first princess

Chapter 72 The first kiss was stolen (3)
There was a clap of thunder in the sky, followed by heavy rain. Shui Linglong was trying on a newly made pink embroidered white lotus apron in front of the bronze mirror. The style was good, but the color was too light. The red plain style is really good-looking!With a confident and narcissistic smile on her face, she put on her coat and called Zhi Fan Chuan Shan.

Breakfast is a plate of stewed donkey meat, a bowl of secret milk wine, a plate of Sansi cold noodles with some gluten, the more Shui Linglong eats, the more she feels like half a Mobei native. No wonder her mother never let her learn "Female "Trainings", "Women's Commandments", and did not tell her the three obediences and four virtues.Mobei and Kashgar were still matrilineal clans hundreds of years ago, and the status of women was very high. Even though the men are now the masters, there are still polyandrous families in some remote areas.

If time goes back a few hundred years, she will marry Zhuge Yu and take a few concubines, making him mad!Ha ha…

Zhi Fan and Ye Mao looked at each other in blank dismay, why was the eldest lady giggling?

Not long after, Mother Zhong finished receiving this month's allowance from the warehouse, and brought back news by the way—Shui Minyu went to Xishan College early in the morning. She heard that she was still asleep, and she was directly taken out of bed by the secret guard. Picked it up and threw it into the wagon.

Shui Linglong didn't say anything, and drank the last sip of milk wine.

After eating enough, Shui Linglong asked Zhi Fan and Ye Mao to take away the rest of the food, while she left Mama Zhong to ask: "Mama Zhong, you are the nurse my mother invited back, did my mother tell you? What about her childhood?"

Mrs. Zhong is very honest, she doesn't have a lot of eyes, she didn't know the meaning of Shui Linglong's words for a while, she just answered according to her own understanding: "No, madam doesn't like to talk about the past, maybe it's chilling to be kicked out of the house by her parents." .”

have to!The only thread interrupted...

Shui Linglong raised her forehead, went to the clean room to wash up, and then went to Fushouyuan.

Looking at Shui Linglong's elegant back, Zhong's mother's eyes dimmed little by little. Her daughter died as soon as she was born. For so many years, she has always regarded the eldest lady as her own daughter, but since the eldest daughter After a serious illness, the young lady seems to have changed, and she has become estranged from her a lot. Could it be that the young lady...dislikes her for being old?
As soon as Zhifan entered the room after breakfast, she saw Zhong's mother crying at the door, her heart trembled slightly, and she asked, "Mother Zhong, why are you crying?"

Mother Zhong quickly wiped away her tears, stood up and walked into the back room: "I got the chili water in my eyes, I'll wash it off."

Zhi Fan pursed her mouth, she was just a wet nurse and not a serious master, so there was no need for her to be too concerned.

It rained a lot today, and the old lady suffered from rheumatism, and she couldn't get out of bed in pain. Shangshu's mansion is low-lying, and the area where the family lives in the west has been flooded. Mama Wang went to investigate the details and came to a conclusion: If you don't When the weather was fine, there was no room for people to live in that land. There were 50 children in the mansion, so it was quite troublesome to settle down.

The old lady has a headache!
"Old lady, the eldest lady is here."

The old lady's eyes trembled, and she said in her usual tone, "Let her in."

Shui Linglong entered the room, seeing the old lady's haggard face, she gathered herself together, walked to the old lady's bed with a smile and sat on the bed: "Grandmother."

The old lady looked at Shui Linglong, and asked in a deep voice: "Why didn't Bingbing come back with you?"

Shui Linglong smiled slightly, and said calmly: "Oh, I took Bingbing to thank Mrs. Yao yesterday, thank you Mrs. Yao for asking for an imperial decree from the empress. Unexpectedly, the three princesses fell in love with Bingbing at first sight and insisted on keeping Bingbing at the mansion. I stayed here for a while, but Bingbing didn't want to disobey the third princess's will, so she stayed."

The old lady thought that Mrs. Yao's willingness to help the prince was due to the fact that Shui Linglong had saved the prince. As for the confession, Shui Linglong was not going to tell the old lady for the time being.

"That's it..." The old lady's eyes flashed, "It's Bingbing's blessing that the third princess thinks highly of Bingbing, and it's all right to stay in Yao's mansion, but I've only seen her once since Bingbing was born, and I really miss her very much. When the rain stops, you go to Yao Mansion and bring Bingbing back."

Shui Linglong smiled sweetly and said: "Understood, grandma." Looking at the old lady's powerless look, "What's wrong with grandma?"

