Chapter 39: Greedy, Desire to Make a Country, Difficult to Make Money (1)
Moving is a physical job, and it is not very useful for women such as Su Yanger.
Therefore, when Lao Wang returned to the yard with peace of mind, he sent someone to bring four chairs from the car and settled four female relatives, including the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, in the yard. Only then did the house be inspected. After all, the house has been abandoned for nearly twenty years, and he didn't know if it was damaged. The most important thing at the moment is to find out the hidden dangers.
The layout of the Su family's ancestral house is almost the same as that of the Tangyin Su Mansion. There are 9 houses, including the warehouse and the kitchen. The main house is behind the living room, one in the west and one in the west, three in the east and two in the north and south. The main house is where the head of the family lives. There are rules everywhere in the lives of the wealthy families. After Su's father's death, no one can live there anymore, and even Su Yang'er can do it.
Because Su Yanger is a woman, she only takes the position of the owner, and can only wait for one day to attract a son-in-law. The Su family has a male master again, so she can move into the main room with her husband. This shows that the restrictions that women suffer in this era cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences of morality. The various rules that restrict women are integrated into all aspects of life.
After years of separation, Lao Wang revisited his hometown. When he entered and left in these mottled and old houses, he was inevitably moved by the scene, as if he had seen the scene of himself and Su's father playing here again when he was a child.
At that time, Su's father was a famous young man, otherwise he would not have given birth to a daughter like Su Yanger who was scolded for being a disaster. Speaking of which, Su's father was handsome when he passed the imperial examination, he had an interesting story. At that time, he was a senior student. Su's father was born in the B category, and the Jinshi grade of the Jinshi who came from the B category was lower than that of the Jinshi of the A category, and Su's father was still at the bottom of the B category.
There was another person who was comparable to Su's father's articles. On the day the exam was opened, it was difficult for the examiner to distinguish the difference, so he called Su's father and the others to come, not looking at the conversation or their background, just to see how these two looked. At first sight, Su's father was admitted.
This is an interesting and unwritten rule in the imperial examinations in ancient times. From the list to the end of the list, anyone who has difficulty comparing with the higher and lower articles will be comparing with "appearance". Whoever has a better appearance will win. Therefore, people are judged by their appearance, and have been more superficial than interviews in later generations. In ancient times, officials only thought that those with high looks were qualified to be an official.
As for Su's mother, she was just an ordinary farmer woman with a docile personality and died of difficult labor. She gave birth to Su Yang'er with her life. The old servant had a deep impression of her. Mrs. Su was not beautiful or ugly, and she treated others gently. In the past, Su Yang'er had a very similar personality, but now she was completely different.
The past is coming to my heart day by day, and the old servant feels mixed with emotion, and he feels like a different life.
Unlike the old man full of sad memories, Su Yanger, who was sitting in the yard, was full of pride and pride.
"But I'm so awesome, I'll pinch my waist!"
At this time, she used her little hand to beat the slim waist with her bumpy and sore all the way. Looking at the busy people in the yard, the pride of not leaving yet came to her heart. She knew that her small family had completely escaped the catastrophe not long ago.
Moreover, the layout of this ancestral home is similar to that of Tang Yinsu Mansion, which is also an unexpected surprise. After all, Xiaoling said she missed home on the road, so this very similar new home must have also comforted her.
"After a year or two, Lao Wang and others will definitely be amazed at my wonderful plan, seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune, and maybe they will even worship me as a half-immortal!"
It is true that returning to her hometown is a relive for the elderly, but a new life for her.
Because in the days before, she had just been adapting to being a woman, and was not even sure whether she could accept such a lifestyle. She once considered that if she could not adapt, she would commit suicide to thank God for the chance to rebirth.
But the moment is different. Not only did she lead the Su family to successfully complete the escape plan and avoid the suffering of war in the expected future, but it is not a great thing to become a woman now. As long as it does not delay her eating, drinking and having fun, it is still acceptable.
