When Geng Xingshuang woke up, it was already a moment after Chenzheng. She looked blankly at the ginger-yellow plain tent roof above, and for a moment she couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality.
However, Geng Xingshuang, who had experienced this situation many times, reasonedly told her that this was reality now. In her current perception, all the things in the dream should be regarded as bizarre scenes, and it was really just a dream.
"Girl, you are finally awake!"
A woman wearing a pea green and ocher skirt hurried over. She was one of the only maids beside Geng Xingshuang. She had a anxious look on her face, as if she had run back from outside.
"You couldn't wake me up again? What happened?"
Geng Xingshuang has already gained experience in dreaming. As long as he had that weird dream one night, in which he saw scenes that he had never seen before in his life and that he did not have such a big imagination to imagine out of thin air, the first I must wake up late on the second day, and I cannot be woken up by various sounds and movements from the outside world, so I can only wake up by myself.
She has gained experience, and so have the two maids beside her. They were not so panicked before, but now that the curtain is acting like this, something must have happened.
Sure enough, I heard the painting curtain say urgently: "Mrs. Uncle is going to sell half of the roll!"
"What?"
Geng Xingshuang jumped up from the bed and jumped out of bed. She quickly put on her clothes without drawing a curtain to serve her.
"It's true. Mrs. Yu Ya from Liu'er Hutong came early this morning. Sister Lu Wu who is next to Mrs. Bo personally led the person into the main courtyard. If it hadn't been a quarter of an hour ago, Mother Qiao suddenly came to take him away. After half a roll, the slave hurriedly followed, Putao secretly told the slave, and the slave couldn’t believe it, “Girl, what should I do now?”
During the curtain drawing report, Geng Xingshuang had already put on her clothes, finished washing, and sat in front of the dressing table. Although the drawing curtain was anxious, she quickly and skillfully divided Geng Xingshuang's hair into a bun, and inserted a hair into it. A gilt flying bird hairpin and a pair of red gold flowing bead earrings.
In this short period of time, Geng Xingshuang had already thought of a solution.
"Mrs. Uncle, will you only sell half a roll, or will you also sell Pingshan, Shenshui, Pearl, Pandan, and Angelica dahurica?"
Pingshan and Shen Shui are the maids of the third girl Geng Xingbing, Pearl is the maid of the fourth girl Geng Xingyu, Xianglan and Bai Zhi are the maids of the sixth girl Geng Xingchen.
Because Geng Xingyu was born as a concubine, he was killed in the fifth generation and now only the last generation of the Anping Mansion is left. With the expenses repeatedly reduced, since two years ago, Mrs. Xia, the uncle's wife, has stipulated that only two attendants should be left around the legitimate daughter of the mansion, including The mother-in-law and the maidservant, but the concubine girl only has one waiter left by her side.
As for the young masters, there will be four of them for the legitimate sons and daughters, including mothers-in-law, maids, young men, etc., and two for the concubines.
Two years ago, the number of servants in the uncle's house was reduced by more than half. Not only did they get money, they also reduced their expenses, which was able to support them for a period of time.
Geng Xingshuang asked Hua Lian this question now because she wanted to find out whether Mrs. Bo was purely targeting Banjuan... or her, or whether the mansion could no longer support it again.
"I heard from Putao that Shen Shui and Xianglan were also called to the main courtyard."
Compared with Hua Lian, Ban Juan's appearance is more eye-catching, while Shen Shui is prettier than Ping Shan, and Pan Juan is more beautiful than Angelica dahurica.
"What is Mrs. Bo doing?"
Thinking of that possibility, Geng Xingshuang frowned. Money can indeed lower a person's bottom line again and again. No wonder he was so anxious and secretive this time, not even saying hello to the owners of these three maids.
Hua Lian hadn't thought of this yet. When Geng Xingshuang mentioned this, her face turned pale and she murmured, "No wonder it's Yu Yapo from Liu'er Hutong who came here this time, not Wang Ya from Changning Street."
Yu Yapo and Wang Yaren can be regarded as the famous Yapas of this generation in the north of the city. However, Wang Yaren's reputation is not bad, but Yu Yapo is not so good. The people she handles, whether male or female, if they are good-looking, they are also young. Well, many of them were sent to that unspeakable place. They really eat people without spitting out their bones, making life worse than death.
