People who travel fast are good at being ridden by ghosts

Bai Hao was very embarrassed, but even more bored, he could only lie on the bed and amuse himself.

At about eleven o'clock at night, four or five people came into the house. It seems that these are the servants who work in Bai's house as the shopkeeper said.

Several people choose their beds and do their own things in peace.

Bai Hao lay on the bed and listened to some people's gossip. It was rare for him to get rid of the boring night without entertainment and conversation for the first time after following Bai Yilou for so long.

The drowsiness gradually struck, and Bai Hao could finally pass the time by sleeping.

The next day, the sky was bright.

Bai Hao was sleeping soundly when someone knocked softly on the door to wake him up.

The other people in the room were in deep sleep, and this movement did not wake them up. Bai Hao opened his eyes and saw that Bai Yilou was opening the door for someone outside.

Outside the house were the two men whose left ears were cut off by Bai Yilou yesterday. At this time, their heads were wrapped in a bandage, and they were standing outside the house in fear, whispering, "Hero, it's almost time to go to work."

Bai Yilou nodded, then turned to look at Bai Hao.

Bai Hao hurriedly got up and put on his shoes, and went to fetch water from the water tank in the open-air courtyard outside to wash his face.

The sky is gradually turning white, and the breeze is blowing, which makes people feel refreshed and very comfortable.

The two people who led the way suffered a big loss yesterday, and they were very afraid of Bai Yilou, they were very quiet along the way, if Bai Yilou did not ask questions, they would not say a word.

The four of them walked outside the Chuihua Gate of the White Mansion, but the two vermilion gates were closed tightly. The two leading the way did not knock on the door, but walked back around the courtyard wall of the White Mansion.

Bai Hao raised his eyebrows slightly, thinking: If you don't go through the main entrance, do you want to climb over the courtyard wall?

Facts proved that Bai Hao was thinking too much. Walking through this section of the wall, the four of them turned around the corner, and saw a simple back door appearing in front of them.

Huh?Bai Hao looked at the back door in front of him, and couldn't help being a little surprised, why didn't he know if his house had a back door.

However, after so many years, the back door may not necessarily be sealed.

When Bai Hao thought of this possibility, he instantly felt relieved.

One of them stepped forward to knock on the door, and after a few people waited outside for a while, the door opened.

The person who opened the door was distracted from his dream, and looked impatiently at the four people outside the door, and recognized two of them as servants of the family, but he did not recognize Bai Yilou and the others.

The concierge looked at the two men warily, and asked the two servants, "Who are they?"

The two looked at each other, and one of them explained with a smile: "They are my distant relatives. There is an urgent matter at home, so I brought two of them here to pick up our work."

The porter looked at the two dubiously for a moment, and warned the four not to wander around in the mansion, and then let them go impatiently.

Passing through the arch, as soon as you enter the courtyard, you will see a gravel path extending out. There are many potted plants here, and it is the courtyard where the family members of the Baifu live.

The flowerbeds on both sides of the path are full of flowers and plants, and behind the flowerbeds are rows of houses. The houses on the left and right correspond to each other, and there are two paths leading to the front of the house.

Due to the large population of the White Mansion and the limited number of houses, this place is only for servants of higher status in the mansion, such as nurses, housekeepers, cooks and so on.

After giving priority to this group of people, the vacant rooms will give priority to those servants who have 'conditions' to live in.

The so-called condition refers to how much benefit the housekeeper can get.

Those who don't have money to manage connections can only go to find dirty and cheap shacks outside the house to spend the night, just like the group of people who came last night.

This seems to be a loss-making job. Regardless of the accommodation, the Bai family has to pay for a place to live, but everyone is willing to stay in the Bai family to work.

There is no other reason, but because the Baifu pays a lot of wages every month and the food is good. Compared with other places, this place is very good, so everyone naturally squeezed their heads in.

The two people in front took the lead to cross the path in the flower garden, climbed the stone steps, and stopped outside a house.

One of them went up to call for the door. After a long time, there was light in the room. There were footsteps in the room, and someone came to open the door.

The door opened with a creak, and a middle-aged man in a robe stood in front of the half-opened door, squinted his eyes at a few people, and said, "It's noisy early in the morning, what's the matter with you two. "

One of them nodded and bowed his head and said: "Steward Bai, I've interrupted your rest, I hope you will forgive me if I offend you, that's it, our two families have urgent matters, so I don't plan to resign from you, but I'm afraid it will delay the work of the mansion. Just let my cousins ​​come to support us, you don't think so."

After hearing the words, Butler Bai went to look at Bai Hao and the two of them carefully, and after a while, he seemed dissatisfied and said, "Have they done it? Look at this one with thin skin and tender flesh. Don't mess things up for me."

There was resentment in one person's eyes, and he said with a half-smile, "Butler Bai, don't worry, they've done a good job, they've become very capable, and they can do anything."

Hearing this, Bai Hao was sensitively aware of the malice in this man's words, so he looked at him.

Among the two of them, he hadn't spoken a word this morning, and he suddenly said something meaningful, which really didn't make people think too much.

Bai Hao was always worried that these two people held grudges, afraid that they would use their power to sue in front of Steward Bai. Cutting off someone's ears and arms was no small matter. If outsiders were suspicious, it would be more difficult to investigate the affairs of the Bai family in the future.

