Chapter 59
Mrs. Shen knew very well that things in the inner circle could not be seen for just one or two days, but that one had to take a long-term view to see through a person's true temperament.
But Yin Shi has already obtained high scores in this starting position.
Mrs. Shen really feels that she has a good eye for choosing a wife.
After Yin Shi finished her work report, she happily returned to her yard with the good tea that Master Shen had just brought as a reward from Mrs. Shen.
From a distance, I saw someone outside the gate of Jingrong Courtyard. It was a man.
Why is there a strange adult man in the inner house?
And he was not the only one at the door.
Lv Yan and He Xin were both at the side, as if they were accompanying guests.
Lv Yan and He Xin are the first-class maids who serve Shen Ti closely, commonly known as the big girls. Who is so proud that he lets two close girls around Shen Ti stay here?
The other party obviously saw their group and stood up quickly.
The gatekeeper asked the girl to take away the little dish he was sitting on just now.
The treatment is very good, and there is also a little boy sitting there.
When she came up to her, the young man stood at the foot of the steps and saluted: "I have met the young lady. I call her Pingmo. Hanlin asked me to fetch a pot of small peach red and bring it to the study."
Hey.
She did tell Shen Ti to ask an adult to come over and move the flowers. The main reason is that Changchuan is too small and I am afraid that he cannot hold it. But isn’t there a maid in the study, so why would a man be invited into the inner chamber?
And Yin Shi has heard the name Pingmo several times.
Most of them were brought out when Shen Ti gave instructions to Changchuan:
"Go tell Pingmo..."
"Tell Pingmo..."
"Let Pingmo go..."
"Are you Pingmo?" Yin Shi said with a smile, "I know you, you did all the things I did a few days ago. You do things very quickly and very well. "
"As long as the young lady is satisfied. It’s not something difficult to handle.”
Yin Shi asked: “Should he put the flowers in the inner study or the outer study?”
Ping Mo replied: “Hanlin said he should put them in the inner study. Go to the study room.”
In the past, Shen Ti moved to the outer study room to avoid Feng Luoyi's suspicion. But now he is married and has moved back to the inner courtyard. Even if he didn't want to go to his wife's house, he didn't have to go to the outer study. The inner study was his own territory. Its living functionality is also far more comfortable than the study room outside.
Ping Mo was very disciplined. After bowing and answering, he always leaned forward slightly and lowered his head, avoiding looking directly at Yin Shi.
But even so, Yin Shi could clearly see that Pingmo was a young man with a straight face. She looks a few years older than Shen Ti, and she looks like a young man.
He is well behaved and is considered a very good valet among servants.
If you continue to be favored by your master, you will become a popular marriage candidate among the maids.
But looking at his age, around 20 years old, generally speaking, he should be the father of at least two or three children.
"Follow me." Yin Shi nodded.
Took him into the yard.
While she was away, he didn't even enter the yard and waited outside. The rules of the Shen family are much stricter than those of the Yin family. The quality of servants and maids is also much higher.
At this time, Yinger was moving orchids out to bask in the sun.
"That's the basin." Yin Shi pointed to him, "The celadon basin."
Ping Mo looked at it and praised: "Young lady, these orchids are well cultivated."
Yin Shiyile: "Do you still know about orchids?"
"Orchids are the favorite among scholars. " Ping Mo explained, "I follow Hanlin, and I have to deal with some purchases and gifts. I know the market better. "
"Huh?" Yin Shi suddenly became interested, "Look. How much is this pot worth? ”
Ping Mo looked at it carefully again, and said after careful consideration: "Xiaotaohong is a common variety, not a rare one. There are ordinary ones, one or two taels, and five or six taels, but the condition of the young lady's pot is really good. Not counting the basin, it costs about twelve taels of silver."
Kui'er was shocked: "So much?"
Ping Mo glanced at her and said, "Girls are from the south. I don't know that it is difficult to grow flowers as lush as in the north. So it is rare."
Yin Shi agreed: " Yes, the climate, water, and soil are all different.”
So she didn’t rush to move the flowers and got used to them first. Now that it looks like it's almost done, I'm willing to give it to Shen Ti.
The few pots that I took the time to divide in the past two days are still being watched carefully. She had to do it herself every day.
Yin Shi asked Ying'er to carry the pot of little peach to Pingmo. Ying'er was holding another basin in her hands and moving it out of the house. Kui'er pulled up her sleeves and said, "I'll do it."
She went to move it over and handed it to Pingmo.
Pingmo connected firmly and said: "Thank you, sister."
Kui'er hurriedly said: "I don't dare to take it seriously."
The servants in the outer courtyard take care of the fact that the girls in the inner courtyard are not called sister because of their age.
For a decent maid, those who are not familiar with her will be called "girl", while those who are familiar with her will be called "sister". Usually I don't care if the eldest girl calls me sister.
Sister is an honorific title.
But Yin Shi was a marginal person in the past, and Kui'er followed her. There was a respectable boy in the outer courtyard, and she had to call him "brother" when she saw him.
Later, when Yin Shi was preparing to get married, he was afraid that any changes would affect this golden meal ticket, so he tightened the restrictions on them. As a girl who was about to get married, she had to live in seclusion, so Kui'er and the others followed her into living in seclusion.
