hotmtlnovel Chapter 2093 Dusk
Chapter 2093 Dusk
Chapter 2093 Dusk
By the time the group came out of the yurt, it was already dusk.
The sunset is brilliant.
The Queen Mother looked at the setting sun, then at the yurt, and said to the Fifth Prince, "Are we going to tear it down tomorrow?"
There was a hint of reluctance in her tone.
Such scenery would make people happy even if it was not in Korqin.
The Fifth Prince shook his head and said, "No, the Ninth Prince has saved some silver for us, and he's thinking about treating us to a meal!"
The Queen Mother looked at the Ninth Prince.
The triplets’ birthdays have passed, but Ninth Prince and Shushu’s birthdays are still a ways off. What excuse can we use to treat them?
To be honest, the princes all live in Haidian, so it is more convenient to entertain guests than in the capital, but the princes are related to each other to different degrees, so when they get together, it is easy to cause trouble.
The person who invites guests at that time will be wasting his time and may even be blamed by the emperor.
The Ninth Prince smiled and said, "Originally I only wanted to invite Niguzhu to a banquet and ask my nieces to come over and see them. Later, I thought, don't waste it, I can invite two more times. Your granddaughter-in-law can invite your sister-in-law and brothers and sisters-in-law, and I can also bring the tenth brother and the younger ones over for a stroll."
The Queen Mother praised: "It's better to use it more often to avoid wasting it. The food and entertainment here are good. It's just right for children and women to come here."
As for the princes, it would be better to invite fewer older ones so as to avoid trouble.
Everyone has a job to do, and no one needs a meal for no reason.
This time, the Queen Mother did not ask anyone else to get on the carriage, and only took Niguzhu on board.
Tana sat down with Guarjia.
Shushu was riding in the same car with the Ninth Prince.
"If you don't do the math, you won't notice it. Once you do the math, we can not only be self-sufficient, but we can also save a lot of money. Among the princes, we should be the first..."
Brother Ninth said.
Although the bulk of the food came from the money Shushu brought as a dowry from the manor, the Ninth Prince was not the kind of person who would shamelessly take advantage of his wife.
Some of the government-sold properties acquired in recent years were directly registered by the Ninth Prince under Shushu's name.
The property of a husband and wife has long been one in each other.
Shu Shu said, "It's also because the mansion has low expenses. I heard from my seventh sister-in-law before that the majority of the expenses of the Beile Mansion are still on the people working in the mansion. The monthly salary, three meals a day, and clothes for four seasons, on average, each person has to spend 40 to 50 taels of silver a year. If there are 70 to 80 fewer people, the expenses will be 3,000 to 4,000 taels less..."
The Ninth Prince was shocked when he heard this and said, "There are so many, more than a Baylor title?!"
Shu Shu said, "Yes, everyone comes from the palace and follows the palace's rules. There are many servants around them. Ten or so masters will have one or two hundred servants."
The Ninth Prince shook his head and said, "It's not a good idea to give it one by one. If you keep spending money like this, you will eventually run out of money. The money for dividing the family property is only given once."
Shu Shu thought for a moment and said, "In addition to dividing the family property, there should be other ways to make money in other mansions."
After hearing this, the Ninth Prince felt even more conflicted. He complained to Shushu in a low voice, "What do you think, Khan Ama? They are both from the Lower Blue Banner, so why did he give the Fucha family's Zuoling to the Eighth Prince? If it was given to me, I would definitely find a way to get Fu Qing a lucrative position outside the capital, and our family would also be able to receive respect from our followers. Unfortunately, the Fucha family is not a Zuoling under my name, and even if Fu Qing is promoted in the future, it will only be an old relationship with me. There is no master-servant relationship, so I can't show my respect."
Shushu looked at the Ninth Prince, fortunately she didn't give any to him.
The glory of the Fucha family is just beginning.
