As soon as Qi Ruo entered the door, he saw Wen sitting on the top seat, his clothes were not yesterday's, and they were even more decent and grand than yesterday's, obviously deliberately dressed, but there was no gentle smile on his face that always hung in the past.

Qi Ruo didn't have the heart to say something uninteresting about these things, so after entering the door, he first nodded slightly with Wen and said straight to the point: "Old lady, I thought that you should have something wrong with your body yesterday, and I came to check your pulse today." ”

Wen didn't want to do it at all, and said angrily: "I won't be angry with you." I still have to look at what happens to you, and what happens to this town. ”

"You have to be careful, you may have been a widow too early. My nephew is very hated, and I don't know who calculated it on the way back to Yuanjing, so you picked up a leak, but be careful, be careful of the master. ”

"Old lady, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense." Qi Ruo sat on the chair on the side disapprenosingly, "Let me give you a pulse." ”

Wen glanced at Qi Ruo and sneered: "Don't, I can't stand the Duchess of Zhenguo to take my pulse." ”

Qi Ruo ignored Wen's yin and yang weirdness, and directly beckoned Xia He to take a pen and paper: "Okay, then I will prescribe a few doses of medicine according to your symptoms yesterday, all of them are mild, and you can recuperate slowly." ”

As soon as Wen heard this, he was angry in his heart, slapped the table and said, "What? How long do you want to lock me up? I said that it is still your stepmother, and if you treat me like this, the emperor will have even more reason to punish you. ”

Qi Ruo's hand kept moving, and he said indifferently: "The old lady has to be careful, if this is heard by someone with a heart, it will not be able to be recovered, and it will be impossible to say which is right and which is wrong at that time." ”

Wen also felt that he had just lost his temper, and took a deep breath to calm down.

Qi Ruo happened to put away the pen at this time, and ordered someone to grab the medicine, so he was about to take Xia He to the account room to ask for the account book, but before he reached the door, he heard Wen's sarcastic laughter behind him.

"Don't think that you can take back the stewardship of the Zhenguo Mansion by locking me up, you little girl, you have to have this ability!"

Qi Ruo turned around and looked directly at Wen without being humble or arrogant: "The old lady misunderstood, where do I have this means?" However, you do need to recuperate for a few days and think about what you want to do next. ”

After Qi Ruo said this, she didn't stop staying, turned around and went to the account room, but she stopped halfway down.

"Xia He, you go and order a few capable and obedient little guys. Those who can be the bookkeeper are the trusted people of the housekeeper, they should not listen to me, and when the time comes, the soft ones will come to the hard ones. ”

Xia He got the order and hurriedly went, Qiu Ju was also sent away by Qi Ruo, she was left alone at this time, she was not afraid, and went directly to the account room.

When she arrived at the bookkeeper, two bookkeepers and a steward got up and saluted her.

As the saying goes, if you don't stretch out your hand and don't hit a smiling person, you are still a person who is in charge of accounts, and Qi Ruo doesn't want to offend, so she is more and more polite.

"Hello two gentlemen, good stewardship, I'm here to get the account book. The old lady should have told you before, I want to learn to read the account book, and now I will take two books from previous years to take a look. ”

"This ......"

Several people looked at each other, and finally only hung their heads, did not answer, and did not take out the key to the house where the ledger was locked.

Qi Ruo smiled slightly: "Two gentlemen, and this steward, how long have you been in the Zhenguo Mansion?" ”

The white-haired bookkeeper arched his waist: "The old man has been in the Zhenguo Mansion for ten years. ”

Another bookkeeper in his thirties replied, "The little one has been here for five years." ”

The steward replied, "The little one has been here for eight years. ”

"It's been a long time. The two of you, one for ten years and the other for eight years, should have seen Lao Zhen Guogong, right? Could it be that he is an old man, but after a few years of death, you have forgotten who the real master of this mansion is? Who is the surname of this house? ”

He was angry and these people didn't want to listen, so Qi Ruo had to be tougher.

"Who earned all the honor in this house? And to whom should all those rewards belong? Do you think you'll be safe this way? ”

The steward is used to dealing with people, and this time he will come out and dilute the mud.

"Madam, this is earned by the grandfather of the country, but it is also accumulated by the ancestors, and after investing in business, the money is also born, and the old lady also bothered to take care of it. Besides, isn't the old lady also the master? has always been the old lady's housekeeper, and without her opening, it is difficult for the little ones to open the account room. ”

The white-haired bookkeeper touched his beard, and the old god said: "Yes, madam, you haven't been in a big family before, you don't know the rules, we have to listen to whoever is in charge, the account book is even more important, not who says you can see it if you want to." ”

Qi Ruo laughed angrily: "Oh? Isn't it impossible for the grandfather of the country to look at it when he comes? ”

The bookkeeper choked, and then he said unwillingly: "I can see it." ”

"That's what Grandpa Guo asked me to see, you can always let me take the account book away, right?"

