/Name^Book The atmosphere in Youyang Sheng's family is harmonious and happy. From top to bottom, the whole family has similar temperaments. They love to talk and laugh, and are generous and warm to others. Minglan is like a prisoner who has served in a labor camp for many years and is suddenly released on parole. The whole family relaxes.
She and Pinlan probably had the same chemistry, and they hit it off almost immediately. There was a wild girl who was an activist, an accomplice with bad ideas, and a good old man named Taisheng who was used to being bossed around by his cousin. The Sheng family was really busy these days: Minglan was fishing, and Pinlan was helping to catch mud.
Earthworms, Taisheng was holding a fish basket on the side, and the chicken woman was saying, 'Be careful when you step down' or 'Don't go any further'; Pinlan was catching sparrows, Minglan was helping spread the dustpan, and Taisheng was squatting behind the wall.
Pull the stick onto the rope...
Mrs. Li wanted to take care of the family and prepare for the wedding, so she had to ask her daughter-in-law Wenshi to catch them and bring them back. However, Mrs. Wen was no match for her sister-in-law Pinlan, and Minglan was inconvenient to take care of them, so she could only turn a blind eye.
"Let them go. Children, if you want to play, you can play as long as you want. It's better to be lively and not like a wooden person." The old lady smiled and came to the rescue. Old lady Sheng saw Li's face in embarrassment and wanted to admonish her.
Minglan thought about it, but in the blink of an eye, she saw that Minglan's face was rosy and she was in better spirits than when she was at home. She couldn't bear it, so she sighed: "Why doesn't my nephew-in-law love her children? It's just that this girl's house... doesn't restrict them now.
, I’m afraid I’ll have to endure hardships in the future. It’s okay, my nephew-in-law, you should be more patient, and after Brother Wu’s marriage, you can take good care of these two little monkeys.”
On the side, Pinlan Minglan was caught by Mrs. Li and lectured her. She was standing with her head downcast, but when she heard the words, she looked happy. Ms. Li glared at her daughter again.
Mrs. Sheng and Fang's mother are both old. They asked Minglan to help Fang's mother take care of things as early as when they were in Dengzhou. They were already tired after the long journey, so they asked Minglan to pack their luggage and write letters to give gifts to relatives. Minglan
After being naughty with Pinlan for only two days, he was caught doing something. Pinlan was very depressed and could only complain next to him. However, seeing that both the young maid and the old woman were respectfully reporting the matter, Minglan said exactly what he said and followed the orders and prohibitions. Those servants
There was no verbosity at all, Pinlan was very impressed.
"I have also helped my sister-in-law to deal with things. The servants always like to cheat and play tricks, and they always make me suffer. My mother doesn't want to stand up to me, but she still scolds me. Is there any secret to this?" Pinlan is also very interested.
Be modest.
Minglan had never suffered a lot. She had been playing with Pinlan in the past few days and knew her temper to some extent, so she said: "Let me guess for sister? Before you run an errand, did you ask the mother in charge how she was before?"
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"No." Pinlan denied flatly, "I have already asked my mother and sister-in-law about the cause and effect, so what else do I ask my servant for?"
Minglan asked again: "Are you just asking the people around you to do the work, bypassing those mothers and grandmothers?"
Pinlan nodded: "Those mothers just rely on their respectability in front of old ladies and madams, so they don't take me seriously. Besides, if something is good once, why do they have to go through second-hand and third-hand trouble?"
Minglan had a profound expression of "Sure enough," which made Pinlan's heart itch even more. She asked again and again, and Minglan smiled and said: "Those servants are all in the hands of the master, how can they have the courage to challenge the master's lady?
?As long as you follow the rules, there is nothing wrong. Before you do anything in the future, call your mother in charge and ask her how she acted in the past. But just follow the rules. If you really don't like it and want to change your approach, you can
Don't make your own decisions, and don't reveal your intentions in front of your mother-in-law. Ask your wife or sister-in-law first if it's appropriate before you act."
Pinlan frowned and complained: "My mother always picks my faults, so I don't bother to ask her!"
Minglan grabbed Pinlan's face hard, straightened her wrinkled face, and said with a straight face: "Everything in the government has its own rules, how do you know that your method will be good? My eldest aunt has been through old age, and your method is good.
