my wife is queen

Chapter 33
The pheasant slave said angrily: "If Yunniang dares to use this sentence to prevaricate my uncle, I will tell the princess and fine you half a month's monthly money."

Yun Niang, who was originally like a nun, exudes an air of indifference to the world, when she heard that the monthly money will be deducted, her face became flustered, and she quickly clapped her hands: "Everyone go back and sit honestly. As soon as my uncle leaves, come over and ask the slave family."

The ladies looked reluctance, because of Yunniang's usual prestige, they could only sit back unwillingly and honestly look at the books in their hands.

One of Yunniang's favorite things to do is sitting on the mahogany desk and counting money. In order to keep the money in her hands counting longer, whenever the government distributes monthly money, she will exchange the silver for copper coins.

Yun Niang can be said to be the most knowledgeable woman in the Qingke Garden, and she is also one of the four personal servant girls around Princess Changping, who is in charge of the Nuqingke in the Qingke Garden.

The female cleaners usually encountered incomprehensible fonts in the accounts, so they could only ask Yun Niang, but she sat on the mahogany desk all day long and counted money.

Once disturbed, the seemingly docile temper immediately becomes irritable.

In order to prevent problems with the account books, the ladies had no choice but to ask her for advice. Just asking for one word would cause ten sentences of nagging.

Now that the ladies met the patient son-in-law, of course they only wanted to ask him, and they didn't want to touch Yunniang's bad luck.

Li Mian looked away from the official paper, stopped thinking, and looked up at Yun Niang, who was reprimanding the female Qing guests.

I thought she was a lay woman who disregarded the world of mortals, but the demeanor she displayed now was shrewd and quite prestigious at the same time.

Li Mian couldn't help laughing, if he hadn't been reminded by the pheasant slave, he would have been fooled by the shrewd Yunniang in front of him.

Leaving aside the tedious work of teaching fonts to female Qingkes, I hid in the female Qingkes and did my own things leisurely.

However, Li Mian didn't think it was a trivial matter to teach Nv Qing Ke fonts. It was always a pleasing thing to be a teacher to a group of outstanding Nv Qing customers.

Li Mian beckoned, motioned for the pheasant slave to sit behind him with an eight-legged round drum stool, and said: "You are idle if you are idle. If there is any font that you don't understand, you can come and ask at any time."

Yun Niang smiled and sat back. When she was sitting on the embroidered pier, she deliberately glanced at the pheasant slave, as if saying that this was what the aunt meant, and she couldn't be blamed for being lazy this time.

Yunniang's mahogany desk was close to the wicker pane, smelling the fragrance of water lilies, happily took out a Duanmuliang brocade box, and started counting copper coins again.

In addition to receiving a monthly salary, she also earns a living in the mansion with public money, and lends money to the servants in the mansion who are in urgent need of money.

Among the ladies in Minglun Hall, many asked her to borrow money.

However, Yun Niang was not as unscrupulous as borrowing money. She borrowed a tael of silver at a high rate, and finally forced the common people to sell their sons and daughters.

The company money that Yunniang lent has a very low interest rate, only [-]% interest rate.

She suddenly raised her head and glanced at the young man, obviously she had set her mind on the young man, thinking about lending the money to the young man someday.

The pheasant slave saw Yunniang's shrewd eyes, and the two had served the princess together since they were young, and instantly understood what she was thinking.

The pheasant slave deliberately exposed the Suzhou embroidery purse hanging on Xiaoman's waist: "My family has saved a lot of money over the years, and it doesn't cost much to buy candied fruit every month. The saved money is all for my uncle. Let's see how you can borrow it." Give the silver to uncle."

After Yunniang heard this, her shining eyes instantly dimmed, and she became depressed.

It's not because she can't lend money to the aunt, but because the pheasant slave receives the most monthly money, and she just can't say anything else.

The monthly money received by the four personal maids is the same, but since my uncle came to the mansion, the pheasant slave has received an extra monthly salary of the personal maid.

One person received double monthly payments, which didn't bother Hongqiao, but envied Yunniang.

The pheasant slave warned Yunniang that it was not enough, so she leaned next to Li Mian's ear and chirped.

She almost shook off Yunniang's details, especially when she said that as long as there is a shortage of money, the money she hangs on Xiaoman's waist can be used by the aunt at any time, and she must never ask Yunniang to borrow money.

Li Mian just started to hear that Yun Niang was making a living with public money, and wrinkled his forehead, he had quite a problem with her.

When he heard that the silver interest rate was only [-]%, his forehead stretched out, and he looked at Yunniang with a little more kindness.

She is not borrowing money, she is clearly showing kindness.

With such a low interest rate, it is not so much borrowing money as it is helping the maids and servants in the mansion to tide over the difficulties.

The origins of the maids and servants in the mansion are different from those of the maids. Most of them are from poor families. Usually, when their parents are sick, they need to spend a lot of money to treat them.

The monthly money in the mansion is already relatively generous, but it is still quite a bit short of money for medical treatment.

At this time, you can only go to unscrupulous officials and gentry to borrow money. The silver interest is not two percent, one or two cents less, and even three to five cents more.

Yunniang only takes [-]% in silver interest, and in the hearts of the maids and servants, she almost becomes a living Bodhisattva in the temple.

Li Mian had no intention of borrowing money, and wanted to use money, so he went to Hongqiao and said something.

Give as much as you spend, without any hesitation, and ask where the money is going.

Besides, all the money and food in the mansion are under his control now, so there is no need to go to Yunniang to borrow money.

Yunniang noticed Li Mian's kind eyes and suddenly became blushed. She could only twist her hair in the bun and looked at the pond outside the wicker window.

She felt relieved in her heart, although she didn't know how my uncle could see through her thoughts, fortunately, he didn't arouse his disgust.

Li Mian closed his eyes and continued to teach the font slowly.

For the next period of time, Li Mian lived a relatively leisurely life in the Qingke garden, and took one or two hours a day to teach the female Qingke fonts.

At noon, Li Mian took the pheasant slaves to wander around along the Jinshui River, and had lunch by the way.

Since I have something to do, the wandering these days is not walking around between the courtyards.

Li Mian walked into a family's study by the Jinshui River, selected some interesting words from among the many books, and recorded them on official green paper.

The study is open for business, and readers are allowed to browse through it, but after reading it, they often buy one or two books.

Like Li Mian, with the cheek to only watch but not buy, this is the first time the shopkeepers of the study have seen it.

It was the first time I saw him only browsing but not buying. I was surprised and didn't chase him away.

Li Mian came to the study one after another, only looking but not buying, which caused dissatisfaction among the shopkeepers of the study.

But he comes every day.

Every day when the shopkeepers saw Li Mian at noon, they couldn't help but stare at his back with a dark face, wanting to see him uncomfortable, and retreated in spite of the difficulties.

(End of this chapter)