Chapter 47: Showing Off the Contract
After Bai Qingyou finished speaking, she twisted the handkerchief between her fingers, feeling a little embarrassed.
Aunt Zheng's heart trembled, and the joy she had just felt was completely destroyed.
"Have you spent all the three thousand taels?"
She can't spend that much in a year.
It's only been half a month. Could it be that the Third Prince's Mansion is living on money?
"The money spent on running the palace is like water, and my daughter has no income. Although the Third Prince has rewarded me with many things, most of them are made in the palace and cannot be pawned."
Bai Qingyou is really short of money, otherwise he wouldn't have asked.
If you want to win favor in the mansion, you have to buy clothes and jewelry and win over servants, all of which cost money.
Aunt Zheng returned to the inner room and took out another three thousand taels with a painful look on her face.
"This is all the money that my mother has left. I'll have to rely on the three shops to make a living from now on. Please spend it sparingly."
"You can try to coax the Third Prince into giving you a shop or something. Some income is always good."
There are only three shops in the Prime Minister’s Mansion, and they cannot be given away. Otherwise, how will the family feed and drink?
The most important thing is that she wants to leave it to her son Bai Moyang.
The three thousand taels were also taken out with great reluctance. My daughter has a good future and I can support my son in the future.
Bai Qingyou glanced at the inner room. As far as she knew, her mother still had at least 10,000 taels in her hand, right?
I am so reluctant to give her three thousand taels.
Her mother loves her, but not as much as Bai Moyang.
She took the banknote, feeling unhappy.
I just think about finding a way to make money in the future and be proud of myself.
It’s no secret that talking about money hurts feelings. Now that the mother and daughter talked about money, they both had some resentment in their hearts.
The Third Prince had a secret conversation with Bai Changhao in the study for an hour. When he went to the side hall to eat, he asked casually, "Father-in-law, I saw someone leaving the mansion before I came in. Who was it?"
Those people were dressed rather shabbily, so they were probably not the advisers of the Prime Minister's Office.
Bai Changhao coughed lightly and said, "I am the patriarch of the Bai clan. I came to announce the good news that the construction of the clan middle school has begun today."
The Third Prince didn't believe it in his heart. The Bai clan leader's face didn't look like he was here to announce good news.
But they are just a bunch of poor people and are not worthy of his attention.
"I see. My father-in-law is a man of great integrity. He really cares deeply about the future generations of our clan."
Bai Changhao likes this kind of compliment and is very modest:
"You are too kind, Third Prince. I cannot write two Bai characters with one stroke. This is what I should do as a descendant of the Bai family."
After lunch, the third prince took Bai Qingyou back home.
When they arrived at the mansion, they sent a lot of good things to Bai Qingyou's yard.
For a time, Bai Qingyou enjoyed great popularity in the Third Prince's Mansion, and those concubines did not dare to hang around in front of her.
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In Mingyue Courtyard, Lu Wanning had few worries and took good care of herself, and her health was getting better day by day.
Cuiyu supported her and took a walk in the garden.
"Madam, just now..."
Cui Yu told what happened at the gate of the mansion and how the Third Prince brought Bai Qingyou to the house.
"The Bai family, like Bai Changhao, are short-sighted people."
In the past, I thought they were troublesome, so I gave them two hundred taels of silver every month to send them away.
"A penny can make a hero fall. I'm missing my money, haha~"
Life in the Prime Minister's Mansion is really wonderful.
I have no worries at home and feel free.
"Madam has given so much over the years."
Cuiyu felt sorry for her lady, but there was nothing she could do.
"I heard that those three shops are indeed profitable."
"It's okay, it's just a few dollars."
She still didn't care about a few hundred taels of silver.
Besides, being profitable now does not mean you will be profitable in the future.
Your shop becomes popular, and many people will follow suit and want to get a piece of the pie. It’s hard to say whether you will be able to make money in the future.
She was waiting to see Zheng make a fool of himself.
In fact, apart from a few eye-catching plum blossoms in the garden, the rest of the garden is covered with snow, which becomes boring after looking at it for a long time.
Lu Wanning walked around for a while and prepared to go back.
But on the way, he met Aunt Zheng, who was wearing colorful clothes and had three gold hairpins on her head. She wanted to wear all the jewelry on her head.
