Chapter 156: Seeking Public Gain

Chinese New Year's Eve is approaching, even if the people in the mansion are interested in this new lady, no matter how long the sleeves are good at dancing again, there will be a time when it has to be over, not to mention the indisputable second lady, these three ladies have just entered the mansion, and then how it is still unknown, who is the master in this backyard Everyone still knows, shrewd as a housekeeper, after seeing the group of maids who do not work in the Youlanju, it is a big scolding that makes people pull to the second door one by one and reprimand, before Qinglan entered the mansion There was also a lively, isn't it just for a while? Qinglan or Ziyue are all from humble backgrounds, where can they compare to Princess Rui who was married by the emperor, not only is she now holding the internal affairs of the Rui Palace, but also relying on General Shen, who is General Shen? That is Lu Shoufu's son-in-law who rides the dragon, and even Prince Rui is working under Lu Shoufu, will Prince Rui still lose a big deal because of a woman?

The housekeeper saw it clearly like a mirror in his heart.

After reprimanding the maid in the house again, he went to Du Yiyi's Jinseju to invite merit.

"Princess, I have already reprimanded those subordinates who don't understand the rules, don't work hard, and actually have the leisure to go to Youlanju to see the excitement!" The housekeeper glanced at Du Yiyi flatteringly, and saw that she had just a straight face from beginning to end, and she couldn't help but wonder in her heart, how could this princess be so determined.

"The New Year is coming soon, it's okay to see the excitement, the things at hand must be done, Wang Ye ordered, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner should be richer than usual, and the New Year's cleaning, I see that most of the courtyards of this Rui Wang Mansion have been dusted, send some people to clean inside and out, so as not to get mildew in the coming year!"

After Du Yiyi's words, the heart carried by the housekeeper finally withdrew into his stomach, not because he had no resentment, but because he was one foot tall and one foot higher, it seemed that he would rather take the risk of offending the third lady's choice this time, but he did not do anything wrong.

"Yes, yes, yes! I must instruct to go down, and every year the New Year's palace will buy new clothes, the princess in this courtyard has a first-class old mother, four rough mothers-in-law, seven maidservants, when the time comes, I will send someone to measure them, the princess's clothes, I don't know if I ask the tailor of the Splendid Garden to sew? Still is? The housekeeper glanced at Du Yiyi again, and then retracted his eyes in a panic.

"Ask the tailor of the Splendid Garden! Can the tenants who are in arrears pay the rent? ”

"Back to the princess, most of them have been handed over, there are a few, it is really difficult to read in her family situation, so it will be graced until next year, the tenants are grateful to the princess, and they all say that the princess is Guanyin Bodhisattva! The ten owners of the farm will come to the house tomorrow to report on this year's harvest, I don't know if the princess wants to see it? ”

"Leave them behind tomorrow for me to meet! Butler, look here. Before Du Yiyi walked the bookcase, he opened the top of the stack of account books, turned to the page with folded traces, and handed it to the housekeeper: "This account book records the expenses of the procurement in the house, and this tea alone cost as much as a thousand taels, the prince drank Biluochun, and the one that often drank was the tribute tea Tieguanyin rewarded by the palace, and the tea leaves in other courtyards were also West Lake Longjing Xinyang Maojian and the like, these teas are not precious, why do they need so much silver?" ”

She once compared the procurement recorded in this booklet with the distribution of various courtyards, and asked Xu's mother to inquire about the price of various types of tea, and calculated from its quantity, only eight hundred taels of silver was enough, but the record on it was one thousand two hundred taels, where did the four hundred taels of silver go?

The housekeeper looked at the figure of 1,200 taels outlined with cinnabar on the top, and hurriedly bowed and said: "The tea used in the palace is all good, and the price of ordinary tea is different, so the flowers are bigger!" ”

"Even if the price is high, it will not be higher than four hundred taels of silver, is the housekeeper stupid to be the princess, or does he want the princess to think you are dull?"

Du Yiyi snorted coldly and sat down with his backhand.

"Princess Qiyu, this tea is also divided into old tea and new tea, old tea is cheap, new tea has a strong taste and high price, plus this year's rain is abundant, tea is sold more expensive than in previous years, now the tea house is sold all old tea, even if the slave has 110,000 guts, he doesn't dare to do anything on this!"

The housekeeper already knew Du Yiyi's shrewdness, and in order to show his loyalty, where did he dare to quibble, he could only kneel down to show weakness and win sympathy.

Du Yiyi sneered and said sharply: "Even if there is a price difference, it is not more than half of the silver, this matter, I don't want to investigate, it's not that I don't have evidence, if you want to say evidence, I can come up with evidence now, I don't pursue it, I don't intend to connive at and tolerate adultery, you have been loyal to the Rui Wangfu for many years, even if you have used the public for personal gain, I believe it is just your ghost for a while, I am willing to give you a chance to reform yourself, if you can keep to yourself and serve me and the prince well, I and the prince will naturally not treat you badly, if not, I will hand over this account book to Suncheonfu, it is much easier to be the butler of the Rui Wangfu than to be the butler of Beppu, you have to think carefully about the housekeeper, if you dare to make false accounts with me again, you should be careful of your head! There is one thing you can see very clearly, even if there are two or three ladies in this house, I am the only real master in the backyard, as long as you do things for me with peace of mind, I will not lose four hundred taels of silver, compared to the risk of making false accounts, isn't this more secure? ”

The housekeeper's sweat is like mud flowing down, and Ning Zhiyuan has rarely looked at the account books in the house carefully, he has also liked to do some fake accounts for many years to get some oil and water, this time before the account books were sent, he read it overnight, and felt that there would be no problems, and he could completely confuse the tea alone, but he underestimated Du Yiyi's ability to perceive, and he was able to touch the melons in the tea field, and being the housekeeper of the Rui Wangfu was naturally easier and more generous than being the housekeeper of Beppu, if he lost this errand, He can only find another way to make a living, how much can Du Yiyi believe if he doesn't want to pursue it? And how deep is the meaning of doing things for her? Greedy doesn't know how to swallow an elephant, and a misstep becomes a thousand years of hatred, but today he hit a hard stone.

Knock knock, the panicked butler kowtowed three times with both hands on the ground: "Thank you princess, thank you princess for your kindness!" The slave will definitely do his best to do things for the princess and the princess, and he will not hesitate to go to the soup! ”

"This account book, you take it back, don't do it again in the future, don't try to hide it from my eyes, Rui Wangfu has always been short of minions, I don't know how many people are staring at the position of the housekeeper, if you don't do it well, someone will naturally replace you!"

The effort of reading the account books for a few days and nights was finally not in vain, this loophole, she grasped it correctly, but it was not a matter of four hundred taels of silver, compared to four hundred taels of silver, she was more willing to get a slave who could be loyal to her! The housekeeper is in charge of the affairs of the government, and if the housekeeper is completely on his side, his position in the backyard will be stable.

"The slave understands, the slave knows, the slave knows, the slave knows!" The butler put his hands on the ground, and the hot sweat dripped down the red carpet like water.

"You know about this, I know it, I don't think you want a third person to know, go down! This year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, arrange it well. Du Yiyi smiled faintly, her lips hooked out of reach, and the armor of the phoenix Kou Dan pulled an orchid on her side and provoked it again, her eyes slightly raised, cold as a knife.