These Taoist aunts of Qingyang Guan have always been taken care of by the Yang family, and they send white flour and oil rice during the New Year's holidays, and some of them are not clear with the children of the Zheng family, these people naturally stand on the side of the Yang family and grovel to the Yang family.

When the Yang family came here, they hugged each other, and the pomp was not spectacular.

But now Lishu is here, although she is young, she is the wife of the Zheng family. The Taoist aunts didn't dare to make a mistake, but they were more than respectful to Lishu, and their sincerity was insufficient, because they knew very well that the county officials were not as good as the current management.

Therefore, when they saw that the two were arguing, they did not dare to come forward to persuade each other.

It's just that some of them are also biased towards the Yang family, "Grandma Hao, you don't know that if we don't strike first, and wait for these ordinary people to rush into the government and sue Diao, our Zheng family's reputation will definitely be damaged." ”

Yang snorted coldly when she heard this, and didn't explain, as if she was kind enough to treat it as a donkey's liver and lungs! thinks that Lishu is young, and she only relies on her enthusiasm to bring trouble to the Zheng family when the time comes.

Lishu smiled: "Since that's the case, then I'll go out and ask clearly." ”

As soon as he heard that Lishu was going out, Yang immediately changed his face and pulled Lishu anxiously: "Nephew and daughter-in-law, what is your identity, meet these people, if you are seen, how can I explain to your in-laws?" Okay, okay, I'll let them disperse and not send them to the officials. ”

Yang's picture of Lishu has no way to take Lishu, Lishu achieved her goal, and borrowed the slope to get off the donkey: "Auntie loves me like this, then I will listen to Auntie." ”

Yang also breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately ordered his subordinates to give porridge again, just drive people away, and don't send them to the official again.

But one person also had a discord with his heart because of this, and after Lishu returned to the room, she asked people to continue to serve a bowl of mushroom noodles and continue to eat them. Zhulan and Lamei thought to themselves, at this time, the grandmother can still eat, and it is really a very good mentality.

After Lishu finished eating, she couldn't help but smile when she saw her looking at each other: "It's not a big deal, why are you scared." ”

Lamei handed over the tea to Lishu to rinse her mouth, and said worriedly: "You are sincere, I am afraid that the clan will not understand when the time comes, and if something happens to those victims, you will also become the target of public criticism." ”

"Well, it's not me. Since I think it's right at the moment, even if it is pointed out by Qianfu in the future, I will not change my attitude. Lishu didn't care.

Of course, the Yang family was not lightly angry, but if she really scolded in front of these Taoist aunts, she couldn't do it, so she had to say angrily: "In the end, she is the eldest grandmother." ”

Facing his henchmen, Yang was polite again: "Mother Zhong, what kind of person is this Liu family?" ”

Mother Zhong is Yang's sister and her confidant. Therefore, Mother Zhong spoke more bluntly: "Madam, the slave didn't inquire about anything, it was nothing more than the Zheng family set up this family affair in the early years, this Miss Liu has an excellent family background, and her appearance is beautiful, but her stomach is still angry, and she gave birth to two sons one after another, and then she is a logical housekeeper." ”

"Is there anything else?" Yang asked, they will get along for three years in the future, this Liu family dares to lose her face now, I am afraid it will be difficult to get along in the future.

Mother Zhong thought for a while: "There is only one, I heard that Uncle Hao's side is clean, not to mention the concubine, there is no connecting room." You can see how many concubines does the sick man have?"

Yang thought for a while: "I really didn't see her come out with a few waiters." ”

"Mrs. One, what are you going to do?" Mother Zhong asked.

Yang laughed at himself: "Even so, I can't easily confront her." She is the future grandmother, Brother Hao is a bachelor in the Hanlin Academy, and her wife is expensive. It's really a chicken and an egg, who is the most injured? ”

This bit of proportion Yang still has, just like her sister, her appearance and talent are not as good as her, but the family is public, although she is not from a family, but she is a scholar and the first, and her official luck is prosperous, and now she is the same as the five products.

But so what, the Zheng family is a thousand-year-old family, what does the Zhu family have?

