Xue Sishan listened to what I said, and there were also witnesses and material evidence, his legs were already weak, and he could barely stand, Zheng Siji still said stiffly: "You are planting a false accusation and framing it." I ask to see Your Majesty and ask him to do justice! ”

I called the guards who were standing outside the door in and held down the excited Xue Zheng and the others, and said, "I have already handed your majesty a fold to explain the situation." You can rest assured that Your Majesty will handle it impartially. ”

"Escort them down!"

Xue Zheng and the others were escorted down, and after this, the palace maids present were all frightened, and their eyes were more frightened and awe-inspiring when they looked at me, and they didn't dare to be as contemptuous as a few days ago.

"You have all seen it, if anyone dares to manipulate the accounts in the future and make profits from it, Zheng Siji and Xue Sishan will be your end. Once discovered, I, Xiao Qingqiang, will never be soft! ”

After some vigilance, I said: "Zheng Siji and Xue Sishan colluded to make a mess of the accounts of the Si Shan and the Si Shan Division. Now that the culprit has been dealt with, it is urgent to sort out the accounts and must be carried out immediately, and you must cooperate with me in correcting the accounts and checking the deficit. If anyone dares to disobey orders or to do evil in secret—"

I grabbed the wooden canes placed on both sides of the main hall and said with a smile: "According to the palace rules, I should be punished with a cane for thirty." If you don't do things seriously, don't blame me for the cruelty of the staff in my hand! ”

The palace maids present all trembled, and I said: "However, I have always done things with clear rewards and punishments, and if I do well, I will reward you according to the merits, and I will also consider rewarding Your Majesty to improve your grade as appropriate." ”

When everyone heard this, they were a little relieved, their faces were happy, and they had a look of eagerness to try, and I asked them to bring the account books and distribute the tasks, "It has been seven years since the establishment of my dynasty, and this is the account of the two divisions for seven years, a total of one hundred and ten books. Led by the bookkeeper and the cook, they were divided into groups and sorted out the accounts of each division separately. Each division is divided into seven groups, each of which is responsible for handling the accounts for one year. If there is anything you don't understand, you can ask the team members, or you can come and ask me, and I will check the accounts with you and fight side by side. One hundred and ten account books are not difficult for one hundred and twenty people in the Accounting Division and the Catering Division, and I believe that the proofreading and correction can be completed within today. ”

At my instigation, each group checked and corrected the ledger with the correct list I had taken from several stores, and it was not until it was dark that the accounts were verified. I gave bounties to the first three groups of members who completed the faster according to my words, and I checked the deficit in the accounts again, and found that there was a total deficit of nearly 20,000 gold. I have no money to make up for the deficit of 20,000 yuan, and I have to make up for it by Zheng Siji and Xue Sishan, so I have to let them spit out the silver that they swallowed privately.

So on the second day, I went to the prison to coerce and lure Zheng Siji and Xue Sishan, and promised that I would intercede with His Majesty to save their lives, and finally confessed to the place where the stolen money was hidden. Fortunately, they were greedy for this silver and just wanted to buy a house when they left the palace to spend their old age in peace, and they didn't spend too much, and this deficit was made up in the end.

After dealing with these things, I wanted to go to the courtyard where Ling'er lived to share my joy with her, but I was told that she was not there and went to Shanglin Garden (2) to enjoy the phoenix flowers.

I walked in the upper forest garden, and walked to the place where the phoenix tree was planted, and the phoenix flowers in July bloomed like clouds, and the red, orange and orange flowers were all over the tree, condensing half of the sunset, and the fluffy flames poured down from the crooked branches, cluster by cluster, and the red light flowed brightly.

Ling'er stood under the tree, tiptoeing, and stretched out her plain white hand to grab the low-hanging red flowers above her head, but she couldn't catch them several times. In the end, she simply pulled up the corners of her skirt, jumped hard, and finally grabbed one as she wished, and the half of her smooth and jade-like face showed a satisfied smile, put the flower to the tip of her nose, took a deep breath, and the smile on her lips became more and more beautiful, revealing a sweet and bewitching style, which made people feel stunned.

A phoenix flower on the crooked branch suddenly flew down diagonally and hit Ling'er's head. Ling'er took off the flower on her head, looked at the tree, and was a little annoyed, threw the flower on the ground, turned around and left.

"Sister Qingqiang!" As soon as Ling'er turned around, she saw me and ran over with a sweet smile.

"Has the matter of the Treasurer and the Chef been dealt with, and is the information I provided useful?"

I gave her a sincere smile, "It's done." Ling'er, you've done me a great favor. ”

"It's good to be able to help my sister. Sister Qingqiang, I did you such a big favor this time, have you become more fond of me! Ling'er's laughter was pleasant, like a crisp bell in the wind.

"I like it, I like it more than ever." Who doesn't love someone with such a bright smile?

Ling'er was even happier after listening to it, and talked to me with great interest about the novel I bought for her, "Sister Qingqiang, I read the book you bought for me, but I don't like it very much. ”

The corners of my lips froze, I was in a hurry to do something, so I hurriedly picked out two books for her, and I didn't know what the content was, I hope it wasn't too bad.

