Yuan Qilu received the order and hurried to Concubine Ning's palace, Concubine Ning retreated left and right, and after everyone in the hall went out, Concubine Yuan immediately said: "You don't have to kill An Ge, I blamed her at the beginning, and she saved the people in my palace today...... You didn't hurt her, did you? ”

Yuan Qilu was stunned, and then hurriedly shook his head: "No." ”

"That's good." Concubine Ning breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Before, you went to take leave with the emperor in order to kill her, but now that you don't have to kill her, you can come back." ”

Yuan Qilu lowered his eyes slightly, and after a long time, a touch of blush appeared on his tough face, he shook his head lightly, and said, "I won't go back, there is something." ”

Concubine Ning's face was full of surprise: "What's the matter with you?" What are you blushing for? ”

Yuan Qilu glanced up at her and smiled lightly, but did not answer.

Concubine Ning became more and more worried, got up and pulled him over and said, "Brother, since you were a child, you have been protected by your father and mother, so there are many people and many things you don't understand, have you encountered something?" Don't be fooled! ”

Yuan Qilu turned his face away, the blush was even worse, and he chuckled: "Sister, I want to repay the favor." ”

"What kind of kindness? With whom? How do you report? Concubine Ning looked at him nervously.

Yuan Qilu didn't want to say more, so he stood up abruptly and said, "Sister, I have my own opinion." Go first, retire. With that, Yuan Qilu arched his hand and withdrew from the hall.

Concubine Ning couldn't rest assured in her heart, so she called her confidant palace maid and asked, "Where was Yuan when you went to find the guards today?" What are you doing? ”

Lan Yue, the confidant palace maid, replied: "Yuan Guards are not on duty today, and the slave maid still asked a lot of his companions who had been good in the past, only to learn that he was drinking tea on the second floor of a teahouse near the Di Bao Mansion, and when the slave maid found him, he sat by the window, staring at the Di Bao Mansion, and he didn't know what he was doing. ”

Concubine Ning raised her forehead and said, "My younger brother has a tendon, don't fall for any evil." ”

Lan Yue could only comfort: "Yuan Guard's martial arts are strong, presumably even if he is deceived by others, he can protect himself." ”

Concubine Ning sighed: "Now I can only think like this." ”

*

Tomorrow is the day when the Dibao Mansion will issue the money, so today the Household Department will send someone to urge Zhang Lianfeng to first calculate the amount that everyone should get, and then the next day the Household Department will send the money over and distribute it to everyone in the Dibao Mansion.

Previously, when the palace newspaper was not taken out to sell, the household department issued a fixed amount of money every month, but now it is taken out and sold, and when there is income, the income will be handed over to the household department first, and then the household department will distribute it to everyone according to the number calculated by Zhang Lianfeng.

The household officials in charge of the Dibao Mansion were the people selected by the empress, so that the empress could control the situation here.

Originally, Zhang Lianfeng could finish it in just half an hour, but today she was always thinking about her pretending to be An Ge, and she couldn't concentrate, the ink on the tip of the pen was almost dripping onto the paper, and she didn't write a word.

The people in the household department were already waiting impatiently, and urged: "Haven't you settled yet?" ”

Zhang Lianfeng came back to her senses, hurriedly put down the pen, stepped forward and said, "I'm really sorry, we changed the way we make money this month, so it's a lot more complicated...... Why don't you come back tomorrow? ”

The man was a little unhappy, but in the end he agreed, and said, "Okay, fortunately, my house is nearby, you and I will come over early tomorrow, and bring the money before the end of the day, lest the people in your mansion and the government say that we will be passive and slack off." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare....... Even if it is late, it is the responsibility of our Di Bao Office. Zhang Lianfeng hurriedly smiled.

"Hmph, it's just this once, next time you can calculate it in advance." The person from the household department snorted coldly, stood up, and Zhang Lianfeng hurriedly sent him to the door.

After he left, Zhang Lianfeng breathed a sigh of relief, went back and continued to calculate, and she didn't understand until the evening.

At this time, the other people in the Di Bao Mansion have left one after another, only she and Guo Caiping are still there, since the Di Bao Mansion changed the way of sending money, changing to write as much as she wants, Guo Caiping has worked extra hard and has to hand in several articles every day.

However, the quality of the article is not high, for so many days, she has only passed two articles in Liu Yongxu's hands, and after getting it to the queen, there is another article that is said to be too similar to An Ge, and it was replaced by the queen.

She herself flipped through the articles she got back and read them several times, and she didn't know where it was similar to An Ge's writing, but she couldn't reason with the queen, so she could only transfer her resentment to An Ge.

Until the evening, Guo Caiping put down the pen, stretched her waist, turned her face and saw that Zhang Lianfeng was still there, leaned over and asked, "Why hasn't Master Zhang gone back yet?" ”

"Oh...... I'm going to give you a fortune tomorrow, isn't this a change of way, in addition to the ones issued by the imperial court, there are also those earned in the book market, I have to count it several times, so as not to make a mistake. Zhang Lianfeng replied casually.

