The first daughter is poisonous, the lord goes to bed obediently

Chapter 96
Mrs. Feng looked embarrassed, knowing that Feng Xihe had been wronged, she had no choice but to signal Ruan Zhaoming to look at Cheng Lianxin more in the future.

"What are you doing in a daze, why don't you bandage the eldest lady." Ruan Zhaoming angrily ordered the servants in the mansion, "Before the queen mother's birthday, the eldest lady will follow the queen mother to the Taimiao to pray for blessings. If there is any mistake, I will take you It's asking."

"No need, I'm not that delicate yet." Feng Xihe looked at him indifferently, knowing that he was not just talking, but also praying in his heart.

Ruan Zhaoming's attitude towards her has improved a lot since the queen mother gave her a jade bracelet with floating flowers and purple to accompany her to the Taimiao to pray for blessings.

In private, I have come to flatter her many times, just to let her continue to win glory in front of the queen mother so that she can speak for him.

"You are the jewel in your husband's palm, why aren't you delicate?" Ruan Zhaoming refused, and only asked the maid to help Cheng Lianxin back to the room first, then called Qian Yun up graciously, greeted Feng Xi and Huo Han, and planned to see her hands with her own eyes. The red marks on the skin were bandaged up.

When he went out, he held Feng Xihe's hand, looked at Feng Xihe worriedly, and said a little embarrassedly: "Xihe, you see that my father cares about you so much. Remember to say a few kind words for your father."

"Father, you have said this sentence hundreds of times." Feng Xihe withdrew his hand indifferently and turned his head away.

Ruan Zhaoming said awkwardly again: "Also, does Prince Yu mean anything to you? If so, then you should seize it and let him marry you."

"If not, you have to find a way to make him responsible for you. Don't you know a lot of ruffians in Beijing? Let them spread the news. When everyone knows and everyone scolds him for being heartless, he will I have to marry you."

"Look, as a father, you now have Duke Feng's mansion by your side. If you have Prince Yu's blessing and the Queen Mother sees you, wouldn't that help you to go straight up the sky and soar ninety thousand miles? As a daughter, wouldn't you be able to be worshiped by others?" ?”

Father, you are really shameless for wanting to climb higher branches so bluntly.Feng Xi stroked his forehead and asked, "Father, your official rank is already very high. Could it be that you still want to be the prime minister?"

"People go to high places, but water stays at low places. How can the talent of being a father be confined to a mere position of Minister of Rites." Ruan Zhaoming continued to advocate.

Feng Xihe was heartbroken, "Father, Prince Yu already has a girl he likes. In his eyes, I am like broken copper. You know his character. If I dare to threaten him, he will definitely kill us." The whole family threw it to feed the wolves."

After finishing speaking, she turned and left, ignoring Ruan Zhaoming who was jumping in anger.

Cheng Lianxin was led by the servant girl through the winding corridors, her eyes still kept glancing backwards.

Just now she heard Ruan Zhaoming say that the Empress Dowager asked Feng Xihe to accompany her to the Ancestral Temple to pray for blessings before her birthday.If Feng Xihe is further appreciated by the queen mother, wouldn't she bow her head even more.

During the time she stayed in the Zhao family, the Zhao family always served her with delicious food and drinks, and the treatment was even better than that of Miss Zhao's family.So much so that now, she is very obsessed with the life of rich clothes and fine food.

But he failed on the first day of entering the government, which is not a good sign.Fortunately, Mrs. Feng intends to cultivate her, and just now ordered her to familiarize herself with the environment of Xia Guogong's mansion, so she went to her side and asked Nanny Zhang to teach her how to organize the housework.

If she performs well and holds the power of the family in her hands, then it will be a matter of time before she becomes the mistress of the Duke's Mansion.

The next day, the first light of dawn.

Mrs. Feng's Madam Zhang came to inform Feng Xihe early in the morning. In order to welcome Cheng Lianxin's arrival, and to make up for the reunion dinner that was delayed due to Feng Jing's illness during the Mid-Autumn Festival, she planned tonight with the whole family. Have a reunion dinner together.

Nanny Zhang is a big celebrity around Mrs. Feng. She has been in Feng's residence for many years and has always been conscientious.

"Qian Yun, reward ten taels of silver." After Feng Xihe agreed friendlyly, he habitually asked Qian Yun to take the reward.

However, Nanny Zhang looked at the silver, but hesitated and didn't reach out to pick it up.

Compared to before, she couldn't help but behave a little differently. Feng Xihe noticed it and asked her what was wrong.

"Miss, this reward is too much, you'd better give this old slave a penny." Nanny Zhang opened her mouth in embarrassment.

Feng Xihe hesitated for a while, then went to Qian Yun himself to take the taels of silver and put it in her hand.

"Nurse Zhang, you have worked hard in the mansion, and the monthly bill has not increased much. The rewards are given to you, which can be regarded as compensation for you. Although the warehouse is in a serious deficit and needs to be cut appropriately, but you can't even pay for what you deserve. All of them were confiscated."

Weighing the silver taels, Zhang Momo felt uneasy in her heart, and finally said: "Miss, this is a new rule set by Aunt Lian. She discussed with the old lady this morning and made many new rules. One of them is that in the warehouse Before the account is settled, the rewards given by the masters of each house to the slaves cannot exceed one or two taels of silver."

"She asked the slaves to urge each other and encourage them to file complaints. Even if the master insisted on giving it, the slaves had to hand it over. Otherwise, once they were exposed, they would be expelled from the mansion if they had all the witnesses and evidence, and the whistleblower would get a certain amount of reward. "

She is the most valued nanny around Mrs. Feng.Before the rules set by Cheng Lianxin were implemented, she planned to use her as a target first, to serve as a warning to other servants.