The fact that Ma Qi, the "Eighth Master's Party", was so important to Yongzheng that he was trusted by him and was even regarded as a minister to take care of the young emperor's son, was somewhat strange.
Now the relationship between my family and the Fucha family is just right. There is a certain degree of affection, but it is not too much, so it does not violate any taboos.
After a day out, everyone felt a little tired on the way back.
The Ninth Prince muttered a few words, then shut up, took Shushu in his arms, and said, "Lean on me and take a rest. You woke up early this morning and didn't sleep well at noon."
Shushu nodded and stopped talking...
In three quarters of an hour, the carriage arrived at the gate of the North Garden.
It's already time to light the lamps.
The North Garden is brightly lit.
The Queen Mother led Niguzhu down from the carriage and said to everyone, "Let's go back. You've been tired all day. Rest early."
Everyone responded and watched the Queen Mother enter the North Garden before turning around and heading towards the direction of the prince's residence.
The Fifth Prince held the Eighteenth Prince's hand, lowered his head, and said, "We slept at your Ninth Brother's house yesterday. Let's go to the Fifth Brother's house today."
The front and main yards of the tousuo were both empty, so there was no shortage of places to live.
The Eighteenth Prince seemed to have a good temper, but he was a man of his own ideas. He thought for a moment and shook his head, saying, "Let's go to the Fifth Brother's house next time. We won't have to go through all this trouble."
Upon seeing this, the Fifth Prince did not say anything else. He just went to the door of the headquarter but did not go in directly. Instead, he asked Guarjia to take Tana back first.
He sent the Eighteenth Prince to the gate of the Fifth House before reluctantly returning to his house.
The Eighteenth Prince and the Fengsheng brothers were still placed in the front yard.
Shushu and the Ninth Prince returned to the main room.
After a simple wash, the couple went to the back room to see the lady of the arbor and talked with her for a few words before returning to the main room.
The Ninth Prince lay on the bed, thinking about what had just happened to the Fifth Prince.
Today, the Fifth Prince has been taking care of the Eighteenth Prince.
The Ninth Prince thought about the reason and felt depressed. He said to Shu Shu, "The Yellow Sect believes in reincarnation. Do you think that the Eleventh Brother has been reincarnated?"
Shushu himself is a heretic.
Listening to this sensitive topic, there is no scientific perspective.
She thought about it carefully and said, "It should be a transfer. Everyone has to have a place to come from and a place to go. I just don't know whose family I was born into. I'm seven years old now, and it's time for me to start to understand. I hope it's a wealthy and beautiful family."
The Ninth Prince listened, looked at Shushu and said, "You should read less Buddhist books in the future!"
Although the Ninth Prince hoped for reincarnation, deep down he did not believe in Buddhism, Taoism, ghosts or gods.
He was afraid that Shushu would believe it.
Shushu glanced at him and said, "I asked, but I don't believe it..."
You know, even the "neutrino" was detected in later generations, and there are many of the world's top scientists who are involved in metaphysics.
The Ninth Prince snorted softly, "I am not worried that you believe too much and will end up with nothing? I can't stand it..."
Both husband and wife were tired, so after a few jokes, they both fell into a deep sleep.
A good night's sleep.
The next morning, the Ninth Prince was fully revived and said to Shushu, "I will go back to the city today and take a look at the Imperial Household Department..."
He is an impatient person and does whatever he wants.
If you want to make a clockwork device, you can go to the Imperial Household Department to look at the book of craftsmen in the clock and watch department.
Shu Shu said, "Then I'll go early and come back early, it will be hot at noon."
It got hot early this year.
The Dragon Boat Festival is still half a month away, but you can already wear gauze clothes at noon.
The Ninth Prince said, "The Ministry of Rites has given an early date for changing hats this year. It's April 16th, which is tomorrow. People can find the summer hats now."
Shushu nodded and said, "Yes, I brought two new sun hats with me when I moved here this time."
