Daming female local tyrant

Originally, Mrs. Zhou took scissors and a ruler to the Shen family's old house after breakfast, found Zhao Siniang, and offered to help Shen Wan and others tailor their clothes.

But Zhao Siniang told her that before lunch today, Missy and others might not have time to see her, so Jiang Yapo and others brought someone to pick out for Missy, and Missy wanted to buy some servant girls.

So, she asked Mrs. Zhou to come back after lunch.

After lunch, Mrs. Zhou went to the Shen family's old house again, found Zhao Siniang and asked her to introduce her, and finally met Shen Wan and the others.

Shen Wan finished picking out maids and servants, and was looking for a tailor to cut the newly bought silk and satin clothes, and make two summer dresses for herself and Jinglan Cuizhu.

It was just right for Zhao Siniang to bring Mrs. Zhou, because Mrs. Zhou is a woman, not only is it convenient to measure her body size, but also Mrs. Zhou can also cut and sew, and asked her to come to the house to make clothes, and the patterns on the clothes can be changed nearby ,More convenient.

When Jing Lan saw that the seamstress was Mrs. Zhou, she recognized at a glance that she was the person who had come to inquire about the situation two days ago. This person was Qi Zhuangtou's daughter-in-law.She had also heard that Qi Zhuangtou's son had opened a cloth shop in Jinhe Town. Now that she thought of it, it was only natural that the lady of the cloth shop owner could cut and sew clothes.

It's just that Zhou's news was well-informed, so soon he knew that the eldest lady had gone to the city to buy silk and satin clothes, so she came to the door and offered to make clothes for them.

If other seamstresses came, they would come as soon as they came, but when this Zhou family came, Jing Lan felt that it might not be as simple as simply touting business.

Therefore, she observed carefully from the sidelines, and saw that this Zhou family met Shen Wan, and tried her best to flatter her, and even said that she knew that Shen Wan had bought clothes because she had nothing to do, so she came to help.

She wants to cut and sew clothes for Shen Wan for free.

Of course Shen Wan said no, she said that the tailors in the town would give Mrs. Zhou as much as they wanted, otherwise she would not let Mrs. Zhou do it.

Zhou then praised Shen Wan as a kind person with a good heart, and Bodhisattvas will bless such people to be rich and noble.

Shen Wan smiled and stopped talking.

After she asked Mrs. Zhou to measure herself, she went to measure Jinglan and Cuizhu, as well as the two newly bought maids, Kikyo and Baiju.Of course, the two new maids just bought some light blue summer cloth from Zhou's cloth shop to make two dresses for them.

The silk and satin clothes bought from the silk shop in Suzhou City made four for herself, and two for Jinglan and Cuizhu.

Shen Wan's dress material is the best new pattern and material this year, and the material she chooses for her own dress should be more calm and airy.

The materials used for the dresses made for Jinglan and Cuizhu should be fresher and more tender, in line with their young girls' age.

Shen Wan asked Zhou to make two bodies for herself first, and then one for Jing Lan and one for Cui Zhu.

As for the dresses of the two maids, Kikyo and Baiju, let the tailors in the Qijia cloth shop make them.

Mrs. Zhou quickly agreed, and hastened to make dresses for Shen Wan and the others.

Shen Wan reckoned that it would take seven or eight days for the Zhou family to make clothes for meeting guests, so during this period, Jing Lan and Cui Zhu were in charge of teaching the two little maids to work, and Zhao Siniang and Qiu Liu supervised the two maids. The boys learn to carry the sedan chair and let them run errands to do some chores.

The gate of Shen's old house was repainted, animal head knockers were installed, and the wall facing the street was repainted.The leaky roofs of the second and first entrances in the front of the house, as well as the decayed doors and windows, were also repaired by craftsmen.Shen Wan and Jing Lan went to buy the potted plants and flowers that they agreed to buy, and brought them back to decorate the courtyard and the house.Some furniture and utensils that were missing in the house were also bought to make up for it.

By the time the Zhou family finished Shen Wan's two sets of dresses for meeting guests, as well as Jinglan's and emerald green bamboo's pink dresses, seven or eight days passed, and the old Shen family house was tidied up and looked brand new.At least it looks good from the outside. When you come in, although it is not as new as the outside, it is pleasing to the eye, and the hospitality does not look shabby.

After these preparations were completed, Shen Wan also set a date, planning to go to see Tao Yuanxin, a good friend of her father who wrote a letter to help Shen Wan.

Tao Yuanxin is a silk businessman. Not to mention a large silk shop in Suzhou City, there are no less than [-] or [-] silk looms, and he hires people to weave satin.

The Tao family's silk weaving and satin business is a family business, which has been done for three generations.

