Yu Tang Golden Boudoir

Chapter 9 Girls

Li Yutang didn't wait for Li Tian to speak, stood up with a 'hu', pointed at Li Tian and shouted: "This is the Duke of Yongguo's mansion, you should know it!" Li Tian ignored her, lifted the curtain and came out, raised his hand and called out Qingzhi ordered: "Go and tell the eldest lady, Si Niangzi just told Sister Lin and Mrs. Yu that tomorrow she is going to go to her natal family's house to enjoy flowers at Duke Wen's mansion. I can't go because of my filial piety. Ask the eldest lady if she wants to send someone to accompany her."

Qingzhi agreed, turned around and left, Li Yutang threw the curtain out, pointed at Li Tian and screamed: "You wait!" After speaking, she lifted her skirt and stomped out bitterly.

Yue Niang clasped her arms in front of her chest, walked over from the east porch, and looked at Li Yutang who was rushing out with a lot of emotion: "Her father was born by Mrs. Wu's girl, and the Wu family is her natal family, how thick-skinned it is!" !By the way, didn’t the Wu family break off their relationship with your Li family?”

Li Tian ignored her, drooped his shoulders, looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, how could this Yongguo mansion be so rotten?This cousin is a speechless wonder!
Yu Yaofang pulled Lin Ke, who was staggering with a smile, into the second door, looked around, nodded Lin Ke's forehead and said solemnly: "Listen, little girl, today's joke is rotten in my heart, don't say it outside , that's Sister Tian's cousin, she can't write two characters of Li in one stroke, she is embarrassing, and Sister Tian's face is not good-looking."

"I know, I don't need you to explain, just let us have a few smiles, this fourth lady, do you think she is heartless?" Lin Ke smiled with teardrops hanging from the corners of his eyes, and Ying's eyes were extraordinarily bright, Yu Yaofang blamed He pushed her into the car, turned around and got into his own car, lowered the curtain, the more he thought about it, the more he couldn't help it, and he laughed so hard in the car.

Mrs. Yang's face was sallow when she heard Qingzhi's biography, and her anger rushed upwards. She was about to explode when the curtain was lifted, and Li Zhongchao, Duke of the Yong Dynasty, had swollen eyes. Tun stepping over the threshold, Madam Yang's anger suddenly had a direction, she stood up from the chair with a 'huh', and looked straight at Yong Guogong: "Ha! Is the sun coming out from the west today? It's still far away, why did the Duke get up?"

As if he didn't hear Mrs. Yang's sharp sarcasm, Mr. Yong slowly walked past Mrs. Yang, sat down on Mrs. Yang's left side, slowly took the tea handed by the girl, and took two sips slowly. , slowly turned to look at Mrs. Yang, Mrs. Yang had already taken a few deep breaths, and before Duke Yong could speak, she repeated what Yingluo had just said, and slapped the table angrily and shouted: "... Take a look, it's not enough to be ashamed at home, this face is thrown outside again, the Duke's mansion's face is completely humiliated by her! Duke Wen's mansion is her natal family, how can she have any face?"

"Okay, she's still a child, you just have to discipline her strictly." Mr. Yong waved his hand impatiently, and Mrs. Yang was agitated by his impatience, and her voice became sharper: "She's a child, how can she understand?" This is a foreign family, who taught it? Who instigated it? What does she mean? The Wu family carried the dowry to break off the marriage, who is she to blame? She..."

"Okay!" Duke Yong slapped the table fiercely, and the saucers and cups clanged loudly. Mrs. Yang was startled, and all the words that came to her mouth disappeared at once, and Duke Yong was irritable. She closed her eyes and said: "You are the housewife, and it is your duty to discipline the children and take care of the house. If something is not good, you should be punished, you should be beaten, and you are yelling at me because you want me to handle things in the backyard for you. ? Aren't the girls from the Yang family in southern Sichuan known for their virtuous and kind family management?"

"You?" Mrs. Yang's lips trembled angrily when she heard the last words that were almost heart-wrenching. Duke Yong raised his eyelids, looked at the door unfocused and said, "The fifth sister is back? Where is she placed?" ?”

"Qingtong Courtyard." After a while, Mrs. Yang twisted her head and gritted her teeth to answer. Duke Yong's eyes suddenly focused, and his eye sockets shrank unconsciously. He stared at Mrs. Yang for a long time and took a deep breath. , Shut out slowly and said: "Move Yunshang out, and give Ziyunju to Fifth Sister."

