Another day, ten days before the day when the new moon set off for Jinling, it was already time to pass the dinner, and the new moon still didn't come in to ask the new moon if she wanted to pass the meal.

Fei'er tried to ask, "Madame, do you want to inform the dining room to pass the meal?" ”

"Wait a minute, I'm afraid there will be a guest coming, okay, the boxes here are almost counted, together with the boxes I just mentioned, let the little guy move to the warehouse in the north and store them." With that, Crescent Moon stood up from between the boxes and followed a path that the next person had walked on, and entered the inner room.

Fei'er saw Xinyue entering, so she checked the locks one by one, went to call the little maid, and moved the box in.

The two little guys who came in first have known Fei'er since they entered the mansion, and while carrying the box, they asked Fei'er, "Why can't you see Mrs. back and forth?" The tea is still steaming, and this will be gone? Fei'er listened and looked up at the desk, Xinyue drank half of the tea, and it was indeed steaming, only to think that as long as the little maid entered the inner hall, the new moon always got up and went into the inner room.

"Madame's affairs, how can you boys take care of them, do what Madame commands, and Madame won't reward you that time."

"It's just that I don't often see Mrs., that's why I asked." As he spoke, two more servants came in, and the four of them moved these boxes to the north warehouse according to the instructions of the new moon, and at the end of the day, there were already six or seven large boxes in the originally empty warehouse.

As he was talking, Rong Xu entered the inner hall alone, looking at the spacious inner hall, the boxes, cloths, and soft piles were so soft that there was no room for a foothold, and the little guys were moving the boxes in and out, not knowing where to pile them up.

"Say hello to the little prince" Xiao Wu and Fei'er both stopped their movements and said hello to Rong Xu.

Rong Xu stood at the door, did not go in, and asked Fei'er, "Where is Madame?" ”

"Madame has entered the inner room." Fei'er led Rong Xu to the inner room from the small gap that Xinyue had just walked through.

Xinyue sat in front of the dressing table, took off the coat she had been wearing, and put it on the shelf on the side, heard footsteps, and raised her voice, "Fei'er, go and ask the kitchen to set the meal, and then ask Feng'er to bring my lotus-patterned gown, the one I just wore is dirty." ”

"Madam, the little prince is here." Hearing Fei'er say this, Xinyue's hand that was removing the bead hairpin on her forehead stopped, "Please go to the dining room and sit down for a while, and the concubine will come over after changing her clothes." ”

Saying that, the new moon no longer cares about the sight behind her, but takes care of herself and takes off the pearl hairpin on her sideburns, and puts on a plain jade hairpin, and the long hair coiled up behind her hangs down along the arc of her back.

When I was young, Xinyue remembered that her mother had long hair flowing like a waterfall, but she always tied it up high in front of people, combed brightly, and fixed it with a decent hairpin, at that time her mother said that as a woman, the light of the hair comb is decent, which is a dignified and noble performance, and Xinyue will comb her hair so dignified from then on, Feng'er came in, holding the plain white gown that Xinyue wanted, and reached out to comb Xinyue's hair, but was stopped by Xinyue "Dignified and elegant, noble and generous, since then, I don't want to be like this anymore." ”

"Madam, let's comb your hair up" Feng'er still wanted to persuade Xinyue, but saw her stand up straight, pick up the clothes on the shelf, put them on her body, and walked forward.

When she arrived at the dining room, Xinyue touched her hair a little unaccustomedly, and after seeing Rong Xu, she straightened her back again, how could she forget the end of her dream, how did this person end up to herself.

Thinking about it, the new moon walked a few steps forward, until she met Rong Xu's eyes, Rong Xu sat on the chair, and the new moon's eyes lowered, so condescending, and the new moon with sharp eyes, Rong Xu saw it for the first time, Rong Xu, who was feeling uneasy, looked up again, but the new moon was already sitting at the dinner table, and the maid who delivered the meal had already come, and at this time, the meal had been placed on the table,

When Rong Xu was dazzled, Xinyue asked, "Has the little prince been able to eat?" ”

"Never"

"Then let's have dinner together, Feng'er, and prepare another piece of dishes and chopsticks for the little prince."

Feng'er put the dishes and chopsticks on the table, glanced at the two people sitting together a little nervously, and asked Xinyue softly, "Madam, are you okay?" ”

"It's okay, you can wait a while, get the account books."

"Some of the ladies haven't been sorted out yet..."

"Let's take a look first, let's go down."

"Yes," Hao'er had to obey Xinyue's arrangement and walked out.