She thought so in her heart, and her face was very relieved to Mother Zhong: "The old lady has been buried in the past few days, you go to the same prefect's mansion for me, and invite my sister's family to come and meet, speaking of which, our sisters haven't seen each other for many years." ”

Mother Zhong smiled: "Isn't it, Mrs. Aunt must miss you too." Over the years, she and you have often exchanged letters, and the aunt is anxious, and the family is overwhelmed by the so-called aunt, thanks to your frequent explanation. ”

Yang pouted.

If you want Lishu to say, Yang is really a person, her face was the color of pig liver yesterday, and today she is back as before, without any mustard, and she talked to Lishu about this matter, only saying that she was not thoughtful.

Lishu smiled: "Where does my aunt speak, my aunt is my elder, and it is right to teach me to do things." It's just that I received court training at a young age, and my family has repeatedly taught me to pity the poor and the weak, so I have the kindness of this woman, and I must learn more from my aunt in the future. ”

Yang also treated Lishu with admiration, because what he said was very beautiful, but he still had to insist that he did a good job yesterday and spoke well.

From this point of view, the Yang family is very jealous.

One person staged a play of "will be harmonious", and the abbot of Qingyangguan said: "Oh, one almost made me break out in a cold sweat yesterday." ”

Lishu and Yang looked at each other and laughed, walked out of the door, and got into their respective carriages before putting down the smiles on their faces.

As far as Lishu is concerned, letting others know her bottom line first is better than the so-called pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, this kind of grievance that has endured for many years on the surface, and then counterattacked after decades, is not happy at all.

So, this is also the meaning of many troubles that cannot be found on her.

The carriage walked for most of the day to reach Zheng's house, and as soon as Lishu came back, before she had time to kiss her two sons, she changed her clothes first, and said that the Tan family was coming.

"What is she doing at this time?" Lishu thought to herself, but let people in anyway.

As soon as Tan came to see Lishu, he apologized: "I didn't want to disturb my sister-in-law, but in the past few days, there have been many people at home, and I don't know who left such an object." ”

Because of Tan's previous affair with Qiu Rulong, he was especially like a frightened bird in this kind of thing. Therefore, when I saw that Sister Xiang picked up such a sachet in her hand yesterday, with a strand of hair in it and two silver trays, she immediately wanted to clear up the relationship.

Lishu opened it and saw that her face was also red, this silver tray is used by men when couples have sex, generally speaking, when men are obviously not good, but insist on having sex, they will put the silver tray under the man, and then tie it with a rope, with the help of the hardness of the silver tray to achieve the effect.

Zongfang is now filial piety, Zheng Hao and Zheng Qing both live in the outer courtyard, and Mrs. Zheng is old and dignified at home. There are concubines in the first room, but Ning Xiang is also a serious concubine.

Because of the funeral, the Chengri family is also full of people, if outsiders are accidentally left behind, it will be fine, but if the girl or daughter-in-law in the family has an adulterous affair with someone, this is not good, the housekeeper is not strict and the first is the housekeeper's Lishu.

"Where did Sister Xiang pick it up? Does anyone else know? ”

"Just her naughty energy, sister-in-law, you know, I asked her nurse, and took her to play with the rockery and picked it up. Ning Xiang carried her back for me, and I found this, and no more than three people knew about it. Tan also wanted to see how Lishu would behave.

Lishu took this purse and looked at the material first: "This is a lilac-colored purse, which is made of makeup satin, which is made by the Nanjing Weaving Bureau, and is generally used for the imperial clothing of the emperor and concubine, and the palace curtain cushion is also used for this, so it can be seen that the person who can use this is not an ordinary person after all." I remember when I was a child, my grandfather was given a makeup satin, and my sister used that to make clothes. It's okay, you go back first, I'll find it slowly, this matter is not appropriate to be quiet. ”

After saying that, she threw the purse aside, and Tan also threw off this hot potato, not daring to stay for a long time.

When she left, Lishu called for Xue to come over, and asked her first: "Who wandered near the rockery yesterday, you go and ask Mrs. Ning?" Let her quickly find out, remember, don't make a noise. ”

In fact, it is the first time for Lishu to deal with such a thing, she often follows the Yang family these days, and people in the family keep coming to worship, which is inevitably beyond the reach of the whip.

