Walking into the Red Mansion starts from the maid

Tan Chun gave Mrs. Wang's old satin to various hospitals for welfare, but it was revealed that She Yue used the satin to make a skirt.

The Duke's palace is piling up gold and jade, not because he cares about these old silks and satins.

Instead, Tanchun quietly brought the matter to the old lady's eyes, made Mrs. Wang eat a good meal, and even Sheyue was beaten violently in private.

"You've got Yunzhu, but why does my wife only talk about me? This was originally a reward from Baoyu, and we don't know what's going on." Seeing that Qixie had no intention of siding with her, Sheyue felt aggrieved. It doesn’t work.

She was a down-to-earth person, thinking that even though it was an old material, she would be rewarded with a precious jade, so she put on a dress and came out to show her gratitude. Who knew that her wife would make a fuss about it?
If it is said that it is beyond the rules, this old thing, although valuable, is not completely useless to the servants. Yuanyang is the maid in front of the old lady, and she is also the maid in front of Baoyu.

In terms of status, where does she not deserve this satin?

At this moment, Qi Xie said that she shouldn't use this material to make a skirt, and She Yue thought that she looked down on herself, and she couldn't stand it immediately.

A barrage of complaints.

"You can do it. When did I say that you are not worthy of wearing this satin?" Qi Xie had a headache. The three girls were looking around in the garden, and everyone could see how they were calculating their money.

Qi Xie thought that she was leaving, so she tried her best to provide some benefits to the little ones in the yard, and took advantage of the opportunity to collect the floral satin. Who knew that She Yue turned around and made a skirt to spread around? ?

Does she want to show off Baoyu's magnanimity, or does she want to apply eye drops to the third girl or the housekeeper's wife?

Seeing She Yue arguing non-stop, Qi Xie couldn't help but sigh and said, "What are you trying to do with Yunzhu? Now that things have happened, my wife doesn't care about you. You keep struggling like this, do you want your wife to come and apologize to you?"

"I don't dare... I just want to talk to you." She Yue hesitated for a moment, then released Qi Xie, then frowned and said, "Isn't this satin hidden in the house and not allowed to see the light of day? ? How can this be done? It is originally old... the things in our house are not suitable to be taken out, but if we keep them for a few years, they will be really useless. "

If you can't sell it or wear it, do you have to cut dozens of sets of clothes like Yunzhu and change them every day?

Nowadays, small clothes are no longer popular outside. Everyone wears underwear that can soften the figure and make it easier to do work. The maids of the Duke's Mansion naturally want to follow the trend.

Qi Xie wants to say, if you ask your mother to find a way to bring it out, is there anything that can't be sold?But when the words came to my lips, it turned into, "If you don't like it, I'll open a tanner in the warehouse these days and give you another one?"

When She Yue heard this, she was extremely satisfied.

She is not a persistent person, but this thing makes her very upset when she sees it.

Therefore, when the words reached Yunzhu's ears, "Sister Qi, Baoyu is going out today. Can you open the warehouse and I will help you?"

Qixie thought she also wanted to change to satin, so she agreed with a stern face.

Jia Baoyu's warehouse can be said to be half an old lady's private treasury, with watches from the West, silk from the South, animal skins from the north, calf-thick coral, fist-sized luminous pearls...

Yunzhu wiped away the non-existent saliva.

While Qixie and the others were away, a rack of satin was thrown into the space with a clatter, without any change.

She put it back in its original position and replaced it with a handful of pearls as big as a child's fist, but there was still no change.

She wiped dust all the way, using the sound of working to cover up the sound of heavy objects frequently falling to the ground, and put boxes and cages of suitable size made of valuable materials into the space and then released them.

But nothing has changed.

"There's no need to pack it up in such a hurry. Look, you're sweating profusely." Qixie came in and looked at the smooth shelves and boxes, and saw Yunzhu breathing heavily. She thought to herself that this is really the best solid eye in Yihongyuan. It's okay, he couldn't help but comfort him.

Yunzhu was immersed in the sadness that the space had not expanded for a few breaths, and then quickly let go. It was okay, it was enough for now.

"I finished it before the sun went down, so I won't waste my eyesight by holding a lamp at night." Yunzhu shook his head and lied casually.

Thinking that Yunzhu was serious about her work, Qixie didn't say anything else, but just teased her, "Ask the lady in the kitchen to serve you a few more bowls of rice for dinner."

Since she wanted something to eat, Yunzhu nodded and saw Qixie opening a box in the corner with a smile on her face.

It was full of cloths and satins of various colors. I was about to say that the box had been wiped, when I heard Qi Xie say, "Come and take a look, which one do you like?"

???

Is this a matter of which one of my photos?None of them are mine. Of course, none of them are suitable for me.

When She Yue came in, she happened to meet Qi Xie and called her that.

Her hair was pulled up high into a cool high bun on her neck, and her bangs were wet with sweat on her forehead. It looked like she had done some strenuous work.

