Chapter 170
"Now that Xiangru has made a decision, I won't mention this matter anymore, let's see her future creation, now let's enjoy the 'flowers', otherwise we should go back in a while, it's rare to come here, it's a pity not to see a few pots of 'flowers'." Mrs. Xie took Mrs. Xiang's hand and returned to the sea of 'flowers' with a smile.
Xiangru accompanied the two wives to look at the 'flowers' for a while, listened to their gossip, and laughed at the 'insertion' department. Soon after, the two wives met an acquaintance, and then the acquaintance called an acquaintance, and Xiangru did not mix, said hello to Mrs. Xie and retreated, and took Osmanthus 'Flower' Xiaojie to look at 'Flower' elsewhere, and then returned to the mountain 'gate' at the appointed time to gather.
Although there is an agreed meeting time, it is difficult to get out of the 'door' where can the 'women' of the Xie family come back so punctually, and the wife of the Xie family has a choice with an acquaintance, and they can't get out for a while, so the 'women' who returned to the assembly point first went to the temple fair by the way, and if they have children, they will buy some small toys and bring them back to play with their children.
Xiangru is more 'sexual' bold, she walks around in front of various food stalls, tastes this and that, and after a few stalls, she eats so much that her stomach is round, and she goes back to gather with the large army with satisfaction, and gets in the car to go home.
Chongyang is the same as Qingming, it is a statutory holiday, three days off, Xiangru naturally followed to enjoy the holiday, seized the rare leisure, went to the street to buy furniture, and talked to the shopkeeper of the carpentry shop, the old furniture in the backyard that is not used is discounted to offset the payment for the new furniture.
This is also because the price of the shop is good, and the businessmen of the Mandarin Duck Tea House on Gujing Street have heard of it, and they know that the former owner's family has good furniture, and the shopkeeper of the carpentry shop is willing to take over, otherwise it will be all tattered, and no one will want to throw it away.
Xiangru wants a large amount of furniture, just to do the furniture on the 'spent' for a few days, naturally Xiangru to go to work to take care of it, can only 'hand' to the osmanthus 'flower' Xiaojie full deal with, a few days later Xiangru rest again, to the backyard acceptance, up and down the circle down, satisfied with the wood shop to settle the bill.
The backyard layout was completed first, and Xiangru's work was half completed, and then for the rest of the month, Xiangru was busy designing dishes while waiting for Xiang Fei's new news, writing a lot of draft dishes in one go, and then slowly choosing.
At the end of the year, it is a good time to dig people into the corner, Xiang Fei has read Xiangru's plan, and knows that he has very high requirements for the cook, he also agrees with this, the cook is very important to the restaurant and restaurant, so after releasing the news that He Xiangru, the wife of He Xiangru, is going to open a 'medicine' restaurant, he began to pry people around the corner to dig up excellent 'medicine' cooks, and the owners of the 'medicine' restaurants have promised the benefits of processing money over the years to keep people, which has increased the difficulty of poaching people from Xiang Fei.
Xiang Fei was naturally reluctant to lower his requirements, so he wrote to Xiangru to tell her that the recruitment of cooks was going a little hard, and told her to calm down, and the shopkeeper and the assistant cook were ready.
Xiangru took the letter and thought for a while, then wrote back, telling Xiang Fei that he was willing to take out a bonus to the shopkeeper, the cook, and the guys, the better the business of the 'medicine' restaurant in the future, the more money they can share, and the reluctance of people to change the owner is nothing more than dislike that the new owner's bid is too low, not so much how much salary they give to the family every month, but how much they can earn every year.
Xiang Fei received the letter, and decided to take out a dividend to the shopkeeper to share their dividends, so a new round of pry war began, this time Xiang Fei sent a lobbyist also found the target object's family, bullying the 'women' and children have no knowledge, in the name of the capital to the family, let the family do the target work.
In this way, several people in the same line of targets finally nodded their heads and agreed to sign employment contracts for various reasons, under repeated persuasion from family members and lobbyists.
Xiang Fei got the three employment contracts that his subordinates 'handed over', and breathed a sigh of relief, finally completing all the work he was responsible for before the scheduled date.
Xiangru received a notice from Xiang Fei that "the personnel are in place", and the preparations for moving here were immediately put on the agenda, and she instructed Gui 'Hua' Xiaojie to pack her luggage.
Mrs. Xie sent the chief steward to find Xiangru, it is not yet the winter solstice, and she is not in a hurry to move, mainly because she promised to pick a few good people for Xiangru to bring to call, but there is no news yet, and Renyazi has not brought anyone yet. Renyazi is familiar with the habits of slaves in large households, and if it is not a good product, it will not be sent to a family like the Xie family, so if you want to be a good slave, you must be patient.
