pavilion is a study. I think it's a place to keep accounts and read the ledgers, but Nishima has a locked door, so I don't know what it is. 2
Cui'er looked at the furnishings in the house curiously, although she was already the mother of several children, she still looked innocent.
Mrs. Ye looked at her daughter's appearance and sighed secretly in her heart. Although he sighed that his daughter had forgotten all about the style of the young lady of the family, he was glad that Cui'er had been in the mountains for two years. It is precisely because she has forgotten the past that she can survive well.
Anyway. Now Cui'er is the most important thing to live well, as for what kind of family bearing, what about learning it all over again?
Thinking like this, Mrs. Ye's heart eased a lot, and she waved her hand to call her close mother-in-law, known as Mama Jin.
"This is the Mama Jin I am used to, I am very reliable, Cui'er should know, if you need someone to help you in the future, you can give her orders." Mrs. Ye first introduced this golden grandmother.
"Slave and maid Mama Jin, give a gift to the eldest lady, the little miss, the little master, and the cousin!" This Jin Mama is a woman in her forties with a full moon face, she looks very kind with a smile, but her gestures are very neat.
After Mrs. Ye introduced her, although this Jin Mama knew that several masters knew her, she still sang her name very simply according to the distance of relatives, but she mainly saluted Cui'er.
"Mama Jin is polite!" Cui'er knew that Mama Jin was a proud old man beside her mother, and she didn't dare to accept her salute, so she turned her body sideways and accepted her half salute, and then blessed Mama Jin and gave Mama Jin a salute.
"Don't dare to do this, the eldest lady has tormented the old slave!" Mama Jin said that she didn't dare to do it, but the expression on her face was not very panicked, but she was very relieved to see her children grow up and understand etiquette.
"Lao Jin, how about you accept her half courtesy, who doesn't know that your etiquette rules are the best in our family, and when the sun comes down in the future, let the children learn the rules from you, although it is not as good as the rules of the high-ranking officials in Beijing, this is also the accumulation of our century-old family in Huxi." When Mrs. Ye said this, she was not as modest as she said, and the expression on her face was clearly reserved and proud.
In Cui'er's memory, this Jin Mama should be the lady in charge of her mother's room, the person brought from her mother's family, the master and servant have had a lot of feelings after so many years, and naturally it is more expensive than other subordinates.
Cui'er thought so in her heart, so she also called the big girl Xiaohu and Huiya, and let them do a half-salute, although the big girl and the little tiger are behind the door, but in the future, this Jin Mama will also be regarded as their half master, and this half-salute is not too much.
After the master and servant got to know each other, Mrs. Ye asked Mama Jin to gather all the people in this courtyard, first, let the people recognize the master, and then let Cui'er and them understand what people are in this courtyard and which ones are usable, of course, it is more important to let Cui'er and them learn the way of the emperor.
Although Mrs. Ye did not tell Cui'er her intentions, Cui'er had already understood, pulled the children to sit next to Mrs. Ye, accompanied her to drink tea and talk, while waiting for Mama Jin to bring her subordinates, watching Mrs. Ye take charge of the house.
It didn't take a while. Mama Jin brought someone here, because Mama Gui wanted to bring a small bag and softness, so she was not in the ranks of the next people, but brought the small bag and soft and took care of it nearby. Besides. Even Uncle Zhong and Aunt Zhong are also impressively listed, and everyone comes to the list.
Because of the large number of people, not everyone is qualified to enter the house, and those who sprinkle and sweep girls and so on are only arranged in the courtyard. And those who are eligible to enter the house also have a precedence.
At this time, he stood still in the house. In addition to Mama Jin standing in front of Mrs. Ye, it is Mama Gui who is taking care of the child by Cui'er's side, and the two of them are standing beside the master on the left and right, showing that they are the master's henchmen, which is also Mrs. Ye's intention to give the two of them a long face.
