Chapter 70 Princess, calm down!
[Su Ci: Your Highness, you are my God! ]

[Su Ci: You are my heart, you are my liver, you are my lungs...]

[So fake, but so sweet, I can kowtow to you for another ten thousand years! ]

Su Ci wanted to say a lot, but after seeing the comments, she thought she should stop. The comments showed that she was acting, and maybe Zhao Shizhu could see it too.

She still understands the principle that too much is as bad as too little.

"Your Highness, please go and do your work. I'll go back to Jingyuanzhai to check the account books of the palace." Su Ci knew when to stop.

Zhao Shizhu glanced sideways when he heard this: "Can you see through it?"

He regretted it the moment he said it.

As expected, Su Ci glared at him and said, "Of course I can't watch it! But isn't this for our family? The palace is so big, I have to keep an eye on it. Your Highness has entrusted the whole family to me. If I just play around, how can I be worthy of your trust in me?"

After saying that, she ignored Zhao Shizhu and turned away.

Zhao Shizhu looked at Su Ci's hurried back, and a smile flashed in his eyes.

Qi Xi was beside Zhao Shizhu. When he saw the slightly curved corners of his master's lips and then glanced at Su Ci who was walking away, he suddenly felt that Su Ci would take the throne sooner or later.

In the past, he thought that His Highness was quite special towards Bai Shuang. After all, Bai Shuang was one of the few women who could get close to His Highness. However, the only woman who could make His Highness truly laugh was the princess.

Even when facing the Madam, His Highness can only smile sincerely a few times.

"The princess treats Your Highness so well!" Qi Xi sighed, "I used to think that the princess was not worthy of Your Highness, but now it seems that I was blind."

"Don't you think what Ah Ci said before was insincere?" Zhao Shizhu restrained his smile and asked in a calm voice.

He has been accustomed to the fickleness of human nature since he was a child and is used to reading people's expressions.

Previously, Su Ci's words sounded better than her singing, but there was no deep affection in her eyes, it seemed like she was reciting. Of course, even her half-hearted remarks were very interesting to him.

"I feel it is very sincere. Everyone knows that the princess loves Your Highness very much!" Qi Xi said with certainty.

"But the way she looks at me now is different from the way she looked at me before." Zhao Shizhu's eyes were empty. "I can't understand why Ah Ci's love for me seemed to disappear overnight."

On the way back to Jingyuanzhai, Su Ci was not surprised to see the barrage revealing the content of the conversation between Zhao Shizhu and his servant.

It turned out that she was overacting, and Zhao Shizhu did not believe her "deep love" for him.

She didn't like Zhao Shizhu in the first place, and the feeling was gone. Given her personality, it would be easy for her to act out any role except the feelings for a person.

Forget it, I'd better be less self-righteous in the future and just try to make up the numbers by doing something cruel.

After returning to Jingyuanzhai, Su Ci asked Mother Tao to bring up the account books of the palace, but Mother Tao made it difficult: "No one handed in the account books."

Su Ci frowned, "I am in charge of the palace, but I only have one key to the storeroom? I can't even get the account books?"

"No one in the palace treats the princess as the mistress, so how can they respect her? I think it's time for the princess to act like the mistress of the palace and let everyone see who is in charge now." Mother Tao then told Su Ci about the structure of the palace. Su Ci listened carefully, and then said to Sanmei, "Go call Lu Yi over, I have something to tell you."

Sanmei left in response, and soon Luyi came to Su Ci, greeted him, and asked, "May I ask what the princess wants to tell you?"

"Go and invite the six officials, including the Right Chief Secretary who is in charge of the palace's finances and materials, the two bookkeepers who record the palace's affairs, the ambassador in charge of the warehouse, the Treasure Master of the Treasure Office, and the Food Master of the Food Office, to Jingyuanzhai. I have something to ask them." Su Ci gave an order.

After hearing this, Lu Yi opened her mouth, but in the end remained silent and left without saying a word.

Su Ci waited for about half an hour before the six people she wanted to invite finally arrived.

Everyone knows that Su Ci's position in the palace is awkward. Although she is the princess, she has not yet consummated her marriage with His Highness. Last night, she was abandoned by His Highness, leaving her alone in her empty room, which made a fool of herself.

Although they all heard that His Highness handed the storeroom key to Su Ci, everyone felt that it was just a show. With the Lady Dowager in the palace, the power to manage the palace would not fall into Su Ci's hands.

Furthermore, if they showed goodwill to Su Ci, wouldn’t that be going against the Madam?
The Dowager Lady looks weak and frail, but everyone who has been in the palace for a long time knows that she has a strong desire for control, and if they offend her, they will suffer.

Su Ci just ate the fruit without saying a word.

The six people standing in front of her had heard of Su Ci's name before. After all, the Mansion of Marquis Xuanping was one of the most noble families in Liangzhou, and this Miss Su was a person that Marquis Xuanping held in the palm of his hand. She usually acted arrogantly in the mansion.

But after marrying into the palace, there were many rumors about Su Ci, and most of them were unfavorable to Su Ci.

On the wedding night, His Highness left Su Ci and went away. On the day of his return home, His Highness took in a new concubine. Although none of this was intentional on His Highness' part, these things left a mark in everyone's mind, making them think that the newly appointed Princess Duan was weak and could be bullied.

But at this moment, even though Su Ci didn't say a word, they felt invisible pressure.

Just when they were feeling anxious for a while, Su Cisi finally remembered them and said with a smile, "Master Yin, do you know why I called you here?"

When Yin Hao saw Su Ci calling his name, he immediately stood up and replied, "I don't know."

The smile on Su Ci's face disappeared in an instant: "Do you really not know, or are you pretending not to know?"

Yin Hao was meeting Su Ci's cold eyes, and his palms felt slightly cold. In the past, he only felt fear when facing His Highness, but he didn't expect that he would have the same feeling when facing Su Ci.

"Since His Highness gave me the key to the storehouse, Lord Yin has not yet given me the account books of the palace for review. Does Lord Yin think that I, as the princess, am not qualified to be in charge of the palace, or does Lord Yin not want to be the right chief secretary? If it is the latter, I don't think it is a problem. The competent person should take the position. Aren't there five competent people here? How about letting one of them take your place?"

To capture the thief and the leader, to take down Yin Hao, everyone else must obey her orders.

When Su Ci said this, the six people present were shocked.

Yin Hao was also dumbfounded. He mumbled for a long time before finally squeezing out a sentence: "Princess, calm down! I haven't submitted the account book to you for review because I'm not sure whether Your Highness wants to hand over the palace to you."

To be precise, His Highness did not say that he would hand over the palace to the Princess. He only gave the key to the storehouse to the Princess. He did not want to offend the Lady Dowager easily, so he had to wait and see and make a decision based on the situation.

But he didn't expect that his hesitation would result in him losing his job.

From the look in Su Ci's eyes before, he felt that she could really remove him from the position of Right Chief Clerk and replace him with someone else. He inexplicably believed that Su Ci had such ability!