It was five days later when Yinreng and his party returned from Datangshan.
Before Yinzhen had even sat down in the mansion, he heard that Alinga had come to visit him.
Others may have forgotten Alinga's asshole behavior at Concubine Nianhulu's funeral, but Yinzhen remembered it clearly.
His dislike for Alinga was even greater than his dislike for Marhun, so he didn't want to see him at all.
However, before he could say the words of refusal, his confidant came up and whispered a few words in his ear. Yin'er's expression of disgust immediately disappeared, and he walked to the central hall with a smile on his face.
"Hey, isn't this Lord Niuhulu? What a rare guest!"
"This servant greets Master Jiu!"
Alinga also came over with a smile on his face.
"I came to bother you today to discuss a business matter with you..."
Alinga also knew that Yinzhen had always been on good terms with his nephew, and was afraid that he would vent his anger on him because of the previous incident, so he went straight to the point.
The Eighth Prince has already pointed out the direction for him. As long as he gets the consent of the Ninth Prince and the Tenth Prince, he can board the Eighth Prince's express ship.
He was a little hesitant at first. After all, everyone in the capital knew that the Ninth Prince was a notorious money-grubber. He had joined the prince in order to profit from it, but he didn't intend to rush to give money to others.
However, he felt it was unreliable for him to rely on other princes.
The title of Prince Zhi is high and he is quite influential in the army, but his alliance with the Third Prince only has a few small forces under his command, making him the weakest among the camps.
The Fourth Prince, under the banner of supporting orthodoxy, clearly wanted to stand with the Crown Prince.
He has suffered a lot at the hands of the prince, so how could he possibly rush to get close to him now? The Niuhuru family is not a small family at the bottom of society, so he has to save his face too, okay?
As a result, Alinga had only hesitated for two days when Prince An came to him first.
Prince An was willing to give up his interests and absorb him into the Eighth Master's party, but the prerequisite was that he had to guarantee that the entire Nianhulu family would stand on the Eighth Master's side and not have any second thoughts.
Isn’t this like someone giving you a pillow because you’re sleepy?
Alinga immediately made the decision and the two reached a cooperation.
So today he went to find Yinzhen with a box of banknotes.
When Yinzhen asked him what business he wanted to do, Alinga said he wanted to buy a bicycle for his disappointing son, and then he showed the silver note to Yinzhen in a big way.
Yinzhen took a glance and saw that the banknote was in denomination of two thousand taels. In order to let him see it clearly, Alinga moved it a little. It was a thick stack and it looked like it should be worth more than twenty thousand taels.
Seeing Alinga pushing the box towards him, the smile on Yin'er's face became more genuine. He reached into the box and rummaged around for a moment, then he had an idea.
"I only sold a car to a foreigner for 10,000 taels of silver. That's too much, isn't it?"
Upon hearing this, Alinga's expression became more eager.
"To be honest, this amount of money is more than enough to buy a car, but besides wanting to buy a car, I also want to buy a stepping stone to get into the business."
He emphasized the words "stepping stone" and stared at Yinzhen, hoping that he could give him a definite answer.
"Oh? What's the stepping stone?"
Yinzhen glanced at Alinga with a smile.
Hearing this, the expression on Alinga's face drooped.
He felt that he had made his words clear enough, and the Ninth Prince was now asking him questions, which was clearly a case of him pretending to be ignorant.
But now he needed help from others and did not dare to be too arrogant, so he lowered his posture.
"I know you have a close relationship with the Tenth Master, and I feel that what I did was excessive. However, I was only taking back what I deserved, and I had no choice. Now that the Emperor is getting older, isn't it true that you are joining forces with the Eighth Master to gain the benefits you deserve?"
"I am willing to use all the strength of the Niuhulu family to help you, the Eighth Master, achieve great things..."
Seeing Alinga's face full of longing, Yinzhen sneered.
"Aling, you're really shameless. My grandfather and Big Brother teamed up to fight for power. The methods we used weren't particularly glorious, but they weren't so despicable as to accuse my half-brother of cheating on me!"
"Back then, you disregarded our blood relationship and drove Faka out of the capital. Now that you need your tenth brother, you're finding all sorts of excuses to justify yourself. Honestly, did Faka ever target you in the slightest?"
"You're just taking advantage of the fact that he's your tenth brother's uncle, and that their relationship is definitely closer than yours, so you're trying to make things difficult for Faka. Aren't you embarrassed to say those things just now?"
Yinzhen didn't give Alingaling any face at all. He did all kinds of bad things and still wanted to have both face and reputation. How could such a good thing happen?
He pointed to the box of banknotes.
"Fifty thousand taels are enough to make me forget all the dirty things you did. Why don't you just go to heaven? You want to buy your way out from me? Fine!"
"As long as you go to my tenth brother and kowtow three times and nine times, and admit in front of the people of the world that you are a heartless and ungrateful villain, I will let it go!"
After he finished speaking, he flicked his sleeves and left the hall, muttering to himself as he walked.
"Bah, what a thing! Fifty thousand taels of silver, who are you looking down on?"
Alinga felt a little dizzy after being scolded. He sat there for a long time, his face gradually turning the color of liver.
Before the evil fire in his heart could fully rise, the housekeeper came to his side.
"Master Niuhulu, it's getting late outside, you..."
Yes, they are here to chase people away.
Alinga felt a surge of heat rushing straight to the top of his head, making his vision a little dark.
Think about Alinga, the legitimate head of the Niuhulu family. He is flattered wherever he goes. Even the emperor is tolerant of him because of his father. But today he was scolded by the Ninth Prince!
He has never suffered such a great injustice since he was a child!
Alinga was so angry that he gritted his teeth, grabbed the box containing the banknotes, stood up and left.
The news that he stormed out of the Ninth Prince's Mansion was soon delivered to Yinsi and Malhun.
Yinsi had anticipated this and just chuckled a few times after receiving the news.
He and Lao Jiu have always been brooding over the injustice that Yin suffered in the past, and today's incident was just collecting interest in advance.
Yinsi was not afraid that Alinga would switch sides with someone else just because Yin'er scolded him. After all, their goals as brothers were the same.
Who Alinga chooses has little impact on him and Lao Jiu.
But...how could he not care? Malhun would not allow him and Laojiu to push Alinga out.
It seems that Malhun will soon increase the stakes, and he and Lao Jiu will just have to lie down and collect the money.
Yinsi's prediction was correct. As soon as Alinga left Lao Jiu's mansion, Marhun took his attendant and went straight out of the gate of Prince An's mansion.
The destination was naturally Niuhulu's home.
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