“Oh, dad, we have quite a few courtyards now and the area is quiteexpanse. We will need more manpower to help maintain this new place of ours.Can you send a letter to the officials of Qing’an Province and have them sendsome good help over? Preferably they have already been trained. We don’t havethe time to hand hold each of the after their arrival!”
“Xiao Xiao, are you sure about that?” asked Cheng Biyuan, baffled. Hedidn’t expect her daughter to have asks from the officials.
“Sure! Sure!” smiled Cheng Xiao Xiao. She would not have said that inthe past. But since the dimension has the ability to make others recognize heras their mistress, she was confident that even spies for others would beconverted.
Cheng Biyuan was a bit surprised at his daughter’s words, but he has alot of faith in her so he nodded and said, “If Xiao Xiao think that’sacceptable, let’s do it. I will send the officials a letter first thingtomorrow and have them send us some helps. By the way, how many do you wantthem to send?”
“Well, that you will have to ask mom!” Cheng Xiao Xiao wasn’t wellverse with something like that. After all, she never had experience managing alarge family like this.
Mrs. Cheng gave it some serious thoughts and said, “Our family are notbig, but we have a lot of guests. We will need a lot of headcount. I think atleast a hundred!”
“A hundred?” frowned Cheng Biyuan, “If we are going to recruit people,let’s get a few more all at the same time so we won’t have to worry about itagain any time soon. I am thinking sixty maids and sixty male servants. Thatshould be enough!”
“Okay, that works too!” Mrs. Cheng agreed without further comments.
With that one statement, the Cheng’s would add a hundred head countsshortly.
Cheng Xiao Xiao felt a little uncomfortable. Could that be a bitoverboard?
What she didn’t know was that a hundred or so servants for a familywith a n.o.ble t.i.tle was not a lot. A normal large family could easily haveseveral hundreds of servants.
Even though she felt that the number of headcounts was a little bitoverboard, but she did not disagree with her parent’s decision. Plus she wasaware that her family is getting bigger, and they would need more help around.
“Dad, mom, I plan on starting a herbal field. It will be dedicatedspecifically for medicinal herbs!”
In truth, she had already stockpiled quite a bit of precious medicinalherbs in the dimension. The whole idea of having a medicinal herb field was soshe could sell them. Otherwise her inventory would continue to increase andit’d be difficult for her to exchange them for money.
Cheng Biyuan didn’t know that his daughter’s dimension had alreadystockpiled a whole lot of medicinal herbs. Baffled, he asked, “Xiao Xiao, youwant to grow medicinal herbs now? Is that really necessary? We are in noshortage of money right now.”
“Dad, I understand that we have no shortage of money. Don’t worry, Iwill take care of the medicinal herb field myself!” Cheng Xiao Xiao didn’t wantto elaborate too much about it; after all, there are many servants living withthem now.
Cheng Biyuan frowned again, but before he could say anything else,Mrs. Cheng chimed in with uncertainty, “Xiao Xiao, that will be a lot of work.We are not worry about money or food now. There’s no need for a girl to do allthat. Even if you want to grow medicinal herbs, why don’t you wait for us torecruit some people who has experiencing growing them to help you out?”
“Mom, dad, don’t worry. I will make any necessary arrangements!” ChengXiao Xiao smiled, her look determined.
Cheng Biyuan and his wife exchanged a look and had no choice but tonod.
That night, Cheng Xiao Xiao wenti into the dimension after she hadretired to her room.
As soon as she had entered the dimension, she noticed the differenceright away.
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