After eating three meals at noon, Zhang Shou drank a belly of tea with the three elders in the small teahouse in the afternoon, first talking about the Longmen account, and then talking about Jiuzhangtang, which took a lot of words, and then the three elders dragged him to choose two imperial chef candidates in a decent manner - because he specially ordered that in each guild hall, all dishes are the work of one chef - In the end, Huaiyang cuisine and Lu cuisine were selected.

As for the slightly sweet Subang cuisine, he thought it was good, but the elders didn't like it, so he only got one vote out of four. Although he could decide it alone, in the end, he only decided to go back and mention it to the emperor. However, at the same time, an extremely bold idea was born in his heart.

By the evening of this day, when Zhang Shou sent Ge Yong and the three of them home one by one, it was already evening, and the satiety he felt after eating three meals at noon was long gone, although he was not hungry, but he couldn't help but laugh at himself, whether the more he ate, the easier it was to be hungry.

At this moment, he heard Ah Liu beside him muttering in a low voice: "Can arithmetic really be eaten as food?" ”

Zhang Shou glanced sideways at Ah Liu, who had been dumb all afternoon, and in view of the fact that persuasion was completely useless for this kid, he could only smile and say: "For the teacher and those two gentlemen, it is indeed a delicacy, and it is also an immortal medicine for eternal youth." Can you imagine how painful the teacher and the two gentlemen would be when they were old and couldn't study these things? ”

Ah Liu tilted his head and thought about it carefully, and nodded knowingly: "Also, I can't think of what will happen if I can't move when I'm old." ”

When you're old and can't move...... Hehe, I can't think of what that was like!

Zhang Shou couldn't help laughing, but then he heard Ah Liu suddenly say: "Do you want me to check again, what is going on with the false accusation?" I think it's true that Guo Shanggong stole things, and the person surnamed Zhou in the imperial dining room had an adulterous affair with her, and it is also true that she has rubbed countless oils in the imperial dining room over the years, but there was a problem with that planting. ”

Zhang Shou never doubted Ah Liu's sensitivity, and he himself believed that there might be something strange behind this matter, but at this moment, seeing Ah Liu's murderous appearance, he couldn't help laughing: "Didn't the emperor ask the imperial attendant to investigate?" That means that with your master leading the team, what are you worried about? ”

Ah Liu frowned a little irritably: "But the madman is very messy!" "Besides, I can't say where the source of this matter is!

It's as if you're not messing around! Zhang Shou couldn't help but smile dumbly: "It's a matter of palace, unless you want to change jobs and go back to your old job, don't think I'll promise you!" Don't think about it, maybe they deliberately sent such a fool and the wooden man that the emperor often played with to you, instead of worrying about the details now, it is better to think about where to get back the field in the future! ”

"I see." Although he agreed very quickly, Ah Liu once again began to think about the three sects and nine streams on the ground in the capital. Although he had already beaten some of them with his fists, dug some of them with promises, and made some people stare at other people, as a young man who had just arrived in the capital for more than a year, he still felt that he had fewer means, and those people in his family were too hard-working.

Isn't it just sleeping for two hours a day, and the rest of the time is not used to practice martial arts? It's all miserable!

If Zhang Shou knew that Ah Liu would impose strict standards on others, he would definitely feel funny and blame this kid for being too demanding, but since he didn't know, everyone in the family who was in dire straits under someone's coercion was destined to be unable to get rid of it in a short period of time. ran to sue Zhang Shou in front of this matter, no one has the courage to do so.

When the master and servant arrived at the gate of Zhang Yuan, it was already completely dark. In front of the door, two lanterns with large letters were hanging on both sides of the gatehouse, and the two black-lacquered doors were tightly closed, except for the small door for people to enter and exit on one side.

According to Zhang Shou's grade, the shape of this gatehouse is obviously prohibited, but the emperor has already made a special intention to stay as it is, so he only repainted the vermilion lacquer gate with black lacquer - in this era when only the palace and other palaces can paint the gate with vermilion lacquer, just the color of the gate, you can see how beautiful and domineering the king of Lu used to be.

He rode into the door, and listened to the old Liu Tou babbling about the situation at home, and couldn't help but think of the situation in the countryside in the past, and he didn't feel verbose for a while, but when he threw the reins out after dismounting, he suddenly realized a very important problem. Although Ah Liu recruited a lot of people, and the Zhu family also borrowed a lot of people to send them over, but ......

The inner courtyard is okay, there is the Wu family in charge, as long as there are two housekeepers to assist the mother, but in the outer courtyard, who is the housekeeper?

