Chapter 176
"Madam, I have no experience in housekeeping. I wonder when is it too early to learn to use talents?"
Lin Yunwan looked confused, as if she was just curious.
Mrs. Zheng pinched the handkerchief and did not reply immediately.
As her aunt, she could arrange this kind of thing however she wanted, but she felt guilty and could not think of refuting it. She pursed her lips and said, "...step by step. There is no way to achieve success in one step in managing a family."
Lin Yunwan smiled faintly and stopped asking further questions.
Mother Wen sat next to her, rolling her eyes... Mrs. Zheng didn't love her stepdaughter at all, and even said she would give her a generous dowry to marry her off. Will Mrs. Zheng really do what she promised?
She looked at her son again, not looking at Lin Yunwan at all. He was really... so cowardly!
“Bunkai.”
"Ah... mother? You called me?"
Wenhai stood up and lowered his head.
Mother Wen twitched her lips, her son was good at everything, but he was too unmanly!
She had to help her son and said: "The snacks on your table were given to you by your aunt, but how can you eat alone? Why don't you give it to your sister to try too?"
This is a snack from the Lin family. How can any young lady from the Lin family not taste it?
Wen Hai couldn't think of rejecting his mother, so he stood up with the snacks, but he didn't know which sister to give them to first.
Fan's mother came in and leaned forward to report: "Madam, the gold and silver shopkeeper is here to deliver the account books."
These are things that Fan's mother has done for a long time. Mrs. Zheng has never worried about them. She just needs to know and do random checks occasionally.
"You go collect it for me."
"yes."
Lin Yunwan took the opportunity to stand up and said, "Madam, I'll go with Fan's mother to see how she collects the account books."
I just said that I would teach my stepdaughter to be a housekeeper, so the opportunity has come.
Zheng couldn't stop her, "Go ahead!"
Lin Yunwan and Fan's mother left together.
Wen Hai held the snacks and had no choice. He brought them to Lin Yunjiao and whispered: "...Cousin, have some snacks."
"whispering sound."
Lin Yunjiao refused to answer the call, and did not allow the maid to pick it up.
Wen Hai blushed with embarrassment and thought silently, good men don't fight with women.
He placed the snacks in front of Lin Yunjiao and sat back, feeling very embarrassed.
Mrs. Zheng got annoyed when she saw him and sent away Wen Mu and Lin Yunjiao. Fan's mother also came back and asked her: "How is the eldest lady learning about collecting debts?"
Fan's mother paused and then said: "The eldest lady just sat there and listened, and didn't ask the slave anything. I don't know if she understood."
"Of course I didn't understand!"
"If I could just sit there and know how to read the account books, my ten or twenty years of housekeeping skills would have been in vain!"
Fan's mother agreed: "What Madam said makes sense."
Zheng thought of Wen Hai, frowned and said, "What a loser! I don't even dare to say anything to Yun Wan. How can we get married?"
Fan's mother said: "You don't blame Young Master Biao for this. My parents' orders to find a matchmaker are all because I refuse to nod. If I nod my head, everything Young Master Biao does will be successful!"
"Madam, you still have to work hard on me."
Zheng's eyes lit up and she said with a smile: "That's the truth. She is a girl, no matter whether she agrees with it or not... she still has to find a way to get the master to agree."
He was very worried: "We can't let her learn to be a housekeeper... we have to send her out quickly!"
"She said she wanted to choose a maid, so you can help her with this matter. This will prevent her from going to complain to the master."
"She is very proud in front of the old lady now, and she still doesn't know how to manipulate me behind my back."
You have to do some face-saving work.
Fan's mother comforted Mrs. Zheng: "...the eldest lady wouldn't dare, and the old lady wouldn't let the eldest lady do such unruly things."
Zheng was still worried.
Her stepmother has a bad reputation now, and she is not afraid of anything else. What if it delays Jiaoer's marriage?
When Lin Huabin came back from the Yamen, he went to the study first and then arrived at Zheng's place.
Madam Zheng seized the opportunity and quickly told her about Lin Yunwan: "Master, you don't know that the eldest lady is now very close to that kid Wen Hai."
Lin Huabin didn't believe it.
Yun Wan is a child with ideas. She has already rejected him, so how can she like Wen Hai again?
Maybe Zhao Jingyi raised this girl to be arrogant and looked down upon the young scholar.
Although he felt that Wen Hai and Yun Wan were enough.
"Master, don't believe me. Call Laizhao's mother and ask her. Yun Wan has been coming to my place to say hello a lot recently. Do you know why?"
Zheng worked hard to convince her husband.
Lin Huabin laughed: "Why are you still pretending? Let's just say it in one go!"
Mrs. Zheng undressed him and laughed while talking: "Yun Wan came here because Wen Hai often comes to stay with me and his mother."
"Earlier, Yun Wan didn't know that this kid Wen Hai was honest and talented. The girl was shy. Even if she changed her mind, it was difficult to say it clearly. But if she didn't have this intention, she wouldn't come to me every day. Here it comes.”
"Think about it, the eldest lady has been studying with Aunt Fan for a whole day, and she still has to rush over to see Wen Hai. Does it really mean that she has no other meaning at all?"
Lin Huabin was really moved.
Mrs. Zheng said coquettishly: "You are a man after all. You don't understand the little girl's thoughts at all."
"How can we let the girl's family talk about things like getting married?"
"I have always obeyed my parents. This has always been the case. It makes sense."
Lin Huabin thought for a moment and said, "You are right."
In the final analysis, shouldn't Zhao Jingyi still have the final say?
Why didn't he go to Zhao Jingyi first? Why do you have to wait for that girl to nod?
As long as Zhao Jingyi is satisfied and thanks him, that's all!
"Master, our Jiao'er is not young at all. We can't just sing for Yun Wan... huh? Am I right?"
Halfway through Zheng's words, everyone was stunned.
How come she was right again!
She was overjoyed and laughed loudly: "Then you agree to this marriage?!"
Lin Huabin didn't nod, and he didn't change his clothes. He put on his clothes and said, "I'm going out. I won't have dinner at home tonight."
He left in high spirits.
In fact, Wen Hai is a good husband, there is nothing bad at all, he is really a good match.
After all, Yun Wan is just a daughter of a boudoir, and once she gets married, she will know that he has good intentions.
How will Zhao Jingyi thank him then?
"Girl, Mother Fan just came over and said that she wants you to go to the meeting hall to pick a maid tomorrow."
When Xiruo came in to deliver a message, she saw Lin Yunwan holding a gold hairpin and being lost in thought.
"girl?"
Lin Yunwan put down the gold hairpin, paused for a while, and then said, "I understand."
She put away the gold hairpin, feeling a little restless.
In her previous life, she had been a housewife for twenty years, running the house, raising children, and caring for her husband.
She did everything a woman should do.
But she has never been a real woman, and she doesn't know what it feels like to have someone in her heart.
