312 Apprenticeship
In fact, the old lady was a little disliked, but Mama Qin's words made her change her mind.
“…… Ouch, the little face is thin, as if he has just suffered a disaster, he choked on the first bite when he ate the lotus cake, and he even drank two glasses of water to ease up, and he was a little timid at first, where is it like the daughter of an official eunuch? Thanks to the young lady's kindness, she is willing to help her. "Mama Qin also thought of herself by Yuan Niang, she was sold by her stepmother.
The old lady thinks that instead of making Hua Ronghua feel that she is unreasonable, it is better to follow her wishes, anyway, she is only looking for a stepdaughter, not an ex-husband.
Although Hua Ronghua wanted to do something for Yuan Niang, she didn't think that Lu Wenping, the sour scholar, would agree to let her daughter show up like her, but to her surprise, the next day, Yuan Niang really followed Lu Wenping.
Hua Ronghua thought well, Lu Wenping didn't agree, but he couldn't stand Mrs. Lu's consent! Fanwutang is a fat difference, Liulang's salary in Fanwutang is the same as the previous two months, if Yuan Niang gets back a salary, then she will be paid!
Lu Wenping couldn't resist the old lady, and Lu Luo was smart not to speak, so he had to take Yuan Niang, who was wearing new clothes, to Fanwutang.
"Mrs. Hua, the little girl is please!" Hua Ronghua always felt that Lu Wenping gritted his teeth when he said Mrs. Hua's words.
"This is ......" Mr. Xiao looked at the girl behind Lu Wenping with some puzzlement.
Hua Ronghua smiled and beckoned Yuan Niang to come over, "Master Lu, you go and do your business, I will ask someone to send Yuan Niang over when I go down." As he spoke, he led Yuan Niang away, and Mr. Xiao glanced at Director Lu strangely, and followed.
Lu Wenping watched his daughter leave without looking back, and felt a little uneasy in his heart.
Mr. Xiao walked aside and looked at the girl who was a little nervous and smiling, and couldn't help asking, "Mrs. Hua, who is this?" ”
"Oh, she is the daughter of Lord Lu, called Yuan Niang. Yuan Niang, this is Mr. Xiao. ”
"Hello Mr. Xiao." Yuan Niang gave a blessing to Mr. Xiao.
"Oh, good." Mr. Xiao was a little confused, isn't this her ex-husband's daughter? What did Mrs. Hua take her for?
Seeing that Mr. Xiao was puzzled, Hua Ronghua explained with a smile, "Well, Mr. Xiao should know about the previous relationship between me and Director Lu, Yuan Niang used to call me a few days before, and she was very good to me, so I thought I could help her." ”
"How does Mrs. Hua want to help her?" Mr. Xiao thought to himself, looking at this, there is no need to ask about Lord Lu's affairs, right?
Hua Ronghua smiled and didn't reply to Mr. Xiao's words, but asked, "Did Mr. see Grandpa Cui?" ”
"Just after sending His Highness away, Grandpa Cui seems to be resting in the house!"
"Then Mr. Xiao will go and get busy first, and I'll go find Grandpa Cui."
Watching Hua Ronghua go in the direction where Grandpa Cui lived, Mr. Xiao seemed to understand Mrs. Hua's plan.
Hua Ronghua asked Yuan Niang to wait outside the door, and entered the house by himself, only to see Grandpa Cui sitting on a chair like an uncle, and the two little eunuchs were pinching his shoulders and beating his legs.
"Yo, how did Mrs. Hua get here? What is it that makes a person call a miscellaneous family to get it? Seeing Hua Ronghua, Grandpa Cui hurriedly got up and waved away the two little eunuchs, and asked with a smile. Now he doesn't dare to show Hua Ronghua's face as casually as he did at the beginning, the silver that Hua Ronghua earned for the treasury is not counted, just her three-grade edict is enough for herself to drink a pot.
