In the eyes of the little girl Fan'er, it is already extremely rich to do this, but Qingwen knows that in this life, the Jia family has really saved too much.

Qingwen thought that in the last life, since the mother in the palace went home to save her relatives, the Jia family began to decline, and in the time when she was kicked out, she almost couldn't even send the monthly money of the subordinates. , and a servant like Mama Lai can already afford a house and garden in the capital, although it is not as good as Jiafu, but it is not something that ordinary county officials can buy, and Mama Lai still has a field Zhuangzi, that is, in the capital, those noble Hanlin, in terms of family background, are not as good as her family.

Qingwen guessed that all the changes in the Jia family now should be attributed to Mrs. Wang, in the last life, when Sister Feng was in charge of the house, although she was extremely rich, she was like a nouveau riche after all.

Sister Feng was born in the Wang family and is Mrs. Wang's niece, but everyone in Jiafu knows that Wang Xifeng is the concubine of Mrs. Wang's brother Wang Ren, not the daughter of the concubine, otherwise in a family like them, how could a woman like her, who is as beautiful and has excellent housekeeping skills, only match a Jia Lian who has no ability and no status.

To tell the truth, although Qingwen doesn't like a vicious and scheming woman like Sister Feng, there is no doubt that she is much more beautiful and capable than Baoyu's sister-in-law Li, if it weren't for her status as a concubine, it would be more than enough for Jia Zhen at the beginning. If it weren't for her love with Mrs. Wang, she wouldn't know where she would be married.

may be because she lacked something when she was young, and when she grew up, she seemed to be desperately trying to make up for it, Sister Feng was very prominent in dressing, and she also bowed high and stepped on low in dealing with people, and the housekeeper also wanted the masters in the two mansions to look at herself, so the Jia family has become extravagant over the years.

Speaking of which, these extravagant atmospheres are all used to by Sister Feng, and they look full of flowers on the top, but some of the minions below are greedy and fat, while others are complaining and miserable.

And Mrs. Wang is different from Sister Feng, she is the daughter of the Wang family, and she is the only daughter, so she is a girl in the palace, she has boundless wealth and excellent cultural education, so although she is rich, can take care of the house, and her dowry is also very good, but she doesn't love money, she only uses money as a tool.

Now that it is her turn to take care of the housekeeper, the atmosphere of the Jia family has begun to change, no longer blindly extravagant and wasteful, but tends to be rich and elegant.

Qingwen thought about it, and couldn't help but be in a trance, plus the little maids around her went to help, so someone came, and Qingwen didn't know. Mrs. Wang is also upset about the housekeeper these days, although she has the talent of a housekeeper, but since Wang Xifeng got married, she has handed over all these things to her, and in recent years, except for her own dowry shop, she has never taken care of the family business.

This time, as soon as he suddenly took over the entire Jia family, and because Sister Feng committed an accident, she was ordered to be in danger, and there were countless things to say, even for three days and three nights.

In addition, Concubine Yuan went home to save her relatives, and it was even more complicated, when Sister Feng was in charge of the house before, all the masters of Jiafu saw the good side, so although Mrs. Wang felt extravagant, she didn't care too much, and when she took over by herself, she found that the entire Jia family was already strong outside, and the finances had long been unable to make ends meet.

Coupled with the construction of the Grand View Garden before, the family's economy is even worse.

No wonder Sister Feng wanted to go out to put the money in Yinzi, and when Mrs. Wang saw the account book, she couldn't wait to drop millions of taels of silver from the sky for herself to fill the shortfall.

So in the past few days, in addition to settling Sister Feng's previous death, Mrs. Wang also has to push away the expensive things she ordered to decorate, and then purchase new jewelry, these things can not be too luxurious, and they can't be hung out and lose the face of the Jia family.

This is much more laborious than Sister Feng's blind selection of expensive ones, after all, the goods on the market are all good and bad, if you want to choose a good one, you have to look carefully, although there are many things, Mrs. Wang's grandmother can do it for her, but some valuable things, the slave's eyes can not be accurate, or Mrs. Wang has to go to see it herself.

In addition, in order to fill the deficit and save silver taels, like some large porcelain ornaments, Mrs. Wang took it directly from the treasury, fortunately, although Sister Feng was extravagant before, but the work has not yet reached the point of being completely disproportionate.

These days, Mrs. Wang is exhausted, if it weren't for the help of Li and Tanchun, she would have been exhausted, and today is also because Li and Tanchun feel that Mrs. Wang is really tired for too long, plus the purchase and placement of utensils everywhere have been roughly determined, only the items are sent and placed in the corresponding position, and the banquet, opera, singing and dancing, and the games played by the provincial relatives on the day are also docked with the palace.

Therefore, Li and Tanchun persuaded Mrs. Wang to come out and rest for a while.

