【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

Chapter 208 Grandmother Jia 10

"You'll understand if you read more about Guo Ziyi's deeds."

"Yes, my wife will take her leave."

Zhang adjusted her expression, put on a faint smile again, and then left Rongqing Hall, making it impossible for anyone to tell what she was doing.

Yun Xi shouted, "Oh, right, when you were the housekeeper, let Min'er follow you and learn for two or three years. She's about the right age to get married at seventeen. You should teach her well. It will take at least twenty years for our children to grow up. The Lin family's son-in-law is already a Juren. He came to watch over him during the New Year holidays. His knowledge is also very good. I heard that he will participate in the next imperial examination. If he passes, he will have a bright future. You know what I mean."

Zhang nodded slightly, "I understand. I will definitely teach my sister-in-law to be a qualified clan wife."

"I feel at ease with you around."

Zhang bowed and left.

"Mandarin duck~"

Yuanyang came in through the curtains, lowered her head and slightly bent her knees, waiting for instructions. "I am here, what are your instructions, Master?"

"Go and inform them that on the second day of the Dragon Boat Festival, I will take everyone to relax at the farm in the suburbs. I will let She'er accompany us."

"Yes."

In the blink of an eye, it was the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Zhang asked the kitchen to make rice dumplings with several kinds of fillings, including long-grain fragrant glutinous rice wrapped with sweet bean fillings of various colors, and ordinary white rice dumplings. Everyone got a lot. Yun Xi heard about it and asked the kitchen to make some with pork and egg yolk filling as well. The taste was surprisingly good.

The smart Jia Min immediately saw the business opportunity.

"Mother, what do you think about selling this kind of stuffing in the shop?"

"Who eats zongzi besides the Dragon Boat Festival? If you want to make it, prepare it early for next year's Dragon Boat Festival and make some quick money. It's too late this year." Yun Xi shook her head. "You can keep the money you earn as your own money and don't have to hand it over to the government."

Jia Min thought about it and said, "What mother said makes sense. Kong Qing, remember this and remind me two months before the Dragon Boat Festival next year."

Kong Qing responded seriously, "I'll remember this."

Yun Xi smiled and said, "How is it? How is your study with your sister-in-law going lately?"

"Mother, I've only just watched my sister-in-law manage the household and now I realize how hard it is. Every morning I have to get up at the end of the Mao hour (around 6:50), spend half an hour combing my hair and dressing, then eat something to fill my stomach, and then take an hour to deal with household chores. After dinner I have to come sit with you, and at the beginning of the Wu hour (11:00 am) I have to listen to the servants' work reports. At the beginning of the Xu hour (7:00 pm) I have to lead people to check around the house to make sure everything is in order. It's very tiring."

Jia Min sighed.

"Yes, more than that. Your sister-in-law has to take care of the child in the afternoon, otherwise it would be bad if mother and son become estranged. In the evening, she has to serve your eldest brother. She is exhausted every day, and I don't want to send a woman to my son to annoy your sister-in-law." Yun Xi glanced at her and said secretly, "Your second sister-in-law is also so busy. Think about me when I was in charge of the entire Rongguo Mansion. I was twice as busy. I woke up at the end of the Yin hour in the morning and had to greet the elders and help them get up and eat, etc."

"Your sisters-in-law have it much easier. I let them sleep an extra hour in the morning and exempted them from paying respects every day. They can just come and sit down whenever they have time. They don't have to stand and follow the rules during meals." Yun Xi expressed her distress. "But you will be busier than your sister-in-law in the future. Mother also wants you to be carefree, but you were born the only legitimate daughter of the Jia family. You can either enter the palace or become a clan wife."

Jia Min's eyes widened, and her snow-white face looked even paler and pitiful. It turned out that she was going to enter the palace. Fortunately, her father helped her to avoid the selection. The palace was a place where people were eaten.

Beauty and bones are all illusions, and once you lose your life, there is no place to complain.

"Mother, I understand. I will study hard and live up to the reputation of the Duke's Mansion."

"Good boy, don't forget to take care of your body."

"My daughter, please remember this."

I ate rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival, wore colorful ropes and sachets, but didn't go out to watch the dragon boat race.

The other members of the Jia family sent their own rice dumplings. Yun Xi was not stingy and gave each family a red envelope of ten taels of silver, so that everyone could feel more comfortable. In the original text, Jia Yun's family had a hard time living with the Jia Mansion, which showed that not everyone in the family was rich. There were also the elderly, the weak, and the lonely who had a hard time. Ningguo Mansion followed suit and also gave out red envelopes.

In recent years, the Ning and Rong mansions have enjoyed a very good reputation among the clan members. At least the school has become normal. The children have come back and have made great progress. Although there are few servants in the mansion, they know the rules and will not look down on them, the clan members. The shops and farms outside are also managed well and no one is fooled. Red envelopes are given out during festivals. A family can receive red envelopes of sixty or seventy taels of silver a year, which is really generous.

Moreover, it can be seen from the mourning banquet and several subsequent banquets that the next generation of mistresses of the Jia family are organized and clear-headed, and have a bright future.

On the afternoon of the Dragon Boat Festival, Jia She invited a down-and-out scholar. It is said that scholars are poor and scholars are rich, so why is this man poor?

Because of the great changes in his family, his parents fell ill one after another. He spent all his money and sold his RV, but he still couldn't save his family. His fiancée broke off the engagement when she saw that he had to observe six years of mourning. This man was disheartened and had to consider his own marriage. Although he could turn his life around the next year, after all, he had subsidies from the court and tax-free land that could also generate money, but after observing six years of mourning, he had saved some money and naturally wanted to find a wife. He happened to meet Jia She.

Jia She said that his mother, the wife of a duke of the first rank, was the best at matchmaking.

Yun Xi was surprised. The 21-year-old juren who had just been released from military service was more talented than Zhen Ming. If he passed the imperial examination in three years, he would definitely be a genius. It was an honor for the Jia family and the children that he could teach in the Jia family for two years.

"Please come in quickly. I hope you, a reckless person, have not offended anyone."

The servant begged for mercy, "Madam, even if I had the guts to do that, I wouldn't dare to offend the Master."

"Then I'm relieved. Go grab a handful of silver melon seeds and go down."

"Yes, thank you for the reward, old lady. I will take my leave."

When she saw the person coming, Yun Xi was satisfied at first, because this person had a very handsome appearance and was really dazzling.

Jing Si was very polite and bowed first when he entered the room. "My humble servant Jing Si greets the old lady. I am sorry for disturbing you by coming here."

"Mr. Jing, please get up quickly. It's not a problem."

The two chatted for a while, and Yun Xi turned the topic to the other party's marriage.

Yun Xi asked, "I wonder what kind of family background Mr. Jing is looking for in a girl?"

Jing Si said embarrassedly: "Just find someone who is virtuous and kind. I don't require anything else. I will protect you from the wind and rain outside."

Wow, this is a responsible and domineering scholar.

"That's easy for me to handle. Just focus on teaching and I'll ask the official matchmaker to find a good girl for you." Yun Xi understood what was going on and gave Jia She a set of writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone as usual. Jia She then took her to the school to settle her down.

"I really have the physique to be a matchmaker. Look, Mr. Jing doesn't care about the salary, he just wants me to help him find a good wife."

Yun Xi shook her head and asked her servants to invite the official media.