marry a noble wife

Chapter 327 It's Not That Easy (2)
Jiu Ya was asking Director Hao Da to arrange a winking person to welcome the guests and arrange a table. Hearing that Mama Pei had reported this, she casually said to Director Hao Da: "I don't know much about the people and things in this house. The first time I was in charge, someone came to make trouble, Mr. Hao, you see what I should do with this matter."

Director Hao Da saluted, "Young Mistress can do whatever she wants. Those people are old people in the house, and they usually talk about them, but they generally follow the rules, and it is difficult to find any mistakes. If Mistress can Find out their mistakes, let them be convinced, and never do it again, that would be the best."

Jiuya sneered, "Then the Chief Manager should go get busy."

She turned around and said to Mother Pei: "Go and call the kitchen and buyers to the hall. By the way, call all the people who are working in the garden together. Today I will hold a mobilization meeting for everyone, and I will be there soon." There will be a large number of guests coming in, how can they be so lazy?"

Director Hao Da retreated as if nothing had happened, and went to deal with various matters in the outer courtyard.

After a while, a group of about three to forty people entered the hall one after another. Some had mocking faces, some had disdainful faces, and some turned their eyes around, and they were clearly concerned about the sudden arrival of the principal. The young mistress didn't think much of her, even though she already had the title of county head, she was not as good as their immediate boss in their eyes.

Jiuya was not angry, she swept her gaze across their faces one by one calmly, and said slowly: "Now that the son has an accident, all of us in the whole house feel sad. Because the old lady and Aunt Xiao are in charge now. I will take care of these common affairs for the time being. Therefore, everyone, for the sake of the kindness of the eldest son, you must do your best to handle the last job for him this time. There will be a large number of guests in the house to express their condolences. The most important thing is in the kitchen. The banquet must be impeccable and cannot be criticized, which will blacken the reputation of our Houfu. Therefore, I will review the most important section, the affairs in the kitchen. That’s right, once you’re sure there’s nothing wrong, then hurry up and go to your places.”

Those servants still looked disapproving, Jiuya said slowly: "Which steward handles the daily purchases in the kitchen?"

After a long silence, a well-dressed middle-aged woman came out.She is dressed in blue and golden silk with long tails, exquisitely embellished with pearls and silver tassels on her head, and red gold earrings on her ears. She has a thick and sturdy body, a thin mouth and double chins.

"The daily kitchen purchases are handled by servants."

Jiuya looked her up and down, wearing gold and silver, she must have a solid foundation.That's right, if you can usually get a job as a buyer, you must have a very strong background, so you asked, "Surname?"

"The servant's surname is Zhu."

"Where is your husband on business?"

Steward Zhu curled his lips secretly, and said reluctantly: "The slave girl is now doing some small errands on the second master's estate."

Jiuya realized something in her heart, she was from Changting, supported by Aunt Xiao, so she didn't pay much attention to the people in this mansion.She smiled faintly, and took a sip of tea, "We haven't separated yet in the Houfu. Unexpectedly, the second master has Zhuangzi alone. I don't know where is Zhuangzi?"

Steward Zhu's face was stunned, Fang realized that he had said something wrong, and immediately added: "Second Master is in charge of all kinds of business in the Hou Mansion, slaves are used to talking about Second Master, it's just a slip of the tongue, why should Third Granny care about it?"

Jiuya glanced at her, "That's fine, it's your slip of the tongue. Let me ask you again, the table I personally arranged was 3000 tables, and I only counted chicken, duck and fish, and I arranged for [-] taels of silver. It can be said that all kinds of non-budgetary factors have been included, I don’t know how the steward Zhu served these few dishes today?”

Zhu Guanshi became serious about this, "Go back to Young Mistress, the servants are hurrying to buy, they have already arranged all those things early in the morning, and the 3000 taels of silver are only needed."

"Then bring me the purchase list and have a look to see how much I bought."

Steward Zhu showed disdain at this moment, "What about the list, the slave has already delivered it to the accountant, and the accountant is urging to make the account."

Jiuya turned her eyes and said, "Mother Xiong, go, let Manager Zhao bring me the list of shopping in the kitchen today."

Mama Xiong ran away, Zhu Guanshi's face changed, "Young Mistress, those are matters on the books, didn't the Hou Lord only let you be in charge of the banquet here? Did you take care of it?"

Jiuya shook the teacup in her hand, and said lightly, "I don't know if Manager Zhu forgot, Master Hou has also ordered me to take care of the accounts, why? Your list has been sent to the accountant, I Can't you watch it?"

I wish the steward stayed silent for a long time.But she wasn't worried either. I heard that the third grandma had been in charge of the accountant until now, but she hadn't managed to make a name for herself. Then Manager Zhao must have given her some fake accounts. What can she see?Then this meeting's list, with Zhao Guanshi's cleverness, definitely won't be handed in for real.

Soon, Mama Xiong brought a stack of bills, and Jiuya took a look, ah, good guy, the 3000 taels were indeed spent, but the price of chicken, duck and fish was outrageously expensive. Chickens and ducks that cost fifty renminbi a catty on the market are almost five hundred renminbi on this list, and it turns out that a chicken or duck costs nearly two taels of silver to buy.Then I only bought about 1000 chickens and ducks, which cost 1000 taels of silver.There are 1000 fish and 1000 pigs, and the price is outrageous. These two things cost a total of 3000 taels of silver.There was another [-] taels of silver, so I wrote another [-] taels of chicken and duck, which was just right, and the [-] taels were completely spent.

Jiu Ya was so angry when she saw it, she didn't want to cause trouble when she sent out these things, so she left some shares according to the strict rules of those people in the mansion. The purchased ingredients are enough.But now, these people are just greedy, they actually reduced the weight of the 1000 tables, and wrote an additional [-] taels of chicken and duck. Now they want to make themselves ugly, and the money is not greedy, so it is shameful for them Face, if you don't take advantage of this to kill the chicken and respect the monkey today, I'm afraid it will be difficult to gain prestige in the future!
And the reason why she knew the price of these chickens and ducks was that Manager Zhao had told her about it a long time ago. Was there any reason why she didn't know?

(End of this chapter)