After shopping, she went to sit on the second floor of No. 43 as usual. There was a small teahouse on the second floor of No. 43. The place was not big, but it was elegantly decorated and faced the backyard.
The courtyard has a good environment. This is a teahouse specially opened by Li Mei for maids who come to shop.
The elders are generally very busy. Except for a few married female elders and "supported elders", few have the leisure to go shopping in person. Most of the housekeeping is done by life secretaries, and almost all the maids who come to the special stores are maids.
Life secretaries are also human beings, and they naturally have social needs. The maids go to special stores to shop, so they naturally gather in these places. However, the environment of the fresh food store is not good, and the farm tea house maid can use the owner's supplementary card to make purchases, but
After all, it is a special consumption place for elders. Most maids feel uncomfortable going there alone, so the Cooperative Shop No. 43 in Dongmen City has become a place for maids to gather and have fun during their busy schedules. Li Mei opened it here with her keen business acumen.
Open a cafe to make more profits.
After shopping in Dongmen City, maids often take a break here, drink tea or drinks, and chat. Although the seats are not crowded every day, the sales are quite considerable.
The teahouse was empty - the morning was the busiest time for the maids, and there were only three or four tables with people in the teahouse. Sun Shangxiang glanced around, and although he didn't recognize anyone, most of them looked familiar, and they all nodded and said hello.
Every time she goes shopping, she comes to the coffee shop. This is Cheng Yongxin's "task". Sometimes when there is nothing to buy, she will come here to have a cup of tea. She will come here every two or three days to chat and listen to others.
Chatting with people is the content of the task.
A lot of news can be heard here. The maids, like all women, are keen on all kinds of rumors. Sun Shangxiang gradually discovered that although the maids are just "maids in charge of the house", they enjoy many conveniences in the Lingao regime.
, even power.
Since the maid is often the first woman the senator has in this time and space, even if she looks a little worse in appearance and figure, she shares the same sorrow. The affection is extraordinary, and the spiritual and material gifts given to the maid are very rich, so much so that Mr. Wen once served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China.
They complained loudly at the club life meeting, saying that "certain elders" were not enjoying "the service of maids", but seemed to be "in love" with maids - "seriously corrupting the atmosphere".
In Lingao, all people and things that have a relationship with the "chief" are superior to others. What's more, those who directly serve the elders in daily life and may give birth to the elders' heirs. The naturalized people continue their old customs
I have a certain concept, so I naturally have a high regard for these maids.
Not only because of traditional concepts, but also from a practical level, because maids live close to the senators and have easier access to the senators than ordinary naturalized citizens. Some capable maids even actually serve as secretaries to the senators.
The operation of social interpersonal relationships has been the same since ancient times.
People who are close to power will not be ignored. Naturally, various naturalized people and natives have begun to approach the maids with various purposes. Through them, if there is "secretary politics" and "wife politics" in the old time,
.Then the emergence of "maid politics" will inevitably appear in Lingao.
The maids are faced with all kinds of requests, ranging from project bidding and procurement to asking elders to inscribe a few words. Although most of the maids are orphans from other places with no relatives in the local area, they are trying to find ways to get along with the maids.
There are many things like guanxi, acknowledging fellow villagers, and establishing friendship. There are many things like recognizing cousins. As the saying goes, "rich people in the mountains have distant relatives."
Many people who wanted to be attached to each other asked how they could give their daughters to senators as "maids." During this period, there were also cases of people pretending to be office cadres and defrauding money in the name of selecting "maids." In short, maids
In the social ecology of Lingao, he is no longer a dispensable figure.
"Oolong tea." After sitting down, Sun Shangxiang ordered the waiter with ease. Drinking oolong tea also came from Commander Cheng's "guidance" - she, the daughter of a poor hereditary military attaché at the Coast Guard in Shandong Province, was satisfied if she could drink "sweet water"
I bought a few crude scented teas with many stems and few leaves, which I only brought out when I was waiting for guests. Naturally, I don’t have any particularity in drinking tea.
Along with the oolong tea, there are four plates of Sun Shangxiang's favorite snacks: prunes, dried sweet potatoes, grilled fish fillets and sunflower seeds.
While drinking tea and eating snacks, she pricked up her ears and listened to the whispers in the air. Although it was located in a busy city, it was very quiet, and even the deliberately lowered voices could roughly understand the music. Even if they were discordant
A lot of this information can be gathered from conversations between unsuspecting maids.
The chief attaches great importance to the few words she brought back. Every time he goes back, he will listen to her reports and record them in detail in a book. Any news seems to be important to her, and she is interested in even small things about the family.
.Sometimes, she will be given special instructions to contact certain maids at designated points to inquire about some specific information.
