The Spring Festival was worth a thousand gold, Wan Ying only felt that she hadn't slept steadily, when she heard the sound of Prince Rong squirming and getting dressed, and in the haze, she saw the maids holding a court dress draped on him, and muttered: "I just got married yesterday, can't I take a break for three days?" ”

Prince Rong turned around and said dotingly, "Woke you up?" Recently, the plague broke out in Beijing, and I didn't go yesterday, so I have to ask today, what happened? ”

Wanying sat up sleepily and struggled to get out of the quilt. Prince Rong pulled out the sleeve in the maid's hand, sat next to the happy bed, and said with tenderness in his eyes: "It's still early, you can sleep for a while, and the day after tomorrow we will go to the Queen Mother to say goodbye, you can sleep hard these two days!" ”

Wanying listened, lay down, and watched Prince Rong go out with a lazy smile, and then returned to her dream sweetly.

Hongfu had been guarding outside the hall early, watching the prince leave, grabbed a maid and asked, "Where is the kitchen of our Chunhuatai?" ”

The maid smiled and said, "My sister came here yesterday, don't you know yet?" No fire can be lit in the new daughter-in-law's courtyard for three days. ”

Seeing that the maid was speaking kindly, Hongfu also smiled and asked, "Why can't you make a fire?" ”

The maid smiled: "I don't understand this rule very well, I heard that several princes' mansions have this rule, in case 'the backyard fire'." ”

Hongfu laughed out loud and said, "Since you are preventing a fire in the backyard, why is it only for three days?" ”

The maid looked dazed, shook her head and said, "I don't know, I heard what the grandmothers outside said." ”

Hongfu knew that the maid was not lying, so she took the maid's hand and said, "Good sister, will you take me to the big kitchen?" Our princess Niangniang, I am not used to eating dry rice in the morning, and I need to drink some nourishing porridge, I am afraid that the kitchen will not know, so I will have to explain it myself. ”

"Good sister, you come with me, I'll take you."

The two chatted all the way, and walked to the big kitchen, and the maid pointed to a wide courtyard in front of her and said, "In front of my sister is the big kitchen in our palace. ”

Hongfu found the kitchen, smiled at the maid who led the way, and said, "Thank you, sister, for taking me on this trip." ”

The two separated, and Hongfu walked straight to the smoking room on the roof, and before she could knock on the door, several unpleasant voices flew into her ears.

"It's still your Feng family's big business, we all secretly went out to see it yesterday, Concubine Rong's dowry is more than a hundred lifts, and it can't fit in the courtyard of Xia Qing Pavilion, and it is placed dozens of meters away."

"What is more than a hundred lifts, our lord gave our young lady a full two hundred and two dowry. The picture is a good sign that good things come in pairs. ”

"What do you say! More than two hundred? One and a half feet of land is counted as a lift, and the dowry alone has to be two miles from front to back? ”

"Isn't it! If that's not enough! Our lord also gave the young lady ten granges, all of which were Tianzihao paddy fields. That's 12,000 acres of fertile land. ”

"Oh, my mother, we have been in the palace all our lives, and we think that we are used to seeing the prosperity of the world, but I didn't expect that we are still frogs at the bottom of the well. These dowries in your Feng Mansion are 500,000 taels, right? ”

"Five hundred thousand taels? You also underestimate us, just to buy a dowry cost 800,000 taels of silver, so 12,000 acres of fertile land is not counted? ”

"Eight hundred thousand taels? Not counting the accompanying grange? 'The time and place are favorable' and the six types of earth are the most precious paddy fields in the Tianzi brand. ”

"Exactly, those ten granges, one acre of land can collect one or two taels of rent and fifty catties of wheat a year, and one alone alone can net 12,000 taels of silver and 600,000 catties of grain for the royal palace every year."

"My dear? 12,000 taels a year? Ten years is 120,000 taels. There are also 600,000 catties of grain. Our palace, plus the new masters and dowries, there are less than 200 people in total, and each person eats a pound of grain every day, which is only about 60,000 catties a year. That's only a tenth. Rao is your Feng Mansion, and these ten granges alone can feed our entire palace. ”

"Our lord said, 'Our young lady is a concubine', and we can't be a concubine, but our lord has wronged our young lady, so the dowry will never be wronged by our young lady."

"That's exactly the reason, you didn't see it yesterday, the dowry of the master's family, we counted it before and after, a total of one hundred and sixty-eight lifts, more than thirty lifts less than yours."

"Master? Hehe...... Our lord is the Empress Dowager's own Wu'an Hou, and he is the general of Zhengyipin. You haven't heard of the official position of the teacher, have you? ”

"Have you heard, Shuncheonfu Yin? The Jingguan of the third grade. ”

"That's all the old calendar. Our concubine's father, Lord, is now the grain supervisor of Zhili Dao. Zhengjin is 800 positive six products. ”

"Grain Overseer? Or is it from Naoli's side? When? We don't know a thing. I thought that the master was the commander of the Shuntian Mansion, Yin and the commander of the Nine Gates. ”

"It's just a month, just after the New Year, I heard that the owner of a jewelry store reported that the teacher's family was in a foreign country and harbored a few gemstone rings from the Western Regions...... I don't know the specifics. I only heard that the Shi family offended the old Liu family, and the old Liu Pavilion picked up a group of poor officials, and he was stunned to make trouble to the criminal department. Is it rare, you say? ”

"Strange way...... I see, then isn't our concubine the young lady of the Liupin Guan'er family? Hi...... I don't know what evil our prince has fallen into, why he just fell in love with their young lady. There is neither money nor power. ”

"Don't you dare to say this, people are concubines now, if they are placed in the palace, they will be the queen of the middle palace!"

