Chapter 42 Anyway, this spendthrift woman has plenty of money

Yun Yi returned to the carriage of the prince and reported in a low voice.

"Prince, I have sent someone to contact the princess. When the opportunity is ripe, armor, strong bows, crossbows and war horses can be given to the princess."

The King of Qin nodded, "Yes! The price is a bit higher. Anyway, this spendthrift woman has plenty of money."

Yun Yi was stunned!

[Didn't the prince originally ask me to find a way to send weapons to the princess? I was afraid that the flaws would be too big, so I sold it to the princess at a low price. Did the prince change his mind again and want to bite off a piece of meat from the princess? ]

"As you command!" Yun Yi clasped his fists and bowed to accept the order. ...

Everything went incredibly smoothly today, and Luo Li and the others were in a particularly happy mood.

Seeing that it was getting late, they hurried back.

When they passed by a place where many shops were gathered, a shout came over, "Newly slaughtered good beef for sale!..."

Luo Li heard it, "swooshed" and lifted the curtain, and asked the driver: "Where can I buy good beef?"

The driver pointed to the back of the car: "Sir, there is a butcher's shop in the back, and the butcher just shouted for beef."

"Stop, stop! Fresh beef is a good thing that is not easy to find."

Ruhua smiled and jumped out of the car first. The young lady couldn't move her legs when she heard about delicious food.

A butcher's shop was set up on the stall outside, and two employees were cutting a cow.

Luo Li pushed through the crowd and walked closer, "This beef is good! It's a fat and tender calf."

The owner of the butcher shop next to him smiled and said, "This young man has a good eye! This cow is only one and a half years old. It accidentally fell into a deep ditch while working and broke its leg. The owner of the cow sold it and slaughtered it."

In order to protect agricultural production, the laws of the Song Dynasty do not allow oxen to be slaughtered casually. You really need luck to buy fresh veal like this.

Luo Li asked, "How much is this beef?"

Seeing that Luo Li looked like a sincere buyer with plenty of money, the shopkeeper quickly stepped forward and said, "Good beef is 36 coins per pound, beef bones are 12 coins, and beef heads and offal are also 12 coins."

This price is not cheap. A strong man can only earn more than 30 coins in a day's work. Ordinary people are generally reluctant to buy a pound of beef to eat. When they are hungry, they mostly cut some cheap pork to eat.

But there are many wealthy people in Bianjing City. A family fortune of ten thousand guan is nothing at all. There are also many wealthy people with a hundred thousand guan and a million guan. So the people watching in front of this beef stall are not all poor people who just want to watch the excitement.

Luo Li nodded, "I want both the beef and the bones! Ask the waiter to remove the fat from the bones and leave more meat on the bones. I'll charge you 20 cents per pound."

"Okay! Please wait a moment, the meat will be cut for you right away!" The shopkeeper was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling.

He thought it was too late and he was afraid that the beef would go bad if he couldn't sell it all after it was slaughtered. He didn't expect to meet a big buyer who bought it all by himself.

Some of the onlookers who wanted to buy meat were unwilling to do it!

: "Hey! Sir, you bought so much meat in such hot weather, aren't you afraid that it will go bad?"

: "You bought all the good meat by yourself, and we have been waiting for a long time. Can we only buy offal?"

: "That's right! How can you buy meat from a whole cow? Isn't this a spendthrift?"

Luo Li looked back, turned around, took out his folding fan, opened it with a "swish" sound and shook it.

: "This young master has money, so I am so willful and so arrogant! What's the matter? Is it not okay?"

Yang Yanqi and Gao Ruoying also came to the meat stall, and seeing Luo Li's arrogant behavior, they all smiled with their eyebrows squeezed into a ball.

Gao Ruoying smiled and shook her head, "What a spendthrift woman! Aren't you afraid that the meat of this cow will go bad in such a hot day?"

"It's so hot, we'll eat it once in the evening and throw it away tomorrow!"

Ruhua and Yingchun said in unison in the back, "There is an ice cellar in the mansion!"

Gao Ruoying asked curiously, "The ice cellar is used to store beef. Will there be a strange smell in the house when the ice is used to cool down?"

Ruhua replied, "The ice that has been used to store meat will not be used to make ice basins for cooling down. It will all melt into water and be poured away."

"That ice is not cheap!" Yang Yanqi still felt that Luo Li was too spendthrift for stuttering.

The two guys moved quickly and slaughtered a cow in the blink of an eye. According to Luo Li's request, a lot of meat was left on the cow bones.

Luo Li directed them, "Cut these front and hind legs into large pieces of more than ten pounds, and pack these back meat separately. Hey! Put this ox tail separately for me, this young master loves to chew ox tails the most."

After the servants finished their work, they weighed them one by one. There were more

than 300 pounds of beef and more than 200 pounds of beef bones.

Ruhua quickly went over to pay.

Luo Li looked back at the carriage. Although the meat was bought, it couldn't be loaded!

Judging from the driver's appearance, it seemed that he was unwilling to load the bloody beef into the carriage.

"Load 20 kilograms of beef for each of these two young ladies on their horses.

Coachman, I'll double the fare today. Load half of the beef bones on your carriage. Don't forget the ox tail, which I'm going to eat tonight.

Shopkeeper, find a carriage to take the remaining beef and bones to Luo Xueshi's residence. I'll pay for the fare."

Luo Li finished the distribution quickly. Money makes things easier!

Yang Yanqi and Gao Ruoying saw that the coachman and the shopkeeper happily agreed. Luo Li flirted at them with a wink, and they laughed so hard that they were shaking with laughter!

