Chapter 4 A thorough investigation of the Hou Mansion
Mama Zeng took advantage of the opportunity to come over to Shen Miaolian with dividends, and told her how Jintong sent people to make trouble in the dining room and how to make the entire Hou Mansion jump.
Shen Miaolian became more and more proud: Idiot! Let's make trouble! Let's see how the seventh master ends when he comes back! Several people laughed and laughed at Jintong, without the slightest restraint.
Wu Ping, the concierge steward, secretly ran to Wu An to complain: "Big brother, Madame is so injured that she can't get out of bed, why don't you stop?" This...... Alas! ”
He patrols every day, and he is the easiest to be pulled!
Jintong sent him to cut down trees here and change flowers there every day, so he almost didn't ask him to help knock down and rebuild Yanbo Haomiaoxuan, and he and a patrol family were commanded to go around the mansion, disgraced!
He sighed again: "The day before yesterday, she also sent a personal maid out of the house to buy something for her, there was no waist card, of course Ah Quan stopped her, and the maid aggressively poked Ah Quan's forehead blood!" Big brother, if this lady recovers from her illness, shouldn't she take the opportunity to take revenge on him? ”
The old god of Wu'an is here: "Don't be afraid, do what you have to do." There are still seven masters in everything! You're going to get busy with you! ”
Liang happened to be on duty today, and when he saw Wu Ping coming to Wu An, he hurriedly went to get two pairs of shoes for him.
Wu Ping has not yet married a wife, and Liang's eldest sister-in-law usually takes care of as much food, clothing, shoes and socks as possible. Seeing Wu Ping sighing, he comforted him a few words.
turned around and brought tea to Wu An, she also has a stomach to say!" The third uncle is honest, I'm afraid he can't see Madame's plan. ”
"How many can you see in the house? I'm afraid I think Madame is deliberately playing a temper and making things difficult! ”
"Master, the concubine is rough and rough, in the past few months, Mama Zeng has been greedy for tens of thousands of silver with Aunt Shen, especially in the month since the seventh master left, the number of dining rooms is not clear, there are more than 10,000 taels of silver!"
"It's such an exaggeration?" Although Wu An was prepared, he was also taken aback.
"Let's talk about the blood swallow, Zeng Mama went to the warehouse to bring out the only ten catties of blood swallow left, and said that the boss of Shanhai Qizhen Zhai came there two days later, and the price was two thousand taels. But Madame's smoke is vast, and she doesn't need supplements in the dining room at all! The ten catties of bird's nest in the warehouse were hidden tightly, and they were quietly taken out one by one in the past few days. I bought the twelve pounds and seven taels, I have never seen it! One in and one out, at least three thousand taels! Liang carefully calculated to him: "Master! What exactly are you going to do? When these things come out, can you, the chief housekeeper of the Houfu, settle down? ”
Wu An pondered for a moment: "Master Hou has explained, first of all, only guard the gate of the Hou Mansion, and the business grange outside must not let the Inner Mansion interfere." As for how everyone in it makes trouble, wait for Mrs. to recover from her injuries and solve it, if Mrs. can't solve it, let's talk about it! ”
"I'm afraid that it will make too much trouble, and it will be difficult to clean up when the time comes, and it will affect the master! Besides, Aunt Shen has been a pet alone for all these years, and she has done a lot of excessive things, and the seventh master didn't say anything! The concubine saw that Mrs. was impetuous, and she was crushed by Aunt Shen after only a few days of entering the door,......"
"Be careful!" Wu An interrupted his wife: "How can a slave discuss the rights and wrongs of the master!" ”
Seeing that Liang was so frightened that he shrank back, Wu An's tone softened: "Cui'er, you just do your duty in the dining room, if someone from Mrs. asks you, you just tell the truth quietly, just be careful not to let others know." ”
"Rest assured, the concubine knows the severity. However, Chef Li also noticed that a few days ago, Mama Cai went to get meat and vegetables, and he muttered out of his words, I am afraid that Mama Cai also saw that the meat and vegetables purchased in the dining room every day were not counted. There is also the rice grain in the house, that day the concubine vaguely saw who was called the lady's subordinates, the one who taught martial arts in the torture room, climbed in from the wall like a gecko, and stayed in the granary for a long time, and the remaining grains of rice were estimated to be counted! ”
"There are many clever people in this house! Just look at where this cleverness is used! Wu An sipped tea, thinking in his heart, the first few days after his wife entered the door, she was flying and domineering, and she couldn't breathe. Aunt Shen just pretended to be Qiao, and Mrs. had to punish her several times a day. The seventh master is defending Aunt Shen, but Mrs. is not on the road, and Aunt Shen exploded every time, which made the seventh master very annoyed, just when there was a riot in southern Xinjiang, the seventh master happily led the troops there, and the lady was so angry that she didn't send him!
The seventh master has explained, let the mansion make trouble, just don't overdo it, and wait for him to make a decision when he comes back from southern Xinjiang. He thought that the seventh master was measuring whether his wife was capable enough to be the housewife of the house, so he deliberately indulged in cold watching, but he didn't expect the dining room to be so unbearable, it seems that he will check and count the accounts on the fifth day of the first month of next month, and he will knock it.
