The little girl of the landlord's house

Chapter 3

Seeing that Xie Yujiao's face became rosy again after drinking the ginger soup, with a confident smile, Mrs. Xu secretly felt relieved.Although Xie Yujiao was so obedient and obedient in the past, she didn't have the open-minded and capable aura she has now, and she has more of the gracefulness of Jiangnan women in her bones.But today's Xie Yujiao seems to have grown up overnight. Although she is still thin and slender before, the wisdom in her eyes makes Xu, who was once desperate, feel that she finally has something to rely on to survive.

"Jiaojiao, are things going well today? Those uncles didn't make things difficult for you, did they?" Mrs. Xu frowned and asked Xie Yujiao. She married Xie's family for seventeen or eighteen years. I haven't really dealt with those people.

Master Xie was a talented person in this place when he was young, but because his family business was too big and he was the only son in the family, he only passed the exam as a scholar, and he didn't go any further. His landlord young master.It's just a coincidence that Mrs. Xu was originally the daughter of the third master from the Duke of Anguo's mansion. The third master happened to come to Jiangning County to work that year. Mrs. Xu was already married at that time. If she returned to Beijing in three years to discuss marriage, It's getting old.

Besides, she is the daughter of Duke Anguo's concubine. When she returns to the capital, she is very old, and she is afraid that she will not find a good family.At that time, Mrs. Xie wanted to find a girl from a good family for Mr. Xie, so she came to ask for marriage. The third master refused at first, but then he couldn't bear Mrs. Xie's chest and promised him. He also met Mr. Xie and met him He was personable and dignified, so he agreed and married a girl from the Duke's mansion to a local rich man.

When Mrs. Xu entered Xie's house, she was really loved. Her father-in-law was kind and her mother-in-law was kind, and she never suffered any grievances.He and Mr. Xie are even more affectionate husband and wife, and they have never blushed for more than ten years. If there is anything unsatisfactory, it is that they have been married for more than ten years and have never given birth to a boy.

Later, Mrs. Xu felt ashamed of Mr. Xie and gave him several concubines, but Mr. Xie didn't care much about those concubines, but occasionally Mrs. Xu would go to her concubine's room when she was not feeling well. two nights.Probably because Mr. Xie really went too few times, and none of the concubines got pregnant, so Mr. Xie still had no son when he died.

If this kind of thing was put in modern times, it could be a good story, but in ancient times, everyone only valued their sons, and once they heard that Mr. Xie had no sons, they couldn't be more beautiful.

Xie Yujiao helped Mrs. Xu to sit down, and slowly said: "Mother, don't worry, they don't dare to embarrass me now. If I don't leave the court, I will be the girl of the Xie family. No matter who will be the heir of the Xie family in the future , I always want my eldest sister to nod, and they won't get any benefit from making trouble with me at this time."

Mrs. Xu heard these words, although they were all comforting words, but she still felt uncomfortable, she just lowered her head, pressed the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and said, "Who knew that your father left so early, and I gave him again last autumn." He accepted a room from his aunt, and thought that if he liked it, he would always be able to hold his son this year, but who knows..."

Before Xu's words were finished, the crying started again. Xie Yujiao is now used to Xu's ability to cry when she says it, and she is not as panicked as before. She only comforted: "As the saying goes, life and death have fate , Wealth is in the sky, although daddy left early, but he has never done a single thing that harms morality in his life, even if he goes, he will go to the sky to become a god, and he will definitely not go to hell, mother, don't be too sad, take care My body is important. As for the heir, among the children brought by my second uncle last time, I saw that there were as many as a dozen, and I had to choose a good one. It also took time, and it was impossible to say who they wanted. That's who it is, mother should have her own idea, and can't just listen to what they say."

When Mrs. Xu heard the topic of heirs these days, she felt a pain in her head. She hadn't given birth to a son in her life, which was already embarrassing enough. Now there are more than a dozen boys who will come to be her sons. What do you think? Dizzy or not?Therefore, as long as there are matters related to the heir, the Xu family will not see any guests, and only complains of illness at home.

"You can hide from the first day of the junior high school, but you can't hide from the fifteenth day." Xu sighed, still feeling very upset, she pulled herself together, remembered something, and said: "The second housekeeper is here today." Reply, saying that the [-] padded jackets your father promised to rush to the county for the county a few years ago have not yet been finished. Well, the soldiers on the front line are waiting to wear it, and asked me how I answered, your father was kind enough to agree to this matter at the beginning, but I didn’t expect to end up in trouble now.”

After hearing what Xu said, Xie Yujiao only frowned slightly.Now this dynasty is called Dayong, which did not exist in history, but the border troubles in the north are somewhat similar to some dynasties I have learned before. In the past two years, Dayong has been fighting the Tatars in the north, and the fight is fierce. It can be seen from the refugees from the north that Xie's house took in for two years.

