Zhang Shou certainly didn't take it to heart that a studious Italian boy in his family was in dire straits - he didn't try his best to ask for advice in Jiuzhangtang, and he didn't flip through the Latin version of Elements of Geometry in class and then work hard while doing it.
Are you thinking about copying his calculations? Now I will give you a teacher who is proficient in the language. If you still dislike being strict, what should you do?
While Zhang Shou was not at home, Zhu Ying also happily went to the women's school to be her supervisor and censor. The only one in Zhang Yuan who didn't want to take care of things but had to do so was Wu. On this day, she was not old at all, but she would be honored by others.
She, who was born in Lao'an, received a piece of news that was hurriedly reported by someone at the door. Concubine Yonghe Palace also sent someone to deliver a cart full of things.
Wu thought she was quite used to things like being given things in the palace since she and Zhang Shou arrived in the capital, and she became even more used to it when Zhu Ying came to marry her. But the day before yesterday, Zhu Ying brought back a lot of money from Yonghe Palace.
When the car leather and sweater materials were put into storage, I asked her to sort them out together, and asked her to keep them if she liked them. She was almost dazzled.
And now this is still a gift? Although Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying had already told her that before giving birth, Concubine Yu had already given Zhu Ying the books on strange and mysterious things that she had collected for many years, as well as various weapons and the like, but she
I still couldn't help but feel a little panicked. When I got up in a hurry and planned to go out in person, I didn't forget to ask: "Is someone following the car to deliver something? Who is it from Yonghe Palace?"
"The person who came here claimed to be Xiaoyue, the eldest maid of the imperial concubine." Mother Jin, who came to report the incident, did not directly stop Wu, but followed her step by step. "Although there is no female official like Shang Gong Shangyi beside the imperial concubine.
, but since she took charge of the palace affairs, she also transferred two female historians, but the empress did not promote the palace people around her to be female officials in the Sixth Palace Bureau."
If Zhu Ying were here, she would naturally understand the implication, which was why the person who came this time was not a female official in the palace. However, after all, Wu's knowledge was limited, so she did not quite understand the meaning. But she
But she remembered what Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying had told her before, that if she didn't understand something, she would just nod her head and say nothing.
However, Mrs. Wu finally understood one thing, that is, the person who came was not a female official in the palace, so she did not need to go to the gate to greet her. She only needed to see the person in the small flower hall. But even so, seeing the person coming in
Afterwards, he bowed respectfully, but she still hurriedly stood up and gave him a little help.
Seeing that the person was not too old, she was not sure what to call him, so she simply avoided him and said with a smile: "The empress has given me such generous gifts again and again, and everyone in my family is really frightened and uneasy."
"My Majesty is still sitting on the mattress, otherwise she might have come in person. If it weren't for Bachelor Zhang and the eldest lady accompanying me that day, my Majesty finally relaxed, and I don't know what she would have suffered. My Majesty said, don't mention this to her.
Even if she moved a mountain of gold and silver for something she would no longer need in the future, it would not be able to express the gratitude and affection in her heart."
The other party spoke so sincerely, and even kept saying it in the name of the noble concubine. Wu finally didn't know what to say. She was not very good at words in the first place, so she suddenly became speechless.
Fortunately, Mother Jin who was following her was good at filling in the gaps, and she immediately said: "My young master and young lady often say that the empress treats them as her own children, and it is their duty to do something for her. After all, they can
Today, not only did my empress, Mrs. Zhao Guo, but also the late Tai Yiren risk their lives, it is also due to Lao An’s years of upbringing.”
This time, because Mother Jin was speaking on behalf of Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying, even the Wu family was a little restless, and Xiaoyue, as a person from Yonghe Palace, could not be too humble on behalf of her master at this time. So, she continued
When Wu came down, she saw Jin's mother and Xiaoyue exchanging polite words, and then she saw Xiaoyue leaving with a smile.
She wanted to stop her but didn't know if it was appropriate or not. She was on pins and needles for a moment. When she saw the person leaving the house and turned around, she turned her head to look at Mother Jin beside her with great uneasiness. As a result, she saw the person taking another step forward and approaching her.
Talk softly in her ear.
"Anren, Miss Xiaoyue is just running an errand to deliver a message for the noble concubine. Anyway, it is impossible for our family to refuse this matter. If they could, the young master and the young lady would have already declined."
