My bad words were heard by all the civil and military officials in the court

Chapter 128 Gossip

Xu Zhongshun replied: "Of course, it is to bring down the Huang family."

Prime Minister Shangguan: ...

The corner of his mouth twitched. How could he not know this?

What he asked about was the process, the process!

-

After Rong Anle was forced to separate from Ye Xingxin and His Majesty.

Following his father and Huang Changsheng, he went to the main hall to discuss the Huang family's help in funding the reconstruction of Jianghe City.

After Ye Shengxin and his companions signed the agreement to sell themselves, they were taken by the housekeeper to the yard where the slaves lived.

The Huang family occupies a large area. The servants share a room with four people. The space inside the room is not small, with cabinets and tables, and there are precious flowers and plants planted in the yard.

It is several times stronger than ordinary people's homes.

"You will live here from now on. As for work, the big kitchen is in need of a few woodcutters. Pack up your things and report to the big kitchen with Steward Wang."

Ye Shengxin nodded repeatedly.

After the butler left, she immediately took the bronze mirror out of Cui Luoshan's arms.

"Duanzhuang, from now on, your mission is to find out every treasure hiding place of the Huang family. Since we are here and have paid such a huge price by selling ourselves, we must not let go of any good things here."

"What do you think, little duck?" Ye Shengxin looked at Emperor Jingming.

The plan to sell herself into slavery was a sudden idea on her part, and she had not discussed it with everyone beforehand, so she felt quite embarrassed about it now.

Of course, thank you all for your cooperation in the performance.

Emperor Jingming had seen enough of the Huang family's wealth along the way, so he had no objection to Ye Xingxin's self-assertion. Instead, he smiled and said:

"It saves the effort of finding out."

Your Majesty has no objection, and it is even less likely that Zhang Liang would have one.

After they settled down simply, they followed Manager Wang to the kitchen.

There are a total of three thousand masters and servants in the Huang family. The big kitchen is where meals are provided to the servants and where meals are cooked when entertaining guests on weekdays.

As there were more people, they needed more food, so they needed enough firewood, which had to be distributed to the courtyards of each master. Therefore, the Huang family had ten people just to chop firewood.

Huang Chao took four people with him on this trip, and all four of them came back injured, so Ye Shengxin and his companions were just the right time to replace them.

This job does not involve touching any secrets, nor does it involve touching the masters' food, so Huang Changsheng was very relieved to have arranged it.

But Ye Shengxin looked at the maids and servants coming and going here, and listened to every word that came out of their mouths, and felt that he might be relieved too early.

"The master's fiftieth birthday is coming soon, and the Huang family members from the side branch are on their way. Mammy, we need to do more shopping this month."

"The side branch masters brought along quite a few maids and servants. If we don't prepare enough, we might have our monthly salary deducted by the head steward."

"Bang!" Ye Shengxin chopped wood with great effort, his ears perked up.

"The master's birthday is in ten days. The Huang family's side branches have been moving into the mansion one after another these days, so we really need to make arrangements."

"Hey, have you heard? This is the most complete gathering of the Huang family. The post was sent out half a year ago."

"How could I not have heard of it? Fortunately, the master's birthday party was not affected by the flood and can be held as usual. We can also take advantage of the good fortune and get an extra month's salary."

"Bang!" Emperor Jingming raised the axe and dropped it heavily, splitting the firewood into two. He continued to listen carefully.

I thought to myself: How were these maids and servants disciplined? How could they be so talkative?

If this were his servant, he would have been beaten long ago.

"The eldest young master got angry again when he just came back. He said that the cook's cooking skills were not to his liking and ordered the cook to be beaten with ten sticks. I don't know what kind of delicacies the eldest young master wants to eat."

"The concubine who climbed into the bed with the Second Master had a miscarriage. No one knows who did it. The concubine was really unlucky. I heard that she was pregnant with a boy."

……

Ye Shengxin was the slowest at chopping wood, so in the end Emperor Jingming took over her work. After they finished the work together, the four of them went to the cafeteria to eat.

The ministers said: Your Majesty, you have chopped so much wood that your back is bent. The same goes for Ye Shengxin. Why is it so hard for him to work?

Ye Shengxin and the other three came to the cafeteria, where there were not many servants still eating.

The food in the big bowl was almost all eaten up, and there was not enough rice and steamed buns left for two people.

There was a servant with a big appetite who took advantage of his height and strong body to grab the wooden shovel when Emperor Jingming was about to scoop up the rice, and scraped away all the remaining rice.

All the two steamed buns were taken away without leaving a single one.

Before leaving, he said with a smile: "Brother, come earlier next time. The food here doesn't wait for anyone."

After saying that, he left in a flash.

Ministers: !!!

This man actually dared to snatch your Majesty's food. It is really hateful and he deserves to be beaten with fifty lashes of cane.

Ye Xingxin glared at the man fiercely: [Eat, eat, it would be best if you were so full that you couldn’t eat for ten days or half a month.]

Emperor Jingming was satisfied with this punishment, and his anger over having his food snatched away was instantly calmed.

Ye Shengxin searched around the cafeteria and finally found only half a steamed bun that someone else had left over. She wrapped it up with a handkerchief.

"People can't eat this, but Erya can always eat it."

"As for us, let Hao Duanzhuang go to the masters' small kitchens to get some food in the evening."

Cui Luoshan wiped the sweat from his forehead due to working hard: "The food of those nobles must be better than here."

Ye Xingxin raised his eyebrows: "That's natural."

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Knowing that His Majesty and Ye Shengxin were in the Huang Mansion, Rong Anle tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, fearing that something might happen.

Finally, I put on my clothes, got out of bed, and prepared to go and take a look.

“Click.” “Click.”

The sound of a door opening was heard almost at the same time, and Rong Anle and Rong Ping tilted their heads.

They saw each other dressed in black, obviously preparing to do something bad.

silence.

Silence spread around the father and daughter.

Rong Ping coughed awkwardly: "Where is Anle going?"

Rong Anle: "Father, what about you?"

Rong Ping sighed: "... Let's go together."

Rong Anle smiled.

The father and daughter carefully avoided the guards of the Huang Mansion and came to the courtyard where the servants were.

In the dark night, the two stood on the roof, looking at the four people who were sneaking forward in the grass under the cover of Hao Duanzhuang's black fog.

He twitched his lips hard.

Taking action so soon?

Don't you even take a break to find out what's going on in the Huang Mansion?

"Ouch, Zhang Liang, don't step on my shoes." Ye Shengxin bent down and walked in front, with Zhang Liang behind him.

He felt his heel being stepped on and his shoe was separated from his foot. Ye Shengxin had to lie on the ground and put on his shoe again.

"I didn't mean it." Zhang Liang apologized with a black line on his forehead.

To be honest, he really didn't expect that they, who were waiting in the house for Hao Duanzhuang to come back with food, would receive the news that Huang Changsheng was having people move their belongings.

When Emperor Jingming heard this, he could no longer sit still. Ye Shengxin was the same. The two of them insisted on coming out to take a look.

So, the four of them ran out under the cover of Hao Duanzhuang.

Although the guards passing by couldn't see them, they also couldn't see the road clearly because of Hao Duanzhuang's black fog.

They could only barely see each other clearly through the faint starlight coming in from overhead.

"Luoshan, your head is against my waist." Emperor Jingming reminded the people behind him.

Cui Luoshan took a step back.

The four of them just stood there under the gaze of Rong Ping and Rong Anle, with the ministers' eyes twitching.

He arrived at the place where Huang Changsheng had people moving the silver and money at a moderate pace.