Chapter 25 Chapter 25 "Shu Yao, why did you...
As soon as she finished speaking, Li Shuyao pursed her lips.
intercede?
Does this mean that he wants her to open the back door?
Li Shuyao originally thought that her experiences during this period were already exciting enough - she was suddenly transported into a novel, and became a social animal before she even graduated. Some time ago, she even inexplicably experienced an "epic" palace fight.
After the palace fight, before she had time to review her experience, Liang Jiugong pushed her into a small leadership position and began to lead the team...
I haven't even figured out how to lead this team yet, and today, Nanny Lin suddenly stuffed a few thick account books into my hands, forcing me to start doing translation and accounting work...
Or the kind without salary!
I can't lead the team well and I can't understand the account books.
Qingyao couldn't be found and the vacation was gone.
Li Shuyao was already feeling aggrieved, so when she heard Wu Yalianchu's blunt "request", a raging fire suddenly rose in her heart.
Because she felt that Wu Yalianchu's attitude was very bad!
Our ancestors said that when asking for help, you must have the attitude of asking for help. Never agree to anything that has a bad attitude.
Being kind will only make others bully you and make you look down on them.
Moreover, if Wu Yalianchu had been nicer and more kind to the original owner in the past, she would not have treated her like a fool.
Or when you visit her today, don't come empty-handed. Bring her a nice purse, some delicious snacks, or some fun toys...
Even if I hadn't scared her or been mean to her just now, she might have thought about it for a moment and said her rejection in a more tactful way.
Right now...
Li Shuyao puffed up her cheeks and said firmly, "No!"
Wu Yalianchu probably didn't expect her to reject him so decisively. Her dark eyes suddenly widened, and her voice became sharp. "What did you say?"
"I said no!"
Li Shuyao's heart skipped a beat when she was frightened by Uya's transformation.
Then he thought again, now he is the leader of a team, a small leader after all, he cannot be timid, and there is no need to be afraid of her!
Then the voice was repeated more clearly.
After saying this, as if explaining, "Because I can't even see Manager Liang, how can I plead for mercy?"
"Besides, do you really think that Chief Steward Liang is so easy to meet? He will do whatever I say? Then I might as well go and serve the Emperor..."
"Also, you're completely selfish in asking me this. You haven't considered me at all. You're no longer the kind-hearted Sister Wuya you used to be!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Li Shuyao stood up from the chair, and while Wu Yalianchu hadn't lost her temper yet, she squeezed out two hot tears from her eyes. The corners of her eyes were slightly red, and her little face looked delicate and pitiful.
Anyway, Uya didn't work in the Qianqing Palace, so how could she know what the relationship between Liang Jiugong was like? Wasn't it all fabricated by her?
Thinking about it, she stamped her feet again, looking more disappointed and sad. Then she pointed to the door and said, "I, I don't like talking to Sister Wu Ya now. Please go away."
Wu Yalianchu: "..."
She vaguely felt that Li Shuyao's expression looked familiar.
I thought about it for a while, but couldn't figure out what was wrong.
The handkerchief in her hand was deformed, her knuckles protruding from the force, and she sat there for a long time with a cold face before she managed to suppress the anger in her heart.
Suddenly, she smiled coldly, "Sister Shu Yao, we are sisters after all. Do you really have to be so heartless?"
Li Shuyao widened her clear, watery almond-shaped eyes, somewhat incredulous, "Are you threatening me?"
Wu Yalianchu gritted her teeth and said nothing.
Li Shuyao covered her face and started to sob fake tears again, "Now you... are actually being mean to me. I was right, Sister Wuya, you have changed. What has changed you..."
Before she finished her performance, Wu Yalianchu had already stood up, looked at her coldly, and turned away.
Li Shuyao finally breathed a sigh of relief: He finally left.
She hurriedly closed the door, went back to the inner room to tidy herself up, and locked all the cabinets, shelves and drawers in the room. She took out a silver ring and put all the keys together into a bunch, stuffed them into her purse with a jingle, and hung it back around her waist.
After taking another look at his room, he walked out without looking back and came to the door of the imperial study to ask to see Liang Jiugong.
She told him that she wanted to get a good sister, Wan Liuha Yueshu, to work as a tea-serving maid in the tea room.
