After some refusals from the Mi Mansion, Zhang Xi finally led the two maids home.
There was nothing I could do about it. Mi Zhu had already said something like, "It's a gift from the elders, and you can't refuse it." It would be rude to decline any more.
The customs and etiquette these days are like this, and there is nothing Zhang Xi can do about it.
Fortunately, there are two. Fortunately, there are two.
I really can’t afford more.
After a year of buying gifts and visiting everywhere, the family only had a savings of 40 yuan... It would be impossible to support ten maids.
Another one, there is no place to live.
The rented house only has three rooms, one of which is a firewood shed... In the middle of winter, ten people can't all have bunks on the floor, right? !
After repeated refusals, Zhang Xi led two little girls even younger than Xiao Qibao back home.
Along the way, Zhang Xi was frowning and sighing.
The two little girls followed Zhang Xi timidly, not daring to express their anger.
Maid girls like them don't even have household registration, and their life and death are entirely in the hands of their masters.
If you meet a good master, your life will be slightly better. If you meet a violent master...well, the consequences are self-evident.
Now it had just been given to the new owner by the original owner. Without knowing the temper of the new owner, the two little girls were naturally trembling and did not dare to say a word.
The journey was so boring that Zhang Xi could hardly bear it anymore.
"Speaking of...what are your names?!"
Zhang Xi, who was extremely bored, turned around and asked the two maids.
The main reason was that there were two people following behind me, and they didn't say a word, just walked with their heads lowered... I felt a little cold on my back.
"Return to the master...this servant has no name." One of the little girls raised her head slightly and said.
Zhang Xi was also stunned.
In these days, unless they are the children of wealthy families, most common people do not have names, and they bark like a dog or a bastard. One bark may last a lifetime.
"In that case, let me give you a name!" Zhang Xi said.
But having said that, Zhang Xi, the name-incompetent star, thought about it for five or six miles from leaving the city to returning home, but he couldn't find a good name.
Seeing that they were about to arrive home, Zhang Xi irresponsibly said to the two little girls, "Let's call them Xiaoqi and Xiaoba!"
The two girls looked at each other, and no one dared to ask where Xiao Yi and Xiao Er had gone, so they acquiesced in their new names.
When he got home, he handed the two little girls to Xiao Qibao and watched Xiao Qibao lecture the two little girls like a housekeeper. Zhang Xi looked at Wei Wei and wanted to laugh, but didn't say anything.
Xiao Qibao is now Zhang Xi's servant and housekeeper. New people coming later will have to be left to Xiao Qibao's control... This is the responsibility of the housekeeper, and Zhang Xi cannot interfere.
It was still early, so Zhang Xi went back to his room alone, planning what he would do tomorrow... After thinking about it, he took a nap and slept until dinner.
As soon as he woke up, one of the little girls came in and asked Zhang Xi what he wanted to eat for dinner... Zhang Xi was still a little uncomfortable, and it was usually Xiao Qibao who came to ask him.
By the way, what is this girl's name...Xiaoqi or Xiaoba? !
Oh, my name is Xiaoqi... I have to be more careful in the future so as not to get confused with Qibao.
On this day, Zhang Xi enjoyed the treatment of the landlord class. There were two girls waiting on him while eating... Then Zhang Xi, who was not used to it, rushed him to the kitchen to eat by himself.
Actually, from the beginning, when there were only Zhang Xi and Xiao Qibao in this family, Zhang Xi was not used to such a life.
In Zhang Xi's opinion, there are only two or three kittens in the house, so why do they need to be so clear about them and pay so much unnecessary attention to them? They can just sit and eat together.
But on this point, Xiao Qibao insisted on disagreeing, saying that there must be family rules at home.
If the servant and the master eat at the same table, and outsiders see it, they will only say that Mr. Zhang from Yingchuan does not understand etiquette, and Zhang Xi will be looked down upon. He also said that it didn't matter if he was embarrassed. As a housekeeper, he must not embarrass the Zhang family.
So from now on, Xiao Qibao insisted on serving Zhang Xi to eat.
Zhang Xi couldn't defeat Xiao Qibao, and he also knew that this was the rule of this era, and he could not change it easily by himself, but Zhang Xi still had his own persistence after all.
The two masters and servants compromised with each other. Zhang Xi did not want Xiao Qibao to serve him at dinner, and Xiao Qibao did not want to eat at the same table with Zhang Xi.
When it was time to eat, Zhang Xi was eating alone in his room, while Xiao Qibao was eating in the kitchen.
It was originally agreed, but Zhang Xi didn't expect that there were two more little girls today. Xiao Qibao was so determined that he sent two more girls... The landlord class is trying to corrupt the heart of the proletariat. Immortal!
Well, fortunately, Xiao Qibao did not insist on sending Xiao Qi and Xiaoba back later. Zhang Xi went to the kitchen to take a look after dinner and found that the three little ones were actually eating together... Zhang Xi's heart It's a bit unbalanced.
It's strange to say.
Zhang Xi is already twenty-one years old this year. At this age...he doesn't have a wife? !
This is very unscientific.
You must know that Zhang Xi came here through soul, and the original owner of this body, in this era when it was common to get married at the age of fourteen or fifteen, did not have a wife at the age of twenty.