Guo Caiping nodded, glanced at the account book in Zhang Lianfeng's hand, and sighed: "Alas, I am older than An Ge, and I have been here for a year longer than her, but I didn't earn as much as half of what she earned, it's really embarrassing to say it." ”

"What's there to be ashamed of? Don't say you don't, I don't. Zhang Lianfeng smiled helplessly, "But people do write more than us." She knew that she had written a lot, so she immediately thought of this method of calculating the amount of money and persuaded Lord Liu, which was really smart. ”

"So she came up with this idea?" Guo Caiping furrowed her brows and said, "I thought Master Liu came up with it." This little girl is not very old, but she has a lot of eyes, and she thinks about herself everywhere. ”

"So what? Now that Lord Liu is facing her, and the queen also appreciates her, you can't tell where you can reason. Zhang Lianfeng saw that the handwriting on the ledger had dried, so she closed it, stuffed it into the cabinet under her desk, and turned back to Guo Caiping and said, "I'm done, let's go first, and you can go home early." ”

Guo Caiping said "um", stretched out her head to watch Zhang Lianfeng leave, she immediately got up and went over to talk about the door of the side hall and locked it from the inside, then sat down at Zhang Lianfeng's table and opened her cabinet.

This cabinet is locked by Zhang Lianfeng on weekdays, and today I don't know if she forgot it, but there is no lock. She noticed it when she was talking to Zhang Lianfeng, but she didn't remind her.

- Anyway, the person in charge is Zhang Lianfeng, and Zhang Lianfeng is also responsible for what happened, what does she do when she is nosy.

When Zhang Lianfeng wrote, she just glanced at the side, and didn't carefully look at how much money An Ge could get this month, she was just curious now and wanted to see. So he took out the account book and turned to the page where the Yulu was issued in July, except for Liu Yongxu's Yulu which was not written in it, everyone else should have written it clearly.

After a quick glance, Guo Caiping's heart suddenly seemed to be blocked...... Among them, it is indeed An Ge who is the highest, Liu Pingle is not low, but she is the lowest among everyone...... Even Yu Yuanyuan, who came to the mansion every day with a smile and a smile, either ate melon seeds or shouted to Liu Pingle to say goodbye, was taller than her......

The more Guo Caiping thought about it, the more angry she became, she raised her hand and closed the account book with a "snap", and scolded: "Dead hillbilly, you dare to touch the old lady's money......"

In her heart, if An Ge hadn't proposed a way to pay according to the amount, everyone's money would be the same now, and she would not be the lowest, even if she didn't have money, it would be a shame. How could she not blame An Ge?

*

Early the next morning, An Ge and Liu Pingle went to the Dibao Mansion early, and when they arrived, Zhang Lianfeng had just sent off the household officials, and when she saw the two of them again, she said with a smile: "You two came early today, and the Lord of the Household Department sent the silver over, and the two of you arrived." ”

Liu Pingle said with a smile: "Yes, when I thought of today's Fortune Harvest, the two of us came early, and when I got Fortune, An Ge wanted to invite me to Crane Tower to eat lychee meat." ”

"Shall you go now? Such an early ...... in the morning" Zhang Lianfeng looked at her in surprise.

Liu Pingle nodded: "It's now, there are few people there to eat well." ”

Zhang Lianfeng didn't say anything, she went to get two silver bags, the names of An Ge and Liu Pingle were on them, she handed the bags into the hands of the two, and said, "Then you guys go quickly, come back early." ”

The two smiled and took the money bag, but An Ge's face changed the moment he got the bag.

Liu Pingle didn't notice it, and immediately opened his bag, and said in surprise: "It's so heavy, I'll count it...... There are fifteen taels of silver! Even if Liu Pingle is not short of money, he is still very happy to get the money he earns by his ability, "It seems that I will urge my father to promote the women's school as soon as possible, so that the women of the entire Dali are literate, and more people will come to see our newspaper, and we will make more!" Ange, don't you say? ”

Ange came back to his senses...... Although she hadn't opened the bag yet, it was estimated that there were absolutely no fifteen taels of silver in terms of weight...... Could it be that the account office sent her Da Li Bao banknotes?

The treasure bill was a silver ticket issued by the imperial court, but she pinched it, and she didn't feel that there was a silver ticket in the bag......

"I can take fifteen taels, how much did you take Ange? You must be a lot more than me, right? Liu Pingle put away the silver and asked curiously.

An Ge hurriedly put the bag away, and said with a smile: "Let's go quickly, when there are more people in the Crane Tower, we will have no place." With that, he pulled Liu Pingle out and fooled the matter.

It's not that she wants to deliberately hide Liu Pingle, if the silver in her hand is really a lot less, she will definitely ask Zhang Lianfeng in private for an explanation, if it is just a miscalculation, it will be good to make up for it next month, but if Liu Pingle knows, she has always been impulsive, if it makes a big fuss, then Zhang Lianfeng will be punished as the person in charge.

Everyone works together, and if you can be amiable, don't make trouble in the open, otherwise it will be embarrassing to meet in the future.

Liu Pingle was bent on eating delicious food, so he didn't continue to ask.

When they arrived at Xianhe Tower, after the two ordered their meals, An Ge excused himself to buy soy milk, sneaked out and opened the money bag to take a look...... It's only five taels.

How so? She has more articles than Liu Pingle, how do you think that there shouldn't be so much less of her!

No, you must go to Zhang Lianfeng for an explanation!