After instructing the maid to clean up all the broken porcelain pieces on the ground, Aunt Hong ordered the housekeeper to take some scald cream and silver money to the maid, and the maid got the scalding cream and two hanging money, so she retreated with interest.

After retiring from the maids who were waiting in the house, Aunt Hong picked up the account books that Gu Lihua had just thrown on the ground and re-stacked them on the bookshelf behind Gu Lihua.

"Why is the master so angry, those village heads, the lord doesn't know, they all followed his wife to marry. They are the people of the wife, and their hearts are naturally oriented towards the wife. I don't know how much of the village's harvest last year went into my wife's pocket?" Aunt Hong said a few words lightly, and turned the spearhead of this matter to the Cai family.

But Gu Lihua is not stupid, naturally she knows that Aunt Hong wants to cause trouble, and wants him to borrow this matter to anger Cai's idea.

But how could he just do what she wanted?

Gu Lihua glanced at Aunt Hong intently, and when she saw that she was also looking at herself, her mouth moved slightly, as if she still had something to say to him.

"Hongmei, why are you still so restrained when you serve me by my side these days? If you have something in your heart, speak up. ”

As soon as the words fell, seeing that Aunt Hong was silent for a long time, Gu Lihua said again.

"If you want to say that these things were all done by the wife at the behest of the bankers, you don't need to say any more. Those Zhuang heads were carefully selected by the old lady, and the original Zhuang heads that Cai's married had been replaced by the old lady, and now the Zhuang head of Yanyu Villa is still her Cai's marriage. ”

Hearing Gu Lihua say this, Aunt Hong had to bury what she wanted to say in her heart again.

She wanted to blame Cai's head for this matter, but now that Gu Lihua had said that those village heads were carefully selected by the old lady, she couldn't say that Cai's was not.

Since the head of the village was chosen by the old lady, and such a thing happened, I don't know if he reported it to the old lady?

Aunt Hong thought so in her heart, and still asked. "Master, since you said that the old lady was elected in this village, and now that such a thing has happened, I wonder if the old man sent someone to inform the old lady?"

"The old lady's body is getting worse and worse, so I invited Dr. Qin to take a look tonight, prescribed a few pairs of medicines, and has rested. How can it be good to disturb her old man's dream for such a trivial matter, and the old lady can't work hard, you still have to pay more attention to these things. ”

Gu Lihua said this, and couldn't help but look at Hongmei a few more times.

Originally, he thought that Cai's life would be short, so he accepted Hongmei as a concubine, but he didn't think that Cai's had been holding on, and Dr. Qin had been hanging with medicine, so Cai's could live until now.

Cai's illness is not good, the old lady is not well-bodied, and she can't stand the fatigue, and the big and small things in this house will inevitably be handed over to Hongmei to deal with.

But Hongmei has followed the old lady to learn how to be a housekeeper these days, and she can't even read the account books, can she take charge of this big Gu Mansion?

Gu Lihua didn't worry about him, so he specially took the account book home, planning to find out, but who knew that the stewards below were not perfunctory, the expenditure was not written clearly, and the income was not clearly written, so he was angry!

"Is the master planning to let me take the old lady to take care of this big Gu Mansion?" Aunt Hong smiled a little smugly and asked tentatively.

Gu Lihua only said 'um' and didn't say it explicitly.

But Aunt Hong thought that Gu Lihua was acquiescing, and thought that Gu Lihua agreed to her to be the housekeeper.

A few days ago, Cai's illness gradually improved, Gu Lihua sent someone to send the master of the cards to the past, and now Cai's is not good, the old lady is not happy, this hand of cards will return to her hands sooner or later.

"Since the master wants me to have more snacks, and without the master's pair of cards, I don't have to allocate people. It's just that now the head of the card is in the wife's place, Hongmei is not good enough to send someone to ask, and asked the master to call someone over, so that the wife will send the master of the card over. ”

When Aunt Hong said this, the smile on her face was already overflowing.

Hearing this, Gu Lihua also felt that it was better to get the master's pair of cards back first, as for whether to give it to Aunt Hong in the end, it depended on the meaning of the old lady. If the old lady has a competent maid by her side, she can give her the key to the right card and she will be the housekeeper on her behalf.

Aunt Hong's housekeeping ability is still insufficient, and handing over the key to the right card early will only make a mistake.

It's just that after Zijuan left, I don't know if there is a competent maid in the old lady's house?

After letting Aunt Hong go, Gu Lihua ordered someone to invite Ma Ci, the housekeeper of the outer courtyard, and Zhao's mother, the housekeeper, to invite her.

Separated by layers of bead curtains, Gu Lihua sat on the boxwood Taishi chair inside the bead curtain, while the steward Ma Ci and Zhao's mother stood outside the bead curtain, listening to Gu Lihua's orders.

The housekeeper Ma Ci has followed the second room for decades, and when the old lady was there, he bought the people who served in the house.

If you talk about seniority, his seniority is also a round older than Gu Lihua, seeing Gu Lihua in the bead curtain was silent, Ma Ci was in a hurry, stroked his long beard, and hurriedly said.

"I don't know if the master called us over, did he have any orders?"

Gu Lihua coughed first, and then said.

"Steward Ma, you have been serving in the mansion for all these years, and you have followed the ups and downs. Now that my wife is seriously ill, the old lady is not well, and no one in the house has come out to preside over the overall situation, if you have any suitable candidates, you can tell me. ”

Ma Ci and Mother Zhao glanced at each other, Mother Zhao nodded slightly, it turned out that the master called the two of them over for this matter.

There is a shortage of masters in the house who are in charge of the overall situation, and they can choose one of the first-class maids around the old lady to come out capably, and it will not be long before they go to the top. Zijuan, who was in charge before, isn't this the case?

"Master, there are so many capable maids around the old lady, you might as well pick and choose, choose a maid who can convince the public, and take the steward for the wife."

Mrs. Zhao said carefully, for fear that she would say something wrong and annoy Gu Lihua.

After listening to Mrs. Zhao's opinion, Gu Lihua wanted to hear Ma Ci. Turning his head to him, he asked, "Is there a candidate in the horse's mind?"

The old man called him and Mrs. Zhao to come in tonight, not just for the person who was elected to be the housekeeper, and the two of them went to assist her. The maids in the old lady's house are all shrewd and capable, and they are deeply favored by the old lady.

With them in charge of the house, all of them have to stand aside. But the old man didn't mean that those maids would be the housekeepers, and his heart was clearly towards others.

Thinking of this, Ma Ci immediately recommended someone.

"Master, Aunt Hong has been learning housekeeping with the old lady for several days, and she must have become proficient. With Aunt Hong as the housekeeper, plus the two of us old guys watching from the sidelines, there should be no mistakes. ”

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