The three girls and the four girls couldn't sleep happily here, and the angry eldest lady and the second lady scolded the mother secretly. Every year, the silver deducted from the concubines is enough for their mother's family to eat and drink.

The two wives' maiden families are not rich, and there are no children and grandchildren, all rely on the married daughter to supplement the silver, although they are divided into the industry, but because of the past few years, they can only manage their own courtyard in the feed, next to it is not touched at all, both to save private money and to supplement the mother's family, it is really mosquitoes flying over to wipe a couple of oil, I have to say, the old lady to the two sisters-in-law not only pit the old wife, pit the son, but also pit the grandchildren.

He only wants to have a little reputation if he has money, but he doesn't know that he can take a good daughter-in-law for three generations, and a bad daughter-in-law for three generations can be defeated, but fortunately, the two masters are not confused, and there is an old lady who understands everything.

After the four girls moved and cleaned up, it was the twenty-third Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar month, which was the day of the sacrifice stove to sweep the dust and eat the stove sugar.

The Song family is rich, and it is even more lively when it enters the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and the outside is the soup porridge and cotton clothes and copper coins, and the garden not only gives the next person a two-month reward, but also new clothes.

The old lady's yard is full of New Year's gifts sent from all over the place, not to mention the three old men, as well as the old lady's maiden family and friends with the car of things sent by the three aunts.

Su Su only then knew that the three aunts and wives were one and two concubines: the eldest aunt and wife turned out to be the concubine of the original King Rong, the Song family was the money bag of King Rong, King Rong ascended the throne as the emperor, and had been taking care of the affairs of the capital.

There are two reasons: first, the aunt's wife was made a concubine, given the title of Jubilee, and became the head of the first house; The second is that the eldest lord of the Song Mansion was named Shun Anbo by the saint, even if he has no real power and can only be hereditary for three generations, the Song family is no longer a merchant and a nobleman.

The old lady and the eldest lady suddenly changed from a merchant woman to an old lady and a lady of Shun Anbo, and even the wife of the prefect of Yangzhou was just a four-grade respectful person who followed her husband's grade.

What followed was the worship and New Year's ceremony of officials from all over Yangzhou, and the old lady gave a lecture to the whole government for the first time, which roughly means not to be arrogant, not to bully others, and not to cause chaos to the concubines in the palace.

Concubine Xi and the eldest lord are dragon and phoenix fetuses, and now they are also thirty years old, and they still have no heirs. Fortunately, the three masters in the mansion are really not arrogant.

In the future, the Song Mansion will be renamed Shun'an Bofu, it is really just a good face, the sum of a year's salary is only one hundred taels of gold, and even the silver that the family rewards to the next person is more than this, and in the past, the Song family handed over to King Rong every year The silver ranged from 100,000 taels to 500,000 taels, and it was given for nearly 15 years, and a third-class uncle was rewarded to the Song family, and the emperor was really good at trading.

The Song family has jumped from a salt merchant to a bofu, and it is just a lot of reward for the little maids below, and the monthly money is not low, but it has not risen this time.

The old lady has not changed her temperament when she becomes an old lady, she doesn't like to go to various houses, and now she doesn't have to rush to tie up anyone, she is the highest grade lady in Yangzhou. The old lady didn't want to see their fake faces, so she asked the eldest lady to greet her, but the old lady really loved her granddaughters, so she often asked a few girls to come out to meet them. used to be a girl from a salt merchant, but now she has become the daughter of the earl's mansion, and even if she is a concubine, she is also very promising.

And Yangzhou knows that the Song family is not harsh on the concubine, the two aunts were married with a large amount of dowry, one married to the Sun family, the richest man in Suzhou, as the wife of the family, although he married a poor student at that time, under the dots of the Song family, he is now a county magistrate, and the third aunt's wife is also the lady of the county.

Now that her mother's family has become a noble, the waist pole of the two aunts is harder, and the New Year's gift when she returned to her parents' house in the second year of junior high school was 30% thicker than usual, which also made the girls who saw hope more filial to the old lady.

In the first month, the Song family put up a seven-day flowing water banquet, which can be described as flowers cooking oil in a brocade fire, and it did not stop until the first month. The old woman summoned her three sons and whispered for a long time, and the three old men behaved more low-key. The new emperor has just ascended the throne, and even the throne is not stable, and if the Song family dies by itself, the emperor will not be able to spare his hand to help.

Out of the New Year, the old woman asked the eldest man to spend a lot of money from the capital to invite two grandmothers, both from the palace, to teach the girls the rules, and even the masters and subordinates up and down the house need guidance. I also invited a female gentleman to teach the girls to read and understand and do some piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. The old lady sighed in private: "The eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law are the girls who want to harm the next generation of our Song family!" "I just hope that Mama and Mr. have some means.

And Sui'antang's small study was also cleaned up, and the little maids were allowed to learn a few words from Su Su when they had no errands.

The new female gentleman was also a young lady from a large family, but because her fiancé died of illness before she could pass the door, she took on the reputation of Kefu and was not married at the age of twenty. When the parents were gone, the brother and sister-in-law did not allow them to enter and leave the rich house to do female teaching. Knowing that there was an extremely studious little maid in the old lady's yard, she also recruited Su Su to go over to take a look, but she was not a wasteful person, and heard about Su Su's life experience, and she liked Su Su's temperament very much, so she also took some books to Su Su to read, which was a friend of the year.

