Liu Miwu stroked her hair gently and said in a soft voice, "Don't panic, sister Wushuang. I heard that the Dali Temple raided the home of the Minister of Works Xu Youzhi last night. I think he should be the main culprit in the case of embezzlement of government silver in the North. Although General Lu Qian killed someone, his crime is not punishable by death. When the Dali Temple convicts him, we can smooth things over. As long as we can save our lives, nothing else will matter."
Liang Wushuang calmed down a little, and said with gratitude, "Thanks to Sister Mi Wu, otherwise I really don't know what to do."
Liu Miwu smiled and said, "It's rare that Sister Wushuang and I get along so well. Since you don't mind my origins in Yanliu and are willing to call me sister, I will naturally help you with your troubles."
"I wonder how much valuables are needed to set up the whole thing?" Liang Wushuang asked worriedly with a frown.
Liu Miwu took an orange from the fruit plate on the table and peeled the orange peel with her neatly trimmed and rounded nails, as if she was doing something pleasing to the eye.
She looked up at Liang Wushuang and said, "This is a huge sum of money. I heard from the guests who went to Xinglou that it would cost several thousand taels just to redeem a prisoner who had been in prison for several years from the government offices in the capital, not to mention rescuing someone from the Dali Temple. You have to bribe all the officials, and it would probably cost tens of thousands of taels."
Liang Wushuang gasped in shock at the amount of tens of thousands of taels. She and her mother sold soy milk in Taoxi Lane, and they only earned a hundred or so taels of silver at most throughout the year. Although she had seen a lot of wealth and prosperity since she followed Mr. Cheng, she did not have any private money.
Firstly, my mother also lives in this courtyard, and there are people to serve her in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation. If I want to eat or use something, I just need to tell the servants and someone will bring it to me.
Liang Wushuang thought for a while, then got up and went to the inner room. Soon she came out holding a dressing box.
She opened her dressing box, revealing a box full of jewelry, all of which were fine red hairpins and gold pendants. "Sister Miwu, can you quietly help me exchange these jewelry for silver at the pawn shop?"
Liu Miwu looked at the box full of gold hairpins and jade ornaments, and a look of regret appeared on her face, "Sister, these jewellery are all good things, it's a pity to pawn them all."
Liang Wushuang smiled bitterly and said, "These were all given to me by Cheng Gong in the past. I don't like them. Now the right thing to do is to exchange them for silver to save my life."
Liu Miwu reached out and looked through them, picked up one of the red hairpins, and said, "This pair of red hairpins would sell for thousands of taels of silver in a jewelry store, and at most five hundred taels of silver in a pawn shop. My sister's box of jewelry can only get a few thousand taels of silver at most, which is far from enough."
She paused and continued, "I have saved a sum of money in Xinglou over the years, more than a thousand taels. I will have someone send it to you tomorrow."
Liang Wushuang said hurriedly, "How can this be used? Sister, you don't have to do this. How can I use your private money? Mr. Cheng bought some land and shops in my mother's name. They should be worth several thousand taels. The land deeds and deeds are in my mother's hands. I will go to my mother to get the deeds later. You can help me sell them together."
Liu Miwu's fingers holding the red hairpin tightened slightly, and then she smiled and said, "It seems that Lord Cheng cares a lot about me. You might as well ask Lord Cheng for some money. Lord Cheng is so generous to me, so it shouldn't be difficult to collect ten thousand taels of silver."
Liang Wushuang shook his head, pursed his lips and smiled bitterly, "I... can't open my mouth to Cheng Gong..."
She sighed softly and said, "Mr. Cheng has been very kind to my mother and me. I have never suffered any injustice since I moved into this house. Since I followed Mr. Cheng, I should not have any involvement with other men. This was my original plan, but who would have thought that Lu Jin would get into trouble..."
"It is very wrong to sell the jewelry that Mr. Cheng gave me to save Lu Jin. And you don't know..." Liang Wushuang bit her lower lip, suppressed her embarrassment, and said softly, "Mr. Cheng is not close to me. I have lived in this house for so long, and Mr. Cheng has never stayed in my room."
Liu Miwu was only surprised for a moment, then she recovered and chuckled, "Although Mr. Cheng is of noble status, he is disabled after all. It is human nature that he does not want people to get close to him. Sister, please don't think too much. The guests in Xinglou are either rich or noble. I have also heard a lot about Mr. Cheng. In all these years, you are the first woman that Mr. Cheng has taken in into his mansion. Moreover, the servants in this mansion are particularly respectful to you. The servants in the mansion are the best at reading people's expressions and looking down on others. It is enough to see that Mr. Cheng cares a lot about you."
"But I always feel that Mr. Cheng seems to treat me as someone else..." Liang Wushuang lowered his eyes and sighed, "On the first day of moving into the mansion, he asked me if I had ever learned medicine. He found many medical books for me to read. Every time he came over, he would test me on what I read in the medical books."
Liu Miwu was also very surprised when she heard her say that. Could it be that Liang Wushuang was really someone's substitute? But in these years, she had never heard of Cheng Ying having another woman around her. Could it be that she was a woman who knew medicine in the palace?
Liu Miwu said gently, "Sister, don't underestimate yourself. How can anyone look like you? Maybe Mr. Cheng likes to read medical books in private, and he wanted to talk to you, so he found some medical books for you to read. Speaking of this, it occurred to me that, sister, you know that calligraphy and paintings are much more valuable than our women's jewelry. Since you can't ask Mr. Cheng for money, you might as well find some calligraphy and paintings in the study and send them to the pawnshop to exchange for a lot of money."
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