When the sun was at its highest point in the sky, there was a knock on the gate of the side courtyard. Mo Xiang hurriedly opened the door and saw the housekeeper standing at the door with a thick account book in his hand. He smiled and said, "This old servant has been ordered to come and see the princess."
Mo Xiang scratched his head, wondering what happened today. In the past, the princess was ignored and no one cared about her, but now people came one after another to ask for a meeting, and the threshold of the side courtyard was almost broken down.
Although Mo Xiang was very dissatisfied in his heart, he did not show it on his face. He nodded, turned around and went into the house to report.
Inside the room, Ji Lingxue was playing with a hairpin in front of the dressing table. Hearing this, she nodded and said, "Please come in, housekeeper."
After a while, the housekeeper walked into the room holding a thick account book and bowed to Ji Lingxue, "Princess... This is the account of the Princess's Mansion for the past two years. Please take a look. This is the living expenses of the palace this month. The prince said that you will take care of it all."
Mo Xiang brought the account book and a bag of silver from the housekeeper to Ji Lingxue. Ji Lingxue weighed the bag and raised her eyebrows, "There are only three hundred taels of silver here?"
The butler nodded, "Yes."
Ji Lingxue asked: "How much pocket money do concubines and concubines get per month?"
The housekeeper said, "The concubine spent a lot last month, five hundred taels of silver."
Ji Lingxue's mouth twitched. As the main wife, her monthly salary was only fifty taels, while Ji Yuqing's was ten times hers. Xiao Yichen really doted on her, but now he doted on her too much. Was he using her to restrain Ji Yuqing
Ji Lingxue sneered and waved her hand, "Okay, I got it."
The butler turned around and prepared to leave. Ji Lingxue seemed to remember something and asked, "Butler, did the prince ask you to buy new furniture? He promised me to replace all the furniture in this room."
The housekeeper bent his waist, turned around slowly and said, "Princess, the prince has instructed us to buy new furniture, but not to send it to this side yard... but to send it to Yilan Courtyard, the yard opposite the prince."
Ji Lingxue raised her eyebrows and asked, "Who lives in Yilan Courtyard? Could it be that your prince has taken in another concubine?"
The butler trembled his beard and shook his head, saying, "No one lives in Yilan Courtyard, it has always been empty." That is the queen's courtyard, not just any Tom, Dick or Harry can live in it.
Ji Lingxue frowned and went into deep thought, not noticing the sly look that flashed across the housekeeper's eyes.
A quarter of an hour later, Ji Lingxue slapped her thigh and stood up, waving to Mo Xiang who was standing beside her and said, "Mo Xiang, come here!"
Mo Xiang walked in and asked quietly, "What do you want, Master?"
Ji Lingxue turned her head and glanced at the sky and said, "It's going to rain soon. Go find an iron rod. Oh, and make sure one end is sharp."
Mo Xiang blinked, "Master, what do you want to do with this?"
Ji Lingxue pushed the person out impatiently and said, "Just go if I tell you to. Stop talking so much nonsense."
Mo Xiang was very fast, and came back in a quarter of an hour, holding a more than one-meter-long iron rod in his hand and asked: "Master, is this long enough?"
Ji Lingxue took a look and nodded, "Not bad, very well done."
Mo Xiang asked again: "This iron stick is very heavy, Master, what are you going to do with it?"
Ji Lingxue smiled mysteriously, turned her head and looked at the gloomy sky outside the window: "Now it depends on whether God can help me..."
Mo Xiang touched her head. Her master's words were becoming more and more profound. How come she couldn't understand anything at all
As Ji Lingxue expected, the dark clouds in the sky did not disperse, but became thicker and thicker. When the first lightning struck, Ji Lingxue asked Mo Xiang to pack up clothes and other important items, and he went out with an iron rod.
(End of this chapter)