Chapter 52: Princess Ling audits the accounts
Yesterday Guang was busy greeting Master Ji, causing her to get up very late today, Nangong Yue rubbed her eyes and yawned, I don't know what time it is, this Ling Bingche really hasn't been out of the house for so many days, so I can't help but give a letter, it really is.
Oops I almost forgot, yesterday Master Ji gave her that jade pendant, about that shop he said is close to the east, what is it called Yuxiang Restaurant. Nangong Yue immediately got up, and the carp sat up straight.
"Cuiping, hurry up and get some water, this princess is going to wash up and go out on the street!" Nangong Yue shouted outside the door.
When Cui Ping heard the voice, she immediately went to bring a basin of warm water and walked in, "Princess, Cui Ping brought you a fine hee."
"You, did you go to the back kitchen to steal food again? Look at this face" Nangong Yue looked at her dirty face, and there was a piece of biscuit crumbs left next to the corner of her mouth, and couldn't help but quip.
"Princess, don't make trouble, hurry up and wash up, it's almost noon, didn't you say you want to go out" Cui Ping said with her hand to help Nangong Yue gently press her shoulder.
After washing up after a while, let Cui Ping take a set of white pleated Ruyi moon skirts and put them on, then took a veil and put them on, and then told everyone to take care of the palace, and then took Cui Ping out.
Bazaar East Street
On both sides of the East Street are teahouses, taverns, pawnshops, and workshops.
There are also many small vendors with large umbrellas in the open spaces on both sides of the street.
The streets stretch to both sides of the city, always to the quieter suburbs outside the city, but the streets are still full of pedestrians: some carrying burdens, some driving ox carts to deliver goods, some driving donkeys to pull wagons, and some stopping to enjoy the scenery of the Bianhe River.
With the tall city tower as the center, the houses on both sides are dotted, there are tea houses, wine shops, foot shops, butcher shops, temples, and public houses
Walking in the Tang Dynasty, Nangong Yue looked at the prosperous Luoyang of the Tang Dynasty, and there was a three-percent high restaurant not far away, and the sign was engraved (Forget Worry Pavilion) to find it!
"Guest, how many of you are? Is it a drink or a lodging? We have peach blossom wine, rice wine, peach wine, apricot blossom wine ......and so on, if you are staying, please ask if you are staying in a double room or a single room......"
What caught his eye was a little er dressed in coarse linen clothes, a hat on his head, a white rag around his shoulders, and a light gray apron around his waist, and he looked at them with a smile on his face.
"Where are you in charge? Tell him to come out," Nangong Yue asked Xiao Er.
"Please wait a minute, the little one will call him out immediately" Xiao Er ran in after speaking.
A moment later, a middle-aged man in his fifties with a somewhat fat figure walked out and asked, "Who is looking for me?" ”
"You're in charge?" Nangong Yue looked at him and asked.
"Exactly, may I ask Miss, what are you talking about?" The middle-aged man asked inexplicably.
Nangong Yue handed over the jade pendant in his arms, and when the middle-aged man saw it, he was shocked, he looked nervous and wiped the sweat on his forehead, and asked nervously, "Are you a newcomer?" ”
"Why don't you believe it? Your master Ji said, I will be the new owner of your restaurant from now on, and I will say that the owner will have a routine inspection when I order it to go down! Nangong Yue said sternly to the man in charge.
"Yes, yes, Lao Zhu will go and order now" After speaking, he went to call them.
After a while, all the subordinates in the restaurant stopped their work and lined up in three rows, and their family looked directly at Nangong Yue who was standing in front of them.
"Everyone, I am your current owner, the rules in this restaurant, I also want to tell you first, first, the nails should not be too long, second, to keep all the hygiene inside the restaurant clean and tidy, third, the girls' hair should be coiled up, do you understand?" Nangong Yue looked at them and said.
"Yes, the little one understands," everyone replied in unison.
"Okay, you guys go first, the person in charge will show me this month's account book," Nangong Yue sat at the table next to him and said.
The middle-aged man was a little frightened for a moment, oh no, there were some mistakes in his account book this month, he took less ingredients, and deducted a little silver tael... hasn't made up for it yet..., Nangong Yue saw him pestle, and was a little puzzled, "Steward, steward?" Hurry up and get it to me" She raised her hand and shook it in front of him, and he hurriedly went to get it when he reacted.
After a while, the account books were taken and piled up on the table, Nangong Yue opened the account books one by one and checked them, and so on, one of the account books was missing, and she turned her head to look at the steward and asked, "Old steward, what's going on?" Where did this page of the ledger go? ”。
"I ...... That one...... I ...... "The old steward didn't know what to say.
"What are you, I'm asking you, why is there one less page" Nangong Yue asked sharply.