At the end of the year, they were all busy in the first month, and the big and small maids didn't even take vacations, Su Su, Ning Cui, Bisi, and Yang Liu were also supported by the group, and the hands that were said to be made for the old lady and the sisters in the room were not done until the first month.

Others don't say it for the time being, the old lady looked at the warm hands in a pair of autumn-colored embroidered eight-treasure entwined branches and lotus pattern satin inlaid with white fox skin in her hand, and saw the four little girls blushing, looking embarrassed, and said with a smile: "It's hard for you to think of me." "Saying that, I put on the hand warmer on the spot and tried it, it was very warm, and the embroidery color was good, so I just wore it tomorrow. Turning back to Amber who was smiling behind him, he said, "Pick two of the gadgets that came in from outside a few days ago for your four sisters, and give each of them two gold bills." ”

The four of them hurriedly thanked the old lady, and the old lady smiled and said, "Hello, I want to reward the old lady." He said to Pearl again: "These days, the big guys are not busy, you look at the arrangement, each person has two days off, and they take turns to rest." "The maid in the room thanked the old lady again and again.

At this time, Amber also came back with a box and four purses, "Just let the slaves and maids be lazy, pretend to be together, and tell them to go back to the house by themselves." As he spoke, he opened the box and showed it to the old lady, who glanced at it and said with a smile: "I know that you are lazy, but you are not allowed to be stingy." Add a bag of small pearls sent by your third master to your sisters, string them to play, and then take a box of better ones to send to the four girls, and tell the sixth sister's nurse and maid, if you look good, you are not allowed to put it in your mouth. ”

When Dong Song heard this, he pretended not to follow: "The old lady has a new person and forgets the old one, and she doesn't care for us anymore." The old lady nodded at Dong Song's forehead and scolded with a smile: "I haven't seen anything good, and I still earn that idea with your sisters!" Come on, Amber, get something to kill these shallow ones. Dong Song smiled like a flower: "We have seen a lot of good things, but the old lady gave it differently!" ”

Su Su and the four of them happily returned to the backyard, and when they arrived at their own house, Yang Liu was anxious, opened the red sandalwood box and looked at it, took a breath of cool air, and shouted: "I'm a good girl, Sister Amber got the wrong one!" ”

Su Su and the three of them also came over to take a look and were also taken aback, and after a while, Ning Cui said, "Who is Sister Amber, how could she take it wrong!" And the old lady is also eye-catching. Although Su Su felt that the old lady was really generous, she was not too surprised: "It should be right, the old lady said that Sister Amber was rewarded with things that came in from outside, I have given Sister Amber these days, there are not ten boxes of such jewelry, but also eight boxes, I don't know how many are more precious than this!" It's not a big deal. Su Su couldn't say much, but it also made the other three people speechless.

There are eight pieces of jewelry in the red sandalwood box, there are four watery and clear ice apple green jade bracelets, two red gold inlaid lotus seeds and rice-sized rubies auspicious cloud Ruyi hairpins, two red gold inlaid with more than a dozen rice grains of large and fine sapphire magnolia hairpins, and a package of pearls of different sizes with holes, although it is not a serious East Pearl South Pearl, it is rare to be round and smooth, and the color is also pink, light yellow, beige, almost a hundred.

You must know that there is only one royal pearl farm in Dachu, but in the end, the technology will not be as advanced as modern times, such a round pearl even a soybean-sized cultured pearl will cost a few dollars of silver, such a bag of pearls is afraid that it is not worth one hundred and eighty taels of silver, let alone those few pieces of jewelry.

And in the four purses, each of them contained two begonia fancy gold bills, each weighing six coins, exchanged for silver, and one gold bill was six taels of silver. But if you make a hand, where can you reward so many things?

In private, Su Su secretly asked Amber, and was nodapped on the little nose by Amber's sister's long pink nails coated with impatiens juice, poking out a red mark, "As far as your mind is serious, what is that idea worth, the old lady doesn't care about it." Who is sincere to her old man, she is very clear. ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his wrist, and on it was a blue ice jade bracelet like the sky, with a few traces of white wool on it, all like clouds in the sky. "This is the old lady's new reward, every big girl has it, I picked a blue one, Sister Pearl is a gold silk red jade, Jade picked a green one that can drip emerald, and Agate chose a violet one, just such a bracelet is worth eight hundred taels of silver."

Amber observed Su Su as she spoke, seeing that her eyes were cool, not greedy or jealous, and she loved Su Su even more in her heart, and took out two delicate small rings with red gold and white jade rings from the makeup box to her: "Take it and play, we will ask for whatever the old lady gives, as long as you serve the old lady well, I am afraid that you will have to save a few boxes when you go out." ”

Su Su ran away with a red face: "Sister Amber is not serious, you are the first to go out." Amber talked to the old lady about this in private, and the old lady nodded: "This period looks really good, I have been so elevated, and I haven't seen her public, and now it seems that she is also cautious, you can teach her more in the future." ”