The Concubine's Survival Manual

Chapter 194

When she entered Mingde Hall, there was still no one in the third room in the west - usually at this time, if Xu Fengjia hadn't gone out, she would probably have returned to the house and started to read his residence newspaper and write his letter. After a pause, he told Zhongyuan, "Go to the second gate and ask if the prince has returned, and if he has gone out again."

She was in a bad mood, and the maids didn't dare to make a loud noise. Zhongyuan lowered his head and answered honestly, then walked out of the room in a flash, and didn't take long to report back, "It's the third son of Yongning Bo's mansion who invited the son to go out, the son Master went directly from Menghuaxuan, and sent a boy and the gatekeeper, Qiao's mother, to say hello, but Qiao's mother didn't dare to walk around, and she didn't have time to report in."

Lin Zhongmian, Xiao Shiyu, and Tang Qing often came to talk to Xu Fengjia for a drink. In the past few days, Xu Fengjia often talked about the brewing of lotus white in Haidian. go out and have fun.Only then did Seven Lady feel relieved, nodded, and asked Shang Yuan, "Where did Shizi rest last night?"

"Master Wang is resting in the west five study rooms." Shang Yuan carefully looked at Qin Niangzi, and said in a low voice, "No one is allowed to go in, because Mother Wang from Shang Ye couldn't see it, and she only carried a quilt in in the middle of the night. .It was said that he fell asleep on the kang, curled up in a ball, and you know that the night wind is already very cold at this time... I don’t know if I have felt the wind or not."

Seventh Lady couldn't help frowning slightly, she sighed, glared at Shang Yuan, and said in a low voice, "I know, you don't have to try to persuade me, I know it."

Shang Yuan immediately heaved a sigh of relief, "Actually, it was Mama Xin and Mama Wang who urged the slaves to say it... How could the slaves know anything!"

Seventh Lady didn't have a adoptive mother, so she didn't have an elder who could discuss matters about her boudoir at any time, so it was a bit embarrassing for both parties to ask the maids to persuade her like this.Qin Niangzi blushed slightly, stopped answering Shang Yuan's words, and said to herself, "In a while, the accountant will send in all the account books from the past few years. You and Li Xia will go out in person and go to the small courtyard in Jiangjun Hutong. Please bring in the two offerings, and we can start to look at the accounts."

Why worry about things not going to work if the elders come out?There is no salt merchant in Lianghuai who doesn't want to please the old man of the present. He didn't treat them badly, he came in and said a few words, and then he sorted out two upper rooms in his own dowry yard in Jiangjun Hutong, and ordered Uncle and Aunt Zhou to live there and take care of them, and raised the two female accountants.

Although now that I have taken over the account book, it is reasonable to be so busy that my feet are not touching the ground, but Qin Niangzi has almost made complete preparations first, and everything is settled well, and there is nothing to do for a while, so she sat at home for a while , I couldn’t read a book, and I couldn’t calm down when I was writing. When the two female accountants came in, a few things rewarded by the concubine also arrived, and the inner accountant sent the account to Mingdetang. They locked themselves in a side room on the wing of Mingde Hall and began to look at the accounts, but there was nothing to do.

After thinking about it, she simply went to talk to Mrs. Fourth Young Master.

The Pingguo Mansion occupies a large area, and the west wing occupied by Mingde Hall has several courtyards deserted: it is prepared for the future Yu Ning and Yu Tai.The elder brothers all live in the East Wing. Because there are male relatives living there, Seventh Lady is usually fine and rarely walks in the East Wing.She took Zhongyuan and Duanwu around the East Wing, familiarized herself with the layout of the courtyards in the East Wing, and then entered the Shendu Hall in the north corner of the East Wing: in the East Wing, this is also the most courtyard building Now, the Zhishan Hall where the eldest room lives and the Shensi Hall where the fifth room lives are adjacent to each other. On the contrary, the Shendu Hall leans against the gable wall alone, looking in from the outside, it looks extraordinarily desolate, and only the fourth young lady stays by her side The two little maids were leaning on the threshold to bask in the sun with the cat in their arms. When they saw Qin Niangzi coming, they smiled shyly and went in to report.

The Fourth Young Madam quickly greeted her, "Sixth younger siblings are free to come and talk to me today? I was really shocked!"

