Chapter 95 Miscellaneous

Without saying a few words, Lv Feng began to yawn. He washed his horse for two days and was exhausted. Li Zongliang smiled and motioned Li Zonggui to lead him back to Baicaoyuan to rest. Watching Li Zonggui push Lv Feng out of the door, Li Zongliang looked around the crowd and said, "Everyone is here. Just in time to discuss this settlement and come with us. Not counting the Fan family, there are 31 in total. Manager Sun and Brother Zhao Wu are in Taiping Mansion. Not to mention the matter of iron wood, it will be decided when he comes back.

"What's the deal? Look at his nature, he definitely can't farm!" Li Erhuai said firmly. Li Zongliang glanced at Li Erhuai and didn't answer his words. Wei Shuisheng pushed Li Erhuai and whispered, "That also requires him to make up his mind to say something!" Remember, don't go along with Sister Zhang and make decisions for others everywhere!" Li Erhuai was about to refute Wei Shuisheng's words. Li Zongliang looked at him and said, "Shuisheng is right." When Li Erhuai heard Li Zongliang's words, he immediately closed his mouth and said nothing. Li Zongliang glanced at the crowd and then said, "Shi Kanfei followed us and said that he was also a fifth master. His legs and feet were inconvenient. I think he should leave him at home to cook for everyone?" Li Zongliang looked at the crowd like a solicitation. Seeing that everyone nodded without objection, he turned his head and looked at Li Xiaoyao and said with a smile, "Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liushun said that they were your people. If you want to follow you, Jiang Shuncai and Cheng Wang also put aside their words before leaving. You can look at these people and arrange them."

Li Xiaoyao nodded and agreed, and Li Zongliang continued to count: "For the rest, Da Zhuang and the seventh brother will follow us to join the army, and the rest will go back to their hometown to farm." Wei Shuisheng frowned and took over: "It turns out that those brothers in Dongshan can usually take care of themselves, not to mention farm work. On the one hand, they can't do it easily. On the other hand, they fell to the grass early and won't do it long ago. I discussed with my eldest brother. These people still share the land and silver as usual. Let's give another taels of silver a month. Whether they hire people or rent the land to others, it is enough for their daily use and not to have no food and clothing. This is one. Second, the silver stored on our mountain is the big guy's silver, and everyone has a share. I have calculated this account with Xiaoyao, and I discussed it with the eldest brother. In this way, in addition to the money given by the prince, we will each give it to each of us. Two hundred taels, when they settle down and get married, one person will give another fifty taels of marriage. What do you think?

Li Zonggui sent Lv Feng back and listened to half of the words. Wei Shuisheng looked at him and was about to say it again. Li Zonggui waved his hand and said, "It's all done!" Wei Shuisheng stopped talking with a smile and turned his head to look at Li Erhuai. Li Erhuai didn't care: "I listen to my eldest brother, it!" Li Xiaoyao looked at Wei Shuisheng gloomily. From Taiping Mansion to Bijia Mountain to Kaiping Mansion, he was short of silver all the way! From one hundred taels missing to 1,000 taels, no tens of taels can cope with it now. After the Spring Festival, the Zhang family will take over. Erhuai and Zhang Tiemu's two big expenses of marriage, plus Zhang Tiemu has to buy a house. According to reason, Erhuai has become a family, it is better to divide it out and buy a house, but how can there be a similar house? There is also the eldest brother's daily work after he became an official. When he first came here, he wanted to earn a background, but he couldn't reach it, but he couldn't spend a lot of money. Dongshan's group also need more than ten taels of silver a month, which is spent every month, as well as the use of this house, and the Fan family! Alas! Li Xiaoyao sighed sulily and looked at Wei Shuisheng and said, "Let's give Anjia silver, 150 taels per person, and the prince 200 taels per person. We can't be shoulder to shoulder with the prince. Besides, this silver is not enough."

Wei Shuisheng turned his head and looked at Li Zongliang. Li Zongliang frowned. Li Xiaoyao sighed, "Brother, this money is not enough, and it's not necessarily a good thing to have more money. Besides, we don't care about what they have in the future. They usually take care of it more, which is much better than silver."

"Xiao Yao is right. On the one hand, it's not good to be shoulder to shoulder with the prince, and on the other hand, it's better to take care of more than to give more money." Wei Shuisheng followed. Li Zongliang turned his head and looked at Li Erhuai and Li Zonggui. Li Erhuai was still the old saying, "I listen to the eldest brother." Li Zonggui pouted at Li Xiaoyao: "What Xiaoyao said makes sense. It's not easy to go over the prince." Li Zongliang said 'um' and was about to speak when Mr. Fan outside raised his voice and said, "Is Zongliang there?"

Li Zongliang hurriedly got up to meet him. Several people followed him to the door. Mr. Fan came in with his hands behind his back. When he saw Li Zongliang, he said with a smile, "Let me tell you about the rules of this officialdom. Are you not busy today?"

"No busy, no busy, nothing more important than this." Li Xiaoyao hurriedly answered, saying that he took Mr. Fan and sat on the couch, took the cup in Wei Shuisheng's hand, and said with a smile, "Sir, we should teach them well. In addition to clear rules, there are also hidden rules. Teach the eldest brother what it means to be with light and what it means to be careful." Mr. Fan took the cup, reached out and patted Li Xiaoyao on the shoulder, and said pitifully, "I know, don't worry. Your eldest brother is loyal and kind."

