Peach Blossom at the Bottom of the Fan

Chapter 25 Butler
"Greetings to the two ladies..."

After Xu's mother gave the salute, Gu Qianniang jumped off the Arhat bed, took Xu's hand, and said with a smile: "Mom came just in time, give me and my sister a review, my sister can't count on me, so she will play tricks!"

"Who cheated?"

Gu Zhenniang and Gu Qianniang are born of the same mother, they look very similar, but Gu Qianniang is three years younger, lively and active, with more beautiful eyebrows and eyes, unlike Gu Zhenniang, who is young and mature, who will have a straight face, more like Zhang's.

"You plan and calculate all day long, don't you want to be like the people in Xigu, doing business and business, and finally forgetting the book, even forgetting the benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness that should be in a scholarly family, and making Something that insults the family..."

"Sister Zhen," Xu's mother called out with a smile, and interrupted, preventing Gu Zhenniang from finishing her sentence.

She didn't know what happened to Xi Gu, but she was clear about some things. In the Gu family, it was best not to mention anything about Xi Gu.

When Mother Xu interrupted, Gu Zhenniang forgot what she just said, but Gu Qianniang hummed and said: "As long as you can, you always talk about reading books and making poems, but I haven't seen you become a talented woman! Look down on me to settle accounts, that's good Ah, when you get married in the future, don't take care of the house!"

"You're talking nonsense again, let me tell mother!" Gu Zhenniang's face was feverish, angry and annoyed.

She is fourteen this year, and it's time to discuss her marriage. Usually, she overheard her mother talking about her marriage, and she couldn't help it. Now that her younger sister said it so boldly, she naturally became angry from embarrassment.

The two sisters were having a good time, and Mrs. Zhang had already turned out in the back hall.

Gu Qianniang pounced on her and yelled about Gu Zhenniang's cheating. Mrs. Zhang listened with a smile all the time, her eyes were very gentle, and she spoke softly, but what she said did not match her appearance.

"Zhenniang, didn't you just say it? Poems and paintings are something else to talk about. It's a beautiful thing for a woman to be famous, but a woman's culinary skills are the foundation of a woman. Also, don't underestimate it." This is a calculation plan. Why did mother let you and that girl learn calculation calculation?"

Gu Zhenniang lowered her eyes and didn't answer for a while, but Gu Qianniang stood on tiptoe and rushed to say: "I know! Mom, I said I said..."

Picking up her chin, she said in a deep voice: "In a family like ours, if a daughter gets married, she must be the head of the house! Naturally, she has to manage the people and affairs of the whole family, and she doesn't know how to settle accounts or make calculations." , how can you manage the accounts at home? If you are cheated, what should you do?"

Looking at her younger sister, Gu Zhenniang stroked her cheek with her finger, "I really don't feel ashamed, you are so young, you just talk about marrying or not..."

"What's there to be ashamed of? If you're a girl, don't you have to marry? Do I want to be like my sister, who blushes when she hears marriage proposals?" Gu Qianniang stared at her sister with a smile on her face, "Mother, you Come on, tell me what kind of brother-in-law you want to find for me!"

"Shameless rascal!" Gu Zhenniang blushed as expected, and turned her head away angrily, but she didn't dare to argue with Gu Qianniang again.

Mrs. Zhang smiled slightly, and sat on the Arhat bed with Gu Qianniang in her arms, "Don't make fun of your sister anymore," and looked at Gu Zhenniang with a smile, "Zhenniang, you are an older sister, and you should look like an older sister. You can't be compared to me by other sisters." But what's the matter?"

Seeing that Gu Zhenniang was silent, she couldn't help shaking her head. Although her eldest daughter looked like her, her temper didn't follow her. Did she read too much and was a little dull?

With a low sigh, Mrs. Zhang said in a deep voice: "Speak the truth for my mother and your sisters, this woman has been around a yard all her life. My mother is not hitting you, but if you want to live a good life, don't be serious. Some people regard their husband as heaven, and think that as long as the relationship between husband and wife is beautiful, they can live a good life. This man, that’s what happened. It’s impossible for you to hold him in your hand for the rest of your life. Money is what you hold firmly in your hands. Therefore, you must learn how to settle accounts, and only women who know how to calculate accounts can live a good life..."

After finishing speaking, seeing Gu Zhenniang pursing her lips and not speaking, Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but sigh secretly, wondering if this daughter listened to the words.

Shaking her head, she didn't say any more, looked at Mother Xu, and asked in a flat voice: "The girl who beat Lan Xiang can be dealt with? Mother Xu, have the girls in the house become more and more difficult to manage recently? Why? I think it’s going to cause trouble every two days!”

Mother Xu lowered her head. Although she hated Chunhua who was behind the scenes, she couldn't say it directly in front of her face.

"My lady, I've already dealt with that little girl. Since she just entered the mansion and it's her first offense, she was fined for a month."

Seeing Mrs. Zhang nodding, Mother Xu also breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the two young ladies, she whispered, "That girl is serving in the back study..."

With just one sentence, Mrs. Zhang understood what she meant.Without words, she raised her voice to ask someone to bring some snacks, "You two are good, eat some snacks, and then you can make some calculations, mother will be back in a while..."

"I'll go too..." Gu Qianniang still wanted to follow, but Gu Zhenniang stretched out her hand to hold her back.

"Mother is doing serious things, what are you doing next?"

Go to the flower hall and say, that is, I don't want the two sisters to hear it. Although I don't know what it is, but when I talk about the back study, it has something to do with my father.

