Chapter 83 Buying the Maid
Princess Qin was less than three months pregnant and did not pass it outside. Even Princess Heyi didn't know. Chunjuan, who was in the kitchen, finally used a ox cart to transport water from the kitchen to deliver the red gold-headed face. The one who was outside the mansion was Chunjuan's mother.
"Mom, if you disguise yourself, you must not find out that you are a servant of the Yan family, do you know?" Chunjuan reminded.
"You need to say this." Chunjuan Niang glanced at her.
When the red gold-headed noodles were sent to the pawn shop, it was naturally impossible to get the price it deserved. At that time, Mrs. Yan spent 620 taels of silver to customize this set of noodles for Yan Xiang, but the pawn shop was only willing to do it, "two seventy taels."
"Shopkeeper, this is a red gold-faced face. You are just giving this a little bit." Chunjuan Niang bargained.
The shopkeeper thought for a while and said, "Add ten taels, if you want to take it, if you want to, take it away."
Chunjuan's mother has been to three or four pawn shops, which is the one she gave the most. Anyway, it is what the master wants to be. What can she do as a servant? Gripping her teeth and "becoming."
I took two hundred and eighty taels of silver for a set of faces, and only a few silver notes were thin. It was easy to bring them into the mansion, and there was no need to spend so much effort.
Yan Xiang looked at the 280 taels of silver notes in front of him and said nothing for a long time. After a long time, Yan Xiang picked out a fifty tael of silver from it and handed it to Chunjuan, "Let your father send your two younger brothers to school to study. If I can read it, I will find a way to repay their body contract."
This kindness was so great that it could change the lintel of Chunjuan's family and turn from a cheap family to a good family. Chunjuan was shocked and did not dare to take the silver bill, "Miss... there are too many!"
"If there are too many, let your mother do business. I am trapped in this house and can't go out. You can only rely on it, take it." Yan Xiang felt deeply that there was insufficient manpower.
Chunjuan took the silver notes with both hands, "Miss, I will definitely let my mother do business well."
Yan Xiang nodded with a smile, "You are my eldest maid. I will consider your future for you, you don't have to worry." She remembered that the chief guard beside Tang Li was a good person. It was most suitable for her eldest maid to marry his chief guard.
"Thank you, my master." Chunjuan said with a knee. Chunjuan, who was already very loyal, became more loyal because of these.
"Let Dongque come in, I have something to let her do it." Yan Xiang smiled faintly.
Although Dong Magpie and Huajiao belong to different houses, they live together, grew up together, and were selected to serve in the house at the same time. Yan Xiang believes that Dong Magpie and Huajiao have feelings when they were young, and Dong Magpie understands the reason and moves them with emotions, so this thing should be done.
The two ladies had a quarrel, and the servants stopped interacting with each other. Dongque could not just go to Yi Nianyuan to find Huajiao directly. Then she went home and used three copper coins as a trip fee to ask the little girl from the next door to Yi Nianyuan to find Huajiao.
"Who asked you to come to me?" Huajiao asked.
The little girl put the candy cubes on her in the stool that the peppercorns stuffed to her and said, "It's Sister Dong Que. She said there are very important things to come to you."
What is very important?
Huajiao couldn't imagine that Dong Que had something to ask her for, but she still went to talk to Licorice and asked for leave to go back to see Dong Que. Dong Que was waiting for her anxiously. When she saw her coming back, she hurriedly pulled her into the room and covered the door.
Dong Magpie handed the purse to Huajiao and "Open and take a look."
"What's this?" Hua Jiao opened her purse, took out a silver note from it, opened it, and looked at Dong Que in surprise, "Where did you get so much money?"
Dongque whispered: "This money is not mine, it is what Miss Liu asked me to give it to you."
"I will not receive any reward without merit." Huajiao folded the silver notes, put them in his purse, and stuffed them back into Dongqi's hands.
Dong Que held her hand, "Huajiao, don't worry, I won't go around the corner with you, I will just say something. Miss Liu hopes you can do things for her."
Huajiao pulled out her hand, "I am Miss Twelve."
"Huajiao, don't rush to refuse. I'll tell you what Miss Twelve can give you, Miss Six can give you. If you do your job well, not only will this hundred taels be yours, but Miss Six will also find a way to return your contract to you so that you don't have to serve others anymore and be a maid." Dong Que tried his best to convince Huajiao.
"Miss Six is so big..." Hua Jiao didn't finish her sarcastic words, thinking that she could find out what Yan Xiang wanted her to do, so she changed her words, "What does Miss Six want me to do?"
"What Miss Six wants you to do is very simple, just take a few words written by Miss Twelve." Dong Que said with a smile.
"That's all?" Huajiao asked with a frown.
"This is the matter for the time being. Don't worry, Miss Liu wants you to do things and will definitely give you benefits." Dong Que smiled.
Huajiao put her purse in her arms and said, "When should I want the word "?"
"Three days later, in the afternoon, Shen Shichu, we met behind the West Corner yard, how about it?" Dong Que asked.
"Okay, okay." Huajiao agreed.
The two came out of the room and Dongque returned to the house. "Miss, Huajiao accepted the one hundred taels of silver notes."
Yan Xiang raised the corners of his mouth, and his wealth moved people. One hundred taels of silver bills were enough to make the peppercorns, which were only five hundred coins a month a month, and "Okay, good, very good." If she had enough silver, she could buy all the people around Yanhu. Then she could have to give birth to her if she wanted her to die, but unfortunately she didn't have that much money.