Wu hesitated for a moment, and finally had to accept this result. However, when she actually came forward to receive this batch of gifts and the corresponding orders, she realized that her thinking was still too simple - because
It turned out that it was not just the books and weapons mentioned by Zhu Ying and Zhang Shou, but also...
There is also a whole box of gold and silver ingots!
It was not so much a box as a box about a foot long, half a foot wide, and about five inches high. Because it contained gold and silver ingots, it was so heavy that she had to struggle to move it.
, as soon as she opened it, Mrs. Wu couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, and then instinctively shouted: "This...how is this possible! Mother Jin, do you want to bring Miss Xiaoyue back!"
Mother Jin was just flipping through the thick list. After all, the name of each book was listed on the list. God knows how the concubine Yu collected so many strange and mysterious books in the palace, such as The Red Thread
Nie Yinniang and the like were relatively famous, so forget it, but she had never heard of many names!
Therefore, it wasn't until she turned her head to look because of Wu's reaction that she discovered the box of gold and silver ingots. For a moment, she no longer cared to read the list carefully, and flipped through it to the end, slightly
She was stunned and quickly handed the page to Wu, and deliberately poked the last line with her finger.
"Anren, look, it's clearly written on it. One hundred taels of gold and one hundred taels of silver. That's not much, but I didn't mention it."
Mrs. Wu usually doesn't come into contact with such physical gold and silver - after all, there are banks now, and a lot of money is transferred through them. What she sees is just a number, and most of the daily expenses are money bills. And the daily rewards are
Copper coins were tied one string at a time and put in baskets. After all, even servants' wages were sometimes not paid in copper coins.
Otherwise, with such a large population, how many baskets of money would be needed to make enough money?
As for gold and silver... she has never seen so much. After all, when she and Zhang Shou were in the countryside, clothing materials and various sundries were provided by the Duke of Zhao, and the rent paid by the tenants was also used to make money or
In kind. Zhu Ying may have been given a lot of gold and silver as a dowry when she got married, but she was not a mother-in-law who would look through her daughter-in-law's dowry.
At that moment, she even thought it was the one thousand taels of gold and silver mentioned in the previous drama...
Of course, when Mrs. Jin said this, Mrs. Wu had already reacted. If it really cost one thousand taels of gold and one thousand taels of silver... then it would cost two hundred kilograms, right? Then there is no way such a small box can fit it.
! But even so, she counted on her fingers and still felt that the reward from Yonghe Palace was too heavy. The most important thing is what Jin’s mother said, and she didn’t say so in advance!
So, she said decisively: "In this way, you pick two people to go to the public school and the girls' school separately, and tell Zhang Shou and Yingying about this. As for the things, you send them to Yingying's room and let her
Mother Li and the others helped with the inventory."
When Zhang Shou, who was at the public school, learned that in addition to the box of things that Concubine Yu had agreed with him and Zhu Ying, the Yonghe Palace actually had an extra box full of gold and silver, he had some surprises.
Less than.
The money is not much, after all, one hundred taels of gold and one hundred taels of silver, if added together according to the market price, is less than a thousand guan. No one in a wealthy family is short of this amount of money; but it is not enough to say that it is small.
Quite a bit, because the food and clothing expenses of the concubines of this dynasty are from the inner treasury, and most foreign ministers naturally don't know, but they can't stand Zhu Ying who is so familiar with the situation of the palace.
Excluding the supply of food, clothing and materials, the former imperial concubine only had 360 guan a year, but now that she has been granted the title of imperial concubine, she only has 600 guan, two-thirds of which are made of coins, and one-third of which are gold and silver. Even if
Concubine Yu saved all the gold and silver without spending a penny, and she would have to save a hundred gold and silver for ten or eight years. What would Princess Yongping and the fifth prince think if they all sent it to him like this?
"Do you want me to go to the eldest lady and ask her what she says?"
Suddenly hearing such words coming to his ears, Zhang Shou turned his head and saw Ah Liu quietly standing beside him. He shook his head thoughtfully: "Mother must have sent someone as well."
I went and told Yingying, so there is no need to ask her specifically...Besides, you can go back and ask her in the evening, it won't be long. This matter is a bit strange, let me think about it..."
Since Zhang Shou said there was no need to tell Zhu Ying, Ah Liu was immediately ready to escape. In fact, if someone from his family had not come to report the gift from Yonghe Palace, he would have heard no response from the school hall for a long time.
Don't worry, so come in and take a look, otherwise he will never interfere in something like this that he has absolutely no idea about.
