Aunt Zeng took advantage of the opportunity to bring the bonus to Shen Miaolian and told her one by one how Jintong sent people to disturb the dining room and how he brought the entire Hou Mansion into chaos.
Shen Miaolian became more and more proud: Idiot! Let's make trouble! Let's see what happens when Master Qi comes back! Several people laughed and mocked Jin Tong without any restraint.
Wu Ping, the concierge, secretly came to complain to Wu An: "Brother, Madam is so injured that she can't even get out of bed, why don't you stop? This... ugh!"
He patrols every day and is the most likely to be recruited!
Jintong sent him here to chop down trees and replace flowers there every day. He almost asked him to help tear down the Yanbo Haomiaoxuan and rebuild it. He and a group of patrolling servants were ordered to run around the whole house and were disgraced!
He sighed again: "The day before yesterday, she sent her personal maid out of the house to buy things for her. She didn't have a waist card. Of course A-Quan stopped her. The maid was so aggressive that her forehead was bleeding! Brother, if this lady recovers from her illness, Now, wouldn’t you take this opportunity to retaliate against him?”
Old God Wu An is here: "Don't be afraid, just do what you have to do. Master Qi is still there for everything! Go and do your business!"
Mrs. Liang happened to be off duty today, so when she saw Wu Ping coming to see Wu An, she quickly went to get him two pairs of shoes.
Wu Ping was not married yet, so Liang, the eldest sister-in-law, usually took care of her as much as possible. When Wu Ping was patrolling the house, she spent most of her time on shoes. Seeing Wu Ping sighing, she said a few words of comfort.
When she turned back and brought tea to Wu An, she also had a lot to say! "Third uncle, be honest, I'm afraid I can't see the madam's plan."
"How many people in the house can tell? I'm afraid they all think Madam is deliberately showing her temper and making things difficult!"
"Sir, I have done some rough calculations. In the past few months, Aunt Zeng and Aunt Shen have embezzled tens of thousands of silver. Especially in the month since Master Qi left, the number of dining rooms is unknown, and there are tens of thousands of them. There are still two taels of silver left!"
"So exaggerated?" Although Wu An was prepared, he was also shocked.
"As for the blood swallow, at the beginning of the month, Grandma Zeng went to the warehouse to take out the remaining ten kilograms of blood swallows. Two days later, she said that the owner of Shanhai Qizhenzhai had a new arrival of twelve kilograms and seven taels, and the price was two Thousand taels, blood swallows are rare this year, so I need to prepare more to supplement Madam's health. But Madam's Yanbo Haomiaoxuan does not use the supplements from the kitchen at all! The ten kilograms of bird's nests in the warehouse have been hidden tightly. These days He quietly took it out one pound or two. I have never seen the twelve pounds and seven taels I bought! One in and one out, at least three thousand taels!" Mrs. Liang calculated it carefully for him: "Master! Who are you? What's the plan? If these things happen, how can you, the housekeeper of the Marquis, handle things well?"
Wu An pondered for a moment: "The Marquis has told me that we will only guard the gate of the Marquis' Mansion for now, and the business and farm outside must not be interfered with by the inner government. As for how everyone is making trouble inside, we will wait until Madam recovers from her injuries. If Madam can't solve it, let's talk about it later!"
"I'm afraid that the commotion will be too big and it won't be easy to deal with, and I'll be in trouble! Besides, Aunt Shen has been my favorite for these years, and she's done a lot of inappropriate things, and I didn't say anything! I saw that my wife was impetuous, so I came in. Within a few days, I was crushed to death by Aunt Shen..."
"Be careful what you say!" Wu An interrupted his wife: "How can a slave speak arbitrarily about his master?"
Seeing that Madam Liang was so scared by him, Wu An softened his tone and said, "Tui'er, just do your duty in the dining room. If someone from Madam's side asks, tell the truth quietly and be careful not to let others know. It’s good to know.”
"Don't worry, sir. I know the importance of this. But Chef Li also noticed it. A few days ago, Aunt Cai went to get meat and vegetables. He muttered something incomprehensible. I'm afraid Aunt Cai also noticed that there was something wrong with the meat and vegetables purchased in the kitchen every day. Count. There are also rice grains in the mansion. That day, I vaguely saw the lady's subordinate, who was teaching martial arts in the execution room, crawling in from the wall like a gecko, and stayed in the granary for a long time. There were a few grains left in the granary. I’ve probably counted all the rice!”
"There are a lot of smart people in this house! Let's just see where this smartness is used!" Wu An sipped tea and thought to himself. In the first few days after entering the house, Madam Shen was very domineering and depressed. Aunt Shen only pretended to be fake. The madam would have to punish her several times a day. The seventh master naturally protected Aunt Shen, but the madam did not follow the rules. Aunt Shen would explode every time, which made the seventh master extremely annoyed. There happened to be a riot in southern Xinjiang, and the seventh master happily He led the troops to go, but his wife was so angry that she didn’t go to see him off!
The Seventh Master had told him that he would let the palace make trouble as long as it didn't go too far. He would make a decision after he came back after pacifying Southern Xinjiang. He thought that the Seventh Master was measuring whether his wife was capable enough to be the mistress of the residence, so he deliberately indulged and watched with cold eyes. , but he didn’t expect the dining room to be in such a bad state. It seems that he will take a crack at the accounts on the fifth day of the lunar month next month.
