[Through the Book] The ancestor only wants to live a long life

As the nine figures disappeared, Song unexpectedly spoke at this time.

"Madam, the Marquis's Mansion just received the imperial edict today and divided the family. If we make a fuss about selling slaves again, it will be bad for the reputation of the Marquis' Mansion. Otherwise, we should put these people on the farm first, and wait for a year or so until the storm has died down, and then sell them quietly."

Rong Enqing came back to his senses and glanced at Song, not understanding what she meant by this. After all, if he wanted to ask for mercy, he could say it in front of the servants and it would buy them a good deal. But the people had been taken away, why did he say it now?

Although he was puzzled, Rong Enqing still refused mercilessly. "It doesn't matter. Our mansion has lost its reputation since the old marquis abandoned the previous court and opened the city gates to welcome the new court into the capital."

As he spoke, Rong Enqing laughed at himself again, "The former Marquisate was the Yong'an Marquisate, which means 'brave and vigorous to maintain peace'. But what about now? The Shun'an Marquisate, which means 'obedience to ensure peace'! Do you think our Marquisate still has any reputation in the Great Zhou Dynasty?

"What's more, when the Marquis was alive, he favored his concubine over his wife, and even created a son who was neither illegitimate nor legitimate to compete with the legitimate son for the Marquis' Mansion. Do you think no one outside would laugh at or talk about our Marquis' Mansion?

"Oh! Song, you are already a mother of two children, you are not still so naive, are you?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone present turned ugly. Although Rong Enqing said all the facts, no one was willing to admit that in the eyes of outsiders, their family was such a shameless existence.

Song tightly grasped her handkerchief, suppressed her anger and depression, and looked at Rong Enqing deeply. Since when did Rong, the stepmother, become so eloquent?

Rong was like this before, too, with a hot temper, and would lose her temper when things didn't go her way, and would start scolding anyone she caught. But at that time, Rong would only raise her voice and scold people, and would repeat herself, seemingly scary, but in fact, her scolding was empty and had no killing power.

But now Rong's words are full of sarcasm, either threatening or exposing people's faces. Every word he says is piercing to the lungs and stabbing to the heart, making people so angry that they are half dead, and they can't even say a word to fight back.

Rong Enqing saw that Song was silent, so he ignored her. He looked at the thirty or so servants left in the courtyard, carefully identified them, and pointed out several servants who were later used by Yun Hao and his mother in his original memory. "Take these away, and sell them off later."

"Yes." Butler Li took the order and waved to the servants, and several servants came over to escort the people away.

"For the rest, Steward Li, please pick them out again. Keep the ones that are useful, and dispose of the ones that you think are problematic."

"Yes." Butler Li walked through the crowd calmly and quickly pointed out a dozen people. Rong Enqing did not ask any more questions and directly asked the servants to take them away.

Seeing this scene, everyone frowned. Rong Shi used to dislike Butler Li the most, so why did he trust him so much now! ?

Finally, all the servants were dealt with, leaving only a few managers.

"Butler Qian is still very capable, but from now on, the position of the chief butler of the Marquis' Mansion will still be held by Butler Li." Rong Enqing pointed at Butler Qian and asked everyone, "Does anyone in your family want to use him?"

Second House Yun Hao said, "Please give up, Madam. We in the second house want money for the housekeeper."

Rong Enqing nodded and agreed readily: "Okay, Steward Qian will follow the second house. I will send his indenture to you later."

"Thank you, Madam." Yun Hao bowed and thanked him. A person who had been the chief steward of the Marquis's mansion was still very useful to him. Only someone as stupid as Rong would let such a person go out of the mansion.

Butler Qian froze, and his face instantly turned ugly. Wouldn't it be nice to be the chief butler in the Marquis's mansion? Even if he couldn't be the chief butler in the future, being the second or third butler would be good too! Why was he thrown into the second house?

Could it be that he has been thinking about leaning towards the Second House recently? Thinking of this possibility, and thinking of the fate of those who had clearly leaned towards the Second House before, Butler Qian felt a chill on the back of his neck, and swallowed back the words he wanted to plead for mercy. He even cleverly showed a flattering smile to replace the expression on his face.

Seeing this, Yun Hao nodded with satisfaction, thinking that Butler Qian was very happy to follow him to the Second House. Later, he even regarded Butler Qian as his confidant and let him take full charge of the Second House's affairs.

These are all things for later.

Back to the present, housekeeper Qian went to the second house, and Rong Enqing picked one from the housekeepers to go to the fourth house. The third house also asked for one to go. There was no problem with the remaining three, so they all stayed.

As a result, the number of servants in the Marquis' Mansion dropped from over a hundred at the beginning to only about twenty people left in the end.

Rong Enqing waved his hand and told those who stayed to disperse and return to their respective places.

"You all should go back and pack up. The mourning period for the Marquis is still three days. After three days, you three houses can move in."

Rong Enqing's words were as straightforward as ever.

The people from the second and third rooms responded with sullen faces and left.

Yun Shu also bowed, said goodbye and left.

Zhang also wanted to take Yun Ye back, but Yun Ye obviously wanted to say something, but Zhang glared at him and took him away forcibly.

In the end, only the couple from room four were reluctant to leave.

"Why don't you go back and clean up?" Rong Enqing glanced at the two of them. Yun Hai's eyes were red, but his expression was still normal. However, Xiao Rong's face was so gloomy that water could drip out of it.

"Mother, do we really have to move out too?" Yun Hai bit his lip and said aggrievedly and reluctantly, "I can't bear to leave you. I'm sure you can't leave me too! If I move out, I'll miss you and won't be able to see you right away. What should I do?"

Rong Enqing was both angry and amused. How did Yun Hai develop such a crying and weak personality? A grown man who is already a father still behaves like this from time to time. Isn't it annoying?

But why do I feel that he asks for a beating, but at the same time, he also seems a little cute?

"Okay, you are just moving out, I'm not forbidding you to come back. After you move out, you can come back to see me, have dinner with me, and talk with me when you have nothing to do.

"Besides, your house is not far from the Marquis's Mansion. It only takes half an hour by car. Whenever I miss you, I can send someone to call you back."

Hearing this, Yun Hai finally felt relieved, "Then it's a deal, if mother misses me, she must send someone to call me."

"Okay." Rong Enqing agreed with a smile.

The mother and son were talking affectionately, but Mrs. Rong's face turned black as the bottom of a pot. Finally, she couldn't bear it anymore and shouted angrily: "Have you said enough?"

Rong Enqing frowned and turned to look at Xiao Rong. This woman had given her the cold shoulder again. What a nasty thing! Sure enough, it was right to resolutely separate their room! Otherwise, it would definitely affect her life span!