Chapter One Thousand and Thirty-Six

That's it, it seems that the little palace maid Liu'er mixed dirt in the bonsai soil has passed.

However, only the intimate palace maids who are on errand by Erf's side know that this is only a superficial phenomenon, and there have always been people staring at the movements everywhere, and the gatekeeper who is responsible for the door of the main courtyard has been replaced by an old lady who knows a little medical science.

In addition, the corner gate behind the cover room is specially used for palace maids to enter and exit, and Erfu also made a pair of more precise locks, Shilan and Yujie each have a key, no matter who wants to go out from the corner gate again, they need Yujie and Shilan to go to the back to unlock the lock, and then want to go out with a big grin as if walking through the city gate, it is no longer possible.

In the end, Erfu also specially invited the imperial hospital judge in the palace to inspect the furniture and furnishings of each hospital.

In the blink of an eye, it took five or six days, and finally waited for the court to clean up the messy things in the house, and Erfu also asked the court to check the things in the public middle school treasury and the private warehouse of the fourth master in the front yard, for fear that something would fall to the ground, but this check is really scary, the dirty things that were lifted out from everywhere, that is really a lot, there are many dirty things carried out from the public middle school warehouse, what is mixed with the cloth of those pickled things, what is made of incense burner for hands and feet, Smoked cages, all kinds, not to mention that Erfu has never seen these things, it is Aunt Yuxiu, who is used to seeing big scenes, and she has never seen it.

"That's pretty good!" said Erph, looking at the various objects in the front yard of the storeroom, and shook his head with a wry smile.

At this time, the ladies and relatives of each hospital are a little hairy, and they have asked the hospital to give their children a safe pulse, and they have prescribed a prescription to recuperate their bodies.

Thanks to the great business of the fourth master's house, there are enough reserves of various medicinal materials in the Tibetan medicine institute, otherwise there may be some chaos, but even so, all kinds of rumors still come out of nowhere, some say that when the eighth elder brother was in charge of the internal affairs house, he took the opportunity to attack the mansions of other princes, some said that it was a plot buried by the benevolence of the Wulanala clan of the first Fujin, and some said that Erfu, the concubine Fujin, was afraid that the new side of the Wulanala family would be favored by Fujin, so he specially arranged this self-directed bitter trick to pour sewage on the first Fujin... ... Anyway, all the people who can be involved are arranged, and in the end, the fourth master ruthlessly disposed of the two gossiping mothers-in-law in front of the women in the backyard and the palace maids, which can be regarded as suppressing this unhealthy trend.

But even so, Gege Ula Nala Pearl and his concubine Ula Nala Mei'er, who had a hard time, were still hated by the ladies in the house.

Because the women in this backyard are not fools, although the Internal Affairs Office is in charge of all kinds of affairs in the royal family's mansion, but it is not so easy to start with the prince's mansion, and it is said that Erfu designed to pour sewage on the former Fujin, and these women in the backyard all understand Erfu's personality and connive at the gossip of his subordinates, but no one believes it.

On the contrary, it is the Wulanala clan who is first blessed and promoted, with a restrained and ruthless personality, a good face and an evil heart, and is more suspicious.

So although the Ulanala clan is dead to scum, these women who have been more or less calculated by the Ulanala clan have transferred all this resentment to the Gege and concubines from the Ulanala family in the mansion.

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On this day, the fourth master came over to accompany Erfu and the children to eat as usual.

After a simple and warm dinner, the fourth master tested the homework of the two children as before, and went to the wing room with Erfu to see the millet group that had just begun to talk, and accompanied Erfu to walk to the gate of the courtyard, he pointed to the gatekeeper who was staring at the gate of the courtyard, and joked with a smile: "Your courtyard is about to catch up with the garrison of the prison of the Criminal Department." ”

"Whatever you have to do, look at what is happening!" said Erph, smirking self-deprecatingly.

"Also, I didn't expect there to be so many messy things in the house, this time it's because you are vigilant, otherwise there will be a lot of chaos!" The fourth master nodded thoughtfully, raised his hand and patted Erfu's shoulder, and sighed softly, no wonder he would say this, because the things found out from the treasury and the front yard warehouse really scared him, and those things are not only useful to the woman in the backyard, but also harmful to the male owner of the fourth master, it is not his business to hang high, but once it comes to his own head, no one spares his life.

