Chapter 939

Now, it seems that Erfu, who has moved the mountain on her head and is the master of the house, the pressure hidden in her heart is actually not easy, and the deceased Wulanala clan is like a lingering cloud hanging over her head, this pressure does not come from the outside world, but from the three views that are too upright in her heart.

In the era of monogamy, which was protected by marriage laws, she was an outright junior.

Xiao San, for a woman is the most disgraceful name, even if she has departed from that era and arrived at the feudal ruling social life of three wives and four concubines, but the kind of values that have been deeply imprinted in her heart since she was a child still makes it difficult for her to take her position so seriously, just like her avoidance of favor when she first arrived at the Fourth Master's Mansion, and then to the peach blossom paradise she created by herself in the West Courtyard to escape reality, even now the Wulanala clan has turned into white bones, buried in a cold grave, and has done countless injuries to her, the cruel things that hurt her children, she still can't forget the sorry in her heart for the Ulanala clan.

It is precisely because of this that she wants to compare herself with the deceased Ulanala clan at every turn.

In the eyes of others, her approach is too irrational, but really in such a situation, she is simply uncontrollably walking on this obviously incorrect path, and she is not unaware of this, but the social values hidden in her heart have been finding various reasons to excuse her, such as she never forgets the Ulanala clan, but she doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of the Ulanala clan.

At this time, too.

When Shilan mentioned that she seemed to value the influence left by the Ulanala clan in the mansion too much, her subconscious came out again, and found a reasonable excuse for her, a bitter smile on the corner of her mouth, and a little helpless sigh in her eyes said: "I don't know the price of firewood and rice, so many people in the house are pointing to this big key in my hand to eat, drink and wear, I can't help but be careful to remind myself to be thrifty and thrifty." ”

In this way, she easily dismissed Shilan, who still wanted to persuade a few more words, pressed the messy associations in her heart, and once again focused on the ledgers sent from everywhere.

The ledger of the large kitchen is definitely the thickest of these books.

She casually took the ledger in the large kitchen, which was still stained with a little oil, and flipped through it, and without even looking at the detailed ledger inside, she turned directly to the balance on the last page.

She is a person who likes to give her own busy time, in order to get more rest time, she will let Aunt Yuxiu manage the accounts of the public high school together at the beginning of each month to send an advance sufficient for all expenses in the house.

This advance is also based on the total amount spent in the previous month by the various places.

Basically, it can ensure that there is a balance of 30% left at the end of the month, and when the account books are handed over to her at the end of the month, she will habitually check the balance first, so as to analyze and judge the greed of the managers everywhere.

Because the expenses in the house can be fixed most of the time, unless there is a special situation, such as some specific festivals, the fourth master will explain that he will hold a banquet in the backyard, so that the expenses on the large kitchen side will increase, and sometimes the fourth master will also reward the ladies in the house with a few sets of new clothes and so on, so that the sewing room will have an extra expense than usual, in addition, the monthly balance of these places will basically be about the same.

Of course, Erfu is not strict enough to be more than that, she also reserved some gray areas for the people below, after all, when the water is clear, there are no fish, and everyone in the world has selfishness, she can't ask everyone to be honest to the point that her sleeves are empty, because whoever holds the fat in her hands will have a layer of oil in her hands.

For example, the person who works as an errand in the kitchen will be fatter than everyone else.

Because no matter how heavy an errand they do, even if it is a fire girl, this will not lose their own mouth, the chef can eat bird's nest shark fin, the little boy can also eat white flour steamed buns to eat all-you-can-eat, in the stir-fry pot, the remaining layer of oil is enough for them to fry two side dishes and scald the pot of wine.

Another example is the palace maids who serve in the needlework room, and their handkerchiefs and silk flowers will stand out.

Because of the scraps left over by cutting new clothes for the masters of the courtyards, the masters of the courtyards will definitely not run over to ask, and will definitely fall into their hands, this ingenious embroidery girl is to use these cut scraps, fight a piece, a pair, and can also embroider a good clothes, the little palace maid who specializes in helping the embroidery mother divide the thread, can also pick the remaining rags from the embroidery girl, a few more fragmented muslin cloth, light yarn, and secretly embroider a few pieces of handkerchief, Tie some small and delicate silk flowers, and if you catch up with which master cuts the dress, maybe you can still drop a few strands of gold and silver thread.

