My years as a menswear boss

After Jiqiu listed the necessary daily expenses for each week, he handed the list to the housekeeper Louise, "Just let the purchasing workers purchase according to this."

She has inquired that this Paris is the same as the Paris in her previous life, except for the different characters.

Jiqiu was carefully raised by Dantès in her previous life, but it didn't make her ignorant of the sufferings of the world.

She knew all about the prices in Paris.Five thousand francs a year can make a lady live a fine life in Paris, which also includes the cost of renting a house.

And the list she made for Margaret was one hundred francs per week, which was only food for people and fodder for horses, not including servants' remuneration.

She felt that this kind of spending was considered extravagant, but in order to prevent Margaret from falling behind, she still raised a lot of expenses.

After Louise took the expense bill, she glanced at Margaret hesitantly, "Miss, is a hundred francs a week too little?"

"Here." Margaret pulled the cashmere vest on her body, and she looked at Jiqiu, "Adrian, we don't have to be so economical."

"One hundred francs has brought enough benefits to the day laborers who are buying, and I don't want to make things too extreme."

Jiqiu's eyes were cold, giving people an invisible sense of oppression, "Mrs. Louise, please tell me, what kind of eggs can be sold for five francs each? And ten francs of flour that is only enough for a week?"

Even in the case of her affluent life, no one is allowed to make small moves that are not on the table, let alone the embarrassment she will face now.

After reading the expenditure details given by Margaret, Jiqiu could calculate how poor these accounts are at first glance, "In what I understand, the responsibility of the housekeeper is to manage the servants of the entire mansion, so that The owner lives more comfortably."

She walked up to Louise and paced back and forth, "I don't have such a kind heart as my sister, and I don't care how serious your daughter's condition is. If you still allow your servant to steal food like a mouse, then I don't mind letting her eat." You leave here and find another employer. You can warn those lazy guys, and you can re-hire a competent housekeeper."

"Sir...I." Louise's face was pale, and sweat dripped from her forehead, "I don't dare anymore, please don't fire me!"

Margaret looked at the usually serious housekeeper who was so frightened that she was about to cry. In order not to soften her heart, she turned her face away for the first time.

Louise saw that the hostess, who had always been soft-hearted, didn't help her out. A sense of despair surged in her heart, and she sat on the ground limply, "Please give me another chance, I will do my job well!"

Jiqiu looked down at the middle-aged housekeeper who was hugging her thigh and weeping, put away the cold look on her face, and gently helped the housekeeper up, "Mrs. Louise, I know you are a mother, and I can't bear to punish those who are with your daughter children of similar age.

But have you ever thought about it, if they have a little consideration for your feelings, they will not squander five hundred francs a week, and even tell you that they don't have enough money. "

Louise looked at the young man's gentle face, she took the handkerchief Jiqiu handed her with a dazed expression, not knowing how to refute these words for a while.

"I learned a little from a doctor in Provence. You can bring your daughter here, and I will cure her."

At this time, Jiqiu put on a gentle face. She behaved elegantly and wore a gold-rimmed monocle on her face, which looked very reliable.

"Thank you, sir, thank you so much." Louise said with a trembling voice, "I will deal with this matter, please give me a day."

"I believe in you, Louise." Jiqiu said with a smile.

Margaret looked at Louise who left with gratitude, and her admiration for Jiqiu arose in her heart, "Adrian, how did you do it?! And how did you know that Louise has a Sick daughter?"

Jiqiu sat on the single sofa, "If you want to manage a subordinate well, first of all, you must establish dignity. It is they who are afraid of you, and secondly, you must give them some sweetness. After a few back and forth, they will understand, Your orders cannot be disobeyed, as long as you do what you tell them well, you can get rewards, so that they will do things for you with all their heart."

"As for the housekeeper's daughter, because I noticed a brown stain on her cuff, which is a very rude gesture in front of the master.

Louise has a faint bitter taste, and she is in good health, so it can only be that the people around her are sick, so what kind of person can make her leave the post during working hours to take care of her at the risk of being reported by others? ?

Only children, mothers are great, they are willing to do anything for their children, even sacrifice themselves. "

"How do you know that Mrs. Louise has a daughter, not a son?" asked Margaret.

"Because of the apron, I noticed that you have the same apron for all the waitresses. To avoid confusion with other people's aprons, they will embroider their names on the tie. I saw Louise's tie crooked. embroidered characters.

The ribbons that bind her hair are handmade, and the intricate stitching on them shows her superb sewing skills, so the clumsy handwork on her body can only come from the hands of a little girl. "

"Of course, you can also say that other maids sewed it for her, but I believe that no one would use their unskilled craftsmanship on outsiders, so it can only be sewed by Louise's daughter." Ji Qiu explained in a warm voice, and she took a sip of the black tea on the table.