He thought of this question, and saw that Ah Liu had already dismounted and followed, so he casually asked such a question. But immediately after, he saw Ah Liu glancing at him with very strange eyes, and then he held his head high. At this moment, he suddenly thought of a possibility that he had not thought of before.

"Is it possible...... It's you? ”

"It was me." Ah Liu burst out five words loudly, seeing Zhang Shou as if he had seen a ghost, his face was full of disbelief, he was suddenly a little sullen, and his face was still a little aggrieved, "What, can't I?" Lu Sanlang reviewed the expenses of the outer courtyard on his behalf, the old Liu Tou was in charge of hospitality, the defense lame man An Lu was in charge, and the outer kitchen Xu Pozi was in charge, and the family was not manpowered, so one person could only be more than one. ”

It is understandable that the latter few who are also in charge of Zhang Shou are also normal, but what the hell is Lu Sanlang's substitute review? How could the little fat man agree to take care of such trivial matters? The more he thought about it, the more suspicious he became, and at the same time he felt funny, but then he couldn't help but look at Ah Liudao: "Then what are you in charge of as a housekeeper?" ”

"I'll take care of them! Who is lazy and slippery, takes the sheep by the hand, eats inside and crawls outside...... Hehe. ”

Hearing this laughter, Zhang Shou couldn't help but cover his forehead. He knew it! Ah Liu, this is really elevating the word housekeeper to the literal. Isn't the housekeeper the housekeeper in charge of the house...... people? He took a deep breath and finally decided not to explain what a butler was to the little guy who had decided that he was very loyal to his duty.

After thinking about the current manpower in the family, he has already realized that with such a configuration situation in the family now, if you want to pick out a housekeeper who can deter everyone up and down, it is indeed only Ah Liu in front of him. Because no one else can control the scene! However, thinking about the fact that Ah Liucheng followed him out all day, he sighed.

"Okay, if you continue to be the housekeeper, there is indeed no one else who can replace you, and others do not have such prestige as you."

Seeing that Ah Liu suddenly showed a smug smile, he continued to add, "But Lu Sanlang can't audit the accounts for a long time, and it's a joke to say it." In the future, the little peanut can learn ...... No, that kid was scolded by the old salted fish for refusing to study hard, so you can remember to remind me when you look back, and let the people of Jiuzhangtang give me ten and four arithmetic problems for him to do every day. ”

"Those who go to Guanglu Temple and the public school don't have time, so let others help out, this kind of thing can only be done in a breath for them. When the little peanut is done, you take it over and find someone to help you correct it. If you make a mistake, you will be punished for copying it ten times! ”

Ah Liu's face suddenly showed deep sympathy. I think that when he was in the countryside, he was forced by Zhang Shou to count forty questions a day, and he was almost tossed to death, not to mention that Little Peanut now has to do at least two hundred questions a day?

And at that time, after all kinds of pleading, he was punished for squatting and stepping for a wrong question, and he finally didn't get as miserable as Little Peanut now!

Since he lost such a task to Little Peanut, Zhang Shou thought about it for a while, and said with a smile: "Just find a companion for Xiao Chengye, although Little Peanut is a few years older than him, he also grew up in the people." Didn't he always shout that he wanted to be self-reliant, and let him also go to Jiuzhangtang to do chores. If you can hone a little digital talent in the future, you can at least help your butler look at the accounts. ”

Hearing that Zhang Shou once again emphasized the legitimacy of his housekeeper, Ah Liu's eyebrows suddenly fluttered, and he immediately agreed.

Zhang Shou went out of Guanglu Temple on this day and picked up Ge Yong and the three of them, that is, they went to eat and drink tea, and they were so leisurely that they didn't even go to Guanglu Temple to ask about the results of today's audit. However, those who were staring at him could not help but suffer enough again. And the many bigwigs who got the message from Guanglu Temple in the evening were even more happy and sad.

Like Confucius University, although he didn't know that Chu Kuan gave him the eye medicine behind his back that day, his in-laws used to be in the position of Guanglu Shaoqing, and he would not not remember it. A bunch of imperial kitchens in the imperial dining room were all dismissed, and some people were even in prison, and the family found far more wealth than they should have, and he was not unaware.

And now that he heard that the account books of Guanglu Temple for three months were already a mess, even if he hadn't found out five years ago, he already had to think about whether he needed to kill his relatives in righteousness. There is such a stupid and greedy in-law, he was really blind before!

