Chapter 784 Coffin Book
The two of them spent a whole day shopping and visited all the bookstores with some reputation in the city, but in the end they only bought three storybooks, and they only found these after pestering the bookstore owner and asking him repeatedly.
Xiao Xixi sat in the carriage, holding her chin with one hand and sighing helplessly.
"Why are there so few good storybooks nowadays?"
Luo Qinghan: "You read the storybook too fast."
Xiao Xixi groaned: "You can't blame me for reading slowly, you can only blame these stories for being too short."
Nowadays, those who write storybooks are very conscientious. If something can be explained clearly in one sentence, they will never use two sentences. They have no idea what padding is. Usually, a storybook has only about 40 pages.
For an old bookworm like Xiao Xixi who can read ten lines at a glance, he can easily finish five or six books in a day.
Every day when she was bored in the palace, she would read storybooks, and before she knew it, she had read most of the storybooks available on the market.
She has run out of books!
Seeing that she looked listless, Luo Qinghan suggested.
"If you really can't find a storybook that suits your taste, you can pay someone to write it for you."
Xiao Xixi perked up: "Can it still be like this?"
Luo Qinghan: "Well, whatever type of story you want to see, you can ask someone to write that type of story."
Xiao Xixi began to ponder what kind of story she wanted to read the most.
That's like asking her if she prefers pork or chicken.
Whether it's chicken or pork, she loves to eat them all!
Xiao Xixi found it difficult to make a decision and pondered over it carefully for the whole night.
The next day she finally came up with a solution that would satisfy both parties.
"Your Majesty, I have decided to hold a storybook competition. There is no limit to the subject matter, story, or word count. As long as the story is well written, everyone can submit it. The winner can receive 100 taels of silver!"
This way she can see any story and doesn't have to make a choice.
After saying that, she slammed a crumpled banknote on the table.
Luo Qinghan picked up the silver note and took a look at it, and found that the silver note was from many years ago, and he didn't know whether it could still be exchanged for silver.
He asked, "Where did you get this banknote?"
Xiao Xixi held her head high and said, "This is the pocket money my master gave me when I left the sect."
Luo Qinghan: "How much pocket money did your master give you?"
Xiao Xixi immediately became alert: "Why are you asking this?"
Luo Qinghan: "Don't be nervous, I'm not interested in your private money. I just want to remind you that this banknote may have exceeded its redemption period."
In order to prevent the emergence of counterfeit silver bills, money shops and bill offices would replace the silver bill styles almost every year, and each silver bill had an exchange period ranging from ten to twenty years. If it was not exchanged after the period expired, the householder had to go to the money shop in person with a token of trust to compare the handwritten seal and signature before he could withdraw the money.
In other words, Xiao Xixi's silver note is basically equivalent to waste paper.
Xiao Xixi quickly took out all the banknotes given by her master and showed them to Luo Qinghan.
Luo Qinghan read through them one by one and said calmly.
"All these banknotes are useless."
Xiao Xixi fell to the ground as if struck by lightning.
"How could this happen? These are all my coffin books!"
At this moment, she was like an old widower who had been cheated of all her money, and she cried so sadly.
Luo Qinghan's eyebrows twitched when he heard this.
How old is she, but she has already started saving money for her coffin.
Besides, does she need to save up money for her coffin? Does she think he's dead?!
Luo Qinghan said expressionlessly: "You have a total of 1,200 taels of silver notes here. Give them all to me and I'll have someone send you 1,200 taels of silver ingots. If you think the silver ingots take up too much space, I can exchange them for new silver notes."
Xiao Xixi immediately burst into laughter, rushed over to hug him and kissed him hard.
"Just change it to silver ingots. I have a lot of space here, so I don't mind taking up space."
That afternoon, people from the Shaofu came to Yunxiu Palace carrying a heavy box.
Xiao Xixi opened the box, and inside were 120 silver ingots neatly arranged.
Each silver ingot weighs ten taels, and one hundred and twenty weigh exactly one thousand two hundred taels.
Xiao Xixi lay happily on the silver ingots, trying hard to absorb the copper smell they emitted, feeling extremely happy.
Luo Qinghan asked leisurely while drinking tea.
"Do you like money that much?"
Xiao Xixi stroked the round and shiny silver ingot in her hand and said intoxicatedly, "Who in this world doesn't like money?"
Luo Qinghan: "But money is not everything."
Xiao Xixi: "Why do you remind me of this? I'm not that greedy. I just want money. I don't expect it to be omnipotent."
Luo Qinghan: “…”
Sometimes I really want to get into this woman's head and see how many twisted ideas she has hidden in her little head.
Xiao Xixi reluctantly picked out ten silver ingots from it.
"I really spent a lot of money just to have a storybook to read."
This is one tenth of her assets!
Luo Qinghan: "You only have this little money, so just keep it. I'll pay for the prize money for the storytelling competition for you."
Xiao Xixi was extremely surprised. She threw away the silver ingot, rushed over to hug him, and shouted happily.
"Dad! You are so good to me. I love you so much, Dad!"
Luo Qinghan raised his hand and slapped her on the butt.
"Shut up!"
If it were any other time, Xiao Xixi would definitely be ashamed and embarrassed, but now she was filled with the joy of having a rich sponsor to support her. She did not feel ashamed of being spanked, but instead asked excitedly.
"Daddy, do you want me to spank you a few more times?"
Luo Qinghan: “…”
His concubine is becoming increasingly difficult to control.
Early the next morning, Xiao Xixi excitedly left the palace with Luo Qinghan.
As the imperial concubine, Xiao Xixi couldn't directly take charge of organizing the storytelling competition, so she had to find an agent.
The first person she thought of was the King of England.
The King of England himself loves reading storybooks, so he is a fellow reader. Moreover, he doesn't have much work to do and has a lot of free time, so it is most appropriate for him to do this.
The two went directly to the British palace.
Luo Yechen was originally reluctant to receive these two people. Every time he met the imperial concubine, something bad would happen!
After the imperial concubine explained her purpose, Luo Yechen immediately became interested.
A storybook competition, just thinking about it makes it interesting!
He temporarily suppressed his rejection of the imperial concubine and rubbed his hands excitedly to discuss the details of the competition with her.
It was almost noon, Bu Shengyan reminded.
"Lunch is about to start. Your Majesty and the Imperial Concubine, do you want to eat in the palace? Or go out for lunch?"
Luo Qinghan: "Whatever you like."
Luo Yechen waved his hand and said, "Liuguang Pavilion has recently served new dishes. Let's go to Liuguang Pavilion to eat."
The group took a carriage to Liuguang Pavilion.
After the carriage stopped, the four people got off one after another.
Someone happened to be walking past them and accidentally bumped into Luo Yechen.
Luo Yechen frowned and cursed the man.
The man quickly apologized and left quickly.
Xiao Xixi looked at the man's departing back and asked curiously.
"My Lord, is that man your long-lost brother?"
Luo Yechen said unhappily: "Of course not!"
Xiao Xixi: "Then why does he have a jade pendant that is exactly the same as yours?"
Luo Yechen: "What jade pendant?"
He subconsciously touched the jade pendant on his waist, but found nothing.
"Where's my jade pendant?!"
…
Good morning everyone!
Luo Yechen: My jade pendant worth one hundred thousand taels! (Erkang's hand)
……
Please give me a monthly ticket. Please give me a monthly ticket. Please give me a monthly ticket~
(End of this chapter)
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