Adding up the banknotes, gold and cash, Yu Zizhen now has a total of about 50,000 taels of cash on hand.
If you take into account the accessories, jade seeds, supplements, medicinal materials, and various local rituals including furs that can be exchanged for gold and silver or even spent directly as money... then her current assets are just over 60,000 taels.
If she was just going to be a mascot prince who lived a life of idleness and waiting for death, then her 60,000 taels of private money would indeed be enough for her to live a life of luxury in the capital for half her life. But the problem was that she still had two mission targets who were very good at spending money.
Just to achieve the mission goal of protecting the eldest prince Xiao Yuanjin who is far away in the capital and ensuring that he lives a smooth and peaceful life until old age, she has to employ at least a hundred or eighty martial arts masters.
In addition, he will be living in the palace for a long time in the future, just like he is now. If she wants to place her own people around him, won’t she have to waste a lot of brain cells and spend a lot of money?
Not to mention her second mission goal, which is ridiculously grand: "to reduce the number of deaths in this world as much as possible."
There is not enough money to spend, and the points are only a pitiful single digit.
As for the mission of rescuing the important cannon fodder Xinghua, according to the system, it is not enough to just smuggle Xinghua out. She also has to get Mr. Jiang and Nanny Hong to accept Xinghua to go to Beijing with them.
Otherwise, if Xinghua is abandoned or deported, her mission will not be completed.
In other words, she cannot get the large number of points represented by this four-star task at the moment.
Swinging his short legs, Yu Zizhen leaned against the well-fed apricot blossoms and closed his eyes in a daze.
The two little ones leaned against each other and slept all over the place until the convoy stopped to rest and have lunch. Only then did Yu Zizhen open his eyes with an impatient look at the sound of banging on the car door.
She hid the apricot blossoms back into the box, then opened the car door with a dark face, which had been banging on by Nanny Hong.
"I'm sleeping! You keep banging. Are you worried that I won't be able to rest well on the way?"
Although Yu Zizhen's voice was childish, it was very loud. As soon as she said this, everyone around her immediately turned their eyes to Nanny Hong, whose behavior was indeed very unusual.
The servant in charge of driving the carriage curled his lips quietly. What did he say? How could a servant knock on the master's carriage door like that? Looking at her posture, those who didn't know the inside story would think that the person sitting in the carriage was a little maid who could be beaten, scolded and punished at will!
"Prince." Mr. Jiang, who was not far away, walked to the car door in two steps. While bowing to Yu Zizhen, he turned his back to the visitor from the capital and glared at Madam Hong, who was obviously committing an act of insubordination.
Nanny Hong was not convinced, but she did not dare to confront Mr. Jiang openly. After all, even if she was the princess, she had to maintain the most basic courtesy and respect when facing the prince's trusted staff.
She is a cunning slave who relies on the power of others, but she is very good at the basic operation of judging people and serving them well.
"I was in a hurry and behaved inappropriately. Please forgive me this time, my lord, as I was so reckless out of concern for you."
Yu Zizhen snorted coldly, "If you do this again, you'll have to go find Mr. Jiang and receive your punishment."
When Nanny Hong heard this, she immediately refused to do it. Before she came out, the princess had said that Mr. Jiang was only responsible for the foreign affairs assigned to him by the prince, while she, Nanny Hong, was responsible for managing all the internal affairs of the prince's mansion in the capital.
According to her understanding, she and Mr. Jiang should at least have an equal relationship with mutual respect, but after Yu Zizhen said this, didn't she become inferior to Mr. Jiang for no reason?
She said, "Mr. Jiang is the prince's staff member. There's a distinction between inside and outside the palace, so it's probably not appropriate for him to get involved in matters within the palace. But the prince doesn't have to worry about these trivial matters. Before I left, I received an order from the princess. The princess has entrusted me with all matters within the palace in the capital."
Yu Zizhen raised his eyebrows slightly. Wow, this guy is actually ambitious.
Before she could confirm with the system whether the princess had really said such words to Matron Hong, Matron Hong had already gone a step further and said to Yu Zizhen and Mr. Jiang, "In addition, the princess also instructed this old servant to restrain the prince on her behalf, so that he would not do anything that would damage the reputation of the palace due to his young age and ignorance."
"Heh!" Yu Zizhen was so angry that he laughed. It turned out that she not only planned to take control of the inner quarters of the palace, but also planned to control her, the prince of the palace, in her hands.
She looked at Mr. Jiang and said, "Please write a letter to the palace on my behalf and ask the prince and princess whether I am the master of the palace in the capital, or Madam Hong, who represents the dignified Princess Zhenbei."
After saying that, she slammed the car door and didn't get out.
Nanny Hong's face darkened and she reached out to push the car door, but Yu Zizhen seemed to have anticipated it and had already bolted it again while closing the car door.
After that, no matter how Madam Hong and Mr. Jiang tried to persuade him, and no matter whether those people from the capital were secretly discussing it, Yu Zizhen just refused to open the car door.
She complained with her mind and baby voice, "This old guy actually wants to step on my head, Yu Zizhen. If there weren't a mission waiting for me, believe it or not, I would just turn my face away and not leave right now."
She could just turn around and go back to the Zhenbei Palace and ask Princess Zhenbei in person what her plan was, and see who would be the one who was in a mess then!
Yu Zizhen was very proud and did not treat himself badly at all. He took out noodles with gravy, egg custard, and red date, white fungus and lotus seed soup from the system space for lunch.
Even the little girl Xinghua, who she had stuffed back into the box before, was taken out again and had a simple lunch with her accompanied by the noise outside the car.
After they finished their meal, Nanny Hong outside the car was finally driven away by Mr. Jiang who was about to go berserk.
Hearing that Nanny Hong's incessant and annoying voice was no longer coming from outside the car, Yu Zizhen immediately opened the car door without saying a word, "Thank you for your hard work, sir."
Mr. Jiang smiled bitterly. He actually didn't want to get involved in this matter.
Just as Nanny Hong said, he was just an aide to the Prince of Zhenbei, not a housekeeper. It was actually inappropriate for him to interfere in the conflict between Yu Zizhen and the nanny who was the confidant of the Princess of Zhenbei.
If it weren't for Nanny Hong being so domineering, she would have even said that she wanted to restrain Yu Zizhen, and Yu Zizhen was a person with a bad temper.
Seeing that if he didn't show up, the people from the capital would laugh at the Zhenbei Palace, Mr. Jiang ignored his status and got involved in this matter.
He was just thinking about how to persuade Yu Zizhen to consider the overall situation when he heard Yu Zizhen say, "By the way, sir, don't forget to write a letter back to the palace for me and ask the prince and princess who is the master of this palace in the capital."
After saying this, Yu Zizhen jumped off the carriage and ordered the guards to help her lift one of the boxes off the carriage.
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