Concubine Tong Gui has no children, and she has not blocked the queen mother, and she is the niece of Queen Gao, and the courtyard is the best; Concubine Ma and Concubine Wu have their sons stained with the light of the imperial party, and they also have independent courtyards, and the son of the princess married the queen's sister, and the queen mother gave her daughter-in-law face to let her have an independent territory, and the rest of the concubines Zhen Gui, Concubine Guo, Concubine Ming and others purely refer to where to live, and they really have a feeling that is not what they used to be.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) originally gave the queen an idea to let the son of the emperor who opened the mansion take his mother out of the palace, one to save expenses, and the other to declare grace. didn't expect the old lady to play energetically, so the queen didn't sweep her mother-in-law's interest.

In fact, the emperor was not willing to let the concubine out of the palace happily, especially Concubine Zhen Gui and Concubine Guo, which were all meat tickets held in their hands, which could be used to beat the Zhonglian brothers at any time, Princess Chaoyun's face still had to be given, and she privately promised to make plans after the emperor's filial piety period was over.

The emperor's scheming skills are becoming more and more exquisite, the emperor has just passed a year of filial piety, the loyal prince asked for a decree to welcome his biological mother Ma Taifei to the palace to celebrate her birthday, the holy will allowed, and praised the loyal prince in public for his filial piety, and Ma Taifei also got the queen mother's decree, and she can move to two places in the palace.

After a month, Prince Zhongheng and King Zhongwen also went to the table to welcome Concubine Guo out of the palace to celebrate her birthday, but the emperor politely refused, only saying that he and the queen were filial piety to their concubines in the palace.

Next, Prince Zhongyong was successfully allowed to welcome Concubine Wu out of the palace to celebrate her birthday, and also moved to the two places like Concubine Ma, and the emperor's mind was completely revealed.

In the first nine days of the first snow, Gu Chong and his wife returned to Beijing from Jinling, Sister Qing was diagnosed with a happy pulse, Mrs. Zhang was happy, and went to the East Courtyard every day to visit, Mei Jun and Mei Jun all needed to enter the palace to study, because Mrs. Zhang discussed to ask Sister Qing to protect the fetus with peace of mind, Qin Siyue (Long Xi) simply gathered the authority to take over the internal affairs of the Shenlong General's Mansion.

Looking through the account book, Qin Siyue (Long Xi) was really angry, the expenses of the big house were not counted, and the second room was a grandmaster who sold gold: Gu Zheng took seven or eight hundred taels of silver every month to raise Qing guests; the Huang family spent five or six hundred for Danqi's dotting; and I don't know how much the glazed agate bowl in the Bufan house was smashed, and the silver was several times better than Mei Jun.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi), like the queen mother, was only in the mood of tossing her subordinates, and directly called the four housekeepers' daughters-in-law to lecture her.

The four major housekeepers of the Shenlong General's Mansion, headed by Gong Er, the head of the capital, are the servants of the Gu family, Shan Daliang, who is in charge of the affairs of Fangtian, marries Mrs. Zhang's dowry, Wu You of the treasury is Gu Zheng's brother, and Feng Da, who assists in the management of foreign affairs and construction, is the eldest son of Gu Lao Taijun's wife. Behind the four people stood the forces of the Quartet, none of whom were second-layer masters who could attack at will.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) ignored a lot, and directly attacked Wu You's daughter-in-law: "Go back and tell you that you are in charge, and you will list the accounts for me within three days, and the expenses of each room and the amount of money must be detailed." ”

Wu You's daughter-in-law was apprehensive, and then she pointed the finger at Shan Daliang's daughter-in-law: "The land rent fee in the house is also detailed, and it is spread on the owners of each house, which is counted as an input." ”

followed by Gong Er's family: "Go in and out of the house, and you can remit the surplus of the public account." ”

The daughter-in-law of Feng, who was at the end of the charge, had a light task: "Give me all the money used in the public school, such as repairing the house, replacing horses, planting trees and flowers, etc., which do not enter each house." ”

Finally, he warned: "The big tent is in my hands, in case the gap is not right, the four of you will make up as much as you want." ”

Within three days, the income and expenditure of the Shenlong General's Mansion had been understood, and the four chief managers and their husbands and wives who came to explain in person were sweating, and they were afraid of being the first to eat the melons.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi)'s brows can screw the mosquito to death: "The cost of a room is three times better than that of four girls, and there is still surplus?"

