352: The Crown Princess Is Easy to Get Along With?
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Zhang Jian arrived very quickly and immediately came forward to greet the princess when he saw her.
Su Xinyi asked him to sit down and said slowly, "Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, so this day is chosen well."
Zhang Jian smiled and thought, who would dare to neglect the princess's instructions? Naturally, he went to investigate all night, and then he found out something. However, this Shi Qing was not an ordinary person and was very good at hiding things.
The second-level courtyard where the family lives is not very big, and the daily life is very simple. It is impossible to tell that he is a person working in the Six Shang Bureau.
Moreover, Shi Qing's family really thought that he was an honest person, and his wife didn't even know about Shi Qing's affairs outside the home.
Without telling his family, Shi Qing built a large house with three entrances and a garden. The house was located in a remote location, but it also had an outhouse. This outhouse was amazing and dressed even better than the main wife. She had to be decent, and no one in the area where she lived knew that she was an outsider, and they all thought she was Shi Qing's wife.
Su Xinyi was really shocked, "This Shi Qing is really surprising, hiding it from both sides?"
Zhang Jian shook his head, "The outsider knows that he has a wife and children."
Su Xinyi sneered, "What else was found besides that?"
Zhang Jian then said: "To avoid alarming the enemy, the house was not searched, so I don't know yet whether there is anything hidden in the house. However, just looking at how Shi Qing provided for the outer room and the outer room, it cost a lot. It’s absolutely impossible to do it with just his salary.”
Su Xinyi looked at Zhang Jian and said: "If you want to get the evidence, you can't alert the snake. Wu Yi was shocked. It's the Mid-Autumn Festival soon, and it's time to have some fun for everyone. Go and tell the story about Shi Qing's donation to the outer room." To his first wife and legitimate son."
Zhang Jian thought that this idea would come true. In this case, Wu Yi would only think that Shi Qing failed to handle the housework well, rather than being found out.
When the first wife overturned the outer room, they could fish in troubled waters here.
Zhang Jian immediately turned around and left, and Su Xinyi breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Jian was very neat in his work, and he soon had someone write a letter, which described in detail how Shi Qingchang spent a lot of money to buy a big house, and how extravagant his daily life was.
No matter who was Shi Qing's head wife, she served her parents-in-law at home, taught her children, and took care of household chores and lived frugally. However, her husband could be so generous while raising a daughter outside, which made Ni Bodhisattva furious.
Su Xinyi initially thought that Mrs. Shi might have to wait until after the Mid-Autumn Festival before taking action. Unexpectedly, she took her parents-in-law to Shi Qing's outer room to kill her that day.
When they saw the beautiful and exquisite mansion built with gardens on three sides, and then looked at the outer rooms and outer rooms dressed in gold and silver, not to mention Mrs. Shi was shaking with anger, Shi Qing's parents were also I was so angry that my eyes went dark and I almost fainted.
Things suddenly got big.
At that time, Shi Qing was busy with tomorrow's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in Liushang Bureau. He didn't know about the wind and rain outside. When he got the news and hurried over, what greeted him was his father's two crutches.
Mrs. Shi probably didn't want to have a serious dispute with her husband. She saw her father-in-law taking action and wanted to come forward to persuade him. Naturally, Zhang Jian couldn't watch Mrs. Shi suppress the matter, so he immediately asked someone to mix in with the crowd to muddy the water. Fanning the flames, and even making people shout, everyone knows that this is Mrs. Shi, and the outer room will not come to cause trouble, right?
These words were really heartbreaking. Mrs. Shi thought about her daily life, and then looked at the mother and son in the outer room, and the suppressed anger suddenly came back.
In addition, the outer room always considers itself the wife of the wife, and is usually surrounded by girls and women. The wife opens her mouth and shuts her mouth, shouting, "How can I have ever been so wronged?" Mrs. Shi ordered someone to beat her up. At this time, she saw Shi Qing coming, She cried so hard that she asked him to seek justice, and even clamored for Shi Qing to divorce his wife...
As a result, the situation became completely unbearable, and Mrs. Shi became furious.
Zhang Jian took advantage of the chaos and immediately asked people to sneak into Shi Qing's study here to check if there was any important evidence. Unexpectedly, he actually found a thick stack of account books.
In order to move the account books smoothly, Zhang Jian's men deliberately set off a small fire to attack the east and west. When the pile of account books arrived in Su Xinyi's hands, the prince had not even returned to the East Palace. It was very fast.
Su Xinyi looked through the account books under the light. The more she read, the more frightened she became. There were some parts that she couldn't understand. She even invited Grandma She to come over. The two of them looked at them for a long time. Even though Grandma She was well-informed, she seemed a bit well-informed. Stunned.
