There is Room For the Poor Daughter - Chapter 52

[Chapter 52, The Importance of Her Maternal Family]

of Maternal Family Mrs. Li and Yan Zhigao returned to the way they used to respect each other as guests, but the atmosphere between the two made Daohua feel a little weird.

Her mother doesn’t seem to be as thoughtful and meticulous as she was to cheap dad when she first came here.

As for the cheap father, he often looks at her mother from time to time, and sometimes he hesitates to say something, which is very weird.

“Could it be that cheap father finally found out that her mother is good and changed his mind?”

“What are you mumbling about?”

Mrs. Li tapped Daohua’s forehead.

Daohua immediately shook her head: “It’s nothing.” After finishing speaking, she immediately lowered her head, flipped through the ledger with one hand, and cracked her abacus with the other hand, slipping extremely fast.

During this period of time, seeing Mrs. Li’s eyes turned red from checking the account books, she felt that as a daughter, she should help share some of the burden, so she recommended herself to Mrs. Li.

There are many things to do during the year, and Mrs. Li doesn’t have time to teach her daughter to read, keep and settle accounts, but she knows that this is her daughter’s filial piety, and she can’t bear to live up to it. She also thinks that her daughter is now 9 years old, and it’s time to learn some things about housekeeping.

So, Mrs. Li took some time out of her busy schedule to teach Daohua how to read the ledger.

Compared with the wealthy family, Mrs. Li’s dowry was nothing, but it was absolutely rich for the Yan family who came from a poor family.

Although these years, the family’s expenses and the money for Yan Zhigao have been used a lot, Mrs. Li, who has always been able to increase income and reduce expenditure, has gradually added some family resources.

Therefore, at the end of every year, you have to look at the ledger of Yitui.

Mrs. Li looked at her eccentric daughter with a smile, and asked softly: “If you think there is any problem in the account book, write it down first, and I will explain it to you when mother comes back.”

Daohuatou He didn’t raise it either: “Got it, got it, mother, you can go and do other things, and you can rest assured to leave the account book to me.”

Mrs. Li smiled silently, stared at her daughter who was serious about settling accounts for a while, and then quietly left the room and went to the next door.

“Ma’am, this is the list of annual gifts sent by some people in recent years.”

At the end of each year, the exchange of annual gifts is a very important thing, which is related to the maintenance of the friendship between the families.

In previous years, Mrs. Li had to check the account books for one year and prepare the annual gifts for each family, so she was often top-heavy.

This year, she did not expect that she would enjoy the blessing of her daughter.

Teaching her daughter to read the accounts, she was ready to stay up late at night, but who would have thought that she just gave her daughter a rough guide, and the daughter directly took over the accounts.

She has checked that every expenditure in the account book has been calculated by her daughter, and her daughter has also carefully changed the accounting method to make the account book look more clear at a glance.

This gave her a new understanding of her daughter’s intelligence.

“This year is probably the most relaxing year for Madam Li.”

Seeing that Madam Li was always smiling, Ping Tong joked aside.

Ping Xiao took over the words: “Isn’t it? Ever since the eldest girl came, Madam’s smile has not stopped every day. The servant girl looked at her, and Madam’s complexion is much better than before.”

Ping Tong also laughed and said: “The old lady said Yes, the eldest girl is a lucky star, she used to be an old lady Wang in her hometown, but now she has come to the county government, and she has become Mrs. Wang again.”

Mrs. Li also felt the same in her heart.

She knew how poor the old lady was in health, but now, some people who are younger than the old lady are probably not as healthy as her old lady.

I don’t know if it’s her illusion, she also feels that her skin has gotten better during this time.

“Okay, you two are not allowed to praise that girl anymore, and you can’t say anything like a lucky star.”

Fame is very important to women, but it is too big, but it is not necessarily a good thing.

Some women are so famous that they attract some snakes, ghosts and bulls, and finally end up as beautiful girls.

Her Daohua only needs to be safe and happy all her life, and she doesn’t need to use her illusory reputation to attract the attention of outsiders.

Ping Tong and Ping Xiao saw that Mrs. Li didn’t want to say more, so they honestly began to help organize the annual gift list.

“There is still no New Year’s gift from the capital this year?”

After reading all the gift lists, Mrs. Li sighed.

The natal family is not tough, and the young girl’s life in her in-law’s house may be very difficult, and she can’t even send the annual gift to her natal family.

Ping Tong: “Madam, are we still going to the capital to send New Year’s gifts?”

Mrs. Li nodded: “Send, of course we will. Even if we send something that the Yang family doesn’t like, we have to let them know that my sister-in-law is worth it. ” It’s from my natal family.”

