The cannon fodder of fast wear, she chooses to farm

"I would have gone to the West Courtyard if I had known better." Several maids and women who were not on duty gathered in the servant's room to complain, "I heard that the second lady is not beating and scolding the servants as often as before."

"I don't get scolded or beaten. It's good to work in the West Courtyard. The second lady has to rest for two hours every afternoon. It's already dusk when she wakes up. Unless the old lady summons you for something, she can't be beaten."

"Your news is out of date. The second lady has not had a lunch break in the past half month. She is looking for a candidate for Master Xuan's wife! Logically speaking, our eldest son has not gotten married, so Master Xuan and Master Lin cannot get married before him, but the situation in our house Specially, the Second Madam is worried that if she waits any longer, the marriage of the two young masters in the West Courtyard will be delayed, so she consults with the old lady to finalize the marriage of Young Master Xuan first."

"I've also heard that the servants in the West Courtyard, except for the mother-in-law and the married ones, are all very excited, because the second lady is going to put two waiters in Master Xuan's room first, saying that they want to choose the right person. Tiaoshun is easy to give birth to."

The maids were very shy when talking about this topic, but they still talked enthusiastically.

In the past, they were afraid of going to the West Courtyard as errands because the Second Madam had a fierce temper and would often beat and scold the people under her. Even if she did nothing wrong, the Second Madam would often take it out on them just because she was in a bad mood.

Two years ago, there was a little maid who was just sold into the house. Because she fell in the eyes of the second master, the second wife mistakenly thought that the little maid was deliberately seducing the second master. She was stunned and rewarded her with twenty big boards and beat her to death. He was paralyzed, and in the end he only lost a few taels of silver.

After that, the servants in the mansion, especially the young maids who were sold to the Xue Mansion and had no intention of becoming the second master's concubines, tried every means to avoid the West Courtyard, preferring to come to the lifeless East Courtyard.

With the eldest son unconscious and the eldest lady entering the family temple, the east courtyard seemed to have been deprived of its energy and seemed so depressed and lonely.

Not being able to see the master means that there are less random rewards. Unlike the West Courtyard, you can meet one or two masters just walking on the road. When you encounter them in a good mood, you can give them a reward. It's more than the rewards you get from staying in the East Campus for a year.

But the biggest advantage of working as an errand in the East Campus is leisure.

You don't have to pay greetings to your master every time, you won't be summoned by your master all the time, and you don't have much work at hand, so you'll be very free at the end of the day.

Eat melon seeds, chat for a while, and occasionally go to the kitchen to grab snacks and snacks that the eldest lady is not in the mood to eat. Don't be too leisurely.

Until——the eldest mistress comes in!

First, he replaced the chef in the small kitchen and took the purchasing power into his hands; secondly, he compared the roster of servants like them, adjusted their positions, and divided them into detailed tasks. Each person was on duty four hours a day.

It seems that the working hours are much shorter than before. In the past, they had to get up before dawn, and they could go to bed from three quarters to nine o'clock.

If you really want to count the time, it's eight or nine hours, but the key is to be lazy before now. Show your face at three o'clock at three o'clock. If you sneak back to the servant's room to catch up on your sleep in the middle, the master won't punish you; you can show your face again at noon. , after receiving the meal, I can go back to the house to eat, rest and fish...

Even though they are only on duty for four hours now, during these four hours, they have to work conscientiously. At most, they drink a bowl of water when they are thirsty, and sometimes go to the toilet when they are in a hurry.

Want to sneak back to your dormitory to lie down for a while and catch up on your sleep? Don’t even think about it!

It's not that the masters are always staring at them, but the positions assigned to them by the eldest mistress are basically a carrot and a pit. You can tell who is diligent and who is lazy at a glance.

Forget it, what really makes them complain is planting trees, flowers and vegetables... Oh, this is not the job of the maids working as errands in the rich families, it is just the job of the peasant women in the village!

Pulling weeds, clearing the ground, fertilizing, sowing seeds... In the first few days, they were so tired that they couldn't straighten their backs.

They almost went on strike collectively and went to Ronganyuan to beg the old lady to save them.

But when she turned around, she saw that the eldest mistress was supporting several of them. If it weren't for her identity, she probably wouldn't need a maid, and she could easily take care of that area by herself, right? "..."

The maids were instantly speechless.

The master is working so hard, what right do they have to go to the old lady to complain?

If the eldest mistress is angered, will she throw them out of the east courtyard one by one with her shocking strength?

I had to swallow my anger and continue.

But it is impossible to say that there is no complaint in my heart.

No, they gathered around to complain during the break, and even envied the maids working in the West Courtyard. Not only did they not have to work so hard, but they could also become Master Xuan's maids.

"What are you talking about in hiding in the room! The eldest mistress informed us all to go to Lanyueju for a meeting!" The maid in Xu Yin's courtyard who was responsible for running errands and delivering messages went from dormitory to dormitory to convey the master's instructions, "In less than three quarters, on the east lawn of Lanyueju .Everyone must attend and no lateness is allowed!”

Why did Xu Yin call everyone together?

——Hold a commendation meeting!

She occasionally heard the complaints of the servants. Thinking about it, everyone had really worked hard these days.

Although the working hours strictly adhere to the eight-hour work system, and everyone is given one day off every week, the workload is indeed a bit heavy, especially now, when we need to build a glass house to grow greenhouse vegetables, there is no manpower and it is impossible to do it.

She also wanted to ask several other hospitals to borrow some people to help, but the people in the east hospital still wanted to change jobs? How can this be done!

Therefore, she took reference from those later companies that liked to inject chicken blood to their employees, and treated the East Hospital as a small private enterprise, holding regular mobilization meetings and excellence commendation meetings.

After all the servants from the east courtyard arrived, she first expressed her gratitude to everyone. There was no charge for her praises, so she just had to say them as beautifully as she could!

Secondly, she used her own money to prepare several bonuses and a batch of small prizes, and awarded diligence awards to servants who had outstanding performance in the past period. Don't be discouraged if you don't get the award, and try your best to win next time. Finally, it is time for each person to draw prizes three times.

She asked the carpenter to bring out a wooden prize tray, with grids of different sizes drawn on it for everyone to draw.

Everyone can draw and everyone has a prize, the difference is nothing more than a good prize or a bad prize.

Each person has three chances to redeem the prize on the spot. The most valuable is a gold bean the size of a rice grain, followed by a silver fruit. The two prizes correspond to the smallest grid grid; the other prizes are hairpins, fabrics, shoe uppers, and handkerchiefs. , sachets, rouge, pipes, tobacco leaves, etc. The prizes are small in value but varied.

Looking at it this way, it looks a bit like a company doing team building... in short, a big mess.

But don't mention it, the employees... well, the enthusiasm of the servants for work has indeed been aroused.

At least no one complained that they wanted to use their accumulated silver to do some activities and did not want to stay in the east courtyard, but would rather go to the west courtyard where they would be beaten and scolded by the second wife. (End of chapter)