Liu Yong, who had already turned around and left, turned back again and watched Xiao Bin frantically take out the silver bills in his hand.
But there were only eight hundred taels, and there was still a shortfall of two hundred taels. However, Liu Yong refused to budge, "It's one thousand taels, not even one tael less."
Xiao Bin had no choice but to ask Wang for money.
When Wang heard that taking away 800 taels was not enough, she wanted 200 taels. She was so angry that she didn't lie on the bed anymore. She stood up and cursed, "You are all bastards. The price has increased so much, why don't you just rob them?"
As soon as Wang opened her mouth, Xiao Bin was stunned and quickly covered her mouth. "Are you fucking crazy? This road of exile is still long. Do you want to be whipped every day in the future?"
At this time, Wang also calmed down, but she was still very unhappy.
Xiao Bin now looked at Wang with some disdain, thinking that she was more likely to cause trouble than to help him. If he had not been attracted by the fact that Wang's father could help him, he would never have married Wang.
But it was too late to regret now, so he could only say with a dark face: "Hurry up and take out the banknotes. I know you have a lot of silver hidden on you. Take it out quickly."
Wang grumbled, "I have to pay for all the money for such a large family by myself. I won't be able to make a living when we get to Lingnan."
Xiao Bin said impatiently, "You are the mistress, why don't you bring all the silver up and put it in the palace for use?"
Having said that, he didn't care how bright Wang's eyes were, nor did he care whether he was in pain or not. He went straight to find Aunt Zhang and Aunt Bai, as well as the children they had, and took away all the silver they had.
She actually gained two thousand taels, and the painful feeling Wang had just felt disappeared instantly.
This is the right rhythm. How could she, the mistress of the house, pay for her concubine to ride in a carriage out of her own pocket?
If you want to ride in a carriage, you have to pay for it yourself.
Wang was in a better mood, but Aunt Zhang and Aunt Bai were crying as if their mother had died.
Xiao Bin took the silver and went to Liu Yong to buy a carriage immediately.
In normal times, a good carriage in the capital would only cost 80 taels, but in Liu Yong's hands, the price more than doubled.
But there was no way around it. In the exile team, the officials had the final say in everything.
Now that he had a carriage, Xiao Bin also needed some quilts, food and daily necessities.
Fortunately, Liu Yong had a lot of experience in escorting exiled prisoners, so he had already thought of these problems.
A lot of supplies were purchased in Dongjiao Town, but the price was tripled when they were sold to Xiao Bin.
Xiao Bin was helpless, knowing that if he asked Wang for more money, there would be no avoidance of trouble, so he could only take out his own private money and spend another fifty taels to buy some daily necessities.
If we talk about the people in the second house hiding the silver, basically everyone has hidden it. As the old saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows.
Everyone would hide some silver in a secret place just in case of any emergency.
So there were five thousand taels of silver notes hidden in the lining of Xiao Bin's clothes, Wang had at least three thousand taels, and the two concubines had one thousand taels each.
But Xiao Bin was a man, and he wanted everyone to hand over the money to the public treasury. However, due to his reputation as the head of the family, he did not want to do such dirty things, so he hinted to Wang to do it.
In this way, not only will Xiao Bin's reputation not be damaged, but he will also be able to achieve his desired goal, killing two birds with one stone.
But Wang Shi didn't know what Xiao Bin was thinking, and she was thinking, "See, the master still loves me and doesn't care about you at all."
In fact, what Xiao Bin cared about was money, not women, including Wang.
If Yun Ruoxi was present, she would know that many things in her life had changed because of the appearance of her two best friends.
He had never been imprisoned in his life, nor had his money been robbed in prison, so the second wife's money was able to be kept.
Now the entire exile team has carriages, and the journey is much faster. The original plan to rest at noon was also omitted.
There is no time to rest when traveling in a carriage. It is better to hurry on.
Liu Yong was indeed very anxious and wanted to finish this mission. He also had a lot of things to do and had to finish it before the drought came.
It was already early spring and we were all heading south, but there was still very little green on the road.
In previous years, the small trees would have sprouted and shown a little bit of green, but as he walked along, Liu Yong became more and more frightened.
Seeing that there is a high possibility of drought today, I feel more and more anxious.
Prime Minister's Mansion in Beijing
After Su Lingling was reborn, the first thing she did was to report and confiscate the Wu'an Marquis Mansion. However, the effect was far from what she had expected.
Now that she knew that although the Wu'an Marquis's Mansion had been ransacked, they had not suffered any hardship, she had a very strange feeling in her heart, as if the development of things had deviated somewhat from her expectations.
Now that the matter is done, it is too late for her to do anything.
We can only put these things aside for now and concentrate on stockpiling food in preparation for the drought six months later.
This time, she must take back everything that belongs to her.
But the issue of money is her biggest headache right now.
She was a girl who had been married to a concubine who had never married before. Her mother-in-law had not left her anything valuable. In the Prime Minister's Mansion, her monthly allowance was only twenty taels.
With just the few hundred taels of silver in her hand, it is probably not enough for her to stockpile food.
You have to know that the drought will last for a long time and there will be war afterwards, so the more food the better.
The initial plan was to use the disaster relief money to buy food. When the drought came, she would have the food in her hands and would naturally have a say.
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