Mrs. Li thought about it, and added 10% to the annual gift to the capital.

Ping Tong saw Mrs. Li adding something to the gift list of the Yang family, thought for a while, and couldn’t help but said: “Madam, in this way, the family may be in a little bit of trouble in the coming year.”

Mrs. Li did not stop writing: “Can the family help you?” There are not many sister-in-laws, and the annual ceremony is more beautiful, so she can have a better life in her husband’s house.”

She has a deep understanding of the suffering of the married woman Gao.

She herself is a high-married woman!

In Yan’s family, everyone seems to respect her, but she knows very well that most of them are looking at her for the dowry she brought and her natal family being fairly wealthy.

Even the old lady, when she agreed to her marriage with the master, she also valued this point.

The natal family is really important to a married woman.

Her life is good, she has two older brothers who love her dearly, even though the Li family is not as tall as the Yan family, the gifts that the Li family sends every year during the festival can make her stand upright in the Yan family.

After that, Mrs. Li was carefully sorting out the New Year’s gifts from each family, and then sent back the corresponding New Year’s gifts.

Here, Daohua finished calculating a book, stood up and stretched.

The ancient ledgers were really ugly, and it made her eyes hurt and swell when she looked at them.

She needs to rest.

She suffered from myopia in ancient times, but she didn’t have glasses to wear.

Daohua walked in front of the window to watch the cold orchid she specially gave to Mrs. Li to relieve eye fatigue.

The Hanlan was found in the mountains of her hometown, and she has been keeping it in the space since then. At this moment, it is blooming verdantly.

At this moment, Ping Xiao walked in, holding a bowl of freshly boiled milk in his hand.

“Girl, Ma’am specially asked someone to cook milk for you. Come and drink it.”

Daohua walked to the table and sat down, took a sip of the milk, “Sister Pingxiao, where is the pot of red plums I gave mother?” Didn’t it show up?”

Ping Xiao said with a smile: “Master is resting in his wife’s room these days, seeing that Hongmei looks good, he said that he wants to show it to everyone in the front office.”

Daohua curled her lips: “ Father is kind enough to take it.”

In order to see the red plum blossoms earlier, she planted the red plums in the black soil in the space for half a month, so that the red plums not only bloom well, but also have a pleasant fragrance.

In this cold weather, smelling the faint fragrance of plum blossoms, one should be refreshed.

Her mother has been so busy and tired during this period, and her energy level is lacking at first glance, but it is good for the cheap father to take Hongmei away.

Daohua: “Father will take annual leave in a few days, right?”

Ping Xiao nodded: “Master will start to rest on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month.”

Daohua: “Help me remember, when the time comes I have to find my father Hongmei wants to come back.”

Ping Xiao looked at the big girl who was mean to the master, and secretly smiled.

Although the master valued his wife in the past, he was often angry because of Aunt Lin.

It’s all right now, the eldest girl is here, thinking of the previous scene where the eldest girl stood up for his wife, Ping Xiao couldn’t help admiring it.

At the same time, Yang Mansion in the capital.

Watching her mother-in-law and three sister-in-laws laughing and talking about how to bring back the New Year gift to their natal families, Yan Siyu tightly pursed her lips, and firmly held her hands hidden under the long sleeves, letting her nails dig into her flesh.

At the end of each year, such a scene will come once.

Her husband’s family looked down on her mother’s family, she knew it, and she was prepared. But she never expected that the Yang family could go so far, that they would not even prepare an annual gift for the Yan family.

Although the eldest brother has served as the county magistrate for 9 years, this does not mean that he has no possibility of promotion.

The Yang family treats the Yan family so indifferently!

If she hadn’t been thinking about her two children, she really wanted to escape from the Yang family.

Mrs. Yang glanced at her young daughter-in-law who had a gloomy face, and snorted coldly in her heart.

She knew that the youngest daughter-in-law was still dreaming of her eldest brother’s promotion, but unfortunately, this dream was about to be shattered.

If they didn’t know that Yan Zhigao had no chance of promotion, how could they have gone so far?

At the beginning, the reason why she agreed with her younger son to take Yan Siyu from a poor family was because she valued his elder brother’s future?

Unexpectedly, this Yan Zhigao was arrogant and did not know how to be an official. He offended a nobleman he could not offend when he first entered the officialdom.

If it weren’t for the fact that he was really capable of doing something practical, he wouldn’t even be a county magistrate.

Now even if he is a county magistrate, he will only be sent to a backward and remote county to work as a cow and a horse to add political achievements to those above him.

Such a person is doomed for life, and she can keep her youngest daughter-in-law for the sake of her two grandchildren.

(end of this chapter)