The little girl of the landlord's house

Chapter 5

Xie Yujiao has only been here for a few days, and she has not been able to figure out the family affairs very clearly. Although she also knows that the servants of the big family in ancient times must have a few relatives, but when she thinks that she is the master, they are slaves. As long as they don't go too far, even if they can't recognize people clearly, it doesn't seem to matter if everyone still works as an errand.

She has also read "Dream of Red Mansions". It is not uncommon for slaves to bully their masters, but that is when the Jia family is about to close down.But now that it's good, Mr. Xie has only been there for about [-] days, and this old slave has gone against the sky?

Xie Yujiao frowned, and she felt a little angry. She has a personality that can't tolerate sand in her eyes. Now that she has traveled through time, and when she is in such a difficult time, she thinks that she can get over this crisis earlier, and that she can get over it in the future. Choose a promising heir for Mrs. Xu. Even if she gets married in the future, not to mention gaining a good reputation, at least she doesn’t have to worry about Mrs. Xu’s future. Xie Yujiao felt depressed as if someone was leading her by the neck.

Now that something like this happened again, Xie Yujiao, who was already in a rage, was even more depressed.Xie Yujiao's face darkened, and she stood up from the pool. The drops of water immediately slid off her white and greasy skin, exuding a lustrous luster like jade. The magpie saw it, and hurriedly wrapped it in the cotton bathrobe hanging on the hanger beside her. On her shoulders, but in my heart I blamed Ziyan outside, coming to answer at this time, the girl's good mood was in vain.

Xie Yujiao took off the mask, washed her face with the water basin brought by the maid, and passed a message outside: "Go and tell the old aunt and grandma, just say that the wife is not in good health these days, and the things at home are not energetic. Take care, Mrs. Zhao is on duty at night today, and the aunts and wives over there didn't even light a light at the gate of the small courtyard. Let's work together to manage the master's future generations. I didn't see that the master's family has a lot of things to do, so I started to be lazy and let my aunt and grandma take care of it. Do you want to keep such a slave at home?"

Ziyan outside heard this, and could hear Xie Yujiao's angry tone through the door, and felt very regretful in her heart, she shouldn't have come to spread the word at this time, anyway, after a while, after the girl finished bathing, she would be more angry than now strong.The girl used to have a temperament made of water, and these secular worlds couldn't bother her, but since the master left, the girl's temperament has also undergone a 180-degree change, and she has become turbulent.

Ziyan responded, and hurriedly went out to pass on the message. After thinking about it, she felt that her weight was not enough. She was afraid that she would go to the old aunt's side and be overwhelmed by others, so she just went back to Xu's side and let the maid secretly He went in and called Zhang's mother to come out.

At this moment, Mama Zhang just finished serving Mrs. Xu to go to bed. When she came out of the room and saw her daughter returning in a hurry, she knew that Xie Yujiao must have some orders, so she stepped forward to ask.

Ziyan had no choice but to tell Zhang's mother everything that Xie Yujiao said just now. Zhang's mother smiled a little when she heard it. Compared with Xu's gentleness and weakness, Xie Yujiao is really somewhat The courage of the headed lady.

This is so well said, I am afraid that the old aunt and grandma will only get angry if they hear it.It's just that it's too late now, if it wasn't for this time, the people over there didn't know the rules, and they would come here at night or early in the morning to make trouble, and it would be disturbing.Mother Zhang thought for a while, and said: "Go back and tell the eldest girl that the wife is already asleep. You can go and talk about it tomorrow morning. Then I will talk to the wife. Don't wait for the old aunt to come to the door. The wife I don’t know what’s going on here, so I’m not prepared.”

Ziyan breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that what she said made sense, and was about to leave when Zhang's mother over there just said, "I heard that the girl looks at the account book every day very late, you go to the kitchen Tell me, don't forget to send the supper over."

Ziyan nodded and happily went to the kitchen.

After Xie Yujiao took a bath, she sat upstairs in the study and read the account books. Since there was no electric light, five or six candlesticks were lit in front of the desk, reflecting her flushed cheeks.Xie Yujiao had already dressed, she was wearing a long robe, and holding a small regular script pen in her hand, she went through the ledgers one by one.

Although the Xie family is a well-known big landlord, Xie Yujiao found out after reading the account books that the biggest income of the Xie family in these years was not the land rent, but the tea grown by the tenants in the area and the silkworm farmers who raised them. The silkworm cocoons were made into raw silk, woven into cloth, and sold to traders in Quanzhou.These traders were all foreigners. They took these things out and exchanged them for precious gems, gold and silver. Xie Jiaguang's income from this item was [-]% more than the land rent.

