The one hundred and fourteenth return to government affairs
Qi Jinghuan, who was happy and couldn't find the north, didn't know how he left the Dingbei Hou Mansion, and when he came back, he had already returned to the front gate of Prince Le's Mansion. The subordinates of the palace knelt down to welcome the prince back to the house, and the neat voice of greeting made Qi Jinghuan, who was completely unaware of where he was, realize that he had gone home.
Shi Liangshu, the head of Prince Le's mansion, welcomed his own prince into the mansion, stepped forward and whispered: "Lord, my uncle came to the palace in the morning, and he left less than half an hour ago.
Qi Jinghuan nodded, casually replied that he knew, and then turned around and walked towards the concubine's Zezhi Garden. Liang Shu bowed down and went about his business.
Mother, my son is back. Before Qi Jinghuan entered the room, his voice came in first, and anyone could hear that he liked to be happy in his voice, and he wanted to be very happy during the day.
Unlike in the past, Qi Jinghuan's invitation did not get any response, the little maid next to the door opened the bamboo curtain of Xiangfei, Qi Jinghuan lowered his head slightly and walked in, only to see his mother sitting on the dark eight immortal rosewood rose chair under the east window, one hand on the arm of the chair, and the other hand was slowly twisting the Bodhi root Buddha beads in her hand, and there was no joy or anger from her expression, and the whole person of Prince Le and the princess was quiet as if she had not heard her son's shout.
Mother! Qi Jinghuan shouted loudly again, with a hint of uneasiness in his voice, after all, his mother had never been in such a situation.
Well, Huan'er is back? Prince and Princess Le answered slowly, and there was no joy in her voice when she saw her son in the past.
Mother, what's wrong with you? If something is wrong, just tell your son. Qi Jinghuan walked quickly in front of his mother, squatted down on his knees and looked up at his mother, and asked anxiously.
It's nothing, Huan'er, you must be tired after a whole day outside, go back and rest, although your body is better than before, you can't be careless, you still have to be more careful. Prince Le finally raised her eyelids, glanced at her son, and said faintly. Qi Jinghuan listened to the faint voice, and heard a touch of grievance and sourness.
Mother, what's wrong with you, tell your son, don't let your son be in a hurry? Qi Jinghuan grabbed his mother's hand and didn't let her twist the Buddha beads in his hand anymore, and shouted anxiously.
Listening to her son's voice, she was more confident than before, Prince Le and Princess Le were happy, sad and a little lost, and the mixed feelings made her stunned, and even forgot to pull her son up.
Qi Jinghuan was in a hurry, and cold sweat even oozed from his forehead, mother, you are talking! Don't scare your son...... Qi Jinghuan shook his mother's hand and shouted.
Lord, get up quickly, after the uncle left, the mother has been sitting here for most of the hour. Mama Gao, who is now the first person next to Prince Le's concubine, stepped forward and reported worriedly.
Uncle? What did he say to the concubine? Qi Jinghuan stood up and asked in a deep voice, as his body gradually recovered, Qi Jinghuan became more and more imposing, his shouting and questioning was like the momentum of Prince Xianle, not only Mama Gao was shocked and lost her mind, but even Prince Le, who had not reacted, had anger in her eyes, she suddenly raised her head and looked at her son steadily, obviously it was still the white and thin child, but this momentum was very different from before.
Rajah...... Prince Le and Concubine Le muttered, slowly stood up, stretched out her trembling hands, and gently held her son's face, tears already welling up in her eyes. After thirteen years, God finally opened his eyes, heard her prayer, and sent her husband back to her.
Qi Jinghuan called out his mother ...... in shock, but Prince Le and Princess Le hugged her son as if she hadn't heard it, and fell on his chest with tears like rain, and called the prince in a tight voice......
Qi Jinghuan gradually understood that his mother regarded him as his deceased father. He couldn't help but wonder a little in his heart. Although he can't remember his father's appearance clearly, Qi Jinghuan knows that he doesn't look very much like his father, he has been praised by his imperial grandmother countless times for his good birth, inheriting all the advantages of his father and mother, and only then does he have that appearance that is enough to captivate the country and the city.
Mother, I'm Huan'er! Prince Le's concubine hugged him too tightly, which made Qi Jinghuan a little uncomfortable, he screamed uncomfortably, and screamed three or four times, before Prince Le's concubine came back to her senses, let go of her arms in disappointment, and said astringently: It turned out to be Huan'er.
