dream of red mansion

Chapter 14 The Outer Court Begins to Build a Team

It is said that after Jia Zheng listened to Jia Mu's words, he went down to prepare for Lin Daiyu's arrival in Beijing.

On Ningguo Mansion's side, Jia Qing didn't know that Sister Lin was going to Beijing.

The next morning, Jia Jing called Jia Qing to Ning'an Hall.

When Jia Qing arrived at Ning'an Hall, Jia Jing was talking to Lai Sheng who was standing at the bottom of the hall.Kneeling under the hall were two half-grown young men dressed in blue servants' attire.

Seeing Jia Qing coming in, Lai Sheng hurriedly saluted, and the two servants below also knelt and saluted.

"The child has seen his father."

Jia Jing responded, and said, "I called you here today, and I will give you the two servants you want. How do you see them?"

Jia Qing looked at the two kneeling people, seeing this, Lai Sheng immediately shouted to the two people on the ground:

"Head up."

The two raised their heads as they said.

The one on the left is dark-skinned and has a strong body. His stature surpasses Lai Sheng's visually.

The one on the right looks a little thinner, but with a pair of eyeballs rolling around, it looks like he is clever.

Jia Qing asked, "What are your names and how old are you?"

The one on the left replied calmly: "Reporting to the second master, the servant's name is Li Yan, and he is 15 years old this year."

The thinner one on the right replied: "I tell Second Master, the servant's name is Wang Shun, and he is 14 years old this year."

One is fourteen, one is fifteen, and they are all good-looking, and they won't scare people if they are placed on the street. It can be seen that Jia Jing put his heart into it.So he said to Jia Jing: "Back to father, I am very satisfied with these two people, thank you father."

In fact, these two people were found by Lai Sheng, and Jia Jing just ordered them to go on.

However, Jia Jing obviously didn't intend to mention Lai Sheng's credit, and after nodding his head in response, he ordered, "I've given you the person too, so you can take them down to get acquainted with each other, so we can greet them later."

"Yes"

Leading Li Yan and two out of the main entrance of Ning'an Hall, Jia Qing looked at them and asked, "Where do you live now?"

"Back to the second master, the slave lives in the back street of Ningguo Mansion, where most of the family's servants live, and so does Wang Shun. But we are working in the mansion now, and we also have a class room in the front yard. Now we all live in In the classroom." Li Yan replied.

After hearing this, Jia Qing said, "Let's go, let's go to the place where you live and talk."

After hearing this, Li Yan hurriedly stopped and said: "Second Master, this is not allowed, there are places where we servants can stay, how can you stay there, Second Master."

Jia Qing glanced at him and said, "Why can't you stay with me if you can? Forget it, you will know my temper in the future. Let me tell you now, the person I want is not because of how much he respects me, but because of how much he respects me." It depends on how he does things.

If you're an idiot, it's no use calling me grandpa.On the contrary, as long as you do things seriously, you just call my name directly, and I will reuse it.And in front of me, you'd better not always be slaves, I don't like to hear it either. "

Li Yan was speechless, but Wang Shun was clever, and immediately came up to rescue him and said: "Since the second master wants to go to the place where the servant and the villain live, the villain will lead the way for the second master." He is already leading the way.

He understood clearly in his heart that the master allocated the two of them to the second master. From now on, everything should be obeyed by the second master. If there is any mistake, the second master will be responsible.

Exit the front door of Ning'an Hall, go to the right, there is a neat class room next to the Rongguo Mansion, there are about five or six rows, all of which are for the servants of the male family on duty in the mansion.Jia Qing took a look, and there were about ten houses in each row, big and small, and people could live in both front and back sides.

Wang Shun took him to a small house and stopped.

"Second Master, this is the house I live in."

Jia Qing took a look, this room obviously belonged to a trumpet, it seems that Wang Shun's family has no power in the mansion.

As if seeing what Jia Qing was thinking, Wang Shun explained: "Most of the servants in the mansion don't live in the mansion, they have accommodations outside. People like us who have to work in the mansion very early every day will be punished Allocate such a room to rest, so as not to delay things. This is a small room, so I only live in it, and there are several other people living in it."

Jia Qing was stunned when he heard the words, and nodded.

He didn't understand why some servants in the mansion lived in the mansion and some didn't, but now he finally knows the way.

Then Wang Shun took out the key he carried with him, opened the door, and led Jia Qing into the house, followed by Li Yan.

