Chapter 425 She really is a problem
Xiao Qingyuan was stunned: "How can this be? If I hand Yanluo over to the Yu family, she will definitely die! You didn't see how fierce the Yu family is, and you don't know how much they hate her!"
Shen Wantang said in a calm tone: "Perhaps I don't know how much the Yu family hates us, but I do know that the second young lady of the Yu family was killed by Aunt Chu's medicine. Even if she had to pay for the Yu family's life, it wouldn't be too much."
"Miss Yu committed suicide; Yan Luo didn't kill her!"
"I'm not entirely clear on the specifics either. When the young master asked me what to do, I only offered a feasible solution. How to proceed is up to the young master."
Shen Wantang yawned: "I'm very tired today, Your Highness, please go back!"
"Wait! Bring me a thousand taels of silver first!"
"Whoever caused the trouble should bear the consequences. When Aunt Chu was making money, she didn't share a single tael with me. Now that she has to pay back money, she's asking me for it? Young Master, you should ask her for it. Or, you can ask Huayi for it. I heard that she paid for the imperial physician for Aunt Chu before. I suppose she'd be willing to share the burden for Aunt Chu now."
Xiao Qingyuan's expression was not good: "How can you be so stingy? You won't even give me a thousand taels!"
"I love money more than anything, is this the first time you've known, Your Highness? You want my money, it's almost like you want my life."
"You!! Since you're so heartless, don't blame me for being ruthless! Humph, I'm going to complain to Mother right now and have her take back your control of the household! From now on, I'll be in charge of this family!"
Shen Wantang's eyes widened slightly: "The young master wants to manage the household?"
"What, are you scared? It's too late to be scared now! Begging me won't help, I'm going to file a complaint against you today!"
Shen Wantang almost laughed; she wasn't afraid of Xiao Qingyuan making such a accusation.
She nodded: "Then Your Highness should go ahead and file a complaint. I'm a bit tired from managing the household and would like to take a break."
Xiao Qingyuan snorted coldly, turned around and left.
He had had enough of the frugal and impoverished life. He no longer thought that gold and silver were dirty or vulgar things. He thought that the most useful things in the world were gold and silver!
He wants to be the steward! He wants to manage all the money in the entire palace! From now on, he can spend money however he wants and never have to worry about anyone else's opinion again!
He stormed into Princess Ning's room, shouting, "Mother, Shen Wantang is too stingy and miserly! I asked her for a thousand taels of silver, but she wouldn't give it to me! Stop letting her manage the household; let me take over!"
Princess Ning was drinking ginseng tea when she heard this and choked: "Cough cough cough! What did you say?!"
"In the end, Shen Wantang is an outsider. You let her manage the household, and she embezzled all the money and lived a carefree life! But what about me? I live worse than a beggar on the street! Let me manage the Prince's Mansion from now on, and give me all the money, so that Shen Wantang won't benefit from it."
Princess Ning looked astonished: "You know how to manage a household? Do you think that's something easy?"
"What else could it be that's so difficult? If Shen Wantang can handle it, why can't I?"
"The art of managing a household is vast. It looks simple, but it's actually very difficult! Moreover, the inner quarters have always been managed by the mistress of the house. Men are busy with outside affairs. If you were to manage the household in our Prince Ning's mansion, we would probably be laughed at to death."
"So, Mother doesn't want me to manage the household anymore?"
Princess Ning glared at him: "Of course I can't let you manage things. If you do, you'll squander the entire family fortune in less than a month!"
"Impossible! I haven't even interfered with it yet, how could my mother say such things about me?"
"Then tell me, what do you plan to do with the thousand taels of silver you asked Tang'er for?"
“I…I want to compensate the Yu family to prevent them from coming to cause trouble again.”
Upon hearing this, Princess Ning finally lost her temper: "How dare you accuse someone of causing trouble? Their daughter is dead! Who caused this? It's all that jinx, Chu Yanluo!"
"Since you met her, has our Prince's Mansion ever had a good day? Someone has already died, and you still want to protect her? You even want to use money to pay off the Yu family for her?"
"I'm telling you, you are absolutely not allowed to contribute a single penny to her cause! Hand her over, and the Yu family can do whatever they want with her! From now on, you and she have nothing to do with each other!"
Xiao Qingyuan was taken aback by her attitude, and his expression turned grim: "Why do Mother and Shen Wantang say the same thing? Why are you two so cold-hearted? Isn't Yanluo's life worth a thousand taels of silver?"
"Not worth it! She's worthless!"
Princess Ning's voice rose higher and higher in anger: "I think Tang'er did the right thing this time. She shouldn't have given you the money! Chu Yanluo caused the trouble herself, so she should pay for it with her own life!"
“This matter originally had nothing to do with you. She made the medicine, she formulated the prescription, and you weren’t the one who sold her the medicine; it was Shendantang!”
"If you had any sense at all, you should have immediately distanced yourself from Chu Yanluo! If the Yu family wants an explanation, let them go to the Divine Pill Hall and find Chu Yanluo!"
"Your sister's matter has already given your father and me a huge headache. It's one thing if you don't help or understand, but how can you add to the trouble at a time like this! Do you think your father and I haven't worried enough?"
Xiao Qingyuan's head was buzzing from the scolding, but one thing he was very clear about was that he didn't really care about Chu Yanluo anymore; he even felt that she was a real nuisance.
His voice lacked confidence: "Mother, please don't be angry. I'm just afraid that if I hand Yanluo over directly, people will laugh at me for being incompetent. If I can't even protect a concubine, others will think that our Ning Prince's Mansion is weak and easily bullied, right?"
Princess Ning understood his meaning and knew that his attitude towards Chu Yanluo had undergone a qualitative change. Her eyes reddened, and she almost cried.
Heaven has eyes! My son is finally no longer infatuated with Chu Yanluo!
She hurriedly said, "She's just a concubine. She killed someone, so it's fine to hand her over! If you're going to protect even someone like that, people will only think that our Prince Ning's Mansion is arrogant and domineering, and that we're using our status to bully others!"
"Haven't you learned your lesson from your sister? Do you know how many people are cursing her now? Everyone says she's using her status as a princess to kill people so arbitrarily!"
"If you also spread the word that you are arrogant, domineering, and treat human life like dirt, the Prince's mansion will be finished! The Emperor will definitely punish our family!"
Xiao Qingyuan frowned: "Then let me think about it some more, let me think about it some more."
"What's there to think about? Hurry up and give Chu Yanluo to the Yu family. As long as you do, people outside will praise you for your benevolence and righteousness, and they will never laugh at you! After all, she is a murderer! She deserves to be punished!"
Xiao Qingyuan sighed, turned around and left.
Once he left, the anxiety and anger on Princess Ning's face completely disappeared.
Her expression was unusually calm, and there was even a hint of a smile on her lips: "I really didn't expect that Chu Yanluo would be so reckless. Yuan'er finally wants to get rid of her. We can finally get rid of a major threat to our royal family."
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