"Shaodong, the youngest child was sick last month, and the silver taels were not enough, so I embezzled some silver ......taels from the restaurant, and asked the young proprietor to forgive the sin," the old steward said with a reason.
Nangong Yue looked at him, didn't speak, but went directly to the back kitchen to check, and suddenly she found a basket of rotten tomatoes, so she asked, "When did you get this?" ”
"The owner, this is an old woman who went to the vegetable market to buy it this morning, and it may have been left for a morning, and it was broken." The old steward said lightly.
Nangong Yue looked around again, not far away, in a corner, there was a pile of rice, she walked over and patted it, there were a few rice bags that were empty, and she was a little angry.
"Old steward, you do this on weekdays? The vacancy was not filled, the rotten vegetables were not lost, and these empty rice bags, what is going on! Nangong Yue said coldly.
"Are you a young owner?" A little hiss, who looked at his yellow face and thin muscles, walked in and asked.
"What's wrong?" Nangong Yue looked at the skinny man in front of him and asked.
"Plop" saw him kneel down, and then kept kowtowing and choked up, "Shaodong, you can be regarded as coming, he is not worthy of being a steward at all, on weekdays, Rick deducts our silver taels, and often beats and scolds us!" Xiao Si pointed to the old steward on the side and said angrily.
The old steward looked at him viciously, and then hurriedly explained, "Young owner, don't listen to his nonsense, there is nothing at all."
"Shaodong, the little one is not talking nonsense, don't believe you" After saying that, he raised his arm and rolled up his sleeves, only to see the scars on his arms, Nangong Yue couldn't help but feel a little disgusted. After calming down, he said, "Old steward!" Hello bold! You don't have to come from today onwards to do such a lack of morality."
"The owner, the young owner, the small one knows his mistakes, the small one must change, please don't fire me, I have an elderly mother above, and a one-and-a-half-year-old son below, you can be an adult regardless of the villain, and be merciful" The old steward knelt and kept shouting.
"......" Nangong Yue didn't speak, but picked up the broom and beat the old steward fiercely, and shouted while beating, "You beat others, deduct silver taels, hurry up, don't you hear!" ”
The old steward on the side was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and ran away, and after solving the old steward, he shouted to all the little ones, "Today, all those who have been deducted by the old steward come here!" ”
After a while, those little hiss who had been deducted some silver came over together, a total of twelve people, Nangong Yue picked one person and asked, "What is your original income in a month?" ”
"Go back to the east, twenty taels of silver every month"
"Then from this month onwards, everyone will add ten taels of silver to the monthly money every month, by the way, I will give you a reissue of the silver that was originally deducted" After speaking, Nangong Yue gave each of them a hundred taels of silver.
Everyone was extremely happy, and then everyone said thank you to Nangong Yue.
Lingwang Mansion
Ling Bingche came back dressed in black, but he seemed to be injured, and after looking for a long time, Nangong Yue was not seen in the entire palace, not even her maid Cuiping, what were they busy with in the days when he was not in the mansion, Ling Bingche was sitting in the hall, Xiao Feng also came back, and he was holding a small bottle of medicine for wounds.
Originally, the prince of his family went to the north to find people, and on the way he met some people from the Yan country, and he took them as people from the north to assassinate them.
In order to save him, the prince of his family was not very successful, Xiao Feng was a little distressed and guilty, reached out to untie his clothes, his chest muscles were exposed, and the position of the arrow stab wound was fortunately deviated from the position of the heart, otherwise it would be difficult to do, he gritted his teeth, roasted the dagger with fire, and gently cut through the carrion.
"Hiss" Ling Bingche glared at Xiao Feng with some pain, although this kid did things carefully, but it was not important, just now he had some strength in his hand, causing the wound to crack a little bigger, and the blood flowed, Xiao Feng immediately brought gauze to wipe him, and then wiped it with some painkillers, and then used gauze to gently bandage the wound.
"Lord Wang, it's time to drink the medicine" Mo Xiao also boiled the medicinal materials, and he walked over and said.
Xiao Feng also helped Ling Bingche sit up, he gently leaned on the side of the bed, reached out and took a bowl full of medicine and drank it, the whole room smelled of medicine very badly, he frowned, looked at the door, the princess had not come back yet, he was a little worried, after thinking about it just now, his body was really stubborn to stand up and walk out.
"Lord Wang, your body is injured, it's better to lie down honestly," Mo Xiao reminded worriedly.
"This king is fine, get out of the way, this king is going out to find her!" Ling Bingche looked coldly at Mo Xiao who stopped him. Because the range of movement was too large, he got the wound, and the blood seeped out of it again, he was a little painful and covered his chest, Xiao Feng saw this and hurriedly went up to help him and said
"Lord, your subordinates know that you love the princess very much, but the princess just went out, not that something happened, so please rest well, just wait."