Foster son and husband

Chapter 29 Butler
From Chenshi to noon, I met with the internal and external managers, listened to the mother in charge of the audience, and then reconciled and checked the accounts, and asked about some related matters. All affairs were handled in a busy and undisturbed manner, and the morning passed quickly.

The eldest wife personally sat down to teach. The eldest grandmother said that she should learn first, but she handled affairs in a reasonable way. She could always ask questions directly to the root cause and grasp the main points. Canna, when talking about things, has a dignified face, a crisp and sharp tone, and beautiful eyes that are as bright as stars. A glance at her can make people bow their heads and dare not look at her. Sitting in that seat, Bai Jingyu was even more intimidating.

Looking at the eldest lady sitting at the first place drinking tea safely, nodding her head from time to time, her eyes showing admiration, how can the housewife not understand?After the eldest wife recovered from her illness, she loved her eldest grandson and raised Brother Heng by her side. The eldest grandma was the eldest daughter-in-law. Although the uncle was not her own, but now she has no biological seventh master, so who else can she rely on?The smartest thing is that she took Brother Heng away as a mother-in-law, grandpa and grandma dare to say a word, don't they?Brother Heng is only half a year old, and he doesn't understand anything. If he has milk, he is a mother. When the eldest wife raises him, he is the grandson of the eldest wife. Family is still family!

Now the eldest wife supports the eldest grandma as the housekeeper, not to mention that the eldest grandma does not look like a cowardly and ignorant daughter-in-law. Who dares to fool her?Unless you don't want to hang out in this house.All you have to do is gather your energy and take on errands honestly, and don't have any tricky thoughts!

Mei Niang sent Mrs. Zheng back to her Qiuhua Courtyard. Chunyue served tea. Mrs. Zheng took a sip and said, "You are smart and clever, you can understand everything, and you are more transparent than Jingyu... oh yes Now, there is still some floating money exchanged on the surface, the account books are all in Jingyu's hands, and there are also five or six thousand taels of silver, let her return to you when the time comes."

Mei Niang sighed and said: "I didn't expect the affairs of the Hou Mansion to be so complicated. This morning, my daughter-in-law has put all her thoughts on it, and she hasn't figured it out yet. It's the end of the year, and the accounts of the outer courtyard will come to settle with us, right? My God, I really admire my mother, how did I do it before! Why don't you let Jingyu come and manage things with me, I'm afraid my wife won't be able to take care of so much!"

Mrs. Zheng put down the tea bowl, glanced at her, and said slowly: "A family can only have one person in charge of the middle class. You can ask them to help, but you must not delegate authority! In my opinion, trusting sisters-in-law is not as good as trusting women." Ladies and gentlemen, I have been familiar with these women in charge for the past 20 years. With me, they dare not bully you...I didn’t know that you were a sensitive person before, but I am relieved to see that you are so smart. Now the state affairs Antai, there's nothing wrong with the border, the uncle probably won't leave Beijing for the past two years, and you also have an aunt in your yard, so you don't have to be too concerned about serving the uncle... You gave birth to Heng'er, the eldest son and grandson, and he will be the son of the future. That's enough! No matter how many concubines give birth to those concubines, it's useless. Look at the second wife. They are still the second sons. It is a great credit to hand over the property to him, and your glory is something no one else has!"

Mei Niang lowered her head, and answered vaguely: "Daughter-in-law, remember!"

Mrs. Zheng said: "I raised Heng'er for you so that you can do things wholeheartedly. I don't care if you have children in the future. Just remember: Heng'er is the eldest son, and you should put him first in everything." , you mother, you must distinguish clearly, when you get old, you will depend on him, understand?"

"Yes, my daughter-in-law understands!"

Mrs. Zheng didn't speak, Mei Niang didn't dare to sit down, she stood in front of the couch to answer, with her hands folded on her belly, her eyebrows lowered and her eyes pleasing to the eye, and she looked like a well-behaved daughter-in-law.

Mrs. Zheng looked very satisfied, but suddenly thought of something again, and her eye rims turned red instantly - a vivid and clear voice echoed in her ears:

"I like her already, what's the matter? She is gentle and obedient, kind and pure, such a good woman, he would leave her behind after marrying her, and stay alone in the vacant room. Being scorned by these people, anyone can step on her... Who dares to see? She is my woman, mine..."

She covered her mouth when she said the latter words. She was terrified at the time, and tried her best to push the child who knew nothing about heights and heights to the couch.

"Mother!"

Mei Niang heard that Mrs. Zheng hadn't spoken for a long time, she looked up and saw her eyes were red, staring at a certain place as if in a daze, she gave a soft cry of worry.

