The maid's voice sounded outside the door, "Your Highness, can you get up?" Dr. Song asked: When do you depart? ”

Qin Shuhuang called the waiting maid in.

After a brief freshening up, Qin Shuhuang glanced at Xuan Cang, who was standing in place, and walked quickly to the courtyard next to him to see Song Yuan.

Song Yuan gave Qin Shuhuang a pulse, and asked the maid to re-medicate her wound, and then let her leave, and before leaving, he told her to be careful when she returned to the capital, and asked her to bring more personal guards.

When Qin Shuhuang arrived at the gate of the hot spring Zhuangzi, Xuan Cang had already prepared a carriage for Qin Shuhuang.

Qin Shuhuang walked to the side of the carriage, Xuan Cang lowered his head and said, "Please get in the car, Your Highness." ”

Qin Shuhuang looked down and saw Xuan Cang's big palm stretched out to support her, she didn't use Xuan Cang's big palm to board the carriage, but directly stepped on the wooden bench next to the carriage and entered the carriage, completely ignoring Xuan Cang's outstretched hand.

Luda and Zhai Jin, who came out of the door to see each other, were confused.

Why do you feel that His Highness seems to be angry with the Commander?

The two of them were fine yesterday, why was the commander snubbed by His Highness one night?

Qin Shuhuang put down the carriage curtain, and Luda hurriedly ran to Xuan Cang's side, "Commander, what's wrong with Your Highness?" ”

Xuan Cang glanced at Luda, who was a thief with a cold face, and Luda immediately shut up and didn't mention it, "Commander, you and Your Highness are careful on the way." ”

Xuan Cang took his guards to escort Qin Shuhuang's carriage and left the hot spring Zhuangzi.

Luda Zhai Jin watched the carriage go away, and then turned around and returned to the hot spring Zhuangzi.

When Ruda turned around, he suddenly saw a shadow flash around the corner, but when he looked intently, there was nothing in the corner of the outer wall of the courtyard.

He frowned, and asked Zhai Jin next to him in a low voice, "Do you think someone is staring at us in the dark?" ”

Zhai Jin felt it and shook his head, "No, Brother Lu, what's wrong?" ”

Ruda's expression became serious, "That's probably because I'm thinking too much, anyway, let's be careful." ”

Zhai Jin's head.

At the corner of the courtyard wall of the hot spring Zhuangzi, there was a gray-clothed man, seeing Qin Shuhuang leaving in a carriage, he stayed where he was for a while, and found an opportunity to leave the vicinity of the hot spring Zhuangzi quickly.

Gu Mansion.

The maid brought lunch and put it on the table in the flower hall.

Then Fudong came in and invited Gu Hongchao and Bai Lingge to eat.

In recent days, Gu Hongchao has been preparing to see Yu Ming's grandfather, and he has not gone out, and Bai Lingge is also in the mansion.

In the past, this kind of day stay together is extremely rare, and both of them will cherish it very much, plus both of them are young, and it is inevitable that they will do more things for men and women to stay together.

But recently, they have spent more time together, but Gu Hongchao is a little reluctant to be with Bai Lingge.

But wherever he goes, Bai Lingge will follow him, not parting with him for a moment, he wants to tell Bai Lingge that he wants to be alone for a while, but he can't say anything for a while when he looks at Bai Lingge's smiling face.

So, he could only endure it for the time being, and in this way, Gu Hongchao's temper became irritable and suspicious.

Hearing the voice of the maid inviting them to eat in the room, Bai Lingge smiled lightly, "Hongchao, let's go eat." ”

Gu Hongchao put down his pen, nodded lightly, and took the lead in getting up and walking out.

Bai Lingge looked at Gu Hongchao's back that she had left first, frowned slightly, and thought, "Could it be that Hongchao is in a bad mood today?" ”

Gu Hongchao walked to the flower hall, his eyes fell on the dishes on the table in the flower hall, and he suddenly lost his appetite.

There were only four simple dishes and one soup on the table, and none of them were to his liking.

