Chapter 69 Manor
After the butler finished speaking, he led the way through the corridor and came to the elevator.
The out-of-control elevator car had silently and slowly slid to this floor: "Ding".
The butler stepped into the elevator, reached out and pressed a button for one floor, then turned around and seemed to be waiting for them.
Several people had a strong fear of this elevator and did not dare to go directly over it.
Before the butler began to urge him, Lu Jiamu tentatively stretched his legs into the elevator, tapped his toes lightly, and then quickly retracted them.
The elevator did not immediately malfunction. The butler stood in the elevator car, watching him go in and out like a lunatic, and did not say anything.
Because the elevator had used the tactic of playing hard to get before, Lu Jiamu did not dare to be careless. After trying twice, he made a feint and jumped up quickly.
This crazy elevator was just like an ordinary elevator. It just shook slightly because someone suddenly jumped on it, but it still did not operate abnormally.
Lu Jiamu smiled and praised: "This elevator is really good."
The butler just nodded reservedly.
Seeing that he came up so smoothly, the others did not delay any longer and jumped into the elevator one by one cleanly and quickly.
After everyone got on, the elevator, which had been very restless before, obediently issued a prompt tone of "elevator going down" and then began to operate slowly like an ordinary elevator.
Since the butler didn't say anything, no one else dared to open their mouths and seek death.
Below the 444th floor, each floor passed in front of them one by one, and all they could see was a pitch-black barrier. Occasionally, they could see blood on the floor slabs between floors, which should be from the unfortunate applicants who had jumped to the wrong floor before.
Except for the 444th floor, the other floors seemed unreal and useless.
It took more time to go down slowly. When we reached the first floor, the butler was the first to walk out of the elevator, and the other applicants also hurried out.
After leaving the building, they came to the place where they first appeared.
Empty and wide roads, towering skyscrapers with no visible top, and a gloomy sky without sunlight.
At this time, there was an extended car that could accommodate nine of them parked on the side of the road.
The butler took out a bunch of keys, opened the driver's door of the stretched sedan, and extended his hand gentlemanly: "Please come in."
After seeing that everyone was in the car, it sat in the driver's seat and started the car.
Lu Jiamu leaned against the window with his chin in his hand and looked out. As the car drove on, the tall buildings outside gradually became fewer, and large tracts of empty fields gradually appeared, as if they were gradually moving away from the city.
After driving for about an hour, a manor appeared at the end of the road.
As the car approached, the gate of the manor slowly opened as if it had sensed something, and the butler drove the car directly into the manor garage.
As the group walked out of the garage under the guidance of the housekeeper, they turned a corner and saw a pale-faced couple standing in front of the main entrance of the villa with stiff smiles on their faces.
Suddenly, everyone was shocked to see these two people standing there like scary dolls.
The butler walked up to them calmly, then bowed and greeted them: "Master, Madam."
It turned out that the two owners of the manor came out to greet us.
When they were far away, the couple, who looked like scary dolls, just stared at them motionlessly, and only when they came closer did their eyes start to move.
The woman smiled stiffly and asked in a very lame voice, "Yes, have the new tutor and servants arrived?"
The butler nodded: "Yes."
It took out the interview cards of several of them from its pocket and handed them to the middle-aged man standing there.
In order to save time when filling out the cards, they all wrote their words in a flamboyant and cursive style. Wang Biao and Yu Leng's handwriting was not good to begin with, and it looked even uglier now.
But after seeing it, the man of the house praised it: "It's very good."
"That's great. Barty has been waiting for a long time." The hostess nodded. "I hope you can work longer. The servants who applied for the job several times before didn't work for long."
The hostess led them into the villa and into the living room. There were already several paper contracts waiting for them on the table. The hostess pointed and said, "Our family employs legally, and you need to sign a labor contract in advance. If you don't sign a contract, we won't hire you."
Having been cheated when filling out a job application form before, Lu Jiamu immediately bowed and asked, "Excuse me, what type and color of pen do I need to use to fill out the contract?"
The hostess sat on the sofa, obviously not intending to cheat them in this regard, and directly instructed the housekeeper: "Bring them the pens."
The butler responded respectfully and left.
After hearing this, Lu Jiamu calmed down, picked up the contract and began to read the terms carefully.
There was nothing too serious in the contract. It just generally required them not to intentionally damage items in the home, otherwise they would need to compensate at the original price and not bring any reputational loss to the family.
They must do their best when serving the family, and can be fired at any time if they make family members dissatisfied.
The tutors' contract specifically emphasized that they must help Batty complete his studies. If Batty still fails to achieve excellent results after their tutoring, he will be dismissed.
The butler had brought an exquisite pen.
After reading, Lu Jiamu took the pen, signed his name on the contract, and then handed the pen to others.
The hostess watched them sign and said, "We don't have many rules in our house, but we only keep people who do a good job. If you can't even do basic work like cleaning, I can only advise you to find another job."