The Six Shang Bureau deceived the superiors and kept it secret, and secretly colluded with foreign officials, especially the officials purchasing for the palace. In order to ask for money from the court, they secretly added hundreds of entries, including eggs worth one or two silver each. It's the cheapest here.
Two years ago, His Majesty had his palace slightly renovated. Looking at the records in the account books, it was originally only a few hundred thousand taels of silver, but in the end, more than two million taels were taken from the court.
Su Xinyi was so angry that her lungs were about to explode. These dogs were simply lawless and greedy.
The Shang Food Bureau is in charge of the food in the harem, and the Si Shan is Shang Shi's right-hand man. If you look through the account books carefully, you can see that the imperial dining room has a huge expenditure on rice, noodles, grains, oils, meat, eggs, poultry, and various red and white items. The tricky thing.
Moreover, there are still empty positions in the imperial kitchen, and there are actually nearly a hundred people.
The Imperial Kitchen is responsible for the meals of the entire harem, and the division of labor is very detailed. There are hundreds of people on the list. Su Xinyi has also dealt with the Imperial Kitchen. For example, the meals of the emperor and empress are made by special people. Although Li Guifei's meals are not as good as those of the empress, they are not much different. These three places alone occupy a lot of people.
In addition, the Eastern Palace is also a new place, but it is still under the management of the Imperial Kitchen. The people in the Eastern Palace Kitchen are also recorded here. In this way, the number of people in the kitchen is inevitably a bit messy, and it is easy for someone to take advantage of the opportunity to eat the empty position and do something.
Su Xinyi looked through the account book and recorded the places he found carefully. When His Highness came back, he would give it to him. He also needed His Highness's help to check Wu Yi's words.
Yan Junchu came back very late. When he entered Deyang Hall, he saw that the lights in the hall were on. He walked in and heard Xinyi talking to Madam She at the door of the hall. After listening to a few words, he knew that they were talking about the Six Shang Bureau.
Hearing footsteps, Su Xinyi raised her head, saw His Highness coming back, put down her pen and went to greet him.
Nanny She simply tidied up the things on the table, then bent down and left.
Yan Junchu smiled at Xinyi, "How is the investigation of Shi Qing going?"
Su Xinyi got angry when she talked about this, but she still asked someone to send the warm supper from the tea room to His Highness so that he could eat something.
Yan Junchu was really a little hungry. He ate while listening to Xinyi talking about Shi Qing. He was also surprised after listening. After eating, he wiped the corners of his lips with a handkerchief and said, "I didn't expect that Shi Qing would even lie to his own parents in order to avoid being seen by others."
Su Xinyi couldn't understand it either. She nodded and said, "Yes, the wife and the legitimate son seem to be raised outside, while the mother and son of the concubine are glorious. I guess Shi Qing may have some problems with his brain. I don't know what he thinks."
Yan Junchu had a bit of disgust on his face. When he finished reading the accounts that Xinyi had sorted out for him, his face was already dark. "I didn't expect that the Six Shang Bureau has become so lawless now."
Su Xinyi didn't expect that the Six Shang Bureau has always been in charge of the affairs of the palace. Food, clothing, housing and transportation, everything must go through their hands. It's not surprising that they are so bold to work under the eyes of the emperor and empress.
"Wu Yi's case is harder to investigate than Shi Qing's. This time, Shi Qing's case was caused by his mistress using the excuse of a family affair, but when the account books were missing and Shi Qing found out, he couldn't suppress it." Su Xinyi looked at the prince and said.
Yan Junchu nodded slightly, "I'll let Yang Jin do it."
He wanted to take advantage of the time difference before Shi Qing found out about the account books and Wu Yi was not prepared.
If Yang Jin came forward, Su Xinyi would have nothing to worry about.
Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, and the two of them went to bed after washing up.
This year's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is no different from previous years. If there is a difference, it is that the marriages of several princes this year have been decided, and the marriages have to be held one after another. The families of several future princesses at the Mid-Autumn Festival are naturally more glorious than last year.
Su Xinyi only needs to sit next to the prince and keep smiling, and be a little humble when the queen talks to her.
She is only the crown princess now, and there is no need to steal the show.
After three rounds of drinking, the banquet gradually relaxed and became lively. Su Xinyi finally had time to talk with Zhu Chanyi.
The first and fourth wives of Duke Qi's mansion came over to talk to her, and then went to chat with other wives. As the Crown Princess, Su Xinyi didn't need to socialize too much in such occasions, but the first wife couldn't think too highly of herself.
Zhu Chanyi looked at Su Xinyi and sighed slightly. She didn't dare to show any expression of being criticized at the banquet. She lowered her voice and said to Su Xinyi: "I finally know why you have become dignified and virtuous after getting married. It's really terrible."
