It is not easy to be the fourth master's wife

Chapter 142

In mid-October, snowdrops were about to begin to fall in the capital. Taking advantage of the still sunny weather, Zhou Ting set a date for moving the garden.

Gege in the back garden became flustered when he heard the wind. Some of them knew they were hopeless and stayed in the house honestly. .

Mrs. Song was completely silent after Mrs. Li's funeral. Yinzhen couldn't remember it, and Zhou Ting naturally wouldn't remind him. Mrs. Song's foot ban has never been lifted, so she can only stay in the house honestly. Since then, I have been in poor health. Every day I take the medicine stove to fry medicine and drink it.

She sent a girl to tell her love again and again, and Zhou Ting had never met her before, but she didn't just follow the rules when giving things. If she followed Ge Ge's rules, she wouldn't be able to survive this winter. past.

The last time she "met" Yinzhen's Wu family under the flower shade tree, she was ashamed when she went back at night, and those who saw that she didn't succeed all jumped out and chewed her tongue. She didn't dare to approach Zhou Ting again, An An I just stayed there and didn't dare to stand out.

These few people shrank their heads back, and the rest didn't want to be the rafters no matter how much they wanted to follow. Nian's place looked dangerous at the beginning, and the servants didn't dare to make decisions, so they reported to the main courtyard three times a day.But when the whole family was really ready to leave, she got better, and when people asked to say hello, Zhou Ting rejected her without raising her eyes, and told her to recuperate in the yard with "peace of mind". No, let someone come pick her up again.

It doesn't matter when Nian's illness will recover. She has to pretend to be sick to gain attention, but Zhou Ting can make her sick all the time. Isn't she weak?Ordinary people who are not sick, the imperial physician will prescribe some warming and tonic prescriptions after seeing her. Since she is weak, she should just keep taking medicine to support her.

After dealing with these, Zhou Ting clapped her hands and took a bunch of children to the Old Summer Palace. The Old Summer Palace is much bigger than Yong Wang's Mansion. Zhou Ting looked more like a Han Dynasty building, with arched bridges and cornices, five steps, one painting and ten steps, one scene, and the place is open. It is grand, and there are many places where people can walk and live. Zhou Ting has more things to worry about next.

Although King Yong's Mansion has been rebuilt, it is still in the city, and no such garden can be built if it is expanded again. As soon as Zhou Ting entered the door, she sighed in her heart. Everywhere in this garden is filled.

Because of moving to a new garden, it was considered a joy of housewarming. All the brothers' families gave presents, and Zuoling under Yinzhen's banner was able to send things with great effort. More than half of them were for women and children.

Yinzhen directly gave the list to Zhou Ting: "Look at what's good in it, you can use it for yourself, or save it for the big girl and the second girl as a dowry." Zhou Ting.

Filial piety is a common thing, and such a large family cannot be maintained by relying on the Anjia silver and the annual salary of 1 taels when the mansion was first established.The master's chewing mouth, the servant's moon silver, and the jewelry and clothes of the four seasons are a lot of expenses. Just for the two festivals of longevity and longevity, more than half of them will be removed if you want to have a decent ceremony, let alone brothers. Walking around in the room, three or one hundred days, red and white weddings must be accompanied by the ceremony, this money seems to be a lot of money, at most enough for one season.

Yinzhen has business in merchant ships and glass shops, and Feng Jiuru also goes to Nanyang to sell goods. Apart from these, Yinzhen also has other industries. Those who come to invest, although the expenses are large, the income is also a lot.

Zhou Ting will also plan that her family is well-off, which is no worse than Yinzhen, who is the best at managing things.But the filial piety from below is unavoidable, if you don't accept it, he feels uneasy.Pick it up with peace of mind, gems and beads can't be kept for so long, and they won't be able to use them when the big girl and the second girl get married. Where will the two of them lack them? Put it aside first.

