When Yu Zizhen brought Cui Yu into the main hall, Cui Ping couldn't help but complain to Mama Liu in a low voice, "Mother, why are you dragging me down? Why don't we ask the princess for help while she's still in the mansion? Once she's gone, how can we still have a good life in this palace?"
Mother Liu took two steps at a time and pulled her away from the main house and the crowd. "Oh my little ancestor, can't you see that the princess has completely abandoned us? If you really want to have an easy life in the future, don't take the initiative to get close to her."
Cuiping cried in grievance, "I told you not to do that, you..."
Mother Liu immediately raised her hand to cover her careless daughter's mouth, "What are you talking about? Are you trying to kill yourself?"
Cuiping hiccuped and stopped talking.
They never expected that the mother and daughter who had a system on the other side of the wall thought they were acting in secret, but they didn't know that their conversation had already been told to Yu Zizhen in detail by the baby-voice system.
Yu Zizhen didn't take it seriously. After all, from the moment she received the plot, she already knew the real reason why the little owner became ill.
"Prince!"
Hearing this shout full of surprise, Yu Zizhen raised her hand and touched the little bun of Xinghua that was rushing towards her.
Xinghua narrowed her big black eyes in a smile, "Prince, Xinghua has been watching the house carefully and hasn't let anyone in. Prince, are you cold? Let me get you a new hand warmer!"
Yu Zizhen smiled and took the little girl's hand, "No, it's not cold. Come here, I have something else for you to do."
Xinghua immediately moved her little feet to catch up with Yu Zizhen, "Prince, you say it, Xinghua will do it right away!"
Cui Yu: ...As a qualified maid, first of all, you can't call the prince so loudly, secondly, you shouldn't run towards him madly, and thirdly, you have to call yourself a slave in front of the prince, instead of calling him "Xinghua" and "I" all the time.
She complained silently in her heart, but knew better than to say it out loud.
"Cui Yu," Cui Yu was complaining when Yu Zizhen suddenly handed her an account book. "Take Xinghua with you and pick a servant you trust. Go and thoroughly check everything in my private vault."
As for her money box, there wasn't much silver and money in it. She could just count it at any time to keep an idea of how much there was.
Cui Yu and Xing Hua took the order and left, while Yu Zizhen sat there and began to figure out how to extort more money from the Zhenbei Palace.
The wealthy princess only gave her thirty thousand taels, and the Prince of Zhenbei, who had almost all of his private property used to support the army, could not give her much silver.
As for the concubines of the King of Zhenbei, if they could leak the news that she was a girl without being implicated, Yu Zizhen believed that they would have done so long ago.
Now they were forced to keep the secret for her, Princess Zhenbei, and Yu Zicheng. They must be feeling very anxious. She should not touch their sensitive nerves for the sake of money.
Apart from those older than her, there were only a few kids younger than her in the palace.
However, the oldest of her half-brothers and half-sisters was only three years old. To ask for money from children three years old or younger... Yu Zizhen's limited dignity prevented her from doing such a shameless act.
Counting on her fingers, Yu Zizhen found with dismay that she only had one person left in this palace who she could rob.
"Tong..." Yu Zizhen babble on and on, informing the little baby-voice system in advance about the money-making plan he had come up with.
The little baby voice system was as quiet as a chicken and did not want to comment on Yu Zizhen's unconventional money-making plan.
Yu Zizhen didn't care whether it responded or not. She took off her shoes and got on the kang, spreading herself like a small pancake between the warm and thick bedding without any image.
After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, Yu Zizhen heard the voice of one of Princess Zhenbei's trusted maids speaking in the yard.
Thinking of the 33,000 taels that Princess Zhenbei had promised her, Yu Zizhen immediately turned over and sat up.
She put on her shoes and walked to the main hall door in two steps. "Is it Aunt Wu? Are you here to give me some money?"
Nanny Wu paused for a moment while curtsying, and the gentle smile that always appeared on her face became a little stiff, but she quickly adjusted her facial expression.
"This old servant greets the prince." After bowing to Yu Zizhen with a smile, Nanny Wu handed over the small wooden box containing the silver bills that the princess asked her to bring.
Yu Zizhen took the light and weightless wooden box and said, "Please wait a moment, Madam Wu."
After saying that, she opened the small wooden box in front of all the servants in the yard.
There were a total of six silver notes in the box, with a total face value of exactly 33,000 taels, not a penny more or less.
Yu Zizhen herself didn't know what a banknote was, but who could have helped her with the cheating device called the baby voice system?
He picked up the silver bills one by one and let the small baby voice system scan them from all directions. Until the small baby voice system came to the conclusion that "all six silver bills are genuine and can be exchanged nationwide", Yu Zizhen put all the silver bills back into the small wooden box.
Nanny Wu and the others had different expressions on their faces at her outrageous actions, but Yu Zizhen seemed to have noticed nothing at all. She nodded slightly to Nanny Wu and said, "I have received the thirty-three thousand taels. Thank you for making this trip."
Aunt Wu: ...
Nanny Wu gathered her strength and tried to suppress the strange expression on her face. She smiled faintly and bowed to Yu Zizhen again, "Then I will go back and report to the princess."
"Then take care." After saying this, Yu Zizhen carried the small wooden box back to his bedroom.
The banknotes were stored in the system warehouse, and Yu Zizhen put the empty small wooden box back into her original money box as a pretense.
"Tong, please help me keep an eye on the King of Zhenbei. When he returns home, remember to tell me immediately."
The system responded, and then there was silence again.
Yu Zizhen didn't continue to talk to it. He took out the book "Qinggong Body Skills" that he had won in the lottery and began to read it with full concentration.
Although this book "Qinggong Body Skills" focuses on a simple and unpretentious approach, only teaching people how to use leverage to climb, how to perfectly hide their body shape, etc., and cannot turn practitioners into birdmen with a pair of invisible wings, but in this ancient fictional background without any martial arts elements, such Qinggong body skills are actually sufficient.
When it comes to such practical skills that can save lives at critical moments, Yu Zizhen has always adhered to the mentality of rather learning wrong things than missing out on too many. Naturally, this time she will not let go of this book "Qinggong Body Skills" in vain.
Even though she does not have the conditions for practical practice at the moment, it is still okay for her to study the book in advance.
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