Except for Mama Kim and Mama Gui. The first batch of people who were arranged to come in were naturally the most face-saving and capable in the eyes of the master, and there were only six people who came in, namely the two housekeepers under Mrs. Ye, the two housekeepers, and the husband and wife of Uncle Zhong and Aunt Zhong.
"Lao Jin, Cui'er has been away from home for so long, so you can introduce this housekeeper and housekeeper lady to Cui'er again." Mrs. Ye drank tea and instructed Mama Jin.
Because I know that Cui'er's future path will be in the direction of Mrs. Guan. Mrs. Ye couldn't help but teach Cui'er more in her heart, so she set up a battle to let her subordinates see her, just to make an example for Cui'er. Let her know how to deal with such a situation.
In fact, according to the Ye family's power in Huxi, when Cui'er was still in the boudoir, it was very easy to add Cui'er to the official family, but Mrs. Ye felt sorry for her daughter and wanted her to live happily. didn't want her to get involved in the messy affairs of the official's wife's back house, so he only found some merchants with a simple family background for her.
It's just that things are impermanent. Because Cui'er was killed and taken away, the original planned family affair couldn't be accomplished. Cui'er finally earned a life in the ravine, and became a parent and had children, Mrs. Ye accepted her fate at that time, and didn't think about anything, just wait for her old man to take care of the family property for her daughter and son-in-law, so that they can be rich people who have no worries about food and clothing.
How do you know that the plan has not changed quickly, and this is not much, I found that my own son-in-law, who originally thought that he was just an ordinary village man, was not an ordinary person, but a deputy general who came back from the battlefield, and a child of a famous general in the dynasty...... This wave of three folds down, when she arrived in the capital, Mrs. Ye also wanted to open it, and she didn't overwhelm herself with many skills, and she was distressed and doted on Cui'er at the beginning, and she didn't let her learn something, but now she still has to make up for it without leakage.
When Mrs. Ye recalled the past in her heart, Mama Jin had already introduced the housekeeper and housekeeper lady present to Cui'er, the chief housekeeper of the Ye family's old mansion was Uncle Zhong's eldest brother named Uncle Zhong, because there were many things inside and outside the Ye family that could not be separated from him, and when he went out this time, he was allowed to sit at home and did not let him come with him.
And the two housekeepers who followed, one was the outer housekeeper, who was responsible for the things on the Ye Lao Ye Tea Shop along the way, and the other was the inner housekeeper, who was responsible for the food, clothing, housing and transportation along the way, and communicated back and forth.
Uncle Yi, a proud apprentice under Uncle Zhong, looks like he is about forty years old, his face is slightly dark, he looks very loyal and honest, but he is a very shrewd and capable person inside, and he is in charge of the affairs of the tea shop.
The housekeeper is called Quan Bo, who looks like he is about fifty years old, with a white and chubby smile and a very good way to speak, he is very meticulous and comprehensive, from Huxi to Gushantun, and then from Gushantun to the capital, this way to make some trips and the like, Quanbo has made great contributions.
And there are two housekeepers, one looks like she is around forty years old, and her spirit is neat, and she is Zheng Niangzi, who is in charge of restraining people, and she knows that she is a shrewd and capable master at a glance.
The other housekeeper who looks soft and jerky and is only about thirty years old is the Jin Niangzi who is mainly responsible for the affairs in Mrs. Ye's room, although this Jin Niang is young, she is the daughter of Mama Jin, and it is obvious that she is preparing to take over after Mama Jin is old.
There are also Uncle Zhong and Aunt Zhong'er, who are very familiar with Cui'er, and these six people in the house are all the subordinates that Mrs. Ye and Cui'er rely on the most, and they have become the first people to come in to ask for peace.
Mrs. Ye watched a few people salute Cui'er, turned her head and glanced at Mama Jin, who immediately took out a tray of delicate purses from the house, each of these purses was heavy, and Mrs. Ye specially prepared them for rewarding. (To be continued)
ps: Recommend the book of Jun Zhu Yezi, the title of the book "Mountain Flowers Splendid", ISBN: 3130098, Introduction: Crossing the merchant girl, controlling the bee ability, revenge.