It's really a wave of unevenness, wave after wave, Lishu took a sip of hot tea, but she didn't show eagerness.

Mrs. Ning came over soon, and she said that there were many people, and everyone of these people was possible. Lishu had no choice but to ask someone to call Zheng Hao over, because this thing was placed here for a long time, and it would be bad if others thought it was hers and used it to slander her.

I originally thought that when I came back to the Zheng family, I should be able to rest, but I didn't expect that there was still a small demon in the temple here.

But the last thing she is afraid of is fighting.

Zheng Hao hurriedly came over, Lishu smiled and glanced at the purse next to her, Zheng Hao was stunned.

"Open it and see?" Lishu said.

Zheng Hao opened it and blushed: "What is this, why is it here?" ”

"It was my brother and sister who said that Sister Xiang picked it up yesterday while playing in the rockery, and I don't know whose it was. If it's accidentally omitted, it's just that, if it's with someone in our house, then it's a big problem. Lishu said.

Zheng Hao took out the strand of hair, it was a woman's hair, not a single white hair, it was black and shiny, it should be a young woman.

"Shu'er, when you were in the Zheng family, you were extremely strict as a housekeeper, and there has never been such a thing, and now you will let it go." Zheng Hao trusts Lishu very much.

Lishu nodded: "Of course I know, now that the funeral is over, there is no need for Mrs. Gu Yi to come over to take care of it, and I will resume the previous rules of vigil and night patrol." It's just that when we came back, many of them used to be familiar people in Beijing, but now there are a lot of people sent by Mrs. Gu Yi, and I don't use them easily. ”

Zheng Hao thought to himself that although Lishu was young, there were few people who could compare to her in terms of ability.

Now that she has returned home, Mrs. Gu Yi is in charge of the sect's affairs, although she is old, she is not necessarily better than Lishu. These days are in charge of Mrs. Guyi, and his Lishu still has to accompany the last seat, just after the funeral, there is such a problem, if Lishu is in charge, it will definitely not be like this.

Therefore, Zheng Hao said: "Grandmother has been buried, no need for others to come, in the future, you can use whichever is convenient, if you don't use which, just hand it over to Mrs. Gu Yi, and then let people send people over to choose carefully." ”

"Eh, it's not that Mrs. Gu Yi is bad, speaking of which, I offended her yesterday, and I'm afraid she will blame me." Lishu recounted what happened yesterday.

Zheng Hao frowned and listened: "Why bother to send people to death for a few acres of land, now the rich in this world are all over the world, and the poor have no place to stand, which is not a good thing. ”

Lishu didn't expect Zheng Hao to oppose this kind of land transfer like her, and because of this, except for Lizhen, the daughters of the Liu family did not have much land to marry.

This land purchase is to buy land from the peasants, and the land is the foundation of the peasants' lives, who will sell their own land. As the saying goes, people are not rich without windfalls, and horses are not fertile without night grass, and of course Lishu knows that there is actually a problem with Mrs. Gu Yi's purchase of land.

Although there is a drought this year, so the government is preparing to build a canal, where can pass through the water, she is afraid that she will know in advance, using the prophet, first encourage the farmers to sell the land, buy it cheaply, and after the ditch is dug, the dry land she bought immediately becomes a paddy field, and an acre of land can earn a difference of six taels.

The contract has been set early, and Mrs. Gu Yi has the contract in hand, so it cannot be said that she is forced to buy and sell, but this is also to some extent to account for the blood and sweat of the people.

Seeing Zheng Hao's righteous indignation, Li Shu said: "I think this kind of thing must have happened more than once. ”

This is Lishu, she doesn't directly scold Mrs. Gu Yi, she has no enmity with Mrs. Gu Yi, and now tell Zheng Hao. One is to get rid of the suspicion of Yin Tuozi, and the other is to let Zheng Hao understand that Mrs. Gu Yi is greedy.

This family will be inherited by her in the future, and now let others take care of it, she doesn't understand it at all, will it be that when she takes over, she will become an empty shell and suffer a dumb loss? At that time, Mrs. Gu Yi didn't know if it had been passed on to her daughter-in-law again.

