Passerby's daily life

Chapter 14 Traveling ([-])

As soon as March enters, Yangzhou becomes a sea of ​​flowers: camellia, peach blossom, apricot blossom, pear blossom, magnolia flower, redbud flower, plum blossom and more than a dozen kinds of flowers and trees are in full bloom.Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem saying: Fireworks go down to Yangzhou in March.

Among all the flowers, plum blossoms are the most famous.In the Shouzhi Garden of the Song family, there is a famous plum garden in Yangzhou, in which more than 300 precious plum trees are planted, including dozens of century-old plum trees transplanted from other places. The sea is also beautiful.

Since the eldest lady married into the Song family, she held a plum appreciation banquet in March every year, and entertained the female relatives of officials of all sizes in Yangzhou city.The people who came here were because their husbands ordered them to befriend the Song family, but the eldest lady always thought that she was self-righteous and thought it was good for her face.Now that she is Mrs. Shun Anbo, the posts about the plum feast have already been scattered.

The old lady in the usual plum appreciation banquet is just showing her face, and she only entertains a few close female relatives in her yard.Relying on her status as the daughter-in-law of the official family, although she married into a merchant, she looked down on merchants the most. The female family members of the merchants who had been close to each other on weekdays would not entertain them, and the old lady even made peace.

I didn't expect this year to be even more outrageous, and I didn't even prepare a post for merchants.The angry old lady was furious and reprimanded her a lot. At that time, Susu, Hu Po, and Dongsong were sorting out the warehouse account books in the small compartment in the inner room, and she heard the old lady say in a cold voice never before: "Our family I started my business as a business, and the people I made friends with are all merchants. Now that I am an earl, don’t I need to eat, dress, and spend money? You look down on merchants, look down on the Song family, don’t you marry into the Song family and give the merchants a favor? A maidservant as a daughter-in-law? Isn’t she also eating our Song family’s food, wearing our Song family’s clothes, and using our Song family’s money to subsidize your mother’s family? If you think our Song family is ashamed, and the Song family’s relatives and friends are ashamed, then go back to your mother’s house , I will ask the boss to give you the letter of divorce today."

The third wife was there that day, which made the eldest lady feel ashamed.However, the old lady's patience in the past ten years or so has made the old lady grow up. She didn't immediately apologize and admit her mistake, but she ran out of Suian Hall crying and crying, "It's amazing. She's just rich, and she's a mother-in-law. I want to force my daughter-in-law to death." The old lady was so angry that she almost pouted.

The old man who came back from Dexin almost died of anger when he found out what had happened, and immediately knelt down to the old lady. The mother and son were so sad that they couldn't be sad anymore. The old man asked someone to bring pen and ink, and immediately After writing the letter of divorce and asking the lady to pack up the dowry of the eldest lady and send her back to her natal home, the eldest lady came back to her senses and collapsed on the ground in fright.It took a long time before I was supported by the dowry and knelt outside the door of the old lady's room, crying and begging for forgiveness.

The second wife couldn't react for a while, but the third lady covered her mouth with a veil and sneered again and again.

She can't understand what kind of temperament her aunt is. Don't look at the kind-browed and kind-eyed Guanyin Bodhisattva now. She was the most resolute and resolute when she was young. Don't be an aunt, and work hard with your husband to make this promise family business?

All these years, my aunt has let her sister-in-law jump around like a flea, not because she is afraid of her, but because she is the daughter-in-law that the father-in-law favors.Unexpectedly, the upside-down she became more and more ambitious.Now the eldest brother has become Shun'anbo, the eldest sister-in-law is the noble lord of the palace, and the men in the family are cautious, but she is a drag in a woman's family, how can the aunt spoil her.

Susu didn't know what happened next, all the maids in the house were sent out by the old lady, and that's when the old lady was called into the house.

Only two days later, the eldest lady was ill in bed, and the matter of the plum appreciation banquet was led by the third lady, with the assistance of the second lady, and the plum appreciation banquet would also be held bustlingly.As soon as the plum blossom banquet was over, the elder brought in a noble concubine. The concubine of the Yangzhou magistrate's family was just 16 years old, with a beautiful face and a gentle temperament.

The peach blossoms that were sold into the mansion that day were all working in the courtyard of the big house. Because of the friendship along the way, Susu would leave a portion for the two of them if she had any delicious food. Su is very friendly, and occasionally comes to play with Su Su, and mentions the new Aunt Yue, who is boasting about being kind to servants, respectful to his wife, and good to young masters and girls, etc. Words of praise.

Susu listened with a smile on her face, but in her heart she thought that Aunt Yue was a scheming person, and within a few days after entering the door, she would win over inside and out.After hearing this, the old lady shook her head and said helplessly: "The eldest daughter-in-law is only eye-catching, and this new aunt is not a smart one." In the end, she asked Qin Momo to go to Aunt Yue's room to give a lecture. I don't know what she said, but Aunt Yue On the contrary, there is a lot of peace, at least the reputation of virtuousness has not spread outside the garden, and the old man has the reputation of spoiling his concubine and destroying his wife.

But who would have thought that the eldest lady would be someone who is always looking for trouble, and she would open up the face to the most iconic maid Liuli by her side and make a room for her to fight with Aunt Yue, while she would fight with snipe and clam, and the fisherman would benefit.As a result, in the big house courtyard, it became commonplace to have a small noise for three days and a loud noise for five days.The old lady simply came here out of sight and out of mind, and went to Zhuangzi outside the city for a spring outing.

It was the first time for Susu to see the travels of rich and noble people in ancient times. The old lady's luggage was loaded into two carriages. In the words of sister Pearl, "the countryside is really rough".So there are some things for food, even the big bedding and the small spices are all brought by themselves, and these are naturally loaded into two more cars.

Except for Nanny Qin and Sister Hupo who are guarding the yard, more than half of the maids and wives in Suian Hall will follow. The four maids in Susu's house are catching the eyes of the old lady, so they have already received the letter to go. , Telling the little maid who couldn't go with her, I don't know how many gossips she said.They just pretend not to hear.

A few days ago, the little maids took turns to take vacations. Susu and Yang Liu returned to Qiao’s house. Butler Qiao loved Susu very much, and he also warned Susu and Yangliu a few words: “People today only want two words: loyalty, and to be loyal. The old lady is loyal, let the old lady like it, don't bother with the others, the old lady will make decisions for you."

Regarding this, Susu sees it more clearly than Yang Liu, in the Song family, she has no other choice but to rely on the old lady.She wants to live a good life, be the old lady's favorite maid, save some money, let the old lady give her out of citizenship, and then find her brother in the future, maybe she will get married and have children in this time and space.She has so many things to do, how can she be as knowledgeable as a group of elementary school students!

The Zhuangzi that the old lady is going to this time is Hongshan Village, one of the two small Zhuangzi outside the city. If you say it is small, it actually occupies a hill and [-] mu of fertile land below the mountain.The chicken, duck, eggs, meat, milk, and goat's milk that Antang eats on weekdays all come from this Zhuangzi, and there are also game dishes from time to time.It was only an hour's drive away from the inner city, butler Qiao had already notified Zhuangzi's steward, cleaned up the house, and only waited for the arrival of the master.

(End of this chapter)