Chapter 1364 Rumors
The New Year goods in the capital are so dazzling and varied that it is hard to choose.
Every household is busy buying New Year's goods and giving New Year's gifts.
Qiao Xuan is no exception.
The atmosphere of the Chinese New Year is so attractive and can influence people's moods so much that people never get tired of it every year.
Shao Yunduan's career is very successful. Although he is not very popular, he is indeed very dazzling and cannot be ignored.
This year, there are more people coming to deliver invitations and New Year gifts than last year, and they treat Qiao Xuan more politely.
In the Eastern Palace, the Crown Princess also directed and arranged the purchasers, housekeepers, and stewards to make preparations for the New Year.
Buy all kinds of auspicious and festive decorations for the Spring Festival, prepare fresh flowers and plants to be placed inside and outside the house and in vases, prepare ingredients for all kinds of snacks and dishes, cut clothes for the people in the house, prepare purses and gold and silver cakes for rewards, and prepare all kinds of small gifts for the ladies who come to pay their respects.
Every year at this time, the Crown Princess is extremely busy.
However, no matter how busy or difficult it was, she always kept the power and didn't let the concubines or maids get involved. Whenever this happened, she felt particularly proud and honored to be the Crown Princess!
She really enjoys this feeling.
It was at times like this that she felt that all her forbearance and persistence were worth it! As long as she persisted and endured for a few more years, she would gain more, so much that she would stand at a height that no woman in the world could reach.
This will give her endless courage and strength, allowing her to face every day with high spirits.
Especially this year, in addition to the rewards from the palace, the shares distributed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the contributions from several imperial farms, the prince gave her an additional 15,000 taels of silver.
This surprised the Crown Princess.
The harvest was good this year, the Crown Prince had just made a contribution, and the reward from the Emperor was more generous than last year. With these fifteen thousand silver coins, it was enough to solve almost all of her worries about the New Year!
The Eastern Palace has no shortage of supplies, what it lacks is cash.
However, even if the supplies were rotting in the warehouse, the Eastern Palace would never take them out to sell for silver. No matter openly or secretly, it was impossible.
Being discovered is no small matter.
Now that she had money and was well-off, the Crown Princess felt relieved and was able to spend this year in comfort.
What the Crown Princess didn't know was that, at some point, some rumors had quietly spread among the powerful royal family, high-ranking families, and high-ranking officials.
It is said that in order to have a more comfortable New Year's Eve this year, the Crown Prince embezzled money from the national treasury!
Otherwise, you see, before the Chinese New Year in previous years, the Crown Princess was always worried and anxious about preparing the money needed for the New Year. This was no secret in the upper class society of the capital.
But this year, the Crown Princess was all smiles and had no problems at all.
I heard that the Crown Princess also told her family and the ladies she knew well that this year she would have no worries and could spend a good New Year peacefully without so many things to worry about.
What could the Crown Princess have to worry about? It's just money!
She doesn't have to worry about it anymore, so where does her money come from? Of course it's from the prince!
Where does the prince's money come from?
Could it be possible that the prince could conjure silver out of thin air?
Or what business did he do?
The rumor grew stronger and stronger, and when it reached the ears of the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess, they naturally tried their best to deny it.
(End of this chapter)
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