Speaking of Mama Lai, there is also a peach-colored interesting story circulating in the mouths of the old people in the house.

It is said that at that time, the imperial court changed the new system, and the saint wanted to abolish slavery, although this matter was somehow not mentioned again, but many people got real benefits at that time.

Jiao Da was out of his nationality at that time, and he also had the support of Ning Guofu, and at that time it was really prosperous, and he was envious of others.

Just when everyone thought that Mama Lai regretted her green intestines, who knew that she would marry Lai's housekeeper without showing her face, and gained a firm foothold in the inner house.

Later, after giving birth to Lai Da, she also became the new lady in one fell swoop, that is, the grandmother and son of the young master in Jia's mother's room.

This matter is far away, just say that at that time, Ning Guogong praised Jiao Da for being affectionate and righteous, and he was a first-class loyal and righteous person! When men get together to laugh, they like to use women as edging.

And Mama Lai, one of the trimmings, was ridiculed by many people at that time for not having luck, although she burned the cold stove correctly, she failed to hold the stove, allowing the latecomers to take the lead. Seeing that Jiao Da and his family had successively taken off their slave status and turned into civilians, and they were all at ease with food, clothing, housing and transportation, the people who ridiculed Lai Mama for looking away were like carp crossing the river, and their notoriety in public opinion in the two governments reached its peak for a while.

Just when everyone thought that Mama Lai was going to be ashamed and shameless, Mama Lai stood up indignantly: "Ning Rong and the second duke went out one after another, and on the battlefield, the sword has no eyes!" The slave only hated that she was a woman, and she couldn't go to the battlefield, so she had to pray day and night in front of the Buddha behind her back, begging God to bless her, and everyone could come back safely.

The slave was useless, and only the female worker could still get her hands on it, so she embroidered the handkerchief and gave it to the servants she knew. Madame Mingjian! The veil is owned by everyone, and slaves and maids are not confrontational! We can't let this bad reputation spread and ruin the atmosphere in our house. ”

Mama Lai made a sobbing confession at that time, and gained a firm foothold in Jiafu in one fell swoop, and later the two sons of the Lai family were both shrewd and capable, and they were quite relied on by the housekeeper's wife.

Up to this generation, the descendants of the Lai family have even embarked on the road of becoming officials, although they are donated county officials, but they are also very different from the slaves. This kind of planning pattern is really amazing!

Besides, this Lai Mama herself is also a person who is as wise as a torch and knows how to drill camps, she has a very inconspicuous small courtyard in the alley less than two miles away from the Rong Mansion, and I heard the old man say that the first leader is not even bigger than the two huts of Duoguan, and then because of the years of whale swallowing, the surrounding houses have been bought and replaced one after another, and now the Lai family has been quite large-scale!

"Mama Lai's garden is not much smaller than the Huifang Courtyard in our house!" Qingwen said that when she was happy, she shook out all the sesame seeds and rotten grains.

Hearing this, Yun Zhu looked longing and said with envy: "Mama Lai is really good at making money." I was about to ask how the money was earned, when I heard Qingwen continue to crackle.

"That is, our three girls have praised Mama Lai more than once for being a capable person, and she has done the best to open source and reduce expenditure, the bamboo shoots in the garden, the flowers in the summer, and the fruit and lotus roots in the autumn are all contracted out separately to collect rent.

Even the wide strips of bamboo leaves were specially assigned to pick and sell them for money! Speaking of the rise, Qingwen giggled, and Huang Ying asked herself if it was funny.

In Yunzhu's opinion, where is this interesting thing? This is clearly a way to make money!

And when Yunzhu really stood in the courtyard of the Lai family, he was even more stunned by the big mansion that entered the four or five houses.

Coming in from the gate, the pavilions and rockery ponds, in addition to the scale of the Jia Mansion are a few percent smaller, and even when she and Qingwen went to visit the main house, Mama Lai's style was no smaller than the old lady.

Compared with Laifu, which is no worse than Jiafu, Yunzhu, who has a preliminary understanding of the housing prices in Beijing, how can she not know that every inch of land under her feet can be used as gold? There is such a big mansion on this rich and wealthy Ning Rong Vice Street, how can it be built with a sentence that can make money?

"The rules are getting bigger." After meeting each other, the two followed a half-grown girl who led the way to the main courtyard, and Qingwen turned her head sideways and bit her ear at Yunzhu beside her.

If you have money and status, of course, you have to start talking about the rules.

Walking outside, for fear that those unruly words would make people listen to them and start talking again, Yunzhu only slandered in his heart and did not talk. When I walked to the flower hall in the outer courtyard, many people in the house came and went, and they were full of joy in the lanterns, preparing for tomorrow's lot-drawing feast.

The youngest son of Lai's second family, another new star of his grandchildren, such a rich family will really be reincarnated. Although the Lai family is a servant of the family, but the fame and fortune are almost at the peak, and with the support of the Jia Mansion, this grandchild who has escaped from slavery will really be a bird in the future.

Just as she was thinking about it, a loud shout suddenly came from outside the door: "Uncle is back!" ”

The people of the Lai family shouted uncle, presumably it was Lai Shangrong who donated the official? Qingwen, who was chatting happily with everyone, was also surprised. In the end, it is a master with an official body, and all the slaves greet each other with hulala, and Yunzhu is no exception.

I only secretly said in my heart, this little son has a big face, and the cousin who is an official has to make a special trip back to say goodbye, and I don't know what kind of creation will happen in the future.

"Oops, but we're late?" After some respect in the courtyard, a touch of incense accompanied by a delicate goose-yellow figure entered from the outside, pounced on Lai's second daughter-in-law who was coming out of the inner courtyard, and said crisply: "The strange husband is busy, and he will be able to release it in the coming year, neither my husband nor I have come back for the first time Aunt Hexi, and the aunt is in good health?" ”

"It's all good, it's all good. It's rare for you to come back, but your mother has been thinking about it for a long time, and she has received all the gifts from the first? There is a new bird's nest in it, you remember to drink it often, it's good to ......" Lai's second daughter-in-law took her hand and looked up and down, ambiguously hiding the words on the tip of her tongue, and her tone was very kind.

"Auntie~" The goose-yellow figure glanced at Lai Shangrong shyly and timidly, and then stomped his feet and pulled Lai's second daughter-in-law to the inner courtyard.

That Lai Shangrong...... In broad daylight, after staggering his wife's eyes, he was looking at Qingwen fixedly.

"Let's go to the needlework and see if we can help."

"Master Lai's wife and Lai's second daughter-in-law are clan sisters, both surnamed Yang, do you see that they look alike?" Qingwen pulled Yunzhu out of the courtyard, and only after she couldn't see the figure behind her at the corner did she slow down, as if she had no intention of asking.

Trying to recall Lai's second daughter-in-law's rich and plump body after the confinement, he said deflated after a while: "Where is it like? One is fat and the other is thin, and their facial features are not very similar. ”

"What's more, the temperament is not like it, Xiao Yang's is very spicy." Speaking ill of others in the residence, Rao is Qingwen was also very vigilant, and only held Yunzhu's hand tightly and avoided people all the way towards the needlework room.