Margaret was overwhelmed by this detailed reasoning, and she sighed, "Adrian, I believe there is no one smarter than you in the world!"

In the early seventeenth century, Chinese medicine was introduced to Europe by missionaries and marchers, and some doctors began to study the way of treating diseases with Chinese medicine.

But they cannot grasp the essence of Chinese medicine, every patient should have a unique prescription.

Because the severity of the disease will result in different doses of herbal medicines, European doctors can only treat patients with fixed prescriptions from the East. Some people will be able to drink the medicine once, and some people may not be cured after drinking it several times. , and even some quack doctors will use prescriptions casually, which will make the patient's condition worse.

By the [-]th century, European doctors gradually gave up the treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine. They thought that herbal medicine treatment was a probability event, and it all depended on God's blessing.

Arab doctors use herbal medicine to treat people. They know that the reason why some prescriptions will make the patient's condition worse is because of the dosage. They still choose their own country and Chinese medicine to treat people.

But in this superstitious era, patients are more willing to believe in quack doctors who only let people bleed. It would be even better if they were Christians.

Louise cruelly fired the lazy young servants and long-term workers in the mansion, and hired some quick-working short-term workers.

Of course, she did not forget that Jiqiu treated her daughter, and took her daughter to a servant's room in the Champs Elysees mansion the next day.

"Please say 'Ah——'" Jiqiu took a spoon and put it in the little girl's mouth, motioning her to open her mouth.

Louise's daughter is called Lena, an eight-year-old girl with brown hair and green eyes, her cheeks were thin due to the pain, and she opened her mouth obediently.

Jiqiu found that the mucous membrane of Lina's pharynx was congested and blisters appeared in her mouth, "It's all right."

"Sir, can my daughter's illness be cured?"

Louise asked anxiously. Seeing the young man's calm face, she felt less despair than before. "My little Lena hasn't eaten for two days. If this continues, she will become weaker and weaker."

"Is there any factory near your house?" Jiqiu put the spoon on the dry sackcloth aside, and stretched out his hand to look at Lina's eyelids, "Such as a textile factory, a flour factory, a wood factory?"

"Yes, there is a wood processing factory next to our house!" Louise nodded quickly.

"There is a lot of dust generated in the woodworks every day, and young children are vulnerable. They inhale the debris and it can cause a sore throat. Your daughter is not eating because she is in too much pain to swallow."

Jiqiu immediately saw that it was a symptom of pharyngitis, "The quack doctor you found prescribed the medicine for fever, and if he didn't prescribe the right medicine, it would naturally make the child's condition worse."

During the conversation between Jiqiu and Louise, little Lina coughed a few more times, until tears flowed out.

Louise held her daughter in her arms distressedly, "Sir, can you cure her?!"

"of course."

Jiqiu came to the kitchen, before it was time to eat, there was only one maid in it, and it was the round-faced little girl Suzie she saw the first day.

"Sir, why are you here?" Susie asked.

"Mrs. Louise's daughter is sick, I'm here to get something to cure her." Jiqiu rummaged through the bamboo basket for fruit, and finally found the remaining pears.

"It's Little Lina, I've seen her before!"

Susie leaned over, and she watched curiously as the young man skillfully peeled the pear with a knife, and the whole action was done in one go.

Susie picked up the fallen peel, a long strip with exactly the same spacing, like a goose yellow hairband, "Wow~"

"Susie, come and help me light the fire." Jiqiu looked at the startled girl and had to find something for her to do.

After Susie got the order, she set off immediately. She skillfully lit the fire and put the pot in place, "Sir, do you want to put water?"

"Yes." Jiqiu cut the Sydney pear into five pieces, took the core and put it on the plate. She found wolfberry and rock sugar from Turkey from the place where the seasoning was placed.

After the water boiled, she put the contents of the tray in and waited quietly for them to boil.

After a while, there was a burst of fragrance from the pot. Jiqiu picked up a spoon and put a bowl of rock sugar pears to dry. She took out a spoon and took a spoonful from it. The sweetness was just right.

Susie watched helplessly from the sidelines, until the young man asked her to taste it, then she raised her smiling face and drank up the rock sugar pears left in the pot.

Jiqiu returned to the servant's room with the bowl of rock sugar Sydney, and she handed the bowl to Louise, "Feed her to drink."

Louise hesitated for a moment, but did as she did. Little Lena wrinkled her face, but she didn't spit it out, enduring the pain and drank the sweet sugar water in her mouth.

Jiqiu watched the little girl eat the boiled pear meat, and then heaved a sigh of relief, "Children really like sweets." '