She knew that she had greatly offended Wu Yalianchu today, so she was a little worried. What if she shifted her target to Yue Shu?
Yueshu is a little dumber than her, and is also her last resort when she occasionally annoys Qingyao and Qingyao doesn't feed her snacks.
She is her second best friend here, how can she not protect her well?
Liang Jiugong sat on the chair and listened to her words. He raised his eyelids slightly and looked at her with cold eyes.
After a moment, a deep voice said, "You are the person in charge of the tea room now. If there is anything, you can make your own decision."
If it weren't for the emperor's order, how could he, the chief steward of the Ganqing Palace, condescend to meet a little palace maid?
When Li Shuyao heard his words, a big smile instantly blossomed on her fair cheeks, and her apricot blossom eyes were sparkling with joy and gratitude.
She excitedly bowed to Liang Jiugong and said, "Thank you, Manager Liang! You are such a kind person!"
After saying that, she turned around and left happily, her lake green skirt swaying wildly in the air, her back exuding joy, like a little rabbit holding its favorite carrot in its mouth, and it disappeared in a few jumps.
Good person?
Liang Jiugong was stunned. In this palace, Li Shuyao was the first person to praise him as a "good man".
Thinking of this, his stern face softened unconsciously, and he vaguely understood why the emperor was so happy when he first saw this little girl.
-
After returning from the door of the imperial study, Li Shuyao stretched out her hand and called over a handsome young eunuch, asking him to go to the palace maids' quarters to pass on a message to Nanny Jia Ya and Yue Shu.
Before the young eunuch left, she repeatedly warned him, "You must tell him this is what Eunuch Liang meant. Do you understand?"
The young eunuch was a little confused. This matter concerned the personnel deployment of the Qianqing Palace. Who else could it be if not Eunuch Liang?
It can’t be the emperor, right?
He smiled at Li Shuyao ingratiatingly and said, "I don't need to do that." Then he was about to leave.
But Li Shuyao stopped him in his tracks, "Also, if anyone tries to talk to you on the way, remember not to say anything, lest anything be leaked. Understand?"
Is there anyone else who would ask him questions?
The young eunuch widened his eyes in surprise, and began to hesitate, thinking that this might not be a good job.
But... Li Shuyao is a big celebrity in the Palace of Heavenly Purity recently. It is said that the emperor is very friendly to her, and Eunuch Liang and several maids also think highly of her. She has been in the tea room for less than two months and has successfully squeezed out the original head maid. Her future is limitless.
If I don't try to please her now, do I have to wait until she becomes successful in the future before I can shamelessly go to her and beg for her mercy?
The young eunuch gritted his teeth and wealth came to him!
Still went there with heavy steps.
He walked carefully along the way, looking around from time to time, and kept a vigilant face towards everyone he met, for fear that what he said would be accidentally tricked into saying something.
However, until he arrived at the palace maids' quarters, conveyed Li Shuyao's words to Nanny Jia Ya, and hurried back to the Palace of Heavenly Purity along the wall, he did not meet anyone who wanted to talk to him.
He didn't know whether he had completed Li Shuyao's instructions. When he reported, his voice was very low, and there was a hint of guilt in his voice.
Li Shuyao couldn't hear what he said clearly, so she took a step towards him, leaning forward slightly, and then she heard him say, "...someone will be sent over tomorrow morning."
Li Shuyao's eyes lit up, and Aunt Jia agreed readily.
After being happy, he was thinking in his mind where to arrange Yueshu's room, Song Fuwen's original room?
Isn't it a bit unlucky?
It was also quite far away from her house, with a yard in between and several big trees planted in it. At night, the wind blew the leaves swaying, and it looked like a ghost no matter how you looked at it.
She was worried that if she had a nightmare one day, or encountered a thunderstorm or rain, she probably wouldn't have the courage to cross the entire yard to find Yue Shu for courage...
What Li Shuyao didn't realize was that her sudden hot and silent attitude scared the young eunuch in front of her.
After the young eunuch finished his report with his body bent, he did not get a reply from Li Shuyao for a long time. He couldn't help feeling a little scared, thinking that he had done something wrong. He didn't even dare to look up to confirm the expression on Li Shuyao's face, and knelt down with a plop.
Li Shuyao was startled by the sound of him kneeling. She opened her eyes and looked, but there was no one in front of her.
