take a wife to support the family

Chapter 357

Song Haonian just returned home, and he was quite flustered.

Although someone takes care of the fields and houses at home, and they come back ready-made, but the pickles in the jar and the bacon under the eaves have to be made by themselves, and the bed curtains in the house are arranged, but if there are things that don’t suit them, they have to be replaced one by one. come over.

And last year during the autumn harvest, Yingchun was the only one at home, and she didn't buy enough grain, and now the granary and cellar are empty, and the family has more people, it's obvious that there is not enough food, so I have to discuss with Mr. Liu to buy rice, noodles, and vegetables from his farm. .

Lily was still pregnant, Song Haonian didn't ask her to do heavy work, but only allowed her to give advice, and he took care of the work.

But after all, he is a big man, he can do rough work, but he can't do too delicate work: for example, if he wants to sew a bib pocket for Ruzhen, how can he use a needle?A small embroidery needle is heavier than a grain bag of hundreds of catties.

The two Lily sisters laughed so hard that their stomachs hurt, Song Haonian discussed with his wife: "Why don't we hire two people to help?"

Lily said: "It's easy to hire people, but where do you live?"

When they were building the house, Liu Yi also said that the family had a small population, so why would they need those houses? At that time, Song Haonian was thinking about what to do if there were more children in the future.Unexpectedly, in just a few years, the house is not enough.

There are three rooms in the main room, the east room and the east room are for the couple to live in, and there is another kitchen. The west room is now owned by Yingchun, but if the old father-in-law and mother-in-law move in temporarily, there is no reason for them to live in the west room, and Yingchun has to move. Go live in the West Wing.

There are two rooms in the west chamber. They used to store some miscellaneous things, but recently they housed the cages they brought back from the capital. One room was made for Yingchun, so she might have to squeeze in with Ruzhen's nanny.

This is still really young, living in the same house with his parents, when he gets older, the house will not be enough.So Song Haonian said: "It's better to add a row of rear shields to the back of our house, when the time comes, the father-in-law and mother-in-law can live in it, and we can also hire a few people to help."

Jin Yiwei escorted them to the place, and made it clear to the county magistrate and squires that no matter what they wanted to protect Song Haonian's family, they had to return to Beijing to return to their orders. Nian Jian resigned: "In the countryside, everyone is living in peace and security. I suddenly got a lot of guards, which is very eye-catching."

In recent years, the imperial court is clear and there are few bandits and bandits in the countryside, so it's okay for Song Haonian not to have guards.Prince Xin made it clear to him that after returning to his hometown, he must recruit some young and strong servants who are useful, and he must know the basics so as not to be caught off guard when something happens.

Although the two brothers were at odds, they had a good relationship after all. Song Haonian knew that the son was also kind, so he agreed to ask Qingsong to ask shopkeeper Liu to choose a few people for him, and before Jin Yiwei left, he went through two rounds of screening and selected those Get rid of those whose thoughts are not correct, or those whose relatives are in trouble.

If you want to recruit family members and hire workers, it’s fine for you to be of decent conduct. Why do you need relatives to save trouble?

But this has to talk about Mr. Liu, he heard that Song Haonian wanted to recruit a few servants, and thinking that Song Haonian did not have enough background, and it had recently exploded in this town, he might not know how to recruit people, so he came here to talk to him Said: "Many families, it is the relatives of the family members who have crooked minds, who collude with the family members to cooperate with each other, not to mention robbing the master's money, but even killing the master's life."

Song Haonian was willing to listen to people's talk, so he entrusted the matter of recruiting servants, and watched it again by himself, selected a few young men who were pleasing to the eye, and agreed with them: "My family is going to build a house, and you can do it if you have time." You can come to help, but if you don’t come, it’s okay, when the house is repaired, I will invite you to stay longer.”

There are a total of eight servants, all of whom are from the county, and are of innocence.

Some of them are acquainted with Song Haonian, and some have only heard of the name but never met before. They all know that Song Haonian has a family of rich and noble relatives in the capital. They are all very satisfied with this errand.

It just so happened that Li Qingsong also wanted to build a house, Song Haonian discussed with him: "Just a few days later, I will build a row of back-cover houses here, and I can get it in a month, and then move out the old man, and then you demolish the house at home. "

Qingsong nodded in agreement, and then begged Song Haonian: "Brother-in-law, I don't even know those who sell wood and bricks, and you still need to take me around to make sure they know each other."

Song Haonian agreed immediately: "When we buy wood, bricks and tiles, we will buy yours along the way. What do you want to repair the house?"

"Just build it according to your current house. If it is bigger, it will be inconvenient for parents to tidy up."

Song Haonian used to build a house and was familiar with Mr. Yin Yang, masons and others, but now he needs to build a back room, greet them, and then let them know that their house needs to hire people to help with work, five or six a day Ten money, three meals guaranteed to have meat for two, the Song family, which had been silent for more than a year, suddenly became lively.

After doing the calculations like this, Lily can't hold on to the food for thirty or forty people a day at least. She also said: "It is said that the more people are raised, the more delicate they become. I used to be capable, but now I just want to be lazy."

