The Road of the Concubine's First Wife

Chapter 58

"These nine girls have a way, so that those long-term workers will be able to do things well. For them, wages are the most important thing." After listening to Qiao Yuanxiu's report, the wife nodded her head, revealing a bit in her tone satisfy.But in fact, I feel a little uncomfortable.Qiao Jiuxiu is the daughter of the fourth aunt. At the beginning, the fourth aunt relied on her master's favor, but she did not hesitate to show off her power in front of her and hated her family. She didn't have much affection for Qiao Jiuxiu.

"That's right. We didn't come up with such a good solution in previous years. Thanks to Jiumei, it seems that we can manage like this in the future." Seeing that his wife seemed very happy, Qiao Yuanxiu quickly praised Qiao Jiuxiu while the iron was hot. .The wife nodded, "Well, it's just that the New Year's Day has just begun, and she will be busy with many things in the future. If I do something wrong, you, as a sister, have to give pointers."

Qiao Yuanxiu nodded and said he would take it to heart.Suspicion arose in his heart, and he didn't know whether his wife sincerely wanted her to help Qiao Jiuxiu, or whether he hoped that he would also find an opportunity to make things difficult for her.You must know that my wife has never liked Qiao Jiuxiu very much.The wife saw the suspicion in Qiao Yuanxiu's heart, and shook her head lightly, "I just want to pass the year of An Sheng, Jiu girl took care of this matter, of course I hope she can do well."

Qiao Yuanxiu nodded and heaved a sigh of relief. Fortunately, his wife did not intentionally make things difficult for Qiao Jiuxiu, otherwise she would definitely encounter a lot of trouble.He also called Hongxiu over, and asked her to help her with other New Year's matters in the future. If there was anything she didn't know how to do, and Qiao Jiuxiu didn't know, she must ask her for advice.Hongxiu agreed and went to the next door.Because it is convenient to manage the year-end matters, Qiao Jiuxiu has moved in to live with the eldest sister, so it will be much more convenient to communicate with each other.

At the beginning, the wife only wanted to save time and make it easier for Qiao Jiuxiu to help with the year-end affairs, so she let her temporarily live in the eldest sister's yard, but she never thought about causing a storm in Qiao's residence.The maids are all discussing that after the eldest sister enters the palace, the wife will definitely choose a concubine to be trained as the leader. Before, they thought that Miss Six had a great chance, but they didn't expect that Miss Ninth would suddenly come from behind.The maids thought about how to curry favor with Qiao Jiuxiu, but the other ladies were very dissatisfied.

"Isn't she good at embroidery? What else is good, and I don't know what my wife likes about her." Qiao Liuxiu complained while writing the Diamond Sutra.Mostly because I can't calm down, my writing is not as good as before.She crumpled the rice paper and threw it on the ground, "Shui Zhu, come and help me grind the ink."

The servant girl named Shuizhu trotted all the way over. Shuizhu is a very smart servant girl and has a very good relationship with Hongxiu.When choosing a maid before, the eldest sister originally wanted to have both Hongxiu and Shuizhu.But in the end, under Qiao Liuxiu's begging, he reluctantly parted with her, and spared Shuizhu to her.Shuizhu is different from Hongxiu, Hongxiu is a well-behaved maid, although she is pretty, she has never had any intention of harming others in her heart.

Shuizhu is different. In order to achieve her goal, she doesn't care whether she has to resort to all means or not.It's just that on the surface, they will restrain themselves a lot, and wait for a hard blow, so that the enemy will never have a chance to stand up.It was precisely because of this that Qiao Liuxiu valued her so much that she made her her maid.

"Miss, what's on your mind today?" Seeing that Qiao Liuxiu didn't care about calligraphy, and the words she wrote seemed to have lost her soul, so she asked worriedly.

"It's not that Qiao Jiuxiu, who didn't look at her weight, actually moved to live with the eldest sister. She wanted to wait for the eldest sister to enter the palace, so that she could become the leader among the concubine daughters. She also has the right idea Very good."

"Miss, anyway, now that Miss Nine is favored, this matter is a foregone conclusion, and I heard that Miss Nine and Miss Ye Duanyi are very close, and when Miss Ye becomes the young wife of Qiao's family, I think Miss Nine will definitely She has received a lot of protection, and under such circumstances, we'd better not make her unhappy, so as not to be a bad person in the future."

"Are you saying that I want to curry favor with that woman like the other sisters?" After listening to Shui Zhu's words, Qiao Liuxiu was even more angry. If she wanted to please Qiao Jiuxiu, it would be better to kill her with a sword.Moreover, she felt that she had no need to please her at all, and her wife was not necessarily satisfied with Qiao Jiuxiu.Maybe it's just because of the New Year's Day that she looked up to her a few times. After the New Year's Day, she will be beaten back to her original shape.

