Chapter 61: The Bitter Affair & Red
Before sending the three away, Li Xiang turned around and asked Chunyu to move the empty box.
The month is older, in fact, it is not very obvious, it is only more than four months, the skirt is tightened on the chest, the waist and abdomen are loose, and she has a slender waist, as long as she does not hold her waist, she can't see it at all.
"Don't be upset, it's all drudgery." Li Xiang walked a few steps and sat down in another place, isn't it drudgery? There are thousands of accounts in a month in a shop, and hundreds of people in the house have food, clothing, housing and transportation, plus purchases, and hundreds a month, this is still under the premise that Murong Jin does not invite his colleagues to eat and drink, the wives and concubines in the house do not go out to the banquet, and the Xiangqi Wangfu does not go out to give gifts, the taxes of Xiyuan County also include land, checkpoints and the expenses of the palace under construction in Xiyuan, unless it is a mental calculation and has been checking the accounts for many years, otherwise, this month's account will have to be counted for half a month!
Chunyu couldn't hold back, "This account is stinging!" β
You don't have to count it yourself! What's more, the general ledger is there! How many of them don't know if others don't know? Others rely on the master to settle the accounts, and a general account can be checked with a cup of tea.
"What time is it?" Li Xiang knew what Chunyu was dissatisfied with, how could the housewife of the main room be so power-free? Moreover, I don't know these people well! Even if it is Miss Xiao Jiu, who outsiders think is familiar, it is just a general friend, it is easy to give it away, but it is difficult to get it back! All the housewives value the right to be a housekeeper, but they want to know everything about the top and bottom, although the prince mixed up their people, they don't need it for the time being, but they can't hand it over like this!
"Twenty-five." The spring rain was sullen and held the box to put it away.
"Twenty-five, according to the prince, we have to go to Xiyuan, time is running out, why waste it on the ledger? You will also go back a few times when you have time, this time, except for the funeral, I am afraid that you will have to wait for the prince to return to Beijing to report on his work. Li Xiang poured a cup of tea and pulled Chunyu over, "Sit down for a while." Don't be depressed, isn't it a matter of a word to get it back? β
"Lord ......"
"He doesn't care about the backyard, if they don't pay it back, let's go to the Splendid Courtyard to complain!" Li Xiang stuffed the cup into Chunyu's hand and teased her.
Chunyu blocked his chest in one breath, if only he would sue! When did their master's temperament ever ask for help? I'm afraid that there will be a day when I can take it back directly.
It's just that......
"What funeral?" Chunyu took a sip of tea and realized that she had missed something, but she couldn't remember it for a while, and she actually forgot the most important thing - why did she give it to them? I heard another keyword.
Li Xiang opened his mouth, turned his head, and said casually: "The Queen Mother is not very good, if you go to the fiefdom, it's okay to say, it's a big deal to postpone, if after that, it's the Queen Mother, maybe the prince will have to come back." β
"This ...... Can't say! Chunyu didn't have time to cover people's mouths, so he was afraid that the three of them would come back and hear it, so he hurriedly spoke.
Li Xiang smiled and sent away the spring rain.
Chunyu went out with a wooden face, just went out of the door, and stared at the corner with round eyes, and was stared at for the slightest chance to make a sound, Chunyu recalled what he had just said against the word, his heart was horizontal, and he turned his head and shouted inside: "See the prince!" β
Zhou Shi, who threatened to no avail, dropped a silver needle in his hand, waved his hand, Chunyu didn't leave, there was no way, he didn't care about the difference between men and women, and directly pulled the person away by his sleeve.
"Zhou Gongβ"
"Okay, Your Highness has serious matters to discuss with the princess, the one you said, it's not a big deal for us to hear it, just don't let outsiders hear it." Zhou Shi flicked his sleeves, "However, can the princess give up the housekeeping power?" Does the prince know? β
Chunyu didn't want to speak, she knew it all when the side concubines and them entered the Xianxian Courtyard, God knows if the prince knew.