As soon as I went out, I saw Fei'er at the door, a little nervous, and was looking inside, and Feng'er asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Sister Feng'er, I'm afraid..."Fei'er glanced at the two people in the dining room, "I'm afraid that the little prince and Mrs. will quarrel again." ”

"Madame knows how to measure, don't worry, Fei'er, come, I have something for you to help me." So saying, the two of them went together to the storehouse on the west side.

Rong Xu in the dining room, looking at Xinyue, who was really eating, asked a little unnaturally, "Very, are you hungry?" ”

"Yes" Xinyue doesn't like to talk when eating, but just eats the food in front of her sullenly.

Xinyue likes to eat fresh fish, and the closest to her is the steamed fish she loves to eat, brushing off the shredded green onions on the fish, and putting on a flower knife in order to taste it, the fish skin is slightly curled because of the heat, and the new moon is trying to lift the chopsticks, a chopstick with fish meat, facing the new moon, and putting it on her plate, "Listen, I heard my mother say, you like to eat fish, and you must eat fish every day." ”

"Yes, yes." As she spoke, Xinyue stretched out her chopsticks and continued to eat her own meal, "Did the little prince have a smooth trip?" ”

"Smooth" In front of Rong Xu, there was his favorite shredded fresh bamboo shoots and meat, he had just picked up a chopstick, and was suddenly questioned by Xinyue, and he was really a little abrupt, "Because it was not in accordance with the rules, I didn't let Nanyin take the Wumu carriage." ”

"I wanted to let the little prince make you more comfortable during the trip, but since the little prince didn't agree, it had to be like this." Xinyue looked at Rong Xu a little rusty, and because of her flattering appearance, she stretched out her chopsticks again, grabbed a piece of chopsticks and bamboo shoots, put them in her lips and teeth, and didn't speak.

The silence of the two made this huge dining room extremely quiet.

After the meal, Xinyue saw Rong Xu put on the chopsticks, stroked her slightly swollen stomach, and she ate some more with Rong Xu in order to wait for Rong Xu to eat enough, which would be really a little panicked.

My aunt is a vegetarian all year round, especially for dinner, she will only eat some vegetarian dishes, and the new moon is by her side, and for many years, the new moon is the same, when she is in Jinling, she just eats some vegetarian porridge for dinner.

It's just that after waking up from a dream that day, due to nightmares, I changed some of the living habits of the new moon, and I ate more dinner. "Little Wangye, do you want a cup of tea?" Xinyue still has something to say, and hopes that Rong Xu will stay.

"Okay, let your maid make the bed, I'm going to rest here today." After hearing this, Xinyue's heart became disappointed, and after looking down at her toes, she stopped talking.

Together, the two of them entered the inner room.

As soon as they sat down, Fei'er immediately served tea to the two, and Xinyue said to Fei'er, "Call Feng'er." ”

"Yes" Fei'er still glanced at the two of them uneasily, and turned around.

After a while, Fei'er and Feng'er came in together, one holding a box in their hands.

Without waiting for Xinyue's instructions, Feng'er put the box in her hand beside Rong Xu, and Fei'er put the box in her hand to Rong Xu.

"What is this?" Rong Xu picked up the teacup, and when he was about to drink it, he was also interested when he saw this battle.

The "account book" crescent moon opened its box.

"The account books of the back house, you can just look at it yourself, you don't have to look at me." As he spoke, Rong Xu took a sip of the fragrant tea in the cup, such a cup can relieve the oiliness after the meal.

"It is the account book of the concubine after marrying into the palace of the king of Yu, and it is the private account of the concubine, which contains the rewards of the palace, the in-laws, and other people who have walked around in Jinling over the years. In this way, in the six years since the concubine married into the palace of the king of Yu, the reward was 15,000 taels of silver, and the royal gifts were priceless, so they were all registered in the book. ”

"Are you saying that when Shan'er got married, the royal gifts she brought with her came from your private account?" Rong Xu took three or four sips of a cup of tea, and he was groggy to hear it, but when he heard Shan'er's matter, he immediately put down the cup.

"Yes, two pairs of silver bait porcelain bottles, five white jade Ruyi, and some jewelry, the concubine body is not remembered, but for Yao'er, there is only a lot more, and Shan'er is pregnant, and I, as a sister-in-law, will also give a copy..."

"Who asked you this. I only ask you, Shan'er's dowry back then..."

"Yes, it was the concubine who subsidized it with her own dowry, as above, it was all the dowry purchased by the queen mother and me in the palace."

"Why?" Rong Xu couldn't sit still any longer, stood up and asked in front of Xinyue.

Xinyue raised her eyebrows, glanced at Rong Xu, and then asked a little tiredly, "Why, doesn't the little prince know?" ”

"I have 3,000 households in Yuwangfu, and there are countless Zhuangzi fields, so why do you need your dowry?"

