Minqiu took the sword from the study and stood on one side with both hands. I straightened Fourteen's clothes and said, "I don't want to cause trouble for you. Fourteen hooked my chin and said with a sly smile: "If you really promise someone else, you can't lose face." I poked a finger in his forehead, gritted my teeth, and said, "Who made you smear your liver and brains?" It's all nonsense."

He grinned, took his sword and went out into the courtyard. I suppressed my smile, sat on the kang, and said to Minqiu: "I heard outside that someone once sent a gift to the house to ask for peace, it is a box of pearls, can you put it in the library?" Min Qiu thought for a while and said, "The outer court has never sent pearls to the inner court, and the slave maid doesn't know about it. After a pause, he said: "Does the master suspect that there are slaves underneath to fill his pockets?" I hummed softly, through the glass window, I watched Fourteen waving his sword and dancing in the flower forest, and whispered: "You will go to the outer courtyard to find the Qin Grand Steward and the Second Lin Steward, and count the expenses collected by the government in the past two years. Minqiu has been in charge for several years, and he knows my words well, so he answered "yes" and went.

For dinner, I personally made a pot of meat, and Ah Xing used it very fragrantly, and ate two bowls of rice in a row. I drank a few cups of Yugong Daughter Red with the Fourteenth Pair, and I was too strong to drink, and my stomach and face were hot after two cups. Drunk and spit out the truth, this is simply the truth, I inexplicably began to complain that Fourteen only cared about the affairs of the court, and left me alone. He also said a lot of empty, lonely and cold words, which made Fourteen mistakenly think that I was dissatisfied, and carried me to the bed in broad daylight to roll the sheets. I drank wine, I couldn't understand it with normal thinking, it seemed to be completely let go, laughing and screaming, fierce and enthusiastic, so that Minqiu and the others were embarrassed to stay in the flower hall, and they all ran to the porch to wait for the messenger. In late spring, flowers are blooming, birds linger in the treetops, and they sing happily.

It's a shame that Ah Xing refused to take a nap, and went to the side courtyard to play on the slide, otherwise it wouldn't be ashamed to die.

The fourth master took the Li family since last winter, and has been living in the suburban Zhuangzi, during which he went back to the Forbidden City to ask Kangxi for peace, and never forgot to bring back a few baskets of cabbage, potatoes and the like planted by himself, Kangxi was very happy. Li took his children and lived in a small courtyard with the fourth master, and he didn't know how comfortable he was. The two are together almost all the time, the fourth master is hoeing in the field, and Li takes Da Gege to cook tea and embroider flowers in the curtain built next to him. Hongshi is even more proud, he often follows behind the fourth master and helps the fourth master pull grass and plant seeds.

It's just that the women who stayed in Prince Yong's mansion after the fourth master didn't even have a target to fight for anything.

It's boring.

Ai Lian was terrified, and for several months after the year, the second young master Chen knew that the fourth master was not in the capital, and most of the guards were missing, so he bought off the little maid, often handed Ai Lian notes, invited her to meet in the garden behind the pharmacy, and threatened her to reveal her past to everyone if she was disobedient. Ai Lian was coerced by him, and she couldn't find Nian Qianyao to help, so she had no choice.

Second Young Master Chen had to inch in, bought a small courtyard in the alley of the back street of Prince Yong's mansion, and asked Ai Lian to find an excuse to go out and mess with him every three or four days. Sifujin's Ergege was sick again, all his thoughts were on his daughter, and the fourth master was not there, so he didn't take much care of the backyard. Besides, Ai Lian sometimes didn't tell Fu Jin at all, and ran out of the back door without permission.

At first, it was nothing, until Ai Lian realized that she hadn't had her period for two months.

She didn't dare to say anything, so she only secretly asked the girl to go to the street to buy abortion medicine. That girl was brought by her from Nianfu, she was not very old, she had never read, she was a little stupid and loyal to Ailian, and she didn't know what medicine she bought, anyway, Ailian's order, she did it. She had an abortion for herself, and she couldn't get out of bed for a few days, but the second young master Chen didn't know what to say, so he insisted that she go out for a private meeting.

Ai Lian suddenly realized that it was time to cut through the mess quickly.

At night, she wrote a letter to tell Nian Qianyao, saying that she had been a maid in the Chen family pharmacy in Yuquan Town before, and she was recognized by the second young master of the Chen family and begged him for help. Because it was an official of the imperial court who sent the letter to the Yongwang Mansion, the letter quickly arrived in the hands of Nian Qianyao. Nian Qianyao can't let people debunk Ailian's identity, otherwise it will fall short. He actually didn't believe in Ailian, but the mountains were high and the road was far away, so he had no choice, so he immediately sent the powerful minions around him back to Beijing to help with errands.

The minion's name is Ji Ziran, and he is Nian Qianyao's personal guard.

Ji Ziran didn't know much about Ailian, but the second master of Nianfu fell in love with the medical girl who served, and Nian Qianyao ordered the doctor to pretend to be Miss Nianfu and marry Prince Yong. He carried Nian Qianyao's letter and soon met Ai Lian in the backyard. Ailian's body has not yet recovered, her breath is dying, her eyebrows are frowning and weak, and she even carries a faint medicine box in her breath.

