"A 200-jin New Year pig is only five or six taels of silver."
"And they charged us eighty-five taels of silver for these plates of terrible-tasting barbecue?"
Emperor Mingxi stared at Yao Jinse with burning eyes.
Yao Jinse's face turned pale and red, looking extremely ugly.
"Your Majesty, Jinse and her husband have many businesses and stores, so it's inevitable that they can't take care of them all. The price of this barbecue is so outrageous, and Jinse is really unaware of it!"
At this point, Yao Jinse pointed at Shopkeeper Sun and cursed, "It must be you, a traitor, trying to make some extra money. You actually dared to set the price so high behind my back!"
Shopkeeper Sun looked aggrieved: "Madam, didn't you say that? The more daring a person is, the more money he can make."
"I said the price was too high at the beginning, but you said that as long as it's a royal gimmick, people will still buy it even if the price is sky-high..."
Before Shopkeeper Sun could finish his words, Yao Jinse reached out and suddenly covered his mouth.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Stop throwing dirty water on me!"
"Wuwuwu..." Shopkeeper Sun made a humming sound, still trying to defend himself.
Emperor Mingxi glanced at the two with disdain and continued, "Alright, let's not talk about the price for now. I think this barbecue tastes bad and wanted to talk to the owner about it, but your waiters were all vicious and ferocious. Not only did they insult her, they even attacked Princess Anguo."
"My followers had a conflict with the waiter in order to protect the princess."
"And yet your waiter actually extorted two thousand taels of silver from us, saying that if we didn't give him two thousand taels of silver, he would report us to the police and have us jailed!"
The more Yao Jinse listened, the colder she felt. When she heard this, her face turned ashen.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me! Jinse really didn't know that the people in her store could be so rude!" Yao Jinse kowtowed vigorously.
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