The Concubine's Survival Manual

Chapter 159

Not long after, Doctor Zhong came to give Qiniangzi a pulse.

Quan Zhongbai is not in Beijing, Dr. Zhong is already one of the best doctors in Beijing. Compared with the officials and gentlemen of the Tai Hospital, the Xu family, from Mrs. Tai to Duke Ping, and even ordinary concubines, have a headache. I love to find Dr. Zhong to help my pulse: Just because he is not an imperial doctor, Dr. Zhong has to be less cautious when speaking, and he doesn’t prescribe medicine like the gentlemen of the Taiyuan Hospital who seek stability—to put it bluntly, he likes to watch Taiping Son, if you come and go again and again, it is easy to turn a minor illness into a serious illness and leave the root of the disease.

Ever since she married into Xu's family, Seventh Lady has always eaten two or three Taifangzi opened by Quan Zhongbai. Speaking of which, she has eaten for more than a year. Usually, the problem of insufficient energy and blood in winter is not so obvious this year. .It's just that she has been sleeping restlessly all this time, and her spirit is a little weak. Dr. Zhong felt her pulse and asked her, "Young Madam, do you always sleep lightly and wake up easily from time to time?"

"It's also an old problem. When I'm sleeping, I like to wake up when someone is walking around the house and talking next to me." Because Dr. Zhong is getting old, and Mrs. Seven is married, there is no screen between the two. While rubbing her wrist, she answered slowly, looking at Doctor Zhong thoughtfully.

The bowl of Shiquan Dabu soup that Wu Niangzi drank when she had an accident was the tonic prescribed by Dr. Zhong.

This old doctor is about the same age as Mrs. Tai. He is over 70 years old. He has chicken skin and white hair. , and there was no reaction at all. After thinking for a moment, she rolled Qin Niangzi's eyelids again, then twisted her beard and said, "Young Madam's problem is actually that her vitality is weak, and she can't sleep peacefully when she sleeps. I heard that the Quan family's The little miraculous doctor prescribed two or three prescriptions for the young lady—"

Qiniangzi looked at Lixia, and Lixia quickly took the prescription prescribed by Quan Zhongbai to show Dr. Zhong. Said, "A genius doctor is indeed a genius doctor. Ziyin's prescriptions are neutral and peaceful, and eating all year round is the most effective. But the young lady is married after all. After the yin and yang are reconciled, the vitality will not be weakened, but will be stronger. This is Good thing, but eating this prescription at this time will be too nourishing. I will write a new prescription for the young lady. In the future, when the young lady is restless and difficult to sleep, she can take this paste. The dosage is written on it. The young lady herself Look at additions and subtractions. The most important thing is not to worry too much!"

When it came to intercourse, Li Xia's face turned red, but Qi Qiao asked Dr. Zhong curiously, "It is said that this intercourse is a matter of kidney damage, why is our young lady..."

After the words were out of her mouth, she seemed to feel that she was presumptuous, so she blushed and gave Qiniangzi a slightly uneasy look.

Of course, Qin Niangzi would not care about this gaffe with Qiqiao. In fact, this was also a question she was curious about. She only waved her hand at Qiqiao, and then she heard Dr. Zhong say, "The meeting of essence and water can breed infinite vitality. As long as you don't overdo it, Housework is also for raising people. Young Madam loses vitality, so it is better to replenish Yang Qi regularly..." Seeing that Qin Niangzi's face was flushed, he twisted his beard and smiled, "The old man said that medicine is such a virtue, so don't blame Young Madam .”

For an old doctor who has a long-term cooperative relationship with the Xu family like this, people who are more polite will call him Uncle Shi, and even weddings and weddings will be a guest.Qin Niangzi would not be offended by him, she just smiled, "It's because I have never seen the world, Mr. Zhong, don't be offended."

The two looked at each other and smiled, and the atmosphere became more relaxed: In fact, in Daqin, even though unmarried men and women had to abide by the rules of etiquette, they were more daring to speak out and act than modern people in many things after marriage.Seventh Lady just got married not long ago and her skin is still thin.

Mr. Zhong told Qinianzi a few more secrets of maintenance, and got up to say goodbye.Seventh Lady smiled and told Li Xia: "I won't get up, you take Mr. Zhong out for me."

Li Xia couldn't remember it, he winked at Qin Niangzi a few times, his face was slightly puzzled, seeing that Qin Niangzi ignored him, he graciously helped Mr. Zhong out of the house.Qi Qiaodu Lixia looked thoughtful, and walked a few steps back and forth beside Qiniangzi before tidying up the house.

Seventh Lady looked at Qi Qiao's figure and praised her with a smile, "Qi Qiao is getting slimmer and slimmer, how old is this year?"

Qi Qiao's face was filled with joy, "Young Madam, I'm celebrating the [-]th year. Young Madam forgot that you gave me a pair of earrings on my birthday last year."

"She's a big girl too!" Seventh Lady sat up straight, took Mr. Zhong's prescription and looked at it carefully, "Is your mother thinking about telling you about her?"