She was so frightened that she took several steps back, her heart beating rapidly. She covered her chest with her hands, her delicate face was as pale as a piece of paper, and her eyes were full of panic and helplessness.
No way? I was just thinking about "Ghosts" and that little eunuch disappeared in broad daylight?
After taking a few steps back, she saw that the young eunuch had not disappeared, but had suddenly knelt down.
Combined with the weak look on the young eunuch's face when he spoke just now, and his current "weak legs" posture, Li Shuyao suddenly realized that he must have been abused and starved?
Thinking about it, he turned around and walked back to the room, rummaged in the cabinet in the corner, and took out a box of snacks and a small bag of crispy candies that he had specially saved. After thinking for a while, he took out two pears and two silver cakes weighing one or two taels, put them together solemnly, and stuffed them into the little eunuch's hands.
He said sympathetically, "Are you hungry? Eat something sweet to replenish your energy."
These young eunuchs in the Forbidden City are the most pitiful. Whenever heavy objects need to be moved, they are the ones who are responsible. They are also the ones who run errands. If they are not careful, they will be bullied, not get paid, and not have enough food to eat.
...How can we survive without having enough food to eat?
Apart from sending him food, Li Shuyao didn't know how else to help him, so she simply took out another two taels of money from the little pocket money she had left.
I thought that if the little eunuch was bullied again and didn’t have enough to eat, at least he would have money to buy some food from the kitchen. He couldn’t let him starve to death, right?
The young eunuch took the food and silver cake from her hand in a daze.
The dessert was Poria cocos cake, and the crispy candy was amber walnut candy, both of which were rare desserts in the imperial kitchen. Usually only the masters in the harem would order them occasionally.
For these servants at the lowest level, even just looking at it was a luxury, so how could they dare to even think about tasting it?
What's more, there is more than one bite in it.
And these two pieces of silver...
When the young eunuch thought of this, he was so nervous that he knelt up straight and wanted to thank Li Shuyao solemnly, but he hadn't opened his mouth yet.
The woman in front of him looked at him sympathetically: "Why don't you eat? Are you too hungry to open your mouth?"
She said, "Do you want me to call someone to feed you?"
The young eunuch hurriedly picked up a piece of Poria cocos cake from the box and stuffed it into his mouth, saying in a slurred voice, "Slave, I have the strength."
"Thank you, Miss Shu Yao, you are such a kind person!"
Li Shuyao blinked her eyes. Wasn't this what she had said before to praise Manager Liang?
How come after going around in circles, I'm back to her?
Li Shuyao patted her skirt and stood up from the ground. She said to the young eunuch, "Stop kneeling now. Go back to your room and have a good rest after eating."
After saying that, he turned around and went back to his room.
The young eunuch swallowed the sweet Poria cocos cake in his mouth and kowtowed to Li Shuyao's back. Then he hurriedly put away the box, got up from the ground tremblingly, and returned to his residence with a heart full of emotion.
-
The next morning, Aunt Jia brought Yueshu over as promised.
Yue Shu had just put her bag on the bed, and before she even had time to glance around the room, Li Shuyao impatiently pulled her into the tea room, "You'll be on duty with me from now on!"
She finally has company!
Yue Shu's face was still a bit bewildered. She stood stiffly at the door, surveying the furnishings in the tea room. Her gaze finally settled on Li Shuyao, who was sitting at the tea table. She walked over and asked in a low voice, "Shuyao, is the job in the tea room difficult?"
Li Shuyao shook her head. "It's not difficult, not difficult at all."
After saying that, she took out a booklet, which carefully recorded the brewing methods and storage precautions of various types of tea in the tea room, as well as some extra work that a tea-serving palace maid needed to be responsible for. There were more than a hundred items listed in an orderly manner, all of which she had spent some time and effort to organize.
It can be regarded as an ancient version of work notes and training materials.
Li Shuyao put the booklet on the table and pushed it in front of Yueshu.
A wave of nervousness crossed Yueshu's pretty face, and when she reached out to pick up the booklet, her fingertips were trembling violently.
It looked exactly like Li Shuyao when she first arrived at the tea room.
Only two months have passed, and Li Shuyao now dares to call herself a "veteran".
I believe that as long as Yueshu is given some time, she will be able to adapt quickly!
