Daily Life of Jiang Liuniang

   Chapter 873 Gifts

  Liu Juntang gave a deep gift, "The students will be crowned next year, so dare to ask the teacher to give them the words."

  The man's 20-line crown ceremony is a good word. According to Zhou etiquette, most of the characters are given by the elders or teachers in the family. Since then, men have used characters in the world.

   Starting a word is a big deal, and if you don’t start well, you will be ridiculed for a lifetime. What words should I use for my disciples? Jiang Erye, who didn't have a few drops of ink in his stomach, thought for a while, his eyes finally lit up, he stood up and said with the air of a teacher, "Master said: A gentleman has nine thoughts... I took the word for you for the teacher as nine. Si, how about you?"

   Jiang Erye only remembered the sentence "A gentleman has nine thoughts", as for what the nine thoughts are, he can't count them. Xie Qingquan is a learned and talented scholar. According to the number of ways he gave Liao Chuanrui the word Jiuru, Jiang Erye felt that it should not be bad for him to give his disciple the word Jiusi.

  Liu Juntang raised his robes and knelt down, "Liu Jiusi thanks my teacher for giving me the words."

   Hearing this from the students, Jiang Erye felt bad again.

  Liu Jiusi...Uncle Liu died...Uncle died, if Liu Juntang's uncle heard about it, I am afraid that he would have to spend money to hire a group of people to go to Beijing and kill him. Jiang Erye made a clever call and changed his words, "Your name is Juntang, which already means 'a dignified gentleman, dignified and upright', and then taking the word Jiusi is superfluous. For the teacher, you have an extraordinary appearance, and your eyes are like water. Clear water, it is like seeing spring, the mountains are bright and the water is beautiful, the willows are dark and the flowers are bright. How about changing the name to Yueming?"

  It is good to call it anything, as long as the teacher is not angry because of the money, Liu Juntang respectfully bows again, "Liu Yueming, thank the teacher for giving the words."

   Liu Juntang's word Yueming, Jiang Erye nodded with satisfaction. The teacher no longer forced him to return the money, and Liu Juntang nodded with satisfaction.

   Jiang Erye saw that his disciple was also smiling, and glared, "This is not an example!"

   "Yes." Liu Juntang discussed with his teacher, "The students do tea and spice business at home, and there are semicolons in Suzhou..."

Knowing that Liu Juntang spent 200,000 taels of silver to hire experts from the entire Guyuelou for his father, Jiang Muyan was deeply moved and asked her mother for advice, "For the sake of my father, the Liu family has spent so much money, and my mother thinks we should thank them. ?"

  Ya Zheng said with a smile, "When Liu Juntang's mother enters Beijing next year, how about we invite her to come to Fuzhong by posting more posts?"

  Liu Juntang is not married yet. Last year, because of Liu Xi, the Jiang sisters’ admiration for Liu Juntang caused gossip. If he invites his parents to be guests at home, will it lead to more gossip? However, Liu Juntang's parents, Xu Hui, were looked down upon by the elites of Jingzhao because of their status as merchants. His father was already a servant of the Ministry of War. If he invited the Liu family to be a guest in the mansion, he would be able to give them a boost. After figuring this out, Jiang Muyan nodded and said, "You still think carefully."

Seeing her daughter hesitate for a while, Yazheng knew what she was worried about, and explained to her, "Liu Juntang paid a lot of money to hire someone to protect your father, and you can't hide it, and the fact that he is your father's protégé will soon spread. With this level of teacher-student relationship, after Liu Juntang's parents enter Beijing, it is justifiable for us to invite them to the mansion as guests."

  Jiang Muyan shyly said, "My daughter is stupid, which makes my mother laugh."

  Ya Zheng smiled and said, "If you are stupid, this Kang An will not have a smart girl."

   "You have Liuer." After Jiang Muyan finished speaking, she winked slyly at her mother. She has never been so lively and naughty in front of Ya Zheng, Ya Zheng laughed out loud.