Mother, what's wrong with you today, did your uncle say something that made you sad? Qi Jinghuan helped his mother sit down, took the handkerchief she had just thrown from Mama Gao's hand, and waved her hand to order Mama Gao to retreat. Mama Gao had to hide the reluctance in her heart, bowed her head and retreated.
Prince Le took the warm handkerchief given by her son, wiped away the tears on her face, shook her head and said slowly: It has nothing to do with your uncle, my mother just misses your father. Huan'er, your father has been gone for thirteen years, but my mother always thinks that he is still there...... Before he finished speaking, Prince Le's tears welled up again. Although she and Prince Xianle have only been husband and wife for less than five years, the relationship between husband and wife is very deep, so deep that she has never come out of the pain of bereavement.
Qi Jinghuan couldn't go on with this, although he was young, he also clearly remembered the appearance of his father lying in the golden silk nanmu coffin, he was not yet four years old at the time, and he was also held by his imperial uncle, holding his hand with a small hammer to nail down the last lock coffin nail, so his father could not still be alive at all.
Qi Jinghuan could only silently send a clean veil, and Prince Le and Concubine Le wiped it a few times, and finally stopped crying. Huan'er, my mother is fine, I just miss your father. Prince Le said in a slightly hoarse voice.
It was already dark, the little maid came in to light the lamp, Qi Jinghuan took out the small pocket watch and looked at it, it was already three o'clock, and he said softly: Mother, it's not early, my son will accompany you to dinner.
Prince Le and Princess shook her head and said: No need, my mother is not hungry, Huan'er, you go back to Ruisong Garden and eat by yourself.
The mother was in a bad mood, of course Qi Jinghuan couldn't just leave, so he deliberately said: If my mother doesn't eat, I won't eat, I will accompany you to starve and miss my father.
Although Princess Le missed her husband, she was more worried about her son, so she had to respond: It's not okay for my mother to eat, you can't mess around with this child.
Qi Jinghuan immediately ordered someone to set the meal, and asked people to go to Ruisongyuan to spread his dinner, in the past 20 days, even if he ate with his mother, the food was made in the small kitchen of Ruisongyuan, and the food sent by Tianxi and them was eaten.
It didn't take long for Tian Xi to bring dinner with a five-layer plum blossom food box made of gold inlaid with jade bamboo silk. Qi Jinghuan accompanied his mother into the flower hall, and when Prince Le saw Tian Xi setting up a meal, she suddenly remembered something, and said: Go back and send a thousand taels of silver to Dr. Jiang Xiaoshen.
Qi Jing hurriedly said: Mother, what are you doing to send silver to Ah Ren at this time? He still has to continue to treat his son. Qi Jinghuan thought that his mother wanted to leave Huangfu Yongan, so he asked unhappily.
Prince Le and Concubine explained slowly: That one thousand taels is not the medical fee for Ah Ren, last time he said that he would be responsible for your three meals a day, but now more than 20 days have passed, and my mother is afraid that the silver from the last payment will not be enough, so I will send him some more.
Qi Jinghuan breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: It turns out that this is the case. Mother, my son also happens to have something to tell you, Tianfu, go and ask Doctor Jiang Xiao to come over. Tim Fu answered the call and ran out quickly.
Huan'er, what do you want to say to your mother, does it have anything to do with Dr. Jiang Xiao? Prince Le asked with a slight frown.
Qi Jinghuan nodded, and said lightly: Mother, let's eat first, and then we'll talk about it after eating.
Princess Le nodded and had dinner with her son. Prince Le's Mansion has always pursued the training of eating without saying a word, so when their mother and son sat down to eat, they were quiet and did not even make the sound of bowls, chopsticks and spoons touching each other, such a quiet Qi Jinghuan should have been used to it, but after eating in the Dingbei Hou Mansion, Qi Jinghuan was not used to it, he preferred to have a talking and laughing atmosphere when sharing a meal with Huangfu Jingde's family of three.
A quarter of an hour later, the mother and son had eaten, rinsed their mouths, and moved to the east room of the east wing of Zezhi Garden, where Prince Le and Concubine were in charge. At this time, Huangfu Yongan was also invited by Tianfu.
After a meeting, Prince Le and the princess asked with a smile: Ah Ren, the silver from the last branch is almost used, and the palace will order someone to send another 1,000 taels when he turns around.
Huangfu Yongan waved his hand again and again and refused: No, no, Concubine Niangniang, there is something to report here, this is the twenty-four days' flow account, please take a look at it first. Huangfu Yongan took out a thin account book from his sleeve, and the maid took it and sent it to Prince Le's concubine.
