Jia Xiucai's EQ is as low as the basement, and he is silent and angry on weekdays.

He was already interested in house repair, and was quite talented in house repair, drafting, and supervision.

Steward Zhuo was willing to help him, so he did his best to find a group of top craftsmen for Jia Xiucai

On the other hand, craftsmen have a natural fear of scholars, and Jia Xiucai is straightforward, hard-spoken, and more authoritative.

With many efforts, Jia Xiucai is like a fish in water in this matter.

Choose an auspicious day in the near future, and you can start work.

Jia Xiucai's design concept is based on the existing prototype of the house, with slight upgrades and adjustments.

He believes that the original water and mountain scenery can be used, and the original house does not need to be greatly modified, only need to be reinstalled in some key places, and more effort is put into the interior decoration of the house.

So, along the wall of the house, the original sparse green plants were removed, replaced with various flowers that women like, and the fragrance of flowers was overflowing when they walked into the house.

The old parts of the main body of the house have been renovated, and the wooden pillar roof has been painted with new paint.

Crack tiles are replaced.

Cracked wood, nailed and sanded.

The walls of the house were repainted.

The slightly damaged bricks and tiles in the ground were all replaced.

Since the function of the house has been changed from residence to operation, the use function of the three-entry house has been redivided.

This three-hall house can accommodate 1~2 tables in each hall and serves as the main dining place.

The wings on both sides of the hall are available for the ladies to rest.

The side hall of the house allows people and maids to chat and wait, and they can also place clothes, gift boxes and other sundries.

The doors between each entrance to the house are sealed to reduce mutual interference.

In addition, it is connected by a separate corridor, which can accommodate the flow of people between the front and back yards, but will not disturb the guests who are dining in the hall.

Zhao Sichen spent three whole days, following Jia Xiucai, touching and looking at every inch of the three-way house, circled out the damaged and old problems one by one, and repaired them in place.

Jia Xiucai said to Zhao Sichen: "The kitchen is the key. Although the original kitchen could make meals for dozens of people at the same time, it was wide and rough, suitable for stir-frying in large pots.

Although we are a restaurant, the number of diners is small, and the food is fine.

Therefore, I recommend dividing a kitchen into several small kitchens. ”

Zhao Sichen was smart, and after Jia Xiucai dialed it slightly, he immediately understood: "Yes, let's change this big kitchen into three small kitchens."

A small kitchen for pastries, a small kitchen for steaming, a small kitchen for stir-frying.

The first is to improve the kitchen environment, the second is to avoid mixing of personnel, and the third is to avoid odor transfer between small kitchens. ”

Jia Xiucai smiled: "Miss Zhao is smart. ”

The two men went around the kitchen and went out through the back door of the house, finding that there was still an open space outside the house.

Jia Xiucai said: "We used the vacant land behind the house, paved it with gravel, and planted a row of bamboo around it.

The bamboo is clear and high, showing the gentleman's grace.

- Although Zhao Sichen and Jia Xiucai said that most of the guests who came were women.

However, the women of the family have been exposed to it since childhood, and there is no shortage of talented and learned people, and many people respect the integrity of bamboo.

Zhao Sichen suddenly remembered Guo Anyang, and said with a smile: "You scholars, you are all good bamboos." ”

Jia Xiucai smiled and said, "Bamboo grows fast!"

It's late spring and early summer, and in one to a month, the bamboo forests can grow lush and green, just in time for summer viewing.

If you plant a row of sparse sparse saplings, by the day of opening, you may not be able to grow an inch, wouldn't it be shabby. ”

Zhao Sichen looked at Jia Xiucai with a little surprise: "Jia Xiucai, you have made progress, and now you know how to turn around when you think about problems." ”

Jia Xiucai said with a smile: "If you don't want sparse small saplings, it's better to transplant tall trees."

It's just that buying and transplanting tall trees is another price. ”

Zhao Sichen was silent and didn't dare to make fun of Jia Xiucai anymore.

How much silver can be left in her purse depends on how much Jia Xiucai is willing to leave for her.