If you don’t know, you would think she came from a brothel.
Lu Wanning glanced at Cui Yu who was laughing secretly with her head down, and prepared to walk around her.
Aunt Zheng was very proud today, without any sarcasm about superiority or inferiority:
"Madam, you can actually get out of bed? I think if the Prime Minister knows about this, he will definitely come to see you, right?"
Everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion knew that ever since Lu Wanning handed over the power to manage the household, the Prime Minister had never entered her courtyard again.
Look at Lu Wanning's sickly and sallow face, how can she compare to her.
Is the Bai clan leader blind? How dare she say that she is not even a little bit better than Lu Wanning.
The thought of it made him angry, and a distorted look flashed across his eyes.
Then he thought of Bai Qingyou's story and couldn't help showing off:
"Madam, you may not know yet, but today the Third Prince brought Qingyou back home. Qingyou is wearing a three-tailed phoenix hairpin on her head. I think in a few days, Qingyou will be the Third Prince's concubine."
Lu Wanning chuckled, "Really? Qingyou is coming back home today? I wonder what gift the Third Prince brought? I think there will be more things in the storehouse."
In a word, Aunt Zheng's lungs were hurt by the puncture.
Qingyou really came back empty-handed. The Third Prince really doesn't pay attention to etiquette.
I feel aggrieved, but I can't lose face.
"Qingyou may have forgotten for a moment. We don't lack those things in our house. I just don't know if Qinghuan can get married in the future?"
She was waiting to see Lu Wanning make a fool of herself.
Children will always be Lu Wanning's weak spot.
"Don't worry about Qinghuan's marriage. No matter how low the family status of my daughter is, she must be the principal wife."
Qinghuan must have the same idea and would never become someone's concubine.
"you..."
Aunt Zheng had nothing to say, but she also thought that Lu Wanning was just jealous of Qingyou.
How can the prince's concubine be compared with an ordinary concubine?
Lu Wanning smiled and said nothing. She turned to ask Cuiyu, "It's almost the winter solstice. Have you prepared the gifts for the An Ning Marquis' Mansion?"
"My lady, everything has been prepared."
"Mrs. Zheng, I gave you gifts, but I didn't use anything from the Prime Minister's Mansion."
"Hasn't the lady's dowry been used up?"
"Thanks for reminding me. Speaking of dowry, the indentures of the servants are also part of the dowry. Cuiyu, the weather has finally cleared up. Let's take out the indentures of the servants in the mansion and dry them in the sun to prevent them from getting moldy."
"Yes, I will sort them out when I get back. I remember there were two boxes, one for the servants and one for the aunt. We kept them separately."
"Well, just remember it."
Aunt Zheng was stunned as if struck by lightning.
Is Lu Wanning threatening her?
How could I have been so blinded by greed that I signed the indenture to sell myself, and still be held in Lu Wanning's hand?
I regret it so much!
Lu Wanning and her servant walked away smiling, not taking Aunt Zheng seriously at all.
Even if a concubine who signed a contract to sell herself was sold, no one could find fault with it.
Aunt Zheng stood there as if she had eaten a fly, her face turning blue and purple, looking extremely ugly.
She stared at Lu Wanning's back, wishing she could pierce a hole in it.
Lu Wanning used to be a pushover, why is she so difficult to deal with recently?
When she was no longer visible, she told the maid Xing'er, "Go and find out the Madam's income quietly."
Without a dowry, where did she get the money?
In recent years, Lu Wanning's relationship with the An Ning Marquis' Mansion has been very strained, and the An Ning Marquis' Mansion should not give her any money.
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In the Regent's Palace, Bai Qinghuan is almost recovered, but he can't live here forever.
Moreover, after sending gifts for eight days in a row, it’s time to stop.
If you keep giving it away, it will no longer be valuable. Give it away for a few days, create some novelty, and then stop abruptly to whet people's appetite.
She got up early in the morning and went to wait at the gate of Mingye Courtyard next door, waiting for the Regent to come out before saying goodbye to him.
After a while, the door of Mingye Courtyard opened and the Regent stepped out.
Bai Qinghuan was about to say something when the Regent glanced at her coldly and walked away quickly.
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