Li Shuyao thought complacently, and then watched Yueshu open the booklet, and a deep doubt immediately appeared on her pretty face.
He frowned and looked for a long time, looking somewhat unfathomable.
Li Shuyao suddenly felt anxious. Was it because her handwriting was too messy? Or was it because she hadn't learned the traditional Chinese characters well enough?
But she has tried her best to read the book and copy it.
Yue Shu, who was sitting opposite, suddenly snapped the book shut, pushed it back, and said to Li Shuyao with a heavy face, "Shuyao, have you forgotten that I can't read?"
Li Shuyao: ...
I was careless.
She thought she was very smart before, but she forgot that almost all the palace maids in this era were from bondservants, and only a few of them could read and write.
How can it be possible to just give a booklet without personal hands-on instruction?
The failure of the training plan meant that apart from making tea, she, as a small leader, had to do all the other additional coordination work herself.
Plus, she also had to be on duty, so the time for reconciliation was greatly reduced. And she had also agreed with Nanny Lin that she would reconcile the account books and return them to her within a month...
Li Shuyao was a little panicked.
Yueshu noticed her panic and asked her what was wrong.
Li Shuyao told the story truthfully, which made Yueshu worried. She asked while counting on her fingers, "Qingyao doesn't know it either? She doesn't know those characters either?"
Li Shuyao shook her head and said, "When I went to look for Qingyao yesterday, I didn't see her."
"Are you still going today?"
Li Shuyao nodded: "Yes, of course you should go. But first, I'll teach you how to make tea. Generally, when you come to the tea room, no matter whether the previous person has cleaned the tea sets or not, you have to wash them again. Remember to boil a pot of water before washing, so that it will be convenient for you to wash the tea sets after..."
She spoke in a soft voice and demonstrated with smooth movements as she taught.
As Yue Shu watched, her gaze fell on her face for some reason. After a long pause, she sighed, "Shu Yao, I find that you are really different now than before."
Li Shuyao's heart couldn't help but skip a beat.
Then Yue Shu continued, "It's gotten even worse. You don't know, my fingers are still shaking, my heart is beating so fast it can't stop, even my toes are cold..."
Li Shuyao: "..."
She really wanted to say that there was no need to describe it in such detail.
Moreover, if the heart stops, it will probably be more than just the toes that feel cold...
But seeing Yue Shu's panic, she pursed her lips and endured it, not saying the mocking words in her heart, but whispered a few words of comfort.
Afterwards, he asked Yueshu to sit aside, and he quickly brewed a cup of Wuyi rock tea, put it on a tray, brought it to the door of the imperial study, and handed it to the eunuch guarding the door.
Then he returned to the tea room and taught Yueshu to learn how to recognize the words on the tea cans.
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The tea room in the Qianqing Palace is now staffed by three shifts of tea-serving palace maids.
Li Shuyao came early in the morning, so when she got off duty, the sun had not yet set outside and the summer heat was about to dissipate.
Li Shuyao and Yueshu walked back to their residence together. After taking a bath and changing into clean clothes, they walked towards the enclosure where Qingyao was, holding two account books.
When she arrived, Qingyao was still bathing inside, and only Lingluo was guarding the door. In the pavilion in the courtyard, two female officials were drinking tea and talking in the cool breeze.
Li Shuyao secretly glanced over there, but didn't see the woman from Zhuguan. She guessed that she should still be in her room.
Lingluo came over and bowed to her. Li Shuyao smiled and returned the greeting. She asked her cheerfully, "How long will Qingyao take?"
Lingluo calculated the time and said, "It will be soon, about an incense stick's time. Do you want to wait in the yard, or go to the small kitchen and eat while waiting?" There was a natural familiarity and teasing in her tone.
After saying that, as if he had guessed Li Shuyao's decision, he took out the key to a cabinet in the small kitchen from his waist pouch.
He was about to take the lead and walk towards the small kitchen.
Li Shuyao quickly grabbed her and said, "No, no, no, I came here today because I was full. Xun Qingyao has something important to do!"
"Business?" It was rare to hear such a word from Li Shuyao. Lingluo widened her eyes in an exaggerated manner, "How can you have business?"
