The next day, the county magistrate's office sent someone to send Zhao Yu's salary to the mansion Zhou Mansion.

Strictly speaking, Zhao Yu only served as an official for less than four months, among which he served as a Kunyang County lieutenant for two months, a half-month lieutenant for half a month, and a second-quarter lieutenant for half a month, and a second-quarter lieutenant for only half a month.

In just four months, he jumped three levels and was promoted from a county lieutenant to a county lieutenant. The speed of promotion may not be successful if ordinary people spend ten years.

The same thing is said, I have to thank the rebels for their "assistance" and the former commander Cao Suo for their confrontation.

Zhao Yu had not received the monthly salary for the past four months. After all, he was not short of money when he was in Kunyang, so he naturally would not think of going to the county government to receive the salary. The county magistrate in Xuchang was managed by the former county magistrate Song Zhu. When he saw that Zhao Yu did not mention it, Song Zhu naturally would not take the initiative to give it, so the matter was delayed.

Now, Chen Lang, who was promoted to county magistrate, guessed that the Zhou Mansion of the Commander might be short of money, so he thought of this matter very cleverly.

He waved his hand in the county magistrate's office and ordered his officials to pay Zhao Yu four months' salary according to the monthly salary standard of the magistrate, and also make up for the previous arrears.

The salary for four months is 400 stones. Since Zhao Yu's reply was "half of the grain and half a coin", the county magistrate's office sent someone to the Zhou Mansion to send 200 stones of grain to the other day. The other 200 stones of grain were regarded as two-thirds of the amount of rice according to the standard of "shelling". At the current price of 350 coins per stone, it was exchanged for money, which was probably less than 50,000 yuan.

After getting this money and grain, the Duwei Zhou Mansion was enough to maintain it for a while.

Since she had the money, Jingnu planned to dismiss the original servants in the mansion. She called He Shun and ordered: "Call the servants in the mansion to the front yard..."

Hearing this, the three maids standing in the house were a little nervous except Bier.

The other two maids, one is two years older than Bier, the same age as Jingnnie, and the other is the same age as Bier. The former is Qing'er and the latter is Yao'er. This kind of name can be seen everywhere in wealthy families.

Among these three maids, the one with the best impression of Jingnv is naturally Bier. Although this girl is clumsy, has a frivolous personality, and is not quiet at all, this girl has the courage to touch her. She has a sweet mouth, so Jingnv is not opposed to bringing her with her.

The maid named Qing'er was much more calm and quiet, a bit as quiet as Jingnv's former one. However, this girl was not as brave as Bi'er, and she didn't dare to breathe in front of Jingnv. However, seeing that she was careful, Jingnv decided to let her take charge of some specific affairs in the future.

As for the last little girl, Yao'er, who was a few months younger than Bier, she was the one who feared Jingnv the most among the three. As long as Jingnv glanced over her eyes, her face was immediately pale, and she was even scared to death, making Jingnv quite speechless - she was just wearing a mask, as for being so scared?

Later, Jingnu found out that these three maids were not afraid of the mask on her face, but of her eyes.

Afterwards, Jingnu looked at the bronze mirror for a long time in private, and then she vaguely felt that her eyes were indeed a little cold. Perhaps because she had experienced too many things over the years and had seen too many life and death, her eyes were no longer as innocent as those three girls Bier, and she became a little cold.

Although I am very sorry about this, Jingnv does not regret it.

Just like there are several places in the right hand that often holds a sword and unknowingly, although she hates it to death as a woman, she does not intend to give up swordsmanship.

She knew very well that a woman who only knew how to live in poverty could not help her young master.

She wants to be his shield, his sword, and a woman who can share the joys and sorrows with him.

Around the Si hour, the former servants in the Duwei Zhou Mansion were summoned to the front yard, with about twenty people.

According to Bier, there were originally about 150 people in the mansion, but now, those who escaped and those who walked away were only these people. Even the six or seven maids in the inner courtyard had run away halfway, leaving only the three of them.

Maybe the twenty or so people had a premonition of something, and people were panicked when they were summoned to one place.

When the Jingnv appeared in front of them, a woman immediately knelt down and cried and begged: "Madam, please don't drive us away..."

Before he finished speaking, the remaining twenty people knelt down and begged.

Perhaps some people don’t understand. These people were originally servants in Cao’s mansion, and some even signed contracts for sale. Now, the new Mrs. Zhou allows them to restore their free people and even give them a severance money. What’s wrong with this?

But in fact, these people are really willing to stay in the Duwei Zhou Mansion, and it doesn’t matter even if they sign a contract to sell their bodies.

You should know that it is not a peaceful time now, and rebels everywhere are in trouble. Even in Yingchuan County, the rebels still occupy nearly one-third of the territory.

What's worse is that due to wars everywhere, rice prices soared. Even under the deliberate suppression of the county magistrate's office, the rice prices in Xuchang City also soared to a high price of 350 yuan per stone. Compared with Kunyang seven years ago, the rice prices almost doubled.

In a Jin State, which "focused agriculture and suppressed commerce", this is not a normal phenomenon. Logically speaking, the rice prices in this era will almost not fluctuate too much. After ten or twenty years, the same rice prices will be steadily maintained. This is the so-called foundation of a prosperous era.

Faced with the current price of rice in Xuchang, let alone Jingnv is preparing to pay one stone of rice and five hundred coins as severance money, even if it is several times higher, these people are unwilling to leave.

After all, they can eat enough in this mansion and not be hungry.

"Madam, please don't drive us away..."

"lady……"

"lady……"

More than twenty people knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging hard.

