Gu Zheng's annual income plus ice charcoal filial piety is only more than 1,200 taels, the public dividends can be spread 4,000 taels, and the annual expenses of the Qing guests alone are about 6,000 taels, plus the monthly money and interest of the aunt and maid in the room and the cost of antique calligraphy and painting, it is appropriate to spend a small 20,000 yuan.

Huang's expenses are not large, if you don't care about the wall dug by her subordinates, Qin Siyue (Long Xi) must think that she and Mrs. Zhang are the same kind of people. Danqi's dowry should have been a public, she is a concubine, not to mention 10,000 taels of silver to press the bottom of the box, in recent years, the Huang family has withdrawn more than 20,000 taels of silver in the name of dotting, Qin Siyue (Long Xi) will not fill the pit by her.

What's worse is Gu Bufan, and it's not enough to put Gu Bufan on Gu Bufan because of Gu Chen's deduction. Gong Er and the others thought: It's no wonder that I started with you, looking at the very weak son, the cost is actually greater than that of the second master with a gauze hat, which is really a little unreasonable.

Feng Da asked cautiously, "In the old lady's room—"

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) replied: "The old lady's courtyard is counted as public expenses, and only the things she subsidizes for each room are considered private expenses." ”

"Huh. Feng Da breathed a sigh of relief, he could be regarded as having an explanation.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) ordered: "The affairs in the Bufan room are supervised by the Feng family. ”

Feng's daughter-in-law stubbornly agreed: "Yes." ”

The maid in the Bufan room was originally frightened, first, she had a good temperament, and secondly, she had Dusk Xue in front of her, and she didn't take Feng's daughter-in-law's words to heart.

Twilight Xue pondered left and right, and blamed her at night: "I blame you, I don't cherish things on weekdays, but now the princess and grandmother have come to check the accounts, and they all ask us about our sins, and when the time comes, we will either pick up or sell, and naturally there will be better service to you——"

Bufan hugged Twilight Snow and relieved: "It's my fault, where is this, when the princess and sister-in-law ask, I will take it all by myself, the old lady loves me, and I will not send you for this." ”

"What I know is true, and what I don't know is that our sister lightly pushed the master to take the blame. Twilight turned her head, "We don't have to let you spoil things, you deserve to be punished." ”

"I'll beg the old lady tomorrow. "Don't be small, hug the twilight snow tenderness for a long time before you can enter the alley.

Mrs. Gu couldn't hear what she said, so she asked Mrs. Zhang: "Does the princess really have a record of income and expenditure?"

Mrs. Zhang had already prepared: "Please look at the old lady." ”

Old Mrs. Gu took the tortoiseshell, wore glasses and browsed it roughly, and said in a deep voice: "The public sponsorship is not bad, some thieves are reckless, relying on the unscrupulous heart to waste money, but the posture of emptying the treasury!"

Huang originally wanted to complain a few words, but he had to give up.

Gu Lao Taijun saw that the expenditure of the second room was far greater than that of the big house, and it was not easy to blame the eldest daughter-in-law for not being angry, but she wanted to rely on the respect to act on behalf of Gu Zheng to show weakness: "Your second brother is upright, accustomed to being a corporal of etiquette, and loves ancient characters and famous paintings, so he is too careful about the expenditure of money. ”

Mrs. Zhang knows the mind of the second room very well, and she can't take advantage of the undivided family to empty the public bank, Gu Lao Taijun is partial, she will not be petty to investigate, because of the smile: "Raising Qingke is the reputation of the entire Gu Mansion, calligraphy, painting and antiques can be passed down, and it is not a waste." ”

Old Taijun Gu nodded with satisfaction: "This is the demeanor of everyone's housewife, take a long-term view!"

"You're overrated. Mrs. Zhang's heart is that in case the family is separated in the future, the things in Gu Zheng's room cannot be regarded as private rooms.

Gu Bufan's plea was fruitless, and after returning to the room, he only said "The old lady has agreed", and Twilight Xue was a little relieved.

On the tenth day, Feng's daughter-in-law personally led the servant woman Fengqin Siyue (Longxi) to the Bufan place to "collect the account", and the upper and lower houses knew that they were afraid.

Bufan was not in school, Duxue was still talking to Hua Li in Xuexiangyuan, and the rest of the morning dew, Yelin and other big and small maids shouted in unison, Feng's daughter-in-law was quite speechless: "I communicated with you ten days earlier, but if you put the princess in your eyes, you won't be prepared at all, even if you can't make up the compensation today, so that the master can see the sincerity, and you can still get along with your group of minions?"

