Yang Chuying's skin is milky white, her cheeks are slightly bulging, she is sitting next to Mrs. Zhu with her chin on her cheek, her eyes are clear and cute, her teeth are biting her delicate lips, and she has a pair of small pear dimples when she smiles. She looks carefree.
Mrs. Zhu said to little Fu: "My little granddaughter has been raised by my side since she could speak. Her father was the governor of Hexi Province and he had only one daughter. Her mother passed away and did not renew the marriage. It's just that we are older. Yes, her cousins are older than her, and it just so happens that your two daughters are about the same age, so they can talk together."
"That's what I said, so that the journey won't be boring." Little Fu smiled.
Mrs. Zhu saw Li Shu and Li Wan bowing together and seeing that they were well behaved, so she asked, "Is your girl engaged?" She thought that she was not very young, so maybe it would be okay to get married. The Liu family They are also from a famous family, and Liu Chengxu's reputation as an official is also very good.
Little Mrs. Fu nodded: "It's all decided. Our second girl has chosen to be the grand-nephew of our old lady's natal family, the nephew of Mr. Yin Zeng of Shuntian Mansion of the Jishui Zeng family. The third girl has chosen to be the Zheng family of Xingyang, the eldest son of Zheng Shaoyin."
It would be irresponsible for a family to allow the girls to grow older and make new betrothed at will. Just like Mrs. Fu has been dragging Li Jia around, if she hadn't forced Mrs. Fu later, she wouldn't have known the true face of the Fu family. Li Jia might not have been able to get married until she was twenty years old.
Unexpectedly, all the girls from the Liu family were engaged, so Mrs. Zhu would not act abnormally and pushed Yang Chuying to talk to them.
The three of them were separated. Liwan was the oldest among the three, Yang Chuying was a month older than Lishu, and Lishu was the youngest of the three.
Liwan smiled and said, "Then we will call you Sister Yang from now on."
"Hey, sister Liwan, sister Lishu." Yang Chuying didn't mind at all.
It can be seen that Yang Chuying is a completely pampered girl. Although the Liu sisters were born into a wealthy and prominent family, the sisters grew up in a complex environment, so they are all human beings. Yang Chuying seems a bit too simple.
After breaking up with the Zhu family, the Liu family had a special boat. After Lishu got on the boat, Mrs. Fu realized that her daughter was interested.
"What's going on? I saw that you were a little uneasy when you saw that Miss Yang?"
Mrs. Fu always pays attention to her daughter's expression. She took her daughter to work so easily because she wanted her to relax and not have to follow so many rules in the mansion, but she saw that her daughter was worried.
Li Shu didn't know what to say. She actually only met Yang Chuying once in her previous life. After she was caught when she ran out, the sack had a hole in it when she was bundled into the house. The servants all knelt down to salute Miss Yang, who walked away gracefully.
"No, it's nothing. My daughter just thinks that Miss Yang seems to have no intelligence or scheming, and Mr. Zhu and Mrs. Zhu are both very old." Li Shu said.
Little Mrs. Fu thought: "That's right. Mr. Zhu is seventy years old this year, and Mrs. Zhu is also getting older. But this is a good thing for your father. As he gets older, it will naturally be difficult for him to do things, and he has to Your father can help. It will be beneficial for your father to have more experience. If you don’t like that girl Yang, stay away from her."
Li Shu said quickly: "It's not that I don't like it, I just think my daughter is too worldly in front of her."
Little Fu smiled and said: "My daughter is so sophisticated that she is called a lady. In fact, why is your aunt waiting to see my mother's joke? Because she knows very well that I have no experience in teaching housekeepers how to sacrifice. You get married after weddings and funerals, so it’s easy to make a fool of yourself. So I keep you with me all the time now, just to teach these things that should be taught. You see, she is older than you. From what Mrs. Zhu means, it seems that she is being pampered. I'm used to it, but now I'm still picky about food. You must know that only small families deliberately pamper their children. Mr. Zhu was only a Jinshi at the age of forty-five. He had never been very wealthy before. Such pampering may not be a good thing. There is nothing. It’s not a good thing to let children do it.”
