Chapter 16: Moonsilver
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A dark shadow passed through the dark night, leaving no trace.
The Prince's Mansion.
With a snap, the window of Yan Xiling's study was knocked open, and a man dressed in black rolled in.
"Yan Xiling, your uncle."
He patted the dust on his body, and glared fiercely at Yan Xiling, who was sitting quietly reading a book.
Seeing that the man didn't move, the man in black took off his coat, revealing a face with clear eyebrows, and sat down next to him with a big thorn.
"What the hell are you looking for me, every time you say it's very simple, it turns out to be a troublesome thing to die for."
Rolling his eyes, Yan Xiling said, "You came here in the middle of the night to talk to me about these things?" ”
"You think I'm that free?"
Yan Xiling nodded.
"I'm done." Throwing away the things in his hand, the man leaned back in his chair, "I haven't worked for the past few months, so I need to take a good rest." ”
"Oh." Yan Xiling pointed to the guest room on the side, "The room has been arranged for you." ”
"That's like human talk." He nodded, picked up his clothes and went out satisfied.
Yan Xiling picked up the thing he threw down and glanced at it, then opened the hidden compartment under the desk and stuffed it in.
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Today is the day of handing over the account book, Meng Zhining walked towards Yan Xiling's study with her things in her hands.
Fortunately, Chunlu Pavilion is not far from Yan Xiling's study, otherwise so many things wouldn't tire her to death?
That's right, she was holding a large pile of ledgers, which were almost covering her head.
Uncle Yan said that when handing over the account book, one person should come, and the account book should not be touched by others......
So she didn't dare to share the account book with others, so she had to bring it herself.
"Lord Wang." Standing at the door, he shouted.
Yan Xiling rubbed her blue eyes and said, "Come in." ”
He didn't have much rest last night, and after he came out of Liu Ruyan's room in the middle of the night, he stayed in the study, but he didn't expect to meet Xu Yi coming back.
The door was kicked open, and the man in front of him smirked and held a large pile of ledgers.
"How did you get here alone?" Is this woman stupid, such a heavy thing is brought by herself.
"Didn't you tell me to bring it alone?"
Complaining, this man threw this pile of things on his table regardless of 3721, and did not care about pressing his books.
But Yan Xiling didn't say anything, he was just curious about how there were so many books, and there were only seven or eight books that Xia Rong took when she was in charge of the accounts before.
There are at least a dozen of them here.
He was amused, did she use these ledgers to draw pictures, no matter how she remembered, she wouldn't remember so much.
Moreover, I heard that Meng Zhining was illiterate at all, let alone bookkeeping.
The corners of his mouth hooked, and he picked up a copy casually, and the expression on his face froze there.
The ledger is clearly written with Juan Xiu's small letters.
Glancing at Meng Zhining, who didn't know what was going on, she was moving her wrist that was a little sore.
I looked back and looked at the ledger carefully, and every account was recorded on it, and there was not a single omission.
Flipping through the front, Xia Rong remembered that there were red Zhu batches in many places, and all the problematic places were drawn and annotated.
He also knows what Xia Rong did, but he didn't point it out, this little money was still from the palace, since she liked money, then he didn't care.
Closing the account book, Yan Xiling said, "Do you remember these alone?" ”
Meng Zhining said: "Do you still help me remember, didn't you say not to show it to others, so I have memorized these for several nights." ”
Hit a hatcher and she looked even sleepier than he was.
"Well, the cost of the palace is still a bit big." Rolling her eyes, Meng Zhi said, "I have reduced everything else I can, and the other expenses are all from the people in the courtyard, and there are no rules in this courtyard, so the expenses of each courtyard are a bit large, and if there is no money, I will pay it to the account room." ”
"If you want to decide, you can decide." Yan Xiling said, "Next month, the account office will allocate four thousand taels of silver, you can look at it, if there is any silver left at the end of the month, the rest will be yours." ”
"Thank you." Meng Zhining said with a smile, it would be good to have silver, she looked at the account book, she spent five thousand taels this month, but she was sure that it was controlled within four thousand taels, calculate, how much money could be left, and how much money could be left.
She has always had the idea that she can make some money outside, after all, she can't stay in this palace forever, and it's not safe here.
What is lacking now is silver, she counted all her jewelry, and she didn't bring much jewelry, and some of them were in the palace, and there were engraved by the palace on them, which could not be pawned, and she had a maximum of four or five hundred silver.
It costs at least 1,000 taels of silver to buy a shop in a good place.
After returning to Chunlu Pavilion, she asked Mingyue to call all the people in the courtyard.
Every yard received the message and was wondering if to go.
After all, it's called the main room, so you have to go there anyway.
Inside the Spring Dew Pavilion, people came one after another.
In fact, there are not many people, except for Liu Ruyan, Xia Rong, and Qian Yumeng, there are two concubines, Huai Yang Er and Yu Shengxi.
Meng Zhining sat on the main seat, surrounded by people.
Smiling, Meng Zhining said: "Don't be so serious, I'm just talking about a small thing." ”
Xia Rong was the first to speak: "Since it's a small matter, then there is no need for my sister to call us over." ”
Huai Yang Er then whispered: "The concubine has something to do later." ”
Meng Zhining felt that it was better to make a long story short: "The prince said that the expenses have been a bit big in the past few days, so each courtyard has begun to reduce expenses. ”
"So what kind of reduction method is my sister going to do?" Liu Ruyan drank tea and said quietly.
"There is no subtraction," Meng Zhi said, "Each courtyard starts from this month, fifty taels of silver per month." ”
Fifty taels of silver should be enough.
"Fifty taels?" The women in the room frowned at the same time.
"The princess doesn't think fifty taels is too little." Huaiyang said.
"yes, yes." These people said in unison.
The result of this meeting was an unhappy part, and everyone left without saying a word.
Meng Zhining wrenched her fingers, isn't fifty taels per courtyard enough.
Also, there were no rules, and everyone would not be too comfortable with such a rule all of a sudden.
No matter, let's do it for now.
On the way, Yu Shengxi and Qian Yumeng went back first, and Huai Yang Er and Liu Ruyan talked while walking.
"Sister, why do you say that the Meng clan is so deductive." Huaiyang Er held the handkerchief in her hand.
"There's no way, where is the ledger in her." Xia Rong shrugged.
"There's no way to get the ledger out of her?" Huai Yang Er asked.
Liu Ruyan said: "There is a way, but there is a way, and the most direct thing is to make the prince hate her." ”
Everyone understands this, Huai Yang'er nodded, this idea is not bad.