"Oh, my aunt! Could you be more prompt? The fourth master has already said that every room in our house must be cleaned today. No matter what, we have to let the master go home and see a clean house. The front and back yards have been touched. Get up, your small courtyard is quiet and peaceful, but this is too much of a show..."
"That's right, I really think that I am a charming young lady. Isn't the daughter of a merchant family who has known the master a few days earlier? She really thinks that she is a piece of cake..."
"The most important thing for people is to have self-awareness. Don't be so eager to cling to dragons and phoenixes. Don't you care about the mugwort in your ancestral grave?"
On a cold autumn morning, before breakfast, three or four girls in colorful clothes gathered around the door of the side courtyard where Huniu lived. Although they were all dressed as maids in short skirts, if you look carefully at the However, I found that the fabrics were of the highest quality on the market, and even the jewelry on my head was not ordinary.
This was originally Huang Juren's private residence. After the Tanggu riot, it was bought by Lotte & Co. at "cost price" and became Xiao Letian's private residence. Although Xiao Letian has not lived in it for a day, the renovation work has never stopped. Now the entire mansion has been completely renewed. Huniu had already taken the lead in living in it a month ago.
Huniu really runs this home as if she were the hostess. All the displays, tables, chairs, furniture, screens and curtains were hand-picked and decorated by Huniu. Even... Huniu even left a house for Sister Hui. Don't think that everyone is blind. The servants have long known about Xiao Letian stealing Fu Hui, and there is no way to hide it from Huniu.
No matter how rebellious Huniu is, she is still a girl who grew up in traditional culture. She has long been brainwashed into having three wives and four concubines as a matter of course. In addition, Fu Hui has a good relationship with her, and she really treats Fu Hui as a sister. Of course, she is the kind of sister who works together with one husband.
But she never expected that Huniu did not wait for the arrival of Xiao Letian and Fu Hui, but instead waited for a group of servants who came from Beijing a month ago. Huniu was originally unwilling to accept these irrelevant outsiders, but for the sake of Mr. Qing, who was leading the team, Huniu was reluctant to attack others.
But within a few days of this group of people, all kinds of tricks started to get into play. The dark and skinny Mr. Jiao was a typical smiling tiger. On the surface, he called the girl one after another, but secretly, he used the reason of renovating the house to tease the tiger. The girl was moved from the main house to a remote wing. This courtyard was originally the residence of Huang Juren's most despicable concubine, and it was the most shabby.
Unwilling to be reconciled, Huniu just wanted to quarrel with Mr. Jiao, but the skinny little old man didn't get angry at all and pushed Huniu back with just one sentence: "Miss, can't you get angry at me, my slave? I'll take care of this for the time being. The house is lived in with the consent of the Fucha family aunt and the third master. Even your father, Fan Lian, the shopkeeper, didn’t say anything about it! We all live in comfort for the sake of the master, right..."
"Let me tell you, Miss, you'd better enjoy your wealth, good food, good food, and a good place to live. What else are you dissatisfied with? To put it bluntly, haven't you even entered the house yet?"
Huniu's face turned red at that time, and her few words were like a knife piercing her heart. She couldn't refute it at all. That night, Huniu went to find her own father, but what she got in exchange was a long sigh from her father. .
"Daughter, to tell you the truth, from now on, all expenses incurred in the house will have to be transferred directly from the foreign bank's account to Jiao Si'er. With just a few dozen of you, he actually has to withdraw 10,000 taels of silver a month. …”
"Ah? Dad, are you crazy? Can you agree to this condition?" Huniu was so frightened that when she ran this house, she spent two to three hundred taels a month, but now she dares to ask for ten thousand taels. ?
"Silly girl, one moment is another. Now there are rumors in the capital. Xiao Letian is the Manchu uncle appointed by the Queen Mother. Fuhui must be in the eldest family, and this Jiao Si'er has been the slave of their Fucha family for generations. , it is only natural to serve my uncle..."
"And...and haven't you seen those dozen women? I heard that they were all carefully selected by Fuhui to accompany him. They said they wanted to give Mr. Xiao a grand view garden. Hey, this is a clear statement. I'm trying to steal your position to squeeze you out... Think about it, my dear, this kind of big family eats people without spitting out their bones!"
Huniu completely understood that Fu Hui was not a caring big sister at all. She was a vicious woman who wanted to monopolize Xiao Letian. She wanted to force her away and let go completely.
Who am I, Hu Niu, that I am not afraid of anything and yet I am still afraid of you running against me? No one in the world would want to drive me away from this home except Brother Xiao. The stubborn Huniu didn't listen to her father's advice at all and refused to leave Xiao Letian's home, life or death. She was wasted on these shameless people.
Huniu had no idea what her father was worried about, and a little girl didn't have that much knowledge. She knew that Mr. Qing and Fan Qian had been worried for several days just because of these servants.
The reason is very simple. These servants were nominally recruited by Fu Hui, but there are no secrets in Sijiu City. Mr. Qing knew from the beginning that Mr. Jiao secretly went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs before coming, and even met with them. Arriving at Cixi's confidant Andehai. The next day, Fourth Master Jiao led a group of young women from the Jiaofang Division under the banner of Fucha Family.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Jiaofangsi were engaged in music in name only, but in fact they were officials. The wives and daughters of criminal officials, and even the family members of those captured during the Tiananmen Civil War, who were young and beautiful and were favored by the ministers, would be transported to Beijing to learn music, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing and dancing from an early age. Performing at banquets, on the other hand, you can also reward meritorious officials at any time.
