Chapter 217: Buying People
It turns out that this Miss Li Er's father Li Yan is a well-known wealthy businessman in the capital, and it is not an exaggeration to have a lot of wealth, but what makes the Li family famous is not because they have a lot of money, but because the Li family is slamming the door. It is said that the Li family is so rich, but the house they live in is an ordinary three-entry courtyard, and it has not been renovated since they lived in, and it looks a little dilapidated on the outside, so I really can't imagine that a famous rich merchant lives here.
Their family is even more bizarre, in order to save money, almost every meal is green vegetables and radish, and meat is only eaten once in a few days, and this Li Yan often teaches his children to save, so unless they go out shopping, the Li family will dress a little more decently, and in their own homes, they all wear old clothes.
The subordinates in the family are all wearing clothes with patches, and once anyone is wearing clothes without patches and is seen by Li Yan, Li Yan will be furious.
It is not allowed to be lit in the house when it is dark, and not a single lantern will be hung in the yard. Even in order to save money, Li Yan married a daughter-in-law, gave birth to a daughter, and a son.
After listening to the things about the Li family, Liu Meiniang also opened her mouth in surprise, this degree of slamming the door is better than that of Grande.
This Miss Li Er came to Linlang Pavilion the day before yesterday to buy a hosta, and a hairpin was repaid for a long time with Lan Aya. In the end, Lan Aya gave in a little, but she didn't expect that Miss Li Er would come to Linlang Pavilion with the hairpin to make Linlang Pavilion lose money, saying that the hairpin was bad.
In fact, Lan Aya didn't want to entangle too much with this Miss Li Er just now, the big deal was that she really lost money, let this Miss Li Er get out, Lan Aya didn't have much patience to fight with Miss Li Er anymore, but she didn't expect Liu Meiniang to come, so she sent it away in a few words.
In fact, Liu Meiniang can probably think that maybe this girl bought a hairpin back with joy, but it was too expensive for her father, so the girl had to come up with this way to get the silver back.
After coming out of Linlang Pavilion, Liu Meiniang stretched her waist and finally finished turning the shop at home, she was indeed a little tired.
"Mama Yang is okay?" Liu Meiniang turned her head and asked.
"The old slave is fine." Mama Yang followed Liu Meiniang's side and replied with a smile.
In just a few days of getting along, Mama Yang is very satisfied with this lady, not only has a degree of advance and retreat, but also behaves generously, and is very careful.
She was the person who was next to the old princess before, and she also followed the nobles of the royal group when she was a child.
I heard that His Majesty gave the palace to a country and set up a general secretary for war exploits, Mama Yang was still a little worried that this general secretary was not easy to serve, but she didn't expect that Zhang Jilin would have almost no trouble living in the mansion, and they were happy and relaxed.
When she proposed to buy some maids to come back to serve, Zhang Jilin said that when Liu Meiniang came to the capital, let Liu Meiniang watch it, so up to now, there is no maid in Zhang Jilin's house, and there are only a few maids waiting for them, as well as the rough mother-in-law in the kitchen.
Liu Meiniang came to the house, Mama Yang was surprised when she saw Liu Meiniang at first sight, she followed the princess into the palace several times, and saw the concubine from afar, even if it was many years ago, Mama Yang still remembered, I didn't expect Liu Meiniang and the concubine to be so similar.
At that time, before Mama Yang had time to tell Zhang Jirin, Zhang Jilin and Liu Meiniang were called into the palace by Emperor Changping.
After getting along in the past few days, Mama Yang is full of praise for Liu Meiniang, such a master, where can you see that she is a country girl, she is more dignified than most of the ladies in the capital, and the other two young ladies in the house, Zhang Dandan and Zhang Tongtong, are also very polite and decent.
"Then let's go around, I want to find two more shops on the street to open a store." Liu Meiniang seemed to be asking for Mama Yang's consent.
"Everything is at Madame's orders." Mama Yang's heart warmed, Liu Meiniang respected her so much, which still touched her very much.
A few people turned around the street several times, it is impossible to find a shop on the main street, the main street has a good geographical location, and the second is a large flow of people, there must be no spare shop, so Liu Meiniang simply went to the auxiliary street. It really quickly allowed her to find two shops.
One is on the street of the auxiliary street, and the other is at the turn of the main street and the auxiliary street, which can be regarded as two feng shui treasures.
Liu Meiniang plans to open the supermarket at the corner, where there is an intersection, and the flow of people is okay, and the location of this shop is relatively large, and the space for transformation is also very large, and the hot pot restaurant is opened on the street.
It's just that Liu Meiniang didn't expect that the shops in the capital were too expensive, and the two shops cost her one-third of her property.
Seeing that Liu Meiniang took two shops as soon as she made a move, Mama Yang was still slightly surprised.
And it can be seen that Liu Meiniang is not brainless, and her two shops are already the two most cost-effective on the streets of Beijing. I thought a little more highly of Liu Meiniang in my heart.
After these things were dealt with, Liu Meiniang finally returned to the house with Zhang Jihan and Mama Yang.
After Liu Meiniang woke up after resting for a while, Mama Yang found Liu Meiniang and said that she asked Liu Meiniang to choose some girls to serve.
