Murong Chong was right, six days was indeed enough for Lin Ruo to be busy!

It's just that it's not Murong Chong's birthday that is busy - King Rong's birthday happens to be the death day of his parents, so King Rong's mansion has never been large-scale, nor will it feast guests to celebrate, which saves a lot of redundant arrangements. This year, although Murong Chong agreed with Lin Ruo to handle the birthday for him, in fact, it would not be too different from previous years, and the main charter was still based on the memorial to Princess Yu and his wife, who died young. Other than that, it's just one more good dinner.

Lin Ruo didn't tell Murong Chong, in fact, she had prepared one more surprise, but this surprise had been basically arranged before he came back, and only the last step was missing, and Tao Fu had already been explained, and it could only be arranged on Murong Chong's birthday, otherwise it would have no effect.

Shadow Wei also knew part of the situation about this matter, but after a year of getting along, the shadow envoy had already recognized that Lin Ruo was also one of the masters of the palace, and on the premise that Murong Chong had never asked, he would not talk too much - even if he said a few more words, with his half-understood cognition, he couldn't say what Lin Ruo wanted to make a specific fuss.

Since the birthday banquet didn't add much hard work to Lin Ruoping, where did her busyness come from?

First, it is to take care of Murong Chong, in order to hide the news of his injury, the decoction can be handed over to Youcao and Tao Fu, and the arrangements such as dealing with wounds and eating and drinking must be done by herself.

Second, it is a business matter, in addition to Li Yan sending people from time to time to inform her of the progress of the charter of the Qingmiao Law and the Qingmiao Money, which he discussed with the prince, Zhang Xu and others, there is also the news sent by Luo Sheng from Jiangnan about the construction of the granary, the news sent by Ji Junyang from Daiguo to pay close attention to Daiguo and Zeguo, and the latest situation related to sea ships sent by the Jinling royal family. The people who are responsible for passing these secret news to her are Leng Shu and Yun Yi.

And on Leng Shu's side, there will be news from Ye Ling from Shuzhong from time to time, or Bai Que's side will target the Lin family or her something; On the Yun Yi side, from time to time there will be tricky situations encountered in the grain store to decide.

In this way, he was almost so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground, and in the words of Youcao, he was: I'm afraid that the emperor is not so busy in the imperial study!

In this regard, Lin Ruo just laughed, but also reminded her that she should never say this in front of others.

Youcao knows the severity, and the only thing she can do to help her young lady is to take care of her young lady's diet and daily life, so that Lin Ruo has no worries.

Bian'an City seems to be calm these days, Bai Que has not tried to win over other merchants to isolate the Lin family or anything like that, and the wealthy people in the capital such as the Wanjia and the Lu family still maintain the usual peaceful situation with the Lin family with a smile on their faces and nothing to do; Above the government and the opposition, there is also a peaceful appearance, and even the open and secret battles between King Ye and the crown prince seem to have calmed down.

But, all this is a façade.

Before the storm, there is always a lot of calm.

What broke this calm was an anonymous letter delivered to Shen Di, the head of the household book, at the time of the leakage. The reason why I say anonymous is that not only is the letter unsigned, but even the person who sent it has never shown up!

However, the contents of this letter made Shen Di so frightened that he was drenched in a cold sweat, and he almost tumbled from his chair to the ground.

This is a transcript of a few pages of a certain secret account, and the items on it are all records of his oil and water from disaster relief, taxes, fire consumption, and other expenses in recent years!

"Is the treasury empty, but is there enough to eat?"

Nine big characters of dragons flying and phoenixes dancing, the words are shocking!

The sharp questioning, in a word, hit his tightest nerves.

The salary of the Tiger Ben Army is the biggest headache for him in the past few days! The treasury is really empty! Is he the only one who empties the treasury? Apparently not! There are two mouths for the word "official", and there are so many large and small officials in the household, how many "mouths" are there? There is no "mouth", and they are all waiting for the silver to fill it!

And not only in the household, but also outside the household, there are countless "mouths" waiting to be filled!

Yes, he stretched out his hand, but did all the money he reached out for go into his pocket? Of course not! A large part of it went into the prince's pocket!

Who is the Prince? It is the prince, the future lord of Donglu! When the prince takes money from the household, doesn't he take it from his own pocket? It's just taking money from your own pocket "in advance".

Everyone understands this kind of rhetoric, and everyone tacitly understands it. But if this secret account is exposed before Emperor Mingzong's imperial case, can it be said so? Apparently not! Moreover, even if he said it, the prince would not admit it! In the end, he still has to be accused of framing the prince multiple times!

Shen Di's knuckles turned white while holding the anonymous letter, such a warning was sent to his hands, and what he thought of the most was not reflection, but hatred! Hates the person behind the anonymous letter who killed a thousand knives, hates the cunning and treacherous Lin family for betraying himself in front of the emperor, makes the household department stretched, and hates the prince for becoming more and more estranged from him, these days he has been keen to discuss with Zhang Xu and Li Yan the regulations of the Qingmiao Law and the Qingmiao money, and ignores his current predicament in the household department that he has secretly reported.

With a "snap", Shen Di's hand slapped heavily on the tabletop, exuding a gloomy atmosphere.

"Father?"

There was a cry of concern outside the door, but there was no permission, even if he was worried, he didn't dare to push the door in.

Shen Di took a deep breath and adjusted his emotions: "It's Tong'er." ”

The Shen family has three sons and one daughter, the eldest son Shen Han, the second son Shen Tong, and the youngest son Shen Rang.

The eldest son and the second son were both born to their aunts, one was good at martial arts, the other was good at literature, and they were very intelligent; Shen Rang, the youngest son of his wife, is not unintelligent, and his way of civil and military affairs is not amazing, but he can barely be regarded as the best among the sons of a group of official eunuchs. Because he is a young son, he is spoiled by the whole house, and it is inevitable that he will be arrogant and do not listen to advice. It is precisely because of this that Shen Rangwen is not as good as the second brother, and Wu is not as good as the eldest brother, and the third young master Shen, who has been praised for his cleverness since he was a child, has become more and more radical after experiencing comparative failures again and again, so he will be smart and come up with the abacus of taking A Furong to Zhennan Houfu, and cooking raw rice and cooking mature rice is clanging, but the result is that stealing chickens does not make rice, and the bamboo basket is empty.

But the second son, Shen Tong, is not such a wine bag and rice bag. His complete calculation, far-sightedness, and deep insights are what Shen Di has to praise most of the time.

This anonymous letter made Shen Di very angry, but it also made him anxious, and he didn't know how to deal with it, Shen Tong's appearance undoubtedly pointed him out a clear way, and he immediately decided to ask this clever second son for advice.