[Red Mansions] The big maid struggles daily

"Oh, it turns out that I have climbed a high branch, and the strange way looks down on my old lady. If I have the ability, I will accept Lai's wife as a godmother tomorrow, and I will accept it!" Seeing Zhu Xiu resigning from everyone, Mrs. Xia was very happy. Xing went to Pear Fragrance Garden and said loudly on purpose.

This Xia Po is in charge of the water case in the big kitchen, taking care of the dirty work of washing rice and vegetables, and opening chicken and fish.Ever since Zhu Xiu entered the big kitchen, Mrs. Xia has been trying to get Zhu Xiu to recognize her as a godmother, which is very difficult.Zhu Xiu heard that she boasted that she had a granddaughter called Sister Chan, and now the third miss Tanchun was at her mercy, and she immediately remembered that she was the old woman in the book who instigated Aunt Zhao and Fangguan to fight. follow her.

At this moment, he also pretended not to hear Mrs. Xia's words, and walked away.

The Liu family got close to Zhu Xiu. Hearing that Granny Xia's mouth was not clean, she sneered and said, "Zhu Xiusheng is dexterous. There are many people who want to recognize her as a daughter. This is a good thing I wish. Who is like your old man?" Yes, people don’t like you, so you arrange people everywhere, and I’m not happy to let me go!" After saying that, she chased after Zhu Xiu to help her get things.

Seeing that Zhu Xiu was about to go to the high platform, the people around ignored Xia Po.The angry Mrs. Xia stared and scolded her mother.

"Don't pay attention to her. She is greedy for your monthly money. She didn't dare to say anything at first. Now that you have been promoted to the second class, you have gone to another place. If you agreed to recognize her as a godmother before, Doesn't she get five hundred dollars a month for free? You didn't see that when you received the monthly money a while ago, her eyeballs almost fell out." Sister-in-law Liu said as she walked.

Zhu Xiu pursed her lips and smiled.She was promoted to the second class, and she has a monthly allowance of [-] yuan, and it was only the day before yesterday that she received her own monthly payment.

This is also a bad habit in the Rongguo Mansion, girls and boys with low status can't get any monthly copper coins into their hands.Especially her, who is young and not born in the family, the old monthly money was collected by the master.It is said to be a helper, but it is just to put the name of filial piety in a better way.

"But having said that, you really don't intend to recognize a godmother?" Sister-in-law Liu asked again.

Zhu Xiu shook her head and said, "How many of these nuns and mothers can I know? I thought to myself, if I recognize my godmother in the future, I will be a filial mother and take care of the elderly. It's not a trivial matter to recognize a godmother. Naturally, there must be mothers and daughters." Fate is inside."

Hearing what she said, Mrs. Liu felt a pity that she couldn't recognize such a loving girl as her daughter, and said, "You're right. It's just that our house has always been fond of recognizing the godmother and worshiping the godfather." , even the masters are like this, and you are alone and have no relatives, and if you meet the right one in the future, you will have someone to rely on if you recognize a good one."

Zhu Xiu naturally knew that the Rongguo Mansion had always had the habit of accepting god-parents, and the masters above also liked to let the godmother discipline the little girls who were not good, so as to prevent the new little girls from being ignorant and making troubles in the mansion.Those promising housekeepers and those in charge still have the opportunity to worship their masters as godmothers.

For example, Second Mistress Lian married into the Rongguo Mansion last year, fearing that she would not be able to control the housekeepers, she took Lin Zhixiao, the housekeeper of the inner courtyard of the Rongguo Mansion, as her goddaughter.This Lin Zhixiao's family is in charge of various affairs of the inner courtyard, and her husband, Lin Zhixiao, is one of the big housekeepers in the house, taking care of the house and land affairs. The couple have great power but rarely keep a low profile.Wang Xifeng took these two for his own use as soon as he came, and quickly gained a foothold on the servants of the whole family. Who would not praise him for his vicious vision and decisive actions.

But the problem is that none of these godmothers in Rongguo Mansion are vegetarians. As long as there is that kind of little girl who has no relatives entering the mansion, these people will swarm like flies smelling blood, scrambling to win over and make peace, expecting to be recognized. It's good to fuck your daughter.

