Chapter 24

By mid-July, Huayin's body had already recovered, but she was seriously ill some time ago, and her body suffered a lot. Even after raising her for more than a month, she was still as thin as a monkey.

Today, she was still resting in the room, when a little girl's voice came from the door, "Is the third young master in the room?"

When Hua Yin heard this voice, she couldn't help being puzzled, and said: "What's the matter? Come in."

The little girl came in respectfully, handed the things in her hand to Hua Yin, and said, "Miss asked me to give it to you."

Huayin took a look at the envelope, and immediately realized that it was from Yunshang from the capital, but after Huayin replied to the letter in March, Yunshang also replied slowly in June.Unexpectedly, it was only a month later that she sent another letter.Huayin was quite moved, and was moved by the friendship he had won.

But Huayin looked at the little girl in doubt, "Who are you? I have never seen you before." Before the little girl could speak, she heard footsteps outside, and Hua Erlang ran in carelessly, seeing Behind the little girl, she paused, then waved her hand unhappily, "Who told you to come in? Get out!"

The little girl shrank her head nervously, "Cui Lu is not here, Miss asked me to send a letter to the third young master," Yan Bi trotted out the door.

Hua Erlang sat on the edge of Huayin's bed, saw Huayin's face was puzzled, and then explained: "You have been huddled in this room for more than a month and don't know the situation at home. It's changed, the one just now is a newly bought girl."

"Changed? Why?" Hua Yin was puzzled.Strangely, the food tastes different now than before.

"It's not because of you," Hua Erlang then explained the reason why Master Yuan helped Huayin break the catastrophe, and then he also explained the concerns of Hua Dayi and his wife. Bad, but they all grew up watching Hua Yin, so it's hard to guarantee that no one will see the clue and say something wrong.So the two husband and wife made a total, took out 200 taels of the 40 taels of gold they had saved before, and exchanged them for silver and scattered copper coins.Another day was chosen, and all the maids, maids, stewards, and servants of the family were called to the front.

Because Hua Dayi's salary is not high, and he is too upright and not good at making money, he only gets so little money every month. For major events such as the New Year's Eve, a few people will be hired from outside for a while, and there are only eleven people in the family all year round.

Among them, Nanny Zhang and his wife are old servants of the Hua family, and they have no children under their knees. They are loyal to the Hua family.Both Cuihong and Cuilu were orphans, and they were later sold to Hua's family by human traffickers. They had nowhere else to go except Hua's family.

Apart from these four people, there are only seven people left, and four of them belong to the same family.The other two are connected with relatives, and their parents and relatives are present.There is only one Cuilan family left who lives in a small village at the bottom of Yaogu County. Her mother came to Huafu a few years ago and told her that she would take her home to talk to her in-laws in two years.

After Hua Rong called everyone together, he first said politely that thanks to their dedicated service and care these years, he gradually got to the point, borrowing the excuse of Master Yuan to say that Hua Yin almost left a few days ago, In fact, it was not a serious illness, but caused by evil spirits. Although Master Liao Yuan had already removed it for her, she was able to save her life for the time being.But to eradicate it, according to Master Yuan's statement, we must "get rid of the old and welcome the new".As for how to "get rid of the old and welcome the new"?It is to replace some servants in the mansion and add some new ones.What's more, the lady's boudoir also needs to be moved, and the tiles on the doors and windows must be replaced, as well as the embroidered bed.

For ordinary people, this reason is far-fetched enough, but the Hua family is a family of kindness, and these servants watched the young lady come back to life with only one breath left, and the Hua family has indeed invited some craftsmen to do it these days. These things, so I firmly believe in Huarong's words.

Believable and trustworthy, if it's my turn, no one would be willing to lose this job.Today's world is not easy, it is difficult to find a job, let alone a master like Huafu who never treats his servants harshly.

Seeing that all the responders below were silent, Hua Rong asked Madam Zhang to come in with a tray covered with a red cloth.After putting it on the table, the red cloth was lifted, and it was full of silver coins.

The servants watched carefully, not knowing what they meant.

Huarong said again: "I know that you are all old people. Ever since my master and I settled down in Yaogu County, we have been with us. Even if there is no credit, there is hard work. Now the world is hard. You old people, young people , It’s not easy to find a place to work. How could I ruthlessly drive you out just to save my little girl’s life? Even if this makes sense in the world, I can’t be such a wicked person.”

After the words were finished, someone below was sobbing and weeping.

"Mother of the Li family, don't cry. I haven't finished my words. In fact, Master Yuanyuan also said that it doesn't mean that all the servants have to leave. As long as a few leave and a few come, the catastrophe will be solved." Everyone. Please listen to me. I have a total of 200 taels of silver and 50 taels of money here. I am not afraid of everyone’s jokes. The master’s salary is low. Now these are the dowry that my natal family’s Xing’an Marquis gave me back then. If anyone wants to leave In other words, our Huafu will give you 25 taels of silver for the old ones, and 50 taels of silver for the young ones. If you want to stay, you can naturally continue to work here. It’s just that our Huafu is poor, and the monthly profit is only a small amount. So much, usually there is not much reward. Take Li’s mother as an example. Her old man does rough and heavy work for only one tael of silver a month, and she will only get 50 taels of silver if she works in my house for four or five years. , That being the case, why don’t you use this ready-made [-] taels to go out and do a small business to make a living, and you will be more free.”

The first one to fall in love with was Wang Dafu's family. There are four people in his family. The owner's family has all the money, which is only 160 taels, which is enough for them to buy a tile-roofed house and a few acres of Susukida to live a good life.But even though they had this idea, they were embarrassed on the face, it was Hua Rong who saw it, and named their family, Wang Dafu was too late to speak, Wang Dafu's family hurriedly kowtowed to Hua Rong, said something and couldn't bear to leave Ma'am, Miss, but Miss is not in good health now, so they can't just hang on to it, trying to make Miss's body suffer.