"Hee-hee...... The Empress of the Middle Palace? Now he is not locked up in the cold palace by the Queen Mother. According to me, you Feng family don't have to be discouraged, what do these people in the palace think, I am still clear. As long as you are willing to spend money, I dare to pack the ticket, we are in our palace, and Concubine Rong's will is much more spiritual than the will of the main palace. As the saying goes, 'Money can make the devil grind', you haven't heard of it, right?

Several people talked at length, the more they talked, the more outrageous they became, Hongfu was angry when she heard it outside, she couldn't help it, raised her foot, and kicked the kitchen door open.

There was a 'Bang Dang' sound, and the door slammed against the wall. Hongfu finally saw clearly that there were a few people in the group who were chewing their tongues behind their backs.

"You don't have claws, or do you let the dog gnaw them off? I won't push the door open! ”

Hongfu looked at the old woman in front of her who was covered in oil, and when she heard her voice, she knew that she was the cook of the palace.

"Blind your dog's eyes, this girl is the maid of the mother's dowry."

The cook was first startled, and then flatteringly asked, "Does the girl have any commands?" ”

Hongfu threw the tray in her hand onto the board a meter away, and said menacingly: "What did you just say?" Repeat again? ”

The cook's face was blue and white, and he said writhingly, "The girl didn't wake up in the morning!" What did I say? ”

Hongfu walked up to the cook's mother-in-law, puffed out her cheeks and spat on the cook's face, and said viciously: "Bah, you are my three-year-old child!" I stood outside the door and could hear clearly, whose will is better than the will of our mother, you are happily saying it again! ”

As soon as the cook heard his private words, he was listened to by the henchmen of the concubine Niangniang, and he didn't stop doing anything, so he simply denied it and said, "The girl heard it wrong, right? I didn't say anything like that! ”

Seeing that she flatly denied that she wanted to deny it, Hongfu was already furious, stretched out her hand to pinch the cook's mother-in-law's ear, lifted her out of the courtyard, and said aggressively: "Okay, it doesn't matter if you don't admit it, let's go find someone who can take care of this matter and say, I want to see, the palace is so big, can it be possible to let a sassy cat and dog stinky cook defile the master of the house, or let's go to meet the prince and let the prince judge the lawsuit for us." ”

The cook was already frightened, and begged for mercy again and again: "Good girl, you heard it wrong, you really heard it wrong!" You spare me this time, I'll make braised pork for the girl every day. ”

"Phew! My aunt and grandmother have never eaten meat, so they are waiting for this stinky meat on your body to be put in the pot. Today, if we don't make a 'bridge is a bridge, and a road is a road', you will definitely be a demon in the future." If I don't give you a little bit of power, you don't know how many eyes your grandpa Ma has? ”

The cook's mother-in-law carried one ear in Hongfu's hand, followed Hongfu to the gate of the courtyard, saw the nurse Li from a distance, and shouted at the top of her voice: "Mother Li, save the slave......

Li frowned and scolded softly: "Those who killed a thousand knives, the masters haven't gotten up yet, what kind of funeral are you howling about your mother!" ”

The cook's mother-in-law, the ninja, was in severe pain, plucked her ear from Hongfu's hand, knelt down on the corner of Li's skirt, and cried: "Mom, this girl is going to kill the slave!" ”

"Fart, you are pulling the money of the Feng Mansion behind your back, and you want to force our mother, do you dare to say that you didn't say it?"

Hongfu's words are true, but they can't be said like this. The cook had already lied with a clear conscience, and this sentence pulled the Feng family into the water, and the two of them insisted on their own words, only a few of the Feng family's matching rooms were human witnesses, so of course, the Feng family's matching rooms would also help the cook to lie.

Sure enough, the Li family asked at a few of the Feng family's matching rooms, "Has this mother-in-law said such a rebellious thing?" ”

The people of the Feng family, shaking their heads like rattles, also denied it: "No, no, it was this girl who came in and thought that we ignored her, so she got angry, so she attacked this cook." ”

Hongfu was stunned, and sighed in her heart: "This is really a three-person tiger, black and white are reversed." I can be regarded as 'dumb eating coptis, and there is suffering'. ”

Li went straight into the kitchen again, and asked a few mothers-in-law who were cutting vegetables, and several mothers-in-law said that they only cared about work, but they didn't hear what they said, and only after the two of them quarreled did they look up.

Li reprimanded Hongfu and said: "You are Niangniang's dowry maid, you should make a long face for Niangniang everywhere, so you make a fuss in the kitchen like this, and when it spreads, others will only laugh at Niangniang's lax discipline." Do you understand? ”

Hongfu craned her neck and said, "This woman is talking nonsense, and even the people of the Feng family are lying. ”