I was Idle and Cool Chapter 43: Be a queen

Lai Chang is the second-in-command of the manor. He served the general Xue Kuang back then, and is considered one of the senior servants in the manor.

Hearing Lu Jinxi's words, Egret was startled immediately.

She didn't understand why, but as soon as her eyes landed on the small celadon cover clock, she immediately reacted: when she asked someone to sort out the additions in the eldest son's room, the list of utensils that should be received also came from her. I've had it in my hands, and I still remember it.

This is clearly the next person who is dead again!

The egret thought that someone might not be able to be kind anymore, so he responded, "I'll go call this servant. Madam, do you want to find the account book too?"

"Look here too, so you don't slap me with sloppy eyes." Lu Jinxi supported the dark sandalwood throw pillow in one hand, raised his eyebrows slightly, and then looked at Xue Tingzhi, "Eldest son came in, your legs are not loose, hurry up Sit down."

The egret went out to call for people, but the blue bird still stayed and stood beside her to serve.

After Xue Tingzhi came in, he didn't stand far or near. He heard the words of the first-born mother just now, and the complicated feeling in his heart came up again——

It's getting harder and harder to see.

The more reasonable she was, the farther away she was from the image in his mind, and the stranger.

Unfamiliar, it means that the calculation fails and it is difficult to control.

"Thank you mom."

Xue Tingzhi responded, still not sitting opposite Lu Jinxi, but sitting on the chair on her left, the same as last time.

Of course Lu Jinxi saw it, but she didn't care.

This study doesn't look so empty because of the recent additions to it.

She looked at it for a while, then got up and walked around randomly.

Swipe across the newly-hanging embroidery on the wall, as well as the brush, ink, paper and inkstone arranged on the table, the sapphire pen mountain carved in the shape of Taihu Lake, the three-legged toad inkstone of shadow celadon... …

I don't have the ability to do things with peace of mind.

Lu Jinxi took the pen and stood up, glanced at Tianguang, and couldn't help laughing: "Is the eldest son still used to using these things?"

"Back to my mother's words, all the decorations that are used today are all newly added by your orders, which is better than in the past." Xue Tingzhi paused before saying, "Mother's heart and compassion are all very good. "

"You're a good talker."

Lu Jinxi walked back, took the carved Taihu stone sapphire pen mountain, gently placed it on a few, and lined up with the small cover clock.

"Unfortunately, this intention has also been abused by others."

Of course this is not to scold Xue Tingzhi.

Xue Tingzhi is also very clear.

The things sent down are of uneven quality, and it is obvious that someone has taken them from them. But these matters involving the money and money in the house were not something that he, a "junior" and a "son" should intervene in.

So at the moment, he didn't answer.

Lu Jinxi stopped talking.

She reopened the "Long and Short Sutra" to look.

Xue Tingzhi noticed that the position she opened was in the middle of a book, which meant that she had most likely read the previous parts.

This kind of book is very scheming.

As Lu Jinxi said before, this book is not easy to buy outside. Xue Kuang was born in the general's mansion, and he also led troops to fight under the imperial family. It is normal to have this book.

But Lu Jinxi is a daughter's family.

Lord Lu's teaching her poetry and calligraphy is nothing, and if she were to teach her the "Long and Short Classics", it would be inappropriate. Besides, if she had read this book thoroughly, how could she have been oppressed in the government for so many years?

The misty cloud of suspicion in Xue Tingzhi's heart was born again.

The house was very quiet for a while.

No one spoke, only the voice of Lu Jinxi flipping the pages.

A moment later, a maid in pink came in and served tea: "This servant will serve tea to the second grandmother and the eldest son."

Lu Jinxi looked up and saw that it was a maid she had never seen before.

She has beautiful eyebrows, a pair of wet almond eyes, snow-white skin and pink lips. She is also very delicately dressed. She looks very beautiful and has a gentle and delicate look.

She looked at it and asked, "Are you Xiangzhi?"

"If you go back to the second grandmother, the slave will be your servant."

The voice was soft and waxy, the eyelashes trembled slightly, timid and a little scared. She looks like a bought candy man.

Lu Jinxi knew that this was a maid purchased from Jiangnan by the house not long ago. She hurriedly transferred her to Xue Tingzhi before she could teach her for a long time.

Looking at the age, I'm afraid it's only fourteen or five.

She told Egret Qingque at the time that she wanted a nice-looking maid, and that was enough.

Towards, Lu Jinxi nodded, didn't ask any more questions, and drank tea.

Xiangzhi turned around again and offered Xue Tingzhi another cup of tea in the lacquer plate, bowed his head and lowered his eyebrows, his ears were slightly red.