In the past, the big housekeeper Tao Laixi was in charge of the land rent. The Tao family had been servants of the Xie family for several lifetimes, and they were all very reliable.As for some shops and trivial matters in the city, the second housekeeper, Liu Fugen, is in charge of Mrs. Zhang's man.Master Xie has always been in charge of business matters, but Xu Yuxing, Xu's younger brother, Xie Yujiao's uncle, is in charge of running outside.

It turned out that because the third master of the Xu family was a concubine, the family resources he got when the family was separated were also limited, and he was a man of two sleeves, and he didn't know how to hold the Duke's thigh. When he was transferred, he happened to go to Tartar and Da In a place on the border of Yong, when the Tartars attacked, Mr. Xu sent his wife and children away, and he died under the swords of the Tartars.

Also because of this relationship, Xu Yuxing didn't want to join his family, Duke Anguo's Mansion, so he brought his wife and children to Jinling together, and simply started working for his brother-in-law. Do some business.

Xie Yujiao put down the account book, rubbed the sore brows, and saw that Ziyan had come back, so she called her to ask questions. Ziyan only said what Zhang's mother had said. Xie Yujiao is not as angry as before now, listen I think it makes sense, but I still have to talk to Mrs. Xu about this matter, otherwise Mrs. Xu won't be able to answer if the old aunt makes a fuss.

The hourglass in the corner of the room was already at [-] o'clock in the morning, and Xie Yujiao was about to get up and take a walk, when the magpie brought two things to Xie Yujiao and said, "Miss, look?"

Xie Yujiao leaned over to take a look, and saw that there were two jade pendants inside the magpie's handkerchief, both of which were narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, one of which was engraved with the pattern of a hundred birds facing the phoenix, while the other was It is the pattern of double dragons playing with beads, but looking at the back of the two jade pendants, they are exactly the same, but it is obvious that the jade pendant with double dragons playing with beads is not Xie Yujiao's.

"Where did you get this jade pendant?" Xie Yujiao couldn't help being puzzled. Judging from the original body's memory, this phoenix pendant was given to her by Mrs. Xu. The most important thing to give must be a good thing.But what is the origin of this dragon pendant?
"I picked it up today on the futon where the girl from the Earth Temple sat. I didn't see it clearly at the time. I thought it was something that the girl had dropped, so I hurriedly wrapped it up. I just opened it when I was packing the dowry box. One piece, the girl's phoenix pendant is still lying in it, isn't it someone else's property?"

Magpie said, feeling a little embarrassed, this thing looks very expensive, if that person lost it, he would have to look for it everywhere, but he took it back without any hassle.

Xie Yujiao was very calm. Judging from the fragrance she smelled in the room today, there must have been someone with a relatively high status. This thing may be very precious to the poor, but for the poor Those rich and noble families are nothing more than ornaments, but now that she has picked them up, they still have to return them.

"You put a box tomorrow, let Changshou send it to the Earth Temple, and give it to that temple in person." The monks are all empty, and the temple doesn't look like someone who is greedy for such small money, Xie Yujiao is very relieved.

Early the next morning, although Xie Yujiao really wanted to sleep until she woke up naturally, she asked the maids to wake her up at the first hour of the hour.The magpie came over with water for Xie Yujiao to wash up. Seeing that Ziyan was not there, Xie Yujiao knew that she must have gone to do what she told her yesterday before she woke up.

The old aunt lived in the northwest corner of the house, next to the small Buddhist hall of Xie's mansion. After the death of Mrs. Xie, in the eyes of outsiders, she lived a life devoted to worshiping Buddha.And the niece whom she wanted to get in, and wanted her to give a lot to Mr. Xie, also lived with her, and the two of them had a bit of a mother-in-law attitude.

The old aunt and grandma finished their breakfast and recited scriptures in the Buddhist hall as usual for a while. Aunt Fang helped her out and the two started chatting.

"A few years ago, I asked you to be more aggressive and make your stomach move, but you didn't pay attention to it. What's the use of telling me these things now, your parents were kneeling and begging me to let you in !"

Aunt Fang's eyes were red, obviously she had just cried, she was a girl in her early twenties, she was at the prime of her life, she had originally hoped to enter Xie's house, to be like the old aunt and grandma, and even take the whole family with her. Some advantages, in the future, a son will be born, and he will be able to inherit the large fortune of the Xie family. Who knows that Mr. Xie has no interest in him at all. Occasionally, there will be a few skin-to-skin relatives, and they will all be born when she is least able to conceive a child. Days, there is really no place to sue.

Now that person is gone as soon as he kicks his legs, is it possible that I have to let myself guard him for the rest of my life?When Aunt Fang thought of this, she felt very wronged in her heart!
(End of this chapter)