Chapter Fifty-Seven: Her Plan
Since Yan Ji's matter came out, the concubines in the mansion have been much quieter, but Gu Qingcheng feels that she can't keep the concubines in the mansion anymore, Yan Ji's matter, she thinks it's not that simple, maybe it's discussed by a few people, but it's just taking Yan Ji as a scapegoat. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The concubines still came to ask for peace as before, she saw that Huan Ji and Yu Ji had lost their previous arrogant atmosphere, and their words were much more friendly, and Gu Qingcheng also pretended that nothing had happened.
After a long time, the palace seemed to be calm, and Gu Qingcheng said to Du Juan: "We can't take it lightly, these concubines will definitely take action." ”
"Yes, Princess, I will send someone to watch them." The cuckoo looked at her and frowned and said, "It's just that this time I hope the princess doesn't go in person, it's too dangerous, and the people we sent to follow you last time were stunned by those attackers." ”
Gu Tingcheng smiled and said to her: "I won't take any more risks, if it weren't for King Anqing to rescue me, maybe I would have suffocated to death in that place a long time ago, after all, the palace is so big, it's not difficult to hide one or two people." She paused again, "I just think the prince is a little strange, although he is a fool, but sometimes his actions are not stupid at all. ”
When the cuckoo heard this, he showed a strange expression: "Princess, what do you mean?" ”
Gu Tingcheng glanced at her, leaned into her ear and whispered: "Maybe the regent's suspicion is not unreasonable, it is likely that the king of Anqing is pretending, let's pay more attention, there are many enemies in the open and dark in this palace, and they will be dealt with one by one." ”
Since getting the key to the account room, Gu Tingcheng began to check the old accounts of the palace, although she said that she did not learn mathematics well in her previous life, but the records of the ancients were not very troublesome, she could understand one or two, and she felt more and more wrong when she saw that in the end, a large part of the expenses of the palace were unknown, and the accounts of the concubines seemed to be a little weird, it seemed that someone had done tricks, almost everyone of them had exceeded the advance of the palace, but no one cared about them, and the strangest thing was that the previous account clerk was missing.
Steward Chen learned the news that Gu Tingcheng was checking the accounts, and hurriedly reported the situation to Shen Tianao, he said worriedly: "Lord Wang, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to let the princess go on like this, what if she finds something abnormal?" ”
Shen Tianao took off his usual disguise, his eyes revealed a dark light, he didn't seem to take this matter to heart, and said unhurriedly: "Find out if you find out, just try her loyalty, if she is a fine work sent by the regent, then she will definitely tell Long Yuting about this matter, if she does that, I will use another way to deal with her." ”
"Yes, lord." Steward Chen replied, and he added, "I'm just afraid that the prince won't be ruthless at that time." ”
Shen Tianao chuckled: "I've been planning this matter for so long, how can I be ruthless, she is just my nominal princess now, just a woman in my palace, as for how she treats other women, I can let people go, as long as it doesn't touch my bottom line." ”
Steward Chen's expression was very pleased, he stroked his beard and said, "The old man knows that the prince is a person who has achieved great things, and you must be different from those ordinary people who are them." ”
Shen Tianao didn't say much about this, just raised a faint sneer, Long Yuting can treat her as a baby, but in his eyes, she is never so important, maybe just like his toy, just slightly more interesting than ordinary concubines.
Gu Qingcheng didn't know Shen Tianao's plan at all, she just quietly checked her accounts, and after grasping the money movements of the concubines, she instructed Du Juan to summon the concubines to the hall.
"Princess, what are you looking for us?" Huan Ji asked boldly.
Gu Qingcheng unhurriedly spread out the account books one by one in front of all the concubines: "Look at what this is?" ”
The concubines looked at the records in the account book, and they were frightened one by one, because it was Huan Ji who managed these in the past, so they turned a blind eye, but now that the management of the palace has fallen into the hands of Gu Tingcheng, she checked carefully. Most of these women are from the Qinglou, they have been beautiful before, and they have got a lot of silver, and they are used to the natural paving, every piece of jewelry is made by the best craftsmen in Puyang City, and every box of rouge is also from the best rouge shop, when the king of Anqing was not crazy, he would give them some rewards, but no one gave them these things after the prince went crazy, but in terms of their example silver, where are these silver taels enough for their expenses, so everyone gave a lot of silver taels, Huan Ji herself took the silver taels in the treasury privately, and she also turned a blind eye to the other concubines.
The concubines knelt in front of her with the account book in their hands and cried and begged for mercy: "Princess, I hope that your lord will forgive us, raise your noble hand and let us go this time." ”
"Princess, please let us go." Huan Ji said crying.
Gu Qingcheng's mood at this time was very complicated, their appearance looked very pitiful, but she thought about it, how they treated her before, and Yan Ji's sneak attack made her completely lose trust in them, she could not hurt them, but they had to leave the palace.
She picked up her wives and concubines and said solemnly: "You also know the current situation of the prince, maybe he can only do this in his life, and you don't have to stay here all the time." ”
"What do you mean, princess?" Yu Ji's expression was a little panicked, and she grabbed her sleeve tightly and said, "Princess, you are trying to expel us. ”
Gu Tingcheng slowly pulled her hand away and said: "I can't talk about expulsion, but I hope you can leave the Anqing Palace, the current palace is different from the past, the prince is in such a situation, there is naturally no need for concubines in the palace, not to mention that you are still young, why bother to lock up in the courtyard of the deep mansion." ”
"The princess can't help it." Huan Ji said with tears streaming down her face, her voice was full of sadness, "We did something wrong before, and we shouldn't have treated you like that, but if you kicked us out of the house, how can we live in the future." ”
Looking at the expressions of these concubines, Gu Qingcheng didn't have the pleasure of revenge in her heart, she just raised her expression and said: "I will give you some silver taels, and I will also settle a house for you outside the palace, I can only do this, you can do it yourself." ”
Hearing her say this, some concubines showed a little joy, after all, they felt tired of living in this deep mansion compound for a long time, and there were intrigues everywhere, so it was a good choice to go out in this way.