"Let's be honest!" Liu Ke said proudly.

Rong Yi sighed and said, "You weren't angry?" ”

When Liu Ke heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, and said, "What, between you-" She deliberately lengthened her tone here, and continued: "Is there any unclear relationship?" You won't be here to take revenge on the King of Anqing, so-"

Before she finished speaking, Rong Yi covered her mouth with her hand, raised her voice and said, "So what, you don't guess." ”

Liu Ke saw Rong Yi's nervous look, and couldn't help but smile: "It was your own expression that made me misunderstand, I didn't say anything between you." ”

Rong Yi waved his hand indiscriminately and said, "Forget it, it's better to tell you directly than to let you guess." ”

When he said this, he suddenly stopped, the expression on his face was a little strange, and he said after a while: "When the queen mentioned to Zhu's mother that she wanted to propose marriage to her family for the Chu Palace, she originally intended to give me the Zhu family, but when the Zhu family heard that the queen had this meaning, they sought death and lived, and everyone understood the reason, but how could the queen's words be said or not, so they pointed her to Rong Xin." ”

After Liu Ke heard this, he snorted lightly and said: "Maybe it was the queen mother who had the heart to give you no face, maybe in this world, how can there be a brother who has not yet married, so he will first point out the truth of his younger brother's marriage, which is obviously a slap in the face." ”

Rong Yi smiled bitterly: "I don't know that the queen deliberately gave me no face, but I can't force the family to agree to marry me, besides, I didn't plan to marry at that time." ”

"At first, I was still a little puzzled, why is this princess of Anqing County not the right age with the king of Anqing County, but the same age as you. It turns out that there is such an allusion in it. Liu Ke said, subconsciously smiling and putting his hand between Rong Yi's elbows.

Rong Yi looked sideways at Liu Ke and said, "Fortunately, the Zhu family gave up on me at that time, otherwise how could I have touched you." ”

Liu Ke couldn't help but laugh and said, "Were you tapping Zhu's eyes just now?" Now she sees you protecting her daughter-in-law like this, and she doesn't know how much she regrets it. ”

"I don't care if she regrets it or not, I will never let you regret it." Rong Yi bowed his head and whispered in Liu Ke's ear.

They laughed and went back to their yard.

Rong Yi didn't tell Liu Ke about the misdeeds of Late Autumn just now, but just reminded him: "How do you plan to settle Late Autumn?" ”

Liu Ke said with some embarrassment on his face: "I'm afraid you already know the identity of Qiu Cairen, this person is entrusted to me by her." No matter what. I think the person who can be entrusted to her must be very important to her, so let's let Late Autumn stay here for the time being. How. Did she do something out of the ordinary? ”

Rong Yi shook his head when he heard this, "I just mentioned it casually, since that's the case, then let her stay here for the time being." ”

Early the next morning. Liu Ke arranged the day's affairs with Zhu in the council room, and then did not make any more directors, and went back to the room to get some things he wrote in the past to visit Rong Qiao.

At this time, Rong Qiao was reading a book. Listen to the reply of the next person: The princess is here.

Her expression was a little frozen, and then she stood up a little impatiently and walked to the door to greet her: "Why is the princess so good at kung fu that she came to see me?" ”

Liu Ke listened to Rong Qiao's words that were not salty or light, but also a little cold. couldn't help laughing: "I seemed to say yesterday that I would come to visit my sister in the future." ”

"Let's call me Rong Qiao, I'm not used to being so intimate with an unfamiliar person." Rong Qiao said as he turned around and entered the room.

Liu Ke also followed Rong Qiao into the door. Seeing a picture of fallen leaves hanging on Rong Qiao's wall, she knew that her usual state of mind must be extremely self-pitying. I couldn't help but laugh in my heart.

Rong Qiao saw Liu Ke looking at his calligraphy and painting and laughing, and couldn't help but say, "What? Do you think that autumn is not enough to be sad, like those ordinary people who moved out of Liu Yuxi's "Autumn Words" to teach me? There is more than one person like you. ”

Liu Ke shook his head, and when he saw that the pen and ink on the bookcase were complete, he reached out and took a piece of paper and wrote two extremely complicated words on it.

Rong Qiao didn't like others to use her pen and ink casually, and was about to stop it, but when she saw Liu Ke's pen calmly and smoothly, and her handwriting was delicate and timeless, it was a rare good word, and the worst thing was that she wrote two words, and she didn't even know it.

Seeing Rong Qiao's blank face, Liu Ke accepted the smile on his face, and pointed to the first word: "In ancient times, slash-and-burn farming, crops were harvested once a year, and autumn was the year. By autumn, another year had passed. ”

She pointed to the second word as she spoke: "Autumn and winter, you look at this winter word, the top does not look like a canopy covering the four fields, but this horizontal, but the sun inside is enclosed in the canopy, and the bottom does not look like ice, when winter comes, the cold condenses the earth, and there is no life, so winter is the end." In this way, when autumn comes, how can people not be sad. ”

Rong Qiao was stunned by Liu Ke's words.