Gu Zhenniang was still thinking, but Gu Qianniang had already moved closer to her, "Did you hear that? Daddy may bring another aunt back..."

With a jump in her heart, Gu Zhenniang turned her head to look at the mysterious little girl, opened her mouth, but could only shake her head and said: "Don't talk nonsense, carefully, mother said you..."

Even though she reprimanded her sister like this, but when she turned her head and looked out the window, Gu Zhenniang couldn't help frowning.Although she is young, she still vaguely knows about family affairs.

It seems that there is no peace at home again.

Although there are only two concubines in the family, there are many romantic affairs among the officials in the family. After a long time, when hearing these things again, Mrs. Zhang has become indifferent.

If you can't stop it, you can prevent it, and if you can't stop it, you can't prevent it, so you can only think about how to deal with it.

"Officials are the most charitable people. It's nothing to be kind to servants, but it's not good for a girl to steal an official's share. Well, if it's the first offense, it's a small punishment, don't Use everyone's method..."

It's an understatement, but Xu's mother understands it. If you don't use the big family's method, you will use the small family's method. The small family's method is not so easy to bear.

After squinting her eyes for a while, Mrs. Zhang said lightly: "Today, I will add two dishes to Aunt Liu of Muchun Courtyard. She has worked hard to serve the officials..."

"Yes, this servant knows." Mother Xu agreed in a low voice, and took a peek at Mrs. Zhang. Seeing that she had no other plans, she gave a salute and then quietly retreated.

After going out the door, I saw Chunhua sitting in the courtyard under the porch, facing the door diagonally, although she seemed to be sitting idle, but her eyes were always fixed on the door of the flower hall.

The corners of her lips curled up, and Mother Xu raised her head, without even looking at the spring flowers, she walked directly outside the courtyard. Halfway, a little girl greeted her, but she just nodded lightly and didn't stop.

"I'm doing a job for my master, how dare I delay..."

Staring at her, trying to steal her job, just wait a few years!

After leaving the main courtyard, he went straight to the Muchun courtyard. When he came out of Aunt Liu's room, Mother Xu already had a pair of clove and silver earrings in her sleeve pocket.

After leaving the door, Yuyan, the girl from Aunt Feng's room opposite, greeted her, "Mother Xu, come and sit in our Auntie's room!"

As soon as she raised her eyes, Mother Xu looked towards the west chamber. Although there was a bamboo curtain blocking it, she could vaguely see a figure swaying behind the curtain.

Lowering her eyes and smiling slightly, Mother Xu said flatly, "I won't go over to pay Aunt Feng today, I still have things to do!"

"Mother Xu..." Looking back into the west chamber, Yuyan wanted to say something more, but Mother Xu had already gone outside.

Hesitating for a while, she was hesitating whether to hang on again, when Yucui had already turned out from the east chamber.

Looking at Yuyan, Yucui raised her eyebrows, and said with a sneer, "Is it embarrassing? Mother Xu doesn't even want to sit in your house, she insists on pestering you!"

Yuyan's face sank, and she turned to look at Yucui, "Don't talk if you can't speak, no one will think you are dumb!"

But with a word of effort, when I turned around, Mother Xu had already left the door.

Yuyan was angry and annoyed, but Yucui was still provoking trouble, "Damn, there is someone in this courtyard who can't speak, but unfortunately it's not my girl! If that one can talk, then Mother Xu wouldn't even enter that room gone."

"you……"

"What's wrong with me?" Yu Cui raised her face, showing no sign of fear at all, "You! Don't learn from others. If you want to pester, you have to pester a man. What's the use of pestering a lady in charge?!"

Humming twice, she stared at Yuyan, "I don't bother to pay attention to you, I still have things to do! Hmph, when we drink and eat meat in the East Chamber at night, don't be greedy..."

As soon as she finished speaking, she walked past Yuyan with her head held high, her high-spirited appearance made Yuyan's heart beat with anger.

Turning her head to look at the west chamber, she pursed her lips and went down to the basket again.

Living in the same courtyard, both are concubines, but this situation is really different.Look at the one in the east chamber, and then look at her master, it's really...

She is also unlucky, following a master who can't beat a fart with three sticks, and even a girl like her is angry.

She was angry, but she still had to smile when she entered the room, looking at the woman who was already lying on the Luohan bed with her head bowed and embroidering, she smiled and said, "Auntie, Mother Xu still has something to do, and she said that she will come back specially to say hello to you next time."

The woman raised her head, her eyes were as clear as water on her delicate face, but there was a hint of sadness hidden, "I see..."

She laughed at herself a little, and suddenly said in a low voice: "You don't have to comfort me..."

After so many years in the Gu family, how could she not know what status she is now?

Seeing her like that, Yuyan couldn't help it, "It seems that the officials are coming over at night——Auntie, look, how about I fetch water, and you redress, and we will go for a walk in the courtyard later Or..."

Upon hearing this, Aunt Feng laughed.

"Forget it, I'm already old, what's the point of arguing with the young?" She stroked her temples, and whispered, "What's the point..."

But Yuyan didn't hear the second part of what she said, staring at Aunt Feng, she gritted her teeth and didn't persuade her anymore, she turned around and went out, standing in the courtyard, just in time to see a beautiful young woman leaning against the window in the east wing grooming.

The face is full of spring, which is eye-catching, that expression, that complacency, makes people's eyes hurt...

"It's really bad luck..." Muttering in a low voice, Yuyan turned around awkwardly, and shouted: "Xiaohua, Xiaohua, where have you been..."

(End of this chapter)