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Chapter 177: The Table Cloth

When the sixth prince returned to the courtyard, Xuexiang was arranging Shen Qiujun's hair, while Xueliu vividly described the words of the sixth prince's instructions to his servants.

The three of them were having fun when they saw the Sixth Prince walking into the room. Xuexiang and Xueliu both hurriedly suppressed their smiles, bowed and left the bedroom. One went to pour tea, and the other ran outside and scolded the little girl quietly: "How can you let the Sixth Prince fight by himself?" Came in behind a curtain.

Shen Qiujun stood up with a smile to greet her, and explained: "Everyone has been called to the front to listen to the training, and only a few little girls are left. If there are any places that are not available, please be more considerate."

The Sixth Prince smiled and said: "Do I have to be on the same level as them? It's just that they don't treat you lightly. If you have packed up, come and meet the people in the mansion together."

Seeing Shen Qiujun nodding, the Sixth Prince added: "There are only a few people around me, and they are all arranged in the outer courtyard. The original ones in the mansion and those who were transferred later, I don't know who they are, so I just let them do it outside. Don't let them come to you to do menial work. Anyway, you have a lot of family members who are married to you, so they should be enough for you. In addition, you can also choose a few trustworthy and capable people to work as stewards in the outer courtyard, so that you can do some things. convenient."

Shen Qiujun hurriedly smiled and said: "Let me think about the candidate carefully and tell you later."

The couple walked to the meeting hall chatting and laughing, and everyone in the mansion stood aside to greet them hurriedly and respectfully.

Shen Qiujun sat down and said with a smile: "It's fate that we can all be together in one place. We have all worked hard this month, and everyone will receive an extra month's monthly payment."

Everyone smiled and thanked them, and Shen Qiujun said sternly: "As long as you do your job well, I won't treat you badly. But if you find someone who arbitrarily arranges the master to take advantage of you, you must be severely punished." "Of course, even if there are people like that among you, I, a woman, can't do anything about it, so I will naturally leave it to you to handle it."

After saying this, Shen Qiujun glanced at the sixth prince, who also nodded gently and gave a big smile in return.

Xiao Chengzi watched from the side, and suddenly felt that the scene in front of him was a bit inconsistent. No matter how it looked, it looked like the lady in charge was instructing the servants, and sitting next to her was a wolfdog that looked gentle but was actually looking at the servants viciously.

Xiao Chengzi shuddered when he thought that he compared his master to a dog. He was busy reciting Buddha's name in his mind, and suddenly felt a shadow in front of his eyes. He looked up and saw the sixth prince looking at him with a frown, and shouted in a low voice: "Master!"

The Sixth Prince raised his hand and hit Xiao Chengzi on the head and said, "What are you thinking about? Madam is lecturing you here, where did your brain go?"

Xiao Chengzi hurriedly smiled and said: "You are listening right now."

The Sixth Prince sneered: "What are you listening to? We have finished talking a long time ago. Everyone has dispersed. Why are you still here? Why don't you go to the kitchen to hurry up? The food should be ready."

Xiao Chengzi stuck out his tongue secretly, bent over and ran to the kitchen in a hurry.

The Sixth Prince had already mentioned what he said before. Shen Qiujun had nothing to say, he just wanted to meet everyone, so after a few words, he let everyone disperse.

When Shen Qiujun returned to the courtyard, he saw that the food had been put on the table, and Xiao Chengzi was nodding and bowing with a smile. He couldn't help but smile to the Sixth Prince: "Xiao Chengzi does things neatly."

The Sixth Prince looked at the table full of food and said with a smile: "Old Li has worked really hard, he is good at everything. You will have to taste it later."

Xuexiang took the little girl to ask the six princes to clean their hands. Xueliu helped arrange the dishes. Shen Qiujun tasted a few dishes and said with a smile: "It is indeed delicious. It seems that it must have been cooked by the old imperial chef in the palace." "

After hearing this, the Sixth Prince smiled and said: "He is an old man in my place, and he is very skilled at craftsmanship, so I brought him out this time." As he said this, he helped Shen Qiujun pick up a few dishes and put them in her bowl. Li: "Try more, these dishes are all delicious."

Shen Qiujun watched helplessly as the sixth prince picked up the vegetables with his own chopsticks and brought them to him. He couldn't eat the rice in the bowl anymore.

When we were in the Shen Mansion, although the whole family sat together to eat, most of the girls were helping with the dishes. Although they also picked up the dishes closest to them, they were only on the side closest to them, but they had He didn’t eat half of his meal and used his own chopsticks to pick up food for others.

Seeing Shen Qiujun's expression, Xue Liu hurriedly took a small plate from beside her, laid out some other dishes and sent them to Shen Qiujun, and said with a smile: "These things look pretty good to you, my lady. You should try them too, Madam."

Shen Qiujun then smiled, picked it up and ate it.

The Sixth Prince was used to eating alone, so he didn't think so carefully. But when he saw that Shen Qiujun didn't eat what he had eaten, but ate Xueliu's, he felt unhappy. There was something wrong with the look in Xueliu's eyes, a hairy girl also Dare to compete with yourself.

The more the Sixth Prince thought about it, the more unwilling he became. He stood up and put several dishes from far away into Shen Qiujun's bowl one by one. He said with a smile: "This food is about the taste. I only pay attention to what looks good or not, so I put the cart before the horse." Okay, although these things don’t look very good, they taste first-rate and delicious.”

