Breakfast consisted of rice porridge with a few side dishes, as well as steamed buns and fried dough sticks.
When Wen Nongnong was halfway through her meal, she suddenly remembered something, quickly put down her chopsticks, and asked, "Your Highness, didn't you not have any silver on you? What did you use to buy that wooden comb?" She suddenly had a bad feeling.
Gu Linchao paused for a moment, then said, "I traded it with the shop sign using the jade pendant I had on me."
"What?" Wen Nongnong stood up abruptly, saying in disbelief, "You traded your jade pendant for such a tattered little comb?"
"A tattered little comb?" Gu Linchao frowned. So she didn't like the comb.
"That's not the point. The point is, Your Highness, do you have many jade pendants?" Wen Nongnong was heartbroken. She actually traded a jade pendant for a wooden comb. What a spendthrift!
Gu Linchao paused for a moment, then took out a jade pendant from his pocket. "I didn't exchange the one I gave you."
Wen Nong Nong looked at it and realized that this was the one that Jue Wang had torn off her.
"Then I am truly grateful to Your Highness." With that, she reached out and took the jade pendant back without ceremony, tied it back around her neck, and then said anxiously, "Your Highness, please take me to get the jade pendant back."
Gu Linchao frowned, "That jade pendant has already been replaced with someone else's comb..."
"But the two items are not of equal value. The jade pendant on the prince's body could easily buy the entire shop. You were clearly ripped off by that unscrupulous shopkeeper."
Wen Nongnong stomped her foot in anger and went over to pull him up. "Take me there right now, I'm going to beat that heartless boss up."
“There’s no need for this, it’s just a jade pendant…” Gu Linchao was puzzled as to why she was suddenly so agitated. He knew, of course, that the value of a jade pendant was not equal to that of a wooden comb, but he wanted to buy her a comb, and since he didn’t have any money on him, he had no choice but to exchange the jade pendant for it.
"You're such a spendthrift," Wen Nongnong blurted out.
Gu Linchao narrowed his phoenix eyes.
Wen Nongnong quickly changed her tune, "I know you're not short of money, but that jade pendant can be exchanged for many more things, and..."
She paused for a moment, then said, "I know that the prince has been secretly subsidizing the soldiers. If that jade pendant were properly exchanged for silver, it could help even more soldiers. At worst, I can give up the comb, but I must get the jade pendant back."
"You don't like this comb?" Gu Linchao asked, frowning.
“I prefer jade pendants to combs,” Wen Nongnong said honestly.
Gu Linchao's eyes dimmed slightly. "I understand."
Wen Nong Nong looked at him suspiciously. What did he know? Had she said something wrong again?
After thinking for a moment, she added, "I like anything that the prince gives me, but I can't bear to see the prince being deceived. It would make me very upset."
Gu Linchao sighed, "Let's go, let's get the jade pendant back."
Wen Nongnong's face brightened from gloomy to sunny.
As soon as the two went downstairs, they saw a group of constables rush in. Before the four men could react, they were taken away.
Gu Linchao glanced at Wen Nongnong.
Wen Nongnong said nonchalantly, "They deserve their punishment and should be punished by law. They should go to jail and reform themselves."
Gu Linchao didn't say anything.
Although the four men are under Wen Nongnong's control, once they are free, they will surely revert to their old ways and bully the weak elsewhere, so it's better if they are imprisoned.
At this moment, the waiter came over and whispered something to Wen Nongnong.
Wen Nongnong patted his shoulder, "Thank you for your hard work."
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