It's time for the house to pay out the monthly money again, and there are four chefs in the Jade Hall who are all from the West Pond Courtyard.

These four people are surnamed Zhao Qian and Sun Wang.

Master Zhao is the oldest and has been in the house for the longest time, and he received the previous monthly cases.

Seeing that it was noon, the monthly money had already been distributed in Xifu, but no one in Dongfu had asked them to collect the money.

Master Wang likes to save money the most, and if the money can't be sent at a moment, he will not be steady, so he urged Master Zhao: "You go to Mama Jiang and ask, why don't we send someone to collect our money?" ”

Master Zhao didn't think much and said: "No one can miss us without it, the master won't eat?" You're in a hurry, okay, wait, I'll go. ”

Master Zhao took off his apron and threw it to Master Wang and went out, and when he arrived at the second gate of the East Mansion, he asked to see Mama Jiang.

The subordinates of the Eastern Mansion have been becoming more and more diligent recently, and they are not embarrassed that he wants to buy money for the road, so he goes to the inner courtyard to call someone.

After a while, Mama Jiang didn't come over, it was the personal maid of the three little ladies who came.

"You're Master Zhao, right? In the past, the lady loved to eat the tofu balls you made. ”

Master Zhao smiled and said yes, but he is no longer in Xichi Courtyard now, there are many cooks in Xichi Courtyard, and the three little ladies don't pay much attention to him, Jade Hall is different, he is the big steward, and the monthly money remains the same, but there is less life, at that time, Mama Qian asked him to go to Jade Hall, and he himself was willing.

Mama Jiang didn't come, this big slave and maid spoke the same, and Master Zhao explained the intention.

"Peach girl, look, why haven't we sent out our monthly routine yet?"

Momoko was surprised: "Master, aren't you not serving in Xiikeyuan now?" You're in Jade Hall, right? So how can it be the monthly money of the West Pond Temple? Is it that all the people in Xifu have been missed? This money should be from Xifu. ”

Master Zhao felt unprecedentedly scared, Xichi Yuan didn't care about them?

He hurriedly said: "It used to be sent from Xichi Courtyard." ”

Peach smiled: "Master Zhao said that he laughed, at this time and that time, the master used to cook for the lady?" Who do you give it to now? ”

So it should be who eats and who pays.

Master Zhao realized this from Peaches' smile, and wanted to say something more, but Peaches had already turned around and left.

A chill made Master Zhao shiver in the middle of summer, no, the food was eaten in Li Shilang's room, and he had to go to Xifu.

Master Zhao found Zhen's maidservant Ah Xiang and asked for a monthly example.

Ah Xiang was a little surprised: "Haven't you sent it all?" Have you forgotten? Which room are you from? ”

Master Zhao reported his name and the name of the four rooms.

Ah Xiang asked her mother-in-law to bring the account book and flipped through it, and went to the fourth room to look for a while.

Then he raised his head and smiled: "You are Master Zhao, right?" The four of you are not from our Xifu, there is nothing in this account, and the eldest lady doesn't know about it, we can't get this money out. ”

Master Zhao was really anxious: "Then how can it be done?" We are cooking for Shiro, no matter what the three little ladies do, and you don't care here, so we have become a vain messenger? Tell you, we are not a death contract, we are all good families, if you dare not give money, we will sue you. ”

Ah Xiang said with a very kind attitude: "Master Zhao, don't be angry first, it's really not that we don't give it, and you can't embarrass me as a subordinate, right?" There are regulations on the use of money for the small kitchens in each room of this house, and the excess part has to be filled by yourself, and the four rooms are overspent every month, and it is impossible for the eldest lady to arrange a cook for the four rooms, so don't embarrass me, I am just a subordinate. ”

Yes, it's all about the above, but who is he looking for?

Master Zhao asked: "Since the fourth room is overspent every month, how to calculate the overspent money?" ”

Ah Xiang said: "Of course, the fourth room is filled by yourself, master, go back and ask the people in the fourth room?" We really can't allocate money to the masters. ”

So what else? Now, Master Zhao also knows that he has been played around as a ball.

Can only go back.

After he left, Ah Xiang returned to the main house to see Zhen and told him about the situation outside.

Zhen's round eyes picked: "Ah Yu finally set aside time to deal with the tail left by Mama Qian?" ”

Ah Xiang said: "If this continues, the old lady will have to blow up the temple, and in the end, the burden will fall on you again." ”

Zhen smiled implicitly, so much so that he was in a good mood: "Let's make trouble, this time I'm afraid that they won't make enough trouble, and I've had enough of this kind of aggrieved days." ”

Ah Xiang's heart trembled, the eldest lady is about to start making trouble?

Chunyu is a pregnant person, she can't smell meat, and she can't starve, but why is the sun hanging in the middle of it, and her food hasn't come up yet?

Chunyu called the slave who was in charge of the rice: "You want to starve me to death, don't you?" Do you want to tell Shiro that he sold you, so that you know how to serve people? Where's my lunch? What about rice? What time has it been? What about eating? ”

The maid was very aggrieved: "Auntie, the whole yard has not been opened, and the cooking has gone on strike, saying that we will not give people monthly money." ”

Chunyu's mind moved, and he heard the voice outside the strings: "Why don't you give monthly money?" Who doesn't give monthly money? ”

The maidservant asided the rumors she had heard, and then asked, "Who should give this money?" ”

Chunyu frowned: "The three little ladies really don't care." ”

The maidservant said: "The three little ladies of the family have not eaten food. ”

"Then the eldest lady is making trouble with the cook?"

The maid said again: "But it's the extra people in our yard, and the eldest lady just doesn't care, and what she says is reasonable." ”

Chunyu's eyes lit up: "Then our lady should be in charge, right?" Who can she push to? ”

The maidservant said, "So isn't this cooking skill causing trouble?" The fourth lady said that she had no money, these four cooks used to serve Aunt Hong, and then they all served Aunt You, by the way, the fourth lady and the fifth little lady have vegetables to eat, which is made by the old cook, but you definitely won't eat it, it is a meat dish. ”

Chunyu sneered: "I understand, this is aimed at me, I am pregnant with Shiro's son, she dares to treat me like this, then let's find Shiro to reason." ”

After speaking, he called the personal maidservant: "Go and ask where Shiro went?" If he doesn't come back to call the shots for our mother, I'm going to starve to death." ”

Yin's is honest, whoever has the ability in the four-room courtyard will step on it, which is a common thing.

Li Yulang listened to Chunyu's complaint and went to the main house to ask Yin for money.

"You don't really want to starve Spring Rain to death, do you? Are you jealous of others because you can't give birth to a son yourself? Gave the cook money. ”

Yin and Li Pearl had just eaten, she had always been timid, and when she saw Li Yulang's fierce look, she hurriedly blocked her daughter behind her: "Shilang, I don't have any money." ”

"Where's your dowry? You haven't touched a penny when you come to the house, everyone says you're honest, but I don't know how many eyes you have. ”

Yin was silent.

Li Yulang asked for two more times but to no avail, and his chest rose and fell angrily: "Can't borrow it?" A-Niang can't take out the money, Chunyu is pregnant and rewards the next person's money, A-Niang takes it, you don't have a lady to say anything, don't you give birth to a son and send you to the end of your life? ”

Yu Shi still didn't say anything, only shook his shoulders and didn't speak.

Li Yulang couldn't bear it: "You keep the dowry and live by yourself, I want to divorce my wife." ”