Chapter 425 You Have Silver, I Don’t
At the hour of Hai, the moon is at its zenith.
The Imperial City Street is still bustling with activity.
The carriage was moving slowly on the street. The queen was sitting in the carriage with her beautiful eyes slightly closed, not knowing what she was thinking.
When the carriage reached the intersection of the street and the palace road, she suddenly said, "Let's go to the Princess's Mansion."
Nanny Jin replied yes and told the driver to turn around.
The Princess's Mansion is located in East Lane 1, and there are only two mansions in the entire lane.
The Second Princess's Mansion is at the end of the alley, and the Eldest Princess's Mansion is at the beginning of the alley.
The moonlight was bright, enveloping the entire mansion.
After entering the door, walk around the screen wall and go along a bluestone path to reach the flower hall.
There was a whisper of voices in the hall.
"Tonight is the night for the moon festival and it's lively outside. Why did you come here?" Princess Feng Xi was sitting on a low couch by the window. The stained glass window behind her was wide open, so she could see the bright moon when she turned around.
After making a teasing remark, she lowered her head to look at the swaddle in her arms, and patted the swaddle's back with one hand, "Little treasure, be good, don't cry, are you sleepy? Mommy will hold you to sleep... Oh, don't cry, Fenglin, look, little treasure, isn't he so good?"
The woman, who is nearly fifty years old, has gray hair on her temples and a pale and haggard face, and looks several years older than her actual age.
When holding the baby in the swaddle, his face and eyes were full of tenderness.
A small table on the couch was set with tea and snacks. The queen sat on the other side. She looked at the stuffed doll in the cradle and hummed, "Little Treasure is very well behaved."
The compliment made the eldest princess smile even wider. She lowered her head and pressed it against the doll's face. "Your third aunt praised you for being well-behaved. You are truly a good girl."
After a pause, she looked up at the empress again, a bewildered look in her eyes. "Ji Yue Ye, you're always very busy. Why are you here with me? Is there something wrong? Are those old ministers in the court giving you a hard time? Who is it? I'll teach him a lesson for you!"
"No one dares to bully me. I just missed you and Xiaobao, so I came to see you."
"Sweet talk, huh, when did you miss me? It's obvious that you wanted to come and see my little treasure. The little guy is silent, asleep, shh."
The Queen lowered her voice and said, "Xiaobao has fallen asleep. Big sister, please take Xiaobao back to his room to rest. I will also return to the palace."
Feng Xi stood up carefully, her movements gentle for fear of disturbing the sleeping baby in her arms, "I won't see you off. I'm going back to my room."
After watching the woman tiptoe away, the empress sat on the low couch for a while before getting up and leaving the Princess's Mansion.
As we walked out of the gate, we saw an elegant carriage parked quietly next to the carriage returning to the palace.
Hearing the noise outside, the people in the car opened the curtains and a beautiful woman with a pretty face stuck her head out, "Are you going to see the eldest sister?"
"Yes, I just coaxed her to rest." The Queen stepped forward and looked at the beautiful woman in the carriage through the window. "Since you are here, why don't you come in?"
"Go and see her holding a stuffed doll as a treasure? No." The beautiful woman turned her eyes away.
Say one thing and mean another.
The Queen smiled helplessly, "It seems that my second sister just happened to pass by the alley. I'm going back to the palace. Do you want to go see the lanterns or go back to the mansion to rest?"
The woman in the carriage was silent for a moment, then muffled her voice, "I just came back from the street and saw your carriage parked here. I just waited a little longer and will naturally go back home to sleep."
"So you're going back to the mansion. Then I'll go ahead and make room for my second sister's carriage to turn around."
“…”
The carriage heading back to the palace slowly left the alley. The beautiful woman's angry voice drifted from behind, "How can you still be as naughty as you were when you were little? You always refuse to give people face!"
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The next day was Mid-Autumn Festival.
The festive atmosphere becomes stronger, and the streets are filled with the cries of vendors selling moon dumplings.
The guests on the third floor of the Backstreet Luxury Inn were woken up by the noise, and they all stretched and yawned as they walked out of their rooms.
"Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, so we should eat moon cakes to suit the occasion. We must celebrate the Reunion Festival." Du Buqin stood in the corridor in front of the house, raised his hand to pick up the bird's nest hair that had collapsed from sleeping, and then raised it into a shape. "Bai Xiaofeng, shall we go buy some moon cakes later?"
"If you want to eat, go buy it yourself. Why are you calling me?" Bai Xiaofeng had just gotten up and was leaning lazily on the railing looking downstairs.
The old man said confidently, "You have silver, but I don't."
"Bai Yu has it."
"How can we take it out of our own pockets?"
Bai Xiaosheng's good mood early in the morning disappeared in an instant, and a dark aura emerged from his forehead. This old man is really a jerk who will tear the roof off the house if he doesn't get punished in a day!
The boys came over from behind, laughing and saying, "Grandpa Du, Uncle Changdong, let's go buy some moon cakes after breakfast. Bai Yu asked the waiter and found out that the first dim sum shop on the main street sells the best moon cakes in Du'an."
The old man was immediately drawn over, and the smoke cleared up. "The best? You'll have to try it to know. Grandpa likes salty food!"
Bing'er and Xiao Maisui raised their hands, "We like the ones with sweet fillings!"
Tianbao came up and rubbed their heads, "Buy them all."
In the lobby below, Bai Yu poked his head out, raised his lips and asked with a smile, "Want some meat wrapped in oil fruit, Yangchun noodles, and shrimp congee?"
Eight heads immediately popped up beside the third-floor railing, shouting in unison, "Eat!"
The diners in the hall all looked sideways, and then burst into laughter.
Perhaps it is because these people are so full of vitality that they are very contagious. When diners sit around them and eat breakfast, their appetites unknowingly increase.
The amount of money the inn received that morning was surprisingly much more than usual.
After breakfast, we walked to the main street and saw a long queue in front of the dim sum shop, all of whom were there to buy fresh moon cakes.
Bai Yu didn't want to wait half an hour for a bite of snack, so he used the silver trick and successfully moved from the end of the line to the front.
The old man's face turned from gloomy to sunny.
The boys and girls laughed so hard that they fell down, even Tianbao curled his lips.
Bai Xiaofeng couldn't help laughing as he fanned himself, "This prodigal son."
"Uncle Changdong, Bai Yu is not an ordinary spendthrift. He can lose money, but he can also make money. Hahahaha!"
"He was able to squeeze hundreds of thousands of taels of silver out of Wei Li's mouth, which should have gone into the national treasury. Even a future Confucian businessman like me would be better than him."
"What do you mean by future Confucian businessman? You're just trying to flatter yourself, but you're just a sailor! I'm different. I'm definitely going to be the leader of the martial arts world in the future!"
"Just wait and see. I've never seen a fool become the leader of the martial arts world, but I hope you're the exception."
"If I can't become the leader, you can't become a great writer!"
"Who said I want to be a great writer? My brother's wish is to be a gentleman, that's enough."
While the boys waiting on the roadside were making a lot of noise, a carriage drove over and stopped on the street, right next to the eight people waiting for snacks.
An elderly and graceful woman came down from the carriage, holding a brocade swaddling cloth in her arms. She stepped carefully on the ground with the help of her maid.
Before she could stand firmly, a few reckless children who came out from nowhere bumped into her while running and playing. They hit the calf of the graceful lady, causing her to stagger suddenly and the swaddling clothes in her hands flew forward.
The lady's face suddenly turned pale, her eyes red, and she rushed forward regardless of anything, her voice shrill, "Xiaobao——!"
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