57. Collar charcoal
Ye Chenyao smiled at the corner of his eyes, and said softly: "Ning'er likes it, and this king will also stay in this Leyi Pavilion." ”
The corners of Ning Qing's mouth twitched, she didn't want to!
The old housekeeper was dripping with cold sweat on his back, and he was as sophisticated as he naturally knew that Ye Chenyao was declaring Concubine Lan's status this time. He looked at the empty courtyard, and his heart trembled again.
These eyeless subordinates really lost his old face.
"The old slave will arrange it." The old butler didn't dare to slack off, and ran into the snow curtain as he spoke, and his trembling back quickly melted into the snow.
"Your Highness, I'll take your pulse." Bai Lizhi waited for Ye Chenyao to finish disposing of it before asking for instructions.
Ye Chenyao nodded.
Bai Lizhi put down the medicine box, held up Ye Chenyao's wrist and began to check the pulse, her face was as calm as water.
Ning Qing looked quietly, and the room was full of people who didn't speak, only the candle flame was flickering. She felt bored, so she walked into the back room, not seeing Ye Chenyao's eyes following her all the time.
The apse in the northeasternmost corner of the palace, next to the treasure house is the palace treasury. The night was dark and the snow was rolling, but there was a long queue in the courtyard of the storeroom, all of which were maids and maids from various courtyards who had come to receive charcoal.
"Father-in-law, from the pawnhouse."
A small guy handed over the token, and the head of the treasury, Father-in-law Zhang, looked at it and shouted back: "Those baskets of charcoal are brought out." ”
Several small servants worked together to move out the eight baskets of charcoal, and several guys from the pawn shop moved away after handing them over.
"Thank you, father-in-law!" The little guy took back the token and thanked him.
Father-in-law Zhang didn't respond with a cold face, but just snorted coldly in his nose, waved his pen on the record book, and shouted loudly: "Next." ”
"Father-in-law, the little one is in the ancestral hall." A maid respectfully handed over the token, "Get two baskets of charcoal." ”
Gonggong Zhang looked at it and frowned, "The shrine has used a lot of charcoal recently. ”
The maid was like a great enemy, and she trembled and said: "Recently, it has been snowing heavily and it is cold. ”
Grandpa Zhang raised his eyes and glanced at her tiredly, "No matter how much you have to save a little, this time I will only give you a basket and a half." ”
Most of the basket was cut off, it seemed to be within the expected range, the maid did not say a word, she took the token and thanked her, and walked away with the basket and a half of gray charcoal.
A few maids in a row received charcoal for each yard, but they were all counted down by Zhang Gonggong, and each cut down a point.
"It's cold and you give so little charcoal, how can you explain it when you go back?" A maid who had just finished receiving the gray charcoal muttered.
"Be content, it's good to have it. I heard that the snow is very heavy this winter, and there is little charcoal, and even the palace has a small share. Another maid in purple said with relief.
"That is, if it weren't for the guard camp in our palace, it is estimated that we would not even be able to burn the charcoal. Father-in-law Zhang made a careful calculation and deducted such a point is nothing. ”
The maid knew that it was true that compared to the guard battalion rolling in the ice and snow, they could feel much better in the house, less should be less.
"Well, there are exceptions." The purple-clothed maid sighed.
"How?"
The purple-clothed maid secretly rubbed her finger and pointed at Qiushuang, who was handing over the token, and said, "The treatment of the longevity palace is different. ”
"Father-in-law, I want two baskets of charcoal." Qiu Shuang was not as respectful as the other maids, she directly threw the token on the case, and not only that, but her face was full of pride.
The maids below were all muttering, and Qiu Shuang was bold, and even Xia Xue, who was behind Qiu Shuang, sweated for her.
Sure enough, after seeing that it was autumn frost, Grandpa Zhang's face was full of frost, and he said coldly: "Aren't you from Leyi Pavilion?" Yesterday, our family told you, there is only charcoal, love or not. ”