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Chapter 256 Xiangyun Humiliated
Xiangyun agreed here, and walked arm in arm with Baochai to Jiamu's main courtyard. Unexpectedly, when passing by the rockery behind the corridor, he heard a servant woman talking, and Xiangyun vaguely heard the words "Ms. Shi", so he pulled Baochai hid behind the rockery, wanting to find out.

Unexpectedly, Xiangyun's face turned pale just after hearing a few words.

"I can't blame my wife for being angry. The second wife of the Shi family is too ignorant. Now it is clear that my wife is in charge of the house. She sent her niece here, but she only entrusted it to the eldest wife to take care of her. She didn't pay attention to our wife at all."

The other woman was silent for a while, and said: "Perhaps... the Second Madam Shi doesn't know? Besides, our house has always been managed by the eldest wife, and only under special circumstances will our wife assist in the management for a period of time. Power must always be handed back to the eldest wife, who let the eldest master now bear the title of first-class general?"

"Hmm... Even if she just doesn't know what to do, she is too stingy, isn't she? She brought her niece and said she would live there for three years, so she only gave 500 taels of silver, which is not enough for our family to pay for a month. Well, isn't this just sending people to beg for food? And Miss Shi, at best she is the rich daughter of a marquis, but at worst she is just living under someone else's roof. At home she lives with her uncle and aunt, and she has no control over it. She, it’s even worse when she goes out. It’s just that she doesn’t know how to reward her servants every time she lives here. She takes herself too seriously as an individual. She dares to order anyone’s slaves. If the old lady didn’t love her, look at this. Who in the house would give her such dignity?"

"Hey, what I can say is that I have never received a penny of reward from Miss Shi, and the ladies from the relatives nearby have never refused to reward me. We are not people who take this kind of money seriously, we just But I am embarrassed because of my dignity. After all, we can be regarded as people close to the dignified second wife of Rongguo Mansion, and the historians look down on us too much..."

The two women became angrier and angrier as they talked, but they walked further and further away, and gradually their voices became less audible.When Baochai saw Xiangyun's face was pale and tears were flowing down her face, she panicked and took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears. She was afraid that others would see her, so he pulled her back to his room.

After entering the house, Xiangyun just thought about what the two women said, and felt very aggrieved: "Sister Bao, I..."

Baochai saw that Xiangyun was about to burst into tears. He thought that she had just moved in for a day, so she really shouldn't make a fuss at this time, so he advised: "Good sister, please calm down first and listen to me." . First, what kind of person are you, how can you argue with that villain? Your status is reduced in vain, but it makes them proud, why bother?
Secondly, you haven't been here for a long time and don't know what's going on here. Let me tell you, there are 2000 servants in this mansion. The eldest wife was laid off by more than half a year ago. Do you know how many servants there are? There will definitely be trouble.Although these people work as servants in this mansion, some of their families are inevitably laid off. In many families, all the members of the family were employed as servants. After the reduction of the number of people, only one or two members of the family are still in the mansion. How can they be satisfied with simplicity? A thin monthly salary?Naturally, he stared at the rewards in the hands of his masters.

Nowadays, such gossips are everywhere. Those servants used to enjoy the glory of this house, but now they feel that they are at a disadvantage. Now they just go to which yard to work hard to see which master has more rewards. Say so What's so strange about gossip?
Even I can't stand such words. Whenever I come here to visit, I won't use their family members if I can. Even if something bothers them, I will give them some benefits.It’s not that I intentionally encourage unhealthy tendencies in this house, I just want to keep my ears clean. Hao Yun’er, do you understand what I mean? "

Shi Xiangyun listened and nodded silently. She was not a crying person, so she gradually stopped crying. Baochai only tried to persuade him with soft and pleasant words, but hated Mrs. Wang for not knowing how to discipline her servants. Dare to say, he was angry with Shi Xiangyun, who had a poor background.

Finally, Shi Xiangyun said: "I said that why I feel this place is so clean this time, it turns out that many servants have been laid off. If you ask me, this is right. The people in Rongfu are so mixed, like termites. , no matter how big the family fortune is, sooner or later it will be destroyed.

There are quite a few people in my family, but the number of people who serve them is only two hundred. I know that even my sister's family is the same, isn't it?My aunt also taught me how to be a housekeeper. Naturally, I know that this is not an easy task. I don't care about people, and I am not angry anymore.It's just...they are right, I am a life dependent after all..."

Shi Xiangyun has always had such a good thing. He doesn't have anything on his mind and just says what he has to say.When Baochai heard what she said, he knew that was what she was thinking.

He just smiled and said, "My good sister, you understand it in your heart, just listen to what my sister says."

"What?"

"You can grow up quickly. After you get married, will you be able to be the master of the house?"

Even with Shi Xiangyun's temperament, whenever the talk of "getting married" was mentioned, his face turned red and he stomped his feet in shame: "I thought you, the elder sister, had something nice to say to persuade me, but you actually said such nonsense. You...Oh, I won’t talk to you anymore!”

Baochai laughed, but said sternly, "What nonsense am I talking about? Just think about it, isn't it reasonable?"

In fact, Xiangyun knew it in his heart, but he said helplessly: "Sister, let me tell you the truth. Although the Shi family is vigorous on the surface, in fact, it has already been defeated on the inside.

Sigh... I have grown up in the past few years, and my uncles and aunts have also told me about the old events of those years. Although my father earned a title for the historian family, but... that was because the Holy Sage conquered Galdan three times. The national treasury was empty. At this time, someone was impeaching Shi Jia for corruption and perverting the law. At that time, Shi Jia was the second most famous family in "Jia Shi Wang Xue". The emperor had already caught Shi Jia's pigtails and sentenced him to confiscation and execution. After stamping the royal seal, he was about to send it down.In fact, many prominent families in Beijing at that time lived like today's Rongfu, but no one impeached them.The emperor's intention is very clear, it is just for money.So my father, he just wanted to save the Shi family...

Later, the Shi family came to the rescue, and my second uncle and third uncle turned over all the family property, thus avoiding disaster.It's just that this matter was covered up under the aura of the Shuanghou family of the historian, and no one mentioned it again.

So the historian is now living a very poor life, only relying on the salary of the second uncle's thousand taels a year, and the future of Zhuangzi. Do you think I have any money to reward the slaves?If I get any rewards by chance, I will keep them alive, and I never dare to waste a penny. "

(End of this chapter)