In fact, this man was just dissatisfied. Because of Bai Yilou's lust, they dared not disobey him, but giving up this job was not much worse than cutting off their ears.

However, Bai Hao's words meant something to Bai Hao's ears, but Butler Bai only heard them literally.

He laughed quite satisfied, and said: "Okay, I will write a letter to you later, you go to the accountant to settle the wages, and they will stay."

The two agreed reluctantly, and then Butler Bai went into the house to get dressed and write papers.

A quarter of an hour later, Butler Bai handed over the paperwork to the two of them, and led Bai Hao and Bai Yilou away.

It was daylight, and the sun was rising.

Butler Bai took the two of them to the accounting office to register. Seeing that both of them were surnamed Bai, he was surprised and said, "It's fate, you two are brothers?"

Bai Hao remained silent, but Bai Yilou reluctantly nodded.

Coming out of the accountant's office, Butler Bai began to tell the two about the rules of the house.

When talking about the residence, Bai Yilou, who was listening silently, suddenly asked: "Can the family provide a residence?"

Butler Bai glanced back at the two of them and said, "No more, they are all full."

However, Bai Hao asked with some doubts: "Housekeeper, we are all members of the mansion. Why do some have a place to live and some don't? We also want to live in the mansion."

If they don't stay in the Bai mansion, it will be inconvenient for them to pay attention to all the movements of the Bai family.

The housekeeper's expression turned ugly after hearing Bai Hao's words, and he just walked forward without answering Bai Hao's questions.

At this moment, Bai Yilou took out an ingot of broken silver, walked up to the steward, stuffed the silver into the steward's hand without any trace, and said, "Thank you, steward, for being accommodating."

The housekeeper weighed the weight secretly, and his face softened a little. He looked around and saw that there was no one, so he pretended to be contemplative.

After a while, Fang said embarrassingly: "That's okay, I'll go and see later, and I will free up two beds for you."

Bai Yilou nodded slightly and said, "Thank you."

Bai Hao made a disdainful face behind the housekeeper, it's true that money can turn ghosts around.

A few people walked through the garden corridor, and Bai Hao found that although the house he lived in was the same house as the current Bai Mansion, the general structure was the same, but many details were different.

It seems that in the past few hundred years, this house has been changed a lot.

There were gradually servants walking around in the mansion, and the two of them followed Butler Bai through the veranda of the third courtyard and came to the backyard kitchen.

The Bai family's kitchen is very large, and there are four cooking stoves alone. At this time, there are more than a dozen people preparing breakfast, and some of the little girls blushed when they saw the two of them.

Butler Bai said: "From now on, this is where you will work. Work hard, and the Bai family will not treat you badly." As he spoke, he looked at the people around him, and whispered to the two of them, "Come and find me in my room later. , I will arrange accommodation for you.”

The two nodded slightly, butler Bai turned around and left.

As soon as Butler Bai left, the only sound left in the kitchen was the sound of tinkering with things. Bai Hao and the two looked at the people in the kitchen with an indifferent face and a dazed face. They stood there stupidly, not knowing what to say.

Bai Hao didn't expect to be assigned to the kitchen. He was not good at interacting with strangers, so everyone looked at him, and he looked at everyone, feeling a little at a loss.

On the other hand, Bai Yilou didn't show any emotion on his expressionless face. After all, it was the first time he came into contact with this matter, and he didn't know how to proceed. However, if no one really stood up to tell the two of them what to do, let him stand like this. One day he can do it too.

Most of the kitchen was full of women, and some of the fatter ladies were busy kneading dough, and in the midst of their busy schedule, they still did not forget to look up at the two of them, adding to their embarrassment.

Especially looking at Bai Hao's eyes, he was curious and wanted to laugh.

It's probably because Bai Hao has a very different hair from the people in this world.

Bai Hao was a little displeased, but he noticed that several people glanced at his head from time to time. He raised his hand uncomfortably to touch his head, but restrained himself.

This group of people must have been bored for a long time. Seeing the two of them standing there dumbfounded, they had no intention of telling them what to do.

Bai Hao gradually became restless. He glanced at Bai Yilou, and saw that the other person looked indifferent, looking at the things in the kitchen, as if he didn't care if anyone would answer.

With this appearance, he naturally doesn't understand what embarrassment is. Is it because his face is too tough, or his nerves are too rough?

A few little maids at the side whispered, and after a while, a little maid swayed over. She raised her head to look at Bai Yilou, her face flushed immediately.The little maid hastily lowered her head, embarrassed to look again, and whispered to the two of them softly: "There are a lot of firewood in the firewood room, but they haven't been chopped. You, you go to chop the firewood first."

Someone was willing to come forward to relieve the embarrassment at this time, Bai Hao was quite grateful, and quickly said: "Okay, let's go chop firewood."

Bai Hao pulled Bai Yilou and walked out of the kitchen, he was relieved, the two searched from room to room, and found the firewood room in the corner of the courtyard.

The firewood room was full of firewood, and there were several wooden blocks and hatchets in the center of the room. Bai Hao sighed again and again, resigned himself to his fate and sat on the side pony, and began to chop the firewood piled aside.

Bai Yilou walked around the house, and then sat on the pony to watch Bai Hao chop firewood.

Bai Hao glanced up at him and asked, "Aren't you going to chop?"

Bai Yilou picked up a piece of wood and put it on the pier, picked up the hatchet and worked silently.