With a ding-dong sound, the elevator door opened.

The third floor has arrived.

The two walked out of the elevator and saw several people wearing the same white coats and black pants, carrying things and walking up and down the long stairs, busy all the time.

He asked, "Why don't they take the stairs? Wouldn't it be much more time-saving and labor-saving to take the elevator?"

When Jiang Tingxia faced Li Changpu, she remained sensitive about this kind of question. She didn't want to answer, because if she answered, Li Changpu wouldn't like to hear it.

In the Jiang family, servants can only walk up the stairs and are not allowed to take the elevator.

With a "bang", a woman in her thirties casually threw a picture frame on the ground. Jiang Tingxia walked over, looked at her, and asked, "Are you new here?"

The man looked very indifferent, but still replied, "Yes."

Jiang Tingxia saw that she didn't get angry, so she squatted down and picked up the picture frame. She saw that there was a crack in the wood at the corner and said, "You broke it. My picture frame is made of rosewood. Can you afford to pay for it?"

When the woman heard that she had to pay compensation, she was so scared that she apologized immediately, "Miss, I was wrong, don't ask me to pay."

Jiang Tingxia snorted, "How dare you take my things and smash them around? Do you really think I don't have a temper?"

She threw the picture frame at the woman mercilessly and said, "Take this and tell the housekeeper to pay you back, not a penny less."

The woman rolled her eyes and said cunningly, "Miss, I didn't mean to do that. I just slipped."

"My hand slipped!"

Jiang Tingxia looked at everyone and said, "Since you are here to do something, you should cheer up. Why do you think I am easy to bully and don't care about my affairs?"

The woman cried, "Miss, how dare I bully you? Please be magnanimous and let me go this time. I really can't afford to pay the money. I have elderly parents and young children to take care of. Please let me go."

The woman cried and thought to herself that she was really unlucky. When she was moving things and passing by the hall, she heard the lady and Miss Tinghe scolding the eldest lady, and she knew that she was not favored.

The housekeeper also assigned her to move things for this young lady who appeared out of nowhere. She didn't get any benefits and was only doing hard labor. She had to run up and down the three floors of stairs dozens of times.

She acted in anger and started throwing things without thinking.

Unexpectedly, she was caught by the young lady on the spot because she was not paying attention. What she did not expect was that the young lady actually got angry and asked her to pay compensation, which scared her.

Li Changpu couldn't bear to see this. This woman was much older than Jiang Tingxia. At the moment, she was hunched over and kept begging Jiang Tingxia, while Jiang Tingxia looked impatient.

Li Changpu said to the sobbing woman, "Go away."

Jiang Tingxia heard him say this and asked, "What are you doing?"

He said, "Ting Xia, it's just a small matter, why bother this elder sister so much."

Li Changpu took the picture frame and looked at it. "It's just a crack. It can still be used."

"I'll fix it for you later."

Facing the servants and maids all over the floor, Jiang Tingxia suppressed his anger and said to the woman, "Why don't you leave?"

She raised her voice again and said to everyone, "Be careful, if anyone makes trouble for me again, it won't be so easy to get away with it."

Everyone in the room lowered their heads and said in fear, "Yes."

When Li Changpu saw this, his brows furrowed even deeper.

Everyone was busy with their own things.

Li Changpu looked at the picture frame, wondering how to start repairing it.

Jiang Tingxia snatched the picture frame from Li Changpu and threw it directly into the trash can.

Li Changpu looked at the intact picture frame in the trash can and asked, "What's wrong?"

Jiang Tingxia said coldly, "No need to fix it. It's annoying to see broken things."

Li Changpu saw that she was still angry about what happened just now and said, "Ting Xia, there is no need."

Jiang Tingxia stared at him and said in a low voice, "You think I didn't say anything just now because you did the right thing!"

"I just didn't want the servants to see us arguing. Why did you meddle in other people's business just now?"

She only found out later that the Jiang family looked glamorous on the outside, but was actually the darkest place, flattering the powerful and bullying the weak. If you fall today, one of them could trample you to death. If you want to survive in this place, you have to be covered in thorns and no one dares to mess with you.

Li Changpu: "Hire people?"

"What are you talking about? They are human beings just like us, people who need dignity."

"Look at how you looked just now. You looked like a..." He paused and said, "like a wealthy landlord."

"Without caring about other people's lives."

He lowered his voice, stretched out his tone, and said helplessly, "Tingxia, control your temper."

Jiang Tingxia glared at him, "So you have a problem with me."

Li Changpu: "I just don't like the way you do things."

Jiang Tingxia didn't listen to that at all. She was so angry that her eyes were red. "Li Changpu, don't forget, it was you who begged me not to divorce you. It was you who promised me that you would cooperate with me and listen to me in everything when you got to the Jiang family."

Jiang Tingxia said word by word, "If you are like this, everything we said before will be invalid."

"Let's just part ways."

As he said this, he was about to walk away from Li Changpu.

"What do you mean?"

Is she thinking about divorce again?

Li Changpu held her back and became annoyed. "Let's get this one thing over with. What are you talking about?"

Jiang Tingxia didn't struggle and said, "Let go. I don't want others to see this."

Li Changpu let go of her arm.

Jiang Tingxia took a deep breath, turned around and said angrily to the servants who were secretly watching her and Li Changpu talking, "Are you guys free? The room hasn't been decorated yet. Do you want me to wait for you all night?"

Seeing her like this, Li Changpu knew that Jiang Tingxia didn't hear a word he said.

Li Changpu looked angry and said, "I'll move with them."

Jiang Tingxia stood in front of him and said, "You don't have to do this."

Li Changpu said coldly, "I have hands and feet, I don't need any 'servants' to serve me."

As he rolled up his sleeves, he said, "You can take the elevator. It will save time and effort."

Unexpectedly, the answer I got was, "No, you can't break the rules. Servants can only use the stairs."

Li Changpu cursed, "What a lousy rule, dividing people into different classes. I don't believe this rule was set when the elevator was manufactured."

"You all take the elevator."

The servants refused one after another, "No, that's impossible, we can just take the stairs."

Li Changpu was so angry about this that his face turned blue. He looked at the long staircase and said, "Your Jiang family really has a lot of rules."

He walked down the stairs, took the phonograph from someone else, and walked up the stairs one step at a time.

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