Song Haonian said: "You suffered too much in the first place." Then he discussed with her to hire a cook and two maids to help.

There are quite a few capable women in the town, and looking for a cook to make a big pot of rice, Lily only takes care of her own small stove.Fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls are not yet married, and they can't do farm work at home. The family is eager for them to find a job outside. Therefore, Lily said that he would hire two girls to help, and a group of people came to talk about the project. .

The girls in the town, Li Caifeng and Wenwaniang are very close, and they help to pick two hard-working and hard-working girls who don't quarrel, help at home, and give them something when they get married, which can be regarded as sending them out.

If the nanny followed from Xinwang Mansion to Qingliu Town, Baihe was afraid that she would be far away from her family and relatives in her hometown, and she would feel reluctant to give up. After asking later, she found out that her husband died of illness not long after the nanny was pregnant. She struggled to give birth to a baby girl. When she fell to the ground again, she died, and she was kicked out by her husband's family before the confinement was full, and she was not allowed to recognize the son born earlier.

There is no one in her natal family. Fortunately, there are two Suri sisters who work in Xinwang's mansion, so they entrust them in to be nurses. Who knows that they are lucky to share with Ruzhen. Among the three nurses, Ruzhen loves her the most, and Lily also thinks she is good. , she looked at it as if it was her own son, so she didn't complain at all when she came to Qingliu Town.

Lily sighed for a while, and said: "Although you have no complaints, life in the town is not as good as the palace. If you feel bad one day, just tell me that you are as good as you are, and we will not treat you badly."

The nanny said: "My lady, don't try to break me. I just follow my brother."

Although Ruzhen didn't eat much of her milk at first, but now she started to eat decent meals again, how much work she saved for Lily by taking care of Ruzhen.

Lily asked her again: "Can you take care of girls?"

"Although I don't know how to do it, I have seen the mothers of the royal family take care of girls, so I know a little bit about it."

She spoke modestly, and Lily told her to take the two maids to learn some rules, "There are not many rules, they are all girls in the town, and they don't have to be restrained like puppets and clay sculptures. I'm sorry for their parents. Just teach them If you need to understand things, be more diligent, don’t talk nonsense when you shouldn’t say it, and let it go.”

The nurse promised to teach the two girls by herself.

The cook is a clean person. Her husband's family name is Liu and her maiden name is Song. However, she is related to Lao Song's family and Liu Yi's family many generations ago, and they are not familiar with each other now.

When she was in her natal family, she was called a barbarian girl. Because she was a few years older than Lily, Lily simply called her "barbarian girl" sister.Lily taught her how to cook a few dishes, and gave her the daily work of going to the butcher stall to buy meat and the tofu shop to buy tofu.

The tofu shop served Wenwa's parents and Li Caifeng in the early morning. Seeing that Baihe's family came to buy vegetables, they naturally refused to take money.

Afterwards, Lily went to the store by herself and said, "If I pass by to ask you for bean curd, you don't charge for it. It's our friendship. Now my house is being repaired, and I use those tofu meat and vegetables every day. You want Wouldn't it be a loss to be a favor to me?"

Wenwa's parents had to accept the food money, and they really asked Lily to sit down and try their new taste of bean curd. Lily praised: "This taste is better than mine. Tomorrow morning, I will ask Da Nian to serve a bowl and make it with me." Have breakfast."

Wen Wa was in the back, when she heard a voice poking out, she said, "No, I'll help out tomorrow morning and bring it to you."

Li Qingsong took a year off to get married and Xu Caiwen also had half a year off, so he had nothing else to do except help out at home. Hearing that Song Haonian was going to build a house, he went to help.

Originally, Song Haonian only planned to add a row of rear-covered houses randomly, and it would be good to build them firmly. Afterwards, the number of people in the family is increasing, and there are more and more men and women. It is not beautiful to live in the same place. It would be better to add another entrance to the courtyard, tear down the original courtyard wall, and expand the outside by more than one foot.

Finally, as soon as you enter the courtyard, there are five brick bungalows, and there are two side rooms on each side. The courtyard is separated from the middle, and two doors are installed, leading to the front yard respectively.

After the repair is completed, the nanny and the maid will live in one side, and the housekeeper will live in the other side. When the old couple of Carpenter Li strips move in, they will live in the main house in the middle of the nanny and their half of the yard, which is no worse than the main house.

When the door closes at night, the two girls, one named Lanniu and the other Xiao'e, don't need to be afraid no matter how timid they are.Besides, there are Ruzhen's nanny Chang Niangzi and the cook Mannv taking them with them. They are good companions, and it is also convenient for them to take care of the old couple.

In less than a month, the foundation had been dug deep and the foundation of the wall had been laid. Liu Sanping directed the erection of wooden frames, and went home to make beds and furniture.

After the house was repaired and aired out for a few days, the furniture was moved inside, and the fine cotton cloth was bought from shopkeeper Liu to make sheets and bedding, and Master Tao and his son, who plucked cotton, were called to make the quilt.

The house was full of excitement all day long, and work was suspended for a few days because of the rain in the middle. Even so, it took only one and a half months, and everything was ready, and people could move in as soon as they entered the yard.

(End of this chapter)