"That, Grandpa Cui, I'm here to ask you for something." Hua Ronghua pointed to Yuan Niang, who was standing outside the door and looking into the house, "Can that kid trouble my father-in-law to help me?" ”
“*?” Gonggong Cui glanced at Yuan Niang and asked, "Madame wants to ......" I wondered in my heart, did Mrs. Hua want to give this girl to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in order to consolidate her relationship with the East Palace?
"To tell you the truth, her name is Yuan Niang, she is the daughter of Director Lu and my former stepdaughter, she is forced to do some rough work at home all day long, and she can't eat enough. I thought that she was almost at the age of saying that she was a relative, and she couldn't say that she was a good person when she was doing it all the time, so I thought about asking Grandpa Cui for help, as long as I got your advice, I would be able to eat no matter where I married in the future. ”
Hua Ronghua felt that even if she asked someone to explain the situation clearly, not to mention, her relationship with Lu Wenping, after the embarrassment of meeting yesterday, I was afraid that these people would know all about it as soon as they inquired afterwards.
Gonggong Cui was stunned, but he didn't expect Hua Ronghua to ask for this. "If Mrs. Kehua wants her to learn the methods of housekeeping, why don't you go and ask Mrs. Gongxi? Whether the old lady is a housekeeper or a businessman, her experience is much stronger than that of a miscellaneous family! ”
Old lady? Hua Ronghua looked at him and emphasized, "Yuan Niang is my ex-husband's daughter!" ”
Father-in-law Cui reacted and apologized, too, it is impossible to let the current grandmother-in-law take care of her ex-husband's daughter!
Hua Ronghua continued: "And I think that as far as housekeepers are concerned, men and women have completely different visions and ways of doing things, otherwise why wouldn't the person in charge of the East Palace be a woman!" I think since I let Yuan Niang learn, let her learn the best. ”
Father-in-law Cui was stunned, and after carefully looking at Hua Ronghua's expression, he found that she was not intentionally flattering, that sentence was completely from the bottom of his heart, and his eyes couldn't help but moisten for a moment, and then laughed.
"The eunuch of the miscellaneous family is also a loss to be treated as a man by his wife! That's it, just say to you, that girl's affairs are in charge, so you can let her study by my side for a few days. ”
"Uh......" Hua Ronghua wanted to explain that he had never looked down on eunuchs, and thought about it again, more things are better than less, in short, as long as the goal is achieved, he hurriedly thanked him, and called Yuan Niang, telling her to follow Cui Gonggong on the first day of her future.
Yuan Niang was a little nervous, "Hua Niang, don't you care about me?" ”
Hua Ronghua smiled and touched her head, "Yuan Niang, Gonggong Cui is a celebrity around His Royal Highness the Prince, much more powerful than me, you can get more things from learning from him than from me." Don't worry, I'll be coming to see you often. Hurry up, say hello and kowtow to Grandpa Cui. ”
Although Yuan Niang was a little afraid, she was still obedient, knelt down and kowtowed.
Hua Ronghua saw that the matter had been completed, so he took out an envelope from his arms and handed it to Grandpa Cui, and said with a smile: "This is the apprenticeship ceremony." ”
Grandpa Cui smiled and said, "Mrs. Hua will take it back, there is no shortage of these things in the miscellaneous family." "He thought it was a silver ticket or something.
"This is not a silver ticket, it is a method of making a cake, I researched it myself, and Grandpa Cui took it to the people in the kitchen to study and study, and I made a tooth sacrifice when I had nothing to do." Hua Ronghua explained.
"That being the case, the miscellaneous family took it." Grandpa Cui took the envelope with the corners of his mouth, thinking that it was the first time he had seen someone send a recipe from a teacher. But later, after this pastry was made, not only did Grandpa Cui like to eat it, but also won the favor of the crown prince and the crown princess, and later paid tribute to the palace, for which Grandpa Cui was also repeatedly rewarded.
Hua Ronghua arranged Yuan Niang, and then went to Mr. Xiao and Fuxi to talk about arranging the crew and seafood, and then asked a few carpenters to go home.
Afterwards, Mr. Xiao reported all this to the prince.