When Erfu heard this, he shook his head with a wry smile, raised his eyes, and said: "I have asked the housekeeper to set the rules for the palace maids and servants who are on errands everywhere in our house, and in the future, regardless of which courtyard the servants and maids are, but if you want to leave the residence and the place where you are on an errand, you must go with two people, if you secretly leave your own residence and the place where you are on an errand, then send it directly to the Internal Affairs Office." ”

"It's a way for this person to star, but there is no guarantee that there will be no problems!"

"Although this arrangement does not guarantee that there will be absolutely no problems, but in the end, it can reduce the number of accidents, plus the ears, eyes and eyeliner you have arranged everywhere, I don't think there will be any big mess in this house, in fact, I arrange it this way, mainly to protect the safety of me and Xiaoqi, as for the others, whether they can be stable or not, it depends on their own abilities. Erf smiled and walked to the gazebo next to him and sat down, raised his hand to brush the broken hair blown by the wind in his ears, and explained with a proud face.

"Aren't you afraid that the master thinks you're narrow-minded?" the fourth master asked with a smile.

When Erfu heard this, she spread her hands disapprovingly, and replied casually, "Don't be afraid."

This woman who can be sent to serve in the fourth master's mansion by various families, which one is not smarter than me, although I am a concubine, I am in charge of the big and small things in the house, and I am not a god, I can protect Xiao Qi and Hongxuan, and ensure that these women in the mansion live in peace, then it has to be said that they give me some face!" After speaking, she yawned as if she was a little sleepy, looked at the sky that was gradually darkening in the distance, and urged the fourth master to go to the other women's courtyard for the night.

She is also reluctant, but she always takes the lead in abiding by the rules she has set.

The fourth master also knew that Erfu set this rule for the stability of the house, although he was a little uncomfortable at the beginning, and always felt that he was forced to go to various places to do errands, but after a long time, he gradually got used to it, so Erfu urged like this, he saw that the time was not early, so he beckoned Su Peisheng to walk in the direction of the gate of the courtyard, but when he walked to the gate of the courtyard, he suddenly turned around and returned to Erfu's side, and whispered: "Ye Ming is going to Fengtai, it is estimated that he will live there, you don't care." ”

After saying that, he took Ralph's hand again, rubbed the time for a cup of tea, and then walked to the gate of the courtyard.

Erfu stood in the pavilion, watching the figures of the fourth master and Su Peisheng disappear at the gate of the courtyard, turned around and called Shilan and Shiqing, who were waiting under the corridor, and asked the two of them to go to Mama Qin to get all kinds of account books for this month in the house, and walked to the upper room with her backhand knocking on her somewhat sore waist.

After a while, Shilan and Shiqing came back with a stack of ledgers.

Don't look at the account book of a month in the house, but there are many people in this house, and the corresponding various expenses, piles and piles, even if you buy a piece of embroidery thread, just three or five coppers, it must be clearly registered, so this month's account book wants to be accounted for from beginning to end, how can it take three or two days to work, this has to be said to be Erfu don't be lazy, otherwise...... That doesn't necessarily take much time.

In order not to be fooled by the people below, although Erfu was impatient with these verbose things, he had to deal with them patiently.

"Come on, Shilan, you lead the little palace maid to move the chair by the window.

Poetry, you prepare an abacus, pen and ink, straw paper, and then prepare a pot of refreshing strong tea.

We are sharpening knives and cutting wood, and we have prepared all these things that should be prepared, and while it is still early at this time, we should quickly check all the numbers in these account books, and then send them to the housekeeper and grandmother as soon as possible, so as not to delay the next month's affairs. She casually took the top account book and flipped through it, turned around and sat behind the bookcase, while moving all the messy things on the table to the side, while explaining to Shilan and Shiqing, who were still holding the account book in a daze, raised her hand and beckoned Shilan to put the account book in her arms on the table.

After a while, the two Taishi chairs placed by the window were moved to the side of the bookcase.

The bits and pieces that Erf had prepared for poetry were also brought to the table, and she took out a stack of ribbed paper from the drawer, and poured herself a cup of hot tea with the teapot, sipping it in small sips, and nimbly pulling the dragon's eye beads with her fingers in one hand, and counting the expenses in the account book page by page against the numbers in the account book.

