Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 161 Free Bed and Pillow

161 Free bed and pillow

Hualei drooled with envy, but looking at the banknotes in her hand, she took out her handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth, and a trace of suspicious liquid was wiped away. There was nothing she could do, because she was born into a good family and because she was favored by her grandmother!

By the time Hua Lei had sorted out the affairs of the winery and returned to the Marquis' Mansion, Madam Pei's touching work, no, the work of driving people away was already in full swing and was almost finished.

She adopted Hua Lei's suggestion and, under the pretext of renovating the mansion, sent the seventeen or eighteen guests from the southwest courtyard of the mansion to several farms under the mansion. When the seventeen or eighteen guests left, they happily praised Madam Pei for her kindness.

Although this southwest courtyard is the house of the Marquis, it has not been renovated for more than ten years. Many roofs are leaking, many walls are black, and many sewer pipes are blocked.

If it was their own house, they would have renovated it long ago. This is not their house, and they don't have any money to pay for it, so it's hard to ask for it, right? Now that Mrs. Pei has taken the initiative to renovate the house and improve their living conditions, how can they not be grateful?

When I left, of course I thanked loudly to express my gratitude. If I could, I really wanted to shout a few times, "Long live the old lady."

Then Old Madam Pei asked Chen Ma's husband, Chen Datian, the steward, to take up the post again. Every few days, he would visit several farms, care about the farmers, ask them whether their crops were going well recently, and whether anyone was being lazy. Madam Pei would tell them and make decisions for them.

Sure enough, when we arrived at the third farm, we heard complaints and accusations from the farmers below. A relative who had recently moved in from the Marquis's Mansion not only did nothing on the farm, but also acted arrogantly and bossily. The most infuriating thing was that he killed a chicken that was laying eggs on the farm and cooked and ate it with his own family.

How could this be tolerated? Isn't this breaking the rules of the Marquis' Mansion? Not only was he lazy and greedy, he also stole and bullied the honest and kind farmers. He was driven out of the village. Even though the family cried bitterly and swore to heaven that there would never be a next time, the steward Chen showed no mercy.

You dare to make trouble for the farmers who work hard for the Marquis' Mansion. As the manager of the farm, I, Chen Da, will make you suffer, and I don't even need to go through Madam Pei in the Marquis' Mansion.

In this way, the "touching" career project of Chen Daguanshi kicked off and went smoothly. However, after half a year, he was still disliked by his big boss, Mrs. Pei. Are you working too slowly? Are you lazy? Did you go out to drink and pick up girls during the break?

Manager Chen cried out that he was wronged and had to speed up the progress of his project. He finally completed the project after nine months.

Only two families were left. The families that were really in difficulty, such as those whose sons had died and whose wives had run away, stayed on the farm. The older ones began to work diligently in the fields, and the younger ones began to learn to raise chickens and ducks. The whole family no longer dared to steal food.

Mrs. Pei finally let Chen Daguanshi go. Those guests who were driven back didn't expect that if your big boss dislikes you and wants to fire you, even if you are an industry elite or a leader in your field, he will not give you face.

Even if you swear to heaven that you will work 996 every day without overtime pay, he will not keep you. What's more, you are a piece of mud and he has wanted you to leave a long time ago, and he doesn't want to give you financial compensation.

And Old Madam Pei did renovate the southwest courtyard of the marquis' mansion. She patched the leaking roof with newly fired tiles, painted the dark walls with a layer of snow-white lime water, cleared the blocked pipes underground, and even replaced the missing blue brick on the ground. The trees in the yard were also trimmed.

As for the clan school and the girls' school, Mrs. Pei spent two days renovating a three-courtyard house in Chenggong Lane. She built a wall between the second and third courtyards and installed a door. The first two courtyards were the clan school, and the last courtyard was the girls' school.

Then he said, since the southwest courtyard of the marquis's mansion was going to be renovated anyway, it would be a good idea to renovate the clan school and the girls' school as well. Otherwise, if one day, a tile falls on the head of a student while they are sitting in the school, that would be unacceptable.

The student's parents thought, yes, if the tile falls and hits someone else's head, it's okay, but if it hits their precious son, that's not okay. Since Mrs. Pei is kind and wants to improve the school building, we can't pay, but we have to contribute.

So, they came one after another and helped move the desks and chairs from the school to the house in Chenggong Lane. They also kindly said that the house they were moving to was only ten minutes away from their own homes, and that the children would go back home to live while the mansion was being renovated. They also took all the children's clothes and other belongings back with them.

Old Madam Pei tried to persuade them to stay for a long time, but they insisted on going home. Old Madam Pei had no choice but to agree. She also moved the child's original bed back home for them. She told the child's parents that the child was young and would know his bed. It was okay for him to skip a meal, but it was not okay for him to skip a sleep for a whole day.

When the parents heard this, they said, "Yes, yes, the health of the child is important." So, a large group of people took all the beds that the children slept in the mansion back home. Mrs. Pei also kindly asked them to take the quilts and pillows back home, saying that some children are not only familiar with their beds, but also with their pillows. What if the pillows at home are too high or too low, and the children's necks are twisted? The children are the most important.

When the parents of the children heard this, they thought, "Yes, yes, a sprained neck is a serious matter. We have already moved the bed, so we are worried that we can't move the quilts and pillows. Isn't this a simple thing to do?" So they moved the quilts and pillows back.

Some parents thought, what's wrong with that? But when they saw that everyone around them was moving, they decided to move back home first. Since there were so many people there, they all moved back home one by one.

The teaching building of the Marquis's residence began to be renovated. The roofs that were not leaking were checked and three tiles were replaced. The walls that were not so white were painted with half a bucket of lime water. The roads that were not so good were filled, and a lot of sand was used, a whole load of sand. Even the trees in the yard were carefully trimmed.

But the church building has not been repaired for a month, what's going on? Even if we were to build a new church building, it should have been built by now.

Some impatient people couldn't sit still. What a young boy, he's eating me out of money, not to mention that there are four or five young boys coming home at once. Every day, he eats one meal in the morning and one meal in the evening. The white flour that his family just bought, which was originally enough for a month, was eaten up in just a few days.