The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 739
Su Yunduo did so much for Lu Yumin, not to please anyone, but just to help Anshi relieve Lu Yumin's pressure of getting married.

It's just that she had a premonition that no matter how much she and An Shi did and how well they thought about it, and how well Lu Yumin's dowry was prepared, the pressure would still be great, as evidenced by Yang Shi's eagerness to go to Leyou Villa .

Maybe the day when Yang's family returns to the city and the mansion is the day when Lu Yumin returns to the city and the mansion, and I don't know if the three girls can stay in Leyou Villa to play and play as they wish.

Speaking of the third and fourth girls, Su Yunduo wanted to laugh, but also felt helpless.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, it was not easy for her and him to go to Leyou Villa with Lu Mingyang, An's and the other three sisters, but they didn't stay in Leyou Villa for long before being taken back home by their respective fathers.

The reason is very simple. Lu Mingyang thinks they are too noisy, and even more so that they make troubles every now and then, which makes An's worry especially, and also makes him feel annoyed.

At that time, the thinking was too simple. I always felt that the girls had nurses and maids who were waiting for them, and Lu Yumin was there to take care of them, so that An Shi would not worry too much, and An Shi could enjoy the joy of granddaughters wrapping around their knees. .

It's just that Lu Yumin still has some time to embroider her own dowry, and it's impossible to play with them all the time.

The nuns and maids were afraid that something might happen to the little master, so they could only confine them in the house. Naturally, it was impossible to let them roam the mountains and plains to play casually.

Only when Lu Yumin spares time to accompany them can he take them to have fun.

In order to let Lu Yumin play with them, the four little girls murmured behind their mothers and maids, and attributed the reason why Lu Yumin couldn't play with them to the embroidery work, and secretly broke Lu Yumin's embroidery. Lu Yumin was angry and anxious, and An Shi felt that she had more energy than she wanted.

After that, there were several small incidents one after another. When the sons took advantage of Xiumu to visit Leyou Villa, Lu Mingyang directly asked Lu Tong and Lu Fei to bring their daughters back to their homes. There are only three girls and four girls.

It is said that the third and fourth girls were stupid at the time, so they pleaded bitterly, and repeatedly promised that as long as they were allowed to stay, they would be obedient and not cause trouble. However, Lu Mingyang was really afraid of the destructive power of a few little girls together. Don't give in too much, since he is determined to send them back to the mansion, how can the two little girls let go after crying a few times and begging a few words?
So the two little girls only played in Leyou Villa for less than ten days before being brought back to the mansion by their respective fathers, and because they made a mistake, no matter how hot it was, they were still sent to boudoir school.

Although the two little girls were extremely sad, they couldn't twist their thighs with their arms, so they had to go back to the boudoir school again crying.

That's right, they really just went to boudoir school as a response.

Although the town government provided enough ice for the boudoir school, there were really not many people who went to the boudoir school in the half month before the holiday.

The little sisters went to boudoir school, and the schedule was almost the same as that of Leyou Villa, but half the hour was spent reading characters and tracing red, half the hour was absent-mindedly poking their fingers with needles, and the rest of the time was spent playing .

It’s just that Guixue is not as happy as Leyou Mountain Villa. Even if you are swinging outside the house, you don’t feel hot. If you play in the heat, you can go to the hot spring pool specially built for children to play in the water, but Guixue can only be locked in the house. .

In the first two days after returning home, as long as the little girls met Su Yunduo, they would pout their mouths and tell Su Yunduo their unwillingness and expectations.

After all, it was the four who made the mistake, but only the two of them were taken back to the mansion.

After hearing this, Su Yunduo just shook his head with a suppressed smile, and spread his hands to express his helplessness. He couldn't tell them that it was because they were not girls from Dafang, or because their mothers were locked up in the temple and could not get out like Dafang's aunt. I can persuade them to listen to the teacher's words in the boudoir school, and wait until the boudoir school is on vacation.

A few days ago, when the boudoir school was on vacation, the two girls naturally wailed and clamored to go to Leyou Villa.

Fortunately, with the lessons learned from last time, the two girls have indeed become more sensible in the past half a month since they returned home. Although they were screaming, they didn't dare to go too far.

When they heard that their mothers and aunts would take turns to take care of their grandparents at Leyou Villa, they knew their chance had come, and they seemed particularly well-behaved these days.

Of course, if several aunts hadn't taken turns to go to Leyou Villa, even if Su Yunduo wanted to, he wouldn't be able to send the two little girls to Leyou Villa. After all, it was Lu Mingyang who asked his uncles to bring them back home.

After seeing off Mrs. Yang and the two little girls, the mansion suddenly became much quieter.