I haven't had much chance to be called "sister" yet. Yin Shi noticed that when Kui'er was talking to Heping Mo, Lu Yan and He Xin glanced at them quickly.
At this time, Ping Mo asked Yin Shi for instructions: "Madam, please appoint someone to go with me to the inner study and then to the second door."
In the strict inner house, the outside man and the outside man Servants cannot move around casually. When you get to the second gate, you have to report first. The people at the Weeping Flower Gate will go to the yard to inform them, and the yard will send someone to pick them up at the Weeping Flower Gate, finish the work, and then send them out of the Weeping Flower Gate. That's the end.
There must be someone accompanying him during the movement. The man cannot be allowed to wander around the house alone.
Kui'er has always been diligent and has an eye for work. After arriving at Shen's house, there were many things that Yin Shi wouldn't let her do. There are many maids in the yard, and even the work they do is divided into hierarchical levels. Everyone has to do much less work than before. It's not like in the Yin family, where she, Kui'er, and Ying'er do all the work.
Kui'er has become uncomfortable with leisure.
She opened her mouth and wanted to take the job.
"Lv Yan." Yin Shi interrupted her in time, "Follow Ping Mo."
Lv Yan is the oldest among the girls.
There was joy in Lu Yan's eyes, and she suppressed her pressure and said, "Yes."
They are all middle school students, so there is nothing too deep. Yin Shi glanced over and saw clearly.
Lvyan went with Pingmo.
Yin Shi returned to the room and changed into comfortable home clothes. Because she had to go to the yard from time to time during the day, she still dressed properly during the day. After dinner, you can take off your outer shirt and wear only your middle coat.
Comfortable.
Since Shen Ti agreed and gave the order, even little boys like Changchuan were not allowed to enter the main room.
If someone comes, the guard girl at the gate of the courtyard must first report to the door of the main room, and then the maid in the room will report to the second room and the inner room.
Even in her absence, Pingmo would wait outside the yard.
Although today is only the sixth day of marriage, Yin Shi already has a strong sense of security in her yard and main house
He Xin brought a plate of washed loquats over .
Yin Shi glanced at her and asked: "What does Pingmo do around Hanlin?"
He Xin said: "Everything. If anything happens to Hanlin, just tell Pingmo. He is Hanlin. The most useful person around. He is Hanlin’s breast-brother.”
In her previous life, Yin Shi liked that her subordinates could provide such comprehensive information when answering, especially those she didn’t ask.
"Then why didn't he go out with Hanlin today?" she asked.
"There are others. There are six people around Hanlin." He Xin said with a smile, "Pingmo only takes care of important things."
Yin Shi and He Xin's eyes met, and He Xin respectfully avoided them.
That’s it.
In fact, when Yin Shi was talking in the courtyard just now, she had noticed that the maids in the courtyard seemed to be more respectful to her than the previous few days.
It’s not that they didn’t work hard in the past few days. On the contrary, the maids chosen by Mrs. Shen to enter this courtyard are definitely not lazy and cunning, they are all neat and articulate.
Yin Shi has been getting along well with them these past few days.
The "more" mentioned here is attitude.
The expression on the face, the tone of speaking, the angle of the head and neck.
Only a keen person can notice it.
Ping Mo, the most useful person around Shen Ti. He only cares about important things.
Shen Ti sent him to move a pot of flowers in the young lady’s yard instead of accompanying his uncles to visit the capital.
This means that in Shen Ti's eyes, Yin Shi is more important.
Everyone in this courtyard knows Pingmo and understands this meaning.
Through the information given by He Xin, Yin Shi also understood.
Ping Mo was probably sent by Shen Ti specifically to see her. Meet and get to know each other.
Yin Shi thought again of the green smoke and lotus surrounding Ping Mo, and the look he gave Kui'er.
"How old is he? He looks older than Hanlin to me?" she asked.
"He is three years older than Hanlin, and he is twenty-one this year."
"Are you married already?"
As soon as he asked this question, He Xin's eyes flashed Although he was nervous, he still answered politely: "Not yet."
Yin Shi nodded and said nothing more.
It turns out that he is the golden bachelor among the male servants.
From the first day of marriage, Shen Ti made it clear to everyone that the maids in the courtyard could be dismissed by Yin Shi.
There are many kinds of salary, such as sales, job transfer, resigning to go home for leisure and getting married, which are all considered as salary.
The marriage rights of the maids, at least the maids in Jingrongyuan, now fall into the hands of Yin Shi.
Here, women’s power is delegated or transferred by men.
Does Shen Ti know too much? Or maybe it's because I was born in this kind of environment, so I don't need to understand it at all, it's already engraved in my bones.
In short, it’s pretty fucked up.
But thank you, brother.
Yin Shi took the drink handed over by the maid and took a sip.
Remembering the confrontation between her and him on the couch this morning, she let out a breath.
Some guys have upgraded from boys to men, their consciousness has begun to awaken, and they want to take control of their marriage.
Interesting.
Yin Shi called Kui'er and Pu'er: "Take care of the two pots we prepared for aunt and uncle, and take them over tomorrow."
Kui'er said: "Okay! I’ll hug you tomorrow! I’m strong!”
(End of this chapter)
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