Chapter 10: The Gu family who drinks blood and eats meat
Early the next morning, Qin Shuhuang got up, and when it was time for breakfast, Mrs. Gu sent someone to bring food from her small kitchen.
This time, he didn't even enter Qin Shuhuang's yard for this food, and was sent back by Ruihe.
After yesterday's incident, Ruihe Shilan Shiyu and several big maids more or less understood what the princess meant.
Thinking that His Royal Highness had always disliked the food in the big kitchen of the Gu Mansion, Shi Yu simply didn't go to the big kitchen to get the food box early this morning, and directly brought two maids to make breakfast for Her Royal Highness the princess in person.
Although the courtyard where the princess lives is far inferior to that of Mrs. Gu and the concubine, and there is no extra place to build a small kitchen, it is still possible to put two stoves to make some simple morning food and snacks.
Shiyu took the maid to work, Qin Shuhuang was not idle, she continued to make the men's robe that she cut yesterday, if she stared at it like this, she could do it this morning, and the rest was the embroidery part.
If there is work in your hands, time flies.
In the blink of an eye, the morning passed.
The Dao robe in Qin Shuhuang's hand has been completed, and the work on Ruihe and Shilan's side has also been completed.
Shilan counted the furniture and clothes that Qin Shuhuang used most often, packed them, and made a list of the rest, and when the princess needed it, she just counted and packed them according to the list.
As soon as Shilan came to report, Ruihe hurriedly came in with the account book.
Ruihe held the account books sorted out with both hands, with a look of anger on his face, "Your Highness, the slave maid has sorted out the account books of the last year, please take a look at it." ”
Qin Shuhuang took the account book and flipped through it.
Ruihe was taught by the female officials in the palace that accounting and management are good hands, and before getting married, her private property was managed by Ruihe.
Later, she married into the Gu family, the Gu family was down, she wanted to support the Gu family, just the silver, when she first entered the door, she subsidized the Gu family's public account 10,000 taels, in addition to her private property before marriage, other property and dowry, etc., she did not share it very clearly with the Gu family, and the Gu family has always been helping to take care of it, and she also acquiesced to the Gu family to take some benefits from it.
But she didn't expect that after three years, instead of a penny of her property and dowry, the property and dowry that were distributed to her had shrunk!
Zhuangzi, shops, and acres alone are less than sixty percent!
The remaining forty percent of the books show an annual deficit, and Mrs. Gu also sticks silver into it every year to operate.
The first 10,000 taels of silver had already been drained, and there was not a penny left.
Qin Shuhuang looked at the ledger and almost laughed angrily.
Most of her property was rewarded by the emperor's brother and left by the queen mother, all of them were the best shops and houses in the most fertile land in the imperial village, compared with the few Zhuangzi that she had privately owned before marriage, only better, if such a shop Zhuangzi is not profitable, then in this world, I am afraid that there are few shops and Zhuangzi can make money.
Ruihe is not stupid, of course she doesn't believe the accounts like this.
So she privately asked Commander Xuancang for help and found out the real accounts of the Gu Mansion!
Xuan Cang's work was more reliable than Ruihe expected, he not only got the real account book of the Gu Mansion, but also asked people to find a couple in charge of the Huangzhuang and asked the real situation.
"Your Highness, you turn back." Ruihe suppressed his anger and said.
The true and false account books before and after the Gu Mansion were carefully compared by Ruihe, and now they look clear at a glance.
Where is Qin Shuhuang's industry not making money, it is simply a barn of rats!
Every year, Qin Shuhuang's industry earns a lot, and the silver does not flow into Qin Shuhuang's name, nor does it enter the public account of the Gu Mansion, but all of it enters the private account of Gu Hongchao and Mrs. Gu!
In the first year of marrying into the Gu Mansion, Qin Shuhuang's industry was still in a state of slight loss on the surface.
In the second year, Mrs. Gu directly sold a few shops on the grounds of industrial losses! Use the money from the sale of the shop to make up for the shortfall in the accounts and maintain the expenses of the Gu family.
After Ruihe asked Xuan Cang to help investigate privately, he found that the shops that were sold were now in the name of Mrs. Gu's mother's family.
In the third year, not only the shop, but the Gu family also sold several imperial houses of Qin Shuhuang.
If it weren't for the coincidence, Xuan Cang's subordinates found a couple in charge of Huangzhuang, and Ruihe's affairs in Huangzhuang would not be so clear.
The people in the Huangzhuang didn't know that the Huangzhuang had changed masters, and they thought that they were planting melons, fruits, grains and vegetables for Her Royal Highness the eldest princess.
Now these imperial houses have become the private property of Mrs. Gu, Gu Ershao, Miss Gu Er and others.
What is even more ridiculous is that Bai Lingge actually has hundreds of acres of high-grade fertile land under Qin Shuhuang's name.
All this seems to be the greed of the rest of the Gu family, and the innocent two-sleeved breeze of Gu Hongchao was forced to be deceived by his family, and he did not encroach on any property of Qin Shuhuang in his name.
But if you take a closer look at the real account book of the Gu family, you will find that Qin Shuhuang subsidized the 10,000 taels of silver in the Gu family after marriage, and Gu Hongchao alone used more than half, and then every month Gu Hongchao used the most money in the Gu family, ranging from a few hundred taels to thousands of taels!
Gu Hongchao really doesn't treat himself as an outsider!
Looking at the expenses in Qin Shuhuang's courtyard again, the eldest princess of the hall, the expenses for a month are only one hundred taels!
Shilan, who was on the side, hesitated for a moment, but still spoke: "Your Highness, many of the little maids and mothers-in-law in our courtyard have pressed the monthly silver for more than three months and have not been paid, and the slave maid specially went to the account room to ask, and the female steward who is responsible for the distribution of the monthly silver prevaricated that the low-level maids and mothers-in-law in the whole house are all pressed for three months. After inquiring about it, the slave maid found out that only our courtyard is like this......"
In the past, His Royal Highness's mind was on the horse, and he never cared about these "little things", Shilan knocked on the side of Qin Shuhuang a few times before, and His Highness was impatient to listen to it, and turned around and forgot about it. No matter how capable Shilan is, she is just a slave, and without the support of her master, she can't be the master.
Now seeing that His Highness has changed, she brought the matter up again.
Qin Shuhuang's face became even more serious, the Gu family really ate her to death, not only calculated on her head, but even calculated the people in her yard!
No wonder in the last life, after the death of the emperor's younger brother, she was not only snubbed and ridiculed by the Gu family, but also hated her to the bone by the rough mother-in-law and maids who served in her yard.
After being imprisoned, she couldn't even eat a mouthful of hot, clean food because of these mischievous people.
Now that I think about it, the Gu family had already made these people have a grudge against her at this time!
Seeing that the princess's face was solemn and her majesty was fully displayed, several big maids couldn't help but lower their heads, and they didn't dare to take a breath of air.
Ruihe suddenly, for a moment, she felt that she had seen the majestic and delicate face of the former queen.
In the past, people in the palace said that His Royal Highness looked like the first emperor, and she thought so, but now that she looks at it, although His Royal Highness still looks like the first emperor, but that noble and majestic temperament is very much like the first queen.
When the first queen was still there, not a single small wave in the harem could be turned up.