"Well, then you talk, I'll go to Sister Fan." Li Xiaoyao went out of the east courtyard, looked for a woman to ask, and went straight to find Mrs. Fan. Mrs. Fan was carefully calculating the daily kitchen use with Shikan. Yueting sat next to her and quietly embroidered a skirt. Seeing Li Xiaoyao come in, she leaned down and smiled. Mrs. Fan looked at Li Xiaoyao and smiled and said, "You are just right. I just told Yueting, I'll go to your place for lunch and talk later."

"Good." Li Xiaoyao smiled and sat on the edge of the moon pavilion and looked at her embroidered with green leaves. Mrs. Mrs. Fan arranged it properly and took Yuyan. Several people walked leisurely and talked. They walked to the half-mu garden in the back garden. Halfway through, Mrs. Fan quietly pulled Li Xiaoyao, two steps behind, and looked at Heyu. Yan looked up at the moon pavilion of several birds on the ancient tree and whispered, "That mind has not been clean. I have long wanted to take her to your place and ask her to talk to the wisteria. Those few, but the second-class and third-class girls waiting outside." Li Xiaoyao immediately understood what Mrs. Fan meant. He bent his eyes and smiled and nodded: "I know what my sister means. Let Qingcheng talk with her." Madam Fan nodded with a smile. The two took a few steps to catch up with Yueting and Yuyan and entered the half-mu garden together.

After dinner, Li Xiaoyao yawned and asked, "I'm sleepy and want to sleep for a while. Where's my sister? What about you, Yueting? Mrs. Fan nodded sleepily. Yueting kept looking at several girls, hesitated for a moment, shook her head and refused, "I won't sleep in the afternoon. You can sleep. I'll do needle and thread."

"That's good." Li Xiaoyao answered and turned his head and ordered Wisteria: "Ask Qingcheng to come and talk with the girl Yueting. Qingcheng is good at playing. Let her play two pieces to match this skirt for Yueting." A trace of surprise flashed in Wisteria's eyes. Qingcheng spoke the most straightforward and unforgiving. Why did she ask her to talk to the guests? Li Xiaoyao paused and then ordered, "There are also Fei Ye and Cui Man, which are more lively." Wisteria hurriedly agreed and left the room to call someone.

Li Xiaoyao and Mrs. Fan crooked on the inner couch and closed their eyes to rest. Qingcheng and Fei Ye came in, took the silk thread and sat on the warm pavilion outside with Yueting. While making needles and threads, they whispered. Yueting was absent-mindedly pricked a few needles and looked up at Qingcheng and smiled. He asked, "Are you all from the prince's mansion?"

"The two of them are, I'm not, I'm from Jingjiang Houfu." Qingcheng speaks neatly.

"Oh," Yueting looked over the green orange, looked carefully at Fei Ye and Cui Man and asked, "What do you do in the royal palace? The prince seems to be very strict. If you do something wrong, will he scold you?

Qingcheng laughed and pushed Fei Ye and Cui Man: "Speak quickly, the prince will scold you!" Fei Ye and Cui Man laughed so much that they couldn't hold the silk thread in their hands. They smiled for a long time before saying, "The girl's words are really interesting. Although we are working in the royal palace, we are 108,000 miles away from the prince. If we do something wrong, naturally there are sisters and sisters and sisters above us. , I haven't arrived at Sister Ruyue after several floors, but I want the prince to scold her. I can't reach it.

Yueting blushed and was embarrassed for a moment. She lowered her eyes and tried to pretend to be natural and then asked, "What about Sister Wisteria? Is it the same as you? Her character is enough, isn't it?"

"It's similar to us. How can the waiters around the prince be selected and given away?" Fei Ye glanced at Yueting and didn't want to say more about these things. He twisted the silk thread and discussed with Qingcheng on the skirt in Yueting's hand, "Sister Qingcheng, do you think it's okay to use this color?"

"What kind of person can serve the prince?" Yueting pulled back her skirt and asked angrily. Qingcheng straightened up, looked up at her, and replied with a smile, "We don't know. Not to mention the prince, even the third-class girl in our master's yard is better than us. For example, if the appearance and behavior like a girl are in our house Most of them have to go to the service room as a messenger, such as pulp washing, kitchen stoves, needle and thread rooms, four divisions and six bureaus, and flower rooms all need to know what the fair does. Girls can't do such needle and thread. This account set up department, guest department, kitchen department, Taiwan plate department, fruit bureau, honey frying bureau, vegetable bureau, oil candle bureau, incense bureau, arrangement bureau And everywhere in the flower room, what does the girl know?

Yueting was dizzy and looked at Qingcheng. For a moment, he couldn't speak. Qingcheng glanced at Yueting and continued with a smile, "It's not so easy to be a waiter in the house. Like the head, you have to walk fast, like the kind that thong all the way, you can't even enter two doors in our house. The girl just Lie down and wake you up a few steps. That's not a waiter, that's a tossing person!"

"We are all picked out at the age of five or six. We learn the rules and learn needlework skills from Mother. After learning for a year or two, only half of the people can pick in and follow their sisters to learn the rules, and then follow them for two or three years before they can send messengers. In the middle, if they make a mistake, or if the sister feels that you can't learn, you have to go back. , seven or eight have to retreat by half again, and it's not so easy to get into the inner house. Cui Man looked at the embarrassed Yueting and patiently explained that Yueting pulled the flower bandage from Qingcheng's hand and buried her head in the needle and thread without saying a word.