It was silent at night, Gu Yange was playing with the two children in the house, Xiao Yongye was passed into the palace after lunch, saying that there was an abnormality on the side of King Jinzhou, so he hurriedly changed his official uniform and went. (Update the fastest octave)

Outside the window, the moonlight is like water, and the golden cinnamon in the yard has almost fallen, and even the long-blooming moon flowers have gradually lost their leaves, but the small chrysanthemums along the wall are blooming just right. Between the flickering candles, there is an occasional dark incense. Occasionally, there were a few insect moans, but they were not as loud as on a summer night, and there was a pool of water in the courtyard, and the light of the moon flowed in the murmuring water. Sitting alone in front of the window, listening to the squeaks of the two children in the room, I suddenly felt that happiness was nothing more than that.

I opened the window ajar to let the night breeze in, and carefully pulled down the curtain in the house, and the cool breeze outside blew the child. The two children in the house were finally tired of tossing, and they yawned in the grandmother's cup one by one: "Master, Xiao Shizi thinks he is sleepy, so the slaves and maids will take Xiao Shizi to rest." Master, you also settled earlier, and the slaves and maids retired. ”

"Well, I'll sit down for a while, it's getting cold today, pay attention to covering, don't catch a cold." pinched Hongzhang and Hongkun's faces, and watched the two children smile at her in unison, and the feeling of happiness became deeper.

When the children went to sleep, it was already early hours, but Xiao Yongye had not returned home. Gu Yange also tried to close the window and go back to sleep on the bed, but he always tossed and turned and couldn't sleep steadily, so he had to get up again, let the night guard light the candle, and sat back in front of the window.

At this time, the moon was already in the middle of the sky, and it was cold and cold everywhere, and a cool breeze blew, and I felt a little cold, and Fu Shu took a cloak and put it on her: "Master, the wind is cold tonight, and it should be dewed again, you just got out of the confinement don't get wet, it's easy to hurt your body." ”

"Well, you go outside to rest first, I'll sleep after a while, and I don't know when the prince will come back, let the kitchen prepare some hot spots and hot soup, and wait for the prince to come back." After Gu Yange finished speaking, Fu Shu took the order.

She leaned on the window again, and suddenly wiped it with her hand, and there was dust on some window sills, and she frowned and reached out to the window pane and stretched out her fingers to touch it, but there was also some dust, and the tips of her fingers were all a faint layer of black. After thinking about it, he got up again, took the silk handkerchief and swept it lightly under the bed, and the handkerchief was also a layer of misty gray.

Gu Yange just stood there like this, his face darkened, and then Fu Shu came in and saw that Gu Yange's face was wrong, so he asked: "Master, what's wrong with you?" ”

"The old lady has returned, how is the new housekeeper?" After Mrs. Xiao left, the housekeeper of the inner courtyard was not as good as before, she discussed with Xiao Yongye, and set aside a courtyard for the old housekeeper and her son, daughter-in-law and children to live in. (Update the fastest octave bar) The newly mentioned housekeeper in the house was also mentioned by the old grandmother, she was not familiar with it, Xiao Yongye was not in charge of the affairs of the inner courtyard, and the two of them also felt that the person chosen by the old grandmother would certainly not be wrong, so they naturally agreed.

Fu Shu's expression was a little puzzled: "Master, the new housekeeper is kind and fair, and everyone in the house praises them." ”

"After Mama came, how did the girls in each courtyard arrange?" Gu Yange always felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, it should have been a day, but she didn't even show the dust in the house. The light is well done, but these places that are not often seen by the eyes and hands are not often visited, I don't know what has become of them.

Fu Shu promoted the female officer, naturally has the style of a female official, and naturally knows these things, so he replied one by one at the moment: "Master, at the beginning of August, you were still in the middle of the month, and the affairs in the backyard were handled by the housekeeper and the second aunt together. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, a group of girls were replaced in the house, and those who were old were given enough money to go out of the house to match people's families. At that time, Mama Yang mentioned it to her master, but the master couldn't remember it. ”

Gu Yange knew all these things, but she didn't remember them, but when she mentioned them, she also remembered: "Okay, you go down first, heat the soup on the small stove, and talk about it tomorrow." ”

Fu Shu went down in response, and left a bowl of lotus seed soup on the table for her to drink, she sat down with some annoyance, opened the lid casually, stirred the lotus seed soup with a spoon, and sent it to her mouth absentmindedly, and before she chewed two bites, something was wrong: ""Lake lotus is expensive, river lotus is cheap, and Qingcheng lotus seeds are worth a thousand gold!" ”

She suddenly remembered this sentence, Hulian is the lotus seed of the Huzhou generation, and the river lotus is the Hechi area, and the lotus seed in Qingcheng has a small yield, a good variety, and it is worth a hundred times the value of Jinggong every year. The lotus seeds in the house have always been the Qingcheng lotus seeds sent by the palace, and they are naturally of first-class quality.

Gu Yange's mouth has long been raised, and the lotus seeds in the gnaw taste the same, glutinous and without residue, but it is lost in an aroma. Moreover, the lotus seeds in Jinggong are carefully selected, and the lotus seeds in this cup are slightly wrong in size and shape.

If she hadn't seen the dust beforehand, she might not have thought about it, but now that she is connected, she can't help but think about it.

"Tsk, these people's guts are fattened!" Gu Yan Gedan muttered like this, and Xiao Yongye lifted the curtain and came in.