As soon as the two little girls followed Mrs. Yang, there would be no children in the mansion. No matter how big or small, all the sons and daughters would only return to the mansion on holidays. In addition to the hot weather, the aunts in the house also shrank into the rooms with ice basins to be lazy. Move, naturally very quiet!

When the mansion became lively again, it was mid-July that boudoir schools resumed classes, and the little girls had to go back to the city.

Before that, Mrs. Yang brought Lu Yumin back to the mansion from Leyou Villa, as Su Yunduo expected, and only Mrs. An and Su Yunduo accompanied them back to the city to prepare the wedding dress and embroidery for Lu Yumin, and Lu Yumin Yu Min made her own needlework.

After Lu Yumin was brought back to the mansion by Yang Shi, she was locked up in the house by Yang Shi every day to continue her hard life of waiting for marriage. Embroidering dowry and doing needlework was the second priority, and whitening her skin was the most important thing.

After staying in Leyou Villa for more than a month, Lu Yumin's skin had already surpassed that of Lu Yuhua's back then, which made Yang very distressed. After returning home, even Lu Yumin had to go to Xiaofengyuan to ask Su Yunduo for advice for a long time.

When Baikui brought back the news, Su Yunduo was talking to Zisu about some "yunshang" matters. After hearing the words "cover skin", he immediately laughed, and then quickly asked Baikui to send whitening and heat preservation products to Sanfang. ointment.

This ointment was formulated for Lu Yumin when she returned from Leyou Villa, and it was specially formulated for Lu Yumin's skin type.

Because of this ointment, Yang let go and allowed Lu Yumin to go to Xiaofengyuan to ask Su Yunduo for needlework embroidery skills in the morning and evening when the sun is not too hot. In fact, Lu Yumin went to Xiaofengyuan to ask for needlework embroidery skills. Yang's nagging is true.

Originally thought that the Yang family would bring Lu Yuhui back to the mansion together, but in the end only Lu Yumin was brought back to the mansion, and Lu Yuhui stayed in Leyou Villa as he wished.

"My mother didn't want to keep the third sister in the villa, but she couldn't catch the third sister, and the grandmother asked to keep her, and the younger sisters promised in unison, my mother couldn't force the third sister just because of the grandmother. Bring it back. My mother, alas..." When mentioning the younger sisters who stayed in the villa, Lu Yumin looked envious, and when mentioning the Yang family, Lu Yumin sighed a long time, her face full of melancholy.

The little girls stayed until mid-July, because it is autumn, although the weather at noon is still very hot, it becomes cooler in the morning and evening, the boudoir school that the sisters are studying resumes classes after the summer vacation, playing crazy The girls naturally had to stop and go back to the city to study.

Now that the weather has started to cool down, An Shi, who has been away from the mansion for more than two months, discussed with Lu Mingyang to go back to the city with the girls. After all, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and Lu Yumin's wedding will be after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Although Su Yunduo is capable, there is no reason to let such a big matter be left to the granddaughter-in-law who has been married for less than a year to handle it alone.

An's wholeheartedly wanted to go back to the city, but Lu Mingyang found various excuses and refused to return. Even the girls followed the old man's excuses and refused to return to the city. They really liked the happy time of playing in Leyou Villa.

An's can't control Lu Mingyang, but she can control the little girl.

One sentence, if they don't go back to boudoir school on time, and they won't be allowed to play in Leyou Villa in the future, the little girls will be dumbfounded.

After weighing things up and down, the little girls obediently followed the man sent by the mansion to pick them up from Leyou Villa, and went back to their boudoir school obediently to learn how to do literacy, tracing red, and needlework.

This time, Lu Yuya and Lu Yujiao were also brought back to the residence together, and went back to study in boudoir together with Lu Yuhui and Lu Yuqi.

Because Lu Mingyang did not return home, An Shi was worried about leaving him alone in the villa, so he wanted to stay in the villa to accompany Lu Mingyang.

The Zhenghe Hall has no masters except the servants who stayed behind. Letting Lu Yujiao and Lu Yuya live in the Zhenghe Hall, let alone Su Yunduo is worried, and An Shi who stayed in Leyou Villa is even more worried.

These two little girls belong to the big house, and the head mistress of the big house can't come out in the family temple now, so the heavy responsibility of taking care of the two little girls naturally falls on Su Yunduo, the elder sister-in-law.

In order to allow An Shi who stayed in the villa to accompany Lu Mingyang with peace of mind, Su Yunduo bit the bullet and discussed with Lu Jinkang on the basis of a sister-in-law like a mother. He and Lu Yuya received Xiaofengyuan to live temporarily.

Although Xiaofengyuan had enclosed a piece of land and carried out some renovations when they got married, it was not spacious after all. Standing in the yard of Xiaofengyuan and roaring, the whole Xiaofengyuan could hear it. The reason why he is willing to take the two little girls into Xiaofengyuan.

