delicious little cook

Chapter 638
In Duke Ye's mansion, the relatives of the Gan family finally left. Gu Xu stayed with his wife and daughter and never came out. Mrs. Gu sat alone in the room for a long time, vented her anger on the servants, and ordered Gu Chan As her helper, she held her maids and servants one by one in the yard to beat the board. They must be talking too much with outsiders. Since they couldn't find out who was chewing the root of the master's tongue, everyone was punished together.

Miserable wailing sounded again in the second bedroom compound. The closest time was when the second wife disposed of the dozen or so young girls her son had bought. After a beating, only seven of them survived.

Gu Yun and Bai Kou stayed until they had dinner before going back to their mansion. When they got back to Zhongming Courtyard, the maids told them about how the Second Madam beat up her subordinates in the afternoon and then kicked them out.

Bai Kou raised her eyebrows, covered her lips with her hands, and pretended to be speechless.

Gu Yun shook his head, it's not for him to be the younger generation's beak, wash his hands and change his clothes after returning to his room, he still has a few policy theories to write, if he can't write them, he will be punished by his master.

The next day, Gu Xu and Gan Yuwen went to the Hanlin Academy to sell their holidays, and their colleagues asked what happened to them yesterday, but how could such a family scandal be revealed to outsiders, so both Gan and Gu kept their mouths shut, but everyone thought Considering that Gan Yuwen is Gu Xu's wife and brother, I guess it must be related to housework. Gu Xu's wife just gave birth to a daughter who is not yet full moon, and recently Gu Xu is drinking with people outside every day, and often stays out at night. I'm afraid it was my brother-in-law Gan Yuwen who was cleaning up my brother-in-law yesterday.

I have to say that the Hanlin people guessed quite accurately.

After all the troubles, Mrs. Gu, as Bai Kou expected, calmed down a lot, and her main energy was on buying new servants. She didn't trust the old servants who had given birth to children for many years, and would rather buy them from outside. The young rookie is retraining, and even wants to sell her old servants, and she has borrowed the manpower of the main house servants from her daughter-in-law these days, and she also wants to express to her son-in-law her sincerity in wishing for family harmony .

No one dared to discuss these matters with the old matriarch in detail, they only said that the servants of the second room did not do their job effectively and made the masters angry, so the old matriarch did not go into details.

The second wife was distracted by her housework, and she couldn't take care of her daughter's marriage for the time being. Gu Chan really studied cooking in the East Kitchen every day. After a few days of peace, Gong Changji finally got good news , and gave Gu Yun a few famous posts, all of them were clan children who were waiting to be married, and they were of higher status than Gu Yan's fiancé.

"I'm really the one you found by drilling a hole in the wall. If you're not satisfied, there's nothing I can do."

"Talk like a mouse."

"The true neutral camp is not on either side, but if there is something to get their support, it should tend to our side."

"Ah? What are their identities?"

"The descendants of the sage's uncles belong to the clan, but they are not in the inner circle." Gong Changji found a name from the name post, "This is the highest status, the grandson of the county king. If you are satisfied, Gu Chan will be the grandson's wife in the future. The princess of the county in the future."

"Well, my second aunt should be interested in this person, thanks."

Gu Yun returned home with the name card, personally handed it to the second wife, and deliberately took out the name card of the grandson of the county king, coaxing the second wife into a big smile, almost appointing this grandson as Gu Chan's husband-in-law on the spot Fortunately, after calming down a little, I still remember to discuss it with my son, and then write to my husband who is far away in Pingzhou to ask for his opinion.

When Gu Xu saw the famous post, he felt that the man's status was too high. His younger sister was spoiled and spoiled, so she might not be able to handle the housework of the county prince's mansion, and his mother didn't train her well. Do they also like Gu Chan?

But this idea is just a thought, Gu Xu still agreed to write to his father first, see how his father responds, if he agrees, then contact the man's family by himself.

Of course, Second Madam Gu was also worried that her daughter would not like her, so she invited Princess Cheng Ning Peilan to come over to drink tea, and asked her to come forward and invite the relatives of the man's family to enjoy the flowers and drink tea together. Looking at Gu Chan, if she is satisfied, the man's family will take the initiative to contact her, so as to save the woman's head-shaving trouble.

Ning Peilan was also forthright, and agreed to come forward to be the middleman, and after only two or three days, she asked the eldest concubine to go out to enjoy the flowers, and then sent a message to Gu Er Furen and Gu Chan to take them on a date.

After hearing the news respectively, the first and third rooms prayed for Gu Chan and wished her good luck.