But before he left, he suddenly heard Zhang Shou yelling again. When he turned around to look, he saw Zhang Shou gently fisting his hands with a smile on his face. The puzzlement on his face just now
Sweeping it all away: "I'll write a note and you go give it to Yingying! Once it's delivered, you don't have to come back to tell me what to do!"
Although I don't know why Zhang Shou suddenly changed his mind, Ah Liu was still very willing to be such a messenger, and he didn't even think about why he was not allowed to deliver a verbal message but a note instead.
On the way to deliver the letter, even if it was just a note folded into a cross shape without even an envelope, he did not open it out of any unrealistic curiosity, but kept it intact.
The things were sent to the women's school and handed over to Zhu Ying.
She had also received a message from her mother-in-law before, but Zhu Ying was no better entangled and hesitant than Zhang Shou. After all, it was understandable that Concubine Yu gave her all kinds of things, but she sent money, which was considered
What's going on? Fortunately, Princess Yongping was busy with the girls' school these days and didn't pay attention to Zhang Yuan's report. Otherwise, she was not sure how people would react when they found out.
So, holding the note that Ah Liu solemnly sent to her, she did not open it, but stared at Ah Liu and asked: "What did Ah Shou write?"
Ah Liu was immediately puzzled and pouted at the note - I want to know what it is, miss, don't you read it yourself? As a result, his action caused Zhu Ying to murmur: "If I am the one who sent the letter,
, I opened it on the road a long time ago to see what’s going on!”
"Master didn't let me see it!"
You really listen to Ah Shou! Zhu Ying wanted to say this, but then she thought about it. She almost trusted this boy as much as Zhang Shou. Isn't it because he never made any discounts when executing his orders?
A smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, but when she unfolded Zhang Shou's note and easily read the few lines of words with a quick glance, she was stunned.
After a long while, she suddenly slammed the table hard, and regardless of whether Ah Liu next to her was startled by her action, she started shouting: "Why didn't I expect that! I just said, the queen should not be such a cliché person...
...No, I want to go to the palace!"
Ah Liu didn't have time to speak, he saw Zhu Ying running out happily. He thought about it and ran after him. Who knew that when he got out of the door, he saw Zhu Ying standing there waiting for him: "
I have enough people around me, I don’t need you to follow me anymore, you don’t have to worry, I will go into the palace and ask everything clearly!”
Seeing Zhu Ying say these words, she immediately shouted hello to Liu Yin who came out with her today, and then went out to call the guards. Ah Liu could only go home suspiciously - go home in the true sense. After all, now,
He also had the additional task of urging the little ones in Zhang Yuan's family to study hard. However, even though Zhang Shou had always told him that he would not have to go back to the public school to pick up people after returning to Zhang Yuan, he still remained the same.
So, in the evening, after school, Zhang Shou still saw Ah Liu standing in front of Jiuzhang Hall with an umbrella. He raised his head and glanced at the sky where snow had begun to fall again. He walked forward leisurely and saw Ah Liu holding all the umbrellas as usual.
When the shot hit him, he knew that he couldn't persuade this kid to stop running around like this, so he asked directly: "What will Yingying say after the letter is delivered?"
"The eldest lady said she would ask for a clear explanation."
This was obviously an answer that was extremely in line with Zhu Ying's character, so Zhang Shou immediately laughed. Although he could wait until he got home before telling Zhu Ying his guess, in that case, the impatient young lady would probably
Unable to resist going to the palace overnight, he might as well tell her earlier. In this case, at least he wouldn't have to stay alone in the empty room during this long winter night...
Sure enough, when Zhang Shou returned to Zhang Yuan in a warm carriage, he learned from the door that Zhu Ying had not come back yet. He was not surprised by this result, but when he saw Wu, he
I was kicked out to see the things that were sent to me from Yonghe Palace today.
Because he had received the news in advance, he seemed very calm whether it was about books, weapons, or the box of gold and silver. However, this calmness only lasted until Miss Zhu Ying was like a warm wave in winter.
Yang appeared in front of him, and then several guards filed in. Each person placed a box in front of him, which was exactly the same as the one sent by Yonghe Palace before.
"What does this mean?"
Seeing Zhang Shou dumbfounded, Zhu Ying coughed and said: "When I went to Yonghe Palace today to ask the empress, the imperial concubine and the concubine Xian were also there, but the empress actually said it in front of them. I heard that the empress wanted to go before her.
I gave you the little private money I had saved to see if I could put it to some use, so they immediately took out all their private money, and then the Queen Mother came too..."