As for the housekeeper and the palace maid, who are responsible for the necessities of lamp oil and fire consumption in the house, the candles in their rooms will be brighter, and in winter, the rooms will be warmer than others.

Because there are so many things in the library, no one will care about such a trivial matter as ordering a few more candles, just the candle heads that are replaced for the masters of each courtyard are enough for them to make the room bright, not to mention all kinds of charcoal pulled by carts in winter, except for the expensive goods such as red and silver charcoal sent to the masters of each courtyard, black charcoal is not as much as they want to use.

This is the gray area, and the gray area she left behind is to let these servants who have the idea of greedy ink public be restrained, as long as it does not exceed this line, then she will be a confused concubine.

It is true that she does not have the ability to change the greedy nature of people's hearts.

It's just that some people just like to kick their noses and face to challenge her bottom line, such as the accounts sent from the big kitchen that she is looking at right now.

Her face, which was still a little smiling just now, was already iron-blue.

This really can't blame her for being too angry, according to the amount of advance money that will be left everywhere every month, the big kitchen finally gave her a deficit, and even owed her half a month's money for vegetables, fruits, meat, and eggs from the convenience shop in her name, which is too much.

Although in winter, the price of these various vegetables is higher than in other seasons, the vegetables provided by the convenience shop are picked from the improved greenhouse, the price is not too high, even ordinary people can buy a few catties to satisfy their hunger, how can this big kitchen spend all the balance of thirty percent, the most important point is that there is no celebration in the house this month, Banquet, even all kinds of expenses on the side of the moon building are directly to the small kitchen on the side of the main courtyard, all the expenses are paid by Erfu out of his own pocket, but the big kitchen is still so righteous and awe-inspiring to deduct all the balance, how can this make Erfu not angry, you must know that the big kitchen is responsible for eating, drinking and chewing everywhere in the house, and the monthly expenses are a large amount, and the balance of thirty percent does not seem to be much, but it is actually enough to buy more than ten acres of good land in the suburbs of Beijing on the edge of the city.

Erf huffed and closed the account book and threw it directly into the bookcase drawer.

She didn't say that she stamped her private seal and sent it back, let alone sent it to the front yard to check the account room carefully, so she directly instructed Bai Zhi who was waiting beside her: "Later, you let Aunt Yuxiu stuff an inconspicuous little eunuch to the kitchen, I found that the figure of the chef Liu Fatzi in this big kitchen is getting stronger and stronger, and it is estimated that he has found something to make money, although I care about the matter of these melons and dates, but I can't let him eat alone, grab out his pigtails, and give it to the little palace maids at the bottom of our house. The little eunuch made good improvements and improved the food. ”

This Liu Fat Man is the old man who was specially brought out of the dining room of the elder brother when the fourth master came out of the elder brother's house, and has always been closer to the big Li family in the East Courtyard, but because the fourth master likes Liu Fatzi's craftsmanship very much, especially the pearl balls made by Liu Fatzi, it is definitely the fourth master's favorite, basically every three or five days to ask Liu Fatzi to send it to the front yard alone, so whether it is the previous Wulanala clan or the current Erfu did not move him, but now Liu Fatzi is becoming more and more presumptuous, that is, he can make dragon liver and phoenix brain, and Erfu will never allow him to continue to occupy the position of the chef in the big kitchen。

As for the fourth master's desire for tongue, then the fourth master can only endure it.

The fourth master is not a person who pays attention to pleasure, compared to Erfulai, it is estimated that the fourth master is the most thrifty person, who can imagine that when the fourth prince is in the house, he is not even willing to wear the most ordinary satin clothes, all the muslin clothes, washing and fading are not willing to lose, and they have to wear it so that there is no need to sew and mend it, so that people are willing to throw it away, which is also thanks to the weaving technology and printing and dyeing technology of this era are not developed, otherwise the character of the fourth master, it is estimated that if it is in modern times, he has been three or five years, I may not have the opportunity to wear a new set of clothes for more than ten years.