"But isn't her father the Hexi Jiedu envoy?" Lishu remembered that at that time, her identity was Yang Chuying, the daughter of the Lianghuai Salt Transport Envoy. In other words, his father will be promoted to the position of Salt Transport Envoy, which is quite a big official position. Lishu's father is only in the fourth rank now.
Little Fu smiled again: "Does having a high official position prove that this person is good at everything? So what if he is just like the Fu family or the old mansion? If it hadn't happened last time, no one would have known that the Fu family is so hateful, including you. My eldest sister may not be able to marry now. In fact, if it was my original intention, I would marry her far away. In the future, this matter will have nothing to do with your eldest sister. If her status is slightly lower than ours, your father will always beat her, but... It was your grandfather who watched it, and the Fu family also intervened, so I didn’t say anything more."
If Yang Chuying was a bad person with a mean and bad heart, Li Shu could openly hate her and her family. They didn't want their daughter to go, so they bought her instead. But obviously Yang Chuying is not a bad person. She is very simple and not good at calculations. Instead, she is a blank slate.
She could not act without conscience and harm someone who had not harmed her now when nothing had happened.
Unless they really did something evil.
"Mom, I just sighed for a moment, yes, I left Jingzhong, and the best thing is that I don't have to hear Li Zhen's foul mouth targeting me." Li Shu figured it out, and her mood improved.
Little Fu said: "I heard that Aunt Hu is pregnant again. Your aunt is also taking pregnancy pills and hopes to have another baby. Your aunt is determined to find someone to overpower you sisters. I think they are afraid I’m exhausted.”
Li Shu said: "Yes, whether it is marriage or childbirth, it is a difficult time for women to go through. Although I don't like my eldest aunt and Li Zhen, I still feel like I am hurting others when I see this scene."
"My daughter is right to think this way, otherwise she will become a traitor. For example, she is not happy to be tortured by her mother-in-law, but instead tortures her daughter-in-law when she becomes a mother-in-law, or she knows that she has many hardships It took a lot of hard work to give birth to a son, and I also know that giving birth to a son or a woman depends on fate, and it is not easy for women, but I look down on others giving birth to daughters." Little Fu taught.
Where is the so-called viciousness of ghosts? As the saying goes: Tiger poison cannot eat its seeds. This is not the case with the Demonic Ghost, who seems to specialize in seducing his relatives to be eaten by tigers.
Mrs. Zhu was also telling Mr. Zhu this truth: "I see that the two little sisters from the Liu family are similar in age to our Chuying family, but they know the rules very well and have made the marriage arrangements early. They are both from well-known families. .Look at our Chuying, what should we do? I am old, and you are an old-fashioned person. The son-in-law respects us on the face, but his heart has long been biased towards that foxy child, and he still wants to correct that foxy child. Bah, as long as I'm here, Chu girl, don't let them cause trouble."
"Who asked Chuying's mother to usury money, she was sued to the top." Zhu Shangshu was in his forties before he was awarded a Jinshi. After becoming a Jinshi, he got this old woman and regarded it as a treasure. When he was old, he betrothed her to her. Chuying's father.
Chu Ying's father came from a poor family and was his student. Although he was not very handsome, he was deep and calm, cautious in words and deeds, and extremely alert, so Zhu Shangshu married his beloved daughter. After his daughter got married, Zhu Shangshu spared no effort to promote his son-in-law, and he even exchanged his official position for his son-in-law, the Hexi Jiedu envoy.
It's just that after the daughter gets married, she collects stolen money and makes loan sharking, especially the bigger the son-in-law's official position is, the more she collects. It would have been nice to have his official position to protect her, but the daughter has to pay for it because the son-in-law has an outside wife and an outside wife. The jealousy was so great that the corruption was discovered by the censor, and the daughter was so angry that she just let it go.
The granddaughter was still young, so she had no choice but to live under the guidance of the two elders. The son-in-law, after a lot of trouble, used it again. For the sake of the old couple, they never welcomed the outer room into the door, but it is said that the outer room was full of children. If you have a son, you will get married sooner or later.
Thinking of this, Zhu Shangshu also complained about his daughter and acted carelessly.
