Chapter 156: Why doesn’t the prince learn from Prime Minister Song’s generosity?
"Master Song, you are joking. No merit, no reward."
Seeing that Song Yunchu was always gentle, Hu Si Niang was too embarrassed to show off her temper. She was afraid that if she angered Song Yunchu, she would not be able to leave the Prime Minister's Residence. She could only force a polite smile and said, "Thank you, Lord Song, for your hospitality these days. I will take my leave now. If Lord Song can persuade my elder sister to work for you in the future, then I will naturally follow my elder sister."
Song Yunchu nodded, "See you later."
"By the way, I don't even know your name. If you really want to come and seek refuge with me someday, just tell the gatekeeper your name." She asked knowingly.
"Hu Si Niang."
"Okay." Song Yunchu smiled, turned around and told the guard, "Send her out of the house."
Looking at Hu Si Niang's departing figure, the smile on Song Yunchu's lips deepened a little.
There is a saying that goes: It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.
The moment Hu Siniang was taken away from the prime minister's residence by the guards, she still felt that everything was a little unreal.
She was really released unharmed... As a prisoner of Prime Minister Song, she was not injured at all and had delicious meals every day. Few people would believe it if they told others about it.
In fact, at the beginning she was doubtful whether there was something wrong with the food, but she had nothing else to eat except the food in the prime minister's mansion, so she ate with the mentality of living one day at a time. She felt that even if she was going to die, she would not starve to death.
But it turned out that she was worrying too much. Those delicious dishes were just a way for Prime Minister Song to abide by the gentleman's agreement.
From this perspective, this person doesn't seem as bad as Prince Yi said.
Hu Si Niang quickly returned to Prince Yi's Mansion.
Poison Lady and others were overjoyed to see her return safely.
"Fourth sister, you are really back."
"Fourth sister, how have you been these days?"
"Fourth sister, you..." Poison Lady originally wanted to ask whether Song Yunchu had hurt her, but looking at Hu Si Niang's figure, the words did not come out of her mouth.
Fourth sister’s waist...why does it seem that it is not as slim as before?
And her face and chin seemed to have gained some weight? She was originally worried that her fourth sister would lose weight, but she didn't expect that she would gain weight instead.
"I've been living pretty well these days." Hu Si Niang said truthfully, "Lord Song said that he and my eldest sister had an agreement, and he promised not to mistreat me. He made sure I had enough to eat at every meal. Look at me, am I a little fatter?"
"It seems that he has gained some weight. Prime Minister Song is a man of his words."
"After all, he said it himself. He is a high-ranking official. If he doesn't even have this little credibility, how can he expect others to be loyal to him? But then again, keeping promises is one thing, but don't really regard him as a good person. Maybe he just wants to win people's hearts with small favors."
Hu Si Niang neither agreed nor refuted what her two sisters said.
Indeed, keeping one's word does not mean that a person is very good, but to be honest, Song was really kind to her as a prisoner. As the saying goes, one should be grateful to the person who has eaten his food, so she could not say bad things about him behind his back.
He should sincerely want to recruit them, right? After all, he and the prince are not on good terms, but the eldest sister insists on being loyal to the prince, so she can't turn against him.
"Let's not talk about him, Fourth Sister. We finally got you back. We have to have a good reunion."
Poison Lady said, pulling her to the dressing table. "Although we didn't complete the prince's task, he still gave us some benefits because of our hard work. Look, these are the jewelry he gave us. Pick the two you like best and take them."
Hu Siniang looked at the jewelry on the dressing table, and the smile on her lips froze a little.
She had been locked up in Prime Minister Song's residence for the past few days and had seen a lot of good things.
The jewelry in front of them looked pretty good, but the quantity was too small, right? There were four sisters, so each of them would get two pieces?
When Prime Minister Song recruited her, he prepared two large boxes for her, containing at least a dozen or twenty items, but she was not thick-skinned enough to take them away.
The amount that Prince Yi gave to the four of them was not as much as what Prime Minister Song gave to her alone.
She didn't know before, but now that she has compared them, she really feels that the prince is not as generous as Prime Minister Song.
Hu Si Niang wanted to complain, but when she saw her elder sister smiling beside her, she swallowed the words back.
Forget it, she didn't want to be a spoiler.
She picked up two pieces of jewelry at random and said nothing more.
As it gradually darkened, the four sisters sat around the table, and the servants in the mansion served them dishes.
"Fourth sister, eat more meat."
"Fourth sister, these dumplings are delicious, try them."
Although they knew that Hu Si Niang had not been treated harshly these days, after all, they had met again after a long separation, and she was the youngest of the four, so the others naturally picked food for her out of habit.
"That's enough, that's enough. Sisters, hurry up and eat." Faced with the love of her sisters, Hu Si Niang gladly accepted it. However, she was not happy when she looked at the table full of dishes.
There are six dishes and one soup, which is a lot of food, but the ingredients are too simple.
Stir-fried beans, green vegetables, and shredded radish are all common items in the vegetable market. The remaining three meat dishes are lamb dumplings, stewed chicken, and steamed fish.
She suddenly realized that she had never eaten any delicacies in the palace.
This made her think back to the days in the prime minister's prison. In just six or seven days, she ate about a hundred or eighty dishes, including bird's nest, shark's fin, and Buddha jumps over the wall. There were also some dishes whose names she couldn't even remember. She only remembered that the dishes contained deer antler, deer tendon, and eight delicacies.
Although she always looked disdainful towards the servants in the prime minister's mansion, she could not deceive herself. She really liked eating those dishes. The maid who delivered the dishes also said that some of the dishes were not only delicious but also beauty-enhancing.
I never expected that the best things I had ever eaten in my life would be the three meals a day I had as a prisoner in the Song Mansion.
Song Yunchu said that his female guard Honglian was treated in the same way.
Hu Si Niang chewed the chicken leg in the bowl and felt it tasted like wax.
"What's wrong with fourth sister? Are you in a bad mood?" The second sister asked from the front.
"No, I just think the taste of this chicken drumstick is a little bland."
Hu Erniang took a bite of the chicken and said, "It's not bad. Isn't it always tasted like this?"
Hu Si Niang: “…”
My second sister has never eaten anything good.
They run around for Prince Yi all day, can't they eat something good? Not to mention whether the food can beautify the skin, at least get some food that can nourish the body.
The prince is a member of the royal family, and Prime Minister Song is a minister. In terms of salary alone, the former is definitely higher. However, Prime Minister Song is not an ordinary minister, but a favorite of the emperor, who receives rewards from time to time. If you add up his gains for the whole year, perhaps the prince cannot compare to him.
But the prince has been receiving royal salary since he was born, and Prime Minister Song has only been an official for a few years. He really made a lot of money in the year when Your Majesty ascended the throne. No matter how you calculate it, the prince's family wealth will not be less than Prime Minister Song's, right?
Prime Minister Song is willing to spend a lot of money to recruit talents, why doesn’t the prince learn from his generosity?
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