Wear It with Space - Chapter 19

In order to leave a good impression on everyone, Shen Ling dressed up when she went to work as a errand the next day. She picked a bean-green dress from the clothes Zhang gave her, and on her head was a white jade butterfly hairpin that Madam Hou gave her.

Over the past month, she has eaten well and slept well, her originally sallow face slowly turned rosy, with this dress and jewelry, she finally looked like a maid in the house.

It was Pearl that led her to the second girl’s room that day. When Shen Ling arrived, Hui Niang was sitting at the mahogany ice-ling pattern semicircular table in her room, drinking Jianlian red date soup slowly.

Shen Ling only felt that she was sitting there, just drinking the soup, it made people feel pleasing to the eye, revealing an elegant and calm attitude.

After a while, Hui Niang put down the spoon in her hand. A maid in a green jacket handed a cup of tea at the right time. Another maid in a lake blue jacket was holding a bowl next to her. Hui Niang rinsed her mouth under their service, and Fang looked at Shen Ling and said, “I heard Pearl say that you have done an excellent job of needlework. I wonder if that’s the case?”

Shen Ling said: “The slave girl’s needlework dare not say that she is doing well, but she won’t be ashamed of Mother An.”

Hui Niang smiled slightly and said: “You don’t need to be so careful. I ask yourself that you are not a mean and mean person. From now on, you will say one thing, and two will say two.” She glanced at the pearl, “In a few days it will be the day when the wife will hold a peony feast. , I want you to be better than that of Sister Hongyu’s dress embroidered with begonia flowers?”

Pearl said, “A couple of days will be fine.”

Hui Niang thought for a while and said: “You and Cha Qing can concentrate on making clothes for these two days. Leave the other chores to Yan Qing and Abi!”

Pearl nodded and said, “Okay, just listen to the second girl.”

After Hui Niang ordered this, she took Shen Ling and the maid in the green jacket to greet Madam Hou.

Madam Hou had finished freshening up and was leaning on the Luohan bed listening to what the coral said. Seeing Hui Niang with the maid coming in, she nodded and said, “That’s it! Let’s finish breakfast first.”

Shen Ling saw three or four servant women approaching with a food box, and quickly filled a carved square table.

After Hui Niang took her seat, Shen Ling stood behind her, watching Yanqing serve the second girl with vegetables. Soon she discovered that the second girl likes a lighter diet and only eats a few vegetarian dishes in front of her. As for Mrs. Hou’s preference for meat, she used a bowl of red rice porridge with fried quail and carmine goose paw.

After the meal, Shen Ling followed Yanqing to serve the second girl to rinse her mouth. She had seen the steps of Yanqing and Chaqing in the room before. At this time, she looked decent compared to painting a gourd.

Madam Hou looked at her with cold eyes and saw that she was neither fearful nor irritable when she was a errand for the first time. She was slightly satisfied, but her face was bare. She only asked Hui Niang to listen to her husband’s lectures when she went to school.

Hui Niang arrived at Wenxin Hall where she was taught, and there was already a teenage girl sitting in it. The girl was wearing half-new, not old clothes, with two beads on her head. She was the concubine in the second room and the third lady in the mansion.

There are not many granddaughters in Hui Niang’s generation, and there are only three of Dafang’s concubine, who is also the big girl Fangniang.

Fang Niang had been married the year before last, and only Hui Niang and Shu Niang remained in the house with her husband. At the moment Shuniang greeted Hui Niang, Yan Qing and Shen Ling helped Hui Niang set the four treasures in her study, and they went out.

After going out from Wenxintang, passing through the back porch, we arrived at three small pavilions. Shu Niang’s two maids, Bi Luo and Bi Lian, were eating there, and when Shen Ling and the others arrived, a woman gave her breakfast for the two of them.

Bi Luo and Bi Lian were very curious when they saw Shen Ling. After they had finished their meal, after the woman took the table down, Bi Luo said, “Yan Qing, why didn’t Cha Qing come here today?”

Yan Qing said indifferently: “Cha Qing stayed in the room because she had something to do in the past two days.”

Bi Lian said: “This younger sister looks at Yan Sheng, she must not be born in the house!”

Shen Ling kept looking at Yanqing when she was talking, so she held back what she said.