Madam Zheng came back to her senses, imprinted her eyes with a handkerchief, and beckoned to her with her left hand: "Sit down, I'm going to have lunch here, and I'll meet Heng'er by the way!"

"Hey!"

Mei Niang responded, what she most wanted to hear was this sentence, she hurriedly turned around and went out, and told Cui Lian who was waiting in the corridor: "You and Wang Mama should go back, just now Cheng'er said that East Garden is going to hold a banquet for guests, I think it's my uncle's close friend who came, so I asked Mama Wang to go to the East Garden to have a look, Rui Zhu Rui Bao is young after all, don't neglect the guests!"

Cui Lian blessed Fushen, and was about to leave, but stopped again, and finally couldn't help but said: "Miss Biao passed by just now, and Miss Biao is here to help take care of her!"

Mei Niang was startled: "Which cousin?"

Cui Lian lowered her head and whispered, "Miss Yubiao!"

"Understood, you go!"

Mei Niang went back to the room and saw Mrs. Zheng reaching for the tea bowl, so she went to pick it up and said with a smile:

"This tea has been left for a while, it should be cold, mother wait a moment, wait for them to change the hot one before drinking it!"

Xia He, who was standing by the side, hurried up to take the tea bowl, and saw Chunyue appearing at the door with a new tea bowl.

Mrs. Zheng was slightly moved: "My good boy, you have recovered from your illness, and you have really changed yourself. You have never been so careful before. Just remember that I can't eat or drink cold things!"

Mei Niang said softly: "Mother is a grandmother, she must know how to cherish blessings better than us juniors, with our daughters-in-law in front of you, girls and mothers-in-law, don't be afraid of trouble in everything, do whatever you want What, just order it. Daughter-in-law thought about it last night. It is better for Henger to be by your side than to be with daughter-in-law. One reason is that mother has more experience than daughter-in-law. My son stays with my mother, at least it can make my mother laugh a few times and be happy, and it can be regarded as a filial piety for us... The daughters-in-law of the left and right will come over every day, talk to Heng'er, play for a while, and there will be no birth. go!"

Mrs. Zheng nodded, and sighed: "Isn't it really old? I have a grandson and become a grandmother... Good, good! It's rare that your daughter-in-law is transparent and smart, and she listens to you. Heng'er is here with me, you Don’t be distracted at all, just do what you need to do, I will take good care of you! You can watch it as much as you like, and don’t care if you don’t. In the future, if you have another one or two, I’m afraid you won’t be so concerned about him It's..."

Mei Niang hurriedly said: "Mother said just now: the eldest son is the eldest son, does the daughter-in-law not understand?"

"As long as you know."

Mrs. Zheng showed a satisfied expression, she was holding the tea bowl, but she didn't take off the lid, she still put it back on the low table, she glanced to both sides, Chunyue and Xia He retreated.

Mrs. Zheng looked at Mei Niang and said, "My niece, what do you think of talent?"

Mei Niang pretended to be confused: "Cousin Yu? Cousin Yu was born really well, as beautiful as a flower. Why? Mother asked, did you find a husband's family for Cousin Yu? What kind of family?"

Mrs. Zheng covered her mouth with a veil, coughed lightly, and said awkwardly: "No...it's okay! How should I say it? This little girl deserves to be like this, so you know about the Anyuan Hou Mansion? Mrs. Anyuan Hou told her about a marriage, but Mrs. Hou kissed her cousin, and they were all transferred to Beijing, but this Yu'er refused and insisted on staying here... You know, she and Uncle, we have known each other since we were children, and we grew up together!"

Meiniang was bubbling in her heart: one and two are childhood sweethearts, what did they do long ago?Why not just order a doll kiss?At this time, I have to stick to it, what if I can't get married?
She asked with a gentle smile, "What does mother mean?"

Mrs. Zheng put the veil on her lips, and lowered her voice slightly: "There is no one else here, we two are talking about ourselves. You have also seen Miss Zhuang in the old lady's room, and that one looks younger than us. They are very beautiful, and their Zhuang Mansion was originally one of the largest families in the south of the Yangtze River. They are also distantly related to the current Empress Dowager. That Zhuang Yulan lived in our Hou Mansion when she was young. She is a very clever and scheming woman. Although you are very good now , but compared with her, I'm afraid it's not as good as her! Ying'er has been around the old lady more since she was a child, and she dotes on this cousin. I heard that Zhuang Yulan was picked up to be given to Yinger, do you think that with her family background, she would stoop to be a concubine under you?"

Mei Niang asked in surprise: "Then what is she going to do?"

(End of this chapter)