Ye Fuxun bowed respectfully and meekly sat down on the seat given by the Queen.
The queen looked at her carefully: "The Ai family heard that you sent a few stewards out of the house?"
"Hui Niangniang, yes."
Ye Fuxun had already expected that the queen would ask about this matter, so he didn't panic.
It's just that as a mother-in-law, she doesn't care about her daughter-in-law and grandson, and the first thing she asks is about the boss. It's really no wonder that Ye Fuxun can't get close to her.
The Queen is probably used to being in a high position, so she always inspects people with a downward gaze, right?
She suppressed the thoughts that flashed through her mind and said bluntly: "Three of them are stewards brought by the former crown princess from her maternal family. They all resigned voluntarily, so I let them out of the house."
"What about Manager Wang? What mistakes did he make?"
The Queen didn't care about the whereabouts of the Crown Princess's people, and she didn't care even if Ye Fuxun found a pretext and beat her to death.
But the manager Wang was hers, and Ye Fuxun sent people out of the prince's mansion without her consent, so she had to take care of this kind of thing.
Otherwise, Ye Fuxun would still think that the Prince's Mansion was really in his hands.
Ye Fuxun responded: "Back to the empress, after checking the accounts in the account books submitted by Manager Wang, a problem was found. He served in the Prince's Mansion for more than three years and embezzled a total of 398 taels of money. This matter has been decided by him.
Admit it personally.”
"Steward Wang, as the steward of the Crown Prince's Mansion who was personally appointed by the Empress, actually ignored the great favor that the Empress had shown him and did such a treasonous thing. It is simply a smear on your face, the Empress!"
The more she spoke, the more indignant she became, "I was worried that this matter would make the empress angry, so I specially asked someone to cover up the corruption of Manager Wang, so I just made some excuses to send him out of the house, so as to protect the safety of the empress."
And the reputation of our Prince’s Mansion.”
"Please also ask your Majesty to take a closer look."
The queen was so angry that she clenched her fists. Manager Wang just couldn't settle the accounts clearly. After three years, there were only three hundred and ninety-eight taels missing from the books!
Look, Ye Fuxun actually spoke so impassionedly, as if Manager Wang had embezzled 39,800 taels!
You keep saying it's for her own good, are you afraid she'll be angry?
If she had to tell her, Manager Wang was not angry with her, but Ye Fuxun was really angry at her.
The words of rebuke that she had prepared were not easy to speak now. The Queen gritted her teeth and said: "As soon as the Crown Princess took office, I was worried that you had not been accustomed to handling the affairs of the central government before you came out of the cabinet. I was afraid that you would not understand it."
You are a master of housekeeping in a high-end mansion. Your cautious and meticulous approach really impresses me."
Ye Fuxun raised his lips and smiled: "Thank you for the compliment, Madam."
The queen's expression froze.
She was not complimenting her. Did the Crown Princess not understand it, or did she deliberately not understand it?
Then I heard Ye Fuxun add, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also praises me and my concubine in this way."
The queen secretly took a deep breath and said, "If there's nothing else to do, just thank me and leave."
If she said a few more words, she would be so angry with the princess that she wouldn't even be able to finish her lunch.
Ye Fuxun then happily thanked him and left Kunning Palace.
After leaving Kunning Palace, she put a smile on her face.
Tsk, they say mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are difficult to get along with, but it’s true.
Xiao Yu accompanied her out of the palace gate. After getting on the carriage, Ye Fuxun opened the curtain and looked at the street, and suddenly said: "Xiao Yu, let's not go back home first. Let's go find a lively teahouse to have a drink."
Let’s go back for tea.”
Since the Queen Mother said that there are rumors about the demon concubine among the people, she might go to a place like a teahouse to hear what the legend about the demon concubine is about.
Xiao Yu was surprised: "Which teahouse do you want to go to for tea?"
This time, Ye Fuxun was confused by the question. She pondered for a moment: "Just go to the busiest street and look for a crowded teahouse."
About a quarter of an hour later, the carriage stopped in front of a teahouse on Chang'an Avenue.
Ye Fuxun and Xiaoyu got off the carriage, and when they looked up, they saw the constant flow of people on the street.
"Ting Yuxuan." She looked at the teahouse's plaque, "The name is quite elegant."
The two of them climbed up the steps, and the waiter greeted them with a busy smile: "Two guests, please come inside. Do you want to be in the lobby or the private room?"
Xiaoyu protected Ye Fuxun: "This is an elegant room."
After entering Tingyuxuan, I saw that the lobby was almost full of people.
"Your Majesty, the refreshments at Ting Yuxuan are not cheap. Although there are many people coming here, most of them are young men and girls from wealthy families." Xiaoyu supported Ye Fuxun as he walked to the private room on the second floor and whispered.
This kind of place is safe, so you don't have to worry too much about your wife getting hit by someone.
Ye Fuxun nodded slightly and found that there were also women sitting in the lobby, but most of them were wearing curtains and hats and would not show their faces easily.
The private rooms on the second floor are not actual rooms, but private rooms separated by screens.
Although the private room and the private room cannot see each other, if you look through the gap in the screen on one side, you can still get a glimpse.
"Most of the guests who come to our Tingyuxuan to drink tea come to listen to Master Tan's stories," the waiter said when he saw the two of them looking slightly surprised, "so this private room is mainly to isolate the view."
Ye Fuxun nodded and sat down, Xiaoyu ordered some tea and snacks, and then dismissed the waiter.
The storyteller in the middle of the downstairs had been telling stories when they came in.
She listened casually, and it was about the scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam and won the first prize.
Although the story has come to an end, it is quite inspiring.
Not long after, Master Tan finished telling the story, and bursts of applause broke out in the hall.
Immediately, many servants came forward to reward him with silver on his master's orders.
Master Tan collected the silver reward, rested for a while, and then started a new story.
"This time, let me tell you all about the legend of the demon concubine of the Xituo Kingdom."
When Ye Fuxun heard this, he immediately became energetic.
It was such a coincidence that she happened to be involved in the story of The Legend of the Demonic Concubine.
Just as he was about to listen carefully, he suddenly felt a line of sight falling on him.
Ye Fuxun turned around and looked at the gaps in the screens on both sides, but saw no one.
She suppressed her doubts and turned her attention to the storyteller in the lobby on the first floor.
"Speaking of the Sixth Prince of Xi Tuo Kingdom, he was a man with both civil and military skills, great power and foresight. Once, the Sixth Prince led an army to go to war. When the army was passing through a deep mountain, a line of three men wide and ten feet long appeared.
The giant python..."
The storyteller tells the story with ups and downs and brings people into the situation.
When the storyteller said: "Unexpectedly, the poisonous python was not completely dead. It opened its mouth and bit the Sixth Prince——"
The sound of breathing suddenly sounded all around.
Next, what is said is that at that critical moment, a white fox emerged from the bushes on one side and bit the poisonous python within seven inches, buying the Sixth Prince a few seconds to react.
The sixth prince woke up and used his swords with his backhand to finally chop the poisonous python into several pieces.
"That's really a good spiritual fox." The listeners praised him one after another.