Ling Er said depressedly: "The heroine obviously has a good lover, and the two have a good relationship, but the hero was sideways, forcibly snatched, and forcibly separated the two people." The most incomprehensible thing is that the heroine and the hero abuse each and went, and finally fell in love with him. The poor lover of the heroine, who did nothing wrong, became the foil of their vigorous love. ”

"There is a woman in it who destroys other people's feelings, everyone scolds her for being a slut and not being ashamed, but the hero uses such despicable means to destroy others, and everyone actually thinks he is very domineering and infatuated. How can it also destroy other people's feelings, why is the difference so big? ”

I enlightened her, "This is the difference between men and women, they always look at people with double standards, but they don't know it, and they don't want to admit it." ”

Ling Er read the novel and watched it a little bit, and said indignantly: "I don't believe it, if the hero is replaced by a person who is average, has no money, and has no power, see if they will say that he is domineering and infatuated." ”

I took her hand and said, "This is the world." ”

However, Ling'er's indignation only lasted for a short time, and she soon couldn't maintain her tense face anymore, and laughed again.

The two of them gradually walked away, but they didn't notice that the man who jumped down from the tree was quietly watching them with a pair of black jade eyes.

Yu Wenyong heard about my rectification of the Accounting Department and the Catering Division, so he specially issued an order to let the people from the household department come to check the accounts of the six divisions. In the officialdom, there has always been no fish when the water is clear, and there will be some deficits in the accounts of each department, and the accounting department and the food department have been rectified by me a while ago, and the people in the household department have not been able to find any mistakes or omissions.

The female officials in charge of the Si Yi Division, the Si Bao Division, the Si Ji Division, and the Si Zheng Division were all punished, but they all put most of the responsibility on the palace maids below, and some innocent palace maids were used as scapegoats.

Yu Wenyong was very satisfied with my handling and decided to reward me, asking me what reward I wanted. I asked him for a token to leave the palace, so that it would be much easier for me to leave the palace in the future.

Out of the Zhengwu Palace, I vaguely smelled a fragrant magnolia flower. Looking sideways, Yang Jian, the guard set up at the palace gate, was wearing a black guard uniform with a bag of incense sachets tied to it, embroidered with three or two mulans. I smiled and said, "Young Master Yang, can you take the liberty of asking, your sachet contains magnolia petals?" ”

Although Yang Jian was surprised, he still said, "It's magnolia." ”

I smiled and said, "I'm not mistaken, it's really magnolia." I always thought that only women liked to wear sachets, but I didn't expect that Yang Gongzi also liked it. ”

Yang Jian explained: "This was originally an insider's sachet, but recently she suddenly stopped wearing it, I felt it was a pity to abandon it, so I took it and used it." ”

I understood: "It turned out to be Mrs. Zun's, Yang Gongzi is really affectionate to Mrs. Zun, and even Mrs. Zun's sachet is so cherished." ”

Yang Jian pursed his mouth, trying to defend something, but he couldn't say anything when the words came to his mouth, so I walked away with a knowing smile.

Shaoguang flies, the distant mountains are sunny and misty, and the clouds are dissolved.

On the evening of that day, after finishing the affairs of the Accounting Department and the Catering Division, I went to the Zhengwu Hall to report to Yu Wenyong on the day's work. Walking on the road, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy suddenly appeared on the bluestone paving bricks, blocking in front of me, carefully staring at me, surprised and delighted: "Sister Qingqiang, it's really you, you're back!" ”

I looked at his face carefully, the light of memory flashed in my mind, and I said with some uncertainty: "Xiao Guogong? ”

The young man asked, "Sister Qingqiang, where have you been all these years, why did you leave all of a sudden and didn't tell me?" ”

It's really Yuwen Zhi, I haven't seen him for three years, he has jumped so tall, his face shows a bit of mature outline, and his voice has changed a lot, I almost can't recognize it.

I explained, "I had an urgent matter to do, and I was pressed for time, so I didn't have time to inform you. ”

Yu Wenzhi said a little lowly: "You have been gone for three years, and no one has played with me." ”

I looked at him with satisfaction, "It's different now, you've grown up, I'm afraid you don't want to play." ”

"yes, I've grown up." Yu Wenzhi's eyes suddenly became a little cold, "Brother Huang always reprimands me for being ignorant and not doing my job. When I grow up, I don't need anyone to accompany me. ”

"Sister Qingqiang, you still want to go to see the imperial brother, right, I won't delay you, you can go."

Yu Wenzhi's attitude was obviously much more indifferent, and he walked away alone after speaking. The initial joy of reunion quickly faded and gradually dissolved into doubt. Over the years, this child seems to have changed, and this change seems to have something to do with Yu Wenyong.

When I arrived at the Zhengwu Palace, I saw that He Quan was very anxious to say to me that Yuwen Yong was gone, and asked the reason to know, Yuwen Yong happily went to Hanren Hall to ask the Empress Dowager to say goodbye, and it happened that Yuwen Zhi was also there, and the three of them were good, Yuwen Yong suddenly left, out of Hanren Palace, he still didn't allow He Quan to follow, and walked away alone. He Quan was helpless, afraid that something would happen to Yuwenyong, and seeing that it was getting late, Yuwenyong hadn't come back yet, so he hurriedly sent someone to look for it.

Naturally, I was also called by He Quan to find someone, and I naturally didn't care where Yu Wenyong was, I just planned to take a walk around the palace casually and just make a show.

Exegesis:

(1) The title comes from the Western Jin Dynasty Lu Ji's "Ban Jieyu" "Spring moss dark steps are removed, and autumn grass is high hall." ”

(2) Shanglin Garden: Shanglin Garden is an ancient garden building, built in Chang'an, with a magnificent scale, numerous palaces and beautiful landscapes.