Chapter 851 News from the Palace
Jiao Yong on the side stopped talking. He stared at Manbao, then at Bai Shan, and finally turned back to look at Ji Hao.
After a while, Wei Ting finally closed his mouth, swallowed his saliva, and said, "The peonies that are full of surprises all need to be covered with gauze. At that time, Madam Ji II disliked the trouble of covering each pot one by one, so she had someone pull two strips of silk and directly cover all the peonies on display."
He said, "The Princess of Yizhou only brought a pot of peonies, and the peonies were covered with silk. After it was brought to the stage, as soon as the silk was opened, the Princess of Yizhou's face immediately darkened, and she didn't say a word for most of the day."
Because white peonies are cheap, and Manbao said when she was selling them that she had many pots.
So although each family thought that it was of excellent quality and could be taken out for everyone to admire, it did not need to be covered with gauze, so the servants brought it in openly.
The Wei Zi brought by Mrs. Wei, the Yao Huang brought by Mrs. Huang, and the various peonies brought by other ladies that they thought were rare were all covered with gauze.
Originally, the Princess of Yizhou only brought a pot of peonies, and everyone thought it was a top-notch one. But when they opened it, they found out it was a white peony that most people had, and its quality was not even as good as some of the others.
Wei Ting said, "The reason we ran into Bai Erlang on the road was because the Princess of Yizhou's car was careening on the road and almost hit Qi Jue and Bai Erlang. Obviously, she was very angry."
Manbao frowned.
Ji Hao looked at her and asked, "Are you crazy? Why would you provoke the Princess of Yizhou?"
Manbao glanced at him and said, "We didn't provoke her."
Bai Erlang nodded repeatedly, "It was her servants who were too bullying. The pot of white peonies in her hand was the first pot of flowers that Manbao wanted to sell. Originally, Manbao only wanted to sell that one pot. Humph, who knew that her servants would just snatch it away and give her sixteen taels and three cents of silver."
At this point, not only Wei Ting, but also Ji Hao and Jiao Yong could not help but open their mouths wide and asked in surprise, "So this is why you sold twenty pots of white peonies?"
Manbao nodded, "Yes, I think Bai Mudan has a connection with many of us."
The three were speechless.
Wei Ting said in confusion: "Aren't you afraid..."
"I'm not afraid," Manbao said, "This is Huayang County. Do you know who the boss of Huayang County is?"
Wei Ting hesitated and said, "Isn't he the King of Yizhou?"
Jiao Yong said: "Master Huang?"
Manbao shook his head, "It's County Magistrate Tang."
Ji Hao scoffed, "He's just a county magistrate."
Manbao looked at him and sneered, "He is the chief official of Huayang County. Even if Your Majesty comes here, the laws must be followed by the county magistrate."
Ji Hao and others stopped talking.
What Manbao said was certainly not right, but it was also correct.
As a senior official, regardless of whether the emperor was the ruler or his subjects, County Magistrate Tang could indeed supervise His Majesty the Emperor.
Ji Hao felt that he couldn't convince her, so he could only say: "Wait until the people from the palace come to the door before you say this."
Manbao snorted. Since she dared to do this, she was naturally calculating that County Magistrate Tang would not allow people from the Yizhou Palace to bully her.
At this time, Madam Tang had just returned home in a hurry with her men. She rushed straight to the study to find County Magistrate Tang and said, "That little girl of yours has deceived us all, especially my husband and I. We were badly deceived by her."
County Magistrate Tang said without even looking up, "That's impossible. Who could possibly have deceived you?"
Madam Tang reached out to pinch his ear, but then, thinking it was bad, she let it go and softened her voice, saying, "My husband, I have indeed been tricked."
County Magistrate Tang shuddered, then finally raised his head, took her hand, and said sternly, "Speak properly."
Seeing that he was finally willing to listen to her seriously, Mrs. Tang snorted, "She's not good at cheating people. You don't know how badly she cheated us today."
But after saying this, thinking of the Princess of Yizhou's sullen face today, Madam Tang couldn't help but burst out laughing. She sat directly in Magistrate Tang's arms and said with a smile, "However, today we finally witnessed a good show. Although we were tricked, it didn't hurt us at all. At most, we were embarrassed for a while. But the Princess of Yizhou was tricked badly."
County Magistrate Tang, who was holding his wife, was startled and asked hurriedly, "Did they trick the Princess of Yizhou? How did they do it?"
Mrs. Tang glanced at him and asked, "Why are you so nervous? You weren't nervous just now."
County Magistrate Tang stroked his forehead and said, "My little ancestor, please tell me quickly, who are they? Who is the Princess of Yizhou?"
"Who else could she be? Just a princess." Madam Tang rose from his arms and sneered, "She comes from a humble family."
County Magistrate Tang: "...isn't our Tang family also a small family compared to your Wang family?"
"You are not," Mrs. Tang looked at him and smiled, "You are the Wang family's son-in-law."
County Magistrate Tang was truly terribly worried. The two sides had a mortal feud, and he was most afraid that the two children would get so ignorant as to provoke the Yizhou Palace. By then...
Seeing that he was really anxious, Madam Tang finally told him about Manbao selling flowers two days ago and what happened today. "The Princess of Yizhou left early this morning. I felt something was wrong, so I sent people to investigate. Many ladies went to investigate, but guess what happened?"
When County Magistrate Tang heard it was about selling flowers, he felt relieved, but he was also a little curious and asked, "What's going on?"
"So the pot of flowers in the Yizhou Princess's hand was indeed sold by Manbao," Madam Tang couldn't help but burst out laughing. "I was wondering, these flowers look so similar, I suspected they were sold by the same person. The girl must have only planned to sell one pot from the beginning, so she had someone carry it to the street one day and offer six hundred taels for it, and then brought it to the gate of the Yizhou Palace to sell it the next day."
Madam Tang sighed and said, "Come to think of it, this matter has something to do with me. It was me who mentioned that the Princess of Yizhou liked peonies. I guess that child was thinking about making money from the Princess of Yizhou at that time."
She thought she was trying to make connections, but it turned out she was just doing it for money.
She is really obsessed with money, yet she is so cute.
"A steward in the palace took a fancy to the flower pot and bought it directly, leaving Manbao with only a purse. I heard that a fight almost broke out between the two sides."
County Magistrate Tang asked, "And then?"
Madam Tang smiled meaningfully and said, "Then Manbao said the steward had a connection with that pot of flowers, so she sold it to him. There were sixteen taels and three qian of silver in the purse. Then she bought twenty pots of peonies in one go, and sold them at sixteen taels each. Do you think she's a bad person?"
County Magistrate Tang asked, "Zhou Man doesn't seem like the type to gossip with others. How did you learn about that conversation?"
"The palace. If you ask carefully, you will find out."
County Magistrate Tang was lost in thought. "Are the people in the palace so easy to pry open?"
"That depends on who they are. They're just a bunch of gatekeepers. Normally, they don't tell you anything. Give them some money or promise them some benefits, and they'll know everything."
Seeing that County Magistrate Tang was unbelievably quiet, Madam Tang couldn't help but push him. "You're not planning to investigate anything in the Yizhou Palace, are you?"
County Magistrate Tang came back to his senses and said with a smile, "No, the palace hasn't had any cases for me to investigate recently."
Mrs. Tang thought about it and stopped paying attention to the matter. Instead, she asked, "By the way, you have to ask your little friend for justice for me. I helped her so much, and she actually cheated me too."
County Magistrate Tang said, "I see you're enjoying it... Oh, okay, okay, I'll talk about her, I'll talk about her, I'll definitely talk about her."
Good night
(End of this chapter)
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