ebookland Chapter 210 Sophistication
Chapter 210 Sophistication
"It's your mother's girl, not this cousin."
Mrs. Liu sighed.
Which noble lady wouldn't want the chance to study at Wenshan Academy? But there were only ten places, and my father-in-law always favored the Xu family, so the two places that the Shen family got were given to the second branch.
Yunli nodded, thought for a moment and said, "My elder sister will be coming to Beijing in a few days. If my cousin doesn't mind my and my elder sister being so rude, I'd also like to talk to her."
Liu smiled.
She didn't think that peasant girls were vulgar or not. Girls always competed for marriage and husbands, so what was the status before marriage? The favorite concubine of the previous emperor was still a woman selling tofu on the street. Once she entered the palace, who dared to be disrespectful to her?
Since Qingyun and her sister have entered the Shen Mansion, they are destined to marry into powerful families. What's wrong with being polite to them and accepting the favor at this time?
"Your cousin is a gentle person and won't think about these things. Don't worry, Qingyun!"
"In that case, why not have my mother's family's Shu'er come and join in the fun!"
Chang was not a smart person, but she had one biggest advantage, which was that she liked to follow the trend, and she only followed her eldest sister-in-law. She would do whatever her eldest sister-in-law did.
Only Liu was a generous person, otherwise she would have been angry with Chang just because they often wore the same clothes.
Liu thought about the nieces from Chang's family, frowned and said, "Third sister-in-law, you should change someone. Shu'er is a lively person, I'm afraid she is not suitable. Rui'er will be a good choice."
Liu said it in a more tactful way. In fact, Shu'er was a stubborn person. If she quarreled with Qingyun, what would she do if she got beaten?
It would be better to change it to Rui'er's saw-mouthed gourd, who just listens but doesn't talk, wouldn't that be great?
There are four girls together, so there is no need to worry that the atmosphere will become dull if she doesn't speak.
"Rui'er is fine too! It's all the same!" Chang waved her hands. She still remembered who was the protagonist of this incident. She turned around and said to Yunli with a smile, "Qingyun, how about adding Rui'er? More people means more fun!"
Yunli naturally had no objection, "If my cousins are willing, I have no objection."
These are the foundation of her future team! The bigger the better! She has no objection to throwing all her cousins over!
Yunli was so easy to talk to that she immediately made Liu and Chang happy. After accompanying her to select servants, she left in a hurry with a large group of people.
The yard was very quiet, with a dozen slaves standing together, and only the slightest breathing sound could be heard.
Yunli sat at the head of the table. After taking a sip of tea, he stood up, walked over and looked at everyone one by one, then selected three maids and said to Yaoxiang, "I like these three. You can take them as first-class maids. You can handle the rest. You are an old man by my grandmother's side. I trust you to do things."
Yaoxiang glanced at the three of them, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Miss, these three were bought from outside, are they all considered first-class?"
"Yes. Just do as you are told."
Yunli decided without further ado.
Among the dozen girls present, only these three were the ones she had stuffed in a long time ago. If she didn't choose her own people as the first class, would she choose other people's spies to monitor her?
"Since my grandmother's maids have used the word 'Xiang', I will avoid it. The other three should use your word 'Yao'. Yaoxia, Yaoqiu, Yaodong, just pick one."
The three of them looked at each other, then immediately stepped forward and kowtowed, saying, "Thank you, young lady, for the name."
Yunli nodded, and then gave a lecture to the courtyard, "I don't care where you worked before, but there is one thing you must remember. Since you have entered my Lingyun Courtyard, I am your master. Look at my face clearly and don't make the mistake of recognizing me. If there are people who want to betray us, the Shen family will tolerate you, but I will not. Do you understand clearly?"
"Listen clearly!"
The maids held their breath and dared not speak a word.
The fact that the second young lady is not someone you want to mess with has spread among the servants a few days ago. Who, tired of living, would dare to mess with her?
Yunli looked at the effect, nodded with satisfaction, turned around and went back to his room, and began to check the gifts he had received.
Her eldest uncle, father and third uncle each gave her a thick red envelope. When Yunli opened them, she found that each envelope contained 150,000 taels of silver!
I couldn't help but sigh at my father's fighting ability, it's really amazing!
She didn't think that her eldest uncle and third uncle gave her the same amount of silver notes as her father because they loved her.
This can be seen from the thin silver note worth one thousand taels in the red envelope given by my cheap grandfather.
Yunli smiled and collected all the silver and money.
This time, she took away more than four million taels of property from the Shen family. I wonder if they were seriously hurt?
I don’t think so.
When she was in school, the two ancient corrupt officials she remembered most vividly were: one from the Han Dynasty, from whom 3 billion taels of silver were seized, and the other from the famous He in the Qing Dynasty, from whom 800 million taels of silver were seized.
In this era when there are many aristocratic families, as one of the top aristocratic families, she thinks the Shen family's assets should be at least 100 million.
Her four million taels were just a drop in the bucket.
However, she still has to thank this cheap father very much and try to get him to keep up the good work and give her more money.
Thinking of this, Yunli was about to get up and take his people out of the house.
"Girl, we have a family dinner tonight. If you go out now, what if you can't make it back in time? Why don't you wait until tomorrow?"
Haruka quickly stopped her and said earnestly.
If I go out, I have to shower, change clothes and put on makeup when I come back, and it will take two hours to finish everything. Now there are only more than three hours before the dinner, and I have to deduct the time for lunch.
If you can hardly do anything when you go out and have to come back, then what's the point of going out?
"You don't understand." Yunli waved his hand, "You wait in the yard, let Yaoxia go out with me."
As he spoke, he walked out.
Yaoxia agreed and quickly followed him out of the yard. Yaoxia skillfully led her to the second gate, where a carriage was already waiting.
After Yunli got on the carriage, the driver drove the carriage to Kang'anfang without any instructions.
"Miss, are you going to Yunji to buy food?" Yaoxia was a little curious.
"Well. Is there any news about Sister Yu?" Yunli asked while closing his eyes to rest.
"The letter from the higher-ups said that Miss Yu left a secret code in Linzhen."
Near the town?
Yunli thought about the previous discussion with Lou Hanyu.
If she had already appeared in Linzhen, she must have met Xiao Feiyu and led him to the west.