Xiangru thanked the eldest lady for her kindness, since there was still time, she might as well wait, but this wait went directly to the end of October, during which the Xie family finally received a batch of satisfactory new slaves after several selections, and arranged for centralized training.
This training was gone for half a month, but fortunately, Xiangru didn't wait, during this time, she set the recipe for the whole winter, wrote it into a formal menu, and waited for someone to make it and hang it on the wall in the future.
Finally, when the new slave was trained, the Xie family deliberately chose a rest day for Xiangru, and the lady in charge sent someone to invite Xiangru to pick someone in the courtyard of the inferior slave.
Xiangru brought the osmanthus 'flower' Xiaojie to the past, since it is a working guy who wants to eat and live together in the future, she can pick the best that everyone can get along, otherwise if there are conflicts between the next world from time to time, she will be irritable.
When Xiangru came to the small courtyard, the chief housekeeper had already arrived first, and was sitting under the porch eating tea, there were several housekeepers and ladies standing beside her, and the men and women in the middle of the courtyard were lined up and stood in two rows.
Xiangru went over to say hello to the lady in charge first, and the two sides exchanged pleasantries for a while, and the lady in charge took Xiangru's men to the courtyard and asked her to pick people at will.
"It's a coincidence, we are buying a new slave, the Xie family's special 'door' in the field used to rent out the courtyard has recently been rented for a long time, and the people have brought their own subordinates, and they don't want the old subordinates in the courtyard to serve, so they only left the chief steward and a few old servants. The manager wrote a letter to report the matter, and his wife took them all back, saying that it was for you to pick together, after all, the old man is familiar with the rules, and it is more comfortable to use than the newcomer. Would you like to take a look? ”
"Okay, there's Aunt Lao."
The lady in charge made a slight gesture to her subordinates, and the housekeepers and ladies immediately came over, divided the people in the courtyard again, and stood with their hands tied, waiting for Xiangru's selection.
"Look, these are the girls who came back from the other courtyard."
Six or seven girls stood in a horizontal row, lowered their eyes and pursed their lips, all of them looked docile and well-behaved, some tall and some short, some of them were old and some were young, the big ones were only fifteen or sixteen, and the small ones were only twelve or thirteen, all of them looked of a medium level, and they all had a pair of rough hands that were used to work.
Xiangru stopped in front of each girl for a moment, looked at their looks and figures, asked their age and place of origin, listened to their voices, and then walked away to see the next one.
The courtyard was silent for a while, no one spoke or moved, only Xiangru was slowly picking carefully.
But unexpectedly, He Xiaojie suddenly 'agitated' and broke the peace in the courtyard, only to see him pounce on this group of girls, dragged two girls out of the queue, took her hands, jumped to his feet and asked, "Are you Erni and Sanni?" He Erni, He Sanni? ”
The two girls seemed to be frightened, and were stunned for a while, before they nodded weakly under He Xiaojie's repeated questioning, "Yes, we are He Erni and He Sanni." ”
"Second sister! Third sister! It's me, He Xiaojie, your brother He Xiaojie! ”
This sudden accident not only made the two girls dumbfounded, made Xiangru frown, but also made the whole yard fry.
The face of the lady in charge and her subordinates changed greatly, and they hurriedly came over to 'figure' understand the cause and effect, Xiangru raised her hand to stop the interference of the lady in charge, and let this show of recognizing relatives continue.
In front of him, He Xiaojie's sister and brother have completed the important link of recognizing their relatives, the two girls recognized their younger brother, and the three of them were squatting on the ground with their heads in their arms and crying.
Gui 'Hua' quietly glanced at Xiangru, and saw that her face was as heavy as water, her eyes were sharp, she didn't dare to speak, and stood honestly in place.
Taking advantage of the fact that the three people on the opposite side were crying and forgot the occasion, Xiangru quickly sorted out her thoughts.
She remembered that she entrusted the Xiangjia branch to secretly take over the two half-sisters who were sold by He Xiaoqiang and sent them to Xie's house, and later Xie Ziyan told herself that the two half-sisters had been sent to the other courtyard to be girls, presumably they went to the other courtyard that was used for rent.
The lady in charge also recalled the past at this time, she was the manager of the year, and it was she who personally gave the order after getting the instructions of the eldest lady to send these two girls to the other courtyard, but she didn't expect to go around and around these two girls and came back, and blamed herself for being confused, she didn't think that this matter was in such a big 'mess' for a while, and she regretted stomping her feet on the side.
