The five people in the courtyard are all the housekeepers and grandmothers of the middle courtyard of the west courtyard of the palace, and these people are all working for Wang Miao, so Wang Miao really has a headache when she sees this situation.

"What are you doing here? There is a lot of noise here, and there are no rules. Wang Miao stood in front of the five people, and they all noticed it, until Wang Miao spoke up, and the two people who were arguing stopped fighting.

The five people looked at Wang Miao's face and felt that something was wrong, Wang Miao's temperament was well-known for being docile in the palace. It has always been rare to lose his temper with his subordinates, so these five people dare to make noise in Cuixiu Garden, but this time it is obviously not right.

Three of these five grandmothers are the housekeepers of the West Courtyard and two are the housekeepers of the Middle Courtyard. The two people who quarreled the most were Mama Peng from the West Courtyard and Mama Chen from the Middle Courtyard.

Wang Miao saw the expressions of these five people in his eyes, and noisy things like today have also happened, and Wang Miao used to play the role of a peacemaker to resolve conflicts. But today Zhao Xiu was standing outside, which made Wang Miao's face very unbearable.

Wang Miao, as the princess of Cheng, took care of the palace into this situation, and she is also responsible. She was even more afraid that Zhao Xiu would blame her for not running the family properly and not being the mother of the family.

When the five grandmothers saw Wang Miao, they hurriedly saluted first, and Wang Miao asked with a straight face, "What happened?" ”

The two grandmothers who were the most noisy hurriedly opened their eyes and shouted to speak first, and the two of them didn't know what to say, Wang Miao was stunned and didn't hear a word clearly.

"Okay, okay, let's say it one by one, Mama Chen, you say it first." Wang Miao interrupted the gossip between the two, the reason why he asked Mama Chen to say it first was because Mama Chen was relatively kind.

Mama Chen, who is over forty years old, said aggrievedly: "Niangniang Mingjian, Mama Peng's heart is not right, and she deducts the charcoal fire in our middle courtyard. ”

Mama Peng, who was standing on the side, heard Mama Chen say this about her, and immediately retorted: "Nonsense, the charcoal fires we gave you in the West Courtyard are all counted, and there will definitely be no shortage of catties or two." It's you, who hid the charcoal fire privately and came over to say that we gave it less, maybe you took out the charcoal fire for welfare and bought it for money. ”

Mama Chen tugged at Wang Miao's clothes, knelt down with a plop, and shouted loudly: "Princess Niangniang, wronged, I have been in the palace for decades, and I have never taken anything from the palace." It's all this shrew spewing blood. The charcoal fire and some items in our middle court are often given less, and the people of the entire middle court know about it. ”

Mama Peng also knelt on the ground like Mama Chen, and shouted with a sad face: "The distribution of items and charcoal in the middle courtyard are all registered, and there is no possibility that there will be any lack of giving." The princess is a good idea. ”

Wang Miao really couldn't stand the quarrel between the two, and shouted loudly: "Shut up for me." Wang Miao is really angry, as the mother of the family, she also knows some things about people. The housekeepers and grandmothers under her are usually intrigued, and she knows that the contradiction between the middle court and the west courtyard is also difficult to resolve.

Wang Miao lives in the West Courtyard, and the four housekeepers in the West Courtyard are naturally closer to Wang Miao, but the two housekeepers in the Middle Court are not welcomed, and these Wang Miao know. The entire palace has three large courtyards, and the east courtyard is directly managed by Meng Xin, and Zhao Xiu does not allow anyone to interfere. The middle courtyard and the west courtyard are under the control of Wang Miao, and there are more than 300 people up and down the two courtyards.

The expenses and expenses of each room in the palace are allocated by the western courtyard, and Wang Miao has also heard of the fact that the charcoal fire in the middle courtyard has been deducted. It's just that this Mama Peng is very measured in her work, and she doesn't go too far, plus when Zhao Xiu entered the palace, she came to the palace to do things, and she belonged to the elders of the palace, and she also helped Wang Miao a lot. Wang Miao is a person who values love and righteousness, so naturally she didn't blame Mama Peng. But she was also reminded openly and secretly.

Wang Miao saw that the two of them were kneeling on the ground, and her heart suddenly softened.

Wang Miao pulled up the two of them one in one hand, and comforted Mama Chen over and over again: "Okay, okay, since the charcoal fire in the middle courtyard is not enough, then from this month, the charcoal fire in your middle courtyard will add two hundred catties to you." With the original 500 catties, there are now 700 catties of charcoal, which is enough. ”

The two of them stood up, still crying and mourning, as if one was more wronged than the other.

There were three more grandmothers behind Mama Chen and Mama Peng, and one of the eldest grandmothers stood up and persuaded: "Princess Niangniang, this is already a great mercy, what else do you two not be satisfied with, and you haven't thanked the princess?" ”

Naturally, this was said to Mama Chen, but Mama Chen didn't seem to understand, and she seemed to be pretending to be confused.

Mama Chen shouted in the voice of the male duck: "Niangniang, the middle courtyard is not welcomed all year round, and it is common to deduct charcoal fires. It was only when I mustered up enough courage that I dared to think about the princess's retribution. I didn't report this, and there are more things about Mama Chen's deduction of supplies in the middle yard. At this point, you can't really forget it. Please ask the princess to call the shots, and you must find out the bad people behind the scenes. ”

Wang Miao pursed her lips, standing helplessly in front of the two of them, and she didn't know what to say, it was clear that Mama Chen in the middle court was justified and refused to give up.

Mama Peng, who was originally relieved, was angered by Mama Chen again. She sneered, "Hey! I wanted to let you go, but I didn't expect you to bite me? ”

Mama Chen deliberately made a louder voice than Mama Peng, "Bah! Who let go of whom, not necessarily that one? ”

Mama Peng was not afraid at all, and immediately shot back in front of Wang Miao: "Okay! You said you want to find out who is behind the scenes? Well, in front of the princess, let me ask you, why didn't the maid you sent to count the charcoal fire point out that the number of charcoal fires was wrong at that time? Why did you wait until they were all taken back before they came to complain that the charcoal fire given by our Intermediate Court was not counted? ”

Wang Miao was a little confused when she heard it, what Mama Peng said was very reasonable, why didn't she find a problem when she came to receive the charcoal fire, and only found that the number was wrong when she took it back? She originally thought that Mama Chen was reasonable, but now she thinks Mama Peng is reasonable.

Mama Chen sneered and said, "Hmph! The person I sent to receive the charcoal fire is a little maid who has just come to the house not long ago, and I asked this girl to bring a dozen servants from the middle courtyard to you to receive the charcoal fire, where can she fight this old shrew. The charcoal fire in each basket is less than two pounds, how can she see it. As soon as the charcoal fire was carried back to the middle courtyard, I found the clue, and used an iron scale to weigh that each basket of charcoal was missing a few catties, and together, it was a full loss of seventy or eighty catties. ”