Xue Tingzhi looked at him coldly, served tea, but didn't say a word.

Xiangzhi was full of anxiety, her originally rosy complexion turned pale.

After all, her time in the manor was too short, and she didn't know much. She didn't dare to say more this time, with tears in her eyes, she silently retreated to Xue Tingzhi's side and stood.

She's a dodder-like girl.

Lu Jinxi brought this scene in front of her eyes, and saw Xue Tingzhi's indifferent expression, guessing that he would not like this new group of maids very much.

But this is normal.

Which department is she going to work in, and the blood on her hands is suddenly replaced by her boss, I'm afraid she will be vigilant for a long time and take care of it slowly.

So, Lu Jinxi pretended that he didn't see anything, put down the tea cup happily, and continued to read.

After a while, footsteps were heard outside.

The egret lifted the curtain and walked in with the account book in hand: "Madam, steward Lai has been called and is outside the door."

"Call in to answer."

Lu Jinxi didn't look up while reading the book, her voice was light, without the slightest hesitation.

Lai Chang, who was outside, was very calm all the way. Hearing this sound, he was inexplicably playing a drum.

He hurriedly bent his body, entered the door, and quickly glanced at the situation in the room.

Seeing Xue Tingzhi sitting peacefully next to Lu Jinxi, his eyelids jumped for some reason; when he saw the celadon tea cup and the sapphire pen mountain on the front table, there was a bit of cold sweat on his forehead.

At the moment, I don't dare to look at it any more, I bow and salute: "Little Lai Chang, I have seen the second grandmother, please pay my respects to the second grandma."

The voice was reluctantly calm, but the end sound was a little trembling, not very stable.

Lu Jinxi finally raised her head halfway and gave him a sideways glance.

A decently dressed robe with a navy blue brocade round neck. Because of his age, his body is a little fatter.

White and fat, like a fat mouse.

The egret handed over the account book.

Lu Jinxi stretched out his hand to take it, pressed it on the table, and put it by his hand, but he didn't turn it over, didn't look at it, just laughed: "Mr. Lai, don't be too polite. You used to be with the general and served in the mansion. The days are longer than the time I have been in the palace."

"Second grandma broke the evil spirit."

Lai Chang heard this sentence, and felt that although the words were kind, the meaning behind them was thorny. How could he dare to accept them?

"The young man has a humble identity, he is just a servant, expecting to do his best for the house, and dare not compare himself with grandma."

"Oh..."

Lu Jinxi showed a stunned expression, but the next moment, the laughter was a bit stern.

"It turns out that Steward Lai still knows that he is just a servant? It just so happened that I was confused a few days ago, and I thought you were the master of the house!"

The turning point in the words came unexpectedly!

Lai Chang was scared to death!

How dare he stand?

At the moment, he knelt down with a sturdy "pop": "Second grandma, you are wronged! The little one has been serving in the mansion for many years, and he has never dared to overstep!"

"Don't dare?"

Lu Jinxi heard a sneer, and smashed the account book at his hand to him!

"I think you've eaten bear heart and leopard gall, so brave!"

"Whoa!"

Pages fly!

An account book just happened to drop Lai Chang's head and face!

Where has Xiangzhi standing behind Xue Tingzhi ever seen her face change so quickly?

At that moment, I almost screamed in horror!

Even Xue Tingzhi didn't expect it.

He knew she was not simple, but he didn't expect her to be so moody in front of him.

Kill the chicken to warn the monkey...

There is a chicken, but who is this "monkey"?

Lai Chang's white and fat face had been smashed with a red mark by the hard spine of the account book, and the tied bun had been beaten a little crookedly. The cold sweat on his head densely seeped out, and he looked panicked and embarrassed.

The ledger fell right in front of him.

His hands and feet were weak and he dared not move.

Lu Jinxi looked down at him, without the slightest warmth in his pupils, and said manly, "I heard that Steward Lai is in the mansion, and he is very good at checking accounts. This account book was handed over a few days ago, but I don't really like it. I understand. It's indispensable. I'm going to ask you for advice today. Please count the first three pages for me."

"Yes..."

Lai Chang's voice trembled, his eyelids jumped, and he knew in his heart that he was afraid of being planted.

It just hit the tip of the second grandma's knife!

Over the years, people in the manor have been used to taking things from the eldest son's courtyard. Every month that is divided according to the regulations in the warehouse, they will scrape a layer of oil and water, and then send it to the eldest son.

This is the least risky thing to do in the house.

After all, everyone knows that the second grandmother doesn't want to see this son-in-law.