Chenlu was bought by Feng Da's mother to honor the old lady Gu, and she was the most clever, and when she saw this, she hurriedly said: "Auntie Mingcha, how many heads do we have to dare to put the words of the princess and grandmother behind us? ”

If Chenlu said, "I begged the old lady not to pay", Qin Siyue (Long Xi) designated a few seizures on the spot, and when she heard this, she asked: "In this way, do you feel wronged?"

Yelin replied: "It was the slave's dereliction of duty, how can there be a reason to shout injustice? It's just because I thought that the princess grandmother had approved the slaves' stupid way of converting their merits to their crimes, so it was not thorough, and I hope that the princess and grandmother will be lenient for a while, and the slaves who are not enough will definitely want to pay it as soon as possible." ”

"It's no wonder that the maid in the room is better than the lady of the ordinary rich family, but now it seems to be really extraordinary. Qin Siyue (Long Xi) said with a smile, "I was going to set up rules, but I was kneeled by them, and I really couldn't say anything." ”

Feng's daughter-in-law flattered: "These maids all rely on their masters' charity, and they have a clever mouth." ”

"People love to listen to good words, and I can't avoid being vulgar. Qin Siyue (Long Xi) glanced at the maids, "I don't like to talk around the bush, so I'll be blunt today." ”

The maids on the ground all kowtowed: "The slave bows to receive His Highness's instructions." ”

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) stood up: "Bufan is the master's nephew and the eldest son's brother-in-law, not to mention using the foundation of the old country's grandfather to support, that is, he has an urgent need for this time, and needs to move one hundred thousand silver from Zheng Guofu or the princess's mansion, can we still be stingy as brothers and sisters-in-law? But then again, I don't feel sorry for the serious place to pay the money, and it's another thing to take the copper plate and throw it into the pool." ”

As soon as Chenlu and the others put their hearts down, Qin Siyue (Long Xi) continued: "Having said that, you also understand here, after all, the eldest prince is the grandson of Emperor Taizong's protector of the country, and he can't let the servants use his cousin as a guise to empty the belongings of the Shenlong General's Mansion, I deliberately sell a few people who are not long-sighted to set an example for you, since they are all known to be wrong, they still have to be dealt with lightly." ”

Dusk Xue was not there, Yelin and Chenlu went to clean up their makeup, gathered a lot of gold and jade heads, and respectfully presented them in front of Qin Siyue (Long Xi).

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) instructed Feng's daughter-in-law: "Since they are interested, if they don't mention selling them today, these things will be pawned and confiscated to offset the previous loss." ”

"Yes. Feng's daughter-in-law instructed her entourage to put it away. ”

At this moment, Twilight came back in a hurry, knelt in front of Qin Siyue (Long Xi) and confessed: "The slave didn't know that the princess and grandmother had arrived, and the crime deserved death!"

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) sneered: "You are different from them, you should have some shelves. ”

Twilight hurriedly kowtowed: "The slave doesn't dare!"

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) was just about to speak, but Chunlan went back and forth: "Master, the second wife is here." ”

"I'll take care of the housework, and invite her to have tea in the room!" Qin Siyue (Long Xi) was quite impatient: What kind of son does he care, this house is fat!

Huang was so angry that he almost fainted: this was his son's house, and he was respected as a guest.

The kneeling maids on the ground looked at each other in pairs, and thought in their hearts: "The eldest grandmother is really incomparable to the second grandmother, and this courage is far inferior to even Concubine Nan'an." ”

Twilight took out a silver ticket from her sleeve and offered it with both hands: "The slave was assigned by the old lady to serve Bufan, and now it is difficult to excuse such a mistake!"

Feng's eldest daughter-in-law took it and presented it to Qin Siyue (Long Xi), Qin Siyue (Long Xi) unfolded it and looked at it, because of a smile: "Good guy, you are really a rich man." ”

"Slaves and maids do not dare to deceive their masters. Twilight Xue kowtowed and replied, "The slave and maid were derelict in their duties, and they gathered the rewards of the masters in the past, and took the scattered gold and silver and the clothes of the head and face to Aunt Mu for pawning, and the aunt was merciful and borrowed five hundred taels of silver from the slave and maid!"

"Mu family!" Qin Siyue (Long Xi) has been immersed in the palace for many years, and her eyebrows are empty, how can she not know the Mu family's abacus? Just because Dan Qi has the hope of resetting, Mu Huang's family saw that the second room was powerful, and became more and more determined to think of "two treasures to get married".