At this time, you must not be fat.

When Jia Xiucai talked about this, he was angry: "The cost of a tall tree is twenty taels of silver!" It's worth a year's worth of living for my family of four! These profiteers! ”

When Zhao Sichen heard Jia Xiucai say this, he hid his face and smiled.

Just now, he praised Jia Xiucai's emotional intelligence and became high, and he suddenly returned to the original state.

Scolding profiteers?

His owner, Miss Zhao, is also a businessman's family, and soon the restaurant opened, and he is also a profiteer.

Jia Xiucai scolded and scolded his own owner.

Having said that, Zhao Sichen found that this time Jia Xiucai was invited to design and supervise the work, which was the right invitation.

Not only is it talented, but it also knows how to be thrifty.

Thinking about how to do things cheaply and beautifully.

Rao is like this, and the money for the renovation is still flowing out.

Zhao Sichen calculated a little, and the decoration alone cost two thousand taels of silver.

This is still a large number, scattered and fragmented materials, tips for craftsmen, and daily eating and drinking, all of which are not counted.

Steward Zhuo is very active, and he runs to the new house every day to give Jia Xiucai a hand.

When the renovation project of the house was almost done, he hurriedly purchased a series of tables, chairs, window screens, cushions and other soft furnishings, and spent thousands of taels of silver like flowing water.

Zhao Sichen looked at the silver in his hand, which was getting older and smaller, his heart was like a knife, and his old tears were all over the place.

The first fortune she made in her life, before she could cover it in her purse, she left like flowing water.

Seeing that January had passed and the renovation of the house was nearing completion, Zhao Sichen encountered another problem.

Where do the many subordinates in the restaurant, such as cooks, helpers, serving dishes, waiting, etc., come from?

Zhao Sichen is in the business of high-end private dishes, and the decoration needs to take a lot of thought, and there is no need for many helpers.

There are not many people, but they need to be of excellent quality.

After all, they are either nobles or businessmen.

The person who serves next to the nobles must have a good image and attitude, and must understand the rules of a large family, so as not to offend people by accident.

Such a maid is not just a little girl who takes the money and goes to the tooth store to buy a few little girls.

She is not a family in Daqing City.

Only in the homes of the wealthy people of those times, the maids who were cultivated since childhood could reach such a level.

Zhao Sichen was worried for several days.

Rao is that she prides herself on her ability to do things, and she has nothing to do in this matter.

Zhao Sichen had no choice but to find Steward Zhuo.

Steward Zhuo came out of the Three Princes' Mansion, so he might really have some ideas.

If it didn't work out, she had to pull down her face and go to Wei Qianlang.

Steward Zhuo was asked by Zhao Sichen like this, but he remembered another thing: "Miss, do you remember the Xu family who sold our house?" ”

Zhao Sichen nodded: "You told me that their old man Xu used to be a member of the third grade in Beijing——"

"Yes!" Steward Zhuo said with a smile: "When I bought a house before, they said that there are also a group of people who serve in Jinling's hometown, and they don't need so many people to go back, there are a group of maids to be released, and they want to find a few good families."

At that time, I thought that the girl didn't like the crowd in the house, so I didn't answer them. ”

Zhao Sichen's eyes lit up, and the willows were bright!

It's drowsy that met the one who handed the pillow!

Aren't the maids in this house just in line with her requirements?!

She hurriedly asked Steward Zhuo to contact the other party: "Ask if those maids are still there, if they are, please ask the girls to come and see them-"

"Yes." Steward Zhuo knew Zhao Sichen's rules.

Although these maids were released by the master's family, whether they wanted to come to the Zhao family to help, the young lady would ask the opinions of those girls first.

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In the afternoon, the courtyard of the Zhao family was full of twenty or thirty maids.

Zhao Sichen was still sitting on the red sandalwood chair under the porch, holding a glass of osmanthus nectar water in his hand, and looking at the people in the courtyard with a smile.

