Wear It with Space - Chapter 16

Manager Li, who checked the accounts at the silk and satin shop, didn’t know why he always felt a little unsure today. Looking at the clepsydra in the corner, it was almost noon. Think of the second daughter who was on a hunger strike. He could no longer sit still, locked the account and hurried out of the shop.

On the way back, passing by the famous Wangji dim sum shop in Beijing, remembering that my daughter loves to eat chestnut cake there, I went in and weighed a catty.

Going forward for a while, we arrived at the back street of Zhongxiao Hou Mansion, where the servants of lower status lived in the mansion. Crossing the back street is the back door of the Hou Mansion, where many business burdens stopped in front of the door. At this time it was lunch time, and the burden of selling food was surrounded by many half-old boys.

Someone cleverly saw Guanshi Li busy coming over to say hello, Guanji didn’t pay much attention to him, just nodded and entered the back door. The house with black tiles and white walls along the wall of the north courtyard is where the confidants of the mansion live.

Guan Shi came to a small courtyard with two entrances, and met the little girl Chunmei hired head-on.

He frowned and asked, “It’s about this time. Why don’t you go out to help in the kitchen?”

Chunmei whispered: “Brother wants to eat minced meat biscuits sold outside…” The brother she said was the son of the Zhang family who was married by Guanshi Li, whose nickname was Qing’er.

Before he finished speaking, Manager Li interrupted, “Didn’t you just ate yesterday? You are not allowed to go.”

Chunmei had no choice but to turn back, and listened to Guan Shi as she walked and asked, “How is the second sister?”

Chunmei said honestly: “Still lying on the bed!”

The reason why the second daughter, Azi, went on a hunger strike is very simple. The mistress of Houfu who just took over as the housekeeper did not know whether it was to win over the housekeepers or to shock them. The first fire was to ask them to send a daughter of the right age to the house. Serve in the house.

Although Guan Li is only a manager of the Hou Mansion, since the re-married Zhang was a maid that Mrs. Hou relied on before getting married, he was trusted by Mrs. Hou and was responsible for managing several shops, and he was able to get it every year. With some bonuses, life is very fulfilling.

Under such circumstances, Azi grew up just like the little masters in the house. She was held by the maidservant and grew up. She used everything for food, clothing, and housing, and she developed a heart taller than the sky. Tempt, wherever willing to enter the house to do that little maid who is nothing.

When Zhang heard the movement, he came out of the hall with his eyes falling on the snack that Guanshi Li was holding. He pursed her lips and said, “Second Sister, it’s no way to go on like this.” She glanced at Guanshi Li, “I thought of a way, just It depends on whether you agree.”

The Zhang family swung back Chunmei, and the couple entered the house one after the other. Zhang said, “Azi has been spoiled since childhood, and his mouth is unforgiving. It is a trivial matter to be involved as a errand in the mansion, but it is a big deal to offend others. .”

Guan Shi nodded and said, “I don’t know Azi’s temperament, but what is the method you are talking about?”

Zhang didn’t speak in a hurry, so he poured himself a glass of water slowly and moistened his throat, then said: “The mistress only said that we should send a daughter of the right age into the house, but did not say that it must be Azi. Abi raised in the country. After so many years, it’s time to bring her back.”

Guan Shi’s original spouse Su once gave birth to a daughter for him, named Abi. After Zhang entered the door, Abi was sent to the country for foster care.

Manager Li immediately understood Zhang’s meaning. He only pondered for a while before agreeing to Zhang’s proposal, “Then I will pick up someone tomorrow.”

Zhang smiled. She was about to say something when Chunmei, who had been swung back by her, suddenly shouted outside the house: “Grandma, there is a little girl named Abi outside who said to look for her father.”

In front of the screen wall of the first courtyard, there is a large blue and white porcelain fish tank with several slap-length koi. At that time, Guan Li, Shen Ling was playing with the koi, hearing the footsteps, he raised his head, no Cried to him nonchalantly: “Father.”

The little girl in front of her was wearing a patched dress, because she was so thin and she looked only ten years old, with a pair of big eyes embedded in her slap-sized face, just like the dead Su Clan. Guan Shi saw those eyes, and only then did he recognize that the little girl in front of him was his 12-year-old daughter, Abi.

He looked at the daughter in front of him very complicatedly. He knew that he shouldn’t send this daughter to the country and he hadn’t listened to it, but he also knew that the reason why he was trusted by Mrs. Hou was because of the Zhang family. So for his own future, he can only apologize to Abi.

“Abi, why did you come all of a sudden?” Manager Li said uncomfortably. The daughter who hadn’t seen each other for a few years appeared in front of him all of a sudden. He didn’t know what to say for a while, but felt that the father and daughter were very strange.

Shen Ling smiled faintly: “Aunt Chen said that Dad hadn’t asked someone to carry money for many years, and she had a small business and couldn’t afford me to eat idle food. So she kicked me out.”

This is not to win her father’s sympathy, but it is true. She slept in a daze, and was scolded by a shrew and woke up. Then the system gave a task. The task was to replace Guanshi Li’s daughter, Azi, as a maid in the mansion, and she would become a marquise within three years. First-class maid of the mansion.

When she chose to accept the task, she listened to the **** cursing: “Is the dead girl tired and crooked? She’s all three poles a day, and she still refuses to get up on the bed. The old lady has really been upset for eight lifetimes to get a relative like you. The old one hasn’t even given him to a big one for so many years. The small ones are delicious and lazy. Today I will put the words here, my small family and small business can’t afford to eat idle food. You will either get the money or leave me from now on.. ….”

