Chapter 315 Mother, aren't you touched?
Yu Chuan swallowed hard. "Their guards should have some left, but probably not much."
The young princess was so angry she almost laughed: "My maternal grandfather's family is the wealthiest in Jiangnan, and they actually told me that this is all the money they have left?"
Yu Chuan forced a smile and said, "How about I send someone back to fetch it?"
The young princess: "And then what? You expect me to be in debt and live under someone else's roof?"
Yu Chuan: "Princess, shall we go back?"
The young princess gritted her teeth: "Is that all you can say?"
Yu Chuan: "Your subordinate is guilty."
The little princess: "!!!"
Is this guy trying to drive her crazy?
Then she looked at Jiang Nuanzhi, who was watching the commotion across the way, and at her beautiful eyes. In the end, she couldn't bring herself to curse her. Instead, she fiercely turned her gaze to Li Junping and said, "Li Junping, you just wait!"
Ping'er, who was suddenly called out, exclaimed, "Huh?"
"Xiao Nianjun, are you sick in the head?"
The young princess raised her chin: "Even if you beg me to stay, I still won't!"
Ping'er rolled her eyes: "Anyone who tries to keep you here is a dog! Get out of here."
The young princess gritted her teeth, clenched her fist, and pointed at Afu with a hint of impatience: "You're the one. Now take me to my place!"
"Yes, yes, this servant will lead the way for you right away." Afu's face was beaming like a chrysanthemum.
The young princess snorted coldly: "You're smart to know what's good for you."
Then, glaring at Li Junping, she said, "You brat, you won't let me stay here, but others are scrambling to let me stay! Just you wait, in less than three days, I will make you cry and beg me to take good care of you!"
Then, with a wave of her hand, she exclaimed, "Let's go!"
Ping'er looked completely bewildered: "Ha, crazy woman."
Then she tugged at Jiang Nuanzhi and said, "Mother, let's not worry about her, let's eat quickly. Didn't you want to eat that fish? It's all prepared and ready to be cooked."
Jiang Nuanzhi was being pulled along by Ping'er, turning back every few steps. Looking at the young princess's retreating figure, she felt as if a thousand taels of silver had simply flown away before her eyes. Dejected, she sat down.
"Mother, aren't you very touched?" Little Baozhu leaned closer to Jiang Nuanzhi, blinking her bright eyes with a smile. "Please don't lie to me. I can already feel it, Mother. Don't worry, we will definitely not let that bad woman live in our house. And we won't take a single penny of his money. We'll fight for our honor, even if it means losing money. Baozhu understands this principle."
“Yes, Baozhu is right. Don’t worry, Mother, we will never be bribed. My brother will not be either,” Xiao Er said.
Ping'er nodded seriously: "To think I would beg her is simply wishful thinking. Mother, you can rest assured. There's no need to be so moved. Compared to what you've done for us, what we've done is nothing but a drop in the ocean."
Jiang Nuanzhi rubbed her eyes sadly, hiding her twitching lips with her sleeve.
"Yes, I'm so touched, so very touched."
“Princess, this servant is not greedy for money. You and our young master are old acquaintances. You only need to pay eighty taels a day to stay here. What do you think?”
On the way back, Afu rubbed his hands excitedly. He stared at the God of Wealth in front of him, his mouth stretching so wide it almost reached his ears.
"Eighty taels? Are you robbing me? What kind of lousy place charges this princess eighty taels? Is there a general there? Or is there his son?"
Afu, having been scolded, shrank back and secretly glanced at that icy, pretty face. He immediately followed her with a fawning trot, cautiously asking, "Princess, what about... twenty taels?"
Although he didn't know why the princess kept calling him "General," Afu's years of experience serving others told him that the princess was in a bad mood. He dared not mention taking two taels of silver a day again; the princess had previously said that taking two taels of silver was an insult to her.
In fact, even twenty taels of silver was a considerable sum of money for them.
After all, the family's total savings don't even amount to twenty taels.
Zhao Yuniang kept lamenting that this winter was going to be turbulent. These past few days, the young master had led them to stockpile potatoes, radishes, cabbages, and the like in the cellar. It seemed they would have to eat these things to survive the winter. Just thinking about it made her feel like there was no hope left for them.
"Hmph, you're dreaming." The little princess gave him a cold look: "One tael of silver a day, no more than that."
Upon hearing this, Yu Chuan gasped in shock behind him.
One tael of silver? Is that alright?
He wanted to offer a word of advice, but seeing his princess's icy expression, he kept quiet.
She figured these people didn't want the princess to stay here, so she might as well take her back with her.
To everyone's surprise, the next second, the sycophantic Afu nodded in agreement almost without hesitation.
“Alright, one tael it is. Princess, this is our courtyard. Please wait a moment, and I will go to the side room to clean it up for you.” With that, she immediately ran back.
Yuchuan: "?"
This works?
"Where did you bring back such a pampered young lady?" Chun Tao was washing millet inside the house when she heard the noise and came out of the door. When she saw who it was, she immediately frowned.
It's one thing to have one chubby girl like Jiang, but lately her second young master has been constantly looking towards that vixen's house. And now, how come another beauty has appeared?
Judging from her attire, she was clearly a young lady from a wealthy family, and alarm bells immediately went off in my mind.
"What are you doing? This is the princess. Don't you recognize her? Hurry up and prepare a room for the princess to stay in."
"Princess?" Chun Tao was stunned for a moment, staring blankly at the scene. The next second, she was startled: "It really is the Princess! What brings the Princess here? I remember the Princess's beloved isn't our young master."
"Don't ask so many questions!" Afu said mysteriously, "With this big shot here, we can make some money. If we serve him well, the young master's return to the capital will be just a matter of her word. The good days are yet to come."
Chun Tao didn't have time to be jealous and nodded hurriedly.
Afu added, "But when the young master comes back, we'll have to give him some advice, lest he say something about the strict separation of men and women and forbid anyone from living there anymore, kicking them out. If we offend her this time, we're afraid we'll never find another chance like this!"
"Oh dear, I know what's important. Go and move all the odds and ends out of that room. Don't offend our important guest."
However, no matter how much the two of them tidied up, the low and cramped house in the countryside was still quite a challenge for Princess Xiao.
She turned around with a look of disgust, and finally reluctantly sat down on the stool that Yu Chuan had just laid out with a fox fur cushion.
"What a terrible place! It's not even as clean as the dilapidated house where Li Junping lives!"
(End of this chapter)
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