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

Mo Chenxi rested for another month. She hardly left her yard. Since she fainted last time, He Wenyan never asked her to help with the housework.

Doctor Zhang came twice and changed the prescription. He said that there was improvement and that if he wanted to get better, he had to continue recuperating.

It was still the housekeeper Fan. She didn't dare to neglect the old lady's courtyard and Mo Chenxi, and couldn't take care of other places.

It wasn't that Fan did it on purpose, she just had no power to do it.

I originally wanted to show off my skills as a housekeeper through this opportunity, but once I started doing it, I would be busy from beginning to end every day and wouldn't be able to take care of anything else.

This time I am really convinced by my sister-in-law.

The second wife was neglected. He Wenpu knew that he was born out of wedlock and could not compare to the first and third wives. However, one of his concubines was pregnant, and the food delivered to him was cold for two days. His wife Bao also complained about eating leftovers.

He Wenpu bought some supplements for his eldest sister-in-law, and drank tea and chatted with his eldest brother in the study. During the conversation, he "casually" talked about all the messy things at home.

He Wenyan had a headache. The inner housekeeper couldn't let a grown man like him come out. He knew that his third brother had secretly given him money.

I'm blaming my third brother in my heart, but doesn't my wife know it?

After Mrs. Mo got married, he taught her step by step, and she never made any mistakes in her more than ten years as housekeeper.

My brother's wife has been the housekeeper for two months. Not only did my mother complain, but my second brother also came to visit.

But now his wife's health is so poor that she is struggling to stay as the housekeeper. If she collapses in the future, will he become a widower?

He Wenyan looked at his second brother and felt unhappy. You are worried because your concubine is pregnant, but the one who is sick is your original wife.

On Mo Chenxi's side, Mother Liao was also telling her why the Second Master came.

"Now, let alone the Second House's lack of food, even the servants feel like it's New Year's Eve when they can have a meal of meat. Yu Mama from the kitchen has cried to me several times. Compared to when the Madam was the housekeeper, the dishes are almost half as good. Do you think she has to pay for the meat herself?"

Mo Chenxi had never taken the initiative to ask about the affairs of the mansion before. The meals here were normal every day. When she heard Mother Liao talking about the kitchen, she was curious because it was her main job in modern times.

"Isn't the food supply in the farm outside the city enough?"

"The driver has to go get it every day. The carriage master needs it every day, and sometimes the second and third masters also need it. The third wife has to ask the driver to make a trip whenever she wants to buy something. Sometimes he can't afford to go outside the city, and the third wife is reluctant to spend money on vegetables, so she makes do with leftovers."

Mo Chenxi frowned. It’s been two months and there is still no charter?

It’s such a simple thing, just write down what you need for the next day every night. There are only so many fixed people in the family, and the daily necessities are almost fixed, especially food.

All the arrangements for guests coming to our house are made in advance; no one comes to visit someone else suddenly.

There is a fixed reserve fund every day to prepare for emergencies.

Fan has been busy for two months with such a simple matter and still can’t figure it out?

No one in a modern restaurant knows how business will be that day. If a tour group suddenly arrives, they have to contact everyone within three minutes of placing the menu. The delivery staff and those who need to go shopping in person all have to be dispatched. Even the cleaners have to be asked to peel the garlic.

If Fan were the lobby manager, he would be fired in half an hour rather than half a day.

If the dishes prepared the day before are not fully consumed due to small customer orders, all the waiters will push them aside the next day, saying that this dish is a specialty of our restaurant and will never be wasted.

When Mo Chenxi goes out to eat, he never orders the dishes recommended by the waiter. Maybe they are indeed special dishes, or maybe they are leftovers from the previous day's preparation.

It was dinner time, and Mother Liao looked at the food with some displeasure. The leaves were obviously yellow, and there were not even two ribs in the bowl of pork rib soup.

Mo Chenxi sat down and said, "Just eat it."

She frowned after taking a sip of the soup, trying to make do with it, but it was difficult to swallow.

She has always been picky and would even dislike the carefully prepared food in the kitchen, let alone the current situation.

