The Xiao family's servants suffered heavy casualties. On the one hand, they had to deal with the funeral affairs of the servants, and on the other hand, they also needed to recruit new servants to fill the vacancies in the home.
Logically speaking, the Xiao family currently only has two girls who are directly related to it. Counting some side relatives who are attached to the Xiao family, the Xiao family does not need too many servants.
But the house left by the Xiao family is not small. It is the largest private house in Xuzhou, with a garden of several hundred square meters, eight or nine courtyards, and dozens of rooms in total.
It is not easy to take care of such a big home, so it is inevitable that there will be many people.
Butler Liu of the Xiao family has been with the Xiao family for forty years, and he has done his best to serve the Xiao family.
We will start recruiting new servants for the Xiao family today.
But because what happened to the Xiao family has been known to the people of Xuzhou.
Although the Xiao family became heroes of the imperial court, it also exposed how unsafe it was to be a servant in the Xiao family.
Recruiting servants this time is much more difficult than before. Even if the wages of servants and the subsidy after signing the contract of sale are doubled, there will still be very few people willing to work as servants in the Xiao family.
After recruiting for a whole day, only a few people were willing to come, which made Butler Liu feel a little worried.
Because there are fewer people, the selection of servants has become much easier and more casual.
Seeing dusk approaching, Butler Liu gathered together the seven servants he had recruited today and prepared to tell them about the Xiao family's rules and some things that their servants had to know.
The newlyweds had all arrived. Butler Liu took a quick look and saw that only six of the seven had arrived.
"Why is there one missing?"
The six people below looked at me and I looked at you, but they didn't even notice that one of them was missing.
"Could it be that Qiaoqiao went to the hospital for convenience?" someone tried to ask.
"What a bunch of useless things! You don't even know when someone has disappeared? What does the Xiao family want from you?" Butler Liu was very angry. He cursed and walked to the door to look around. "When you find the person later, you will definitely be beaten.
Drive them out. Even if the Xiao family is short of people, we can't let cats and dogs fish in troubled waters."
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The Xiao family has fewer servants, so there are a lot of maids in the house, especially in the inner courtyard. Many maids need to complete some tasks that should belong to the servants on weekdays.
maids
There are many complaints, and it feels like the work now is more than twice as much as usual. I just hope that the lady can recruit people quickly.
But the eldest lady's maids were in a good mood.
They are all the confidants of the eldest lady, so they naturally want to be good to the eldest lady.
I just said that although the eldest lady is very capable in business, such a big family cannot be without a man.
Moreover, the eldest lady has already reached the age of discussing marriage.
The young ladies in other families have their parents taking care of them, but their eldest lady has no one to control her. The elders from the side branches have talked about marriage, but they can't control the eldest lady's temper at all. No matter who they are, they don't even meet her.
Lifelong events have been dragging on until now, with no signs of them happening at all.
The eldest lady is not worried, but the maids are very anxious. They are afraid that the eldest lady will not be able to get married soon. What should I do?
Now, good thing, finally there is a man in the backyard of the house, and his status is not bad, he is an official from the capital.
With a family as big as the Xiao family, no matter who is high-ranking or noble, our young lady is always worthy of him.
Several maids were eating melon seeds outside the young lady's boudoir and chatting away.
"Hey...you guys said that if the eldest lady marries an official in the capital, then should we go to the capital with her?"
"I wonder what the capital is like? Will we be bullied?"
"The capital must be good. It's better than here. I'm being chased by pirates and I don't dare to go out. I don't know if I can survive this time."
"I want to go to the capital. Even though I am from the capital, I might be able to see the emperor someday."
"It doesn't matter where we go. What if the eldest lady leaves and leaves such a large property of the Xiao family? Then those collateral clan members will definitely come to make trouble. All the things our master has accumulated are all
What is left to our lady cannot be taken advantage of by outsiders."
"Yes... it is good for the young lady to marry an official, but the Xiao family's property will inevitably be plundered by others. This is not a good thing."
"It's not easy, let the official marry..."
"You think so, what is her status? How can she be married into a wife?"
"How is it impossible? What's so great about a high official? He's not necessarily richer than our young lady."
While several people were talking, a maid suddenly stood up: "Don't say
Yes, there seems to be someone!"
After saying that, the maid trotted towards the flower bed in front of her.
Several other maids followed and looked around, and soon saw a sneaky man.
"who are you!"
The other party cowered and wanted to escape.
Several maids surrounded him. After all, there was only one person on the other side, so the maids were not afraid. The leader shouted: "Go and call Butler Liu quickly."
"No...no...no..."
The man was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and shook his head repeatedly.
Seeing that the man was so cowardly, the maids became more courageous. They stared at him and continued to ask: "Who are you?"
"I...I...I..."
Seeing the other person's cowardly way of hesitating, the maid looked disdainful: "Looking at your cowardly look, you must be the servant who just came, right?"
"Yes, yes!" The man nodded repeatedly.
Several maids relaxed a little and looked at each other. The leading maid said: "Forget it! Seeing that you don't understand anything, I won't argue with you today. When you come to the Xiao family, you will know about the Xiao family.
Rules. This is the inner courtyard, and servants are not allowed to come in and out at will. Without the consent of the housekeeper or the lady, men who dare to come in here will be punished. Let’s go!”
"thanks, thanks……"
The man lowered his head, got up and went elsewhere.
Not long after the man left, a little maid muttered: "Why did that man's accent just now be so weird? He doesn't look like someone from Xuzhou, and he stuttered..."
When someone said this, others also became confused. The person just now was indeed very weird.
"No!" the leader of the maids shouted, "There may be something wrong with that person! Go and notify Butler Liu!"
At this time, the man had already bypassed several maids and climbed to the wall from the back of the courtyard. Inside was the eldest lady's boudoir.
At this moment, the man's face was no longer timid, and his cold eyes were filled with solemnity and cruelty.
He turned over the wall, took out a short dagger from his clothes, and put it against the wall behind the house. Then he walked around to the door of the house and skillfully used the dagger to lift the door latch. Just as he was about to step into the room, he suddenly felt something behind him.
His back felt cold, and a long sword pierced him from behind without any warning, directly piercing his heart. He fell to the ground without making a sound.