Li Shuyao grabbed the two account books and waved them. "Isn't it? Nanny Lin gave the order personally. I can't complete it alone, so I had to ask Qingyao for help." At this point, she seemed to remember something and lowered her voice to Lingluo's ear. "Sister Lingluo, do you know Qingyao? Does she know Manchu and Mongolian?"
This was a bit difficult to say, and Li Shuyao paused for a long time before she could finish her words.
After saying this, I was still wondering if I had said something wrong.
Lingluo didn't notice any of this, but frowned and thought carefully, "My young master was born into a Manchu army, so he must have learned the Manchu language when he was young. I'm not sure if he still remembers it now."
"As for Mongolian? I've never heard her mention it."
After all, Lingluo did not enter the palace with Qingyao. Instead, she was a palace maid sent by the emperor himself to serve Qingyao after she became favored by the emperor.
Therefore, I don’t know much about Qingyao.
Li Shuyao nodded thoughtfully, "Knowing Manchu is pretty good too."
At worst, she could shamelessly ask Madam Rong, Madam Gong, or Madam Lin for advice, to at least get the Manchu and ancient traditional Chinese parts sorted out first. As for the remaining Mongolian part...
I don't know if Su Malagu from the Cining Palace will accept bribes...
Li Shuyao boasted in her heart in a very disrespectful way.
After a while, Qingyao's door was opened by her from the inside.
The beauty who just came out of the bath exudes a rich fragrance all over her body, her hair is slightly wet, the corners of her eyes are red, and she exudes a sense of relaxation and laziness from head to toe.
The moment she saw Li Shuyao, her dark eyes flickered brightly, showing a look of surprise. Then she quickly walked out of the inner room and took Li Shuyao's hand, "You finally came to play with me!"
From the elegant and holy snow on the mountaintop to the lively elves playing in the world, it only takes one Li Shuyao in between.
Lingluo did not rush to ask someone to come in and clean up. Instead, she walked back to the house quickly, took out a soft blanket and covered Qingyao's shoulders. She turned around and looked at Li Shuyao who was wrapped tightly in a palace maid's outfit. After thinking for a moment, she opened the window beside the couch by one-third.
He immediately walked out and lowered the curtain that separated the bedroom from the side room. After making sure that no one from outside could see anything inside the bedroom, he went out to call someone in to bring in the bathtub.
Li Shuyao couldn't help but sigh, "Sister Lingluo is really thoughtful."
Qingyao sat beside her like a little bird, and tilted her head curiously when she heard her words, "Am I not considerate?"
Li Shuyao thought of the account book in her hand and said decisively, "You are also considerate. You are the best Qingyao in the world!"
Qingyao immediately smiled with her eyes curved, looking very cute.
She had just finished bathing, and there were still a few wisps of water vapor lingering on her body. Her skin was as white as snow, with a hint of red, and she looked extremely healthy.
Li Shuyao admired it quietly for a while, and then thought happily in her heart: My best friend is really the best and most beautiful person in the world!
No wonder she became Concubine Yi, the most beautiful concubine in the harem in the later part of the book. Who wouldn’t be confused by her beauty?
No, it’s not just in the book. I heard that in real history, Kangxi also doted on Concubine Yi.
Li Shuyao sighed silently in her heart before she spoke again: "Then may I ask, does the best sister Qingyao in the world know Manchu?"
Qingyao's eyes moved downwards, finally landing precisely on the account book in Li Shuyao's hand. Without even saying hello to Li Shuyao, she picked up one of the books and began to flip through it.
As she flipped through the books, she slammed them shut with a look of shock on her face. "The Emperor actually gave you this kind of account book to sort out?"
Li Shuyao tried to correct her, "It wasn't the Emperor who ordered this, it was Nanny Lin. And she didn't ask me to sort it out, she asked me to compare these old account books with the records and archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to see if anyone had deliberately falsified the accounts and enriched themselves."
Qingyao looked at Li Shuyao with a complicated expression. After thinking for a moment, she asked Li Shuyao, "Do you know that the Emperor is planning to reorganize the Imperial Household Department recently?"
Li Shuyao immediately revealed a bewildered expression, "Huh?"
Sure enough, this stupid Shuyao.
How can you be so stupid to take over such a mess?