Although Mr. Xie is not an official, he still has patriotism and enthusiasm. He usually donates money and silver a lot. Now these [-] padded jackets are what he planned to donate before his death.

Xie Yujiao really admired her father, whom she had never faced, and thought it was a good thing, but there were too many things going on at home now, so she might not be able to take care of it for a while.

"Mother, don't worry about this matter. It's already April, and the weather will get hotter as it goes on. Even in the north, there are four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. The soldiers must wear these cotton-padded clothes in October." , it's late autumn, we rushed to submit it in midsummer, and there was still time, this new county magistrate actually used this to fool the second housekeeper, do you really think we don't understand anything?"

Seeing that Xie Yujiao had a strong idea, Mrs. Xu felt a little happier, and wiped away the tears on her face. She patted the back of her hand and said, "Jiaojiao still has an idea, and she understands everything." Zhang's mother next to her said: "You can tell your family this in a while, let him make accommodations with the county magistrate, and then set a specific time, and we will catch up together."

Zhang's mother only responded repeatedly, and then said in shame: "Our family is really real, there are so many things in the family, and I still come to ask about these small things, the more I live, the more I go back."

It turned out that the second housekeeper was Mrs. Zhang's man. Mrs. Zhang had been with Mrs. Xu since she was a child. Although she was a maid, she had stayed in such a flashy place in the capital, and the world she had seen was extraordinary.But because following the Xu family, he can only marry a local man, so it is common for him to look down on the second housekeeper.But the Xie family, whether they are masters or servants, all have the ability to love their wives, and Zhang's mother is also coaxed into docileness by the second housekeeper.The two of them have been together and He Meimei for these years, but they have given birth to a son and a daughter.The other maid beside Xie Yujiao, Ziyan, is Mama Zhang's daughter.

The mother and daughter talked together for a while, and when it was time for dinner, Mrs. Xu kept a filial piety for Mr. Xie. There was no meat in the filial piety. Xie Yujiao originally wanted to follow suit, but Mrs. Xu felt sorry for her these days Busy inside and out, I ordered someone to make a few other delicious small meat dishes, but I didn't eat a single bite.

A steamed mandarin fish, Pucai meatballs, a plate of fried Artemisia annua, cold Malantou, and roasted duck rolls are all Jiangning's local dishes. Xie Yujiao was from Nanjing in her previous life. Kind up.

In addition, in the early spring, there are still a lot of wild vegetables, so I can't help but move my index finger and eat a whole bowl of rice.Seeing this, Mrs. Xu was overjoyed, reached out her hand to help her fill a bowl of chrysanthemum leaf soup, pushed it in front of her and said, "The lungs are full of fire in spring, take a sip of chrysanthemum leaf soup to relieve the fire."

Xie Yujiao drank another bowl of soup happily, then put down her chopsticks, and accompanied Mrs. Xu to the room.

Because the family was doing white things and there were a lot of people coming and going, so many antique calligraphy and paintings in Xu's room were put away, which looked a bit rudimentary at the moment.There was still a half-embroidered girdle in the needlework basket, which was for Mr. Xie. When Xie Yujiao saw it, she said, "Mother, what are you doing with these things? You don't have to think about others. If Daddy finds out, why don't you?" I have to feel sorry for my mother for not taking care of her health."

Mrs. Xu picked up the needle and thread, compared it twice on the hair, lowered her head and sewed a few stitches, her face was indifferent, just like before Master Xie died, "I've already done half of it, I just finished it, and then Burn it for your father, before he praised me that this embroidery looks better than before, but now he has no chance to wear it, maybe he can still wear it after going to the bottom."

Xie Yujiao remembered that when she was a child, when her father passed away, her mother missed her father so much. All the things that her father had used before her life were found and burned to her.In that era when remarriage was common, my mother raised herself up alone and never found a partner.

Xie Yujiao's nose became sore when she thought of these things, her eyes were red and filled with tears, as if she had returned to the days when her father just passed away, she could only choke up and said: "If mother finishes this, don't do it, mother's thoughts, father's heart It must be very clear, but this hurts the eyes and the body, even if I saw it, I feel very distressed!"

Seeing that Xie Yujiao's eyes were red, Mrs. Xu felt sorry for her again, put down her needlework and said, "Okay, why are you crying again, okay, okay, I won't do it."

Mrs. Xu put down her needle and thread, wiped Xie Yujiao's tears with a handkerchief, and heard Bai Ling, the little maid beside her outside, come in and summon her: "My aunt and grandma sent a maid to ask if the master's cemetery has been selected."

When Mrs. Xu heard this, she felt her brain throbbing violently. She rubbed her forehead and replied, "Tell her, the young lady has already arranged all these matters, so don't bother her old man."

(End of this chapter)