The fact that Jiao Si'er was able to bring people from the Jiaofang Division shows that this was approved by the high-level officials of the imperial court. At the very least, they had to be at the prince level and approved the note. They were nominally Fuhui's dowry girls, but in fact, the role of these women was discerning. They can all see clearly.
"Brother Xiao's every move in Ryukyu this time has made the imperial court jealous. These women are here to monitor. The other purpose is to soften Xiao Letian's bones with powder gas..." Mr. Qing said in one sentence. The imperial court's conspiracy.
Since it was a conspiracy, it would be difficult to handle, and Jiao Si'er's domineering attitude could only be tolerated. He said he asked Huniu to move, and Huniu would move. He said he wanted 10,000 yuan a month for household expenses, so give him 10,000 yuan. In the end, he even forbade Hu Niu from going out at will, but Shopkeeper Fan tolerated it. After all, this was the rule of the big family.
In this way, Jiao Si's arrogance became more and more arrogant. In the end, he even regarded Huniu as a maid and even dared to give orders to Huniu to work. Not long ago, Hu Bo, Jin Chuan, Fangguan and Xiang Ling were blocking the door of the small courtyard, forcing Hu Niu and A Chou to clean the house before they had eaten breakfast.
It really is a grand view garden. The women brought by Mr. Jiao all have the names of the maids in the grand view garden, such as Qingwen, Xiren, Ping'er, Hubo, Jinchai, Fangguan...etc., all of them. All the well-known ones are arranged. I don’t know what Xiao Letian will think when he comes back and sees this formation.
Just when the group of chirping women were sarcastic and sarcastic, the cotton curtain in the wing was suddenly pushed open, and a basin of wash water was thrown in front of them. The four women were caught off guard and half of their bodies were soaked.
"Ah! You want to die, you cheap maid..." Men, let alone women, can't bear the pouring of this basin of water on a cold day. Outside the cotton curtain, I saw A Chou holding a copper basin with one hand and pointing at the noses of these women with the other and scolding them.
"Don't stare so hard! A group of wild women from the Jiaofang Department dare to block the door of our young lady. No matter how bad our young lady is, she is still a clean and innocent young lady... I, I, I, I Tear your mouths apart!"
Ah Chou is worthy of being the maid used by Hu Niu. She is as brave as a little tiger when she rushes forward. When fighting one against four, she is not weak at all. She punches, kicks, kicks and scratches her fingernails. When she is angry, she even raises her head. Five flower-like buds. The girl rolled to the ground and soon the whole house was shaken.
Countless figures rushed out from every room and courtyard. Now Xiao Letian's residence is not as shabby as it used to be. There are only a hundred servants serving it, and there are more than forty people in the inner house alone. girl.
Some of these women were bought by Hu Niu, and some were purchased by Jiao Si'er. During the conflict, the two groups quickly became distinct, and the whole gate of the mansion was full of chaos with beatings and scoldings.
Men could not intervene when women were fighting. The guys from the outer house were climbing up the wall to look in. Every time they saw the white flesh exposed from the torn cotton jackets, the hot-blooded young men screamed and screamed.
"Hit her, beat her, tear her apart... Oops, it leaked out..."
"Try harder, try harder... Mom's pants are down to her thighs..."
"Hey, look, I scratched my face all over..."
This group of young men who are not married are all as excited as the Chinese New Year, and they can be regarded as eating foreign food. At this moment, Fourth Master Jiao, wearing a raccoon cloak, hurried over and called out before entering the hospital.
"Rebellion? Rebellious... Have everyone rebelled so early in the morning? Are there any rules for the mansion? Tie up all these low-handed maids. Today I want you to see the rules of the Fucha family... …”
A group of strong cooks and big-footed women rushed up behind him. They rushed forward fiercely and arrested A Chou first. Those who helped Huniu were also tied up.
"Why are you arresting me? Why don't you arrest them? You are unfair, unfair..."
"Ouch? You still want justice. I will teach you what justice is today. Three generations of my family have been housekeepers of the Fucha family. This is justice. These women are all members of the house who are kept to serve me. This is also justice. You Is there any sense of inferiority to an unreasonable servant? He even dares to hit someone in the master's house. Can you afford to pay for the slap in the face?"
At this time, Amber cried in response, "That's right, look at my left cheek being scratched and bleeding. Housekeeper, you have to punish this bitch severely. The master didn't even see my snow-white face, so he asked her to do it." Ruined, wuwuwu..."
Ah Chou was so angry that the two fat cooks couldn't hold her down, "Jiao... you are so arrogant. You dare to do such mischief even if the master's subordinates are not here. If only brother Wang Huaiyuan was here, it would be great if Mr. As long as the guards are here, just anyone can kill you..."
"You bad guy, bastard, wait until the master comes back to mobilize the troops to destroy you, and shoot you to death with all guns blazing..."
A Chou's angry scolding irritated Mr. Jiao. He didn't know why it made him feel nervous. He suddenly remembered the rumors he had heard these days. It was said that Xiao Letian really had a group of desperadoes. These people must be related to Huniu. good. If it breaks, will you give me a black brick when the time comes?
Just when he was hesitating, the cotton curtain of the wing suddenly opened, and Huniu walked out wearing a strange black dress with a sneer.
"Have you had enough trouble?" Huniu looked around, "I am the biggest in the inner house now, everyone listens to me, let me go first..." Before he finished speaking, Fourth Master Jiao jumped up, "Why are you the biggest? I'm surprised, you, a woman without a matchmaker or a hirer, are already a blessing to live here, and now you dare to act like your master?"
"Why? Just because my aunt and I fought together with the master, because I am the first woman that the master fell in love with after returning to China, and because I am wearing the only heirloom left by the master's family... Why? I still have I want to ask you why!"
