"I am honored to meet Prince Chu and Princess Chu!" At this time, Shopkeeper Meng, who walked into the lobby from the backyard, saw Chu Feiyang and Yun Qianmeng coming to Fugui Hall, and immediately led the servants forward to pay their respects, his words and actions full of respect.
"Manager Meng, please stand up!" Yun Qianmeng looked at all the decorations displayed in Fugui Hall and spoke with a smile in her eyes.
"Thank you, Your Highness and Your Highness! Your Highness and Your Highness have come to Fuguitang today. Do you want to buy jewelry now or order it? The hall has just purchased a batch of extremely high-quality jade. Your Highness and Your Highness can take a look first. If you like it, we can have it made into jade pendants, jade bracelets and other items, which are extremely pleasing to the eye!" Shopkeeper Meng is worthy of being the shopkeeper of Fuguitang in the capital. He only took a quick look at the jewelry Yun Qianmeng was wearing today, and he knew that Yun Qianmeng usually liked jade jewelry, so he mentioned jade to please her.
Yun Qianmeng saw Shopkeeper Meng looking at her left bun and knew he was looking at the purple jade hairpin on her head. She smiled and said, "Shopkeeper Meng is an expert. Your Highness and I can only take a general look. The specific details still need to be reviewed by Shopkeeper Meng!"
"Make two pairs of jewelry according to the pattern above!" At this time, Chu Feiyang took out two pieces of paper from his sleeve, handed them to Shopkeeper Meng, and spoke calmly.
Shopkeeper Meng was puzzled, but he carefully took the paper from the King of Chu and opened it to take a look. He was very surprised. The paper clearly showed two pairs of bracelets and anklets for babies. Looking at the shapes of the two pairs of bracelets, he knew they were for a baby boy and a baby girl respectively. He never thought that the King of Chu, who was busy with all kinds of affairs, had such leisure and elegance to draw pictures for his own children. It was really admirable.
"Congratulations, His Majesty, and the Princess! I just wonder what material His Majesty would like to choose? Generally speaking, children's bracelets and anklets are mostly made of silver and gold, while jade is more suitable as jade pendants!" Shopkeeper Meng asked in a low voice, and at the same time led Chu Feiyang and Yun Qianmeng to the display area of gold and silver jewelry, picked up the finished bracelets and showed them to the two.
Yun Qianmeng took the plum blossom bracelet handed over by Shopkeeper Meng and looked at it repeatedly with some interest, pointing at the exquisite pattern on it and discussing it in detail with Chu Feiyang.
"With the status of the prince and princess, why not ask the craftsmen in the palace to make jewelry for the child? Why bother with all that effort?" Little did they know that Princess Qian did not leave, but followed Yun Qianmeng and the others to the jewelry area, watching the cleaning up. However, she could not hide her contempt for ordinary jewelry in her eyes, and her whole body exuded the demeanor of an upper-class lady.
Yun Qianmeng put down the silver bracelet in her hand, raised her eyes slightly and looked at the Consort Qian who had come to her side. She smiled and said, "Prince Hai has a unique vision and chose Yangmingshan. I think the Consort must have good taste! However, giving things to children is just for good luck. The price is secondary! Besides, it's just a child. Why bother mobilizing so many palace craftsmen? It would make us, the Prime Minister Chu Mansion, look hypocritical! I wonder if the Consort has any jewelry she likes today?"
Yun Qianmeng pushed back with neither softness nor firmness. Princess Qian was about to open her mouth to refute, but seeing that Chu Feiyang's face had turned cold, she swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth, smiled awkwardly, and replied: "Just taking a look!"
Seeing the reluctance in Princess Qian's eyes, Yun Qianmeng's smile faded a little, but she protected her abdomen and stayed within Chu Feiyang's protection. "In that case, Princess Qian, please do as you please. This concubine and the prince will also take a look!"
As she spoke, Yun Qianmeng was about to go to the third floor, but the sound of light horse hooves came from outside the door of Fugui Hall.
After a while, footsteps were heard coming towards the Fugui Hall, and a tall figure in deep purple immediately caught everyone's attention.
When Shopkeeper Meng saw the newcomer, he immediately stepped forward and saluted with a smile, "I greet the Prince of Hai!"
"Get up!" Hai Chenxi glanced around the Fugui Hall, and when he saw Chu Feiyang, Yun Qianmeng and Xiahou An'er, a hint of interest appeared in his eyes.
But when his gaze fell on Princess Qian, the cynical smile in his eyes instantly turned into a sneer, and a hint of coldness invaded Princess Qian, making her heart tighten and her brows frowned for no reason.
However, Hai Chenxi walked towards the crowd with a faint smile on his face. His eyes had already passed by Princess Qian and looked at Chu Feiyang. He said coldly, "I didn't expect to see the King of Chu and the Princess here!"
Chu Feiyang gently hugged Yun Qianmeng with one hand, and responded to Hai Chenxi with a cold smile on his face, "Yes, I didn't expect to see Prince Hai again after leaving the court. It's really surprising! I didn't expect Prince Hai to visit the wealthy hall. I wonder if he has taken a fancy to a young lady from a certain family and wants to buy some jewelry as a gift!"
