Chapter 40: Spies
When Song Yuning came out of the alley, he saw Ningshuang and Yuejian being guarded by two guards. When the two guards saw Song Yuning, they immediately took two steps back.
"Miss, are you okay?" Yue Jian asked with a worried look on her face.
Song Yuning shook his head and said in a low voice, "Let's go back to the private room first."
When we returned to the private room Song Chengli had booked, there was no one there. It seemed that everyone was still having fun at the Lantern Festival.
Ningshuang and Yuejian saw that Song Yuning looked unhappy, so they tacitly did not ask any more questions and poured tea and served snacks to Song Yuning.
"Ningshuang, when we have the chance in the future, ask Yanyu to renovate another shop and hire a few silversmiths.
Find an auspicious day to open the silver shop. Yuejian, collect all the drawings I made about jewelry and give them to the craftsmen when we find them."
Song Yuning felt uncomfortable because she still owed the money. It seemed that she had to continue embroidering when she returned, and try to earn enough money as soon as possible so that she could pay back the money.
Ningshuang and Yuejian both responded.
Song Yuning had been waiting in the private room until she was almost falling asleep, when her seventh sister Song Yurou and her tenth sister Song Yuyao came back hand in hand, carrying a lotus lantern and a rabbit lantern.
"Why did you come back so soon? Didn't you buy some beautiful lanterns?" Song Yuyao asked in confusion when she saw that there was nothing around Song Yuning.
Song Yuning smiled and waved at the two of them: "Although I didn't buy any lanterns, I did buy a lot of delicious food. Do you want to come over and try some?"
The two of them came over and saw that there were quite a lot of snacks, so the three of them sat together and started eating snacks.
"This is my first time at the Lantern Festival. I didn't expect it to be so lively. I even bought a mask, a tiger mask."
Song Yuyao took out her tiger mask as if presenting a treasure and showed it to Song Yuning.
The three of them talked for a while, and the melon seed shells were much better. Then the rest of the people came back one after another.
After everyone arrived, Song Chengli asked everyone to go back together.
When they arrived, everyone's face was filled with bright smiles, full of anticipation and excitement.
However, when they returned, they seemed to have been drained of all their energy. They leaned listlessly against the wall of the carriage, closed their eyes, and did not even have the strength to speak.
Among the group of people, only Song Yuning was okay. The others got off the carriage and went back to their own residences to sleep.
After the Chinese New Year, the Song Mansion no longer appeared in the public eye as frequently as before, but chose to close its doors to visitors.
The old lady was able to bring her son, a playboy and troublemaker, all the way to where she is today, not just because of good luck or connections.
Because she knows when to act high-profile and when to keep a low profile. Now is the time when she feels she needs to keep a low profile.
In this bustling world, people are often easily deceived by the superficial prosperity, but the real wisdom lies in knowing when to restrain the light and when to bloom brilliantly.
Song Yuning always learns a lot from the old lady's actions.
At the end of February, Song Yuning’s silver shop, Jin Yumantang, officially opened.
The gold and silver hairpins, as well as the hairpins and silk flowers in the store are all very novel in design and eye-catching, so it attracted a lot of customers and became quite famous.
Seeing that Jin Yumantang’s business was so booming, several other century-old stores began to get a little restless.
However, after some inquiries, they learned that the shop was actually bought by the Seventh Prince Xiao Yunzhan himself. Faced with such a background, these old shops did not dare to provoke them easily and could only watch helplessly as Jin Yu Man Tang's business continued to grow.
Song Yuning looked at the account book that was sent to her and calculated carefully. If she embroidered another screen and sold it, she could pay off all the debts within a year.
While Song Yuning was thinking about repaying the money, Xiao Yunzhan on the other side also received an important message and began to plan a big event.
He stood there with his hands behind his back, looked at the secret guard beside him and asked, "Is this information reliable?"
"Although Concubine Yun has kept it a secret, the spy reported that she felt Concubine Yun's pulse and found that she is already two months pregnant," said the secret guard.
Xiao Yunzhan narrowed his eyes, and after a moment, he asked, "Can I do it?"
The secret guard was silent for a long moment, then slowly shook his head, a look of embarrassment on his face. "I'm afraid it won't work. Concubine Yun's place is very difficult to infiltrate. We've spent so much time and only sent one spy. If we take action, we will definitely be exposed."
Then from now on, they would be blind and it would not be easy to find out what was happening on Concubine Yun's side.
Xiao Yunzhan nodded, took a deep breath, and said slowly: "I understand, you can go down."
The secret guard then turned and left, his figure quickly disappearing into the darkness.
Xiao Yunzhan sat quietly in his chair, his eyes deep and sharp, as if he was contemplating something important. After a moment, he reached out and fumbled with the Pisces jade pendant in his palm, feeling its cool, smooth texture, and a faint sadness welled up in his heart.
Since returning to the palace, he has been secretly investigating some things. Through continuous efforts, he finally learned some secrets.
It turned out that his biological mother was not an ordinary noble lady, she was also the daughter of the Bai family.
Back then, because of her outstanding appearance, she was sent to the palace by her family and became the personal maid of Concubine Yun. Later, she was favored by the emperor.
Everyone thought that the emperor did not like his biological mother. In fact, the emperor valued his biological mother very much. But because he valued her too much, he did not dare to confer a title on her easily, for fear that she would become the target of public criticism and cause unnecessary trouble.
But who would have thought that this action would become the fuse. Concubine Yun believed that the emperor did not like his biological mother, so she bullied the mother and son even more unscrupulously.
Later, Concubine Yun found that the emperor favored his concubine sister more and more, and she became jealous and resentful, and even made up her mind to kill her biological mother.
The emperor also launched an investigation into the matter. However, Concubine Yun was pregnant at that time. In addition, she was the legitimate daughter of the Bai family, so the emperor had to consider the child in her belly and the Bai family behind her.
In the end, the emperor chose to let the matter go peacefully and did not pursue the matter any further. After Concubine Yun gave birth to a daughter, the matter was never mentioned again.
Now, Concubine Yun is pregnant again. I wonder how arrogant and domineering she will be after she gives birth to a son.
However, if she had been calm, how could she reveal her true identity? Thinking of this, Xiao Yunzhan tightly grasped the jade pendant in his hand, and then slowly released it.
Since she wanted to have a child, then let her do it! After she gave birth to the child, he would naturally let her know that even if a person who had done many evil things gave birth to a child, it would be difficult for him to raise it to adulthood.
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