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Gu Yun still had to go to work on the second day. After Xie Jingxi followed him to eat breakfast, the manager lady s of Marquis Mansion were already waiting outside.

The Marquis spoke politely, but on the second day she directly sent someone over to her doorstep. It was clear that she did not have time to hesitate, because Marquis Mansion was a large business and there was no one who could delay her living, so even if Lady Zeng was unable to get up, he could not give her any time to prepare.

"Mom, you've all worked hard. You all came over early in the morning. Have you all eaten breakfast before?"

Even the young master held back from getting up in the morning. If she didn't eat breakfast, it was to get her to sleep more, so the few mothers present thought that it was probably impossible for her to come tomorrow and find fault so early in the morning.

"Grand Mistress is kind, but it's all used before." The one who spoke was Lady Zeng's trusted aides, and the other few of her manager lady s also echoed her sentiments.

Speaking of the times that she had lived in his previous life, Xie Jingxi was no stranger to Marquis Mansion. She had come into contact with these few manager lady s before, but when she married into the in her previous life, in order to support her, she accompanied a few capable mothers over. In the end, those mothers had underestimated her, and wholeheartedly thought of taking over Marquis Mansion's livelihood.

Senior Servant Liu was one of these people. She personally carried some account books and made notes, as well as the key to the storehouse, and placed them in front of her. Usually, the locks of the storehouses would be opened at the same time with two to three keys, except for the wife in charge of the storehouses.

Xie Jingxi did not say much, and did not even touch the account books on the table, but only smiled as she looked at the few mothers, "The few mothers are all seniors in front of mother, so naturally, they are able to hold on to anything better than someone who doesn't understand it. I am only taking care of it in place of mother for a few days, and will just do as I was before."

These words caused Senior Servant Liu to be startled. Although it was true that Grand Mistress could not always be the housekeeper, but from the looks of it, she had to be in charge of it for at least a few years. Usually, the young mistress who had just taken over the family's affairs would inquire and do things a little bit more, and she would have to go through all sorts of accounts again. Although she would inevitably offend some people, one person was one person, and no one was willing to take the blame for the previous one.

The Senior Servant Liu thought that she had done everything perfectly, and wasn't afraid of anyone investigating, but the Grand Mistress was so polite and modest, making it difficult for her to continue speaking, "Everyone says that the Grand Mistress is kind and filial, but now it seems that it's not a lie. In truth, the Palace has always had a clear responsibility to do things, so there shouldn't be any problems, since the Grand Mistress trusts us, we can still do what we've done before."

Xie Jingxi smiled, "At the moment, my mother's body is more important, so there is no need for me to take care of the medicine, if mother wants to eat, I will buy whatever she wants. Every month, I will take a look at the bills for last month, and furthermore, I would like to ask the owner of the account, Mr. Li, to give me a list of the bills for last year's monthly entrance and exit, I have a plan for the future, if there are any things I do not understand, I will ask for your mother's help me at any time."

Li Zhangfang stepped forward and replied: "Don't worry Grand Mistress, I'll list it out for you tomorrow."

"Since that's the case, then I will not delay these mothers anymore. I am still young, and will have to rely on you in the future. Ming Yu, go and give each of these mothers a gift."

The moms couldn't help but to look at each other, thinking to themselves, "It's that simple, can we be considered as done with a few words?" However, after the Young Mistress had finished, they did not have any reason not to leave. They each took some silver and left.

After exiting the major wife's courtyard, Li Zhangfang could not help but ask: "Do you guys think our Grand Mistress is really stupid or something, how could he take over the family's affairs like that? Second Young Mistress asked us for half a day, and wanted to check the accounts and open a storehouse, after all these days, he did not even glance at the accounts, and just told me to make that list, what the hell use is there in doing that!"

"That's right." The wives of the Chen family spoke out, "That Second Young Madam seems to be even more powerful than the Grand Mistress, you all have not seen the few wives under her hands, searching for a storehouse would kill you all, even the broken pot in the corner had to say it out, as if this Marquis Mansion belongs to their family."

"But this is good too, at least Grand Mistress seems to be relaxed, just do what we need to do."

Senior Servant Liu glanced at Wang Fu family who was speaking just now, "Is that what you're saying!? Grand Mistress is a young and thick-skinned girl, you shouldn't underestimate her. Pay more attention when you speak in the future.

The few mothers did not dare to say anymore, and began to disperse. The Senior Servant Liu let out a sigh and turned around to speak with the Lady Zeng, her heart jumping as she walked.

After Xie Jingxi sent off a few of her mothers, she took out the account books that Gu Yun had given her. The books on Marquis Mansion had not attracted much of her interest, and even if she wanted to look, she could not see anything.