Speaking of which, the ancestors of the Tao family had dealt with the Shen family, and the Shen family later made a fortune and moved to Jinling, but the descendants of the two families still had contacts.

Tao Yuanxin and Shen Wan's father, Shen Chang, were friends when they were young and had a close relationship.

So Shen Wan took her father's letter and went into the city in a hired carriage to meet Tao Yuanxin, Jing Lan and Cui Zhu went together.

At that time, Tao Yuanxin was no longer in charge of the Tao family's silk shop. He handed over the business to his two sons, and he was a rich man at home, enjoying flowers and playing chess.

The carriage in which Shen Wan and the others were sitting arrived at the gate of the Tao family mansion and got out of the carriage. After Shen Wan handed in the greeting card and a letter from his father, Tao Yuanxin quickly had someone lead Shen Wan in.

Jing Lan and Cui Zhu, who were personal servants, accompanied her by her side.

In the main hall of the main house of the Tao family, Tao Yuanxin and his wife Fang Shi met Shen Wan together.

Shen Chang wrote very clearly in the letter to Tao Yuanxin why his daughter was punished by the old lady to go to the old house in Suzhou to think about it. In the letter, he implored Tao Yuanxin, a good friend, to take care of his daughter as much as possible.If your daughter comes to ask for something, she must help.

As a good friend of Shen Chang, Tao Yuanxin read the letter, and in front of Shen Wan, he asked Shen Wan what difficulties he had, and he could try his best to help.

Shen Wan then said that she didn't need Tao Yuanxin's help for the time being. She came here today to visit Tao Yuanxin, a friend of her father's. She said that she was new to Suzhou, and she still hoped that there would be someone to walk around here, otherwise she would be too lonely. up.

As soon as Fang heard this, she called her two daughters-in-law and her daughter, Tao Yuehua, who was only 14 years old, and introduced them to Shen Wan, and said with a smile: "We met today, and Ah Wan can come to us as often as possible." Here, have tea and play with them, Jinhe Town is not far from our place anyway, and it takes only half an hour to come here in a carriage. We can also come to your place to play when we are free, the more we can get closer."

Shen Wan smiled and said yes.

Fang went on to say that it is better to hit the sun than to choose the day, since Shen Wan came today, we will enjoy the flowers, stroll around the garden and have dinner in Shuanglu together, and go back after having fun.

The enthusiasm of Tao Yuanxin and his wife made it difficult for Shen Wan to refuse, so she agreed to stay with Fang for a while.

So Fang asked Shen Wan to sit in the flower hall, and asked her two daughters-in-law and daughter Tao Yuehua to accompany the guests.

Tao Yuehua wasn't interested in what her mother and two sister-in-laws told Shen Wan about clothes, jewelry, family matters, so she slipped out to play tricks on her peers who were waiting outside.

The so-called peers are Jing Lan and Cui Zhu, who seem to be about the same age as Tao Yuehua.

Tao Yuehua is the youngest daughter of Tao Yuanxin and his wife. They have only one daughter, and they love her very much.This formed Tao Yuehua's arrogant and self-willed temperament, very mischievous, and loved to play tricks on the servants in the house.

She was brave, and ran to catch a caterpillar with a small branch, and tiptoed to Jinglan, and put the caterpillar on Jinglan's shoulder.

Then he deliberately pointed at Jing Lan's shoulder and exclaimed loudly, "Ah! What a big worm!"

When Jing Lan heard the words, she turned her head to look. She turned to her left shoulder first, but she didn't see it, so she thought it was the young lady of the Tao family who was trying to scare people on purpose, until the green bamboo beside her saw it, jumped up in fright, and pointed at her inarticulately. Right shoulder: "...worm, what a big one..."

Turning to her right shoulder, Jing Lan saw the caterpillar crawling on her shoulder.

She calmly reached out and brushed it off her shoulders, her expression as usual.

But after brushing the caterpillar off her shoulder, she turned to look at Tao Yuehua, and asked her with a frosty face, "You put it on my shoulder?"

Tao Yuehua was waiting to watch a good show, but she didn't expect to come with Shen Wan. Not only was the beautiful and outstanding little girl in front of her not frightened by her prank, but she even questioned if she did it.

She had never met such a maid before.

Because all the maids in the Tao family she knew were yelling in fright at her prank, and there was no one who was not afraid, let alone questioned herself.

She suddenly became interested in Jinglan, clapped her hands, and looked at Jinglan with ease: "I let it go, what, you want to settle accounts with me?"

Jing Lan didn't speak, but suddenly bent down, picked up a leaf, pinched the fat caterpillar crawling on the ground, and put it on Tao Yuehua's sleeve.

It was always Tao Yuehua who put caterpillars on others to scare people, but today she reaped the consequences of herself, someone put a caterpillar on her sleeve.