Her tone was absolutely fierce, and she said to the next person: "I will think of sending Second Young Master Chen to the prison cell, and you, as long as you buy off the people of the yamen, you should know what to do next." ”

Ji Ziran felt that the woman in front of him was unfathomable, and the cold breath made even him feel afraid, and he said: "If you want me to help you, you can just tell you what you want." You can rest assured about the affairs of the Yamen, I will definitely let Second Young Master Chen go and never return. Ailian's lips pulled out a smile, pale and weak, but in Ji Ziran's eyes, there was a beauty that captured people's souls.

I investigated the pearls, and Fourteen soon found out.

He sat on the side of the kang table and read the paperwork, and said, "Why didn't you tell me?" I embroidered the small socks worn by Hongming on the side of the kang table, and said casually: "I don't want to let the trivial things disturb you, I will take care of the affairs of the house in the future, and I will not let you worry about it." Fourteen raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh, the sun is coming out in the west?" I know you're in charge. I threaded the needle and thread under the lamp and said, "I am the mistress of Baylor, and of course I have to take care of things." Don't underestimate me, what Fang Fujin can do, I can do it well. ”

Fourteen was stunned for a moment, smiled suddenly, and said: "Fang Fujin is capable, let Fang Fujin do a good job, Lord didn't let you do Fang Fujin's business." I stopped my hand and said, "But I don't care, I don't know what's going on down there, if no one tells me." Just like the pearl matter, if it weren't for Wang Taoxin's unwillingness to complain to me, I would still be kept in the dark. "The matter was clarified, and sure enough, a little steward in the concierge took it privately, and was beaten by 14 and 20 boards, and was thrown out of the house.

Fourteen pondered for a moment and said, "With a population of hundreds in the house, it is very rare for you to straighten things out." You are Fu Jin, the mistress of the Fourteenth Baylor Mansion, and you don't have to ask about everything yourself. Like today's matter, if you directly call Fang Fujin to come over and ask, Fang Fujin will go to find out clearly, and you can't do it. He also gave me a free tutorial on "how to be a good leader", and said: "You can ask Fang Fujin about the backyard, and you can ask Qin Steward about the front yard, they are in charge of the people below, and you can take care of them." Besides, you have to give more charity to the slaves and slaves below, and you can be harsher with the Fujin and Qin stewards on the other side" I didn't care, and said: "I'm usually very good to the people below, anyway, it's better than you." ”

Min Qiu sneered when she heard this, and her fourteen eyes slanted slightly, so frightened that she knelt down, kowtowed, and said, "The slave and maid are out of honor, please forgive me." I raised my chin at Fourteen and said, "You see, they're all afraid of you." Fourteen made a gloomy face and said, "Of course they have to be afraid of the master, otherwise there are no rules?" He added: "But you are different, you are Fujin, it is better to be gentle and virtuous." ”

I said, "Minqiu, you get up, go make two bowls of milk tea, I suddenly want to drink, don't put sugar, less ice." Minqiu thanked him, but retreated. Fourteen continued the topic of "how to be a good leader" just now, and said: "The lord is fierce to Minqiu, so that they know what is the difference between master and servant, and know awe. And if you are good to them, they will appreciate you and be loyal to you, without double hearts. It makes sense, and I laughed, "Got it." ”

Fourteen had a sense of accomplishment as an old master, and said, "The son can be taught." He added: "As for the audit, the government has not carefully counted the treasury for several years, so it is good to take this opportunity to clean it up." You don't have to force Minqiu to do everything, just let Fang Fu Jin check it, and then let Fang Fu Jin tell you what is missing and what is missing. If the side Fujin investigation does not satisfy you, you will find someone else to check. All in all, you are the master, you don't have to investigate the process, just look at the results. ”

I said shyly: "Actually, apart from Fang Fujin, I don't know who I can find to do things." ”

Fourteen: "Don't worry, the minions below are all vying to show their faces in front of you, and then there will be clever girls and minions to flatter you." Seeing that I was a little impatient when I heard it, he said: "In the future, the master will slowly teach you to manage things, you just have to be bold and let go to do it, even if you do it wrong, it's nothing, you have the master to support you." If you don't do it well the first time, you can do it the second time. ”

I lost interest and said lazily, "Okay." ”

At night, someone in the concierge handed a post into the west courtyard, first I thought it was for Fourteen, and I didn't ask, and directly asked Minqiu to send it to the study. After a while, Fourteen came out of it with a post and said, "It's a post handed by the Fujin of Guanglu Siqing Yan Luming, indicating that I want to enter the mansion to meet you." "How do I know what Yan Luming is, I wanted to say "no", but suddenly I thought of Wang Taoxin, took the post and looked at it, hey, it's really Wang Taoxin. I hurriedly wrote a reply, and ordered Minqiu to personally send it to the mother-in-law who passed the message, and the mother-in-law was grateful to Dade and went back to his life happily.

The next day, I got up early in the morning, waited for Ah Xing to eat and wear, sent her to school in the side courtyard, fed Hongming milk, and coaxed him to play for a while, only to hear the people in the concierge enter the courtyard and say: "Master, Wang Fujin has arrived." I was squatting on the ground teasing Hongming, and after listening to it, I got up, stroked the hair of my clothes, and said, "Quickly lead her in." ”

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