Guo Sheng settled the Yang family sisters and brothers, and Li Xia quietly went over to take a look.

The gentleman of the school is a talent, decent and rigorous, because the tuition is cheap, there are twenty or thirty children from ordinary families in the school. The residence of the Yang family sisters and brothers is not far from the school, but the courtyard is very small, three halls, two rooms in the east wing, one is a kitchen, the courtyard is full of green bricks, a pomegranate tree has lush branches and leaves, like a green umbrella, covering half of the yard, there is a branch obliquely out from the top of the courtyard gate, and the red pomegranate flowers are blooming.

Li Xia's car stopped at the gate of the courtyard, and through the half-open courtyard gate, he looked at Yang Xing, who was sitting and writing on the small square table under the pomegranate tree in the courtyard, and Mrs. Yang, who was busy, this courtyard was extremely compatible with this pair of sisters and brothers, as if they had lived here for decades.

Li Xia put down the curtain, the car walked through the alley unhurriedly, and returned to Yongningbo's Mansion, Li Xia changed his clothes and went out to the palace, today is the first birthday of the prince's eldest daughter.

Li Xia went to Xuanning Palace first as usual, and went to Ning'an Palace with Empress Dowager Jin.

As usual, after walking a few steps out of Xuanning Palace, she met Concubine Yao Xian, who came over, and halfway through, she met Tang Concubine and four or five beauties who came over on purpose, Su Guifei greeted a stone's throw as usual, Empress Jiang received the steps, and the crown princess Wei took four or five steps in front of Empress Jiang, smiling and bending her knees.

The Empress Dowager Jin smiled and signaled that she didn't have to be polite, while looking at today's little birthday star, the prince's eldest daughter Sister Fu'er, Wei Shi hurriedly motioned for the nanny to hold Sister Fu and walked in front of the Empress Dowager Jin.

"It's windy outside, and my sister is still young." Li Xia reminded the Empress Dowager Jin who was teasing Sister Fu who forgot to walk, and the Empress Dowager Jin hurriedly signaled to the nanny, "Hurry up and hug it in." You see, my old wife, when I am old, I am not thoughtful, I think when I was young, I was as capable as your mother. ”

"It's our sister Fu who is so likable." Concubine Yao Xian was busy laughing and making fun, "Don't talk about Niangniang, I'm like this too, when I see Sister Fu, I patronize and love it, and forget everything else." ”

"No, this person likes such children when he is old," Empress Dowager Jin looked at Sister Fu with affection, supported by Li Xia, and walked up the steps with trembling steps, entered the hall, stopped, and turned her head to look around.

Li Xia followed the Empress Dowager Jin and also looked at the layout in the Ning'an Palace.

In the past two or three years, the palace has become more and more shabby year by year, and there is almost no arrangement in this hall, but there are two rows of small ones on the left and right, and there is a long case on the east side, which is paved with red felt, and there are some objects on it.

The children of all families in the capital celebrate the first birthday of the week, and they also have to invite some people to be lively for a day, but the first birthday ceremony of the eldest daughter of the prince in front of her, Sister Fu, is also the people in the palace, plus she, an outsider who is not an outsider, is really simple and can't be more simple.

Empress Dowager Jin helped Li Xia and went to see the objects on the long case first, and Su Guifei and others also followed, looking at those books, needles and threads and other objects around the long case.

The Empress Dowager Jin was about to speak, when the clear voice of the little chamberlain outside sounded, and the emperor arrived.

In the main hall, except for the Empress Dowager Jin and Li Xia, who accompanied the Empress Dowager Jin, the rest of the people went out together.

Empress Dowager Jin motioned for Li Xia to help her, and slowly walked towards the main seat.

The emperor was followed by the crown prince, King Qin, the princes of the two, three, four, and five, and fourth princes, as well as Empress Jiang and others, and when they entered the main hall, Li Xia supported the Empress Dowager Jin and sat down on the chair slowly.

"Mother, slow down." The emperor hurriedly walked a few steps, a foot away, and stretched out his hand to help the Empress Dowager Jin.

"I'm fine, although this body is old, it's still tough, I haven't seen the emperor for a few days, the emperor seems to have lost some weight, and there are too many things in the court?" Empress Dowager Jin looked at the emperor with concern, she has been old in recent years, and she has been a little verbose, and she never mentioned the words "court" and "China" in the past.

