The movement in the Tai Hospital quickly alarmed the guards in the palace, many of whom were Li Cheng's former subordinates, who had been loyal to King Chen, and naturally wanted to protect the lord at this moment.

"Don't worry, county lord, we will never let anyone step out of this gate."

Sheng Zhiyao nodded: "Thank you for your hard work."

"Don't dare, don't dare."

Soon, Sheng Zhiyao returned to the Purple Phoenix Palace, and the queen mother had already gotten up and was drinking tea. Seeing Sheng Zhiyao enter the house, she smiled faintly, but seeing that the expression on her face was not very happy, she quickly asked, "Where did Zhiyao go?"

"Grandma Huang." Sheng Zhiyao saluted obediently, "Erchen has something to ask the imperial grandmother for help."

"Oh?" The queen looked up at her, "Tell me about it."

Sheng Zhiyao told her about going to the Tai Hospital, but omitted the part that gave her medicine.

"These doctors are really fat." The queen sneered, "It's so blatant."

"Grandma Huang is angry, Zhi Yao knows that she is not qualified to manage these things, but after all, this involves the health of you and Grandpa Huang, and besides, isn't the money in the palace money? It wasn't a strong wind, and the retainers couldn't watch so much silver flow into the hands of the female cadre."

"Okay." The queen laughed, "Zhiyao, let's go, Grandma Huang will support you and let these guys know whose granddaughter you are."

Too Hospital

Zhang Yuanshou approached Sheng Zhiyao and the queen with the account book: "Queen Mother, county lord, this is all the accounts since the head of the royal court took office, and here are the accounts of the lower officials after they took office, all of them are here, please take a look at the mother and the county lord."

Sheng Zhiyao carefully took the account book and checked it carefully, and found that although the accounts of Wang Yuanshou were good-looking, they also spent a lot, but since Zhang Yuanshou took office, these people have begun to be unscrupulous, and even this month, the income of Tai Hospital is about fifty percent more than before, she frowned slightly: "The purchase of medicinal materials during this period of time is fifty percent more than usual, are these medicinal materials made of gold?" It cost so much!"

"The county lord is cautious!"

"The lord of this county is cautious?" Sheng Zhiyao sneered, "These medicinal materials were purchased by the father-in-law of the Tai Hospital, and the county lord asked you what was going on, and you answered me truthfully."

Sheng Zhiyao threw the ledger on the table: "The purchase of these medicinal materials by the Tai Hospital needs to be recorded, and the specific use of each medicinal herb is also recorded in detail, my father-in-law thinks that I am young and don't know how to deal with it, and now that the imperial grandmother is here, then you are arguing with the imperial grandmother."

The father-in-law wiped his sweat: "The county lord forgives the sin, the slave doesn't mean this, the slave just thinks that the Tai Hospital is a place dedicated to the saint and the queen's mother, everything should be cautious, naturally it is the best to buy, and as for the price, the pharmacy has the final say."

Sheng Zhiyao sneered: "What about this kind of deceitful ghost? If it weren't for corruption, how could these medicinal herbs be sold for such a high price?"

"Servants don't dare to deceive the county master." The father-in-law said in a hurry.

"Don't dare? Didn't you just think that the county was too lenient?" Sheng Zhiyao smiled sarcastically, "Do you think that the county lord is a little baby and let you go?"

"County master, the old slave doesn't dare!" My father-in-law was crying and mourning.

Sheng Zhiyao stood up and paced slowly: "Since you don't dare, then it proves that you have a problem. Come, give the county a beating, and beat him until he tells the truth."

"Yes." When the guard at the gate of the courtyard received the order, he immediately walked in, and directly dragged the eunuch out.

The father-in-law was frightened: "The county lord spares his life, please raise your noble hand, the old slave will never dare anymore, the old slave will never dare again......

"Hmph, you dog slaves, if the county lord doesn't teach you a lesson today, do you really think that the county lord is a vegetarian?"

The father-in-law was so frightened that his buttocks were urinating, and he desperately shouted that he was wronged: "The county lord is clear, the old slave swears to the sky, it is really the shopkeeper of the pharmacy who said that these medicinal materials are expensive, and the old slave doesn't know that they will be so expensive!"

"What about the drugstore manager?" Sheng Zhiyao asked, "Find it and ask."

"This ...... The old slaves don't know them."

"Oh, I don't know him, I pressed the shopkeeper of the pharmacy into the palace, and I have to ask him if he knows you.

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"Yes."

Sheng Zhiyao sat back on the soft couch, crossed Erlang's legs, and tasted tea slowly, the queen just sat there silently, she knew that Zhiyao could handle it well.

Sure enough, in less than a cup of tea, the shopkeeper Qiu of the Chengji Medicinal Material Shop was brought into the palace.

Shopkeeper Qiu was brought into the Purple Phoenix Palace, knelt in front of Sheng Zhiyao, and trembled: "The grass people meet the queen mother."

"Excuse me." The queen leaned back in her chair dignifiedly, "This palace summoned you today, there is something to inquire, and you can answer the county lord's questions truthfully."

"Yes." Shopkeeper Qiu replied respectfully, turning to Sheng Zhiyao, "I don't know what Yongchen County asks the grass people?"

"Do you know him?" Sheng Zhiyao pointed to his father-in-law who was kneeling on the ground.

"Yes, the grass people have been working with him for a long time."

"Really? And you sold these herbs to him?"

"Yes." Shopkeeper Qiu nodded, "Not only that, but the grass people also gave him a pair of deer antler paste."

"You also gave deer antler paste to your father-in-law?" Sheng Zhiyao looked at Shopkeeper Qiu in surprise, "What a big stroke."

Shopkeeper Qiu said with a smile: "This is what I should do, after all, my father-in-law is also from the Tai Hospital, and it is also a fate to be able to fancy the herb people's pharmacy."

Sheng Zhiyao squinted her eyes: "Fate? It's the fate of money that makes you meet like this, right?"

"The grass people don't understand what the county lord means."

"Don't you understand?" Sheng Zhiyao sneered, "Someone."

The guards stepped forward: "Lord of the County."

"Show the purchase order and the ledger to the shopkeeper." Sheng Zhiyao pointed to her father-in-law, "Let him take a good look at whether there are any errors or omissions in the account books and procurement orders of this hospital."

"Yes."

Shopkeeper Qiu took the account book and the list, and after looking through it for a while, he showed a look of surprise, and then raised his eyes and peeked at the queen, seeing that her expression was indifferent, and his heart was even more worried.

He took a deep breath and said, "If you go back to the county lord, there is nothing wrong with the purchase order, but the price on this purchase order is far from the price in the grass people's account book."

"How big is the gap?"

"A few thousand taels of silver."

Sheng Zhiyao raised his eyebrows: "A few thousand taels of silver?"

Shopkeeper Qiu nodded: "Every time my father-in-law comes, he is to let the grass people entertain him, and the price is low and low, but thinking that he can do business with the palace will naturally help the business of the medicine store, but the grass people never expected that this father-in-law would secretly swallow the difference in the price of these medicinal materials, it is really chilling."

When the queen heard this, she looked sideways slightly, and her eyes fell on her father-in-law: "This palace heard that you and the head of the front yard of the Tai Hospital are fellow villagers, and they have a good relationship, you tell this palace, is the number on this account really so?"