Mrs. Zhu was very worried: "Originally, I always thought that I raised Chuying very well. Our Chuying was born well, and we hired famous teachers to teach us. But looking at the girls of the Liu family, the Liu family is indeed a famous family, especially It’s the third girl from the Liu family, she’s even younger than Chuying. Not to mention her poems and books, she speaks in a well-behaved manner. Even the female celebrities are top-notch. We Chuying can only embroider like a landlubber, and we can’t pick up the horizontal stitches and vertical threads. Do not move."
"Don't always compare yourself with others. Since you think they are good, just let Chuying play with them more." Zhu Shangshu said.
Mrs. Zhu agreed very much.
It was not very close from Tongzhou to Jining. Little Fu was very attentive and asked the housekeeper to buy some fresh vegetable and fruit noodles every time we stopped. Lishu followed her mother and listened closely. In his free time on weekdays, Liu Chengxu often gets intoxicated by playing the piano to listen to his family. After drinking a few glasses of wine made by Xiao Fu, he feels very comfortable.
"Have the account books been prepared?" Little Fu asked her daughter.
Li Shu nodded: "Don't worry. Oh, I was still timid when I first started keeping accounts. But now I keep more accounts, and it's actually pretty impressive."
Little Fu nodded: "Yes, we foreign ministers mostly interact with local officials and their wives. This is more complicated than your father being an official in Beijing."
"Mom, I know you are training me."
"No, it's Mom who wants your help. Now you have two younger brothers to take care of. After all, I don't have as many books as you. I think you know everything you want to learn, and Mom can take it easy, so I'm afraid it's not thoughtful. "
"Actually, it's not that I can master everything I learn, it's that I'm not afraid of difficulties." Just like she had never cooked before, but when Wusun was exiled, she lived in a yurt with her son. At first, she hated milking cows and cooking mutton, and now she hates milking cows and cooking mutton. It was very annoying, so I grew my own vegetables, but I also felt that picking manure was disgusting, but I had no choice but to persevere in order to survive.
Finally, he persisted until his son became King Zuopu.
Little Fu sighed: "Nothing is difficult in the world, only those who are willing can do it!"
It was already May when they arrived in Jining. Liwan and Lishu first waited together at Xiao Fu's house for the servants to clean up. Lishu glanced at Liwan and found that she didn't seem to have any hobbies and she didn't like reading. She occasionally played the Yueqin. I don’t know what I’m playing.
But there is something unusual about Liwan. She is often able to mediate in her interactions with others. She is gentle and kind. She does not show her anger or happiness to anyone, but she is often able to see clearly. She usually relies on Mr. Fu and seems to respect her very much. My aunt, in private, was colluding with Lirou Lijia. She always occupies the high ground of honor and justice, and also covers up her cunning, cunning, and ruthless ways very well.
This is very difficult for Lishu to do. What she wants from a person is to have a kind heart but not lose its edge. Without thunderous means, she cannot show her bodhisattva heart and let others know her bottom line from the beginning.
Therefore, Li Shu had always been indifferent to her. She seemed to be talking about it in a lively way, but in fact she didn't really talk about it.
Now they live in the Hedao Yamen, which is much better than the Yamen in Jiujiang. Dad is now a fourth-rank official, which is different from the previous seventh-rank official. He can also bring more servants.
Now Lishu has two nuns, four maids, and two maids. Liwan also has the same configuration, which is completely different from the maids she had to use her mother in Jiujiang before.
But Mr. Fu thought that her salary was not much, so she had all the sewing rooms dismantled, and the girls had to do their own sewing.
Li Shu knew that Li Jia's marriage cost a lot of money this time. Seeing that Li Wan and Li Wan's marriage were very similar to each other, the family naturally had to be more frugal, for fear of Li Wan complaining. Unexpectedly, Li Wan But happily.
The two of them lived next to each other in the yard, and often sewed together, and talked about the situation at home.
Liwan said: "I heard that the eldest sister got married and the father-in-law gave her 5,000 taels. The original wife's dowry was 5,000 taels, making a total of 10,000 taels. Our husband and wife also gave her all the first wife's dowry and the Song family's betrothal gift. Yes, it’s really Shili Hongzhuang.”