"Let my mother worry about it, everything is fine." The emperor said perfunctorily, sat next to the Empress Dowager Jin, stretched out his hand to signal the nanny to hand over Sister Fu to him, held it in his arms, turned Sister Fu to the Empress Dowager Jin and said with a smile: "There are so many children in the palace, I look at it, I count Sister Fu as the most beautiful and lovely." ”

"Not really." Empress Dowager Jin looked at Sister Fu and smiled, "In a blink of an eye, Sister Fu will be one year old, Sister Fu, let's grab something good for you to take a look, okay?" ”

Sister Fu was in the emperor's arms, babbling and dancing.

"What Mother said is, let's catch Zhou first." The emperor really loves Sister Fu very much, and stood up with Sister Fu in his arms, and a group of people followed behind the emperor, hula around the long case.

The emperor looked at the pen and ink on the long case, rouge needlework, shovels, rulers and other things, frowned, looked at Queen Jiang, and said with a little dissatisfaction: "Why are these things?" This needlework shovel ......" The latter words, the emperor did not say it, only snorted with a little annoyance.

Sister Fu is a royal girl, what are you doing with this needlework shovel? Can she still be allowed to do the needlework and household chores herself?

"I told Wei that Sister Fu wants to learn needlework and housework, but I'm afraid that when she grows old enough to do needlework, she will really have to use needlework to make clothes and manage daily life." Empress Jiang's expression was indifferent, "In this matter, I originally planned to wait for Sister Fu'er to have a good birthday, and then tell the emperor, since the emperor asked...... Let's just say it now, it's always going to be said. ”

Empress Dowager Jin took half a step back, motioned for Li Xia to help her sit down on the chair next to her, and looked at Empress Jiang who was facing the emperor's gaze with a calm expression.

Li Xia lowered her eyebrows and looked pleasing to her eyes, it seemed that all her attention was on the Empress Dowager Jin, in the past two years, she entered the palace, and she was such an image of a docile daughter-in-law who entered the role in advance.

King Qin didn't look at Empress Dowager Jin or Li Xia, he didn't look at anyone, he only frowned slightly, listening intently to what Empress Jiang and the emperor were saying.

The crown prince subconsciously squinted at the second prince and the third prince standing side by side. The faces of the second prince and the third prince are not very good-looking.

The four princes and the fifth princes are next to the crown prince, and the other is closer to the king of Qin, and they are all looking at the nose and the nose and the heart.

Concubine Yao Xian took Sister Fu from the emperor's arms, and the crown princess Wei immediately stepped forward to take the hug.

Su Guifei leaned at Queen Jiang, with a faint sneer on her face.

Tang Guifei stood opposite, looking at Empress Jiang, waiting for her to say what was the matter.

"This year in the palace is more difficult than last year, and the emperor also knows that in the past two or three years, the methods that can be thrifty have been used, and there is really no way at this time.

"Sancheng?" Tang Guifei blurted out and exclaimed, "Niangniang counted the few girls I brought into the palace last year, and six or seven people have been laid off. ”

Li Xia, who lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes, sighed secretly.

Tang Jiayu has been in the palace for several years, from the queen mother to the emperor to the queen of the river to the palace people, and has collected thousands of favors.

Empress Jiang looked at her, sighed, and said helplessly: "I'm really wronged by my sister." ”

"It's not a matter of grievances or grievances, I don't understand, the past few years in this palace, the same as the previous few years and decades, there is no difference at all, why has there never been a time when there was not enough use before? You can't just be thrifty, you have to open source to throttle, you don't need open source, just find out why it was enough every year before last, why it was not enough in the past few years, and you are still poor? ”

Tang Jiayu was really angry, not to mention the luxury she heard about in the past, even when she first entered the palace, compared with now, it was almost a day and a place, and when she was in her mother's house, she had never been so wronged and poor.

"No more money?" In the past year or two, the Empress Dowager Jin has become more and more symptomatic, and it has become more and more obvious, "Is there another war?" Is it bad to get a good year? Where is the disaster again? I still have some silver that I don't need, and a few treasures of gold and silver that I don't need, I originally wanted to leave it to Brother Yan, and Brother Yan doesn't lack this, you let people carry it and sell it, it's all something that is not needed. ”

Empress Dowager Jin was chattering, and she didn't know whether she was talking to the emperor or to Queen Jiang.

Empress Jiang squinted at the Empress Dowager Jin from the corner of her eyes, and for a moment, she looked away, not at the Empress Dowager Jin, but at the emperor.