With their family taking the lead, Mother Li and her teenage nephew followed suit and received money.

Cuilan was the only one left who said she wanted to go home and ask.A few days later her mother brought her along, and when she entered, she kowtowed to Mrs. Huarong, saying that she had long wanted to take Cuilan home and talk about her in-laws.It's just that I'm embarrassed to speak, and I dare not accept the reward.Huarong still gave it to her, and Cui Lanniang happily accepted it, and asked Cuilan to kowtow to Huarong several times.

For a while, even though they were dismissed by their employers, the servants were all beaming, and they kowtowed to the master, wife, miss, and master before leaving.

However, this happened more than 20 days ago. At that time, Nanny Zhang saw those people leaving with smiles on their faces, and muttered behind her angrily, "They are all a group of heartless white-eyed wolves." After hearing this, Shi persuaded her, "Mother, why are you bothering? If they don't leave, we have to worry that they will find out about the incident at home sooner or later. It's not right for us to leave this time. what?"

"I just can't understand how they have the nerve to take so much money from the mansion, which is enough to cover the mansion's expenses for more than a year. I just think of my wife's usual frugality, and she refuses to buy an extra piece of good clothes for herself, even though it is The master has been doing needlework with us day and night, and now it costs so much money to send them away."

Mrs. Hua Rong pulled her forward, "It's not like you don't know how the money came from. It was a windfall, and it came for a lot of reasons. Now it's gone for her, too. It’s worth the money. Don’t say what you just said just now, if you feel aggrieved, I’ll give you 50 taels as well.”

Nanny Zhang replied angrily: "Ma'am, are you trying to shame this old slave? If I am so unbearable in Madam's heart, this old slave will pack up and leave."

Hua Rong hurriedly pulled his sleeves, and said with a smile: "Mama, I'm joking, who doesn't know that the master was brought up by you, and you treat me like a daughter. Never used you like a slave."

The two chatted and laughed for a while, and Zhang Momo said again: "Ma'am, since you regard me as a family member, then I have something to persuade you. Instead of keeping the gold you got back in the box locked, Use a little less, why don’t you entrust the middleman to set up some fields in other places and let people look after them, so that you can make some money every year, it’s better than sticking to the master’s little salary.”

These words awakened Hua Rong's family at once, she squeezed Nanny Zhang's hand tightly, and smiled, "Why didn't I think of this, although I thought about it before, but the master's salary is meager, only enough for a month I can't buy anything else for the daily expenses of the family, and now that I have this extra spare money, I actually forget about it."

After that, Hua Rongshi and Hua Dayi talked again in the evening, both husband and wife felt that it was feasible, and then they called Madam Zhang and his wife to discuss in detail.There is no need to elaborate here.

Let's say that Huayin received Yunshang's letter that day, and saw a new-faced little girl coming to the house, and then Hua Erlang came in. After saying this, Huayin already understood in his heart, and only felt the kindness of his parents to him.

After a while, Hua Erlang couldn't sit still and left, so Hua Yin opened the letter, but after reading a few words, her face changed drastically, and she hurried out of the room and went straight to her previous yard.

Before he could walk in, he heard the sound of a qin coming from inside, and when he pushed the door, he saw a beautiful boudoir lady sitting by the window sill playing the qin.

Hua Yin paused, and then opened his mouth with a strange expression and shouted: "Third brother."

Hua Saburo saw her, but gestured with his hands on his lips, signaling her to keep silent.

Hua Yin knew the reason, but she felt uncomfortable calling him that way, so she omitted the address and said, "What about the dozen or so letters I gave you last time?"

Hua Saburo looked at her, then walked unhurriedly to the small cabinet where the clothes were placed, found a wooden box from it, opened it, and found that the gold and letters were neatly placed inside.

Huayin moved away the gold that was pressed on it, took out the dozen or so letters, and read them one by one until the last one. Huayin raised her head and looked at Hua Saburo with a look of fear, "I wrote to Yunshang. Where is your letter? Why can’t I find it? Did you send it? Have you forgotten how I told you?”

Hua Saburo looked at her in confusion, clapped his hands suddenly after a long while, and went straight out of the room.

Huayin stomped her feet angrily, because in Yunshang's letter, she first scolded her for being shameless, and she wanted to be a man at such a young age.Then asked her how she knew the second son of the Minister of the Ministry of War, and said that the Minister of the Ministry of War was not named Ning but Jiang, and said that she was talking nonsense, uttering lies, destroying her boudoir reputation, and so on, etc., and wrote more than three pages.

After a while, Hua Sanlang pulled Erlang in. Erlang didn't know what he did wrong, and he yelled as soon as he entered the room: "I also want to help out with good intentions, so why meddle in my own business and do bad things with good intentions!"

It turned out that Hua Erlang was holding something in his hands when he saw Saburo coming out of Huayin House that day.Erlang stopped him and asked what it was.Saburo only said that his sister had something to entrust to him at the end of his life, but did not mention anything else.Erlang heard that his sister still had unfulfilled wishes, and immediately felt sour, bursting into tears, and scrambling for help.Saburo didn't notice that he dropped a letter, and after being picked up by Erlang, Erlang only looked at the envelope, saw that it was to be sent to Yunshang, and didn't care about anything else, so he hurriedly found an official and gave him some hard-earned money. Ask him to send it to the capital as soon as possible no matter what.

The mission just happened to have an official letter to send, so I took it with me on the way.

After listening to Erlang's explanation, Huayin felt that she was going to faint again.

(End of this chapter)

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