The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 45 Book of Accounts
Mu Xu returned to his courtyard, entered the room, and saw Xiang Ling sitting beside the brazier dozing off.Hearing the sound of his footsteps, Xiang Ling rubbed her bewildered eyes and stood up, "Your Majesty, are you back?"

Seeing her like this, Mu Xu walked over and sat by the brazier, and said amusedly, "Why are you alone, where are Mei Jian and the others?"

Xiangling replied, "Sister Mei Jian and the others went to see Butler Wang, and said they were going to the warehouse to pick up some cloth to make some new clothes for the prince. I thought no one would guard the house, so I stayed."

Hearing what she said, Mu Xu shook his head and said, "Isn't there a sewing room in the house, what do you need to do?"

Xiangling had been with him for a long time, and knew that the eldest son had a good temper and was not afraid of him anymore, so she retorted, "Sister Mei Jian said that the sewing room is not as good as that of Ju Jian, and besides, it's the Chinese New Year, right? The few of us don’t have anything to send to the prince, so we just want to make some new clothes for the prince.”

"Okay, I thank you all." Naturally, Mu Xu would not ignore their kindness. Hearing what he said, Xiangling smiled, and then showed a look of hesitation.

Mu Xu wondered, "What's the matter, is there anything you want to ask me?"

Xiangling hesitated for a long time before speaking, "My lord, do you want to marry Miss Lin as your concubine?"

After hearing this, Mu Xu couldn't help but smiled and asked her, "Why, you don't want to?"

Xiangling quickly waved her hand, "That's not what I mean, I just want to confirm with Shizi?"

Mu Xu nodded, "It should be, have you seen Miss Lin in Rongguo Mansion?"

Hearing Mu Xu's confirmation, Xiangling breathed a sigh of relief, "It's just Miss Lin." She patted her breasts, which had already taken shape, and then replied to Mu Xu, "Of course I saw it when I was in Rongguo Mansion. Miss Lin, she is a very nice person, she even taught me how to read and write, she had promised to teach me how to write poetry, but unfortunately I came to the palace before she taught me."

After finishing speaking, he went on embarrassingly, "I was afraid that my son would marry a powerful concubine in the future. Miss Lin would be the best, so I don't have to be afraid."

Mu Xu understood it, this girl was afraid that if she married a powerful wife, she would have a hard time in the future, thinking about whether she was killed by Xue Pan's wife Xia Jingui in the original book, she couldn't help feeling pity in her heart, "Okay Now, don't worry about it now, if you want to continue to read, I will teach you when you have time. If you want to learn to write poetry, then you have to wait, and when your concubine enters the door in the future, let her teach you. "

Hearing that Mu Xu wanted to continue teaching herself how to learn characters, Xiangling agreed with all her mouth, and was about to say something more when she heard some chattering, and looked at the door, only to see Mei Jian and the others entering the courtyard with cloths of several colors, Get up quickly and run to help.

Several little girls entered the room, saw Mu Xu coming back, quickly put down the cloth in their arms, surrounded him to measure his body, Mu Xu had no choice but to stand up and stretch his arms.

Mei Jian measured his waist, Ju Jian measured his arm span, Zhu Jian was not tall enough, so he stood on a stool to measure his height, Xiang Ling was afraid that she would fall, so he helped her support the stool, while Lan Jian took a pen and took notes seriously .

After the measurement was finished, the girls asked him what color he liked, Mu Xu responded casually, and they argued about which color looks good.This one says blue is good, and that one says cyan.Mu Xu had nothing to do, so he just watched a few little girls arguing here, and found it quite interesting.

Just as he thought it was funny, his servants came to report that Feng Ziying had arrived, so Mu Xu had no choice but to get up and go to the front yard to meet him.

When they got to the outer study, Feng Ziying said embarrassedly after seeing the ceremony, "It's really wrong to disturb your lord during the Chinese New Year, please don't blame me, my lord."

Mu Xu motioned him to sit down, "There's nothing to blame, I'm idle today, but what's the matter?"

Feng Ziying took out something wrapped in cloth from his bosom and handed it to him, "Sir, this is brought back by the people we sent to Fangshan." Mu Xu took it, opened it, and it turned out to be an account book. I opened it and saw that there were all written in it, "In a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, check how many horses died of illness in Ping'an Prefecture", followed by records of some military grain and iron ore entering and exiting the warehouse.

Mu Xu looked at the account book and told Yang An at the door, "Someone invite Li He here."

