Chapter 294 Where are you now?
There was no other way. They didn't have the money to stay with Bu Ruo and the others in the best inn in Jiangnan, so they could only stay in this free inn.
An hour later, there was a knock on Guo Shuangwen's door again.
"Princess, are you there? We need you for something."
Guo Shuangwen didn't want to talk at first, but thinking that she couldn't stay away forever, he had no choice but to let them in.
"What's going on? Didn't I tell you to sell the stuff? Are you sold out so quickly?"
The guard looked at Guo Shuangwen, whose eyes were wandering, with a gloomy face. "Not yet. When we were taking inventory, we found that apart from some food and clothing that couldn't be sold, we didn't find anything else. May I ask where those things are, Princess?"
Guo Shuangwen turned her face away and didn't look at them: "How would I know where it is? All my things are in the carriage. Go find them yourselves."
The envoy from Beining was almost pissed off by this stupid princess. If he wasn't afraid that she would die and he would be punished when he returned, he would have wanted to give in and stab the princess to death.
"I remember when the princess came in, she was followed by several maids, each of whom was carrying two bundles. May I ask what was in those bundles, and where are they now?"
Guo Shuangwen's face flushed red from being questioned. "Those...those bundles contain the clothes that this princess wears every day. Are you planning to sell all of my clothes and leave me naked?"
The Beining envoy didn't want to waste any more time talking to her and directly called in two maids to search the bag.
"You...what do you want to do? This is my room. How can you rummage around like this? Aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"
The Beining envoy snorted softly, "Princess, if you have time to think about these things, you might as well take out the things as soon as possible. After all, the tongue is more important than those material possessions, isn't it?"
"As for what happened today, I will personally apologize to the Emperor upon my return. Princess, please do not worry about it."
The maids quickly dug out the bundles from the wardrobe and under the bed...
"Open!"
"Don't open it, you..."
Wei Jieying stopped the envoy who was about to lose his mind and said, "Since the princess is so reluctant to part with these worldly possessions, we will not care. After all, it is not our tongues that the regent princess will cut off."
"The Regent King and Princess Regent of the Great Zhou Dynasty are notorious for their harsh words and always keep their promises. I believe that Princess will not be able to keep her tongue any longer. I will take my leave."
Just as the envoy and the guards were about to turn around and leave, Guo Shuangwen finally shouted in frustration: "Wait, wait a minute..."
"Take it, take it all. If you have any silver left after selling it, remember to give it back to this princess."
The envoy was not polite and squatted on the ground in front of Guo Shuangwen to open several bundles one by one. It was really shocking until you opened them. Those bundles contained everything.
The finest jade pillow, the head ornaments bought along the way, the jade teapots and teacups, etc., even the earrings and jade hairpins bought from the Shanhua Waterside Pavilion were all in it.
Seeing this, how could they not know what Guo Shuangwen was thinking? He simply thought that they couldn't find anything to sell and would have to find a way to make up the money themselves.
But Guo Shuangwen overlooked one thing. The guards and maids following them were extremely dissatisfied with her as the princess. Without waiting for the envoys and guards to ask them, they told them everything about how the princess had ordered people to secretly pack up all the valuables last night.
"Thank you for your understanding, Your Highness. I will take all these things away."
Guo Shuangwen was so angry that she wanted to throw the teacup when she saw all the things she had bought along the way were taken away. But just as she picked up the teacup, she saw the envoy's foot, which had already stepped forward, retracted.
"You... I've given you everything. What else do you want to do?"
The Beining envoy stared at her for a long time, and finally walked over and took off the two most valuable hairpins on her head...
"I'm afraid that I won't be able to sell enough for the silver I earned, and that I've offended many people. I beg your forgiveness, Princess."
After the Beining envoy left...the teacup on the table was not spared.
Moreover, that night, a maid accidentally combed out a few hairs while combing Guo Shuangwen's hair. As a result, Guo Shuangwen dragged her into the yard and whipped her to death. Her expression looked like that of a demon escaping from hell.
The next day, the envoy and Wei Jieying finally found a store with the highest bid and sold all the items.
Seeing the two people coming to look for her, Guo Shuangwen said angrily, "Have you sold all your things? How much silver do you have left? Bring it to me. We still have a day before we set off. I want someone to buy a bigger carriage, preferably bigger than Bu Ruo's."
The envoy had already delivered the silver to Bu Ruo and now heaved a sigh of relief. He took out the remaining silver from his sleeve pocket and placed it on the table.
Guo Shuangwen looked at the silver on the table and almost fainted with anger: "Don't tell me that after selling all that, there are only three taels of silver left. There are not only things I bought along the way, but also things that this princess brought out from the palace."
The envoy nodded. "Indeed, there are only three taels of silver left. If it weren't for the things the princess brought out from the palace, I'm afraid it wouldn't be enough. It's a good thing this is Da Zhou and not Bei Ning, otherwise no one would dare to accept anything from the Bei Ning Palace."
Guo Shuangwen yelled, "How is this possible! You must have sold a lot of silver to defraud this princess. Those are all rare treasures, how could they only be sold for such a small amount of silver? You must have embezzled this princess's silver. You are simply courting death!"
After all, Wei Jieying had been in the court for two years longer than the envoy. Seeing Guo Shuangwen's crazy look, he took out a stack of bills from his sleeve pocket and put them on the table.
"This is the proof of our sales over the past two days. We had the shopkeeper write down detailed records of each item, and they also have the store's seal. If Princess doesn't believe it, you can check it yourself."
"Those things are indeed treasures, but this is the Great Zhou after all, and they've been used, so they can't be sold at a high price. We only managed to get enough silver for compensation after a day of hard work with the shopkeeper. Otherwise, we'd still be a few hundred taels short."
"By the way, I'm afraid the princess's carriages can't be replaced. There are too many things to sell and the silver isn't enough. So I've decided to sell the remaining carriages. Princess, please be patient for now. Everything will be fine once we reach the border."
Guo Shuangwen felt dizzy. "If only we could get to the border...if only we could get to the border, how long will it take us to get there at this rate? I think Bu Ruo is walking so slowly on purpose, trying to torment me!"
"I don't care. Go and tell them that we can't go on like this the rest of the way. We must ride day and night as fast as we can to get to the border. I can't stand this kind of life for even a single day!"
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