Chapter 291: Madam Blackheart
It is said that no matter how noble the queen concubine is, she is still inferior to the virtuous concubine in the palace. Just because she became a princess, the second room felt angry before. Mother Jia was not happy that good things were taken over by the big room. As soon as the concubine Xiande came out, she intensified the suppression of the big room, completely ignoring Yingchun.
It was also because before and after Yingchun's marriage, they were not as entertaining as the Rong Mansion needed. Yingchun also asked Jia Lian to clean up Jinling's servants and several housekeepers, which hurt Jia's mother's interests, so Jia's mother gritted her teeth against Yingchun and only moved. Spring is not allowed.
It's a pity that Concubine Xiande gave the second room all kinds of face, and the result was the destruction of the Rong Mansion, a group of trash who couldn't understand the situation.
Yingchun glanced at Madam Xing and said, "What are you in a hurry for? This kind of life won't last long. The old lady wants you to solve the problem. Just say, if the old lady thinks you are capable, why would you just get married? Don't you support your housekeeper? Doesn't it mean that you are not capable? Isn't it because the second aunt is more capable and considerate, so you don't want to fight? It's not as good as before, why does the old lady suddenly feel that you can do it? Did you solve the problem?"
Mrs. Xing swallowed her saliva and said, "If I say this, I'm afraid that I will be taken home and I will be laughed at at my age?"
Yingchun said: "What are you afraid of? The old lady left you, you have nowhere to go, I picked you up to accompany sister Xiuyan, although I can't let you have the honor of Lin Yao, but as long as you don't do it, I can support you You are old."
Madam Xing's mind suddenly became alive, and she said, "What if the old lady doesn't stop me?"
Yingchun said: "Don't you stop, are you okay? Go back to the East Court to live behind closed doors, don't go to the Rong Mansion to join in the fun."
Madam Xing said again: "That brother Feng..."
Speaking of this time, Wang Xifeng, Xing Xiuyan, and Xichun all came in. At this time, Wang Xifeng was already pregnant, and Xing Xiuyan and Xichun were also in high spirits.
After greeting each other, Mrs. Xing talked about the old lady asking Wang Xifeng to return to the mansion. At this time, Mrs. Xing wanted to stand in line to welcome the spring, and she bluntly said that the Rong mansion had no money. It can't make up for the extravagant use of five or six hundred people in Rongfu, Daguanyuan, and East Court.
After hearing this, Wang Xifeng's heart was cold, she thought that Mother Jia loved her, but now it seems to be fake, she is pregnant, and no one dares to bear such a heavy burden. When she was in charge, she didn't necessarily see that all the output of the villages in the mansion belonged to the public, and she couldn't be frugal everywhere, and the changes she thought of would be disgraceful. It is said that the rules of Rongfu are like those developed "democratic and free" countries dragged by high welfare. People don't work very much, and work efficiency is low, but welfare can only be increased and not reduced, which drags down the finances.
Seeing that the old lady was still thinking of her to carry this big family, Wang Xifeng was a fatal blow to her former smugness. She couldn't help but feel disheartened and said, "Where did I get the money? Second Master Lian told her Me, let me wait for him to come back in the palace, otherwise I will be divorced, and I can't go back. I'm too heavy, and I can't take care of the house."
Mrs. Xing sighed and said, "It's too hard for you. The old lady is afraid that she doesn't know that you are really pregnant. Lian'er hasn't come back, and there is nothing in the house."
Wang Xifeng said, "Is there nothing the second aunt can do?"
Mrs. Xing said, "Just the day before yesterday, the virtuous concubine in the palace sent the **** to the Rong Mansion to reward the palace lantern, and the younger brother and sister gave one hundred taels of silver, but Gongzhong couldn't get it."
