Chapter Seventy-Five: Learning to Settle Accounts
Xiao Xiazi rubbed his hands with a smile and said: "Minion, slave doesn't want to reward, just the fifth princess looks at the flowers in this garden as good as ever, and is happy." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
Baojuan laughed when he heard this: "Xiao Xiazi, you stole the honey from the small kitchen and wiped your mouth, you are really good at talking." β
Xiao Xiazi is born smart, about the same age as Wen Zhi, but his body is like a parrot Vermilion Bird, thin and small, like a monkey brain, but he is very clever, Mu Chenghuang originally didn't like to use this kind of overly clever person, but seeing that this Xiao Xiazi is the apprentice recommended by the father-in-law in charge of the Lan Palace, coupled with this good skill of making flowers and plants, he was accepted in.
I have to admit that Xiao Xiazi helped him a lot, originally his master pointed to him to come in as a eunuch, Mu Chenghuang never promoted him, but he was also at ease, in his words, he originally liked flowers and plants, and it was already very satisfying to be able to stay in this fairyland.
Pinching the hour, Mu Chenghuang should be going to ask the Queen Mother for peace, she and the eldest princess together with the Queen Mother to deal with the affairs of the six palaces have slowly been on the right track, the eldest princess is careful, the queen mother is hand-in-hand to teach the eldest princess to manage money and do accounts, Mu Chenghuang has a lot of ideas, and the miscellaneous trivial matters in this palace, especially the matter of the plates and hairpins between the concubines, are handed over to Mu Chenghuang to deal with collaboratively.
After this disaster, there are many things in the vestibule, and there are also a lot of things in the harem, and in recent days, Mu Chenghuang has also been very busy.
Called Wenzhi and Baojuan to come in with a comb and a matching clothes, a lake-blue full-breasted skirt, a light blue half-arm shirt outside, the bottom is a crescent white long sleeve, and there are a few delicate pink peach blossoms embroidered on the cuffs, now the rainy day has passed, the weather is gradually clearing, Baojuan is still afraid that Mu Chenghuang Road will catch a cold, and chose a blue shawl to carry, before traveling, Wenzhi habitually took two umbrellas, it has been raining every day recently, and it is inevitable that Wenzhi has developed such a good habit.
When Mu Chenghuang rushed to the front of Shoukang Palace, the sky was already glowing with golden light, and the morning light outlined a brilliant golden edge for the entire palace, and it seemed that today was an extremely sunny day.
Yu Dong was guarding the door of the dormitory, Mama Gu was serving inside, these days Mu Chenghuang would come early to ask the Queen Mother for peace, and by the way, he and the eldest princess learned to deal with affairs, so seeing that Yu Dong was also very familiar, Yu Dong curtsied his knees, and kindly reminded: "The fifth princess, Wu Zhaoyi Niangniang and the third princess are also here." β
"Yes, yes, thank you. Mu Chenghuang opened the curtain and went in, and heard Wu Zhaoyi's soft laughter: "I just hope that this Wanhua will be able to invite Qi Gongzi, if you can't invite it, it's really a pity." β
Mu Chenghuang quietly sat down on the Zen chair next to the eldest princess, and the little palace maid immediately served tea, Wu Zhaoyi didn't notice Mu Chenghuang's arrival, but was still praising Qi Xuan to the Queen Mother, Empress Dowager Pei nodded occasionally, most of the time she just smiled and listened to Wu Zhaoyi, Mu Chenghuang and the Queen Mother have been together for a long time, and naturally they know that the Queen Mother is like this, but she feels that Wu Zhaoyi is a little bored.
"I guess I can invite them. Empress Dowager Pei replied lightly, "Didn't I say that the son of the Qi family was sick and weak, and he didn't even go to Prince Su's lychee banquet, but recently, it seems that he is going to take up a post in the household department, and it is time to take office." β
"Yo," Wu Zhaoyi's eyebrows became even more moist and joyful, "That's better." β
"Okay, since you have the heart to hold this Wanhua Party and choose a husband for the princesses, then this post, arrangement and arrangement, you can weigh it yourself, the silver is from the kilometer, after all, this involves the princess's lifelong event, and the mourning family also hopes that you will do it as properly as possible, but, now it is Chengqing who is in charge of the silver, what do you need to use, ask Chengqing first, she nodded, if the amount is large, then report to the mourning family. β
Empress Dowager Pei's tone was kind, but what she said made Wu Zhaoyi's abacus greatly discounted, first, she wanted the Queen Mother to come forward, and invited Qi Xuan in the name of the Queen Mother, after all, Qi Xuan rarely participated in banquets in the palace, and he didn't like to interact with people, and his reputation was still deep-rooted, if the Queen Mother invited, Qi Xuan would inevitably come, and there was no British prince, yesterday I asked a good question, only to ask Mu Chengxin that she liked Qi Xuan in her heart, although Qi Xuan was sick and weak, Ke Sheng was very good in other aspects, and she was also one of Wu Zhaoyi's favorites, her daughter liked it, and she must fight for her daughterγ
Second, it is the matter of this silver, she originally planned to let the Queen Mother allocate all the silver at one time, and she made a list early, which shows what the Queen Mother means now, but it takes a sum to allocate a sum, and she originally wanted to make some hard-earned money from it.
