Chapter 61
The steward Wu has been beaten up and lost his heart, implicating his son is even more remorseful and ashamed. Now, seeing that King Yuhang still gives his son the honor, he has not done anything bad, so he can’t help but lie down on the ground and thank him for his kindness.
Seeing King Yuh and Consort Yuh’s efforts to solve the problem, the woman immediately kneels down, “Thank you for saving my life, I will definitely do a good job to repay your kindness and Consort Yuh’s great kindness.”
“You get up.” Rong Xiangsheng saw that she is a straightforward, bold, so he asked: “What is your name?”
“My husband’s family name is Li, I am a cook in the kitchen, if you don’t mind, you can call me Li Qing’s family.”
Rong Xiang saw remembered, ready to let her outside to help keep an eye on things in the house.
Li Qing’s family said: “slave girl’s niece at home every day looking for death, please allow slave girl to immediately inform this news, lest cause a big problem. Furthermore, return the fifty taels of silver to the Wu family and end this matter.”
Sangmi agreed, and once the men left, Zhou Xianyang took a sip of tea and went back to the west room.
Rong Xiangmian then asked his subordinates to report the case to his face, and surprisingly, he found out that he had been lending money to loan sharks in the name of the royal family.
Fortunately, the royal residence was not completed long ago, not yet to the point of forcibly confiscating the borrower’s house and field. So the beatings, the sale of the sale, as well as the transfer to the court, in the blink of an eye, the scene left less than thirty people.
They all looked at each other, thinking that even if they were lucky enough to stay, their lives would not be easy.
Rong Xiangxian saw also guessed their thoughts, asked: “Do you think I do things too desperate?”
The following people naturally did not dare to say yes.
Rong Xiangshi said in a warm voice: “It’s not that I’m too strict, it’s that I’m too timid, and I’m afraid of the slightest movement of the wind. A while ago, wasn’t the Meng family raided? Do you know why?”
“It was said that Lord Meng had embezzled 800,000 taels of silver.”
“How did this come out?”
“One of Meng’s slaves killed a man in the name of power, and was sued in the imperial court.”
“Lord Meng in the courtroom do not deal with, together with the hard hand, several things together attack, His Majesty’s anger, the Meng family copied.”
The crowd you a word and I a word, said lively.
Rong Xiangmei asked, “You work in the capital, copied a lot of things have seen the family, there are also in those houses you know, right? Speaking of which are the steward of the mansion, more honorable than the master of the general family, how is it now? Being copied out of the family, like livestock, in the food market for people to buy and sell. Do you all want to live like that?”
The crowd shook their heads in unison.
“Those like Jiang XII who think that selling their masters for honor can bring them wealth and riches will only end up dead. One needs to know that the lives of all the people in the house are all on King Yu. Only when His Highness is well, the rest can be well, if you think you can seek glory alone, that is a dream!”
“Yes!”
“On the other hand, your every word and action also concerns the Yuhang Mansion. Jiang XII caused His Highness to shut down this time, what about next time? What if it’s like the Meng family? If something happens to Yuhang, will you have a good life? Therefore, I don’t dare not to be more cautious, not only for the sake of preserving the royal family, but also for the sake of preserving you.”
“Your Highness is wise.”
Seeing that he was also tired after speaking for so long, Rong Xiang finally summarized, “In the future, if there are any people who rely on the name of the Yuhang Mansion to roam around and commit crimes, they will be killed if they are heavy, or sold if they are light. If there are on-duty, gambling and drinking, will never be forgiven. In addition, there is a mouth is not strict, dare to chew to the outside of the king’s house in the matter, all severely punished.
You monitor each other, who dares to do these things, then come to report to Wei mother, as today, said the right reward, concealment of the penalty. If you don’t listen to my words and tell His Highness to think that I can’t manage the house well, he will use the law of the army to manage the house, and then you will know how powerful it is.”
Once the crowd heard her move out of Yu Wang, they thought that it would be better to be controlled by the crown princess!
Rong Xiangmian glanced at Steward Tang: “You’ll have to take care of yourself for this period of time.”
“I wouldn’t dare, but with so many people missing from our residence all of a sudden, I’m afraid it’ll be inconvenient to do things in the future.”
“Isn’t the Meng family selling their slaves? Let’s pick some good ones, they’re the ones who’ve been around for a long time, aren’t they better than the ones who were lazy just now?”
Steward Tang immediately said, “It’s the old slave who’s foolish.”
“Mother Wei, you and Steward Tang are in charge of buying underlings together. When there are more people, we’ll re-register the roster and assign duties. Linlang, you take the lead these days to re-register the mansion’s treasury, the furnishings and ornaments in each room, in separate categories. For each and every one of them, someone must be in charge.”
