After sending Xu Ci away, Mrs. Yao was in a good mood and hummed a little tune to coax her son to sleep. After a while, the little maid who reported the news came back and whispered: "The third master has gone to the room of the second-class maid." Everyone looked at each other in shock.
For a long time, I didn't dare to talk to Yao.
Mrs. Yao was amused, and turned back to them and said, "I asked Third Master to go there."
The maid hurriedly asked: "Is the master coming back?"
Mrs. Yao picked up her son's little paw, kissed it, and said, "I still have something to say, and 90% of the time I will come back." The maids forced a smile and said a few nice words, always feeling that there was something wrong with their grandma.
, so I didn’t dare to say anything anymore.
It was just as Yao expected. Within half an hour, Xu Ci came back. Yao turned around with a smile and said, "Why is the third master back again?"
Xu Ci coughed twice and glanced at the servants in the room. They all hurried out. Xu Ci said: "Hongxiao said, I'm afraid that Fangcao Fangchun is too young to take care of the child. Since you really don't have time, you might as well raise her in the house."
In her room."
Mrs. Yao thought for a while: "Actually, there is nothing to do with Fangcao Fangchun. There is a wet nurse. Since my mother is not worried, that's all."
Xu Ci nodded and added: "It's just that the food and clothing in Hongxiao are quite difficult. She just pays it off herself. I'm afraid my eldest brother is short of something."
Yao smiled bitterly and said: "To be honest with you, Third Master, I'm afraid I won't remember. As the saying goes, one pregnancy makes you stupid for three years. I didn't remember much when this brat was still in my belly, and now I have even less memory. I take naps every day
From the moment I opened my eyes, I only thought about him. Until I closed my eyes and fell asleep, I no longer had the energy to think about anyone else. Why not ask Mother Fan to help take care of the mother and son? Mother Fan is the wet nurse of the third master, and is now in her forties.
, there is nothing better than a spiritual head.”
In fact, just now Hong Kong Qian warned Xu Ci not to entrust the third grandma to her. He had just offended her, and no matter how good-natured the third grandma was, she would not lose her temper so quickly. But Xu Ci thought to herself, Yao has always been generous,
That incident didn't hurt her in the slightest, so she didn't mind after thinking about it. Unexpectedly, she still had a grudge in her heart. But it was a good idea, so she said, "It's also a way." After a pause, "I just heard,
Is the third sister in charge of the house now?"
Yao looked at his son and said casually: "Yes."
"Isn't she just a little older? Why did you give it to her?"
"Fourteen is not too young." Mrs. Yao said, "My wife was initially planning to let me take care of the accounts. I was confused, so I told the truth in front of my second sister-in-law and my sister in my wife's room - the house cannot make ends meet."
Xu Ci was slightly shocked: "The house cannot make ends meet?"
Mrs. Yao nodded: "The third sister is young, and she even negotiated a deal with me." Xu Ci immediately frowned. Mrs. Yao's lips curled up, "I quickly told her a lesson. A gentleman is poor, and a wise man understands his fate. Since he is out of trouble,
There are more items than income, so it will be good to eliminate some items. There are not so many clothes, handkerchiefs, rouge, etc., and the clothes made in the past year are all left to rot. How can there be a dignified Hanlin family who is engaged in merchants and common things?
of."
Xu Ci nodded repeatedly and said happily: "She is young, and her aunt doesn't know how to discipline her. As the old saying goes, a sister-in-law is like a mother, thanks to you." He frowned again, "In this case, she should not be allowed to manage the house.
"
Mrs. Yao said: "Theoretically speaking, the eldest sister-in-law cannot take charge of the affairs, so she should give it to the second sister-in-law. My wife let me take charge just to comfort me. However, I am not up to par. I don't know what to say and what not to say."
Madam then ordered her to hand it over to the second sister-in-law. But she happened to have an old illness. Madam probably wanted the third sister to have some experience for the time being, and then return her to the second sister-in-law after she recovers."
"I see." Xu Ci frowned, "The people inside really can't figure it out."
Yao said calmly: "Others can't understand." Xu Ci was slightly embarrassed. Yao said, "Since the third master mentioned it, I happened to explain it to the third master. With the situation in the house, in a few days, few people will complain about the short month."
Money costs less than clothes. As I said, even wives generally need to lose money. Third Master really feels sorry for that woman, so he just gives her his monthly money."
Xu Ci hurriedly said: "I don't spend money on weekdays. I'll give it to you starting from next month."
"No need." Mrs. Yao said, "Third Master still has friends to socialize with, and I don't need money. Anyway, I have three meals a day, and the clothes I had in the past two years are enough."
Xu Ci pressed the iron in her heart and praised: "Having a good wife in the family is like having a treasure." Mrs. Yao lowered his head and smiled. Xu Ci looked at his son for a while and then returned to the outer courtyard.
