If Yu Zizhen acts recklessly in the capital and the Lu family gets a hold of evidence against the Zhenbei Palace, then the Zhenbei Princess's plan will not only fail to protect Yu Zizhen, but will also put the entire palace in crisis.
The princess was reminded by her trusted nanny and finally remembered that she had to coax Yu Zizhen now, instead of losing her temper with her as she wanted like before.
Taking a deep breath, the princess tried hard to suppress the rage in her heart. "The dowry given to a married woman by the royal family has always been three thousand taels. Since you want it, I will have someone send you three thousand taels of silver notes later."
Yu Zizhen sneered, "You also said that it was given by the palace attendants, not what they actually took out. Well, I should have seen through it a long time ago. Who am I? How could I deserve the private subsidies of the extremely noble Princess Zhenbei?"
Princess Zhenbei was of course unhappy that she spoke to her in such a sarcastic tone, but she did not dare to really anger Yu Zizhen who was obviously not going to let her manipulate him anymore.
"I haven't finished speaking yet!" Princess Zhenbei secretly warned herself not to lose her temper, lest she anger the brat and end up losing more than she deserves.
She tried to force a somewhat sinister smile, "I'll give you an additional thirty thousand taels. As for the prince, how much you can offer depends on your own ability."
She was married into the palace with a grand wedding. Just for the silver ingots and gold leaves in the bottom of the box, her parents gave her six large boxes as a dowry.
If you add in the land, shops, houses, jewelry, clothes, cloth, furniture, medicinal herbs, antiques, calligraphy and paintings... her dowry would be at least two hundred thousand taels.
In addition, her father secretly gave her a newly discovered copper mine.
Although she gave the mine to the King of Zhenbei as a gift in the second month after her marriage according to her father's instructions, the King of Zhenbei also gave her 90% of the private property left by the old princess.
The old princess was born into a wealthy family in Jiangnan. Not only did her dowry far richer than that of the Princess of Zhenbei, she was also very good at business. After years of accumulation, her private property was almost as much as the assets of the public family of the Zhenbei Palace.
In addition, she only raised her son, the King of Zhenbei, and her youngest daughter in her life, so after her death, the King of Zhenbei actually got a lot of his mother's private property.
He gave 90% of it to Princess Zhenbei, who took over and continued to run the business for seven or eight years.
By this calculation, the private property held by Princess Zhenbei must be at least worth millions.
He had one million taels of private money, but he was only willing to give 30,000 taels to his daughter. This was the result after Yu Zizhen threatened to "not go to Beijing anymore."
"Tsk tsk." Yu Zizhen secretly made up his mind to make a bad idea, but he did not continue to argue with Princess Zhenbei.
She looked at Princess Zhenbei steadily and said, "I want to see the money within today."
Princess Zhenbei was furious. Was she afraid that she wouldn't keep her word?
Yu Zizhen pretended not to notice the increasingly ugly expression on Princess Zhenbei's face. She stood up, bowed perfunctorily to Princess Zhenbei, and then turned and left without waiting for her to say anything.
Seeing her become so disrespectful to her elders, Princess Zhenbei was so angry that she threw the teacup beside her. "What's wrong with this girl? She suddenly became so unruly and willful, so unfilial and unbrotherly. If you don't know her, you would think she was possessed by evil spirits!"
Yu Zizhen, whose little feet had just stepped out of the door, turned around and walked back upon hearing this. She looked at the Princess of Zhenbei with anticipation, "If I'm possessed by evil spirits, will you not let me enter the capital?"
Princess Zhenbei:!!!
Princess Zhenbei was extremely angry, but the doubts in her heart were dispelled by her words.
She thought that this little girl was unhappy and that was why she did these things on purpose to annoy her.
Cui Yu, who was almost scared out of her wits, followed Yu Zizhen as quietly as possible and left the Princess of Zhenbei's courtyard with her.
The two walked in silence for a long time. When they were about to reach the yard where Yu Zizhen lived, Cui Yu finally came back to her senses from the shock.
She hesitated several times and finally chose to ask the most insignificant question.
"Sir, you want to take Xinghua with you because you're worried that she'll be kicked out of the palace after you leave?"
"That's not the case." No matter what, the palace would never be short of food for Xinghua.
In the original book, Xinghua was only secretly excluded and bullied by her "colleagues" again and again, and was not directly driven out of the palace by the masters of the palace.
Cui Yu was puzzled. "Then why did you insist on taking her with you?"
"Of course it's because she's obedient and capable, but she's also a loner with no family or friends."
Cui Yu: ...I just can’t respond to that.
She didn't see the meaning of "obedient and capable" anyway, and as for "being alone", is that a good thing?
Without family to tie her down, if Xinghua decides to betray her master in the future, won't her master have no means to control her?
Cui Yu expressed that she was completely confused and unable to understand Yu Zizhen's employment philosophy, which was completely contrary to that of the aristocratic families.
Yu Zizhen smiled at her and said, "Don't think about these things anymore. You should think about where you want to be transferred to continue your work after I leave."
Cui Yu's tears welled up in her eyes. "Are you really not going to take me with you?"
Yu Zizhen nodded, "It's better to stay in the mansion than to follow me."
She waved at Mama Liu and Cuiping, who were staring at her eagerly. "I've already told the princess not to follow you into the capital. Once I've sorted out the accounts in the private treasury and taken inventory, you can go find the steward to arrange new jobs for you."
Mama Liu and Cuiping breathed a sigh of relief, yet they couldn't help but worry about their future lives in the Zhenbei Palace. Mama Liu cautiously asked Yu Zizhen, "So, did the princess say what kind of work she wants to arrange for me and Cuiping?"
Yu Zizhen glanced at her and asked, "Is this something the princess needs to worry about?"
Mother Liu was speechless.
Indeed, if Princess Zhenbei did not want to transfer them to some important positions in her courtyard or mansion, she would not care where they worked.
After all, the palace is so big and there are so many servants in it. The princess will never ask about every detail of every servant.
Mother Liu felt a little disappointed after being transferred from a core position to a marginal position, but she did not dare to be shameless and beg Yu Zizhen for help, who was obviously dissatisfied with her and her daughter.
Mother Liu retreated with some regret. Cuiping wanted to say something to Yu Zizhen with red eyes and a look of grievance, but before she could get in front of Yu Zizhen, Mother Liu had already quickly pulled her behind her.
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