"You?" Mrs. Yang looked at her husband in disbelief. Duke Yong sighed, his eyes were blurred and out of focus, and he weakly raised his fingers and said, "Go and see Fifth Sister right now. Are you free? If you are free, ask her to come over and say..." Duke Yong hesitated for a moment before continuing to order: "Just say... forget it, don't go, order it, no one can be wronged No one can do without Fifth Sister!"

Mr. Yong Guo stood up holding the arm of the chair, walked to the door with his hands behind his back, stopped for a while, turned his head to look at Mrs. Yang as if she wanted to say something, opened her mouth, but didn't say anything, only sighed heavily. He leaned over the threshold and walked slowly back to the front yard.

"He's crazy!" Duke Yong walked for a long time before Mrs. Yang came back from her astonishment and screamed.

Mrs. Zhou hid in the tea room at the back, now she came out lingeringly, and stood far away from Mrs. Yang with her hands down, but she was thinking about where Yunshang would move to. Ziyunju used to be the residence of the eldest lady Li Yuerong. It is the most elegant courtyard in the mansion. It has not been a year since the third sister moved in after the eldest lady got married. The third sister is a nice person, so the second and fourth sisters should be moved out!It's best to move out of the mansion, so Zhou can only think about it and express his boredom with the second room. The father-in-law is so strange, how can he treat this fifth sister so well?It's not that... well, my father-in-law is a good person, but it's a pity that he married such an evil woman as my mother-in-law.

Mrs. Yang clutched the front of her dress tightly with both hands, her mind was spinning quickly, once the matter was related to her one son and two daughters, her reason and understanding suddenly strengthened.

"You go there yourself, tell your third sister, let her go to Fifth Sister's place, don't be empty-handed, just say first to see Fifth Sister, and second, father asked her to give up the yard to Fifth Sister , ask Fifth Sister when she is free to move, she is ready to vacate the house." Mrs. Yang turned her head and told Zhou Shi, and Zhou Shi understood after blinking twice that the mother-in-law wanted Fifth Sister to say no to moving. If they move, it will be like forcing the third sister to vacate the house, but it will offend the third sister.

"Yes." Mrs. Zhou readily agreed. The third sister, the sister-in-law, has only good intentions for her and is very happy to help her.

Li Tian took Li Yunshang into the room, and Li Yunshang took the extremely beautiful golden upside-down gold hook in the vase held by the girl, handed it to Yingluo, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "I don't know what Fifth Sister lacks. I inserted the flowers with my own hands, sister, please don’t laugh at me.”

"It's so beautiful!" Li Tian stretched out his hand and stroked the chrysanthemum and praised, "Just put it on the high table on the top of the kang, so that I can see it wherever I sit." Li Yunshang secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Facing this cousin, she has always had a An indescribable feeling of shame, in front of her, her hands and feet felt restrained and unnatural.

"I'm here because I have something important to do." Li Yunshang sat on the kang cautiously, glanced at Li Tian and said sincerely: "Father ordered you to move to live in my yard. The yard is quiet and big sister is getting married. Afterwards, A Niang had someone repaint it, it's better than here..." Li Yunshang timidly glanced at the East Chamber: "I'll move back to the original yard, and my original yard is fine."

Li Tian looked at Li Yunshang unexpectedly, what did his uncle order?The Ziyunju where Li Yunshang lives now is one of the best courtyards in the mansion. Uncle asked Li Yunshang to let him live in it?Give yourself the best?The more Li Tian tasted, the more he felt a strange sense of disobedience, but he didn't show it at all on his face. He just shook his head with a smile and said, "I just like this Qingtong Courtyard. Every time I came back, I thought, if I come back to live someday, I will definitely I want to live in Qingtong Courtyard, I don’t know why, but as soon as I enter this courtyard, I feel very kind.”

Li Yunshang is most afraid of ghosts and ghosts. Li Tian's last words frightened her, her face turned pale and her mouth was slightly opened. She was so frightened that she dared not look at the East Chamber, but she glanced uncontrollably, not knowing what to say. up.

Li Tian stared at Li Yunshang's fear, paused for a while, and then changed the topic and asked her what books she read and how she played the piano. As soon as the piano was mentioned, Li Yunshang had a topic to talk about, and gradually became more at ease. The two chatted for a while, Li Yunshang After getting up to say goodbye, Li Tian sent her out of the hanging flower gate along the veranda, looked up and saw the small red lacquered door leading to Shui Qiuniang's residence, moved in his heart, pointed to the small door and said with a smile: "I remember my sister who is the most skilled at playing piano." , Mr. Shui is also good at the piano, someday my sister is free, come over to find Mr. Shui to discuss and learn from each other."

