Passerby's daily life

Chapter 12 Follow-up of Chinese calligraphy ([-])

The inside is warm and warm, while the new maids outside are talking about it. "That's Ning Cui's mother? My God, I just think that she's a grandma from some family with that style of dress. It doesn't look like she was born as a maid.

"Don't you look at the sisters in the old lady's room, which ones are like maids? Whoever goes out will not be called a girl? I heard that the former sister Agate, who just married half a year ago, has a few boxes of clothes and hairpins besides what she saved. Huan, the old lady also rewarded an extra dowry, in addition to cloth and wool jewelry, there are 500 taels of silver, and two gold ingots of ten taels are the money in the box." She screamed again and again, wishing that she would immediately become the maid in the old lady's room.

In the evening, the old lady left Ning Cuiniang to sleep with her in the same room, and even allowed Ning Cuiming to stay with her parents for two days.Two days later, Ning Cui came back, carrying a big bag and a small bag, but her eyes were red, the Ning family's uncle and aunt had already gone back to Zhuangzi.

Susu hurriedly asked for water for Ning Cui to wash her face, "Aren't you making us sad with you!" Ning Cui sniffled and said embarrassedly: "Look at the things my mother and father brought for us. The old lady has already passed the bright road, let us make a jacket to wear during the New Year."

Unpacking the bundle, it turned out to be eight complete skins: six squirrel skins, one white fox skin, and one lamb skin with a bucket of pearls.

"We have been in the mansion for three years, and we also have two or three pieces of clothes, big and small. I was thinking that the four of us would each share a squirrel's clothes, and give Susu the little lamb skin with a bucket of pearls, and the rest One piece of white fox skin and two pieces of squirrel skin made hand warmers for the old lady and the sisters in the house." After Ning Cui finished speaking, seeing Yang Liubisi nodding, Susu wanted to decline, so she came over to tickle Susu, "I think you might as well be my mother's daughter, but I only saw you once, and you boasted that there is nothing in the sky and on earth. I want to see if your little hoof is transformed from a goblin, and how did you treat my mother? Are you so fascinated that you despise your own daughter?"

Susu hid while laughing: "My good sister, please let me go, I was originally a white snake who practiced in the fairy mountain for a thousand years, and I came to the world to repay my kindness." Hearing this, the other three people were stunned, and laughed for a while. Nao, "I'll go back to the old lady tomorrow, and I have to take you, little fairy, quickly."

Not to mention that the three of Ning Cui taught the words to the big maids, and the big maids taught the old lady, so that the old lady, the old benefactor who repays the favor with the white snake, was so happy, and rewarded Susu and the others with several plates of fruit snacks.

It's just that Susu and the four of them had a secret plan and reported it to Pearl.Pearl was surprised and said: "Are you going to teach the little maids in the yard to read?" Susu nodded: "Sister, anyway, the little maids are idle. After finishing their work, I will teach them a few words and a little counting. You don’t need pens, ink, paper and inkstones, you just need a plank and charcoal pencils, so that other people won’t look like black-eyed chickens when they see the four of us.”

And now even the maids outside Suiantang know that there is a little maid called Su Sude bought from outside, and because the old lady likes it and knows a few words, she doesn't pay attention to others.Susu felt that she was hacked.

Pearl said: "The four of you learn to read and write because the old lady agreed after seeing that you are sensible. As for the others, I have to talk to the old lady about this first."

Ning Cui hurriedly said: "Of course I want my sister to tell the old lady." I don't know how Pearl told the old lady, anyway, the old lady agreed on this matter, and rewarded each of the four Susu with a pair of golden gourd earrings, so that the two Waiting for Dongqing, who is the safest among the maids, to be in charge, the maids can learn to read for half an hour after dinner.

When the maids heard this, they were so happy that they kowtowed to the old lady, saying that the old lady is kind!Even the most serious little maids managed to give Susu a smiling face, and she was able to say a few words on weekdays, but Ning Cui, Bi Si, and Yang Liu, who were close to the water, had the pressure to speak without saying anything. Motivated to work harder.

As the end of the year approached, there was a burst of laughter in the Suian hall, which made the maids in several other yards envious.The three masters also got some letters, and they all had the same meaning for their respective daughters-in-law: let the children in the family get closer to the grandmother.

Although the third wife is the daughter-in-law of a concubine, she is indeed the niece of the old lady, so she naturally gets close to the old lady, and the first wife and the second wife have also learned to be good, and on the surface they agree well, but in private they say to the maid who is close to her: "It's just that I got a new servant girl, and she went to the sky with her praise. It's really like flocking together. And let the girls get closer? It's not disgusting!"

On the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the third wife was found by the government doctor to be pregnant for one month, but the third wife injured her body when she gave birth to the sixth girl, and she has not recovered after three years of raising her, and now her pregnancy is not good.

The third wife and the third master together wanted to take the fifth and sixth girls to the old lady's yard to be raised. At first the old lady refused to agree, but she couldn't stand the third master and the third wife begged, so she had to agree. On the surface she was not happy, but in private He ordered the maids to clean up the small courtyard in Suian Hall, and asked Sister Amber to pick out a lot of things from the warehouse to decorate the two girls' quarters.

After that, I don't know what the eldest wife and the second wife were doing, so they brought the fourth girl from the first house and the third girl from the second house.It was only later that I heard that the two masters had spoken harshly, and the two wives had no choice but to send the concubine daughter out. As for the two concubine daughters, they would not say anything. She asked her to see her later."

The Song family is a merchant, and the distinction between concubine and concubine is not very clear, and because the Song family is rich, the maids and wives around the girls are the same: each girl has a nanny, two first-class maids, and four second-class maids. , six third-class and six rough envoys.

The four girls together with the servants who served them amounted to eighty people, the old lady simply ordered to clean up the Yayun Pavilion next to Suian Hall and let the girls stay.

This Yayunxuan turned out to be the courtyard where the aunts and wives lived when they were not married, and it was also the largest and best courtyard of the Song family.There are six small courtyards in one Yayunxuan, all of which are small and unique. The main room, wing rooms, and side rooms are all available. After the rooms are allocated, the four girls move in with their luggage.

After the old lady spoke again, the monthly money of the four girls was transferred from the account of Suiantang, and it was collected in the public account at the end of the year, so that the third and fourth girls didn't know what to say.

The Song family is a wealthy family, and the girls have the same status on the surface, but the third and fourth girls and their aunts really have troubles that cannot be explained.

The same is going to school, the two sisters are good at learning everything, no matter how hard they work, the husband's comments are all stupid, so father always doesn't have a good face towards them.

The third girl is better, the second wife only treats her materially harshly, while the fourth girl in the big house is full of bitterness.When she was just seven years old, a maid told her some books about talented scholars and beautiful ladies.She is not stupid, her aunt is a Yangzhou skinny horse, and she was told since she was a child that talented men and beautiful women are all fools, so don't be a concubine in whatever you do.

The eldest wife always said that the old lady was born as a maid, and the maids in the vertical yard did not know the heights of heaven and earth, but the aunt told her that even if the maids in the old lady's room were second-class, they would marry out and be a decent lady.On weekdays, the manners and manners of the big maids are no worse than those from the official family of the big wife, even if they are born as maids!Didn't the eldest wife also become the daughter-in-law of the old lady who was born as a maid?

(End of this chapter)