Ming Yu brewed a bowl of hot red date tea for her. This lady only had a few days left, to prevent her stomach from hurting, she drank the cold tea early, and said, "Young miss should rest for a while, drink the tea and then we can see."

Xie Jingxi frowned when she smelled the ginger smell inside. Every time, she would make Ming Yu put more red dates on the table to hide the smell. She brought it over, pinched her nose and drank it all in one gulp.

"Miss, you can't change your mind, aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"

Ming Yu pursed her lips and cleaned up the tea bowl, "I'm used to it, my lady, how awkward is that?

Xie Jingxi had no choice but to follow her. Ming Yu then asked: "Miss, why didn't you mention about checking the debts just now, and just blindly took care of the matter at home, what if inside …"

"Shh …" Xie Jingxi glared at her, "Be more careful when you talk about Marquis Mansion from now on, this is not our Luan Xue Xuan."

Ming Yu stuck out her tongue and did not dare to say more. Xie Jingxi slowly said: "Do you think that the person in charge of the decisions must be close to them? Raising them all, even if it means taking care of them, I will be the one to take care of everything. I will die of exhaustion sooner or later."

"Then, aren't you afraid that your underlings will trick you?"

You hold everything in your hands, and what they should trick is still deceiving as usual. There's no difference, not to mention that I've pinched them too tightly from the very start, and instead, it's sometimes counterproductive. As long as the water is clean, there's no fish in any house, and as long as they don't leave the big basket, it's fine for them to steal some.

If the mistress doesn't give a drop of oil to the servants, who would still be willing to work for you? Furthermore, you can't underestimate these stewards, who had operated in the Marquis Mansion for decades or even generations. But she, a young married woman with no foundation, if you were to be scammed by others, it would just be a matter of a finger's play.

Furthermore, there was something Xie Jingxi was not convenient to point out to her, she had purposely lied to Senior Servant Liu just now, she had always suspected that Lady Zeng was not willing to hand her family over to their new home, and leaving her own daughter-in-law aside. There was no reason to take advantage of others, she purposefully said that she did not care, and indeed, Senior Servant Liu followed her orders and climbed up.

Since her Marquis Mansion was not major wife's, she was not foolish enough to toil painstakingly for them in vain. Moreover, they did not lack money, nor did they miss that little bit of kindness from their stewards. Her mind was not on other people, and the calmer she remained calm and collected, the clearer she would be.

"I need to go over and take a look at mother later. If Eldest Young Master doesn't come back at noon, you can just cook whatever you want. On the other hand, that pigeon should be the first one to stew. Eldest Young Master wants some soup tonight."

"It's young lady. I know you're missing young master. I've already prepared for you, so there's no need for you to worry about me at all."

"You also learned how to frame me!"

Xie Jingxi reckoned that after the Lady Zeng finished talking to her, she slowly walked over. As expected, when she reached the Lady Zeng's house, the Senior Servant Liu came out.

"Grand Mistress, you've come." Grand Mistress, you've just arrived.

was a little surprised that the Lady Zou had come. She politely said to the Senior Servant Liu, "I'll have to trouble you, mother. Have mother's body become lighter today?"

I ate half a bowl of congee in the morning, but today, it seems like I am much better. She even pulled me along for a long time, saying that Grand Mistress was not familiar with the matters of the family, and wanted me to give him more than ten million snacks. I said that this was all our responsibility, and Grand Mistress is kind and polite to us, we should also do our best.

~ It seems like Senior Servant Liu received a reminder from someone, her speech was much better, Xie Jingxi spoke a few more polite words with her, and then entered Lady Zeng's room.

The Lady Zeng did not rest on the bed, but on the brick bed with a blanket, beside him the Lady Zou was talking to her, seeing that Xie Jingxi had entered, she immediately stood up, "I was wondering who it was, it's our new wife, I didn't take a good look at her that day, it was really pretty today."

Lady Zou pulled the red-faced Xie Jingxi over and sat down, staring at her carefully. Xie Jingxi had seen Lady Zeng before, "Mother, are you feeling better today?"

"I feel much better now. I've heard about what happened with Feng Jing yesterday. Thank you very much, otherwise I would have to answer this old bone of mine."

"Mother, you said it's serious, it's just a fever, don't scare yourself, it's all thanks to the Imperial Physician Pei's medicine."

"Look at how humble these two are. Just now, when I walked in, my aunt pulled me and praised you for a long time, saying that you saved half of her life yesterday. I didn't expect you to be good at this."

The word "Aunt" caused Xie Jingxi's heart to skip a beat. Only then did she remember that Lady Zou and Lady Zeng were related.