"That's Uncle Ai." Xia Xiaoxian pointed at Zhang Yu with a small fat hand, "Beat the bad guys."
“He was the one who helped my grandfather.”
Ma Sanbao nodded, his eyes wide open, as if he wanted to remember the appearance of his benefactor.
"Daddy, my Xiaoxian." Xia Xiaoxian pointed at Xia Yu again and said proudly, "The prince is my daddy."
"Ah? And you?"
Ma Sanbao was a little surprised. This chubby little kid turned out to be the father of his lifesaver. "Are you a princess or a princess?"
"I am Princess Xiaoxian, given the title by the Emperor himself."
Xia Xiaoxian smiled so hard that her eyes almost narrowed into slits.
"This humble servant pays homage to the Little Fairy Princess!"
When the old man next to them heard that the baby was actually a princess, he was about to kneel down to pay his respects, but Shen Yuyao helped him up.
The old man was busy saying to his grandson, "Sanbao, quickly pay your respects to the little princess."
"Sanbao greets the young princess."
Ma Sanbao bowed and saluted, while Xia Xiaoxian waved her chubby hands, "We are friends, no need to be polite."
Ma Sanbao smiled. After all, he was a child and friends were the most important things!
"Who is he?" Ma Sanbao pointed at Daoyan and asked.
"Uncle monk, he is so powerful." Xia Xiaoxian really admired Daoyan. She learned to meditate from Daoyan along the way. Xia Xiaoxian felt that her immortal spirit was gathering faster and faster.
The two kids chatted happily along the way, and the people in the car also listened to them with smiles on their faces.
When we arrived at the posthouse, it was already late.
"Ask the postmaster to find a clean and bright room for the old man." Shen Yuyao whispered to Zi Su. The old man was coughing badly. "Let him rest for a while. I took his pulse."
Zi Su quickly went to find the postmaster and gave the brightest remaining room in the inn to the old man and Ma Sanbao.
Dinner was also delivered.
Shen Yuyao and her group had packed up and were about to have dinner when a servant from the post station came to report that Prince Lu and Princess Lu wanted to see them.
Prince Lu came with his principal wife, Lady Wang, and his concubine, Lady Tang.
After everyone greeted each other, Prince Lu and Prince Ning went to the meeting room of the post station.
Prince Lu's two concubines, Wang and Tang, followed Shen Yuyao to the backyard.
Princess Lu looked like a virtuous woman, while Tang was outstanding in appearance and graceful.
The wife of Prince Lu, surnamed Wang, was married to him by arrangement of the emperor and was a few years older than Prince Lu.
The concubine Tang was chosen by Prince Lu himself at the Spring Banquet and he proposed to the Tang family for her.
The father of Queen Wang once followed the emperor in an uprising, but died in the battlefield before the Great Xia was established.
In order to comfort the Wang family, the emperor arranged for the marriage of the Wang family's legitimate daughter to the Prince of Lu.
After Wang married King Lu, she never gave birth to any sons or daughters. This made King Lu, who already disliked Wang, even colder towards her.
But the way the King of Lu treated Tang, the woman he had asked to marry, was completely different.
It is said that Tang's family had also served the emperor well in the past. In addition, Tang was born charming and was extremely favored by King Lu.
Therefore, Concubine Tang is the real mistress of Prince Lu's Mansion today.
"Hey, Princess Xiaoxian, can you walk now?"
"Last time in the Plum Garden, when the Empress held a hundred-day banquet for you, I even held you in my arms."
Although Wang had never given birth, she really loved babies.
"Xiaoxian, I'm here to meet the two ladies of Princess Lu."
Shen Yuyao called Xia Xiaoxian. When she and Xia Yu went to the front yard just now, they did not bring Xia Xiaoxian with them.
Xia Xiaoxian, with her round little face rosy, was having a great time playing with Ma Sanbao.
When she heard Shen Yuyao calling her, she came over obediently and saluted Wang.
"Greetings, Princess Lu."
Xia Xiaoxian just bowed to Wang and acted as if she had not seen Tang.
[Mrs. Tang was the most sinister. She tricked Prince Lu into capturing ninety-nine young boys to use as medicine.]
[At first, they were only captured in Qingzhou City, but now they have been taken to the Emperor's hometown.]
[Such a vicious woman, Xiaoxian will not pay any attention to her! ]
Tang was a little unhappy at the time, and her face looked slightly gloomy.
Shen Yuyao frowned.
Wang: "Little princess, be good!"
It looks really good.
So cute.
Why can’t I give birth to a baby?
Wang Shi did not compete for favor. She was a transparent person in Prince Lu's Mansion, but she really liked making pastries.
Every day she would make different kinds of cakes for King Lu to eat.
At first, Prince Lu was resistant. But one time when he returned home, he was very hungry. He grabbed a piece and ate it. Then he fell in love with Wang's pastry.
Therefore, every time Prince Lu returned to Beijing to visit his relatives or receive royal relatives, he would bring Wang with him.
It wouldn't be too embarrassing to give the cakes made by Princess Lu herself to these royal relatives.
After all, making pastries doesn’t cost much money.
King Lu is short of money!
I’m short of a lot of money!
He and his favorite concubine, Tang, want to live a long life!
Wang looked at Xia Xiaoxian and liked her more and more. "Princess Xiaoxian, come and try the cakes I made."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xia Xiaoxian was not polite and picked up a piece of hazelnut cake and put it in her mouth.
tasty!
It’s so delicious.
I have never eaten such delicious pastries even in heaven.
Xia Xiaoxian ate two or three pieces in one breath, and did not forget to give one piece to Ma Sanbao.
"Here, it's delicious."
Shen Yuyao looked at the two kids eating happily, her eyes full of smiles.
The two dolls' hands were covered with pastry crumbs.
There was some disgust on Tang's face.
But she did not forget what King Lu told her before he left.
"Your Highness Princess Ning, I have something to say to you alone." Tang said to Shen Yuyao with a smile.
The smile is fake!
"Just let Zisu take the two babies out."
Shen Yuyao didn't want Xia Xiaoxian to be unlucky with such a vicious woman, so she turned around and called Xiaoxian, "Xiaoxian, can you guys go play in the next room?"
Xia Xiaoxian also nodded obediently, pulled Ma Sanbao, and walked out of the house with Zisu.
Seeing that only Wang and Shen Yuyao were in the room, Tang said shyly, "Your Majesty, can Prince Lu's Mansion give Prince Ning's Mansion a little more time to pay back the 70,000 taels of silver they borrowed from him?"
When Prince Lu was enfeoffed, he embarked on a massive construction project to build the Prince Lu Palace, which completely exceeded the budgets of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Rites.
Prince Lu was afraid of being blamed by the emperor, so he asked several of his brothers to borrow some silver from them, and only then was he able to pay off the debt to the national treasury.
The largest borrower that day was the Ning Wang Mansion, which borrowed a total of 70,000 taels, to be repaid in about two years with 2% interest.
Now, the two-year period has come to an end. Prince Lu calculated that with the compound interest, he would have to pay back more than 100,000 taels of silver to Prince Ning's Mansion.
Prince Lu had promised that if he still could not pay back the money within two years, he would mortgage the "royal estate" awarded to him by the emperor to Prince Ning's Mansion.
When Prince Lu heard Captain Yu say that Prince Ning had arrived in Qingzhou and had beaten him, he secretly guessed that Prince Ning had come to collect a debt!
All the money in Prince Lu's Mansion was used to seek immortality. The more than 100,000 taels of silver that were about to be returned could not be taken out at this time.
But King Lu was unwilling to really use those "royal estates" to pay off the debt.
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