Wear It with Space

Shen Ling made up his mind and called Pearl, who was in charge of her small warehouse, "I remember that there were still a few spring silks in the camphor box. Take them out and make clothes for each of you. Don't take it in vain. It's moldy."

The Shen family was born in the Zhongshun Hou Mansion, and the Zhongshun Hou Mansion was also going downhill like the Xin Guo Gong Mansion. Half of the Shen's dowry was purchased by Mrs. Hou herself. Even so, Shen's dowry is only seven or eight thousand taels of silver, half of which is the sufficient amount of cloth, jade, and antiques from the public.

Shen himself had only two thousand taels of silver in the bottom of the box, and the only field that could produce money did not yield one thousand taels a year. With no money in his hands, and the Guogong Mansion was a bit unable to make ends meet, the Shen family was extremely frugal with the subordinates in the mansion.

Like the four big maids around Shen Ling, they only make a single dress in one season, and the rest are wearing Shen Ling's old clothes.

Therefore, as soon as Shen Ling said that he would make new clothes for the four of them, Pearl couldn't help but smile, and after a while they brought two pieces of spring silk back.

Shen Ling watched them chat about what style of clothes they were going to talk about, couldn't help but smile, and looked down at the account book in hand.

She ordered someone to go to the ledgers to get the ledger after lunch, and I remember that it was all expenses in the Guogong's mansion. Shen Ling intends to follow the example of Tanchun to rectify the mansion, so as to increase income and reduce expenditure.

There are only two incomes in the mansion, one is farmland, which has an annual income of 5,000 taels, and the other is a shop, which also has an annual income of 3,000 taels. In this way, there are almost eight thousand taels of profit in the mansion every year, which is not too small.

But the cost has gone too much. The first item, the annual human exchanges plus the consumption of the New Year wine during the first month is no less than three thousand taels of silver. Then the cost of the mansion and the monthly bills of the servants are a large amount of money, less than four thousand taels of silver. In addition, from time to time, some poor relatives come to catch the autumn breeze, and people in the house occasionally have a cold and ask the doctor to take medicine. In this way, the amount of 8,000 taels of silver per year is not enough.

Shen also followed Mrs. Hou to manage the house. After she got married, she found that the mansion was not able to make ends meet, so Mrs. Xuehou cut the monthly bills of everyone in the mansion by half, and later took some big guys who were not needed in the treasury of the mansion. A thousand taels of silver, finally lasted for so many years.

Later, the grandfather aunt Naji came in, set up a table and made clothes, and spent another sum of money. Now there are only more than four thousand taels of silver left on the account. According to the previous year's expenses, this money wants to last until the end of the year. is not enough.

There is no need to think about open source for the time being. The private money in the hands of the Shen family is just so much. If he rushes to buy land or shops, he will definitely arouse suspicion from the Zhongshun Hou Mansion.

It seems that all I can do is throttling.

The silver of human relations and the invitation of the New Year wine cannot be streamlined. This is related to the facade of the Guogong Mansion. People's monthly bills cannot be reduced anymore. It seems that the only thing that can be reduced is the cost of the house.

In the evening, Lord Guo came back from outside, and the people below came to report that Ji Niang was sick. The grandfather of the country came to Qingfang Garden where Aunt Ji lived, and it was time for the women to bring Aunt Ji’s dinner. Simple three dishes, one soup, and a bowl of white rice.

The grandfather of the country immediately sank, and ordered the kitchen to cook a bowl of bird's nest porridge and a few dishes of delicate dishes for the sick Aunt Ji. Aunt Ji's other maid went to the kitchen to spread the word with smoke, but was touched ashamed.

It turned out that after Shen Ling called the steward of the kitchen in the afternoon to find out, the effect was that the mansion is now struggling to make ends meet. Not only will people halve their monthly bills, but the masters will also reduce their expenses. In the future, the regular dishes per person will be reduced to half of the original, and the amount allocated to the kitchen will also be reduced to half. If the masters want to eat something extra good in the future, they can, but they have to pay for it themselves.

