The Sixth Prince was completely speechless. After thinking carefully, he realized that he had fallen into a trap. He lowered his head and counted his fingers, feeling very frustrated.
Xie Qing touched his head and changed the subject: "Didn't I give you a firearm? Didn't you use it? If you had used it, you wouldn't have been hurt so badly."
Speaking of firearms, the Sixth Prince felt even more aggrieved, his eyes reddening. "My mother took them away. I only discovered them halfway along the way."
Xie Qing looked at his aggrieved expression and was completely speechless. What could he say? The Queen had harmed the Sixth Prince?
Forget it, the Queen will only think that I have bad intentions towards the Sixth Prince.
Xie Qing coaxed him: "When we get home, I'll give you a few pots of orchids, okay?"
The Sixth Prince loved flowers, especially the cultivation of various famous flowers. When he heard about orchids, he immediately said, "I want the Ghost Orchid, the Phoenix Winter Orchid, and the Duzhanchun Orchid."
Xie Qing's expression grew longer and longer as he listed each orchid. Finally, he rolled his eyes at the Sixth Prince: "You're really getting ahead of yourself. Each one you mentioned is rarer than the other. How can you find them so easily?"
After saying that, he sighed again: "But brother will help you find it."
The Sixth Prince chuckled and was instantly satisfied.
With Xie Qing joining the team, they moved even slower. It could be said that they were hunting all the way back to the capital.
During this period, the anxious queen sent people to urge her several times, but Xie Qing ignored them all on the grounds that "it was for the recovery of the Sixth Prince's injury."
And it's going slower and slower.
It would only take half a day to reach the capital, but Xie Qing stretched it to two days.
The relief team returned to the capital in a mighty procession, attracting many onlookers. After all, not everyone could see the prince on ordinary days.
When passing by Yuchuan Tea, Xie Qing asked someone to buy a few cups of milk tea: "Here you go."
"I'm not a child." The Sixth Prince muttered, but still took the milk tea and drank it happily. "To be honest, Yuchuan Tea's milk tea is still the best. Shuangxi Tea House's milk tea is a bit special, but it's not to my taste."
The carriage continued to move forward and passed by Shuangxi Tea House, but only saw the closed door.
The Sixth Prince looked around curiously and asked, "Why is it closed? I remember there were quite a few customers."
Xie Qing wanted to laugh when he thought of this: "Did you know that Bai was detained by my father in the Ministry of Works?"
The news that a woman had sneaked into the Ministry of Works had already spread throughout the court.
However, because he was making a telescope in the past, most of the court officials praised him, so Pingyang Hou's popularity in the court also improved a lot.
The Sixth Prince naturally knew about this: "I know."
Xie Qing suppressed a smile and said, "Bai opened many shops. She joined the Ministry of Industry, and this shop has not been able to open since the New Year."
The Sixth Prince didn't quite understand. "Aren't her shops all very profitable? Especially the glass shop. Those glass mirrors are so beautiful. Her business should be similar to Miss Qin's shop, right? I've seen so many mirrors in my father's palace that I'm tempted to ask Miss Qin to customize them."
Xie Qing shook his head. "You only know one side of the story. The craftsmen from the Bai family's colored glass shop were all recruited to help out in the Ministry of Industry. Her apprentices couldn't make colored glass, let alone mirrors, so the colored glass shop closed down."
"As for milk tea shops and dim sum shops like Shuangxi Tea House, they used to employ servants from the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion and never paid them. The unrest happened during Chinese New Year, so it would have been fine if they hadn't opened. But after the New Year, without the Bai family to run things, they naturally stayed closed."
Not to mention, for a shop like Avril's that sells rouge and powder, the key production steps are all in Bai Wanyi's hands. No one else can do it without her, so naturally the shop is closed.
The Sixth Prince was stunned. "Then the capital must be very lively during this period, right?"
Xie Qing's eyebrows curved: "Of course."
Not to mention Avril, which has always adopted the ordering model, even the glass shop is the same. Many people ordered large quantities of goods before the New Year.
Merchants from the south, or those who came to Beijing to visit relatives during the New Year, all placed orders for a lot of goods from the glass shop.
I was waiting to go south after the Chinese New Year so that I could take them all with me. But after the Chinese New Year, Avril Lavigne, Liuli Shop, and Jing Hua Yuan were all closed.
Many merchants and customers who came to place orders were terrified, thinking that Avril and the people from Jing Hua Yuan had run away with the money. When they found out that it was the shop of Pingyang Marquis Mansion, they all reported it to the government.
It is not easy for citizens to sue officials, but this time there were many victims, so when they arrived at the government office, the Shuntian prefect asked and found out, well, this is what happened.
The prefect of Shuntian Prefecture breathed a sigh of relief and sent people to take all the merchants to the Marquis of Pingyang's Mansion.
With the people from Shuntian Prefecture leading the way, Lu Yan had no choice but to meet them. When he learned they wanted Liuli, his mind suddenly became big: "My wife is working in the Ministry of Works now and can't come out. Why don't we wait for a while?"
The merchant was unwilling to wait: "These things should have been delivered on the tenth day of the first lunar month. We have been waiting until now, and it is almost the end of the first lunar month, and your shop is still empty. Where can we wait?"
Being questioned and doubted by merchants, the dignified Marquis of Pingyang, Lu Yan's voice became a little deeper: "This is the Marquis of Pingyang's mansion, how can I escape? Just wait a moment, and the goods will be delivered naturally."
"But who will compensate us for the losses we have suffered?" the merchants talked in unison.
"We've been waiting for so long, do you want us to wait any longer?"
"Return the money!"
Lu Yan snorted coldly: "Since you want to return the money, then it's easy to deal with. Give me the deposit bar, I will check it, and then return the money."
Immediately, many people took out the delivery notes or deposit slips. Some of them paid the full amount directly, fearing that they would be a step later than others to pick up the goods. Who knew that they would be cheated!
Lu Yan reached out to take it, but they took it back and said, "Bring the silver first."
"Yes, you are the Marquis of Pingyang, you are in a high position and have great power. If we are common people and you deliberately refuse to pay your debts, what should we do?"
Lu Yan's lips trembled unconsciously, and he shouted in a deep voice: "Butler! Bring me the silver!"
The housekeeper was stunned for a moment and wanted to ask where the silver was in the mansion.
But when he looked at the excited merchants in the room, he had to swallow his words and went to the inner house to look for Wu Ziya.
Bai Wanyi was not interested. Wu Ziya was the one in charge of the inner house. Who else could he look for if not her?
After hearing the whole story, Wu Ziya felt like laughing, but also angry: "You're always making a mess for me!"
Her nurse rolled her eyes and said, "Mrs. Bai made so much money, it should all be in her yard, right? She opened the shop, so she should be the one paying the money."
Wu Ziya's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she immediately said to the housekeeper, "Just tell the Marquis that I don't have much money, and since my sister isn't home, I'll have to go to her room to get it. As her husband, the Marquis has the right to deal with the shop under her name, so he should also have the right to touch her money, right? Otherwise, my sister will come back and use the dowry as an excuse."
Bai Wanyi was an orphan, so where did she get the money for her dowry? Wu Ziya knew that the money was given by Lu Yan, so he was more qualified to use it.
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