Qingyao tapped the two account books with her fingernails in annoyance. "The emperor just told me a few days ago that there's a steward named Yuan in the Imperial Household Department. Last month, his nephew injured a dozen civilians while riding his horse in the outer city. Not only did he not compensate or send him to the hospital, he actually…"
Having said this, she paused, looking as if she didn't know whether to continue.
But Li Shuyao was the one who loved to gossip the most. Almost as soon as Qingyao opened her second sentence, she keenly sensed that there was a story to be told.
So he hurriedly pushed both account books aside, put his arms around Qingyao's arms, and waited for her to continue with shining eyes.
Seeing her stop, he hurriedly asked, "What are you trying to do? Are you blackmailing the people? Will the government in Kyoto do anything about it?"
Before Qingyao could speak, Li Shuyao murmured, "They should have taken care of it, otherwise it wouldn't have reached the emperor's ears, and he even told you about it. Well, you heard about it a few days ago, but you didn't tell me..."
Qingyao unexpectedly lowered her head to meet her eyes filled with resentment. She panicked for a moment and explained, "I, I didn't mean to keep it secret. It's just that you were very busy during that time, learning the rules from Nanny Lin every day. Also, this story sounds so dirty, and I didn't want to pollute your ears, right?"
Li Shuyao's mind was full of gossip and melons. After listening to Qingyao's long explanation, she only caught one of the most crucial words, "dirty?"
How disgusting is it? Tell me about it.
Let her see whether this ancient melon is sweet and delicious.
Although Li Shuyao didn't say anything, the excited expression on her face clearly hinted to Qingyao: Keep going!
Qingyao felt a little helpless. She pursed her lips and hesitated for a moment before she slowly spoke, "It's not extortion or anything like that. Those common people are poor people living in the outer city. How could they possibly have the money to extort him?"
"He just, just robbed a few people and took them back."
Li Shuyao exclaimed "Wow!", her almond-shaped eyes almost widening into a perfect round shape. She grabbed Qingyao's wrist and shook it, "And then what?"
Qingyao frowned. Why did Shuyao like to hear these things... Could it be that she had been trapped in this palace for too long and began to yearn for life in the outside world?
But looking at the expression on Li Shuyao's face, Qingyao felt that it was not the same.
She hid this slight feeling of strangeness deep in her heart and continued, "It was still... a man who was robbed."
Li Shuyao took a deep breath and said, "What are we going to do with it? We can't just help him build walls or houses."
Qingyao: "..."
She couldn't help but turn her head, bent her knuckles and knocked on Li Shuyao's forehead, "What do you think?"
Li Shuyao chuckled, not saying she did it on purpose. She savored the melon carefully and thought it was just so-so, not as explosive as the modern melons.
After the initial excitement wore off, Li Shuyao's conscience gradually returned. She then remembered what Qingyao had just said, that they were all poor families. So she gradually became serious and frowned, "So what happened next? Did the families who were robbed join forces and file a complaint with the government, and then the government locked that bastard up?"
Qingyao shook her head. "They did file a complaint with the government, but they didn't lock up that bastard, that stinky bastard."
"It was the elderly people from those families. Two of them were over sixty years old. How could they endure the bitter cold in the prison cells? They died that same day, and their bodies were carelessly dumped in a mass grave by the government officials."
"As for the others, they were also beaten with sticks before being released. After they returned, some fell ill, some died, and after that, no one worked hard to seek justice for those families anymore."
Li Shuyao listened and fell silent.
After a while, he said in a resentful tone, "How can the people in the government office be so bad? Aren't they the parents of the people? Is this how they work for the people?"
"And that guy named Yuan..." When she said this, she suddenly remembered that this happened last month. Since it had reached the emperor's ears, there was no reason for him to ignore it.
So the man named Yuan must have gotten his comeuppance!
Also, the reason why the Emperor wanted to rectify the Imperial Household Department was probably because he found out something about that Chief Steward Yuan...
He certainly couldn't have committed such a serious crime alone, so he must have accomplices and backers. The entire Imperial Household Department was investigated just because of his nephew's illegal and criminal behavior. How could those bad guys let him go?
His end will definitely not be good.
But what about those other bad guys in the Imperial Household Department?
Don’t they have any faults?
Of course there is!
But if we want to punish them, we have to start with these account books!
Thinking of this, Li Shuyao felt the burden on her shoulders was heavy, and a sense of mission and responsibility came surging, filling her entire heart in an instant!