And in Zhang Xi's memory, there seems to be no memory of his family arranging a marriage for Zhang Xi... It would be good to have a wife to accompany him to dinner.
I don’t quite understand it, but it’s not a bad thing.
I went back to my room alone and read the bamboo slips for a while in boredom... This was a bamboo slip borrowed from Kou Feng. It was not a serious book, but it was not too serious either. It was just a miscellaneous book.
There were miscellaneous books in this era, which mainly recorded local experiences and the like. They were one of the few pastimes in this era.
After reading for a while, night gradually fell, Zhang Xi blew out the lights, put on his clothes and slept... to save money on lamp oil.
Sleep until dawn.
When I got up and washed up, it was Xiaoqi who brought the basin as usual... This time Zhang Xi didn't refuse, he just brought the basin, not to serve Zhang Xi.
By the way, I want to ask how Xiao Qi is sleeping, what Xiao Qibao and Xiao Ba are doing...such caring words.
After learning that Xiao Qibao and Xiao Ba went to work in the vegetable garden behind the house, Zhang Xi didn't say much, told Xiao Qi, and went straight to work.
Not long after I got to work, while I was chatting with the treasurer, the unlucky Kou Feng came again.
"Brother, brother, please save me!"
This guy is becoming more and more alarmist in his speech.
"Why are I saving you?" Zhang Xi rolled his eyes at Kou Feng angrily and said, "What's wrong with you?! Don't keep making noises!"
Nowadays, Zhang Xi's speech, unless it is in a formal occasion or in front of a superior, is increasingly different from the way and tone of speech of people of this era.
It's too plain-spoken. In the words of people of this era, he is a "rude person".
As for Kou Feng...this guy was taken care of by Zhang Xi in the same way.
However, Kou Feng obviously didn't realize his change and continued to say, "Next month, the military will have to practice the code. From my side... eh, it's really embarrassing!"
Yes, Zhang Xi understands what this guy is worried about.
It will be March soon, and the weather is getting warmer. Naturally, the military will start training.
And since there are drills, there will be drills...that is, activities such as military competitions.
It's not a real sword fight, it's just a look at the basic skills of each battalion's formation and marching.
Don't underestimate formations and marches. These two things are a test of the most basic organizational skills of the army, and they are also a means of testing a general's basic abilities.
As for Kou Feng...the soldiers for this guy were only recruited in February, but because of the poor physical fitness of the soldiers, they had to be raised for a month before the refugees could barely hold weapons. They just started. train.
Any formation march at this time would definitely be a mess.
"Your army is full of newly recruited soldiers, and it is common for them to be unfamiliar with training... Why worry about it?!" Zhang Xi said, ignoring Kou Feng's complaints.
Indeed, you have only trained soldiers for a month, and you want them to become elite soldiers... What good things are you thinking about? !
Besides, Liu Bei is not an unreasonable person. He is an old soldier. How can he not know that you are a new recruit? !
As long as Kou Feng's soldiers did not blow up the camp during the ceremony, Liu Bei would not punish Kou Feng no matter how bad the formation and march were.
But Kou Feng didn't think so.
As a young general, he has never really been on the battlefield, so he doesn't know how dangerous the battlefield is... Now all he can think about is performing well.
Firstly, he can stand out in front of the generals, and secondly, he can leave a good impression on Liu Bei. Maybe he will be reused one day in the future? !
But Kou Feng really couldn't do anything with those three hundred old, weak and disabled soldiers.
After listening to Zhang Xi's words, I have been raising these soldiers three times a day for almost a month, and I can see that their energy and energy have improved a lot. However, this group of people is in a mess. It takes half an hour to order the assembly. There are many People still casually go to the school field to fight, and they look like a mob.
Kou Feng doesn't understand military training.
Don't say Kou Feng doesn't understand, in fact many generals don't understand it very well.
Many generals are practitioners, that is, they have worked hard in the army little by little.
If he has been in those well-disciplined troops, then he can draw a group of well-disciplined soldiers based on his own experience.
If he was left with a messy army, or someone like Kou Feng who had no experience at all and no one to teach him, he wouldn't be able to bring out any good soldiers.
In these days, military training is a secret that is not passed down among military strategists. Only those who have a serious family inheritance or are familiar with military books can know some methods of military training.
Kou Feng felt that he couldn't deal with these messy soldiers, but he didn't know why he felt that Zhang Xi had a way.
Zhang Xi doesn't know how to train soldiers.
But Kou Feng was so tight that he came to Zhang Xi three times a day to cry... Zhang Xi had no choice but to go to Kou Feng's military camp to help.
Zhang Xi doesn't know how to train troops, he really doesn't, especially not how to train troops in this era.
Zhang Xi only remembers the military training in high school and college.
Zhang Xi can still form a square formation and walk forward.
As for the actual role of modern military training in ancient times...this thing can cause hundreds of noises on the Internet.
But one thing is still recognized by everyone. Modern military training helps to establish organization and discipline.
Facing the enemy's spears and swords on the battlefield, it is hard to say whether they will disperse in a hurry when life and death are at stake, but during the military parade, the neat formation in the square is very shocking to look at.
Anyway, he just helped Kou Feng fool through this drill. As for how to improve his actual combat ability in the future, this is not within the scope of Zhang Xi's consideration.