The news she has collected recently is all related to the Yang Jihong case, and this is what she is most concerned about.
But none of these maids belonged to the family of the head of the arbitration tribunal system. Sun Shangxiang was slightly disappointed. But she vaguely heard someone mention the three words "Yang Jihong". The maid's voice was very soft, but the three words "Yang Jihong"
Words have almost turned calluses on her ears recently. Although Chief Cheng did not mention this matter in front of her, she has been busy with this case recently. It was also the Chief who asked her to "focus on collecting"
Content.
She immediately concentrated her energy, but what followed had little to do with Yang Jihong's case. What the maids were talking about was the rumor of the abolition of the maid school.
"...Tell me, how come the maid school was abolished? Where will the chief choose people from in the future?"
"Now that the chief has people around him, how can he choose where to live? I think it's quite reliable."
"The maid school was specially set up for the elders. How much money did the general office spend on it? There are many juniors selected from various places in the school. How can it be abandoned at the drop of a hat? I don't believe it."
"I heard what they said with my own ears. Could it be false?" the maid who said the school was abandoned said confidently, "You don't even think about who the head of my family is in love with?"
"This is actually——"
"It's the same for the head of your family. He doesn't have a wife, he doesn't have a concubine, and he hangs out with men without any reason."
"So what, Australians are all like this."
"It would be better to abolish the school. It will be clean if it is abolished."
"Yes, so that there won't be a few more prodigal hooves to compete with you..."
The following topic was just a joke. Sun Shangxiang didn't want to listen anymore, but she realized that the news was very important to the chief. But she didn't know which house these three maids belonged to. If the chief asked who could tell the news, the importance of the news would be greatly reduced.
Yes. You have to find out first.
"Abandon the maid school?" Cheng Yongxin was surprised and immediately asked, "Who said that?"
"I don't know them. They are not the maids who often come to No. 43."
"Oh." Cheng Yongxin looked disappointed.
"But I found out." Sun Shangxiang said calmly, and she said the names of the masters of the three maids.
"One of them belongs to Li Xiaolu's family?!" Cheng Yongxin suddenly became energetic when she heard the word "Li Xiaolu" in it.
"Yes, my name is Li Qiqi."
"Li Qiqi? This name is really tacky. You probably haven't changed your name." Cheng Yongxin showed a rare smile in the past few days, "How did you find out?"
"I waited until they paid and left, then I went to the waiter and told them that I had picked up a handkerchief they had dropped. I asked the maids whose family they belonged to. I happened to take it back to the dormitory area and return it to them. The waiter told the situation.
Me."
"Well done!" Cheng Yongxin nodded appreciatively. In the past few days, she had been unable to let go of Ji Xin's matter. She was so angry that she wanted to smash things and hit people. On the premise that both parties had equal status, she had never said anything about it.
Even though I was at a disadvantage, I was actually refuted speechless by Ji Xin, an old bachelor!
Unexpectedly, Sun Shangxiang brought her quite valuable news today!
There is no news about the abolition of the maid school in the circle of elders, but Li Qiqi already knows about it - obviously this matter has been discussed in the general office, and maybe the big bosses in the executive committee also know about it
Cheng Yongxin felt that such a big matter was unlikely to have been finalized. It was more likely that the top executives of the executive committee were negotiating. Xiao Zishan accidentally said it when he went to Li Xiaolu's house to spend the night, and was overheard by the maid.
When the school arrived, it became a "school about to be abolished".
Judging from the channels through which the news was revealed, the authenticity of this news is over 90%.
"Xiao Zishan, you are such a slippery man, you didn't expect that you would end up in the hands of a woman. Humph." Although Cheng Yongxin hasn't figured out how to take advantage of this matter, it is obvious that this matter has great potential.
Sun Shangxiang saw that the expression on his chief's face was changing unpredictably, but the corners of his mouth were raised and his eyes were filled with joy. Knowing that his chief was very happy, he felt very proud of himself.
"Shang Xiang, you did a good job this time, it's not in vain for me to hurt you!" Cheng Yongxin said with a smile.
"Miss, you are serious." Sun Shangxiang knelt down and said, "Being able to serve Miss is a blessing for me as a servant."
"Go to the "Lingao Times" office and find Chief Pan Pan," Cheng Yongxin said face to face. "Ask her to help check whether there are any materials about these three maids and their masters in the library of the Propaganda Department, such as news reports.
, photos or something.”
"yes."
"Tell Chief Pan Pan to investigate quietly and don't let outsiders know."
"Yes. I understand."
After Sun Shangxiang left, Cheng Yongxin opened the safe, took out a notebook from it, and flipped through each one. (To be continued...)