Chapter 298 It’s no use for you to envy me. You don’t have
Although half a dollar is not a lot in their eyes, it is enough for these disaster victims to spend for a month if they save a little. When they stabilize themselves, they can use the money to return to their hometown or live with relatives.
Guo Shuangwen was so angry when he saw baskets of copper coins being distributed to the victims that he stamped his feet. He walked up and pulled Guo Lu, who was helping, over.
"Seventh sister, you are the princess of Beining. How can you use money to support these lowly people in Da Zhou? If you want to support them, you should support the people of Beining."
"If the Emperor knew about this, he would definitely not let you go. Listen to Third Princess. Give her all the money you have on you for safekeeping. She will return it to you when we return to the Imperial City, saving you from squandering it along the way."
"Don't worry, as long as you are obedient, Third Princess will plead for you in front of the Emperor and spare you the punishment of leaving the palace without permission."
Guo Lu sneered and pushed Guo Shuangwen away. "I've already said I'm not the Seventh Princess of Beining. You've got the wrong person. I can give my money to whoever I want. I don't need you to keep it for me."
"Also, these disaster victims are all the same in my eyes. As long as they are not extremely evil, no matter which country they are from, I will give money to show my support. Princess, if you are okay, please go back. I still have things to do."
Guo Shuangwen once again held Guo Lu's hand and said, "You are the Seventh Princess of Beining. Why don't you admit it? You are a princess of a country. How can you be a lowly slave to the regent princess of the Great Zhou?"
"No, you have to come back with me. I can't afford to lose face with someone like that."
Guo Lu looked at Guo Shuangwen with a gloomy expression: "I volunteered to be the princess's slave. It's not humble or shameful. Princess, don't you understand what I'm saying? I told you that you recognized the wrong person, why are you still holding on to me?"
"Oh, I see. You're after my silver, aren't you? You see I look a bit like your Beining princess, so you want to take me back and take all my silver for yourself. When we get to Beining, you can claim I'm a fake and kill me, and then you won't have to return my silver."
"Princess, you are really calculating. After all, everyone knows that your Seventh Princess of Beining has died in the palace."
Guo Shuangwen's eyes flashed slightly. Guo Lu was right. This was actually her idea. This way, she could get money and avoid future troubles.
This Guo Lu is too much like her mother. Both are very smart people. If it weren't for their mother's powerful abilities, they probably wouldn't be able to defeat Guo Lu and her daughter.
Seeing that she was unmoved, Guo Shuangwen's eyes flashed with ruthlessness. He leaned over to her ear and whispered, "I know you are Guo Lu. We grew up together in the palace. Even if you turned to ash, I wouldn't mistake you."
"I don't know what you're planning with Bu Ruo, but if you don't come back with me today and give me all the silver, I'll have someone secretly bring your mother's body out of the imperial mausoleum and pulverize it."
"Guo Lu, your mother loves you so much, you don't want to see her die without even her body, right?"
Guo Lu narrowed her eyes. If she hadn't met Bu Ruo, she would have gone back with her and given her all the silver. But now she had seen her mother's spirit and knew that her mother had been reincarnated and would have a good resting place, so...
"Okay, then go ahead and steal it. My mother has been trapped in the palace for most of her life and has never been happy. She probably wouldn't want to be buried in the imperial mausoleum after her death."
"If you can help my mother get rid of her, I will thank you. Just do it. Don't tell me. I won't give you any money."
Guo Shuangwen looked at Guo Lu in shock. "You...how could you do this? Have you forgotten how good your mother was to you? How could you be so ungrateful? If your mother knew you ignored her body, how disappointed and heartbroken she would be."
Guo Lu smiled. Her mother would not be disappointed. She would be so happy if she knew that her body did not have to be buried in the imperial mausoleum.
"Beining envoy, please keep an eye on your princess. If word gets back to Beining about her kidnapping and demanding money, you might not be able to return."
When Wei Jieying heard what Guo Lu said, he hurried over and pried Guo Shuangwen's hands apart: "Princess, if you want to see, stand aside and watch carefully. Don't make trouble anymore, otherwise don't blame me for forcibly taking you back."
The reason why Wei Jieying didn't take Guo Shuangwen away immediately was actually because he wanted her to see everything in front of him and see if he could awaken her conscience and compassion so that she would stop doing evil. This way, their future journey would be easier.
Guo Lu glanced at a few people and continued to help distribute money.
Bu Bu and Xiao Jin distributed silver to the victims with their own hands, regardless of the dirt on their clothes, and told them to keep it well and not lose it. This town was not big and there were not many victims now, so two days was enough for them to receive all the money.
"Hmph, what you're doing is a drop in the bucket. Can you give silver to every disaster-stricken town and victim? Unless you have a gold mine, there simply isn't enough for you to squander like this."
"This town gives it out but the next town doesn't. Is this how you're being kind? Who are you doing this for?"
Bu Bu's hands were busy, but that didn't stop her from opening her mouth and scolding others: "You are right, we do have a gold mine, so what? Are you envious? It's useless to envy. You don't have it. Not only do you not have a gold mine, you even have trouble eating and staying in the inn now."
"If I heard correctly, you guys booked middle-class and lower-class rooms when you came here. Why didn't you stay in the upper-class rooms? Are you out of money?"
"Also, why did you pull my aunt over just now? I seem to have heard you ask my aunt to give you the silver for safekeeping. Is it just because she looks like your sister? How can you be so shameless? Not to mention that she is not your biological sister, even if she is your biological sister, you can't steal her silver. What's more, my aunt has nothing to do with you."
"Hmm... don't you Beining have natural disasters? Didn't the imperial court send disaster relief funds when you had floods? This princess is only temporarily helping these victims tide over their difficulties. Mother said that the imperial court's disaster relief funds are on the way. So, are you envious? You Beining people haven't seen disaster relief funds, right? Otherwise, why do you think this princess has to give money to help the victims?"
"Oh, I understand. You don't have disaster relief funds in Beining because your princesses always pay for disasters. Oh, no wonder you say we can't afford it. Being a princess in Beining is really pitiful."
"Your princesses and princes in Beining are almost dying of poverty. No wonder they always set their sights on our Great Zhou border. It turns out they are so poor that they want to rob us of our money."
"This princess thinks that if you Beining really can't afford to live like your princess...or else you should just destroy the country. It's too shameful."
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