At the end, he concluded: "Mrs. Hua doesn't care about the existence of Director Lu, and she also entrusted Director Lu's daughter to Gonggong Cui, and her subordinates feel that they can continue to retain Director Lu." ”
The prince snorted, looked at Gonggong Cui on the side, and said jokingly: "I can't imagine that this king will be absent for a day, and Gonggong Cui will accept apprentices?" ”
Father-in-law Cui hurriedly knelt down, "How dare the slave accept the apprentice, but Mrs. Hua said that she wanted the slave to help the girl for a few days, so that she could find her mother-in-law in the future, and the slave ...... If His Highness didn't like it, the slave pushed it off. ”
"That's it, since you have already answered the others, you can teach it well." The prince waved his hand to signal Grandpa Cui to get up, and asked Mr. Xiao again, "What is Mrs. Hua looking for a carpenter?" ”
"Well, she said that she was making a playground for the two little boys, and she also said that she would pay the wages of several carpenters!"
"What is a playground?" The prince asked curiously.
Mr. Xiao smiled bitterly and shook his head, "My subordinates don't know." ”
The prince tapped his fingers on the bookcase, and then said, "When the carpenters come back, you can ask." ”
At this time, a few carpenters from the East Palace were looking at the pile of drawings in their hands and were a little confused, what are these slides, swings, seesaws, rope nets, merry-go-rounds, and bumper cars?
"Among these things, you can make the first four things, and the last two things need more skills, if you are not good at it, I can find someone else to do it." At this time, the candidate who appeared in Hua Ronghua's mind was Gong Lao, who loved institutions.
"So, Mrs. Hua, what are you going to do with these things?" It's no wonder that these carpenters ask, they really can't understand those drawings!
Hua Ronghua looked at the drawings with the carpenter's hand, and found that what he had drawn looked a little confused now. Her face flushed, it seems that her drawing skills are really not good! So, he told himself what he was going to do.
After Hua Ronghua's explanation. The carpenters finally understood, but they were amazed in their hearts, most people look for them to make furniture and doors and windows, but they are the first to make toys for children.
So, Hua Ronghua used the two empty rooms of more than 70 square meters near the second gate in the inner courtyard as a playground, and there were craftsmen working in it every day.
Afraid that the child would run around without knowing the depth and get hurt again, Hua Ronghua and the old lady took the child around the capital every day. Today I went to the restaurant, tomorrow I went to the shop, the day after tomorrow I went to the play, and after enough in the capital, I simply went to live in the Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing for seven or eight days, and when they came back, the playground was basically completed.
The two children were so happy to look at the colorful wooden toys, they were about to run over to try it out, and were hugged by Hua Ronghua, "Okay, wait two more days, don't you smell the smell of clear oil on those toys?" ”
The craftsman smiled and explained: "Mrs. Hua, the swing, rope net and seesaw have all been done, the slide has been made a straight slide and a rotation according to your instructions, the middle is connected by a simple rope channel, and the merry-go-round here is also done, but it needs to be pushed by external force to turn up, as for the bumper car you said, we are really powerless." ”
"It's okay, you're already doing this, I'll figure out how to do it." She asked Yunqiu to go to find Gong Lao before, but she heard that Gong Lao was invited away by a big person, so she delayed.
Seeing Mrs. Hua's eyes looking at a few wooden horses on the side, the craftsman continued: "These are all made according to Mrs. Lady's requirements, there are some differences in height, and in a few years the two little sons will be able to play when they grow taller, and the building blocks you said, because it doesn't take much effort, the small ones have made a few more sets, and they are all brushed with clear oil and dried over there!" ”
"Thank you, I'll pay you the salary!"
The old lady looked east and west, and finally looked at the two great-grandchildren looking at the toys and couldn't help asking, "This is the playground you said?" ”
"yes, that's pretty good, isn't it? Now the child has a place to play. Hua Ronghua was a little proud.
The old lady twitched the corners of her mouth, "It's good to have my great-grandson really happy to play this!" ”
Seeing the two children standing aside with some grievances, Hua Ronghua smiled wryly, "Hehe, it will be fine in two days." ”