```"This row of backseats is where you'll be living, two people to a room. Discuss amongst yourselves how to arrange it," Mo Yan led the sixteen people straight to the backseats on the south side of the courtyard and pointed at the row of vacant rooms, addressing the ten maids and rough servant women.
Before deciding to buy servants, their residences had already been prepared. Initially, she had planned to purchase two big maids, four young maids, and four rough servant women. Now, with the addition of five elderly people and a child, she had to make additional arrangements for their accommodation.