Mrs. Zheng can ignore it, because she has now handed over the task of the sect woman to her, and what will happen in the future has nothing to do with her.

No matter what happens to his own people, what happens in the future is not implicated in Zheng Hao.

Otherwise, Song Mingcheng had an accident alone, how could the whole family be punished.

If Mrs. Gu Yi is really good, it's okay, and even filling her own pockets is nothing, I'm afraid that she will take advantage of it, do the wrong thing, and go more and more wrong, and finally harm the clan, she has to observe slowly.

From the next day, Lishu asked the housekeeper and the mother-in-law who guarded the door to come to Maochun Hall, and she was the first to restore the rules of the night patrol, especially the mother-in-law who guarded the door, she repeatedly advised.

"If you let me know that you gamble and eat and drink, I will definitely not spare you, you also have sons, daughters-in-law and relatives are all on errands in the house, they know that you were stripped of your pants and beaten on the board, even I am worried about your old face." Lishu said sharply.

The mother-in-law trembled when they heard this, before in Beijing, there were mothers-in-law who wanted to commit suicide and threaten others, thinking that she was a big person, so what if she gambled a few times? As a result, the fake drama was really done, and it was really dead. The eldest grandmother was not afraid at all, she didn't even give more silver, but divided the mother-in-law who had done a good job before the mother-in-law's month, and she had to punish her for killing.

In Lishu's view, if the door is not tight at night, it is easy to attract rape and theft.

Therefore, there was originally a small door open here to facilitate Mrs. Gu Yi's entry and exit, but the Zheng family did not come back last time, and Mrs. Gu Yi came in through the small door. Unexpectedly, when she came over that day, the door was closed.

Mrs. Gu Yi asked people to knock on the door to ask, but the mother-in-law who opened the door was very polite, and only smiled: "It's our grandmother who said that in addition to the entrance and exit of the east corner door, the back door and the small door are locked, and the old slave is only responsible for sprinkling and sweeping here." ”

It turned out to be her, Mrs. Gu Yi lowered her eyes, and said, "Aren't all your kitchens going to the back door?" Now that it's closed, is it good to act? ”

"Our grandmother said that the back door of the kitchen should be kept in and out for no more than two hours a day, and it should be locked, otherwise some people will not know how to sneak in." The mother-in-law explained it very clearly.

Mrs. Gu Yi's maid Lu Rong smiled and said, "In this case, we have already come here today, and we will leave your east corner gate tomorrow, isn't this still possible?" ”

The mother-in-law was taken aback: "Mrs. Guyi, it's not that I refuse to be accommodating, in our family." Grandma has always been forbidden, we dare not listen, if the grandma knows, she must be very good to you, but we slaves and maids ......"

Mrs. Gu Yi didn't expect that a young girl would be so majestic that even the mother-in-law who sprinkled the sweep was afraid of it.

The mother-in-law laughed with her, but she didn't let a step, Mrs. Gu Yi had to come from the east corner gate, she came to hand over the account book. This is the account of the mourning, and the amount of expenditure, and now the people who are outside will receive the money.

Normally, she wants to dock with Lishu, but now it's good, she came to Mrs. Zheng first.

At this time, Mrs. Zheng had just finished acupuncture, and she was sweating and changing her clothes. Hearing that Mrs. Gu Yi came to pay the account, Mrs. Zheng said symmetrically: "You go out and let her go directly to Brother Hao's daughter-in-law." ”

Mrs. Zheng is not stupid, she has handed over everything to her daughter-in-law now, but when people came to report the account, she intervened again, and Mrs. Gu Yi patted her ass and left, and then there was a gap between her and her daughter-in-law, which outweighed the loss.

Mrs. Gu Yi didn't expect Mrs. Zheng to really let go, so she found Lishu here.

At this time, Lishu and Zhulan were ruling out candidates one by one: "It shouldn't be Qing Yiye, during the mourning period of grandmother, he greeted the people who came to worship with the uncle in the mourning hall." You asked the children of our clan, who is more romantic? ”

"That's a lot." Zhulan was a little embarrassed, she was a big girl, and today she only knew what a silver tray was, but she is now a confidant of her grandmother, and she can't tell others about it, so she has to do it.

