Splendid concubine

Chapter 93 Butler
Counting it, Liu Ruyi hasn't returned home for a few days.

Thinking like this, Liu Ruyi felt that it was time to go back and take a good look.

After sending Mu Zitan back to Mu's house, he saw Mrs. Mu and Mrs. Mu not letting go of Mu Zitan, crying and laughing at the same time. It was useless for Liu Ruyi to stay, so she said goodbye and left.

Although Mu Zitan is still a little girl who doesn't know much about the world, she is much more mature than before, so she must be clear about what to say and what not to say.

The Mu family treated Zitan very well, so they wouldn't have sold Zitan after hearing what they shouldn't have heard.

Moreover, Liu Ruyi also wanted to go back and take a look.

When I got home, I didn't know why, but when I entered the door, I felt that the atmosphere was a bit condensed. Seeing that they were all sitting in the front hall, the old lady, the eldest lady, and Mrs. Zhang all looked serious. Liu Ruyi naturally had some hands and feet that she didn't know. The feeling of where to put it.

It was probably a habit I developed in my previous life. Every time the elders in the family looked bad, I was very worried that I would be implicated.

But then I remembered that this life was different, she was already the princess newly appointed by the emperor.

Although it is nothing in front of the queen mother, it is still very respectable in front of the Liu family.

After inviting An to go over with a smile, standing beside the old lady, pretending not to see the condensed atmosphere, she had nothing to say, "What is grandma looking at?" After talking, she turned her head to look at the account book in the old lady's hand.

The account book records in detail how much it costs to buy vegetables in the kitchen every day?How much does it cost to buy eggs, meat and fish?There are also at home, repairing houses, making jewelry, buying cosmetics, hairpins and rings, and rewards from servants.

Even the cost of the guard dog kept in the mansion is recorded.

How much do you eat a month?How much will it cost?After reading the account book, the old lady suddenly became angry, threw down the account book, and snarled at the old lady fiercely: "This is the account book you want to show me, do you think I have never been a housekeeper? This account book, do you think you Did you wipe it so evenly? You also said that the money was not spent indiscriminately, but I would like to ask, half a tael of silver is recorded in the bookkeeping of an egg? Ruyi, tell me, how much is an egg? Pork, mutton, and vegetables are one How much silver is it?"

All of a sudden, the flames of war were on her head, Liu Ruyi was a little at a loss, but then she smiled and said, "Grandmother, I'm not in charge of the house yet, how can I know how much an egg costs if I don't step out of the door? "

As he spoke, he gave the old lady comfort.

The old lady said angrily: "Just say what you want, what are you talking about? Be careful that you will be hit too."

Only then did Liu Ruyi straighten her face, and report back: "As far as Ruyi knows, ordinary eggs are only a penny or two, which is very cheap. If an egg is half a tael, I'm afraid it was laid by some rare breed of chicken. Eggs! Green vegetables cost a few cents a catty, pork more than ten cents, and mutton twenty cents."

"As for the others, I don't know, it's probably the same price!"

The old lady suddenly dropped the account book, "Look! Even a little girl without a housekeeper knows that your things are unreasonable. Look at what is written on it. Not only these, the rice noodles and livestock on the Zhuangzi are all sent over. Eggs are also delivered by the catty, but there are things in the house, you have to spend money to buy them."

"One day in the mansion, it takes about 13 catties of meat, which is enough for the master. When you reimburse me, you can pay me [-] taels of silver per catty, and you can buy hundreds of catties a day. Tell me , All that meat is for you to eat? How much do you talk about just for meat every day? You still say you don’t know what’s going on?"

The eldest lady was already a little guilty when she heard the old lady's attack, but when she heard such a rationale, she suddenly knelt down with a plop, "Old lady, my daughter-in-law really doesn't know! They were all bought by servants, and they fooled my daughter-in-law. How do you know the price of daily necessities, rice, oil and salt in the market?"

The eldest lady really felt wronged, and she also felt that the price of these meals remained high, how could the monthly bill be so expensive?
She grew up in a scholarly family, and her father believed in raising her daughters with ten fingers in the sun, and never let them learn how to house the house. What they learned was all about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. , It is really difficult to go to the blue sky.

Hearing this, the old lady was furious, "Why did I know when I was the housekeeper, and even a little girl like Ruyi who hasn't left the house knows that you have been in charge of the Prime Minister's mansion for more than ten years, don't you know? Do you think I'm a fool or an old fool? ?”

Thinking about it, the old lady's hands trembled with anger, and she pointed at the eldest lady tremblingly, "You, you, you are very good, if I didn't see that you couldn't afford the banquet for Ruyi, I watched it in a hurry. Account book, I don’t know how much money you have been greedy for so many years. Your housekeeper is not as good as Jiajia.”

As he said that, he said fiercely: "When you were not married in, the housekeeper Jiajia, an illiterate maid, was able to take care of her well. The monthly expenses of the house were only a hundred and ten taels of silver. After you came in, the housekeeper became the housekeeper. I spent several thousand taels of silver in a month. I originally thought that you are a young lady, and your demeanor is different from that of a maid. I didn’t expect you to be a ghost under my nose. Really, really..."

