Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 475 Never Heard
Cousin, Uncle Qing's cousin, Uncle Qing's mother? Zhou Banxia was stunned. Her cousin came to her house today? Why didn't she hear anyone mention it?

"She might just leave after sitting for a while. Even my sister-in-law doesn't know she's here." Gu Wenxuan listened carefully. "You came back alone. Where's Aunt Lan?"

"No, I came back with Mai Huang and the others. Aunt Lan was asked by my mother and sister-in-law to help train people. Aunt Lan is still in front with the Dahua family."

Gu Wenxuan nodded to show that he understood, first called out to Mai Huang to ask the kitchen to serve snacks to their Second Young Madam, and then asked how many people were bought this time.

"I didn't buy it, but my eldest sister-in-law bought a room for a family of five, and my mother also chose a room for four people, spending fifty-five taels of silver. My eldest sister-in-law wanted to pay for it all, but my mother refused.

I think things are not going well. One of the four people my mother picked was a wet nurse, so I came back quickly. Otherwise, it would be awkward and I wouldn’t be helping anyone.”

Yes, it is conceivable that the mother chose a servant who had been a wet nurse because she must have wanted to keep the other person by her side so that she could help take care of her grandchildren in time.

Paying half of the money is neither easy to say nor nice to hear. It sounds like you are trying to rob someone. You might as well play dumb and pretend you know nothing. Anyway, you are the best at playing dumb.

"What are you laughing at? Did you find a treasure?" Zhou Banxia poked the corner of Gu Wenxuan's mouth with her finger, "It would be great if I had dimples. Look, I have them."

Gu Wenxuan noticed the slightly rising ending of her tone, and unconsciously raised the corners of his mouth, affirming, "Yes, it is indeed beautiful."

They are so beautiful. For two lifetimes, he has been obsessed with this pair of sweet dimples. It would be even better if he could give birth to a little daughter with dimples.

Mai Huang and Mai Xiang brought the afternoon tea, which included diced beef in soy sauce, tomato beef and shrimp casserole, crystal dumplings, etc. Today's afternoon tea was open to both men and women, and the main dish was "salty food".

After having afternoon tea, Gu Wenxuan went back to his study to complete today’s study tasks, planning to finish the last policy essay assigned by his teacher.

In this way, he can start working on the study tasks that his teacher asked his father to bring back as planned tomorrow. If he goes to Zhoujia Village next month, he can also bring more homework with him.

As for policy essays, these types of questions all have their own patterns. After practicing them many times, they are actually not that difficult to do. However, if you want to gain the favor of the examiner, you have to write with more depth.

Anyway, no matter what the topic is, just elevate the idea, make a deep analysis of it by linking it to Guo Jia's righteousness and people's livelihood, and then sing his praises.

But the key lies in the word "depth" in this in-depth analysis and then praising the merits. Those who have always topped the provincial examinations have put forward one or two special insights in their essays, which are thought-provoking.

Gu Wenxuan believes that he has always paid special attention to this point when doing policy essay questions, but after doing so many questions, he seems to have reached a bottleneck again, perhaps it is his own illusion, and he can't think of any new and thought-provoking insights. He can only rely on the guidance of the teacher to make a breakthrough.

A policy paper should be at least 1,000 words long.

After adding more time, Gu Wenxuan finished writing more than a thousand words. He checked it himself, made some revisions, and then read it carefully again.

I can say that the time and speed for doing the questions are no problem now. It has become natural and I can basically control it. The only thing is that the quality of my writing is still stagnant.

Gu Wenxuan believed that he had this self-awareness, but he was not so inflated by the praise from his teacher that he did not know how deep it was.

I put the revised policy essay aside to wait for the ink to dry, and took paper from the paper tray, thinking that I would wait until the evening to see if I could make any breakthroughs.

He started to do the classics questions assigned by the county school teacher, hoping to finish them alternately, so that he could have a flash of inspiration before going to bed. Zhou Banxia said that Gu Wenxuan was the best when he was studying hard. He would not stare at her all the time, so she was free.

That is to say, when he was really working hard in the study, even Aunt Lan would not easily enter the upper room, let alone the four people of Mai and Huang. She could do whatever she wanted in the upper room.

After having afternoon tea, Zhou Banxia took a walk in the yard to digest the food while chatting quietly with Zhou Molan. After the chat, she said she wanted to go back to her room to lie down for a while.

Zhou Molan was more than happy to do so. Considering that she would not sleep well at night if she slept too much, she reminded her young lady that she had to get up and go to the main courtyard to eat dinner.

After settling Zhou Banxia down to lie down in the inner room and seeing that she had adapted to the temperature, she and Mai Huang tiptoed out of the upper room, asked the little maid to guard the corridor, and called the four big maids to a meeting.

What her young lady said made a lot of sense. Although it was not her young lady who was buying anyone today, in order to avoid people's hearts being shaken, it would be better to let the four maids take on their respective responsibilities as soon as possible.

Zhou Molan gave the order.

Mai Xiang has a golden tongue and is good at making snacks and medicinal food, so she is in charge of food; Mai Dong has a pair of deft hands and is in charge of combing hair and doing needlework; Mai Qing is an abacus bead and is in charge of accounts; and the last one, Mai Huang, is the general manager and holds the key to the warehouse.

Each of the four big maids was assigned two little maids to run errands, but the eight little maids, like the housekeeper, would have to wait for some time before a decision could be made after they moved into the new house.

Zhou Molan would never allow her young lady to be controlled by the overpowering head maid. The eight little maids were just replacements, and the housekeeper could check and balance the head maid.

Furthermore, what she had not said was that regarding the choice of the housekeeper, she was now more inclined to transfer Gu Dahua's wife back to her young lady to be the housekeeper.

The young lady in her family has good taste.

Gu Dahua and his wife are indeed capable, but among all the other capable people, what is rare and precious is the sense of pride that everyone in the family, from top to bottom, feels when they mention their young lady.

Just like the Mai Huang family of three, it is very rare that a family-born child is just like this. At the critical moment, he can really fight for his young lady.

In this way, when the female doctors arrive, even if her young lady does not want to prepare two wet nurses for the young master or young lady, the staff who serve them can temporarily take over.

I just don't know whether the lady-in-law is willing to let the girl from the Dahua family return to serve her young lady. Otherwise, she will have to assign two housekeepers to her young lady.

Although Zhou Molan did not mention these thoughts in front of Mai Huang and the other three, she did say a few vague words to Zhou Banxia when Zhou Banxia was taking a walk in the yard to digest his food.

Zhou Banxia understood the elegant meaning of the music when he heard it.

She knew what her aunt Lan was worried about without Zhou Molan pointing it out, but she also had her own considerations. She still wanted Gu Dahua's family to be the housekeeper beside her mother-in-law.

What she valued was never her own little piece of land in the backyard. No matter how much she trusted her parents-in-law and they were good people, she still had to make the necessary arrangements.

Not only her parents-in-law, but even her biological parents, she can give them 100% respect and filial piety, but the awareness of taking precautions has already been deeply rooted in her bones.

If you don't want to be hurt, but don't want to wrap yourself up and keep people away, then you must make more arrangements for everything so that you won't be caught off guard one day.