Chapter 73: Some Powerful Methods
After breakfast, Chen Qi sent Yu Suo to the school. As soon as she returned to the backyard, the housekeeper came to report that the master of the house said that he was going to buy another batch of maids to serve the old lady during her birthday celebration in July.
Chen Qi knew about this and nodded, and asked Xiao Ling to take the silver and distribute it to someone to handle it.
At noon, Yu Jing was called by her father to learn how to write big characters, so Chen Qi returned to the east wing and opened the food box on the table. Inside was a plate of neatly arranged butter-soaked snails.
It turns out that this butter-soaked snail is a dessert made with butter mixed with honey and cane sugar. They are placed one by one on the plate. The patterns on it are like snails, with a pointed top and a round bottom, with spirals in circles.
Chen Qi had never eaten this before. It looked cute and pink, so she picked one up and put it in her mouth. It tasted like nectar and melted in her mouth. It was really delicious.
Xie Yuduo really knew her taste.
Chen Qi had just eaten one and praised it highly, but she accidentally dropped some of the pastry onto the floor. Xiao Ling happened to be sweeping the room with a broom, so she smiled and scolded her.
"Why don't you eat earlier, Second Madam? I just finished sweeping the floor over there, and now there are a lot of crumbs falling down, so you have to ask me to sweep it again."
Chen Qi gave half of the plate of butter-soaked snails to Yu Jing, and picked up another one for herself, feeding it to Xiao Ling with a smile on her face.
"That's all right. Let's eat first and I'll clean up afterward. Is that okay?"
Xiao Ling smiled but said nothing. How could she really be asked to do it? She ate one from Chen Qi's hand and continued to clean the bathroom in the south room.
In the past two years, the business of the second master of the Xie family has been growing bigger and bigger. The number of clerks in the front shop has more than doubled, and there are more than a hundred clerks in each branch shop. Even so, he is still busy non-stop.
In the Xie family's backyard, many maids and servants were added one after another. They were responsible for guarding the door, sweeping the house, delivering messages, and doing shopping. Each of them had their own duties and was paid monthly.
In Guang Chenqi's yard, the maids fetched water, washed clothes, swept the floor, ran errands... each had their own division of labor, so Xiao Ling and Chun Liu's work was much easier.
However, Chen Qi was still not used to asking the maid to enter her room and look around, which made her feel very uncomfortable.
She only asked Xiao Ling to come in and tidy up her room, and occasionally help her with some light work.
For this reason, among the new maids in the courtyard, there were several who were older than Xiao Ling, but seeing that she was the most trusted by Chen Qi, everyone tacitly agreed to let her be the leader.
Xiao Ling has grown a lot taller in the two years since she came here, and her skin is brighter than before. She is not a complete beauty, but she has some youthful beauty, especially her narrow and smart eyes, which are cold and stubborn. She looks at everyone with a bit of wariness and scrutiny.
She has been able to endure hardships since she was young, has a quick mind, is efficient in her work, is strong-willed, and doesn't talk much. What is particularly rare is her loyalty, and she has the bearing of a head maid serving the mistress of the house.
Only in front of Shen Qi did she show some childishness.
Xie Yuduo often joked that when Xiao Ling was in Shen Qi's room, the two of them talked and laughed, like her younger sister.
If the two of them were to go out, one would be cold and tough, the other gentle and timid, and Xiao Ling would seem like her older sister.
Chen Qi protested that she was just gentle, not timid, and she also had some powerful methods to subdue people.
Xie Yuduo glanced at her sideways.
"Second Madam's powerful methods are most effective when used on me, someone who doesn't need to be subdued at all?"
Then he got beaten again.
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After a while, Xiao Ling came out from the south room, put down the broom, and came over with a note.
"Second Madam, this must have been dropped by Second Master. Can you tell me what it is?"
She only learned some common characters from Chen Qi. There were many characters on this piece of paper, and she couldn't recognize all of them, so she brought it to her to see if it was okay.
Chen Qi took it and looked at it. It was not Xie Yuduo's handwriting.
There were some accounts of medicinal materials written on the branch, the number was not too large, probably a note handed over by a branch shop. Xie Yuduo glanced at it during the day and put it in his sleeve.
I guess he dropped it on the ground when he was taking off his clothes and washing up last night.
"It's just a bill. It's nothing serious. Just leave it there. I'll give it back to him tonight."
Chen Qi took the note and put it on the table.
She had nothing to do, so she chatted with Xiao Ling. After eating some butter-cooked abalone, she felt greasy. Xiao Ling washed some fruits for her, but she looked at them and didn't feel like eating any of them.
In my heart, I always miss him.
Now I regret that I shouldn't have pushed him out this morning. Now I want to talk to him face to face, but I can't.
As she was walking around the room, she saw the note again. She picked it up and looked at it carefully. She seemed to be thinking about something, and suddenly called Xiao Ling.
"Xiao Ling, do you know where the Second Master went today?"
"I met Xiaowu on the alley this morning and heard him say that the Second Master had been in Wanxiang Tower these days discussing matters."
Wanxianglou is the largest restaurant in Pingshan County.
Chen Qi said "Oh" and looked at the insignificant note for a while.
"Uh, I took another closer look at this note... I think it might be useful. Why don't we go give it to the Second Master?"
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