Before dawn the next day, in order not to let the maid find out, Duanmu Rui got up. Su Wanyan was also very early, and after washing, the two ate together.

In view of the cold relationship between the two in the past two days, Su Wanyan still asked: "Does the prince want to go with his concubine to send his father?" ”

Duanmu Rui thought for a while and said: "This king will not go, it is best to stay away from General Su, otherwise the emperor will be suspicious and bring disadvantages to General Su, you can help me bring a message to General Su and let him take care." ”

Su Wanyan felt that there was nothing wrong with what he said, Su Sui regained the military power and went to war, the emperor was not willing, if the two people he was guarding against at the same time had a close relationship, it would definitely make him suspicious, maybe his father would not be able to come back if he went.

Although this decision was rational and correct, Su Wanyan still felt very uncomfortable in her heart. Su Sui traveled thousands of miles to go on the expedition, and he, as a son-in-law, couldn't see him off, as if he didn't want to give her mother's face.

She returned to the house sullenly, picked up Su Heming, and asked the servant who drove the car to drive the horse fast, and fortunately Su Sui had not left at the gate of the city, and the father, son, father and daughter parted reluctantly, she specially explained the reason why Duanmu Rui did not come, and Su Sui expressed his understanding.

Sending Su Sui away, Su Wanyan sent Su Heming back to the General's Mansion, and then returned to the palace, Duanmu Rui waited for her in the mansion and asked her a few words about Su Sui's situation.

The estrangement between Su Wanyan and Duanmu Rui is in the eyes of everyone, except that the prince slept in the new princess's house three days ago, and then went back to his yard to rest directly every night, and in private, people felt that Duanmu Rui didn't like this new princess, and they gradually started to think about slacking off.

In addition to the four maids she brought with her, Su Wanyan also had two big maids, two second-class maids, and a few small maids.

Lingxiu They are people that Su Wanyan is used to, so naturally they often call them, and the maids in the palace rarely have the opportunity to come forward to serve, they feel that Su Wanyan is rejecting them, plus they feel that the princess is not favored, and a few of them are lazy all day long, or their own affairs are pushed to Lingxiu and them, and they even go out to play for a day and do not come back.

Lingxiu and Shuhong reported to Su Wanyan when they saw it, so Su Wanyan knew it in her heart, just waiting for them to commit it in her own hands once, and then settle the account together.

On this day, Su Wanyan asked the maid to secretly go to find out when Duanmu Rui would return home, and when it was time to eat, she invited him over and said that she had something to tell him.

Before eating, the maid invited Duanmu Rui, and Lingxiu took another maid Xia He, who was brought from her mother's house, to the kitchen to get food.

When Duanmu Rui saw it, he asked strangely: "Why don't you send more than two people." ”

Su Wanyan pretended to be embarrassed and smiled, "Everyone else has other things to do." ”

Duanmu Rui glanced at the room, Shuhong was waiting by Su Wanyan's side, the two big maids from the palace were waiting for him, and one person brought in a pot of hot water for tea, and the others were nowhere to be seen, and he was immediately a little unhappy in his heart.

When the food was served, I found that the number of dishes was enough, but it didn't seem to be the case, as if someone else had picked the leftovers, the meat and dishes were all fat, the soup looked like a night of white water with a few leaves, a little egg splash floating, and the vegetarian dishes seemed to be raw.

Seeing that Su Wanyan didn't say much, he suppressed his anger and picked up the chopsticks and tasted them, and found that there was either too much salt or no taste at all, he threw the chopsticks on the table with a snap and asked Su Wanyan: "You have been eating these every day recently?" Can you eat it too? ”

"Anyway, the concubines can't eat much, so they will be able to eat it all at once. With so many people in the palace, the kitchen is already busy enough. The people who follow the prince are all old people in the house, as long as they eat well, it doesn't matter if the concubines are wronged, they can be regarded as sharing the worries of the prince. ”

Su Wanyan's expression was sincere, with a smile on her face, and she couldn't tell that she was lying, as if she didn't care at all.

