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Chapter 17 Gift

Section 017 Gift

Seeing that the old lady could still think of Qiangwei, mother Zhan guessed that the storm brought by the fifth master and his wife had probably passed, she was very happy, she hurriedly told Qiangwei a few words, and led her into the inner room.

The gazes of Dong Yuan and Shi Zi's wife Rong Shi all fell on Qiangwei.

At the age of fourteen or fifteen, with natural fair skin, a small oval face, eyes that are more beautiful than autumn water, cherry lips that match peach pistils, pink cheeks that are hazy, and white teeth that are like silver plating, few young ladies in the Xue family can match her appearance .

She kowtowed to the old lady, Mrs. Shizi and Dong Yuan in a proper manner, and made a big gift.

Mother Zhan pulled her up, and Mrs. Shizi let out a groan and praised, "This child can only be used by Sister Yuan. She looks so beautiful, except for Sister Yuan, all other masters will be compared to her..."

Dong Yuan pursed her lips and smiled, Qiangwei was indeed beautiful, a very orthodox beauty, not like her, too enchanting.

But Mrs. Shizi's words like this are too flattering to her.

Dong Yuan carefully observed her reaction, whether she was arrogant and ignorant or modest and cautious.

Seeing that Qiangwei's eyes were full of fear, as soon as Madam Shizi's words fell, she knelt down again: "Madam loves you, Qiangwei is ashamed to be worthy of it! The masters of the family are rich and precious, and the emperor favors them. Ten roses and a hundred roses are not as good as you!" one cent."

She didn't refute Mrs. Shizi's words about her beauty, but only said that she was less fortunate than the ladies.In this era, a girl's status is far more important than her appearance.Even if she is beautiful, how can she be compared with the young ladies if she is a born slave?
With this insight, Qiangwei is not presumptuous, and the old lady nods her head slightly.She laughed and asked Zhan's mother to help Qiangwei up.

Mrs. Shizi also laughed: "This girl, you are too careful..."

Dong Yuan's eyes flickered slightly.

Hearing Qiangwei's words, she didn't want this maid a little bit.

If she is loyal, she will be a capable person who is exquisite and translucent; if she has distracting thoughts and is so beautiful, she is fine in Xue's house, but she will be brought to her husband's house in the future, and her husband will take a fancy to her. Dong Yuan will definitely have to work hard to deal with it. she.

And she was really in danger, and she didn't want to fight even the maids around her.

She would rather have a maid like Tangerine Xiang, who is either pure and cute or dull and honest.

But seeing the old lady's smile, Dong Yuan knew that she had to accept this maid, the old lady liked Qiangwei very much.

The old lady is the orthodox thinking of this era, and her cognition Dong Yuan can also understand: servants in this era are slavish and will not easily betray their masters.They are loyal to their duties, and only want their master to be rich and prosperous, and they will ascend to heaven.If the master really loses power, there may be evil servants who bully the master.

Thinking about it, Dong Yuan couldn't help but look at Qiangwei again.

A girl with such clear eyes should have no evil intentions, right?If she is loyal, and she has many helpers, the road ahead will be smoother, and she will be much more relaxed, isn't it great?

Consoling himself in this way, the corners of Dong Yuan's lips curled up slightly, revealing a faint smile.

"...Is there any child named 'Wei' in my room?" The old lady asked Zhan's mother, Baojin and Baolu with a smile, "The word 'Wei' is good. Wei means vegetables, and the ancient poem Yuncaiwei And food. Put a few more little maids named 'Wei' beside Sister Yuan, so that Sister Yuan will have no worries about food and clothing in the future."

Dong Yuan couldn't help laughing, people in ancient times liked to ask for good luck in various words, and it was true, even a decisive person like the old lady believed in these words.

Mrs. Rong, Mrs. Zhan, Baojin, and Baolu also laughed.

Baolu thought for a while, then said with a smile, "There's a girl named Jiuwei in the kitchen, and Mother Xing likes it the most."

The kitchen that Baolu mentioned was not the big kitchen of the Xue family, but the small kitchen in the old lady's house.Mother Xing is the mother in charge of the small kitchen in the old lady's house.

The old lady didn't care about Xing's mother anymore, and asked Baolu to call her.

After a while, Baolu brought in a rough envoy maid wearing a red satin jacket and bluestone-colored cotton trousers.Seeing her lack of stature, she looked twelve or thirteen years old, looked at the people in the room timidly, then quickly lowered her head, not as exquisite as Qiangwei, she looked very clumsy, as if she had never seen the world.