Shen Qiujun looked at the enthusiastic and smiling Sixth Prince and couldn't bear to attack him. He could only take a bite of the food in the bowl and pointed to a dish in the distance and said to Xue Liu: "I see that dish. That’s right, you can clothe it for me.”

Xue Liu knew that this was the young lady's intention to remind the sixth prince, so she hurriedly agreed, took a small plate with vegetables and sent it to the sixth prince.

The Sixth Prince glanced at Xue Liu and hummed: "I know how you women should pay attention to the appearance and posture when eating. I can't use it as a man. I can reach it when I stand up. There is no need for her." Then he smiled at Shen Qiujun and said: " Come on, what do you like to eat? I'll give it to you. It's too awkward for an outsider to stand next to us while we're eating."

Xue Liu had no choice but to retreat to Shen Qiujun, but the Sixth Prince seemed to be deliberately demonstrating. Every time he took a bite of food, he would comment on it, and then give it to Shen Qiujun for her to taste too.

Shen Qiujun looked at the pile of food in front of him and managed to eat less than half of the bowl. However, he felt really disgusted, so he put down the bowl and chopsticks and said with a smile: "I've finished eating. You can eat slowly. I'll do whatever you want to eat." Help you with the dishes."

The Sixth Prince looked at the almost untouched food and said in surprise: "Why do you eat so little? Is it because Lao Li's food is not to your taste? Yes, everyone's taste is different. What I like may not be what you like too. You If you really can't get used to it, ask your usual cook to cook another table, so you don't go hungry."

Shen Qiujun smiled hurriedly and said: "The food is very good. I just ate a little too much snacks in the palace and slept again. I don't feel hungry at all. You don't need to worry about me, just eat yours."

The sixth prince had no choice but to give up and eat slowly by himself. Fortunately, Shen Qiujun did not leave the table even though he finished eating. He still sat there with the sixth prince. This made the sixth prince feel very good and he ate very deliciously. Every dish was delicious. They all ate a lot.

Seeing that the rice in the sixth prince's bowl was gone, Shen Qiujun hurriedly said to Xue Liu: "Bring me some more rice."

The Sixth Prince already smiled and said: "No need, I'll finish the rest of your food and that's it."

Before he finished speaking, the Sixth Prince had already poured all Shen Qiujun's leftover food into his own bowl, lowered his head and started eating. Lord Shen Qiu's servants were all stunned when they saw this scene.

The sixth prince looked up and saw Shen Qiujun with a strange look on his face, and asked hurriedly: "What's wrong?"

Shen Qiujun hesitated for a long time and said, "It's not like we don't have enough rice. Do we need to eat leftovers?"

The sixth prince said: "What to do with the rest? It's a pity. Besides, it's not someone else who eats the rest." Besides, if someone else eats the food that his wife has eaten, he always feels as if he has suffered a loss. Similar.

After hearing this, Shen Qiujun felt less strange in his heart, but he still couldn't bear to eat other people's leftovers.

After dinner, the housekeeper brought the account book and the roster of everyone in the mansion. Xue Liu took it and handed it to Shen Qiujun. He caught a glimpse of the property accounts of the mansion and almost laughed out loud, and hurriedly stepped back. He covered his mouth with a veil.

Shen Qiujun opened the roster and took a look at it. When he saw that all the people he brought were on the roster, he couldn't help but praise: "The manager's work has become faster."

Then he opened the account book again, glanced at it, and immediately understood why Xue Liu was laughing.

Because the Sixth Prince's Mansion was newly built, all income and expenses were not large, so one could see how much the Sixth Prince was worth at a glance. Even Shen Qiujun was surprised. Is the Emperor planning to sweep the Sixth Prince out naked? This account The more than one thousand taels of silver were probably left over from the gift money received for weddings. Compared with Shen Qiujun's dowry of more than 100,000 taels, it is really negligible.

The sixth prince took a look and his face turned red.

Seeing this, Shen Qiujun hurriedly put it away and said with a smile: "I'll keep it for now and read it slowly. If there's anything I don't understand, I'll ask you for help."

The housekeeper said he didn't dare and retreated for a moment.

The next afternoon, Shen Qiujun and the sixth prince slowly discussed how to arrange personnel and other issues. The sixth prince looked at Shen Qiujun's appearance as a little daughter-in-law who lived at home, and suddenly felt that she had finally found the feeling of home, and her heart warmed. of.

At night, the Sixth Prince moved to the study room to sleep. Aunt Chu couldn't help but pull Shen Qiujun and scolded: "Even if we don't have a wedding, we can share the same bed. Why bother to separate rooms? If he doesn't come into the room, he won't be able to sleep in the room." The one who is suffering is still the young lady."

Shen Qiujun sighed inwardly. In fact, she was really afraid that she would wake up in the middle of the night and see a man sleeping next to her, and she would do something out of confusion. But if she didn't put the dagger under her pillow, she would not be able to sleep well. But saying this would only make them sad, so he blushed and said with a smile: "What are you afraid of? He is still a child now. In a few years, he will understand some things and he will naturally want to move in without me calling him." .”

Aunt Chu thought about it for a while and felt that it made sense. However, she was still worried that if the Sixth Prince would not be able to keep his face down, and some shameless little hooves who wanted to be in power would come to seduce him, she would not be able to say whether the Sixth Prince would agree to it then. It would be too late to take a concubine, and I would have to watch the sixth prince more.
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