The big head is not just a Confucian scholar, Wu Ge Lao, who has always been kind to people and thinks about the holy will in everything, is also very big, because his nephew is idle in Guanglu Temple, although because the position is too low, and the time is not long, this time he is not among the people in prison, but the official position is still gone, and his wife cried in front of him, almost annoying him to death.

As for Zhang Yu, a scholar who was only promoted by the emperor at the beginning of last year, he was the lowest ranked among the cabinet members, but his personality was always strong...... Although people have nothing to do with Guanglu Temple, they don't know who is publicizing it, his housekeeper and the head of the imperial dining room surnamed Zhou are the same sect, and he didn't have time to deal with it, the housekeeper ran away, so he also fell into trouble.

This is only the cabinet, the six ministries and the Metropolitan Inspectorate, and the rest of the temple supervisors, and there are also many people who are inextricably linked with the people of Guanglu Temple and the Imperial Dining Room.

Even if the emperor only demarcated the scope of the thorough investigation in the two places of Guanglu Temple and the Imperial Dining Room, and there were more Shang Gong stealing forbidden objects, Guanglu Temple embezzled human and material evidence, but it was still inevitable that some people would be in danger.

Although Guanglu Temple and the Imperial Dining Room were not extremely powerful places in the past, they were also the most recent places of the Son of Heaven, so the people who handed over to them were naturally the people with heads and faces in the court - people who had no heads and no faces ignored you! But once something goes wrong, the former leaders involved in these two places will naturally be discouraged.

Therefore, when the next morning, when the three sides of the cabinet and the elders who did not agree with each other met each other, Scholar Confucius noticed the blue and black circles of Wu Gelao, and Elder Wu noticed the yellowish complexion of Scholar Zhang, and Scholar Zhang ...... He spotted the unruly strand of hair of the Confucian scholar, who had always been meticulous, falling outside his official hat.

At this moment, the three of them almost had the same mind, and at the same time showed a wry smile.

It is said that it is under one person and above ten thousand people, but when there are gains and losses, what is the difference between it and ordinary people?

Sure enough, the day's pilgrimage was bland and boring, and there was nothing worth talking about, or something worth making a big deal about, and it ended quickly and straightforwardly. After the court meeting was over, all the officials returned to their respective yamen, and when the Confucius scholar and the other three were also ready to leave, someone suddenly came and invited them to move to the Qianqing Palace.

Although the three of them are now pregnant with ghosts, of course, the degree of weakness of their hearts is different, but when they entered the Qianqing Palace, they were still full of faces, and their frank and unrestrained demeanor would praise the prime minister's demeanor. However, when they straightened up after saluting in front of the emperor, when they saw the emperor turn the wooden figure in his hand to the front, their faces changed.

They didn't even need the emperor to explain, they knew that it was the cause and effect of the theft in the palace.

"From now on, the imperial dining room will be under the jurisdiction of the palace. Since my diet and the expenses allocated by the inner treasury have nothing to do with the outside, there is no need for Guanglu Temple to manage it anymore. This is one of them. After the emperor said this with a smile, he saw that the Confucian scholar was slightly stunned, and immediately opened his mouth to defend himself, but he stretched out his hand to stop the other party directly.

"I have made up my mind, and the messy scandals of Guanglu Temple and the Imperial Dining Room have been widely circulated throughout the Jingshi, and I don't even know how many literati have written them into their own miscellaneous records. I'm afraid that even the people in the market know that the emperor of heaven was deducted from his diet by a group of corrupt officials and cooks who colluded together, and even the concubines in the palace have become a joke. ”

"I don't believe any of the rumors related to you before, but you don't have those thoughts of calming things down, let alone trying to suppress this big case. There are some things that are better than sparse, and I believe you know better than me. ”

The emperor has said so seriously, the three of you look at me, and in the end they are all speechless.

If it weren't for the fact that the rumors were spreading more and more outrageously, how could they be so afraid?

However, Confucius University is not an ordinary person after all, he was hard-minded and recovered in only an instant, and immediately saluted again: "Your Majesty, there are already many people to blame in the imperial dining room, but since you are in charge of the palace meals, you can't be absent for a long time, I don't know if there are any backup candidates?" If there is none, and you can't trust Guanglu Temple, you can make the officials of the DPRK and Central Taiwan recommend. ”

Let the royal historians who pick people recommend cooks to me? Are you sure it's not a joke? The Emperor laughed, and then said lightly: "I originally instructed Zhang Shou, a foodie, to choose a few imperial chefs for me, but Zhang Shou gave me a better idea. Since the officials and people of the capital have been panicking recently, let's hold an imperial chef selection contest in the name of selecting the imperial chef! ”