Although Lu Jinxi has been vigorous and resolute in the past few days, many people who are doing things have restrained a bit.

But Lai Chang found out that she didn't seem to notice some of the little tricks she handed over to the account, let alone pursue it, and she became more courageous.

In addition, it happened to be an errand to buy things for the eldest son. He wondered whether the second grandmother's methods would change, and the disgust for this son would not change.

It is expected that even if he overdoes it and deducts a bit more, the second grandmother should keep her eyes open as before.

Who would have thought,

I was called over today, took the account book and shouted!

Lai Chang's hands were shaking.

He swallowed, trying to force himself to calm down: After all, he served the general, even if he made a mistake, the second grandmother has a deep love for the general, and she probably wouldn't be in the past. Kill them all...

But the more I think about it, the more panic I don't know why.

The short five fingers stretched out and turned over three times before opening the account book——

Black and white, stroke by stroke.

Where is Lai Chang still unrecognizable?

This is the account book he just handed in a few days ago. The first three pages are all the expenses for purchasing the eldest son in this courtyard.

My throat was itchy, and my voice was a little hoarse.

Lai Chang reluctantly recited: "On the 17th day of the first month, I paid 16 taels of silver from the accountant, and bought a total of 34 items for the eldest son. Among them, there are two sets of Xing kiln white porcelain tea sets, 22 taels of silver... …”

Speaking of this, there was something stuck in my throat, and my voice became hoarse.

Lu Jinxi laughed, raised her slender fingers, and pointed to the table: "I'm really clumsy, looking at the eldest son here, I only added so many things in the past ten days. I also ask steward Lai to help look at it. , the Xing kiln white porcelain you are talking about is this thing on the table?"

On the table is a bowl and a small clock.

Both are blue.

More blue than Lai Chang's face.

When he just came in, he had already glanced at it, and now he looks at it again, he just feels that he can't catch his breath: "Second grandmother, this is ordinary cyan and celadon..."

"celadon?"

Lu Jinxi took the little cover clock in his hand, her voice was soft and soft, and it didn't sound like a bit of coercion.

"It doesn't look like I'm clumsy, but Steward Lai made a mistake. But it doesn't matter, just ask Steward Lai to recalculate the price of the celadon you bought. Be careful, don't make another calculation. wrong."

When she said the last sentence, the expression on her face had become half-smiling.

Lai Chang's face turned ashen.

If he changed his routine, he would have to find someone to help him take the blame. After all, the second grandmother is kind-hearted, and she will not be too bad at that time, and she can perfunctory after a scene.

But now...

He suspects that even if he finds a hundred scapegoats, it won't help!

It's all set!

When you stretch your head out, it's a knife when you retract your head. .

It's better to explain it happily. If you look back and ask for mercy, maybe you can settle down...

"Second grandmother is very discerning, this matter is just a small difference, and greed..."

At this critical moment, Lai Chang gritted his teeth, his eyes narrowed, he leaned over and gave Lu Jinxi a nod, admitting his mistake and starting to regret it.

Unexpectedly, Lu Jinxi was impatient to hear this.

She was unmoved, and even interrupted him directly: "I asked you to recalculate this account, don't you understand?"

“…”

Lai Chang was dumbfounded.

Xue Tingzhi didn't expect it either.

He glanced at Lu Jinxi secretly, not knowing what she wanted to do: he had already admitted his mistake, and it stands to reason that Lu Jinxi's goal has been achieved. Why do you still ask Lai Chang to settle accounts?

Lu Jinxi didn't seem to see their doubts.

While playing with the tea cup in her hand, she calmed down her voice: "Lai Guanshi, this time you have to think clearly. Don't make a mistake again."

There is a warning hidden in these words.

Lai Chang's heart skipped a beat when he heard it, and he felt a little weird, but after thinking hard, he couldn't figure out what the problem was.

At that moment, he timidly said, tremblingly, "Ordinary medium-sized celadon, the price of which is 30 to 60 yuan per kiln on the market. The small lard is blinded, and it is shoddy. Two sets There are two tea sets, two pots, two seas, sixteen lamps and four small bells, only worth nine silver coins..."

This is when he sent people to buy it, and he figured it out.

These two sets of tea sets alone can earn a couple of dollars!

Because Lu Jinxi had said something first, Lai Changyuan wanted to lie and raise a price, but he didn't dare to say it. He thought that this time it should be right, but he didn't expect...

Lu Jinxi stared at him with no expression on her face, but her voice was light: "You made a mistake."

"Impossible—"

Lai Chang's body stayed still, his eyes widened, and he wanted to refute.

