"Okay, that's good." Rong Qingqing nodded with a smile, and added, "If you perform well, there will be additional rewards during the New Year. Everyone, keep up the good work!"
"Thank you so much, Madam!" the servants said with heartfelt gratitude, their voices unusually loud.
Xie Jingrun had just returned from outside when he stepped into the gate of the Marquis's mansion and heard a loud commotion coming from the front yard.
He tilted his head and asked, "Changlin, what happened in the manor?"
"I'll go and take a look," Changlin said immediately after hearing this.
A short while later, Butler Tian, wiping his sweat, jogged over behind Changlin.
"What happened?" Xie Jingrun sat under the corridor, holding a handkerchief in his hand, wiping his embroidered spring knife. His voice was calm, yet it carried a chilling undertone.
Butler Tian quickly reported the day's events to him.
"...My lord, the old lady actually returned the contract to them and ordered them to leave the manor. What...what should we do?"
In his view, it was enough to intimidate and teach those servants a lesson; there was no need to drive them all away. He knew that if he recruited new people into the manor, he would have to retrain them in the rules, which would be time-consuming and laborious, and there was no guarantee that the new recruits would be good.
After hearing this, Xie Jingrun raised his eyes and glanced at him indifferently, "They dare to go on strike and refuse to work for five consecutive days without the master's permission. The Marquis's mansion will naturally not tolerate them."
When Steward Tian heard this, he was taken aback. When did the ruthless Marquis become so kind and easy to talk to?
Just as he was thinking this, he heard the Marquis, whose heart had softened, say in a stern voice, "What kind of work is Rong Qingqing doing? She actually gave them their wages and let them go! Summon Rong Qingqing to me!"
Upon hearing this, Butler Tian silently swallowed back what he was about to say.
He had originally intended to report to him about the reward and punishment system that the old lady had introduced.
It seems best to let the old lady speak for herself.
Butler Tian immediately went to call Rong Qingqing.
At this moment, Rong Qingqing was in Jingmingxuan.
"Is Second Master alright now?" she asked.
Xie Jingxuan lay on his side on the bed, glanced at her lightly, and said, "Thank you for your concern, Mother."
Rong Qingqing felt uncomfortable under his gaze. She had long heard that Xie Jingxuan liked to frequent brothels, and with the accounts from Chunyanlou in her hands, she disliked him even more.
"It seems that Second Master is much better. In that case, let's pay the bill. The people from Chunyanlou are still waiting outside." Rong Qingqing handed over the account book.
The reason she came to Jingmingxuan in person was because today was the day to distribute monthly wages, and Xie Jingxuan's attendants came to collect them from her early in the morning.
But she didn't give it to him because Xie Jingxuan, like Xie Jingyi, had already overdrawn his monthly allowance from the accounting office, and even more so.
Just then, the manager of Chunyanlou arrived at the mansion and handed over this account book.
She glanced at it and discovered that Xie Jingxuan spent over a thousand taels of silver a month just on drinking and womanizing.
Rong Qingqing thought it was really too exaggerated.
After all, according to the prices in the Great Liang Dynasty, one tael of silver was equivalent to one thousand coins, which was enough for an ordinary family of five to cover all their expenses for half a year. Yet Xie Jingxuan had incurred a debt of more than one thousand taels of silver simply by drinking and carousing.
Even if he's a spendthrift, this isn't the way he should be.
Moreover, judging from the appearance, Xie Jingxuan has been doing this for a long time, not just for a day or two.
But the old Marquis had been bedridden for too long and was simply too weak to care, or perhaps he turned a blind eye and didn't want to care.
Because Xie Jingxuan is just too useless!
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