When Zhulan was about to speak, she saw that someone said that Mrs. Gu Yi was coming, and Lishu got up to greet Mrs. Gu Yi again.

Mrs. Gu Yi came to pay the account, she said first: "When we received the funeral news, we repaired the ancestral hall, you also know that our Zheng family has been a princess for generations, and it costs 20,000 yuan to complete it compared to other people's small ancestral halls, and the old lady is a first-class minister, so it costs 50,000 yuan to repair the ancestral hall even if I control it." ”

"That's as it should be." Lishu took the account book and flipped through it to see the end, and gasped: "How can you get 80,000 yuan?" Our old lady's longevity materials have already been prepared, and all kinds of gold and silver utensils, ceramic silk weaving for the funeral have been prepared by us from the treasury, and I originally planned that it would not exceed 5,000 yuan. ”

Mrs. Gu Yi said unhurriedly when she heard this: "Fortunately, you are thoughtful, otherwise it will cost more, you look here, you say that it is not a coincidence, the old lady's auspicious point happens to be on the main road of repairing the river, I have to take money to make a point, these expenses are unusual, and people can't let people occupy our old lady's auspicious point because of the river." ”

Lishu frowned: "The old lady Bodhisattva heart, if you really want to repair the river, you can also tell us first, we will settle down in one place, wouldn't this be bad for the people." ”

Mrs. Gu Yi was really clever: "But at first, you didn't come back and didn't say that you wanted to change, or your father-in-law said that you used the previous auspicious acupoint." ”

Lishu looked at the account book carefully, some of the accounts here were spent by her when she saw her when Mrs. Gu Yi was around, and the expenses of the monk were a large amount, and there were bits and pieces, which seriously exceeded expectations.

"I'd better go to the ancestral hall first, I remember that when my mother-in-law went to Beijing, she asked you to take care of it, since every year she sent someone to take care of the ancestral hall, why did it cost so much." Lishu was really distressed, she was originally going to be three or four thousand taels, but now it has become eighty thousand taels.

She didn't believe it, she used to hear her father tell a joke at home, every official has to build a road everywhere, even if the road in front has been repaired again, it has to be repaired again, just to make money by repairing it once.

In any case, Lishu had already decided that even if she didn't care, she couldn't give it to Mrs. Gu Yi, this person was too greedy.

Mrs. Gu Yi has a gesture of invitation, anyway, the ancestral hall has been repaired, and she can still see with her eyes how much it is. How much square soil was used underneath, how many jade slabs, and how carved they were, who can calculate.

But Lishu really figured it out, she is a family student, her father is good at repairing rivers, when she was in the river yamen, Lishu sometimes entered her father's study, and her parents often discussed.

Therefore, as soon as she entered the ancestral hall, Mrs. Gu Yi was dumbfounded when she heard Lishu's mouth talking.

"I did the math, auntie, you asked people to mainly repair the east side, and the west side is just to make up. The land in the west has been re-laid, about ten square of land, 30 jun of river sand, and how much can be used with lime, clay and sand, I only need a few hundred taels to repair in Beijing, but the price here is 30,000 taels. There are also six maul fans made here, and they are not small-leaved red sandalwood, but purple sandalwood, which is also called black sandalwood, which belongs to black acid branch wood, and such materials are cracked and hollow. The price of Xiaoye Rosewood is more than five times that of Rosewood, I said how to build an ancestral hall, more than ten square meters of land, to ask for so much silver, now in this world, there are more and more liars. Lishu glanced meaningfully at Mrs. Gu Yi.

Mrs. Gu Yi didn't expect her to be so powerful, the price of these six fans is more than 20,000 taels, she is confident that few people can tell it, where do you know that this woman can see through it at a glance.

Her vest was wet with sweat: "Nephew and daughter-in-law, how is this good, I have assigned it to Brother Qing in the clan, how young are they, you can see that the people are really not ancient, and they treat black sandalwood as a small leaf red sandalwood, fortunately, you reminded me." ”：，，