Yuan Fu Nushu

Chapter 309, Lost

Yanyan looked at Aunt Yuancai with astonished eyes, and she didn't see each other for several months, and Aunt Yuancai became a thick woman.

Although wearing thick clothes in winter is the reason for the thick waist, but the red and rough cheeks and the skin on the back of the hands are like tree bark, which cannot be disguised by clothes.

Aunt Yuancai chattered about bringing out things, including ten catties of fried melon seeds and six chickens, adding up to fifty catties was not much more.

Everyone, including He Ning, looked at the big bamboo basket and had nothing to say. You must know that Aunt Yuancai was wearing new green bamboo clothes and silver jewelry a few months ago, and she looked like a gentle little woman; Zai, Yuan Caigu's skin has never been so rough.

Zaohua was delighted to see many things. At this time, she gave Mrs. Nanyang Hou a sideways glance. Look, my girl doesn't need a husband's family. She has a lot of relatives and confidants in Beijing.

Pour a bowl of hot tea to Aunt Yuancai, ask her to sit down quickly, and greet her warmly: "Have you eaten? Have you had breakfast? Then eat your lunch here. It's hard for you to come here in the cold weather. You will stay at night." Sleep with me here and play for a few more days."

Miss Zaohua is the person who is actually in charge of the shop, Yanyan, Luzhu and He Ning all nodded when she said something, not only did no one refute, but she should be kept as a guest when she was carrying fifty catties of gifts to Aunt Yuancai.

Aunt Yuancai looked around and smiled amidst the enthusiastic words: "I don't live far away, I want to go to the city for an hour, but I don't want to eat at your house, I only leave lunch for Shu Ze, and I have to go back to make it for him in the evening Me, he will definitely win the exam, so you can't lose him."

Speaking of this, looking at He Ning showing a serious look: "Shu Ze will definitely pass the exam."

If Mrs. Nanyang Hou was not here, He Ning could happily slap the table and chairs. When did Shu Ze fail in this subject, it was Ning Ge's pistachio.Just like that, he restrained and shook his body while laughing: "Okay, okay, I'll compete with him again after the next class."

Aunt Yuancai looked at his smile and it was embarrassing. She was entertained by her cousin Yuanxiu and came to Beijing, and later she was taken care of by Luzhu. Ze never backed down.

Holding the hot tea bowl in both hands, she said again seriously: "Brother Ning, don't be angry, you are always the third in school, and my Shu Ze is the one who is the first every year, even better than Brother Yue."

"Hahaha" He Ning laughed out loud.

I'm dying of laughter, thank you for being able to say it, Shu Ze is the first in the school every year, so he can only be the first in the new collection, and it is easy to pass the test when he enters Beijing.

He Ning laughed out of shape, completely disregarding that Mrs. Nanyanghou is still here, and Luzhu and Yanyan also didn't consider that Mrs. Nanyanghou thinks decent or not, elegant or indecent, they just instinctively help the guests , the bamboo basket is still in front of her, Yuancaigu sincerely came to give the New Year gift.

"Hey, the losers go out and laugh!" Luzhu and Yanyan spat.

He Ning stood up, smiled and said: "Speaking of the first one in Xinji School, the one who failed the palace examination can't stay here." People came in with another burst of laughter from outside.

With He Ning not in front of her, Aunt Yuancai let out a bit of anger, and felt apologetic when facing Luzhu: "I'm not targeting you, Luzhu."

"I know." Green Bamboo said.

After gaining understanding, Aunt Yuancai also followed up with her grievances. She slowly said, "Shu Ze is in the club. He used to be number one in school every year. You all know that."

"He passed the examination." Yanyan also comforted her.

Just as Luzhu was about to agree, he suddenly thought of it, and said quickly, "You can help me bring the words to him, let him be a good man and stop being wicked, he will never get an official if he has no virtue."

Mrs. Nanyang Hou watched it with relish, and felt that the excitement was good. When she heard this sentence suddenly, it pierced her heart like a sharp needle.

She couldn't sit still, she smiled at Yanyan: "My son, you guard the door, I will come to see you some other day."

Everyone in the room got up, but Du Yanyan and Nanny Yanyan supported Mama Zhang, and Chaizhi Biyun saw her off.

Mrs. Nanyang Hou firmly refused to let Yanyan show her face in public, and only allowed Yanyan to walk outside her main room door, which was only a few steps away. Yanyan asked her to wait a while, and went to the East Chamber to talk to He Ning. Qingrou came over with a big burden: "There are ten tiger skins, and this one is for my in-laws."

Madam Hou of Nanyang insisted against it, saying that this weather is the time when the price of fur is rising, and the New Year is coming. Anyone who is rich would not want to make a new fur dress.

The only worry for the rich is that they cannot buy good furs.

Yanyan insisted on giving it to the maid who came with Mrs. Nanyang Hou to hug her.

She just stopped here, watching Mrs. Nanyang Hou go down the steps and walk from the yard to the shop. Nanny Yanyan supported Mama Zhang, followed Chai Zhi Biyun from left to right and continued to see her off.

Zhang Mama, an old mother, is dedicated to Madam Nanyang Hou. She usually uses gossip to bring Yanyan closer to Madam Nanyang Hou. It should be said that she will also talk to Madam Nanyang Hou about Yanyan's recent situation.

Nanny Yanyan stopped in the shop, tightened the snow clothes for Mama Zhang, and called Chaizhi and Biyun to help her up. Mama Zhang followed Mrs. Nanyang Hou and stopped in front of her sedan chair.

