Traveling to ancient times with a sign-in system
Chapter 133 Kneel down and serve
Chapter 133 Kneel down and serve
Gu Lianshan said with disbelief: "Although your grandma is not a good person, she knows our family's situation. Buying maids and servants to serve her? How shameless would you be to say such a thing!"
Gu Tang smacked her lips, feeling that her father still didn't understand Feng Shi.
When it comes to shamelessness, the Feng family is definitely second to none.
Feng in the house was still scolding the two old women, and her scolding became more and more harsh, with no intention of stopping.
Gu Tang raised his hand and knocked on the door, then shouted into the house, asking the maid inside to open the door.
Hearing Gu Tang's voice, the maids moved quickly. Before he finished speaking, they had already opened the door eagerly.
Upon seeing Gu Tang, the leading lady, Mrs. Sun, looked aggrieved and her eyes red. She said, "Miss, you didn't say yesterday that your old lady likes to scold people."
Hearing Mrs. Sun's complaint, Mrs. Feng in the room cursed even louder: "You, a lowly servant, dare to complain about the master?! In that wealthy family, someone like you would definitely be beaten to death by the master!"
Mrs. Sun was so angry that she couldn't speak, and tears welled up in her eyes.
Mrs. Song behind her was not afraid of Feng's intimidation. She made things clear to Gu Tang and said, "Your old lady is a capable person! Ever since the man woke up, she has been ordering us around in various ways. We are ordered around, and all we do is serve others. But your old lady has to find fault with everything!"
She said she wanted to drink water. Okay, I poured her some water. She said the first bowl was too hot, the second bowl was too cold, and the third bowl was neither hot nor cold. It would hurt her stomach if she drank it!
After drinking the water, she said she wanted to go to the toilet, so she asked us to carry her there. The first time, she said she didn't feel like peeing anymore. She lay back on the bed for less than half a minute, and then she said she wanted to go to the toilet again! This happened two or three times in a row!
We can tolerate all of this, but the only thing we can't tolerate is that she's never satisfied with anything! Once she's not satisfied, she starts cursing, and then orders us around. After that, she finds fault with us, and then she keeps scolding us..."
Gu Tang clicked his tongue, "Tsk! No wonder the two women acted like this. If this cycle repeats itself a few times, anyone would go crazy!"
As Mrs. Song talked more and more, Gu Lianshan's face turned black.
He really didn't expect that his mother's methods of torturing people would be so varied!
Gu Tang already knew what kind of person Feng was and was not angry.
At the end, Mrs. Song looked hesitant and asked tentatively, "Is your family an official family? Or has your old lady lived in an official family before?
Every time the old lady spoke, she talked about rules, and they were all rules about how the maids and old women should serve people.
In addition to these, she also asked us to massage her shoulders, rub her back, and beat her feet. We cannot do it casually. We have to pay attention to the acupoints and strength, etc. These are all delicate jobs!
We are peasant women with rough hands and feet, and can only do rough and laborious work. We are incapable of these delicate tasks. If you really can't do it, how about you find someone else?"
Huh? Don't want to do this anymore?
That wouldn't do! She didn't have time to find someone new for Feng!
Besides, the two old women in front of me can’t stand it anymore and don’t want to do it anymore. If I hire new ones, I’m afraid the result will be the same!
Gu Tang hurriedly made a promise: "I know you've been wronged, so I'll double your wages!"
After hearing this, Gu Lianshan, who rarely did not feel sorry for the copper coins, nodded and promised: "Yes, yes, yes! I will double your wages!"
Mrs. Song paused slightly. The temptation of doubling her wages was too great.
She and Mrs. Sun looked at each other, and their decisions began to waver.
Seeing this, Gu Tang continued to promise: "If she curses again, you can make a bowl of calming soup and feed it to her! Let her go to sleep peacefully! If she refuses to eat, then pry open her mouth and pour it directly into her mouth!
As for her love of teasing people, you don't need to listen to her too much. Just make sure she is not hungry or thirsty, and does not poop or wet the bed.
Other things like shoulder massage, back rubbing, and foot massage are not your job, so you don't need to pay attention to her. If you find her scolding annoying, you can hide away and wait until she tires of scolding before returning to the room.
With Gu Tang's words, the two old women finally felt at ease and felt that the master of the house was reasonable.
Mrs. Song gritted her teeth and said, "Okay! Miss, you've said this much. If we refuse again, we won't know what's good for us! From now on, we will do as you say."
Gu Tang breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he didn't resign, everything would be fine.
After comforting the two old women, she walked past them to see Feng.
Feng has calmed down now.