Seeing that she didn't have time to pay attention to this, Yinzhen personally picked out a box of jewels, which were specially used for her five things to press her breasts. Yinzhen took the time to draw patterns on each piece, such as sapphires inlaid with diamonds, double-layered hibiscus stones, etc. The gold-threaded ones are for her to use on weekdays, and the old emerald ones are for her to use when she goes out to meet guests.

As soon as the things were brought, Yinzhen picked out a beeswax five-word non-stop five things to hang up for her immediately, saying that it would match her honey pink crepe skirt inlaid with silver silk Wanfu su satin.Zhou Ting was smiling and shy, all the girls in the room were watching, so he stretched his hand to her front, and hung jewelry on the button of her chest.

This kind of honey pink is the most attractive, but she dared to make clothes and wear them out.Zhou Ting was young, her skin was fair and delicate, and she knew how to maintain it. She ate bird's nest porridge every day, and applied pearl powder and egg white to her face. She didn't look like the mother of four children in her fair skin.

In fact, Royal Fujin did not live a rich life at that time. Pearl bird’s nests are expensive goods for ordinary people. To them, they are just ordinary, even eating them every day is nothing, but few of them are living well. , the good looks have to come out from the inside out, and when Zhou Ting stood up inside her sister-in-law, she was youthful and moist, making them envious and jealous, joking and joking.

Er Niu likes these things the most. She looked at Zhou Ting eagerly, and reached out to touch her hair. She is already five years old, and it's not too early to grow her hair at this time. Yinzhen just turned away as if she didn't see her daughter's eager eyes drink tea.

Zhou Ting reached out and touched her head: "After the new year, I will keep your head for you and sister." To avoid having to shave your head in March, the second girl jumped up as soon as Zhou Ting finished speaking, like a little magpie, Fiddled with the things in the box, took them out and compared them to him.

The five things of pressing the lapel are all done according to Zhou Ting's stature. It is too long to put it on Er Niu's body even if it is a forbidden step, but she doesn't think it. , loudly said: "I will marry Ama in the future!"

Yinzhen was overjoyed, hugged her and asked, "Ama is so good?"

"Yeah!" Er Niu nodded her little head: "Ama gave Er Niang a lot of good things, I have seen them all!" She has always grown up by Yinzhen Zhou Ting's side, no better than other Gege who learned the rules from sitting down, as long as The big face is not bad, Zhou Ting didn't hold her back, and when she talked about Tongyan Tongyu, the room was full of laughter.

Pearl and Jade all pursed their lips and smiled, and there were a bunch of children joining in the fun. The disturbed Zhou Ting stared: "Have you ever written Hongshi Jin'er's big characters? Have you memorized Hongzhao's book?"

Zhou Ting lives in the world where children as old as Hongzhao have already started learning. No matter what the purpose of early education is, children are just like adults, and they need to contact the outside world. Don't worry, what she's afraid of is that Hongzhao won't be able to adapt to the study in the future.A book, no matter whether you understand it or not, you have to memorize it 120 times.

There is only one quota for day students in each family, and this quota was left to Hongzhao by Yinzhen. When Hongshi was enlightened, Zhou Ting specially made him a pen case cover with poems embroidered on it, telling him to work hard and quit laziness.It’s not that the ones who were born have already taken care of it, and the ones who are not born are even more so. Hongzhao can’t speak clearly, and Zhou Ting has already told him the Three Character Classic. He recited the rhythm enlightenment next to him, and told some stories in Qionglin, which was a childhood school, and Hongzhao knew it better after being influenced by his ears and eyes.

His temperament is more like Yinzhen, so he can see self-discipline at such a young age, and if he agrees to recite the book, he must recite it.Zhou Ting intends to cultivate their good habits, and divides their time early, when to study and when to have fun, the girls around her dare not not follow suit.

Children's habits are very easy to develop, and after doing something for a long time, it becomes a routine. When Zhou Ting asked him, he nodded, and the girl beside him counted how many times he had recited it.

Yinzhen nodded in satisfaction, touched his round head and said, "When Mafa comes, go and recite it to Mafa!"