The emperor's face was very ugly, looking at the second prince and the third prince standing next to him, he said with a calm face: "I asked you two to check the account of the Huangzhuang to see what is going on, how is the investigation?" ”

"Still investigating." The second prince replied stubbornly: "In the past, all of them used small bows to charge big bows to collect rent, and the people were very resentful, and the emperor also knew about this, and in accordance with the emperor's will, the small bow land was transferred back to the big bow, and the land rent remained unchanged, which was a lot less." ”

"Compared with the silver handed over now, compared with the time when Quanyou had it, it is one percent and ten percent, and the acres of land measured by this big bow and small bow are ten times worse?" Empress Jiang looked at Concubine Yao Xian, Concubine Yao Xian looked at Concubine Su Guifei, and whispered with a smile: "It doesn't seem to be much worse, and I won't settle such an account." ”

"It couldn't be any worse! There's definitely something weird here. Tang Jiayu was indignant.

The second prince lowered his eyelids and didn't say a word, the reason for the difference was ten times, the second month after Su Ye took over the Huangzhuang, he found out clearly, the income of the Huangzhuang was those, and the rest was more than ninety percent, only the whereabouts had no way to go, but the way was clear, and the four of them were all over the world measuring the land for others, but it was not in vain.

But this is a clear, clear and unclear thing, they have no evidence, and even if there is evidence, he may not dare to show it to the emperor, the palace, and the emperor, all of which have been used in the past few decades are such stolen silver, and this matter is exposed...... Alas, how dare he?

But the emperor didn't expect this at all, he thought that the cases that Chen Jiang was about to investigate were all about to be investigated by father and son for decades, and they were all for personal gain......

Because he took over the matter of Huangzhuang, he and Su Ye both regretted their bowels.

"Today is Sister Fu'er's birthday, and Sister Fu hasn't caught Zhou yet." King Qin made a peace sentence.

"Hmm." The emperor had a calm face and motioned to the crown princess Wei, "Bring her over." ”

The emperor had a calm face, the Empress Dowager Jin looked like she was tired and barely holding on, Empress Jiang looked calm but didn't smile lightly, Wei and Li Xia were the same as being a daughter-in-law. Concubine Yao Xian was always indifferent and calm, Concubine Su Guifei's face was worse than that of the emperor, and Tang Jiayu kept pouting, angry and angry.

King Qin's indifference was on par with Empress Jiang, the irritability on the faces of the second prince and the third prince could not be hidden, and the fourth prince and the fifth prince sat stiff in fear.

Only the crown prince, from time to time, laughs and tries to enliven the atmosphere, but this atmosphere, first, is not something he can be active, and second, his active atmosphere is just a gesture, as for whether it is active...... Well, at this moment, this atmosphere is very good!

It didn't take long for Sister Fu to grasp Zhou, and the Empress Dowager Jin staggered to her feet and muttered a few words, so that Li Xia lost her and went back to Xuanning Palace.

Entering the Xuanning Palace, Empress Dowager Jin changed into her homely half-used clothes, leaned comfortably on the pillow, sipped half a cup of tea, and motioned for Li Xia to sit next to her, "How is Tang Chengyi doing?" I heard that he is good at practicing left-handed characters? ”

"Firm in retreat." Li Xia directly answered the meaning of Empress Dowager Jin's question, "Ruan Seventeen said that since the New Year, Tang Chengyi's body seems to be getting worse day by day, he went to report to the ministry, and before he finished saying a thing, Tang Chengyi fell asleep. ”

"Since the New Year, he has been asking for resignation once a month." Empress Dowager Jin didn't know what to think of, and sneered.

"Also, the seventh sister said that when her child turns one year old next month, she will take the child back to Jiangning Mansion, saying that it is with the old lady that she has been married for a year or two, and has not entered the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors, this is a big deal, and she must go back, the seventh sister said, with the old lady's meaning, is to let her live at home for a year or two and then come back."

"Well, this is going to tear away from us." Empress Dowager Jin listened intently, her expression indifferent.

"He doesn't tear up, and I don't plan to pull the seventh sister in." Li Xia's voice was low, revealing a hint of annoyance.

"It's human nature, and people don't know what you're going to do. Besides, this plan is a plan, and it really comes to the last resort. Empress Dowager Jin looked at Li Xia, "You don't talk about it, your seventh sister is afraid and won't stand idly, Tang Chengyi has tried his best to plan for his own family, this is the right thing to do, go back, the Tang family is like this, it's very good." ”

"Hmm." Li Xia pursed his lips and smiled, "I wrote it down, I think so too, it's best for Tang Chengyi to step back at this time, otherwise it will ......" Li Xia vaguely said later, "When it comes to the dawn, Tang Chengyi will definitely oppose it and fight with his life, but it will be troublesome." ”

"If you are not as good as you in terms of penetrating the world, when the time comes, you have to persuade Brother Yan more, what can you do if you don't scold or not?" Speaking of the last sentence, Empress Dowager Jin's chin was slightly raised, raising a hint of pride.

"Well, don't worry." Although Li Xia's voice was low, it was simply firm.