“I forgive your overstepping.” Bai Yueyue replied, mimicking Li Jieyue’s response.
“First of all, Miss, I am not a servant, much less your personal servant. I am the head butler of the manor, and the highest-ranking person present is the mistress of the house. Therefore, you should not give me the order to leave without the mistress’s permission.”
"So that means I can only give you the order to leave when neither Father nor Mother are present? But can I bypass my parents and give orders directly to my personal servants?"
"Yes, Miss. Miss can give any order directly to any servants other than those directly under her command, as well as the personal servants of the Master and Madam."
Ugh, this is so troublesome. If this keeps up, I'll start to lose my mind. Please just tell me what orders I can give you. But what Bai Yueyue really wanted to say was that she didn't need any servants.
"Furthermore, Miss is far too kind. Hu Meier is so disrespectful to you. You should punish her instead of forgiving her, and you should not entrust her with such an important task as decorating Miss's room."
How can you blame me? It was Mother who told me to play the bad cop. And is decorating the room really that important?
"Really? But I've already given the order that if she still fails to fulfill her duties, she'll be sent back." Judging from Hu Meier's behavior, this should be a very severe punishment, right? So, I'm not being merciful. Bai Yueyue thought to herself that she was probably quite strict.
“Young Miss shouldn’t use such a short-term, or even ineffective, punishment. In the future, Young Miss will have other personal servants. If this is still handled in this way, it will cause dissatisfaction among others and make them feel that Young Miss will forgive them no matter what they do. Therefore, Young Miss should punish them on the spot.”
Oh, is that so? But I really haven't done anything like punishing anyone. Bai Yueyue felt that she wouldn't be able to learn to do that for a long time afterward.
While these things are commonplace in other families, especially those in the capital, the Bai family does not have such practices.
One reason is that the Bai family was very poor at the time and could not afford to support servants.
Secondly, their lack of foundation made them vulnerable to being infiltrated by spies. Furthermore, everyone in the Bai family, including Li Jieyue, had become accustomed to a life without servants. Consequently, even after the Bai family rose to prominence, they still did not choose to cultivate servants.
This was for Bai Yueyue's coming-of-age ceremony, and also to take into account future uncertainties, in order to help Bai Yueyue get used to this kind of life.
The plan was spearheaded by Li Jianchuan and Li Jieyue, with loyal servants selected from the Li family as the core, and servants gifted by Qin Zhenming and Qin Limin as assistants. Finally, some external servants were recruited to handle matters that would never involve anything of significant importance.
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