"As for other work details, the butler will teach you."
After she finished speaking, her eyes were still fixed on them, but her head turned stiffly to the other rooms, and she stiffened her neck and shouted loudly: "Barty! Barty! The new servants and tutors are here!"
After she called out a few times, the wooden stairs of the villa made a hurried sound of footsteps, and a cute little girl holding a doll ran down from the stairs and peeked outside the living room: "Mom?"
I never thought that monsters would be so cute these days.
The hostess still smiled stiffly and strangely: "Bati, come and see the new servant this time."
Batty blinked, ran up to them holding his doll, and looked around: "Who is my new tutor?"
Lu Jiamu immediately put on a friendly and cordial smile: "It's me."
The little girl Batty looked at him and said, "What are you going to teach me?"
In the previous discussion, the three of them had already divided the work, and Lu Jiamu replied: "Teach you the language."
"Then you have to teach me for a while longer." Batty tilted his head, "Last time, my tutors all left very quickly."
The hostess nodded in satisfaction: "It has been a long time since anyone played games with Batty. Batty must be very lonely."
As she spoke, she pulled out a chess set from under the table. Her stiff smile inexplicably showed a malicious look: "It's just right that the new tutor has arrived. She can play with Batty."
The black and white chessboard was spread out, and the chess pieces were placed aside. Lu Jiamu took a closer look and found that the chess pieces were shrunken people standing in a row inside the chess box, shivering.
As the lid was opened, these people looked up, fear all over their small faces.
Several applicants in the living room began to be surprised when they saw this scene.
These chess pieces are actually alive, like miniature versions of living people.
"Bati can play chess, but he's not very good at it. As a qualified tutor, you shouldn't lose to him, right?"
When the hostess said this, the hostess's malicious intent almost overflowed. If they lost to Barty in chess, the hostess would definitely regard them as lacking in professionalism and ask for their dismissal.
The three tutors had already vaguely guessed something.
In chess, players can eat each other's pieces. If the pieces were living people, the game might be a life-threatening one.
Whether they could play chess or not was another matter. Yu Leng and Wei Xiaoyan didn't dare to touch the chess set. They didn't have the courage to play this kind of chess.
The hostess seemed to notice their hesitation. Her eyes rolled and her smile widened, almost reaching her ears. "What's wrong with you?"
The butler didn't do anything else, nor did he plan to teach them what they needed to do in daily life. He just stood behind the sofa, as if he wanted to see the chess game clearly.
The gloating in this is beyond words.
If it had a face, its expression would probably be not much different from the hostess's.
Seeing that the other two people didn't dare to do so, Lu Jiamu immediately reached out to touch the chess pieces in the chess box.
After the first chess piece was caught, he started to dance and curse violently: "mm!"
Lu Jiamu pretended not to hear, smiled and reached out to touch the second chess piece.
The chess piece is screaming, "Don't touch me! Go away!"
Lu Jiamu quickly arranged the chess pieces according to the rules amid waves of abuse.
Batty also started to set up the chess pieces, and after a while he asked in confusion: "Brother, why do the chess pieces make noises?"
Of course Lu Jiamu would not fall into the trap immediately, and put on just the right amount of doubt on his face: "Did you call? I didn't hear it."
After saying that, he looked at the hostess: "Madam, did you hear that?"
The hostess's smile faded a lot: "I didn't hear it either."
Lu Jiamu waited for a moment, then started playing chess with a normal expression. As he played, he said, "I learned chess for a while before."
The chess piece he moved started a new round of insults: "Nnd!"
The hostess withdrew her gaze from the chessboard and looked at the girl who applied for the job as a chef: "You, go to the kitchen and prepare tea for us."
As if she had thought of something, the hostess's smile widened: "Remember, use our favorite tea to entertain guests. Don't make the wrong one."
The girl immediately grasped the point: What is your favorite tea? Are there many kinds of tea?
She asked quickly: "Madam, I just arrived today and I don't know much about the things in the manor. What is your favorite tea?"
"Don't you know? Don't you know anything about our family, even this basic thing?"
The girl immediately shook her head: "No, ma'am."
The housekeeper said at the right time: "Whichever one you like, just make it."
The girl didn't dare to ask any more questions. She stood up respectfully and walked towards the kitchen.
In order to avoid losing to Batty and causing them to be fired, Lu Jiamu could not slow down the pace of chess. There was already an inevitable close combat between the chess pieces.
The chess pieces that were swallowed were really swallowed, leaving only the remaining pieces trembling on the black and white chessboard.
Coleman couldn't bear to watch the chess game any longer, so he asked the housekeeper and the hostess, "Can I go make tea with her?"
"Of course." The hostess nodded, and there seemed to be something unsaid in her words, "You watch her, just to make sure she doesn't make the wrong tea by being clumsy. There are no fools in our family."
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