Empress Dowager Xue said confidently, "Emperor, let Xiao Jinghan inherit the title of Prince of Wu'an. There's no rush! I've already sent a master from the Imperial Palace to assassinate Xiao Jingyi! If they succeed, the Nanyi garrison and the Xiao family army will naturally belong to the Emperor!"
A hint of displeasure flashed across Emperor Wen's eyes, then disappeared in an instant. He whispered, "Mother! Please don't push Xiao Jingyi too far. I'm afraid he'll become desperate and do something desperate!"
Empress Dowager Xue said forcefully, "I know my limits!"
After Empress Dowager Xue left, Emperor Wen felt more and more aggrieved. He was so angry that he swept all the pens, ink, paper and inkstone on the table in the imperial study to the ground.
Eunuch Gao was guarding outside. When he heard the noise in the imperial study, he rushed in. He saw Emperor Wen standing by the table with an angry face and a blue complexion.
Eunuch Gao hurriedly advised: "Your Majesty! Your health is the most important thing!" He called the eunuch to clean up the mess on the ground, and brought back the pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
Emperor Wen sat in a chair somewhat dazed. Eunuch Gao brought him the blood swallow soup and said, "Your Majesty, this is the blood swallow soup that Concubine An personally prepared for you."
Emperor Wen came back to his senses, picked up the bowl and took a sip. He sighed and said, "In this palace, only Qinghuan is sincere to me!"
Eunuch Gao consoled him, "Your Majesty! The Queen Mother also cares about you! Mother and son are connected by heart! Your Majesty, please don't be angry with the Queen Mother!"
Emperor Wen held his forehead and smiled bitterly: "My mother is very good to me! But she is too controlling! She wants to interfere in everything! She treats me like a three-year-old child! Never mind! I'm going to Yihuan Palace!"
Emperor Wen went to Yihuan Palace and began to complain when he saw Concubine An: "My Queen Mother never consults me about anything she does! Xiao Jingyi is a money-grubber. If Xiao Jingyi gets hold of the assassin, he'll take advantage of it and attack me. Wouldn't that put me in a very passive position?"
Concubine An smiled faintly: "Your Majesty, the princes and princesses have all grown up! The Queen Mother still likes to play with her grandchildren. With children to enjoy her, the Queen Mother will not be lonely. I heard that the children of Xue Wen and Xue Wu are just two years old, and they are at the age when they are lovable!"
After hearing this, Emperor Wen laughed heartily: "Qinghuan is truly my sweetheart! When Chengjin achieves military merit, I will make you an Imperial Noble Consort!"
Concubine An said happily: "Your Majesty, thank you for your grace!"
Luo Lingyue had been very distressed the past two days. She had asked her second brother for the business and had already figured out what to do. The only thing she lacked was a manager to take charge!
The Dark Moon Pavilion has quite a lot of staff, but none of them are suitable for doing open business.
Everyone knows that the building belongs to the Luo family. If the people from the Dark Moon Pavilion are exposed, the Luo family will be pushed to the forefront.
Now she doesn't want people to know that she is the Dark Moon Fairy. There are some things that she can do as the Dark Moon Fairy, but she cannot do them as Luo Lingyue.
Behind her were the entire Luo and An families, as well as Concubine An and the King of Qin. She couldn't let any political enemies have the opportunity to attack her relatives. After spending all this time with them, she had already regarded them as her own family!
She couldn't let them be in danger, let alone affect the King of Qin. If the prince became emperor, the Luo and An families would be in dire straits! She only hoped that the Luo and An families could help the King of Qin take the throne!
Luo Lingyue took Linglong and Liuli out of the general's mansion. She wanted to go for a walk on the street. If she really couldn't find a suitable candidate, she would go to the matchmaker to buy a few servants who could do accounting.
Luo Lingyue was extremely bored while walking on the street. There were too few vendors in ancient times and none of them attracted her at all.
Seeing her lack of interest, Linglong said to her, "Miss, up ahead is the Bai family's jewelry shop. Let's go take a look. I heard that the four sisters of the Bai family are very good at business, and they all opened shops in Jiangnan."
Liuli also said: "Yes! Last time I bought a pair of gold earrings from the Bai family, and they also gave me a silver bracelet. The style is so beautiful, look, miss!" Liuli stretched out her wrist to let Luo Lingyue see her bracelet.
The bracelet has a floral pattern, and the workmanship is not poor just because it is a gift. This bracelet is very attractive even if it is sold alone in the store.
Luo Lingyue wasn't interested in gold and silver jewelry, but she was very interested in the Bai sisters. It seemed that the Bai sisters had a first-rate business mind.
They arrived at the Bai family's jewelry store, only to find it surrounded by many people and noisy.
Linglong asked a bystander, "Auntie, what happened in the Bai family shop?"
The aunt sighed, "The Bai sisters are in big trouble! Their father lost the entire Bai family store and is still in debt. Now, the Changle Casino wants to sell the four sisters to Mr. Xu as concubines."
The old woman next to him cursed, "That old man from the Bai family is a disaster. He jumped into the river and died. He's now selling his daughters to an old man who's about to die!"
Luo Lingyue asked Linglong and Liuli to push through the crowd of onlookers and walked into the Bai family shop. Luo Lingyue looked at the four sisters, who looked worried but remained calm, and felt very satisfied!
The eldest sister, Bai Zhi, said to the owner of the Changle gambling house, "We can give you the shop, but we sisters will not marry Mr. Xu. We can work to pay off the debt!"
The owner of the Changle Casino sneered, "Working to pay off a debt? Your damn father owes us Changle Casino 500 taels of gold. How many lifetimes will you have to work to pay it off? Stop the nonsense! Even if we have to go to Jingzhao Prefecture, you have to go back with Mr. Xu! You're overthinking it. You sisters aren't getting married! You're going to be concubines!"
Mr. Xu, a fat and big-eared man standing nearby, had a lewd smile on his face: "I have eighteen concubines, but none that know how to do business. Seeing you all so pretty, my heart feels like it's being scratched by a cat! Hehe!"
He was about to reach out to touch Baizhi's breasts when a small hand grabbed his arm.
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