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It took more than ten days before Nanny Cai took a stack of paper and reported to Jintong in detail: "Madam, the staff of Pingninghou Mansion is simple, only about two hundred people." Jintong controlled himself. The urge to roll your eyes, two hundred people, is "really" uncomplicated.
The chief steward of the Hou Mansion, Wu An, has three assistants and 48 servants. He is in charge of the accounting office, execution room and human relations with the Hou Mansion. Although Wu An is also in charge of the farm outside the mansion, the specific information cannot be found, and what kind of business he does. None of them could be found out. The four Wu An brothers all participated in Qi Ye's fight against the regent. The eldest brother Wu Jian died to protect Qi Ye. Wu Ning, the fourth brother, is now working beside Qi Ye. Wu An, the second brother, was injured in his left leg and was not injured. Wenfa went to the battlefield and was arranged by Master Qi to come back as the housekeeper of the Hou Mansion. He was loyal and loyal. His wife helped in the kitchen and revealed a lot of information to us. It seems that she is on our side!
There are 24 people in the concierge, and Wu Ping, Wu'an's third brother, is in charge. Twelve people take turns at twelve o'clock. At least eight people guard the main gate and two side doors of the Hou Mansion. The remaining 12 people cooperate with other stewards to patrol the entire periphery of the Hou Mansion. Regardless of the main gate or side door. , no one is allowed to come in or out without a correct card. At the end of the night at the latest, no one in the house is allowed to walk around, except Master Qi and his wife. Wu Ping is extremely upright and has strict management.
Aunt Liu is in charge of the flowers and trees, and her two assistants lead 30 menial boys and 16 maids. There are three boys and two maids in the flowers and trees. They were bribed by Aunt Shen and help Aunt Shen to check the news and spread the news. The one is called Li Man. Niu's little boy is the culprit who listened to Aunt Shen's tampering with the guardrail and caused the wife to fall into the water! Aunt Liu knows how to make toilet water essence and the like. She is kind-hearted and has good popularity in the house.
Aunt Chu was in charge of needlework, and the two assistants were in charge of seasonal clothing and miscellaneous items respectively, leading 6 rough ladies and 16 embroiderers. Several embroiderers were fawning over Aunt Shen, among them Ye Qinglan and the embroiderers The two girls secretly colluded with Aunt Shen and took a lot of bulky gold ornaments that were not used in the house. They used the kitchen to make arrangements for Nanny Zeng to go out every few days and exchange them for money. The sewing room was full of complicated things, so Nanny Chu My wife has been bedridden since last winter, and she is very careless. One of her assistants only cares about sweeping the snow in front of the house and does not care about anything else. Ye Qinglan is quite pretty and has a smart mind. She is still unmarried at the age of 24 this year. , she is not a slave born in the Hou Mansion. The old slaves listened scatteredly. It is estimated that she wanted to redeem herself and leave the house, so she amassed money like this.
Aunt Zeng manages the dining room, with three assistants in charge of rice, meat, vegetables, charcoal, 20 assistants and 8 cooks. Aunt Zeng has been colluding with Aunt Shen over the years, and there are no other people in the dining room except Wu An's family. Yes, there were two chefs, Mrs. Li and a few roughnecks who kept the mother-in-law in peace, and most of the others were coveting Aunt Shen. Especially in the past few months before and after Madam came in, she had embezzled tens of thousands of money.
Aunt Jiang is in charge of the warehouse, with four assistants, 27 servants and 10 maids. Wu Qiuyun, who is in charge of the porcelain, is a distant relative of Wu An. During this time, he stole a lot of porcelain, or lied about the presence of his wife during her wedding. They accidentally broke it, or they lied about the fact that the wife was sick and came and went to visit. There were too many favors, and the number was temporarily unreasonable. This porcelain was also sold by Zeng’s mother! Although Jiang’s mother was serious about her work, she looked at Wu An’s face. , but I didn’t have much doubt.
Aunt Shen has a housekeeper and four maids. I won’t say much about these six old slaves!
The three sisters at Sister Zhan's house, Aunt Shi, Lan Xiang and Mei Xiang, were specially pointed out by Master Qi to the eldest daughter. He always prevented the eldest daughter from keeping a distance from Aunt Shen. And that Xiaoying is the younger sister of Aunt Shen's eldest maid, Xiao Zhu. , is also restless. She and Li Manniu, the flower and tree servant, secretly stole a lot of things from Yaxinxuan. The other three little maids are all quite honest.
Qiye's Wu Mo Pavilion is managed by four maids and two bookboys, and it is well behaved. Mr. Gongsun, the military advisor who is retiring in the mansion's "Yingzhuzhai", has no disputes with the world. The specific situation of these two places cannot be found out. .
Lin Jiatong calculated that, including the 21 people who were married to Jintong, a total of 265 people were under her control, and except for the two brothers Zhan and Wu An, the other 262 people were all domestic slaves. To describe it like this: She can hit whenever she wants and kill whenever she wants!
Oh! This evil feudal society! Lin Jiatong screamed in his heart!