The original owner originally had more than ten taels of silver, and as a concubine, she had two taels of silver per month, but in the past, the original owner would often give some small rewards to his subordinates, and occasionally make some clothes and ornaments outside the rating, and it was not easy to save so much.
This time, I spent more than ten taels of silver to buy medicinal herbs, and the rest was bought for food, and my bag was empty.
Back in the original owner's courtyard, the two girls just entered the door to ask the master to get up, and when they saw that there was a big basket in the house, they all looked at Ziqing with surprise.
Ziqing didn't say anything, they wanted to ask, but they thought about the words that the previous master said so coldly, "To be a slave, you should keep your duty", they swallowed the words they wanted to ask back into their stomachs, and tacitly helped Ziqing put the things in the room one by one.
Ziqing saw the movements of the two, and was slightly relieved.
Let Yuxin Yuhe clean up the small stove under the eaves, and then go to the matching room to get some firewood.
The two of them took care of the small stove, which is equipped in every small courtyard, mainly to facilitate the women of each house to boil water and hot rice, etc., but the original owner has always been very favored by the old marquis because of Wei's family, so everything Xia Qing needs here is properly prepared in the big kitchen.
As the saying goes, the son is expensive by the mother, and the mother is cheap.
Now Xia Hua has made a trick to frame Xia Qing, and it has also caused the Wei family to fall out of favor in front of the old marquis Ziqing took out the medicinal herbs and picked up the excess inside.
Because of the limited conditions, it cannot be distilled and purified, and can only be made into slurry and ointment.
After a while, Yuxin and Yuhe came back with red and swollen eyes, and their bodies were still dirty.
They looked at Ziqing's eyes a little evasively, full of sadness and guilt.
As soon as Ziqing saw it, she understood in her heart that they must have gone to the house to be angry with those old pious women.
Ziqing sat down on the stone bench in the courtyard and asked the two of them to tell her everything about their place.
After all, the personnel relationship here is very complicated, and she can't even run to make a fuss without even knowing the specific situation.
The two of them began to cry as they spoke.
Zi Jing comforted them a little, and then took them to the matching room again.
The housekeeper's surname is Tang, known as Aunt Tang, and she is a very kind and kind person in the impression of the original owner.
However, when Ziqing saw this figure with his own eyes, it seemed to be kind, but in fact, his eyebrows were narrow, and his mind was extremely gloomy.
Without waiting for Ziqing to speak, he straightened his waist with his hands and pretended to salute, "It turned out that the third lady came, I don't know what to tell the old marquis to say that the third lady is injured and emotional and needs to recuperate, and it is inconvenient to come out, so I just tell my subordinates to do something." ” Oh, what a sharp mouth.
As soon as he came, he moved out of the "old marquis" to oppress people.
Ziqing didn't talk so much nonsense, and said, "Go, take out the booklet of the regulations of your houses here." ” Aunt Tang stood still and didn't move, still smiling and said: "Third Miss, I respect you as a little master, it stands to reason that we should do everything you order, but the account books of this regulation are all managed by the eldest lady, and I don't ask if you are in such a hurry to ask for the account books whether you are suspicious or dissatisfied with the eldest lady, but we really can't spare the manpower to help you ask the eldest lady for the booklet."
Ziqing said: "According to what you say, you usually distribute things to each room, there is no booklet, it is according to your heart, you can give it to whoever you want, dare to love this Xia Mansion is all you in charge of with one hand."
Aunt Tang hurriedly screamed, trembling and about to kneel, "Ouch, my third young lady, you can't talk nonsense about medicine can be eaten, if your words fall into the ears of the eldest lady and the old marquis, don't you hurt my old bones?"
Ziqing looked at this seemingly humble but cunning old woman, who was really a slave bully.
He turned his head and said to Yu Xin: "I'm the third lady of the dignified Xia Mansion, you tell this old pious woman who doesn't even have a booklet what kind of ration I should have every month." ” Yu Xin was agitated by Ziqing Lingran's momentum, responded, subconsciously straightened her back, took a step forward, and said to Aunt Tang, who was already trembling and kneeling on the ground: "According to the regulations and practices in the house, our third lady should have thirty catties of polished rice, fruits and vegetables, oil, and meat every month."
Speaking of them one by one, I'm afraid that even the original owner knows for the first time the share of food and drink given to her every month in the "family".
This reminded Ziqing that he had been in the palace before, and there were so many harem mansions, so he adopted this system, according to the level of the concubines, the degree of favor, and then rationed the corresponding living expenses like pets in a circle, the food given by the favored ones is much finer, and the unfavored ones will give charity at will not starve to death It's the same with the back house of this big family.
A man is the heavens, raising his women and the children of the women in the back house, and then giving different treatment according to the difference between the concubines and relatives Is this still "home".
Aunt Tang said: "All the expenses of the third lady have always followed the big kitchen."
Zi Jing sneered, "It seems that you minions really think you can turn the sky upside down."
I thought that I was out of favor now, and I didn't dare to say anything if you brought me some leftovers every day, so I told you, no matter how I fell out of favor, no matter how unpowerful I was, it was the blood of the Xia family, and it was just a matter of waving my hand to dispose of you minions.
I'm here today just for one thing, I Xia Qing didn't want to worry about everything before, but, from now on, all my Xia Qing's share must be in accordance with the previous regulations, I don't need you slaves how to be loyal to the master, I just want you all to do your part.
Otherwise, the grass on the wall at this time will be blamed for the disaster of the overthrow of the other day."
Aunt Tang is an old fritter and wants to say a few words, but Ziqing doesn't want to continue to entangle, so she asks Yuxin and the two to go to the warehouse to get something.
There were also two housekeepers in the treasury who distributed things, they completely looked at Aunt Tang's eyes, no matter how hurried Yuxin and the two were, they just stood there and said, "Don't embarrass us, we just follow orders, you will make us very embarrassed, they are both slaves, don't go too far" The sentence also blocked the two of them not knowing how to deal with it.
At this moment, a cold and not majestic reprimand came: "What's the matter here, Sister Qing, your father let you recuperate in the room, what are you doing in this place, where is the maid not taking good care of the master, come here, teach me a good lesson for these two ignorant minions" A woman wearing a diagonal embroidered brocade walked over, withdrew the hand that was being held by Mama Cui, and gently held her temples, with a graceful and cold expression.
It is the old marquis's wife, the Jin family. t1706231537: