Chapter 355 New Year's Day
The new year began, and Su Yue heard the sound of firecrackers while she was still in bed.
She frowned and turned around to see that Murong Li had already gotten up. She also got ready to get up. Today was the first day of the new year, and after breakfast she had to go to the palace to pay New Year's greetings to the Emperor and Concubine Yun.
The royal family is troublesome. Unlike ordinary people, they live in a house and usually just walk a short distance to greet each other.
This trip to the palace took the entire morning.
She had just gotten up and dressed when there was a knock on the door: "Princess, are you up?"
It was Caixia shouting outside.
"Come in."
As Su Yue finished speaking, the door was pushed open by Caixia. She ran in happily, wearing a pink dress.
"Happy New Year, Princess."
Caixia greeted her with a smile.
Su Yue curled her lips and smiled. This girl came to ask for a red envelope. She picked up a red envelope from the bedside table and gave it to her. She tapped her forehead and said, "You are so eager to ask for a red envelope."
After she left this girl alone, she let herself go in the palace, and sometimes she couldn't even be found.
Caixia looks like she is already seventeen or eighteen years old. It’s time for her to get married. Let’s marry her off this year.
Following her like this would be a waste of her life.
Now most of the people around her are Wuying, and the ones helping her with things are also Wuying. Caixia is basically useless.
In the past, she could help out in the kitchen, but after that old woman came to the palace, Caixia basically had nothing to do.
Caixia didn't know what Su Yue was thinking. She giggled twice and knelt down to kowtow to Su Yue: "Princess, Happy New Year! I wish you good health and all the best in the new year..."
She said a lot of auspicious words, which made Su Yue laugh so hard. After Caixia finished kowtowing, she took the red envelope from Su Yue's hand and put it in her arms.
Su Yue...
This girl, you can't tell that she is a money-grubber.
"Princess, let me comb your hair."
"Okay, dress a little more formally, we have to go to the palace later."
"Don't worry, just leave it to me."
After saying that, Caixia combed her hair. Caixia was very skillful and she combed her hair quickly. Finally, she inserted a hairpin on her head and that was it.
Su Yue looked in the mirror. This hairstyle was not bad. Her face was already exquisite, and with this hairstyle, it looked even more beautiful and cheerful. She stood up and said, "Let's go."
"yes."
Caixia put a smoky-colored cloak on her. Although it didn't snow today, it was very cold outside.
The master and servant left the bedroom and came to the dining room. Breakfast had already been set up in the dining room. Murong Li was already sitting at the dining table, reading a book. When he saw her coming, he put down the book and came over to support her.
"Why don't you sleep a little longer? It's still early."
"Aren't we going to the palace soon? If we're any later, today will be over."
"Just now, the emperor sent a eunuch to tell us that we don't have to go."
"Oh, what happened?"
Last night, after she moved the Queen and the former Crown Prince out of the space, she went to sleep. She didn't know what happened afterwards.
Murong Li shook his head: "I don't know, the eunuch came and delivered the message and then returned."
He was also quite surprised. When he left last night, he didn't see anything unusual about the emperor. The emperor was a heartless person and it was impossible for him to be sad for the concubines in Fangfei Palace.
As for the queen, Murong Li also felt that the emperor would not be sad for her. After all, she was the one who was going to move the chair under his butt. The emperor only felt disgust and cruelty towards such a person.
The emperor is also a person who pays great attention to etiquette. This year, he even skipped the New Year's greetings. This is not his style. However, no matter what he does, let the secret guards go and take a look.
Su Yue was very happy not to go to the palace. She said, "It's just right that we're not going. We can go out and explore the capital later. It should be very lively today."
"Well, let's go after dinner. This is the first year we'll both spend in the capital, so I'll take Yue'er for a stroll."
"Um."
Su Yue nodded, and then the two of them had breakfast. After breakfast, the two of them distributed red envelopes in the mansion, as well as rewards for Hongying and others.
A few days before the New Year, they were not in Beijing, and Hongying held another auction, which was very successful.
I didn’t have time after I came back, so I just posted it today. It’s festive and joyful.
She had said before that the more money the auction house raised, the bigger her reward would be.
The auction at the end of this year made her earn more than 1.5 million taels of silver. She took out 50,000 taels as a reward to Hongying and others, and let Hongying distribute it herself.
Hong Yingruo would have refused such a large amount of silver before, but after seeing the huge profit from each auction, she accepted it. After all, she was not the only one in the auction house.
Of course, she still took the lion's share, five thousand taels, and of the remaining 45,000 taels, she took five thousand taels and distributed them to the people in the auction house.
The remaining 40,000 taels were placed in the auction house as operating funds. If the auction house needed to add any items or repair any parts in the future, that money would be used to pay for them.
The princess rewarded them with so much silver because she was kind-hearted, and they should also know how to repay the favor. The people in the auction house, including her, were slaves who had signed indentures to sell themselves. Normally, no one would say anything to the princess if she didn't give them a single penny.
Even for the wealthy and powerful families in the capital, the monthly salary for servants who did not sign death indentures was at most two taels, and the highest paid palace maids, nannies and eunuchs in the palace would not exceed five taels, so what were these servants doing with so much silver?
Moreover, the princess provides food, drink and accommodation, and also reimburses medical expenses, so he doesn't need to spend money on normal things.
When a servant has too much money in his hands, he will have some ideas, so she thought of saving the extra money for emergencies.
Moreover, she also kept her own personal money there without moving. Whenever she needed money in the future, she would just take it out and use it.
She was an orphan and didn't know who her parents were, so she had no place to spend the money.
It was already past noon when Su Yue and the other person finished sending out the red envelopes. They packed up and went out.
As soon as I went out, I saw that this usually deserted street was now very lively. Many adults and children were making snowmen, having snowball fights, or playing and setting off firecrackers in the snow.
There were also many carriages driving out, all heading to the South City, West City or North City. These three cities were the most lively places today.
When going out today, Su Yue did not bring Hong Ying with her. She gave them three days off. The two of them only brought a secret carriage. They believed that no one would come to assassinate them in the capital like last year.
Even if someone came to assassinate them, they are no longer the weaklings they were back then.
After they got on the carriage, they went to South City first. South City was originally a commercial city and was the most lively place today.
(End of this chapter)
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