The Concubine's Survival Manual

Chapter 91

In the next few days, the old man became busy.

Normally, no matter how busy the Elder Master was, he would go to the main courtyard to meet his children and chat with the Eldest Wife at the time of greeting in the morning and evening.

In the past few days, the elder has not even shown his face. He is in the governor's office all day long, either talking to Li Wenqing or bringing the general soldier to question him. In the governor's office, he didn't even go home.

Not long after my cousin arrived in Suzhou, the grain urging messenger from the northwest also arrived.

His arrival seemed to indicate that the war in the Northwest would not end so easily.

It didn't take long for the whole of Suzhou to know that this time the Beirong invaded the border, and the menacing attack meant that they wanted to go to the capital!
And for several years in a row, the weather has not been good. The grain depots around the capital are already half empty. Within a few months, the capital is going to run out of food, let alone the northwest front... This time, both sides actually asked Jiangnan to start Money and food.On the one hand, the emperor wanted Jiangnan to provide emergency food for the capital, and on the other hand, he wanted Huguang Jiangnan to support the front line!

It is said that Ping Guogong's subordinates nearly missed their fighter planes several times because the army was short of food.

Coincidentally, it happened to catch up with the peach blossom flood, and the water in the canal swelled. It was convenient to go downstream, but it was a bit difficult to go upstream.How to transport the grain mobilized from Jiangnan to the capital is a big problem.

Not to mention, there is not much food left in the Suzhou Curry... Last year's harvest was not good, and the old man had released food several times. How to raise the army food is a problem.

Within a few days, the old man lost a lot of weight.

The governor's mansion came and went, and they were all messengers of messengers.

The new Fujian chief envoy, Zheng Changqing, was the most attentive, and he didn't need to be urged by the old man. Before the old man had time to supervise, he had already sent 10,000+ catties of grain to Suzhou.

Li Wenqing, the governor of Jiangsu, was not inferior. Although he spent a long time with the old man, he only took out [-] catties of rough millet in the end, but it was already quite interesting—the Yang family is resident in Jiangsu, so why didn’t they know that the past few years Produced in Jiangsu?
Only the Liu family, the chief envoy of Zhejiang, has been dawdling. It has been more than ten days, and the messengers from Hangzhou have not yet passed the news of the army rations to Suzhou.

The old man was so anxious that his mouth was full of blisters.

"What the hell is Liu Zheng thinking!" Going home, he complained to the eldest wife, "Does he still want to be an official? He is usually close to the Da family, and I turn a blind eye to him, and I don't bother to care about him. Right now, the lack of military rations is something that can kill people! Once the Northwest line of defense broke through, the Bei Rong entered the hinterland to burn, kill and loot. What are you going to pay for!"

I was so angry that I went to Hangzhou to ask for food.

The eldest wife is also very busy.

The more stormy the government and the public are about to come, the more the Yang family's public relations cannot relax.

Who knows if a small mistake will cause greater losses.

The eldest son of the emperor has already trained troops in the suburbs of Beijing, claiming that he wants to lead troops to the northwest to replace Lord Ping Guo... Although the emperor has not said anything yet, the eldest son of the emperor got the order to start training troops in the suburbs of Beijing only in April.

The situation on the border is stalemate, and the situation in Beijing is also confusing.

People who have good relations with the Yang family naturally want to visit the Yang family to find out what the Yang family is saying, so as to follow the Yang family's tail.

But the old man went to Hangzhou to clean up the chief envoy of Zhejiang in person.

The eldest wife had no choice but to work hard, imitating the popular and upright official, sending one group away and welcoming another group, pushing left and right to block and perform Tai Chi Kung Fu, which made all the wives dizzy, and in the end did not understand what the Yang family was all about. What means.

The fifth lady sat beside the eldest wife, and was also dizzy by the eldest wife's bureaucratic articles. She complained to the seventh lady in private, "I don't know what the meaning of these plain words is. If you want me to say it, you just say that you are sick. I don’t see you, but it’s easy.”

Although the eldest wife has many faults, she is still outstanding in her job.Seventh Lady sighed, and asked Fifth Lady, "Father is not at home, mother is sick again, the visiting officials and gentlemen are gone and can't say anything, and the official's wife is gone... Who will say that our Yang family is airy?" Big?"

The Yang family's airs are so big, who would dare to rush to the door if something happens in the future?The prestige of the Yang family in the hearts of middle and lower officials gradually faded.

If Wu Niangzi realized something, she sighed again. "It's really hard to be an official wife. It's just that the parents are short-sighted when they meet each other. When those little official wives see their mothers, they feel like they have eaten fly droppings. Good words seem to be like they don't want money, and they jump out one after another!"