After Jia Qing entered the house, he saw that the layout of the house was clear and spacious, and he couldn't help feeling that this Jia's mansion was full of arrogance, even the house for the servants was so good.

Wang Shun was obviously not very particular about it, the room and the bed were messy, and there was only one chair in the room.

Wang Shun was a little embarrassed, and moved the chair to the middle for Jia Qing to sit in. He tidied up the place by himself, and stood next to Li Yan.

Jia Qing sat down and looked at Li Yan and Li Yan.Both of them were twice as big as Jia Qing, but at this moment, they felt uncomfortable under Jia Qing's scrutinizing eyes. They could vaguely feel a little pressure on Jia Qing, and their expressions became slightly nervous.

Jia Qing was very satisfied with his pretense.From now on, these two people will be his direct subordinates, so how can they do it if they don't subdue them.But don't expect to succeed once, there will be more opportunities in the future. He doesn't believe that with his means beyond the times, he can't subdue two servants under the feudal background of ancient times.So, seeing that the effect was achieved, Jia Qing was about to get closer and closer, and asked, "Who else is there in your family?"

Finally hearing the second master speak, Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and replied: "Back to the second master, the villain's parents are all here, the grandmother is still alive, and the villain also has a younger sister. It's just that Shunzi's family is not very good, it's him His grandfather brought him up, and now his grandfather is working in the mansion."

He nodded, indicating that he understood, and asked, "Then where did you two work before?"

Li Yandao: "The two of us were in charge of cleaning the yard in the front yard before. Yesterday, Mr. Lai said that he wanted to pick two people to serve as servants for the second master in the mansion, and finally picked the two of us."

"Then would you like to be my servant?"

"Of course I would. Any servant as big as us in the two mansions would not want to be able to follow the master. You must know that the servants who follow the master are at least [-] yuan a month, which is not counted as a normal day. Master's tip." This time it was Wang Shun who answered first.

"Then how much did you pay for sweeping the floor?"

"three hundred"

Only three hundred?He didn't need to ask and he knew that sweeping the floor was definitely not "oily" on weekdays, but the three hundred was too low, but he remembered that a third-class maid in Jia Baoyu's room was paid five hundred a month.It seems that maidservants are more popular these days.From this point of view, the economic price to pay for buying them will not be too high.

After thinking about it, Jia Qing opened the market: "Then you all will follow me well in the future, and I will guarantee that I will not treat you badly.

You guys think this is great, in addition to the monthly money from the government, I will give each of you an extra five taels of silver every month.And as long as the things I ordered in the future are done well, how about I personally seal a big red envelope for you during the Chinese New Year? "

Even though they didn't know the concept of sealing a big red envelope, just being able to get more than one or two taels of silver every month was a wonderful thing that they didn't even dare to think about before, so the eyes of the two instantly turned red, They knelt down together and said: "Thank you for your kindness, the two of us will do our best to handle every errand for Second Master in the future!"

He waved his hand to signal them to get up.They thought it was more, but Jia Qing thought it was less, but now he is not rich, he only has two taels of pocket money per month, plus the red envelopes from Jia Jing, Jia Zhen, etc. during the holidays, it can be regarded as a meager savings.But he still plans to have a big use, so he can only manage the family thriftly for the time being.

He intends to catch the opportunity and make some money to replenish the treasury.

The benefits have been promised, and now it's time to set some rules, so that they won't be vigilant and make things worse.So Jia Qing immediately became serious and said: "Since you all decided to follow me, then I have to tell you about my rules."

Seeing that both of them were listening carefully, they nodded in satisfaction and continued:
"My rule is that in the future, you are not allowed to tell others what I tell you to do, including family members and people in the house."

"Then what if the master asks?" Wang Shun asked.

"Then you just say that I asked you to do it because I think it's fun. Uncle Zhen asked the same way. Anyway, we can't expose our real purpose. The ugly words are up front. If you make a fool of yourself and make a slip of the tongue, you can go back to the past." Stay where you are, and don't come looking for me."

In order to make them pay attention, Jia Qing had to be more serious.Now his wings are not strong enough, if he is caught with something, it will affect his status in the Jia Mansion.And if he can't grasp enough power before the collapse of the Jia Mansion, he won't be able to reverse the ending of the peerless woman in the Dream of Red Mansions, which is his biggest goal.

But looking at the scared looks of the two, Jia Qing still relieved and said: "I won't let you do bad things. Look, I'm only seven years old this year. Is there anything I can do that will kill you? I am I just want you to be careful. As long as you are not careless, I will not blame you for leaking the news."

(End of this chapter)