"Yes, weddings and funerals are the most expensive. Mom is doing it for our own good. Second sister, the Zeng family is even richer, and my father is honest. If you don't save more, you won't have the support like the first wife, and It will be difficult to make the wedding a success." Li Shu smiled.
Liwan actually has Aunt Su's private house, and her uncle's business was very big in the past. She also has a share of furniture in her hands, but she is afraid that Mr. Fu will ask her to take it out on her own, so she will never show up now, and the female celebrity will follow suit. Do.
It was said outside that Miss Yang was here. Li Shu and Li Wan put down their needlework and stood up to welcome her in. I saw a girl in a pink dress arriving: "My grandma said that the Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon, so she asked me to make sachets with you."
During the Dragon Boat Festival, sachets are worn, which contain realgar, mugwort leaves, borneol, and patchouli. Wearing them on the body can repel insects and ward off evil spirits.
Li Shu smiled and said, "I was just about to call you. Now that you're here, let's do it together."
"You are so skillful with your hands, but I can't. My grandmother said that embroidering a mandarin duck is like a landlubber. I really envy you." Yang Chuying was very envious when she saw Lishu flying the needle.
"It's nothing. It's just that you'll become familiar with it if you do it more." Li Shu didn't take it seriously.
However, Liwan taught Yang Chuying patiently. Her needlework was not as good as Lishu's, and Lijia was not as dedicated to women's work. However, she later suffered from Aunt Su because she was not as good at reading as her sisters, but she was very smart. Kungfu, I am doing very good needlework now.
Even Liwan's housekeeper, Lishu thought she was better at it than Lijia. Everyone has strengths, and Lishu often observes the people around her.
"Lishu, why do you smell so fragrant? Did you use jasmine dew? I have a bottle at home." Yang Chuying felt that Lishu smelled very fragrant, and she could smell it clearly even ten steps away from the door.
"No, it's rose water." Li Shu said.
Seeing that Yang Chuying was very interested in this, Lishu pointed to a glass bottle placed on her dowry box. Yang Chuying was not really interested in sewing, so she went to Lishu's dowry box, took off the stopper and smelled it. "This fragrance is much more fragrant than my jasmine dew."
"Really? I think it smells good too." But it was given by Zheng Hao, so she couldn't give it to anyone else.
This kind of rose water is a tribute. I heard that because Zheng Hao participated in a poetry meeting organized by King Yun, King Yun was very good at music. Zheng Hao stepped forward to play a pipa. He was very favored by King Yun and regarded him as a friend. He has always been Zheng Hao, who was calm and calm, asked for these ten bottles of rose water.
Yang Chuying saw Lishu put two bottles in the makeup package, and she couldn't help but want it. But when Lishu didn't say anything, she had no choice but to tilt her head and ask Liwan: "Why is this rose water so fragrant than jasmine dew??"
Li Wan said: "This rose water is a tribute and is produced in Dashi Country. The jasmine dew is an imitation. Although it is fragrant and pleasant, it is still slightly inferior. If it is not the Zheng family, others will not have it."
After hearing this, Yang Chuying let go, feeling that she had been laughed at. She knew that although her grandmother's official position was higher than that of Mr. Liu, the Zhu family and her Yang family were from poor families and had different backgrounds from the Liu family.
In fact, Li Shu felt that Li Wan's words were a bit rude and unlike her usual behavior, so Li Shu said: "Sister Yang, let's do some needlework. I heard that this year the Hedao Yamen will gather together to watch dragon boat racing. , we all need to do some needlework, this is the serious thing to do."
Yang Chuying slowly came over and sat next to them. After a while, Danhong came over and said, "Third Miss, Madam said that you would like to write a note first for the Dragon Boat Festival?"
"Okay, no problem. I'll write it when I finish my work later." Li Shu smiled.
Yang Chuying was puzzled: "Why does your mother ask you to do this? Isn't there a housekeeper at home? Why bother you."
Lishu explained: "My brothers are too young, and my second sister is recovering from a serious illness. How can I not help my mother handle things? Our sisters used to help when they were in Beijing. Don't say it's us, it's you in the future You have to learn it too.”
Yang Chuying thought the same thing: "My grandmother also asked my aunt to teach me. I used to help my aunt with accounting when I was in Beijing."
