Chapter 141 General Wu's Troubles

"You are useless. You can't even control a woman." Prime Minister Wei glared at Wei Shichang unhappily.

"Come here."

"What do you want, sir?"

Hearing Prime Minister Wei's voice, the servant waiting outside the door hurried in.

"Prepare the carriage and go to Wu's mansion."

"Sir, there has been a curfew in the city for a few days. People can't walk around, let alone the carriage." The servant bowed and explained.

"Wait, I will write a letter, and you can ask the best light work to go to Wu's mansion."

"Big brother is busy first, and the second brother will go back and teach that disobedient woman a lesson."

While Prime Minister Wei was taking a pen, Wei Shichang found an excuse to slip out. If he didn't leave, his big brother would scold him after he was done.

A moment later, a man in night clothes jumped out of the wall of Wei's mansion, and disappeared in the vast night after a few jumps.

This night was destined to be a sleepless night.

At this time, the lights in the main courtyard of the Taiwei Mansion were not turned off.

Wu Taiwei paced back and forth in the study, sometimes frowning and sometimes sighing.

The court was changing, and the new emperor's successive attacks were targeted at cleaning up the previous emperor's nepotism.

As the empress dowager's family, Wu Taiwei secretly sweated.

The new emperor placed new people around him, saying that they were to share government affairs. He knew very well that this was a new person trained by the new emperor. As long as he made a mistake, he would be replaced.

The emperor ordered to raise military pay, and he thought about it and felt something was wrong.

If they took too much, the emperor would have to guess how much military pay they had embezzled in the past. If they took too little, the emperor would think they were disrespecting the emperor's will.

It was a dilemma, and nothing was right.

"Master, it's getting late, take a rest." Seeing that Wu Taiwei had no official business and was walking back and forth in the room, the servant whispered.

Seeing that Wu Taiwei stopped, the servant asked again: "Which courtyard do you want to go to tonight? I will pass the message to you."

The master has been resting in the study for several days. The servant saw that the master seemed to be worried. He thought that the master might be able to relieve his boredom by talking to the concubines.

Wu Taiwei was slightly stunned and waved his wide sleeves, "No need to pass the message, I will go to the lady's courtyard."

Although Mrs. Wu's housekeeper, Mrs. Huo, is unreliable, she has read a lot and occasionally has reasonable opinions.

Wu Taiwei left the study and walked straight to the main courtyard.

As soon as he entered the courtyard gate, he heard Mrs. Huo's heartless laughter from the room.

"Stop, let me slow down, you girl is so much like the storyteller."

In the room, Mrs. Huo laughed so hard that she fell backwards, and the big maid in the room stopped gesturing in the middle of the room.

"Madam, I'm not exaggerating. That's what the storyteller really said."

Wu Taiwei stopped and stood in front of the door. After a while, the voice of the maid telling a story came from the room again.

"Ahem..."

Hearing the cough at the door, the maid who was telling a story quickly shut up and turned to open the curtain at the door, "The master is here, please come in."

"Madam, you are in a good mood. You just got out of the house to listen to storytelling after being released from house arrest for a few days?" Wu Taiwei put his hands behind his back, expressionless, and stepped in.

Mrs. Huo, who had changed into pajamas, sat cross-legged on the bed. Seeing Wu Taiwei enter the room, she quickly got up and got out of bed.

"Why hasn't my husband rested yet?" Mrs. Huo asked instead of answering.

"Madam, wait, I'll get some hot water for the master to wash up." The big maid said and winked at Mrs. Wu.

Seeing the maid leave quickly, Mrs. Huo came to her senses belatedly. Her husband planned to rest in her room tonight.

"Have you checked the accounts in the accounting office? Has mother calmed down?"

"Seeing that you still have the leisure to have fun, I guess there has been no mistakes in the mansion recently."

General Wu approached and stretched out his arms. Mrs. Huo walked over with a smile to help him undress.

"Look at what my husband said, I don't make mistakes often. My mother asked me to go out of the mansion to do something. I just overheard it when I passed by the teahouse. I thought the storyteller's travel notes were very interesting, so I asked the maid to listen to them and tell them to me to relieve my boredom."

Madam Wu didn't say why the old lady asked her to go out of the mansion.

General Wu never asked about the affairs of the inner house. The mansion was harmonious, so he didn't need to ask.

"After all, the queen mother is a member of the Wu family. It hasn't been a hundred days yet. Don't talk and laugh outside. This is not decent." General Wu pretended to reprimand.

Mrs. Huo nodded obediently, "I understand. Today, I even burned a stick of incense for my aunt in the ancestral hall. The incense is very popular. I believe that the old lady passed away peacefully."

"Peace of mind, it's all because of that bastard who made my aunt worry so much. If my aunt didn't go to the Qianqing Palace, she could live a long life!"

General Wu was furious when he talked about the late emperor.

"At home, my husband, don't tell lies. My aunt is old, how can she live to be a hundred years old? Besides, the new emperor is coming to Beijing, and my aunt will be so angry that she will die."

Mrs. Huo was calm and sincere, and her face was innocent and harmless. General Wu's forehead was throbbing.

I don't know how the Huo family raised their daughter. She is so simple-minded at this age.

She looks like a person in front of others, but she never thinks when talking to him in the house.

"You have read so many miscellaneous books, but have you ever seen an emperor asking his ministers for money?" Wu Taiwei did not beat around the bush when talking to Mrs. Huo.

"Yes, for example, when there is a natural disaster, the emperor will ask his ministers to provide disaster relief."

After she finished speaking, before Wu Taiwei could reply, she continued, "On the birthdays of the ladies in the palace, the ministers and wives will find opportunities to send gifts to keep in touch with them."

"You are not stupid! Why didn't I see you go to the palace to give gifts before?"

"My mother is in charge of the mansion, so I don't have the opportunity to show my skills. Besides, my aunt has so many valuable things, how can she look down on the things in my hand that are not presentable."

What Huo said was true. Her family was a declining marquis' mansion. She didn't have much dowry, let alone valuable things.

Every time she sent gifts to the palace, it was Mrs. Wu who selected decent things from the central warehouse.

"The new emperor said that the military pay was tight and asked everyone to make up for it." Wu Taiwei said depressedly.

"My husband, don't be stingy. It's your honor that the new emperor can still use you. This money must be made up."

"You are generous to others. It's not right to take more or less money. This is a headache for me." Wu Taiwei said as he sat down on the bed and raised his hand to pinch his eyebrows.

Huo put the loose robe on the hanger on the side of the bed.

He curled his lips and said, "What's so difficult about this? Just take as much as you want. The new emperor's coronation ceremony is imminent, and the palace will send another generous gift. You and the children can each give one, and the total amount should not be less than others."

"That's right! Why didn't I think of it? Hahaha... Madam is smart." Wu Taiwei slapped his thigh, laughed and stretched out his hand to pull Mrs. Huo, who stumbled and fell into his arms.

Wu Taiwei, who was in a good mood, was about to lean over and kiss her, when his personal servant reported outside: "Master, someone from the Prime Minister's Mansion wants to see you."