   This is the first time they laughed like this since Jiang Erye was sent to Suzhou. Yazheng held Jiang Muyan's hand and said, "Your father went to Suzhou, and there are only four of us left in the west courtyard. My body will become heavier and heavier every day. Until next summer, everything in the courtyard will be supported by you and Liuer. already."

Jiang Muyan sat up straight and said to herself, "Mother is at ease raising the baby, and the affairs of the West Court and the academy are all left to my daughter, and the Qinxing has Sister Xixia and Brother Wanzhao to take care of them. When they get married, Qinxing can let the second sister help take care of them. "

  Ya Zheng nodded with a smile, and discussed with Jiang Muyan, "Liu'er's nanny is going to Suzhou with your father. Your yard is short of staff, so let your nanny come back to the house?"

   The night that the second master decided to go to Suzhou, Nanny Zhao told Jiang Liu that she was going to Suzhou. Jiang Liu asked her grandmother and mother for instructions. They all felt that Nanny Zhao was the most suitable candidate.

   Among the wives in charge of the house, only Nanny Zhao and Mrs. Liu, who is next to Mrs. Jiang, have taken care of Second Master Jiang. Jiang Erye was frail and sickly when he was a child, and lived in the courtyard of his grandmother, Mrs. Jiang Tai. It was Nanny Zhao and other maids who took care of his food and daily life. Later, Nanny Zhao was sent by Mrs. Jiang to the west courtyard to take care of Jiang Liu.

After the death of Jiang Liu's mother, the Prince, Nanny Zhao became the steward of the West Court. She and Jiang Hou'er took care of Jiang Erye's food and daily life. It was not until Yazheng married into Jiang's residence that Nanny Zhao could concentrate on her work. She takes care of two girls in the West Cross Courtyard.

  After Nanny Zhao left, Jiang Liu and Jiang Muyan only had two personal maids, four maidservants, two second-class maids and a rough envoy left in the courtyard of Jiang Liu and Jiang Muyan, and they needed to send someone to take charge. Jiang Muyan's nanny Wang Xiangzhi, who now lives in Liujiazhuang, is the most suitable candidate, so Yazheng spoke first without waiting for Jiang Muyan to bring it up.

   Jiang Muyan shook her head, "My nanny is outspoken and not suitable for managing affairs. My daughter thinks it's better for Sister Qi to take care of things together. After Sister Xixia gets married, it would be better for her to come into the house to take care of things."

  Xixia has been learning the piano with Yazheng, but after Yazheng married into the Jiang family, she and Wanzhao asked her to take care of the business of the piano shop. Seeing that the two of them fell in love for a long time, Ya Zheng arranged a marriage for them, and the wedding date will be in March next year. Jiang Muyan felt that her mother was pregnant, and it was more suitable for Xixia to work in Jiang's house than her wet nurse.

  Ya Zheng smiled and said, "Xixia has the same temper as your nanny, and she is not suitable for working in the manor."

   How should this be? Jiang Muyan's phoenix eyes turned, and she thought of a more suitable person, "Mother, let Su Ma, who is guarding the house in Yu'er Lane, come over?"

  Madam Su is the servant of the Su family. After Yazheng's parents died suddenly and the Su family fell, she has been loyally following Yazheng's side, serving her food and daily life. But when Yazheng married into the Jiang family, she didn't bring her over, but left her in the old Su family house in Yu'er Lane.

Because, at that time, there were already two stewards, Nanny Zhao and Sister Qi, in the west courtyard. Although Yazheng entered the Jiang family as a long-lived marriage, she was after all Jiang Erye's successor. There were two daughters and maids in Jiang Erye's courtyard. The mother-in-law is all ready, so when Yazheng entered the Jiang family, she only brought two little maids, Yunjuan and Yunshu.

   Now Nanny Zhao is going to go to Suzhou with you, just in time for Su Mammy to serve in the house. No matter what Jiang Muyan thought about it, she felt that Mammy Su was the most suitable candidate, so she did not wait for her mother to speak, and said, "Mother sent someone to deliver a letter to Mammy Su, let her come over today?"

   (end of this chapter)