"Crack!"

A small celadon covered clock slammed into the ground in front of him, and in the blink of an eye it shattered into pieces!

This movement is much bigger than the previous fall of the ledger.

Lai Chang almost lost his soul, Xiangzhi let out a low scream and backed away several steps.

Only Xue Tingzhi, whose body was tense, was still sitting on the chair, looking up at Lu Jinxi.

Lu Jinxi still looked casual, as if it wasn't her who fell the small cover just now: "I said you made a mistake, you just made a mistake..."

She casually took the carved Taihu stone sapphire pen mountain that had been placed on the table, and played with it in her hand.

When Lai Chang saw it, his heart suddenly "squeaked".

Lu Jinxi looked at him with a pair of eyes like autumn water, and there was a bit of playfulness in his eyes, as if he was expecting something.

Sapphire Pen Mountain, hooked by her fingers, turned around.

Hidden in her voice was an unreal smile, as unpredictable as the clouds in the sky.

"It's up to you to figure it out."

"Don't worry."

"This time you're going to be wrong again. I don't know where this thing is greeting you."

Lai Chang heard this, and when she saw the mountain in her hand, she was so scared that her scalp exploded!

This posture...

If he dares to miscalculate again, he will definitely greet him on the forehead!

The problem is, he has no idea where he got it wrong!

You can't count what he didn't deduct, can you?

Lai Chang's hands trembled, he pulled his sleeves and wiped the cold sweat on his face, searched his bowels hard, racked his brains and thought, without paying attention, his eyes fell down...

Shards of celadon all over the floor.

After it was broken, the section of the turbid white porcelain tire was exposed, and the dark blue enamel was occasionally covered with a few small black spots.

This...

This shard!

His eyeballs are sticking up.

Porcelain with thirty characters is not so bad!

It was a flash of lightning!

Lai Chang's mind immediately exploded, and he couldn't hold back and scolded: "His grandmother was raised by a turtle grandson! The little king and **** dared to stretch out his hand! It's just a trick on Laozi!"

He is indeed responsible for purchasing, and he is indeed shoddy, but he does not dare to buy a penny of things into a few pennies to fool people!

He is watching when he buys things back.

It's all those little servants who go to deliver things!

In the beginning, Lai Chang was far away, and he didn't see the celadon tea cup in Lu Jinxi's hand at all. Now that it was broken in front of him, he saw it clearly.

This is an object worth ten cents!

No wonder the second grandmother said he had "miscalculated".

This **** is still a penny short of the sum he swallowed!

It made it clear that those **** who gave things, even the "defective" that had been charged, were replaced with "newer" ones!

It's not uncommon for this kind of thing to be peeled off layer by layer in the mansion.

Lai Chang is not a fool, he has seen a lot.

He didn't expect to go to this floor just now. Now, what else does he not understand when he sees this "time" outrageous thing?

Lai Chang was full of anger, raised his head, and wanted to have a relationship with Lu Jinxi, but when he met Lu Jinxi's scrutinizing eyes, he immediately shuddered!

Broken...

Just now he was speechless!

As if someone had poured a basin of cold water, Lai Chang put out the fire immediately, his shoulders and neck shrank, and his voice became quieter: "Second grandmother forgives your sins, small, small just now..."

Lu Jinxi raised her eyebrows and said coldly, "Do you know where the calculation went wrong?"

"I know, I know."

Lai Chang's mouth was bitter. At first, he wanted to fool Lu Jinxi, and he was thrown into Java.

"This small celadon cover clock is at most ten cents apiece. They are all confused about small things..."

Humph.

It's not too much of a waste.

Lu Jinxi threw the pen mountain back a few times, and said with a "bang": "I should throw the scraps of scraps on your head, and then you will understand."

I'm going to throw it on his head!

Lai Chang was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak.

Lu Jinxi just sneered: "I really can't see what you have done in your daily life? It's just that you have reserved a lot of money for allocating money, and your precautions are not enough. As long as you can buy, Let you eat the rest of the meat, and I just pretend I didn't see it."

A cold air rushed up.

Lai Chang is already stupid.

Xue Tingzhi at the bottom left is even more surprising.

He thought...

She's supposed to be the one who doesn't rub sand under her eyes.

But what Xue Kuang had taught him back then seemed to coincide with what Xue Kuang taught him!

He restrained his gaze.

But Lu Jinxi still found out.

She glanced sideways at him, and there was a strange light in her eyes. She didn't shy away, as if she was looking at him, but she quickly took it back.

When the water is clear, there are no fish.

This is the truth all over the world.

