Spoiled Wife - C52

Just as he returned to his residence, Duke Xiang received the news. He frowned as he listened to Yan Yi’s report, “How many people were injured?”

The other people were only scratched a little, but there’s nothing wrong with them. Once we got back home, the princess immediately sent a treatment to them, and then each of the guards on duty was rewarded with a month’s worth of money. Those who were injured were given good medicine, and those who were fed well were given good rest.

King Xian nodded. He felt that the young wangfei had handled the situation well, at least not in a fluster. She was still relatively calm in the face of the situation.

Yan Yi looked at Duke Tai, who looked like he wanted to say something, but hesitated. “What’s wrong? What else is there? ”

“The imperial concubine also suspects that someone was trying to incite the commoners to cause trouble. She has already asked for permission from guard Liang.” Yan Yi answered truthfully.

King Xian nodded his head, “This King knows, go and check with Yan Er, whether it is the remnants of the gang, that allowed them to infiltrate the capital again.”

“Yan Er has already brought people to confirm it. However, there’s a high possibility that he is indeed one of those people.” Yan Yi replied.

When King Duan returned to the Cang Lan Yuan, Shen Qi was waiting for him. Upon seeing him, Shen Qi’s first question was, “How does the Duke plan to punish him?” He knew that he must have known about this a long time ago.

“Don’t prepare the porridge for now. This King will take care of it.”

Shen Qi frowned. Duke Xian looked at her in confusion and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Your Highness, do you think that there will be anyone who would dare to cook porridge after such a ruckus?” Shen Qi directly asked.

King Xian thought for a moment. This was indeed a matter. He knew that his imperial concubine was worried, so no one would prepare the porridge. The commoners would only be hungry. With the slightest bit of incitement, the victims would become even more troublesome.

However, there would definitely be people making trouble if they were to cook the porridge. It was possible that some of the militants among the victims had already been incited, so it would be troublesome later on.

Seeing Shen Qi’s worried look, Duke Xian reached out to caress her hair. His expression became gentle as he said, “Don’t worry, I will take care of this matter.

Shen Qi nodded her head, it was true, with the King, even if she worried about him, it would be useless, thus she smiled and asked: “Has the King ever eaten?”

“This King has used it. Rest first. There is no need to wait for This King. This King will go to the study to discuss this.” With that, he left.

Shen Qi looked at the back of Duke Xian’s back with a puzzled expression. What did she come back for?

When King Duan arrived at the study room, King’s Mansion’s aide, Mister Zeng was already there waiting. “Your Highness.” He gave a fist salute.

King Duan waved his hand. “Sir, there is no need to be overly courteous. Sir should know what happened today. This King wants to know what you think.”

Mister Zeng was a thirty-something year old, white-faced young man. He wore a cyan long robe without any decoration. He looked at Prince Xian and said with a smile, “Your highness should have a rough idea of what to do with it. What to do now is to think of how to deal with it.”

King Xian nodded. “Indeed, you’re here for the King’s Mansion again. It seems that the King Rui won’t give up on this king.” He didn’t need to hide anything in front of Mister Zeng.

“How does Your Highness plan to punish them? After all, if the commoners were to participate, it would be quite troublesome.” Mister Zeng asked seriously.

King Duan waved his hand. “This King won’t give them a chance. But I have something that I want to ask you for, sir.”

“Your Highness must be joking. If there’s anything you need, feel free to tell me.” Mr. Zeng said with a smile.

“Yan Er has already gone to capture them. When the time comes, there might be some commoners amongst them, so I hope that Mister can explain things to them.” Some of the people who had been incited couldn’t just leave them like that, so it was better to be enlightened for a bit.

Mister Zeng helplessly smiled and went to trick people again. It wasn’t the first time he did it, so he didn’t refuse, “Rest assured, your highness. Your subordinate will not disappoint you.”

A hint of a smile appeared in King Xian’s eyes. “This King has always been at ease with the way you handle things, sir.” If he could teach those people, then he would preach. If he couldn’t, he would scare the family and hoodwink them. In any case, it was enough for them to understand the seriousness of the situation.

“When will he be back?” Mr. Zeng knew that Yan Er was extremely efficient.

“There’s no rush. Mister can meet them again tomorrow.” He could come back tonight, but he had to stay the night to scare them.

Mister Zeng also understood this principle. He smiled and said, “Since that’s the case, your subordinate will take his leave first.”

“Sir, take care.” King Xian still had matters to attend to so he couldn’t return to his room at this time to rest.

Yan Er returned very quickly, but those people he caught were all commoners, “Your Highness, that man is too cunning, he used silver to incite these people to make trouble, he was not among this group of people after all, and hid himself long ago.”