"I also made an appointment with her to meet her at the back of the Xijiao yard three days later. She would bring the word "Twelve Miss" to me." Dong Que reported.
"This matter is left to you to follow up." Yan Xiang was very satisfied with Dong Que's ability to do things, and her maid was no worse than Yan Hu's.
Huajiao took a leave, so she stayed at home for a night and entered the mansion early the next morning. In the afternoon, Yanhuo returned to the yard to take a nap. Only licorice was next to Yanhuo in the house, so she quietly entered the room and knelt down and said, "Miss, I have something to report."
"Why do you have something to say?" Yan Hu didn't like these maids kneeling down on her.
"Miss Xie." Huajiao stood up and presented her purse with both hands. "Miss, here is a silver note of 100 taels. It was what Miss Liu asked Dong Que to give to me yesterday."
Licorice took the purse, untied it, took out the silver notes from it, and unfolded, "Miss, it's really a silver not worth one hundred taels."
"So big! What did she ask you to do?" Yan Huo asked curiously with a smile.
"Miss Six asked me to give her a few words written by the lady." Hua Jiao replied.
Yan Huo thought about it and knew that Yan Xiang wanted her word "六". He snorted coldly and said, "It's really vicious."
"Miss, what should I do?" Licorice asked with a frown.
Yan Huo smiled with a relaxed expression and said, "She wants it, just give it to her."
"Miss!" Licorice and pepper exclaimed at the same time.
"Don't be nervous, I didn't tell the truth." Yan Huo smiled and raised the silver note, "As the saying goes: If you don't make money, you will be struck by lightning."
When did this saying come true?
Licorice and pepper said they had never heard of it.
"Oh, by the way, licorice, go and tell Ai Ye and ask her to find out where Yan Xiang got so much money?" Yan Huo really didn't realize that Yan Xiang was so rich. He could only take one hundred taels of silver notes at one's move. Even her famous little rich woman in the mansion, she was not so generous in her move.
Even if it was a fraud, Yan Hu didn't plan to do it by himself. Although she could write with both hands and the fonts were different, she didn't want to take this risk. "Honeyday, take this stack of paper and this ink and go to school to find a primary school student to copy "Thousand Characters" without writing too well." She was just enlightened, and writing too well would make people doubt.
"Don't worry, Miss, I will definitely do this." Honeysuckle went out to do business with her paper, ink and the 100-month copper coins given to her by licorice.
After arranging these things, Yan Huo took a nap and woke up. Before the first moments, Licorice called the little maid to bring warm water in and wait for her to wash and change clothes. Then almonds came in with milk and black pepper cakes. "Water chestnuts were made according to the milk said. Can you taste it?"
Yan Huo took a piece of crispy cake and took a small bite. "The crust is crispy, the heart of the cake is soft, good, the water chestnuts are getting better and better. Let her make some more, and when I learn the rules with Aunt Zeng, I will send it over and let Aunt Zeng taste it too."
"I understand, Miss, I'll tell her later." Xingren smiled.
After drinking a glass of milk and eating a piece of crispy cake, Yan Hu went to the school. Enemies were always narrow and they met Yan Xiang halfway. Yan Hu would not say hello to Yan Xiang, and Yan Xiang would not take the initiative to say hello to Yan Hu.
Yan Xiang looked at Yan Huo, smiled contemptuously, and walked forward. Yan Huo disdained to compete with her and followed her slowly. The result of Wang Tian walking was that he fell and chewed the mud. Yan Xiang didn't know what he stepped on under his feet, "Ouch!" He rushed forward.
"Miss Six." Chunjuan and Qingnv exclaimed.
"Puchi" Yan Huo laughed out loud.
Yan Xiang was helped up by Chunjuan and Qingniao. She turned her head and stared at Yan Huo in shame and anger, "Why are you laughing?"
Yan Huo raised his eyebrows, "You drink sea water." After saying that, he ignored her and walked past her.
"Stop for me, I didn't let you go." Yan Xiang said angrily.
"If you don't listen, you will recite scriptures." Yan Hu said authentically without looking back.
Yan Xiang chased Yan Hu for two steps and was stopped by Chunjuan. "Miss Six is just a moment of compliment, why bother to worry about it?"
Yan Xiang thought about it, took a deep breath and said, "That's right, there is a time when she can't laugh."
Yan Huo had already walked away and didn't hear the conversation between the master and servant. When he walked outside the door of the book hall, he heard a clear and pleasant sound of the piano. He heard a few crisp and pleasant sounds of the piano from the yard. It was Professor Dong's new song "Three Rings of Plum Blossoms" a few days ago.
The piano is the first of eight musical notes, and you have to learn this before learning other instruments. This song "Three Plum Blossoms" is a bit difficult for beginner Yan Hae, so she and Wei Shanniang are learning "The Snake Song".
"I don't know who came to practice the piano so early? It sounds pretty good." Yan Huo relaxed his pace and walked towards the hall. This is "Three Plum Blossoms". Although Yan Huo couldn't play it, after the teachings of Mrs. Dong over the past few months, you can hear the plum blossoms in the ninth bar of the second part. The frequent jumps in the high and low pitch areas of this section, alternating sonata, showing that the plum blossoms are blooming in full fear of the frost.
Chapter completed!