After Dressing Up As a Princess, Engaged In Infrastructure Construction - Chapter 123

New Year’s Day.

The Yu Kingdom now has a total of twenty-four states.

In the past, the couplets written on the first day of the new year were all about Haiqing and Heyan in the six states. Later, it was increased to the twelve states of Suishui Anping, and then to the eighteen states to coincide with the prosperous times. Finally, it was written in the twenty-four states for thousands of years.

Mr. Tang posted the couplet he wrote early, and came out early in the morning to see it, and he was very happy.

He is now a first-grade teacher in Kyoto Elementary School, and he is also a class teacher. He plans to move from first-grade to fourth-grade. After sending the children to high school, he will stay in fourth-grade.

Mr. Tang, an experienced gentleman who has taken the fourth grade exam to high school before, is still very popular, so as soon as he entered the primary school, he was assigned to a small house – it does not belong to Mr. Tang, and can only be transferred after ten years of teaching. under the name of Mr. Tang.

Today, it can only be regarded as a temporary dormitory, but as long as Mr. Tang does not leave his job or make mistakes, he can still live in the house.

Here are the houses where the husband lives, and they are generally small. It is a three-story new house built with cement, with an appearance of 80 to 90 square meters. There are two rooms, two halls, one kitchen and one bathroom. Because it is newly built, I just came here. At that time, the furniture that had been arranged for them at home were all new, such as sofas, tables and chairs, and mirrors – the full-length mirror that could illuminate the whole person was Madam Tang’s favorite.

There are six families on the first floor, all of them are teachers from elementary school. Everyone knows each other, so Mr. Tang took Mrs. Tang to pay New Year’s greetings one by one.

You don’t need to bring anything when you pay New Year’s greetings. According to the current custom in Kyoto, you go to people’s homes to pay New Year’s greetings. Rich people will also pack a bag of sugar for you.

Mrs. Tang and Mrs. Liang next door are friends. Because they live close together, they are both from their hometowns, and they are both from Xuzhou, so when they came here, the two went shopping hand in hand “like glue”.

Mrs. Liang is a very kind person, patient, and likes to listen, so Mrs. Tang will tell Mrs. Liang any troubles.

Before saying that Mr. Tang would not accept a concubine, Mrs. Liang said from her own point of view: “If you don’t accept a concubine, then you won’t accept a concubine. Now that the land price in Kyoto is expensive, we can’t afford the square house we used to have, so we can only do so. I live in a building, but there are only two rooms in this building. If you buy a concubine, where do you live?”

This is the actual problem.

Madam Tang thought, “There’s nowhere to live.”

Mrs. Liang nodded, “Yes, you and Mr. Tang live in the same room, and your son lives in the same room, oh, in the future, the son will marry a wife, can he still take a concubine? Where do you live? You can’t go out to rent, right? It’s better not to take a concubine.”

The problem of no room for concubines and servants is so real! Mrs. Tang had thought about buying a maid to come back, but where would she live? Do you live in the hall? The hall is not too big, so it’s a shame.

Moreover, after the house was small, Mrs. Tang obviously felt that she was paying attention to privacy. She didn’t want a servant to know what she was doing.

Therefore, after getting used to it for a few days, she responded quickly, and did not mention buying slaves, and followed Mrs. Liang to ask for part-time workers.

Yes, hourly workers are now more popular than servants. Some of them charge according to the time, and some can also pay a monthly fee. They come to clean on time every day, and leave after cooking and cleaning.

Anyway, it costs more money than buying a servant, but it’s really convenient. So, Mrs. Tang lavishly hired an old lady to cook, do laundry and clean every day.

In this way, the money spent will be huge. Even if Mrs. Tang wants to buy a big house for Mr. Tang to take a concubine, she has no money.

Mr. Tang was very happy – he never expected that Mrs. Tang had stopped thinking about taking a concubine because the house was too small and could not afford a big house.

So he continued to pretend to be poor, and continued to instill in Mrs. Tang that the family was poor, that he would marry his child in the future, and that he would need a lot of money to fight for the child’s future, and the money in the family could not be moved.

“Besides, do you dare to buy a house? Now that the house can be divided so smoothly, it’s because we came from other states, and we don’t have a house or place to live. If you buy a house, This house will be distributed to others.”

Then Mrs. Tang was a little unhappy. So after thinking about it, she can only make more money and make a lot of money by herself, and when she can throw this house out to others without heartache, she can buy it.

Therefore, she and Mrs. Liang are like sisters. Another reason is that Mrs. Liang is just like her. There are no concubines or servants in the family. Mrs. Liang is willing to take Mrs. Tang to do business together.

Mrs. Liang is a compliment party, and compliments can capture what people want to praise most in people’s hearts, so Mrs. Tang likes to talk with Mrs. Liang very much.

Today’s New Year’s greetings, Mrs. Tang’s first request was to go to Mrs. Liang’s place, and she was not willing to go elsewhere. Mrs. Liang took her to the bedroom where she was sleeping to see her new hairpin.

It is a petal hairpin that resembles a bird.

“This is also a kind of flower. It blooms like a bird. I think it’s pretty. Look, do you like it? As soon as I made a hairpin, I thought it was suitable for you. You, as a result, you went to bed early last night and the lights went out early, so I didn’t bother you.”

