"I knew I would have gone to the West Courtyard." A few maids and ladies who were not bad gathered in the subordinate room and complained, "I heard that the second lady is beating and scolding her subordinates less frequently now than before." ”

"Don't be scolded or beaten, it's good to be on an errand in the West Courtyard, the second lady has to rest for two hours every afternoon, and it's dusk when she gets up. Unless the old lady has something to summon, the thunder will not move. ”

"Your news is outdated, the second lady hasn't had a lunch break for the past half a month, and she is looking for a wife candidate for Young Master Xuan! It stands to reason that our eldest son has not married, and Young Master Xuan and Young Master Lin cannot get married first past him, but the situation in our house is special, and the second lady is worried that if she waits any longer, the marriage of the two young masters in the West Courtyard should be delayed, so she discussed with the old lady and decided the family affairs of Young Master Xuan first. ”

"I also heard that the errand workers in the West Courtyard, except for the mother-in-law and the married, are all very impatient, because the second lady is going to put two people in Young Master Xuan's room first, saying that they want to pick a good plan and give birth to a good family."

When the maids talked about this topic, they were shy and shy, but they still talked vigorously.

In the past, they were afraid to go to the West Courtyard on an errand, because the second lady had a pungent temperament, and often beat and scolded the people under them, even if they didn't do anything wrong, purely because the second lady was in a bad mood, they often made them angry.

Two years ago, there was a little maid who had just been sold into the house, because she fell into the eyes of the second master, but the second lady mistakenly thought that the little maid deliberately seduced the second master, and she was stunned to reward her with 20 boards, and she was paralyzed, and finally lost a few taels of silver.

After that, the subordinates in the mansion, especially the young maids who were sold to the Xue Mansion and didn't plan to be concubines for the second master, tried every means to avoid the West Courtyard, preferring to come to the lifeless East Courtyard.

In the east courtyard, with the eldest prince unconscious and the eldest lady entering the family temple, it seemed to be drained of spiritual energy, and it seemed so depressed and lonely.

If you can't see the master, it means that there will be less rewards, unlike the West Courtyard, you can meet one or two masters when you walk on the road casually, and when they are in a good mood, they will give a reward casually, which is more than the reward you get for a year in the East Courtyard.

But in the East Courtyard, the biggest advantage is to be idle.

You don't have to say hello to your master at every turn, you won't be summoned by your master from time to time, you have little work at hand, and you're very idle at the end of the day.

Eating melon seeds, chatting, occasionally going to the small kitchen to rub some snacks that the eldest lady is not in the mood to eat, don't be too leisurely.

Until—Grandma Grandma Comes In!

First, the chef of the small kitchen was replaced, and the procurement power was in his hands; Secondly, according to the roster of their subordinates, their positions were adjusted, and they were also divided into meticulous work, and each person was on duty for four hours a day.

It seems that the working hours are much shorter than before, and they used to get up before dawn and only go to sleep when they were on errands at three o'clock.

If you really want to calculate the time, there are eight or nine hours, but the key is that you can be lazy before, show your face at three moments, and sneak back to the next room halfway to make up for a return to sleep, and the master will punish you; At noon, I came out again to show my face, and after receiving the meal, I was able to go back to the house to eat, rest, and fish......

Now don't look at the post as long as they are on the job for four hours, but within these four hours, they have to work honestly, at most they are thirsty to drink a bowl of water, and people are in a hurry to go to the toilet.

Want to sneak back to your dorm room and catch up on sleep? That's not even a thought about it!

It's not that the masters have been staring at them, but the positions arranged for them by the eldest and youngest grandmothers are simply a radish and a pit, and at a glance you can tell who is very diligent and who is lazy.

Forget it, what really makes them complain is planting trees, flowers and vegetables...... Ouch, this is the work of the maids who are on an errand in a high-ranking household, and it is the work of a peasant woman in Zhuangzi!

Pulling weeds, plowing the ground, fertilizing, sowing ...... For the first few days, they were so tired that they couldn't straighten their waists.

almost went on a collective strike and went to Rong'an Courtyard to kneel down and beg the old lady to come forward to save them.

But when she turned her head and saw that the eldest and young grandmothers had several of them alone, if it weren't for her identity, she estimated that she wouldn't need a single maid, and one person could easily get that piece of land, right?

“……”

The maids were instantly dumbfounded.

The masters are so hard-working, what qualifications do they have to go to the old lady to complain?

If the young grandmother is angered, with her eye-catching strength, will she throw them out of the East Courtyard one by one?

I had to swallow my anger and continue to do it.

But it is impossible to say in my heart that there is no complaint.

No, when I was resting, I gathered around and complained, and even envied the maids on errands in the West Courtyard, not only did they not have to work so hard, but they also had the possibility of becoming Young Master Xuan's maids.

"What are you hiding in the house muttering? Grandma told us to go to Lanyueju for a meeting! The maid in charge of running errands and delivering messages in Xu Yin's courtyard went from dormitory to dormitory to convey the master's instructions, "At three o'clock, Lanyue lives on the lawn on the east side." Everyone is required to attend, no late! ”

Why did Xu Yin gather everyone?

——Commendation meeting!

She occasionally heard the complaints of the people, thinking about these days, everyone has really worked hard.

Although the working hours strictly abide by the eight-hour working system, and everyone is given one day off every week, the workload is indeed a bit large, especially at the moment, to build a glass house to grow greenhouse vegetables, there is no manpower, and it is impossible to do it.

She also wanted to ask a few other hospitals to borrow some people to help, but the people in the East Courtyard still wanted to change jobs? How can this work?

Therefore, she referred to the later generations of enterprises that liked to give their employees chicken blood, and regarded the East Courtyard as a small private enterprise, and held a mobilization meeting and excellent commendation meeting on a regular basis.

After all the people in the East Courtyard arrived, she first expressed her gratitude to everyone, and she didn't need money to praise it, just pick beautiful praise and say it!

Secondly, she paid out of her own pocket, prepared a few bonuses, purchased a number of small prizes, and awarded diligence awards to those who had outstanding performance in the past period. Finally, there are three draws per person.

She asked the carpenter to drive out a wooden jackpot plate, which was divided into grids of different sizes for everyone to draw and play.

Everyone can draw and everyone has a prize, which is nothing more than the difference between good and bad prizes.

Each person has three chances, what prize is drawn to cash on the spot, the highest value is the golden bean the size of a grain of rice, followed by the silver fruit, these two prizes correspond to the thinnest grid of the prize plate; In addition, there are hairpins, fabrics, shoe uppers, handkerchiefs, sachets, rouge, pipes, tobacco leaves, and so on. The value of the prizes is small, but varied.

Looking at it this way, it's a bit like a company engaging in team building...... In short, a big mess of stew.

But don't say it, employees...... Ahem, people's enthusiasm for work has indeed been mobilized.

At least no one complained that they wanted to use the accumulated silver to carry out activities, and they didn't want to stay in the East Courtyard, and would rather go to the West Courtyard, where they would be beaten and scolded by the second lady. (End of chapter)