Wang Xifeng had also met when she was a housekeeper before. In fact, to put it bluntly, Concubine Xiande herself had no favor and spent all the money, so she couldn't reward the servants, so she sent servants to the mansion to beg for rewards. The mansion can't ignore the decency, the troubled mansion is not good-looking, and the virtuous concubine is not good-looking in the palace.
Wang Xifeng said: "It seems that the second aunt still has some private houses, so she will subsidize the second uncle, sister-in-law, Baoyu, Laner, Tanchun, Baochai, Baoqin, and sisters of the Li family. They are not all relatives of the second house. ?"
Mrs. Xing didn't expect Wang Xifeng to have these attitudes now, she deeply agreed, isn't it the people from the second room who spend the money? Aren't the nuns and actors in the house also raised for the goddess?
Madam Xing said, "Since this is the case, I have to go back and tell the old lady that you are too heavy to go back to the housekeeper."
Mrs. Xing said, said goodbye to Yingchun, and then pulled Xing Xiuyan to instruct: "You are very lucky to live in the palace."
Xing Xiuyan blessed her: "Auntie take care."
Mrs. Xing was about to leave, Yingchun took off her purse, asked Xiuju to hand it to her, and said, "Mother, don't meddle in the affairs of the Rong Mansion. Those vain things used to have nothing to do with you, so what are you doing now? Save some money to live your own life, my father is absurd, there is no money at home anyway, don't talk about being dignified, it's not decent! Those maids and aunts want to make trouble for money, just throw it out after a meal! Father wants it Do, just say what I said!"
Yingchun estimated that in the future, the Rong Mansion would fall, and in terms of etiquette and morality, she would always support Jia She and Madam Xing. Although he didn't take care of himself, if she wasn't Jia She's daughter, she might be a poor family, even poorer than Xing Xiuyan.
Jia She will not support those maids and aunts, she will support Madam Xing, let her hold her down, and let her come forward to clean up in the future, it is better than her own.
Mrs. Xing was really happy when she got Yingchun's words. She had no way to please Jia She without relying on her, but as long as she had a backer, she was more reliable than Jia She.
Mrs. Xing left with a smile, and Xiuju sent her out.
When Mrs. Xing got into the carriage, she couldn't wait to open her purse to see that there were two hundred taels of silver notes and a pair of gold and silver coins in it. She didn't have as much monthly money for a few years.
Mrs. Xing got the money and had the support of the queen concubine, so she had more confidence when she went back to face Jia's mother. He said that Wang Xifeng was really heavy and could not be faked, and then repeated Wang Xifeng's remarks.
Mother Jia sighed, only to feel that the house was deserted and tight, and the elderly only liked liveliness, but the house was empty, and she was reluctant to use her own private room. Leave it to Baoyu.
Mother Jia thought of the white-eyed wolf Yingchun. Since she met Mrs. Xing, she also brought the poor girl Xing Xiuyan into the palace. She also gave Mrs. Xing a face back then. Maybe she could take advantage of Mrs. Xing from the palace to subsidize the palace.
Mother Jia said Tanchun was young and asked Mrs. Xing to be the housekeeper. Mrs. Xing sneered in her heart, and she really told what Yingchun taught her.
Jia Mu couldn't help being angry, and howled: "Damn things! Get out of here!"
So Mrs. Xing really got out, but when she came out, the corner of her mouth tickled.
I don't want to, Jia's mother was so angry that she invited Jia She to beat him, saying that he was not filial and that he would not teach his daughter-in-law. His son, daughter-in-law, and daughter were all white-eyed. Jia She was not young, and his body was weak.
When Jia She returned to the East Courtyard, she was going to teach Mrs. Xing a lesson, saying that she was angry with the old lady. Mrs. Xing rarely had someone to support her, so she told the old lady's plan, and secretly told him that her own way of evading and dealing with it was the meaning of the concubine.
Jia She was confused: "What does the princess mean?"