Those women are only happy to suck blood on these helpless little girls-not to mention that the girl's monthly money is collected by the godmother, and they can only bear the beatings and scolding on weekdays; only if they recognize the godmother , I am afraid that this innocence of life and death will not be good in the future.Rongguo Mansion used to release those who had relatives, but those girls who were asked to be taken home by their godmothers had a very miserable end. Someone, or simply sold the person secretly, and only said to the outside world to marry far away.

When Zhu Xiu was in the big kitchen, many people wanted to be her godmother, but Zhu Xiu refused with excuses.She would rather devote all her monthly money to the master kitchen chef than accept an ignorant godmother and pay herself for it.Even when Qing Jin was in the main courtyard, Zhu Xiu told her to kill her and deny her god-in-law, and just obey the orders of the big girls in the courtyard.This so-called godmother can only suck blood, and those big girls can take care of her after receiving her monthly money...

"Your sister stopped coughing after eating the porridge you made." Seeing that Zhu Xiu didn't want to say more, Sister Liu hurriedly changed the topic and sighed, "Your fifth sister is only two years younger than you. They are all second-class, and because she was born weak by me, she still hasn't got a job yet."

Xie Zhuxiu was in a hurry again: "Thanks to your porridge, she can sleep peacefully these two days. You don't know, when it was autumn last year, Chang Chengsu coughed, and I felt anxious and hurt seeing her like that." .Good girl, you have to make some more when you have time, both of us are grateful to you..."

Zhu Xiu hurriedly interrupted, and said with a smile: "It's a convenient thing, it's not worth it for you. My sister eats well, you can just come and get it when I make it. I ate almonds, Chuanbei, and lily porridge earlier, and this porridge is delicious. Yin nourishes the lungs, relieves cough and relieves asthma. If you don’t cough anymore, it’s good to eat some sesame, peanut and glutinous rice porridge to nourish the liver and kidney.” The bitter almonds in the porridge.Chuanbei and Lily were all let go in Cuihua's pocket by her, and the effect was better as expected.

Hearing Mrs. Liu reciting the Buddha's name, she hurriedly said: "My good girl, when you settle down, I'll send you some sesame, peanuts, red dates and glutinous rice. If you're missing something, just tell me, and I'll send you what I have. There is nothing to make people go out to buy, and it is only a matter of one sentence."

Zhu Xiu took the opportunity to ask: "I don't know what's going on in Lixiangyuan? I went there, and it's not as convenient to do these things as in a big kitchen."

"Just don't worry, there is a separate small kitchen there, which is wider than the big kitchen. I heard that my wife is afraid of neglecting the two nuns, and may send a cook to take care of it in two days." Sister-in-law Liu beamed happily Said.

Zhu Xiu's heart moved, this sister-in-law Liu once worked as a cook in the Pear Fragrance Garden where twelve little actors were housed in the book, could it be that this time... she smiled and said, "But my sister-in-law is going to be sent there too? That's great .”

Sister-in-law Liu couldn't hold back the corners of her mouth, and said with a smile, "I haven't turned it off yet, but I heard that Ping'er, the girl next to Second Grandma, raised her mouth before, saying that I look good at my work."

Zhu Xiu thought to herself, it turned out that Ping'er was responsible for promoting Sister-in-law Liu, and she blamed Ping'er for helping Sister-in-law Liu in the Fulingshuang case.

And when it comes to Lixiangyuan, it is really small and exquisite. The rough envoy has cleaned the inside and put all kinds of decorations in order.Zhu Xiu walked around, there were about ten houses, it was very spacious for two nuns and a few maids, but how could the whole family of Xue family live here in the future?Perhaps it was Mrs. Wang who deliberately gave the place where the former Duke was honored to live in in order to raise the status of the younger sister's family.It's just that it's wrong to think about it this way. Since it is a precious place, why did twelve little actors live in it later?

Some of the rules in this mansion are really difficult for people to understand.

The main room of Pear Fragrance Court has five rooms, one bright, two dark, and two ears. Although the door is open now, any of the two nuns will offend others if they live in. Therefore, when Zhu Xiu came, a little girl came to spread the word that she was serving Madam Zhu will live in the East Wing.There are three rooms in the east and west rooms, and she settled in the east tip room.

