Mo Lin was defeated in a short time!
Goodbye Mo Lin, his cultivation level is truly as bad as ever... for a thousand years!
It finished half an hour earlier than expected!
"Thump! Thump! Thump!"
"At midnight, I hereby declare! The firefly lantern for this year's Flower Festival belongs to this young master!!"
"good!"
"good!"
......
As the shopkeeper went on stage to announce the results, cheers erupted from the audience. Of course, there were also those who bet on Mo Lin to win, only to lose everything and curse him!
"Mo Qi! Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough?!"
Mo Qi glanced at Mo Lin, who was already walking out, and then bid farewell to Hua.
"Miss Hua, Young Master Chu is calling for you."
"Um?"
Chu Yu walked gracefully towards the flowers, followed by several servants carrying fireflies.
"Alright, the firefly lamp is yours!"
Hua looked at Chu Yu with sincerity, and at that moment she seemed to understand the tenderness in his eyes!
Her red lips parted slightly
"Chu Yu..."
Behind him were the dim lights, and in his eyes was her!
It seems that Hua Hua understands a common saying among ordinary people;
Countless times I've looked back, countless times I've wandered through life, but suddenly when I turn around, there she is, in the dim light!
"That's it."
"That's it."
"You've been wasting my time, girl!"
"Huh? What's wrong?"
Chu Yu smiled, "Liao Liao, have you decided what to do with this firefly lamp?"
Hua glanced sideways at the firefly-shaped lanterns behind Chu Yu. "Uh...yes, I need to think of a way." Her eyes darted around...
Seeing the way Hua was looking at him, Yong Heng suddenly had a bad feeling...
"Yongheng, how about I give you the firefly lantern, and you give it to us in silver?"
"Gulp!"
"It's not that I'm unwilling to spend the money, young lady, it's just..."
Yong Heng spoke awkwardly, saying, "But I really can't come up with that much money."
"Aren't you the fourth prince? I've seen princes in plays who are all very rich."
"this......"
Yongheng scratched the back of his head.
"Two years ago, I broke the Azure Jade Zun, which my father had treasured for many years, and was punished with a three-year salary reduction, so..."
So, you have no money!
The words were blunt and hurtful!
"However, I can help you find a buyer!"
"Alright, as long as it sells, we'll give you 10%!"
"No problem, leave it to me! Come with me, I'll take you to him right now!"
The group marched through the streets in a grand procession, and the firefly lantern carried by eight people behind them really attracted a lot of attention!
"arrive!"
Yongheng led them to a mansion gate and stopped.
The magnificent vermilion gate bears the inscription "General's Mansion of the Nation!" It covers a full thousand acres and occupies half of the street!
"Wait a moment, I have just sent a message to Zhu Xiaoyi."
"Gurgle!"
A round, fair-skinned face squeezed out of the doorway first, and after confirming that no one was behind it, its plump body squeezed out from inside.
His body jiggled as he ran. He double-checked the plaque above the gate—"General's Residence"—it was correct, but...
"Xiao Heng, are they the people you mentioned who sell firefly lanterns?"
"Genuine, guaranteed!"
I found him so cute, all chubby and fair-skinned, that I couldn't resist touching him.
"Are you really going to sell these firefly lights? You won't back out?"
"We will never go back on our word, don't worry!" They'll have a lot of money after selling the firefly lights! Hua looked at Zhu Ziyi with exceptionally eager eyes.
"You said it, so you can't go back on your word. I'll take it."
happy!
How much are you willing to pay?
"You can decide how much to give."
"Fifty thousand taels of gold?"
"ah?"
Didn't Yongheng say he only wanted 40,000 gold coins?
"Sixty thousand taels of gold, that's the most I can offer!"
What's going on? Why are there more and more of them?
I hesitated for a moment, mainly because he was offering so much.
Yongheng suspected that the two of them had no idea what 60,000 taels of gold meant!
He immediately made the decision for them, "Alright, then it'll be 60,000 gold coins, a bargain for you, Zhu Xiaoyi!"
"hey-hey!"
Zhu Ziyi took out a silver note from his pocket and handed it to Hua, saying, "Here, you've already taken the money, so you can't go back on your word!"
Hua had never seen a silver note before. She held it in her hand, examined it for a while, and then handed it to Chu Yu to put away.
"Alright, Zhu Xiaoyi, I'm leaving now. You should go back quickly, or the old lady will come looking for you soon."
"good."
"Oh, right, just leave the firefly lanterns here, I'll have the servants move them inside later!"
Zhu Ziyi spent time with them before they left, and Yong Heng finally managed to persuade them to agree to return to the Fourth Prince's residence with him after much persuasion.
"Yongheng, didn't you say before that the Firefly Lantern was worth 40,000 taels of gold? Why did Zhu Ziyi offer such a high price?"
"The girl was paid 40,000 taels of gold, which was just the cost of the project."
"Moreover, you may not know this, but our Qin state values martial prowess, and the firefly lantern is the best proof of that. That's why many people pay high prices for firefly lanterns every year."
"But isn't this just deceiving ourselves? It's not like they got it themselves."
"It's true, everyone has their obsessions."
"Zhu Xiaoyi bought this just hoping to make the old lady a little happier."
Yongheng spoke as he walked.
"You must be wondering why Zhu Xiaoyi, a descendant of the Zhenguo General's Mansion, would be like this, right?"
The name "General Zhenguo's Mansion" immediately suggests that it is a family of military officers, and to have such a status, the family must have accumulated numerous military achievements. However, Zhu Ziyi just now was not only broad-minded and overweight, but also showed no signs of martial arts training.
"The Zhenguo General's Mansion is full of loyal and heroic people. Zhu Xiaoyi's family has been following Emperor Gaozu in expanding the territory and conquering the world since their ancestors."
"Eighteen years ago, the Yun Kingdom invaded with overwhelming force, advancing swiftly and decisively to reach Shang Pass. General Zhu was appointed to lead the troops to the front lines in this critical moment. The Zhu family refused to retreat an inch, vowing to defend Shang Pass and the territory of the Qin Kingdom to the death!"
"The war raged for three years, and wave after wave of Zhu family men rushed to the front lines. In the end, of the entire clan of 304, not one survived!"
"The Zhu family only had one male member left, Zhu Xiaoyi, who was less than three years old at the time!"
"so..."
Therefore, this is what Zhu Ziyi looks like now.
"In the past, the firefly lanterns for the annual Flower Festival were always picked by the men of the Zhu family, but since..."
“The Zhu family has never taken firefly lanterns again, so Zhu Xiaoyi has spent a lot of money to buy firefly lanterns every year. Over the past eighteen years, he has collected a total of fifteen lanterns.”
Hua suddenly felt a burning pain in her hand as she grabbed the banknotes.
"Yongheng, could you send a message to Zhu Ziyi and ask him to come out now?"
They hadn't gone far, and Zhu Ziyi probably hadn't gone to bed yet.
Yongheng guessed what Hua was planning to do, turned his head to look at Chu Yu, and asked him to confirm, after all, it was a full 60,000 taels of gold!
Not to mention ordinary families, even for him, it was a considerable sum of money.
"I've heard it. You should contact him."
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