"In addition to these bad rules, there is nothing wrong with that guy like 6 Jingyuan, but these are all artificial and you can always find a solution."
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but smile. It was time to try to break through these constraints.
At this time, Lao Wang walked over and said, "My little lady, you can still live in the house. There is a roof tiles in the east wing that are damaged. You need to make up for it. Don't go there these days. Also, your hometown is not as good as Tangyin, and there is no bathroom here. You are wronged at night and use a bathtub to bathe in. The old slave will take them out to buy back the things you should use."
Su Yanger nodded casually when she heard this. She gradually fell in love with this kind of life of a young lady who was doing everything for her. But when she heard that Lao Wang was going to take someone out for purchases, she couldn't help but begged: "Uncle, can I go out with you?"
She couldn't tell the difference between east, west, north and north on the carriage, so she naturally wanted to go out and take a closer look. After all, Yixing was where she planned to be alone for the rest of her life, and she also knew that she still had a lot to learn. Understanding prices was just the first step. She had to determine what was in the era she was in, nothing.
Otherwise, she would make many common sense mistakes. Her inherent impression has been subverted many times along the way. Whether it is the geographical environment, human environment or living customs, it is completely different from what she imagined.
But Lao Wang shook his head apart and said, "Miss, please stay at home now. I really don't care about taking care of you. When you settle down, if you want to go out, I'll take you out again?"
Su Yanger was stunned when she heard this. She rarely did not make things difficult for him anymore, because she could hear from the old man's tone and couldn't help but think to herself: "It's not easy for this old man, I won't bully him in the past two days."
Thinking of this, Su Yanger nodded.
Seeing that the little ancestor finally agreed to let go, Lao Wang let out a sigh of relief and said, "There is another thing that the waiter begged you to temporarily live in the mansion before he finds the house to settle his family."
Upon hearing this, Su Yanger quietly looked at her mother-in-law's family sitting not far away, and thought to herself: "Good people do what they want to do, and send Buddha to the west, and I have brought them thousands of miles away. I don't care about this day or two."
Although she was a little afraid of her strange-tempered mother-in-law, she agreed: "Okay."
At present, there are 16 people in the Su family, including the mother-in-law and the family. Su Yanger has carefully calculated these. Among them, 8 servants sleep in the shops and live in two north-south nests respectively. Lao Wang's east wing is a single room, and Xiaoling naturally has one room with him and two empty rooms in the east wing. The mother-in-law and her family occupy one room, and Yangbao and the waiter occupy one.
In this way, 7 houses are just enough, but Yang Bao did not live in the mansion before. He and the waiter were not servants, but just long-term workers. Apart from cooking three meals, they would not care about anything and return home after finishing the work.
Now that Yang Bao is living in the mansion, it will undoubtedly make him and Xiaoling more intimate. This is unwilling to Su Yanger, who still has a little strange "possessing desire".
But at this time everyone was just a newcomer, so she had to make such arrangements.
She made arrangements with Lao Wang, but Lao Wang was secretly surprised while listening. He didn't know when Su Yanger was so concerned about these trivial matters in daily life.
After the arrangement, Su Yanger felt inexplicably satisfied. After all, for her unpromising, it was a great thing to lead a big family of more than a dozen people to escape disasters and live and work in peace and contentment, regardless of her past or present life.
But what Lao Wang said before leaving immediately made her good mood fall to the bottom.
"My lady, this time I went back to my hometown, I spent 526 guan on the way. The old slave has already recorded all these entry and exit in the account. When I have packed it up in the evening, I will go to the warehouse to count it again. You can rest here, uncle will take them out first."
After Old Wang finished speaking, he took the people away. He just reported to Su Yanger, the nominal head of the family, as usual, so that she could know what was going on. Su Yanger in the past would not care about these things.
But he never expected that his casual words would be like a bolt from the blue when they fell into Su Yanger's ears!
Chapter completed!