Passerby's daily life

Chapter 20 News from afar ([-])

Everyone served the old lady for breakfast, and then changed shifts to eat.

This is the first day of the first day of the new year, even though the first and second rooms have moved to the capital, the rules of greeting on the first and fifteenth day of the new year have not changed.After a while, the third lady brought the sixth young master, the fifth young lady, and the sixth young lady to greet the old lady.

The fifth young master is 12 years old this year, and he moved to the outer courtyard a long time ago. There is only one holiday every month. The sixth young master will soon be six years old, and he has also moved to the outer courtyard. He loves pestering the old lady to feed him snacks, chubby beep.The fifth girl is 11 years old this year, and she looks like a beauty, but she is a concubine after all, with a soft temper and not like to talk.The sixth girl is nine years old, and she was raised by the old lady since she was a child, accompanied by a room full of beautiful maids, and developed a temper that would not allow anyone who is not a beauty to get close to her. Bothersome.

It was almost nine o'clock, and the little maid outside announced that Zhao's mother had arrived.Now the third wife is not suppressed by the big house and the second house. She is in charge of the house, and her temperament is more cheerful. When she heard that Zhao's mother came, she said to the old lady: "This Mrs. Zhao is a good person. In the past, the people who sent us to our house have to be used. of."

The old lady also sighed: "This person must have a basic conscience in doing things, and Mrs. Zhao is also a person who knows how to accumulate virtue." After speaking, she said to Susu: "Hurry up to meet Zhao's mother, it's not in vain for you to have a friendship. .”

Su Su also smiled and said: "If it wasn't for Mother Zhao sending Su Su to Yangzhou, how could Su Su serve by the old lady's side. I must thank Mother Zhao very much."

Su Su lifted the curtain and went out, Zhao's mother was waiting outside Suian Hall, she saw a girl getting closer and closer from a distance, when she came to her, she was taken aback by her appearance, feeling mixed emotions.

Su Su looks like Aunt Su, but she is more beautiful than Aunt Su, and her temperament is better. She is simply wearing a white silk shirt with light green embroidered lotus flowers on the front and a light yellow gauze. She wore a pair of emerald green jadeite pendants on her ears, which made her little face more white and pink.

Although it is covered by thick bangs, those eyes have already added a lot of color to the whole face, and it is three points more beautiful than when we met a year ago. I don’t know if it’s a blessing or a curse if I look like this. up!
Seeing Zhao's mother staring at her blankly, Susu also knew the lethality of her face, so she just smiled slightly: "Mom, have you been doing well recently?"

The little maid who came with Zhao's mother had been dumbfounded for a long time, but now she heard Susu's words, and she sighed in her heart, even her voice was so beautiful!Mother Zhao came back to her senses and said with a smile: "It's all good." She took Susu's hand as she said, "I always said that the old lady in the house can teach people, and seeing how you are doing now, mother doesn't even dare to recognize you. It's gone!" Secretly stuffed a small ball of paper to Susu, and Susu stuffed it into her belt calmly, pulled Mother Zhao and said, "The old lady told me to welcome Mom in!"

Mrs. Zhao entered the house and first met the old lady and the third lady. The old lady smiled and said, "Quickly move a stool for Mrs. Zhao." Susu now knows that an identity like Mrs. Zhao is not qualified to sit in front of noble people. For the guest seat, it is already a matter of face for the host to provide a stool and an embroidered pier.

After Zhao's mother sat down, she said: "I haven't seen you for two years, old lady. You are getting younger and younger. When you first saw Susu, you looked like a fairy. When you entered the room, the room was full of fairies. But let me see you, old lady. out of the world."

The third lady covered her hand with a smile and said: "Mother Zhao is right. Now I go out with my aunt. I don't look like a pair of wives. People believe that they are both sisters!" The old lady pointed at the third lady and scolded with a smile: "To be able to talk nonsense, then I'm not really an old goblin!" After speaking, he also laughed.

Mother Zhao traveled all over the world, and she was also a matchmaker in the capital. She heard a lot of new things. She picked out a few things that were suitable for the noble lady in the mansion, so that the old lady and the third lady would have fun listening to them, and also amuse the maids in the room. The son was surprised again and again.

After a while, Yang Liu and Qin Momo, who were picking up the maids, entered the room, Yang Liu said: "The little girls sent by Zhao's mother are all very well-behaved, but I would like to trouble my mother to tell me about their origins." The old lady She waved her hands and said, "Go, Susu will follow suit." Susu followed Mother Zhao, Yang Liu, and Nanny Qin out of the house.

Although most of the servants of the Song family took away most of the eldest and second servants when they left, many of them stayed in Yangzhou. The third wife had long intended to rectify the rules of the house. The loyal old servant promised pension money to Zhuangzi to provide for the elderly. Although the master of the Song family is kind-hearted, he is not a kind-hearted man.

Housekeeper Qiao's family, except for Yang Liu, went to the capital with the big house. The old lady said that when Yang Liu reached the age, she would be sent to Beijing to marry her on her own, so as not to separate the family.

This time the little maid who came from outside was also suggested by Susu. Susu is 13 years old, and the old lady has more and more private houses, and she is too busy to cook by herself.At that time, Sister Amber still had a winter pine beside her, and later she had her own, and it was time for Susu to find a few successors to cultivate slowly.

In the past two times, Mother Zhao and some other matchmakers also brought some people over, but the few left behind did not attract Susu's attention. He said with a smile: "I usually see Susu treat the little maid softly, but it's rare to see her so picky."

Susu is picky about her maid, but she is not picky, because she is not picky about her looks, nor about her literacy, nor about her cooking skills. Susu is only picky about her eyes. People often say that eyes are the window to the soul. So when Yang Liu and Nanny Qin picked someone, Susu just watched from the side.

More than a dozen little girls aged seven or eight, dressed in the same size as when she entered the mansion, all stood in a row with their heads bowed, some dared to look up when asking questions, and some shrank back Some of them answered very cleverly but their eyes were flickering, some hesitantly looked at Yang Liu and others but were full of envy and ambition.

Yang Liu thought that a girl who could read a few words and speak well was good, so Mother Qin picked two good-looking girls who were also clever, but Susu chose the one who was betrayed by her stepmother because she didn't have any special skills.

Afterwards, the third lady also picked two of them, and gave money to Mother Zhao, and the old lady kept food.

The table noodles in the flower hall, accompanied by Su Su and Nanny Qin, had eight cold dishes, eight hot dishes, four meals and two soups, which was very honorable to Mother Zhao.Although Zhao's mother didn't care about the food, she finally let go of her worries after looking at the table.I saw Susu dressed well before, and I saw Susu's silly and charming appearance in front of Mrs. Song, so I knew that Susu was completely established in the Song family. Now the old lady is making a face for Susu at the table. Woolen cloth!
(End of this chapter)