Chapter 965

Jiasi Courtyard, a secluded courtyard located in the northwest corner of the Fourth Master's Mansion, is also a place where the Li family is grounded, as early as when Su Peisheng led people to the East Courtyard to see the Big Li Clan, he had already asked Qin Mama to arrange for the palace people to clean up this place simply, and also moved a complete set of decent furniture from the warehouse, although it is not as exquisite as the furniture in the East Courtyard, but at least it will not make the Li family even have a place to sit and rest.

Next to Su Peisheng supervised the mother-in-law to send Da Li's luggage, then turned around and left, before leaving, he did not forget to leave two little maids for Da Li's family to take care of her diet and daily life according to the instructions of the fourth master, and in order not to make Da Li's life too sad, he also specially re-selected two little maids to do miscellaneous work.

Don't look at the two little maids are both nine-year-old children, but they are both well-behaved children with a proper personality, they may not be as smart and clever as the palace maids around the Li family, but they are enough to do their duty, and they will not do things like slaves and bully the master, after introducing the two little maids to the big Li family, Su Peisheng went back to the main courtyard to talk back to the fourth master.

Feizhu, Ruyun, two nine-year-old little girls, suddenly from the rough handyman cleaning the garden grass and trees, transformed into the little maid next to Li Shu Fujin, although they also know that Li Shu Fujin has completely lost power, but as the lowest little girls in the house, their little faces that are slightly red from the sun and wind and rain are still full of awe for Li Shu Fujin, and they dare not have any disrespectful thoughts.

In this way, Li Shu Fujin also accepted the fate of being imprisoned more calmly.

She raised her hand slightly, beckoned the two little girls to step forward, took off a pair of beaded earrings in her ears, and took off a gilded hairpin on her sideburns, and rewarded them to the two of them, "In the future, this Jiasi Courtyard will be the place where our master and servant depend on each other, and this little gadget will be considered a gift from me to you." ”

In the end, it is an old man who has been in the house for some years, don't look at the rare antiques, calligraphy and paintings in the Da Li family's treasury have been sealed and stored in the public high school warehouse, but Su Peisheng also left her a lot of valuable things, just the five-layer sour branch wood makeup box inlaid with luodian There are two, not to mention the precious clothes of silk and satin, at least in a short time, her life will not be too sad.

The two little girls were both handymen who had never seen the world, and they suddenly received such a valuable reward, their faces were full of joy, and they didn't even need the process of adapting to the environment, so they were already busy summing up the luggage carried by the strong mother-in-law for the Li family, and the big Li family was a little stunned, so he also joined the camp of cleaning up the room.

There is no longer the right to call slaves, and she will not be delicate.

It's a shame that before she entered the palace, she was the daughter of an ordinary ordinary official's family, and she was not a pampered noblewoman, although she hadn't done it for some years, but she quickly got used to it.

Here, the Li family is busy cleaning up the place where they want to live in the future, and over there Erfu and the fourth master are already lying on the bed with their heads touched, but they haven't done anything inappropriate for children, it's just that the fourth master is really a little tired and wants to hold Erfu for a good rest.

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Time flies, the years go by, as the fourth master returns home, the day when the old man Kangxi leaves the palace for summer vacation is getting closer and closer, Erfu once again returns to the busy life of a housewife, she has to count the home furnishings brought to the Old Summer Palace, and arrange the maid women who accompany the waiting, and discuss with the fourth master to take those female dependents to the Old Summer Palace to live, in short, all kinds of troublesome things are pressed down, she is busier than the fourth master.

Because in addition to getting up early to go to the court, the fourth master took turns in the sixth department in the morning, and went to the Qianqing Palace from time to time in the afternoon to discuss the governance methods with the old man Kangxi, and the rest of the time was to deal with the palace reports and recitals transferred by the cabinet with the staff, and in the evening, he would go into the backyard on time to walk around and get a moment of peace and enjoyment.