Qi Qiao paused, "Young Madam forgot again, my parents are still in the south..."

There was a touch of nostalgia and longing in her words: Although Brother Jiu had left Baifangyuan, Mama Dong and his wife still had to take care of the aunts and the Yang family's property in Suzhou.

Qin Niangzi really forgot about this episode, she was aroused by homesickness for a while, she regained her senses, and when she regained her senses, Qi Qiao had disappeared, but Li Xia entered the room with a puzzled look on her face, repeatedly looking at her. Lady Xiang Qin obviously had something on her mind.

"Whatever, just tell me." Seventh Lady was amused by her. "Who am I hiding from, and who else can I hide from you?"

Li Xia and her walked all the way in the Southern Courtyard, the relationship between the two of them has long been beyond words.The whole Zhou family is working under her again, and the person Seventh Lady trusts the most in this world is probably Lixia.

"I want to ask, but I don't dare." Li Xia muttered. "Who knows what is the girl's secret plan? She didn't tell the servant, it was for the benefit of the servant... The servant thought that you invited Mr. Zhong to ask about Shiquan Dabu Tang, who knows..."

Seventh Lady suddenly realized. "I thought it was a big deal."

A smile appeared on her face. "Silly girl, who are you Mr. Zhong? Just ask me, a young lady who is not in power, and he can pour beans from a bamboo tube and say anything?"

If there were any doubts about Shiquan Dabu Tang, Mr. Zhong would not be able to answer the question just like that. Otherwise, there would be no reason for Mrs. Xu not to know.An old man is mature, this old gentleman is older than Mrs. Ni, if I want to talk about him, there must be some foreshadowing.

Lixia is good at stable characters, but he is indeed a bit weaker in sensitive characters.

Qin Niangzi was so thorough, she was still puzzled, "But if Mr. Zhong has made up his mind to rot this matter in his heart..."

"Before I was in power, Mr. Zhong might have thought so." Qin Niangzi smiled confidently, "As for Shiquan Dabu Tang, if Mr. Zhong is clean, then that's all. If not, wait When the Xu family changes dealers... just wait and see."

She raised the corners of her lips and smiled slightly. "After being comfortable for two or three months, it's time to speak up. In the days to come, we at Mingdetang must be very careful in our actions. You are the one who controls the maid. You must be cautious and never give others Leave something to talk about."

Lixia should be awe-inspiring.

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The next day, Qin Niangzi went to Qingpingyuan to greet Mrs. Xu, and then returned to Leshan Residence.

"Fifth Sister-in-law." She greeted Fifth Young Madam affectionately. "Mother must have greeted you too? From now on, I'm going to bother Fifth Sister-in-Law to teach me housekeeping!"

Fifth Young Madam smiled calmly. "My mother just greeted me yesterday, I didn't expect the sixth sibling to be so impatient."

Still so clever and hidden.

Lady Seven looked at Mrs. Wu and smiled, "How can you not be impatient? Although Xiao Qi also learned housekeeping from her mother before, after all, she lives in Suzhou all the year round, and her mother's family has a simple population. It's no more busy than in the Duke's mansion. Fifth sister-in-law give me more advice."

In terms of the ranking and status of the seventh lady, the education she received was not the same as the education of the mistress of the Duke's Mansion.It's just that the eldest wife would value her so much that she specially taught her to be a housekeeper, which indeed surprised many people.

For example, the fifth young lady now has a faint haze in her eyes, like a dark cloud covering the clear sky.

"Where." She showed that indifferent demeanor again, "The sixth brother and sister are so smart, and it's my turn to teach them?"

As the actual winner, it is leisurely and leisurely to fight with each other, and there is no need to continue to entangle them.Seventh Lady smiled, but she didn't pick up on Fifth Young Madam's words.

The Fifth Young Madam is probably already bored enough in her heart: Seventh Lady made it clear that she learned from her today in order to seize her power in the future.But this matter happened to be justified, even if she had other plans, facing this situation, it would be a saint who would not be upset.

With a straight face, she sat down on a top chair on the west side of the flower hall outside Leshan Residence, and squeezed her voice to tell the servant girl, "The weather has warmed up these few days, and I don't know what has been screaming all night. People can't sleep well. Make me a pot of stronger Yunwu tea!"

Seventh Lady couldn't help but looked at Bai Lu and smiled, and Bai Lu asked Seventh Lady crisply, "The sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance dew you ordered this morning is probably already warm by now, my servant will send someone back to Mingde Hall to fetch it for you?"

Before Seventh Lady could speak, there was the sound of light footsteps outside the house: Zhongyuan entered the flower hall with a smile on his head, holding a small Western flower glass pot in his hand, "The big flower glass pot that you usually use, Young Madam, It's too heavy to hold it out. Sister Lixia searched for a long time before she found this matching small pot in a corner, don't be too late, Young Madam."

Although glass is not a rare item among rich families, such exquisite red and green western glass must be a rare imported product.The most wonderful thing is that Zhongyuan didn't know the words of Mrs. Wu Shao at all, and there was a sense of taking it for granted when talking and laughing. It was obvious that Qi Niangzi's daily life was just such a luxury.

