Chapter 47 Housekeeper Maria
"Okay, let Maria take you to take a bath."
Alexander wiped the foam off his head and stood up, announcing to the kneeling servants on the ground.
"From now on, Maria is the new housekeeper here. Whoever disrespects her will be kicked out of the Ashford family!"
"Mr. Ashford, can I...can I do it?" Maria wanted to refuse because she still ran a small hotel at home. But after thinking about it, her hotel wasn't doing well anyway. It was better to find a stable job at the Ashford family and help take care of Ivy's children properly. She just wasn't sure if she could handle being a housekeeper.
The servants had just beaten her up earlier; who would listen to her as their new boss?
"Why not?" Alexander turned his face and found that Maria's hair was messy and there were many handprints on her face. He coldly questioned the servants.
"Who hit these marks? Try hitting yourself in your own face."
"Slap..." A female servant took initiative and slapped herself hard without mercy.
Because she knew that even if she didn't hit herself, Alexander would find out who did it eventually. Once it got to that point, getting slapped wouldn't be so simple anymore; she would lose an extremely high-paying job.
The female servant kept slapping herself for more than ten times before finally stopping when Maria couldn't bear watching anymore and said: "Forget it, stop doing that ! I won’t hold grudges."
The female servant finally stopped with gratitude saying: "Thank you Housekeeper Maria."
Maria liked hearing this title 'Housekeeper', immediately smiled happily while hugging Ivy’s third daughter: "Come on Auntie will take you for a bath."
“Housekeeper Maria please give us orders and we'll do them." The servants quickly requested.
It was better for them to do these things. If the housekeeper did it herself, what would they be doing?
The third daughter tightly hugged Maria and said: "I don't want them to bathe me; they are all bad people!"
Once she said that, the servants collectively knelt in front of the third daughter.
"Little mistress, we're not bad people. The old housekeeper ordered us to do so."
"Yes, we had no choice. Now he's been fired and we don't have to listen to him anymore. Please let us serve you."
"If you don’t agree, we'll lose our jobs!"
The servants begged pitifully with some even shedding tears. The third daughter couldn't bear seeing them losing their jobs and agreed to let them serve her.
Under Maria's supervision, the servants served six children wholeheartedly by bathing and feeding them.
From then on, the six little girls lived in Alexander's villa.
Because they looked exactly alike, everyone couldn't tell who was who until Alexander bought each of them a gold bracelet with different numbers of bells hanging from it.
The eldest daughter’s bracelet only had one bell but it was also the largest one while the second daughter’s bracelet had two bells which were slightly smaller than those on her elder sister’s bracelet. The third daughter's bracelet had three bells which were even smaller than those on her younger sisters' bracelets respectively having four or five bells while youngest sixth girl’s bracelet had six small ones instead.
Alexander loved all six equally without any bias towards any particular child as seen from his purchase of gold bracelets where although there were different numbers of bells attached but overall weight didn’t differ at all.
With these gold bracelets around their wrists, servants could easily distinguish who was eldest or youngest among these girls without confusion ever again.
To please their young mistresses', servants tried every possible way such as telling stories for children, dancing with all their might and cooking their best dishes.
The children were easily pleased; they ate, drank and played. In just one night, the servants became close to the children.
Seeing this result, Alexander was very pleased.
However, when he went to sleep at night, he couldn't help feeling extremely sad when thinking about Ivy's death. He had never truly loved a woman before but now that he did love her it seemed like they were already separated by life and death.
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