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Zhou's mother took the list and said, "Within a quarter of an hour, all the registered personnel in the third room must come to this courtyard." Those who do not come or are late will be at their own risk. ”

Zhou's mother's words were so generous and powerful that the maids and mothers-in-law in the yard all dispersed, some of them went back to call people, and some of them found a place to secretly discuss what to do.

Obviously, Zhou's mother has something to rely on today, otherwise she would never dare to do this.

After Zhou's mother finished speaking, she took out a bunch of keys from her arms, turned her head to Xu's mother and said, "Please take a few people to look at the warehouse of our third room to see if those seals are intact." If there is a problem, let someone come and ask me for the account books, and let's take an inventory to see what is missing?"

Mother Xu replied: "Yes." She said and took the key from Zhou's mother's hand, turned around and called a few trustworthy mothers-in-law to leave.

Mother Xu is the housekeeper mother of the third room and a trusted person of the Chen family.

She is the son of the Dong family, and she received the favor of Mrs. Yan in her early years, so she has been secretly taking care of Dong Wende.

After Chen got married, he slowly discovered that Xu's mother was not sincere in doing things for Feng.

She deliberately asked people to ask the reason, and after several observations, she began to reuse Mother Xu, and put her in an important position, and now all the entry and exit details of the third room basically have to pass through her hands.

Zhou's mother has long known her details, and now they are also doing it for everyone to see, she goes to see those objects almost every day, and she knows everything about what is missing and what is more.

This is also the strength of Chen.

Chen developed a good habit with Mrs. Chen.

All the large and small objects that come and go, from the furniture to the teacups and bowls, are all recorded.

This is also the reason why the third master and his wife knew that there were people from the Feng family in the courtyard, and they could just leave.

Because Dong Ruyi was sick, they were in a hurry, so they loaded ten carriages.

One is that Dong Sanye did it on purpose, and the other is that they bring a lot of things.

When Chen goes out, he must bring the account books.

This time they went back to Chen's house, and Chen still left with the account books of the third room.

Chen's carefulness happened to come in handy this time.

The dowries of the second wife Chen and the third grandmother Chen are not in the third room, and the dowries of the daughter-in-law of the Dong family are all placed in the large treasury of Xi Dong.

The large warehouse of Xidong is made of stone, the area is quite large, the outside is a rockery, but there are several windowless warehouses inside.

The dowries of Xi Dong and the ladies and grandmothers of each room were placed there.

Xi Dong did this for the sake of unified custody and avoiding fire and theft, but in fact, it was to supervise the entry and exit of the money in each room.

The Dong family is a century-old family, and there will always be unfilial descendants. There are also children and grandchildren of bastards who want to sell their wives' dowries.

But the Dong family can't afford to lose such a person, so the Dong family has a family rule that the dowry of the Dong family's daughter-in-law cannot be easily sold.

Of course, in order not to let people say that the Dong family values the dowry of their daughters-in-law, the keys to the small warehouses in the treasury are all kept by each other, and Xi Dong will not interfere.

So Chan is not worried about her and her mother-in-law's dowry.

Dong Ruyi heard Zhou's mother mention these, so what she wants to check today is the device used in the three rooms on the bright side.

Dong Ruyi sat alone in the courtyard, fiddling with a handkerchief.

Zhou's mother walked out of the house, she was holding a small box in her hand, and there was a booklet on the box, which was the roster of the three rooms.

The servants and maids standing in the courtyard were all scared, and the third grandmother actually left a roster, so what about their deed of sale, wouldn't it be in that box?

Dong Ruyi whispered something to Zhou's mother, and after a while, Zhou's mother went out again.

When Zhou's mother came back again, there were almost no more people in the yard.

Dong Ruyi said: "Mother Zhou, roll call." ”

Zhou's mother said: "An Lan, Sizhu can be?"

No one answered for a long time.

An Lan and Sizhu are the first-class girls that Feng rewarded Dong Wende, these two people are good-looking, not to mention one in a hundred, they are also people who can be seen at a glance in the crowd.

Originally, they were going to accept a house for Dong Wende, but Dong Wende thought that they couldn't read big characters, and they couldn't compose poems on the top or couplets.

Feng Shi looked at Dong Wende's picky sourness, which was enough.

Dong Ruyi said: "Mother Zhou, continue." ”

Zhou's mother continued: "Luo Mei and Rou Ju are there?"

Still no one answered.

These two are second-class maids in the third room.

It stands to reason that the third master and his wife went to live in the Chen family, and these four people had to go with at least two, but the Chen family didn't bring any of them, and they all stayed, so Dong Ruyi didn't even bother to ask.

Everyone looked at Dong Ruyi, thinking about how you would sing this play.

Dong Ruyi said: "Mother Zhou, continue." ”

Zhou's mother continued to read.

It stands to reason that in their three-room courtyard, in addition to the mother and two first-class maids who were married by the Chen family, there should also be two first-class maids, two second-class maids, and five third-class maids from Dong Wende.

There are two mothers, one in charge of the yard and the other in charge of the kitchen.

One kitchen master and two helpers.

There are six rough mothers-in-law and doorman mothers-in-law in the courtyard.

But after Zhou's mother read it again, there were seven or eight more names.

Dong Ruyi didn't make a sound, and continued to fiddle with the silk handkerchief in his hand.

Mother Zhou said: "There are a total of twenty-eight people, except for Mother Xu's few people who are not here, ten people did not come." ”

And the nine people standing in the courtyard, a few of them showed sarcasm on their faces, and whispered: "I won't say it's a waste of time." ”

"But no, there are fewer people in this yard and more work, so how much work can I do with this time?"

Mother Zhou listened to their words, and felt angry and sad in her heart, the third grandmother was so good to them on weekdays, but at this time, they all ate inside and out.

Dong Ruyi didn't take these people into account at all, and for useless people, it was just a waste of food in the third room.

Dong Ruyi opened the box that Zhou's mother had just placed beside her, and while taking out the documents inside, she asked, "Did you bring the human tooth?"

The nine people standing in the courtyard all raised their heads, and the few people who spoke before all turned white.

They looked at Dong Ruyi with wide eyes in disbelief.

Everyone was muttering in their hearts: "How dare she, how dare she? This is just to scare people, they are all people with masters, and it depends on the owner to beat the dog." ”

Thinking about it, some people are getting angry again.

Mother Zhou was stunned, she did have people shouting to come over before, but there were ten people who didn't come, with her understanding of Dong Ruyi, is this going to sell them all?

But among the people who didn't come, there were two first-class maids and two second-class maids in the third room.