The three sets of duck, pagoda meat, and Buddha jumping over the wall that he ordered yesterday were even more none.

In the past, in Gu Mansion, as long as he ordered the dishes in advance, there was nothing he couldn't eat, but now he can't even eat the dishes he wants to eat.

Gu Hongchao sat at the table, but he didn't stretch out his hand to move his chopsticks, his face was slightly constricted.

Bai Lingge walked over with Fu Dong, saw his appearance, and said flatteringly: "Hongchao, what's wrong?" Don't you have an appetite? ”

Gu Hongchao asked, "Why didn't the kitchen cook the dishes I ordered yesterday?" ”

Bai Lingge was stunned for a moment, remembering what Gu Hongchao had asked Chang to pass on yesterday afternoon.

Thinking of the dishes that Gu Hongchao was going to eat, Bai Lingge's face suddenly didn't look very good.

The pagoda meat is okay, and the chef can still make it as long as the cooking skills are good and take a little effort.

But the three sets of ducks and Buddha jumping over the wall, the Buddha jumping over the wall wants to make authentic, just a soup will cost a lot of chicken, duck and fish, but also with good abalone, sea cucumber fish lips and other expensive ingredients, three sets of ducks to use the hemp duck of the oil lake, Gaocheng pigeon to make a good taste.

These ingredients alone cost a lot of money.

The Gu family's current family can't afford to eat at all!

If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, when Bai Lingge really took over the Gu family's middle feed, she realized that the Gu family was only an empty shell at all!

You can't squeeze out any oil and water!

No wonder Mrs. Gu let her be this family so casually, I'm afraid that she had the idea of letting her use a private room to make up for it.

The 1,000 taels of silver given to Gu Yufei were obtained by quietly selling the Gu family's land in Lincheng.

Of course, Mrs. Gu thought it was her private money, and she did not tell Gu Hongchao or Mrs. Gu about the sale of the land.

Bai Lingge wanted to wait for the wave of victims in the capital to subside, reopen the restaurant, earn a thousand taels of silver, and then buy back the sold land.

According to the popularity of the hot pot before, it only takes a few days.

Now she's just borrowing.

Knowing the true background of the Gu family, in order to live a better life in the future, Bai Lingge of course has to save expenses.

The servants of the Gu family were originally sent away, and after Bai Lingge took charge of the house, he sent some away, and now in each courtyard, in addition to the old servants that the masters can't live without, there are only three or four people left to serve, and these people are also responsible for rough work such as sweeping.

The guards who had drafted the employment documents were all dismissed, and at present, the security of the Gu Mansion was taken care of by the Gu housekeeper with a dozen or so servants.

Not only that, Bai Lingge also lowered the servants' regular silver, and even the master's budget for new clothes in autumn was deducted by Bai Lingge.

Although the Gu Mansion didn't dare to say anything on the surface, there were many people behind the scenes who said that Bai Lingge was harsh, and even many old servants had already gone to Mrs. Gu to cry and complain.

Of course, Mrs. Gu's face was not good when she heard this, but Bai Lingge had just given her a thousand taels of silver, and at this time, it was not easy for her to take back the power of the family she had just given, so she temporarily suppressed the dissatisfaction of the servants.

Bai Lingge kindly explained to Gu Hongchao, "Hongchao, the dishes you ordered are too troublesome and too expensive, I asked the kitchen not to do it, and now that our family is poor, we should be simpler." ”

Gu Hongchao didn't expect Bai Lingge to say this.

At this moment, he seemed to feel that Bai Lingge had changed.

In the past, as long as it was something he wanted to eat, no matter how troublesome and expensive it was, Bai Lingge would try his best to get it for him to make him happy.

Not only that, Bai Lingge will also accompany him to eat and enjoy together.

But now that Bai Lingge has just taken charge, it has become so difficult for him to just want to eat a meal that suits his heart.

At that time, Bai Lingge was not a good thing!

Because all the expenses of the Gu Mansion are paid by Qin Shuhuang's property and dowry, there is no need to spend a penny on Bai Lingge.