The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 316 The First Problem (Part [-])
After sending Su Chengzhi and his son to the carriage to go out, Ning looked at Su Yunduo and asked in a low voice: "But how do we lay off people after thinking about it? Should we meet the people below first?"

"Mother, don't worry." Su Yunduo said as she took out the roster given to her by Steward Chen yesterday: "Let's take a look at this roster first, and let's discuss later."

Ning took the roster and looked at it carefully, frowning more and more.

According to this roster, there are indeed 41 servants, and each servant has arranged errands. No matter how you look at it, it looks like a carrot and a hole. If this is the case, how can we lose people? !

No, it seems that additional manpower is needed.

When the capital sent the slaves to Geshan Village back then, she didn't take it seriously for having two servants beside Su Zexuan and Su Zechen, and thought it was enough to arrange one servant beside the two sons.

However, Mrs. Kong thought it was necessary, and Su Yunduo did not raise any objections.

Madam Kong also specifically reminded her that when she arrived in the capital Ruolu would prepare a nanny for Su Zerui, Su Zexuan and Su Zechen would not refuse to arrange an older woman beside her.

It is said that the Su family in the capital is a century-old family, and the people who serve them all have standards.

But it's not that they haven't recognized their ancestors yet, even if Su Chengzhi has an official status now, they can't change their rural background, how can they be so extravagant.

Seeing that Ning's face changed after reading the roster, Su Yunduo could figure out what she was thinking, and said with a smile, "Mother thinks that these people are not enough?"

Ning looked at Su Yunduo and smiled wryly. If these servants really arranged their errands according to this roster, it would really not be enough.

"Mother, do you think these two might be combined into one?" Su Yunduo pointed to the slaves first, and then pointed to the nursing home, and said, "Although our family can no longer be called a poor family, it is a big family from the Zhu family. It’s far away! The concierge is indispensable, but this nursing home is absolutely unnecessary.”

When Su Yunduo said this, Ning felt that it made sense, thinking that the Shenquan Villa was just an old slave who was a gatekeeper, and this house actually had two gatekeepers and six nursing homes.

Ning stared at Su Yunduo with burning eyes, hoping that Su Yunduo would continue talking.

Su Yunduo smiled but did not follow Ning's wish. Instead, she pointed to the roster and urged Ning: "Mother, according to the model of these two places, are there other errands that can be combined?"

Ning withdrew her gaze from staring at Su Yunduo, and continued to look at the roster with downcast eyes. With a precedent, when she looked at the roster again, her mind gradually became less confused than it was at the beginning.

The mother and daughter asked all the maids and mothers-in-law to step down, and after discussing head to head, they gradually sorted out the arrangement of servants in this house. The new roster dropped from 41 to 18, including Zhang Pingan and Basil.

In this way, 41 of the 25 slaves had to be dismissed.

Looking at the newly released roster, Ning felt at ease, but Su Yunduo had a headache.

It is not good to return the extra servants to Mrs. Lu directly. If Steward Chen is really careless to send these many people back to Mrs. Lu, it will disappoint Mrs. Lu’s charity and beat her up even more. Lu old lady's face, such a thing must not be done.

Fortunately, after observation, Su Yunduo found that not all these servants came here willingly to serve them. On the surface, they were all respectful, but there were some people who had contempt for their family hidden in their eyes.

Su Yunduo was unwilling to use such people, although she felt a little headache, but she still had a way to "invite" these people out of the house without hurting the old lady's face.

Therefore, the first problem faced by Su Yunduo after entering Beijing was no longer a problem.

Of course, layoffs are not in a hurry, Su Yunduo persuaded Ning to stand still for the time being.

The mother and daughter's discussion time passed quickly. The kitchen sent someone to ask about the lunch arrangement. Su Yunduo looked outside. The sun was scorching. With Su Chengzhi's frugality, he probably wouldn't eat outside. After discussing in a low voice, Ning gave a menu to the kitchen.

Sure enough, at three quarters in the afternoon, Su Zechen's crisp and cheerful voice came from outside.

"Mom, we're back, let's have dinner, let's eat, I'm going to be hungry!" Su Zechen, who was sweating profusely, rushed in.

Su Yunduo quickly pulled him back: "Look at the sweat on your head, hurry back to your room and change into dry clothes before coming back."

"Oh, sister. I'm so hungry that I could eat a whole cow. I'll eat before changing clothes." Su Zechen refused, and twitched the hand held by Su Yunduo, but failed.

Su Yunduo's face darkened: "You can either change your clothes, or stand outside! You are sweating all over, and you want to get sick when you come into this room? What the old genius doctor taught you is to teach you how to get sick in the stomach of a dog. Go or leave the old miracle doctor and you will return everything?!"

Su Zechen hurriedly begged for mercy. If this matter got to the master's ears, he would definitely be punished. The master's punishment was all kinds of strange things, so he had better be obedient.

When the father and son washed and changed their clothes and gathered in the main room, the meal was already on the table.

It is far less hearty than yesterday's dinner, but it is more suitable for the family's appetite.

Probably because he was really hungry, Su Zechen, who talked the most on weekdays, just buried his head in eating, so there was a rare time when Su Zechen couldn't eat at the dining table of the Su family.

After the family finished eating and removed the dishes, the maid brought in herbal tea.

This herbal tea was prepared by Su Yunduo himself, and he picked up the ready-made medicinal materials brought from Geshan Village and ordered the kitchen to brew it.

Not only their family has it, but also let the kitchen cook a lot more and distribute it, so as not to let someone get heatstroke.

Although Lu Jinkang gave them a large bag of saltpeter when they parted with Lu Jinkang, but the weather in the capital is really hot, and I don't know how long this bag of saltpeter will last, so I save it as much as possible, and now I only work with my family There was an ice basin in the place.

Since it was impossible to equip the servants with an ice basin, soup to cool off the heat was unavoidable, so Su Yunduo simply brought a lot of medicinal herbs to cool off the heat from Geshan Village, enough to consume for the whole summer.

After eating and drinking enough, Su Zechen should have gone for a lunch break, but Su Zechen, who had no choice but to fill his stomach, turned on the chatter mode, chattering non-stop about what he saw and heard this morning.

So except for the youngest Su Zerui, no one in the family took a lunch break.

After listening to Su Zechen's experience, Su Yunduo already knew the itinerary of the three of them this morning.

They not only went to the two schools that Su Chengzhi had chosen, but also visited Baiming Academy.

The two schools of Mr. Su Chengzhi are only for the transitional use of his two sons, the quality of teaching is secondary, and the proximity to this house is the most important thing, so there is really nothing to say.

On the contrary, the Baiming Academy they went to later made Su Zechen admire him so much that he wished he could go directly to Baiming Academy to study.

(End of this chapter)