Wu You's daughter-in-law replied stubbornly: "Because of the old lady's orders, the girl who is not known to the fan has doubled the number of girls." ”

"You raise a good brother as a young lady!" Qin Siyue (Long Xi) patted the inventory on the table, "The antique ornaments in the house are blown by the strong wind? ”

Gong Er couldn't, so he had to take down someone to excuse him: "If you don't have a good heart, you can't help but be spoiled by a maid, you don't take the horizontal needle and the vertical line, and you don't take it when you are on an errand." ”

"Hairy hands and feet?" Qin Siyue (Long Xi) didn't laugh angrily, "I'm afraid it's a thief!"

Gong Er shut up, he and Qin Siyue (Long Xi) thought about the same.

"You don't know yet, I simply boast about myself with a thick face, so as not to change my strength. Qin Siyue (Long Xi) said slowly with a teacup, "When I was ten years old, I helped my grandfather - that is, Lao Kang Wang to check the treasury of the Internal Affairs Bureau, and there were more than a dozen of the five and six grades of Langzhong, the head of which was the prince at that time, the grandmother of today's sage, and now he is still planting trees in the Western Regions. ”

The four couples kowtowed and forged: "The slave doesn't dare." ”

"I don't care if you dare or not, I know that you are human spirits, and you are used to fighting with your master, I don't care, I am idle anyway, I don't have a chance to fight against the marshal and the prince again, and it is good to use you for fun. Qin Siyue (Long Xi) dropped the bowl, "But when I'm not interested, I guess your old face won't be able to stay." ”

Gong Er and the others responded in unison: "Slaves dare not be loyal and dedicated!"

"That's good. Qin Siyue (Long Xi) nodded with satisfaction, "I'll give you the opportunity to vote, so I'll start from the Bufan room and follow whose stomach these expenses have fed." ”

"Huh!"

"I'm not done yet. Qin Siyue (Long Xi) cut off their back road, "I understand the sophistication of human feelings, but I can't teach you to sell me well, in the end, if you don't have the ability to tell the queen mother and the master Niangniang, you will waste your efforts, and report the results two days later, and you will be unlucky if you miss it, who dares to instigate the master in the house to beg for mercy, I must teach him to know what repentance is!"

The dignified head of the Shenlong General's Mansion was cleaned up.

Gong Er obediently felt that Shan Daliang was from Mrs. Zhang's side, they naturally wouldn't want to fight against Qin Siyue (Long Xi) when they were full, Wu You was not stupid, people went to high places, he was Gu Zheng's milk brother, and if he had this one, he had already lost the opportunity to enter the body, and then he would not be mixed up with the real master;

The Huang family wanted to sue Gu Lao Taijun, saying that Dafang treated his nephew harshly without regard for his feelings. As soon as he started, he was killed by Mrs. Zhang: "I heard Changbai say that he begged the prince to take care of Danqi, and I think there will be good news." ”

The slave in the son's room weighed the biological daughter, Huang immediately behaved, grabbed the tea bowl and poured two mouthfuls of water after returning to the room, raised his hand and wanted to drop the cover, and suddenly remembered that Qin Siyue (Long Xi) had recently carefully checked the rectification of the loss, and it did not fall for a long time, Zhong Rui's daughter-in-law hurriedly took the tea bowl, and took Danqi's matter and repeatedly persuaded to be comfortable.

Because of the quietness, Gu Kui studied in Zheng Guofu, Qin Siyue (Long Xi) also had to stay in Guogong Mansion for half a day to deal with housekeeping, this day just arrived at the gate of General Shenlong's Mansion, occasionally saw Menzi drive away an old woman with a young child, and stopped to ask: "What's the matter?"

The subordinate went back and forth: "Your Highness, someone is here to pretend to recognize Sister Qing's relatives, and there is a place at the gate of the house, and the slave just taught her to stay away, so as not to collide with the nobles!"

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) looked at it from afar through the curtain, and it was expected that it must be the door who deceived people with clothes.

The old woman saw that many nobles with gorgeous crowns bowed to the carriage, and hurriedly pulled her grandson to kneel and kowtow.

It is also a scene for such a person to be able to go to the gate of the Shenlong General's Mansion, Qin Siyue (Long Xi) instructed Chunlan: "Please speak in the inner courtyard of the guest." ”

Entering the East Compound, Qin Siyue (Long Xi) ordered Chunlan to entertain the old woman and go to change her clothes by herself, but because she didn't see her son come out, she asked Xia Lian: "Where is Mao'er?"

Xia Lian said with a smile: "Not long after you left the mansion, when he went to the main courtyard, he met the second master of Lian, and he had to follow him to the internal affairs mansion to play, and the second master couldn't get rid of it, so he could only take him with him." ”

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) frowned: "Isn't this nonsense, the second brother is an office matter, where is it convenient to take the child on a business trip?"