Baolu asked her to kowtow to the old lady, Mrs. Shizi and Miss Jiu.

She hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, sincerely, her forehead was a little red.

The whole room was amused by her embarrassment, even Dong Yuan couldn't help laughing.But remembering the last time she saw her wearing heavy wooden clogs, carrying half a bucket of water, but she was standing silently, Dong Yuan's smile subsided again.

"You are Jiuwei?" the old lady asked her kindly.

Jiuwei hurriedly knelt down again and hurriedly said yes.

The old lady laughed again.

Baolu helped her up, and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, the old lady has a heart of a Bodhisattva, and she doesn't want to punish you, just stand up and answer carefully."

Jiuwei nodded her head like a slap in the face, her appearance was simple and foolish, which made the old lady laugh again.

"She is very strong, one person does the work of three people, and she is always rushing to do things in the kitchen. Xing's mother is a treasure of her. Before coming here, Xing's mother was worried that she was causing trouble, so she kept asking my old lady to find Jiuwei What to do, I am very worried..." Baolu saw that the old lady liked Jiuwei's appearance very much, so she spoke good words for her.

"He is a diligent one!" The old lady stopped laughing, called Jiuwei to come to her, looked her carefully from side to side, and then said to Mrs. Rong, "Look at this child, the heaven is full, and he will be blessed in the future. Just Jiu Wei... Our sister Yuan is ranked ninth, so it's better to change the word..."

But he couldn't hold back what to change, so he hesitated for a while.

Mrs. Rong knew that the old lady liked auspicious words, so she said with a smile: "Mother, Baiwei and Ziwei are good names..."

The old lady pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "That's called Ziwei. Zi Zhe, Zi Qi comes from the east, which is exactly the name of our sister Yuan."

Purple Qi coming from the east is an auspicious sign.

Shizi's wife, Mrs. Rong, first thought of Ziwei, and also thought of Ziqi Donglai.But purple is not a positive color, not only "purple qi comes from the east", but also "evil purple seizes vermilion", which means that the following offends the above.

If the child is honest in the future, it will be fine, but if something happens, and someone gossips again, the old lady will put the blame on Mrs. Rong.

Rong didn't dare to say it directly, so he had to find the word Baiwei to make up the number and let the old lady choose.

The old lady was very satisfied, and said with a smile: "Qiangwei will go to Sister Yuan's room to serve her personally. Ziwei will learn the rules for a few years before going to Sister Yuan's room."

That is to say, Qiangwei is the second-class maid, and Ziwei is still the first-class maid.

Dong Yuan got busy and saluted the old lady to thank her.

Bao Lu led the two of them out, and introduced them to Dong Yuan's eldest maid, Ju Hong: "It's all given to Miss Jiu by the old lady."

Then he talked about the grades of Qiangwei and Ziwei.

When Ju Hong heard it, she immediately showed joy, but there was a hint of sadness.

What she was happy about was that the old lady agreed to Miss Nine's idea; what she was worried about was that she was going to leave Miss Jiu temporarily, and felt lost.

Seeing that Baolu was still there, she calmed down and said to Qiangwei and Ziwei: "I'll go back and tell them to prepare the house, and come pick up the two older sisters in the second quarter of the first day of the new year."

In the old lady's house, she calls her elder sister.

Qiangwei and Ziwei thanked each other, went back to their houses, packed their things, and prepared to move to Xue Dongyuan's house.

In the inner room, Mrs. Shizi said to the old lady: "Do you want to add a few people to your room? There are several clever maids in my room. Do you want to call them over for you first?"

"No, no!" The old lady laughed, "Look at my room full of people, there is no lack of service."

There are 20 more custom-made maids in the old lady's house than in the Shizi's wife's house, and it is indeed not short of hands to reward the children.Mrs. Shizi laughed: "Then next March, the family will release a batch, and then buy some children to come in, and pick a few clever ones for you."

The old lady smiled and said hello.

The maid outside said that the old Hou Ye was back, and then raised the felt curtain, the old Hou Ye walked in, Dong Yuan and Shi Zi's wife Rong Shi hurriedly got up and saluted the old Hou Ye.

The old lady also got up and saluted.

Old Hou Ye let them all sit down, but his brows were full of worry.

Dong Yuan and Rong Shi both got up and said goodbye on the pretext of having something to do in the house.

The old lady could see that Lord Hou was unhappy, so she didn't keep Dong Yuan and Rong Shi, and asked Bao Jin and Bao Lu to send them out.

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