Chapter 044: West Courtyard
After Feng Lanyu married into the Hou Mansion, it has been a few months since he did a lot of things, but he has not really visited the Hou Mansion carefully.
Without him, just because the Hou Mansion was too big, she was too lazy to leave.
Now that it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the house has been cleared twice by Mr. Jiang, and she thinks she should take some time to take a look around the house.
She gathered the chief stewards from all over the house, and only then did she find that there were no less than ten small stewards in each small house, which was still streamlined.
The general manager of each room has a roster, Feng Lanyu recognized the roster, and then said to them: "I invite you to come over today, just to let you take me to familiarize myself with the work of each room and place in the Hou Mansion, so what, start with Mama Liu." ”
In modern times, it is normal for the new leader to take up the position and the heads of various departments report their work one by one, but in the Hou Mansion, it is unheard of.
Several grandmothers and supervisors were stunned for a while, and they didn't know what Mrs. Shizi meant.
Could it be that you are not satisfied with them? Looking for a reason to replace them?
These people trembled in their hearts, but Mama Liu didn't think about it so much, she was Mrs. Hou's companion, and she had been in the Hou Mansion for more than 20 years, and she hadn't seen anything over the years, but she had also practiced some skills to not be surprised.
Mama Liu used to be in charge of the storeroom, but later Mrs. Chen replaced her and drove her to take charge of the daily meals of the ladies in the backyard.
The female dependents mentioned here mainly refer to the concubine room and the common room of the old marquis.
After the death of the old marquis, he accepted his two personal maids as a roommate, and later because there was no one in charge of the Hou Mansion, he accepted two concubines with higher backgrounds, one of which was Mrs. Chen.
The other, after giving birth to his third son, Jiang Fengjin, was not in good physical condition, and died of illness within two years.
Carefully speaking, in addition to Mrs. Chen, the people around the old marquis are still there, that is, an Aunt Jiang who gave birth to a third miss.
Aunt Jiang was originally a maid who served the old marquis, she was born in a small family and had no surname, so the old marquis let her follow the surname Jiang.
This is also an honor, Feng Lanyu suspects that the reason why she has survived until now should be that she has not been able to have children for many years.
After all, Jiang Fengyi is seventeen years old, and the third lady is now less than ten years old.
Mama Liu doesn't have much to do now, when there were many masters in the past, she was still a little busy every day, but then there was this Aunt Jiang left, and she saved a lot of things.
Aunt Jiang has a low sense of existence, and it seems to be air in the Hou Mansion, even the third lady was born when the old Hou Ye was fighting outside, and the old Hou Ye also saw her a few times, and it is estimated that he still has such a daughter who does not know.
After all, the old marquis has never cared about his children.
Mama Liu took Feng Lanyu through the small garden in the backyard and walked straight to the west path.
The garden trail is full of murmuring water, abundant aquatic plants, and colorful carp swimming around in the stream, just to see the scenery is very good.
is still going further and further to the west, when Feng Lanyu first came, she lived in the courtyard in the north, and now this Aunt Jiang lives even worse than her.
The trail became more and more desolate, and in the end, there were more and more weeds, and the bluestone slabs on the path were almost submerged by weeds, and Feng Lanyu frowned: "What's going on here?" What if some snakes and insects bite someone? ”
When all the supervisors heard this, they immediately turned their heads to look at one of the women.
The woman was in charge of the backyard garden, and she didn't remember whether her surname was Li or Chen Feng Lanyu, she just frowned at her: "What's the matter?" ”
Is it difficult to become a Hou Mansion, and learn from other people's palaces and make a cold palace?
The grandmother suddenly panicked, a little frightened and a little aggrieved and said: "Oh, young lady, this, this old slave is not clear, the old slave also came from Zhuangzi recently, when he first came, he said that there was no one living in the west, and it would not affect anything if he took care of it later." ”
Feng Lanyu's face suddenly fell, and he was really a little angry.
"Who told you?" She asked, "Who told you that there is no one living in the west?" ”
The one who was silently frightened by Feng Lanyu's cold face, and said a name, that is the grandmother who was replaced by Mr. Jiang before, and now it seems to be on Zhuangzi.
Feng Lanyu knew that this matter couldn't be blamed on the person in front of her, after all, she had indeed just been here for half a month, and it was normal for people in the Hou Mansion to spend three or four months slowly accepting work.
But Feng Lanyu was very dissatisfied with this.
She said with a cold face: "Since you have won the appreciation of General Manager Jiang, you don't have to suffer in the Zhuangzi, and you have such an opportunity to work in the Hou Mansion, you have to be more attentive, you are in charge of this backyard garden, so how many people are there in this backyard to take care of the garden?" How many are born in the family, how many are long-term workers, how many precious flowers and trees are there in this garden, and how many cooperative forest farms are there?
How many times a day is the fish food, what is the dietary pattern of rare birds and animals? How many yards are there? How many masters do you have? You have to be clear, these things are complicated, but I give you a lot of manpower, even if you spend three or four days to understand and research, you can almost grasp it, there is a Hou Mansion lady living in the courtyard to the west, you just ignored it, you say, what does the Hou Mansion want you to do? ”
The grandmother was reprimanded by Feng Lanyu, and lowered her head and didn't dare to say a word.
In fact, she is only responsible for the flowers and environmental sanitation of the yard, and the koi and some rare birds and animals are under the responsibility of another manager.
However, she did make mistakes, many of what Feng Lanyu said were within her scope of responsibility, and she really didn't understand them clearly, nor did she ask others.
If she had asked Mama Liu at the beginning, maybe it wouldn't have been like this.
Feng Lanyu didn't want to be angry with them, after all, these were all new people from Manager Jiang, and they were also respectful to her.
And she only lives here temporarily, and she doesn't really want to think of herself as the master of the Hou Mansion.
However, her nosy problem just can't hold back!
"That's it," Feng Lanyu was deflated, and she was just cannon fodder, and she didn't know how long she could stay in the Hou Mansion.
The old marquis doesn't care, what does she care?
"In the future, pay attention to it, remember your first offense, and I won't bother with you this time."
The managers breathed a sigh of relief.
The grandmother immediately said with red eyes and gratitude: "Thank you for the great grace of the young lady, the old slaves said by the young lady have all remembered, and they will be more meticulous and attentive in the future, and dare not make mistakes." ”
Mama Liu, who had been silent, also said silently: "Speaking of which, I am also to blame for this matter, I didn't make it clear to Mama Li, and asked the young lady to punish her." ”
Feng Lanyu walked forward, glanced at Mama Liu, waved her hand and said, "It's okay, it's not your responsibility, I don't blame you, if you make a mistake in your work for a while, I will naturally punish you." ”
Mama Liu stopped talking.
Not long after, the group finally came to a small courtyard hidden under a tall locust tree in the west.
Feng Lanyu was shocked when he saw this courtyard.
The west side is shady, the sun is not good, damp and cold, and the yin is heavy, and there are still people planting big locust trees in the yard?
Unlucky, unlucky.
Who would dare to live in such a house?
Feng Lanyu stood at the gate of the courtyard with a group of people, hesitated for a long time, and didn't dare to go in.