When Li Chengxiu and Wu Dan entered the store, the emperor and his party were ready to come out, and Li Chengxiu was no longer as troublesome as in the grocery store, so he took out a list directly from his sleeve and asked the store to give the price according to the list. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The info store gave the price, and Li Chengxiu took the list and beckoned everyone out of the store.

"Auntie, I'm a little unwell and want to go back. Out of the cloth shop, Wang Qingluan's face was particularly bad, holding his forehead and looking delicate and weak.

"Don't, I haven't finished reading it yet!" Li Chengxiu said with a smile.

Wang Qingluan didn't pay attention to Li Chengxiu at all, but just looked at the queen weakly, the queen was stunned, and said, "Okay......"

"Mother!" Li Chengxiu interrupted the queen's words and said, "Sister Qingluan can't go. ”

"She's sick. The queen's face was a little unpleasant.

Wu Dan glanced at Wang Qingluan and sneered: "She is indeed sick, but it is not her body that is sick, but her heart." ”

"What do you mean?" the Queen's face sank.

Glancing at Wang Qingluan, who was secretly proud, Wu Dan raised his hand and unfolded it, and a person behind him took out a roll of paper from his sleeve and gently put it in his hand, Wu Dan handed the roll of paper to the queen: "It's okay if you don't continue to read it, it's okay for father and mother to look at this." ”

The queen glanced at Wu Dan dissatisfiedly, unfolded the paper roll suspiciously, and saw that the prices of wine, meat, grain, melons, fruits and vegetables, tents and bamboo were written, and the two items marked on the top of the head were the two things Li Chengxiu had just asked: a small red clay stove and a small copper pot.

This is a book, separated by category, and each item has the price of multiple stores, as well as a description of the condition, the reputation of the store, and so on. The prices of the red clay stove and small copper pot that Li Chengxiu asked at the Xingjia grocery store just now were impressively listed, and the prices that the emperor and empress asked in the cloth shop just now were also on the list......

The names of six shops were written on the first piece of paper, and there were more than 20 pieces of paper in hand, and there were more than 100 shops, and I thought that almost all the shops in the West Market were included, right?

Looking down, the lowest price of the red clay small stove is 25 Wen, and the highest is 28 Wen, and the first small copper pot is 200 Wen, and the price of a small copper pot is the most expensive, and the price given by a Xingji grocery store can be obtained at least 160 Wen. There is also a company that directly told Li Chengxiu to let her get copper and let the blacksmith shop cast it into a pot, so that the cost can reach 140 Wen.

"You, what are you doing to show us this?" the queen asked Wu Dan in confusion.

It happened that he was not far from the wine shop where he met three scribes, and he invited a group of people to go up to the second floor of the wine shop, and Wu Dan bowed to the emperor and empress: "Father, emperor and queen mother forgive their sins, and the son has made an assertion today." ”

"What did you do?" the Empress's face was very unpleasant, but the Emperor did not care very much.

Wu Dan replied to the question: "The son still wants to ask the father and the queen mother to see something." ”

Hearing this, a person took a box and handed it to Wu Dan, who opened the box and respectfully sent it to the emperor.

The emperor looked suspiciously into the box, and saw that there was a thin sheepskin made in the box, and on the sheepskin was written a line of capitalized "East Palace Inner Treasury Branch", and there was a vertical small character on the lower side "Tianyou Nian Jiachen 巳卯". The emperor and queen are much stronger than Li Chengxiu, and with a flash of thought, he thought that Jiachen Simao was the day of the spring banquet.

"This is the account for the day of the Spring Feast, what are you doing showing us this?" the emperor said strangely.

"I also asked my father to explain after reading his sons. Wu Dan said.

The emperor picked up the thin sheepskin in confusion, but he felt that he had a heavy hand, and he picked it up and glanced at it...... Uh-huh? What is this? I haven't seen it! When I opened it through the opening, I saw that it was a stack of paper stapled together with thread, and a thin sheepskin with one at the bottom and one at the top, which played a good role in protecting the paper inside...... It's weird, but it's a novelty, and it's still very applicable.

"Who thought of this method?" the emperor asked with a smile, Wu Dan's eyes glanced at Li Chengxiu, and the emperor immediately understood: "The crown princess came up with it again?"

"Erchen is stupid and casually, it's not good, father, don't laugh. Li Chengxiu said embarrassedly.

"What are you laughing at? The emperor smiled, opened the parchment, and saw that the first page was the general outline, which was written about the total cost of the spring trial, and which categories were divided.

The emperor flipped through several pages in a row, but didn't see anything, until he saw the place where "the ruler-high red clay small furnace is six hundred, and the price is three hundred", the emperor felt that something was wrong.

Pinching his fingers, the emperor silently calculated, and suddenly opened his eyes: "The red clay furnace recorded on it is four hundred and fifty wen each?"

That's what it says. Wu Dan brought up two more boxes, and in the boxes were old-style account books, one with the mark of Guanglu Temple, and the other with the mark of the Inner Servant Province.

The emperor hurriedly took out an account book and unfolded it, and quickly found the item of the red clay furnace, and sure enough, it was all six hundred and three hundred.

"Wasn't the red clay stove that the crown princess asked about in the grocery store just now only about 20 cents?" the emperor asked in surprise.

Li Chengxiu said: "The store said that the price of the inquiry was 27 Wen, and if it was decided to buy it from him, the price could be negotiated." ”

Hearing this, he glared at Li Chengxiu angrily, and hurriedly searched for it in the account book, and after a while, he found the item "six hundred copper and copper with a foot width, and the price is three thousand two hundred", and then found the price of the burlap cloth used to build a pergola.

"Say, what's going on?" After seeing the price of burlap, the emperor finally couldn't help but be angry, and asked angrily.

The emperor was furious, the heavens and the earth changed color, and everyone knelt on the ground in unison, as for Wang Qingluan, he was already paralyzed on the ground.

Wu Dan said indignantly: "What a big deal, for something less than 30 yuan, they were able to write down the price of 450 yuan, a full increase of 15 or 6 times! According to the confessions of the people involved in the case, there were only more than 20,000 yuan in actual accounts for the entire spring banquet, but they asked the imperial court for 430,000 yuan! The extra 400,000 yuan was divided up by them. ”

"I put my face out of my face and said all the good things to those cheap businessmen before I could get together 1.5 million yuan, and they actually asked for 400,000 yuan?" the emperor muttered in disbelief, and asked Wu Dan hatefully: "Who are they? Who are these people?"

"After reading some account books, don't you understand, father?" Wu Dan said: "Everyone who handles the spring banquet in Furong Garden is involved in it!"

"Are you involved in the East Palace?" the Emperor asked.

"Erchen, capital crime!" Wu Dan slammed his head on the ground and cried bitterly: "Erchen is not strict, only the Spring Banquet is a matter of the East Palace, except for Gao and Zheng, the two new concubines, as well as the crown princess and Erchen, the rest of the people are inseparable from this case. ”