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) said cruelly before leaving: "Let this matter go today, but in the ugly words, it will be reconciled month by month in the future, if you can't afford to lose money, I will sell you at a discount, and ten aunts and wives are not enough to plead." ”

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) walked out of the yard with her front feet, and the maid behind her collapsed to the ground, Huang couldn't say anything when she looked at this scene, and after two words of warning, she helped Zhong Rui's daughter-in-law to leave.

The matter is not over, and there is gossip in the east compound: the princess feels that there are a lot of moths in the house, and she wants to pick one of the four housekeepers after the first month.

The second-floor master of the Shenlong General's Mansion is about to be played to death by the princess's grandmother, Qin Siyue (Long Xi) hasn't had the heart to plan for two months later, she is teaching her son a lesson.

Because she gave Gu Xuan and Gu Mao's sister and brother new clothes to Grandma Fang earlier, Gu Xuan was older and didn't care, but Gu Mao was unhappy and pestered Qin Siyue (Long Xi) to make trouble. Chunlan accompanied the smiling face to ask for guilt: "It's the slave maid, I should have greeted the sewing room to make up the little master's new clothes, because I have been busy recently, I actually left it behind, and the slave and maid will do it." ”

Gu Mao relentlessly relented: "Why give my clothes to the local boy in the countryside, I didn't agree, I want you to be in charge of everything! He deserves to do something to me without clothes!"

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) suddenly changed color: "Who did you learn these words from!"

Gu Mao didn't know the height of his eyebrows, and he still contradicted himself: "I don't follow, you have to return my clothes." As he spoke, he stepped forward and kicked Chunlan.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) slapped the table with a "snap", scratched left and right and picked up the dust and came to Gu Mao, Chunlan saw that the master was really here, and hurriedly got up and stopped him behind him: "Brother, what are you doing?"

Gu Maohe once happened to this, and he cried loudly with a "wow".

"I'm not very old, and I have a lot of problems, who told you such bastard words!" Qin Siyue (Long Xi) pushed the maid away, picked off her pants and hit her twice.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) has a delicate appearance, in the end, she is the tiger girl of the gate, and she is the master, where can Chunlan stop it, and shouted to the sisters outside: "Xia Lian, Dongmei-quick-come in and stop it." ”

Xia Lian Dongmei originally knew that Gu Mao was making trouble with the master, but she didn't care, but this time she hurriedly came in, and the three of them worked together to snatch Gu Mao out.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) shook the dust and thundered: "Listen, he is only four years old, but he has a hard heart, and the poor children in the countryside deserve to be starved and cold?

"Master, you also said that Brother Mao is only four years old, where can the child's words be done?" Chunlan asked Dongmei to coax Gu Mao out while serving tea to Qin Siyue (Long Xi), "It's all slaves and maids who are sloppy, you are angry, it is right to punish slaves and maids, what does it have to do with Brother Mao!"

"Habitual!" Qin Siyue (Long Xi) raised her voice, "Pass my word, don't make him new clothes for the New Year." ”

Chunlan knew that Qin Siyue (Long Xi) was originally angry for the accounts of the Shenlong General's Mansion, but now it was vented on Gu Mao, so she had to agree: "The slave maid wrote it down." ”

Because of the old matter of "recruiting younger brothers in the East Palace", Gu Mao's little pot friend is actually no one who dares to provoke him, from the queen mother, the queen to the crown princess, there is no one in the palace who does not favor him, and there are Gu Yin and his wife doting on him at home, how much arrogance and arrogance are a little arrogant, and today is planned to be accumulated for many days.

Crying and running to Rongxi Hall, Mrs. Zhang was distressed, but Qin Siyue (Long Xi) is her own mother, and there is no motive to 'find fault and abuse', so she coaxed her grandson while dressing medicine: "Brother Mao is the most well-behaved, your mother is not good, grandma will go to talk about your mother later!"

Gu Changbai (Mokun) returned to the house and passed by Rongxi Hall, and when he heard about today's incident when he greeted Mrs. Zhang, he immediately sighed: "What's the matter today, the emperor beat the second prince for the sake of the ceremony." ”

The second prince is the de facto eldest son of the emperor and the only concubine among the princes. The queen is stable, so naturally she will not treat him badly, Mrs. Zhang was quite surprised: "How can it be good-"

"Their uncles and nephews are the same. Gu Changbai (Mo Kun) shook his head, "One is for the ancestors and the other is for the common people." ”

Mrs. Zhang said again: "Although Brother Mao is fine, he is a little scared, stay here and sleep with me tonight, and you can also untie the princess, after all, she is small!"

