Chapter Seventy-Six: The Steward Confesses
When the matter was about to be settled, who knew that the butler of the bear mansion actually knelt down, stiffened and had no brains to beg for mercy. As soon as the words www.biquge.info of pleading for mercy were uttered, everyone in the hall looked at him with wrong eyes.
The butler remained silent, so they left him behind for the time being, but he begged for mercy at this moment. can make everyone suspicious, others don't know what the butler suddenly knelt down and begged for mercy, but Xiao Chuxuan had already guessed seven or eight in his heart.
Looking at the butler's fat body, which was almost shaking, Xiao Chu's eyebrows frowned uncontrollably. Pursed his lips and squinted his eyes, looking at the housekeeper kneeling on the ground, Xiao Chu asked, "Spare your life?" I don't know what the housekeeper of the Xiong Mansion did, but I need Miss to spare your life? ”
"Small...... Small ......"
Xiao Chu's inquiry obviously made the housekeeper's body stiffen even more, and he made a few "small" sounds, but he still couldn't come up with a reason. While regaining weight, he raised his eyes and sneaked a glance towards Master Xiong. This sneaky action is secret enough, but it's a pity that Xiao Chusu is sitting on the top seat, and everything below is also clear, so this subtle action can't escape her eyes.
She knew what the butler had done when he knelt down and begged for mercy, and now it seemed that it was as she had guessed.
The housekeeper knelt down, which disturbed the young master's interest in watching the play, and now he knelt there for a long time with the "small" for a long time, but he didn't have a word, and Xiao Churui had to wait. At that moment, he took the pastry on the desk and threw it towards the butler's fat head and big ears, Xiao Churui muttered.
"Spare your life for a long time, what do you want to say? If you don't have a head to say, don't bother your master to reply to my sister's words. I can warn you, if you want to play any tricks on your bear master and spare time, think of a rhetoric, hum! I haven't gotten tired of the tea field, young master. ”
Xiao Churui's shot has never been vicious, the housekeeper has personally experienced this, and when he called Xiao Churui like this, his body couldn't help but tremble again. The lower half of his body was even tighter, as if he remembered Xiao Churui's desperate kick.
It was a long time and I didn't know how to speak, but now I glanced at Master Xiong secretly, and then scared Xiao Churui, and the trembling tone was smooth. With a bang, the butler said with a muttered voice.
"The eldest lady spares her life, the two young masters spare their lives, it's the little one who deserves it, it's the little one that makes Qian Yin lose his mind, please ask the eldest lady and the two young masters to spare the little one." As soon as the words fell, this head also kept knocking again, although this head seemed to be very heavy, but I don't know if it was because there was too much oil on the fat head and big ears on the face or something else, but there was no sound at all.
The housekeeper of this bear mansion is so tight that no one will be worried if he dies here, but what he even said is a little unclear. At that time, he looked at the brother beside him in confusion, and then looked at the eldest sister who was frowning and silent, Xiao Churui leaned sideways to Chu Heng's side and asked, "Third brother, what do you mean by this?" ”
"Don't make a sound, you'll find out when the eldest sister asks him." After speaking, he held the folding fan to his lips and motioned to the fourth brother to shut up. The whispering of these two people had just fallen, and Xiao Chuxuan had already swept the housekeeper from beginning to end several times, and she didn't speak, just to see how long the housekeeper could kowtow in a row.
Fortunately, this housekeeper is not a patient to live, or he feels that it hurts to bump like this, but after knocking a few times, I am afraid that I also feel that I will not make a sound if I don't stop, so I stopped bumping but stopped and continued to kneel there.
The kneeling action stopped, and the person didn't dare to get up but continued to kneel there, waiting for the person to kneel and tremble, Xiao Chu asked, "What's wrong?" Don't knock it? ”
didn't ask anything, and the opening was like this, which made people wonder what the eldest lady was thinking, and at the same time, it made people's hearts more and more angry. The housekeeper who doesn't know how to speak now has nothing but a sentence of "spare his life", and he is afraid that he doesn't know how to say what is good. When he was lying on the ground like this, Xiao Chusu finally asked.
With his hand on the desk, his knuckles knocked on the table, and the sound hit his heart like a bell. Just when his heart was raised to his throat with Xiao Chusu's knocking, Xiao Chusu spoke.
"The heart of the money fan, heh, is the money fan who doesn't know how the housekeeper is, what kind of heart is it?"
