Lord, don't be afraid, the princess is not angry

Chapter 15
Because their demeanor was very pleasing to the eye, Mrs. Sun suppressed her anger and asked curiously, "What's your surname?"

The four of them glanced at each other, and Qing Lan replied, "We have already lost our surnames after we are all criminal officials."

"After the prisoner? Which one of you has the biggest father?"

"It's the father of the slave family. He used to be the minister of the Ministry of Rites in the previous dynasty. He was an official of the third rank of the court." Qing Lan said.

As soon as Sun heard it, she said to Jin Hua who was standing next to her: "I think I have to go to your grandfather's grave next year in Qingming, how much smoke will it take to let that bastard take away the third-rank official's family?" Bring the girl to the mansion."

Jin Hua listened ignorantly, but before she could answer, she heard a chuckle from below.Sun looked over and saw that it was Miss Shixiang who was smiling, so she couldn't help frowning.

Shixiang quickly knelt down and said: "Madam, forgive me. I heard that Madam is so friendly and funny, so I forgot to offend Madam for a moment."

Sun snorted coldly, and said: "You are the one who climbed on the bed a few days ago. You don't know how to be afraid after bumping into the master, but now you are dressed so ostentatiously, you think the bumping is not thorough enough. I know you all It is a person bestowed by the emperor, but the emperor may not be able to take care of the family affairs of each family. Although I want to do it, my wife is also a person who knows how to measure, and I don't want to care about a little girl like you. How about it, let me see in the garden There is a pavilion with a nice view, you can kneel in the pavilion for an hour every day until... the end of the first lunar month."

Shixiang's face changed when she heard that, she thought that the wife from the country would see that they were bestowed by the emperor and spare them, who would have thought that Sun was not afraid.Kneeling as a punishment is hard enough, and now she is still kneeling in a place where people come and go, and these months are the coldest season in Chang'an, how can she endure such suffering.

"Madam, please forgive me, I know I was wrong."

"If you know a mistake, you have to be punished, so that you can have a long memory. Okay, go kneel, just let others know that my wife is cruel, don't think that I am a countryman who is easy to bully." Sun said, she didn't think How heavy is this punishment, stealing people in the countryside has to be immersed in a pig cage, so she asked her to kneel, which is already very light.In the past, there was a man in the village who stole food from his neighbors, and he was fined to kneel in front of the ancestral hall for a month, and he was laughed at by people coming and going.There is no ancestral hall in Cheng's mansion, so when Sun came back to Beijing, he only brought his parents-in-law's tablet.

Cheng Dashan's family fled from other places. His father died of illness after he fled to Lijia Village. He was brought up by Cheng's mother.He heard that he had several uncles, but according to Cheng's mother, uncles and aunts were not good people. If they hadn't robbed his family of rations when they were fleeing famine, maybe his father wouldn't have survived.Cheng Dashan was still young at that time and didn't remember these people. Since Cheng's mother didn't want to mention them, he didn't mention them, just pretending that his family had always been from Lijia Village.

Now the tablets of his parents are enshrined in a room in the main courtyard, where incense is offered every day, and the tablets of the Cheng family's ancestors are also enshrined inside, which has exhausted his wishes as a descendant of the Cheng family.Also because this place is in the main courtyard, Sun didn't want Shixiang to appear in the main courtyard, so she punished her to kneel in the pavilion.

Shixiang still wanted to say that the senior management had already ordered someone to drag her down.

"You guys go down too, if you have nothing to do, don't come forward." Sun said, looking at Qinglan with concern, but didn't say anything after all.

The three of them lowered their heads and exited the room nervously. Qing Lan frowned slightly, clutching the handkerchief tightly.Did Madam see something in those few glances just now, she thought to herself, shaking her head slightly, Madam just came from the countryside, how could she know about that.She had to deal with the matter before others found out, so she secretly made up her mind, and Qing Lan followed the others back to the yard.

When they were far away, the senior executives let people from the mansion come in to see them first. Because there were not many people, Mrs. Sun finished seeing them very quickly.Afterwards, the Gao family took Sun to the treasury and handed over a brochure.

"Madam, this is the entry and exit list of the treasury, please have a look."

Sun only glanced at it, then closed the booklet, and looked at the senior executive questioningly.

"Madam can take her confidants to the storeroom to check things when it's convenient. Generally, there are public storerooms in the mansion, as well as private storerooms for the madam and miss. The keys to these storehouses are kept by yourself or handed over to your confidantes to pick up things. In addition to the key, when others go to pick up things, they also need the token of the madam, the token in the mansion has not been finished yet, I have to trouble the madam to pick a pattern first, and then find a craftsman to do it."