Maybe it's not good, she will know it as soon as she hears it, which is better than you doing it wrong. This is the first, and the second is that when an errand is passed by one person, there is a relationship in it, and you peel off the oil and water of others as soon as you come up.
How can you be so happy? Naturally, I'm going to stumble you overtly and covertly. If you've informed the old lady and my wife in advance, then no matter how decent you are, my mother will sue you, a serious young lady!"
Seeing that Pinlan was still hesitant, Minglan gave her one last sentence: "Housekeeping is not easy at all. Haven't you heard that 'cats and dogs are annoying after three years of being in charge'? If you are afraid of trouble, just intervene. If
If you want to take care of it, you can't be afraid of troubles and difficulties. Nowadays, you still have parents and grandmothers to support you. It's really difficult for those who are married women to face their mother-in-law, sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law!"
There are some things Minglan didn't say. As a concubine, she has a harder time than Pinlan. Neither Rulan nor Molan are vegetarians, and the Wang family may not support her.
In Minglan's view, do more and make more mistakes. Do less and make fewer mistakes. If you want to do well, the only way is not to do it.
The employee's wish is to work less and earn more money, while the employer's goal is to have the employee work more and earn less money. This set of contradictions is the same in ancient times and today. No matter how skilled a mother is, as long as she endangers the vested interests of others, she will inevitably be looked down upon.
Scooping one hundred thousand taels of silver for the family of ten thousand taels of silver, making the servants' work easier, doubling the monthly money, double pay on holidays, bonuses at the end of the year, plus three overseas trips a year, as long as the mistress is not too incompetent or deceived, basically everything
Everyone in the world will be praised as "compassionate and benevolent"; you can scoop up 10,000 taels of silver and turn it into a family of 100,000 taels of silver. Today, the uncle will buy a concubine of 800 taels, tomorrow the sisters-in-law will open a poetry club of 500 taels, and the day after tomorrow, the ancestors will donate 100,000 taels of silver.
With a thousand taels of incense oil and a family with thousands of servants, women, and maids, and the man doesn't know how to make money, it is estimated that only the Seven Fairies descending to earth can run a good home - they are gods, they can turn stones into silver notes.
The normal approach is to use reasonable money to build a reasonable-sized house. Don't be extravagant or extravagant. Don't be overly demanding or too meticulous in calculating your servants. When it's easy, be loose. It doesn't matter if a little bit leaks out between your fingers. On this basis
, Strictly regulate the family rules, standardize the behavior of the servants, teach and discipline the servants to observe etiquette, and keep the family tradition in order, which is already a good thing.
In fact, Pinlan was very smart, but before, Mrs. Li couldn't teach her the Dharma, and she couldn't speak as well as Minglan. Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Wen, was too far away to explain in detail. After thinking about it carefully, Pinlan felt that it made sense, and after returning home, she followed her mother to read.
When she was a director, she saw her mother commanding people to collect dowries, reward the servants, and prepare beds and tables. Every day, more than a dozen women gathered around asking questions, just like working on a wheel. Pinlan suddenly realized that her mother was working hard, so she obediently followed her.
Together with Minglan, she did her daily homework: making posters and embroidering; they worked hard for several days.
Mrs. Li breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that her daughter had calmed down. The day before yesterday, she had seen Minglan ordering the servants to count the boxes or organize things very neatly. Then she saw her counting without even using an abacus, just scratching on the paper with her fingers.
After two strokes, it was clear, what a girl she is! Li was shocked, and looked back at her daughter who was following Minglan and kept shouting, "It's not good yet, let's go play." She couldn't help but feel worried secretly.
Now seeing that Pinlan was somewhat sensible, Mrs. Li felt relieved, but seeing Pinlan's dejected look, she felt distressed. She rubbed her daughter's hair and said, "Your sister Ming usually has very strict rules at home. Now that you have come to our house, you
As long as you don't go out of your way, it's okay to take her for a walk in the garden."
On the day of the wedding, the whole house was decorated with new decorations. Even the maids put on new long coats one by one. Pinlan took Minglan and ran around to watch the excitement. Amidst the noise of gongs and drums, Brother Changwu was seen wearing a bright red wedding robe.
Riding on a tall white horse, the wedding sedan arrived.
