The High Gate Mistress of Rebirth

Chapter 45
After Shunxi withdrew thankfully, the mother-in-law Zhou Nanny who was in charge of the outside came in and replied: "Madam, just now the Yongyi Hou's Mansion sent an invitation, saying that the third son in the fourth room is getting married on the eighth day of this month, please Let's go to watch the ceremony."

Yongyi Hou's Mansion is Xu Wanning's natal family, and this third son is her cousin

Jing Shu took the invitation and asked Uncle Fu, "How much gift money do you usually give when you come and go in the mansion?"

Uncle Fu replied: "The marquis family and the first-rank official family are all 300 taels of silver for marriage, the earl and the second-rank family, and the third-rank family are 200 taels of silver." As he said, he ordered someone to take the file and give it to Jing Shu: "This is a detailed record, please read it, Madam."

Jing Shu flipped through it, and she had a good idea in her heart. She called the steward of the warehouse to fetch the warehouse record file. After looking through it from beginning to end, she pointed to the objects recorded on the record file and told the steward: : "Take out this Ruyi Baizi screen and this set of red kiln porcelain and wrap it up, and then go to the account to withdraw 300 taels of silver notes and prepare them. On the eighth day of the lunar new year, I will bring them to the Yongyihou Mansion to watch the ceremony."

After the steward retreated, Jing Shu turned her head to Dan Zhu and said, "I remember there is a dowry of golden nanmu in the small storeroom in our garden. You take it out, and take two pieces of head jewelry and wrap them up together."

Dan Zhu couldn't help but muttered in Jingshu's ear: "Miss, shouldn't the gift to the Yongyi Hou's Mansion come from the palace? Why do you have to add it yourself?"

Jingshu replied in a low voice: "The ones from the public are the friendship between our mansion and the Yongyi Hou's mansion, and the ones from us are the wishes of my son and me, are they different?"

Dan Zhu pouted: "It's fine if you go out. The dowry of golden nanmu is still the dowry given to you by your uncle and grandma. It's very precious."

Jing Shu replied patiently: "It's a pity to put aside valuable things for nothing, and it's the right thing to make the best use of everything."

Just as she was talking, Nanny Chen, who was in charge of the third girl's yard, came in, saw Jing Shu and replied respectfully: "Ma'am, I am here because the third girl went to school to pay a monthly payment."

Jingshu asked: "What went wrong with the third girl's example?"

Mother Chen replied: "It is reasonable to say that each young lady has a fixed number of lessons, but the three of us are different. In addition to going to home every day, our three girls also go to the government to study several times a month. The round-trip fare, snacks and tea in the school, and the friendship with the ladies and wives in the government school will cost a lot of money every month. Therefore, the third girl wants his wife to pay an additional 50 taels of silver for schooling every month. example."

This third girl, who is loved by thousands of people, doesn't lack such money, she made such a fuss just for others to see.

Young masters and ladies in the mansion, the third master was arrested by Li Ling and taken to the military camp. The two concubine eldest girls and the second girl in the big house are both married.

The third girl is a prostitute, so she is eligible to enter the official school, and the fourth master is a concubine, so naturally she does not have this qualification.

Needless to say, it is estimated that the third girl has probably had some unpleasantness with fourth master in the past few days, and she came to ask her for this privilege today to show fourth master.

Children's temperament!
Jingshu replied: "The masters and girls of each house have a fixed number of learning examples every month. I can't make an exception for the third girl. This money cannot be paid from the public. You go back and tell the third girl that if the learning examples are not enough , every month, Shizi and I will give her the 50 taels of silver."

Nanny Chen didn't know the mind of the third girl, after hearing Jingshu's words, she had an explanation to the little ancestor when she went back, and she left with a smile.

After Jing Shu had arranged everything properly, it was already the full moon rising into the sky when she left the conference hall.

Jingshu took Ziyun to Qingfengyuan, passing by Fourth Master's Bamboo Xuan Hall, happened to meet Zhou Nanny who was beside Fourth Master.

Holding the food box, Nanny Zhou bowed to greet Jingshu.

Jing Shu looked at the food box in Nanny Zhou's hand, and asked, "It's so late, has Fourth Master not eaten yet?"

Nanny Zhou lifted up the food box in her hand, and replied: "Fourth master has been studying hard in the study, it is useless to say that he is not hungry at dinner, but now he feels hungry, and the old man just went to the kitchen to get him some food .”

Jing Shu stepped forward, opened the food box, and saw that there were two steamed buns that were already cold, and a plate of stewed vegetables that had already cooled down, plus a plate of pickles.

She frowned slightly, and asked, "Why did you give these things to Fourth Master?"

Nanny Zhou's eyes were heavy, and she replied with a sullen face, "The stove has been turned off at this hour, so where is there any hot food to eat?"

The main courtyard of the house has its own small kitchen, and the fourth master is a concubine, so naturally he can't get this treatment.But even if the stove is turned off, it doesn't mean that you can't even cook a bowl of hot rice. This is obviously because the people below watch people order dishes and bully others.

Jingshu handed the food box to Ziyun on the side, and said, "Take Nanny Zhou to the kitchen, pass on my words, and ask them to restart the small stove to make meals for fourth master. In addition, tell the steward in the kitchen, just say four Grandpa studies hard, from tomorrow onwards, we will give him a nutritious snack stewed and sent to his study every night."

Nanny Zhou panicked and said, "How can this make it so? Madam knows that you have good intentions, but if someone finds out, it might be difficult for us."

Jing Shu comforted: "If someone makes things difficult for you in the future, just go back and forth with me."

Nanny Zhou choked up for a moment, not knowing what to say.

Ziyun persuaded: "Don't worry, mama, today I took you to the stove to upload a message under the order of our wife, how dare they make things difficult for you in the future."

Nanny Zhou bowed deeply to Jing Shu, wiped away her tears, and said gratefully: "In this way, the old man thanked Madam on behalf of our fourth master."

Ziyun was ordered by Jingshu to take Nanny Zhou to the kitchen to spread the word, who is not a good person, the steward on the stove immediately started the stove, and after a while, people made four dishes, one soup and two snacks, neatly Put them all in a food box, and carry them to Nanny Zhou in person with a smile.

Nanny Zhou is the nurse of the fourth master Li Yu, and she has never been so happy as she is today in all these years.

Seeing Nanny Zhou walking in with a food box, Li Yu looked away from the book and asked, "Mommy is in a good mood today."

Zhou Nanny smiled and arranged the meals in the food box one by one, and said, "Brother Yu, come and eat quickly."

Li Yu put down his book, walked to the table, looked at the sumptuous meal, glanced at Nanny Zhou, and said calmly, "No wonder Nanny is in a good mood today."

He glanced at the corner of his eyebrows: "It's also rare, what medicine did they take wrongly today, and they didn't make things difficult for you?"

Nanny Zhou put the bowl and chopsticks in front of him, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Brother Yu, from now on, those snobby slaves will never dare to make things difficult for us."

With that said, Nanny Zhou told Li Yu what happened just now.

"This second lady is a good person." Nanny Zhou praised Jingshu from the bottom of her heart.

Li Yu put down the chopsticks, and said leisurely with a gloomy expression: "There are no good people in this mansion, but she is just in charge of the house, and she has a good reputation for her pretentiousness."

Nanny Zhou replied: "Second Madam is different from them, not that kind of person."

Li Yu said coldly, "I don't see any difference."

Nanny Zhou knew that he was stubborn, so she didn't say much anymore, she picked up the chopsticks and served him dishes, and persuaded: "Brother came back from school and was bored with reading, let's eat quickly."

Speaking of the school, Li Yu recalled the incident of being pissed off by the third girl in the school today, so he dropped his chopsticks impatiently, and said bitterly, "It's the same dog."

(End of this chapter)