Su Xinyi was happy all of a sudden, "It will be fine after this period of time. When you enter the door of Prince Rong's mansion, you will have the final say on how to live in the mansion in the future."
"Really?" Zhu Chanyi didn't believe it. "Will the Queen send a housekeeper nanny over at that time?"
Su Xinyi was stunned. She really didn't know.
After all, the prince was not the Queen's biological son, and the Queen could not easily interfere in the affairs of the Eastern Palace, so after she married, the Queen did not send anyone to the Eastern Palace.
But Prince Rong was the Queen's biological son, and if a housekeeper was sent to Prince Rong's mansion, no one would dare to say anything.
Su Xinyi looked at Zhu Chanyi and asked softly, "Why do you suddenly ask this?"
Zhu Chanyi said, "I heard that Concubine Li has sent a housekeeper to Prince Xiang's mansion."
Su Xinyi: ...
This is really fast, is it that serious?
But thinking about the fact that it was You Xiangru who married, Su Xinyi felt strangely that it was good.
The evil man needs a human demon, You Xiangru and Concubine Li are a perfect match.
Looking at Su Xinyi's expression, Zhu Chanyi said seriously, "I didn't think Concubine Li was biased in her actions before, but in the past year, it is indeed a bit..."
It's not up to standard.
"We don't need to worry too much about the affairs of Prince Xiang's Mansion. I think there is something that needs to be carefully considered." Su Xinyi looked at Zhu Chanyi and spoke softly.
"What is it?" Zhu Chanyi asked curiously.
"After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the King of Wu will get married. Before the wedding, there should be a small tea party, but it is not certain now." Su Xinyi remembered what the queen said to her last time, and looked at Zhu Chanyi thoughtfully, "It is a good opportunity to communicate with other princesses."
There are many ladies in the capital, but the princesses are not very familiar with each other and do not have much friendship.
As she was talking, Su Xinyi looked up and saw Tu Jingjia, who was a little hesitant in the distance, as if hesitating whether to come over.
Su Xinyi had a good impression of the Tu family. She also heard that her third sister mentioned that this sister-in-law was easy to get along with. The two had also had a few brief encounters before, but it was indeed difficult to tell what kind of character each other had.
She smiled at Tu Jingjia, and Tu Jingjia walked over.
"Your servant greets the Crown Princess." Tu Jingjia came over and bowed.
"Your sister from the Tu family, you don't have to be polite." Su Xinyi said with a smile.
Tu Jingjia heaved a sigh of relief when she heard the Crown Princess address her. "My third sister-in-law asked me to take good care of the Crown Princess before entering the palace."
Su Xinyi took the opportunity to ask a few questions about Su Chaoyan and her daughter, and then looked at Zhu Chanyi and smiled, "The Tu family's sister has a good personality. I've heard my third sister mention it several times. I'm sure we can get along well in the future. After all, we're about to become a family."
Tu Jingjia's face slightly blushed, but Zhu Chanyi was thick-skinned and looked at Tu Jingjia and said, "Hello, Miss Tu. I've heard that Miss Tu is dignified and virtuous, and she is different from my fierce personality. Today I see that it's true."
Although Tu Jingjia is a few months younger than Zhu Chanyi, Zhu Chanyi will still call Tu Jingjia the sixth sister-in-law after she marries into the royal family.
Tu Jingjia blushed and greeted Zhu Chanyi. Although she had no contact with Zhu Chanyi, as the granddaughter of Duke Zheng, Zhu Chanyi was quite famous in the capital. Before the Crown Princess returned to Beijing, she had always been a negative example for the ladies of various families.
But after a few words, Tu Jingjia felt that the rumors were different. This Miss Zhu was not as difficult to get along with as rumored. She was cheerful, which was the opposite of her introverted person. She was quite envious.
On the other side, Ji Yun had no intention of coming over. She just sat next to her mother with a dignified look. You Xiangru sat next to the wife of Wu'an Marquis and her mother on the other side. Today, Mrs. You also received an invitation. The mother and daughter didn't know what they were talking about, but Mrs. You's smile never stopped.
When it was time to toast, Yan Junchu came over in person and took Su Xinyi to toast His Majesty. Zhu Chanyi and Tu Jingjia saw that the prince was very gentle to the Crown Princess. The two smiled and pursed their lips and went back to their respective positions.
Mrs. Tu looked at her daughter and asked in a low voice: "You look so happy, it seems that they get along well."
Tu Jingjia said softly: "Mother, what the third sister-in-law said is right, the Crown Princess is easy to get along with."
Mrs. Tu smiled and glanced at the wife of Marquis Wu'an next to her. She thought to herself that the Crown Princess is not easy to get along with. This one took care of her daughter because of the third daughter-in-law.
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