"If Miss can let go of her figure, it would be great." Shui Zhu persuaded, "The other ladies have been getting very close to Miss Nine recently, especially Miss Ten, now that they have good things, they even have to make a special trip Set aside a portion for Miss Jiu just to please her."

"I'm not interested." Qiao Liuxiu threw the pen aside, completely lost interest in writing, "Shuizhu, you can go out with me." Anyway, she is free now, and his wife's management of her is not strict , she is often free to go out of the house, but she just needs to come back before dinner.

Qiao Liuxiu planned to go out of the mansion to relax, while Qiao Jiuxiu was also out of the mansion, but she was busy with buying things. Yesterday because of the pearl matter, it was already delayed for a day, if she didn't buy any more, she would not be able to keep up with the decoration of the mansion.My wife has always attached great importance to appearance. If there are any mistakes in this issue, my wife will be very angry and even throw a tantrum.

"Don't you have any red paper here?" Qiao Jiuxiu asked with a frown. The red paper used for mansion decoration is a must-have item during the Chinese New Year. Hongxiu told her before that the red paper must be at least two. Ten knives, and it must be good red paper, without wrinkles and white spots. Only three or five paper mills in the whole market have such high-quality red paper, but the price is not very high, so it is considered Good quality and low price.But when she asked all the way, she said they were sold out.Or there are goods, but they are not superior goods.

"Only like this?" Qiao Jiuxiu looked at the red paper the boss was holding, and sighed softly. Although the red paper is not bad, you can clearly see some white spots, although not many, but thinking about it I am afraid that there is no way to satisfy my wife.The boss was also very helpless, "Miss, I know you are from Qiaofu and our regular customer, but this year's best red paper has been snapped up. This is the only thing I can take out now. If you like , I can give you a little cheaper."

Qiao Jiuxiu shook her head slightly, it wasn't about money at all.Qiao's mansion would not care about such a small amount of money. If Qiao's mansion would lose face because of saving money, his wife would be very angry, and his life would not be easy at that time.The red sleeve on the side was also very anxious, "Miss Nine, what can I do, red paper is a must, if you use something like this, how can you satisfy your wife?"

Qiao Jiuxiu bit her lip. The best red papers have already been bought, so naturally there is no way to buy them back. The most important thing now is to think about how to deal with this matter. "Hongxiu, do you think we should use red cloth for decoration instead? Would it be better? Although the cost will be higher, there is no other way."

"Although the red cloth is good, but the price is too expensive, it exceeds the budget too much, and the average red cloth wife doesn't like it. If you want to use it, you can only use good red silk, and use good red silk to cut window grilles. This is too extravagant." Hongxiu shook his head, although the budget is still relatively generous, but if the expenditure on the red paper is too large, there is no way to take care of other places.

Qiao Jiuxiu nodded, this method didn't seem to work either.But what should I do?She has nothing to do.

"Miss, look, how about this? Since it's window grilles, you can cut the paper into small pieces in advance, and then avoid those places with wrinkles and white spots. After the window grilles are cut out, you can also cut them into small pieces. It won't be seen by others, but we have to buy a few extra knives, and then when cutting, we have to ask our own people to come." Jinxiu offered advice from the side, and she could only come up with this method.

Qiao Jiuxiu nodded slightly when she heard this, "Jinxiu's method is really good, let's follow her method. It's just that this method can deal with smaller window grilles, but what should we do if we encounter large window grilles?" How to do it? Every year, the Qiao Mansion has to find someone to cut out a pair of window grilles that can live forever, so there is no way to perfunctory them."

After Hongxiu and Jinxiu heard this, they also sighed slightly. This painting of Longevity and Boundless requires at least three knives of red paper, and this red paper must be first-class and top-quality red paper. What should we do?

"What is Jiumei thinking here?" Suddenly a voice sounded, Qiao Jiuxiu followed the reputation, and saw that it was Ye Yulang, didn't he already return to the capital with Ye Duanyi?Why are you still here.Probably seeing Qiao Jiuxiu's inquisitive eyes, Ye Yulang explained, "My father has some old subordinates living in this area, and thinking about coming here after a long time, I went to pay a New Year's greeting to them. Although they are my father's subordinates, but in those days They are all fateful friendships, so dad also values ​​them very much."

Qiao Jiuxiu nodded, and smiled at Ye Yulang, but thinking about the red paper, she still felt a little uneasy. If she couldn't buy first-class red paper, her wife would definitely blame her. This was the first thing at the end of the year. If she doesn't handle it well, will she deprive herself of the right to continue to manage it?In this case, she may never have a chance to stand up in Qiao's house.Ye Yulang saw that Qiao Jiuxiu seemed to have something on his mind, so he asked softly.

"It's not a big deal, it's just that the high-quality red paper was bought." Qiao Jiuxiu sighed softly.

(End of this chapter)