Aunt Lian walked into the courtyard of Tingxue Yuan surrounded by several servants and girls, and couldn't help but roll her eyes and look around, unable to hide the jealous and hateful gaze in her eyes. This Tingxue Garden is the largest and most extravagant courtyard in the Hou Mansion in addition to Rongxi Hall, which is where the Hou Ye and the main lady live, this courtyard was not originally called Tingxue Garden, it was Jin Nanxue who just entered the door and talked to her cousin You Nong and I Nong, and the cousin changed the name in order to please her.

Later, she became her cousin's concubine, and with the help of her aunt, her cousin quickly snubbed Jin Nanxue, and by the way, she rarely even set foot in this yard, so she tried to mention to her cousin that she wanted to change yards with Jin Nanxue, but unfortunately she was rejected.

Aunt Lian wanted to change yards with Jin Nanxue, but unfortunately she was rejected.

She didn't give up and mentioned it a few more times in front of her aunt, but her aunt paid attention to the rules on the surface and said that it was not appropriate, and she didn't agree, which was really angry.

Can you not care? Although the Yilan Courtyard where she lives is also very grand and spacious, it cannot be compared with Tingxue Garden, why does she Jin Nanxue live in such a good courtyard?

Naturally, she didn't come to ask Jin Nanxue, the main mother, to say goodbye to her mother, although it is an ironclad rule to ask her wife as a concubine, but if everyone in the world can abide by the rules so much, there is no such thing as spoiling concubines and killing wives. Just like Aunt Lian, it has never been a matter of time to ask for rules in front of the main room.

Standing in front of Jin Nanxue, Aunt Lian only bent her legs perfunctorily and stood up straight, raised her head and looked straight at Jin Nanxue who was sitting there preparing for breakfast, her dress today was as showy as ever, and there were several serving girls and servants behind her, and she was full of style, and her head was full of pearls and greenery during the action, and she just wanted to close her eyes.

In this Hou Mansion, she has the support of her aunt and the favor of her cousin, and she never knows how to write the word humble. In addition to the hard backstage, there is another important reason, she also assisted her aunt in taking charge of half of the middle feed in the house, and she just came over today because she had something to do.

Take a look at a few simple side dishes and snacks on the table, the porridge is ordinary pumpkin millet porridge, and the side dishes and snacks are just a few home-cooked dishes.

Thinking back to the exquisite breakfast at the table he had just enjoyed, even the corners of his aunt's mouth were slightly invisible and showed a hint of ridicule, the kitchen and the sewing room in the house were handed over to her to manage, and it was easy to embarrass the woman in front of her a little, what if she occupied the position of the main room, all the treatment and dignity behind closed doors did not want to cross her!

Disdainful in his heart or respectfully said: "Sister, I discussed with my mother in the morning about the affairs of the house, and my mother talked about the expenses of this winter, and asked my sister to make a purchase list first, and I had to come over and ask what was missing in addition to the usual practice in the house, what else should be purchased here in the autumn and winter, or what else do you want to add, my sister said it together, and my sister told her to prepare as soon as possible.

By the way, by the way, I brought this month's monthly money over for my sister and showed it to my sister. ”

As he spoke, he motioned to a girl behind him to take out a purse in his hand, and Agarwood stepped forward to take it. This purse is only Jin Nanxue's monthly silver, according to the regulations of the Hou Mansion, Jin Nanxue's monthly silver is twenty taels, and it is distributed at the beginning of the month.

Yueyin's Hou Mansion has never been harsh to Jin Nanxue, Lian's principle of doing things is to pay great attention to superficial rules, and the Hou Mansion is not short of those few taels of silver, and there is a way to treat his daughter-in-law harshly, and he can't make people laugh on the bright side.

Looking at Aunt Lian's stunned appearance, Shang Lu snorted disdainfully and slandered in his heart: Which aunt and concubine call the old lady in charge of the house as mother? I don't know the rules, and I don't know the rules, but I'm embarrassed to say that I don't dare to mess with the rules, when did this Hou Mansion come according to the rules?

Although he thought so in his heart, he didn't dare to show too much on his face, for fear of causing trouble to his master.

Aunt Lian continued: "As for the moon silver of the next person, Sister Lao sent a girl to the housekeeper's mother to press her handprint, and she brought it back." ”

Jin Nanxue didn't care: "I'm tired of Aunt Lian, I don't have anything else to do here, everything is according to the old practice in the house." ”

Hearing Jin Nanxue say this, the thorn in Aunt Lian's heart was easily pulled up, and she couldn't wait to just shake her face and leave, I don't know if this person has been having a convulsion recently, and he no longer calls her "sister", and a "Aunt Lian" seems to be reminding her of the identity of the concubine from time to time, which is really annoying!

So Pi Xiaorou didn't smile and said: "But where is my sister not serving well, these days my sister is even an aunt, we used to be sisters, if it's my sister's fault, my sister might as well say it." ”

Jin Nanxue: "It's just a title, even my aunt doesn't have to care so much, I'm satisfied that you have done a good job." ”

Who cares if you're not satisfied? Even Aunt Lian gritted her teeth with hatred, and she couldn't say anything in front of the people in the room, she didn't want to stay here for a moment, and turned around and left with her people.

Jin Nanxue's calm face did not have a trace of waves, Aunt Lian went this trip just to ask casually about the genealogy of the family in front of her, with her current status in the mansion, what request did she really make stupidly, but Aunt Lian would have a long set of rhetoric behind her, in short, it was impossible to make any requests, so that it could better reflect Aunt Lian's status as the head of the family, so Jin Nanxue would not give her this opportunity.

Looking at the moon silver placed on the table, Jin Nanxue remembered the most important thing to deal with at the moment, he had to take stock of his current property, no matter when and where he had to have silver by his side, the so-called hand surplus food was not panicked.

Now it is agarwood that is in charge of the silver money, seeing that the master mentioned it, agarwood walked into the inner room and quickly took out a delicate double-layer small box with black lacquer and gold, took out the string of small copper keys tied with colored ropes from his body, opened the box and put it in front of Jin Nanxue, Jin Nanxue reached out and pulled it on the upper and lower layers of the box for a while.

On the top of the small box, there are a few silver ingots of ten taels, a bunch of scattered small silver bills, and then open the second layer, which is a bunch of copper coins, which are usually used to reward people.

Agarwood stretched out his hand to remove the pile of copper coins, took out a few silver tickets from the bottom and put them on the table, and said, "Madam, our current silver, including silver tickets, is here." ”

Jin Nanxue didn't expect that there would be a silver ticket, so she happily picked it up and looked at it, and most of the joy on her face faded.

There are only a few silver tickets and the denomination is not large, two fifty taels, and two ten taels, plus the bits and pieces of cash in the box, and the twenty taels of money just sent today, the total is less than two hundred taels.

If this silver is placed in ordinary people's homes, it may be a huge amount of money, but who would believe that all the private silver in the hands of Mrs. Hou is not enough to go to the high-end silver building in the capital to buy a piece of valuable jewelry.