She already knew that Gu Tang was on the side of the old women, and she had heard what he had just said. He wanted to suppress and torture her through the old women.
Now she was controlled by Gu Tang and was taken to Bei'an City alone. She couldn't leave and could do nothing but lie in the inn.
Feng felt very unhappy and did not hide her dissatisfaction on her face.
Feng glanced at Gu Tang, ignored her, and did not speak to her. Instead, she looked at her son beside Gu Tang with a gloomy face.
"You dragged me to Bei'an City without saying a word, and you are nowhere to be seen. Instead, you brought two unruly women to serve me!
I ask you, why did you bring me here? Don't even mention curing me! If you were just curing me, you should have brought your father along too. Now you only brought me here, you definitely have ulterior motives!"
Gu Lianshan said impatiently, "If I had bad intentions, you'd be buried by now! For the past few days, I've been guarding you and Dad day and night! Your beloved eldest son has been hiding in the house without even showing his face!"
Feng turned her face away and argued on behalf of her eldest son: "Your eldest brother's illness has not yet recovered, and your eldest sister-in-law has disappeared. Now he is alone at home, recuperating and taking care of three children. At this critical juncture, he is the busiest. Why are you ordering him around?
You are a loser, and you don't have a proper way to make a living. Now that the family is in need of someone, you should at least take on 80% or 90% of the responsibility, if not the entire job!"
Well! This doesn't make sense.
Gu Lianshan took a deep breath and tried to skip the topic. "Just stay in the inn and I'll get a doctor to treat you."
This is not a lie.
Although I was brought here to prevent her from making trouble and hindering the division of the family business.
But he really wanted to take this opportunity to invite a few doctors to come and give his mother a thorough treatment.
But it was obvious that Feng didn't believe this.
She stopped her son who was about to call a doctor, looking hesitant.
After a while, she finally said, "You can let me stay here if you want! But I don't like those two women!"
Gu Lianshan felt a bad feeling in his mind, and suddenly remembered the bet his daughter made with him when they were outside the door just now.
Feng continued, "I can tell at a glance that these two old women aren't proper servants. They don't know the rules, and they don't know how to serve! Send them away, and buy a pair of maids or servants who are willing to sign a life-long contract to serve me!"
Gu Lianshan had a drooping face. At this moment, he just wanted to turn back time and slap himself hard.
His mother really has no shame at all!
Gu Tang had a playful look on his face, and he opened his mouth in front of Feng: "Look, I just told you that my grandma will definitely let us buy maids and servants to serve her. After all, she is used to being lazy and hates work. Plus, after what she went through in the past, my grandma longs for maids and servants to serve her more than anyone else!"
This time, Gu Lianshan couldn't utter a word of rebuttal.
His daughter was better at judging people than he was. "Why? Can't I order maids and servants to serve me in my current state?" Gu Tang's words hit a sore spot for Feng.
She raised her right hand, which could move, and pointed to her left side. "I can't move. If you were to serve me day and night, I wouldn't need those maids and servants! But none of you want to serve me. Since none of you want to, then we have to buy someone else!"
Gu Tang nodded: "Okay! If you want to buy someone, then let's do it! On the market, a trained little girl will cost at least six taels of silver, and two will be twelve taels. Just give me the silver and I'll buy as much as you want. How about that?"
"Bullshit!" Feng's expression was ferocious. "It's because you guys don't want to serve me that I'm thinking of hiring someone. The money has to be paid by your second wife!"
"Who said they don't want to serve you? If I really didn't want to serve you, would you still be alive today?" Gu Tang sneered.
Feng paused, then looked at Gu Tang with malicious intent: "Since you are willing to serve me, then you can stay today and kneel in front of the bed to serve me!"
Kneeling in front of the bed?
Gu Tang said with a forced smile: "This is not a mourning hall, who should I kneel to?"
"You!" Feng's eyes were bloodshot and she struggled to get up.
"Please stop agonizing." Gu Lianshan said in a cold tone, "I'm just asking you, do you want to call a doctor? If so, your son will go get one right away. If not, then you'll just leave it to fate. Whether you live or die depends entirely on God's will."
Feng suddenly froze.
Even though she is disgusted with herself now, lying paralyzed in bed, she is unwilling to die as long as there is a glimmer of hope!
Pursing her lips, Feng couldn't bring herself to talk about calling a doctor, so she could only turn her face away again and didn't want to speak.
Gu Lianshan didn't tolerate it and took Gu Tang away directly.
Feng was furious as she watched her son leave. She hurriedly shouted to the maid standing in the corner, "Hurry up and catch up! Tell my son to call the doctor back!"