"Yan'er, why haven't you slept yet, what are you eating, and you look unhappy." Xiao Yongye sat next to Gu Yange, stretched his neck to look into the cup, and said with a smile: "Don't you love lotus seed soup the most, why did you only take these few mouthfuls today?" ”

Gu Yange pushed the soup cup and handed it to Xiao Yongye and said, "You taste it, how does it taste?" ”

Xiao Yongye took a bite of the spoon and chewed it deliciously: "Well, it tastes good, only a little is missing." ”

…… She shouldn't have told Xiao Yongye about eating, this person has three bowls of rice when he catches a bowl of vegetables, and when he tells him these subtleties, he will definitely wave his hand and say that she thinks too much: "Then you eat more, you stay up in the middle of the night, you must be hungry, and the emperor doesn't care about supper." ”

Xiao Yongye laughed, and while scooping the lotus seed soup, he said: "Yan'er, you can't let the emperor hear it, it seems that the emperor is so stingy." ”

After eating lotus seed soup, the two went to see the child together, and tossed for a while before resting.

Early the next morning, Xiao Yong dressed up his court clothes and went to the court meeting, Gu Yange also got up early, washed up and had breakfast, and sat in the house waiting for the girl who came to clean. In the past, when she was cleaning, she either sat in the yard, or led the children to the yard to see the scenery, but now she didn't want to go anywhere, so she pointed to see how these girls cleaned.

The girl who sprinkled the sweep naturally didn't expect that Gu Yange would sit in the house today, and the girl stepped forward to ask for peace, and said, "Princess. It's time for the slaves to sweep, so please move and don't let the dust get on you. ”

"I can't clean the dust in the house every day, and I don't want to go out to bask in the sun when I'm tired today."

Seeing that Gu Yange didn't leave, the girls didn't say anything, and they each took something, two people on the ground, two for dusting, and two for cleaning windows, and they were busy moving in the house. Xu is here today, and the places that should be cleaned have been cleaned with all their hearts, and the water in the basin and bucket is so dirty that they can't be seen.

Gu Yange sat and pretended not to see it, and when the cleaning was finished, the girls came to kneel again: "Eldest princess, the slaves and maids have finished sprinkling and sweeping." ”

"Well, do you all sprinkle like that on weekdays? Do all the hospitals take care of it like this? Gu Yange asked as if he was inadvertent.

The girl hurriedly replied: "Back to the eldest princess, yes." ”

"That's hard work for you, Jingzhu, take them down to reward them with some silver to buy flowers to wear." Gu Yange was still silent.

After Jingzhu led the girls down, Mama Yang asked with some anger: "Master, how can you let go of these lazy bones?" ”

"Mama, do you think a few girls have such a bold son. There is a way to be a soldier and a widow, and there will be a nest of widows, and there is a problem in our house from the silver, can you blame these branches and leaves for not growing well? "Just sprinkling and sweeping and lotus seeds, Gu Yange may be regarded as a new girl who doesn't understand the rules, and this year's lotus seeds are not as good as in previous years. But this morning, she also showed the new autumn clothes made by the girls and mothers-in-law in the house, and the materials used were not as good as in previous years.

The hand of the original owner, how much silk and satin he has touched, the quality of the material, as soon as he passes the fingertips, it is immediately clear. The clothes of the palace people who cleaned the bamboo and helped them were made in the palace, she didn't feel it before, but Zhu Yan didn't count it, when Zhu Yan combed her hair this morning, the skirt passed by her fingertips, and it was immediately clear.

Mama Yang didn't know that there were so many things, and said, "Master, do you have an idea?" ”

"Mama and peace of mind, this will not be spread in advance, let's take a look first, where is this root." Chop the grass to eradicate the roots, this is very true: "By the way, go back and send me a handwritten letter to the Anjun Palace." ”

She still had to invite Gu Yingwu to watch the play, and then she remembered that she hadn't had time to tell Xiao Yongye about the third aunt, but it was just right that she didn't say it, and it was not too late to confirm it in person.

Mama Yang took the handwritten book, and naturally went to deliver it in person, and others were afraid that they would be hooked by Gu Yingwu's blushing heartbeat, and they would misunderstand the matter.

As soon as Mama Yang left, Jingzhu came back after sending the girls back: "Master, the slave and maid rewarded each of them with one silver for the master." ”

"Well, no more, no less."

"Master, the slave maid heard something just now."

Gu Yange was thinking about his own few things, so he asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"The new girls seem to have given silver to the housekeeper before they came. In fact, this matter is not new, the palace is poor and the money is enough, and our house is good. It's just that...... It seems that 700 yuan has to be deducted to the housekeeper every month, and the monthly money of the girl in our house is only 2,000 yuan! (2,000 coins is about six coins of silver) Jingzhu calculated it, and the rest was only 1,300 yuan. 1,300 yuan, to feed a family of four, there is definitely a surplus, but Jingzhu is used to taking the monthly money in the palace, in her opinion, it is really pitiful.

Jingzhu, who is used to taking monthly money, feels that it is less, and Gu Yange, who has doubled her monthly income after being promoted to the eldest princess, feels even less: "Jingzhu, don't go out first, you and Jingzhu and Zhu Yan usually get close to the new girl, and ask the new steward what is going on after he comes." If you want to ask without the slightest trace, it is best to chat on weekdays, and when you complain together, you will also complain and complain, and then take the opportunity to ask 'inadvertently'. ”

Jingzhu scratched her head, and after thinking about it, she didn't understand too much, but Gu Yange said this, of course she would do this: "Don't worry, master, the slave and maid will definitely ask without a trace." ”

Gu Yange's chest was sullen, she has always been broad-minded, firstly, there have been a lot of things recently, and secondly, she has never really managed such a large family.

In the past, King Ke's Mansion was controlled by the old housekeeper up and down, and Mama Yang was in charge of the inside and outside, she never worried, it seems that ...... It's because she's too negligent, and no one in this house is a fuel-efficient lamp!

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