Qiu Jiang stood quietly at the end of the team.

Nine maids lined up in a row and were called to the flower hall to speak.

Aunt Zhang, who was in charge, went to the scene one by one and looked at anyone with a nitpicking look: "Don't you know that your collar is crooked? Why are you doing so with such a low chest? Who are you going to seduce? This is the Prime Minister's Mansion, not a brothel! And you, there are two patches on your sleeves, and those who don't know think that the Prime Minister's Mansion treats his servants so hard that they don't give them clothes!"

The maid who was trained retorted in a low voice: "It's been a long time since I posted it. It's been a year since the last time I posted it or before the young master passed away."

"What did you say?" Aunt Zhang glared.

The maid was silent quickly.

Aunt Zhang continued to pick on: "You have stains on your knees; your hair is too greasy, go wash it; you..." It was the last Qiujiang turn, from top to bottom-

The long black hair was meticulously tied behind the head and tightly wrapped it with a bamboo hairpin.

The little face is white and clean.

The clothes are neatly arranged.

There is nothing to criticize from head to toe.

Finally, Aunt Zhang had to cough and said, "Don't look dumb, be smart."

Qiu Jiang responded to the words.

The sound is neither high nor low, nor bad nor bad. Just like hers, she can't find it in the crowd and does not have any characteristics, so she will not make any mistakes.

Aunt Zhang looked around the nine girls from beginning to end and said earnestly: "The banquet tonight is very important, and the guests to be invited are very noble. You all cheer me up and do my job properly. It's beautiful. Butler Cui will be rewarded! Do you know?"

"I know." The nine people responded.

Aunt Zhang nodded and told her to start preparing. After saying that, she left twisted and twisted.

A maid in green spat at her back: "A mere cook really treats herself as a scallion. If Butler Cui wasn't sick, how could she have turned to point fingers?"

"Shh, don't say it, it's a pity if she hears it!"

"I heard it when I heard it. I don't want to do the errands in this mansion anyway. When the young master was alive, he sent out twice a year, and there were red envelopes during festivals. After Xue Xiang took over, he never posted them, and there was no red envelope! He was a servant and forgot all the sufferings of the current people!"

The maid with patches on her sleeve hurriedly covered her mouth: "The more she talks, the less she is, the more she is, how can we discuss the prime minister? They are the phoenixes in the sky. Even if they are demoted to slaves for a while, it will be different from us, let alone flying back to the sky."

"If it weren't for the young master's turn to die?" said the green maid, her eyes turning red. "Why did the young master go so early? Poor young master... He knew that as soon as he left, even the servants in the mansion began to suffer..."

The maid who was accused by Aunt Zhang of being too greasy in her hair rolled her eyes and said, "You should leave so reluctantly. The prime minister has said that everyone wants to leave. You have to rely on those who suffer here, and who can you blame?"

"What's the right to say to me, you a greasy girl? Ugly!"

As they said that, the two sides started arguing. Those who were persuading the fight, those who were pulling people pulled people back to their residences.

The cottage was shared by four people, with four beds placed. In addition, there were tables, chairs and wardrobes. The wood was all good, but it was a while ago, and most of the paint on it fell off.

The maid with oily hair was still angry. After entering the room, she sat on the bed and cursed: "I'm so angry that I'm so angry! When I become the butler, I will definitely show the color of Liuxu!"

The maid with patches on her sleeve looked for clothes while looking for clothes: "Okay, what's the use of scolding here? I'll do the work first. The dinner party has to be done at Luhuaxuan. It's been over a year since I've been cleaning the floor, the table needs to be changed, and there are people in the kitchen to help me. There are so many jobs, hurry up!" After picking for a long time, I took out a slightly new one and compared it: "How do you think this one is? Is it okay?"

The oil-haired maid named Dong'er nodded: "Make it a deal. By the way, Xiangxiang, this is the first time Xue Xiang has been in the mansion to entertain guests? What kind of guests are so important?"

"I heard that there was one of the adults in the Hundred Spokes Hall."

Dong'er was shocked: "It's not that Lord Hanako, is it?" The next moment, his expression turned into disgust, "Oh, he hates so much! He annoys him the most!"

"Why? He is quite handsome."

"What a handsome guy, he's so cool, he looks like a little gangster, and he's talking like a female voice! He's also very picky, sometimes he thinks the tea we brought is hard to drink, and sometimes he thinks there's a musty smell in the study." Dong'er sighed, "You wait and see, he will continue to find faults at the dinner, and he's a man named Aunt Zhang."

Xiangxiang burst into laughter: "I am a master from the Hundred Word Hall. You are too proud of Aunt Zhang!"

At this time, the door opened again, the most beautiful maid who was also accused of revealing her breasts too much walked in and said, "I said where are you going? As expected, I'm lazy when you come back."

"I'm back to change my clothes!" Xiangxiang swears to the sky.

Dong'er said: "I just finished a fight with Liu Xu. When I saw her face, I was annoyed. Come back and take a breath."

The beautiful maid said, "Don't mention that man, please help me with the staff and what kind of clothes are good to wear."

Xiangxiang covered her lips and smiled, "Is there any difference? Anyway, Lianlian's chest is as low as any piece of clothing you have."

The beautiful maid named Lianlian glared at her: "What do you know? I just found out who the guest was at night."

"Who?" Everyone was excited.

"Feng Xiaoya."

Qiu Jiang's eyelashes trembled involuntarily.

And there, the screams were already ringing.

"Feng Xiaoya? Is it Feng Xiaoya, the son of the Prime Minister of Yan State?" Xiangxiang covered her red face and her eyes began to shine.

