Chapter 259 On the Killing of the Stubborn Stone Language
Shao Shuhuan smiled: "I will not be able to adapt to it if you don't play the same role as Your Majesty."
"What?" Shao She asked in confusion.
"Your Majesty is a kind father!" Shao Shuhuan sighed softly.
"I'm not!" Shao She smiled, "I have always believed that a filial son is born. Moreover, even if I am a kind father, I cannot tolerate you slap me at the door of the Imperial Study."
Shao Shuhuan smiled embarrassedly and suddenly said, "You always believe in making a filial son, but I haven't seen you have a filial son."
Shao She thought about Shao Ting, and now he was clearly facing him; he thought of Shao Lan, who was originally looking good, but he was confused when he encountered big things. There is also Shao Mei, the youngest in the family, who has always been very pampered by girls, and now she is good, but she dares to put medicine in his ginseng soup. As for Shao Shuhuan, let alone, it’s fine, don’t just fist and kick him, so she sighed: “My education is very failed, and I have raised you unfilial sons.”
Shao Shuhuan laughed and said, "I don't understand your mentality very much."
"What's wrong with me?" Shao She asked.
"If I die, you will be very sad, but you hope that I will die soon... Don't you think you are very conflicted?" Shao Shuhuan smiled in the circle, "To say something disrespectful, I even have a little doubt that you have mental problems."
"Well! I'm very conflicted. You just feel that I'm mentally ill and have a crazy heart." Shao She nodded and sighed, "I came back from Jiangnan that winter last year and didn't see you at the family banquet. I thought you were dead, really... I was really sad. But sometimes, I thought, if you really died, how much trouble would I save?"
He said, for fear of provoking Shao Shuhuan to get angry again, so he hurriedly took a few steps back.
Then he knew that Shao Shuhuan was too lazy to even speak this time. He just smiled, making him feel confused.
"Aren't you angry?" Shao She asked curiously. He said something in the morning. As a result, at the door of the Imperial Study Room, he ignored his face and shaved his ears and slapped him in the face.
"I'm angry and can't change you for being crazy." Shao Shuhuan said. "Father, can you find a prescription and ask for medicine?"
"My illness is already in its final state. There is no cure. There is no need to seek prescriptions and ask for medicine. There is no need to use ginseng three liang," said Shao She.
Shao Shuhuan was stunned. He and Chen Chen, the first director of the Imperial Hospital, had a private conversation in Jingyang Palace. How could he know? Of course, Mrs. Fang's affairs, he knew that he could not hide it from him. But how could he even know about such things?
"Eunuchs around His Majesty. Everyone is holding me a lot of money." Shao She easily understood his feelings and chuckled indifferently.
"You can tell me it." Shao Shuhuan shook his head. If you say so, I am afraid that some of the things Emperor Zhou's daily lives could not be hidden from him, including some movements in the palace.
"It's okay, don't vent your anger with me! Your Majesty knows this. He is smart. It's not the emperor who lost his power in your mind." Shao She smiled, "You go, I'll have a rest in the afternoon. You come back to have dinner in the evening. Someone will send two big baskets of crabs this morning. I asked the court to tell them to serve a few dishes. I have good wine brought back from Jiangnan. I will regard it as I apologize to you for the morning's affairs. How about it?"
"Forget it!" Shao Shuhuan smiled, "But I'm going to come if I have wine." But I was thinking about what he said just now.
Shao She nodded, and Shao Shuhuan also stood up and said goodbye. He went to Shao Ting's room to look for Shao Ting. He was indeed very angry in the morning, but after being disturbed by Mu Lian, he immediately talked to Emperor Zhou again and let go. Shao She thought that he didn't know that he was useless to know that anger was useless, so why bother to have such idleness with him?
When I passed by the main room of Shao Mansion, I saw Shao Mei with two girls standing in the local area and cursing the servants, and involuntarily stood up. This little girl who looked cute, non-common, and ignored the world actually cursed people?
When Shao Mei saw Shao Shuhuan, she hurriedly squatted down and said, "Han Huan is down, brother is waiting for you in the study outside." The more than ten servants were also busy standing respectfully and saluting him.
Shao Shuhuan asked, "What's wrong with sister?"
"Don't mention, our family is in chaos now!" Shao Mei shook her head, "I'm the only one left in it. The aunts in the family are not easy to take Joe. Now these servants are also starting to call me. Think about it, since my mother passed away, my father has been living in the study room. Now this year, I can't let my father live in the study room for the New Year, but my father is unwilling to live in the main room, so I ordered someone to clean up this area so that my father can move over here. These servants...ah..."
Shao Mei said, sighing. Now Shao Ting is cooking outside, but she is the one who is in charge of the house.
Seeing that the servants were all angry, Shao Shuhuan asked the two girls to retreat, walked to Shao Mei, and asked in a low voice: "What did sister do? I look at them and want to swallow you in one bite?"
"Isn't it just that I'm more strict?" Shao Mei said disapprovingly, "Our family's expenses are too high."