She has always felt that she is well-read in this boudoir, but at this time, she is like an ignorant child in front of Liu Ke.

When Liu Ke saw Rong Qiao's expression, she knew that her words had touched her, so she didn't speak, just sat quietly at the table, looking at Rong Qiao's past practice.

After a while, Rong Qiao said: "What do you mean by pretending to be stupid in front of the Zhu family, but you came to me to show off your talents?" ”

Liu Ke had long expected Rong Qiao to say this, got up and said with a smile: "I have a specialization in the art industry, it is a fact that I am not as good as the princess of Anqing County in housekeeping, I don't need to pretend to be very good, when I was in my mother's house, I was also literate and literate, so there is no need to pretend that I don't know anything in front of you." ”

A smile flashed on Rong Qiao's rare face: "I didn't expect you to match my temper, Xiaochan served tea to the princess." ”

After Xiaochan brought the tea, Liu Ke took a sip and said, "Does the county lord have any research on tea?" ”

Rong Qiao was stunned for a moment and said, "No, why is there a problem with this tea?" ”

Liu Ke smiled with relief: "It's nothing, in fact, I don't have any research on tea, I have a younger sister who is well versed in the tea ceremony, I see that this tea is like a green peony, so I have this question." ”

"This is the case tea ordered by the princess of Anqing County, when the girl went to get it, she said that it was a new tea in Jiangsu and Zhejiang this year, I don't usually drink tea, and today this is the first time to take it out."

Listening to the meaning of Rong Qiao's words, Zhu was quite flattering to her.

When Liu Ke heard this, he smiled and didn't speak.

She didn't think about it today, so she asked Rong Qiao to accept her, and sat in Rong Qiao's room for about half an hour, then got up and said goodbye.

Although there was no deep talk, when Liu Ke went out, Rong Qiao got up and sent her out of the courtyard.

Liu Ke left Rong Qiao's courtyard, and went directly to the conference hall and called Bai Xianjia, the mother-in-law who distributed the goods, to the conference hall.

"You distributed the tea from the county lord, right?" Although there is no Zhu by his side, Liu Ke does not look like a housewife.

The Bai Xian family felt that she was not the housekeeper's material from the first day Liu Ke came to manage the housekeeping, and after these days, Liu Ke's passive slacking confirmed her view.

So this time, although she knew that what she was doing was wrong, she had no fear.

After listening to Liu Ke's words, he hesitated for a while and said, "What the princess said is right, the tea offerings in this courtyard are all distributed by slaves and maids. "Ignored her no more,

After saying this, Bai Xianjia stopped and didn't say any more, but waited for Liu Ke to ask.

After Liu Ke listened to her words, he said, "How much is the amount of tea in each courtyard of our house in a month?" ”

Bai Xian's family asked, and said: "The princess and princess naturally give it when they want, there is no regulation, the old princess is generally one pound a month, and the other courtyards are five taels." ”

If it was the Zhu family who asked about it at this time, she would definitely be busy telling the king of Chu and the princess how much they were every month, how much they were more, and how many special cases there were in each month, but it was Liu Ke who was sitting here at this time, and she just said whatever she asked.

Liu Ke was not angry, and said patiently: "Last year, the most month at the prince's place, how much tea did you use?" ”

Bai Xianjia was stunned, he didn't expect Liu Ke to ask about last year's incident, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, and said: "Last year's has been accounted for, and the slave and maid are really not clear, take the slave and maid to check it, and then go back and forth to the princess." ”

Liu Ke nodded and said, "Go ahead, take last year's account books and check them here, and by the way, pair them with the ones in my hand." ”

After she finished speaking, she said to Yuye: "Find the comprador Lian Wang's daughter-in-law in the family, and I will ask how much tea the family enters every year." ”

Bai Xianjia, who originally asked to be relaxed, was dumbfounded when he heard this, if Liu Ke found out that she withheld the tea from the house and gave it away privately, then it would be fine, if she knew that she would also take the tea that could not be used in the house to be sold outside, then it would be dead.

But the matter has come to this point, and if she doesn't go to find last year's account, the suspicion will be even greater.

"Isn't Sister-in-law Bai going to check last year's records? Why are you still standing here? Liu Ke said with a smile.

After Bai Xianjia heard Liu Ke's words, her heart was crossed, and she didn't believe what this soft persimmon could do to her.

Just as Bai Xian's family was walking out, he only heard Liu Ke say: "In late autumn, go and invite the princess of the county here, and say that I have something to ask." ”

Bai Xianjia's body couldn't help but shake when she heard this, it was not easy for her to find this errand back then, she entrusted the relationship between the seven aunts and eight aunts, and also talked about fifty taels of silver, but the Zhu family has always regarded her as Ji's person, although she did not embarrass her in the open, but secretly she was very dissatisfied with her, if at this time, she was caught by the Zhu family for her fault, then she would definitely not let herself go.

But now she had difficulty riding the tiger, so she had to walk out. (To be continued)