"My qin...but it can play a sound, so how dare you compete with others? Mr. Shui?" Li Yunshang blushed at Li Tian's words, embarrassment and pride.

"Mr. Shui used to be a qin worshiper in the palace, and he was also good at shakuhachi. She likes you who love qin like you." Li Tian introduced with a smile. Men, those who can be enshrined in the palace are all top figures, if they can get her advice...

"Mr. Shui...are you really willing to give me advice?" Li Yunshang's excited eyes sparkled, and Li Tian hurriedly nodded and said, "Mr. Shui is very kind, come when you are free."

"Well, then I'll come early tomorrow morning." Li Yunshang's smile bloomed like a spring flower.

In the evening, after Li Tian had dinner, he finished talking with Cao Si's wife about the accounts of Muji and other small shops. This profit is serious." Li Tian casually flipped through the thin account book, smiled and said nothing, these shops are long-term business, the benefit is not in making money, Yingluo brought in two bowls of licorice soup , Passed a bowl to Cao Si's wife and said with a smile: "Cao Si's sister-in-law has worked hard, drink a bowl of soup to moisturize." Li Tian took a sip of licorice soup slowly, looked at Cao Si's daughter-in-law and talked about the homework: "Brother Shi, how are you these days?"

"Okay, brother is brother after all. Sister Ling was weaned at that time and kept fighting for ten days. He was fine. When I went back yesterday, his mother-in-law was feeding him milk. He looked at me and then at me. Looking at the milk bowl, you ignored me! Just hugging the milk bowl and wishing I could stick my head in it." Fourth daughter-in-law Cao spoke frankly.

"Brother Shi is very funny." Qing Zhi said with a smile while cleaning up the paper, pen and abacus on the table: "The fat man has dimples all over his hands and arms, he just laughs when he sees people, he drools when he smiles." Qing Zhi gestured He said: "Wow, it flowed here!"

Li Tian looked at Cao Si's daughter-in-law and said, "Tell his grandma to put less icing sugar in the milk. His grandma is not in good health. Don't hold on to your grandson all the time."

"Remember it, fifth lady, don't worry, I'm also afraid of tiring the old lady, the former son discussed with his father and bought two little girls back, and now I can help you too." Cao Si's wife hurriedly bowed her body and replied Li Tian said 'hmm', and Cao Si's daughter-in-law drank the soup and left.

"Sister-in-law Cao Si is getting better and better these days." Yin Hua sighed.

"What's the matter, you took care of the fifth lady with all your heart, later you married someone, took the messenger and became the lady in charge, isn't it the same as her today?" Qing Zhi replied without raising her head, while Yin Hua and Ying Luo were carrying the quilt Putting it on the smoking cage, he sighed and said, "How can you do it if you want to? The elder sisters who served in the old lady's house at the beginning, only Cao Sisao did the same job as the outside, earning a month's salary. 20 taels of silver."

"Of the older sisters in the old lady's house, Hongyu was the most diligent and willing to learn." Yingluo accepted the words gently.

"In the past, the third-class girls in our courtyard had a monthly exception of one or two taels of silver. Which of the other houses had such a rule? But any third-class girl in our courtyard can be a big girl in an ordinary family. Lier, you still don't understand? If you want to earn more money, you have to have that ability." Qing Zhi made clear tea, poured a cup and handed it to Li Tian.

Li Tian took the tea, sipped it slowly, and listened to them leisurely. There used to be many girls and women in her room, but now it is different. She only picked two big girls, Yingluo and Qingzhi, and two girls, Yinhua and Yuye. A second-class girl was brought out, Qing Zhi spoke frankly, and her subordinates were strict, Yin Hua reacted very quickly, and knew everyone well, Yu Ye looked honest and dull, but in fact she was either bad or bad, and all three of them were very convinced. Wreaths.

"That's true." Yinhua said happily: "When I was selected to enter this yard, my mother happily set up several tables. Last year, she was promoted to the second class. Two taels of silver a month is more than my father and mother combined. many!"

"Is there any movement in the main courtyard?" Yingluo turned her head and asked, Yinhua gave a soft 'ah', looked at Li Tian and said, "There has been no movement." But she swallowed her words again, this Yinhua was too careless in her job, she had to wait for others to ask about such an important matter, and had to teach her a lesson when she went back.

(End of this chapter)