Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 291 Eating Ice Cream

It was snowing heavily, and there was a foot-thick snow in the courtyard overnight, and Xu Qing asked his servants not to clean it anymore.The snow on the roof has melted a lot due to the fire inside the house.This kind of weather is not frozen, it is thanks to Xu Qing who has paved the kang before, and at least has a heating system.Waking up early in the morning, Xu Qing pushed open the door and saw many curtain-like icicles hanging from the eaves.

"Hey, everyone, look, it's freezing!"

Xu Qing stood on the corridor on the second floor and watched, and saw the servants and servants coming out of the second door and the third door.A crisp greeting also reached Xu Qing's ears, and he followed the sound, and saw the servants and maids also looking at the beautiful scenery.Before the new year, the big guys stepped up their work. After the new year, the processed products in reserve let everyone just sit and eat until the beginning of spring.

With leisure, there is leisure.

"Where is this called Bingling, this is called Binghang..." A servant stepped forward, showing his knowledge in front of the maidservant.

Unexpectedly, the maidservants said in disgust: "Hey, Binghang's name doesn't sound good..."

"Hey, let's eat ice cream, shall we?" Seeing that pretending to be knowledgeable cannot attract people, the servant had no choice but to show courteousness.He took a bamboo pole, stretched it to the side of the eaves, and tapped lightly on the root of the icicle, and the icicle fell in response.As for the servant, with a nimble grasp, Bingling caught it in his hand.

The maidservants rushed over one after another, and the rest of the servants, seeing that this method worked, also went to find bamboo poles to beat ice.For a while, there was constant laughter in the house on the side of the servants and maids.Xu Qing's family is probably the only big family with servants and maids who can play together like this.

Xu Qing frowned and remembered something.He was thinking, there are so many servants in the family, and many of them have been transported back from Cangzhou, and now this room is even more insufficient.It's better to choose some servants, move out of the county magistrate's mansion, settle down in the surrounding area, give them fields, or let them work in various industries of the Xu family as small stewards.

The servants in the family are divided into two categories, one is selected and sent by the palace when they are entrusted.In this category, life and death are in Xu Qing's hands, just like tables and chairs. To put it bluntly, these people are domestic slaves.The other category is gifted by outsiders or recruited by the old man Ni Bai at home.Most of these people are villagers from nearby villages, who are regarded as long-term workers.

At the beginning, both long-term workers and domestic slaves were required to live and board in Xu's house, but in this way, too many houses were occupied.Xu Qing recruited old man Ni Bai and asked him to find a long-term worker in the mansion, and all non-critical positions were dismissed first.

Unexpectedly, old man Ni Bai was taken aback, knelt down and said: "Why does the master want to lay off the servants? Is it because they have done something wrong, or they have been lazy these days, it's all the old slave's fault."

Xu Qing sighed, helped him up, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I won't lay off people randomly, the main reason is that there are not enough rooms in the mansion."

Old man Ni understood Xu Qing's intention to lay off employees, and he was relieved. He said, "There are many long-term workers in the family, but Duolifu, except for the carpenter, can be laid off. In this way, more than [-] people can be reduced."

Xu Qing nodded and said, "Yes, with more severance pay, and those whose families are really difficult, you can keep one or two, and those who work in the warehouse, you can also keep one or two good people."

Xu Qing also ordered, don't say this is what he meant.The advantage of having a butler is that the wicked don't have to do it themselves, the butler is like the personnel department.

After Ni Bai left, Xu Qing pointed his fingers and said, after going to the long-term workers, the rest of the recruits in the family signed the contract of sale, which was the same as the one rewarded by the palace.There are 53 maidservants and 46 servants in the family, more women than men.There are a few beautiful maidservants who can act as personal servants, and the rest can be paired with servants.

The main place for Xu Qing's family to employ people is the two big warehouses, but the two big warehouses are only used during the autumn harvest, and the rest of the time, they are only used for fire protection.This kind of seasonal work can be solved by short-term workers.For distant industries, a loyal person is needed as an eyeliner. If there are two married couples, they can be dispatched abroad.

Another day let Xun Xueer and the others go to the maidservants to find out who has a good relationship, and then examine the man's temperament and ability, and come to a multi-person wedding a year ago.

While talking, Xun Xueer and his daughters came together, and they seemed to have coaxed Xu Wen to sleep.

"Wow, so many icicles!" Xu Qi ran to the front of the girls and hugged Xu Qing first, but her side could only hug Xu Qing's thigh.

Huang Shimei walked over with a smile and said: "Xu Qi, I asked Xu Qing to make ice and hang it for you to eat."

Xu Qi raised her head and looked at Xu Qing expectantly.

Xu Qing shook his head and said, "Okay, I'll get the bamboo pole..."

He thought to himself, in his time, there were popsicles to eat, but no one ate ice cream.Fortunately, he saw that servant beat him before, otherwise he would really be ashamed.I saw Xu Qing took the bamboo pole, and imitated the servant before him, reaching to the root, knocking it, turning around and picking it up.

"Ping Ping..."

The icicle fell to the ground.

Knock again, drop again, knock again, drop again, Xu Qing drank, I couldn't believe it, but it still fell to the ground.

Xu Qing, with a black face, knocked down half of the icy rings in the corridor, but he didn't catch one.Xu Qing smiled awkwardly: "Xu Qi, if you want to eat ice cream, I'll lift you up and you can eat it, okay?"

Of course Xu Qi was unwilling and shook her head quickly.At this time, Huang Shimei picked up a small piece of rubble and threw it up. With a thud, the icicles fell down.Huang Shimei didn't even look at it, she just picked it up and got Bingling.Then, he gave Xu Qing a look that looks like you look at it.

The rest of the girls all laughed, and Xu Qing also smiled, then curled her lips and said in her heart, it's amazing, so what, isn't it going to be raped by me?I thought in my heart that it would be Huang Shimei's turn to serve the bed tomorrow, if you dare to provoke me today, let's see how I make you beg for mercy tomorrow!

Huang Shimei iced Xue'er, Xiuxiu, and Xiaoyue, but Xu Qi was the last to take it and refused to eat it because it was too cold.

At this time, Xu Qing was in a daze. Why, it was only because the four girls pinched the icicle in their hands, looked at Xu Qing affectionately, and then licked a circle around the icicle with their tongues, and then licked it up and down. back and forth.

Where is eating ice cream?This is simply to seduce the soul!

In fact, the four girls didn't do this on purpose, but the icicles are too cold, it's not like eating popsicles in summer.It was just a few licks, but in Xu Qing's eyes, it became that kind of thing.And the so-called looking at Xu Qing affectionately was just Xu Qing's wild imagination.

Huang Shimei seemed to have noticed Xu Qing's strangeness, a wicked smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, she ate the popsicle, and it went straight into her throat!
Xu Qing trembled, and quickly supported his waist, tsk tsk tsk, the four wives are still not blessed to suffer at the same time, just looking at it makes the waist unbearable.

Lowering her head, she saw that Xu Qi seemed to have made up her mind to eat this cold popsicle, and opened her mouth to lick it.As a result, Xu Qing's waist hurt even more, and he secretly cursed a group of goblins.

(End of this chapter)