Almost fell down angrily, the old lady was relieved by Liu Ruyi, and she came back again, and continued to point at the eldest lady and scolded: "Is it true that your Zhao family is still a scholarly family, very noble? Everyone, everyone What is it? Your brother, the few times he came to the house to make a fuss, which time was he not like that street ruffian? "

The old lady should be so angry that she even brought other members of the Zhao family in.

However, it was telling the truth without any exaggeration.

Liu Ruyi thought in her heart, she knew about the daily necessities, rice, oil and salt because she opened a grain and oil shop, and she always called Linglong over on weekdays, asked carefully, learned about the market situation, and made timely judgments so as to profit from it.

Just a few days ago, she asked Linglong to go back and tell her father and brother that she had built a greenhouse for vegetables and a greenhouse for growing flowers and plants in the suburbs.

In the vegetable greenhouse, small cabbage, small green vegetables and other green vegetables are specially grown. When winter comes, green vegetables are more expensive than pork sold in the market, and they are all rare things.

That's why I have carefully understood the price of vegetables.

"I don't want to find out where you got all the money. You just need to make up the money for me, and we'll have nothing to do. Otherwise, Ren'an will divorce you." The old lady has scolded enough. , leaning against the back of the chair indifferently, said lightly.

The eldest lady had already knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, her forehead was blue.

Liu Ruyi didn't know why, but seeing Susu winking at her all the time, she got a little understanding.

Seeing that the old lady ignored her, she went out quietly, pretending to change clothes, and asked why.

Susu spoke sharply and quickly explained the situation to Liu Ruyi.

Originally, Liu Ruyi was named princess, and the old lady was very happy, so she asked the eldest lady to open the warehouse, find some things, and repair and arrange the yard for Liu Ruyi.

As a result, the eldest lady opened the warehouse, but the old lady found that many things in the warehouse were missing, including the old lady's mother-in-law's dowry and other things.

The eldest lady couldn't explain clearly, so the old lady asked her to bring over the butler's account book and check it carefully, which led to such an incident.

As soon as Liu Ruyi heard this, she felt that things were not that simple. The old lady had long been dissatisfied with the housekeeper of the eldest lady, and she tried every means to take most of the housekeeping power into her own hands, so she made a lot of troubles. .

Maybe he used himself as an excuse again this time, trying to win over the butler power in the hands of the eldest lady!It happened to show Mrs. Zhang's face.

I tiptoed back to the front hall, and sure enough, I saw that the old lady couldn't help it anymore, and kept yelling at the eldest lady.

Mrs. Zhang's face was embarrassing, she didn't speak, she just sat beside her and didn't talk to her.

If Mrs. Zhang is sensible, seeing her sister's mother-in-law so angry with her sister, she probably would have left a long time ago. Unfortunately, Mrs. Zhang is not. Also get up and leave.

Behind her, the old lady said to Liu Ruyi in a loud voice on purpose: "Look, there are some shameless ones. A widow is not afraid of being rejected by others, and refuses to leave if she stays with others? It's fine if she stays for a few days. I don’t know what year and month I lived in, and I brought so many children here. They are not the children of our Liu family, so why raise them for the Zhang family! Even relatives didn’t do this. What’s more, my brother’s family I don’t know what bad idea I have for coming to my sister’s house instead of staying there.”

Liu Ruyi didn't dare to answer. The old lady in my impression was always gentle and kind. Although she always kept a knife in her cotton, she had never scolded anyone so vitriolicly, let alone sarcasm.

The subordinates just kept beating the old lady's back, pouring tea, and fanning the old lady.

After a long time, the old lady finally calmed down a little.He said to Liu Ruyi earnestly and earnestly: "Well, you are not young anymore, and you should learn what you should learn. Why did I hear that the emperor named you the princess, and even put the duke's wife in the sky prison?" Is it? I also heard that after the Empress Dowager came back, she liked you and that red sandalwood very much, and asked you to go to the Buddhist hall to copy Buddhist scriptures for her?"

Liu Ruyi hurriedly supported the old lady.

"Grandmother, listen to me tell you slowly, the lady of the country didn't know what idea she had. At the beginning, someone served a pot of tea first, and when the little maid poured the tea for me, I felt her eyes Something was wrong, I poured the tea later, and poured the water from the teapot on me."

The old lady even showed a nervous and frightened expression in cooperation.

"I noticed her a long time ago, and I dodged it quickly. I didn't expect to be tricked. There was a drug in the tea. I drowsy after drinking it. Fortunately, Mu Zitan was clever. My fifth sister is also smart and well-behaved. He hurriedly helped me up one by one, and then I was freed, and the two court ladies who were sent by the imperial concubine who knew martial arts, sent me to the palace immediately, so I survived the disaster, Mrs. Guo heard It has been said that our mother and her conspired with her."

(End of this chapter)