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It took more than ten days for Mama Cai to hold a stack of papers and report to Jintong in detail at 1510: "Madam, the staff of the Pingning Hou Mansion is simple, but there are only about 200 people. Jintong controlled his urge to roll his eyes, there are more than 200 people, and it is not "really" complicated.
The chief butler of the Hou Mansion, Wu An, has three assistants and 48 servants. The chief manager of the accounting room, the torture room and the Hou Mansion have personal contacts. Although the shop grange outside the house is also managed by Wu'an, the specific information can't be found, and even what kind of business is done. The four brothers of Wu'an have all followed the rebellion of the regent of Qiyeping, the eldest brother Wu Jian died to protect the seventh master, the fourth Wuning is now following the seventh master to do things, and the second Wu'an was injured in his left leg and could not go to the battlefield, so he was arranged by the seventh master to come back as the chief housekeeper of the Hou Mansion, and he was loyal. His wife helped with the dining room and revealed a lot of news to us, and it seems that she is on our side!
There are 24 people in the gatehouse, Wu Ping, the third brother of Wu An, is in charge, 12 people take turns at twelve o'clock, at least eight people guard the gate of the Hou Mansion and the two side gates, and the remaining 12 people cooperate with other housekeepers and mothers to patrol the entire periphery of the Hou Mansion throughout the day. Regardless of the side door of the gate, no one is allowed to enter or exit without a pair of cards. At the end of the night, everyone in the mansion was not allowed to move around, except for the seventh master and his wife. Wu Ping is extremely upright and has strict management.
Mama Liu was in charge of the flowers and trees, and her two helpers led 30 rough workers and 16 maids. Huamu has three maids and two maids who were bought by Aunt Shen, and helped Aunt Shen check the news everywhere. That little guy named Li Manniu is the culprit who obeyed Aunt Shen's actions and feet on the guardrail and caused his wife to fall into the water! Mama Liu knows how to make flower dew flavors and the like, she is kind-hearted, and she is also popular in the house.
Mama Chu was in charge of needlework, two assistants were in charge of the clothes and miscellaneous items of the four seasons, and led 6 rough envoys and 16 embroidery girls. There are several embroidery girls who are stammering with Aunt Shen, among which Ye Qinglan and the two girls secretly colluded with Aunt Shen, took a lot of stupid gold ornaments that were not used in the house, and took out the money to exchange money by Mama Zeng in the dining room every few days. The sewing room is already complicated, and Mama Chu's wife has been sick in bed since last winter, and she doesn't care about the end, and her assistant only sweeps the snow in front of the door, and doesn't care about everything. And Ye Qinglan is quite beautiful, her mind is smart, she is still unmarried at 24 this year, she is not a slave of the Hou Mansion, the old slave listened scatteredly, it is estimated that she wants to redeem herself and leave the house, so she is so rich.
Mama Zeng manages the dining room, three assistants are in charge of oil and rice, meat and vegetables, firewood and charcoal, 20 coarse mothers-in-law, and 8 cooks. Mama Zeng has been in cahoots with Aunt Shen over the years, except for the Wu'an family, the two chefs, and Mrs. Li's mother-in-law and a few rough mothers-in-law in the dining room, most of the rest are with Aunt Shen, especially in the past few months before and after Mrs. entered the door, she was greedy for tens of thousands of silver.
The warehouse is managed by Mama Jiang, with four assistants, 27 servants and 10 maids. Wu Qiuyun, a distant relative of Wu An, who was in charge of porcelain, stole a lot of porcelain during this time, either lying that the people coming and going during his wife's wedding were accidentally broken, or lying that his wife was sick and had too many contacts to visit people, and the number could not be sorted out for the time being. This porcelain was also taken out and sold with the help of Zeng's mother! Although Jiang's mother was serious, she didn't have much suspicion when she looked at Wu An's face.
Aunt Shen has a housekeeper and four maids, so I don't have to say much about these six old slaves!
The three of Shi Mama, Lan Xiang, and Mei Xiang in Sister Fang's place are specially pointed out to the eldest lady by the seventh master, and they are well-behaved, always stopping the eldest lady from keeping a distance from Aunt Shen, and that Xiao Sakura is the sister of Aunt Shen's eldest maid Xiaozhu, and she is also restless. He and Li Manniu, the flower and wood family, did not work quietly, and stole a lot of things from Yaxinxuan in private. The other three little maidens are quite honest.
The seventh master's dance Moxuan, four big girls and two scholars are in charge, and the rules are in order. Mr. Gongsun, a military advisor who is retired in the "Shadow Bamboo Zhai" in the house, has no quarrel with the world. These two specific circumstances could not be identified.
Lin Jiatong calculated, plus the 21 people who were married by Jintong, a full 265 people were under her control, and except for the two brothers Sister Wu An, the remaining 262 people were all domestic slaves, basically all of whom had a deed of sale, and described it simply and violently: that is, she can fight if she wants to, and kill if she wants to kill!
Europe! This evil feudal society! Lin Jiatong shouted wildly in his heart!