Qi Ruo found a place to sit, and casually called a passing maid to make a cup of tea for himself.

The steward smiled and said, "Madame, do you have a handwritten letter from Grandpa Guo?" ”

Qi Ruoqin took a sip of tea, put the teacup down gently, and then slapped the table and said, "Do you want me to write a blood letter to you?" ”

Several people were frightened and stopped talking, because they expected that Qi Ruo would not do anything to them.

Qi Ruo didn't bother to talk nonsense with these people, and said directly: "Open the door!" ”

The white-haired bookkeeper also hardened: "No! Madam, I am the bookkeeper of the Zhenguo Mansion, I only listen to the words of the lord and the housekeeper of this backyard, this is what I should do as a bookkeeper, if I can't open it, I can't open it. ”

"And Grandpa Guo has always been polite to the old lady, and never interfered in the affairs of the back house, but now you are like this, but you don't know whether Grandpa Guo knows it or not, and Grandpa Guo is not angry when he comes back!"

As he spoke, he put his hands on his sleeves and leaned to the side, as if he didn't want to say another word to Qi Ruo.

Qi Ruo didn't eat him, and sneered: "You wait for Grandpa Guo to come back in the evening and ask him, if I want to be his master, I can't do it!" ”

These are all human spirits, and they have obviously been told by the Wen family one by one, but they don't want to take the account book out.

She can be considered to understand it clearly, but I'm afraid that there are still a lot of problems in this ledger.

"You're just a bookkeeper, I respect you because of my upbringing, you don't want that, I don't have to give! After staying in the Guogong Mansion for ten years, you want to rely on the old and sell the old? Not to mention how Grandpa Guo is, this is your attitude towards the master's family? ”

The men were silent, but they still had no intention of taking the key out and opening the hut in the account.

It happened that Xia He came with a few small servants at this time, and Qi Ruo was not polite to these people, so he took a leisurely sip of tea, and wrote lightly: "Search out the key for me on the three of them." ”

Qi Ruo didn't want to break the door directly, but the door was made of iron door, which was very strong, so he had to find a key to open it.

The three of them panicked when they heard Qi Ruo's words, Tete was the bookkeeper, and he didn't want to stop after being held by the little guy, and said openly: "You are just a mischievous act, I want to tell the old lady and let her give me a good evaluation." ”

Qi Ruo wiped the corners of his mouth stained with water with a handkerchief, and said casually: "The old lady is sick, and she is still recuperating at this time, I see that you are also old, so it is better to go back and care for the elderly." Xia He, this bookkeeper has also been working in my house for many years, so I gave him twenty taels of silver to send him back to his hometown. ”

Xia He nodded and replied, "Yes." ”

The housekeeper also wanted to follow the bookkeeper to say a few words to play a round, but as soon as he heard Qi Ruo's words, he immediately shut up with a knowing understanding, but he felt sorry for the brainless bookkeeper, and when he heard this, he was even more terrible, and he immediately became angry.

"You savage woman from the country, you have such a wicked heart......"

Xia He gave the little guy who was holding the bookkeeper a look, and the little guy hurriedly blocked the bookkeeper's mouth.

Qi Ruo didn't take this year's account book, so he took out all the account books of previous years since Wen's housekeeper, and found the account man who had been silent since Fang Cai to count and confirm them one by one, and then she asked people to rush to the west wing with the account book.

As soon as she stepped into the door of the West Wing, she heard Yada's voice, which was chattering endlessly, and no one answered him, as if talking to herself.

Qi Ruo couldn't help laughing, this Yada and Steward Li are both the same, one is chattering endlessly, the other is silent, and it is not bad to be still and move.

"I've heard your voice from afar."

Yada turned around in surprise and saw that it was indeed Qi Ruo who strode in front of her.

"Sister-in-law, you finally have time to come to see us, you don't know that I'm bored to death these days, he ......" Yada has always exaggerated, and this time he also turned his head and glared at Steward Li, and then covered his ears and whispered like a bell, "A dull stick can't make a sound!" ”

Qi Ruo bent his eyes and laughed: "Beware of Steward Li cleaning you up." ”

Yada hurriedly glanced at Steward Li again, and when he saw him coming, he kept silent, but he had never been quiet, and he kept moving without speaking, so he stared at Qi Ruo's waist and circled around her twice when Steward Li and Qi Ruo greeted each other.

"What's wrong?" Qi Ruo felt strange.

Yada stood still in front of Qi Ruo, her eyes still staring at her waist, and she touched her jaw thoughtfully, and after a while, she finally heard him say: "Sister-in-law, you have been in Yuanjing for four months, why is your belly not big?" ”

Qi Ruo's smile faded on his face, and Xia He and Qiu Ju's faces were not very good-looking, but Yada was used to being heartless, and she was not good at looking at people's faces, and she was still saying: "And when I came to Yuanjing, I heard them say that the Duchess of Zhenguo had just conceived a child, isn't this Duchess of Zhenguo you?" What's going on here? ”