Ms. Xu San racked her brains over the account book for more than ten days, and finally realized that she had no choice: it is difficult for a clever woman to make a living without rice, and no money means no money. No matter how she tried to think of a way, she had to count more than three hundred taels. In the end,
They still had to discuss with Mrs. Xu to find out the cost. Mrs. Xu also weighed it for many days, but finally did not dare to discuss business matters with Xu Hanlin. She sighed: "There is really no way, so we have to do this for the time being."
The Xu family then began to cut expenses, and the cuts were severe, and the whole family was complaining. Most of the servants didn't know the reason. They only knew that the third girl had someone go to the hospital as soon as she started taking care of the accounts, and she cursed and cursed all day long.
The scolding came out. Miss Xu San had already filled her stomach with yellow lotus water: the expenses for the servants and the backyard were really not much. The four men who spent the most on the Xu family's expenses were.
Masters and young masters go out to socialize every day, so good clothes are indispensable; fans, jade pendants and other items must be of good quality, and the bookboys and servants accompanying them must also be presentable; even the horses must be well taken care of. That's all, but the most important thing is this
All four of us love tea. Tea is so expensive that you would never know it unless you were in charge of the business. You can’t even afford the tea leaves that you pay for every month, let alone anything else. Fortunately, there is still some tea left in the warehouse. Starting from this month
In the backyard of the house, everyone, including the wife, grandmother, and girls, stopped supplying tea, and even the wife had no tea to drink.
Yao shook his head after hearing this: "How can there be such a man?"
The maid said aggrievedly: "Grandma also loves tea. We are almost running out of tea leaves."
Yao thought for a moment and said, "Even if you can't taste good tea, you can still try ordinary tea."
"The third girl said she won't buy tea anymore."
Mrs. Yao sighed: "Even if we want to reduce costs, there is no reason to do so. The third girl is really..." She thought for a long time and couldn't think of the right words, "It's a thankless job. I deserve to have my wife as a gunman."
." He ordered him to bring over the small box on the bedside.
This box was given by Qin Keqing, who said it was a coded safe for Dajia wax products. Yao only put one thing in it: a passbook from HSBC Bank. Earlier, she said that she didn't need Qin Keqing to pay for the Sanskrit translation, and she was afraid that the people in the house would have to pay for it.
Seeing them gossiping, Qin Keqing said: "This is easy." He took her to open an account at HSBC Bank and left her fingerprints. Then at the end of each month, Qin Keqing paid her the remuneration into the bank account, and He Xiaonan came
When picking up and delivering the materials, he brought her a bill. Since the bill was in Arabic numerals, it didn't matter if others saw it - no one else in the Xu family would recognize it.
Mrs. Yao destroyed all those bills after reading them. She was not very good at figuring out the numbers, so she didn't quite know how much private property she owned. Last month, she took the opportunity to go out and went to a bank to get a discount, only to realize that she had made a lot of money.
Little money. Now that he has money, there is no need to wrong himself. Mrs. Yao changed her clothes, asked the wet nurse to take good care of her son, and took two maids to go out.
The three of them first went to the bank to get the banknotes. When they got there, they saw a big notice posted outside, saying that the court encouraged the use of banknotes, and those who were willing to receive banknotes did not have to queue up. Yao knew that Qin Keqing's shop accepted banknotes, so he went straight to the counter to collect them.
He paid eighty taels of silver. He took the money and walked out less than five hundred steps before he found a Qin's Cocoa Tea shop. Next door was the Qin's Tea House. Because he often met with Qin Keqing, Yao knew that the price of tea outside was very fake.
However, Qin Keqing gave her an internal employee card of Qin's Industry. When she used it to buy things, she could get the internal price, which was only a little higher than the cost price. Not long after, the master and servant returned home with a full load.
The maid exclaimed: "Where did grandma get so much money!"
Mrs. Yao said seriously: "Your grandma, I am not without a dowry."
"It turns out grandma's house is so rich!"
None of the female family members in the house had tea, let alone cocoa tea. The news that there was tea in the Yao family's house spread out within a few days. Someone came over to ask where the third grandma got the tea, and the maid said: "The third grandma bought it with the dowry money.
"
When Mrs. Xu heard about it, she shook her head: "With her few dowries, how many kilograms of tea can she afford?"
This incident naturally reached Miss Xu San's ears. She wondered: Didn't the third sister-in-law's natal family just marry into a small village? Can she afford cocoa tea? So she came to find out the truth. Mrs. Yao heard from outside that "Miss San is here."
"She frowned unconsciously - she really had no intention of being a sister-in-law like a mother. Before she finished speaking, Miss Xu San raised the curtain and walked in, calling with a smile: "Sister-in-law, you are so leisurely."
Mrs. Yao wanted to stand up to greet her, but since she came so quickly, she was too lazy to greet her. So she simply sat on a chair and said with a smile, "I am an idle person. I only care about raising children and don't care about anything else."
Miss Xu San looked around and saw that the child was sleeping in the cradle, and said: "The child can sleep more, and my sister-in-law can also walk around."