"You've seen it all. Second Mistress is living a really good life. The Duke Protector's Mansion invites her to go to the theater and have drinks every month. Don't worry about her living outside. Don't worry about it either. Second Mistress can listen to you. Slowly persuade her, whether to go home or go home. "

Zhang's mother comforted Mrs. Nanyang Hou, how can there be a reason why the parents-in-law are not in a hurry when a daughter-in-law lives outside?

Mrs. Nanyang Hou held her hand and felt warm and soft. It can be seen that Zhang's mother has taken good care of herself recently. In this regard, it can be seen from the deerskin snowcoat worn by Zhang's mother that this is Yuanxiu's division of Northwest No. [-] Yan Yan and others made one for batching fur, and another for Zhang's mother.

Mrs. Nanyang Hou smiled and said: "I'm not in a hurry. I've been with you and me for a few years. I think this year is the only time you can rest easy and look better than in previous years."

"Yes, there is no gossip here. Scholars work as clerks during the day and study hard at night. The two girls, Zaohua and Jiuhua, never neglect me. The second grandma asks her nanny to accompany me day and night. Don't worry, I'm fine." Zhang Mom also laughed.

There is no gossip to listen to here, this is the truth, even if Mrs. Nanyang Hou took Zhang's mother to take care of her after she gave birth to Luan Jing, Nanyang Hou's mansion also had gossip for Zhang's mother, but Zhang's mother just pretended not to hear.

Occasionally, I mentioned it to Mrs. Nanyang Hou, and asked her to guard against the wrong words of her family members. She probably didn't have Mrs. Nanyang Hou in her eyes behind her back.

Mrs. Nanyang Hou got on the sedan chair and went back home, wobbling like a cat in her heart. When she got married, her father discussed the dowry with her. Mrs. Nanyang Hou said that she wanted a shop, so that if she was unhappy with her in-laws, she had money in her hand and that was the way out. .

Once a poor scholar became an official, it was reluctant to accompany him to the shop, but Mrs. Nanyang Hou wanted it so much, so she converted part of the betrothal gift into cash and opened a shop.

The location is not very good, and there are fewer pedestrians on the street, so the two guys can take care of it. Mrs. Nanyang Hou is satisfied with the annual income of one hundred and eighty.

The aristocratic family has its own background, and it is somewhat behind if it is not behind. Except for the old man Huang who is willing to take care of the old family and keep them from falling, there are also eunuchs in the palace who are willing to help. The female relatives in Chunjiangbo's mansion joined together to take over the offerings from the palace, and they took a small share of the things needed in the palace during the New Year. Every year, each family divided hundreds of pieces to subsidize the family.

There is no Xihe Viscount Mansion in this partnership. His family’s shop was sold in the previous generation. This generation of Xihe Viscount began to sell fields and antique furniture handed down from their ancestors. The foundation was almost destroyed. You can't even bring him home.

The Viscountess Xihe also owns a shop. She refused to incorporate her private property into the public property for her son's marriage, because her husband saw that there was money in the account, so he went away with flowers and wine.

The Viscountess really wanted to use her private property to join the partnership of the female relatives, but everyone took the shop in the mansion as a partnership. Even if the Viscountess begged to save money for her son's marriage, she was ruthlessly rejected.

To put it bluntly, the Viscount Xihe's house was poor, and his father and son had no ambitions. Marquis Qinghe was the first to help, but Mrs. Marquis Qinghe was also the first to ridicule her, leading Mrs. Marquis Nanyang and others to look down on Viscount Xihe's Chen family.

Because these people who are partners are in the business of court enshrining, they are soliciting business for the shops under their names.

Madam Hou of Nanyang is not extra, she has been enshrined by the court for a long time, and her two shop assistants have changed the location today. One hundred to four hundred taels.

This private house was not kept in hand for too long, and with the decline of the Nanyang Marquis Mansion, it was silently filled into the public account.

If people go downhill, there is a process where they can’t stop the trend. The current Nanyang Marquis neither sells shops nor fields, but the shops have wins and losses, and the crops in the farms are not good this year.

Mrs. Nanyang Marquis exhausted her brains, exchanging goods and exchanging capable farmers, and she only maintained a balance of income and expenditure. She was helping people like Xihe Viscount, and her aunt came back from time to time crying about her poor income and expenditure after various blackmails. balance.

Therefore, she and Nanyang Hou can't be in love with each other, and they will turn against each other at any time just because they help others.

So sitting in the sedan chair at this time, she felt very emotional, Qi's shop was booming, and all the goods she bought were exquisite.

She wasn't jealous, nor was she jealous. The little bit of court offerings they received was neither clothing nor seafood, let alone furs, and it couldn't match Yanyan's goods.

Mrs. Nanyang Hou is just disappointed. She usually thinks she is smart, but she is far behind the Qi family. The Qi family has many people to take care of her. The fat jacket of the owner of the big bamboo basket looks stupid, but the smell of burnt peanuts It is full of warmth.

Mrs. Nanyang Hou was deeply disappointed.

It was snowing and cold outside the sedan chair, and it was easy to get emotional in the cold. On the way back home, Mrs. Nanyang Hou raised her eyebrows and eyes, her energy and spirit seemed to be frozen by ice and snow like the scenery outside the sedan chair.

As the sedan chair entered the mansion, Feng's laughing voice sounded: "Mother is finally back. When you went out to be a guest, I thought of a way to ask mother to get off the sedan chair and go back to the room, so I can ask mother to show me."

Mrs. Nanyang Hou regained her spirits, thinking that she would have to face Feng Shi again, she regained her vitality.

(End of this chapter)