Queen Juan is here, run away

Chapter 348
After a few days, Xiao Shunzi and Xiao Shunzi's mouths faded out, their eyes glowed green, and one of them couldn't hold back to protest with Zhichun.

Zhichun said to them with his arms akimbo: "You don't cook, don't clean up, and you don't do anything when you're full every day. What do you do with so much meat?"

The little stupefied retorted loudly: "You're not right. We did chopping firewood, fetching water and washing the dishes, and there wasn't much work in the first place. The master refused to let us clean up the bedroom, saying that we couldn't do our hands and feet well, and the master didn't need us to do the work."

Xiao Shunzi nodded in agreement: "It's not much."

Zhichun couldn't believe it: "You don't care about your hands and feet, who was the one who almost tore off the bead curtain when cleaning the master's bedroom last time? Besides, the master is a woman, and you are men. How can I let you do personal affairs!"

Xiao Zhengzi and Xiao Shunzi said in unison: "We are eunuchs!"

Zhichun didn't care: "The eunuch is also a man!"

She didn't have the set of concepts in the palace, so she felt that she didn't have to shy away from being a eunuch.

Xiao Zhengzi and Xiao Shunzi looked at each other and were speechless for a moment.

Although they said they were eunuchs, their new masters, Zhichun and Zhidong treated them with respect as normal people, not as eunuchs or aliens.

The two of them didn't say anything, but they were quite moved in their hearts, and they really liked being treated like this.

This is also one of the reasons why the two of them are willing to be called and drank by Zhichun, the little pepper, every day.

Seeing that they stopped talking, Zhichun directly returned to the original topic: "It's because you think there is no work, but it's not that there is no work. Have the trees in the north of the yard been pruned, and the grass in the south uprooted? If you want to eat meat, you and the cat owner can grab it."

Xiao Zhengzi scratched his head regretfully: "I can't grab it." He tried it and was almost bitten.

Xiao Shunzi suddenly felt lingering fear, and grabbing meat with Wu Xue was tantamount to snatching food from a tiger's mouth, only their current master could do it without being bitten.

Zhichun sternly said: "That's it, don't tell the master about this matter, she is busy with big things, you go find some work to do, and have extra dinner tonight."

"Oh... yes!" Xiao Zhengzi reluctantly agreed, and Xiao Shunzi nodded along.

In the final analysis, Zhichun is still hard-spoken and soft-hearted, so he gave the big guys extra meals.

But going on like this is not the answer after all. Only cutting expenditures without increasing revenues will not solve the fundamental contradiction.

That night, I fed Wu Xue a supper, Zhichun saw that the rules had come to an end, so she had to talk to Lihua, and took advantage of the opportunity to hand in her account.

Lihua is very prepared for this matter, just to see when Zhichun will say it.

She flipped through the accounts, deeply appreciating Zhichun's worries, and she went further: "Based on this calculation, Maoqiu can bring us back to before liberation by himself."

Meat is expensive in this era, and Wu Xue, a big cat, is picky, has a big appetite, has his own taste, and doesn't like ordinary meat.

Don’t eat pork, don’t eat duck, only eat part of the chicken, beef and mutton are fine, rabbits are fine, game is best, it must be fresh, and it’s best to eat it in rotation.

This is not modern times. Cattle are used to cultivate land. Even though the agriculture in this era is more developed than other dynasties, there are not many beef cattle, which makes meat very expensive. A catty of beef can be exchanged for [-] to [-] catties of pork, especially the part that Wu Xue likes to eat is the most expensive.

Not to mention sheep, most of them are raised in Mongolia, and ordinary people rarely raise them, they are expensive and not available in palaces every day.

Then there is game, who goes out to hunt every day, roe deer, venison, civet, etc., they all have to wait in line, and they will not be specially supplied to Tingliyuan.

The cost of these meats is very high. With Lihua's current palace share, if all the shares are exchanged for meat, it will not last for a few days.

Therefore, raising Wuxue is very costly.

Zhichun couldn't understand: "Master, what is pre-liberation?"

"It's just..." Lihua found it difficult to explain, so she said, "It means poor food and clothing."

She sighed leisurely: "Oh, raising cats makes you poor!"

But what can be done? It's not Wu Xue's fault that he eats too much. He is a capable big cat, and he can support himself in the first place.

Now that she is raising her, she must not be hungry, that would be too wronged Wu Xue.

Still have to figure out how to get money.

The best way, must be to find the evildoer, his big cat can be raised by himself, isn't it too much?
But the problem is, Lihua said that she won't be able to see him for a few days, and there is no place to talk about it, so she still has to wait for a few days.

Zhichun suddenly realizes that what her master said is very good, isn't it just a cat owner who causes poverty.

Wu Xue licked her lips and came in from outside the hall, she was stunned when she heard this, and stepped in with her fleshy paws hesitantly.

It had just had a good meal, when it heard these words unexpectedly.

Wu Xue knew before that the mistress was poor, so it brought back a bunch of stolen goods.

Later, it thought that the problem was solved, Wu Xue looked at the decorations given by her master in the hall, and wondered if these could not be exchanged for meat?

But nothing is missing from seeing things, and it understands that the problem has not been solved yet.

Wu Xue was in trouble, the mistress forbade it to steal... yes, the master fined it not to leave the palace, both roads were blocked.

So how can we help the hostess?

No, it is because it wants to eat meat, how can it help itself.

Wu Xue exhausted her cat's wisdom and could not think of a good way.

Lihua and Zhichun found it when it wanted to go to the imperial dining room to fetch meat every day and come back to support itself.

Li Hua's eyes lit up, it's God's will, she was just about to talk to the evildoer, when Wu Xue appeared, isn't it just right.

In fact, God's will is a ghost, it's because Lihua wanted to be an evildoer, and it was just borrowing Wu Xue's mouth.

Li Hua waved to Wu Xue: "Fur Qiu is here, did you hear what I just said?"

Hearing this, Wu Xue's ears drooped, and she walked over heavily on all fours, one day at a time, a cat's life is hard.

Seeing its listless appearance, Lihua knew that she had heard everything. This big cat was very spiritual. In the future, she had to hide Wu Xue behind her back when she said things that might hurt the cat.

She knelt down, fondled Wu Xue's head enthusiastically, and kindly expressed that she didn't mean to dislike it.

She, Zhichun, and even the entire Tingliyuan people love Wu Xue very much and want Wu Xue to live well.

Of course, the people in the East side hall are not counted, and Lihua automatically ignores them.

Lihua used Xiao Shunzi as an example, and comforted Wu Xue: "Look at the dishes on their faces, it's all to save meat for you..."

Zhichun was ashamed, she thought it was a very tight secret, and every time she asked a few people to eat in the kitchen before appearing in front of her master, she used the excuse that she was getting used to the days when the Long Live Lord came, but she still didn't hide it from her master.

That's right, her master is so smart, how could she hide her little knowledge, Zhichun felt relieved after thinking about it.

Lihua comforted Wu Xue from head to toe, deeply expressed her love and appreciation for Wu Xue, and finally said:

"It's right for you to eat so much meat. It's the same as eating a full meal."

Wu Xue was full of energy, her morale soared, she said "Aww", the heaviness was gone, and she felt much better.

　Raise pigs to get rich, raise cats to get poor
　　
　
(End of this chapter)