The inside is warm and warm, and the new maids outside are talking. "That is Ning Cui's mother? My God, I only think of my grandmother as a grandmother in that dressing and dressing all over my body, but I don't look like a maid.

"Don't you look at the sisters in the old lady's room, which one looks like a maid? On who goes out and doesn't get called a girl? I heard that the former agate sister who just got married half a year ago, in addition to the clothes and hairpin rings of a few boxes and cages that she saved, the old lady also gave an extra dowry, in addition to cloth and wool jewelry, there were five hundred taels of silver, and two gold ingots of ten taels were used as the bottom of the box. "This is a well-informed son, which makes the little maids scream again and again, and they can't wait to become the big maid in the old lady's room immediately.

In the evening, the old lady left Ning Cuiniang to sleep in a room with her, and even allowed Ning Cuiming to stay with her parents for two days. Two days later, Ning Cui came back, carrying a large bag and a small bag, but her eyes were red, and the Ning family's uncle and aunt had already returned to Zhuangzi.

Su Su hurriedly asked for water for Ning Cui to wash her face, "Didn't you invite us to be sad with you!" Ning Cui snorted and said embarrassedly, "Look at what my mother and my father brought us." In the old lady's has already passed the clear road, let us make a jacket to wear for the New Year. ”

When I unwrapped the baggage, I saw that there were eight complete skins: six gray squirrel's, one white fox skin, and one lamb skin.

"We have been in the house for three years, and we also have two or three big and small coats on our bodies, I thought that the four of us would share a gray squirrel, and give Su Su the little lamb skin with a bucket of beads, and the remaining white fox skin and two gray squirrel skins for the old lady and the sisters in the house to make hand warmers." After Ning Cui finished speaking, seeing Yang Liu Bisi nodding, Su Su wanted to excuse herself, so she came over to tickle Su Su, "I see that you simply made my mother a daughter, but I just met you, and praised you as nothing in the sky and on the earth, I want to see if your little hooves are goblins, why do you fascinate my mother so much that you dislike your own daughter?" ”

Su Su hid while laughing: "Good sister, let me go, I was originally a white snake who has practiced for thousands of years in the fairy mountain, and I came to the world to repay my kindness." Hearing this, the other three were stunned, and there was a burst of laughter, "Ming is back to the old lady, and I want to quickly accept your little goblin." ”

Let's not talk about how Ning Cui and the three of them learned this to a few big girls, and the big girls learned it to the old lady, coaxing the old lady, the old benefactor of the white snake to repay her kindness, how happy, and rewarded Su Su and the four of them with several plates of fruits and snacks.

It was said that Su Su and the four of them had privately calculated a matter and reported it to Pearl. Pearl was surprised: "You want to teach the little maid in the yard to read?" Su Su nodded: "Sister, anyway, the little maids are idle, after finishing their work, they will teach them to know a few words, teach them to count a little, and they don't need pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, as long as the wooden board and charcoal are fast, so as not to let others see the four of us like black-eyed chickens." ”

And now even the maid outside Sui'an Hall knows that there is a little maid named Su Sude who was bought from outside, and she doesn't take others into her eyes because the old lady likes to know a few words. Susu felt like she was being hacked.

Pearl said: "The old lady agreed to learn literacy for the four of you to see that you were sensible, and as for the others, I have to talk to the old lady about this first." ”

Ning Cui hurriedly said: "Naturally, I want my sister to tell the old lady." "I don't know what Pearl said to the old lady, anyway, the old lady is on the right track, and she also rewarded Su Su with a pair of golden gourd earrings for each of the four of them, so that the holly steward, who is the most secure among the second-class maids, can learn to read and write for half an hour after dinner.

When the maids heard this, they were so happy that they kowtowed to the old lady and said that the old lady was kind! Even the most serious little maids finally gave Su Su a smile, and she could say a few words on weekdays, but Ning Cui, Bisi, and Yang Liu, the three buildings near the water, didn't say anything, and when there was pressure, they were motivated and worked harder.

Approaching the end of the year, there was a burst of laughter in Sui'an Hall, which made the maids in several other courtyards envious. The three masters also got some letters, and they all meant the same thing to their daughters-in-law: they should let the children and grandmothers in the family be closer and closer.

Although the third wife is the daughter-in-law of the concubine, it is indeed the niece of the old lady, so she is naturally close to the old lady, and the eldest wife and the second wife have also learned to be well-behaved, and they agreed well on the surface, but in private they said to the maid who was close to them: "It's just that I got a new maid, and I actually went to the sky, and it really gathers like things." How close are the girls? It's not disgusting! ”

On the eighteenth day of the lunar month, the third wife was found out by the government doctor that she had been pregnant for a month, but the third wife injured her body when she gave birth to the sixth girl, and she has not recovered her strength after three years, and now her pregnancy is not good.

The third lady and the third old man together, wanted to take the fifth girl and the sixth girl to the old lady's yard to be raised, at first the old lady did not agree, but she couldn't stand the pleading of the third old man and the third lady, so she had to come down, on the surface she was not happy, but in private she instructed the maids to clean up the small courtyard of Sui'an Tang, and asked Sister Amber to pick a lot of things from the library to arrange the two girls' residences, and she was relieved to see them one by one.

After that, I don't know what kind of wind the eldest wife and the second and second wives smoked, and sent the four girls from the big house and the third girl from the second room over. Later, I heard that it was the two old men who let go of the cruel words, and the two ladies had no choice but to send the concubine out, as for the two concubines, they would not say anything, and the old lady sneered after knowing it: "Bear with her and let her and then look at her again." ”

The Song family is a merchant, and the distinction between the concubines and concubines is not very clear, and because the Song family is rich, the maids and mothers-in-law around the girls are the same: each girl has a nurse, two big maids, four second-class maids, six third-class maids and six rough envoys.

There were eighty people with the four girls and the servants serving, and the old lady simply sent a message to clean up the Yayunxuan next to Sui'an Hall and let the girls stay.

This Yayunxuan turned out to be the courtyard where the aunts and wives lived before they got married, and it was also the largest courtyard with the best scenery in the Song family. There are six small courtyards in a Yayun Xuan, all of which are small and chic, and the main room and the wing room are all available, and the house is allocated, and the four girls move their luggage to move in.

After the old lady spoke again, the monthly money of the four girls went from Sui'antang's account, and at the end of the year, it was summarized to the public account, so that the third and fourth girls didn't know what to say.

The Song family is a wealthy family, and the girls on the surface are the same, but the three girls, the four girls and their aunts really have hardships that they can't say.

is also going to school, the two sisters-in-law learn everything well, no matter how hard they work here, the husband's comments are stupid, so that the father always has a good face for them.

The third girl is better, the second wife just treats her materially, and the fourth girl in the big house is full of bitterness. When she was just seven years old, she had a maid who told her some words about talented and beautiful women. She is not stupid, her aunt is a thin horse in Yangzhou, and she has been told since she was a child that talented and beautiful people are fools, and don't be a concubine when you do anything.

The eldest lady always said that the old lady was born as a maid, and the maid in the yard didn't know how thick the sky was, but the aunt told her that the maid in the old lady's room was married out to be a lady even if she was second-class. On weekdays, the rules of several big girls are not worse than those of the eldest lady, an official family, even if the maid is from a good background! Didn't the eldest lady also make a daughter-in-law for an old lady who was born as a maid?