Be Careful General's Wife!

The steward of the kitchen took the account book of buying vegetables and went to Qiushi courtyard. On the way, she met the servant girl and greeted her. She smiled and nodded in response.

When we got to the door of Qiushi courtyard, the smile on our face was put away, we sighed and raised our feet up the steps.

In the main room, Qiuju with a big belly looked at the account book. Mu Na sat in a chair and listened to the report of the steward.

"The twenty Liang silver given by madam at the beginning of the month has been used up. What you bought is clearly recorded in the account book. Madam can let Miss Qiuju check it one by one." The steward lowered his eyes and said.

She sighed in her heart and thought, what's this called? The housewife can't read and can't even read the accounts. She has to marry a servant girl to show her the accounts.

The general is a high-ranking general of the town, but Xu Xian married a general's wife who doesn't know big words. It's really puzzling. Many people in the family are guessing that the current wife is not the distant relative the general met in the north, but the general's mistress in the north. He also said that the lady and the young master may be the one who infected them now!

Mu Na wrung her eyebrows and said, "twenty liang of silver. It's only been used up in more than ten days?"

"The maidservant has saved the flowers." The steward explained, "but the sixth day general invited several deputy generals to eat at home. The Deputy generals loved mutton, bought a sheep, and bought some beef and wine. It cost five Liang silver to buy the table. Now the meals of the soldiers and servants are only at noon, and they fry some fat meat, radish and beans together." The identity of a general is here. When you entertain your subordinates, you naturally want to buy some good wine and dishes.

"The master and servants of our family, as well as the soldiers of our family, add up to a hundred and ten people. The money for vegetables, meals and snacks this day is one or two liang silver anyway."

There are so many people in the house, and the lady still wants to control the food in the house within 30 Liang silver. How is it possible? One hundred and ten people in your family will get more than ten liang of silver a month just to buy rice.

Look at the whole Kyoto, that is, the four or five grade officials spend no more than eighty-two dollars a month on food? They are the general's residence of Yipin town!

The food of such a large family should be controlled within 30 Liang silver a month. They are embarrassed to say it.

In the past, the kitchen supervisor was a fat job, but since the new lady came in and took charge of the house, her hair fell off one by one every day. How to save money is not enough.

Mu Na looked at Qiu Ju. Qiu Ju closed her account book, nodded and said, "I remember every account very clearly, and the amount is also right. There are no mistakes or omissions."

When she was in charge of the house, thirty Liang silver was more than enough for the food expenses of the whole general's house. Why do you need thirty Liang silver in half a month now?

Mu Na thought about it and looked at Xia Zhu and Dong Mei working in the yard. It seems that there are too many idle people in the general's house.

In the past, there was only Qiuju in her yard, so she managed the whole Qiushi yard only.

Moreover, now the three masters of the general's house are her, her husband and Ziling. Ziyu is gone and the old lady is gone. There is no need for so many servants. These servants are also raising idle people in the house.

Mu Na asked Qiu Ju to take ten liang of silver to the steward, so that she ran out of silver, and then took the account book to ask for it.

The steward said yes, but his eyes turned to fill in.

As soon as the steward left, Mu Na asked Qiu Ju with a big belly to sit down.

"Thank you, madam." Qiuju sat down with her stomach.

"There are few masters and many servants in the general's residence of our town. We really have too many idle people."

Hearing the speech, Qiuju's look changed and she heard the meaning of her wife's words. She wanted to reduce the number of servants in the house. Although in Qiuju's opinion, it is not appropriate to reduce the servants in the house, he didn't say anything at the moment, waiting for his wife's following.

"You say, how about halving the number of servants in this house?" Shen Wan looked at Qiuju and asked. Before she could answer, she continued, "most of the servants in the family are dead deeds. If they sell those who sign the dead deeds, they can also receive a lot of money back!"