Ye Wuxia glanced lightly at the young prince, then took a step and looked at Fang Ruotang's obviously uneasy face.
Aren't you going to say anything?
Fang Ruotang cracked her knuckles and innocently retorted, "Didn't I say anything? I asked you if you wanted to go shopping with us! Don't you want to?"
“Yes! He doesn’t want to!” The young prince stepped forward again and warned Ye Wuxia with his eyes.
Ignoring the young prince's threat, Ye Wuxia asked, "May I go?"
"You're so strange! If I didn't want you to come, I wouldn't have asked! I asked you, so it's obvious I wanted you to come!" Fang Ruotang pouted, a little unhappy.
“Okay! Let’s go together. I’ve saved up quite a bit of salary over the years. Whatever you want to buy later, I’ll buy it for you.”
"Really? How much did you save?"
Fang Ruotang's eyes lit up. She stepped forward and approached Ye Wuxia, tilting her pink cheeks up and asking curiously.
With a sinister smile, the young prince pulled Fang Ruotang into his arms and said through gritted teeth, "He comes from a peasant family. If he doesn't embezzle or take bribes, how much money can he save? Is it as much as I, a young prince?"
"Did you embezzle or accept bribes?" Fang Ruotang tilted her head and looked at Ye Wuxia.
Ye Wuxia curled her lips slightly and asked with a hint of curiosity, "Does it matter whether it does or doesn't?"
Fang Ruotang thought for a moment before saying, "If you have it, then return the money. We don't do things like exploiting the people. If you don't, then we're all happy. It doesn't matter if it's not much money, since I have my own."
Fang Ruotang winked at Ye Wuxia, then glanced at his handsome face.
"He's so good-looking, it's only right that I spend some money to support him."
Ye Wuxia smiled, a very pleasant smile.
The frustration of not seeing Fang Ruotang for the past few days vanished instantly.
"I'm not as poor as you think." Ye Wuxia gently pinched Fang Ruotang's cheek, her eyes filled with a subtle smile. "I can definitely support you!"
In officialdom, there are almost no people who are completely clean.
He wasn't greedy before, but he wasn't aloof either.
But a while ago!
Having handled so many major cases involving the confiscation of property and the extermination of entire clans, the gold, silver, jewels, grain, and medicinal herbs that were taken from those aristocratic families were so numerous that the national treasury could not contain them all.
These officials taking advantage of others is a tacitly accepted gray area in officialdom, just like soldiers who win a battle and collect spoils of war, but they don't hand them all over.
"You're spending money on Minister Ye? What about me?" The young prince said sourly from the side.
Fang Ruotang's eyes darted around, and she said slyly, "Didn't you just say that you're a wealthy prince? If you're so rich, why are you still eyeing my meager fortune?"
"I don't care! But if you spend money on him but not on me, that's unacceptable!" The young prince's fair face darkened with anger.
"Okay, I'll buy them all for you." With that, she stretched out her small hands in front of the two of them.
The young prince was taken aback. "What?"
Ye Wuxia chuckled and took off the seal she always carried with her.
“This is my personal seal. You can use this to withdraw money from the bank, or if you find it troublesome, you can put it on the tab at the shop and have the shopkeeper collect the debt from the Ye family.”
The young prince stared at Ye Wuxia in shock.
"You civil officials have too many thoughts on your minds, don't you?"
Ye Wuxia glanced at Fang Ruotang, who was studying his personal seal, leaned forward slightly, and whispered boastfully, "I am different from you. After all, I am about to get married to Xiao Liu, and it is my duty to hand over all my assets to her."
"Ha!" the young prince sneered. "Who do you think you are!"
"Little Ruoruo, not only does he have one, I have one too! Wait, I didn't bring my seal with me today, I'll give it to you next time we meet."
"Did you not bring it with you, or do you not want to send it off?" Ye Wuxia asked the young prince with a seemingly harmless but sarcastic remark.
Enraged, the young prince immediately summoned his guards and ordered them to return to the study in the palace at once and retrieve his personal seals, including deeds to houses and land, and even indentures of the servants in the palace.
Fang Ruotang looked at it curiously, her eyes brightening slightly as she asked, "Are you bringing it over for me to see?"
"Of course not, it's for you, it's all for you."
Upon receiving the satisfactory answer, Fang Ruotang's eyes lit up immediately. She grinned excitedly and said, "I don't want the indentures of your servants, and I don't want the house deeds or land deeds either. How about you give me your personal seal, just like Ye Wuxia did? I can spend the money in the bank however I want."
"Alright! But don't you want the land deeds and house deeds? I have some other properties that bring in a good amount of money every month." The young prince tried hard to persuade her, as if he wanted to give all his assets to Fang Ruotang.
Fang Ruotang shook her head, "No way! I don't know how to manage these things. You put all the money you earn into the bank. I can just withdraw it whenever I want to spend it."
"Alright!" The young prince was a little disappointed, as he hadn't surpassed Ye Wuxia.
Ye Wuxia chuckled.
The young prince was not only disappointed, but also furious.
Simply copying others' ideas will never be as good as the original. Next time, he must come up with a unique and wonderful idea that no one else has to please Xiao Ruoruo.
"Let's go! Today's expenses will all be paid by this national teacher." Fang Ruotang held up Ye Wuxia's seal, grinning broadly.
Ye Wuxia looked at Fang Ruotang with gentle eyes, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously turned up.
“How much money could he possibly have? I’ll sign the bill in a bit! The next time you go out, just go to the bank and take my money. I’ll deposit mountains of gold and silver for you, so you can have as much as you want.”
The young prince was much taller than Fang Ruotang, and when he bent down beside her to coax her, he looked just like some people from the palace.
Li Shiyun and Jin Wuyou exchanged a glance, neither of them surprised.
Fang Ruotang enjoys the pleasure of spending money like water when shopping. She buys things for Ye Wuxia and the young prince, as well as for Li Shiyun and Jin Wuyou who are with her, and other members of the Fang family, and even the crown prince. She buys almost anything she likes and finds suitable.
"Tsk tsk tsk, with Ruoruo's spending power, are you sure you can afford to support her? Or don't try to put on a show of wealth, lest you embarrass yourself. Are you going to be hiding in the mansion eating steamed buns from now on?" The young prince lagged behind, walking alongside Ye Wuxia, deliberately teasing him.
Ye Wuxia's gaze remained fixed on Fang Ruotang. Seeing her happy, he couldn't help but smile along. After hearing the young prince's words, he reluctantly shifted his gaze to him for a moment.
"Isn't this perfect? Anyway, Xiao Liu wants to take care of me."
"Gold digger! Shameless!"
"Well, you won't even get to eat it if you want to. Jealousy makes people ugly, so you'd better watch out!"
After Ye Wuxia finished speaking, she quickly walked up to Fang Ruotang.
Fang Ruotang was playing with a round jade pendant in her hand. When she saw Ye Wuxia coming over, she immediately pressed the jade pendant, and the round jade pendant split into two pieces.
"your."
"Don't tell anyone, this is our token of love, understand?"
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