Before Guo's sister-in-law and hosta were sold by their families, they had always lived a hard life of "eating behind and doing in front", and now when they came to the new environment, they were uneasy, and they subconsciously continued their previous behavior patterns.

Sister-in-law Deng persuaded them, and Sister-in-law Li, Cedar, Hibiscus, Begonia and others also thought about humbling them, but these two people had to put themselves last.

Everyone said that they didn't listen to them, and they didn't want to see them tremble more and more, so they had to do what they wanted, and let them take the last meal.

Fortunately, Meng Zhen picked all the people with good character, and no one deliberately picked meat, only left some potatoes for them.

Sister-in-law Deng divided the remaining braised pork into three, and she, sister-in-law Guo, and hosta each had a share.

Sister-in-law Guo and hosta are still the first time to eat a bowl of potato braised pork, in the past, they were in their own homes, let alone meat, and it was difficult to even get a bite of oil stars.

Both of them were a little excited, they held the bowl, happy and sad at the same time, and soon their faces were full of tears.

Sister-in-law Deng couldn't help but sigh when she saw it, "I said you two, with the temper of our girl, will you still lack food and clothing in the future?" You don't want to cry to the girl every time you eat meat, do you? ”

Both of them were a little embarrassed when they heard it.

Aunt Guo wiped her face, "We, we're just so happy." You don't know, I've never eaten this old meat in my life. ”

When the hosta heard this, she was busy nodding silently - she had never eaten so much meat in her life.

Sister-in-law Deng: ......

Sister-in-law Deng tried her best to share the remaining potatoes and braised pork, so the three of them each had six or seven pieces of meat in their bowls.

The fat and thin pork belly is cut into thumb-sized pieces of meat, and then braised with potatoes, not only the pork is fat but not greasy, but even the potatoes become extra soft and glutinous because of the aroma of the meat.

Sister-in-law Deng was also a little sad when the two of them said.

In fact, when she was at her parents' house, she never ate pork, eggs, and fine grains.

Later, she got married and had a good mother-in-law and husband, and she only lived a comfortable life for a few years.

Such a life experience made Sister-in-law Deng believe very much that life will always be bitter and then sweet, she persuaded Sister-in-law Guo and Hosta, "Don't always think about the unpleasant things in the past, just like I said to Yinshan, let's have a good life ahead." ”

Sister-in-law Guo wiped her face, "What you said is that in the future, we can't cry in the master's house anymore, but don't spoil other people's luck." ”

Meng Zhen: ...... You think too much, your tears are not so magical.

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At the end of the day (three o'clock in the afternoon), Meng Zhen took her newly bought maid hibiscus and hosta, as well as Su Shen's prepared little maid Cedar, and the two newly bought mothers-in-law Deng and Guo Sister-in-law at home, to go to Meng Ji Grocery Store and Meng Ji Dabu Zhuang together.

As for Sister-in-law Li and Begonia, Meng Zhen left them at Meng's house to take care of Hao Mengyun, a pregnant woman, as well as Sister-in-law Li's daughter-in-law, Yaya, and two boys who were injured and sick.

The group first went to Meng Ji Dabu Village, and Meng Zhen took a few pieces of coarse cloth, a few pieces of fine cloth, some cotton and needlework in the shop, and prepared to let Sister-in-law Deng and other subordinates who knew some needlework sew a few clothes for all the subordinates in the family.

In order to have a replacement, Meng Zhen prepared to distribute two underwear, a thin cotton coat, a thick cotton coat, two pairs of shoes, and at least three pairs of socks to each of the subordinates in the family.

In addition to what she was wearing, Meng Zhen bought them some daily necessities at Meng Kee's grocery store, such as combs, hair bands, hairpins, straw paper, basins, honey paste to prevent cracked hands and faces, copper kettles used to boil water, and coarse porcelain cups for everyone.

She bought things as fast as ever, and in her own shop, she only needed to keep accounts and didn't need to pay, so Meng Zhen quickly took Sister-in-law Deng and others back to Meng's house.

She distributed the things she bought one by one, and let them take their personal belongings back to the room, and the cloth and the like were made into clothes, shoes and socks by Sister-in-law Deng and others.

In addition, she also gave these subordinates in the family a preliminary monthly payment.

Since none of them have shown outstanding performance at present, Meng Zhen treated them equally and gave them 500 yuan per month.

“... This is your monthly standard for the first month, as for the second month, the third month, and even every month after that, I will look at your specific performance to decide how much monthly money I want to pay you that month. ”

"I will not be disadvantaged to those who are diligent and capable, faithful and obedient to their duties. Those who steal and play tricks, are full of caution, and even disrespect and disloyalty to their masters, and lose their duties, will be punished at least and sold at worst. ”

As soon as Meng Zhen said this, everyone was suddenly silent.

If they make a mistake and are sold by the master's family, then their fate will definitely be visible to the naked eye, because other people who will buy people will definitely mind their black history, and they will not dare to buy them back.

In this way, they are afraid that they will be reduced to working as coolies.

Meng Zhen was very satisfied with the effect of her words, she had already shown her benevolent side with the food standard before, and now she should also say the ugly words in front of her, and beat the newly bought subordinates.

To be honest, Meng Hao is actually not very comfortable with this feeling of holding the power of life and death of others, but since she lives in this era, she must work hard to get used to it and adapt, instead of dying by herself, to advocate equality for everyone in this era of supremacy of monarchy.

She hasn't lived long enough, and she doesn't want to be treated as an outlier by the ancient people around her.

"Sister-in-law Deng, your food is good, and I will be responsible for the food of all the people in the family in the future."

"I will send the ingredients to the stove every morning, and I will prepare a separate condiment for you."

"You can boil an egg for everyone for breakfast, and for lunch you still maintain the standard of one meat and two vegetarian dishes as you do today, and for dinner, you can make tofu for everyone every five days."

Sister-in-law Deng hurriedly answered "yes", "Don't worry, girl, the slave and maid must do things well." ”

"If you do well, I'll give you a monthly increase in the second month."

Sister-in-law Deng was overjoyed.

Meng Zhen said to the others, "You too. As long as you behave well, I will definitely not treat you badly in terms of money, food and clothing. ”

Seeing that Sister-in-law Guo was speechless and stopped, Meng Hao waved her hand and motioned for everyone else to go down first, "Sister-in-law Guo stays, and everyone else will go their own ways first." ”

Sister-in-law Guo became more and more worried.

Meng Hao softened her voice and asked her gently, "Sister-in-law Guo, I see that you are uneasy, what are you worried about?" ”

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