Unscrupulous stick: kidnap a regent to farm

Chapter 98
As soon as he left, the two maids in the room came over and saluted Long Yuejiao, "I have seen the eldest lady."

"En." Long Yue responded lightly.

The two maids looked at each other, and the maid standing on Long Yuejiao's right said, "My maidservant's name is Chunmei, she is 14 years old this year."

After a while of silence, another servant girl followed suit, "My maidservant's name is Xia Xue, and she is 15 years old this year."

Looking at the two of them, Long Yuejiao went to the chair and sat down, and asked in a soft voice, "When did you enter the mansion? What did you do when you entered the mansion? Why are you sent to Miss Ben now?" Here to serve?"

Blinking her eyes, Chunmei said, "This servant entered the mansion three years ago. When she first came in, she was a third-class envoy in the back kitchen. She was promoted to a second-class girl not long ago. She still works in the back kitchen. Much easier."

After a pause, she continued, "When I was promoted to a second-class girl, the person in charge said that the eldest lady will return to the mansion in a few days, and will send slaves to the eldest lady to serve her in the future."

As soon as Chunmei stopped talking, Xia Xue answered, "The servant girl and Chunmei have the same experience, but the servant girl has been in the mansion for a year longer than her, and she is not working in the back kitchen, but doing rough work in the front yard."

"That is to say, you don't know why you were sent here to serve this lady?" Long Yuejiao asked in a deep voice.

The two trembled and shook their heads in unison.

Seeing this, Long Yuejiao raised her eyebrows, played with her hair with her hands, and didn't speak.

Long Yuejiao didn't say a word, and the two maids didn't dare to say anything, let alone move.

After a long time, Long Yuejiao finally said, "Miss Ben is hungry, go and bring some food over here."

"Yes." Xia Xue left in response.

Chunmei stood there without moving.

"You can go together too." Long Yuejiao said.

Having said that, Chunmei walked away.

After the two of them left, Long Yuejiao said to Zhang Mei, "What do you think of these two girls, Aunt Mei?"

"I said earlier that the Zhao family would send maids to watch over you. These two must have been ordered by the Zhao family to come and watch you." Zhang Mei said with a serious expression.

Long Yuejiao shook her head, "Of course I know that they were sent by the Zhao family to monitor me. I'm asking what do you think of their character?"

"This..." Zhang Mei said, "Let me tell them what their character is at first glance. How can I tell? It takes a long time to know."

Long Yuejiao chuckled and asked Xiang Qiuyue, "What do you think?"

Qiuyue pursed her lips, thought for a while, and said, "I think that Chunmei is calm and honest, and that Xia Xue is clever and cunning."

Slightly nodding, Long Yuejiao said, "How did you find out?"

"I can feel it based on their performance just now."

"Maybe they did this on purpose." Zhang Mei said defensively.

Long Yuejiao propped her face with her hands, and said with a smile, "Maybe they are pretending to confuse us on purpose, but some things cannot be pretended, such as subconscious reactions. Just now when I told them to get food, Chunmei glanced at Xia Xue, but she didn't move when she spoke."

"If she's pretending, she shouldn't even lift her eyelids. It's because she's not pretending. So when she heard what I said, she was wondering who would get the food. Xia Xue was smart and knew that it was an easy job, so she immediately went away. She was too honest, so she took a step too late."

"No matter what, it's right to guard against them." After pondering for a while, Zhang Mei made a conclusion.

Long Yuejiao nodded, "Be on guard against everything, there will always be a day when I can't guard against it, I want to find an opportunity to draw them to my side."

"This...how can this be done?" Qiuyue asked in surprise.

"After getting along for a long time in the future, we will know more about them, and we should be able to think of a good way to win them over."

"Then do it like this!" Zhang Mei clapped her hands and decided.

Long Yue pulled her lips tenderly, her eyes wandered around, and then she fixed her gaze on Zhang Mei, "Aunt Mei, I heard they said that maids still have ranks, please give me a general explanation."

Zhang Mei responded, and said leisurely, "The maids and servants in the mansion are all divided into grades, the worst is the third class, then the second class, and the first class. These third class maids and servants do the heaviest and dirtiest work. , such as emptying the toilet, chopping firewood, fetching water, these are all done by third-class maids and servants.”

"Second-class maids and servants are easier to do. They cook fires, wash vegetables, and clean courtyards. These are all done by them. As for first-class maids and servants, generally the maids and servants who serve the master are first-class. Yes, their main task is to take care of the master."

After a pause, she said, "It's like the master's bathing, dressing, and eating are all done by the first-class servants."

"Ms. Zhao only gave me two second-class maids, that is, no one will take care of me to take a bath and dress?" It's not the maids she wants to serve like this, but she just doesn't understand.

Frowning and blinking her black eyes, Zhang Mei said softly, "According to the logic, a young lady who is born in our house should be accompanied by at least three third-class maids and servants, two second-class maids, and one first-class maid." Wait for the girl."

"That's four people missing, right?" Long Yuejiao asked.

Zhang Mei nodded.

"In the mansion, what is the cost of the young lady who is born in the first place? Will I be given money every month?" She asked again.

"Yes, the young lady who is born in the first place has at least one or two taels of silver per month."

Long Yuejiao lowered her eyes, "So much, at least 12 taels of silver in that year, right?" In other words, her annual silver is enough for an ordinary family to eat for several years?

"En." Zhang Mei responded.

Long Yuejiao stretched her waist and said, "Aunt Mei, I'll have some food later, I'll rest for a while, and when someone comes looking for me, just wake me up."

"Someone is looking for it? Will someone be looking for it?" Zhang Mei didn't react for a while.

Looking at her, Long Yue said coolly, "Do you think they picked me up to leave me alone like this? It's the first time I go back home, so I won't be so silent."

"Right."

Nodding her head clearly, Zhang Mei recalled Long Yuejiao's attitude towards Mrs. Wang again, and preached, "Miss, your attitude towards Madam today is really too much. It's your mother, how can you talk like that."

"I'm sorry, I admit that I lost my temper at the time, but I want to say that I said that to her at the time because I cared about her, so I blamed her, blamed her for not cherishing herself, and blamed her for not thinking about us wholeheartedly. .”

"I don't know why she would rather make herself suffer, but I have to say, she shouldn't be like this. I hope she can protect herself, make her life worry-free, and protect me even more."

"Does she think that sending me out of the Dragon Mansion is protecting me? Over the years, let alone visiting us, she has never thought about it, a young girl, an ordinary woman."

"Two weak people, how are we going to live? Why hasn't she sent a penny over for so many years? Did she think that the money she gave at the beginning would be enough for us to live for a lifetime?"

(End of this chapter)