CHAPTER XXV

Early the next morning, Shanniang went to her wife's yard to greet her.

Shanniang originally thought that Ma's mother should report the events of the past few days to her wife, and she might even say a few bad things about her, but she didn't want her to smile as soon as she saw her: "But what do you fancy me here?" -- It looks like he doesn't know anything.

Shanniang smiled: "No, I am here to ask my wife for sin." ”

A hint of discomfort flashed on Yao's face in an instant.

So Shanniang guessed that maybe it was Ma's mother who told her wife, but the fifth lady deliberately pretended not to know anything because she thought those things were annoying—well, she was the truth.

So she smiled and said, "I'm here to ask my wife for my guilt, please forgive me for being lazy recently." ”

Yao was surprised. Although she doesn't want to take care of things, she is still a housewife in the end, and there has been a lot of noise in the house recently. So she thought that what Shanniang was referring to must be those things she didn't want to hear, but she didn't want to ......

I saw Shanniang stand up, bend her knees to her, and said with a smile: "I was not at home before, and my wife was working hard at home, but now that I am back, it is out of filial piety, and I should take the initiative to stand up and help my wife. Therefore I have come to ask my wife for my sins and to ask my wife for help, and if there is any place in the house that can be used for me, please ask my wife to give her orders. Anyway, I have also learned housekeeping with the old lady in the West Garden over the years, and I will be able to help my wife manage the house properly, so that my wife can save worry and effort. ”

In fact, on the night when Shanniang just came back, in order to suppress Ma's mother, she had already vaguely revealed a little meaning to her wife. Mrs. also felt that although Mama Ma could save her a lot of trouble, Mama was just a nurse mother in the end, and there was no master to use it at critical moments, so she also tentatively mentioned it to Mama, but she only showed a little bit of meaning, and Mama's face sank, so Mrs. habitually softened and never mentioned this matter again. Because of this, Ma's mother repeatedly complained about the big girl, and she only thought it was because of the incident she mentioned before, but she didn't think Mama had any other thoughts in her heart.

At this time, Shanniang came to take the initiative to ask for help, how could the wife be unhappy, but she was worried that Mama Ma would give her a look, so she looked back at Mama who was standing on the side.

Sure enough, Ma's mother stretched a horse's face and said unhappily: "What does the girl mean, but I think that the wife's housekeeper is where she can't find it, and she needs the girl's correction?!" ”

Shanniang blinked and said in surprise: "Why did Mom say this? I just want to do my filial piety as a child, and I can't let my wife work alone, but I just care about being at ease, right? What's more, I'm fourteen years old, what family has such a big daughter who only cares about having fun and doesn't help the family with things? Oh......"

She suddenly raised her hand to cover her lips, as if she had just reacted, and said to Ma's mother apologetically: "Mom misunderstood." Over the years, thanks to my mother's help to my wife, the help I said was really just helping, not to take away my mother's housekeeping responsibility. Moreover, even if my mother wanted to hide from her, my wife and I refused to ask my mother to take off her errand. I just thought, the ruler is short and the inch is long, that is, my wife and mother are born with three heads and six arms, and there is always a place that cannot be taken care of, I just want to help pick up the missing and fill in the gaps. ”

She turned to Yao, "Don't hide the truth from Mrs., in the past few days since I came back, I have seen coldly that most of the people in the family are still good, but some people have been doing errands for a long time, and they are gradually slacking off." I thought that I didn't need to be in charge of the daily affairs, and I could always help my wife and mother beat the side drum on the side, and tighten the strings for those who refused to improve, so as to save my wife from being a wicked person in front of others, and second, "she looked at Ma's mother, "and said something that made my mother unhappy, but my mother was just a mother after all, and sometimes, what should be said was just said, and there was no wife or I said it more effective." ”

She turned to her wife again, "These are all trivial matters, and I really don't need to bother with them, so I might as well take them over, and it is also my filial piety to my wife." ”

Mrs. Yao looked at Ma's mother, who was speechless, and then at Shanniang, and suddenly sighed in her heart. When she was as old as Shanniang, her hands would tremble when she saw everyone, how could she dare to argue with others?! What's more, her nurse is a strong person who has been strong all her life, even in the face of her master, she refuses to bow her head lightly......

