When Ning Rong's second duke was alive, he set strict rules in his home, and there were certain standards for what kind of people and what kind of treatment they enjoyed.
These standards and regulations have been implemented in Jia Fu for nearly a hundred years, and with the increasing cramping of Jia Fu, these regulations have gradually shown signs of not being able to be implemented. In this regard, Wang Xifeng once complained about Ping'er-
"I am also riding a tiger now, although I see through it, it is helpless to be lenient for a while, the second is that the family goes out more, comes in less, and all the big and small things are still in accordance with the rules in the hands of the ancestors, but the industry entered in a year is not as much as when it was first... If you don't take care of the frugality plan early, you will lose everything in a few years. ”
Today's Jia Fu, not only comes in less, goes out more, but more importantly, the population also multiplies, more and more, has become a burden that Jia Fu can't get rid of.
As the ancestor of Jia Province, Jia Mu's cases cannot be reduced at all, otherwise the younger generations may bear the crime of "filial piety"; although Madame Wang claims to be frugal, her position is second only to Jia Mu, and the people in charge of the family cannot reduce Madame Wang's share; the customs in "Dream of the Red Chamber" attach great importance to the girls in the family, and their sub-cases cannot be thrifty at all, and the only ones who should save and should be wronged are the young grandmothers in Jia Province.
A bowl of white rice and a few cold dumplings exposed this embarrassing situation of the young grandmothers of Jia Fu.
On that day, You Shi, the young grandmother of Ningguo Mansion, accompanied the old lady to dinner in Jia Mu's room, "The next person who waited for Tian Rice was holding a bowl of rice from the next person, and You Shi was still eating white japonica rice." ”
Jammu asked, "How did you faint?" Serve this meal to your grandma? The man said, "The old lady has finished her meal, and today she has added a girl, so it is shorter." ”
The rice in Jia Province is divided into several grades. When Wu Jinxiao went to Ningguo Mansion to deliver New Year goods, the author once pulled a long list, and the rice was divided into "Oda Rouge Rice Two Stones, Bi Glutinous Fifty Hu, White Glutinous Fifty Hu, Powder Japonica Fifty Hu, Variegated Liang Valley Fifty Hu, and Chang Rice 1,000 Stones" under it.
Obviously, what appears in you's bowl at this time is the lowest level of "lower use of constant rice". The bowl of the young grandmother became the lowest rice, which was one of the manifestations of Jia Fu's overstretchedness. Therefore, even Jia Mu was helpless, and could only say helplessly, "This is exactly the porridge that Qiao's daughter-in-law can't make without rice."
On the seventy-first occasion, Jia Mu's eightieth anniversary, Ning Rong's second mansion was decorated with lights, a feast was feasted, and the only few thousand taels of silver in the family were spent. However, behind such a bustling and lively scene, there is also a very discordant note hidden - the young grandmother Youshi, hungry to find food everywhere.
You Shi came to Feng Jie's room to eat, and Feng Jie Er was upstairs watching the new screen of people receiving gifts, and only Ping Er was folding clothes with Feng Jie in the room. Eugene asked, "Did your grandmother eat?" Ping'er smiled and said, "Is there anyone who doesn't invite Grandma to dinner?" Yu Shi smiled and said, "Even so, I look for food elsewhere, and I am too hungry to bear it." ”
In the end, YouShi, who was "too hungry to bear it", only ate a few cold food in the Yihong Courtyard and began to be busy with the affairs of the family.
This is the real life of the young grandmother in Jia Province. Although they are the housewives, they must be cut off when the family needs to be frugal; when there is something important in the family, they are too busy to eat.
You Shi was so hungry that he couldn't stand it, and it was conceivable that Wang Xifeng definitely felt the same way. The ladies of Jia Fu, Jia Mu, Madame Wang, etc., had already eaten dinner and were gossiping in their rooms.
The daughters-in-law of the rich are not good, at least, they are definitely not the kind of glamorous beauty seen on the surface. For this, Jia Mu actually feels the same way, after all, she also started from jia fu's granddaughter-in-law and stepped forward to today.
However, for this situation, the old lady is helpless, after all, the rules in Jia Fu are not so easy to change.