Old Madam Wen was shocked by the girl's contemptuous tone.
"How dare you!" She pointed at Yingbao with shaking fingers, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Madam Wen had lived a life of luxury all her life and had never been treated like this.
What's more, the one who ridiculed her was a girl in her teens.
"She is indeed a country girl who is not presentable. She has no manners at all." Mrs. Lin quickly comforted her mother-in-law and angrily scolded Ying Bao: "Why don't you kneel down and admit your mistake!"
Yingbao ignored them and just pulled her mother away.
Her own tutor was just for people with similar tutoring, like Old Madam Wen, who dared to bully her mother on her own turf. She didn't want to give them any face at all.
So what if she is Sister Wen’s grandmother
Her own parents and brother are her Achilles' heel. Anyone who dares to touch them will be made to lose face.
In her past and present lives, Yingbao considers herself not a person who strictly observes etiquette. She only knows that if someone respects me one foot, I will return her ten feet.
Education and other things are also mutual.
People have stepped you into the mud. Even if you observe etiquette perfectly, you are just a toad in the mud, pleasing others but disgusting yourself.
Chunniang was also very angry.
She didn't expect that people as kind as Madam Wen and Mr. Wen Silang would have such an elder.
Not only is he arrogant, but he also asks to buy his own daughter. Why is she still not happy
He comes from a wealthy family, but he is such a person. Ugh!
"Baoer, I want to go to your cave." Chun Niang said angrily.
Yingbao was puzzled, but still took A Niang into the cave.
Chunniang went to count her daughter's silver first. There were four large boxes of silver ingots, each containing one thousand taels.
When she counted the private property she and her husband had, there were more than two thousand taels.
With such a small fortune as hers, that old lady Wen actually wanted to ridiculously buy her daughter for one hundred taels of silver.
Chunniang counted twice, and her anger subsided and she felt relieved.
After leaving the cave, she went to buy two slabs of pork the next day, made sausages, tied up pig's trotters, braised pork ribs, and made some elbow livers.
The so-called elbow liver is made by wrapping the cleaned pig small intestine around the pig liver, cooking it with spices, and then hanging it up to dry in the wind.
During the Chinese New Year, cook it with pork head, sausage, pork ribs, etc. and it becomes a delicious dish.
Yingbao also wanted to help A Niang, but Chun Niang wouldn't let her.
"You just need to watch from the sidelines. When you get married, you can hire a few more servants and maids to do the work, just like Lady Wang's family."
My daughter will definitely become a noble lady like Madam Wang and Madam Wen in the future. Then she won't have to do it herself when she wants to order servants around.
So Chunniang didn't want her daughter to do these rough work.
It's so difficult to clean the large intestine, small intestine, stomach, lungs, etc. My daughter is too young to learn it.
Yingbao had no choice but to give up and stood aside and watched for a while, then saw Granny Tang walk into the yard.
Tang was wearing a blue cotton skirt with silk trim and embroidered longevity flowers.
Ying Bao bowed to her: "Granny Tang."
Tang smiled and patted her on the shoulder, saying, "It's a good thing you're here. Try the chicken head rice and pine nuts that grandma fried."
As he said this, he handed the small bamboo basket in his arms to Yingbao.
Chicken head rice is also called water chestnut, and it tastes especially delicious when fried.
The shell is extremely hard, comparable to pine nuts.
Yingbao thanked him and took the bamboo basket.
Granny Tang often sent gifts over, and in return, Yingbao would also give her some pills.
So Grandma Tang seemed to be getting younger and younger. She went to the North Mountain with the other daughters-in-law in the village to pick pine cones and go to the river to catch water chestnuts and water caltrops.
Seeing Granny Tang talking to A Niang, Yingbao went back to the house, poured out the rice and pine nuts, and put some apples and tangerines in a bamboo basket.
These fruits are grown in her orchard, but most of them have been sold. The ones she eats at home are all produced in the cave.
Then he poured another cup of tea and handed it to Grandma Tang who was sitting in the kitchen.
Granny Tang glanced at Yingbao and said to Chunniang with a smile, "Yingbao has grown up in the blink of an eye. Who knows, a matchmaker may come to your house soon."
Chunniang rubbed the intestines with wood ash and said with a smile: "Bao'er is still young, not even twelve years old. It will be her turn after Erni gets married."
Granny Tang took a sip of tea and asked quietly, "Why hasn't your Erni gotten engaged yet?"
Chunniang: "I guess Erni doesn't want to get married early and wants to stay in her parents' home for a few more years."
Now that the Jiang family has no worries about food and clothing, they are much more tolerant about their children's marriages.
Of course, it’s also because they are confident that they don’t worry about their children not being able to find a good family.
"Well, we can't just leave the child alone." Granny Tang said, "Er Ni is already sixteen, right? If she doesn't get engaged, the good families will be picked up by others."
Chunniang sighed: "We can't make the decision on this matter. Her grandmother did say it several times, but Erni just wouldn't agree."
Second sister-in-law Yan Ru is stepmother, so it is not easy for her to make decisions for Er Ni, otherwise people will accuse her of forcing her stepdaughter to get married.
Jiang Erlang is a slow-tempered person who is never in a hurry. Seeing that his daughter doesn't want to get engaged, he lets her do as she pleases.
Granny Tang shook her head and added, "However, there are a few people in the village who are about the same age as Erni, and none of them mentioned their in-laws."
Chunniang looked up and asked, "Who else?"
"They are the two daughters of Chen Changping. The elder one will be sixteen this New Year, and the younger one is two years younger than her elder sister." Granny Tang said, "Mrs. Chen Feng doesn't like country boys, so she wants to find a man from the city for the two sisters."
Chun Niang: "No wonder, people go to higher places and water flows to lower places. It is reasonable for her to want to find a good family for her granddaughter."
"You only know one side of the story." Granny Tang said mysteriously, "I heard from people that the old man wants to give his eldest granddaughter to an official in the county as a concubine."
Chunniang opened her eyes wide: "What? Become a concubine? Doesn't this ruin the girl?"
Chen Changping was already a scholar, so his daughter would never marry a bad man. If she didn't marry a good wife, she would become a concubine and the children she gave birth to would be inferior to others.
"That's right." Granny Tang said, "My wife has already gone to talk to them once, but it seems like she didn't listen."
Chunniang shook her head: "I think the girl from the Chen family is weak-willed. If she becomes someone's concubine, she will be tortured for the rest of her life."
Granny Tang took a sip of tea and said, "If she was a strong person, she wouldn't agree to this. But that child is like noodles. I think she must have been manipulated by her grandparents and father."
The two talked for a while, then Granny Tang said goodbye and went home with the bamboo basket of fruit that Yingbao had given her.
Chunniang quickly called her daughter over and told her what Granny Tang had said. Finally, she said, "Why don't you go ask Chen Zhao what's going on? Being someone's concubine is no joke."
Chen Changping's family is not starving. His two little daughters have opened a food shop in the market, and their business is pretty good. No matter how you look at it, it is wrong to send his daughters into trouble.
Once you become a concubine, you can't go back to your parents' home anymore, as your life and death will be controlled by your mistress.
If you meet a jealous and cruel mistress, it is possible that two lives will be lost.
Even if you are favored, it won't change anything. It's just a few more kind words from men.
Yingbao knew that this must be a trick of Chen Changping.
In his eyes, his daughter is like a commodity that can be sold at any time as long as there is a profit.