"A year before the death of the princess, the prince resisted the emperor's order in front of the tent, beat the prison army with a rod, fined 1,000 households, confiscated 10 granges, and fined 10,000 taels of silver." Speaking of this, Xinyue couldn't help laughing, and after Rong Xu saw it, he frowned and scolded, "As the granddaughter-in-law of this Yu Palace, you are so humiliated in your family, do you think it's funny?" ”

In the eyes of the courtiers, King Yu and others conspired against him, and the rod beat the prison army, which was simply a straight slap in the face of His Majesty. However, His Majesty endured it, just like King Yu slapped His Majesty in the face, King Yu became the first prince after the founding of the Great Sage, who was robbed of his land and was not killed by his house.

Because of this incident, His Majesty was already suspicious, and this is why His Majesty made up his mind to set aside the military power in the hands of King Yu and other things. All the misfortunes, Xinyue knows best in her heart, and it is all caused by King Yu alone.

"The concubine is smiling, it is because Your Majesty is merciful, the prince is here..."Xinyue's words sank, and she continued, "After the princess died, the cemetery was arrogated, and three hundred households were fined for three hundred fields, five thousand taels of silver, and five hundred acres of fertile land were confiscated. ”

Saying this, Xinyue turned over the account book in his hand again, "In this way, there are still 1,700 households in the Yitian, and the son of the later generation dies, and the two mansions are divided, and the prince is the master, and the two uncles' families are divided, and the family has 350 Yitian, and only 1,000 Yitian households are left." The expenses of the two governments, the funeral of the in-laws, the marriage of Shan'er, our marriage, several expenses. There is also the year before we got married, the grain and grass that was transported across the border of Liang was robbed by the Liang army, and the prince was anxious, so he took away 100,000 taels of silver in the house and 10,000 quintals of grain in Yitian. In the end, my aunt had no cash in her hand, and our marriage was simple, and when Shan'er got married the next year, she couldn't alleviate it, so some of Shan'er's dowry was indeed added by the concubine's dowry. As she spoke, Xinyue flipped a page from the account book in her hand, "However, my aunt raised a concubine, and the concubine also got the money." ”

Xinyue looked at him as a picture of being humiliated, Xinyue picked up the pen and ink, changed it in the account book, and continued, "Before my aunt died, she divided her dowry into three parts, and gave them to the concubine, Shan'er and Yao'er, Shan'er's share, since the aunt's spirit, the concubine body has been given to her, Yao'er's share, the concubine's body is all filled in Yao'er's dowry, as for the concubine's share, the concubine's body is except... Except for the suburb of Jinling, Dingya Villa, all of them are left to the Yuwang Mansion. ”

Dingya is the nickname of the new moon's mother's boudoir, but only very good boudoir close friends know.

And the eldest princess of Yining and Xinyue's aunt Xu, the two were friends with handkerchiefs in the boudoir, and later became sisters-in-law.

That other village was personally purchased by the eldest princess of Yining before her death, and she was originally going to keep it for her own use.

The eldest princess of the Xu family married the eldest princess of Yining in one step, so the eldest princess gave the courtyard to the Xu family.

That annex is also the place where she wants to settle after Xinyue and Rong Xuhe leave, so she has to leave that courtyard no matter what.

"What do you mean by this now?" Rong Xu slowly heard the meaning of Xinyue's words, Xinyue was settling accounts for him, handing over property, and finally achieving the goal of reconciliation.

"The little prince should understand the meaning of the concubine." Seeing that he finally realized what he meant, Xinyue turned another page of the account book and continued, "This is the dowry of the concubine, because the dowry of the concubine is purchased by the queen mother, my aunt and my mother's sister-in-law and me, and the reward of the inner family is absolutely immovable, my sister-in-law and I purchased it, according to the original agreement, the concubine body took it back, as for the aunt and the concubine body, the concubine body wanted to leave some memorials, take some away, and leave all of them." And all these years in..."

"Why the hell are you doing that?" Rong Xu waved his hand like a child and said helplessly.

Xinyue glanced at Rong Xu, who was so good, and said that Princess Yu was good at teaching her son, and Rong Xu did not disgrace Princess Yu's good name, both civil and military, and was born in a military general's family, so she naturally wanted to join the army.

Because of his mother's funeral at home, he was out of the mourning period last year, and he was already in the defenders of the eastern capital, and he was appointed as a deputy general under General Yihui, because he was the grandson of King Yu, he was quite prestigious.

However, Crescent Moon could see that he didn't really understand anything. I don't understand the trivial things of firewood, rice, oil and salt at home, I don't understand the staggered entertainment outside, and I don't understand the way of respect between husband and wife.