Chapter 96: Family Matters (5)
The long and quiet night is about to pass, and the window has revealed a slight whiteness of the fish's belly, and the air is cool and moist with dew.
Zhu Jintang went to the main courtyard early in the morning to bid farewell to the elders, and the two ancestors of the family, Zhu Feng and Zhu Jun and his wife had already arrived, and after breakfast, they were gossiping and waiting.
Zhu Jintang took Shen Yuechen to greet the two ancestors, father, mother, uncle and aunt.
When the old lady saw him coming, she hurriedly asked the maid to show him a seat, and moved the chair next to her, so that Zhu Jintang sat down, held his hand with both hands, and carefully advised: "You must be careful when you go out." After meeting your aunt, immediately send a letter to the family. ”
Zhu Jintang nodded in response.
The old lady turned her head to look at Shen Yuechen again: "The luggage is all packed?" ”
Shen Yuechen was busy with her body, and replied to the old lady: "Yes, everything is cleaned up." ”
Zhu Jintang followed and said: "Don't worry, the old lady is ready, so she will pack all the beds and shelves in the house together." ”
Hearing this, the old lady raised her eyebrows slightly, looked at Shen Yuechen and nodded approvingly: "Well, you are a child who can hurt people." ”
Shen Yuechen smiled slightly, bowed his head and said nothing.
At this time, the accompanying carriage and horses had been prepared outside the gate of Zhu's house, and a small copper tripod was also prepared in the car, which was full of ice cubes.
Zhu Jintang and Zhu Rong set off directly from the main courtyard, and there were maids kneeling on both sides and kowtowing along the way.
Zhu Jintang took the lead in riding the horse, tightened the reins, and the little guy next to him immediately stepped forward and said: "Uncle, the old lady has instructed, let the uncle take the car away, so as not to suffer from heat stroke when the sun is too hot." ”
Zhu Jintang rode a tall horse, naturally unwilling to sit in the car with his body in his nest, and waved his hand to signal everyone to leave immediately.
Shen Yuechen had been standing outside the gate and watching him and his entourage go away, but Zhu Jintang never looked back at him, and walked in a dashing manner. She stood in a trance for a while, and it wasn't until Chun Ming came to pass the word that she immediately came to her senses, raised her eyes and looked again, and there was no trace of anyone anymore.
With Zhu Jintang's departure, Shen Yuechen's life has become much simpler, he only needs to concentrate on family affairs every day, and go over on time to give the elders morning and dusk to save money, and his life is still very comfortable.
Although Wu's mother is the housekeeper mother in the hospital, her energy is still all used in the kitchen, from the purchase of ingredients to the daily ration of side dishes, she has to personally take care of everything. Now, the kitchen has been called to manage her in an orderly manner, although the manpower is tight, but she does not delay in getting things done.
After discussing with Wu's mother, Shen Yuechen decided to let the kitchen make a new agreement with the mothers-in-law who purchased outside, from the previous three days to buy every day, and the amount of various ingredients must be redrawn before each purchase, and after the order is placed, the kitchen ladies will decide the side dishes in each room. As a result, the daily side dishes are all fresh meat and vegetables, and there are few overnight or leftovers.
In addition, Shen Yuechen looked at the back of the yard and a small vacant land that had been idle, so he asked the mother-in-law to reclaim it and plant some vegetables and fruits for the people to eat.
Shen Yuechen boldly let go and handed over this kitchen to Wu's mother to manage, except for the need to prepare some ingenious food for the elders from time to time to discuss, she was in charge of everything else.
The reason why the old lady wanted to set a one-month deadline for Shen Yuechen was to examine her ability. The old lady was worried that she was too soft-hearted and couldn't suppress things, and she would be despised and neglected by the subordinates everywhere in the future, so this time, she deliberately ignored the affairs of the west courtyard, and just watched quietly. Fortunately, Shen Yuechen also has her own opinions, and she doesn't want to disappoint her old man, so she handles the big and small things in the yard properly, and behaves in a very orderly manner.
Shen Yuechen had promised the old lady and the ladies earlier that he would not make his own decisions about everything, and would always take the initiative to consult the Li family first, or find out many old precedents first, and make rulings while considering them, and never deal with and dismiss others casually.
The old people in the yard thought that she was just a momentary and wanted to deliberately take a gesture and put on a shelf, but they didn't expect that she was extremely peaceful and fair, and she did things fairly, saying one is one, and two is two.
Shen Yuechen is indeed a little harsh in the use of silver taels, but it is not to simply save silver, she has always had clear rewards and punishments, and those who do their errands well and properly will be rewarded accordingly every month. In fact, she just put the performance salary she learned in her previous life into practice, and kept the monthly monthly silver unchanged, but increased the salary after the performance evaluation. As the saying goes, those who can work more, and those who can work naturally get more.
The old lady and Li Shi saw that she had been in charge of things for more than half a month, and she had done a good job, so they slowly relaxed their hearts about her, and were ready to wait for the end of this month's period before continuing to let her take care of it.
Finally, in September, the poisonous sun is gone, and there is a little more breeze as a companion.
Zhu Jintang was in order in the capital, and from time to time he sent people back with letters, and roughly set the return date at the end of September.
Everyone learned that they were all happy, especially the aunts in each room, who were even more happy, and the number of times they came to the main room to ask for peace became more and more frequent. Only Qin Taoxi still goes his own way, always saying that he is not feeling well, and he can only pass it once in three or five days.
Shen Yuechen was also happy to be pure, too lazy to fight with her, because she couldn't come because of her love.
On this day, Shen Yuechen had nothing to do, so she asked Cao to hold Zhu Ying over to eat tea and talk.
Who knows, the Cao family led Zhu Ying into the door, and a little maid hurriedly came in and said, "Grandma, Aunt Sun, she vomited again today......"
Aunt Sun is unwell, and it is already the fifth day, what do she eat and vomit every day...... There's something wrong with that!
Shen Yuechen's eyebrows moved, a contemplative expression appeared on her face, and then she said with a straight face: "Go and ask the doctor to come and see, what's wrong with Aunt Sun?" ”
Hearing this, Cao's hand holding the teacup trembled slightly, and he hesitated and asked, "Aunt Sun, did she have a bad stomach?" How could a good person suddenly get sick? ”
Since you are from the past, why should you pretend to be confused with me?
Shen Yuechen looked at the Cao family and secretly scolded in his heart, but a smile appeared on his face and said: "Maybe it's because the weather is cold, maybe it's really sick." However, for the sake of peace of mind, I still asked the doctor to come and have a look...... Maybe there's some good news! ”
A sharp light flashed in Cao's eyes, and he also nodded and smiled, but his heart suddenly became worried.