After explaining these, Rong Xiangmian felt that his throat was going to smoke, and hurriedly picked up his tea.
Song mom looked on and praised with Zhou Xian Yang, “A good English Duke’s daughter, a good Princess Yulong. I originally just looked at her appearance and good nature, but I didn’t realize that she was actually a skillful person, worthy of being a girl who grew up in the palace. It’s quite like the style of our Empress back then.”
When the words came out of her mouth, Mama Song realized that she had made a slip of the tongue and hurriedly covered her mouth.
Zhou Xian Yang actually agreed with Mama Song’s words in his heart, but still reminded, “Those four words, Mama Song should not mention them again in the future.”
Rong Xiangmian got up, walked to the west room, and asked mama Song, “This is what His Highness and I discussed last night, what else did the party fail to take into account, help me think about it.”
“I thought of what I hadn’t thought of, Your Highness has disposed of it all. It’s so good! Seeing that Fourth Highness is all grown up, building a career, marrying such a capable crown princess, and having a reckoning in his heart, I’m relieved.” Mama Song pulls Rong Xiangshi, saying that she’s going to cry again, and Rong Xiangshi comforts her.
King Yuh ordered the maids to serve another bowl of cheese and personally brought it to Rong Xiangmian: “Your Highness has worked hard.”
Rong Xiangshi glances at him and can’t help but smile: “You’re so good at pretending to be a good guy, you let me do all the things that offend people.”
Knowing that she was joking, Zhou Xian Yang said, “The world is mostly afraid of authority but not morality, it’s only good if they are afraid of you and respect you.”
In the midst of the jokes, Steward Tang came to report, “Someone from the Duke of England’s residence is here to see Your Highness.”
Rong Xiang Xiang was delighted: “Quickly let her come in through the small door on the east side.”
It was sister-in-law Gu Frost’s companion room, mother Wen, who entered the council chamber and bowed: “Yesterday, the Duke of England went to the palace, and His Majesty ordered that Aunt Chu’s grave be moved from the west mountain to the ancestral tomb.”
The thing that I have been looking forward to is really finalized, Rong Xiangmian unexpectedly even forgot to smile, stupidly asked: “Is this true? Father and the elders of the clan have all agreed?”
“A thousand times true. His Majesty said that Aunt Chu is not only the aunt of the State Duke’s Mansion, but now she is also Consort Yuhang’s birth mother, and her status is different from before. For the sake of Yü Wang’s and Consort Yü’s honor, Aunt Chu must not be buried in West Mountain. This matter, the Duke of State has left it to the Aunt, and the Aunt has asked if you have time to go back to look at the matter of relocating the grave.”
Rong Xiang see would like to say yes, but also remembered that he is grounded in thought, and can not personally contribute, quite regrettable, had to say: “I am now inconvenient to go out of the Royal Palace, a matter of please brother to take care of. Be sure to send a few competent people to do, do a good job I have a reward …… remember to go outside to buy a good piece of cedar, not how much money, silver to me here to get, to give her to re-play a coffin.
Please ask a Feng Shui gentleman to pick a good place for her, she is afraid of heat …… pick a cooler place, but also to be able to bask in the sun for half a day. The day to move the grave, must find someone to calculate carefully, set up to inform me.
By the way, Feiyun you go to my house, take some of the jewelry I used to wear, loaded up and take it over to my mother to accompany the funeral …… mom Wen today a few people over? Each person reward a hang of money, trouble you ……”
Rong Xiangmei words did not finish, voice has been choked broken, buried his head to eat up the pastry cheese, tears big big drops into the bowl, those present were not moved.
Zhou Xian Yang looked at her mixed feelings of sadness and joy, even sadness can only be held back, just like the day of the horse stadium, sadness can only look at the sky from afar, the heart is like being clutched by something.
Mother Song gave him a wink, he had been staring at the crown princess and didn’t pay attention. So she touched Zhou Xian Yang with her elbow again. As an afterthought, he got up, walked over to the crown princess, and embraced her in his arms, “You could have cried.”
Rong Xiangyang hid in the crook of his arm and finally dared to let go of the pain and cry.
Zhou Xian Yang felt the crown princess’s body trembling in his arms, his throat so clogged that he could not utter a single word. He only patted her back and stroked the top of her hair, comforting her in this way.
Waiting for her cries to be lowered, mother Song softly consoled, “Good child, your mother must be very happy in heaven, and all the days to come will get better and better.”
Rong Xiangmian slowly calms her heart, gets up from Yu Wang’s arms, wipes her tears dry, and apologizes towards them, “I’m sorry, I usually don’t like to cry outside.”
“What outside? This is your home.” Zhou Xian Yang really doesn’t understand what Princess Wang treats the Yuhang Mansion as.