The things that the empress dowager gave to Yu Zizhen were the most numerous and valuable. Perhaps because Yu Zizhen's reputation for loving money had spread throughout the capital, the empress dowager actually had someone send her a small box of gold ingots and a small box of various gems.
These two boxes alone are worth more than five thousand taels.
In addition, the empress dowager also rewarded her with valuable items such as writing brushes, ink, paper, inkstone, famous calligraphers' calligraphy, jade seeds, silks, porcelain, ornaments, medicinal herbs, and supplements. This time, Yu Zizhen earned at least six thousand taels.
Yu Zizhen's face flushed with joy as he could make so much money just by pretending.
You know, it was very difficult for her to make money. After all, she was a tiny person, and she couldn't even buy a shop or a farm under her own name, let alone start a business directly.
So where would she get the money from in order to avoid spending all her money?
Before today, the only ways she had earned money since coming to Beijing were her salary as the crown prince, occasional rewards from members of the royal family, and two compensations paid to her by the Wan family after she caught them plotting against her.
And now, she had another source of income, which was the property given to her by the Empress Dowager Da Lu to appease Princess Anqing when she suddenly went crazy.
As for the future, Yu Zizhen has no plans to accumulate wealth in the usual way.
Given her status, age and situation, she had no choice but to take unconventional approaches if she wanted to get rich.
In addition to the above ways of making money that she has developed, she also plans to be more diligent, do more tasks, and participate in more gatherings where rich people gather.
As far as she knew, those wealthy people not only spent money on food, drinks, music, dancing, and scene decoration when holding banquets, but they also held competitions, games, etc. during the banquet. Nine and a half out of ten of these competitions and games were sponsored by prizes.
Although Yu Zizhen herself is not outstanding in any of the arts such as music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, flowers and tea, she has the system as a cheat. As long as she is not asked to perform in person, she will have no problem tasting things. After all, the system holds the correct answers, and she can be a loyal substitute for the system.
In addition to these elegant ones, the rich people would also play some games that did not require much cultural level and artistic talent, such as throwing pots, kicking balls, archery and so on. She wouldn't dare to say that she would win every battle of these, but she could still win nine times out of ten.
However, in order to prevent others from dislike her and not taking her out to play in the future, Yu Zizhen does not intend to fully reveal her true level.
For the sake of a little money, she was determined to keep her winning rate at 70% to 80%, and it would be best if she could win by a narrow margin every time.
Well, maybe she could even get paid to fix the match, so others would gain fame and she would get the benefits. This would be much more cost-effective and low-key than her directly competing with others for the prize.
As for completing tasks, most of the tasks issued by the system to rescue cannon fodder characters can actually earn you some money.
However, the property she had obtained while completing her missions in the past was basically either the wealth that the cannon fodder could not take away but did not want to give to their enemies, or the store dividends that Yu Zizhen deliberately asked for in order to make his behavior reasonable.
But now she no longer wants to do it simply because according to her analysis, the people who can make her richest in this world are still those human-shaped rats who have plundered the people's blood and sweat.
They plundered the people, she plundered them, and then used the plundered money back to benefit the plundered people. Yu Zizhen felt that there was nothing wrong with this operation.
After figuring out all these things, Yu Zizhen began to systematically plunder ill-gotten gains based on the intelligence provided by the system in addition to studying, in order to accumulate original capital for himself.
No one knows that she is actually very busy day and night.
During the times when others thought she was in a daze or dozing off, she was actually listening to the system reading medical books to her.
On those days when others thought she went to bed early and was lazy and didn't want to study, she would actually change her appearance and go out to complete her tasks after avoiding the eyes and ears of others.
If she wasn't afraid that staying up too late would delay her growth, she would even want to use her own sleep time as she pleases.
As she studied hard like a sponge and accumulated wealth in secret and unconventional ways, time slowly passed until mid-July.
On the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, the gates of hell open, and many people in Da Qi would choose this day to worship their ancestors.
There is no such procedure in the Zhenbei Palace where Yu Zizhen is located, because the ancestors of their Yu family are all enshrined in the Zhenbei Palace in the northern border.
But those servants whose families lived in the capital, and those members of the Lu family who were staying in the Zhenbei Palace, all had ancestors to worship.
Yu Zizhen didn't need many people to serve her anyway, so on July 14th, she sent a message to the Lu family and the palace's chief steward Yu Tong, allowing the Lu family and the palace's servants to leave the palace to worship their ancestors after registering.
The servants in the palace were not so difficult to deal with. The ancestors they wanted to worship were all former servants of the palace. The burial places of these people were relatively concentrated. They prepared the items for the worship together, and then formed a group to take a car to the cemetery. After the worship, they returned to the city together. Although they were inevitably busy and hard-working, they were not like the Lu family, whose risk factor increased sharply as soon as they left the palace.
The Lu family also wanted to go out of the palace to pay their respects, but they did not dare to go with their entire family because the Lu family was eyeing them covetously outside the palace.
In order to prevent the news from leaking out, the Lu family even waited for them on the road they had to pass, and the Lu family did not go out to purchase the items for the worship themselves.
They approached Jiang Yunshan and asked him to help arrange it. Then, early in the morning of July 15th, only Lu Mingxuan, Lu Mingyuan, Wu Shun, Wu An, Lu Zhong, and Lu Yong, along with Lu Huaiyi's youngest son Lu Mingzhuo, went out of the city to pay homage.
Lu Mingxuan and Lu Mingyuan were both military generals, while Wu Shun, Wu An, Lu Zhong and Lu Yong were former servants of the Lu family who had followed their masters into battle. It was reasonable to say that having them protect Lu Mingzhuo on a trip to the temple was enough.
That was why the brothers Lu Mingxuan and Lu Mingyuan refused Yu Zizhen's request to send them more people.
However, what they did not expect was that although their preparations allowed them to avoid possible assassinations, they could not prevent them from humiliation from their former acquaintances.
After offering sacrifices to the Lu family's ancestor's spirit tablets in the temple and adding some money to the temple, the Lu family did not dare to delay and rode back to the capital directly.
Seeing that all of their group had passed the inspection smoothly and entered the city gate without missing a single one, the two brothers Lu Mingxuan and Lu Mingyuan had no time to breathe a sigh of relief when a sarcastic young man's voice sounded beside them.
"Hey, isn't this the Lu family brat who was sold by the government? What? Are you going out of the city to pay homage to the Lu family ancestors? I say you are the same. You have been reduced to official slaves, yet you still go to embarrass yourself in front of your ancestors. Aren't you afraid that the Lu family ancestors will be so angry that they will directly lift the lid of their coffins?"
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