Chapter 371: What is Happiness
On the second day, when he was used to being ugly, he got up, left his own Aunt Zhang, knocked on the corner door of the Li Mansion, and was able to enter. The time arrangement of the whole house is centered on the old man Li Wenxuan. Since he had to get up early to go to the court, the people involved in them must prepare him accordingly in advance.
Knowing that he slept in Aunt Zhang in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion last night, he arranged the things in the kitchen, so he went directly to his daughter-in-law Ning Xiang, and entrusted his grandmother with what she begged her to do last night. Ning Xiang, who understood what she meant, nodded without saying a word, and agreed to it, and then turned around and left to get busy.
Until Li Wenxuan had eaten the kind of breakfast that was equivalent to the early morning supper in later generations, rested for a while, and sat in the official sedan chair. Zhu Biao led the two big guys in the house, lit lanterns in front, and followed. At this time, the slaves and maids who got up early in the house breathed a sigh of relief, and those who did not continue to be on duty could go back to their own rooms and sleep for a night's sleep.
At the same time, the candidates who are going to come to the second round of interviews today are naturally the same as getting up early, dressing up and dressing up, and whether they are good or bad, they have eaten breakfast, and accompanied by their families, Chen Shi rushed to the outside of the gate of the Li Mansion to wait for the second time to arrange the number, read the number, and then followed the leader is to enter, go to the interview room to meet the four examiners. The entire procedure for the second and first rounds is almost the same until entering the interview room on the west side of the first and second gates, with the only difference being that the clerk in the house checks whether the applicant's sachet is forged.
Ning Xiang, Lu'er, Dong Xiang, and Ugly Girl, who had entered the interview room a moment earlier, greeted each other politely after meeting each other, and then sat on the chairs in the room. Waiting for the dog, the two took turns to lead the girl who entered the retest. Each group of twenty people, five people in a row, four rows is the same, and the biggest change is when they enter this spacious room again. Not only did the stay extend several times longer, but the content was much more.
After the ugly girl and the others saw them standing at the prescribed interval, they all got up without hurry. Each of them had the same booklet in their hands, which was to rate each of the correspondingly numbered applicants. The one who is fully qualified is directly represented by a circle, and the unqualified one is represented by an "X". As for why the other party is unqualified, a simple annotation will be made on the side, just to make statistics with the other three people after his own inspection. Using this as a criterion is to let this person be promoted and retained. Or just knock it out.
As for the so-called retention, that is, it can only stay outside the second gate, the kind of maid who does not have any affiliation with the courtyards of the second gate. These maids are all managed and dispatched by ugly girls. Among them, they are divided into rough girls without any rank and maids with ranks. The work of a rough girl is nothing more than hard and dirty work such as laundry, washing quilts, emptying toilets, cleaning toilets, etc. Exhausting work. As for the maids with grades, according to different ranks. There is a certain difference in the work done. However, the work in their hands is much lighter. Among them, there are going to the front hall to serve tea and entertaining guests, and there are also cleaning the floor in the house, wiping the house furnishings and hygiene, and so on.
The four of them conducted a comprehensive examination of each of the little girls who were recruited, just like selecting a palace maid in the palace. If it is found that there are defects in the content of the articles in discord with the regulations. Naturally, it will be eliminated. The ugly girl, Lu'er, Ning Xiang, and Dong Xiang are from one row to four rows, each responsible for one row. They were all completely behind their rows. Rotate the number of rows, continue until each person has checked four rows of twenty people, and then gather together, summarize the evaluation on the booklet in their hands, and announce on the spot that the most difficult results of twenty people are one of the three who are promoted, retained, and eliminated.
It took them a quarter of an hour in total to summarize the results of the first group of people, and they were read out one by one by the most junior among the four, and the only second-class maid Dongxiang was read out one by one. The twenty conscripts standing in the room, although they did not move, but the small movements on their limbs and the small expressions on their faces immediately followed.
The girls who can be promoted are naturally overjoyed and can't help but have a proud look, and the little girl who was retained, although she was disappointed in her heart, was more or less unconvinced, but she was quite relieved, after all, she and her family's future food and clothing have a certain degree of guarantee. In the future, whether or not one of them can enter the second gate depends on their own abilities and creations. The only thing that is certain is that if there is a vacancy in the second door and needs to be supplemented, then the first choice will be selected accordingly among the slaves and maids on the first door.
As for the female babies who were ruthlessly eliminated, they were dissatisfied in their hearts, and they had to reluctantly accept this cruel reality. When this extremely disappointing news mentioned the corresponding little girl, many people couldn't help but cry on the spot. The so-called greater hope, the greater the disappointment, this is the truth. Although they are all about ten years old, they are not very sensible, but the girls who have eaten big white steamed buns, drank white rice porridge, and taken a silver tael and good-looking sachets compare their long-term poor lives, and can they not know what is good and what is bad in this world?
Among the twenty people who were first transferred to the government for the re-examination, only one person was promoted, one person was retained, and the remaining eighteen little girls were all eliminated directly. Lu'er and the other four examiners, seeing a bunch of girls crying and wiping tears with sad expressions, also said that they were powerless, after all, they were very clear about the number of places in the house.
The other eight maids who accompanied the four people in the mansion saw such a scene, but they had a completely different mentality from them. The eight people, who were holding their heads higher and higher, were very proud to have errands to do in the Li Mansion. Even if he is doing the most low-level work, he lives an easier and more enjoyable life than a considerable number of people outside the house, after all, there is no need to worry about food, clothing and housing, and every month is the last day from January to the end of the month, and those who are punctual will send their due monthly money directly, and there has never been a default. What is happiness for some of them? That is, in the Li Mansion, it is happiness to have a job to do. (To be continued......)