One step wrong, every step wrong, now I have missed the best opportunity to get to know the second prince.
If you want to get in touch with the second prince, you will have to put in more effort.
She didn't want to bring out some of the more "amazing" methods just yet, for fear that others would take away the credit before they were passed on to the Second Prince.
After thinking it over, Xue Linglong felt that she still had to use money to pave the way.
She remembered that the Second Prince had an aide who was the brother of the Second Prince's favorite concubine. That man was very greedy and would introduce anyone to the Second Prince as long as they were paid enough money. The second prince, because of the influence of his favorite concubine, has always been quite indulgent towards that man.
Xue Linglong was only worried about the opportunity to meet the Second Prince. She had many ideas in her mind that did not belong to this era. As long as she could see the Second Prince in person and have a chance to talk to him, she would have a chance to arouse his interest!
Thinking of this, Xue Linglong could no longer sit still on the bed.
She stood up by the bed, sat down next to the dressing table, pulled out the compartment in her makeup box, and rummaged through it.
When she first married into the Marquis of Jinyang's mansion, there were 10,000 taels of silver notes stuffed in her dressing box. Now, only a few months have passed, and four or five tenths of the 10,000 taels of silver notes have gone.
As a result, because she was trapped in the Marquis' Mansion, her brother's monthly dividends to her were often deducted, and even in the past two months, they were directly in arrears and had not been paid yet...
If you want to bribe the staff around the Second Prince, you need a lot of money.
Money, money, money.
The most urgent task is to make money!
The development progress in reality and dreams does not correspond. Many ideas cannot be implemented without the support of the Second Prince's power. After thinking it over, Xue Linglong could only think of two ideas to make money. One was the "Pingfeng Pavilion" she built on Suzaku Avenue in her previous life, and the other was the "Taotie Street" she built in the south of the city.
The former is similar to a modern club. Due to its excellent location and many novel things inside, it quickly became a den of luxury for the powerful and wealthy in Beijing after its opening. While collecting a lot of intelligence for the second prince, she also enriched her small treasury.
The latter also has a good location, right near the most crowded and bustling street in the capital. An entire alley of shops was converted by her into a variety of snack shops, which were loved by the people of the capital as soon as they opened. Although the amount of money earned from each transaction was very small, there were so many people coming to this street every day that the amount accumulated bit by bit was also a very astonishing amount.
Thinking of this, Xue Linglong's hesitant heart finally settled.
As long as the Screen Pavilion and Taotie Street are built, she will be able to get on board the Second Prince and everything will be fine!
Feeling relieved, Xue Linglong's brows, which had been furrowed for most of the day, finally relaxed and a smile appeared on the corners of her mouth.
When Shen Feng pushed the door open and came in, he saw this scene. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and asked with a smile on his face, "What good thing did you think of that made you so happy?"
"It's not a big deal." Xue Linglong wanted to treat these two places as her own private property and didn't want the people in the Marquis' Mansion to pay too much attention to them. Naturally, these "people in the Marquis' Mansion" also included Chen Feng.
Her trust in Shen Feng now is no longer as high as before she married in.
However, there is still a place where Shen Feng can be of use in this matter...
Xue Linglong rolled her eyes and asked softly, "My husband, I remember that the Marquis' Mansion had a few unused shops near Qingyun Street in the south of the city. There seems to be one on Zhuque Street as well?"
Chen Feng hadn't seen Xue Linglong so considerate and gentle for a long time. He immediately pulled the person leaning against him into his arms without listening carefully to the questions she asked.
Xue Linglong patiently repeated it again.
Chen Feng frowned and thought for a while, "I don't know much about the Marquis's property, I have to ask my mother..."
When Qin was mentioned, Xue Linglong felt overwhelmed and her brows, which had finally relaxed, furrowed again.
Chen Feng also knew about the lawsuit between his mother and his wife, and seeing this, he quickly changed his words: "You can ask Manager Qiao, most of the properties outside the mansion are under the watchful eyes of Manager Qiao."
"Then send Manager Qiao to ask." Xue Linglong was worried that Chen Feng would think too much, so she added, "You don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are until you become the head of the household. Only then did I know how much our mansion's daily expenses are, and there is not much accumulated in the treasury... I had no choice but to use my brain to think of ways to increase revenue and reduce expenditure."
"Thank you for your hard work, Madam!" Shen Feng was deeply moved and immediately asked his men to go to the outer courtyard to call over Manager Qiao.
"Prince, Prince...Madam." Manager Qiao stuttered slightly before calling out the second title.
He stayed in the outer courtyard for a long time and seldom met his wife in the inner house.
Thinking back to the last time I called out "Crown Prince's Wife", the Crown Prince's Wife was not the one named Xue who came from a merchant family!
"Manager Qiao, I called you here today to ask if there are any unused shops in our mansion? In the south of the city..." Chen Feng couldn't remember where it was, so he turned his head and looked at Xue Linglong beside him.
Xue Linglong quickly took over the conversation, "There are more than a dozen shops in a row near Qingyun Street in the south of the city, all in the same alley. There is also a three-story store on the corner of Zhuque Street."
When Xue Linglong and Chen Feng described it just now, they didn't go into such detail.
When Chen Feng heard Xue Linglong accurately name the three-story building with more than a dozen rooms on the same alley and on the corner of Suzaku Street, he couldn't help but secretly click his tongue.
Does their mansion still have so many old properties?
This is really unreasonable of the mother. Instead of leaving all these old properties empty, it would be better to hand them over to Linglong who is good at managing business as soon as possible!
Just as Chen Feng was happily thinking that these long-abandoned shops would become golden gooses in the hands of his wife Xue Linglong, so that his monthly salary, which had been halved recently, could be restored, no, it could be multiplied several times!
Then from below, Manager Qiao uttered a light "Huh".
"What? Doesn't Manager Qiao know about those shops?" Xue Linglong stared at Manager Qiao's face.
In the dream, she took over the management of these shops from the Marquis' Mansion.
Could it be that in reality, her status in the Marquis' Mansion is not as good as in her dreams, and these people want to fool her?
"That's not the case..."
Manager Qiao had an embarrassment on his face, with a hint of surprise and sarcasm in his eyes that was well concealed so that the prince and the "prince's wife" in front of him would not notice it at all.
"I have heard of these shops, but..."
"But what?" Chen Feng frowned slightly, "Just say whatever you want to say, why are you hesitating!"
Manager Qiao took a deep breath, with an expression that said, "You forced me to say this."
"But the shops you mentioned are all the dowry of the previous prince's wife, Wei, not our mansion!"
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