Xia Lian Yile: "In front of my wife, the second master is unreasonable, Brother Mao is coquettish, and my wife reprimands the second master for not being an uncle, and there is no way to refine the second master." ”

"That's it, wait until you get back. During the conversation, Qin Siyue (Long Xi) had already changed her clothes, "This kid is not like his brother, he doesn't have a lot of ideas." ”

Gu Mao's children are not only able to eat in the Shenlong General's Mansion, but his villain's family is enjoying dim sum with the emperor's grandson in the East Palace.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) came out of the inner room, and the old woman hurriedly knelt down: "Kowtow to grandma." ”

Chunlan was afraid of scaring the old woman, so she only said that Qin Siyue (Long Xi) was the grandmother of the Shenlong General's Mansion, so she had this gift.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) smiled and signaled: "Please get up." ”

The old woman sat down against the chair, bowing her head and not daring to speak.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) asked, "What do you call the old man?"

The old woman hurriedly replied: "The old woman's surname is Liu, and the township calls the mother-in-law and grandmother." ”

"Grandma Fang!" Qin Siyue (Long Xi) nodded and looked at Chunlan.

Chunlan replied in a low voice: "This grandmother's in-laws and Sister Qing's grandfather have connected to the sect, and on the way over, the slave maid sent someone to find Zhong Rui's family to ask, just because the second wife said, 'How can the relatives who clinged to the early years have time to see?' so I wanted to see the second grandmother, but because no one reported it, she blocked the door,"

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) understood, because she smiled at Grandma Fang: "Our family's minions don't know how to be polite, and they really snub distant guests." ”

Grandma Fang hurriedly said that she didn't dare.

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) took Qiaozong because of a moment of curiosity, so naturally she couldn't ignore it, seeing that the time was still early, she thought about it and said: "Grandma may not know, my younger brother and sister are pregnant, and now I can't work hard, since it is my younger sister's relative, it is my relative, if there is a difficulty, it will be the same here." ”

Grandma Fang originally asked to see the aunt and nephew of the Huang family, but she couldn't see the main owner and the fairy daughter who seemed to be like a fairy, and she had to endure the shame of the family: "This year's situation is not good, the grain harvest is small, and now the children's winter clothes have not been purchased, I am really afraid that I will not survive the winter, so I came to ask the second lady with a thick old face - the second wife of the house to give alms——"

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) saw that the child in front of Grandma Fang was still wearing autumn clothes, and immediately ordered Xia Lian: "Quickly take two Mao'er's clothes and change them to the child." ”

Grandma Fang shook her hands and excused herself: "How can this make the little master's clothes dirty!"

"It's not worth anything. Qin Siyue (Long Xi) asked Grandma Fang's home, and said with a smile, "But coincidentally, my daughter is the same age as Grandma's granddaughter." ”

Grandma Fang became more and more cramped: "What brand of people are we, how can we compare with nobles." ”

"What a noble slut. Qin Siyue (Long Xi) laughed loudly, "It's true that you have a good ancestor." ”

Grandma Fang saw Qin Siyue (Long Xi) speaking kindly, but gradually relaxed by three points, because she smiled and said: "This is grandma's blessing, although the old woman has no vision, she has heard some things, the generalissimo who taught the Tartars in the war in the north is the eldest prince in the house, and the princess Niangniang who led the army to defend the capital a few years ago, they are all nobles, but who can say that they rely on their ancestors to eat?"

Chunlan and the four of them couldn't bear to laugh or not, and Qin Siyue (Long Xi) asked again: "Grandma has also heard of the eldest prince and princess in our house?"

Grandma Fang replied: "Yes, when the eldest prince rode back to Beijing, our Zhuang Shangren was watching from the official road, it was really majestic! ”

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) smiled once, and immediately ordered Chunlan: "Take one hundred taels of broken silver, and then wrap a few pieces of Mao'er and Xuan'er's new clothes at a discount, and seal two catties of newly made dim sum in the morning and give it to Grandma Fang to take home for use." ”

Although Grandma Fang knew that she would not be empty-handed, she didn't expect Qin Siyue (Long Xi) to be so generous, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing repeatedly: "I really can't stand it." ”

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) asked Xia Lian to help people up: "Relatives don't need to see outside, it's late, Chunlan went outside to call a car to send grandma out of the city and go home." ”

Grandma Fang escorted her grandson and kowtowed, and Xia Lian helped her again and again before getting up.