Lian Lian corrected her: "It's a former prime minister, a fool. Lord Feng Letian has resigned from office and retired for many years. Now there is no prime minister in Yan State. The King of Yan is eagerly looking forward to our prime minister who can pass!"

"Oh, regardless of his ex-boyfriend, I heard that he is the most beautiful man in Yan State! Because of the totem dwarf, he is also known as He Gong. His family must have raised many cranes."

Qiu Jiang lowered her eyelids - She couldn't remember Caomuju, but there was not even a single crane in Taohe Villa.

"I heard that he has a hundred wives! The girls in Yan Country want to marry him!"

Qiu Jiang looked at her hand - no, it was eleven. And she was the eleventh unlucky one.

"A man like this is rich, powerful, romantic, and handsome... It's really perfect..."

"But I heard that he is a disabled person!" Dong'er said in a shocking voice.

"I heard that his disease has been cured..." There are many different opinions.

"Are you disabled? You'll see me at night?" Lian Lian said this, and walked to the mirror and closed her hair. "I have to dress up well. If he can take me as the twelve lady, I won't have to worry about it in the rest of my life."

The other two laughed at her: "Just you? I haven't seen any kind of beauty before, how can I like you?"

"I have this." Lian Lian straightened her chest.

Xiangxiang and Dong'er looked at her, then looked at their own, and closed their mouths unanimously.

Qiu Jiang thought with agreement: Indeed, if you compare this, most women will definitely not be able to compare.

At this time, Aunt Zhang shouted outside: "Come out and work for me!"

Everyone was shocked and hurried out.

"I'm really lazy when I can't see it for a moment. I'll follow me and go to the kitchen to wash vegetables and cut vegetables!" Aunt Zhang directed the four of them to walk towards the kitchen. Qiu Jiang followed the end of the team as always, and Aunt Zhang was brushing their eyes at them in front, so she knew that she had lost the best chance to escape.

***

Qiu Jiang's residence was originally the property of the Ji family, one of the three major families in the Bi Kingdom. Before his death, Ji Ying passed it to his servant Xue Cai. Since Zhao Yin, the king of the Bi Kingdom, was unable to get sick, the empress Jiang Chenyu took over the government. Jiang Chenyu admired Xue Cai, made an exception and exempted him from his slavery and promoted him to prime minister. This created a story of being named Prime Minister at the age of eight.

That's right, her current master, the prime minister of Biguo, is a child who is only nine years old now.

Moreover, he is introverted, taciturn, very harsh to his servants, and he lives a poor life, is arrogant and looks down on everyone.

This was the result of unanimous discussion among the servants in the mansion, and they all believed that it was really different from the gentle and polite Ji Ying. When Xue Cai took over the Ji Mansion, he had already sent a group of servants out. Some of them either had no other place to go, or were greedy for the reputation of serving in the prime minister's mansion, and felt face and insisted on staying. Later, they found that the treatment was completely different, and there was no chance to leave again. Whenever they thought about this, they would beat their chests and stomp the ground and regret it.

Now, there are twenty servants left in the mansion: nine male servants and eleven maids. Nine male servants are responsible for doing rough work and are not allowed to enter the inner courtyard on weekdays. The maids include the real butler Cui, but she is old and has poor health. She falls ill at any time, which is equivalent to raising her in the mansion. Secondly, the chef, Aunt Zhang, is a snobbish villain, unpopular, and is loyal to Xue Cai, with one of her legs. Finally, there are nine of their maids. Except Qiu Jiang, who is new, everyone is a girl left by Ji Ying's time. Whenever she mentions the young master who died young, she is full of tears.

However, besides the twenty servants, there are some strange people.

Those people don’t feel their existence at all on weekdays, but once something happens, for example, one day when Xiangxiang was smoking in the study, a circle of men in black jumped out of the way and put out the fire at a speed of lightning. At that time, Xue Cai, behind the desk, calmly turned the book over a page and continued to read, as if nothing had happened.

Only Xiangxiang was so scared. Since then, she has been suspicious when going to the toilet and taking a bath, for fear that someone in black will hide and peek.

In fact, she really praised herself because those secret guards only followed Xue Cai, and where Xue Cai was, they would not come to the maid's yard.

Qiu Jiang entered the mansion for three months and only went to the study once. Xiangxiang had a temporary stomachache, so she went to rub the ink for Xue Cai. At that time, Xue Cai had not returned to the mansion, so Aunt Zhang asked her to prepare all the pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and said that the prime minister ordered her to come back to draw. Aunt Zhang had always done such superficial skills, but she didn't care about the places where Xue Cai could not go to in the backyard, and let it be desolate.

Qiu Jiang sighed and prepared her pen and ink. Just as she was about to leave, Xue Cai came back.

She had no choice but to stand aside, lower her head, and treat herself as an ornament.

In fact, what she is best at is being ornaments. If she doesn't want to attract attention, ordinary people will never find such a person in the house.

As a result, something happened that day.

It comes out on the ink.

Xue Cai sat down at the desk. The paper was laid, and several brushes were hung on the pen holder in an orderly manner from thick to thin. The ink in the two inkstones were ground, and everything seemed to meet the requirements.

But he picked up the pen and then stroked from left to right, and then from right to left, over the inkstone, hesitating for a moment.

And that was the moment that made Qiu Jiang's heart skip and he immediately realized that he was wrong.

Xue Cai looked up at her and said, "Did you polish the ink?"

"……yes."

“New?”

"……yes."

Xue Cai looked at her and stopped talking.

Aunt Zhang, with a smile on her face, came from outside. She thought she had done her job and came to the owner to seek credit, but she saw that the atmosphere in the room was different and couldn't help but ask, "What, what's wrong? Xiang, are you not satisfied with Xiang?"

Xue Cai curled the corners of her lips and suddenly smiled.

"No."
To be continued...