And Erfu was ruined, twelve hours a day, except for the time of sleeping, the rest of the time was occupied by the housekeeper, who had been discussing the matter of leaving the house, not only did she not have the opportunity to find the children to spend her favorite parent-child time, but in the end she didn't even have time to take a nap in the afternoon, let alone go to Jiasi Yuan to find trouble with the big Li family.

"You said someone deliberately withheld Lee's share?" So when Shilan talked to her about it, she was stunned, and asked with a little disbelief, because she thought that after she took charge of the feed, the housekeepers everywhere had changed their bad habits with red and white, which she had seen with her own eyes, and she really didn't think that anyone would deliberately embarrass the big Li family who had lost power, after all, judging from the fourth master's means of dealing with the big Li family, the fourth master seems to have some affection for the big Li family, who would touch the fourth master's moldy head at such a time...... Could it be that someone deliberately threw dirty water on her?

No wonder she has such a guess, she is in the same house as her rival in love, and occupies the only position of concubine, if Erfu wants to live well, she must always guard against the dark arrows shooting from behind.

Obviously, Shilan also understood what she meant, nodded with certainty, and continued: "And it's not just someone who deliberately deducts the Li family's share, but even Tong Jia's side of Fujin's side, it seems that there is a little problem, such as the special Hangzhou powder in her share and the satin gown skirt with Su sleeves and several specially purchased things have been replaced. ”

This kind of thing can be big or small, even if Erfu is already busy hitting the back of her head, she doesn't dare to ignore it, she raised her eyebrows slightly, casually put the half-read account book into the drawer, turned her head and ordered: "You let Mama Du and Mama Qin come to see me." With that, she got up and went to the hall, took the hot tea offered by Shiqing, and pondered the ins and outs of the matter.

After a while, Mama Du and Mama Qin came to the upper room side by side, but before Erfu could open her mouth to ask, Mama Du had already knelt on the ground to plead guilty, which made Erfu stunned, and she had been thinking about it for a long time, but she didn't know what to say at this time, so she could only swallow her saliva in embarrassment, pointed to the official hat chair placed under her head, and motioned for Mama Qin and Mama Du to sit down and talk.

Seeing the two of them seated, Erfu waved his hand to disperse the maid in the room, then held the tea bowl on the table on the side of him, took two sips of hot tea, stabilized his mind slightly, and then asked: " Presumably I have the meaning of letting the two of you come over at this time, and the two of you have already guessed it, and the two of you will give me a reasonable explanation, why I have emphasized the things several times, and there are still people who knowingly commit it, whether it is because I have no way to control it, or there is a problem with the vision of the two people, even the rouge gouache used by the female lady in the house and the clothes and jewelry worn can have such problems, so can you still see the things used by the people below!" After speaking, she slammed the tea bowl in her hand on the table to match her momentum and intimidation.

In fact, Fuzhong will send a purchase list to the stewards assigned in various places through post roads and merchant ships every month, and the purchase list of Jiangnan Province is the most frequent, because the silk and rouge gouache worn by the masters of each courtyard in the house are mostly produced on Jiangnan Road.

The slave maid failed to report this matter in time before, also because the person in charge of the purchase this time was the family of the close palace maid Yujie who had been married by Fujin's side, and the slave maid wanted to transfer a batch of similar things from the treasury first, and then come back to Fujin later, but she didn't want this matter to reach Fujin's ears in the end. Mama Du, who was asked by Erfu, explained with a bitter face, she is a person who is responsible for purchasing things in the house, because she has been exposed to a lot of all kinds of precious things, and she has already developed a pair of discerning eyes, where can she not see that there is a problem with the things sent by Jiangnan Dao, but because the people purchased by Jiangnan Dao are Erfu's people, she did not expose it, but she didn't expect Erfu to hold on to this matter, if she is a modern person, she will definitely drill a 'baby heart bitter' expression in her heart now.

Besides, Erfu, after listening to Mama Du's reply, her little face was flushed, she thought it was the maid in the house and the red top white, but she didn't expect that there was a problem from the buyer, and the buyer in charge of Jiangnan Dao procurement was her person, and she didn't know how embarrassing it was.

