On the fifth day of the seventh month, there is still one day left before the Zhuangzi of the Huizhou Mansion Gu Mansion departs for Qiyun's summer vacation.

The main task of everyone today is to pack their belongings and decide to bring the people and things on the Zhuangzi together.

Listening to Yuxuan, they are also running to clean up.

Gu Nianxun also thought carefully about the people she brought, thinking that although Zhuangzi is not small, the area for the female dependents to live is still limited, so she plans to take Mama An and Qiuyi, and Yuxuan is more worthy of being Gu Nianxun's confidants, only Mama An and Qiuyi.

Speaking of manpower, Gu Nianxun still has one more thing to complete today before the summer vacation.

That is to fill the manpower, after all, Qiu Yi and Mama An have a limit in ability and time, if they want to build the courtyard in Tingyuxuan or Gu's mansion in the capital in the future like an iron bucket to prevent the infiltration of manpower from all sides, they also need a team of people exclusive to Gu Nianxun.

When the morning was about to dawn today, the eldest lady Ning sent Mama Ning to inform Gu Nianxun that before noon, someone would bring the trained little maids to come for Gu Nianxun to choose an entourage of female envoys.

At this time, Gu Nianxun felt that it was very appropriate. First, the time spent in Zhuangzi can observe and train these new maids, and second, it can also provide time for Mama An and Qiuyi to contact and adapt to each other.

After all, good manpower is an important help for future actions, success or failure, sometimes it depends on the overall ability and vision pattern of his subordinates, so the selection of manpower can not be sloppy.

After Gu Nianxun finished breakfast, Mama An also led people into Tingyuxuan, and the five of them stood in a row in the courtyard, waiting for the selection of the main family.

If you look closely, everyone has different shapes on their faces, there are tensions, apprehensions, uneasiness, and more emotions are the anticipation that everyone is looking forward to being chosen. Because, this is of great significance to them, and it is also about the basic plan for the small family behind them.

Even the best prosperous people have the existence of living at the bottom of the people, they may not have enough food, no warm clothing, no stable residence, no sunrise and sunset tomorrow, and no hope and expectation for life.

Being selected by dignitaries to be maids and servants is like a candle in the dark for them, unable to immediately find the direction of life, and can also provide a faint light to people in the dark.

This is the reason why there is never a shortage of eunuchs in the palace. Even if the body is incomplete, even if it is treated differently by everyone in the world, even if it is ...... Being laughed at and scolded by people like playthings, or maybe they will be trapped between the four sides of heaven and earth for the rest of their lives, and there is food to eat and a place to shelter, for these people, that is the only way out.

For those who are standing in the courtyard of Tingyuxuan today waiting to be selected, these maids who are only eleven or twelve years old, being selected means more food, more clothes to wear, more hope for more ways to live, and the brothers in the family can also have more dowry money when they marry their wives in the future.

Reality is sometimes cruel and ruthless, both in ancient times and in the present day.

These young girls, wearing the best clothes they can come up with, and their bodies are as straight as possible, just to leave a good impression on the main family and add a faint hope to their selection.

Hearing Mama An's words, Gu Nianxun straightened his clothes, went out of the house, and entered the courtyard to select the capable maids in the future.

The conditions that Gu Nianxun thinks about are actually very simple, one is clean, which means that the background is clean, and the soul is clean, not a spy sent by others, and there are no other evil thoughts and delusions. The second is loyalty, which is the point that Gu Nianxun values the most, if he can't be loyal to his master, that is, he can't be a suitable subordinate.

The third is to have the ability, have a skill, and have a place where people are needed, if you can only do some simple work, it will be easily replaced by others. has its own unique ability, and when the master needs it in the future, he will be able to get twice the result with half the effort.

As for other selection criteria, Gu Nianxun doesn't care, such as appearance, posture, height and other criteria, some daughters choose slaves based on mediocre appearance, that is, they don't want the demeanor of the people around them to exceed their own.

Gu Nianxun disdains this, if even the slave is worried about his demeanor, then he is not worthy of virtue, and the pattern is shallow. Choosing a slave to be competent and loyal is the best criterion.

Gu Nianxun thought about this, and at a glance, there were some eleven or twelve-year-old girls, probably because of long-term hunger and labor, they were all relatively thin and weak.

If there are those with big shoulders and round waists, then Gu Nianxun feels strange, in this era when food is bigger than the sky, then it must be that the children of rich families have such physique, and they will definitely not come to be slaves and maids.

There are five people in a row, a total of six rows, and a number of thirty, Gu Nianxun only plans to choose three people for himself, plus a total of four personal maids in Qiuyi, plus the Xunyang Pavilion power that will develop in the future, it will be enough for Gu Nianxun in a short period of time.

Gu Nianxun stood under the porch, sweeping his eyes row by row, even though there was no big difference in the appearance of these maidservants, but the first feeling given to Gu Nianxun was that it was different.

"The introduction of the time of half a column of incense per person starts from the first place in the first row. Autumn mood, light incense. Gu Nianxun commanded.

In fact, when selecting slaves, the introduction work is generally carried out by the human teeth, and the main family introduces a series of basic information that the main family wants to know about these people's families, ages, what they are good at, what they can be flawed, what their parents are, and so on.

But today, Gu Nianxun wants them to say it themselves, firstly, they can see if everyone has a flaw in language, and secondly, they can understand more realistically, because when people lie, there are always flaws and omissions in their faces or bodies, so they can deeply distinguish between good and bad. If you are introduced by a lie when you meet the main family for the first time, is there still a possibility that you need to choose?

After listening to the words of the young lady of the main family, the maids below obviously became more nervous, some of them had slightly trembling hands, some wanted to look around to see the reaction of others, and some were on the verge of crying.

Each has its own state, which is also the effect that Gu Nianxun wants.