Yunzhu saw her taking away a piece of lake-green satin without looking back, so she asked tentatively, "But is there any happy event in the house? Do you want to see the reward?"

Qixie smiled and said, "We were fooling around in the yard with Baoyu, but we didn't know that the damask in front of us violated my wife's taboo.

When I thought about it carefully in the past few days, I realized that my wife’s dowry included a batch of satin from the Cao family in Jiangnan.

I thought, even if my wife takes it out for use now, it is not something that our servants can wear in a big way. If Qi Xie gets a slap on the ear, my negligence is also involved. "

The old lawsuits between masters are not familiar to the maids. They can only communicate with each other and then speculate.

What's more, Mrs. Wang's dowry was only 30 years old.

People in the whirlpool can feel the pulling force more clearly. Is Mrs. Wang exchanging old bottles for new wine?If this is the case, naturally these things cannot be brought to the table.

No wonder she was just verbally beating She Yue. She was probably afraid that things would get serious and people would laugh at her, right?
After hearing the whole story, Yunzhu added some details in her mind. Feeling that it was reasonable, she took the remaining brocade brocade and replaced it with a piece of moon-white ordinary brocade.

She seemed to like Yunzhu's intelligence very much. Qi Xie covered her mouth with a smile and let her go to eat first.

Things like clothing materials, Zhao San and his wife are not in the capital now, and Yunzhu himself can't turn it into cash for a while. If it is stored for a long time, it will be like Mrs. Wang's damask. It is tasteless and it is a pity to throw it away.

Therefore, an ordinary piece of light-colored satin can be worn all year round.

It is much better than the outdated makeup satin.

There were many maids busy in the warehouse in the afternoon, and there were naturally many people who heard Qixie saying that they wanted to give Yunzhu food, so that the words reached the kitchen after several twists and turns.

Aunt Song smiled and asked the little girl to send half a bowl of rice to the maids' small canteen. It was convenient for everyone to take it for themselves. You have to be full before you can do your work, right?
The usually well-intentioned people joked that Yunzhu would grow up and be able to eat.But the jealous person behind the scenes was scolding Yihongyuan for having a loser.

However, luckily Yunzhu didn't care.

"Have you changed to white rice today?" Yunzhu asked doubtfully, holding the bowl and looking into the steamer.It’s not that white rice doesn’t taste good, white rice is certainly much more delicious than Zhao Sanjia’s multi-grain rice.

Thinking like this, and being tired for a day, she filled two large bowls of rice for herself. In the glazed bowl with pastel mandarin ducks and petals, the snow-white and crystal-clear rice grains were so fragrant that it made people move their index fingers.

"The rice I have been purchasing recently is this kind of rice. The steward said it is fragrant rice that is sent as tribute from the Kingdom of Java." The good-hearted little maids quickly added, and because Baoyu also ate this kind of rice, they felt proud of it. .

It's good, but not as delicious as the bijing rice.Yunzhu was eating his rice, thinking that the purchasing managers must have received a huge kickback.

Mrs. Wang took over part of the slaves' shop, and then asked people to set up a shop. I don't know what she felt in her heart.

"Don't eat, don't eat. You'll eat later. Go to the front hall quickly. It's said that an envoy from Java is coming to visit! Baoyu is also meeting in the front hall. My wife asked us to go and help."

The envoy did not go to see the emperor, but came to Jia's house.

Yunzhu had rice in his mouth, feeling secretly resentful. Forget it, he still picked some food, must he be doing it on purpose?
She dug out two large bowls of rice and brought some side dishes, and took them back to the dormitory while changing clothes, thinking that it would be better to warm up when she came back in the evening than to fill her stomach with snacks.

As for the two big bowls?
But don't underestimate the appetite of a child in the developmental stage, which is simply a bottomless pit.

*
If it is Jia Zheng who is here, then maybe we can get some clues from these envoys and distinguished guests coming to our door. However, Jia She has always been a wealthy and idle person, and has little experience in officialdom.

The envoy from Nalaoshizi said that he heard that there were twelve beauties in the capital, and his majesty gave them permission to visit them, so we came.

This arrogant request made the faces of several hostesses change slightly. After all, a rich lady asked an envoy from a small country to say it like a joke.

A small family has the dignity of a small family, and a big country has the dignity of a big country.

There is something to be said for having an envoy from a small country who cannot be beaten by eight poles come to visit him. He also has to visit his girl. Not to mention the Jia family, even Jia Yuanchun who was far away in the palace threw his chopsticks angrily, "He crazy!"

"Your Majesty... you're crazy!" Mrs. Wang's eyes widened and she said uneasily, holding Zhou Ruijia's hand.

Jia Mu glanced at her. Although she meant to warn her, she did not say anything to refute her. She only ordered Yuanyang to prepare a gift and send it to the family of an acquaintance of the censor in the name of Jia She.

