Chapter 154 – Being Used
Next to the Jin Garden, Jiang Yishi parted ways with Meng Er Granny, Meng Ruimo’s steps slowed down, and the two of them went back to the Floating Life Residence together.
Meng Ruimo smiled and asked, “How was it?”
Jiang Yishi smiled, “Very good, better than I thought.”
Entering the east side of the house, a few maids placed the meet-and-greet gifts they received on the kang table.
The brocade box given by the Old Duke was the smallest. Opening the box, inside was a light green bead a little larger than a pigeon egg.
Meng Zhimo said happily, ”This is a night pearl, it was captured by grandfather when he fought the huis twenty years ago. He didn’t want to give it to anyone, but he gave it to you. You can see how much Grandfather favors you.”
It was the first time Jiang Yishi saw the night pearl, and this bead was still her own. She held the green beads on her brow with joy and laughed, “Sending me is not sending you.”
The two looked at it for a while before putting it in the brocade box. In his previous life, the old master sent a jade ornament, in this life, the first to get along with the feelings, the old man even more valued her.
The old lady sent is a pearl embedded treasure red gold phoenix head hairpin, phoenix head of a person’s palm size, at a glance it is worth a lot. In her previous life, she sent a hundred taels of silver.
The old lady is not like Cheng Guogong, the heart is still positive. In her previous life, she didn’t like her because she was hard on Meng Ruyu, but in this life, as another granddaughter-in-law, she still likes her.
The one that Duke Cheng sent was a small amber pendant.
Fu sent the largest box, is a set of red gold embedded treasure head, there are ten pieces. Looking at more, in fact, not as valuable as a hairpin sent by the old lady.
Jiang Yishi saw Meng Zhimo sinking, laughed and said, “I won’t wear it, I’ll send it to someone later.” And added, “Send people who hate it.”
The second master also sent a pendant, and the second wife sent two strings of jade.
Collecting the gifts, Jiang Yishi went to bed. She hadn’t slept well last night and needed to make up for her sleep.
Meng Zhimo didn’t have the habit of resting in the middle of the day and leaned over the bed to read a book. When Jiang Yishi fell asleep, he put down the book and looked at her.
Jiang Yishi woke up and was confronted with two big, dark eyes.
She laughed in a small voice and said, “Have you seen enough.”
Meng Zhimo leaned over and kissed her small mouth, muttering, “Of course I haven’t seen enough.”
The two made out a bit before Jiang Yishi got up. Shui Xiang came in and freshened her up, and she went to the hall room alone, asking Lin Xiang to recruit all of Floating Life Pavilion’s subordinates.
In addition to Linxiang and Linmei, Floating Life Pavilion also had four small maids who were responsible for guarding the door and sweeping, two roughnecks, and two maids who managed the flowers and plants in Floating Life Pavilion and the Brocade Garden.
Sister Wang, who managed the flowers and plants in Mengjiazhuang, was actually transferred here; her man was Mengjiazhuang’s head of the estate, Dabo Wang, and Jiang Yishi had a very good impression of the couple.
Previously, there was also a stewardship Sister sent here, who was sent away by Meng Zhimo on an excuse.
Jiang Yishi also adjusted the staff of the Floating Life Pavilion. Sister Wu was the Floating Life Pavilion’s Stewardship Sister, Lin Xiang and Shui Xiang were the eldest maids, and Lin Mei, Shui Ling, and Shui Qing were the second-class maids. Because there were many flowers and plants in the Floating Life Garden and the Brocade Garden, the old master specially gave Sister Wang a Flower and Plant Steward.
Sister Wu’s monthly silver was two taels, Lin Xiang and Shuixiang, Sister Wang was one silver and five hundred Wen Daqian, the second grade maids were one silver, the coarse maids were eight hundred Wen Daqian, and the little maids were five hundred Wen Daqian. In addition, the clothing and jewelry varied.
Compared to the treatment of the Jiang Mansion, it was several grades higher, making Sister Wu and several maids very happy.
Jiang Yishi’s treatment is even higher, the monthly silver is twenty taels, there are six sets of clothes and shoes per season, jewelry.