Thinking about this, Erf also admired.

At least if she were to change it, she had been living a life of fine clothes and jade food since she was a child, and even the little eunuch who was wearing clothes came forward to serve, she would definitely not be able to do this with the fourth master, but fortunately, it was the fourth master who was such a diligent and thrifty prince to lead by example, otherwise she wanted to promote thrift in the house, it is estimated that it would be overthrown without even a day of existence, after all, the famous families are very particular about pomp, and even the maids and women who serve in the house have to dress decently, how can you allow Erfu to pick and search this way, and it is precisely because the fourth master is a thrifty person that she is not worried that the fourth master will turn her face if she can't eat the pearl balls, it is estimated that if she tells the fourth masterIn order not to give the fourth master the opportunity to meddle in the trivial matters of the inner courtyard, she decided to cut the mess quickly, as long as she got the handle of Liu Fatzi's greedy ink gongzhong, she would directly blast him out of the house.

It's just that people don't expect things.

Aunt Yuxiu quickly put people into the big kitchen, it was a very clever, and very good talking little eunuch, a knife worker, compared to the kitchen errand maid for some years, soon mixed with Liu Fatzi's side, specifically responsible for Liu Fatzi's more hard work of chopping meat filling, and completely became Liu Fatzi's henchman, the whole process did not take half a month, but the results of the investigation found that the people who were greedy for ink were not Liu Fatzi, and no one was greedy for ink Gongzhong, but someone was too fond of elaborate delicacies, resulting in repeated overspending of expenses in the big kitchen, but this person was still unwilling to pay for the ingredients himself, the identity is too noble, Liu Fatzi can't afford to offend, and he has always been close to the big Li family in the East Courtyard, so none of the people around Erfu are willing to say a good word for him in front of Erfu, which caused a misunderstanding between himself and his greedy Mogong.

"I see, I misunderstood him. "Getting the spies' reply, Erfu wiped her neck with a little blush, although no one will poke her sore feet, let alone publicize her desire to drive Liu Fat out of the house, but she will still be prejudiced by herself, and feel sorry for Liu Fatzi, she reached out and took the hot tea handed over by Shilan and took a sip, muttered softly, and commanded in a low voice, " When I picked a suitable time, he was not too busy and asked him to come over and talk about it personally, and I blamed me for not carefully checking the detailed accounts and having a preconceived judgment, but fortunately I didn't look at the account book and blasted people out, otherwise it would be even more embarrassing. ”

After saying that, she asked Shilan to find the ledger that had been thrown in the drawer of the bookcase.

Erfu made up his mind to take a good look at who was so shameless, and it was not that person's fault that he loved to eat and drink, but it was too unauthentic to take advantage of the public so arrogantly, and let the people below carry the black pot.

Of course, she also has a suspicious target in her heart, that is, Tong Jiashi.

Because before Tong Jia's entry into the mansion, there had never been such a thing in the mansion, and the hostesses of each courtyard also accepted the setting that they had to buy more than the exceptional ingredients by themselves, so even if some people pay attention to eating and drinking, there has never been a matter of letting the big kitchen pay, so naturally this person has no one else to suspect, he can only be Tong Jia's who has just entered the mansion and is not suitable for the rules of the mansion.

But she is not particularly angry, after all, Tong Jia's position is there, and she is a lady from a famous family, and her appearance is enough to stand out, although she is not too favored in front of the fourth master now, but she is also a newcomer, and it is difficult to guarantee that there is no day of favor, so according to the rules of the mansions, after such a female dependent enters the house, it is the wife of the main house like Erfu who does not command, and the servants who are on errands under them are also spontaneously delicious, drink, and dress. It is so pampered that it will not offend the newcomers, so that this pillow wind, which blows at some point, will clean up their servants who are waiting.

It is with this in mind that Erfu did not feel that Tong Jia's approach was out of line, as long as she didn't do such a thing in the future, after all, this country has national laws and family rules, if everyone follows her, the small days in the house that have just been orderly will be chaotic again, but unfortunately not everyone will agree with the rules set by Erfu, especially Tong Jiashi, who is noble and the most hedonistic.