Chapter 1204 Counting Money
When the prince arrived at Changqing Lane, he recognized the Bai family without the guards' guidance, because there were two officials standing in front of the Bai family's door.
The prince reined in his horse, jumped off and looked at them with his chin raised.
The two officers had obviously never seen the prince before. They clenched their knives and looked at him warily, but seeing his awe-inspiring temperament, they did not dare to move for a moment.
The guard quickly caught up from behind, took out the iron plate and said, "This is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
The two officers were startled and immediately knelt down to pay their respects.
The prince waved his hand, glanced at the wall, frowned and said, "Are there any more assassins?"
The two officials replied anxiously, "We haven't seen any yet, but Master Xu said it's better to be prepared for the worst, so we're here to watch."
The prince nodded, raised his chin and said, "Knock on the door."
The officer was stunned for a moment before he reacted. He immediately turned around and knocked on the door, but actually pushed the door open.
Because they were guarding the door, the Bai family's door was ajar. As soon as they pushed it open, the servant inside poked his head out with a smile and asked, "Two big brothers, are you thirsty or hungry? Do you want some snacks..."
The servant stuck his head out and saw the prince and the guards behind him. He immediately stood up straight, glanced at the prince with a stern expression, and dared not say a word.
The prince glanced at him, and seeing that the door was open, he stepped straight in.
The two gatekeepers got along well with the Bai family's servants. This was mainly because, in addition to the government pay, the Bai family would always give them some hard work money. So, when the two saw the Crown Prince enter, they quietly reminded him, "It's His Royal Highness..."
The servant was so frightened that his legs went limp and he ran after him.
But the prince had long legs and walked fast, and he had no awareness that he was in someone else's house. He thought he had asked someone to knock on the door, and since the door was open, he was allowed to come in.
The Bai family's house was very square, with two main entrances and two secondary entrances. There were quite a few servants in the front yard. The prince took a quick look and went to the back yard.
The servants who were resting or recuperating from their injuries glanced at the prince and saw that one of their servants was chasing after him. Although his face looked anxious, he did not say anything to stop him, so they just treated him as a guest and continued to sit there without moving.
The prince reached the backyard unhindered.
Manbao and the other two were so frightened that they took some medicine last night and slept until noon.
Rarely, neither Mrs. Liu nor Mr. Zhuang woke them up, and Zhou Wulang and his men deliberately walked lightly.
By the way, the Zhou family has closed the restaurant and everyone has moved back home. There’s no other way. No one knows how many assassins the King of Yizhou has hidden in the capital, so it’s better to gather together to defend against the enemy.
Manbao and the others were woken up by hunger.
Because they were frightened, caught a cold, and were injured, Bai Shan and Man Bao both had a low fever. However, Bai Erlang, although also injured, only had a nightmare at night and kicked several times, and did not have a fever.
Manbao prescribed medicine for himself and Bai Shan, and Bai Erlang volunteered to take the prescription and go to his own pharmacy to pick up the medicine.
After eating and taking medicine, the three of them sat in the yard, basking in the sun and talking.
Zhou Wulang sat down next to Manbao and handed her an account. "This is the bounty we gave out yesterday. It was four hundred and twenty gold. We should have given two hundred and ten gold, but we only gave sixty gold. We still owe one hundred and fifty gold."
Bai Shan, who was standing by, immediately said, "Brother Zhou Wu, this isn't your responsibility. Don't talk about whether you owe it or not."
"That won't do," Zhou Wulang insisted, "We even paid for the rent, so we should be clear about the money and other things, otherwise it will be difficult for us to communicate in the future."
Manbao nodded, patted his chest generously and said: "Don't worry, I have money."
Zhou Wulang nodded, "I know you have money."
So he looked at her seriously.
Yesterday, when he heard that they had promised a large sum of money to a chivalrous man who stood up for justice in order to save themselves, Zhou Wulang took out all the money they had earned from running the restaurant in the past two months.
It’s just over four hundred gold. The Bai family doesn’t need this little money, but they really don’t have that much cash.
After all, who would keep more than 4,000 taels of silver at home for no reason?
In the end, it was only by borrowing 1,500 taels of silver from Old Lady Liu and the silver shop that the money was enough.
Bai Shan pulled Man Bao's sleeve and whispered, "The root of this matter was my father. How can I let you pay again? The renting of this house is different. We are going to study and live here, but what happened yesterday was because I wanted to avenge my father."
Manbao then said, "Don't I also want to avenge my parents? We filed the lawsuit together, and the King of Yizhou wants to kill both of us."
"But if it weren't for my father, your parents wouldn't..."
"Can you really blame your father for this?" Manbao interrupted him, saying, "The King of Yizhou was the perpetrator, and your father was also a victim. How can you blame him? How can you put all the pressure on you, Grandmother Liu, and Aunt Zheng?"
She said, "The money should be paid by the King of Yizhou, but can we ask him for it?"
Before Bai Shan could say anything, Bai Erlang shook his head.
"So let's split it evenly. Well, after we recover, we still have to buy gifts for Feng Zongping and the others. After all, they were injured because of us, too."
Bai Erlang said, "And me."
Bai Shan and Man Bao glanced at him unhappily and said, "You said you'd live and die together, but you're asking us for gifts for such a minor injury."
In the study, Old Madam Liu suppressed the sourness in her nose, looked up at the sky outside the window, and held back the tears in her eyes.
Zheng held her arm.
Old Madam Liu turned her head and smiled at her, then turned back to look at Mr. Zhuang.
Mr. Zhuang was making tea. Noticing her gaze, he looked up and smiled at her, "Madam, would you like to sit down and have some tea?"
Madam Liu responded with a smile and sat down opposite Mr. Zhuang.
The three teenagers in the yard had finished their quarrel. Manbao felt a little more energetic and got up to go back to the house to get the money.
She dragged the empty box out from under the bed and took out the money in the system. She only kept some silver and took out most of the others and piled them in the box, and then the gold.
Because she felt a little dizzy, she was too lazy to count. She estimated that it was almost enough, so she closed the three boxes that were piled in a mess, and then went out to call her fifth and sixth brothers to come in and move the boxes out.
Zhou Wulang was extremely surprised. "I needed money urgently yesterday, so I came in to look, and the boxes under your bed were all empty."
Manbao snorted proudly and said, "That's just a trick. If I let you find it easily, would it still be called hiding silver?"
"Okay, whatever you say is what it is." Anyway, he was in such a hurry yesterday that he hadn't had time to look through the cabinet. It seemed that most of the money was hidden in the cabinet, but could that cabinet hold so much money?
Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang took the money out to count it.
So when the prince walked quickly into the backyard, he saw seven or eight people squatting on the ground counting money. Perhaps because they were tired or injured, Bai Shan and Man Bao were sitting directly on a cushion, picking up the gold and putting it aside.
Revision is such a headache, so I'll stop here for today and see you tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)
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