Dressed as a middle-aged mistress, I want to lie down every day

Mo Chenxi originally wanted to sell the idle people in the mansion, but then he thought that it was not a good idea to sell people in front of Nian.

The He family has a small farm, where they can let these people raise pigs and chickens, which they can then sell to people who run restaurants in the future.

She knew that running a pastry shop would not allow her to live a life of ease.

She asked Mama Liao to pass on a message to the first and second wives, asking the master to stay with four maids and two old women, the concubine to have two maids and one old woman, the young master to have two servants, and the young ladies over eight years old to have two maids and one old woman.

Because the three brothers of the He family had things to do outside, they still had two long-term attendants, so they asked their two rooms to arrange the people themselves and gave her the list of laid-off employees.

On her side, Mother Liao's family was brought from the Mo family when her original body got married. She asked Mother Liao and her husband to go to the manor, firstly to show others that she treated everyone equally. Her companion mother also went to the manor.

Secondly, there must be someone responsible for the Zhuangzi area, and it should be handed over to Mrs. Liao and her husband.

Mother Liao has one daughter and two sons. The eldest son, Liao Da'an, has been serving He Shanluo. In the past two years, He Shanluo has lived in Donglin Academy, and Liao Da'an has followed his father as an assistant, running around for the He family's purchases outside.

Liao Qiuyan, the eldest daughter of Liao's mother, started serving He Jingyi at the age of ten. She is sixteen years old this year and is also preparing to be He Jingyi's companion in the future. Her fiancé has been chosen, and he is a servant of the He family. They will get married at the end of the year.

Mo Chenxi first painted a rosy picture for the people in her yard who were about to be sent to the manor:

"As you all know, I've been ill recently and rested for several months. I'm really unable to take care of the inner house, but I'm the eldest daughter-in-law of the eldest son's family. As long as I'm not sick, I have to persevere. Everyone, follow Mother Liao to the manor first. If you really don't want to and have other plans, you can also find Mother Liao privately."

She thought about it over and over again, and decided that if someone was unwilling to go to Zhuangzi and sell themselves, it would be like the person in Dream of the Red Chamber who was given a contract to sell himself but did not ask for redemption money, just to establish a good relationship.

"Don't worry, follow me, whether you're in the mansion or at the farm, as long as I'm well, everyone will have a bright future. I always keep my word, and I'm afraid that if I ask you to return to the capital in the future, you won't be willing to do so."

Mother Liao said from the side: "Ask yourselves, has our wife ever wronged any of you since she married into our family?"

The servants standing in the yard looked at each other. Indeed, the lady had never been like the housekeepers and mistresses of other houses who would find excuses to deduct the servants' monthly wages from time to time in order to cut expenses.

This is only the number of servants who serve around. Half of the people in the kitchen will be reduced, and the people in the greenhouse will be removed. Whoever likes to grow flowers can grow them themselves; half of the people in the sewing room will be reduced. In short, on average, the number of people will be reduced by more than half.

The main reason was that the He family, from Madam Jiang to He Wenyan, were all very concerned about their reputation. The original body also brainwashed them into thinking that their husbands, who were of the fifth rank, should have that kind of pomp and ceremony, so there were too many servants in the house.

In reality, there is no room for grand socializing, and many servants are idle.

This matter was quickly resolved within two days. Mother Liao and her husband took people to the village. Without asking, all the neighbors knew about the situation of the He family, and they also knew that Mrs. Mo was sick and went back to her parents' home to recuperate. It must have been the Mo family's idea.

Some neighbors joked behind Mrs. Jiang's back that she was a country bumpkin who had picked up some gold and didn't know what to do with it. If she was a sensible person, she would not have let her eldest daughter-in-law work so hard at such a young age and use her dowry shop to subsidize her in-laws for more than ten years.

Everyone in the He family was very cooperative. Old Madam Jiang only grumbled a few words in front of her son and did not dare to scold her daughter-in-law, for fear that the eldest daughter-in-law would quit.

She thought that her family was short of money, and Mrs. Mo was unwilling to contribute as she had done before. So she thought of giving her son a merchant daughter as a second wife and seeing what her daughter-in-law would say in the future.

If the household expenses are not enough and you don't have the ability to subsidize them, there is someone who is willing to do so. It's a good opportunity for your daughter-in-law to recuperate and be the housekeeper of your son's second room. Then she can buy some new people. Otherwise, she will not have the face to go out for social events.

It was about taking a merchant's daughter as a second wife. She had only heard about it, and she couldn't ask an outsider to do it, so she had to ask her younger brother and sister-in-law to help arrange it.

As the twelfth lunar month was approaching, Mo Chenxi became concerned about the business of the shop. She asked Mother Liao to buy a mule and go to the city every day.

There are not many vegetables in the farm in winter, and the chickens don’t lay many eggs, so we collect some eggs, dried vegetables, meat, etc. from nearby farmers and deliver them to us every day.

She wanted Liao's mother to tell her about the dim sum shop in the future.

The shop is named Wufangzhai because there is a large flow of people at that location. It has been closed for such a long time and suddenly turned into a dim sum shop. Some people must be curious and will go in to buy some to take home and try.

So she won't do any tastings or other promotions, she only does hunger sales. She only makes a certain amount of new dim sum every day, and you have to make a reservation if you want to buy it.

The opening day was chosen on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Laba Laba, and we drank porridge and ate snacks.

On the Laba Festival, the He family cooked Laba porridge, and asked the kitchen staff to make the snacks themselves. Laba Festival is also a festival, so there are two more meat dishes and two more vegetable dishes than usual.

After Mo Chenxi came back, he continued to be the housekeeper. He couldn't let the food be reduced drastically. There was an old lady above him, a pregnant woman in the second room, a pregnant woman in the third room, and the children were all young. It would be inappropriate to reduce their food.

Another thing is that Mo Chenxi herself never misses out on food. Even though she is full of energy and vitality now, she still likes food, not to mention that she still needs to replenish her body.

On the Laba Festival, Mo Chenxi was restless. Although she knew that business would not be too bad, she was still a little nervous. After all, this was ancient times, and she was worried that if business was good, she would be targeted again.

Regarding this, Mo's father assured her that she couldn't have wasted twenty or thirty years in the capital.

At noon, Mother Liao came over and brought a few chickens from the farm, saying that they were to add to the dishes for the master.

For the first time, Mrs. Jiang carefully inquired about the situation of the farm, such as how many pigs the farm had, how much the chickens were fed, and how many eggs they laid every day.

Mother Liao has been in the He family for more than ten years. How could she not know what the old lady meant? She was planning to give the child to her younger brother from her natal family.

The amount she mentioned was only enough for the He family to eat, and she also said that the people sent to the farm had to eat pickles every day.

"Everything is expensive before the New Year. Madam said we'll catch some piglets after the New Year. Chicks aren't available until spring; they can't hatch in the cold. Two of the chickens I brought today were from farmers trying to sell them at the market. I stopped them and they sold them to me cheaply. I'm thinking of making chicken soup for Madam and our wife to nourish them."

"As the old saying goes, no ginseng or sea cucumber is as nourishing as a homemade chicken soup. A midwife feeds her baby fat after a month of chicken soup."

Mrs. Jiang echoed a few words, but thought to herself that only poor people say that because they have no money.

She had to endure this kind of life because her son made a loss, otherwise she would have punished her daughter-in-law long ago.

But she was not happy living like this.