Hearing the narrative of Hanyan, the grandfather of the country felt like water, and the sister-in-law Ji was crying by her side, and finally the grandfather of the country went directly to the room to ask Shen Ling for guilt.

Shen Ling was looking at the pamphlet presented by the warehouse under the light, to see if he could find some big items that he didn't need so that he could exchange for money, then the grandfather of the country walked in angrily.

Shen Ling knew who had put the eye drops on herself without asking, Huan Lian'er stepped forward to pour tea with her face unchanged. In the afternoon, Lian'er was called alone by her to say a few words and admired a few pieces of jewellery. She already understood what Shen Ling meant. At this time, I saw Shen Ling calling her, lowering her head and holding a cup of tea to Lord Guo, but when he handed the tea to him, Jiao Didi said, "Master Guo is drinking tea."

The grandfather of the country could not help but lose half of his anger when he heard this charming voice. Looking at Lian'er wearing a few 80% new clothes and two beaded hairpins on her head, she looked more charming and charming under the light. Twisted the opponent's jade hand lightly.

Lian'er gave him a blushing face, and the grandfather of the country just took the tea, coughing lightly and was about to speak.

Unexpectedly, Shen Ling, who saw all this in his eyes, snatched it in his head and said: "Chen Cai’s family came back a few days ago and said that he showed Lian'er a good marriage. But I was reluctant to leave Lian'er so early, so I told him The words were mixed."

"Lian'er is a powerful maid by your side. It is good to stay for a few more years," Grandpa Guo answered.

Shen Ling smiled and said: "So I just wanted to lift Lian'er as my aunt, to save you from remembering, and secondly, I also have multiple arms."

Unexpectedly, Grandpa Guo could say such a thing, and looked at her in surprise.

Shen Ling sighed and said: "I know that I was a bit intolerant and jealous. But then I thought, there is only one child like Peizhi in the mansion now. If I can't have children in the future, wouldn't he even be a helper brother? No. Therefore, in the future, I will not mention what I said before. It is better to add a few more people to the mansion.

For this plan, I called the steward of the kitchen this afternoon and cut the master's expenses by half. So that in the future, the population will increase and the expenditure will be high, and the government will not be able to sustain it. Besides, Peizhi is about to be three years old, and asking her husband to give lectures is another big expense. "

Hearing Shen Ling's remarks, Lord Guo's anger completely dissipated, and his desire to be the master of Aunt Ji was thrown away in a blink of an eye.

Aunt Ji waited for more than half an hour in Qingfangyuan. Not only did she not wait for a delicious meal, she didn't even wait for the grandfather of the country to come back. She ordered the maid to go out to inquire, but Han Cui, who went out to inquire about the news, came back and said that a maid at Shangfang had been raised as an aunt and was placed in Tingyuexuan near Shangfang. The grandfather of the country has already rested there.

Hearing this news, Auntie Ji couldn't help but slumped, and deliberately wanted to send a maid to invite Grandpa Guo to come over, but when the maid entered Ting Yuexuan's door, she was beaten out by the lady Zhang who was guarding the door. The wife has given orders, and the people from Aunt Ji will dare to come over and ask the grandfather of the country again, and they will not miss it.

Not to mention that after Lian'er was mentioned as Aunt Lian, he immediately asked the grandfather to throw Aunt Ji aside, only that Shen Ling had read the storeroom's booklet for a few days, and finally picked out a few large items from it. After changing some money, a woman was sent from the Zhongshun Hou Mansion, saying that Mrs. Hou would hold a flower viewing banquet in the mansion next month, and asked her to bring her two children to the banquet.

Shen Ling's mood immediately became a little bad. She managed to make a fortune, and she met Mrs. Shanghou to hold a banquet. At the banquet, always bring some gifts over! You have to make up your clothes when you go out. If you meet a child from a relative's house, you should always prepare some for the meet-up gift!