Duanmu Rui felt guilty and angry in his heart, looked at her and said: "You are the princess of this king, how can you be wronged, they are all subordinates, you are the master, and they are the ones who should say that they will be." ”

He immediately ordered the eldest maid to call back all the servants in the courtyard, ask them what they had just done, and then ask them to call the housekeeper and all the people in charge of the house to the courtyard.

The maids who had sneaked out to play had already returned, and they shrank outside the courtyard and did not dare to come in.

Duanmu Rui stood on the steps under the eaves and shouted: "Kneel down!" ”

The maids knelt in the courtyard tremblingly, and Su Wanyan stood behind Duanmu Rui and watched all this coldly.

When the steward and the stewards came, many people stood in the courtyard.

Duanmu Rui asked the housekeeper to come into the house to look at the food on the table, "Take a look for yourself, what the princess eats, and don't let others laugh at it when you say it?" ”

After the housekeeper entered, he broke out in a cold sweat when he looked at the table of undecent meals that even he wouldn't eat.

"Who made the princess's food, go in and see it yourself, and eat it all by the way, don't let the king see it again." Duanmu Rui scolded the stewards who were standing in three rows below.

A chubby cook walked out with her head bowed and shrunk, went to the eaves and gave a salute, and replied, "Lord, princess, the meal is made by slaves and maids." ”

"What's your name?" Su Wanyan suddenly asked.

"They are all called slaves and maids." The cook whispered.

"You've worked hard."

Unexpectedly, Su Wanyan said this, Fu Niang quickly looked up at her, and hurriedly lowered her head, "Slaves and maids are not hard, they are all within the slave's share." ”

"You go in." Su Wanyan said softly again, but the corners of her mouth showed a dangerous smile.

She has been eating such meals for several days, if the conditions are not good, what kind of food to eat is actually a trivial matter, but the conditions in the palace cannot be bad, this is someone who wants to deliberately snub her and not take her seriously.

Today she specially called Duanmu Rui to let him see it, she remembered this cook this time, and she had a way to clean her up in the future.

After Ah Fu entered, the housekeeper reprimanded her, and really watched her eat all the food and soup before leading her out.

Seeing Ah Fu, who was already unable to hold on, Su Wanyan felt a little better in her heart, and some of the other stewards wanted to laugh, and some gloated, but they were all glad in their hearts, fortunately, they had not done anything disrespectful to this princess.

"Now that we have a female master, she will be the head of the palace in the future, you must respect her and listen to her orders and instructions."

Then he softened his voice and said: In fact, this king neglected the princess first and did not hand over the housekeeping to her in time. ”

Duanmu Rui said and glanced at Su Wanyan, seeing that her face was calm, with a vague smile on the corner of her mouth, and he couldn't tell whether she was happy or unhappy, he blamed himself a little more in his heart, and he reprimanded more severely: "This king is negligent, but you slaves dare to snub the princess, a few of them, and the housekeeper will sell them out after a while." “

The housekeeper immediately responded, Duanmu Rui looked at Ah Fu who couldn't help hiccups, and said with sharp eyes: "This king knows that you have been in the palace for almost ten years, and since this king left the palace to build a mansion, you have been taking care of this king's diet, maybe you are relying on yourself to be an old man, so you forgot your identity, if this king didn't come to see it today, I don't know what else you would do for the princess to eat." The princess has never enjoyed any delicacies, and you are fooling her with these things! ”

"Slave, slave knows wrong." Ah Fu hurriedly covered his chest and said, feeling as if he was about to vomit out what he had just eaten.

Su Wanyan listened, but she didn't expect that Ah Fu had been in the palace for so many years, and she was the one who had been taking care of Duanmu Rui, and her resentment towards her was a little less.

Duanmu Rui said to Ah Fu again: "For the sake of you being an old man, this king will not drive you away, you have stayed in this position for too long, it is time to step down, butler, choose someone with outstanding ability to replace Ah Fu." ”

In fact, Ah Fu may not have cooked for a long time now, and it is all done by the apprentices below, but she tacitly approved Su Wanyan's treatment.