"Second brother is so hopeless. Look at him smiling, the corners of his mouth are grinning behind his ears!" Pinlan hugged Minglan and whispered, Minglan nodded. Changwu did smile like an idiot today, but he deserves forgiveness.
Because old ladies are not allowed to take concubines, in order to avoid teenagers making mistakes, boys get married early. Chang Wu started talking about marriage at the age of fifteen, and there were constant thorns along the way. Horsemen, cooks, and cart drivers all came to join in the fun, but the old lady was partial to them.
He and Li had a high vision and refused to settle for a daughter-in-law with a lower family status, so Chang Wu didn't get a wife until he was twenty-one years old. How unhappy he was!
Minglan also met Taisheng's father, Uncle Hu, whose name was Erniu. Minglan originally thought that since there were Erniu, there must be a Daniu above him, but this was not the case. It is said that the old lady of the Hu family dreamed that someone was cheating on her the night before she gave birth to her son.
He gave his family two cows and named his son Erniu. Uncle Niu was a very kind person and always followed his brother-in-law Sheng Wei in and out.
However, Minglan didn't like Shulan's cousin-in-law Sun Zhigao very much. She had pretty features when she was born, but her eyes were as if they were on her forehead, with an arrogant look. Later I found out that this brother-in-law Sun was a famous child prodigy in Youyang.
He was selected as a scholar at the age of twelve, um...but he is still a scholar until now. When he learned that Mrs. Sheng was born in a marquis mansion, and that her children and grandchildren were all educated and educated, she immediately became arrogant and respectful.
It was not easy for the girl to show her face, so she could not go to the wedding hall to watch the ceremony, nor could she walk around among foreign guests. Pinlan tried to break through the encirclement and go to the front to watch the fun, but Minglan nipped it in the bud, and was dragged to the back instead.
In the garden to see the newly planted flowers and trees, Mrs. Li knew Pinlan's temperament, so she sent someone to ask her daughter to go to the back hall to talk to the old lady and the female relatives.
"Are all the cousins from the third bedroom here?" Pinlan asked. The maid smiled and said, "They are all here, even Aunt Xiulan and Aunt Yuelan from the neighboring counties are here." Pinlan immediately darkened her face.
, refused: "Then I won't go!"
The maid asked: "Girl, this can't be done. Madam has ordered..." Seeing that the little maid was sweating, Minglan said, "You go first, you girls and I will go there right away."
The little maid knew that although Miss Minglan had been here not long ago, she was very close to her own daughter and could often give Pinlan some advice, so she thanked her and left with peace of mind.
Pinlan glared at Minglan: "What guarantee do you have? I won't go." Minglan said coolly: "I don't care, but my eldest aunt doesn't trust you and will send people to arrest you. Please give me three invitations and four invitations."
In the end, it’s just a toast or a penalty.”
Pinlan thought about how powerful her mother was, and she couldn't help but feel discouraged and said, "I really don't want to see those people from the third room! Apart from Sister Xiulan, who is better, have you seen Huilan? There is also Sister Yuelan, who is a concubine. Hey, what's more
No need to say it."
Minglan pulled Pinlan and walked slowly towards the main hall. As she walked, she asked, diverting Pinlan's attention: "What is the hatred? You remember it like this."
Pinlan followed Minglan unconsciously and walked forward, and said: "You have been living in other places, and you don't know those nasty people in the third bedroom! When I was a child, my third aunt said that my family was in a difficult situation, and that my daughter must be raised by a noble family.
So they sent the three daughters to my house, and the eldest sister and I suffered a lot from them! Sister Xiulan only knew how to protect herself, so she paid it back. Yuelan, well, she always made a fuss when giving things away during festivals.
She either stole my clothes or stole my sister's hairpin. I went to complain, but she kept crying and sullenly saying that we bullied her!" "She also stole things?" Minglan really didn't expect it.
Thinking of the past, Pinlan got angry: "What's theft? It's just robbery! Whenever no one is in the eldest sister's house, she goes in and rummages through things, picks them up, puts them on, and never returns them! The eldest sister is honest.
, never talked about her, she became more and more unruly. She even dared to go into her mother's house several times. Her mother tolerated it at first, saying that it was just some jewelry and that when a girl gets older, she can dress up as she likes. Until later,
My mother became anxious when she discovered that a few land deeds were missing, including the deed to the ancestral home."