The old lady rubbed her legs: "It's an old problem, rheumatism. For some reason, it rains a lot this year."

Shui Linglong blinked her bright eyes and said, "Grandma, you can try to drink some rice wine every day, it can relieve rheumatic pain."

The old lady looked at Shui Linglong suspiciously, "I'm afraid it's not good for women to drink alcohol?"

Shui Linglong smiled and said: "Don't drink too much, take a small cup after lunch and dinner, it's right to drink medicine."

Shui Linglong can even cure tuberculosis, there must be some basis for this method, the old lady nodded, and Wang Mama smiled and said: "Your maidservant will write it down!"

The old lady's eyes swept away, and she took out a key from the bedside table, and said: "I am unable to move around these few days, you should take care of the affairs in the house, and carefully prepare Bingbing's dowry. Lingxi is short, this is the key to the warehouse."

Shui Linglong took it with both hands: "I'll make a list for you to review later, if you think it's feasible, I'll order someone to pack it."

There was a smile in the old lady's eyes: "It's still you who are thoughtful."

Shui Linglong was used to the old lady's temptations from time to time, her expression remained unchanged and said: "I heard people talking about the flooding of Xiyuan along the way, I don't know how grandma plans to deal with it?"

The old lady sighed slowly, without a smile on her face: "I'm worrying about this matter. The family has a lot of children, so I really want to move... There is no suitable place for them. There is a small courtyard in the mansion, but what about that?" They are all places for the masters to live in..."

Shui Linglong took over the conversation: "The number of small houses is not enough, even if grandma agrees to let them live temporarily, there will be no room for them. Besides, people are used to living in a good place, and if they move back to the original poor house, there will be some gaps in their hearts, which is easy to breed. resentment."

The old lady nodded thoughtfully: "Who says it's not? In your opinion, what should it be?"

Shui Linglong said in a calm manner: "We have more than a dozen villages in the suburbs and Tong County, some of which are leased to local farmers, and some are managed by our own people. The ones rented to farmers are OK, and we get a sum of money every year. Tenancy and renting. Apart from some simple fruit production, we have no other agricultural income. We can assign some young and strong family members to participate in spring plowing in the village, and the rest, um, tidy up two spacious yards Let them squeeze, but those good furnishings have to be withdrawn in advance."

The old lady asked: "Is there not enough manpower in the mansion?"

Shui Linglong smiled: "Grandmother, we have enough people in our mansion, and there are quite a few people who just occupy positions and do nothing. In fact, I was still thinking that if those who want to work in the village are willing, we can pay a little less than Rent the land to them at the market price, and they will be the masters themselves, so they can work harder, but for the Shangshufu, they can earn less from the rent, but they don’t have to bear the risk of no crops brought about by natural disasters.”

The old lady was a little tempted: "It sounds like a good idea, you can do it."

"Yes." Shui Linglong stood up, and the old lady stopped her again, "Is your father busy recently?" For several days... I haven't seen him come to say hello.

Shui Linglong's eyes flashed an indistinguishable gleam, and she said in her usual tone: "The court is busy discussing the matter of the water falling from the south to the west, so my father probably doesn't have time to come to the inner house!"

The old lady pinched the center of her eyebrows with her fingers, and said tentatively: "By the way, the Zhenbei Palace has won the championship of the medical event this time, should we send some congratulatory gifts? It seems that I haven't heard that Zhuge Shizi came to you these days. Are you... having a conflict?"

Didn't it mean that you made a big oolong and offended Zhenbei Wangfu thoroughly?The gratitude that was born because of the old lady's heart-to-heart admonishment after marriage is now worn down by the old lady's selfish actions again and again.Shui Linglong smiled indifferently: "The Prince of Zhenbei asked Long Live Lord for a marriage decree, the marriage between the son of Zhuge and me is probably..."

Out of play?The old lady's heart twitched fiercely: "When you first suggested Bingbing to marry the prince, didn't you say that you don't need to offend the Prince of Zhenbei?"

Shui Linglong held back her smile: "Yes, if they divorce first, of course we won't offend them."

No, what she thought was not to be offended was that she could continue the marriage... The old lady suddenly felt dizzy, and leaned helplessly on the soft pillow.

Shui Linglong thinks that the old lady's anger should be enough: "Grandmother, don't worry too much. Fortunately, Zhuge Shizi's sister is willing to talk to me a few words. If I find more opportunities to visit her, maybe I and Zhuge Shizi will have a good relationship." There is still a turning point in the marriage, but I have nothing to do with the Yao family, so I'm not ashamed to keep running there!"