The King of Qin, who was a few dozen steps away from the crowd, lowered the curtains of his carriage and ordered, "Go back to the palace and wait to gnaw on beef bones and meat!"

...

Madam Lin sat there with an angry look on her face, watching two personal maids slap a little maid kneeling on the ground!

The maid's face was already red and swollen, and the corners of her lips were bleeding. She kept begging, "Madam! I won't dare to do it again, please forgive me this time!..."

"Chunmei Qiutao! Find her indenture and sell her out of the palace!" Madam Lin's voice was full of majesty and coldness.

The little girl was so scared that she kowtowed and begged for mercy!

"Madam! Madam, please spare my life! I won't dare to do it again..."

Lin Xian'er came in through the curtains and glanced at the little girl named Ai Cao.

She smiled and said to her mother, "Mother! Don't be so angry, or you will hurt yourself. Just forgive her this time!"

Ai Cao kowtowed repeatedly in gratitude, "Thank you, Miss! Thank you, Miss!..."

Lin Xian'er raised a delicate hand, "You all go down!"

Chunmei and Qiutao hurriedly leaned over to obey the order, pulled Ai Cao, who was kneeling on the ground, and retreated.

Lin Xian'er gently advised, "Mother, you have been in a bad mood these two days, and don't be angry with these servants, so as not to get a reputation of being harsh to servants in this palace."

Madam Lin was still angry.

: "Your mother has been in charge of the mansion for many years and has always been conscientious and tireless. That silly princess took the housekeeper power back from me just a few days after she came in. How can I feel good?"

Lin Xian'er smiled slightly, "Mother! That silly princess is an ignorant fool.

Although my cousin took the housekeeper power back and gave it to her, the Qin Palace is so huge that those accounts will be messed up by her in less than half a month.

At that time, the housekeeper power will naturally be handed back to you."

Mrs. Lin looked at her intelligent and meticulous daughter, and the anger on her face gradually disappeared.

: "Xian'er! Defang grew up under my care, and this time he actually gave the housekeeper power back to his silly princess. I feel a little uncomfortable as a mother!"

Lin Xian'er stood up and walked behind her mother, stretched out her two slender hands, and considerately massaged her mother's shoulders.

"Mother! I cried sadly that day, but I feel much better these past two days. The

Prince of Qin's Mansion has just married a princess. Although she is a fool, she is the mistress of the mansion. It is right for my cousin to hand over the power of managing the housekeeping of the mansion to her.

But if she can't manage it well, then handing the power of managing the housekeeping of the mansion to someone else will make others unable to say anything. Even Luo Xueshi's Mansion cannot have any complaints."

Madam Lin patted her daughter's delicate hand, "That's true, but I'm afraid that the silly princess will not be willing to hand it over after monopolizing the power of managing the housekeeping.

Haven't you seen how arrogant and lawless she is? You... But cousin is still tolerant and accommodating to her, isn't he?"

Lin Xian'er gently massaged her mother's shoulders, her voice gentle, "Mother, don't be too worried.

After all, she is the Princess of Qin, whom cousin married with the emperor's permission. It is understandable that cousin is a little tolerant and accommodating to her.

But there is always a limit to this. The more outrageous that fool makes a fuss, the sooner cousin's patience will disappear.

That day she wanted to pick the magnolias in the garden, and although cousin agreed to it in person, he must have scolded her behind her back. Didn't you see that she was so aggressive that she wanted to pick the magnolias that afternoon, but she didn't dare to touch a single one in the past two days?"

Madam Lin felt relieved and comfortable when she heard this.

: "That's right! I deliberately ordered housekeeper Zhao to buy a batch of precious items such as blood bird's nests, pearls and Tianshan snow lotus on the second day after I handed over the housekeeping power to her. She didn't respond at all, and all these supplements were bought and stored today.

Xian'er, you and your cousin are childhood sweethearts, growing up together and having a lot in common. Your father died trying to save him, so you should be the mistress of this palace.

I don't know what's wrong with Defang this time? He actually asked to marry such a fool to be the Princess of Qin, but you can only be a concubine in the future. It's really unfair to you!"

Lin Xian'er couldn't help feeling sad for a while, but she cheered up to comfort her mother.

"Mother, although my cousin and I have been childhood sweethearts, our family background is too low to be worthy of the position of the principal wife of the Prince of Qin's Mansion. It is reasonable for my cousin to marry a daughter of a high-ranking family as his principal wife."

Mrs. Lin sighed!

The fact that her daughter was of low birth was unchangeable. Who asked her to marry a man who was a Jinshi but only an eighth-rank official?

When she first saw this prince's nephew leaving the palace to set up his own house, she decisively asked her husband to resign from his official position and join this prince's nephew's mansion as a staff member.

She also helped manage household affairs as an aunt, and finally her hard work was not in vain. These years have been full of endless glory and wealth.

Although Xian'er's father died, he died to protect the prince's nephew. The mother and daughter were more confident in being the masters of the house.

Lin Xian'er said to her mother again, "Mother, the spices in our house are almost used up. I heard that the dragon's nest incense and camphor incense in the warehouse were taken away by that stupid princess. Send someone to ask her for two boxes today."

Mrs. Lin immediately responded, "Okay! When I hear that she has returned to the house, I will send Chunmei to ask for it. Humph

! A princess actually dresses up as a man and runs out every day. How can this be?

If she were my daughter-in-law, I would break her legs and make sure she could not leave the palace!"