King Xian wasn’t disappointed. After all, they weren’t stupid enough to wait for him to catch them, so from the very beginning, he hadn’t expected much.

“This King knows. You can go now. It’s been hard on you!” felt that the Duke already knew the result, and was not angry about it, so he left.

King Duanren picked up the paper on the table and looked at it for a moment before releasing it. Then, he returned to the Cang Lan Yuan.

Shen Qi had not slept yet, although Duke Yuan had told her not to wait for him, she did not sleep so early either. The lights in the room were still on, she leaned on the soft couch and looked at her account book.

Although she had not taken over all of King’s Mansion’s rewards, she still had to manage her dowry. The fields and shops outside had some income every month and there were already managers in charge of the shops. She did not have to worry about them normally, but in the end she had to check the accounts to prevent her master from bullying her owner.

Duke Xian did not get anyone to report and immediately dismissed the servant girl that was waiting on him. Shen Qi was looking at the accounts book with a serious expression, beside him was a pen and paper, on top of the book were some incomprehensible characters, and there were no signs of the abacus.

As for the abacus, Shen Qi indicated that she had learnt it during the second grade of primary school for a period of time, and then abandoned it after that.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t studied before coming here, but Shen Qi always felt that it was troublesome, and that her brush could be calculated even faster than this. Furthermore, her brush was a bit special, it was a real goose feather pen, with a certain degree of hardness, it was faster than writing with a brush.

There was also a period of time when she was trying to sharpen her eyebrow pencil into a pencil. It was actually quite easy to use! The brush was soft. Although the hairpin in her hand was written in a good style, it didn’t mean that she liked it.

King Xian looked at it for a long time, but still couldn’t understand it. Finally, he asked, “What do you mean by ‘what’s written on it’?”

Shen Qi was shocked, she raised her head to look, only to see Duke Xian looking at the string of numbers on his paper with a puzzled expression, as he laughed and said, “The Duke has returned.” She did not answer his question.

King Gong nodded, he continued to look at her using the numbers, Shen Qi knew that he had to understand it before he could stop.

“Number, this is a simple method of calculation that I have in mind.” At this time, this was the only thing he could say.

“Oh.” As expected, King Xian was interested. He picked up a piece of paper filled with numbers and looked at it. “What do these represent?”

Thus, Shen Qi wrote the capital letters 1 to 10 and the Arabic numerals 1 to 11 on the paper and handed it over to King Duan. She believed that she would understand.

King Xian looked at it and saw that it was indeed easy to write such records. Even if the books were in the hands of someone interested, they wouldn’t be able to understand what was written on it. It immediately piqued King Xian’s interest.

Thus, King Duan shamelessly asked Shen Qi a few more questions, and felt that everything had become so simple and clear. “What would happen if the Duke Palaces used this kind of method to record the accounts?” King Xian looked at Shen Qi and asked.

The property of the Duke Palaces was owned by the Duke and Duke Wei, but only a part of the property of the Crown was owned by the Duke. The private property of Duke Wei occupied the majority of the property of the Duke Palaces, so not all of the money was used for the expenses of the Duke Palaces., and other things like that, Shen Qi understood that he wanted to use it in the accounts of her private property so that it would be very convenient for him to do business in the future.

“Your Highness, it’s good that you’ve made the decision, but you can’t let too many people know about it. It would be best if only a few people would understand.” Shen Qi said with a smile.

King Xian nodded. “This King understands.” Right now, he had to be on guard against the people of the King Rui. No matter what, he could not leak out the account book he used to raise his troops, or else the King’s Mansion would be in danger!

Everyone knew that King Duanren had his own personal guards, but no one knew how strong these soldiers were. They were different from the Embroidered Uniform Guard, but their strength was not weaker than the Embroidered Uniform Guard. This was their trump card, something that no one else in the King Rui knew.

Back then, the late emperor had told many secrets of the imperial family to the Consort De and the King Rui, including the emperor’s Embroidered Uniform Guard.

This batch of soldiers was split up by his grandfather to preserve his strength, and the order badge was held in the hands of the dark guards who accompanied him in life or death situations, only those who passed the trial would have the right to order these soldiers, the late emperor felt that there was no need to pay such a huge price to obtain this batch of soldiers that did not matter to him, so it was always in the hands of the dark guards, and after a while even the late emperor had almost forgotten about it.

It wasn’t until King Xian coincidentally found out about their existence that he and the empress dowager were placed in an awkward and dangerous situation. That was why he had desperately tried his best to obtain the medallion and relied on these soldiers to win the final victory of the palace mutiny.