Calling yourself the master of the housekeeper will not be good, and the person stiffened a little at the moment, and even his voice was obviously trembling, and the housekeeper replied: "Yes, yes." His eyes wandered, obviously with a little hesitation, but he paused under the light cough of the bear master who seemed to have no intention, and then said in a stumbling voice.
"Miss, all the food and food offices in this tea field branch are done in small places, my master never cares about these trivial matters, everything is handed over to the small ones. It was the little money addict who had a bad heart, and could not bear the temptation of those who were profitable, so he embezzled those silver taels and harshly the money and silver. ”
"Oh? Do you mean that most of the silver taels that are transferred to the Xiao family every year for the daily expenses of tea farmers go into your pocket? ”
"Yes, yes."
"According to you, what you eat for two meals a day is your liking?"
"Yes, yes, the little one wants to be greedy for more silver, so I made an article on this, hoping to be greedy for more silver."
"That crowded dwelling with nowhere to put your heels, that's what you mean." Continuing to ask, the butler continued to say in a trembling voice.
"That also means small, the small ones feel that they can sleep in the crowd anyway, and it costs a lot of money to rebuild the house, so let them all squeeze into those broken houses."
As the housekeeper said, those rooms are indeed dilapidated, cold in winter and stuffy in summer, not ventilated, crowded and uncomfortable to sleep. Remembering the crowding in that room and the sour rot that made people smell it for a long time, Xiao Churui directly crossed his eyes and said sarcastically.
"If you don't want to spend money, you don't want to repair a few more places, this feeling is spending your family's silver? It's really reasonable. The young master is heartless enough, I didn't think you were worse than the young master. In my opinion, those dwellings should invite you to go in and sleep peacefully with the tea farmers, and sleep for two days to ensure that you will remember to die for the rest of your life. ”
It's a place you don't know what it's like until you've lived in it. Xiao Churui didn't just say this, obviously he also wanted to do such a thing, but his words fell on Xiao Chuheng's ears, he directly smiled with his eyes, and looked at the fourth brother by the way.
"Let him go inside for two days? Don't say that those tea farmers who have been treated harshly by him will not suffocate him to death, it is the smell there, I guarantee that this pampered housekeeper will not survive until the next morning. However, the fourth brother's words are reasonable, if you really want to invite this housekeeper to live in the tea field, you have to remember to call the third brother, and the two brothers will personally escort him to the tea field, how about it? ”
"This should be good, that is, the tea farmer still has to be opened by the two brothers, but the housekeeper himself, I don't think there is any need for the two brothers to speak, even the tea farmer should also use all his heart to entertain him."
The housekeeper's heart was already trembling tightly, and he was unceremoniously saying words to scare people, whether Chu Heng Churui really had this intention or was it purely to scare people, Xiao Chu didn't have the leisure to think about it, but sat there and watched the housekeeper's increasingly ugly face.
Xiao Chu said: "According to what you say, this year's coming into your pocket, I'm afraid it won't be less than four or five thousand taels." With so much money and silver, the tea farmers in the tea fields in Yuanzhou are all arrogant and cunning, and they actually dragged you to the tea fields and beat you to death with sticks because of your cruelty. ”
Since he is a farmer, it is impossible for him to be oppressed by others, and it is impossible for people to take advantage of his wages, not to mention that he needs to eat every day. Xiao Chu was stunned by this, and turned to the salary, but called the bear chief and the housekeeper white-faced. These vicious people, the more ugly their faces are, the more people feel happy in their hearts, and they rolled their eyes at the moment, Xiao Chuxuan said.
"Report Diao Nong rampant every year, if you don't leave Kyoto to go to Yuanzhou in person, I don't know how many years you have to hide it in your bones. It is said that Diao Nong is arrogant, but in my opinion, I don't know who this arrogant is! Whether the overseers in the tea field are overseers or thugs, I won't say, I'm afraid you're better than me. Don't wander around there and fight ghost ideas, I've personally tasted those powerful young ladies who overseer, and the strength in my hands is not light. ”
Everyone on the side can be tricked, but this personal experience will never be deceived, a few more points, and the words are also looked at the bear master, Xiao Chu asked: "This is used to supervise Diao Nong, who is far more Diao Nong than Diao Nong, and the supervisor who is a few points more than Diao Nong, I don't know if the bear master knows or not?" ”
"Miss, I really don't know what is going on in this tea field supervisor, I only know that there is an overseer in the tea field, but I never know that this overseer is actually doing this."
"So the overseer is violent, and it's all what this butler meant?" Look at the bear master is planning to leave everything clean with himself, if he wants to leave it clean, since someone has to come up and carry it.
