Chapter 221: Evil Slaves
Most of these minions were given to him by his father, and a very small part of them were married by Su Wan, and the salaries of these minions were issued by the royal family, not by the princess.
The affairs of the prince's mansion up and down Chu Mohan were all handed over to the Wang housekeeper to take care of.
After Su Wan got married, Steward Wang once mentioned that he wanted Su Wan to be in charge.
At that time, Su Wan felt that Steward Wang had managed the Prince's Mansion for so many years, and she was very handy in doing things, but she had never managed the house, she was just not familiar with the housekeeper, and everything in the Prince's Mansion was still managed by Steward Wang.
It's not that she doesn't trust Steward Wang, but there are too many servants in the prince's mansion, and there are many people fishing in troubled waters.
Apricot comes and goes; "The princess, everyone has arrived."
Su Wan nodded and placed the teacup in her hand on the table.
"Xing'er, move three chairs to the porch."
Xing'er answered and asked the other two maids to help her and move the chair under the porch outside.
The courtyard, which was originally not small, was a little crowded because there were almost a hundred people standing.
The three of them sat down, Chu Mohan sat in the middle, and Su Wan and Bi Xiaoyao sat on both sides.
The people in the courtyard exchanged heads and talked about each other.
"What does the princess want to do when she gathers everyone in the palace?"
"It's been more than a year since the princess got married, so she should be announcing the housekeeper!"
Someone speculated.
"This king's housekeeper is in charge of the house, and the princess is going to take back the power of the house!"
There are even more people who are not afraid of things, chewing the root of their tongues.
Steward Wang is the person next to the queen, and he has been staying by Chu Mohan's side for more than ten years, and he is still very relieved about Steward Wang Su Wan, is it someone else...... It's hard to say.
Most of the subordinates of the Prince's Mansion were given to the Prince's Mansion by the emperor, and many of them were on errands in the palace before.
Before Chu Mohan got married, all affairs were taken care of by Steward Wang, for these people, as long as they were not excessive, for trivial things such as laziness, Steward Wang turned a blind eye.
Su Wan glanced at everyone lightly.
The chatter didn't stop.
Su Wan didn't care either.
Chu Mohan, who was sitting in the middle, coughed, and those people restrained a little.
They know very well that although the Nine Emperors are a foolish prince, they are the most favored princes of the emperor and the queen, and they are living so easily now that they all rely on this foolish prince.
In addition, Steward Wang was also there, and they didn't dare to be too presumptuous.
Su Wan's tone was light; "Who are the people who do the work in the kitchen?"
More than a dozen people stood out from the crowd, and Su Wan glanced at the dozen or so people.
"Which of you is the kitchen steward?"
A chubby woman stepped forward; "The slave is the steward of the kitchen."
Su Wan nodded.
"Who's in charge of purchasing?"
Buying is a beauty difference in the house, as small as a stitch and a thread, as large as clothes, jewelry, furniture, etc.
A middle-aged man in his forties with a mustache stepped forward.
"The little one is the steward who is in charge of the purchase in the house."
Su Wan glanced at the eight-character bearded man, and her eyes flashed with a fine light, and she knew that she was a shrewd person at a glance.
Su Wan glanced at everyone lightly, and saw that there was a maid who looked a little wrong, and when the maid saw that Su Wan was looking at herself, she immediately lowered her head.
"Buying is a big deal in the house, what's your name?" Su Wan asked.
Eight-character Hu Nandao; "The minion's name is Zhou Li."
Su Wan nodded.
Seeing that Su Wan just asked the stewards to come out and didn't ask anything, they let them go back, and they had some doubts in their hearts.
"Eighth and ninth in the first row, third, fourth, fifth in the second row......"
Su Wan ordered more than a dozen people, and the dozen or so people who were ordered glanced at each other.
"Stand up for everything I ordered."
The dozen or so people lined up and found the front.
One of the older women raised her chin slightly and looked at Su Wan; "I don't know what happened to the princess asking the slaves and maids to come out?"
Judging from the woman's dress, she should be the grandmother of the housekeeper.
Su Wan smiled: "I don't know what Mama does in the house?" ”
Seeing that Su Wan's attitude towards her was very polite, the woman raised her chin slightly, and said lightly: "The slave maid is the manager of the account office of the prince's mansion. ”
Su Wan was a little surprised, most of the housekeepers in the general house are men, and it was the first time she had seen a woman as the housekeeper of the account.
Su Wan let out an "oh".
The woman didn't take the bowl seriously.
Su Wan smiled on his face, but his tone was very cold: "Come and call me." ”
The woman's face changed: "What did the slave and maid do wrong, and the princess wants to beat the slave and maid?" ”
"What did you do wrong?" Su Wan's voice was a little careless: "This is one of the things to talk about the master, and the second is to commit the crime without the master, this is the second, no matter which one of them, it is not too much to beat you to death with a stick, this princess is thinking that you are managing the accounts of the prince's mansion, for the sake of so many years, magnanimous, spare you from dying, and only play forty boards." ”
When the woman heard that Su Wan was going to beat her forty dress, her face instantly turned bloodless.
Su Wan shouted; "Caidie, these forty boards have you to do."
Butterfly didn't know when she was holding a wooden stick in her hand, and Butterfly walked towards the woman, who fell to her knees and begged for mercy. "The princess spares her life, the princess spares her life! These forty boards are down, and the slaves and maids are no longer destined to marry the princess. ”
Su Wan stripped her sideburns behind her ears and said lightly; "Could it be that the prince's mansion will not be transferred if you leave you, if you die, your vacancy will be filled soon."
The steward of this account room is the fattest errand, and how many pairs of eyes are staring at this position.
The woman was still begging for mercy; "The slave and the maid know that they are wrong, and the slave and the maid will not dare anymore...... Yes! ”
The woman's words were drowned out in screams.
Caidie showed no mercy, and hit the woman with a stick, and the woman screamed, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on her forehead.
The butterfly used a lot of force.
One stick after another, the woman's screams made the faces of the people present change greatly.
After a dozen blows, the woman fainted.
"The princess, she fainted, do you want to continue?" Caidie asked.
"It's said that forty boards are forty boards, since she is dizzy, she will take it down first, and when she wakes up, she will continue to play, and none of the forty boards can be missing."
The dozen or so people who were picked out by Su Wan were so frightened that their faces were bloodless, and they fell to their knees, sincerely afraid; The "slave" and "slave" knew that they were wrong, and begged the princess to surround the slave and the "slave" for their lives, and the slave and the "slave" were willing to be punished. ”
Su Wan did this just to make an example, she was not cruel enough to kill innocents.
"Oh!" Su Wan deliberately lengthened the tail note; "Now that you have realized that you are wrong, this princess will open the net and receive ten boards by herself, and this princess will no longer pursue this matter."
Compared to the forty boards, these ten boards are nothing.
They kowtowed to Su Wan.