Zhou Ting smiled and added: "Mafa is not allowed to say weird things in front of you." He really can ask everything, such as why the sky is blue, Zhou Ting really can't answer him according to modern science, so he has to answer all questions. Throw it to Yinzhen, and Yinzhen will coax his son.

The area of ​​Yuanmingyuan at this time cannot be compared with Changchun Garden, but it takes a circle, and it will not be able to get down in a day. Zhou Ting took the blueprints and used the old method to assign each child a yard and a study room. It was specially used for them in class, and when I slipped down, I filled up the few pieces beside the main hall.

"In the Changchun Garden, a single garden was drawn out to cultivate. I thought that Hong Yun and Hongshi were all grown up, so they should know some farming skills. Although the meaning can't be compared with what Han Ama did, he should know a little. What should I do every month at the age of December is also a bit of my idea." Zhou Ting filled up all the things that should be filled, and then thought of the vacant places: "Fu Ya and Da Niu Er Niu also If you can take a look and listen, you will become a family in the future, so you won’t be deceived by the people below.”

Previously, two study rooms were specially set up, separate for men and women. Anyway, the place is very big. Seeing Yinzhen's meaning is to settle here. If you don't make any plans now, it will be too late later.

"You're right!" Yinzhen nodded solemnly. He never thought of this. He glanced at her admiringly, then leaned his head over to look at the empty gardens, and ordered the nearest one: "Mr. Ask someone to clean it up, build a shed, find a few eunuchs who know how to do farming to watch, and take Hongzhao over to have a look if you have time."

Yinzhen thought more in his mind, the purpose of his painting "Picture of Farming and Weaving" was just because of the popularity recently, so the next time this continues, it will be him and the prince who will be pinched, and this is how he brought his family with him like in his previous life. It happened to draw him, Zhou Ting and Hong Zhao into the picture.

Kangxi really liked this. He came from Changchun Garden to Yuanmingyuan, and when he saw the small garden, he praised Yinzhen very much. When Yinzhen explained Zhou Ting's theory, Kangxi's mouth curled up, All the children born on the first day were recruited in front of him.

The eldest girl, the second girl, and Hong Zhao had already dressed up, and the fifth elder brother was too small, wrapped in red, like a big red envelope, and was only hugged by the nanny to kneel and salute.

The eldest girl and the second girl knew Kangxi very well. The eldest girl showed him the copybook and showed him the two characters "Fumin" that she had written so well. There are jasper beads strung up and down, insisting on tying it to Kangxi's seven things, and waiting for praise with his neck up.

Hongzhao needed the help of Er Niu to explain what he was saying, but he pinched the corner of Kangxi's clothes and told Kangxi with a proud face that his little family was raising ants.Kangxi was very happy, Yinzhen smiled and asked someone to bring that weird big glass screen over.

Zhou Ting promised Hongzhao to let him raise ants, so she found an opportunity to recruit Feng Shi, and told her this as a joke. Fill it with fine white sand, find a nest of ants and put it inside.

Hongzhao seemed overjoyed when he got this, but Zhou Ting only allowed him to play for a while after reciting the book, and sometimes he even talked about the habits of ants.

Even when Yinzhen saw this thing, he would still be amazed. The nest of ants stayed in it for half a month, and he had already made holes one after another. Because the glass was so thin, it was all displayed in front of Hongzhao. Now it is possible to point out where the ants are hiding their food and where they are using it as a shop.

When the black cloth was lifted, Kangxi was taken aback. Hongzhao took his finger and pointed out that this place is for hiding food, this place is for growing ants, and this place is still building a house.

Yinzhen told Kangxi with a smile on his sleeves that this was originally a child's toy, but he didn't know that this little bug was so orderly.Kangxi first stood close and looked at it for a while, then pointed to the ant nest again: "This thing is very good, where is it made, bring one up."

Saying that, she hugged Hongzhao to her lap: "Sour plum soup can even raise ants." Then she patted his head and nodded at Yinzhen: "He's a smart boy."

(End of this chapter)