Geng Xingshuang, a down-and-out lady in the palace, and the maids around her were not supposed to know about this, but who made Geng Xingshuang start dreaming more than a year ago? The dreams taught her a lot, no, or should be said that she picked it up. She felt that the latter statement was more in line with everything she had experienced in the past year, now and even in the future.
"Come on, let's go to Mom's place."
Geng Xingshuang stood up. Their room was the eldest room of the uncle's house in Anping. Her father, Geng Wen, was the uncle's eldest son and his legitimate son. However, he was not born to the uncle's wife, but to the uncle's first wife, Mrs. Zhou. However, her biological grandmother died less than half a year after her father was born.
She now lives in Qingcui Courtyard with her parents. Originally she lived in a courtyard by herself. However, two years ago, in order to reduce expenses, all the girls living alone in the mansion moved to live in the same courtyard with their parents. , both the manpower and the money needed to take care of the yard are much less.
Therefore, it is not that the Anping Mansion has no courtyard, but that many courtyards are vacant, and now there are weeds and vines climbing the walls.
"Fifth sister!"
As soon as Geng Xingshuang walked out of the room, she saw Geng Xingchen hurried in from outside the courtyard, followed by Bai Zhi.
"Fifth sister, it's bad. Grandma wants to sell Pandan, Ban Juan and Shen Shui. I went to beg my grandmother, but she didn't see me. Fifth sister, what do you think I should do?"
Geng Xingchen is one year younger than Geng Xingshuang. In fact, it is only a few months younger. It is the fourteenth year of Shengning in the Daning Dynasty. Geng Xingshuang was born in the twelfth month of the second year of Shengning. Xuxu is fourteen years old. It was the cardamom age, and Geng Xingchen was born in March of the following year. The two sisters were similar in age, had similar temperaments, and had always had a good relationship.
Now that something like this happened, the first thing Geng Xingchen thought of was Geng Xingshuang.
"I already know about this, Sixth Sister, if your grandmother doesn't see you, have you gone to ask Third Aunt for help?"
Geng Xingshuang asked Geng Xingchen as she walked towards her mother Ruan's main house.
"I went to beg, but my mother said that my grandmother said that after selling the pandan, if I feel that Angelica dahurica is not enough for one person, I can buy another one. I don't understand. What's the use of selling one and buying another one? Is there a difference? Could it be that Xianglan made some mistake, but the half volume in your house, the fifth sister, and the sinking water in the third sister's house are also going to be taken away. Could it be that the three of them made some mistake together? "
Geng Xingchen followed closely beside Geng Xingshuang, muttering in his heart, so he also said it. Before Geng Xingshuang could respond, the two of them had already arrived at Ruan's house.
Naturally, Mrs. Ruan woke up early and even had breakfast.
Every once in a while, Geng Xingshuang would fall into a very deep sleep one day and couldn't wake up even if she yelled. Ruan was also panicked from the beginning and even asked a doctor about it. Madam Uncle then cornered her and said she didn't know how to make rice. Gui, in the end, he calmed down and just waited for her to wake up naturally.
"mother!"
"Hello, aunt!"
Geng Xingshuang and Geng Xingchen came in and saluted. Ruan put down her embroidery work. Geng Xingshuang glanced at the clothes on the table and then at her mother's face.
"Mom, did you stay up late again last night?"
"No, Hai Chu fell asleep." Ruan answered reflexively.
Geng Xingshuang laughed angrily when she saw her mother's expression was so straight even when she lied. Before she could say anything else, Ruan had already looked at Geng Xingchen.
"Xingchen is here too?"
Geng Xingchen nodded, "Xianglan and Banjuan are going to be sold by my grandmother, so I came to Fifth Sister to find a solution."
Ruan didn't know about this. Although she was in the courtyard, Qiao's mother only said that she was looking for Ban Juan to help the main courtyard. This kind of thing has happened before. After all, no courtyard has enough manpower now. Ruan Shi was busy with the embroidery work in his hands, so he didn't ask any more questions.