Warblers and swallows, red clothes and green clothes, the fragrance of fat powder comes to the nose, pleasing to the eye.

It's good to look at.

Steward Zhuo bent down and replied, "Miss, these are the maids and mothers-in-law that the Xu family plans to release.

The Xu family said that although these maids could not go to Jinling with them, they had served for many years, and they couldn't bear to see them outcast.

The Xu family knows that our Zhao family is also an innocent family, so they ask us to help arrange it.

I don't dare to make decisions on my own, so I will invite everyone to come over and check the young lady. ”

Zhao Sichen nodded at Yun Bi who was standing aside.

Yun Bi opened her mouth and introduced: "Ladies and gentlemen, our Zhao family came to Daqing City from Linshui County two months ago.

Our Zhao family is going to open a restaurant in Daqing City.

The restaurant is a business for young ladies, ladies, and wives.

Serving the nobles in the restaurant may be much busier than you were originally in the Xu family, please think about it.

Zhao Sichen added: "If the girls are willing to come to the Zhao family to work, the monthly salary will be doubled every month, from one tael of silver to two taels of silver."

If at the end of the year, the Zhao family's restaurant makes money, and it will reward you. ”

As soon as Zhao Sichen's words came out, it caused a lot of waves in the courtyard.

The monthly money of the little girls is 500 big money, and the monthly money of the big girls is one or two silver.

Only the aunt's monthly case is two taels of silver.

Coming to work in the Zhao family's restaurant may not be as decent as before in the Xu family, but the income is abundant.

Besides, the Xu family moved out of Daqing City and wanted to dismiss them.

If you leave the Xu family, if you go back home, although you have parents and sisters-in-law, you can't help yourself, or you are disgusted to eat rice, or you are indiscriminately married.

If you are alone, if you accidentally fall into the dusty land, you will be like rain and wind, and you will be destroyed and withered.

Thinking like this, the hearts of many maids have been loosened.

Zhao Sichen smiled and asked everyone in the courtyard: "Girls, let's introduce yourself first."

I don't like to force others, and I ask you all to talk about your thoughts, whether you want to come to work in our Zhao family's restaurant. ”

The people in the courtyard looked at each other.

Only the proprietor is determined to want them.

Never had the proprietor ask them to introduce themselves.

The maids, large and small, who were standing, looked at each other for a moment.

The small sounds in the courtyard gradually dimmed, and slowly fell silent.

In this embarrassing atmosphere, a maid stood forward, blessed Zhao Sichen, and said softly: "Miss, my name is Mandarin Duck, and I am sixteen this year." I am the big girl in Mrs. Xu's room who is responsible for makeup. I'm willing to work with the girl. ”

Zhao Sichen saw that the mandarin duck had a good face, a slender and soft figure, a gentle and clear voice, and a generous behavior, so he liked it a little in his heart.

It's just that she is the maid next to Mrs. Xu, the leader of the Xu family's house, and she is also in charge of important tasks such as makeup.

It stands to reason that it should be the master's henchman, how could he be released?

Mandarin duck is a clever person, and his observation of words and expressions is first-class.

Seeing that Zhao Sichen didn't talk immediately, she looked at Zhao Sichen's face again, and could see Zhao Sichen's doubts, so she hurriedly said: "Miss Zhao, Mrs. Xu has many sisters around to take care of me, and I am just a second-class maid."

I have my brother and sister-in-law in Daqing City, and I don't want to go far to Jinling, so I want to stay in Daqing City.

Ask the girl to take her in! ”

As he spoke, the mandarin duck bowed greatly.

Mandarin duck's words dispelled Zhao Sichen's doubts.

Zhao Sichen said with a smile: "You don't need to make a big salute. Okay, since you have the will, then you can stay. ”

The mandarin duck was overjoyed and hurriedly stood aside.

The mandarin duck made a start, and everyone else followed suit, standing up one after another, introducing himself to Zhao Sichen, and saying the reason why he wanted to stay in Daqing City.

tossed for an afternoon, and finally left 6 big girls, 4 little girls, and 4 cooks.