Yan Qing said, “You guessed it wrong this time. She is Guanshi Li’s daughter, Abi, but she has been raised in the countryside since she was a child.” She deliberately pronounced the word “countryside” a little harder, and smiled after reading it. “She I was not sensible at first, and I will ask you to teach her more in the future.”

Bi Luo heard the ridicule in Yanqing’s words, and she couldn’t help but smile narrowly.

Bi Lian glanced at Shen Ling, being so ridiculed by Yan Qing, her face had not fluctuated at all, she had always had a faint smile on her face, and she seemed to have a city.

Shen Ling had already been reminded of Pearl before, but now he heard Yan Qing ridicule her like this, but he was also expecting it.

At the end of the time, Hui Niang and the others finished their class. Several maids each clustered their girls back to the room.

When she walked through the garden, Hui Niang saw that the crabapples in the garden were blooming just right, so she stopped to let Shen Ling fold a few branches and bring them back for flower arrangement.

Shen Ling stood still under the tree and looked carefully for a long time before choosing three branches and folding them down.

Seeing that the three begonias she chose were flying horizontally, sparsely, or unevenly, it was the most suitable flower arrangement, and she couldn’t help but said, “You also know flower arrangement?”

Shen Ling smiled shyly: “Who knows how to arrange flower arrangements, but I think these three begonias bloom best.”

Hui Niang smiled and did not speak.

Back in the room, Hui Niang asked Yanqing to find a wide-mouthed vase filled with water and then inserted the three branches of Begonia. She admired Haitang for a while, then called Cha Qing to ask about the skirt, and it was lunch time.

This time, Hui Niang did not take Shen Ling over, but took Cha Qing and Yan Qing to Madam Hou’s.

When the women brought lunch, Shen Ling sat with Pearl to have a meal. After the two of them had finished their meal, Pearl asked her how she felt this morning, and Shen Ling said that everything was fine.

Pearl smiled and said, “It’s good if you can think like this. The second girl is a very good servant. Chaqing is a gourd with a sawn mouth. Although the mouth of the cigarette is not forgiving, she will not make small movements in private. You are diligent and conscientious, thinking about the master in everything, it will be for your benefit.”

Shen Ling nodded. As Rong’antang’s maidservant, Pearl had some truth to her words. She didn’t live here for the rest of her life. What Yan Qing said really didn’t bother her.

Two years passed in a flash, and Rong An Tang’s old maid let out another group. This time there are pearls and corals among people. After they left, Yan Qing was mentioned as the big maid, and Shen Ling succeeded her as the second-class maid next to Hui Niang.

In the past, when the pearls were there, Yanqing could still converge a little, and his temper was not so flamboyant. But since Pearl went out, and no one was pressing her on it, Yanqing’s mouth became stronger. Cha Qing and her entered the mansion together, and Su Ri still had some affection, but she would not be so good.

But Shen Ling is different. Ever since Hui Niang opened her mouth to put Shen Ling next to her, she had been looking at Shen Ling uncomfortably. There used to be pearls to protect her, she didn’t dare to say anything more, but now that the pearls went out, she began to run Shen Ling over and under.

After a few times, Shen Ling found that every lady Hui Niang praised her a few times or she dangled in front of Hui Niang a few times, Yan Qing began to find her fault, and her words were particularly ugly.

Shen Ling also understood that as long as she didn’t let Hui Niang pay attention to herself, Yan Qing would naturally restrain herself. But her goal is to become a maid beside Hui Niang, and how can she achieve the task given to her by the system if she doesn’t brush her favors in front of Hui Niang.

You must know that as Rong’antang’s maid, she can only work on Madam Hou or Hui Niang if she wants to climb up. But Madam Hou obviously doesn’t like her very much, but Hui Niang is very fond of her for some reason. That’s why Shen Ling wanted to break through Hui Niang and work hard to accomplish his mission.

It’s just that now there is a stumbling block like Yanqing blocking her superiority, Shen Ling decided to change his thinking. Before, she swallowed her anger in order to gain a foothold in Hui Niang so that she could continue to climb. Now that she has risen to the position of a second-class maid, there are only two paths to climb up.

The first way is to wait. When Yanqing reaches her age, she will naturally become a maidservant. The second way is to pull the big maid Yanqing off the horse and replace it by herself.

If the system had no time limit, Shen Ling would probably choose the first way. However, the system has a three-year deadline, and Shen Ling can only choose the second path.