Li Jinshu, who returned to the courtyard, beckoned Lu Calyx and said: "In the future, Jinyu will come over often, you arrange to go to the market to buy some good pen, ink, paper and inkstone, especially rice paper, prepare more, and then see what books such a big child reads, and buy them together." ”

"Yes, miss." Green Calyx answered, but did not do it immediately as before, but hesitated.

"What's wrong?" Li Jinshu asked.

"Miss, we don't have any money in our room."

Li Jinshu looked at her in surprise.

"Miss, in the past few months, the government has seriously reduced its expenditures, and the second lady said that she will not pay any daily expenses, and she will find a way to solve it in her own room, and even the meals on weekdays have been reduced to one dish and one meal, and there are no snacks and fruits."

"Although I said so, the second and third rooms have always had some savings, and this is not bad, and we don't have much money in the house, and the money when the master was there has long been confiscated into family property, and the remaining little bit has been subsidized in the past few months, but I hate a few slaves who are even more deceitful at this time, and even the basic expenses and materials are not given to us, and the slaves and maids have asked them to reason several times, but they have deduced that each room is the same, and they ignore me at all."

"Miss, now there is not much silver left in our room, and the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the market have always been expensive, not to mention books and books, our money is not enough at all."

After the green calyx finished speaking, Li Jinshu smiled: "I thought it was a big deal, wasn't it just some money, the car reward I brought back from the palace, I picked a few things at random and sold them." ”

Speaking of rewards, the green calyx was even more angry and said: "Miss, your rewards, just came back by the second lady let people put away, the slave maid went to get it a few days ago, but said that the royal things should be properly kept, not even let the slave and maid see it, they were driven out, the slave maid wanted to see what was going on, so he stayed on the edge of the warehouse and secretly watched, guess what, in the afternoon of the same day, I saw the second lady's mother Wu go to the library to take a pair of amphora glass pots and go, the pot is clearly your reward, At that time, when the slave and maid were in the inventory, they saw it clearly. ”

The more Lu Calyx spoke, the more excited she became: "Miss, don't you see the meals in the courtyard of the second room in the kitchen every day, not to mention that it has not decreased at all, but it is more abundant than before, I heard that the eldest lady has bird's nest every day to nourish her beauty." There are also those maids, not to mention those who wear gold and silver, and they have bought eight or nine new maids, and they have all entered the courtyard of the second room. If it is said that there is a shortage of money in the house, then where does the money come from in these two rooms, it is clearly misappropriation of your things. ”

Li Jinshu frowned, these two ladies are not so shameless as this, right?

She said to the green calyx, "Let's go, go and see." ”

Li Jinshu's reward was placed in the back room warehouse in the mansion, and a separate area was set up to facilitate future checks.

Li Jinshu walked to the door of the warehouse in the back room with the green calyx, the old woman guarding the warehouse was an old man in the house, but she was lazy to eat, and now she was leaning against the pillar, hiding in the shade and dozing.

Green Calyx stepped forward to wake her up and said, "Our young lady wants to take a look at the materials in the long room and take us in to have a look." ”

The dozing mother-in-law was woken up, saw the green calyx in front of her, and was just about to wave her hand to drive people away, but when she looked back, she saw Li Jinshu behind her, and immediately got up in spirit, and stepped forward and said: "The second lady is here in person, what do you have to say, let the old woman do it, why bother to come and run in person on this hot day." ”

Li Jin said: "I'll come and see what the palace has given me." ”

When the old woman heard this, panic flashed in her eyes: "It's unfortunate that the second lady came today, this mother Zhou, who was in charge of the office recently, came to count the materials in the house, and specially emphasized that no one can enter the warehouse before the inventory is completed, so as not to mess up the accounts." Otherwise, Second Miss, will you come back in a few days? ”

Green Calyx said: "This is so strange, our young lady wants to come and see her own things, but she has to be bound by one of your slaves, don't say that we will come and see, and we will not mess up the accounts, even if we really toss things and mess up the accounts, you only have to sort it out again, can you still complain about the master and refuse the master?" ”

The old woman smiled and said: "Don't dare, don't dare, the old slave doesn't mean this, it's just that Miss really can't get in today, I let Zhou's mother take away the key, you wait a few days, wait for a few days when the old slave's key comes back, and then ask Miss to come over." ”

Li Jinshu looked at her coldly and asked, "Did Mother Zhou take the key to this warehouse, or did she send it to the second lady's room?" ”

The old woman didn't think that Li Jinshu would ask such a straightforward question, she was stunned for a moment, and stammered a little at a loss: "When, of course, of course, it was taken away by Mother Wu, ah no, Mother Zhou, Mother Zhou." ”

"Then the jade bracelet in your hand was also given by Mother Zhou?"

The old woman hurriedly hid the bracelet behind her: "The old slave can't understand the words of the second miss, the key is indeed not there today, it is better for the young lady to come back another day." ”