Xiangru hugged her arms and waited for a while, seeing that the three sisters and brothers couldn't stop crying for a while, she didn't have the patience to continue watching, and turned to the little girl's side to pick the little girl first.
I didn't know that the little guy hadn't finished reading it all, He Xiaojie suddenly rushed to Xiangru's feet from behind, knelt down and kowtowed vigorously, and his series of coherent movements made the courtyard that had finally quieted down a little 'chaotic'.
"Xiaojie, what are you doing here?" Xiangru pretended not to know.
"Big sister, please." He Xiaojie knew that this request was unspeakable, and all he could do was kneel for a long time.
Xiangru ignored He Xiaojie, but turned her face to the lady in charge, "Auntie, are those two girls a living deed or a dead deed?" ”
The lady in charge immediately looked for her subordinates, and then a housekeeper lady opened the roster and checked, "Back to the girl, He Erni's sisters are all death deeds." ”
"Big sister, please, take my second sister and third sister." He Xiaojie begged bitterly.
"And then? Put it home? Xiangru crossed her arms and looked at the half-brother condescendingly and expressionlessly.
"Xiaojie doesn't dare, I just ask the big sister to let our sister and brother serve the big sister, Xiaojie doesn't dare to have any non-specific requirements, the second sister and the third sister are all innocent, please the big sister." He Xiaojie suddenly kowtowed violently.
When everyone in the courtyard saw such a child pleading so sincerely, they all looked sideways and couldn't bear to look at each other.
Over there, He Erni and He Sanni sisters ran over, knelt down with their younger brother and begged Xiangru to accept their sisters, they must serve with all their hearts, and even swore a poisonous oath never to have two hearts, and never find any reason to ask the eldest sister to let them go back, they are willing to serve He Xiangru for the rest of their lives, if they violate their oath, they wish that the sky will hit five thunders and thunder forever.
Xiangru crossed her arms and said nothing, she wanted to calculate the pros and cons, and ignored the three people on the ground kowtowing like pounding garlic.
"Girl, say something." Osmanthus 'flower' whispered.
"What shall I say? Well? Xiangru asked rhetorically, and the osmanthus 'flower' was dumb.
The lady in charge stepped forward, "The girl is a good master, tolerant to the subordinates, since these two girls are half-sisters, the girl should be regarded as a good deed, accept them and let them go home to marry, let's pick a few more good girls to send the girl." ”
"No, we don't go home, we don't get married, we serve the girl willingly, we can do anything, we don't go home." The Ho sisters wept, and they still remember being sold by their brother, it was a nightmare.
"Big sister, I will never tell anyone, please take the second sister and the third sister, please." He Xiaojie knew that with the situation of the family, these two sisters would definitely not be able to escape the result of being sold for the second time when they went home, and it would be best to stay with the eldest sister when their relatives were forced to separate again, and he somewhat understood the reason for the hesitation of the half-sister, and promised again and again.
"That's what you say, and you do what you say." The play is enough, and Xiangru will not hesitate.
"We will do it, we will never have two hearts, we will do our best to serve the girl, and the girl will do whatever we want us to do, and we will never complain." The He sisters were full of tears and 'mixed' with the soil, and they couldn't cry with joy.
"Okay, just do what you say, osmanthus 'flower', they 'hand' it over to you for training."
"Yes, girl." Gui 'Hua' walked up to the two sisters, "Get up." ”
"Thank you, girl, thank you." The He sisters and brothers kowtowed to Xiangru three more times before they supported each other to stand up and happily wiped their faces with their sleeves.
The lady in charge took out a handkerchief and wiped her eyes, looking moved, "The girl is kind-hearted, but it's okay like this, they are all their own people, and they will only serve more dedicatedly." It's not too early, so let's pick a few more girls. ”
Xiangru instantly restrained her emotions, and 'spent' for a while to pick two pleasing little guys, both of whom are sixteen years old, belonging to the tiger, the two are only a few months apart from their birthdays, and they are sold for five years.
After picking people, Xiangru thanked the lady in charge, took the deed of sale of the four people, and returned to the residence with the newly collected slaves.
And behind him, the lady in charge gave these subordinates a gag order, strictly prohibiting them from telling what had just happened, and once the house heard a word about today's events in the future, no matter who said it, everyone was driven out of the house.
These newcomers did not dare to disobey the order, so they only agreed, and then under the assignment of the housekeepers, they went to the new post to officially work
Entering the 'Door'