However, it is still possible to arrange for two little girls and maidservants to accompany them.

Apart from the main house where Su Yunduo and his wife live, the best house in Xiaofeng Court is the small side courtyard where Nanny Hu lived with Hongdou. Although there are only three main rooms and two wing rooms on the left and right, the small courtyard is fully equipped. It is most suitable for the two little girls to live temporarily.

After Humama and Hongdou were sent away that day, the small side courtyard was vacant, but people were also arranged to clean it every day, so it only needed to tidy up and change some furniture to live in.

Su Yunduo handed over the cleaning and arrangement to Bai Shao, who had just been promoted to first-class maid, and asked her to arrange it as the two little girls' rooms in the side courtyard of Zhenghe Hall would do. Curry is out, so the two little girls must live comfortably.

Seeing that Su Yunduo actually used his own dowry to accommodate the two little girls, Lu Jinkang was really unhappy: "It's just a few days, and when grandma comes back, let them go back to Zhenghe Hall. Why do you have to go to war?"

"Because they only live here for a few days, I want to make them happy. Husband doesn't want grandma to worry about them." Su Yunduo gave Lu Jinkang a wide-eyed look.

She knew that Lu Jinkang was not close to the younger siblings below, and she did this not to show favor to anyone, but to reassure An Shi.

When Su Yunduo mentioned An's, Lu Jinkang immediately shut up.

Although Lu Jinkang was already six years old when Da Xu passed away, but Da Xu's health has always been poor, and he has been sick for almost a year after giving birth to him, so Lu Jinkang can be said to be brought up by An Shi, so naturally he doesn't want to see The eldest of An's age has to worry about both the old and the young, and in the end he just sighed and said helplessly: "I just don't want to watch you worry, this is really wronged you!"

Su Yunduo pursed her lips and smiled lightly, but she just let the two little girls live in front of her for a few days, in case there are no adults in front of her, and the servants are negligent, and she doesn't need her to take care of them personally. Ask them how they are doing in the boudoir, and tell the waiters to watch over them, so that they don't bump into each other, it's really nothing to worry about.

As for the grievance.

Su Yunduo naturally understood what Lu Jinkang meant, and felt wronged by using her dowry bank.

In fact, those things that were taken out of her dowry storehouse and used in the storeroom are just ashes and waste, and it is just a waste of things that are taken out of her dowry storehouse. I feel that there is nothing to be wronged.

It's just that the dowry in this era is a woman's private property, and Lu Jinkang felt very uncomfortable using his wife's dowry for his step-sister and concubine-sister, so he immediately handed over another 5 taels of silver to Su Yunduo.

Su Yunduo knew that Lu Jinkang was not short of money, but she was not short of money, so she really felt a little tired.

Is it necessary for Lu Jinkang to just give her 5 taels for a few pieces of furniture and some decorations in her dowry?

But since Lu Jinkang wanted to give it, even if it was just to save his face, Su Yunduo would not refuse, and silently took the banknote, thinking about how to spend the money well.

It happened that when Zisu went to "Yunshang", she brought back a message to Su Yunduo. The shop next door to "Yunshang" was going to be sold for various reasons, but the price was a bit high. There were many people visiting the shop, but no one took over.

Su Yunduo immediately had an idea, the 5 taels that Lu Jinkang gave her would be useful. Although the shop charged a high price, in Su Yunduo's opinion, it was worth it.

The 5 taels given by Lu Jinkang is more than enough to buy the shop and add the goods, and there is still money left over for turnover.

Lu Jinkang and Su Yunduo have since added a shop called "Shu Mengxuan", which mainly sells duck down quilts, and also sells bedding such as cotton tires, silk quilts, quilt linings, pillow covers and pillowcases.

Su Yunduo intends to hand over the shop to Zisu's new husband Wang Tingjin to take care of it.

Zisu married Wang Tingjin in early August, and Su Yunduo gave them a half-month holiday.

After the holidays, Zisu is in charge of "Yunshang", and Wang Tingjin is in charge of "Shu Mengxuan". The two shops are close to each other, so the couple can go in and out together, and they can help each other with anything.

Although the original shopkeeper of "Yunshang" is also very good at doing business and keeps "Yunshang" in order, it's just that she prefers to sit quietly in the embroidery room and lead her apprentices to do embroidery work.

At first, it was because Su Yunduo didn't have a suitable shopkeeper that he had to take over the post of shopkeeper of "Yunshang". Now that Zisu has been able to take over, even if Su Yunduo felt it was a pity, he had to let her go back to the embroidery room as agreed before. Back to her old job.

When An Shi finally persuaded Lu Mingyang to return to the city, it was already two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival!

(End of this chapter)