However, she didn't want to favor Yujie's relatives, so she was just a little stunned, so she asked Mama Du to send a letter of inquiry to the person in charge of purchasing in Jiangnan Province, and at the same time instructed Mama Du to arrange a competent person to go to Jiangnan Province to take over the errand of the previous buyer, and ordered the buyer who had problems before to return home to accept her detailed interrogation.

Mama Du and Mama Qin are both shrewd people, and they know the essence of seeing through and not telling, so they naturally will not expose Erfu's selfishness, and respectfully respond to the errand, so they will turn around and go back to the cross-courtyard to arrange manpower, and Erfu, who still wants to leave some room for maneuver for Yujie, instructed Shilan to open her own private treasury, according to the purchase list on Jiangnan Road this month, still picked out a copy, sent it to the public middle school, and ordered Mama Qin, who was responsible for arranging the distribution of the shares, to make up for the shortcomings in the examples to the hostesses of each courtyard and replace the defective products.

"This Yujie was the most responsible palace maid when she was in the mansion, how could she become like this, I can't believe that she would do such a shoddy thing, doesn't she know that she does this, and I, the master who has the right to feed it, will be very embarrassed?"

"Master, you really don't have to be so lost.

In fact, the people who buy on the purchase sometimes do shoddy things, but also helpless, you want to send this monthly purchase list, the number of requirements and the silver brought in the past are fixed, but the price in the market is uncertain, maybe a box of good Hangzhou powder, the price is only more than ten taels of silver, but tomorrow it will take fifteen taels of silver, but the total amount of silver tickets brought over is fixed, if the people want to make up enough amount, they will have to do shoddy things.

Because it is shoddy, it is possible not to be discovered, and this matter will be fooled, if you can't make up the number of purchases, it is a crime of dereliction of duty, and it is likely that even the errand will be lost. Seeing that Erfu was becoming more and more lost, Aunt Yuxiu, who was counting the accounts of the treasury next to her, stopped her errand and persuaded softly, but what she said was also the truth, which was also the helplessness caused by the underdevelopment of communications.

"The money brought by the house is not enough, they can go to the industries scattered in the house to ask for help, this is also a matter within the rules, even if the industry in the house refuses to help, Yujie used to be one of the close palace maids around me, she can also go to the industry under my name for help, but she still allows her family to do such shoddy things, I am afraid that your speculation will not exonerate her guilt!" It's just that Aunt Yuxiu ignored one point, that is, Erfu's shops are all over the place, and if Yujie really encounters the difficulties that Aunt Yuxiu said, she doesn't need to do this kind of shoddy thing to solve it very well, so after listening to Erfu, not only did she not feel happy, but she was even more depressed.

"Master, I'm afraid you're blind and ignore the difficulties of the people below on errands.

Although there are a lot of industries in the house, but the stewards who can sit in the position of the shopkeeper in various shops are smart people, and there are more than 100 people in the house.

In order to reduce trouble, other people will not easily lend the money under their own control of the property, and the government must also control the expenditure on procurement, and it is impossible to let the people below wantonly exceed the expenditure, so this rule is actually difficult to enforce. Aunt Yuxiu heard this, and took the opportunity to put forward her little opinion, she used to think that distributing the purchase list to various places every month was a matter of half the effort, but because she was compared with other stewards in the house, she was an outsider, so it was not good to put forward opinions as soon as she entered the house, and this back and forth suppressed this matter, and now it is rare to have this opportunity to make suggestions, she naturally has to be outspoken.

Erfu, who was only worried about Yujie and her family's shoddy things, heard this, but felt that she suddenly realized like an empowerment, and felt that the suggestion put forward by Aunt Yuxiu was simply a fundamental solution to the problem of purchasing difficulties compared to the wrong thing made by Yujie's family, but this kind of institutional reform is not something that can be solved by a hot head, so she did not hurriedly call Mama Qin and Mama Du to discuss, but settled down to discuss the direction of the procurement reform with Aunt Yuxiu, because she felt that Aunt Yuxiu had no way and would never rashly make such a suggestion, as the safest person in the house, Aunt Yuxiu should already have a clear idea.