Master Xiong's talk about these things that have nothing to do with me obviously made the old farmer angry again, and immediately looked at him, and the old farmer said: "You are talking nonsense, you are the main person in charge of this tea field, which thing in the tea field is not your main thing, and you don't know what the overseer eats and lives with us on weekdays." ”
The main thing is not clear about the details here, which is indeed unconvincing, but the bear master has his own rhetoric. In the face of the old farmer's anger, the bear master said: "Everything in the tea field is trivial, although I want to do everything myself, but after all, the power of one person is limited, I have drawn up a rough idea of the trivial things in the tea field, and the rest will be handed over to the housekeeper to do, who will know ......"
After a pause, and then looked at the housekeeper, there was a bit of disappointment in his eyes and a resentment that he didn't have a long eye, and the bear said: "Who would know that this guy actually did such a bastard behind my back, eldest miss, I really don't know these things in this tea field, and these are not my intentions." ”
"You don't know any of this, and none of it is your intention, so it's all the meaning of this guy." The meaning of the bear master is clear, and Xiao Chuxuan also responded to the peace at the moment, and then looked at the housekeeper and said: "The head of your family said that all this is what you meant, what?" But you have commanded everything in everything. ”
"The eldest lady spares her life, it's all a small greed, please let the eldest lady spare me. The things that the tea farmers eat and the things that the tea farmers live in are all small. The little one shouldn't be lost in money, he shouldn't do these foolish things behind my master's back, everything is a small fault, and I beg the eldest lady to spare her life. ”
The bear master was clean there, but this fat-headed and round-eared guy was the protector of the lord tightly, and he carried everything directly. It's just that he wants to carry it, and not everything can be supported by a housekeeper in this area. This person is the protector, how can Xiao Chusu not let him protect him happily, looking at the butler's head that can't stop and kowtow, Xiao Chusu said.
"Everything is what you mean, so you deducted the monthly salary privately?"
"Work? Salary? ”
I didn't expect the eldest lady to return to the matter of wages, because she didn't expect it, so when she heard Xiao Chusu mention the matter of wages, the housekeeper was stunned. was stunned, then raised his head, looked at Xiao Chu's stunned eyes, and listened to her.
"Since it is wages, you reported to the tea farmers for five taels of silver a month, but the tea farmers only got 600 yuan. Miss, I'm not a fool, and I'm not a master who can casually make a fool of people, and the tea farmers in the tea fields can be spoiled by the overseers you have hired. Why, after being humiliated and beaten, you don't have the temperament and courage to get up and fight for yourself, isn't it true that there is that rampant that you can't get your wages up every year. ”
I don't have the courage to hum at the moment, let alone the others.
Food, shelter and supervision, in order to pull out the matter of wages, now that the matter has come to this, how can they grit their teeth and say that the monthly salary of this tea farmer is really five taels. Under Xiao Chu's sharp questioning, the housekeeper didn't dare to continue to bite the unrealistic nonsense, and kowtowed vigorously at the moment, saying words of apology.
To make amends, it is to admit that he has swallowed the money and silver issued by the Xiao family and abused the tea farmers. At that moment, the smile on the corner of his lips was like a cold plum branch hanging on the moon, Xiao Chu nodded and said: "Everything is your sin, everything is your idea, whether it is everything that the tea farmer is plain, or the money and silver that are distributed every month, you dare to be greedy and deductive." With such a big courage and such greed, it seems that your ambition as a housekeeper is really not small. With such great ambitions, I am afraid it will be difficult to block your stomach with this mere 120,000 taels of silver per year. ”
"Miss, spare your life, spare your life!"
What the eldest lady meant by what she said, the butler could guess it, so he could only kowtow and kneel to admit it. However, the two young masters who were watching happily on the side, looking at the eldest sister's cold smile that had already penetrated, had already understood the carelessness in their hearts.
Fang Cai still guessed in his heart that this tea field was only 120,000 taels of silver a year, how could the eldest sister hold on to this matter and forget to forget about another bigger matter. Now it seems that the eldest sister has not forgotten, but through the small things in the front, she naturally leads to the big one in the back.
Logically, step by step, the eldest sister sighed in her heart. How coincidental is the eldest sister's thoughts, how can the two young masters of the Xiao family not be clear, it is a person like Master Xiong, when they saw the smile on the eldest lady's face, and Fang Cai's words, their hearts also "giggled".
What did the eldest lady mean by what she said? Isn't it......
When some possibility flashed through his mind, the bear owner had the last trace of calm.
Completely collapsed. (To be continued.) )