The wife originally thought that Shanniang might be like Ma's mother said, she wanted to take away the power of her nurse's stewardship, if that was the case, the wife would have to go to her nurse for a day or two, but now listening, this big girl is just a supervisor's responsibility, and it does not conflict with the nurse's errand...... That's easy.

So Yao Shi breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Ma's mother and said with a smile: "What Shanniang said is exact, didn't my mother still complain to me, saying that there are people in the family who are disobedient?" I'm used to being lazy, but now that Shanniang is willing to take the initiative to take these things, it has solved one of my big troubles. ”

She looked at Shanniang, "Then it's hard for you and your mother," and then looked at Ma's mother, "If there is anything in the future, you just have to discuss it with the girl, I don't have anything to do here." -- It means that he took advantage of the situation and simply let it go completely!

Ma's mother was stunned, and was just about to open her mouth to refute, but Yao's had already fled, so she dealt with it casually, and then pulled Minglan and hid in the embroidery room without looking back.

Shan Niang folded her sleeves to send her wife away, then straightened up, bowed politely to Ma's mother, and said with a smile: "I will ask my mother for more advice in the future." ”

Ma's mother swallowed a cold snort silently, stared at Shanniang and sneered: "The girl is still young, and the housekeeper's affairs are many and complicated, I just hope that the girl will not retreat halfway." ”

Shanniang shook her hand and smiled, "I knew my mother was going to misunderstand me." In fact, I really don't have the heart to pick on my mother's thorn, and I don't want to interfere with my mother's housekeeping, so my mother can rest assured. I told my wife that I just had to take on the responsibility of overseer......"

"The girl really deserves the name of a talented woman, and everything she says is a set," Ma's mother sneered again, "The so-called 'supervision' means that I do something, and the girl has the right to be picky!" ”

"Wrong, wrong," Shanniang smiled, "Mom has been in charge for a long time, I'm afraid I forgot, although our house has no title now, but in the end it has been inherited for a hundred years, and the family has already had a set of corresponding rules, that is, a gatekeeper, and a corresponding complete system, but not everyone can point fingers at will." I believe that as long as everyone follows the rules of the government, I am afraid that no matter how deliberately I am to be picky, there will be no place for me to find fault. If everyone follows the rules, it will be easier for the mother to take charge of the house. That's what I do. ”

As she spoke, Shan Niang smiled and bowed to Ma's mother, and led her maids out of the wife's yard.

Ma's mother stood under the porch, watching Shanniang go away, the horse's eyes glared fiercely, but she couldn't come up with any countermeasures in her heart - just as Shanniang said, there was already a set of mature rules and regulations at home, and there was even a superintendent, but she had always been tough and used to it, and she couldn't stand the constraints of others, so she had quietly set aside those overseers. And now, listening to the meaning of the eldest girl, it is obvious that she wants to start with this overseer.

This Shanniang stepped on the word "reason" every word, so that she wanted to oppose it, but she couldn't find a legitimate reason.

This girl, is she really only fourteen?! Or is it really so powerful in the old lady's West Garden, teaching all the children who are not yet minors so well?!

*・*・*

Just when everyone in the family was staring at each other, wanting to see how the eldest girl raised in the West Garden was so powerful, Shanniang did not start the housekeeping business, but first became the host and received an uninvited guest.

According to the rules and customs at that time, if someone wanted to visit, he should also hand over a post in advance to see if the host was available to receive him, unless it was someone who was particularly close to him and would be exempted from this customary ceremony. Shanniang thought to herself that she and Fourteen Niang were not so close, but they didn't hand over the post, so they came directly in person.

"I didn't expect my sister to come."

In the Spring Garden, Shanniang took the teacup from the teapot served by Sanhe, raised her eyes and quickly swept the smug face of Fourteen Niang, and handed the teacup to her with a smile.

