Yongchun accepted this well. As a woman with a son in the palace, who wouldn't want to take a chance?
"The women in the palace can all pretend, who knows if it's real or fake!"
Zhou Qiongyue felt that Princess Yongchun was right. How could someone who could give birth to and raise a child in the palace not be smart?
Smart people want more.
Yongchun was worried that his friend had been tricked by someone else, so he wanted to ask Zhou Qiongyue for advice. "What are you going to do?"
"Hold still."
Zhou Qiongyue was quite calm about this. Although she made money from Renjian Yanhuo, it wasn't her own money. It would be fine if no one bumped into her, but if they did, it would just be his bad luck.
Seeing her friend like this, Yongchun knew that she knew what was going on, so he stopped worrying and turned to talk about other things.
However, when Zhou Qiongyue returned from Princess Yongchun, she still passed a message to the Crown Prince, asking him to investigate carefully to find out whether it was the Xun family that wanted it or the Fourth Prince Li Jingxuan.
Afterwards, Zhou Qiongyue still had someone instruct the owner of "Renjian Yanhuo" to be careful during this period and not let anyone take advantage of the situation.
After Zhou Qiongyue gave the order, she asked Gulan to keep an eye on it and she didn't care about it anymore. Zhou Qiongyue really didn't take this matter as a big deal.
Just a few days after Zhou Qiongyue made the arrangements, she received a letter from Xun Yuanwailang's family.
According to Zhou Qiongyue's usual personality, she would not meet this person. But since she was free recently, she decided to see what the Xun family was up to.
Since Zhou Qiongyue wanted to meet, Gulan replied to the post with ease and asked Madam Xun to come tomorrow.
The Xun family was of course delighted to receive the reply from Prince Fu'an's Mansion. Madam Xun thought to herself, as long as the Fourth Prince was around, even the Prince's Mansion wouldn't dare deny them face.
As for the things that Lord Xun had instructed her to do, Mrs. Xun didn't take them to heart at all, thinking that her husband was being too cautious.
After all, they are the prince's in-laws, so they have to show due respect, otherwise it would be embarrassing for the Fourth Prince.
So when Madam Xun met Zhou Qiongyue the next day, she also acted like the mistress of the house.
When Zhou Qiongyue saw Madam Xun like this, her stupidity was about to kick in.
Zhou Qiongyue just wanted to send the person away quickly. "Madam Xun wants to see me, is there something?"
Madam Xun was so arrogant that she almost snorted, "Princess Fu'an, please give me the deed to the land in the mortal world."
Zhou Qiongyue looked at the sun outside. She suspected that she hadn't woken up yet. "Madam Xun, please say it again. Didn't I hear it wrong?"
"Princess, you heard correctly. The Emperor gifted this shop to the Fourth Prince, and he asked me to take care of it."
Madam Xun was very proud when she said this. No matter how good the princess was, in the end, it was still a good thing for their Xun family.
Zhou Qiongyue threw the teacup in her hand on the spot. "Oh, Madam Xun, you are so bold! You actually dared to forge an imperial decree. Do you know that this is a crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations of your clan?"
As for whether Zhou Qiongyue believed it or not, she did, but she wouldn't give it to him. This was the way she wanted to make money for Tianyuan Kingdom and her second cousin in the future, not for the emperor to reward any of his princes.
Unless the emperor dared to say openly that he wanted to seize the property of his ministers to support his son, if the emperor dared to take such a charge, she would be willing to give it to him.
It was just a mortal's fireworks. She could open one, and she could open a second. The point was, she could either start a mortal's fireworks or destroy it. It just took a little effort.
"The princess knows whether I have falsely conveyed the imperial edict." Madam Xun felt that she must get the land deed today and could not give Zhou Qiongyue time to deal with it.
The message from the palace to her was that she had to act quickly.
"I, the princess, don't believe that the emperor is the kind of person who would steal my property to support his own son. Come, drag Madam Xun to the gate of the mansion and beat her to death with clubs. And by the way, tell the people around here why I, the princess, beat her to death."
Zhou Qiongyue is not someone who is willing to suffer losses. Since the emperor dares to give her things away casually, it depends on whether the emperor dares to accept them.
Madam Xun considered countless possibilities, none of which were about whether or not she could obtain the land deed. She had never considered that Princess Fu'an would dare to kill her. Although she was only a fifth-rank imperial edict holder, she still had an imperial edict.
At this moment, she no longer had the energy and spirit she had just had. Her face was filled with disbelief and fear. At this moment, Madam Xun was already hesitating whether to beg for mercy. After all, who doesn't fear death?
Yuan An had always said that Princess Shuxian was a fierce person, but Madam Xun never believed it. She didn't know how fierce a woman could be. Madam Xun felt that she finally knew now.
"Princess, your humble servant..."
Before Madam Xun could even start to say anything sweet, Zhou Qiongyue had already ordered the people around her to drag her out.
Gulan knew that this matter was of great importance, so she hurriedly followed him out. She first sprinkled copper coins at the gate of the palace to attract the passers-by and servants, and then asked someone to bring out Madam Xun with her mouth blocked.
Gulan pointed at Madam Xun and said righteously, "This is the wife of Xun Yuanwailang, the Fourth Prince's in-laws. Look, I'm confused. The Fourth Prince's in-laws should be the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion.
This Madam Xun slandered the Emperor for wanting to seize our Princess's private property to support the Fourth Prince. Our Princess does not believe the Emperor is that kind of person. To maintain the dignity of the royal family, our Princess can only play the villain.
After Gulan finished speaking, he ordered someone to remove the cloth from Madam Xun's mouth and then started beating her.
Seeing that they were serious, Madam Xun's strong desire to survive made her even more irrational. "Your Highness is not lying!"
“I really didn’t lie!
This is what the Emperor promised Concubine Rong!
Princess Fu'an is greedy for money and doesn't want to give it!
I really didn't lie!
Zhou Qiongyue will not die a good death!
You vicious woman..."
The people around them didn't believe Gulan's words at first, but after hearing what Madam Xun said, they believed it. In the minds of the people, the emperor was so rich, how could he possibly steal the property of a minister to support his son.
More importantly, if they agree with this behavior, what should they do if someone robs them in the future?
Madam Xun cursed very hard at first, but soon she fell silent. The person who had done the cursing turned his gaze towards Madam Gulan.
Gulan went forward to check personally, confirmed that the person was dead, and had someone throw the person to the gate of Xun Mansion.
Gulan felt that since his princess said she wanted to beat him to death, he couldn't be left with a single breath.
Before Madam Xun died, besides hating Zhou Qiongyue, she also regretted not listening to her husband and not talking to the princess properly, but instead bringing out the imperial edict.
Zhou Qiongyue didn't care about that. She hadn't received an imperial edict anyway. If the emperor wanted the reputation and was willing to issue an imperial edict, she would accept it.
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