When Shao Shuhuan heard this, he realized that Shao Mei must have cut the money. Now the servants in the Shao Mansion are used to spending their money. They are tight for a while and they are not well-off, so they feel naturally uncomfortable.
"Why?" Shao Shuhuan asked.
"Didn't your "Stone Story" say---the Jia family's expenses are too large and they can't make ends meet?" Shao Mei said with a sarcastic remark.
"That's the Jia Mansion, not the Shao Mansion!" Shao Shuhuan was amused and crying. Shao She was not the Jia Zheng who was not in the ordinary affairs. He had always believed in it. He would be sorry for himself if he didn't make any money. Moreover, Shao She was very rich, so there was no need to mention the farm. Jinxiufang and brothel were both businesses that made money every day, and there were definitely more than one family. In addition, he was in a high position, so there were all kinds of disadvantages.
He never made a lot of money for private salt in Yangzhou, including the Ministry of Revenue’s salt tax last year. How could he save his daily expenses?
"Even so, our daily expenses are too expensive." Shao Mei shook her head, "I didn't know the price of food and rice - do you know how much money our family spends a year?"
"If you have daily expenses, it will cost about 200,000 taels not even my place." Shao Shuhuan also worked as a family in Shao Mansion for a few days, so he naturally understood and smiled.
"Do you know, how much is my father's salary in a year?" Shao Mei asked.
Shao Shuhuan thought about it and found that the salaries of officials in the Great Zhou Kingdom were considered high, and Shao She's salary was also not low. However, once compared with the expenses of the Shao Mansion, people have to suspect that he was the corrupt official.
"It's not enough to be equivalent to 8,000 taels of silver." Shao Shuhuan thought to himself, and said it directly.
Sure enough, the face of the servant who was standing by the side with his hands down changed color in horror. They would definitely not accept this number.
"Then you say, shouldn't I cut the expenses in the mansion?" Shao Mei asked back.
Shao Shuhuan smiled awkwardly and said for a while: "You keep going, pretend I didn't say it." As he said that, he turned around and was about to leave. He thought to himself, if you like to cut, just cut it, as long as you don't deduct my expenses, it will be done.
"Wait!" Shao Mei hurriedly called him, "Sister has something to do?" Shao Shuhuan asked. He was not close to the girls of the Shao family. Since he accidentally heard Shao Lan's words in Aunt Zhou's room, he had been deliberately far away from Shao Mei and others.
Shao Mei covered her mouth with a handkerchief and blushed. When she didn't ask, she was curious and could only ask: "Did Baoyu, who finally married his sister Lin in "The Stone"?"
Shao Shuhuan was stunned and smiled for a while. This "Stone Story" is really lethal to girls, but then he remembered the tragic ending of the Red Chamber, shook his head and said, "No, the Jia family was defeated shortly after Daiyu died, his family property was confiscated, Baoyu was also imprisoned in prison, and finally died in prison."
"Where are the girls in their family?" Shao Mei asked again, "Has she been sold to the sect?"
Shao Shuhuan nodded and said, "Probably, I haven't thought about the back yet."
"I'm only sixteen years old!" Shao Mei sighed softly, "I don't want to be sold to the sect, so I can't sit still and wait for death."
Shao Shuhuan was stunned. What did she mean?
"If there is anything happening to the third brother in the future, just give me instructions. I know my father better." Shao Mei said, turning around and holding the girl, directing the servant to move things.
Shao Shuhuan stared blankly at her graceful back, and the meaning of her words just now--this is Shao Shedi's daughter, indeed a tiger father without a dog. Just one sentence, but the magnificent appearance is faintly presented, even with a bit of killing cold air, just like the wind in the cold winter, biting cold.
"That's my sister, Your Highness Huan, don't look around." At some point, Shao Ting brought a few servants to look for Shao Shuhuan, but saw him staring at Shao Mei in a daze.
Shao Shuhuan smiled softly and turned around and said, "I was about to go find you, but unexpectedly I met Sister Mei and said a few gossips."
"It's cold here, go to my room to talk." Shao Ting said, "She is pitiful. Her mother is gone, and there is no one in charge at home. She worked all night yesterday and didn't close her eyes at this time." As she said, she hurriedly asked Shao Shuhuan to go to his room. The two of them sat down casually, and Shao Ting ordered the servant to go out.
Shao Shuhuan then asked, "What did my sister do when she was busy all night last night?"
"I gave my father some sweating pills and took care of the funerals of the two concubines. It was dawn." Shao Ting did not hide it from him and said with a smile.
"You... give your father a sweat medicine?" Shao Shuhuan was very surprised, and then he felt very funny. He was so sad that he could think of it.
Shao Ting also smiled: "I'm going out to do business tonight, for fear that my father will find out and stop it. But sister Mei said that she asked the servant to get some sweat medicine and put it in her father's ginseng tea, and he couldn't stop it even if he wanted to stop it."
Chapter completed!