Seventh Lady is very popular right now, although she is not particularly attentive, she still has a smile on her face.

"I'm very upset." Seventh Lady sighed, "Come talk to Fourth Sister-in-law!"

It was rare for her to reveal a little bit of the endless irritability in her heart to the table.

The Fourth Young Madam laughed immediately, she glanced at the maidservants, waved her hand casually, and sent all the servants away before letting Seventh Lady.

"Six siblings sit down!"

Seventh Lady sat down by the kang and scanned the room for a week.

Despite the lively nature of the fourth young lady, the interior of the house is very simple, except for a few pots, pots and bowls in the Duobao Pavilion in the corner to tell stories, there is almost no extra decoration in this second room for entertaining guests.Even the Fourth Young Madam herself, when she came back from Leshan Residence, changed out of her fine clothes, she only wore a half-new lotus blue jacket and skirt, which even looked a bit old-fashioned.

With her husband not at home, the fourth young lady doesn't seem to have much thought about managing her own small life.

"Why, Mrs. Zhang got mad at you?" Fourth Young Madam didn't notice Qiniangzi's sizing up, she leaned back and looked at Qinianzi with a half-smile. "Ms. Zhang is very thoughtful, and she is your sister-in-law again. I would like to advise the six younger siblings to swallow their anger. Your fifth sister has made trouble with the old lady several times because she couldn't bear it. Isn't that right?" She suffers?"

When mentioning the several conflicts between the fifth lady and the fifth young lady, the fourth young lady showed slight disapproval on her face, as if she didn't have much affection for both parties in the conflict.

Seventh Lady's heart skipped a beat.

Although Gu Yu and Chun Equinox also talked about the conflict between Wu Niangzi and the mistress of the other courtyard, they were limited by their status after all—the fifth lady seldom told others what was on her mind after she got married, so she spoke vaguely. All three sister-in-laws had unpleasant experiences, and among them, they had the most conflicts with the fifth young lady.

Originally, she just wanted to find someone to complain about Xu Fengjia, and to use this talk to seduce the Fourth Young Madam to talk about her and the Fourth Young Master, and to learn more about the Fourth Young Madam's character, but she didn't want the Fourth Young Madam to send the talk by herself. closed the door.

Of course, she may not be well-intentioned.

"Don't hide it from my sister-in-law." Seventh Lady said softly. "As a brother-in-law, it's not easy to say that my sister-in-law is wrong, but the fifth sister-in-law's behavior is really unexpected... Am I so guilty? You know the sister-in-law's temper, and she can't say a word with three sticks." Yu An's younger sisters usually don't care about the house, so if you ask them, you're asking Yu Blind. Since the housework is in my hands today, I have to do it temporarily, so I ask my sister-in-law to teach me."

Although she didn't really think about it, but she said it temporarily, it seemed that this visit had been planned for a long time.The Fourth Young Madam looked at Qin Niangzi a few times, and smiled happily. She leaned back on the pillow, and there was a hint of calculation in her beautiful eyes.

"We're all a family, so we can't talk about whether to help or not." Fourth Young Madam brought up the events before and after the Chinese New Year. "If anyone in this family still knows what's on my mind, it's you, the sixth sibling."

She paused meaningfully, then smiled again, "On my side, there is one thing I would like to ask you to fulfill."

Qin Niangzi raised her eyebrows in surprise, "It's Sisao's natal family..."

The fourth young master is fighting at the border, and has nothing to do with the Yang family. The fourth young lady has something to ask her for, and I'm afraid it's her natal family's business, so she will be asked to go the way of the Yang family.

The fourth young lady waved her hand again and changed the subject.

"What about Mrs. Zhang?" She didn't take Joe at all, and even put away her arrogance, and explained the fifth young lady's wife to Seventh Lady in a straightforward and amiable manner. "Speaking of it, it's a bad word. Since entering the door, mother-in-law has confronted her several times, and she has lost face and hurt her face, let alone your fifth sister. With her scheming, she wants to fight Zhang, go back Even after ten years of practice, you may not be someone's opponent..."

She lowered her voice: It seems that at this moment, the Fourth Young Madam herself had some doubts - if she were to face the Fifth Young Madam, would she be able to fight this scheming sister-in-law evenly.

(End of this chapter)