Lixia sent Zhongyuan to deliver water, which is really a wonderful move.

Seventh Lady glanced at Fifth Young Madam, then smiled and dismissed Zhongyuan, "I know, you go and replace your sister Lixia to serve me—you don't need to be annoying by nagging endlessly."

No matter how much the Fifth Young Madam could bear it, she couldn't help but breathe a little more heavily. She carefully placed the sinker in her hand on the plum blossom table, and was about to speak when more than a dozen solemn-looking housekeepers filed into the room.

The Fifth Young Madam's expression immediately changed, and she sat up straight.

Qin Niangzi also waved her hands at Zhongyuan, propping her chin with one hand, and looked at the faces in front of her with great interest.

Aristocratic families, the mother in charge is not just a change, many old servants can even shame the young sons and daughters-in-law, especially the mother-in-law who has served the elders, even the daughters-in-law should be polite when they see each other of.That's why, although Mrs. Wu has done a lot over the years, there are also many old faces in the management group.

Qin Niangzi went through the names of the fifteen people in charge in her heart, her eyes slid across everyone's face like water, and she made notes silently: "The picture is born from the heart, and she is too old to take a look." Mom's ten words.

Xu's family is the government of the state. In fact, it should be arranged according to the official system of the state government according to the etiquette system. The personnel establishment in the government was reformed.Fifth Young Madam changed some rules out of pleasure, now the personnel affairs of the Xu family are much more complicated than that of the Yang family, inside and out, it is very unclear.

The Yang family used to divide the entire internal affairs into two parts: family affairs and foreign affairs. Each aunt had her own monthly order. If she brought girls to live, the girls' monthly order would also be directly distributed to the aunt.The entire Baifang Garden is based on housing units, and all the food is served in large kitchens. In the entire inner garden, only the eldest wife has her own small kitchen. As for the affairs of the outer house, Mother Dong naturally takes care of it, and the eldest wife rarely intervenes.The master's masters are all raised in the governor's office, and he eats his own meals and uses the elder wife's small kitchen.

As for the maids and women who serve the girls, they are all decided by the main courtyard. The girls' own wishes are only a factor for the eldest wife's reference.The entire main courtyard is monopolized, and the eldest wife can talk about everything.The housework is handled cleanly, even the old man can't fault it easily.

As for foreign affairs, it is even more duty-bound. Not to mention the girls in Baifangyuan, the aunts are not allowed to go out easily, and all the entertainments are done by the eldest wife. Whether she likes to go or not is her own business.Mrs. Wang is in charge of human relations, Mrs. Liang is in charge of personnel affairs, and Mrs. Yao is in charge of the small warehouse... Things are in order, and Twelve Auntie can help so easily.

The Xu family is different. First of all, there are many hills. When Mrs. Xu is in charge of the family, let’s not talk about it. Although the fifth young lady is in charge now, she has no binding force on the sisters-in-law. In this way, the appointment and dismissal of the first personnel was chaotic, and the fifth young lady would only come forward to serve them when the parties requested it.For example, today, the eldest young lady sent someone to ask the fifth young lady for two maids in charge of sweeping. The original two women were not serious about their work, and she had already sent them to work in the dowry village, so the fifth young lady had to Discussed with the two mothers around me, and added two honest people to the young lady.

The second one is for eating. The big kitchen is only in name only, it only serves a few unmarried sons and daughters and aunts. Garden and Leshan Residence all have their own kitchenettes.In terms of daily food supply, the masters often come up with ingenuity, and the cooks come to register and collect the money to go out to buy on the spot. It is self-evident how rich the oil and water are.But Mrs. Fifth Young seems to be unable to do anything: After all, this is a long-standing abuse, so what can she do as a concubine and daughter-in-law?

There is also the issue of the education of the children. The Xu family has no family education, and the children of the third and fourth generations are all at school age. The carriages and horses that go out to pick up and drop off every day are different, and there is a lot of trouble.Not to mention the purchase, washing, female celebrity, human relationship, warehouse... It is a big deal for almost any mother to come forward. After a little thought, he let it go.Only the machine of the Duke's Mansion can run smoothly.

But Qin Niangzi only watched it for half a day, and there were several things in her mind.

When it was time for lunch, Mrs. Fifth was finally free.

Even she couldn't help showing tiredness on her face, she just exchanged a few words with Qin Niangzi without a smile on her face, and then left Leshan Residence.

Seventh Lady walked out of Xiao Cuijin slowly, and entered Mingde Hall in deep thought.

When she reached the door of Xisanjian, she heard Xu Fengjia's voice.

Unexpectedly, the little father-in-law was so busy that he still had time to come in for lunch.

Seventh Lady couldn't help pursing her lips and smiling.

This smile was on the lips, when the door of the third room in the west suddenly bounced open and hit the wooden wall on one side.

Qi Qiao's face was flushed, and she rushed straight out of the house, just took a look at Qin Niangzi, without even saying hello, she just swept out of the main room like a whirlwind.

(End of this chapter)