Chapter 45 Can't open the pot

"Just pass, just pass." Sheng Shaoqing sensed the system's insecurity in time and tried to find a way to make amends.

Forget it, it's good that the host can pass, and it's better to lower psychological expectations a little.

"I don't know what's going on over there with Yunzhi."

Just as Cui Yun walked in, he heard Sheng Shaoqing muttering here, and took the opportunity to answer, "If the Queen Mother is worried, why don't you send someone to take a look?" ”

Sheng Shaoqing shook her head, as soon as the work was carried out over there, she sent someone to see it, didn't it seem that she didn't trust him?

Comparing her heart to her heart, she didn't like to be supervised when she was working, and she didn't work hard, so she had to stare at her.

"Don't be suspicious of employing people, don't use suspicious people, so be it."

Anyway, in a month, we'll see.

"By the way, how is that Yun'er checking?"

After being busy for a while, she remembered that there was such a thing.

It's also strange to say, in addition to informing the two sisters that day to inquire about the situation, why didn't there be any movement at all?

"Back to the Empress Dowager, Weichen has already sent someone to contact the people of the Feng Mansion, and there will be news in the past two days."

[Host, why don't you ask me?] 】

If you don't use such a golden finger as it, what is the purpose of wasting all this manpower and material resources?

"If you want to say it earlier, can you wait for me to ask you?"

Sheng Shaoqing won't say that she forgot.

The system is silent, and it also has to admit that she is right at this point.

"However, just now Ah Ning said that in the early days of this morning, Mrs. Xu had come to the Yongguang Palace and brought a pot ......," Cui Yun continued.

"Pot?"

Cui Yun clapped his hands, and A-Ning and Forsythia walked in with a large stew pot one by one, looking quite heavy.

What kind of performance art is this Mrs. Xu playing?

A-Ning and Forsythia put the pot down lightly, Sheng Shaoqing walked forward, looked left and right around the pot, looked up and down, this is an ordinary stew pot that can't be ordinary anymore.

Cui Yun was also puzzled, "Queen Mother, what does this Mrs. Xu mean?" ”

Sheng Shaoqing was silent, and asked her, who did she ask?

"System, do you know what that means?"

The system was also silent and said that it didn't know, it only showed here that Mrs. Xu got up early in the morning and went to the imperial dining room to ask for this pot, and then sent it to the Yongguang Palace.

As for earlier, since Mrs. Xu returned from Yongguang Hall the day before yesterday, she spent the whole day in Shouning Hall looking at the account books, and there were no other strange actions.

"A-Ning, will you try to open the pot?"

Could it be that the mystery is hidden in this saucepan?

A-Ning belched, got up to remove the lid of the pot, and then let out a strange "huh".

"What's wrong?"

A-Ning called Forsythia to uncover it together, "Why is it so difficult to uncover?" ”

The two of them didn't open the lid of the pot after a lot of effort.

【Host...... I'm showing here, Mrs. Xu...... Before coming, people sealed the mouth of this pot...... I thought she was doing it to make it easier to carry, but now it seems like she did it on purpose? 】

What do you do when you seal the mouth of the pot?

Wait a minute.

She seemed to understand.

"You... I've never heard a word..."

Cui Yun and A Ning all looked at Sheng Shaoqing, waiting for the Queen Mother to solve their doubts.

"I guess what Mrs. Xu means: we are going to be poor and can't open the pot........."

"Ah???h Everyone asked in unison, what did Mrs. Xu mean?

[It seems to be ...... That's true. 】

Mrs. Xu has been reading the account book for the past two days, sighing while reading, and it seems that the palace has become more and more unable to make ends meet in recent months.

"We're really poor like this????"

Cui Yun frowned, "It shouldn't be, there must be something wrong with the private treasury." ”

The last time Mrs. Xu came to report on their work, they said that there was not much left in the palace, but they didn't expect that this would be the point where they couldn't open the pot.

In the past, the system said that those imperial villages have been hollowed out, who did it?! Who did this to you?!

Who's going to leave her without food?!

"I want to see what these Imperial Houses are doing?!"

Cui Yun thought for a while and then said, "There is still half a month to be the New Year, and another half a month is the January period of Prime Minister Ji, you want to go to Chen Liu with Your Majesty, why don't you pick a day during this period and go to Huangzhuang to have a look?" ”

"You can arrange it, but don't let them know."

so as not to startle the snake.

"A-Ning, let's go to the private warehouse now."

As soon as Wang Shanggong heard that the Queen Mother Luan was coming, his round body trembled, and he hurriedly got up and went out to greet him.

"Weichen has seen the Queen Mother, why is the Queen Mother here?"

Sheng Shaoqing raised his eyebrows, "What, Wang Shanggong is not welcome to the mourning family?" ”

Sheng Shaoqing has been in the previous dynasty for a long time, and she is already able to deal with Ji Wenxuan easily, not to mention Wang Shanggong, this Wang Shanggong has revealed in her words and foreign language, and she, the queen mother, seems to be an uninvited guest.

"Wechen don't dare, Wechen don't dare."

Wang Shanggong didn't dare to say it, but his body didn't move a step, still a posture of resistance.

"System, why am I so miserable? Xu Wan pointed at me and scolded, even if the little Shanggong could stop me? Those people in the previous dynasty didn't dare to do this to me, did they? ”

[Well, according to the current results, in the past, your living environment was in the harem, they were more familiar with you, and you suddenly ascended, and they didn't have any reverence for you. The difference is that they are not familiar with you, they do not know your temperament, and they are still in the process of getting acquainted with each other. 】

"It means that they still think that I am the gentle and easy Feng Tian in the past?"

[It should be like this, but this is also a helpless thing, in the past, your status was relatively low, and you had no right to speak, so naturally you didn't have any prestige, so ......... Didn't the first emperor take a fancy to you......]

Feng Tian and she are quite consistent on this point, they are both social animals, and they have been in this palace for eight years, and they don't even have an acquaintance to talk to in this palace.

"Wang Shanggong, how many years have you been in this palace?"

Wang Shanggong didn't expect the Queen Mother to suddenly ask such a question, and thought for a while and said, "It has been fourteen years since Weichen entered the palace as an official in the Wu Dynasty. ”

"According to the ancestral system, you are about to leave the palace and return to your hometown, right?"

I just took the official rule exam yesterday, and the fifteen years of female officials in the palace are a period, and they can leave the palace and reunite with their families when they are old, so it stands to reason that Wang Shanggong should go out of the palace and go home next year.

"Ah", Wang Shanggong was overjoyed, "Weichen can't be regarded as returning to his hometown, just a reunion." ”

Wang Shanggong has been blocking her with her chubby body, and the road to the private treasury in the palace is like this, "What, this private treasury mourning house is unbearable?" ”

"Ah", Wang Shanggong retreated as if he had just woken up from a dream, "Weichen doesn't mean this, Weichen ......"

Sheng Shaoqing ignored her and walked in with the group, while Wang Shanggong quietly pushed the person behind him, and the person turned around and quietly fled.