Prince Le and Concubine Le didn't look for the account book, but said with a smile: Why is your child really doing the account, Bengong and Huan'er both believe in you very much, and there is no need to do so.
Qi Jinghuan hurriedly said: Mother, you should take a look, my son watched some last night, and he was really surprised.
Prince Le and Princess Le asked in surprise: Surprised? Isn't it just a twenty-day running account? As she spoke, she flipped through the account book, turning to the last page to see the final settlement figures. If you don't look at it, the princess and princess of Le were also taken aback, she looked at Huangfu Yongan fiercely, and asked in astonishment: Ah Ren, shouldn't this account be miscalculated? How is it possible that twenty days cost less than fifty taels of silver? In the past, the monthly consumption of Ruisong Garden was about 2,000 taels, and sometimes more.
Huangfu Yongan was taken aback by the number reported by Prince Le's concubine, two thousand taels of silver, the stewards of Prince Le's mansion are really black and ruthless. Rui Songhei's monthly expenses were enough to count two hundred taels, and those people actually doubled it tenfold. In the eyes of those stewards, this Prince Le's Mansion is really stupid and has a lot of money, and it is not a pit.
Concubine Niang, please take a closer look at this account book. Huangfu Yongan is an outsider in the end, and it is already ultra vires to do this now, if it weren't for Prince Le's mansion being his sister's future home, Huangfu Yongan would not have done these laborious and offensive things.
Prince Le nodded solemnly, and said in a deep voice: Ah Ren, thank you very much!
Huangfu Yongan waved his hand, smiled and said: Niangniang doesn't have to be polite, Ah Huan and I are good friends now, and we can't let people cheat my friends. There is a sentence that Huangfu Yongan did not say, that is: instead of being embezzled by those stewards, it is better to send this silver to help the veterans who have to retire and return home because of their disabilities.
Prince Le and Concubine nodded, her son got along very well with this little doctor Jiang, so good that the two of them could sleep on their feet, Cheng Dรน, she also regarded Jiang Buren as her own child, and Su Ri also called him Ah Ren. Even Prince Le and Concubine Le thought of giving him a good family affair, and then giving him a house, a Zhuangzi and a shop, so that he could settle down in the capital.
Someone come, take the king's account for this month. Prince Le and Concubine shouted in a deep voice, and immediately a little maid ran to the tent to get the account book, and the account manager didn't think much about it, and immediately took out this month's running account and handed it to the little maid. If you can find fault with the account book alone, those account managers will be in the account room for a lifetime, and who has not single-handedly made the account book clean and beautiful. The tent stewards were still secretly proud, and were thinking about how much they could benefit from the August Festival in the palace. If they knew that Huangfu Yongan kept an account without any water, they were afraid that they would have no place to cry.
Prince Le and Princess Le spread out the two account books in front of her, and trembled with anger after only reading one page. The price of the same kind of vegetables purchased on the same day, recorded in the account book made by the royal palace account book, was dozens of times that of the account book of Ruisong Garden. Taking chickens as an example, a chicken worth two cents is worth 80 wen in the palace account book. Prince Le's concubine couldn't stand it anymore, slapped it on the table heavily, and shouted angrily: Chuan Liang Shu!
Liang Shu quickly rushed over, and Prince Le and Princess Le threw the two account books in front of him, and scolded angrily: This is the government affairs you are in charge of!
Liang Shu picked up the ledger and only glanced at it, and knew what was going on. He immediately knelt down and said: The concubine Niangniang is angry, the subordinate has just taken over the affairs of the house, and he has not asked about the account room, so please ask the concubine Niangniang to pass the account room steward for questioning.
Liang Shu is the long history of Prince Le's mansion, but he has been suppressed by Song Jinhui and cannot raise his head, that is, Song Jinhui lost power and was sent to prison, and Liang Shu finally had a chance to get ahead. But even so, without Qi Jinghuan's insistence, Liang Shu, the chief of the palace, would still not be able to live up to his name. That's why Liang Shu was able to reply to Prince and Princess Le so calmly at this time.
Prince Le's concubine gasped for breath, but she couldn't attack Liang Shu again, and no one in the entire Prince Le's mansion didn't know that Liang Shu was obviously the chief of the palace left by the first prince, but after the death of the first prince, he was put aside, and it wasn't until more than 20 days ago that Liang Shu became a veritable chief of the palace.