Bai Kou also gave her blessings, and then she took the guards to the workshop of Xilefang to check the trial production of the glass factory. When eating lunch in the cafeteria at noon, the stewards and deacons all ate small stoves on the second floor, condescending The field of vision allowed Bai Kou to witness with his own eyes a scene where a male worker took the opportunity to touch someone's butt while the female worker was clearing the dining table. The female worker scolded the other party and did not apologize. At the bottom of the feet, let the stewards and deacons on the second floor come out to recognize him, and finally recognized him as an apprentice in a glass factory, a commoner.

So Bai Kou summoned the guards, sent the young man to Yingtian Mansion to eat board, and dismissed his apprentice status, and drove him out of the workshop.

Everyone in the cafeteria silently watched the young man struggling and apologizing, but he still lost to the strength of the two guards and was dragged away like a dead dog. Liu Qiang and Liu Zhuang even asked his men to stop the young man. Fathers and brothers of people, they are not allowed to intercede, whoever steps on the bottom line of Bai Daguan should deserve it, pleading is tantamount to humiliating himself.

After all, the family members chased them out, so they could take the child home after eating the board. When the young man’s voice faded away and could no longer be heard, most people in the cafeteria sat down and continued eating. The female workers thanked Bai Kou together, and Bai Kou could tell from their expressions that this was not the first time this had happened.

"I've been here so many times, why didn't you tell me once, if I didn't see it with my own eyes today, how long are you going to be silent?" Bai Kou stood still and said loudly, just to make everyone present hear.

"It's not that we don't want to sue, it's that it's hard to get evidence for this kind of fact, and we're just low-status female workers. Those men say that the factory can make money because of their hard work, so we deserve high salaries. We women It's to serve them, so..." Mengmei also responded loudly, with Bai Kou's support on the spot today, the grievances these women have suffered these days will be felt all at once.

"What a joke of his grandfather! You are serving them? Who has such a big mouth, not afraid of choking? You are the son's servants, and they are the son's private property. The only person you have to serve is the son. You are paid for your work. It was given by the factory, not by the gang of male workers who have bad hands and feet, whoever dares to take advantage of you or the prince, just slap your mouth and stop talking nonsense."

"Yes, Shopkeeper Bai."

"That guy is just an apprentice who gets [-] Wen a month in pocket money, and he dares to take advantage of you. It's lucky for that guy. This time, I saw him. I'm a lady. I don't beat people. If the prince is here, That guy still wants to send him off with his limbs intact?"

Hearing Bai Kou's words made the men present feel uncomfortable, and many of them choked on food.

She is a lady?She doesn't beat people?
Who just jumped down from the second floor and kicked a young man over and still stepped on him?

"You tell all the female workers in the factory that if any man can't control his mouth and hands and feet, if he touches you, they will beat them until their parents don't recognize them. After resigning, I will go to the whole capital to publicize his deeds."

"Yes, Shopkeeper Bai!" The female workers responded loudly excitedly.

Only then did Bai Kou nodded in satisfaction, and waved them off to work, then she looked up and glanced at the second floor, where all the stewards and deacons were sitting there, as well as the servants that the prince put here, seeing Bai Kou's Looking over, they shrunk their necks guiltily and lowered their heads to eat.

Seeing this scene, Bai Kou knew in his heart that they knew about the male workers harassing the female workers, but no one reported it, and even the boys who passed the news didn't say a word. Compared with this, maybe they usually still Some things were concealed and not reported.

Bai Kou looked at the female workers who were busy cleaning up, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and hooked her fingers at Mengmei, and the two went to find a secluded corner outside the cafeteria to talk.

"Tell me, does it happen often that men harass your female workers?"

"Since the factory started trial production, there have been many such things."

"It's okay for other girls not to dare to complain, but you actually didn't say anything?"

"There is no evidence, it's just harassment, just touch it and leave. If we don't give up, we will be scolded for chasing men, shameless."

"Even if there is no evidence, at least you should tell me that something like this has happened, otherwise I thought everything was going well in the factory, and I took every precaution to prevent something going wrong inside the factory. Outside the factory, the imperial court was watching, making it difficult for outsiders. It’s easy to make trouble, but it’s easy for our own people to cause damage.”

"I know I was wrong, and I will report this to you again."

"By the way, have any men seduced your female workers? Similar to how Wen Gushan seduced you back then? Lured women with a dominant position and exchanged their bodies for benefits?"

"That's not true, but if you say it like this, there is another kind of temptation."

"Say."

"There are only so many female workers working in the factory, and about half of them are unmarried. Some civilians use marriage to lure girls to marry, and at the same time, domestic servants are also competing for these girls."

"It's very smart, constantly harassing the girl, ruining the girl's reputation, and then marrying back home as a good person, it's as disgusting as a rape victim marrying the person who raped herself, and by the way, taking advantage of the prince , using a soft knife to force the prince to agree to marry the girls under his name to these wastes, without even giving them a chance to choose a good family."

Bai Kou licked his lips, showing anger.

(End of this chapter)