Beside her, Qingyao kept an eye on her expression. Seeing that she was getting angrier and angrier, her beautiful black eyes almost spitted fire. She quickly told the second half of the story -
Some of the young men who were abducted were sold to brothels, some were sold to pimping houses, and one was sent to the palace after being castrated. Unable to bear the humiliation, he jumped into a well and died on the first night in the palace.
The people in the Imperial Household Department did not dare to make a big deal out of it. They just said that he had contracted an epidemic and he was quickly carried out.
Unfortunately, he was seen by Concubine Tong's cousin, and he had nightmares for two consecutive nights after returning home.
Mrs. Tong hurriedly went to the palace to invite the imperial physician. After the imperial physician examined the patient, he returned to the palace to report the patient's condition. At that time, the emperor noticed something was wrong and continued to investigate the body of the palace maid. All the past records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' disregard for human life over the years were brought to the desk in the imperial study.
After that, several ordinary people were murdered by the nephew of the chief steward Yuan and the Kyoto government...
The entire family of Yuan Zongguan was immediately sentenced to confiscation of property and exile. Those involved in the incident in the yamen were also sentenced to beheading or exiled to Ningguta according to the law.
Then it was the turn of the Imperial Household Department.
However, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has had several major families intertwined over the years, making it difficult to eradicate them all at once, so they can only proceed slowly.
So during this period of time, the emperor was probably busy with the complicated state affairs of the previous dynasty, while secretly sending people to collect evidence of the crimes of the Imperial Household Department.
I don't know how much effort it took to collect these account books.
Thinking of this, Qingyao vaguely understood the emperor's intention.
However, there are so many capable people in the entire Qianqing Palace and even in the Forbidden City who can investigate cases, why does Shu Yao have to be the one to investigate?
This is not an easy and pleasant job. There is a risk of life at any time. The emperor will not be willing to do it.
Qingyao had a hunch that something was wrong, so while Li Shuyao was still immersed in her own emotions, she picked up one of the books and started flipping through it.
This look——
"Hey, there seems to be something wrong with this account book."
Qingyao suddenly frowned.
Then he narrowed his eyes and recited slowly, "In the sixteenth year of Shunzhi's reign, on the sixth day of the seventh month, I shot two young deer, or some kind of deer, in the suburbs of Beijing..."
"In May of the seventeenth year of the Shunzhi reign, I went to Jingshan. The scenery was so beautiful that I didn't want to go back to the Forbidden City..."
"What, what are these?" Qingyao widened her eyes in surprise.
Li Shuyao was awakened by her words and hurried over, "Where is it, where is it?"
Qingyao pointed at the two densely packed lines of Manchu characters on the account book that curved like earthworms and said, "That's what these two Manchu sentences mean."
Li Shuyao:?
The sparkling glint in her eyes suddenly disappeared.
For a moment, I didn't know whether Nanny Lin took the wrong account book, or Qingyao's Manchu language was not good enough, so she managed to translate the account book into a diary.
Qingyao was still unaware of Li Shuyao's suspicions about her. Her eyes remained fixed on the account book. She patted the back of Li Shuyao's hand soothingly and said absentmindedly, "Don't worry. Let me take a look at something else."
After saying this, he picked up the old account book that Nanny Lin had brought over and began to read it attentively in the dim light in the room.
Seeing this, Li Shuyao had to temporarily put aside her doubts about Qingyao's knowledge. She got off the bed, put on her shoes, walked to the study opposite, and skillfully took out a fire starter from Qingyao's desk drawer. She returned to the bedroom and lit all the candles inside.
Then he recalled how Lingluo took care of Qingyao on a daily basis.
It seems that he first cares about whether she is hot or cold...
Thinking of this, Li Shuyao reached out and picked up the thin blanket that had slipped off Qingyao's body. After shaking it twice, she solemnly covered Qingyao's lower abdomen with it. She put her arms around it and tied a thick bow behind her waist to prevent it from slipping off again.
And then, what then?
Li Shuyao blinked blankly, and the next second her eyes met Qingyao's.
Qingyao's face showed some confusion and hesitation. After looking at each other for a moment, she whispered to Li Shuyao, "Shuyao, why did you tie me up?"
Li Shuyao: "..."
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