"The pattern hasn't been decided yet?"

"The slave also asked the master before, and the master said to let the wife decide."

This is to save all the work for her to come. Sun frowned and said pointedly: "I think everything should be kept in a booklet, and the accounts will be settled later so that there will be no leaks."

Gao Jin pretended not to understand the meaning of Sun's words, and smiled in response, thinking that he was silently lighting wax for Cheng Dashan just like Zhuhua and the others.After reading the treasury, after returning to the house, the senior executives handed over several ledgers, some for expenses in the mansion, some for the village, and some for the shop. Only then did Mrs. Sun know that there were two shops under the name of Cheng Dashan. All rented out.

Mrs. Sun couldn't understand the account book in the mansion, flipped through a few pages, and asked the senior manager, "Is there an account book in the mansion?"

"Yes, there are, but it's best for Madam to go through the accounts." The executive reminded.

Naturally, Mrs. Sun also knew this. She held the account book and sighed, then turned to look at her three daughters: "Next year, you should learn how to be a housekeeper, and I will leave the account book to you in the future."

"Don't worry, mother, I will study hard." Yinhua patted her chest and said, Zhuhua also nodded, only Jinhua looked away guiltily.

She really wanted to go hunting in the mountains, but if she couldn't, she could go to other people's houses to butcher pigs, it was better than reading the books.She gets sleepy whenever she sees something with words, and she doesn't want to learn at all.

"Also, Madam, do you want to buy some more properties? If you rely on the revenue of one village and two shops plus the master's salary, you may not be able to support a whole family."

Can't afford it?Sun looked at the senior executives puzzledly.

The executive immediately explained: "When there are more servants in the family, these servants have to have a monthly salary, and usually they have to give them two sets of clothes every season, and sometimes they have to give them a reward. That is the big head. The Chinese New Year will be in a few months Now, we have to give them red envelopes, everyone gets one, and each courtyard can give out another one."

When Mrs. Sun heard it, she felt that the rare treasures she saw in the brochure were not in order and would be sent to the pawnshop one day, and she also felt embarrassed at the moment.

"Why don't we stop buying maids, and we can do all the work at home." Yinhua said with a distressed face.

"Second miss, you must have a maid. If you go out and send a maid to inquire first, don't tell me you still have to talk to that girl in person." The senior executive persuaded.

Why not, the three sisters thought at the same time.Of course, Zhuhua knew that this would not work, but she still scoffed at the feudal society, making it so complicated and burning her own money, which is interesting.

"Does the executive know where there is a suitable property nearby that is suitable for buying?" Sun asked. The money left at home will only decrease. Only by buying a property can there be long-term income. Sun also understands this truth.

The executive sighed, and said with some embarrassment: "The servant also went to inquire recently and heard that the prices of properties in the capital are now being exorbitantly high, and I am afraid that they will not be able to buy properties with suitable prices."

It is estimated that a group of newly promoted grassroots officials rushed to buy properties, which drove up the land price in Chang'an.However, the good location is probably still in the hands of those aristocratic families, and the emperor also has a lot of them. He rewarded the house and Zhuangzi easily. As a place to stay, I couldn't help blurting out: "Daqing Mansion."

"What's wrong with Daqing Mansion?" Sun asked in puzzlement.

The senior manager stroked his beard, and Shen Ling said: "The land price in that place is not bad, and it's not far from Chang'an. If you buy Zhuangzi, it would be good to send someone you can trust to take care of it in the future."

"There are people. The cousin and cousin-in-law who live in the East Wing are people who can't be idle. It was agreed at the beginning to let them take care of Zhuangzi. I just don't know what jobs are there, and I'm afraid the cousin-in-law won't be able to do it for a while."

"It's easy to handle. You can ask Master Biao to go to the village in the mansion to go to school for a while. The head of the village in that village is a trustworthy person. Now it's winter and there is no work in the field. Madam can tell him anything."

Mrs. Sun nodded, feeling that the matter had finally been resolved, she breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but look at Zhuhua, and reached out to touch her head, "You child is thinking about other things again, so stop thinking about it."

Ever since Zhuhua had a fever on the way, the doctor said she was too worried, and whenever they saw her thinking about something, they came over to tell her not to think about it.She didn't think about anything, she still didn't know which direction her life plan was going to go, and she couldn't find the direction even if she tried to use her brain.

The senior executives also took a look at Zhuhua, and praised at the right time: "Miss San is really smart."

Zhuhua lowered her head and pretended to be shy, and smiled helplessly with the corner of her mouth twitching.This made the senior executive take a second look. He originally thought that the whole family was straight-tempered, but he didn't expect that there was a serious one hidden.

(End of this chapter)