"Mom, Shen Tianshu has really gone too far recently!" Shen Yunyao said angrily, "We had no choice before, but now my cousin doesn't need to take medicine, why do you still have to endure her? "
During this time, Mrs. Xu had become accustomed to being manipulated by Shen Tianshu with her prescriptions. Whenever something happened to her, no matter how angry she was, she subconsciously felt that she should compromise.
At this moment, Shen Yunyao pointed it out, and she suddenly realized.
"I'm really sick and confused." Mrs. Xu threw down the list in her hand, "Give her the list and send it back! All year round, during the New Year and the holidays, when have I ever missed her things, who can I give this to? See? Since she has a lot of money, let her pay for it herself!"
After getting the order, Madam Yan immediately went down with the list, went to Shuangtang Courtyard in a showy manner, threw a handful of lists directly into Nanny Yang's face and said: "Madam said, there is nothing short of a big girl's thing in the house, but The eldest girl has used up all her quota for making clothes and jewelry this year. Since the eldest girl has a lot of money, she should pay for it herself!"
After she finished speaking, she glanced at Nanny Yang provocatively, turned around and left proudly.
"Let the girl make more clothes and make some new jewelry. This is what the master specially ordered the old slave to do when he asked someone to send the invitations. Now, not only does Mrs. Xu not give the money, but he also asks someone to make the order for the old slave. With such a look on his face, he said such things. The old slave married into the Shen family with his wife. Over the years, even the master and the girl have been very polite to the old slave. She was the last person to enter the house, and she actually...
"And the one named Yan is the dog next to Xu. He really treats himself as a dish! The old slave didn't let her daughter into Shuangtang Courtyard before. She has been holding her breath, and she is actually waiting here. !”
Grandma Yang was so angry that she leaned against Minghui and breathed. After a while, she got up again and said, "No, I have to go to the master to comment on this."
"Mom, don't be anxious." Shen Tianshu thought that Aunt Yang would just vent a few words, but she didn't expect that she was impatient and stopped her, "If you are still angry, go out for a walk and help me calm down." Mom, send me a piece of material."
Aunt Yang was angry just now, but now she was stopped. She knew that she had been impulsive, but she didn't understand why Shen Tianshu suddenly wanted to give Ping Niang something.
Shen Tianshu walked to the desk, picked up a pen and wrote a few words on the paper. After drying, he sandwiched it with a piece of cloth and handed it to Nanny Yang. He said, "This piece of material is quite bright. Third sister will definitely look good in it. You Take it to Ping Niang and ask her to make clothes for Third Sister."
Nanny Yang was confused, but she knew that Mr. Xu had been pretending to be ill in the past few days, and Shen Zhonglei had not calmed down yet, so he basically stayed in Pingniang's courtyard.
When Shen Tianshu asked her to send clothing materials, he must be a drunkard who did not care about the wine, so he did not dare to delay and sent them immediately and honestly.
After reading the note, Ping Niang burned it in front of Grandma Yang, took the material and said, "Thank you, Miss, for thinking about it. This material is indeed excellent. I will definitely make a dress for the third girl."
In the evening, Shen Zhonglei came back from the Yamen. When he entered the door, he didn't see Ping Niang coming out to greet him as usual. There was only a little maid opening the curtain at the door.
The little maid was weak and short. She couldn't hold the curtain up, but she also knew how to help Shen Zhonglei untie his cloak and take off his coat.
Hearing a ping-ping-pong-pong sound from the back room, Ping Niang rolled up her sleeves and came out of the house with her personal maid Chun Lan in a panic.
"Master, why are you back so early today?" She quickly stepped forward to help Shen Zhonglei change his clothes.
"It's already dark yet?" Shen Zhonglei asked with a frown, "What are you doing?"
"It's really..." Ping Niang turned around and looked outside. Sure enough, it was already dark. "I am leading someone to look for something in the house, but I forgot the time. It's really inappropriate."
Shen Zhonglei turned his head, and sure enough he saw boxes and cages scattered all over the room, all wide open. At first glance, there was not even a place to stay.
"What kind of treasure are you looking for!"
Ping Niang lowered her head in a panic, and said with a dry smile: "What kind of treasure can I have? I just suddenly thought of a piece of clothing, but I couldn't find it..."
Shen Zhonglei naturally saw through such an obvious lie at a glance.
He glanced at Ping Niang, stood up, walked around the room with his hands behind his back, and saw more than a dozen silver ingots of various sizes on the table. The big ones had twenty taels and fifty taels, and the small ones had five taels.
Yes, the total of the bits and pieces is estimated to be two hundred taels of silver.
"Is this what you mean by looking for clothes?" Shen Zhonglei asked with a stern face. He was not harsh on his family, but he disliked others lying to him.
"I forgive you, sir." Ping Niang bent her knees and knelt directly in front of Shen Zhonglei, "I didn't mean to hide it from the master, but there have been so many things going on at home recently, and the master has not been in a very good mood.
I don’t want to cause any trouble over this trivial matter and make the master angry again..."
"Then do you think I look happy now?" Shen Zhonglei's tone was full of impatience.
Ping Niang hesitated again and again, and finally got stuck before Shen Zhonglei was about to get angry. She finally said helplessly in a low voice: "Master, the eldest lady sent someone here to borrow some money from me first. We agreed to wait until the next year to get married.
Once the rent is collected, it will be returned to me.
"This is not a big deal in the first place. Don't say that the eldest lady is just dismantling it temporarily. She will pay it back soon. Even if she doesn't pay it back, I can't let the eldest daughter have no money. It's just that I usually put my money in the winter.
It’s hard to find one in Tibet…”
"Why does Shuer suddenly need so much money?"
Shen Zhonglei was puzzled. The money for food and clothing usually went to the government's public account. The shop, land and village left to her by the Liu family also received money every year. How could she be short of money?
"Didn't the master make the decision for the eldest daughter last year? He used the land rent saved in the previous years and the filial money sent by the village to buy the village and fields for the eldest daughter in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. This year's money has not been sent yet, and the eldest daughter has it.
Naturally, I was nervous. "Nowadays, at the end of the year, the labor costs for making clothes and jewelry are more expensive than usual. The materials are better, and the construction period is tight. It adds up to a few hundred taels of silver at least. This is what the eldest girl left behind from the late wife.
I took out some jewelry and refurbished it, and only made a set of hair and face!
"The eldest girl is short of money, and it's hard to get credit from the store, and she can't go out to pawn things, so she can only ask me to borrow them for emergencies."
"I asked her to make clothes and jewelry. Naturally, she will be responsible for the family's account. There is no need for her to raise it herself..." Shen Zhonglei said and saw Ping Niang lowered her head. She immediately remembered what she had said before that there were too many things at home recently.
I don’t want to cause any more trouble, and there’s still something I don’t understand in my heart.
Seeing Shen Zhonglei suddenly stand up and stride out, Ping Niang hurriedly hugged his legs.
"Master, if you go to get angry with Madam again because of this matter, it will be in vain for the blind girl to be willing to be wronged for the sake of the peace of the family!"