After the stove is built, glazed tiles and other decorative items need to be put on, which will make it more impressive. However, it will take most of the day, and the stove will not be ready until evening.
Shen Mingzhu just took a look and felt that the craftsmen were good at their work, fast and careful, so she ignored them and returned to a small hall dedicated to her work.
When it was hot in the summer, she had a screen erected in the hallway. A large Arhat bed was placed on the south side of the screen, and a kang table, pen and ink, tea sets and other items were placed on it, and she was ready to do business.
Grandma Zheng brought the new girls and boys over to show Shen Mingzhu that they had all put on new clothes. The girl had a pink shirt and a moon-white skirt.
The boy is short and soapy brown. In front of the master, the boy is not allowed to wear long robes. This is a rule.
Although their clothes are similar to those of other servants, theirs are also different. They all have the words Tingtaoyuan embroidered on the hem of their clothes, so that when they go out, people will know that they are from Tingtaoyuan.
What Shen Mingzhu meant, Grandma Zheng had already said, asking them to always pay attention to their dignity and remember that they were the prince who went out to Tingtaoyuan, so they should not lose the prince's face.
Aunt Zheng had already talked about the lecture, so Shen Mingzhu would not talk about it with the dignity of the princess.
If a high-status princess does not have a few powerful stewards and has to deal with all the servants as her own master, that would be a very low-price and dishonorable thing.
Although Shen Mingzhu didn't pay attention to this in his own yard, when he came to the Duke's Mansion, he had to pay attention to it to save Wen Songzhi's face.
"Which of you can cook?" Aunt Zheng glanced at the girls.
Immediately two girls stood up.
Aunt Zheng asked them to stand aside.
Aunt Zheng asked the boys again, "Who knows my name?"
Aunt Zheng did not ask who was literate because literate boys were more expensive and not easy to find.
Generally, in order to keep confidentiality, the master does not allow the servants around him to read. Of course, there are many exceptions.
Especially in a big family, two of the servants around the men should know each other, for the purpose of social interaction.
So she doesn't expect those people to be able to read, but just to know their own names. Knowing their own names means they are willing to learn.
Two more boys stood up.
Aunt Zheng asked them to stand aside again.
The two girls were assigned to the kitchen to be responsible for the prince's meals. From now on, when the cook prepared the prince's meals, they would be responsible for delivering them and they were not allowed to pass through other people's hands.
The two servants were responsible for helping in Wen Songzhi's study, cleaning and arranging books and papers, and taking charge of pens, inks, paper, inkstones, etc.
The other girls and boys were assigned tasks.
The girl has to do things in the backyard of Tingtaoyuan, and the boy has to do things in the front yard.
Shen Mingzhu temporarily lent them two more wives, and when Grandma Zheng found a suitable one, she sent them to Tingtaoyuan as the housekeeper.
As for the rough lady, Shen Mingzhu didn't consider it. After all, no one would sell the rough lady, except those from his own farm, who were from the Wen family.
Shen Mingzhu decided to use people from the Wen family. This time the errand was a test, and she had already figured it out.
She asked Aunt Zheng to call all the women and line them up in two rows in the yard.
The criteria for dividing the two rows are those who made mistakes and those who did not make mistakes. When Shen Mingzhu went to check,