The two old women ignored her and no matter how she shouted, it was useless.
Gu Lianshan was in a bad mood after leaving the inn, his face was gloomy enough to drip water.
Gu Ping'an followed behind, not daring to say a word of comfort.
Gu Tang, on the other hand, looked nonchalant: "You know my grandma very well, why bother with her? Let her say her thing and we'll do ours. Just ignore her."
These words did not comfort Gu Lianshan, but they were indeed true.
Fortunately, he was a broad-minded person and the cold wind outside helped to relieve some of the depression in his heart.
There was a clinic not far from the inn. Gu Lianshan didn't have the energy to choose a clinic or doctor carefully at the moment, so he just chose the one nearby.
After entering the clinic and looking around, Gu Lianshan chose an older man.
He stepped forward and briefly explained the situation, then asked someone to go to the inn.
Hearing that the patient was in the inn nearby, the old doctor did not refuse. He called the medicine boy to take the medicine box and followed Gu Lianshan to the inn.
Gu Tang asked Gu Ping'an to follow and help run errands, but he himself did not follow. Instead, he stayed in the clinic, saying that he wanted to buy some medicinal herbs.
Gu Lianshan didn't have time to take care of her at the moment, so he just told her not to run around.
After everyone left, Gu Tang took out a dozen pieces of paper covered with words and handed them to the medicine boy in the clinic, asking him to look carefully to see if the medicine written on them was available in the clinic.
There were too many papers and one medicine boy couldn't handle it, so he called another medicine boy to help.
The medicine boy knew almost all the medicinal herbs in the clinic. The two of them looked through it carefully and found that half of the herbs recorded on the paper could be found in their clinic.
When Gu Tang learned that the clinic could find half of it, he was overjoyed and quickly asked the pharmacist to quote the price. If it was expensive, he would buy less, and if it was cheap, he would buy more.
Many of the medicinal herbs recorded on the paper are rarely used, and no one may use them for even half a year.
After a long time, I can no longer remember the price.
The medicine boys either remembered it wrong or mixed it up.
In the end, they had to ask Dr. Shi, the owner of the clinic, to come forward and quote the prices of all the medicinal materials.
These herbs are not rare. Most herbalists can dig them up in the mountains. In addition, there are very few diseases for which they can be used. Since Gu Tang bought a lot at once, Doctor Shi gave him a discount.
There are a total of twenty kinds of medicinal herbs, the largest one weighs ten kilograms, and the smallest one weighs only five kilograms.
All in all, just ask Gu Tang to give one hundred taels of silver.
Gu Tang calculated secretly, this is really a bargain!
Probably because they hadn't been sold for too long, Dr. Shi was anxious, fearing that the herbs would become painful if he kept them any longer.
Now that she, a kind of sucker, has finally found the product, she can’t wait to sell it!
Well, since both parties feel that they have gotten the better deal, let's just hand over the money and receive the goods.
Half of the herbs and spices were still missing, so she had to go to other clinics and spice shops.
Doctor Shi was also anxious, knowing that Gu Tang's father had taken the doctors from the clinic to the inn. Now that she, a girl, had decided to buy so many medicinal herbs, Doctor Shi was afraid that her father would come back and regret it later.
He simply called all the medicine boys in the store over, half of them went to the warehouse to move the herbs, and the other half helped to bag and pack them.
Before long, all twenty kinds of medicinal herbs were packed.
Gu Tang took out a hundred taels of silver and handed it over. After Doctor Shi took it, the transaction between the two parties was completed.
Doctor Shi was the first to breathe a sigh of relief, and in a very good mood asked Gu Tang if he needed the help of a medicine boy to move these herbs to the inn or to the car.
Gu Tang was naturally happy to do so. He stepped forward and directed the medicine boys to move all the medicinal materials to an ox cart outside the inn.
After finishing all this, Gu Lianshan led the old doctor out of the inn.
Gu Tang didn't notice her father, who was still tying hemp ropes around the ox cart to prevent the medicinal herbs from falling off.
Gu Lianshan saw at a glance that there was a pile of bags of different sizes piled on the ox cart, each bulging with something.
Thinking of what his daughter had said before about buying medicinal herbs, Gu Lianshan's eyelids twitched and he turned around and went to Gu Tang.
"What's in here?" Gu Lianshan asked in a faint voice. When he got closer, he smelled a variety of messy medicinal aromas.
So, these bags are full of medicinal herbs?
"How is my grandma? What did the doctor say?" Gu Tang continued to tie the rope without raising his head.
Gu Lianshan scratched his head. "It's a bit troublesome. There's basically no hope of recovery for the left half of my body..."
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