Gu Changbai (Mo Kun) responded: "Understood." ”

The mother and son did not have an overnight feud, and after Mrs. Zhang's explanation, Gu Mao saw his mother a little awkward the next day, and then he had a smiling face again.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) still had to enter the palace, and before leaving, she instructed her mother-in-law: "My daughter-in-law taught Brother Mao for his heart, and he has nothing to do with other things, and now his younger brother and sister are pregnant——"

Mrs. Zhang hurriedly said: "You can only rest assured." ”

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) is not an ordinary woman, but she has a heartfelt respect for the queen, not for anything else, but for the sentence "Lord Bao" outside the delivery room of the East Palace back then, Qin Siyue (Long Xi) respects this aunt for a lifetime.

As for the emperor's family, the good impression of Qin Siyue (Longxi) is also natural, they have had the most difficult time, after all, it is the young girl who insists on the righteousness of the concubine, and now the situation is cheerful, and the emperor and queen naturally not only regard her as a princess with a title.

Listening to Qin Siyue (Long Xi) ask, the queen was not taboo: "Don't worry about anything else, because Yang'er was calculated by King Lian and reduced the regulations of Emperor Taizong's rituals, your uncle felt that he was slapped in the face, so he beat Yang'er." The concubine and the daughter-in-law of Yang cried to me, they were in a hurry, I went to the Qianqing Palace to ask, your uncle only said to discipline the child, and I came back when I heard that there was no side. ”

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) nodded: "It turned out that it was for this, I still want to ask my uncle for a peace, it seems that it is better to wait." ”

"He can't be angry with us. The queen instructed, "If you have to be free, you can go to the Qianqing Palace for a walk, and now you are still hiding from the Queen Mother, and you can rest assured that you go to the concubine." ”

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) should go down: "It's okay." ”

At the entrance of the palace, he met the fifth son of the emperor, Jin Yu, and just stopped someone to ask: "Who is inside?"

Jin Yu replied with a smile: "My sister came just in time, and the third and fourth brothers were here." ”

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) asked, "How is my uncle's mood?"

Jin Yu understood: "I beat my second brother yesterday, but I didn't say it, and I regretted it in my heart." ”

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) was relieved and instructed the palace supervisor guarding the gate: "Report it." ”

When the emperor saw Qin Siyue (Long Xi), he couldn't help but blame: "You are now walking less in the palace." ”

"The son is involuntarily. Qin Siyue (Long Xi) sighed, "Why don't you send an envoy to Erchen and send Gu Changbai (Mokun) back to take the child?"

The emperor laughed and asked, "You came here to listen to Yongyang's affairs, right?"

"It's raining on a cloudy day, who cares!" Qin Siyue (Long Xi) put on a posture of exchanging experiences, "Our uncle and nephew are fateful, I beat Gu Mao yesterday, and I don't dare to look at me until now!"

"Mao'er?" it was Yonglin who spoke, "what are you hitting him for?"

The Emperor and Yongdong were also surprised.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) Xingshi asked: "I came to you for this, let's make it clear in front of my uncle." ”

Yonglin opened his mouth wide: "It has something to do with me?"

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) didn't say anything: "Gu Mao was in the East Palace for five or six out of ten days, who do I blame if I don't blame you?"

The emperor's curiosity was aroused: "What mistake did Mao'er make?"

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) briefly explained: "There is a very distant relative in the Shenlong General's Mansion, the family road has declined, and now the food and clothing are worried, two days ago I begged to the Shenlong General's Mansion, I took Gu Mao's newly cut winter clothes and gave them to the children who came with him to wear, he did not follow, saying that the children in the hometown of the bitter child starved and frozen, you listen to this, the Gu family is the fourth generation of the prince of heaven Bifu, I don't expect him to get ahead in the future, so I can't lose the compassion and charity of others." ”

"Hey, what should I be a big deal-" Yongdong didn't finish his words and asked his brother to step on him, turned his head to look at Emperor Lao Tzu, and found that the uncle and nephew were glaring at him with the same expression.

The emperor nodded: "It seems that it is not only Mao'er who should be beaten. ”

Yongdong shrank his neck, only to feel a chill on his back.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) turned her gaze to Yonglin: "Prince, tell me whether he should fight or not!"