Chunlan personally sent Grandma Fang out of the house, and Yu Lu heard her sigh with emotion: "The Guogong Mansion is really a family of goodness, don't blame the general, and the princess is married, Fangcai's grandmother looks better than the painting, and has a good heart, how can there be no good fortune." ”

Chunlan, who was holding the burden, couldn't hold it anymore, because she said with a smile: "The person who talked to you just now is the grandmother Hu of the Shenlong General's Mansion and the 'Princess Chaoyun' of the emperor's Qinfeng!"

Grandma Fang was shocked, and it took a long time to come back to her senses, and she knelt down again in front of the East Compound, Chunlan wanted to help her, but saw her burst into tears: "The living Bodhisattva who saves the suffering - the living Bodhisattva!"

When I came back to talk to Qin Siyue (Long Xi), I couldn't help but blame the scene: "The rare world in the countryside, why scare her." ”

Chunlan has fair words: "Master, when I look at the sincerity of my grandmother just now, I must know that the Thanksgiving Picture is better than some black-eyed chickens in the house who are fighting for revenge." ”

"Alright!" Qin Siyue (Long Xi) disagreed, "Bring the account books." ”

The power of the four chief managers is not trivial, Bufan is gentle and considerate, and he is the person on the tip of Gu Taijun's heart, and the maids and rings in the family are naturally vying to hold phoenix eggs, except for Gong Er, Shan Daliang, Wu You, and Feng Da have relatives in the Bufan room, and they caught the biggest rat with a little attention.

"Twilight Snow?" Qin Siyue (Long Xi) thought for a while and asked, "Why don't you remember that there is this girl ring in the house?"

Feng Da explained: "It is the flower pearl that used to be served in the old lady's house, and the second master of the fan has changed its name. ”

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) understood: "How much ability can she have to embezzle the assets of the house?"

Wu You replied: "Twilight Xue was bought from outside, from being pointed out by the old lady to be a big girl in the Bufan room, she is in charge of all the money, not Fan's heart, not in gold and silver, Twilight Xue often helps the family, originally her family was unable to survive before selling her daughter, but now it will recover in a year, and the houses and horses are all purchased, and she has become a rich man." ”

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) snorted coldly: "What I said, I think that she got out a lot of missing ornaments, and planted the reputation of loss on Bufan's head?"

"The master is wise. Shan Daliang's family bowed and said, "There is another case, the maids in the Bufan room all regard themselves as deputy misses, and they can't eat a lot of serious meals, and then they find a cook to order a lot, and most of the good things that they don't get are divided between them——"

"Vice Miss?" Qin Siyue (Long Xi) said with a smile, "These three words are appropriate!"

The eight stewards each explained some of the many ills in the Brahman's room, and finally said, "Please ask the master to show me." ”

Qin Siyue (Long Xi) said after a little muttering: "Bufan is the master's own nephew, he is not a guest in the Shenlong General's Mansion, if I want to be ruthless, won't I teach people to joke and not tolerate the young uncle? ”

The stewards all praised: "The master is merciful." ”

"Well, there has been a great way to improve. Qin Siyue (Long Xi) put down the hand stove, "You take out the private check list of the unruly, and then discount the loss of the things that are reported after living alone by half, and ask them to accompany them within ten days. ”

"Huh. Gong Erxin said: The emperor pays off the deficit first and then dismisses the money, you are clever, first collect the money of the unpopular and then squeeze the next people, naturally they are not afraid of them and the unpopular to dig the east wall and make up the west wall.

"I have a detailed account of the income and expenditure of each house here, and it is really a big difficulty, it has only been three generations, and it has become a situation where Yin eats grain. Qin Siyue (Long Xi) threw down the book, "Distribute it to each room and courtyard to see, if there is something wrong, carefully theorize!"

Aside from the old foundation earned by taking his life on the battlefield back then, there are five sources of income for the Shenlong General's Mansion, the largest one is the field endowment, followed by the interest of the village shop, the rental fee of the house, and finally the income and reward. Qin Siyue (Longxi) is very simple, first take the field tax to reduce the public expenditure, and the rest plus the interest and rent of the village shop are evenly distributed on the masters according to the head, and there is a single addition of the reward of Yulu, which is the input. The monthly money paid to each room plus food, clothing and living expenses are for the item, not counting the public and private gifts, according to Qin Siyue (Long Xi)'s opinion, the public still suffers.

Gu Zheng's annual salary plus ice charcoal filial piety is only more than 1,200 taels, and the dividends in the public can be spread 4,000 taels.