Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 648
Li Xin was surprised when he heard this.

"At the time, Fourth Master Shen's marriage was considered a sensation. Besides, it was also said that Fourth Mrs. Shen was injured when she gave birth to a child. She was talking about a serious illness and childlessness. Isn't that..." Li Xin frowned.

Guan Wen replied: "In the past, the An family was just a merchant with no foundation, and Mr. An is just a merchant who suddenly made a fortune." Guan Wen suddenly smiled when he said this, pointed to himself and said, "Isn't it the same with your husband? ?”

Li Xin rolled his eyes at him, and Guan Wen continued: "After the death of Mr. An, the house in the An family was restless, and the fight for family property was like a big show. After you sing, I will appear on stage, and no one who knows business will come out to manage the business. Well, after a long time, it will naturally decline. Today's Anjia... To put it a bit harshly, it is worse than that small family with two shares."

Li Xin said: "Even so, the fourth wife of the Shen family is the right lady that the Shen family is marrying back from Anjia Mingmei. If the Shen family really divorces their wife in such a name, it will be even more ridiculous, saying that the Shen family is bullying the An family. Someone can stand up for the fourth wife of Shen, so put a poor woman, the fourth wife of Shen, out of the house?"

Speaking of this, Li Xin frowned tightly: "You only talk about the Shen family, what's the attitude of Fourth Master Shen?"

Guan Wen lazily fell asleep again, and returned to Li Xin's words after a while: "In my opinion... Fourth Master Shen is a nostalgic."

Li Xin raised his eyebrows: "You mean, fourth master Shen is happy with fourth wife Shen?"

Guan Wen snorted through his nose: "It's too late today, let's talk about it later. Tomorrow you have to get to know the servants at home, so you must get up early to arrange family affairs and go to bed earlier."

Li Xin stared at him for a long while, and heard that Guan Wen was breathing evenly, and there was a slight snoring sound, so he couldn't help but sighed, tidied up a few times, and got into the bed to fall asleep.

Guan Wen got up early the next morning, and he was naturally busy with his family's business.

Because of the belt, Li Xin wanted to sleep lightly, and when Guan Wen moved, she also woke up, sat up and yawned, seeing Guan Wen's neat movements of dressing and cutting hair, Li Xin also slowly began to dress.

"Is Yoyo still awake?" Li Xin asked Guan Wen in a low voice.

Guan Wen glanced at the small wooden bed on one side, and said, "I'm asleep, my little mouth is still bubbling." Then he smiled dotingly.

The husband and wife packed up, and there was already a woman in her thirties waiting at the door.

As soon as Guan Wen opened the door, the woman bowed and said, "Master is up."

Guan Wen was a little surprised, but still nodded, let her carry water into the room, and instructed: "Be gentle."

Those who waited close to him naturally knew that the master's house had a daughter who was born less than one year old, so the woman should go in lightly.

Li Xin straightened her temple hair, and saw that the woman carrying water hurried over to help her comb her hair, and said: "I'll do it myself, you go down, have breakfast later, let the family servants come to the back hall, so that you I'll get to know each other."

The woman hurriedly said, "Yes, madam."

Qingya and Guozi are Li Xin's close servants, after all, they followed her early in the morning, but today they are not as diligent as their original servants. They were waiting at the door early in the morning, but they slept until the sun was up. Li Xin was really ashamed.

I had had breakfast, so all the servants in the family stood in the back hall.

Guan Wen sat at the main seat, and Li Xin sat next to him, holding Yoyo in his arms.Yang'er sat down first.The rest of the servants were all standing, including Qingya and Guozi who stood behind Li Xin with their heads bowed.

Seeing that a man in his forties who seemed to be in charge stood up, he said calmly, "Master, madam, good morning, young master and miss."

Everyone then said "Good morning".

"The ones standing below are all the servants in the Guan house. The books are here, please read them."

Li Xin held all the deeds of sale in his hands, but he couldn't match them.On such an occasion, it is impossible to take out the deed of sale, take one and read a person's name, and ask someone to come out and recognize her.This seems a little too vulgar.Li Xin was still thinking about how to get them to introduce themselves one by one, but he didn't expect someone to hand him a pillow when he fell asleep, this manager is quite clever.

Li Xin smiled, took the booklet, and raised an eyebrow at Guan Wen.

Guan Wen didn't move, and smiled at Li Xin.

The meaning in the eyes is that today she is letting her stand up, she is in charge, and he can just watch and express his opinion.

Li Xin knew what Guan Wen meant.He is working hard outside, he doesn't care about the affairs of the house, and leaves it to her.What he did was to let people know who is the master in this family—he, the master of the family, entrusts the mistress to take care of everything in the house, and trusts the mistress 12 points.

Li Xin swept over the people, opened the thin book, and asked them one by one.

Twenty or so people are not too many, one man and one woman in charge, four people in the kitchen, ten people who clean the house, two people who do needlework, two people who watch the door, two people who walk outside to deliver news, and the rest are There were four boys and girls who hadn't been formally assigned to do things before, that is, young girls.

At first, Li Xin felt that since they had just settled down in the town, they really didn't need so many people to take care of them. After all, the family was small.

But Guan Wen said that it is precisely because of the small number of people in the family that they should not be sloppy in this matter.The courtyard of the closed house is not small, if it is empty, it is easy to be missed by thieves.