She was startled, exclaimed, and quickly flicked her sleeves, throwing the fur to the ground.

Seeing this, Jing Lan couldn't help but burst out laughing, and Cui Zhu, who was standing beside her, also laughed.

The half a year she stayed in Lin's house since crossing over was not in vain. She was afraid of bugs like many girls before crossing over, but in Lin's house, when she was doing farm work, she had never seen any kind of insects, let alone insects. Even those snakes she had seen a lot.Therefore, the caterpillar that Miss Tao put on her shoulder cannot scare Jing Lan.

Tao Yuehua had never been teased like this before, and the one who teased and teased her was a little maid.

For a moment, she was angry and ashamed, pointed at Jing Lan and said, "Wait, wait, I...I want you to look good!"

After speaking, she ran away like a whirlwind.

Cuizhu ran over and pulled Jinglan's sleeve, and asked her worriedly, "What is Miss Tao doing?"

Jing Lan clapped her hands: "Who knows?"

Cuizhu frightenedly glanced in the direction Tao Yuehua was running away, and suggested that the two of them go back to Shen Wan's side right now, so as not to suffer from Tao Yuehua's revenge in a short while.

Because Tao Yuehua is the young lady of the Tao family, if she takes revenge on the two of them and makes them suffer, the loss will be for nothing, and the master will not settle the score with the young lady of the Tao family for the sake of the two maids.What's more, when the eldest lady first arrived in Suzhou, she wanted to associate with the families of her father's friends.

After Jing Lan heard this, she felt that she was a little self-willed just now, so she just grabbed the caterpillar to scare Miss Tao's family, but she didn't expect that this would ruin Shen Wan's plan.

"Then let's go." She listened to Cui Zhu's words, pulled Cui Zhu's sleeves, and the two walked towards the flower hall.

After walking a few steps, I heard a sound behind me, as if something was following the two of them.

Cuizhu looked back first, and immediately screamed: "Ah! Run! Dog!"

After she finished speaking, she dropped Jing Lan and ran away. Jing Lan didn't look back, but just in time she saw a pruned tree trunk as big as an arm on the side of the road, so she picked it up, then turned around, and ran towards a big yellow dog running over The tree trunk swung past.

This stick hit the dog's head, and the yellow dog that Tao Yuehua led to bite Jinglan and Cuizhu was beaten to the side with a groan, and when it got up again, it tucked its tail between its legs and turned back listlessly. Ran.

Tao Yuehua, who was running behind the yellow dog, was completely stunned. She didn't expect that the pretty little maid who was not afraid of caterpillars was so fierce that she beat the big yellow dog of her house with a stick.

She brought Rhubarb to bite the two little maids who made fun of her, thinking that Rhubarb would help her vent her anger, but unexpectedly, even the always powerful Rhubarb was taken care of by that beautiful little maid.

Now she was convinced, looking at Jing Lan with surprise and curiosity in her eyes.

Jing Lan didn't expect that she was not afraid in the face of danger, so calmly, like playing baseball, she knocked that vicious dog away.

She proudly raised her chin, glanced at Tao Yuehua who was staying there, threw away the tree trunk in her hand, turned around and walked away.

After running for a long distance, he turned around, Cui Zhu jumped up happily when he saw Jing Lan knocking away the vicious dog that was chasing him, and ran back to hold Jing Lan's hand, praising Jing Lan for being brave and not afraid of anything.

Jing Lan curled her lips into a smile, and said in a loud voice, "What is this!"

The two continued to walk towards the flower hall, and within a few steps, footsteps came from behind, and Tao Yuehua shouted from behind: "Wait a minute, wait a moment!"

Cui Zhu dragged Jing Lan away, and said in a low voice, "Let's go quickly, she might make something wrong again."

Jing Lan didn't have a good image of Tao Yuehua, so she didn't stop, and sprinted along with the green bamboo.

Tao Yuehua had no choice but to run up to stop them and said, "Don't go, I'll treat you to some delicious refreshments!"

Huh?

Is the sun coming out of the west?

Domineering Miss Tao actually said that she would invite herself and Cui Zhu to have good tea and snacks?

"If you don't know each other, I'm convinced. By the way, what's your name?" Tao Yuehua looked at Jing Lan and asked embarrassingly.

"..." Jing Lan was speechless towards Miss Tao's playing so unreasonably.Just now, he was so aggressive that he wanted to let the dog bite people, but now he is here to make friends?Also said that she was conquered by her strength?

Cuizhu also didn't believe that Miss Tao's family was so kind-hearted, don't she still want to play tricks on her and Jinglan.

So she pulled Jinglan's sleeve, winked at her, and motioned for Jinglan to continue walking.

