Chapter 324 Are you still buying that tea?
Guo Shuangwen was confronted by the shopkeeper and wanted to say that Bu Ruobai wanted other people's things, but when he saw Bu Ruobai's half-smile, he swallowed his words.
"Eh? Mom, the purple gem on Xianshi's pearl crown looks so familiar. I feel like I've seen it somewhere before."
"Hmm?" Bu Ruo looked at the little girl in confusion. "Have you ever seen such a big purple gem?"
"I have seen it. Let Bubu think about it."
Before Bu Bu could remember, Bi'er glanced at the gem and said with a smile, "Little Princess, have you seen it in the princess's private vault?"
"Yes, yes, I saw it in my mother's private vault where she keeps her jewelry. It's that big in our palace, twice as big as this one."
Bu Ruo raised an eyebrow: "In my private vault?"
Bi'er nodded: "Yes, the princess has a lot of jewelry, which were given by the prince and awarded by the palace. You looked at it at first, but later there were too many and you were too lazy to look at them. You just asked me to register them and put them in your private vault."
"After the little princess could walk, she went with me to the private vault to pick out jewelry for you several times. She has been obsessed with that place ever since and often begged me to take her there. I asked you about it, and you said that the little princess could go there whenever she wanted and take whatever she wanted without any restrictions. It didn't matter if it got broken."
"Since then, the little princess has been obsessed with it. She has to look through it every two or three days, touching this and wearing that. I think the little princess knows what's in your private vault better than you do."
"I remember that purple gem was given to me by the Emperor. He said that the princess should play with it and he would return it to you when he got a bigger and better one. You also have a blue gem, which is even bigger than the purple one. It was given to me by Senior Brother Ke."
"When the little princess was two years old, she suddenly fell in love with slingshots. When Senior Brother Ke found out, he sent dozens of boxes of gems of all colors and sizes for the little princess to play with. The little princess took many of them, and all of them were gone... I still haven't found a few of them. Anyway, they are in our courtyard, so they can't be lost."
Bu Ruo: ...
The old shopkeeper exclaimed when he heard Bi'er's words, "So the purple gem sent to the palace, which is even bigger than this one, is here with the princess. Haha, this is truly fate. Then I'll give you a discount on these jewels. Take them all for four thousand taels."
Bu Ruo refused for a long time but failed, so he had to leave four thousand taels of silver and the jewelry and leave.
Guo Shuangwen didn't say a word on the way back. Looking at the pearl crown carefully held by the maid behind him, he no longer felt its fragrance.
She originally wanted to surpass Bu Ruo, but she didn't expect that not only did she have one, but she also had one that was bigger and better than hers. What was even more infuriating was that she didn't even know about it and didn't take it seriously at all.
Wei Jieying had also heard it just now. The only person with the surname Ke who could give such a big gem was Ke Yuanjie, the richest businessman in the Three Kingdoms.
He had heard that Ke Yuanjie had a junior sister whom he doted on since childhood, the kind that had been doted on since she was a baby. He never expected that the doted-on junior sister was actually the Regent Princess in front of him.
He seemed to suddenly understand why the Regent Princess was able to come up with so much silver and raise food and herbs so quickly before the disaster relief grain from the palace arrived. After all, her daughter had been playing with gems as if they were beads since she was a child.
You know, that box of gems, even if it was only as big as marbles, was fought over by the concubines in the harem in Beining. Their third princess even fought with other princesses for a few gems and was beaten to a bloody pulp. I wonder what their princess is feeling now.
Guo Shuangwen: Haha, what's that feeling? I feel like I want to find a hole in the ground to crawl into.
"Princess Xianshi, are you still buying tea? The largest teahouse in Yicheng is right in front. They have several kinds of delicious tea. I heard they are special products of Yicheng. Mom bought a lot to share with my aunts and uncles."
Bu Ruo looked up and saw that he had arrived at the teahouse.
"Bi'er, is there any tea you particularly like among those we bought last time? Let's go buy some more, otherwise if you want to buy more after you finish drinking it, you will have to wait until we get back."
Bi'er laughed and shook her head: "That's enough, I won't buy any more. I don't think I can finish the tea you gave me in my lifetime. Cen Nan even said that the tea and jewelry you gave me are enough for me to open a shop."
"You don't want it either? This princess will pay for it."
Meiying and Guo Lu both shook their heads: "No, no, really no, if you finish drinking, you can buy it yourself. You always reward us with money every day. In a few years, we can find a town and become rich."
Bubu shook his little head and looked left and right: "Aunts, mother said that if you don't give money, you are a fool. My mother has plenty of money. Just take it if you give it to her. Don't miss it."
Bi'er laughed out loud: "Little Princess, the princess's money is not given to everyone. We are lucky enough to follow the princess. If others want to get a copper coin from the princess, it is harder than climbing to the sky."
Bu Bu thought for a moment and said, "Hmm...that's right. For example, my senior brother is so poor that his mother won't give him any money. He said that now when he sees beggars on the street shaking their bowls at him, he thinks they are just showing off."
Bu Ruo burst out laughing and pointed at the teahouse in front of him and looked at Guo Shuangwen: "You don't want to buy it? It's really good."
Guo Shuangwen was embarrassed to say that he had no money left, so he snorted and quickly walked past Bu Ruo and his group back to the mansion, almost bumping into Jin Congcong who had come to look for them.
"What's wrong with Nosy Bet? Why are you so angry that you don't even look where you're going?"
Bu Bu clicked her tongue twice. "What else could it be? She's out of money and has no money left to buy tea. This time, she can't say the shopkeeper's tea is bad. After all, she'll soon be unable to afford tea and will have to drink only water."
"By the way, Senior Brother, if you want to be richer than me, you can go looking for trouble. She is poorer than you now."
Jin Congcong nodded: "Bubu is right. Although Senior Brother has no money, he certainly has no shortage of good tea. Apart from not giving him money, your mother has never treated Senior Brother badly in terms of food and drink."
"You can't blame me for not giving you the money, brother. I wanted to give it to you, but you are not lucky enough to do so."
Jin Congcong: ...
"Ha, you're so young and you already know how to protect your mother. What did you buy so much? All jewelry? How much money did it cost?"
Bu Ruo said with a smile as he walked: "Huabei, it's not ours anyway."
"Huh? What do you mean? Did you pick up money?"
"It's almost the same as picking it up, except it's from Beining."
Jin Congcong was completely confused, and it took him a while to react after seeing Bu Ruoxiao's cunning behavior.
"Ruo'er, you're not trying to say that the money you're spending lavishly now is Beining's compensation, but wasn't Beining's compensation robbed by bandits?"
Bu Ruo ignored him, and in the end it was Phantom who solved the mystery for someone.
"It's true that the compensation was robbed by bandits, but...the bandits are the princess's men. Now all the silver has been converted into banknotes and was just delivered yesterday."
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