When Li He arrived, Mu Xu handed him the account book, "Look, but this account book?" Li He took it, looked through it carefully, nodded and said, "This is the right one." One of the pages said, "My lord, please read. At that time, I was in a hurry to dive into the water. I was afraid that I might lose the account book, so I deliberately tore the corners of two pages."

Mu Xu lowered his head and looked, as expected, he couldn't help but look at Li Hegao in his heart, to be able to think of these things in such a dangerous situation, it can be seen that this person is very thoughtful, thinking of this, Mu Xu's heart moved, and he felt that he had set up another intelligence report Wang's idea, let him try it.However, we still have to observe him and subdue him by the way.

Pressing his thoughts, he sent Li He back, and Mu Xu asked Feng Ziying, "How are Li He and that Wang Bin sent to investigate?"

Feng Ziying nodded, "The people we sent checked and found that Li He is indeed the son of Li Meng. Our people found a portrait of someone who knew Li He and compared it."

"As for Wang Bin, no problems have been found so far, except that this person is not single. He has an old wife and two sons in Kaifeng. He goes to Kaifeng every two years. He has been doing this since he was working in Fangshan. This has been the case for many years." Then he added, "Just in case, I have sent an order to Kaifeng to verify the situation today."

After listening to Feng Ziying's answer and arrangement, Mu Xu thought for a while that there was nothing missing, and nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, Ziying, you really didn't disappoint me, this matter was handled properly."

Seeing noon, Mu Xu left Feng Ziying to have a drink together, and when he left, he turned and went back to the courtyard, asking Mei Jian and Xiang Ling to help him change into court clothes.

While helping him smooth the clothes on his back, Mei Jian complained, "Isn't it Chinese New Year, the prince still has to go to work, the emperor still has hungry soldiers!"

Mu Xu waited for her to turn around and gave her a chestnut. Seeing Mei Jian rubbing his forehead with a bitter face, he smiled and said, "Why do you talk so much, I'm not afraid that the emperor will hit you."

Mei Jian stomped her feet in anger, Mu Xu laughed, "Okay, I'm going to the palace, after I'm gone, you don't have to stay in the room, go out and play by yourself."

When he arrived at the palace, he saluted the present, and Mu Xu presented the account book.Emperor Jiading waved Wang An to bring a stool to Mu Xu, ignored him, picked up the account book and read it.It took a long time to look up and ask him, "Have you confirmed the account book?"

Mu Xu nodded, and said the mark made by Li He.Emperor Jiading didn't check it either, but frowned and told Wang An, "After the rest, you go to the Ministry of Households and get the archives of grain and supplies sent to Ping'an Prefecture in the past few years, and then find someone to compare. Remember not to say anything."

After finishing speaking, he said to Mu Xu, "You have done a good job. I didn't expect that the Embroidered Clothes Guard would come in handy in a short period of time. What's the problem now?"

Mu Xu said respectfully, "It's all thanks to His Majesty. As for the difficulties, I will wait for His Majesty to send two acquaintances. The main one is Nanzhen Fusi. No one is currently in charge of it. I may not be able to manage it."

After hearing Mu Xu's words, Emperor Jiading nodded in satisfaction, "After a few days, I will send someone I trust to be the co-prefect of Nanzhen Fusi. As for Beizhen Fusi, when you have a suitable candidate, report to me in time." that is."

Mu Xu understood that Emperor Jiading reciprocated the favor and benefited him, so he immediately took the order to thank him.

"Well, I won't keep you for the New Year's Eve." He said and motioned Wang An to hand him the Hetian jade paperweight on the imperial table, "This paperweight is for you, read more books when you have time, I listen to the emperor's sister. Saying that you only loved to dance with guns and swords in the past is not acceptable."

He took the paperweight with both hands, "I have thanked His Majesty for the reward, I must have time to read more."

"You look like Zhen'er, and you get a headache when you talk about studying." Emperor Jiading naturally saw that Mu Xuyan was insincere, shook his head and smiled, "Okay, you can go, the imperial sister will go to Liaodong in a few days, and you will take care of me." I will send her off, it is inconvenient for me to leave the palace after all."

　My thoughts are a bit messy. Originally, I wanted to go to Ping'an Prefecture to investigate the case, but several friends sent me private messages, saying that there are too many red buildings in the sky, so I just need to adapt the original work more.I'm in a dilemma

　　
　
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