"Then it seems that everyone is the same!" Li Shu thought to herself that this Yang Chuying didn't seem to be very favored. She felt that she didn't understand anything. Yes, if she was really favored, why would her father report her name to the list? She works as an escort.
Just like Liu Chengxu was just a chief envoy in Chuzhou, participating in politics and supervising the grain road, the same third-rank official did not let his daughter do this.
Because Li Shu changed the topic, Li Wan brought up the Dragon Boat Festival custom in central Beijing again. Yang Chuying talked to her very lively and said: "When my cousin had not left the government, we also went out to play together. My aunt did not agree, but My cousin saw that I liked it, so she insisted on asking my aunt to agree. Unfortunately, after my cousin left the cabinet, it was difficult for me to go out. "
This is normal. Mrs. Zhu is older after all. She is more than ten years older than Mrs. Liu. Mrs. Liu is reluctant to move and feels very tired.
"So, you and your cousin have a very good relationship!" Li Shu asked.
Yang Chuying nodded: "Of course. My mother died young and I grew up under the knee of my grandmother. My cousin treated me with every possible care. It was because of her that I was not bullied by her other cousins. My cousin-in-law is doing the wedding ceremony at the Prince's Palace. Now Prince Cheng’s Mansion is in Beijing, and it’s difficult for us cousins to see each other in Beijing.”
Married to the Prince's Palace? Lishu had been thinking about the connection between Yang Chuying and Chengqin Palace back then. Otherwise, Xiao Yun, the eldest son of Chengqin Palace, would appear in the Yang family.
Is it because of Yang Chuying?
This is also possible, after all, Yang Chuying's father has military power, and her cousin is there to help.
Li Shu inquired quietly: "I have been to Prince Cheng's Mansion, have you been there?"
"No, I've never been there even once. How can I go there? My grandfather said that courtiers cannot interact with the vassal king." Yang Chuying still knew this.
Lishu nodded: "We are going to attend the flower banquet, and it is thanks to one of our relatives. Oh, by the way, I have participated in many poetry banquets in Beijing, and there are many flower notes. If you like, wait a moment. I’ll have someone bring it out and you can pick some.”
Soon someone took out some flower paper, and Yang Chuying happily picked out a few. She stopped doing needlework and said she wanted to go back and practice calligraphy.
As soon as she left, Liwan said to Lishu: "Didn't you say this flower note is some kind of Xue Tao note? It's very precious. Why did you give her so many?"
"I can't give her the rose water, so I can't let her go away empty-handed." Li Shu also had her own considerations.
Li Wan thought to herself that you, the third girl, are quite good at life!
As the Dragon Boat Festival approached, a major event occurred. The censor of Shandong Dao was killed, causing an uproar. It is said that he was killed again because of the river connection, so the Holy Emperor sent another imperial envoy, and the one he sent was the Crown Prince, who was very trusted by the emperor. This person was very important.
Officials from the Hedao Yamen and the local governor and envoys all went to welcome the imperial envoy. Unexpectedly, the prince, who was always very pompous, sent an empty boat over, but he got off the boat midway. No one knew where he was going. Where is it?
Liu Chengxu said at the dinner table: "Now all the officials in Shandong are trembling. This prince is highly regarded by the emperor. He must be able to solve a big case. It's pity for us new officials, we haven't done anything. It's really It’s a crime to have a jade in your possession.”
Li Shu thought that officials in Shandong Province were not necessarily vegetarians. She once heard that a certain imperial envoy went on inspection and was killed? There was also a censor who inspected the granary, which caught fire and was burned instantly.
Thinking like this, the Dragon Boat Festival will soon arrive, and on the surface there will be singing and dancing. Young Mrs. Fu took them to Wangjiang Tower to watch the dragon boat race. On the way, a maid came up and handed her a piece of paper. On it, she saw the words for help written in flying colors, and the signature was Xiao Yun.
"I've been stabbed, please give me some medicine."
Lishu suddenly thought, if it was written by someone else, she would leave it to Xiao Fu, because she was afraid that it would involve many relationships. But this was Xiao Yun, her benefactor. When she was in jail in her previous life, she asked for help, and he saved her without saying a word. Therefore, she was obliged to do so. :,n,
