The two newly appointed foreign affairs stewards, Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Niu, who took office as three new officials, naturally became busy.
On the day the new bonsai moved in, the third master, Ren Shimin, was very satisfied with it, and even praised Madam Liu a few words.
But on the second day, just overnight, the dozen pots of Clivia were found to have rotted from the roots.
"Mammy Liu, what's going on?" Mammy Zhou asked with a sullen face, pointing to the clump of junzi orchid that the maid had moved in.
Madam Liu broke out in a cold sweat in the winter. Seeing that she was the only one here, she smiled apologetically and said, "Mammy Zhou, this matter... The servants are not very clear about this. However, don't you have to ask Sister-in-law Niu and the others together? "
Madam Zhou pulled her face down and said, "Ask others what to do? Sister-in-law Niu said that she is only in charge of Narcissus, and Clivia you are in charge of."
Madam Liu was only nervous when she saw that she was being accused here by herself, and subconsciously wanted to bring people together to share the responsibilities. Now, listening to Madam Zhou's words, she felt a little uncomfortable, and she couldn't help but raise her head and defend: "Mother Zhou, it's not wrong that these gentlemen orchids were picked by slaves, but the slaves went with Niu's sister-in-law when they were selected. And the flower seller, Hua Nong, was introduced by Niu's sister-in-law's family."
Mammy Zhou was displeased: "Then why did Mrs. Niu say that Clivia was carefully selected by you and your youngest son?"
Madam Liu was stunned when she heard the words, and then she sneered angrily: "You listen to her fart! I also said why there are so many flower farmers outside the town, and their couple just chose a family so biased! Later I heard The flower farmer next door only found out after talking about it, it turned out that their husband and wife received 50 taels of silver from that flower farmer. Now I think it must be that those flowers have problems, and they cooperated to fix me! "
Sister-in-law Niu has a very good personal relationship with the original candidate for a foreign affairs nanny, Wei Wei, and I heard that the two sides also intend to form an in-law family.
I didn't want the dark horse, Mama Liu, to be killed in the end, which made Mama Wei have a lot of prejudice against her, so I even took my sister-in-law to ignore Mama Liu. In addition, there is also a competitive relationship between the two foreign affairs maids, so the relationship between the two is really not good.
In fact, it is very common for purchasing managers to take back deductions. Even Mama Liu herself has oil and water to fish for in every pot of flowers. Even after she knew about the five taels of silver, Sister-in-law Niu gave her twenty taels of silver. Although she was dissatisfied that Sister-in-law Niu made more money than she did, she didn't say anything at the thought of coming to Japan.
Now she felt that she had fallen into someone else's trap, maybe it was Sister Niu who stumbled on her in order to stand out for Wei Wei. Although it wasn't long before she came to Ziweiyuan, she knew the temper of the third master of the Ren family. If he doesn't do well in other things, he won't care at all, but if something goes wrong in the things he cares about, the person in charge will not be able to eat it.
So she couldn't bear the charge.
Zhou Ma was surprised when she heard the words: "How could such a thing happen!" After saying that, she pointed at Xi'er who was on the side and instructed, "Go and call my sister-in-law Niu in!"
Madam Liu saw Madam Zhou's appearance, and suddenly regretted that she had stabbed this matter out. Although it is common for stewards to receive replies from merchants, this kind of thing cannot be brought to the fore no matter what. She opened her mouth to say something, but Xi'er had already led the order out.
After a while, Mrs. Niu was called in.
Mammy Zhou said with a slap in the face: "It's a shame that I thought you were only responsible for those daffodils, and Clivia was Mamma Liu's responsibility, so I just asked her to come over and ask questions. I didn't want to, but I heard that you were looking for the flower farmer? You also received 5 taels of filial piety from others? Sister-in-law, what else do you have to say!"
Sister-in-law Niu glared at Madam Liu in shock and anger when she heard the words. Seeing her eyes flickering, she dared not look at herself, and immediately understood that it was Madam Liu who betrayed herself.
She made a "bah" towards Madam Liu, turned her head and said to Madam Zhou, "Don't believe those old dummies! I understand now what it means to eat meat with a bowl and put it down. The bowl is scolding mother's! Why don't you think that the money is sticking to your hands when you take the money? Now that there is a problem, she hastily cleaned herself up, just like how clean her hands are! There is no need to go to Hualou Selling it in the store, what kind of yellow flower girl is she pretending to be!"