During the past dynasties, there was no absolute "integrity". So Lu Jinxi has his own way of doing things and his own rules——

"One sentence."

"You can only be greedy if I acquiesce;"

"I don't allow it, even if you eat a copper plate, you have to spit it out as it is!"

In his tone, there is already a bit of serenity.

Lu Jinxi looked at Lai Chang again: "It's your lard that is shoddy, but you are blinded by the lard; but I asked the people below to play another trick of stealing the beam and changing the column, and I didn't respond for a long time. It's just that you are blind!"

Lai Chang doesn't even dare to put a fart at the moment.

I have already made up my mind: even if I am scolded for bloody, scolded 18 generations of my ancestors, I will never retaliate!

His trembling appearance, Lu Jinxi has seen too much in his previous life, and can even write down the process of each change...

After all, too much has been dealt with.

Even, some visual fatigue.

At this moment, Lu Jinxi was actually a little impatient, unexpectedly.

Boring.

Tired.

Some people like the same thing, while others like the freshness.

Unfortunately, Lu Jinxi is the latter.

She had a career in her past life, so she could endure her impatience and perfectly repeat this process hundreds of times, but now...

She just wanted to say to Lai Chang: You greedy as much as you like.

This feeling, suddenly, is wonderful.

Lu Jinxi looked at Lai Chang, and felt strangely that he was pleasing to the eye.

Of course, she doesn't speak her mind.

When he just opened his mouth, he had already put on a warm smile like a spring breeze, as if the sun was shining ten miles away: "Lai Guanshi has served the generals in the end, and there is no credit or hard work. So I am exempt from your punishment, and you should deal with the others. If the night is not ready, I have to ask you, roll up the bedding, and leave as soon as possible.”

……

At this moment, Lai Chang's mind was in a trance.

He doesn't even remember how he quit, or what he said, let alone how he got out.

He only knew that when he stopped and regained consciousness, he was standing outside the gate of the eldest son's courtyard with his left hand and left foot in front and his right and right foot behind.

Looking back, two young servants at the door were looking at him with weird and worried eyes.

From the room in the courtyard, there was a faint sound of laughter.

It's Lu Jinxi.

She was still sitting on the edge of the kang in front of the window, leaning on the dark sandalwood throw pillow, she couldn't hold back her laughter: "I just watched it, was it scary?"

Lai Chang was so incoherent just now that she walked out with hands and feet, making her laugh for a long time just thinking about it!

Xue Tingzhi was sitting at the bottom left of her.

Hearing Lu Jinxi's words, he knew it was asking him.

But...

Scary?

His eyes passed over her crescent-like eyebrows and the corners of her lips with a rippling smile, and the conclusion he reached in his heart was the exact opposite of "scaring".

At this moment, her appearance was comparable to that of his mother.

Even...

Even the mind is not bad.

It seems that Lai Chang is not punished, and he can punish those who make mistakes. It seems very lucky; but in fact...

The other servants who were punished and who were not punished would be dissatisfied with Lai Chang.

Different punishment for the same crime is most likely to cause injustice.

The punished may think that they are being scapegoated by the unpunished, or that the higher-ranking ones are biased. Their resentment will not fall on those in high positions, but only on those who are close to them and who should also be punished.

Xue Tingzhi's memory is not bad.

He still vaguely remembered that in the summer of that year, his mother also gently spared the newly appointed Wei Zhaoyi, her cousin.

At that time, Wei Zhaoyi was grateful to Dade. She may think that the queen's cousin treats her family well, so she forgives her.

But only a month later, she was in the cold palace.

It is the palace servant beside her who exposes her to practice witchcraft, intending to curse the imperial concubine of Germany.

Xue Tingzhi doesn't know if this former favorite concubine in the cold palace can figure out who he is in the hands of...

However, I may be happier if I don't understand.

The finger on the knee moved slightly, then stopped.

Xue Tingzhi's eyes are very restrained, careful and cautious, hiding the sharpness in his eyes and hiding the sharp blade in his heart——

Because he suddenly discovered that the first mother in front of him could be a queen.

On scheming...

No less than his mother, who was born in the Wei family.

If it's his "monkey" who kills the chicken, he thinks, her goal has been achieved.

Control...

Maybe he has to change his mind.

Slowly lowered his eyes, Xue Tingzhi did not look at Lu Jinxi.

He pondered for a moment, and the words he said were completely different from what he thought, only the respect in the words remained unchanged:

"You are always kind and kind, and you didn't pursue these trivial matters. Today's sudden attack, and the fact that Guanshi Lai was frightened by you is not a big deal. He must be worried about his future, so he is at a loss and in a trance?"