"What happened next? Will the deed come back?" Minglan asked in a playful way.
This question made Pinlan very excited. She said proudly: "At that time, she was about to get married in two months. She took advantage of the fact that she had already hired someone, and her family did not dare to deal with her. Who knew that my mother went to the third bedroom first?
He picked her up politely, and then sent someone to tell the in-laws that Sister Yuelan had contracted the cold and postponed the wedding for half a year. Then he locked up Sister Yuelan and refused to let go no matter how the third-room people came to make trouble.
Fang didn't dare to make any fuss, for fear of being divorced if the commotion got too big. Haha, Sister Yuelan was imprisoned for dozens of days, and she was released only after handing over the deed. It turned out that she didn't even tell her third uncle, secretly
I hid it in my belly pocket and wanted to take it to my husband’s house!”
Pinlan was beaming as she spoke, but Minglan opened her mouth wide and raised her thumbs in her heart - as expected, the real person didn't show her face. I didn't expect that round-faced and kind-hearted aunt to be so ruthless!
Pinlan was aroused to talk, and continued: "There is also Huilan, I have had many fights when I was a child. Look, look at this scar! It was she who pushed me against a rock five years ago.
, Fortunately, I scooped up my arms to hold it up, otherwise my face might not be what it is!" As she said that, she lifted up her sleeves and approached Minglan. Minglan stretched out her head to look, and sure enough, there was a big scar on it, twisted like a centipede, pink and pink.
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"Then, she was sent back to her home." Pinlan said bitterly, "Humph! They are all white-eyed wolves!"
Huilan and Pinlan were three years apart, so why did they do this cruel thing? Minglan looked at the five-six-inch long scar, and could imagine how painful Pinlan was when she was 18 years old, so she helped Pinlan put down her sleeves.
He comforted her and said, "I often hear the eldest lady talking about Sister Xiulan, saying that she is quite a good person. She supports her husband and raises her children, and her husband and wife are harmonious. It can be seen that my eldest aunt's support is not all in vain!"
Pinlan finally smiled: "That's not all because of my mother's good deeds! That year, Sister Xiulan came to my house crying all night, kowtowed to the point of bleeding, and begged my parents not to let my third uncle marry her.
A shady old man was working to fill a house. My mother managed to save her and even decided to marry her to her now brother-in-law. After he was admitted as a scholar, he was unable to win the exam. It was my father who smoothed the relationship and let my brother-in-law work in a neighboring county.
A teaching."
Minglan nodded repeatedly: "Uncle and aunt are really good people, so willing to stand up for my niece, huh? By the way, why doesn't uncle give Brother Sun a lesson as well?"
Pinlan snorted coldly: "When my brother-in-law was a child, he was told by a gossip vendor that he was destined to be prime minister, so he made up his mind to become a second-ranking Jinshi. How could he be willing to be a low-ranking Qingshui official? He refused several times.
I have accepted my father’s kindness, hey, don’t be too ambitious to learn!”
Listening to Pinlan's complaints, Minglan couldn't help but smile. She thought that if Pinlan was born in modern times, she could go to Tianya and open a post on "August 18, My Best Cousins, Cousins, Husbands, Uncles, Cousins, and Aunts". It would be so bloody fun, for sure.
Can be hot!
When Pinlan finished speaking, the two sisters had already reached the door of the main room. In front of them, a maid stretched out her neck to wait. Seeing them coming from a distance, she was overjoyed and hurriedly stepped forward to greet them: "Good girls, you guys
We’re finally here. The old lady inside has asked me several times. If I don’t come back, I’ll send people to look for you again.”
"What are you talking about? This is not coming!" After confiding her old grievances, Pinlan felt much happier. She pulled Minglan's legs and walked inside. As soon as the maid at the door opened the curtain, a strange elderly female voice came from inside.
He came out and said: "...just marry your girl Ming to my grand-nephew!"
Pinlan was taken aback, and reflexively turned to look at Minglan. She was surprised to find that she actually breathed a sigh of relief. She smiled and said, "What did you say when my aunt punished you for copying the book? Oh, stick your head out."
A cut to shrink one's head is also a cut. Okay, let's go in!"