I'm full of rebellion against fate

Chapter 389: The Disliked Butler

The Li family was a well-known aristocratic family in the capital. Their ancestors had produced both a prime minister and a queen. Although the prime minister was dismissed and the queen fell out of favor, this was not important! What was important was that they did produce a prime minister and a queen, but later the Li family fell into decline. The previous generation worked hard to reach the position of Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and the current generation, Li Yu, was even worse off. He used connections to get a position as an editor in the Hanlin Academy.

Mr. and Mrs. Li had long ago found a family for Li Yu: the Zhou family, whose ancestors had once produced a general and were now equally destitute, but who had taken the civil service exam and were doing quite well. They arranged a matchmaking... Pah! He married the Zhou family's concubine's daughter.

Unfortunately, they still have no children after more than five years. Actually, this is not Miss Zhou's fault. The problem lies with Li Yu, because... he is a homosexual.

Li Yu fell in love with Jin Linle, a musician in the mansion. He had beautiful eyebrows, red lips and white teeth, and he could also play the flute.

The sound of the flute spreads into the spring breeze, like listening to heavenly music.

These two people often performed all kinds of weird things in Li's house, causing the old housekeeper to fall ill, so the young Chen Chen was sent to take over as the housekeeper.

Chen Chen was originally sold to the Li family as a slave after his family fell into poverty. He had good management skills. Later, Chen Chen's brother became rich and used the money to redeem Chen Chen. However, not long after Chen Chen was redeemed, his brother died in an accident. There were not many people left in the Chen family, and Chen Chen didn't know any other way out, so he continued to help the Li family manage the house in the countryside.

This time the old housekeeper was ill, and the Li family saw that Chen Chen was doing a good job in managing the house, so they asked him to come and take charge of the affairs of the Li Mansion.

After being informed, Chen Chen took a carriage to the capital. When he arrived in the big city, Chen Chen was relieved and his eyes were opened.

Looking at the bustling shops along the street, Chen Chen looked a little dazed with his mouth wide open.

After finding the Li Mansion, Chen Chen went to the sick old housekeeper through the servants. The old housekeeper was supposed to hand over his work before leaving, but when the handover officially started the next day, the old housekeeper passed away. He did not go to the manor to retire but passed away directly.

There was no other way but Chen Chen was pushed directly to the position of steward and became the steward Chen of the Li Mansion.

When Chen Chen, who had just taken office, was young, the servants in the Li Mansion looked down on him, and some even formed gangs to ignore him. Chen Chen was not panicked when he saw this situation, he directly checked the account book.

Everything from firewood and rice to oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea was recorded in the account book. Seeing the tricks in the prices, Chen Chen felt that the Li family was really raising a mouse in a rice jar.

Then he was stunned for a moment. He seemed to have seen this scene somewhere, but he couldn't remember where. Chen Chen shook his head and called several supervisors to hold a meeting.

Chen Chen placed the account book in front of them and said, "I know you all think I'm young and don't understand accounting, but I've been with the farm's steward since I was a child. The master won't be stingy if you want some tea. But if too many rats get into the warehouse, there's bound to be rat droppings. If the master sees this, he'll definitely be angry, and that'll be embarrassing for everyone, right?"

Although the managers had smiles on their faces, they were actually very disdainful of Chen Chen in their hearts, and had even planned how to embarrass Chen Chen in various places.

Chen Chen knew what they were thinking, so he flipped through the account book and said, "We are all working for the Li Mansion. Let me be frank, if anyone doesn't treat me well, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

The others also left with a smile, but they were still dissatisfied.

Chen Chen knew that people could not be taught, but they could be learned through experience once. The reason why he did not want to use his trump cards was because if he did, they would know what his trump cards were. He needed someone to come out and establish his authority so that he could keep his trump cards until the end.

However, before those people could cause any trouble, Chen Chen ran into trouble. The source of the trouble was Li Shou, the eldest son of the Li family.

This guy is absolutely sick! He ignored his beautiful wife in the backyard and insisted on pursuing the musician Jin Linle.

This led to Mr. Li asking him to keep an eye on Li Shou, Madam Chen asking him to persuade Li Shou to go to the backyard more often, otherwise he would be scolded by Li Shou, the young lady also often asked him about Li Shou, and Jin Linle complained to him that he was harassed by Li Shou.

This made Li Shou very worried. He had no trouble when he returned to the Li Mansion, but he would be stopped and questioned wherever he went.

In addition to these, there are other things, but the main one is Li Shou. This guy is so annoying. As soon as Li Shou opens his eyes in the morning, he has to arrange various affairs, and he will be called away by Li Shou soon.

Originally, Chen Chen was supposed to go to the main hall to announce everyone's breakfast menu, but when he was called away by Li Shou, he thought that he must be going to do something to clean up his mess.

Before Chen Chen even entered the room, he heard a pleasant voice asking Li Shou for money. The conversation between the two people was definitely not a normal conversation like asking for pocket money, but asking for wages... the wages for keeping someone company overnight.

After entering the room, Chen Chen saw a pretty young prostitute standing beside Li Shou's bed. The man pulled Li Shou and said coquettishly, "Master Li, you said yesterday that you would give me five taels of silver for wine..."

Chen Chen stood outside with no expression on his face, but he estimated in his heart that these five taels of silver could treat five or six people to a banquet. The salary of this person who stayed up all night was probably not that high, so it was time to clean up the mess.

Li Shou covered his head and pretended to be hungover and said, "Hiss...did I say that? Oh! I can't remember..."

"..."

This young master wanted to shirk his debt. Chen Chen despised him in his heart. Then he saw the young waiter pulling Li Shou to act like a spoiled child. Li Shou saw that he was handsome and charming in his coquettish behavior, so he said to him: "Butler Chen, give Xiaobao five taels of silver, and then call a carriage to send Xiaobao back to the Sandalwood Pavilion."

Chen Chen was very unhappy when he saw Li Shou handing this matter over to him. Of course, no matter how unhappy he was, he couldn't show it on his face, so he said, "Young Master Xiaobao, please wait outside. I have something to discuss with the young master."

After sending the waiter away, Chen Chen said to Li Shou, "Young Master, the five taels of silver you spent on the wine and the one hundred taels of silver for the carriage will be deducted from your monthly salary."

Li Shou looked at Chen Chen unhappily and said, "Butler Chen, my monthly salary is only twenty taels of silver. This time, you can deduct it from somewhere else!"

Chen Chen smiled and took out the account book and said, "Okay, Master, in this case, I'll deduct it from the old lady's monthly salary!"

Upon hearing this, Li Shou quickly grabbed the man and said, "Can't we just deduct it from the eldest young lady?"

Chen Chen smiled and said, "Okay! That's fine too. The account books will all be reviewed by the old lady when the time comes. It doesn't matter whose money is deducted."

Li Shou heard that Mrs. Lin could read the account book and immediately lost interest. He said, "Just deduct it from my monthly salary!"

Chen Chen smiled and deducted the money from Li Shou and went to see the young waiter off. When he left Li Shou's bedroom and passed through the backyard, he saw Xiao Cui, the maid of the eldest young lady, pouring out the medicine residue.

It seems that no one has been sick recently. Hiring a doctor is also an expense, and the eldest young lady is sick. If she is not treated properly, it will become a serious illness and that will be bad.

After Xiao Cui left, Chen Chen packed up the medicine residue and took it back to ask other doctors to check if there was any problem with the medicine and what disease it could treat.