From the side, the three maids, Qing'er, Bi'er and Yao'er, seemed to feel a little panic like they were feeling, and they were so scared that their faces turned pale and they didn't dare to breathe.

Only He Shun and a group of black tigers were not used by them, waiting for Jingnv to give the order.

As long as Jingniao gave her order, even if these people refused to leave, they would expel her.

Seeing He Shun frequently asking for instructions, Jingnv couldn't help but hesitate.

After a long time, she slowly raised her right hand. After everyone gradually calmed down, she slowly spoke: "Let's do this, those who want to leave can receive two stone grains from Chief He Wei, five hundred coins. Those who don't want to leave... Then stay for now, but in the future, you will need to follow the rules of my Zhou family..."

When the more than 20 slaves were very happy when they heard this, they all thanked them.

"Thank you, Madam."

"Thank you for your kindness, Madam."

"Mrs. I will never forget my great kindness and virtue. Ding Dang will serve him well in the future."

The quiet girl nodded slightly, then turned around and walked towards the inner courtyard with three maids.

Seeing this, He Shun immediately rushed up, clasped his fists and said, "Madam, is this appropriate?"

Jingnv stopped, looked back at the servants who were relieved, and said calmly: "It is only 100 stones a year to support these people. Even if you count meat and vegetables, other needs, it will not cost more than 200 stones a day. We are not missing these things, so just do good deeds and accumulate good deeds... These people are willing to stay, and probably have no other way. Besides, there are some people in the mansion, so you can't ask you to do chores, right?"

Several black tigers behind He Shun laughed.

Indeed, they are not willing to do those chores.

"Then I'll send a few people to watch them." He Shun was still a little worried: "After all, I'm an old servant of the Cao family."

Although Jingnu felt that there might not be any servants loyal to the Cao family among the twenty people, she did not object to He Shun's proposal, after all, He Shun was responsible for this matter.

"You can do this."

"Yes." He Shun retreated with his fists.

Seeing He Shun's fierce black tigers walking away, Bier and several maids finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, Bier once again showed her sweet-mouthed character, and immediately spoke up to the quiet girl and said, "Madam, you are so kind..."

The quiet girl smiled faintly.

Are you kind?

In her opinion, if this is kindness, then kindness would be too cheap-this is just mercy.

Or as she said, accumulate good deeds in order to seek God's protection for him, Zhao.

The problem of mansion cost has been solved, and the problem of the old servant of the Cao family has also been solved. So what should I do next?

Next, we need to count the decorations of each house in the mansion.

Any wealthy family needs someone to be responsible for this matter and check the decorations of each room every day.

For example, in the study, there are many valuable decorations in the house, such as jade paperweights, books, etc. Most of the time, the owner is not there, and only the servants in the mansion are responsible for cleaning. If nothing is missing, the owner may not be able to discover it in time.

This requires loyal servants to be responsible for this matter and count them daily to avoid the occurrence of "family thieves" but do not know that such thieves are common among the servants of wealthy families. Although these people may not dare to steal any conspicuous and valuable things, they will not cause too much harm to the owner, but if the owner and the mistress leave it alone, it will inevitably ruin the family style.

Therefore, this must be eliminated.

If Jingnu hadn't been with Zhou's side, she wouldn't have known this kind of thing.

Even Zhao Yu may not be clear about it - because as his former second son, it is unlikely that he would be exposed to these trivialities.

Now, there are no trustworthy servants at the moment, and the loyal He Shun and other people are illiterate, Jingnu can only bring three maids to do it personally.

It is undeniable that this is a hard work of a lot of engineering.

And just as the quiet girl was busy, He Shun suddenly came to report: "Madam, Mrs. Chen Junzhun's wife Zhang, come to visit with gifts."

Jingnu immediately instructed Qing'er to invite her to the main hall of the inner courtyard.

"Mrs. Yesterday, I really feel sorry for the gift..."

In the main hall of the main house, Zhang expressed his gratitude, and at the same time took out the pastry he brought and tasted it with Jingnv.

In the officialdom, as long as the status differences between the male owners of two families are not very different, it is also very common for their wives to move around each other and bring their relationship closer.

Even this kind of 'woman diplomacy' can affect her husband's official career to a certain extent.

Just like at present, Zhang enthusiastically hopes to get closer to Jingnv: "Your residence has moved, I believe Mrs. Zhou has worked hard these days, right?"

"It's nothing." Jingnv replied calmly and politely: "It's just to clean up the old things of the Cao family and count the things left in the mansion..."

As the hostess of the Chen family, Zhang certainly understood what was going on and was secretly surprised.

After all, this kind of thing is not from a wealthy family, so you may not know it.

Of course, this is a good thing. Zhang is afraid that Mrs. Zhou doesn't understand the rules and is difficult to get along with, which makes each other embarrassed. Now, seeing that Mrs. Zhou seems to be familiar with these things, she was surprised and secretly relieved.

That night, after falling in love with Zhao Yu, Jingnu said with some depression: "Today, Mrs. Zhang, the wife of Chen's mansion, came to visit the mansion and asked me to have a few days to get together to have tea together. It is said that there will be wives from several other families..."

"Ha ha."

Zhao Yu understood what was going on as soon as he heard this, and smiled at the depressed quiet girl.

Yes, the hostess of a mansion not only needs to take care of the mansion, but also needs to handle the relationship with the wife of the man close to the husband, and it is best to form a reliable relationship.

"Isn't it that easy to be a wife in the house?" Zhao Yu teased her with her arms around Jingnv.

The quiet woman who was calm and steady in front of outsiders showed her coquettish look in front of her beloved at this moment.

Of course she knew that the wife of her husband was not that easy to be, but even so, she wanted to be her husband.

"I can handle it."
Chapter completed!