After breakfast, the Ninth Prince sent the Eighteenth Prince back to the garden, then met up with the Tenth Prince and went back to the city together.
The Tenth Prince also happened to have some business to attend to at the clan residence.
Shushu went to three schools.
She came to deliver some gifts, including cherries, two kinds of Mongolian fruits and two kinds of milk tofu.
The Seventh Lady asked someone to serve the dishes and tasted them one by one. Her favorite was the milk tofu with cherry meat.
"This is delicious. I didn't like milk tofu before because I thought it was sour, and if I added too much sugar it wouldn't be sour and would be greasy. This with the dried fruits added it's sour and sweet, and much more refreshing." She praised with surprise.
Shushu said, "The method is simple. It is just the same as ordinary milk tofu with fruit pulp. The only difference is that the fruit pulp has not been dried in the sun. This thing goes bad easily. I have refrigerated it before. If I want to keep it for a longer period of time, I have to use dried fruit."
The Seventh Lady was surprised and asked, "Your ice cellar is open now, not at the same time as the palace?"
There is no ice cellar in the Seventh Prince's Mansion, but there is an ice cellar in Prince Chun's Mansion, which is just outside Chaoyang Gate.
Their family also followed the palace rules and started opening the ice cellar on May 1st.
Shu Shu shook her head and said, "Last year we followed the palace's rules. This year the weather got hot early, so we followed the rules outside and opened the ice cellar at the beginning of summer, but we only moved it twice."
The Seventh Lady originally had a plump figure. She lost weight for a while after giving birth last year. Now, half a year has passed, and she has recovered and regained her plump figure. She is most afraid of heat.
After hearing Shushu's words, she couldn't help but be moved and said, "Yes, the rule outside is to open the ice cellar at the beginning of summer, so we don't have to follow the rules of the palace."
They are already members of the royal family who have been demoted to the lower banners, so they should "adapt to local customs".
After hearing this, Shu Shu couldn't help but glance at the Seventh Lady's abdomen and said, "Don't be too greedy for coldness. Ask the imperial physician first."
The Seventh Lady lay down, looking a little listless. She waved her hand to send the maids and servants out, then said to Shu Shu, "The master in our family is also a well-read man, but he has a wicked heart, and he has used it all against me!"
Hearing the Seventh Lady's dissatisfied words, Shu Shu was speechless.
How this couple gets along is not someone else's business.
The Seventh Lady exhaled and said, "In the past six months, the days when the Seventh Master stayed in the main room were the days when I was not suitable for pregnancy. It would be strange to say that he didn't do it on purpose!"
Shushu listened and felt sorry for the Seventh Lady.
If the Seventh Prince had studied this earlier and had two fewer children with Naragge, the Seventh Prince's Mansion would not be in its current state.
But since this involved her brother and sister-in-law's bedroom affairs, she couldn't say anything more.
She looked at the Seventh Lady and said, "As long as you are well, my two nieces will have someone to protect them."
The Seventh Lady nodded and said, "I have figured it out. I have had these two births. Not to mention that I narrowly escaped death, there were also problems. I am afraid."
Even if a forced melon is not sweet, it is still worth eating. But compared with struggling to give birth to a son and living a good life, the Seventh Lady still wants to live a good life.
Shushu was also sad when she heard this, and said: "When I gave birth for the first time, I was also scared to death. I really wished I hadn't been a nun at home..."
The birth process is difficult.
First-time labor is the most dangerous.
The Seventh Lady thought of the pregnant Ninth Princess and said to the Tenth Lady, "This is the second baby for the Tenth Sister-in-law. She is in good health and there is nothing to worry about. As for the Fifth Princess, I think the Empress Dowager is also worried."
Shu Shu said: "I just hope that the princess's mother is Xiao, and Concubine De's mother is slim and has successfully given birth six times."
After the Seventh Lady finished speaking, she also felt that it was unlucky and said, "Yes, the Fifth Princess will probably take after her mother..."
(End of this chapter)