"Ma'am. I have already asked Yazi to lead people to stand in the courtyard, and Madame can personally go out and choose a few to serve by her side, and if Madame doesn't mind, she can also be done by the old slave. ”
Mama Yang said respectfully.
"It's okay, I'll just go out and take a look, but I don't know how to look at people if I have to bother Mama Yang." Liu Meiniang smiled sweetly. Mama Yang immediately realized that Liu Meiniang didn't know how to look at people, and it was clearly a hint to Mama Yang that she would hand over the identity of the housekeeper to her.
Although Liu Meiniang's family had not moved in yet, Mama Yang also acted as a big mama, but now that Liu Meiniang is here, the palace already has a hostess, and Liu Meiniang gave the identity of the big mama to Mama Yang again, and the two cannot be the same.
"Hey, the old slave must take it seriously to help Mrs. check it." Mama Yang said firmly.
The two walked to the center of the courtyard, and there were people standing in the courtyard neatly.
"Madam, according to the rules, there should be eight maids around Madame, two big maids, four maids, and two rough maids. The old lady needs two grandmothers and six maids, and the two young ladies too, but two young ladies have already pointed out four nurturing grandmothers to the two young ladies two days ago, so there is no need for grandmothers around the two young ladies. There is also the second young master, the girl needs four, and the scholar two. Mama Yang stood beside Liu Meiniang and whispered. Liu Meiniang nodded and threw a grateful look at Mama Yang.
She will pick people, but according to the rules, she will not be able to.
Fortunately, Mama Yang told her all in one go.
"How about Mama Yang stay by my side." Liu Meiniang asked as she went down the steps.
"The old slave thanked Madame." Mama Yang said excitedly. Of course I do, I can stay by the side of the housewife and serve, who doesn't want to. Liu Meiniang nodded. When I walked to the middle of the courtyard, I was greeted by Renyazi.
"The old slave greets Madame." Ren Yazi is a woman who looks to be in her thirties, and she looks very good, which seems to be much more formal than what she saw in Qingshi County at that time.
"Madam, you see, the first three rows of these girls, are specially trained, many of them have been in a big family before, have a certain experience, there are also some directly direct Miss from a big family, and then the family fell in the middle of the road, only to come here, the middle three rows are some little girls who come to run errands, all of them are very clever. There are also five rows in the back, all of which are housekeepers and grandmothers, and if the lady needs them, they can also be picked up together. ”
Ren Yazi stepped forward and enthusiastically introduced, Liu Meiniang looked around, sure enough, the first few rows and the back rows were different, the first few rows of these girls, not to mention how they worked, looked very thoughtful, and they looked pleasing to the eye.
"Hmm." Liu Meiniang nodded and motioned for Mama Yang to go over with her to pick up.
"I've seen Madame." Walking in front of those people, those people were slightly blessed and gave Liu Meiniang a salute.
Liu Meiniang turned around twice, and soon picked out a large number of people.
"You, you. And you, a few of you stand out. Liu Meiniang ordered everyone to stand out, with a happy look on their faces.
There was also a very good-looking woman who looked at Liu Meiniang with a little disdain in her eyes.
"Except for the ones I ordered, I've got them all." Liu Meiniang's words surprised the dozen or so people who had just stood up.
When Ren Yazi saw the people standing outside, he gave Liu Meiniang a thumbs up in his heart. Liu Meiniang's eyes are still very vicious, and the more than ten people who just pointed out, especially women, have three or four of them who are all superior, and they are indeed young ladies from some large families in the past, and one is the top brand of the former Qinglou, and later fell here for various reasons.
Liu Meiniang doesn't dislike good-looking women, there are several good-looking women in the ones she stayed, but Liu Meiniang prefers good-looking and peaceful people, the ones she just pointed out are restless when they look at their faces. Liu Meiniang is not a fool, doesn't she add chaos to the family by leaving this kind of person at home?
"Why don't you want us?" A woman with a gorgeous appearance and a little pampering between her eyebrows was the first to ask.
"Why? I'm the mistress of this house. Liu Meiniang replied to the woman who had just spoken in the same tone, which sounded a little arrogant and unreasonable.
"You! I'm not convinced! The woman was choked by Liu Meiniang and couldn't speak, but she still said confidently that she was not convinced.
"Then you won't accept it." Liu Meiniang didn't look at the woman again.
looked up by chance, but saw Zhang Jirin coming in from the door, and Liu Meiniang showed a smile in her eyes.
"Madam, Shaker can play the piano and sing, and also do some needlework, so you can stay with Shaker." A woman in a purple shirt suddenly knelt down for Liu Meiniang, with tears in her eyes and good looks. I can't help but feel a little pitiful.
As soon as the woman named Shao'er knelt down, Zhang Jirin walked to Liu Meiniang's side.
Seeing Zhang Jirin, the maids in the courtyard who were selected by Liu Meiniang did not squint, and they didn't raise their heads, but the few who pointed out had spring water in their eyes.
They didn't expect that this general director, who was rumored to be from the mountains, would be so young and handsome, and they all looked at Zhang Jilin intently.