In fact, this accounting is just a formality.

Even if there are really people who are greedy for ink, there will be no mistakes and omissions in the account books, and the reason why Erfu still insists on checking the accounts every month is nothing more than to let the people below on errands be more attentive, and the main thing is to check the difference between the number of various expenses and the previous monthly expenses, if there are any obvious changes, then you have to find someone to come and ask.

"The Hangzhou silk sent to Tong Jia's side of the Fujin Courtyard is gold-inlaid and jade-chiseled, eight feet will cost more than 20 taels of silver, or pure pigment silk, no dark lines, no jacquard, I'm afraid it's a good cloud brocade, it's just this price!"

As she spoke, Elder took the pen on the pen holder and drew a horizontal line on the record.

"Eight feet costs more than twenty taels, it's really a bit expensive!" Shi Lan, who was in charge of counting the kitchen accounts next to her, raised her head, looked at the account book in front of Erfu, and sighed with a smile.

Erfu tapped the stack of ribbed paper in front of Shilan with the barrel of the pen, pointed to the numbers on the account book, and reminded softly: "You also take care of the excitement, concentrate, don't underestimate this little thing in the kitchen, don't look at the number of each stroke is not big, but gather a little into a lot, accumulate sand into a tower, the bits and pieces of expenses in this kitchen are the most, if the pen and pen are deducted, then in the year, enough to endure the stewardship and purchase dozens of acres of land outside the city!"

After saying that, she turned her attention to the ledger in front of her again.

Human nature is greedy, those who control the fat difference in the house, there are few people who can be strict with themselves and do not stretch out their hands to take advantage, Erfu can tolerate a gray area between black and white, but never allow the palace maid who is on an errand to step on the line, wantonly falsely report the purchase price, and buy an egg for a penny as a golden egg and a silver egg, and the eight-foot Hangzhou silk in front of him costs more than 20 taels of silver, which is obviously an excessive price, and it is still more than ten times the price.

After discovering this, Erf directly became suspicious of the purchase of the sewing room.

She put half of the accounts of the public middle school treasury in her hand to the side, reached out and found the account book of the sewing room from a stack of account books, and murmured: "I remember that Mrs. Liu in the sewing room is a very responsible embroidery girl, how can you allow the following to buy such a thing, which of you has dealings with the purchase of the needlework room!"

"This, the slave maid remembers that the purchase everywhere is personally arranged by Mama Du, and she is directly responsible for Mama Du.

Although these buyers seem to be on errands everywhere, in fact, the stewards everywhere can't manage them at all, and they have to say something good and obedient with a smile, otherwise these people will stumble on those stewards, before Liu Niangzi had asked the slave maid to buy Xiao Jiangzi, saying that Xiao Jiangzi was shoddy and the size was insufficient, and the slave and maid specially called Xiao Jiangzi over to ask, but it seems that he has not restrained at all!" Speaking of the purchase of the sewing room, Shiqing put down the pen in his hand and replied with a frown.

"Xiao Jiangzi, the name is a little familiar!" Erfu thought for a moment with a frown, and wondered.

"Master, you forgot, this Xiao Jiangzi used to be a little eunuch who bought errands for his subordinates in the kitchen.

Because of the big kitchen over there, you also asked the slave to search his house and find more than a dozen gold ingots, you forgot about it!" Speaking of Xiao Jiangzi, without waiting for Shiqing's answer, Shilan smiled and brought up an old matter.

"Oh, it's him, so I don't think it's weird. Hearing this, Erf nodded slightly.

But her face is a little more ugly, like this kind of person with a criminal record and a stain, he was actually arranged to the position of purchasing, it is definitely not a foolish thing that a cautious old woman like Mama Du can do, but now Mama Du has arranged it like this, it seems that this little Jiangzi is very wild in the house!

Thinking about this, Erfu stopped talking, opened the account book of the sewing room, checked it one by one, and found out the price of the accounts of the sewing room in the previous months, and finally wrote a red, four-digit Arabic numeral to the back of the account book, and then closed the account book heavily, overwhelmed the white jade carved lion under the paperweight, intending to account for these accounts clearly, and then dispose of them together.

For example, the sewing room buys this Xiao Jiangzi who remembers eating but not fighting.