When she was young, Mrs. Niu was famous for being savage, and she was also nicknamed 'spicy'. Now that her children are older, her temper has been restrained a lot, but she is also a temperament that refuses to suffer. Words can be exported.
Madam Liu was also very angry when she heard this, she raised her head and pushed back: "I took the money, but wasn't it the money you sealed up for me? That flower farmer is the recipient of you and the head of your family. Head! Now that something has happened, it is natural to ask for an explanation from your husband and wife!"
Sister-in-law Niu originally received five taels of silver, but in the end, Mama Liu insisted on asking for twenty taels, and promised to let her take the big money next time. The meat in her mouth flew out, and she felt uneasy in her heart. I don't want to think that Liu mama is such a shameless thing that she wants to take advantage of, and something goes wrong. Even when he was furious.
"You are shameless! You spit out the money! You will play ass behind people's backs! Who doesn't know how you became a manager? Isn't it just for Zhu mama twenty taels? Money!" Sister-in-law Niu scolded while pointing at Madam Liu's nose.
Madam Liu was annoyed and angry: "Oh, do you think you are innocent? Wasn't your sister-in-law begging Madam Gui in the old lady's room? In the end, how much money did you put in the people around Aunt Fang to think that others were blind? ?"
Mammy Zhou, who had been sitting on the sidelines watching, glanced out the window. Sister-in-law Niu's voice is loud, and she has already attracted a lot of people to probe their brains outside.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Mammy Zhou patted the case and stood up a few times: "You guys are so brave! You even got involved with the old lady! And what you said just now that Mama Zhu received twenty taels of silver? something!"
Madam Liu's face was not good-looking. Because the matter of Sister Niu involved the people in the old lady's room, naturally no one dared to say anything more, but her twenty-two bribes were hard to say.
Sister-in-law Niu laughed: "Everyone in the yard knows that the night before you announced the candidate for the foreign affairs maid, Liu mama gave Zhu mama twenty taels of silver to let her follow the way of the fifth young lady to seek this foreign affairs mama. Mother's errand."
Mammy Zhou's expression changed: "Presumptuous! How dare you go up to Fifth Miss! The candidate for the foreign affairs manager was discussed with the wife one afternoon before that day. What does it have to do with Fifth Miss!"
Madam Liu was stunned when she heard the words, and said in astonishment, "Have we discussed it this afternoon?"
Seeing Madam Liu's expression, Mrs. Niu's eyes rolled and she understood a little, she couldn't help but covered her mouth and smiled with schadenfreude: "I now understand what stinky congeniality is!"
Madam Liu's face was ashen.
Mammy Zhou was also very angry, and while ordering the maid to call Mama Zhu over, she lifted the curtain and went out of the back room to the main room to report today's affairs to Mrs. Li.
After Mother Zhou returned from Li's main house, Mother Zhu had already come. After a confrontation, Mother Zhu used the news she heard from Miss Fifth to deliberately lie to Mother Liu for twenty taels of silver. It was completely revealed.
It's just that Sister Niu and Mama Liu didn't do anything good because of the bribes they received.
Not wanting to deal with the three of them, the third master Ren Shimin was angry because he found that the dozen or so pots of Clivia were not dead from illness, but because they were scalded to death by someone pouring hot water from their roots. .
The third master is an elegant person, and this kind of "killing flowers" is extremely unbearable in his opinion. Immediately ordered Li to conduct a thorough investigation.
This investigation found Wei Wei's head.
It turns out that Wei Wei has always been brooding about Liu Wei's replacement as a foreign affairs mother, and she learned from Niu's sister-in-law that this time, Liu Wei had earned several taels of silver, and she was very angry. Then, in the evening, the Clivia that Madam Liu bought back was drowned in boiling water one by one.
After the third master found out, he immediately ordered Wei Wei to be kicked out of Ren's house. After the fifth lady found out, she hurriedly ran over to ask for mercy from the third master, and finally saved Wei Wei's life.
It's just that the incidents of several other maids also happened at the same time. The third master was impatient, and asked Li to clear the people in the yard, and drive out those who couldn't get on the stage, so as not to be an eyesore in front of him.
Although Li Shi also said a few words, she was still happy, because these people were all brought in by Concubine Fang.