Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 287 The first move
Mai Xiang was also stunned for a moment, but she quickly realized that the old man just let her take care of the money and keep the accounts, but how to spend the money is still up to the Jiang family, and she just plays a custody role, like those favors. There is no way to get in the way of buying Maixiang, so why does she bother to take on such a thankless job?

Besides, Mai Xiang still has a lot of things in her hands. Although the accounts of the porcelain factory are ignored, she still has to hand over a few drawings every month. In addition, the restaurant still has a [-]% stake in Huaici, and the monthly accounts of the several shops also need to be checked, and the ground rent for the second quarter of the year has to be collected. How can she have the time to play these tricks with Jiang?
"Old man, I am a new daughter-in-law who has just entered the house, and I am not familiar with the family affairs. Besides, my husband will be able to try it in more than a month. I really can't take care of it now. Let me see it this way. Sister-in-law comes in. It's been several years, and sister-in-law is pregnant now, but the accounting work is not tiring, sister-in-law, what do you think?" Seeing that Kang Yi has been paying attention to things here, Mai Xiang simply pushed her out, anyway, she and The Jiang family must have one heart.

The old man looked at Mai Xiang, his eyes flashed, he understood what Mai Xiang meant, this child still treats himself as an outsider, and has no plan to live in Wan's family.

But the daughter-in-law didn't see this, she always cared about this family property, and tried every means to drive the grandson out.

Thinking of this, the old man had an idea, and said, "Alright, let the eldest grandson take care of it first, and take good care of my little grandson these days."

Jiang's face was relieved when she heard this, and even Kang Yi was relieved. She knew that with Mai Xiang's shrewdness, she definitely didn't plan to live in Wan's family, so she didn't bother to take on this job.

The old man naturally saw what the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were thinking, thought for a while, and asked, "Mother Zhigao, have you found out what happened in the kitchen today?"

After hearing this, Mrs. Jiang quickly replied: "I found out, it's the woman in charge of the stove who had a stomachache, and the delay for a while was not intentional. For starters, I have already fined them a month's worth of money."

The old man didn't speak, but nodded. Jiang didn't know what the other party meant, so he lowered his head and thought to himself.

Fortunately, at this time, the old lady pushed the cards away and yelled to set off fireworks. After the fireworks were set off, they ate some supper, then played dominoes for a while, and when it was midnight, everyone went back to their respective houses.

The next morning, as soon as Mai Xiang and Huai Ci got up and got dressed, several maids in the yard came to kowtow to Mai Xiang and Huai Ci. Mai Xiang gave each of them a big red envelope of one tael of silver and ordered After a few words with everyone, Huaici and Huaici led the cocoa leaves and maple leaves to the upper room.

When Mai Xiang arrived, the upper room was already full of people. Seeing Mai Xiang, Jiang smiled and said, "I'll just wait for you two, the old lady can't even give out the red envelopes."

When Mai Xiang saw a few futons on the ground, Wan Chengyao and Jiang shi knelt down with the grandchildren. The old lady gave a red envelope to each of them, which were two little golden boys, followed by Wan Zhigao and Kang Yi. Watching the grandchildren kowtow to Wan Chengyao and Jiang Shi, Jiang Shi also gave a red envelope, two silver coins.

After breakfast, Wan Baocai, Wan Chengyao, Wan Zhigao, and Huaici went out respectively. Only then did Mai Xiang know that it is the custom in the capital to visit his father-in-law first on the first day of the new year. Of course, they must be close .

As for Wan Chengyao, I heard that he went to the gate of the yamen, and only then did Mai Xiang know that there was already a group worship among officials at this time.

Because women are not allowed to go out from the first day to the fifth day of the new year, the Wan family has relatively few relatives and friends, and the general relationship between colleagues or friends is just to send someone to hand over a greeting card at the door. Therefore, on the first day of the new year, Lian Jiang's I also took some time off, saying that I want to spend a few days wiping dominoes with the old lady.

The old lady was naturally happy when she heard it. Kang Yi hurried to prepare things when she saw her, and together with Mai Xiang, there were exactly four of them. These three people had the same mind, and they all wanted to make the old lady happy, so it took half a day. The box was filled with a box of copper coins.

"Grand granddaughter-in-law, this is a lucky win for me, take it and buy some delicious food for my great-grandson." The old lady looked at Kang Yi's stomach with a smile.

"Old lady, it hasn't been decided yet. If not, wouldn't it be my fault for disappointing grandma?" Kang Yi smiled awkwardly.

Although in all likelihood she was pregnant, it was not always possible to have a boy or a girl, even though she wanted to have a son more than anyone else.

"You child, don't say this when you are older than the Chinese New Year. No matter what you give birth to, I like it. It would be better if you have more children. In this life, you need to be popular. If you are popular, you will be prosperous."

"That's not the case. How about if the old lady looked at the kneeling grandson, grandson, daughter-in-law, granddaughter, and two great-grandsons and great-granddaughters from ear to ear this morning?" Jiang hurriedly patted the old lady's horse. fart.

"By the way, speaking of this, grandson-in-law, if you have anything you want to eat, tell me later, I will let the kitchen do it, but please don't wrong my great-grandson." The old lady repeated again.

Mai Xiang could tell that the old lady wanted to win over Kang Yi today, why?

