After Qi Yang left, Qin Mingyue called Mama Liao, who was waiting beside her, and Mama Ma came over and asked, "In the past few years, I have been picking up the Star Tower, and I have no time to come back, how is the family?" ”

Mama Liao hurriedly said: "After listening to the order of the young lady, I and my family together found the children of our family who were sold, some of whom were willing to come back, and some of whom were unwilling to come back. Those who are willing to come back, we have carefully selected them again, and now we have redeemed twenty or thirty people, and some may take a while before they can be handed over, and there are more than sixty people in that batch. The small street behind the mansion has also been agreed with the Fengxi merchants, and some of it has been redeemed and the servants are housed. ”

"To be able to return to the Qin family, these people are very happy. I feel the kindness of Miss. Although these people are all old people in the house, but, according to the rules, I still handed it over to Mama Ma for training for a period of time before re-arranging to work on errands everywhere. ”

Qin Mingyue nodded and said, "Well, you two grandmothers have worked hard for a while. Mama Ma, how are my sisters? ”

Mama Ma smiled and said: "The eldest lady and the third lady are squeamish, and they are naturally a little slower to learn, and the needlework is managed by Mama Liao, and it is said that they can make do with some clothes, but the embroidery is still not successful." In terms of rules, I learned well, and according to the old slave, I can take it out to a tea party next month or something. ”

Qin Mingyue heard this and said, "Oh, this is very fast." Mama Ma has worked hard. What about my two aunts? ”

Mama Ma hurriedly said: "The two of them may have been used to hardships in the past. It is said that needlework was originally very good, so the time was spent learning the rules, and the progress was accelerated, and now it is okay to take it out. ”

Qin Mingyue sneered and said, "Naturally, they are good at needlework, I heard that all the needlework in my grandmother's room was done by the two of them. Where is this the young lady of the Gonghou family, it is clearly two rough girls. ”

"Now that they have learned almost all the rules, after a while, I will take them all out to socialize, by the way, among the people we redeemed, are there any suitable personal maids?"

Mama Liao hurriedly said: "Most of the people who redeemed this time are older and married. Their children are not big, and there are really no suitable ones. However, it is appropriate to be a second-class maid, and there are a few who are about ten years old. ”

Qin Mingyue nodded and said, "These ten years old should be placed in my grandmother and my mother's room." It also adds people to them, and after a few years, when they grow up, they can be promoted to the first class. ”

"However, since I am going to take my two aunts and two sisters out for entertainment, I naturally want to match them with suitable grandmothers and maids. If you don't just go out alone, and there is no one around to serve you, it's not a joke. By the way, didn't I ask you to buy some innocent maids and servants some time ago? How's it going? ”

Mama Ma hurriedly said: "This one was also bought, the first batch only bought twenty, there are young and strong, there are maids of the right age, it has been handed over to the Star Picking Building to check, it will be reviewed in two days, and it can be used." ”

Qin Mingyue nodded, it's better to be careful.

Qin Mingyue looked at the silk piled up next to her and said, "The two grandmothers have worked hard, these two cobalt blue ones are for Mama Liao, and the lilac ones are for Mama Mama, keep them to make clothes." ”

Mama Ma and Mama Liao both smiled on their faces and hurriedly thanked them.

Qin Mingyue said again: "The rest of these pine colors, magenta, ultramarine, bamboo green, crow green and other silks are opened, and the maids and grandmothers who are serving around me will make two sets of clothes each, and the rest will be sent to the treasury first." ”

"The fabrics purchased in our house before are estimated to be insufficient, so we asked people to buy more, anyway, our own workshop, the price is cheap, and it looks like the season is about to change, so we will make two sets of clothes for the people in the family. In the future, two sets of clothes were made for the people during each change of season. A total of eight sets of clothes a year. ”

Mama Ma and Mama Liao hurriedly came down.

Qin Mingyue asked about the situation in the house again, then turned around and prepared to go to the bedroom to sleep. At this time, Lady Yin sent someone to invite. There was no way, Qin Mingyue could only change her clothes and prepare to go to the room.

At this time, Mama Liao said, "Miss, Madame called you over, probably to complain about something. ”

Qin Mingyue asked while changing clothes, "What are you complaining about?" ”

Mama Liao said: "Recently, we have added these servants to our house, and Madame may be complaining that there are not enough people around her to serve her, and she wants to have more manpower. Also, the matter of purchasing clothes and silk for our subordinates in our house was also known to my wife. She may complain that she has no clothes to wear herself, and she makes clothes for her subordinates? ”

Qin Mingyue thought about it, so she said to Mama Liao: "Open my warehouse, take out two of the brightly colored spring silks sent by the Shen family before, and then take out two of the twelve hairpins filled with white jade and red gold pavilions and wrap them, and I will send them to my mother later." Also, take out two more horses of spring silk, and two hairpins, and send them to grandmother tomorrow. ”

Mama Liao had no choice but to come down, but while cleaning up, she muttered: "I finally got some brightly colored spring silk, and I should make a few clothes for Miss herself, and this is sent out again." ”

Qin Mingyue smiled: "Okay, it's just some spring silk, what's worth it?" In the future, He Jinfang will weave our own good brocade, and we are still worried that there is no good fabric to make clothes? ”

Mama Liao could only keep her mouth shut and followed Qin Mingyue to the upper room.

As soon as she arrived at the upper room, Qin Mingyue didn't have time to say hello to her mother, Mrs. Yin, when she saw Mrs. Yin sitting on the Taishi chair in the miscellaneous wood with a plain handkerchief wiping her tears.

Qin Mingyue hurriedly saluted and asked, "Mother, what's wrong?" ”

Madame Yin continued to wipe her tears and said, "Who in this room can afford me?" What kind of life am I living? Speaking of which, I am a duchess of the country, but, Mingyue, look at my house, this furnishings, and my dress, where does it look like a duchess of the country? It's just that your father's concubines are better than me. I'm fortunate that my body is not very cool, I don't go out, if I go out, I won't be laughed at? Oops, there's no way to live this day. ”

"If I get married, your grandmother will take care of the housework at home, so easy, the right to be a housekeeper is in the hands of my own daughter. I didn't follow the light, did I? The servants of the house bought a large group of servants, and bought houses for the servants to live in, but what about my life? I heard that even the servants have to cut clothes, and how can I mix up the dignified duchess and the following people. ”

Hearing these cries, Qin Mingyue's face couldn't help but pull down.