"Miss Hui, this sea cucumber is a rarity... And this shark fin, this is... And then there's this pot..."Mother Tao unceremoniously quoted the price of everything more than doubled, and Ji Yongjing, who listened to it, wanted to secretly give her a thumbs up.

"What is the crime of deliberately destroying the property of the Lord's house?"

"Miss Hui, you should be punished with a rod depending on the value of your property. If it exceeds twenty taels of silver, it is also possible to kill it with a cane. ”

As soon as Mother Tao said this, the second-class maids who were suppressed and couldn't move at all suddenly turned earthy.

The Ji family is different from other big families, the ancestors of the Ji family started with military merits, so the Ji family's cane has always used a terrible thing called a military stick commonly used in the army, and the person in charge of the execution has always been a strong man or mother-in-law sent by the warden.

These people are not the same as the ordinary maids and women in the inner house and the ordinary little maids in the outer courtyard, and they will not be mixed with any water when they fight people.

"Miss, spare your life! We didn't mean it, yes, it was these women in the kitchen, yes, they deliberately embarrassed us and squeezed us, so we accidentally touched those things. ”

The girl who spoke was originally serving by Ji Heng's aunt surnamed Chen, who gave birth to a concubine for Ji Heng a few years ago, so after Concubine Liu's death, Ji Heng looked at his son's sake and promoted Chen, the biological mother of his son, to the position of concubine.

Who knew that the freshly baked Concubine Chen was also ambitious, and the improvement of her status made her seem to see some great opportunity, and this woman almost immediately fluttered.

Although because of Concubine Liu's experience, this Concubine Chen did not dare to do anything that was too arrogant and might touch the bottom line of Ji Heng and the Wu family, but she was very happy to block her occasionally for the Wu family.

No, when Ji Yongan returned home and the Wu family was happy, Concubine Chen also joined in the excitement and sent her own maid over to block the Wu family.

In her mind, this is a matter that can't tell right and wrong at all, even if the Wu family is angry, she can't put all the fault on the maids sent by them.

If the Wu family wants to dispose of these maids of theirs, then she must first dispose of those people in the big kitchen.

Most of those people were Wu Clan's people, and they all felt that the Wu Clan would definitely not use this kind of trick to hurt the enemy by one thousand and self-inflicted eight hundred.

Ji Yongjing really didn't plan to hurt the enemy by one thousand and lose eight hundred, she raised her eyes to look at the henchman of Concubine Chen, who dared to put all the fault on the cook, "When is the time to take food according to the mansion?" ”

The girl's face changed, and the other maids who had planned to follow along couldn't help but close their mouths when they heard this.

They came too early, half an hour in advance to get food, and the kitchen couldn't give them to rely here to entangle, no matter which thing was talked about, they were also very deliberate to make trouble.

The sensitive-minded one immediately changed his tone, "But, the slave maid is here to add food, not to fetch food." If it weren't for the fact that this sister-in-law refused to add food to our aunt, the slave wouldn't have stayed in the kitchen all the time begging her to be accommodating. ”

As she spoke, the girl also held up the string of copper in her hand.

Ji Yongjing glanced at her and didn't speak, but the cook who had been pestered by her in every way before couldn't help but speak anymore - she had to defend herself, what about this old silver, she didn't want to lose a share or take a beating.

"Eldest Miss Rongyu, it's not that the slave doesn't allow Aunt Liu to add vegetables, it's this Qingliu girl, look at the string of copper in her hand, she, she only gave the slave and maid two hundred dollars, but what she wanted to add was a good official swallow and a casserole to simmer deer tendon!"

The cook was very aggrieved.

Not to mention two copies, even one, isn't the two hundred money given by Aoyagi's little cheap hooves far from good?

She would be stupid to post money and make this kind of thing for an aunt of the Liu family!

Besides, even if she is stupid, she can't post this money!

Ji Yongjing looked at the other maid who was carrying a string of copper, "What about you, what do you want to add?" ”

The maid's eyes dodged.

It wasn't anything of value that she had to add, but it was extremely laborious to make.

The big kitchen has the rules of the big kitchen, and usually the masters have to come to the big kitchen at least two hours in advance to deliver money if they want to eat anything other than the portion.

Of course, even if you come to the big kitchen two hours in advance to deliver money, the big kitchen doesn't have to cook you what you want to eat.

Like the boiling cabbage she was going to add, three hundred dollars to buy ingredients was enough, but it would take almost a day to make this dish, how could the big kitchen take on such a time-consuming and thankless job while preparing for Ji Yongan's reception banquet?

The maid knew that she was afraid that she would kick the iron plate this time, and while she regretted that she had taken the initiative to ask Ying for such an errand, she was thinking about how to get the word over.

But before she could think of an excuse, the cook who was pestered by her to ask for more vegetables couldn't wait to complain, "Miss Rongyu, this girl, this girl, she wants to add boiling water cabbage!" This dish is really not valuable, but the problem is that this dish is time-consuming! This girl has to say that she wants it at night, you say it's not deliberately embarrassing! ”

"In that case, let's send them all to the firewood room and lock them up, and I'll have someone from the torture room send over after the dinner." How much money should each of them lose, Mother Tao, you take some time to settle with their respective masters. Ji Yongjing quickly cut through the mess, "If the master behind them refuses to give money, you can directly take the list and show it to my father." ”

Mother Tao smiled and answered "yes", and then took everyone to work again.

On the contrary, it was a few maids who were extremely arrogant before, but now they all started to beg for mercy at Ji Yongjing with a wolf howl.

They didn't want to be beaten, and they didn't want their masters to know that they had messed things up, so even though they knew that there was little hope, these people couldn't help but beg for mercy.

Ji Yongjing was indifferent.

These years of living in the house have made her understand a truth, that is, soft-heartedness will never let you get such an ending as "peace of mind", most of the time, or even all of the time, your temporary unbearability often ends up becoming a sharp knife stabbing you in the chest.

Ji Yongjing wants to use all means to protect her brother, just like her brother used to spare no effort to protect her sister.

She also wants to protect her mother, so that even if she loses her father and brother, she can live comfortably under the support of her and her brother.

The little girl had a simple desire to protect her relatives, and quickly cut through the mess and directly dealt with those who dared to find unhappy subordinates for the Wu family, and then used her father to scare Ji Heng's Yingying Yanyan, so that they had to scold Tao's mother for her black heart, while gritting her teeth and taking out her private money to compensate Tao's mother, in order to calm the matter.