The subordinates kowtowed to Jiang Yishi, Shui Xiang several people took out the pre-prepared purse to reward them.
Jiang Yishi had already whispered to Hua Hua to quietly pay attention to the other few subordinates of the Meng Mansion besides Lin Xiang and Sister Wang. First, they had to make sure that there were no spies around them before they could more effectively combat their enemies.
It was already the end of shenzhen time after handling the affairs, Jiang Yishi went to Fu An Hall together with Meng Ruimo and Shui Ling who was holding Hua Hua.
Other than Meng Ruyue and Meng Ruyan who lived in the outer courtyard, everyone else had arrived.
Meng Hua laughed innocently, “Big brother came to Fu An Hall twice today na, in the future, grandmother won’t have to think about her eldest grandson every day.”
These words put to death.
Meng Zhimo was already short on words, and even more so, he didn’t want to take care of this little ninny, and sank his face without a word.
Jiang Yishi was unaware of this, and smiled as she greeted her elders with a salute.
She was the eldest sister-in-law, sitting at the bottom of the second wife. Although Meng Yue was older than her, she sat at the bottom of Meng Frost’s chair because she was the aunt who had come home from He Li, and Huang Xin sat at the very end.
Fu smiled at Jiang Yishi and said, “I heard Yue’er say that the foreign affairs room has already prepared the gifts for your return tomorrow, just have the maid go get them when you leave.”
Jiang Yishi got up and thanked Fu, and then thanked Meng Yue.
Meng Zhimo had told her before that at the end of last year, Fu Clan had offered to let Meng Yue temporarily help manage the center feed.
There were three reasons for this. First, Meng Yue is still so young, if she meets the right person in the future, she will still have to marry again, and deal with people more often to teach her to learn how to read people, so that she will not be at a disadvantage when she marries into her in-laws’ family. Secondly, if you don’t want to marry, you should bring your daughter with you for the rest of your life, and learn to manage your own estate. Third, also give her to find some things to do, not let her every day to indulge in the pain of the past.
It was also stated that when Jiang Yishi married into the family, Meng Yue would hand over the power to her.
This proposal was immediately agreed to by Old Mrs. Meng, who also said that Fu’s thinking was thoughtful, and that Meng Yue, who was not familiar with common affairs, should be allowed to learn more.
Jiang Yishi is the daughter-in-law of the son of the world, that is, the grandmother of the house, and should assist her mother-in-law to preside over the central feeds after marrying into the family. However, the eldest aunt who has returned home has already assisted the eldest lady in managing the household, so if Jiang Yishi takes over the power from Meng Yue as a matter of course, she will be crowding out the eldest aunt who has returned home.
Therefore, even if Meng Yue took the initiative to hand over the power, Jiang Yishi did not dare to take it. If she did, it would probably be rumored that as soon as she married into her in-laws, she was eager to “grab power” and bully her poor sister-in-law. If Meng Yue is instigated to move out of the house, Jiang Yishi will be even more guilty.
Jiang Yishi doesn’t want to be in charge of the house right now, she has more important things to do. It was only that Meng Yue was being used by Fu to fight Jiang Yishi, making Meng Zhimo’s heart very angry and sad. The problem was that Meng Yue didn’t even realize that she was being used.
Fu was so that no matter how Jiang Yishi responded she had the upper hand. Jiang Yishi taking over for Meng Yue was just the right way to use this to hit Jiang Yishi and provoke the relationship between them. If Jiang Yishi doesn’t take over, it’s not as if she, the stepmother, won’t allow her stepdaughter-in-law to run the house. Fu’s can be in full charge of this house, more convenient to clean up Meng Ruimo and his wife, the large family business into the hands of his own son in good condition …….
Meng Yue also knows that this house should be managed by Mrs. Shizi. She laughed and said, “If my sister-in-law marries in, I don’t need to help my mother manage the household affairs, so I’ll leave it to my sister-in-law.”
Jiang Yishi was busy smiling, “I just married in, I’m not familiar with this place. Big sister just think of it as hurting me more and working hard for some more days.”
Her heart and liver were aching. Knowing full well that Fu was unwilling to let her run the house, she still had to push back.