Madam Xing persuaded: "In my opinion, the princess still won't care about our big room. It's just that she doesn't go to join in the fun of the second room. If you keep the daughter-in-law and granddaughter in the palace, isn't it also to protect the children and grandchildren for the big room? I If I take the housekeeper's words, and it doesn't matter whether people listen to me or not, even if they listen to me, what is the benefit of my housekeeper? Isn't the wife just trying to rely on this, hoping that I will go to the palace to get the benefits when I am told? We are stupid, we want to get the benefits, we won't take them, and we want to take them out and share them with the people in the second room? "
Jia She is stupid, but she also has some strategies, and she has long been disgusted with Jia's mother's partiality, so she made a truce with Mrs. Xing and stopped taking care of Rong's affairs.
The stewardship of the Rong Mansion was only given to Mrs. Wang. Wherever Mrs. Wang was willing to give money, she decided on the antiques, calligraphy and paintings "borrowed" from the Lin family. Taking people to the garden to collect items, and then asking Zhou Rui's family to secretly sell them for money, Mrs. Wang was embarrassed to ask Lin Ruhai to ask for the items back.
In this way, when the Dragon Boat Festival arrived, the holy favor of the Dingbei Hou Mansion was in full swing, and many people climbed the door of the Hou Mansion, and Sun Shaozu was one of them. On this day, Li Shuo took a shower, and Sun Shaozu bought a generous gift and sent it to the Hou Mansion.
Li Shuo thought about sending such a person to the military camp to endure hardship, and whether it would also cause some women in his house to be harmed, so he accepted the gift and had some idea in his heart.
Daiyu's housekeeper, idling left and right, also took care of herself, holding a gift list and corresponding gifts. When she saw two items that the Lin family "lent" to the Rong Mansion Grand View Garden, she was surprised, and she was always a little unhappy in her heart.
The Lin family had already paid for the construction of the Grand View Garden that day. Later, they moved so many things from the Lin family into the house, and the total value of those things reached 300,000 taels.
Now, they are shamelessly selling things! If it wasn't for sale, why did it become a gift to the Hou Mansion?
In the evening, Daiyu told Li Shuo about the matter, and Li Shuo sneered: "That mansion is getting more and more outrageous!"
Daiyu said: "I'm afraid it's almost sold now."
Li Shuo thought to himself: Rong Mansion might as well have ransacked the house earlier, a group of vampires and rice bugs.
Li Shuo coaxed, "Tell me what the Lin family has borrowed for them. I'll look for them outside. How much can I get back?"
Daiyu sighed, "Forget it, there is no room for you to spend this energy on things outside your body. You are already busy enough."
Li Shuo said: "How does this work? Why is it also an heirloom of the Lin family."
Daiyu said: "Daddy borrowed it that day, I'm afraid I would have expected it today."
Li Shuo did not discuss this with Daiyu in depth, but one day later, he told Sima Xuan about the matter.
Now Yingchun knew it right away. Yingchun stroked his chin and said with a smile, "Selling so many things, so the current head of the Rongfu family has made a fortune."
Sima Xuan said, "The current head of the Rong residence is the second wife."
Yingchun smiled and said, "No one has this skill except her!"
Sima Xuan said, "I've sold it all, and I can't get it back."
Yingchun said: "It is difficult to recover the items, but the money may not be recovered."
Sima Xuan asked curiously, "Could it be that Uncle Lin went to the Rong Mansion and said he wanted something back? Uncle Lin may not be able to hold such a face."
Yingchun smiled and said, "Who said that Uncle Lin would come to ask for it?"
Sima Xuan said, "Could it be that you want it?"
Yingchun said, "Why can't I do it?"
Sima Xuan said: "Don't do something like this again. They are just afraid that they will make a noise with you, the old lady will be 'dizzy' by you in public, and give you the name of filial piety, your reputation is gone. That's great, why go to them. The best way is to ignore them, they punch cotton."
Yingchun shook his head and said, "There is a kind of request called 'Treading the Moon to Leave Fragrance'."