She married a dying prince and she won three babies.

"Mother, my daughter-in-law doesn't know how to use an abacus." Yu Yuanzheng looked at the princess pitifully.

When the princess heard this, she touched her nose.

I really don't have any foundation at all.

Yu Chaoyang chuckled after hearing this.

"Sister-in-law, if you want to do accounting, you must know how to use an abacus. Didn't Second Aunt teach you?"

"I got married before my mother had the chance to teach me." Yu Yuanzheng raised her eyebrows, and the meaning of her words was very clear: You wanted to drag me into this, so you made me get married in such a hurry.

"Ziqi's wife can't even use an abacus. Princess sister, it's better not to let her learn it. It will take a long time for her to learn it." Concubine Luo smiled while covering her mouth with a handkerchief.

"Princess, please don't embarrass her. Let her go back to the yard to embroider." The second old lady also joined in.

"Yes, doesn't she like embroidery? The Queen Mother will have her birthday soon. We can ask Ziqi's wife to embroider a birthday picture for the Queen Mother to show her love.

Our palace sends a jade Guanyin every year, and the Queen Mother is tired of it. If we let Ziqi's wife embroider a Guanyin, it would be a new idea and the Queen Mother would like it more. "Concubine Luo thought of something for Yu Yuanzheng to do.

"Who says you have to use an abacus to do the math? I can do the math in my head.

And who said I like embroidery?

It's no problem to embroider to kill time.

Concubine Luo, have you ever thought about how long it takes to embroider a Guanyin?"

Yu Yuanzheng looked at Concubine Luo with a cold face.

This question made Concubine Luo feel awkward to respond.

"I'm not very good at embroidery, so I don't know how long it will take. If it takes too long, then don't waste time here and start embroidering early."

"Does the palace need to please the Queen Mother to look good?" Yu Yuanzheng asked another pointed question.

"How can you talk like that? The Queen Mother is the Emperor's biological mother and the most honorable woman in our Great Wei. Asking you to embroider a Guanyin for her shows that she thinks highly of you. It's not certain whether the Queen Mother will like it or not." The second old lady sullenly poked the crutch in her hand.

"If you don't like it, then why should I embroider it?" Yu Yuanzheng was too lazy to pay attention to her.

Arguing with the second old lady really affects my mood.

Why doesn't she leave? I really don't want to see her.

"Madame Zhao, could you please get me some blank paper?" Yu Yuanzheng asked Madame Zhao who had been standing beside her.

Nanny Zhao went into the inner hall and brought out a stack of paper.

Yu Yuanzheng picked up the smallest brush and started doing mental arithmetic. She added up a few numbers in her mind and then wrote them down on paper. Soon she had added up several pages of numbers and then added up the totals of each part.

In this way, the account book was completed in a short time.

When she finished counting three books, Yu Chaoyang had only finished counting two.

The account book was written with a brush, so not much could be recorded on one page. It was unlike the account books of later generations, which were densely packed with notes.

There are about twenty account books in a box.

When all the numbers were counted, there were thirteen books in front of Yu Yuanzheng and seven books in front of Yu Chaoyang.

The princess also finished the tasks assigned in the morning.

When I returned to the main hall, I saw that the two of them had finished calculating a box of account books so quickly.

I was a little surprised.

Concubine Luo and the second old lady did not leave at all. They just watched the two of them calculate. The only sound they could hear was Yu Chaoyang using the abacus, while Yu Yuanzheng was just writing and drawing on paper. After a while, she threw a book aside, and after a while, she threw another book aside.

The two of them simply didn't believe that Yu Yuanzheng could really calculate so quickly using her mental arithmetic, and they thought she might just be making random calculations.

They are waiting to see the joke.

The princess picked up the book that Yu Yuanzheng had selected and read it.

She hasn't yet settled the accounts.

"Did Zheng'er calculate all these?" the princess asked with a smile.

"Yes, Mother, please check."

The princess took an abacus and began to verify.

"Madam Zhao, please also help verify Chaoyang's information." The princess tilted her head and ordered.

When the princess finished calculating one book, it took her a little less time than Yu Chaoyang, but it also took her a little longer than Yu Yuanzheng.

When a book is verified, the number is exactly the same.

The one that Madam Zhao verified was short by three taels and two cents of silver.

Concubine Luo and the second old lady couldn't believe it and wanted to verify it.

The second old lady had managed the household before, so of course she knew how to do the math. When she finished calculating the book that Zhao Ma had used, she was still short of three taels and two cents.

What Concubine Luo verified was the one calculated by Yu Yuanzheng, which was also calculated by the princess.

The result was exactly right.

High and low appear immediately.

What a slap in the face.

The legitimate daughter who was personally taught by the eldest lady of the Bo Mansion was actually not as good as a concubine's daughter who couldn't even use an abacus.

"Zheng'er is really good at settling accounts. Mother will have a helper from now on." The princess was very happy.

"Princess, if Chaoyang practices more, he can be a good helper." Concubine Luo would never let the princess leave her daughter-in-law behind.

"I didn't say I wouldn't teach her, but she's pregnant now, so she should focus on nurturing the fetus. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future. Didn't Zheng'er just say that? I'm still over forty years away from eighty."

After hearing this, Concubine Luo and the second old lady were speechless.

"Mother, your daughter-in-law wants to be lazy. When you are too busy in the future, just call me. If you are busy, please let me go." Yu Yuanzheng acted coquettishly.

Look, one is eager to be the housekeeper, while the other is given the opportunity to hide.

"Mother, I want to practice more." Yu Chaoyang asked with a red face.

"You can learn whatever you want. Come whenever you want and just watch from the side." The princess didn't care.

If nothing unexpected happens, this palace will indeed be managed by the Crown Prince's Consort in the future. She can't really manage it until she is in her seventies or eighties.

At most she will have to hand it over after a few more years, otherwise it will lead to gossip.

The farce ended with Yu Chaoyang's defeat.

Yu Yuanzheng left and went to the front yard to find Shangguan Ziqi.

When she arrived outside Shangguan Ziqi's study in the front yard, she heard sobbing sounds coming from inside.

"Master, we have been waiting for you to wake up. Yesterday, we heard from the servants that you had woken up. We wanted to go to Qiyayuan to see you immediately, but Madam Ye stopped us from entering.

We are so happy to finally see you wake up today.

Sir, please leave us here and continue to serve you."

Yu Yuanzheng knew who it was as soon as she heard it.

Ruyue was one of the two maids who used to serve in the study.

He heard that the eldest master had woken up, so he couldn't wait to get close to him.

"Why have you been waiting for me to wake up? You should be grown up already. Didn't your mother arrange for you to get married?" Shangguan Ziqi's voice came.

"Young Master, we will not marry. We will serve you for the rest of our lives." Rushuang's voice was filled with tears, making people feel as if she had suffered a great injustice.

"You don't have to do this. I'll tell my mother later and ask her to find a suitable family for you to marry into."

"Master, we, we are yours, how can we marry someone else?" Ruyue said in an incredulous tone.

Shangguan Ziqi didn't know that they had already been scolded by Yu Yuanzheng and that the princess had arranged for them to get married.

"When did I let you into my room?" Shangguan Ziqi's voice turned cold, and even the way he addressed himself changed.

"We, we..." The two maids shrank back in fear.

"Young Master, we have served you closely for so many years, how can we marry others?" Ruyue said with courage.

"You are both virgins, why can't you marry others?" Shangguan Ziqi looked at the two maids kneeling in front of him with displeasure.

In the past, both of them were well behaved, so why are they so bold and presumptuous today?