Mrs. Tang’s face was a little red, and it could be seen that she went to bed early last night, and it was the goblin who fought.

She happily took the hairpin, put it on her head, and pulled Mrs. Liang to speak in a low voice.

She was talking about the next door next door, the new teaching home on their floor.

“I heard that the woman in the family is also a gentleman.”

Mrs. Tang was not very comfortable. Although she knew that there were also female gentlemen, it was the first time she saw her. The first time she saw the lady, she felt a little disliked.

She felt that the female gentleman’s aura, yes, that was the aura, was a bit inconsistent with her, they were like people from two worlds.

Mrs. Tang talked to her once. She talked about the family’s concubinage, but the female gentleman smiled and listened without saying a word, and then changed the subject and talked about the school.

Madam Tang whispered, “I don’t like talking to her.”

Mrs. Liang said: “That’s not what you said. There are thousands of people and thousands of faces. Mr. Sima is kind-hearted. When he moved in, didn’t he give us biscuits?”

Mrs. Tang pursed her lips, and discreetly provoked discord, “She is very arrogant and doesn’t talk to us.”

Mrs. Liang said: “You, you are ten years older than Mr. Sima. What do you care about her, just think about it, your Mr. Tang is busy with the children’s affairs? She is also normal, all day long. I’m very busy, how can I have time with us?”

Madam Tang thought for a while and thought yes.

“My master takes care of so many children every day. He is very tired and his voice is hoarse.”

So much talk every day.

Mrs. Liang said: “We are actually the same as her. Think about it, how difficult it is when the two of us are busy opening a shop. We are unfamiliar with life and place. You have to stay up all night to design flowers. I want to see the shop. Hire workers, don’t you? At that time, you still have time to get close to others?”

Mrs. Tang nodded in agreement, “At that time, I didn’t even say a word to my master.”

As a result, Madam Tang felt ashamed for her malicious speculation on Mr. Sima’s careful thinking.

Next, she went to Mr. Sima’s house to pay New Year’s greetings. She was very kind to Mr. Sima and kept saying: “You are very tired, don’t let yourself be so tired.”

This made Mr. Sima nodded to Mrs. Liang in thanks. They were all smart people, so they naturally knew that Mrs. Tang’s change was because of Mrs. Liang.

The three of them got together to talk. Mr. Sima and Mrs. Liang were mainly listeners, and Mrs. Tang liked to talk a little bit.

She was talking about everyday things.

“I heard that the things in the agricultural base in the suburbs were personally planted by Shen Li Shen, who is on the elite strategy. He is very powerful. At this time, he can use various techniques that we don’t know to grow watermelons and strawberries. , come melon.”

She also wanted to buy something for Mr. Tang to eat, but she couldn’t. She said, “That kind of thing, it doesn’t matter, how can I buy it? I’m afraid I won’t be able to eat it for the rest of my life.”

After a while, Mr. Liang’s nephew came. Mrs. Tang glanced at it, and there were all kinds of fruits in it.

Not to mention watermelon, strawberry and melon, there are also rare cantaloupe and banana.

Madam Tang waited for the Liang family’s nephew to leave, and then she passed by. At first, she was envious, “There are so many things.”

Then it was sour, “I didn’t expect your family to be so powerful.”

In the end, he was a little jealous, and said: “I don’t know at all.”

Mrs. Liang laughed.

“You, sit down and eat, I’ll tell you slowly.”

Mrs. Tang sat down obediently. Mr. Tang saw it and said with joy, “Only Mrs. Liang can treat this in my family.”

Mr. Liang laughed, “The two get along well.”

Mr. Tang asked: “The one just now was the astronomer on Qunyingce, right? I didn’t expect it to be your nephew.”

Mr. Liang smiled, “Yeah, he is very intelligent and filial. Recently, he was studying with the adults in Ping’an Alley. He was very busy. He didn’t eat lunch, and only came over for dinner at night.”

Mr. Tang nodded, no longer asked, but talked to Mr. Liang about whether to increase the evening self-study in primary school. Mr. Tang felt that the children were still young, so he didn’t need to start self-study so early in the morning and evening, but Mr. Liang felt that he could let the children decide whether they could go to school.

“In winter, the school has heating, and some motivated children get up early to study, and after school, they have to go back to study. The rich are fine, but those from the poor have poor families, how can they survive?? Just go straight to school.”

Mr. Tang thought that was fine. Those children were reluctant to light the lamp, and they didn’t have the money to go to that kind of private library.

He thought for a while, and said, “Why don’t you make a suggestion for the Wanmin Conference in March? You say, how about the public library that is open at 12 o’clock?”

Mr. Liang felt bad.

“Then we have to guard day and night, there are many books, and if something happens to the lights at night, the entire library will be set on fire.”

So have to renegotiate.

After talking about this matter, the two discussed other matters in other elementary schools to see what they could bring up at the March People’s Conference.

In this way, at noon, Mr. Tang’s son and Mr. Liang’s son came back from playing in the snow outside. They saw their parents sitting in pairs and sighed, “It is estimated that we will have dinner together at noon.”

Mr. Tang’s son boiled water to take a bath when he went back, and as expected, just after washing out, he heard Mrs. Tang call him over for dinner.

The two families were together and had lunch on the first day of the new year.