Li Xin could only respond.

Li Xin, who has divided responsibilities, is not easy to change, and still let them do their own things.

Li Xin once asked Guan Wen why these people were kept by the former masters, but what mistakes did they make?Otherwise, it's just that they don't think it's easy to take away, so why did they keep these people.

Guan Wen answered her with a smile: "I didn't make any mistakes, maybe it was mediocre qualifications, nothing outstanding, and I didn't have the ability to let the master in front remember me, and I didn't have the heart to put money in charge... They are equivalent to being given by the master in front. Abandoned. As for the four small ones, they were just bought back.”

Li Xin looked at the manager who spoke at the beginning, and the surnamed Cao said: "Guan Cao, are you and Mama Cao husband and wife?"

Mother Cao is the woman who brought the water into Li Xin's room in the morning.

Guan Shi hurriedly said, "Go back to Madam, yes."

The corner of Li Xin's mouth raised into a smile: "Why are both of you husband and wife kept? Anyway, they are in charge."

Guanshi Cao smiled wryly: "Returning to Madam, the young couple offended the senior steward, and the senior steward told him not to take us to enjoy the blessing..."

Li Xin raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Why did you offend the chief steward?"

Cao Guanshi hesitated to take a look, and then pointed to a ten-year-old kid in their group: "This is the son of a villain and a bitch. He has been working with the villain since he was ten years old, and he has been working as a messenger. He stole the merit of the chief steward's nephew in delivering a message, and the chief steward found fault, and was blocked by villains and scumbags, and then he had a bad relationship with the chief steward..."

Mother Cao sighed, as if remembering the injustice in the past, and full of confusion about the future, she couldn't help wiping away her tears.

Li Xin knocked on the table three times and said in a deep voice, "If it's true as you said, I can't blame you for this matter."

Cao Guanshi and Cao's mother looked pale, but Li Xin said, "But..."

The hearts of the two suddenly rose.

"From now on, in my closed house, you have to be careful." Li Xin looked at Guanshi Cao and Mama Cao with blazing eyes: "Now there are only two of you in charge in the house, you are still a couple, and the other is in charge of the outer courtyard. The servant, a maid in charge of the inner courtyard, can be said to act according to the faces of the two of you in the whole house, so how can you not pay for it, as you said, which is a big favoritism."

Guanshi Cao and Mama Cao's faces were clouded by what he said, Guanshi Cao took the lead to kneel down and said, "Madam, don't worry, since the villain is already a member of the Guan family, I naturally think of the Guan family in everything, and never dare to have selfish motives! "

Li Xin didn't believe this, how can a person live without selfishness?She just didn't want to touch her bottom line.

Mother Cao also knelt down to show her loyalty.

But Li Xin ignored them, looked at Guan Wen and said, "On weekdays, He Zai is with you when you travel, will it be less?"

Guan Wen raised his eyebrows: "Madam thinks something is wrong?"

"If there is something to do on the way, if you send He Zai to handle the matter, there will be no one around your husband." Li Xin smiled, turned his gaze to the servants again, ordered Cao Guanshi's son to come out, and asked with a smile: "Are you Cao Guanshi and Cao Cao?" Mother's son?"

"Yes, ma'am." The ten-year-old boy was still very young, his head was slightly lowered, and his face was slightly flushed.

"What's your name?"

"Return to Madam, villain Cao Jun."

"Cao Jun, you used to deliver news, didn't you?" Li Xin smiled and said, "From now on, you will walk with the master and be the master's long-term follower with He Zai, okay?"

Cao Jun didn't quite understand whether it was better to be a long-term follower or to deliver news, so he looked at Guanshi Cao hesitantly.

Guanshi Cao didn't dare to raise his head.

Li Xin smiled and said, "I can learn a lot from the master, Cao Jun, are you unwilling?"

Cao Jun immediately reacted to one sentence, and hurriedly said: "The villain dare not, the villain thank you for promoting me!"

Li Xin nodded, feeling a little relieved.

This also left Guanshi Cao alone for a while, before Li Xin yelled lazily, and said to Guanshi Cao: "What do Guanshi Cao think of Cao Jun's errand?"

Cao Guanshi cupped his hands and said, "Mrs. Xie's promotion."

Li Xin's smile deepened: "I can't say I'm going to be promoted. From now on, I will have to take care of everything at home with the help of Cao Guanshi and Cao's mother. If Cao Jun is ambitious, there must be a bright future waiting for him."

Picking the most important steward to give a stick to a sweet date, Li Xin looked at the other servants below, and didn't have the meaning to understand deeply, it happened that the four boys and girls happened to be two men and two women, so Li Xin put The two boys are assigned to Yang'er as companions, and the two girls are assigned to Yoyo as companions.

The rest of the people just called their names and asked people to come forward to show her. Li Xin asked a few more questions such as how many people were there in the family and how old they were, and ended this special "meeting".

Afterwards, Guan Wen accompanied Li Xin back to the room, and said with a smile, "Ma'am is indeed somewhat of a housewife."

Li Xin tilted his head and looked at Guan Wen: "Awen, are you really addicted to calling my wife? Why do you always like to call me my wife and call yourself your husband when you come to town?"

Guan Wen smiled immediately: "Alright, Xiner, you have to let me get used to it. In the future, when dealing with others, this title is indispensable."

(End of this chapter)