If it weren't for her many valuable objects and some silver ingots in her space, I'm afraid she would have a headache now. However, no matter how many valuable objects are in the space, Shen Ling can't exchange them for silver. First, it is difficult to explain the source of these things. Second, she is not worried about giving those valuable objects to others to exchange for money, but if she does it herself There is also a lack of dignity.

After thinking about it, Shen Ling could only secretly take out some gold ingots to supplement Shen's private house. Fortunately, Shen takes money very seriously, and keeps all the precious jewelry and silver money by himself. No one knew how many private rooms the four big maids had for her. Even if she took out these gold ingots, no one suspected it.

When Shen Ling was bothering to bring the things in the space to the bright surface, Pearl came over and said that lunch was available, and asked her if she wanted to put it on. Shen Ling nodded, feeling that instead of thinking hard, it is better to wait for the meal and then discuss it for a long time. Maybe if you are full, your brain will become more active.

On the Shangfang side, according to the old rules, there should be eight hot dishes, four appetizers, and two soups. However, under Shen Ling's simplification, it was changed to six dishes and one soup, and the two children, Peizhi and Yuru, were called to eat together, so that there was no need to prepare their meals in the kitchen.

Shen Ling feels that having a meal with the children can increase the relationship on the one hand, and save money on the other hand. For example, after three people have eaten together for so many days, Shen Ling knows exactly what the two children like to eat and what they don't like to eat.

After the wives had finished their meal, the maids took away the dishes and gave Shen Ling a cup of tea, while the two children had a cup of white water.

Shen Ling was not in a hurry to drink tea, but asked how many steps the two children took this morning. The two children were being pampered too much. Shen Ling felt that this was not only bad for their health, but also extremely bad for their character growth in the future, so they asked them to take a few more steps in the garden every morning.

In the afternoon, Shen Ling stopped doing housework, but made time to teach Peizhi to read. As for her younger sister, Yuru, she was accompanied by the maid and the nanny to play next to her.

After half an hour, Shen Ling handed Peizhi two pieces of paper, and asked him to write down the words he recognized today and ignore him. He took Yuru from the nurse and held her to talk to her.

The nanny jokingly said: "The eldest girl got up this morning and learned two new words. She deserves to be a lady from the Guogong Mansion, she is smarter and smarter than the average child."

Shen Ling smiled, teased her daughter for a while, and saw Shuang'er come over and said that the people from Silk Village were coming. The people in the silk and satin village were called by Shen Ling to choose the fabrics for the clothes. Shen Ling spent a long time picking up the lotus, turquoise, and jade colored fabrics, and later asked Auntie Lian to come and choose two.

At night, when Shen Ling was removing his makeup, he saw Lord Guo coming in. Shen Ling looked at him as if he wanted to rest here, and smiled embarrassedly: "I can’t keep you here for the night anymore. I have some Not comfortable."

Grandpa Guo said, "I heard from the people below, today you asked the people from Silk and Satin Village to come over and pick a few colored fabrics."

Shen Ling knew what he was coming for, took off a pair of pearl pendants from her ears, and said lightly: "My mother is going to have a banquet next month. I can't always wear old clothes, so I asked someone to come and pick a few colors of fabric. Because I didn’t go to the public school, I paid my own money, so I only called Auntie Lian to pick up some silks. She went out by my side anyway, not to mention that she was compared with Aunt Ji, but she couldn’t have a few decent ones. Clothes."

The grandfather of the country stopped speaking. After Aunt Ji entered the door, he specially allocated two hundred taels of silver from the public office to make clothes for her.

"By the way, I want to discuss something with you. Pei Zhi is now following me to read and write, and I am going to find him a private school. Which one do you think is better outside? "

Shen Ling always likes to turn the topic to the aspect that is beneficial to him because of the problems left by the salon held in Shen Ling's previous life. After she said this, she saw the grandfather of the country lowered her head and thought, "I can't say this, but I can ask about it slowly."

The husband and wife said some more gossip, and the grandfather left. Shen Ling removed the hairpin and went to sleep on the big bed.