Su Su and the four of them entered the inner room and met the old lady, although the old lady didn't see these little maids on weekdays, she also recognized them, took Su Su's hand and said, "Your face is better, you are a good child." He smiled again: "Which is the willow of Yang Liuyi?" ”

Liu Er, who changed her name to Yang Liu, was not stage frightened, and said crisply: "The slave is the Yang Liu who is still in Yang Liu." The old lady smiled, "Joan's granddaughter, right?" It's a good name, and whoever calls it wrong in the future will punish her and invite you to eat the fruit. Yang Liu's eyes lit up, "Thank you, old lady." Then he said to a few maids of the first and second rank, "Sisters, you can prepare all the fruits." The old lady laughed again.

The old lady then met Ning Cui and Bi Si, and the old lady also said whose child it was, so she said: "Since Su Su is willing to teach you to read, it is also the fate between you, and you must study hard after learning, you can't give up halfway, and it will be convenient to find you to read a book and read a letter in the yard in the future." He also said to Su Su: "Reading is reasonable, but you can't look down on people because of literacy."

Su Su Liandao didn't dare to dare.

The old lady said to the pearl: "These children's share plus paper and ink, there are not many things in the yard, and there is no need to restrain them, the little girl is young, it is okay to go to the garden if you have nothing to do, I can always protect you." Hearing this, it made the four big girls red-eyed.

Whose old lady doesn't tease her grandson and her children around her knees? Only their old lady was accompanied by a few maids. As soon as I thought of the eldest wife and the second wife, I made a few maids hate the root of their teeth.

The old lady saw that the atmosphere was a little dull for a while, and she also knew that a few maids remembered those dirty things again, so she changed the topic and said to Su Su: "Let me see how many words you know first?" Can you write it? The maids hurriedly took pens, ink, paper, inkstones, and some moved desks and chairs, so it was not lively.

A few second-class maids were also illiterate, and they also begged the old lady to be close to Su Suduo, "Learn a few words too, lest the old lady dislike us and be blind."

"The old lady is also very interested, on weekdays is to play horse hanging, leaf cards, no pastime, teaching a few girls to read and write.

Pearl said: "When spring begins, simply clean up the warm pavilion and arrange a study for the old lady." The old lady smiled and said, "This is a good idea, buy more colored ink, I will also draw a few strokes of landscapes, flowers and birds, and then give you a pattern." ”

After Laba, the head of the village in the Song Mansion came to send the land rent and the silver that sold the grain and livestock, the old lady in the private property outside has five large Zhuangzi, two small Zhuangzi and eighteen shops, with the Antang's eating degree does not need to be purchased outside, a degree of application is from the nearby two small Zhuangzi, both fresh and convenient, reported once a month, at the end of the year, the summary is converted into silver two in the old lady's private house from the public account, the old man is filial, and there is no reason for his mother to eat a few fresh vegetables and pay out of his own pocket.

Not only that, but the good food outside is also brought in from time to time. Since the old lady went, the three-room family has divided the industry, in addition to the sacrificial field, the rest of the industry, the dividends of the salt and sea trade are equally divided into five: the big house, the second room, the third room, and the old lady each get a share, and the remaining share is used as the cost of the public school, including the daily expenses of each room, and the marriage of children and grandchildren. Therefore, the Song family rarely cares about trivial things in the family, and it can be seen from here that the old lady is a wise person.

Let's say that on this day, Su Su and Dong Song Amber are packing up the things that come in from outside, and those that should be entered into the account should be put on the book and labeled everywhere, and they are busy, Yang Liu ran over, saluted Amber and Dong Song, and said: "The Ning Da steward of Nanshan Zhuangzi is here, and his daughter-in-law followed to ask the old lady to say goodbye and ask Su Su to meet." ”

Along the way, Yang Liu told Su Su: "Ning Da's steward is Ning Cui's father, and he didn't enter the inner courtyard for fear of disturbing the female dependents, and it was Ning Cui's mother who came in, known as Ning Sheng's family, who used to be the eldest maid in the old lady's courtyard. ”

Su Su was a little strange: "Why do you want to see me?" Yang Liu glanced at her: "I look very smart on weekdays, but today I am stupid." Aunt Ning wants to see you to thank you for teaching Ning Cui to read, can you be literate? A few days ago, my grandfather sent me a set of books, and my aunt sent me a few rulers, why do we have to ask you to take them? That's a shackle for you, it's not good if you don't want it! ”

Su Su smiled and said: "Good sister, I'm still young, I don't understand any of this, I just hope you give me more advice." Yang Liu tilted his head: "That's natural, who makes me have a good heart, and if you call me sister again, I am good for you." Su Su looked at a ten-year-old girl pretending to be old, and couldn't help but smile until her face turned red.

When she entered the main room, the old lady actually saw Ning Cuiniang in the warm pavilion, which showed that the relationship was close. After Su Su entered the house to greet the old lady, he was held by the person who came, and said with a smile: "I come once a year, and the old lady's room is the same every year. This is Su Su, that is, the old lady can have such a lovely person by her side. ”

Su Suding saw that this Ning Cui Niang was only thirty-one or twelve years old, wearing a gold hundred butterflies wearing a red cloud satin waist jacket, covered with a colorful silk stone blue and silver mouse gown, and a jade flower-sprinkled crepe skirt tied below, holding a fallen horse bun, obliquely inserting a peony hairpin with red gold inlaid with rubies, inserting a palace flower with a yarn pile of rice beads in the right sideburns, and wearing a pair of hard red and gold-inlaid pendants on her ears, slender and very beautiful. Where is this like a daughter-in-law in charge of Zhuangzi? is the appearance of a housekeeper's wife, and she has a bit of Wang Xifeng's character when she listens to it.

The old lady smiled: "Not all the beauties in my house, Su Su is a little beauty, you are a big beauty, and you are all fairy-like." It makes people happy to look at. Pearl smiled and said: "If Susu is a fairy, isn't the old lady the queen mother in the Yao Pond!" ”

Ning Cui's mother also looked at Su Su quietly among the laughter of everyone: she wore a honey-colored cotton jacket, cotton pants with green onion and yellow silk, a long armor with red and broken flowers, a water-green sweat towel tied around her waist, combed her double bun, only wore two small pale yellow silk flowers, and wore a pair of silver earrings inlaid with red agate on her ears, looking thin and weak, but when the palm-sized little face was raised, she compared the beauties in the room, especially those eyes, which were really phoenix-eyed and star-eyed. Let the well-informed Ning Cuiniang also be stunned.

The old lady said: "Su Su, this is Ning Cui's mother, you can call Aunt Ning." Su Su gave Ning Cuiniang a blessing gift, "I've seen Aunt Ning!" When Ning Cuiniang heard it, it was not the soft and glutinous Wu Nong's soft language, but the official words with a tone, remembering the child's life experience and conduct that the housekeeper Qiao asked people to say, she was really loving and pitiful, and hurriedly said: "Good boy, my aunt hasn't thanked you yet, don't dislike this bracelet." ”

Saying that, he took out a carved bracelet with some broken gems in red gold from his sleeve, the size and style were worn by the little girl, it can be seen that it had been prepared for a long time, Su Su knew that it was not cheap when he saw the workmanship, and he was busy refusing, and the old lady said: "Give it to you, just keep it." Su Su then took it, "Thank you, auntie." Ning Cuiniang said: "With a lot of courtesy, in front of the old lady, I also want your little sisters to urge each other and serve the old lady well." ”