As soon as March, Yangzhou becomes a sea of flowers: camellias, peach blossoms, apricot blossoms, pear blossoms, magnolia flowers, bauhinia, plum blossoms and other more than a dozen kinds of flowers and trees are in full bloom. Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem: Fireworks go down to Yangzhou in March.

And the most famous of the flowers is the plum blossom. In the Shouzhi Garden of the Song family, there is a plum garden that is famous in the whole Yangzhou, in which more than 300 precious plum trees are planted, among which there are dozens of hundred-year-old plum trees transplanted from other places, although it is not called ten miles of plum blossoms fragrant snow sea, but it is also beautiful.

Since the eldest lady married into the Song family, she has to hold a plum banquet in March every year to entertain the daughters of officials of all sizes in Yangzhou. The people who came were instructed by their husbands to be good friends with the Song family, but the eldest lady always thought that her face was easy to use. Now that she has become Mrs. Shun Anbo, the post of appreciating the plum banquet has long been dispersed.

The usual old lady of the plum banquet just showed her face, and only entertained a few close ladies in her yard. The eldest lady relied on her identity as the daughter of an official family, although she married into a merchant, she looked down on businessmen the most, and the businesswomen who were good friends on weekdays did not care about entertaining, and there was still an old lady to play a round.

I didn't expect this year to be even more outrageous, and I didn't even prepare a post for merchants. The angry old lady was furious and reprimanded very much, when Su Su, Amber and Dong Song were sorting out the account books of the warehouse in the small cubicle of the inner room, and they heard the old lady say in a cold voice that she had never said before: "Our family started in business, and the people who have good friends are also merchants. Now that he is an earl, don't he have to eat, dress, or spend money? You look down on the merchants, look down on the Song family, don't you also marry into the Song family and give the merchants a maid as a daughter-in-law? Isn't it also to eat our Song family's food, wear our Song family's clothes, and use our Song family's silver to supplement your mother's family? If you think that our Song family is ashamed, and the relatives and friends of the Song family are ashamed, then you can go back to your mother's house, and I will ask the boss to give you the letter of resignation today. ”

The ladies of the three rooms were all there that day, which made the eldest lady very shameless. However, the forbearance of the old lady in the past ten years has made the eldest lady grow her heart, and she did not immediately compensate or admit her mistake, but she cried and wiped her tears and ran out of Sui'an Hall, shouting, "It's amazing, this is just rich, and the mother-in-law will force her daughter-in-law to death." The old lady was so angry that she almost didn't pout.

The eldest lord who rushed back from the letter almost died of anger after learning what was going on, and immediately knelt down for the old lady, the mother and son were really bad and couldn't be in a bad heart, the eldest lord asked people to bring pen and ink, and wrote a letter of resignation on the spot to let the eldest lady pack up the dowry and send her back to her parents' house, the eldest lady came back to her senses and collapsed to the ground in fright. It took a long time to kneel outside the old lady's door and cry and ask for forgiveness with the support of the dowry.

The second lady couldn't react for a while, but the third lady covered her mouth with a handkerchief and sneered.

She is clear about what kind of character her aunt is, don't look at the kindness and kindness of Guanyin Bodhisattva now, when she is young, she is the most courageous and resolute and does not rub sand in her eyes, if ordinary people can do these things such as selling themselves for the sake of the family, desperately not being an aunt, and working hard with her husband to make this promise?

Over the years, my aunt has been jumping like a flea with my sister-in-law, not because I am afraid of her, but because she is the daughter-in-law of my father-in-law. Unexpectedly, she became more and more heartbroken. Now that the eldest brother has become Shun Anbo, the eldest sister-in-law is the noble lord in the palace, and the masters in the family are still cautious, she is a woman's family is a hindrance, how can the aunt get used to her.

Su Su didn't know what happened next, and the maids in the house were all sent out by the old lady, so the eldest lady was called into the house.

Just two days later, the eldest lady was sick in bed, and the matter of the plum banquet was led by the third lady, and the second lady assisted, and the plum banquet was also lively. As soon as the plum banquet passed, the eldest lord carried a noble concubine into the door, the concubine of the Yangzhou prefect's family, just sixteen years old, with a beautiful appearance and a gentle and amiable temperament.

The big girl peach blossoms who were sold into the house together that day were all on an errand in the courtyard of the big house, because of the love along the way, Su Su would leave a copy for the two of them if there was anything delicious, the two little girls were very good friends with Su Su, and occasionally came to play with Su Su, mentioning the new Aunt Yue, which was boastful of the heavens and the earth, what was kind to the subordinates, respectful to the lady, good to the young master and girl, and so on.

Su Su listened with a smile on her face, but she thought in her heart that Aunt Yue was a scheming person, and she enveloped the inside and outside within a few days of entering the door. After hearing this, the old lady shook her head and said helplessly: "The eldest daughter-in-law is a person who only looks at the immediate benefits, and this new aunt is not a smart one. In the end, I still asked Qin Mo to go to Aunt Yue's room to give a lecture, I don't know what she said, but Aunt Yue has a lot of peace, at least the reputation of virtue has not spread outside the garden, so that the eldest master has the reputation of a favorite concubine and killing his wife.

But who would have thought that the eldest lady was a person who had nothing to do, so she opened her face to the most iconic maid Liuli around her and made a room, so that she could fight with Aunt Yue, and she came to fight with the snipe and the clam to fight, and the fisherman profited. As a result, there was a small quarrel in the courtyard for three days, and a big quarrel for five days, and it became a common thing. The old lady simply came out of sight and out of mind, and wanted to go to Zhuangzi outside the city to step on spring.

The first time Su Su saw the travel of the ancient rich and noble, the old lady's luggage alone was loaded into two carriages, in the words of Sister Pearl, "the countryside is shabby". So there are some things to eat, even the big ones are covered and the small ones are all brought by themselves, and these are naturally loaded with two carts.

In addition to Mama Qin and Sister Amber guarding the courtyard, more than half of the maids in Sui'an Hall have to follow, and the four little maids in Su Su's house are getting the eyes of the old lady, and they have already gotten the letter to go, so that the little maids who can't go with them don't know how much gossip they have said. They should not hear.

Some time ago, the little maids took turns on vacation, Su Su and Yang Liu went back to Qiao's house, Qiao Butler was very fond of Su Su, and also warned Su Su Yang Liu a few words: "At the moment, what you want is two words of loyalty, loyalty to the old lady, let the old lady like it, don't pay attention to the side, the old lady will make decisions for you." ”

Regarding this, Su Su saw it more clearly than Yang Liu, in the Song family, she had no second way except to rely on the old lady. She wants to live well, be the old lady's favorite maid, save some money, let the old lady give her a naturalization, and find her brother in the future, maybe she will become her own child in this time and space. With so much to do, how could she be as knowledgeable as a group of schoolchildren!

The Zhuangzi that the old lady is going to this time is Hongshan Village, one of the two small Zhuangzi outside the city, which actually occupies a hill and 200 acres of fertile land under the mountain. The chickens, ducks, eggs, meat, cow milk, and goat milk that are eaten with Antang on weekdays are all from this Zhuangzi, and there are also wild games from time to time. It was only an hour's drive from the inner city, and the housekeeper Qiao had already informed the steward of Zhuangzi to clean up the house and just wait for the arrival of the master.