Fourteen Niang took the tea cup with a smile, raised her eyes to look at this Chun Shen Yuan, and said, "My sister's place is so small. ”

Shanniang pursed her lips and smiled, "It's a joke for my sister." And he said, "I haven't cleaned it up yet." ”

Looking at the empty walls of the middle hall, Fourteen Niang nodded and smiled, "It seems that it is also, there is still a lack of a middle hall over there." He added: "I heard that the fifth uncle is good at Danqing, and my sister keeps this middle hall, won't she wait for the fifth uncle to come back?" ”

Although the fifth master is good at Danqing, he never refuses to show people Mobao lightly, that is, the old lady personally asks the fifth master, and it depends on whether the fifth master is happy or not.

Shanniang pursed her lips and smiled again, and said, "It's not that I'm waiting for my father's painting, I already have a better thing, and I'm framing it outside." ”

"What kind of baby?" Fourteen Niang leaned over and asked with interest.

Shan Niang pretended to mysteriously put a finger on her lips, "Keep it secret." ”

Fourteen Niang curled her lips slightly with disdain, and then looked at Thirteen Niang and said, "I forgot to ask, after my sister came back, is she better?" It should be a lot better, right? I heard that my sister went out into the street yesterday. The old lady also heard about it, and sighed with us, saying that my sister's previous illness must have been homesick, no, I just went back. The old lady also said that in this case, she asked her sister to stay at home for a longer time. ”

- This is the purpose of Fourteen Niang's uninvited visit today.

Shanniang's eyes narrowed slightly, and she secretly guessed in her heart that Fourteen Niang came this time, whether she wanted to see people's jokes herself, or was ordered by the old lady to beat her, but she didn't show anything on her face, only politely let the refreshments on the table, and said: "It's the old lady who remembers." It's strange to say, but when I came back, I was in good spirits immediately, maybe it was the old lady who said, I was homesick. ”

As she spoke, she looked at Fourteen and smiled, and then asked Fourteen Niang, "What have you been busy with lately?" ”

So Fourteen Niang was led away by her, and only her eyebrows fluttered and she told Hou Thirteen about the preparation process of the spring appreciation banquet.

"This year is different from usual, we usually have fun on the painting boat, this year we plan to do the opposite, set up the wine banquet on the edge of Luomei Lake, and move all those troupes to the painting boat......

Shanniang listened with a smile, but there was a sigh in her heart. She thought that without her participation this year, this spring banquet should be different from what she remembered, but she didn't want the old lady to remember her idea, or arrange it like this...... It seems that some things have changed in this life, and some things have not changed after all.

“…… I don't know if you will be able to participate then," Fourteen Niang looked at her with scrutiny, "The old lady also said yesterday that the wind is strong by the lake, and now you are just improving, and it is not good if you are young and have some major symptoms." ”

Threat!

Shanniang pursed her lips and smiled. It's a pity that she avoided that spring appreciation banquet!

Xu is Shanniang's smile looked really weird, and she couldn't help but ask Fourteen to restrain those little family thoughts, and said busily: "But it's not necessarily, it's only mid-February, and the spring banquet will not be until March 3." Sister stepped up to recuperate, and when the time comes, let's go to the lively and lively together. ”

Shanniang smiled and replied, "Yes, isn't it the day to go to school today?" Why are you here? ”

Fourteen smiled and said, "Because of this spring feast, the old lady specially asked for leave for several of us." It's my sister, let's get better quickly, the gentlemen in the school are all asking my sister. ”

Shanniang smiled and didn't answer. She is waiting for the fifth master to come back, so that she can go through the procedures for suspending her studies. With the Lin family and Yuan Changqing in Meishan Academy, she will never go again.

At this time, Yuan Changqing, who she thought would enter Meishan Academy in a month, was in a guest house of Meishan Academy, receiving the genealogy of the Hou family from the hands of the old shopkeeper of the wood shop.