"Yes." The housekeeper raised his eyes and looked at Su Wanyan, and hurriedly said alertly, "Lord Wang, I'm afraid that the slave will not be able to do this alone, so let the princess decide the candidate together." ”

Duanmu Rui was very satisfied with the housekeeper's interest, and immediately agreed, "Yes, you will hand over the account books, keys and other things in the palace to the princess in a while, and she will be the official housekeeper from tomorrow." ”

This matter can be regarded as dealt with here, and in less than half an hour, a table of freshly prepared meals, full of color, flavor, and most of them are fresh were sent to Su Wanyan's main courtyard.

Su Wanyan poured two cups of tea, one was placed in front of Duanmu Rui, she smiled and said: "Thank you for the prince's love, the concubine replaces the wine with tea, and thank the prince for his trust in the concubine." If the concubine does something wrong in the future, she must ask the prince to include it. ”

"Well, this king believes that you will definitely be able to do a good job." Duanmu Rui smiled at her.

Su Wanyan took a pair of chopsticks and ate the fragrant scrambled eggs, and said with satisfaction: "I'll just say, why is the chef of the palace so unpalatable, this is the water that should be." ”

"They snubbed you, why didn't you ventilate with me earlier?" Duanmu Rui saw that she was satisfied with eating, and his heart was also comfortable.

"Isn't that what I told you? I specially called you here today, you can't see it, right? Su Wanyan narrowed her eyes, "If you don't let them think I'm a bully first, and catch them off guard, how can you see their true colors." ”

"I'll just say, you've never been a person who can be wronged, how can you really be patient." Duanmu Rui also squinted at her.

Su Wanyan smiled and didn't say anything, concentrating on eating.

After the meal, the housekeeper asked her to bring over a few boxes of account books, as well as the title deeds of various shops, fields and other properties, the list of people in the house, and the keys to each door.

As soon as she saw the things piled up in half a room, she regretted that she didn't refuse Duanmu Rui, but after thinking about it, sooner or later, the housekeeper power must be in her hands, otherwise she will really become a joke in this palace, but she has to ask someone to come in to help, otherwise these account books will be seen in what year and month.

Thinking like this, she planned to invite the powerful account room in the Surprise Speech Hall to come into the mansion, but she definitely had to talk to Duanmu Rui about this matter.

The next morning, the maid who went to investigate came back and said that Duanmu Rui was in the house, she wanted to strike while the iron was hot to find him, and she was ashamed to say that it had been almost a month since she got married, and she was the first time she came to Duanmu Rui's yard.

The quaint dark red houses have large windows, a piece of bamboo and some pure green landscape trees are planted in the yard, and there is a long corridor outside the courtyard gate across a vacant lot, which should lead to all parts of the house.

When I walked to the gate of the courtyard, I heard a few people talking inside, Duanmu Rui was among them, as if they mentioned the word "princess", Su Wanyan stepped back and grabbed Lingxiu, and the two stood outside the courtyard gate and listened to what was being said inside.

Xu is bamboo forest rustled, the people inside spoke too attentively, Duanmu Rui and several of his subordinates were all masters of the masters, and they didn't even notice that someone was coming outside.

"It should have been a few days since General Su arrived at the border pass, I don't know what the situation is over there? Lord, do you think the odds are good? ”

"You have to plan slowly, it's unlikely that you can win the battle as soon as you go, this time it's a union of several countries, it's different from the last time you fought the Huns, even if this king goes, it's definitely helpless."

Hearing them say that the border war was unfavorable to Su Sui, Su Wanyan immediately clenched her fists, and was very worried about Su Sui.

"Lord Wang, Lao Jin has something to tell you." In the blink of an eye, the men frolicked again, and a young voice shouted loudly.

"If you have something to say, just say it." It was Duanmu Rui's peaceful voice.

An older voice spoke: "Lord Wang, that's the case, don't blame the little ones for not knowing the etiquette, taking care of your private affairs, I really want to remind you." ”