"Haha, Prince Chu, you're joking! I don't have the elegance of a prince like you, to actually take time out of my busy schedule to accompany the princess to choose jewelry!" Hai Chenxi replied indifferently, then turned to Shopkeeper Meng and asked, "Has the jade I've set my eyes on arrived yet?"
Upon hearing this, Shopkeeper Meng's face suddenly showed a trace of embarrassment, but he spoke truthfully, "Prince, the jade has arrived, but the Crown Prince's wife bought it first!"
As he spoke, Shopkeeper Meng lowered his eyes.
"Oh? The princess bought the jade that this prince had his eyes on? There are so many jades in Fugui Hall, why did the princess choose the jade that this prince had? What's more, this prince had paid the deposit for that jade. Who gave the princess the courage to snatch my things?" At the end of his words, Hai Chenxi's tone became colder and colder, and the smile in his eyes gradually froze. He moved towards the princess Qian in front of him with a chilling aura.
Princess Qian had already anticipated Hai Chenxi's difficulty, so she took advantage of Hai Chenxi's attendance at court to go to Fugui Hall and forcibly snatch the jade from Manager Meng. However, she didn't expect that she was delayed by the appearance of King Chu and others, and then she met Hai Chenxi.
Seeing Hai Chenxi being so disrespectful to her eldest sister-in-law in public, Princess Qian secretly resented him, but she wore a knowing smile and gently responded to Hai Chenxi's questioning, "Fifth brother, you misunderstood. I just happened to see that piece of jade and bought it! Besides, Fuguitang has recently purchased a lot of excellent jade. Why should you let such a small matter damage the harmony between brothers?"
"Really? Since you claim to be my sister-in-law, why don't you give in to me? You don't want to take advantage of the fact that your husband is the Prince of the Sea and look down on me, do you?" Unexpectedly, Hai Chenxi didn't give Princess Qian any face at all. Two questions made Princess Qian's face change. Being ridiculed in front of so many people, Princess Qian was furious. Her face was ashen, but she couldn't show it openly. She could only force herself to squeeze out a smile and barely maintain her dignity. However, she didn't expect that her ugly smile had already been seen by everyone, which was even more embarrassing than having no expression.
"How dare you!" A low shout came from outside the door of Fugui Hall, and a dark green figure stepped in quickly. Hai Yue stared at Hai Chenxi with a cold look in his eyes, and his hateful eyes were full of disgust for Hai Chenxi.
When the guests who were originally in Fugui Hall saw that something unpleasant was happening here, they all quietly retreated in a smart way to avoid being implicated, leaving Manager Meng standing there anxiously, not knowing how to resolve the conflict between the two parties.
"Manager Meng, please take us to the private room on the third floor!" Yun Qianmeng said lightly, not in the mood to watch the internal strife in the Sea Palace.
"Yes, yes, yes, Your Majesty, Princess, please come upstairs!" Seeing that Yun Qianmeng's words had resolved his embarrassment, Shopkeeper Meng was extremely grateful and immediately bowed to greet the three of them as they walked towards the stairs.
Hai Yue, whose mind was originally filled with anger, suddenly had a look of surprise in his eyes when he heard the word "princess". He looked in the direction of Xiahou An'er and saw the slender figure following behind Chu Feiyang and the others.
"I didn't expect to meet the prince, princess and princess here today. We are really destined to meet!" Hai Yue walked past Princess Qian who was coming to greet him and instantly came to the side of Chu Feiyang and others. He greeted them with a faint smile, but his gentle eyes first swept over Xiahou An'er's beautiful face.
"The prince seems to have other things to do, so I won't disturb you!" Chu Feiyang didn't want to bother with Hai Yue. He just paused slightly and walked forward again.
"Whatever jewelry the princess and the princess like, this prince will give it to them!" Hai Yue spoke enthusiastically without noticing the ugly expression on Princess Qian's face.
Chu Feiyang stopped and stared at Hai Yue coldly, his expression cold and indifferent: "Thank you very much, Prince. However, I can still afford this silver! Prince, why don't you buy some more jewelry for the princess!"
Having said that, Chu Feiyang no longer paid attention to Hai Yue. He hugged Yun Qianmeng and took Xiahou An'er up to the third floor.
Xiahou An'er glanced at Hai Yue, then at Hai Chenxi, with a hint of worry in her eyes. Her elegant brows furrowed slightly, and then she turned around and followed Chu Feiyang up to the third floor.
"Shopkeeper Meng, what kind of jade did the Prince of Hai and the Prince of Hai take a fancy to that almost caused a fight between them?" Yun Qianmeng asked curiously after stepping into the private room.
Seeing Princess Chu's question, Shopkeeper Meng sighed slightly and replied, "Fuguitang recently purchased a superb piece of jadeite. It's emerald green, transparent and clear, and the jade is of the highest quality! When Prince Hai heard about it, he sent someone to order the jade! But he didn't expect that Princess Qian would come and buy it!"
As he said this, Shopkeeper Meng couldn't help but shook his head. In all his years in business, this was the first time he had seen such an unreasonable person. Using his power to force someone to sell the jade was really against the rules of the industry.
Upon hearing this, Yun Qianmeng and Chu Feiyang exchanged a glance, each puzzled. What could have possibly made those two think of coming to Fuguitang to buy jade? And to have them spend so lavishly, it must be something more than a simple matter!