Yunzhu was like a quail, following Jia Baoyu from a distance, acting as a background mascot.

Asking a girl who has not yet left the palace to come out to meet outsiders, the emperor is really an old fool. If he teases a prince's family like this, isn't he afraid of being backlashed?
"Have the curtains been prepared?" Mother Jia sighed, "Go ahead and invite Yingchun and the others. Yu'er...she is not from our house, so there is no need to call her."

The arm couldn't twist the thigh, so the accompanying eunuch took the money and revealed that His Majesty had indeed agreed to the matter, but what His Majesty said was: You have come from afar and you should treat each other with courtesy. I have agreed to all your requests.

When he looked so generous, he must have never thought that the prince of Java came to choose his concubine after hearing the name of the Twelve Shu beauties, right?

Because Yuanchun fell out of favor, the Jia family was very afraid of His Majesty.

Nowadays, I don't even dare to brush my hair.

Tanchun confidently wanted to complain, but the servant who came to invite him said, "My wife said, if you don't think about yourself, you should also think about the eldest lady in the palace."

Yuanchun went through hardships for more than ten years. Finally, he finally won the title of Jin and became pregnant with an heir, but everything fell into the clouds overnight.

Others in the Jia family will only feel that there is no one to rely on. Who will care about her life?That is to say, Mrs. Wang, who had lost a son, was afraid that Yuanchun would also be detained in the palace, so she did not even care about the reputation of other daughters in the family.

The group includes people of all ages.

Yunzhu only glanced at it a few more times, then hurriedly went down to the corridor at Mrs. Wang's signal, and followed several maids to the side room to prepare tea.

The younger ones were waiting on the outside, just in time for Yunzhu to be seen clearly by future people.

Seeing the envoys surrounding them, a young man stood among them.He was born with phoenix eyes and fair face, and had a softness rarely seen in ordinary men, but the muscles he showed in every movement of his hands told Yunzhu that he was unusual.

At least, he must be someone with high authority in Java.

Jia She's eyes fell on that man and he couldn't move, knowing that flattering them was flattering the emperor.

For a while, Java’s fragrant rice was praised to the sky in the palace. Although everyone felt that it was not as delicious as the first bijing rice, this was the rice that Java paid tribute to His Majesty. They ate the same rice as His Majesty. , isn’t it glorious enough?
After finally seeing off the messenger, the girls felt humiliated and burst into tears.Yunzhu stared at the empty space and thought to himself, these days, should space also praise the rice of Java?
A war of public opinion, this is definitely a war of public opinion!
*
"Ms. Zhao, we were originally tenants of your family's land, why do you still cook for us?"

Seeing Zhao San dragging a bucket of vegetable porridge to the door and asking everyone to eat without any grudge, Old Man Qin was deeply moved.

They were hit by a disaster, and at first the government provided relief. But after the plague, not to mention the canteen for relief, even the relief food was not available to everyone, so Zhao San hired them and now invites them to eat.

It is simply a great kindness.

I wanted to shirk it, but my face finally gave way to my hunger.The chipped and broken bowls were not good for holding porridge, so I picked out a few good ones. You finished eating and then I ate. This was the first full meal in two or three months.

Liu Ping's hesitant expression saw everyone wolfing down his food, but he didn't say anything.

"Are you going to ask me where I got the money to buy grain?" Zhao San washed his shiny rice bowl and planned to rent land to buy seeds. For such a big stall, let alone 900 taels, 1000 taels have already bottomed out. .

Seeing that his wife was trying to explain, Liu Ping was afraid that she would be unhappy, so he immediately changed the subject and said, "It's okay. I see that our seedbed is growing well. If it weren't for the late weather, this year we could try the interplanting kit that Xiao Liu mentioned. do."

"If we can't catch corn, we can catch some soybeans. If we can't sell them at a high price, we can grind tofu ourselves and sell it." Zhao San dealt with it without hesitation, and then turned to rice.

The couple has been together for so long, and who still doesn’t know each other well?
She glared at the man, "It's strange, the sky in Jinling can rain rice!"

Speaking of this, Zhao San suddenly became excited, put down the rice bucket in his hand, slithered in front of Liu Ping, and said seriously, "It's a pity that they are all cooked. The weather is hot, so I can't help but mix in some vegetable leaves." The grains are cooked and eaten by everyone."

Otherwise, I'll feel bad if it goes bad.

"Haha." Liu Ping glanced sideways and snorted, noncommittal.

Seeing Zhao San's eyebrows twitching, Liu Ping hurriedly said, "Ah, okay, okay, let's get some rice."

When he got up, he muttered that he had never eaten rice many times in his life. His wife really dared to think that rice would rain from the sky.

absurd!

"Look at this bowl. It doesn't come from heaven. Can it be bought in the market?" Zhao San took down two pastel mandarin duck bowls from the shelf.

(End of this chapter)