Chapter 226 After Rebirth, the Young Lady Will Marry a Dandy Man (39)
October 15th was the day when the Zhou State offered sacrifices to heaven and celebrated the harvest.
On this day every year, envoys from other countries would arrive one after another to celebrate this day with the Zhou State.
A few days before the fifteenth day, the whole Zhou Kingdom was celebrating, and the Emperor Minghuang of Zhou also announced a piece of happy news at this time.
More than ten years ago, a minister volunteered to go to Italy to be a spy. During these ten years, he successfully caused a civil war in Italy, defeated all the princes, and became the emperor of Italy.
Today, he has not forgotten his original intention and has brought the Yi Kingdom back to the Zhou Kingdom.
With such a major event, plus it being a day of sacrifice, the Emperor Ming was overjoyed. He ordered a grand banquet for the sacrifice and also reduced taxes for several years so that he could celebrate with the people.
When Shen Ci received the news, he frowned.
Zhou Zimu was here and suddenly asked her to leave, so this sacrificial banquet must not be simple.
In the morning, Zhou Zimu went to the palace to attend court. Shen Ci was in Prince You's Mansion, helping Zhou Zimu deal with the affairs of Prince You's Mansion.
In ancient times, men were in charge of the outside world and women were in charge of the inside world. Except for poor families, rich families did not raise children.
Rather, it is about the expenses of the household. If the husband is an official, there will also be business matters.
It is difficult to be the wife of a wealthy family. You have to fight with the concubines and take care of the food and drink of the bitch. If you deduct a little, the bitch will complain to your husband, and the husband will think you are not virtuous.
If Shen Ci were to tell me, what does it mean to be virtuous? Not to mention the child, which is the fruit of the two of you. The child is your husband's and your own. But she is not only the housekeeper, but also helps you manage the business. Do you think this is not virtuous enough? How else can you be virtuous?
But at least in ancient times, wives received a monthly salary. Otherwise, if he did it for free, he would be considered unvirtuous. Shen Ci spit in his face.
At this time, Shen Ci was checking the account book of the palace this month. The account book had to be checked every month.
Before Shen Ci entered the mansion, Zhou Zimu would take a look at the matter when he had time to make sure there were no problems.
Because of Zhou Zimu's reputation, there are basically no servants in Prince You's Mansion who have corrupt intentions.
After all, Zhou Zimu has a bad reputation. Once Zhou Zimu finds out, it may not just be a matter of losing his life.
In ancient times, human life was worthless, and a person's life was the most insignificant, so people were not afraid of death. What they feared more than death was living in torture.
Once they offended King You, King You would most likely not kill them, but let them suffer every day and live a difficult life.
Those who are alive no longer want to live, but we still let them live.
Therefore, there is no problem with these accounts, and they can even be considered very detailed.
In addition to calculating the palace's monthly expenses, this account book also includes the accounts of dozens of stores in the palace.
These dozens of shops range from high-end jewellery to low-end food.
But these stores, without exception, make a lot of money.
One of the restaurants is called 'Huan Ke Lai'... No, it can't even be called a restaurant, it's just a very small food stall.
But just from this food stall, I can earn several hundred taels of silver a month.
Some large-scale restaurants spend about the same amount of time in a month.
What kind of food stall is this that is so popular and makes so much money?
Shen Ci became interested and asked the housekeeper to bring her the information about the shop.
After reading it, Shen Ci became interested and asked the housekeeper: "Who is managing this store?"
"Princess, before you got married, everything was managed by the prince." The butler replied.
“I’m talking about management.”
The housekeeper was puzzled: "What's wrong, Princess? Is there something wrong with the prince's management?"
There's nothing wrong with that, it's just that the way this store is run is still relevant today.
"Nothing." Shen Ci knocked on the table and smiled thoughtfully.
The housekeeper was not a fool and he understood that Shen Ci was not telling the truth.
But he was just a servant, so he remained silent.
Shen Ci continued to look at the account book. The housekeeper and the maid stood by her side, watching her like two door gods.
Shen Ci had been looking at the account book for an unknown period of time when a gatekeeper suddenly ran in and shouted, "Oh no, Steward Bai Heng, there is trouble outside the mansion."
Making trouble?
Shen Ci, who was looking bored, raised his eyes with interest and asked the boy: "What's going on?"
The servant then noticed her, his face immediately changed to one of shock, and he quickly knelt down and said, "Your servant greets the princess."
"No need to be polite," Shen Ci waved her hand and asked him to get up. After the servant got up, she continued with the question she had just asked: "There is a disturbance outside the door. What's going on?"
"I don't know either. Suddenly a group of people came and started singing and dancing at the gate of the palace. I don't know what they want to do." The servant said, gesticulating back and forth.
Shen Ci stood up and decided to go see the excitement first before coming back to look at these boring things.
She can look at and count these things, but she can't help feeling bored.
Be serious when it is time to be serious, and relax when it is time to relax.
Shen Ci took housekeeper Xiao He to the gate of the palace.
At the gate of the palace, a group of people in strange costumes were performing, beating gongs and drums, etc., attracting a crowd of people to gather around and watch the performance.
In fact, if this happened on the street, there would be nothing wrong, but it happened in front of Prince You’s Palace. What’s going on?
The onlookers understood, but there was nothing they could do because the performance was so good that they were mesmerized once they saw it, and naturally became addicted to it and didn't want to leave.
When Shen Ci brought Xiao He and the housekeeper out, they saw the scene of people surrounding each other, almost drowning the entrance of the palace.
"Let's go and squeeze in to take a look." Shen Ci said.
Xiao He looked at Shen Ci worriedly: "Princess, you are of noble status, so you should let me go in this matter," she said.
Shen Ci looked at her deeply and asked, "Do you want to go in and watch the show?"
"No, I just think that the princess is of noble status and cannot squeeze with these ordinary civilians." Xiao He was afraid that Shen Ci would misunderstand her, so she shook her head quickly.
"In that case, why don't you just blast these people away?"
Xiao He was stumped by her question for a moment and stared at Shen Ci blankly.
However, the butler was smart. He immediately called the guards and drove away those who were watching the performance.
Guards were of considerable importance to ordinary people. When they saw so many guards, they came to their senses from the show and left in a hurry.
After everyone left, the performers were revealed.
There weren't that many people performing, just eight in total.
There were eight people, two women and six men. They were of different ages, the youngest looked to be around ten years old, and the oldest looked to be in his forties.
When the guards arrived, these people naturally stopped their performance.
Because everyone was watching in a circle, when everyone left, the scene now looked like the guards had surrounded the performers in a circle.
The guards simply followed the circle, grabbed all the performers, and then brought them to Shen Ci one by one.