A Tu walked up quickly and said, "Big brother."

"Hehe" Hua Xiyu laughed awkwardly. A Tu had no obligation to serve her every day, so she couldn't blame A Tu for not bringing her dinner.

"The prince is waiting for you to have dinner at Yuefeng Pool." Ah Tu couldn't learn to speak tactfully, so he just told the truth.

"Yue Fengchi? Treat me to a meal?" Hua Xiyi thought he had heard it wrong, but immediately said, "Then go quickly, I'm hungry."

He took two steps and said, "Go back and help me keep an eye on my silver. Don't let anyone steal it. The eunuch beside the fifth prince may be going home."

"Brother, don't worry. No one in the palace dares to do that. The silver won't be lost." Ah Tu comforted him, but he still went to the stable. It was time for the fifth prince to return to the palace. If he didn't go back, he would be in trouble.

Caiping came over to ask the prince, "Where should we serve the dinner?"

"Yuefengchi" Liu Jingcheng was looking at Dabao's Lego in his hand. Without even raising his head, he replied mechanically.

There is Yuefeng Pavilion on Yuefeng Pond. When the wind blows, the water in the pond wrinkles into circles and rolls and piles up in the pond. The wind chimes on the pavilion make pleasant sounds in rhythm with the ripples. Liu Jingcheng loves this place the most. Here, he can find peace.

Thinking that Hua Xiyu would be arriving soon, he got up and went to Yuefeng Pond.

Hua Xiyu was already sitting in the pavilion. There were pens, ink, paper and inkstone on the stone table in the pavilion. It didn't look like he was going to invite anyone for dinner.

She picked up the ink and started grinding it, imitating the ancients' slow and methodical method, then looked at the paper on the table and thought, "Isn't this just settling accounts?"

According to this calculation method, the records are numerous and long, and it is easy to make mistakes. Why not use double-entry bookkeeping, which is simple and clear?

"What are you looking at?" This was indeed the account book that Steward Lin had sent to the prince. After reading a few pages in Yuefeng Pavilion in the afternoon, Liu Jingcheng was disturbed by his brother and went back to the courtyard. The account book and writing materials were temporarily placed here. No one dared to come forward to take a look unless the prince said so.

"Look at your account book. There are only a few accounts, but you have to remember them so long-windedly. Aren't you tired of reading it?" Hua Xiyu looked at the man who was walking towards him. He was covered in the afterglow of the sunset. Alas, it was a pity that he was not wearing golden armor.

He felt tired, too. If there was a mistress in the palace, he wouldn't have to do all these things himself.

"Then can you help me check if there is any problem with these accounts?" Liu Jingcheng handed over the account book.

Hua Xiyu has already looked at it. The problem is not that serious, but the accounting method is too backward and needs to be adjusted.

"I'll help you change it, what do you think?" Liu Jingcheng did not comment, which was considered as his tacit agreement.

So Hua Xiyu sat down and easily made a table, copied down several accounts from several books, and restated them using the modern double-entry bookkeeping method. Others had three pages, but she only recorded two or three lines, and it was clear.

"Date, income, expenditure, balance," she pointed to the form and showed it to Liu Jingcheng, "Finally make a note of the reason, isn't it very clear?"

She pointed to a string of numbers and said, "These are numbers. Use them to replace one, two, three, four, five..."

"Look, isn't it simple and clear?"

Liu Jingcheng pointed to a figure of 328 taels of silver and asked, "How can I know how much that is?"

"Brother, you have to treat me to a meal first before we continue. Knowledge has to be paid for."

"Serve the meal!" Liu Jingcheng shouted to Steward Lin who was guarding the door.

Soon, various dishes were served on the table, including fish and meat, which made Hua Xiyu drool.

"How many of us are there to eat? There are so many dishes," she couldn't help but ask.

"Just the two of us."

"No way, we don't look like pigs, how can we eat so much?"

"This is the prince's rule. His Highness's meals must have 48 dishes each. We have reduced that a lot in the palace," said Butler Lin as he laid out the food. He couldn't understand how Lin Da, a girl who had never seen the world, could catch the prince's eye.

"48 dishes, so damn extravagant," Hua Xiyu couldn't help but curse, "There is a poem I wonder if Your Majesty has heard of, 'When the sun is at noon and I am hoeing the field, my sweat drips to the ground. Who knows that every grain of rice on the plate is the result of hard work'."

Liu Jingcheng was ashamed, he had never thought about this problem. He was the Prince Hong, and it should be like this according to the regulations. Moreover, the dishes in his mansion had been reduced to 16, which was very few.

But this poem is really well written. It sounds like the farmers' lives are so hard and pitiful.

"Dabao, Erbao, why don't you eat together today? Aren't you father and son? You are busy with your own things during the day, but you should always have dinner together as a family."

Liu Jingcheng originally wanted to discuss serious matters with him today, so he didn't ask Dabao and Erbao to come for dinner. But when he heard her say that the whole family should eat together, he immediately winked at housekeeper Lin and asked him to go and pick up the two children.

If there are four people eating, this table of food is not too much, after all, the portion on each plate is not much.

The eldest and second child were quickly picked up, but the two little guys were still reluctant to go. They had already eaten, and one was playing with Lego in the room, while the other was playing with Barbie dolls. They were in no mood to have dinner with their daddy today.