"You don't believe what I say? I, Tao Yuehua, have never said anything. I really wanted to treat you to tea. Just now, I was sitting in the room with my mother, two sister-in-laws, and your young lady. I don't like to hear them talk about the short stories of the parents. When I saw you, I wanted to scare you like I would to other maids... Anyway, don't blame me, my parents are used to my temperament..."

Well, considering that Shen Wan wants to associate with the Tao family, since the young lady of the Tao family admitted her mistake again, and so warmly invites her and Cui Zhu to tea, it seems bad if she doesn't go.

Jing Lan is not a person who can't tolerate people in her stomach.

After Tao Yuehua said so much, she liked Tao Yuehua's straightforward temperament, so she said: "I don't know where the girl invited me and Cuizhu to have tea, we can't be too far away from my girl, in case she asks us to serve, but we didn't." people."

"Just over there. I'll ask the servant girl to serve some refreshments. Let's sit down and talk for a while." Tao Yuehua pointed to a stone table not far away.

Jing Lan saw that the small stone table was under a big Chinese tallow tree, and there were several stone drum benches next to it. The shade of the tree covered the stone table, and she felt that it was quiet and cool there, so she agreed to Tao Yuehua to sit there.

Tao Yuehua then went to ask her maid to make tea and place snacks and fruits, and led Jinglan and Cuizhu to sit down.

After a while, Tao Yuehua's maid brought freshly brewed tea and exquisite snacks, and put them on the table, Tao Yuehua told Jinglan and Cuizhu to eat whatever they wanted, and there would be more after they finished eating.

Since Jing Lan followed Shen Wan and served by her side, she has eaten good dim sum. Seeing the exquisite dim sum on the table, she didn't have any desire to eat extravagantly.

Cuizhu is different from her, she seldom eats delicate snacks, but seeing so many good snacks now, of course she has to open her stomach to eat.

Like Jing Lan, Tao Yuehua only drank a few sips of tea without touching the snacks on the table.

Seeing that Jing Lan was not greedy for the good dim sum on the table, Tao Yuehua became even more curious about her. She felt that Jing Lan was not at all like the maids she had seen and understood.

So she began to ask Jing Land how old she was, how many people in her family, why she dared to beat the dog so boldly, and was so accurate.

Jing Lan heard her question was funny, so she teased her by telling her that her family was a butcher, and since she was a child, she watched her father kill everything.Especially when her father killed the dog, he just knocked him unconscious with a stick, and then killed the dog to bleed and skin it.

Tao Yuehua listened and said after a while: "No wonder I always think you are different, so you are the daughter of a butcher. Fortunately, my rhubarb didn't meet you elsewhere, otherwise you would have knocked him out and killed him .”

Cui Zhu listened to Jing Lan's nonsense, coaxing the young lady of the Tao family into a daze, and couldn't help bursting out laughing, spewing out a lot of snack scum from her mouth.

Seeing this, Tao Yuehua asked Cuizhu why she was laughing, did she say something wrong?

Seeing Jing Lan winking at her, Cui Zhu said, "Miss is right, it's a good thing your big yellow dog didn't meet Sister Lan outside, otherwise it would have been beaten to death and stewed into a pot of delicious dog meat."

"Is dog meat delicious? I haven't eaten it yet?" Tao Yuehua was not frightened by Cuizhu's words, but also looked yearning, and leaned over to ask Jinglan.

Jing Lan said: "I kill dogs but don't eat dog meat, so I can't answer you."

Cuizhu said: "I won't lie to you, I have eaten it, and it is delicious when stewed in a pot with various spices."

Tao Yuehua licked his lips, looked at Jing Lan again, and said, "I heard from my mother that your girl will often walk around with our family in the future. I will ask my mother to take me to your place in a few days. You can call me for a while." The dog was killed, let Cuizhu cook a pot and let me try it out?"

Jing Lan was sweating profusely, she didn't expect this young lady from the Tao family to really believe what she and Cui Zhu were talking about.

"There is no dog in my girl's house, where can I beat the dog for you?"

"I have eaten it, but I haven't done it. Girl, let's give up the idea of ​​eating dog meat."

……

Jing Lan, Cui Zhu and Tao Yuehua chatted nonsense, and they were very speculative without talking for a long time, and the three of them laughed cheerfully from time to time.

They chatted so cheerfully that they didn't notice that Shen Wan had been accompanied by Mrs. Fang at this time, and planned to go to the back garden to greet the two of them to come over, but they didn't hear it.

Standing at the entrance of the flower hall, Shen Wan saw Jing Lan and Tao Yuehua put their heads together, and she didn't know what to say so happily, as if Jing Lan had never been so happy talking and laughing with herself, she couldn't help frowning slightly.

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