Qingxue Courtyard is full of people coming in and out these days, and it is very lively, just because Xifu is now the head of the second lady Mao, and these housekeepers are busy talking back and forth to listen to the orders of the second lady. Among these stewards, many of them are people from the Luo family, and now that they see that the sky has changed in the house, they don't know where they will be, they are all trying their best to tie up, which makes the small Qingxue Courtyard even more lively.

Steward Zheng, who was in charge of the shop in the East Market, looked sad, rubbed his hands and waited outside the door of the small flower hall, listening to the maid come out to pass the news, and hurriedly went in, kowtowing to Mao's through the screen.

"Second lady, there is no cash at all in the few shops in the house now, and there is no money or silver to buy, so it is really impossible to turn around." Since beating Mao's people to redeem all the cash and silver in the shop, Steward Zheng has been so anxious these days that he has grown a big boil on his mouth, and he is still twitching and throbbing when he speaks.

Mao leaned on the couch behind the screen, took a grape peeled by the maid and put it in his mouth, and after a while, he spit out the core in the copper plate that the maidservant came, and said slowly: "The goods on the shop are short?" ”

Steward Zheng had a bitter face: "No, the inventory on the shop has been used up, and I should have gone to buy it two days ago, but now I ...... it."

The accounts of the shops are empty, but where does the money come from to buy?

Mao sat up and spat on the ground: "It's a shame that you have been in charge for many years, and you have helped the house take care of the shop for so many years, but you can't even do such a small thing, how could the eldest lady pick you in the first place." ”

She said a few words so that Steward Zheng blushed, bowed his head and didn't dare to speak, over the years, he followed the eldest lady Luo, has always been very valued, and he can be regarded as a face in the house, who sees it, don't call Steward Zheng, where have you ever received such words, but now the above is no longer the eldest lady, he can only endure this breath and listen to Mao's reprimand.

"It's not a day or two to buy in the shop, and the shopkeeper who delivers the goods is naturally familiar, so you won't let them send it first, write a voucher with them, and after a while, you will have money and silver in the account and then you will be with them." Mao smiled contemptuously, these stewards in your mansion are so inflexible, even the poorest merchants and peddlers in Qingzhou City know the way, they can't even think of it, it's really stupid.

Steward Zheng was stunned: "That's credit?" Once upon a time, the eldest lady was not allowed to ......"

Roche has always been a very strict housekeeper, requiring the books of the shop and the house to be settled monthly, and there must be no credit, because he is afraid that his subordinates will come up with some bad ideas through this method, but it will become a loophole and a deficit.

Mao snorted coldly: "It's not the eldest lady who is in charge now, if you want to listen to the eldest lady, why don't I send you to the back door to watch the door, and I can't say that I can still see the eldest lady, are you willing?" ”

Steward Zheng shrunk his neck and didn't dare to speak again, the position of this steward was one of the best errands in the house, and he was willing to lose it like this, so he naturally did what the second lady said.

Only then did he send away the steward Zheng, and several housekeepers and grandmothers in the house also came in, and they gave the Mao family errands everywhere in the house, and then they talked about it and said that it was time to release the monthly money again, but there were only less than ten gold on the books of the house, and even the monthly money of the stewards was not enough, so there was really no way.

Mao waved his hand impatiently: "It's only been a long time, it's not too late to wait a few days and then put it away, it's hard to do it if you put it down in these two days, and what kind of treasure can you give birth to in your hand." ”

Where does she take the monthly money as a thing, in her opinion, they are all subordinates in the house, even if they don't give money and silver, they should work in peace, not to mention that they only pay the monthly money a few days later, what does it matter.

As long as the palace sent money and silver back, I was afraid that there would be no money and silver at that time, and there was still a lot of balance between the purchase in the shop and the monthly money in the house, which was enough for her to live a rich life.

The group of housekeepers looked at each other, but they didn't dare to say much, so they had to respond in a low voice, and retreated in their hearts.

After listening to all kinds of replies for most of the day, Mao who was sitting on the couch was a little tired, she yawned, turned her head and asked the maidservant Xiao Tao next to her: "Where is Erlangjun?" But went to the shop? ”

She was only a housekeeper, and she didn't dare to slack off, so she came to the small flower hall early in the morning to listen to the housekeepers' replies, and Gu Yuan didn't get up when she was still on the couch.

Xiao Tao asked people to ask and replied: "Erlangjun didn't get up when he was still in the room, and called someone to go in and wait for the change." ”

Useless stuff! Mao's face fell, but he didn't expect that when he arrived in Chang'an, Gu Yuan still looked like he couldn't get up to the wall, and he was counting on her to support her inside and out, if it weren't for her hard work, the second room would have been driven back to Qingzhou by Luo, but he hadn't grown up at all, sleeping every day until the sun was three poles, either he was drunk with food, or he didn't know where to go.

She only talked to him for a while yesterday, and asked him to go to that Bao Dalang to inquire again, where is there still Hu Shang who brought spices to Chang'an, regardless of the price, and slowly plan to get up, such a good deal can not be done once or twice, it is rare to be able to have business dealings with the palace now, and in the future, I will worry that money and silver will not roll in!

But when he came back from going out all day, he said that he had never seen Bao Dalang, and he was still drunk, and the smell on his body was messy, so angry that Mao didn't sleep until midnight.

"Second lady, Mrs. Chu from Jixiang Hutong is here again, waiting in front of the mansion, saying that she wants to reply to the old lady." The little maid came in and replied.

Mao was taken aback, remembering what Old Madam Gu had said to her before, knowing that this Mrs. Chu came to the door to tell Gu Mingzhu about her relatives, her brows also furrowed, if this thing was done, Gu Mingyue would become the old lady Gu tried her best to send it to the palace, then Luo said that it would not be long before she could move back to Chunhui Hall with the light of Gu Mingyue, which she would never want to see.

She frowned, thought for a while and then said to the maidservant: "You let people go and bring that Chu Pozi to Qingxue Courtyard first, I have something to ask her." ”

After that, he commanded again: "Let people go to Dongfu to ask again, the eldest lady is not in the mansion, please come and sit here, I have something to say to her." ”

The little maid agreed to go, and Mao's face looked a little better.

She couldn't stop Mrs. Chu from not seeing Old Madam Gu, Old Madam Gu was concerned about this matter, and asked from time to time, if she knew that she was getting in the way, she would be furious, she was not stupid. It's just that she doesn't want to watch the Luo clan take advantage of Gu Mingyue to become proud again and take away the power of the family in her hands, so naturally she won't just watch Old Madam Gu's plan come true, so she can push the boat along the way, and she can also sell her favor to Gu Mingzhu by the way.