Mrs. Wang has been exhausted these days, but there is one thing in her heart, because she has not done a good job, so she refuses to rest, so she came to Qingwen.

It turned out that when Concubine Yuan entered the palace draft, Mrs. Wang and Yuan Chun didn't want to go at first, so they planned early, and when the draft was held, they bought off the father-in-law of the Yellow Gate and brushed her down.

After all, the daughters of families like them don't have to worry about the food, clothing, housing and transportation of those princesses and princesses on weekdays, and they are not as restrained as those princesses, so there is really no need to ask for trouble.

Coupled with people like them, those secrets in the palace have long known everything, their good daughters, married to the right people to be housewives, how good, why bother to go to the palace to be concubines.

It sounds like a princess, it's not the same or a concubine, Mrs. Wang is a wife, but she has seen a lot of the suffering of the concubine, although in the palace, there is no concubine like the outside who has no dignity and status in front of the queen, but why should her pampered daughter suffer this.

But at that time, because Yuan Chun was the firstborn daughter of Mrs. Wang, the daughters of the other grandchildren of the Jia family and the two mansions were still in their prime, how to use it, and Mrs. Wang's only sister-in-law was just married to the Lin family two years ago.

In addition, this eldest lady was born with good looks, and the day she was born was really the first day of the first lunar month, and she had a good eight characters, so she was favored by a vassal king.

Although the Jia family is powerful, how can they be able to defeat the royal relatives and relatives, if this prince himself is good, even if it is not as good as the prince of the Beijing Mansion at that time, the Jia family is willing to give him his daughter.

But this prince is really unbearable, not only is he nearly forty years old, five years older than Yuan Chun's father Jia Zheng, and Yuan Chun at this time is just fourteen years old, and he already has a son, the inner courtyard is full of concubines, and he has the name of being amorous and a wife outside, his son was born to his second wife, and before he asked for Yuan Chun, he had just killed his third wife.

He asked for Yuanchun, because a Taoist priest told him that his life is precious, and there must be a woman with the same life as him, so as not to be hindered by him, and the whole capital knows that Yuanchun was born on the first day of the first month, and his life is precious, plus the prince once secretly looked at her when Yuanchun went out to incense, just a glance, he was attracted by Yuanchun's appearance and bearing, and came back to the door to propose.

But such a person, not to mention the many masters of Yuan Chun and the Jia family, even those maids and grandmothers, also think that he is not worthy of Yuan Chun. But this vassal king is the youngest brother of the first emperor, so when the Holy Ancestor Emperor was still alive, he was the most favored, but because this son was not successful, the Holy Ancestor Emperor did not give him the throne, but he drew him the best fief, so this vassal king, to this day, is also powerful.

The Jia family didn't dare to offend the vassal king, but they didn't want to push their daughter into the fire pit, so among the two fire pits, the palace and the vassal king, they chose the palace.

After all, although the emperor has a queen, the queen has no heirs, and the emperor has just ascended the throne, and he is only about twenty years old, no matter what, it is better than the vassal king, and if Yuanchun can give birth to a child in the future, the Jia family may be able to go to the next level.

So in the face of the vassal king's proposal, he rejected him on the grounds that Yuan Chun wanted to enter the palace.

How did the vassal king not know that this was the prevarication of the Jia family, in fact, he didn't look down on himself, so he put down his words in front of Jia Zheng, if Yuan Chun couldn't enter the palace as a concubine, then he must marry Yuan Chun "well".

Yuan Chun was also listening behind the screen at that time, and when he heard the words of the vassal king, although he was shocked and frightened, as the eldest lady of the Jia family, she was not an embroiderer, and immediately decided that she would enter the palace.

Then he used the volunteers of the Jia family to go to the palace to inquire about the emperor's preferences, and finally spent a lot of silver and connections, Yuan Chun found out that today's emperor likes incense and loves to watch dances, and the concubines and queens in the palace are incense every day, and the most favored Yang beauty in the palace is good at dancing, and the most favored by the emperor.

The reason why this news has not been circulated outside is because the emperor does not want to disturb the people, after all, there is something good at the top, and it must be followed by the bottom.

After the Jia family learned about it, they bought incense everywhere, and finally bought a different fragrance in Miaojiang, just take a bath and apply it on the body, it can be fragrant all day long, and it is different from other incense, it is paste, so there is a feeling of wetting that ordinary incense does not have, and it is unique.

And Yuan Chun herself, she practiced dance hard before the draft, she learned dance when she was young, but when she grew up, dance was a skill for concubines to please men, not what the housewife should learn, so she put it down.

However, she hasn't danced for two years, so Yuan Chun quickly picked up the basic skills, and in order to let her learn well as soon as possible, the Jia family spent a lot of money to hire the first dancer in Jiangnan and her teacher Xi Mama to choreograph and practice dance for Yuan Chun.