"The old lady also agrees?" Feng Xihe's eyes gradually turned cold, and Cheng Lianxin was able to do such things as encouraging the servants to expose each other.

If it is really implemented, there will only be mutual distrust between servants and servants, servants and masters, full of deceit, and big troubles will happen sooner or later.

Hexiang, Lianxin... Mrs. Zhao's wishful thinking is really good. On the one hand, she uses Cheng Lianxin to restrain Aunt He, and on the other hand, she uses Cheng Lianxin's heart to let her come to Feng's residence, causing the whole family to be in trouble. .

"Mommy, don't worry about keeping this money. I'll pack it up and go talk to the old lady." After Feng Xihe finished speaking, he asked Qian Yun to send Nanny Zhang out of the Chuihua Gate.

After a while, after she changed her clothes and combed her hair in a bun, she went to Mrs. Feng's courtyard.

As soon as she lifted the door curtain, she saw a few yellowed account books placed randomly on the small table in the center of the couch.

After being guided by Nanny Zhang, Cheng Lianxin had a general understanding of the affairs of the mansion, but not very detailed.

At this moment, Cheng Lianxin was sitting at the head of Mrs. Feng, holding an abacus in her arms, counting carefully.Mrs. Feng was listening with great interest, nodding her head in agreement from time to time.

"Yo, Missy is here, sit here." Cheng Lianxin saw Feng Xihe coming in, and warmly greeted her to sit down, her posture was like a full-fledged wife in the mansion, "Missy is here to greet the old lady right?"

"I'll go back to my room, and when I've listed all the items, I'll show them to the old lady."

"Aunt Lian, you don't have to leave. I heard that your housekeeper is very capable. I saw you holding an abacus. You must be planning a big plan for my family." Feng Xihe smiled and called Cheng Lianxin to stop, and said, "I don't know, May I see what Aunt Lian thinks of you?"

Every time Cheng Lianxin heard Feng Xihe calling her aunt, she felt uncomfortable all over.My aunt yelled a lot, and the servants got used to it in the future.Even if she is righted in the future, this inferior past cannot be erased.

But if you are not happy, you are not happy. Now is not the time to fight for this.

She suppressed the anger in her heart, and said with a guilty smile: "I don't dare to take a high opinion, it's not bad to say a foolish opinion. If the young lady wants to understand, after the implementation of various plans, she will naturally understand."

"Is Aunt Lian afraid that I will take your credit? Junyi and I have always regarded you as our own mother." Feng Xihe heard this, and said aggrievedly: "Forget it, if you don't trust me, I will not trust you." Don't force it."

She silently turned her head away, and waved for Qian Yun to hand over a handkerchief, as if she was about to shed tears in sadness.

Seeing this, Old Madam Feng glanced at Cheng Lianxin, frowned and said: "Just tell her to listen to her, it's all from my family, so it's okay. And with me here, are you still worried about which side will be favored?"

As she said that, she had already opened a booklet and pointed out some regulations that Cheng Lianxin had recorded in the booklet to Feng Xihe.

Cheng Lian couldn't help it, so she reluctantly came over to explain.

Feng Xihe scanned the brochure, and saw that the first item said that to reduce the number of people in the mansion, each courtyard can only keep five maids and five women at most, and the rest will be given severance pay to let them pack up and leave.

"Old lady, this seems inappropriate." Feng Xihe immediately retorted, since they trusted the housekeeper to take office, they have already dismissed the idlers and those who are lazy at work, and now the remaining ones, All necessary manpower.

Cheng Lian was in a hurry, and without waiting for Mrs. Feng to speak, she retorted: "What does Missy mean by this? I roughly estimated that there are more than 50 people in the whole house. It is unnecessary. Each servant girl has about ten people a month. The salary of money, the addition of more than [-] people can save a lot of expenses every month."

After a moment of quiet thought, Feng Xi reconciled: "Aunt Lian's words are wrong. It is right to save expenses, but the people left now have no faults, so they let people leave and find another way of life. After they go out , what would you say about our Feng residence?"

"Those who don't know think that Duke Feng's mansion is going to die. If one spreads it to ten, ten spreads it to hundreds. This will only make more people bad-mouth the Duke's mansion."

Mrs. Feng listened carefully, and felt that what she said made sense.Directly let people go away. After all, I am sorry for them. The servants who are driven away will complain in their hearts, and the servants who are still in the mansion will also feel panic. In the end, it will still affect the peace of the house.

"Xihe, what do you think should be done?" Mrs. Feng asked subconsciously.

Feng Xihe went on to say: "Instead of stinging at the slaves and trying to save money from them, why don't we find another way to make money."

"Yes, the other idea I just proposed to the old lady is similar to that of the eldest lady." Cheng Lian didn't want her limelight to be robbed, so she immediately cut off Feng Xihe's words.

Seeing Mrs. Feng turned her gaze to herself again, Cheng Lianxin hurriedly said: "Old Madam, the Duke of the State and the Minister of the State are both free-spirited, and I am afraid it will be difficult to live on their salaries. As far as I know, the Duke's Mansion is outside. There are dozens of shops."

"In the past, those shops were rented out and charged a small amount of rent. After these shops were rented out, there were people who deal in tea, rice, oil and salt. In my opinion, we might as well take back these shops and hire people to run them. After a year, It’s going to be a huge gain.”

After saying that, Mrs. Feng was silent for a few breaths, as if she was thinking.

"Aunt Lian has just entered the door, and she is as familiar as a treasure to the inside and outside of Feng Guogong's mansion. I really admire it." Feng Xihe said with a sudden smile.

(End of this chapter)