"Well, that Mr. Lin was also dining with the prince at Yuefeng Pavilion," Butler Lin said mysteriously.

"Really?" The two children immediately stood up from their play and followed Steward Lin to Yuefeng Pavilion.

"Dabao, Erbao" Hua Xiyu happened to be sitting opposite them. When he saw the two little guys coming, he hurried to greet them.

Both of them threw themselves into their mother's arms without any hesitation and shouted, "Mom!" at the same time.

"Mother?" Liu Jingcheng stood nearby like an outsider, watching the mother and her two children hugging each other. Also, when did the two little ones start calling her mother directly? Weren't they told to call her sister?

Moreover, judging from Hua Xiyu's expression, he seemed to have gotten used to it.

Hua Xiyu held the two children and sat down, one on each side, and the family of four began to eat. The ancients believed in not talking while eating or sleeping, so after the eldest and second children had their meal, they sat at the table, not eating, but they also stopped talking.

"Try this." Steward Lin personally served the dish to the prince.

"These are mushrooms." Liu Jingcheng looked at the mushrooms in the bowl and was about to blame Steward Lin for putting them on the table without even knowing whether they were poisonous or not.

"Your Highness, please don't worry about eating it. I have tried it and it is not poisonous. Moreover, someone in the city recently sold it for one tael of silver per pound. They guarantee that it is non-toxic."

"It's just a mushroom. Even if it's poisonous, it won't be a problem if you cook it a little longer. It's edible mushroom, cultivated artificially, so you can eat it with confidence," Hua Xiyu said, and ate the mushrooms in his bowl in one mouthful, completely disregarding his image.

When they heard it was mushrooms, Dabao and Erbao also wanted to try it, even though they had never eaten mushrooms before.

"Come, have a bite." Hua Xiyu fed the second baby a bite, but the first baby refused to let him feed him and ate it himself with a chopstick.

"It's really delicious, why haven't I eaten it before?" Erbao looked at Butler Lin, as if blaming him why he didn't cook it for them before.

"Oh, Princess, this is not the fault of this old servant. This has only appeared in Huicheng in the last few days. There is a special shop selling mushrooms in the Su family business. The palace has been lining up to buy mushrooms since early in the morning, and only bought two kilograms today."

"Su's business?" Hua Xiyu suddenly remembered that it was Su Shiyu's family. They grew mushrooms so quickly. They must have returned to Huicheng again.

She looked at the table again and saw a plate of bean sprouts. Does that mean that Miao Sanniang's bean sprouts were also a great success and had been sold to Huicheng?

"Butler Lin, these bean sprouts..."

"This bean sprout was brought back from Niuba Town by Jie An this morning. A couple was selling bean sprouts on the street and were bullied by someone. The person insisted that they hand over the recipe for growing bean sprouts. The couple refused, so the person wanted to rip up their stall and take them to the county government.

Bu Jie An happened to pass by, and he could not tolerate this, so he beat the gang away, bought all the bean sprouts from the couple, and told them to go home quickly and not sell them in the future to avoid getting into trouble.

If this were the case, wouldn't that harm Miao Sanniang's family? Hua Xiyu's mood suddenly became bad.

She took out her cell phone and looked for Ma Biao's location, "Butler Lin, do you know where this place is?"

Butler Lin took a look and knew the general direction, but not the exact location.

"Well, this..." Butler Lin didn't know what she was going to do and didn't dare to speak rashly.

"Yiqi, come here and help me." Hua Xiyu looked around and saw Yiqi. She couldn't use others, but Yiqi was her defeated opponent, so it was much easier for her to use him.

"Look, this location, do you know it?" Hua Xiyu showed Yiqi the location on his mobile phone.

Of course Yiqi knew. It was Ma Biao's home. They and the prince had waited there before, so how could he not know?

"I know," Yiqi answered straightforwardly. He glanced at the housekeeper meaningfully, and Housekeeper Lin was a little confused, not knowing where he had answered wrong.

"Go there tonight and help me capture Ma Biao. I have something for him to do."

"It's too early to go after the 10:00 p.m. time. I'm afraid he may not be at home."

"Okay, I've got that in mind," Yiqi replied respectfully. Just kidding, this was their future princess consort. Under the current circumstances, even the prince didn't dare to disobey his arrangements, so how could they, his subordinates, dare to do so?

Over at the stable, Liu Jingsheng had already learned how to ride a horse perfectly. The young eunuchs on the field were extremely tired and covered in mud. How could they return to the palace in this state? So they were stalling for time. If they could wait a little longer and not be seen, they could avoid a lot of trouble.

Liu Jingcheng sent several groups of people to invite them to come for dinner, but he refused, claiming that he had to go back to the palace to eat because his mother was watching him.

So Liu Jingcheng ignored him. This fifth brother had been spoiled by the queen. He was only ten years old and could do nothing except playing.

It was getting dark, and if he didn't return to the palace, the palace gates would be locked. Ah Tu respectfully sent the fifth prince out, and finally an important matter was resolved.

Liu Jingsheng rode away happily on his bicycle, and the eunuchs behind him ran desperately to catch up, "Your Highness, please slow down, wait for your servants."

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