After the girls left one by one, Shane also left first. Mrs. Mary looked at Anna calmly and asked, "What's your name?"
Anna lowered her eyes and said warmly: "My name is Anna, Lady Mary."
When Mrs. Mary saw Anna's well-behaved appearance, although she didn't show it on her face, she was satisfied in her heart.
Although Master Parrish's orders cannot be disobeyed, it would be more comfortable for her to manage him if he comes with someone who is well-behaved and obedient.
"I am the deputy housekeeper of the Earl's Mansion, and the kitchen is under my jurisdiction. You are a newcomer, so you should learn from the veterans at the beginning. The rules in the kitchen of the Earl's Mansion are completely different from those at home. You need to study hard and don't neglect it."
"Yes, I remember everything." Anna agreed honestly.
She was relieved that Lady Mary didn't have any special attitude towards her. She was just here to work and didn't want others to treat her differently because of Master Parrish's relationship - she just treated her normally. That's enough.
Lady Mary arranged a "master" for Anna, a maid named Rebecca. In Earl's Mansion, all ordinary female employees are called maids, and different types of work have different wage standards. A maid like Anna who works in the kitchen can get ten silver coins a month, which is almost twice what her father earns as a bartender in a tavern. No wonder everyone wants to go to the Earl's Mansion.
Considering that her family's current income can cover their normal expenses, and all her salary can be saved, Anna is extremely happy. After she had saved enough money, the first thing she wanted to do was move out of Pomegranate Lane, which was too close to the slums.
Most of the maids working in the kitchen do not live in the Earl's Palace and come early and leave late every day. Because of the existence of the Goddess of Light, this world also has a creation myth. There is a seven-day cycle, and Sunday is Sunday. However, the maids at the Earl's Palace do not have time off to go to church on Sundays. They can only simply say a prayer, so the working hours That works out to almost "777".
On the first day, Anna just followed Rebecca to learn how to go to the kitchen after entering from the back door of the Earl's Mansion. Anna was then taken by Rebecca to exchange names with the four guards who would take turns guarding the back door, so that it would be easier for her to enter and exit in the future.
The official start of work was the next day. After Anna was basically familiar with it, she went home first. She wanted to tell her family the good news as soon as possible.
When Anna returned to Pomegranate Lane, a tall and strong young man suddenly ran up to her and shouted: "Anna, go home quickly, someone is making trouble in your house!"
Anna's expression changed, and she didn't have time to ask any more questions. She hurriedly thanked her and hurried back home. At this point in time, Evan and Jem had just gone to the pub, and there were only her mother, Adele, and little Evan at home!
The tall and strong young man walked closely behind Anna and followed together.
Before Anna could get close to her house, she saw Lily and her mother Renee blocking the door of her house, cursing loudly.
"Your Anna is such a shameless bitch! She used her beauty to seduce Master Parrish and took away the job that should have been my daughter! How on earth did you raise such a shameless daughter? Goddess, You should go to the devil world!"
Lily cried and complained: "That's obviously my job! Anna is shameless and took my job away!"
The mother and daughter cursed loudly at the door of Anna's house. Guy stood at the door, his face turned pale with anger, but she could not curse, but was unable to deny: "Anna is not the kind of person you said..."
When Ana saw this scene, her eyes turned red with anger.
This mother and daughter were so picky that they bullied her gentle mother!
After looking around, Anna found someone else's shovel on the side of the road. She picked it up and turned it around. She held the shovel this way, then waved the wooden handle and hit the mother and daughter.
Lily and Renee were in the middle of scolding, but they didn't pay attention to the sneak attack from behind. They were hit hard, and they ran away in surprise.
Anna stood at the door of her house holding a shovel, staring at Lily and Renee, and said loudly: "Lily, you yourself were eliminated by Mrs. Mary because you yelled in front of her, how can you blame me? Shameless person It’s you! You are also believers of the goddess, how dare you lie under the gaze of the goddess? The goddess will not forgive you!"
A true believer would not mention the goddess casually like Anna, but in order to silence Lily, she had to borrow the name of the goddess.
Of course, she didn't believe a word of what she said. If the goddess is really watching this land, then why haven't the demons staring at her been eliminated
Lily did lie to her mother about her elimination. She did not say that she had been eliminated before learning that Anna was arranged by Master Parrish, but she blamed Anna for everything.
Therefore, when Lily heard Anna mention the goddess, she panicked for a moment, and then she immediately said: "I, I didn't lie! It was indeed you who seduced Master Parrish, and that's why he let you work in the kitchen!"
But she felt a little guilty after all, and Lily didn't look directly into Anna's eyes.
Renee was much calmer than Lily. She didn't even pay attention to what Anna mentioned about the goddess. She just stared at Anna and shouted angrily: "Do you know how many good things I said to get Lily's aunt to recommend Lily? Originally, That was supposed to be Lily’s job, but it was taken away by you, you bitch!”
Guy was blocked by Anna. She looked at Anna with some worry, and then at Renee. The anger in her chest made her grit her teeth. But just when she wanted to step forward, she was stopped by Anna.
Anna has been in this world for a few days, and she knows Guy's character very well. Guy is not good at fighting with people, so she still has to do it.