Could it be that she felt that she had treated Kang Yi badly during this period of time?Can't you?Didn't she take advantage of this share?Or was it because of Wan Baocai's attitude towards him last night that the three women panicked and wanted to form a bond?

Why did the old lady show love to Mai Xiang two days ago?

Seeing that the old lady was happy, Jiang thought about it, and tentatively said: "Mother, it's better to be like this, Kang Yi has been spoiled since she was a child, and she's picky about her food, why don't they let them eat separately and cook whatever they want?" What to order, anyway, there are quite a few maids and women in her room, as well as the clothes of the four seasons, I might as well let them do it by themselves, so I can save myself a little worry."

After hearing this, the old lady raised her eyelids to look at Jiang, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's better to be more comfortable like this, Zhigao should work hard. I will discuss it with your father later, and we will have to wait until later if we want to be separated." It's the Lantern Festival, but there are too many people in her yard, is there enough space?"

"I was just about to discuss this with the old lady. The old lady said that Maixiang will add two back seats here. I thought, why not build a back room for Kangyi's yard at this time. After that It can be more spacious after having a child, besides, she is still young and can give birth."

"Succeed, this is not a big deal, you can just make up your mind." After the old lady finished speaking, she glanced at Mai Xiang.

Mai Xiang felt that the old lady's glance seemed to have some deep meaning, and she turned her head for a long time, but she couldn't figure it out.

When Huai Ci came back in the afternoon, Mai Xiang took him to learn about these women for a long time, Huai Ci pondered for a while, and said: "Yesterday, the old man asked you to take care of the account and you rejected it. If I guessed correctly, wait I will finish the test. The old man and the old lady will definitely let you take care of some housework. It is most likely the stove or the sewing room. Both of these places are full of oil and water. The wife does not want you to intervene, so let the elder brother and his family be separated first. In this case , there are only a few old ladies and wives left, and you don't dare to be harsh on them."

When Mai Xiang heard this, she suddenly realized, and said with a smile, "I haven't paid attention to this little profit."

"My daughter-in-law is really angry now, do you know? We spend 100 taels of silver a year on clothes alone. How many masters are there in the family? Including the two children of the elder brother's family, the sum of money is [-] taels a year. , not counting those maidservants and aunts."

Mai Xiangmo did some calculations, the clothes of the two little milk babies and the two aunts certainly didn't cost so much money, even Huaici's previous clothes, in Mai Xiang's impression, were only made of cotton cloth, how could they ask for 100 taels of silver? ?After such a settlement, the Jiang family has been demanding 2000 taels of silver from Huaici over the years for food and clothing.

However, Wan Zhigao's family has four masters and two aunts. No wonder Jiang wants to separate his family first, because he is afraid that if Mai Xiang really takes over the kitchen or sewing room, he will treat Wan like this. Zhigao family.

"Actually, I think it's a good thing. We don't care about this small amount of money. Let them make trouble on their own. The old man must have an account in his heart."

Mai Xiang listened with a smile, 2000 taels of silver is not a decimal, no matter what else, the money will have to be spit out by Jiang Shi.

"The old lady really trusts me so much?" Mai Xiang asked.

"A little bit. Forget about it, I went to your natal family today, as well as the elder sister's and second sister's houses, as well as the university scholar's house and the master's house. They asked you when you plan to go to have New Year's wine, Arrange for them to open so they can send someone to pick them up."

"Understood, I'll go back and plan the date and send it to someone."

Mai Xiang knew that Jiang's plan was to invite Mrs. Pei on the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, and she would definitely stay at home that day, and planned to find a chance to get acquainted.

From the second day of junior high school, Mai Xiang still played with the old lady in the upper room, while Huaici himself went out every day. He went to the scholar's mansion in the morning and went to Ji's house in the afternoon, and sometimes stayed at Ji's house for dinner before coming back.

On the morning of the sixth day of the sixth day, Wufu brought Maidi to pick up Maixiang back to her natal home. Only then did Maixiang know that Bafu's family was also celebrating the new year in Beijing, and there was good news that Mrs. Zhou was pregnant.

Ye Dafu and Zhao Shi were naturally very happy to see Mai Xiang, and even Liu Shi rarely showed a smile to Mai Xiang.

It turned out that Uladomin really sent Nanny Guan to the door, explained the meaning of the prince and Fujin, and vetoed Jiufeng with a sentence that Manchu and Han should not intermarry.The maids in Prince Li's mansion are all dressed in banners and cannot be bought from outside, let alone Prince Li's concubine.If Jiufeng insists on entering the palace, unless he has no name and no distinction for the rest of his life, he will not want children and just be a housewarming girl.

Besides, Madam Guan also said that the second-tier and third-tier masters and princes who are famous and influential in Prince Li's mansion can't even take care of them, so why would they care about the housewarming maids?
Naturally, Mrs. Liu is unwilling to let her precious daughter marry and keep the vacant house alone. Besides, she can't even have a child. What hope can she have in this life?

I heard that Mrs. Liu has been persuading Jiufeng a lot these days, and finally persuaded Jiufeng to give up, and planned to go on a blind date after the first lunar month is over.Therefore, Liu Shi finally let go of half of his heart.

(End of this chapter)