Seeing this, Zhou Shi still didn't understand that it was stupid, sighed silently, sat by the flower garden in the yard, and waited for someone to call him later.
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The tea was slightly hot, and the blue-glazed porcelain cup was less than three inches high, and it turned back and forth between the fingers a few times, and the fingertips were red.
A high-pitched sentence of "see the prince" outside, shocked people's hands trembled, the tea spilled a little, and immediately rolled down the white hand, and was "criticized" in the morning for the old-fashioned clothes, the cuffs were stained with some water stains, and the warm tea got into the cuffs, and finally stopped at the elbow of the cloth.
Li Xiang was slightly stunned, then put down the cup, went to find a handkerchief, wiped off the water stains on his hands, and a red mark on his extraordinarily white forearm was particularly dazzling, which was shocking under the background of the green clothes.
Before the handkerchief touched the forearm, he was grabbed by the wrist, and the five slender and bony fingers came into view, and then up, the protruding wrist bones, and the white cuffs.
Li Xiang raised his head, the fingers of the hand he was holding were still holding the handkerchief, and he didn't understand what this gentleman who listened to the corner wanted to do now, and there was still a bit of innocence in his eyes.
"It's going to break the skin." Murong Jin was shouted by Chunyu's voice, he had to come in, he originally came to see her serious, but when he came, there was only Lixia in Xianxian Courtyard, and Zhou Shi wanted to look for him again, so he simply went to the side courtyard to stay for a while, but his ears were too good, and as soon as he came out, he heard the atmospheric little princess let go, and when they left, they came out, and when they entered the door, they heard "Queen Mother", and when they entered the door again, they saw that the little princess who didn't know how to burn herself red took a dry handkerchief and wanted to paste it on her hands. But look at the little princess's eyes, or shouldn't he?
Silently repeated again, "You can't do this, it will break the skin." β
Li Xiang looked down at his arm, which was red, silently raised it, rubbed it on the clothes on his legs, and raised it to show the worried prince.
It's redder, but it's not broken at all.
The handkerchief is cotton, the clothes are silk embroidered, the latter is not broken even if rubbed, and the former is certainly not broken.
Li Xiang felt that a certain prince who was kind-hearted and was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs and was provoked again should leave, who knows, he just let go.
Then, he changed one hand, grabbed her other wrist, pulled someone to sit on the soft couch, and went to the window with a cold face and called Zhou Shi in.
Li Xiang: ......
Silently glanced at his arm, it was not so delicate, and it didn't hurt......
As soon as Zhou Shi came in, he felt that the room was extremely cool, and he came and went quickly.
The two people who were left on both sides of the soft couch seemed to be separated by a galaxy of silence.
Li Xiang rolled up his sleeves according to what Zhou Shi said, and waited for him to come back with the medicine, in fact, what Zhou Shi said was to cut off the sleeves, but Li Xiang was unwilling, and there was no one else in Xianxian Courtyard, and there were only three men who could come in, Murong Jin, Zhou Shi, Wang Fu, one is her husband, the other is a doctor, and a son is older than Murong Jin, so it's okay to pick it up, after all, no one is seen, the key is that Zhou Shi can't persuade Li Xiang to cut his sleeves.
"Your Highness?" Li Xiang didn't know if he heard the part about the Queen Mother just now, and he didn't know if he heard the previous part.
No matter what you say in the second half, the relationship between the Queen Mother and Emperor Jiaming is extremely bad, if it weren't for the pressure of filial piety, many people doubt that the Queen Mother can survive to this day, so this Emperor Jiaming's very important son should have no feelings for the Queen Mother, and in private, it is not a big problem. But in the first half, it sounded like he was disgusting the Xiangqi Mansion?
Li Xiang didn't want to confront Murong Jin for the time being, in the end, this person was good to her.
"Your Highness, your private account book is still here with the concubine, and it has not been given to the Fucha clan."