"Mom, trust me." Anna looked at Guy and said.
Guy looked at Anna's sky-blue eyes that he had inherited from him, and felt the different power in her eyes. He nodded blankly and stepped back.
Anna was still holding the shovel, and having a weapon for self-defense gave her a lot of courage. She looked at Renee and said coldly: "It's obviously your daughter who is useless and was eliminated by Mrs. Mary. How can you blame others? What if I seduced you?" Now that I’ve married Master Parrish, I’ve already been his lover, so why do I still need to work in the kitchen?”
The people of this world are different from the ancient East that Anna is familiar with, and they are more open in terms of sex. It is indeed disgusting to be someone else's lover, but if a commoner becomes the lover of a noble, other commoners will only be envious and even jealous why the person who encounters such a good thing is not their own daughter.
Therefore, the reason given by Anna is irrefutable.
If Lily dared to say that when she went to work at the Earl's Mansion, she never thought of hooking up with the noble men in the Earl's Mansion and becoming their lover, the onlookers would just make noises, and no one would believe her - Lily usually kept shouting that she would let her do it in the future. A noble gentleman fell under her skirt.
Because most people had similar thoughts, they all believed Anna's words when she pointed it out.
They never thought that Anna had the opportunity to fly to the sky and refused, they only thought that Anna really didn't have that chance.
If Anna really succeeded in seducing Master Parrish, how stupid would she be to just want to be an ordinary kitchen maid instead of becoming Master Parrish's lover
Even Renee, who has always been sharp-tongued, was left speechless by Anna's question, but she did not intend to give up easily and shouted: "How do I know what you think! Who knows if you have greater ambitions?" , I want to be Master Parrish’s wife!”
As soon as Renee said this, everyone around them laughed. They were not laughing at Anna's "wishful thinking", but at Renee's "whimsical".
What fool would think of becoming the wife of an earl's heir as a commoner
What if marriage was possible between a commoner with some money and the lowest baron? A commoner like Anna and an heir to an earl? Is Anna crazy
Anna didn't need to say anything, the people around her laughed and mocked Renee.
"Renee, if your own daughter is useless, don't blame others. We don't know what Lily is like, don't you still know?"
"Yes, hahaha, give back my wife... Have you thought about it for Lily yourself?"
"If I were the Countess, I would choose Anna over Lily. Anna is much prettier than Lily."
"That's right! Renee, it's really not surprising that Lily lost to Anna!"
“…”
Everyone said something to each other, which made Renee and Lily's faces turn red. Renee even scolded everyone at first, but when she got more energetic, of course everyone would not admit defeat. The advantage of having more people and more power came out, and soon Renee was soon defeated and left with Lily in dejection.
This is exactly what Anna wants to achieve.
Because the folk customs in this world are more open than in ancient times in the East, gossip about men and women will not form effective public pressure. And because of the unique culture of semi-public lovers, Anna can calmly use "lover" as a breakthrough point to fight back.
Although she did land in the kitchen because of Master Parrish's words, who would believe it
Who believed that she would refuse to be Master Parrish's lover for a job in the kitchen? If she were from this world, she wouldn't believe it either.
She deliberately said those words to incite the onlookers and succeeded in getting them to scold Lily and Renee away.
Renee and Lily left, and the onlookers dispersed with no reason to stay.
Anna put the shovel back in its place. Because of the weight of the shovel, her arms were a little sore now.
The young man who came to inform Anna never left. When he saw everyone around him leaving, he came over, whistled and said, "Anna, you were so awesome just now!"
As he spoke, he took a bouquet of purple flowers from the belt behind his back and handed it to Anna: "This is for you, it matches you very well!"
Anna was stunned for a moment, then saw the young man forcing the flower into her hand, running away with a smile, and after running away, he turned back and waved to her.
Only then did Anna remember that the young man's name was Mark, the son of a blacksmith... The shovel she took just now seemed to belong to his family.
She clenched the bouquet in her hand. Although it could be seen at a glance that it was picked in the wild, and the petals were many and crushed... But after all, this was the first bouquet she had received in this world, and she was a little happy.
Anna came back with the flowers. Guy was still standing at the door, his eyes passing over the flowers in Anna's hand without saying much.
Anna looked at Guy, coughed slightly, and smiled sweetly: "Mom, I have some good news for you. I have been hired by the Earl's Mansion!"
Guy was stunned and couldn't help laughing.
"Mom, just pretend you didn't hear what happened just now. You only heard this good news from my mouth." Anna smiled, "That's ten silver coins a month! From now on, we will eat potato stew, mutton and White bread!"
"I want to eat, too!"
Adele, who had been scared to hide at home, poked her head out with little Evan, her eyes shining. Little Evan even drooled.
He is only three years old, but he already knows that meat is a good thing.
"Okay, when I get my salary, everyone will have something to eat!" Anna said with great enthusiasm.
Adele and little Evan both cheered.
Guy didn't say anything bad, he just smiled gently. Anna was different today than before, but it was a good day, and even she wanted to cheer.
Until this moment, Anna really felt that it was really possible for her to change her situation.
Although there are demons in the Earl's Mansion that scare her, things are finally developing in a good direction, and she believes they will get better and better in the future.