Yao raised his eyes and smiled half-heartedly: "It's just a layman's words. But don't worry, girl. When you leave the pavilion and have a child, you will know how long the child can sleep each time and how much fuss will it make when it cries."
As if he could hear what his mother said, the child immediately started crying. Ms. Yao quickly put down the information in her hand, jumped over to pick up the child and comforted him. The child kept crying, and Ms. Yao felt that he had peed, so he talked to the wet nurse
The others were busy changing diapers and coaxing him to stop crying. They had been making a fuss for a long time - completely forgetting about Miss Xu San. Finally the child stopped crying, and Yao held him in his arms for a while. Suddenly he raised his head and started talking to Miss Xu San.
When they met, he was stunned for a moment. Then he said sheepishly: "Third sister... I'm sorry. When he cries, I can't care about anything else."
Miss Xu San smiled quickly and said: "What does the third sister-in-law say? Of course it is the second nephew who matters. We don't care which brand is on it."
Mrs. Yao didn't hear anything but kissed her son's pink little face: "You will know when you become a mother. There is nothing more important in the world than a child."
She was so rude, and Miss Xu San couldn't say anything else. She was silent for a moment and said, "I'm here today because I have something to ask my sister-in-law for."
Yao said in a hurry: "Please? Third sister, my sister-in-law is the one who has said ugly things. I won't do any work that takes too much effort. I have a little devil here to deal with."
Miss Xu San glanced at the paperwork on her desk and said, "I want to learn Sanskrit from my third sister-in-law."
Yao became more and more surprised: "That is of little use, and even if you study hard every day, you can't learn it in three or five years. What did my sister learn?"
Miss Xu San was surprised: "It takes so long to study? How long has the third sister-in-law studied?"
"I started learning at the age of six," Yao said. "By the time I leave the palace at seventeen, I can probably understand Sanskrit scriptures. Even so, there are still people who can't understand them."
Miss Xu San was stunned for a long time and then said: "...how could it be...we usually study and learn from female workers, and it only takes half a day."
Yao couldn't help laughing: "How can a mother tongue and a foreign language be the same thing? Besides, since it takes time to learn, it also takes time to teach. I won't be free for the past three or four years. I have to wait until your nephew is older.
That's it. If my sister is interested, you can find a gentleman outside to teach you."
Although the child was young, he still had emotions. Seeing his mother always looking at others, he became unhappy and started shouting. Yao immediately left Miss Xu San to coax her son. Poor Miss Xu San, who had been in the house for so long, didn't even have a sip of tea.
After drinking it, she turned her eyes to look at the tea cup placed on the desk. All the maids of the Yao family were looking at their noses and hearts, and no one thought about making tea for the third girl. Miss Xu third girl secretly gritted her teeth and forced a smile.
: "Since my sister-in-law has no time to spare, I'll come back another day."
Mrs. Yao raised her head and glanced at her: "Wait a minute. Third sister, go slowly." Miss Xu San held the handkerchief and left. The maids pursed their lips and smiled.
That evening, Yao's maid went to the kitchen to get dinner. The woman in the kitchen pointed out: "Your food boxes have been packed."
The maid thanked her, opened it and saw that there were only cabbage and eggplant, and the rice was also brown rice. She hurriedly asked: "I took our grandma's dinner, but I made a mistake?"
"That's right." The woman said, "Nowadays, the family is in a difficult situation, and the ladies and grandmothers eat the same food as the servants. The whole family eats these."
The maid sneered and said, "My sister-in-law lied without opening her eyes." Then she walked to the stove and opened a lid, "Isn't this the rice you eat every day?"
The woman said nonchalantly: "That's for the master and the three gentlemen. They are men, so naturally they eat good food. All women eat brown rice. If you don't believe me, go to the second mistress's yard and have a look." The maid was still waiting to tell.
The woman said, "Anyway, that's all you have in your yard. You can eat whatever you like, or whatever you don't like. The third grandma has a rich dowry, so it's very convenient for her to order a banquet outside." This maid didn't know how to speak, so she pointed at her angrily for a long time;
Turned around and went out! The maid gritted her teeth and took a sip, looked at the food box for a long time, and left without taking it.
Back in the courtyard, the maid came back to Mrs. Yao with tears in her eyes. Mrs. Yao was surprised and thought: Although the three girls are childish, they would not do such stupid things. She thought for a moment and said: "We will talk about this tomorrow. Let's do it today
…Let’s go outside to buy some food first.”
Another clever maid's eyes lit up: "Grandma! Grandma is being bullied so much, let Third Master make the decision for grandma!"
Mr. Yao shook his head: "He will never care about such trivial matters. There is no need to bring trouble on himself. Besides, I just told him a few days ago that the house cannot make ends meet and we must be frugal." She looked at everyone with a smile and said, "You guys
What do you like to eat? We usually eat whatever the kitchen makes. Now that we have the final say, we can just buy what we like to eat, which makes it more comfortable."