The old lady's eyeballs moved left and right, and she smiled kindly: "Then let Bingbing live in Yao Mansion with peace of mind, as long as you like. You are a cousin, so it's only natural to see Bingbing."

Shui Linglong pursed her lips: "Yes, grandma."

The old lady closed her eyes tiredly: "Okay, you go to work, I will sleep for a while."

Shui Linglong left the Fushouyuan and immediately started to work on Xiyuan. She asked Mother Du to gather all the children of the family, and offered them two options: one, to be slaves in the mansion for life, with the same salary; The Zhuangzi was exposed to the sun and rain, and he made achievements in order to get the opportunity to escape from slavery and enjoy the privilege of renting land at a low price.

People who are greedy for comfort naturally choose to stay in the mansion, about half of them are mostly servants with higher status.The other half dragged their families and went to Zhuangzi everywhere. Most of them were people who did rough work on weekdays.

Liu Lu's family chose to stay in the mansion.

After Shui Linglong completed the corresponding registration, Manager Liu arranged for a carriage to take the person to the Zhuangzi, while Shui Linglong went to the warehouse and began to count Bingbing's dowry.

Mother Du led people to tidy up two secluded yards for the servants to live in.At the beginning, everyone laughed at those who went to Zhuangzi to endure hardships as idiots. Later, when they found out that there were fewer people and more lives, they gradually stopped laughing.

"Since Zhao Qing's family left, only me, Mrs. Ma and Mrs. Chun are the three older ones left in the washing room. The rest are all newly bought maids who don't understand anything! It's nothing at all!" Mrs. Wu said on the sidelines. Picking his teeth, he complained.

Mrs. Hu said bitterly: "Isn't it? Two cooks have left the dining room. When I'm too busy, I have to do it myself. I'm so tired!"

Mrs. Luo thumped her shoulder: "Don't you just hit it for a while? My hands are so weak from chopping wood!" In the past three days, I could be lazy, but now the eldest lady has set tasks for each department, how many must be completed every day, otherwise Don't go back to the room to rest. In fact, Mrs. Luo doesn't think this task is too much, but she is used to being lazy, so she doesn't like to move anymore.

Mrs. Wu spat, and said intentionally or unintentionally: "We were not so tired when the eldest lady was in charge of the house."

Liu Lvniang echoed itchingly: "Isn't it? Me... hey - you bloody hoof! I'll beat you to death..."

Liu Luniang was about to turn her head to see who had stepped on her, when she realized that it was her daughter, and she gave her a sideways look: "You don't have eyes when you walk!"

Liu Lu pulled her mother into the house, closed the door and window and whispered: "Mother! You must not make a fuss with Mrs. Wu and the others! The old lady is not feeling well, and she is going to leave the matter to the eldest lady to take full responsibility. It's really going to be troublesome." Wake up, it was the young miss who was hit in the face, we can offend no one if we offend the young lady!"

Liu Lvniang poked her on the forehead disapprovingly: "You, you! Why did you speak for her after being hurt by the eldest lady? What did you say you did wrong, huh? She insisted on giving you to the young master? The young master looks like a short-lived ghost at first glance, what a wonderful Shizi! I took a peek at the second entrance that day, my God, Shizi is so handsome, I was so excited when I saw your mother!"

Liu Lu was most annoyed when her mother brought up the topic of making room for Zhuge Yu: "Okay, mother, don't talk about it! The son of the world is born with precious life, and a small fish like me can't afford it!"

"What can't you afford?" Liu Lvniang slapped her daughter's hand, "Your appearance is outstanding in the entire Shangshu Mansion. I have never seen you before, and I will naturally like you when I see you. Unfortunately, Miss Narrow-minded, jealous of your beauty, and gave you away in a daze, I don't know what she thinks? Isn't it because she is afraid that you will steal the heart of the eldest son? Humph! You are stingy!"

Liu Lu didn't dare to tell her mother the truth, if her mother knew that she was to blame for everything, she would definitely beat her to death!Liu Lu lowered her eyelids in embarrassment: "Mom, that's all over, let's stop talking about it, anyway, I will be filial to you and father, and I will work hard to save money for my brother."

"Damn! How much money can a servant girl save? One month's money is not enough for your brother to treat friends to dinner! Your brother is good at his studies, mother didn't plan to let him become a servant in the house, and he has to go to school even if he sells everything. If he becomes a scholar, I will be a scholar!" Finally, Liu Lvniang spoke happily!
Good homework... Xiucai... Then who was the boy she saw at the gate of the brothel a few days ago?

(End of this chapter)