Seeing Madam take a sip and push the bowl away, Madam Liao advised, "How can this be? Madam, you haven't eaten well these past few days and you've lost weight. Doctor Zhang said you need to eat more to get better."

Mo Chenxi sighed. She wanted to eat more, but she couldn’t.

She is not picky about clothes, but she is picky about food. She doesn't have to be picky about appearance, aroma and taste, but at least it has to taste good and have a balanced nutrition.

But how can she swallow such food?

Once in modern times, several of their supervisors were having dinner in a small restaurant outside. After drinking too much, they commented on the dishes on the table one by one. At first, the boss standing next to them had a green face, but after listening for a while, his eyes lit up and he begged them to continue giving instructions.

Mo Chenxi really wanted to go to the kitchen and give some instructions herself, otherwise how could she lie down in ancient times?

She couldn't eat, her husband was unbearable to look at, and the house was a mess and out of order. She just listened and didn't do anything. She couldn't stand listening anymore. Her obsessive-compulsive disorder kicked in and she wanted to gather everyone together for training.

But she couldn't act rashly. After all, she was still the housekeeper of the Fan family. If she used the money to buy some food outside, it would be too special.

The next day the food was better. Mother Liao said that it was the Third Master who bought some vegetables and meat, and gave some more silver to the treasury.

Mo Chenxi thought that with the occasional subsidies from the Third Master, she could still make do.

But two days later, the Third Master had to go on a business trip to another place. Without him to help the Fan family, things were in chaos again. There were vacancies here and there. He Wenyan and He Wenpu could only eat breakfast at home, and almost always went home for lunch.

The weather was getting colder, but the servants hadn't bought any new clothes. The masters had to buy new clothes every season, so it went without saying that Mrs. Fan must have been extremely worried.

Mo Chenxi recalled the past of Mrs. Mo. She had a dowry shop that sold mid-range rouge and powder, and the money she earned was subsidized to the public treasury every month.

Ever since she came here, she'd told the shopkeeper not to come to her to pay the bills anymore, but to keep them for now. She was planning to continue her old trade and open a pastry shop using modern technology.

As the saying goes, it is better to cook it than to cook it raw.

Now the He family no longer has the income subsidy from their original shop, and the little income from the public school is not enough to make ends meet.

In ancient times, families were not divided, and the only income the He family had was the salary of the three brothers, which they paid every month. They also had more than ten acres of land and a farm, which was not big. All this was not enough to cover the family's expenses, not to mention the growing population.

Mrs. Jiang suddenly had an idea to buy some potted flowers and asked Mrs. Fan to send someone to buy them. Mrs. Fan was already overwhelmed, and now her mother-in-law wanted to buy potted flowers that looked good but were useless and could not be eaten. In a hurry, she said she had no money.

Madam Jiang was furious and asked Fan, "Where did all the money go? When your sister-in-law was the housekeeper, she still had snacks every month. Because you were unfamiliar with the job, I held back and didn't say anything to you. Now look at me, snacks are only delivered every now and then."

Fan felt wronged. She didn't take a penny of it herself, and she also contributed to the dowry. Her husband would bring money from outside from time to time to add to the dowry, but in the end her mother-in-law still thought she was greedy.

After being scolded by her mother-in-law, Fan lay down and asked the doctor to take her pulse. She was pregnant. Without saying anything, she handed all the account books directly to Madam Jiang, saying that she wanted to take care of the baby.

After hearing this, Mo Chenxi immediately lay down and called Doctor Zhang to change the prescription.

She had already made up her mind that she couldn't just lie down in this environment. She had to manage everything clearly with her own hands, and then lie down and live a leisurely life.

But it’s not the right time. The most important thing is that her current body can’t bear it.

The Chinese New Year is in two months, so she will wait until then to make her move.

For now, let the house continue to be in chaos, so that the old lady knows that every delicious meal she had before, the endless snacks, and the orderly inner house were the hard work of the original body, not pie in the sky.

She would take action only when everyone understood that the reason they could enjoy a comfortable life was because of Mrs. Mo's hard work and the supplements she received from her dowry.

Even if there are people who know the truth but pretend to be ignorant, like Old Madam Jiang, she can just quit and let them continue to live their current messy life.