The little girl who had already had a rough envoy helped bring the clothes and bedding. Zhu Xiu quickly thanked her, and then touched a few copper coins and stuffed them into her hands.

Coincidentally, the maid serving He Nanny in the West Wing also came. Zhu Xiu raised her eyes and saw that it was Xiu Luan from the main courtyard.

Xiuluan is the second class in front of Mrs. Wang, no wonder Lai Nanny immediately promoted herself to be the second class.

Xiuluan was lazy, obviously dissatisfied with being sent out to serve the nanny, and said with a smile: "I haven't congratulated you on being promoted to the second class yet, our Qingjin girls are crazy, and they keep saying I’ve done it several times, and those who didn’t know thought she was promoted by herself.”

"Thank you sisters for taking care of her on weekdays." Zhu Xiu smiled happily. She and Qingjin are close, and the girls who are more familiar with her know it.

"It's done, go ahead, I'm suffering from autumn dryness, I'll go lie down first." Xiuluan waved his hand, and went to Xici for a rest.

Sister-in-law Liu saw that Xiu Luan lived in the second room of the west chamber in a stately manner, while Zhu Xiu girl was placed in the east room, and she thought in her heart that this embroidery girl had a good fortune, and those mothers who came out of the palace would not have a entourage. It's time to ask people to bring their own to live far away?

On Zhu Xiu's side, she tidied up her own room first, and then went into the main room of the East Wing to inspect it carefully: the furnishings are all available, in line with the style of the Rongguo Mansion, very rich and beautiful, but to say it is comfortable, it doesn't mean much.

Sister-in-law Liu came to tidy up the small kitchen, and she saw Zhu Xiu going back and forth to take out all the quilts in the east chamber to dry, take the pillowcases and embroidered cushions to the back, wash them, wash the teapots, cups and other objects, and set them up again. In a blink of an eye, she brought a needlework basket, a stretcher, various embroidery threads, as well as candles, rinsing bowls, incense burners, etc. from the needlework department.

"You're really serious, good girl, I haven't seen you take a breath for a long time, drink some water." Aunt Liu had finished counting the newly-delivered rice, grain, coal, etc. from the small kitchen, and handed a bowl of tea to Zhu Xiu , while pouting towards the west chamber: "I can take a rest there for a while."

Zhu Xiu thought, this is incomparable, she is a girl from the main courtyard, she has confidence.Although I was promoted to the second class, I still haven't got a job. This job is only temporary. When Miss Jia enters the palace, how many girls can I keep in the main courtyard to teach the other girls?There must be no door.At that time, I have to say where I am going, and now I dare not do my best.

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In a few days, Lai's family and Zhou Rui's family personally led two strange nuns into the Lixiangyuan.The two nuns were tall and the other was short. The tall one was refined and had no attendants;

Lai everyone invited the tall Nanny Zhu into the East Wing, and Zhou Rui's family led He Nurse to the West Wing. The short He Nurse went around twice in the West Wing. Satisfied, he paused again and turned his head to the East Chamber.

As soon as Madam Zhu entered the East Wing, she could tell that the people cleaning up here had put their minds to it, the window sills were spotless, the embroidered curtains were clean and fresh, and the embroidered cushions on the backrest were even closer. Fragrance; on the round table inside the hood, the teapot is still steaming...

Nanny He came here and walked around, but went back without saying anything.

Following Zhou Rui's family's heart skipped a beat, the furnishings on both sides were pretty much the same, but anyone with a discerning eye would know that the East Wing was well tidied up and it was a place to live in directly, while on the West Wing, many odds and ends hadn't been placed yet.

At night, Mammy Zhu was even more satisfied. The quilt was fluffy and soft after drying out, and it still smelled like sunshine, so she really had a good night's sleep.

In Nanny He's room in the west wing, Xiuluan used Mrs. Tang to iron the quilt for half the night before Nanny He was willing to rest.Xiuluan was aggrieved and fell asleep on the pedals, and couldn't help scolding the old woman for how difficult things were.