Wu Zhaoyi swept the eldest princess who had just been mentioned by the Queen Mother, and squeezed out a little smile, but Jiang is still old and spicy, the eldest princess is young and can't stand it, and she can be fished if she wants to.
Wu Zhaoyi turned her head and looked at Empress Dowager Pei with a smile, with the most obedient and gentle smile on her face: "Okay, then the concubine will start to do it." Fu looked back at the eldest princess with a smile and said, "In the future, I will have to deal with Chengqing a lot." β
The eldest princess also replied with a smile: "I have little qualifications and don't understand things, so please ask Wu Zhaoyi to mention more." β
"Naturally. Wu Zhaoyi got up and left, signaling Mu Chengxin to go with her, Yu Dong opened the curtain for them, Wu Zhaoyi walked forward without saying a word, Mu Chengxin also followed closely, and waited until he walked to the long street, Wu Zhaoyi complained to Mu Chengxin in a slightly bad tone: " Look, people are princesses, you are also princesses, and they can cooperate with the Queen Mother to deal with the affairs of the Six Palaces, but you can only watch with your eyes, and since you are here today, don't sit dry, say something that the Queen Mother likes to hear, sit there like a mud bodhisattva, this knows, it is clear that you care about the son of the Qi family, so you specially followed me to see if the Queen Mother could come forward to invite others, I don't know, I thought I was out to walk the dog. β
Mu Chengxin hung his head: "I...... I really don't know what to say, and the Queen Mother has always been mediocre to me. β
"Didn't the Queen Mother treat Mu Chenghuang mediocre before?" Wu Zhaoyi hated iron and steel, stretched out his armor and poked Mu Chengxin's arm, the pointed armor made people hurt, Mu Chengxin subconsciously dodged to the side, Wu Zhaoyi snorted coldly, "I know that the pain is hiding quickly, you don't behave well in front of the Queen Mother now, do you still expect your father to find a good family for you? The emperor is only nervous about the two imperial heirs in the stomach of Yuchun Palace and Xiuying Pavilion now, will he still care about you?" If you don't work hard now, you will have pain in the future. β
Wu Zhaoyi saw that Mu Chengxin didn't speak, her tone just slowed down, thinking that she was so fierce before, Mu Chengxin might not be able to listen, but she persuaded with good words: "You don't need to be like your cousin to please the Queen Mother, you can also learn from Mu Chenghuang, she was not as good as you before, I heard that she was a while ago, morning and dusk, and sent the Queen Mother's happy pastries to the past, that day of the heavy rain, she also braved the rain to serve the sick, if you have her scheming, the Queen Mother will also pay more attention to your marriage." β
Mu Chengxin is really not outstanding among several princesses, she always comforted herself in the past, at least she was better than Mu Chenghuang and Mu Chenglan, but now she is asked to learn from the people she looked down on before, she must be unhappy in her heart, and she has never been able to save face.
Wu Zhaoyi only thought that her daughter was too simple and would not play with these superficial skills, and persuaded again: "Mother knows that you are kind and unintentional, but in this palace, if you don't plan for yourself early, do you really think that your mother can always watch you and take care of you for a lifetime?"
Mu Chengxin nodded as if he didn't understand, Wu Zhaoyi sighed, and was speechless all the way back to the palace.
And Shoukang Palace, after Wu Zhaoyi left, the eldest princess took out a thick stack of account books and handed them to the Empress Dowager Pei, the Empress Dowager Pei looked very carefully, and occasionally raised her head to ask a few words, the eldest princess answered like a stream, after about half a pillar of incense, the Empress Dowager Pei closed the account book, nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, it is very good, it only took a few days to make it look like this, Chengqing really did not disappoint the mourning family." Then he looked at Mu Chenghuang and said, "You also have to worry about the Wanhua Club that Wu Zhaoyi said, although the mourning family has been handed over to Wu Zhaoyi to do it, but since you also have to learn to take care of these miscellaneous things, you must watch it, and although you haven't started to learn to do accounts yet, you also have to understand a little bit about the things in these doorways, and when you have nothing to do, you will learn with Chengqing." β
Mu Chenghuang nodded: "Chenghuang knows." β
Empress Dowager Pei asked some more about the affairs of the palace, especially about the recent floods in the suburbs of Beijing and the landslide of Liuhe Mountain, the eldest princess seemed to have some thoughts about these two things, and when she was about to say it, she was dragged by Mu Chenghuang, and after hesitating for a long time, the eldest princess still hid her thoughts in her heart first.
When she got out of Shoukang Palace, it was already brilliant outside, Yu Dong sent the two of them out, Wenzhi Baojuan, Zhishu and Zhihua only followed from a distance, and the eldest princess finally spoke after holding back for a long time.
"The waterlogging in the suburbs of Beijing and the landslide of Liuhe Mountain are so serious, but we are still wearing gold and silver in the palace, eating and drinking well, Wu Zhaoyi Niangniang still has to hold a Wanhua meeting, you have not seen the account book, I don't know how much the palace uses every day, a concubine's daily expenses, may be enough for the people to work hard for a month, I told you yesterday, I want to take this opportunity to hold a fundraiser in the palace, so that you will be those excess jewelry and jewelry, or take the initiative to take out a little bit of this month's share, what a contribution, you are good, when I want to say, you are still biased to stop meγ The eldest princess complained a little in her words, and even felt that Mu Chenghuang was a little unkind.