Just when Zhou Qiongyue was about to fall asleep, Sun prepared to leave with the account books and keys to various warehouses.
Zhou Qiongyue's eyes widened upon hearing the noise, and she bowed to Sun, "Aunt, I'd like to renovate the side courtyard of Qiongyue Pavilion. Is that okay?"
As soon as Sun took over the power of housekeeper, she felt that the money of the Duke Zhong was hers. She did not want to spend it, "I'm afraid..."
Zhou Qiongyue saw the rejection in Sun's eyes, thought for a moment, and quickly added, "I don't need the public money. I have my own small treasury."
Zhou Qiongyue had already said this, so Sun had no reason to refuse. "Yue'er has it herself, so go ahead and fix it! But where will you live in the meantime?"
"I can just live in the main courtyard of Qiongyue Pavilion and just repair the side courtyard."
Zhou Qiongyue's renovations were just casual ones, focusing on building a secret underground room in the main courtyard. As for where to find a reliable person, she'd naturally go to her incredibly reliable father.
Sun nodded. She didn't care where her niece lived, but to avoid trouble, she added, "As long as my sister-in-law agrees."
Zhou Qiongyue's goal was achieved, and she was quite happy. "Thank you, Third Auntie. Take care."
As soon as Sun left, Jin poked her daughter's head and said with a smile, "You, go ahead and do it!"
"Hehe!" Zhou Qiong responded with a silly smile.
"Mom, will you be unhappy if you lose your position as housekeeper?"
The reason why Zhou Qiongyue asked this was that people in this era attached great importance to the power of the housekeeper. What's more, her mother was the eldest daughter-in-law in the eldest son's family. Sometimes the power of the housekeeper also represented a kind of status.
Jin felt warm at the sight of her worried daughter, "Don't worry, Yue'er, I didn't want to manage this mansion anyway. You don't know how much effort I put into maintaining the balance of income and expenditure.
If others think that my mother is taking advantage of me, I have long since given up on this. Wouldn't it be better for me to spend this time managing my dowry?
The third brother and his wife think they have taken advantage of this, but they will regret it later."
Zhou Qiongyue saw that her mother was not just being perfunctory and really didn't care about the housekeeper's matter. She gave her mother a thumbs up and said, "Mother is really smart."
Zhou Qiongyue thought about it and decided to tell her mother about the drought in two years. She had originally planned to open a grain store and ask her mother to store some food for her.
Now that the power of housekeeping has fallen into the hands of Third Aunt, who knows what life will be like in the mansion! If I tell Third Aunt that there will be a drought in two years, I don’t know whether she believes it or not, she will definitely be in a lot of trouble when the time comes.
Zhou Qiongyue is not a saint. She would never disregard her own safety for others.
Zhou Qiongyue signaled to the servants around to leave. After Zhou Qiongyue's signal, the servants around tactfully left.
Leave the young lady and the lady to speak their minds.
"What's wrong? What does Yue'er want to tell her mother?" Jin asked while peeling the grapes and feeding them to her daughter's mouth.
"I had a dream yesterday. I dreamed that there would be a drought in Yuan'an two years later. The dream was very real, so I felt very uneasy." After Zhou Qiongyue finished speaking, she looked at Jin eagerly.
Jin immediately understood what her daughter meant. She was worried about everyone in the Marquis' Mansion, especially now that the power of housekeeper was no longer in her hands.
Jin patted her daughter's head and comforted her, "Don't worry! The clan property of the Marquis' Mansion is managed personally by your grandfather. Your grandfather will not ignore your third uncle.
We just need to take care of our own family, and mother will prepare everything when the time comes. Don't worry, and don't tell anyone else about this, not even your two brothers."
Jin knew that her daughter was sincere in her heart, but her daughter at her age could not understand the wickedness of human nature.
If this news got out, if it was true, her Yue'er would be tied up in the royal family; if it was false, Yue'er's reputation would be ruined.
She didn't want her daughter to marry into a royal family, she just wanted her to live a stable life. This rumor about her being the girl of destiny was enough to ruin Yue'er's life.
Zhou Qiongyue listened to her mother's words, her heart was filled with joy, and she nodded solemnly, "Mom, you are so kind."
"Well, don't worry, Mom won't tell anyone else, and neither will your dad. Sometimes men think differently than we do, and you're not allowed to tell anyone either. Do you hear me?"
Jin was really worried about her daughter. The prince always acted like a kind father in front of her daughter. She was afraid that her daughter would be stupid and tell her father everything.
"Ah?" Zhou Qiongyue was really a little surprised.
"Just listen to your mother." Jin didn't want to explain so much to her silly daughter. As long as her daughter agreed to her, she, as a mother, would take care of the rest.
Zhou Qiongyue was not an ungrateful person. She knew her mother was doing this for her own good, so she nodded firmly.
"Good girl..." Jin was very happy to see her daughter like this.
Zhou Qiongyue acted coquettishly and cutely in front of Jin again before taking her people back to Qiongyue Pavilion.
She has a lot of things to do! She wants to make as much money as possible in the next few years. By then, there will definitely be many people who want to sell Yuan An's house.
She wanted to save enough money so that she could find a bargain when the time came.
After waiting for her daughter to leave, Jin sat alone and thought a lot. In the end, she decided to prepare according to her daughter's description. Even if it was fake, it would just comfort her daughter.
After Jin thought it through, she knew that the most urgent thing at the moment was to dig a well. Although there were several wells in the Marquis' Mansion, they might all run dry by then and would probably not be enough.
If she was the housekeeper before, this would be an easy matter to handle. But now that she is no longer in charge, it is really a bit difficult.
However, she plans to dig a well in each of her children's yards and another in the front yard at her own expense. As for the other rooms, it is not her responsibility.
But she still needed to think about this excuse. As for food reserves, among the farms she brought as a dowry, there were also farms for growing crops. She planned to plant crops on all the farms that could be used for growing crops this year, and also to dig a few more wells on the farms.
A family like theirs cannot just take care of a few masters. She has to count the subordinates who follow them as well as those in the Marquis' Mansion.
Although she didn't take care of the family, she still had to give them something to keep them alive at the critical moment. And her mother's family, the Jin Mansion, although she didn't tell them the news, she still had to prepare something for them privately.
Taking all this into account, Jin felt that it was not enough to grow crops on all her farms, and she also wanted to sell some of it in a big way.
She couldn't let people think she had food, otherwise it would be a greater disaster.
Cai Ping looked at the lady's sad face and was very puzzled. Could it be that the eldest lady had encountered some difficulties?
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