Seventh Lady just laughed. "It's hard to be an official wife. The woman who dumped Yexiang in our yard hanged herself directly."

Fifth Lady was about to pinch Seventh Lady, "Tear up your bad mouth!" She smiled again, "Is there anyone as mean as you?"

The two little girls laughed and quarreled, Fifth Lady continued to learn how to socialize and housekeeper with the eldest wife, and Seventh Lady learned how to embroider and write from her.

In this way, it will soon enter May.

The first lady returned to her mother's house one day later, holding the upside-down little daughter in her hand.

"My mother-in-law gave me a one-month vacation and asked me to stay at my mother's house for a few days before going back." He smiled and explained to the eldest wife, "Now the eldest son-in-law is studying in Beijing, and the second brother and sister-in-law are going to see people planting rice seedlings. It's okay, my father-in-law and mother-in-law will let me go home and stay for a few more days."

The eldest wife was very happy, "I just came home to help my mother greet the guests. You don't know, I'm so busy this month that I can't even eat."

The first lady had a distressed look on her face, "Mother looks really thin!"

As soon as she returned to the mansion, the mansion became orderly.

Get up early every day to help the eldest wife settle the housework, and then start entertaining the visiting officials and wives, throwing out sweet words as if they don't want money, and making the visiting guests smile, hoping to hear more good words from the first lady.

The eldest wife complained of illness as a matter of course, barely managed to meet with several heavyweight official wives, and left the matter to the second wife and first lady.

It is not easy for a young lady who is not married to greet guests in public. With the first lady, some less important guests can be handled by the first lady.

The eldest wife couldn't help sighing, "Ninth brother is really young, otherwise, I wish I could marry a daughter-in-law to come into the house now, and I don't have to let the married daughter worry about these matters of welcoming and sending off."

When a married daughter returns to her natal home, she is a distinguished guest. Fortunately, the first lady doesn't care about these things, so she rolls up her sleeves as soon as she enters her natal home, and takes her little daughter around to do the work inside and out.

Seventh Lady watched coldly, only to realize that there was still a big gap between herself and First Lady.

If it were her, I am afraid that in such a short period of time, she could barely remember the names of the wives, let alone figure out the preferences and tendencies of these visitors.

No wonder the eldest wife dotes on the first lady so much!
Soon it was the Dragon Boat Festival, and the visitors finally gradually dwindled.

In fact, there are not many female relatives in Suzhou who are qualified to talk to the eldest wife.

The Elder Master didn't intend to go back to Suzhou yet, so he sent someone back to deliver a letter, saying that he would not be able to enter Suzhou until the middle of May.Li Wenqing, the chief envoy of Jiangsu Province, will handle the matter of sending the military rations of the two provinces to the road.

This is a big deal, and Li Wenqing didn't dare to neglect it. When Mrs. Li sent someone to bring the gift, she also complained that Twelve Lang's chickenpox hadn't gone away, and that Mr. Li was away all day long, making the house a mess.

Perhaps it was because the Eldest Master was not at home, the Eldest Wife had a rare love for excitement.

Early in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, I took the second wife, three young nephews, and the eighth lady over to the house, settled down in Jubaxian, and called the three young nephews to ask them about their daily life in Shantang Academy. So he sent the three of them out: "Your second cousin is celebrating the festival in Suzhou this year, but the master is not at home, and it is not easy for our female family members to entertain us. The three of you brothers have the right to accompany the second uncle on behalf of uncle and father." Let's drink and talk!"

Compared with admiring the scenery in Baifang Garden, joking with the sisters, and having wine with the second cousin in the front yard, it seems a little less attractive.

Brother Hong burst out laughing and was about to speak, but Brother Min glanced at him first.

"We will definitely not lose the face of our husband and wife!" He promised the eldest wife.

Uncle Ertang was born as a patriarch, and he can be regarded as a powerful figure in Shaanxi.

If the Yang family didn't treat Second Tang Shu well, they would be somewhat embarrassed in front of the clansmen in the future.

Brother Min can figure this out at such a young age, so it can be seen that he is a man who can be made.

The eldest lady sighed from the bottom of her heart.

It's a pity that no matter how good he is, he is someone else's son.

Then he grimaced and told Ninth Brother, "Don't run around, go back to the house and work hard after eating, did you hear me? You are also ten years old, don't treat yourself as an ignorant child, seeing your father and second uncle outside If you work hard... you should know that you have to study hard!"

Brother Nine got up and obediently agreed.

Seventh Lady looked at the expression on the second wife's face, and her heart was full of irony.

(End of this chapter)