Chapter 44: Isn't She Coming Back?
Fu Zhaoning stood up, his face turning blue with anger.
"The Fu family still has a shop. Where is the shop?"
"shop.."
Aunt Zhong and Xiaotao looked at each other again, feeling very embarrassed.
"Miss, you haven't understood much about business these years, so the second and third wives have been coming to the old master, asking him to let them manage the shop and send the money they earn every year."
This would prevent the old man, a sick man, and Fu Zhaoning, a little girl who knows nothing, from ruining the shop.
"The old master gave the shop contract to Miss as a dowry. Miss carried him into the bridal sedan that day. Didn't Miss know?"
Xiaotao looked at Fu Zhaoning strangely.
Dowry box?
Several images seemed to flash through Fu Zhaoning's mind, but her head immediately began to hurt.
Only now did she think of a question: how did Miss Fu die in the bridal sedan when she went out that day? She seemed to have no memory of this short part.
The last memory was that she sat in front of the dressing table in this room and covered her head with a red veil with her own hands, and then...
After waking up, it was her who came through.
"Did I go out and get into the bridal sedan by myself that day?" Fu Zhaoning asked.
Xiao Tao was shocked and anxious, "Miss, what's wrong with you? Have you forgotten what happened that day?"
Fu Zhaoning could only make up an excuse, "That day on the street, Li Zhiyao bumped into the bridal sedan. The sedan bearer must have been frightened, and the sedan shook violently. I was shaken and hit my head against the frame, and a big bump appeared on my head."
As she spoke, she reached out and touched her head, and sure enough, she felt a big lump.
She touched it that night and at the time just thought it might have been bumped by Miss Fu, but now thinking about it, that bump was quite strong.
If she had known, she should have checked the sedan chair!
By the way, the bridal sedan was previously placed in Prince Jun’s mansion. I don’t know if they have disposed of it.
"The collision was pretty severe, so when I woke up I felt a little dizzy and couldn't remember some things clearly."
Xiaotao nervously reached out and touched her head, and sure enough, she touched the bag.
"Oh my god, it's been so many days and the bump is still there. How badly must the girl have been hit!"
Aunt Zhong couldn't help but come over and touch it.
In order to make them believe, Fu Zhaoning endured it and let them touch it carefully.
"No wonder I said the young lady seemed a little strange after she came back. She must have been hit on the head and got confused." Xiao Tao was very sad. "There have been people who got hit on the head and became stupid before."
"What nonsense! How could our young lady be so stupid?" Aunt Zhong said quickly.
"The young lady seems to be much smarter after being bumped into."
Hearing that they all believed so easily that she had a "problem", Fu Zhaoning didn't know whether to laugh or cry. But this did save her some trouble.
"Young lady was helped into the bridal sedan by the fourth and sixth young ladies that day, and she was holding the dowry box at that time."
Xiao Tao looked at Fu Zhaoning, her voice trembling a little, "Miss, could the dowry box be lost?"
In addition to the deeds to the two remaining shops of the Fu family, there were also a few pieces of jewelry and some small change that Old Master Fu had saved for Fu Zhaoning.
The old master couldn't afford more, but thinking that Fu Zhaoning would marry into Prince Xiao's mansion and become the Crown Prince's Consort after all, he needed some small change to reward the servants in the mansion, so he specially asked her to exchange the small change.
Fu Zhaoning didn't get anything in the box, but she knew that Old Master Fu would give her all his remaining belongings.
She said it was so strange that the old man didn't give her anything when she got married.
It turned out that the dowry box was missing.
"Fourth Miss, Sixth Miss?"
The fourth lady, Fu Jiaojiao, is from the second wife's room, and the sixth lady, Fu Baozhen, is from the third wife's room. These two were cousins who she had never bothered to play with before, but how could they come to help her get into the bridal sedan that day?
"So, grandpa also eats this kind of meal?" Fu Zhaoning's voice turned cold.
"Yes..." Aunt Zhong lowered her head.
Her and Xiaotao's stomachs also started to growl.
"You didn't eat?" Fu Zhaoning's face became even colder.
If she doesn't come back, will the remaining people in the Fu family starve to death?
"Miss, we have eaten..." Xiaotao's voice lowered.
They did eat, but it was just light porridge with a little bit of pickles, which was not enough to fill them up, so they were hungry again after just an hour.
"Let's go to the front!"
Fu Zhaoning went out angrily and was about to go find the second and third wives, and Fu Jiaojiao and Fu Baozhen, when Zhong Bo came over, followed by Zhong Jian.
Zhong Jian was carrying a lot of things on his back. Since there was nothing to put them in, he tied them up with vines and straw ropes. He carried a lot on his back and also held a lot in his hands.
"Miss, he said he was looking for you."
Zhong Bo's eyes were a little wide open, because in addition to a pile of grass, Zhong Jian also carried pheasants and rabbits, as well as a straw basket, which looked like it was filled with a large nest of pheasant eggs.
Fu Zhaoning remembered it when he saw these things.
"Why are you so late?"
She thought Zhong Jian should have come back yesterday, but he had waited until now.
Zhong Jian's voice was a little hoarse, "Something delayed me."
God knows how worried he was about being seen by his friends in Prince Jun's Palace while carrying all these things. He was a guard in the palace, and now he had a chicken in his left hand and a rabbit in his right hand, and he also had a pile of grass on his back.
"Put your things down. Thank you for your hard work. I'll reward you later." Fu Zhaoning saw the pheasant, rabbit and pheasant eggs, and stuffed them into Aunt Zhong and Uncle Zhong's hands one by one.
"Go and prepare these first and make something delicious."
Aunt Zhong couldn't help swallowing when looking at these things.
How long has it been since they last saw meat?
"yes!"
Zhong Jian looked at them. Were the servants of the Fu Mansion so hungry that their eyes turned green? They were so excited to see these things.
"The items have been delivered, Miss Fu. I will return to the palace to report first."
Zhong Jian turned around to leave, but Fu Zhaoning stopped him, "Go back and ask the butler if my sedan chair is still there. If it is, please ask him not to let anyone touch it and keep it in its original state. I will find time to go back and take a look."
"yes."
Although Zhong Jian didn't understand why she wanted to go back to see the bridal sedan, he still took her words to heart.
Butler Zhong was stunned for a moment.
"The next day, the prince ordered his men to chop up the bridal sedan and burn it for firewood."
Zhong Jian: “…”
why is that?
"The prince said that it was originally intended to be carried into Prince Xiao's palace as a bridal sedan, so there's no need to keep it."
"Then Miss Fu might be disappointed."
"Still calling her Miss Fu? She has passed the test and is now our princess." Butler Zhong glanced behind him, "The princess hasn't come back? She didn't come back last night."
The housekeeper suddenly thought of a possibility, and his face changed, "Will the princess not come back?"
"Didn't she return to the palace last night?" Prince Jun's voice came from behind.
Fu Zhaoning lived in Jianjiayuan, and Prince Jun had never paid any attention to him. If he hadn't asked last night, he would have no idea that Fu Zhaoning hadn't come back.
"Your Majesty."
Zhong Jian and the butler quickly saluted.
Prince Jun looked at Zhong Jian and asked, "She is at the Fu family? She said she would not come back?"
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