Then she was driven out of the house by the shrew.

Manager Li coughed uncomfortably, “It’s father, it’s not. In the past two years, Dad forgot…to ask someone to give you money.”

Shen Ling sneered in his heart, I’m afraid it was not forgotten, but Zhang’s refusal to let it!

Before the father and daughter had said a few words, Chunmei came out and said, “Grandma let the eldest sister go in and talk.”

Guanshi Li replied: “Go in! Your mother probably has something to say to you.”

Shen Ling straightened the old clothes all over her body and followed Manager Li into the room.

Zhang steadily sat on the rosewood rose chair in the middle of the hall, and after seeing Shen Ling coming in, a slight smile appeared on his face, “The eldest sister is back. No lunch, Chunmei, let the kitchen Add two dishes, then call out the second sister and brother, and say that the eldest sister is back, and the family will have a meal.”

Shen Ling already knew the whole story from the system, and hadn’t said a word after entering the house, waiting for them to speak.

Zhang did not hide it, and said directly: “It was just time you came back. A group of old maids had just arrived in the mansion. It is now when there is a shortage of staff. Your father and I have noticed a good one for you. For errands, there are at least five hundred dollars in income every month.” She glanced at Shen Ling’s thin body and patched coarse cloth clothes, and continued, “The money is not needed at home, you slowly save yourself, and save more. Or add some nice clothes or buy some snacks, which is better than in the country.”

“When you are older, the family will give you a dowry, find a guard or steward in the house to live a good life, I can be considered worthy of your dead mother.” Guan Shi added this sentence after Zhang’s words were finished. words.

Zhang looked at him a little displeased, but in order to save his daughter from errands in the house, give up some money!

“This matter should be early or late. After you have dinner, let your father take you to Aunt Wu. You are similar to A Zi. Later I will ask Chunmei to find you some clothes that she doesn’t wear much. ……”

Zhang is mean while being shrewd. She doesn’t like this stepdaughter anymore. She is also her mother on the bright side. If she wears clothes and loses her clothes, she will be the one who makes people laugh at that time.

But her daughter followed her meanness but did not follow the shrewdness. When Zhang was talking, 10-year-old Azi and seven-year-old Qing’er were brought over by Chunmei. As soon as they heard their clothes were to be given to others, Azi I stopped doing it at that time and shouted: “Why, why do you give my clothes to others?”

“It’s just a few pieces of clothes. What kind of attitude my mother taught you. If you can’t support the wall with mud, I will rest my mind and save you from planning for you.” As soon as Zhang opened his mouth, he held his daughter’s seven inches. Azi didn’t dare to say a word anymore, only glared bitterly at Shen Ling who was snatching her clothes.

When Shen Ling saw A Zi stare at her, she was not only not angry, but smiled back.

A Zi only thought she was laughing at herself, and stomped her feet fiercely, but Qinger ran to Shen Ling, “You are the eldest sister, why haven’t I seen you?”

“Brother, come here.” Zhang called Qing’er to his side, “How many big characters did you write today?”

Qing’er replied earnestly: “I wrote a hundred characters.” Then asked with her face up, “Mother, can I eat minced meat biscuits?”

After Azi’s hunger strike was resolved, Guan Li was in a good mood and immediately ordered Chunmei to buy it.

After the minced meat biscuits were bought, the kitchen just opened up the food, and on the basis of the original four dishes and one soup, two dishes of one vegetarian and one meat were added.

Shen Ling knew about Abi’s status in this family when she came, so even if she saw Qinger had minced meat biscuits and Azi had chestnut cakes, she only had a bowl of white rice in front of her, and she didn’t think anything was wrong, so she waited for Manager Li to pick it up. After chopsticks, she started.

After the half stick of incense, half of the vegetables on the table entered her stomach. In the end, the family of four watched her ask for another bowl of white rice and cleaned up the remaining vegetables on the plate.

Shen Ling put down the dishes and chopsticks contentedly. It was the first time that he had such a hearty meal since he was hit by the quick-piercing system. When she raised her head, she saw four pairs of shocked eyes, not good, she seemed to have eaten too much by accident. In fact, this is not to blame for her, this body has been living half-starved and half-full in recent years, so seeing delicious food, Shen Ling couldn’t help but obey the instinct of the body. She smiled embarrassedly: “I haven’t eaten enough for too long, so…”

Guan Shi’s eyes darkened. Even if he didn’t ask someone to carry money in the next few years, the money he had given in the previous few years was not a lot. Seriously, Abi could use every meal of chicken, duck and fish for several years. He didn’t give money in two or three years, and Chen Shun and his wife dared to make their daughter hungry.

Zhang does not need to look at Manager Li to know what he is thinking. She diverted her attention calmly, “It’s okay for you to be at home like this. When you enter the mansion in the future, don’t eat and drink like this. Your daughter’s body shape is the most important thing.”

After Zhang said that, without expecting her to answer anything, he turned and asked Chunmei who was standing next to him, “Did you find the clothes and jewelry I asked you to find?”

Chunmei lowered her head and said, “I found it all, and put it in grandma’s room.”

Then Abi took a bath under Chunmei’s service, and put on a jacket and skirt made of lake-blue satin. Chunmei combed her a double bun and put a few beads on it. flower.

Even Zhang sighed: “It’s Su Rumei’s daughter after all, she compares others to others by dressing up like this.”

Shen Ling was also very satisfied with his current appearance. Although he was not as picturesque as his face, he was better than being pretty and charming. Especially those hopeful and energetic eyes, they add three points to the appearance.