I was a god in the 18th century

Chapter 402: New Year's Goods
Xia Qingdai got up, changed into a winter empire dress, put on a pair of thick terry floor socks, made sure the door was locked, and then with a thought, she appeared in the castle.

She did not show up, but walked around the castle in an invisible state, which made it convenient for her to visit the unknown places she wanted to visit.

Terry socks are warm and light, and they won't make any unpleasant noises when you step on them.

She happily came to the mezzanine floor where the servants lived and entered the servants' world.

There are several areas here, the most important of which is the kitchen for cooking, next to which is a pantry for preparing food and storing tableware. On the other side are two washing rooms equipped with water pumps, one is mainly used for washing vegetables, and the other is mainly used for washing and cooking.

Xia Qingdai had to avoid the busy servants inside from time to time, for fear of blocking their fast-moving path.

When she first got the castle, she had been to the kitchen a few times. But at that time, there were only two or three servants in the castle, and the food reserves were pitifully small, far from being as lively as it is today.

Xia Qingdai looked around the room quickly, turning off the lights, and didn't find any servants slacking off. She was very surprised. She didn't expect everyone to be so active.

This energetic spirit is much stronger than when she first got the castle a year ago.

This is of course due to the contribution of the servant KPI assessment system that was originally planned by her, Owen, Gauss and others, as well as the contribution of Owen's right-hand man, David, the castle's chief steward.

A moment later, Xia Qingdai arrived at the spiral staircase leading directly to the attic from the servants' quarters.

In 18th century single-family buildings, the attic of the castle was usually divided into two parts, separated by a wall and not connected to each other. The owner's area was often used as a residence for children.

In Jane Austen's novels, several characters live in attics.

Some families even did not allow their children to walk downstairs at will, and servants brought their meals to the attic twice a day. The children were accompanied by servants and tutors on a daily basis.

Parents only spend 1 to 2 hours with their children a day, usually after their nap.

The reason for doing this is to cultivate children's independent abilities, but there is no research on whether this is successful. What is certain is that family affection has weakened.

There are no children in this castle, so the attic is naturally not a children's room. Now it is basically used by Owen as an observatory, which is quite interesting.

Xia Qingdai walked briskly on the wooden floor, climbed up the stairs in the blink of an eye, and saw the other side of the attic in the castle.

The first thing that caught her eye was a huge machine, a bit like a retro printing press. But it was not used for printing, but for pressing cloth towels, sheets, quilt covers, etc.

There are rows of cabinets against the wall, with clean white towels and bed sheets neatly arranged inside, giving it a hotel-like feel.

There are also many hangers on display here, and most of them are hung with underwear and socks, with lace and ribbons being the most important elements.

There was a row of coats hanging on the cabinets, and a maid was sitting at the window, sewing lace buttons on the coats with needle and thread.

There are also maids standing in front of ironing boards, carefully and attentively ironing clothes. Irons also existed in this century, and they mainly used red-hot coals to heat the inside of the iron.

This job can only be done by a maid who is very skillful, because if she is not careful, she will burn the high-end clothes. The annual salary of a maid may not be enough to pay for one piece of high-end clothing of her master.

In the 18th century, housekeepers would find things to do for their maids, requiring them to wash coats and high-end evening gowns for their masters, and to remove the decorations and buttons first, wash, iron and dry them, and then sew them back on. This job alone would take up almost half a maid's day.

In fact, except for a few aristocratic families, most gentry families would send these velvet coats and high-end silk clothes to special laundries for washing.

Although the cleaning fee in the laundry shop is not cheap, it is much more economical than to prepare the expensive equipment required for washing and ironing, and to hire a maid to be responsible for this matter.

But Fucui Villa is different. With the great help of Xia Qingdai, the "true god", the thing that is most abundant here is food, so it doesn't matter how many servants they have.

Xia Qingdai watched the maids busy at work and realized that there was so much work to do in the castle.

She had previously thought that hand-washing clothes in winter was hard work for maids, but she had never expected that a piece of clothing would actually go through so many steps from being washed to being sent to the owner's closet.

Otherwise, why do we say that aristocrats are luxurious? They are curled up in places where you can’t see.

Xia Qingdai decided to give extra meals to all the little people in the castle today!
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and her new home is stockpiling a lot of New Year goods. In the refrigerator, there are also all-natural farm vegetables brought from Wengshan by grandpa, aunt and aunt.

Xia Qingdai did it as soon as she thought of it. She immediately ran back to her room, and then with a thought, she returned to the modern era.

She put her ear against the door and listened to the noise outside. It was quite quiet outside and everyone seemed to be ready to sleep.

When I opened the door, I saw that the living room was indeed pitch black. Everyone who needed to go into the house had gone in, and even those who were sleeping on the sofa had turned off the lights and were lying down.

Xia Qingdai walked quietly to the kitchen, found a lovely white radish, some Chinese cabbage, a piece of cut yam and a head of lettuce from the refrigerator, then took a paring knife, opened the flour bag, scooped a plastic cup of white flour, and finally returned to the room.

After closing the door, Xia Qingdai lay down in front of the glass tank with the food in her hand and fed the little ones one by one.

The white radish doesn't need to be cut, just put it in whole, the chrysanthemum needs to be processed a little, and the yam and lettuce need to be peeled. Because it would be very troublesome for the little people to handle it themselves, but she can do it easily.

When she put the first white radish in the castle garden, the servants who were cleaning noticed the food falling from the sky and had already notified the housekeeper.

Owen, who doesn't like to sleep in, has already done a lot of things in the morning.

At this time, I heard the movement in the back garden, so I stood up and looked out the window, and saw Xia Qingdai putting down a piece of white yam and lettuce. The plate that held these two things was also huge.

Everyone has experience with this. Once they have divided the food, the huge plate that looks like a full moon will automatically fly into the sky and will not be conspicuous on earth.

After Xia Qingdai put her things away, she began to search for Owen through the windows of the music room, study, salon, etc.

Usually, Irving stays in these places.

The situation was exactly as she expected. Owen was standing at the study window on the second floor, looking up at the sky.

As soon as their eyes met in the air, Owen immediately bowed, and Xia Qingdai smiled brightly: "Good morning, Owen, give some New Year's goods to the servants today to make everyone happy."

"Okay, as you say."