"It should be bad, right?" Wei Junpei thought for a moment and replied.
"Young Lady Hong, I swear to God, the person you helped identify is absolutely good." Eunuch Fu, who had heard everything clearly, stepped forward and said without thinking of anything else.
In his eagerness to ask for help, he even used the honorific "you" when addressing Hong Xiaoduo.
Upon hearing this, Hong Xiaoduo looked at Eunuch Fu with great hesitation for a moment and said, "Alright, I'll do it for you once, but I can't do it for free, I need to charge you."
"Of course we'll take the money. Even if you hadn't said anything, young lady, we would have given it to you." Seeing that Hong Xiaoduo had relented, Eunuch Fu agreed without even looking at the other woman.
He doesn't care about gold and silver.
"One thousand taels of gold. If you think it's too expensive, then forget it. I'm going to use it to buy precious medicinal herbs to nourish my body," Hong Xiaoduo said after thinking for a moment.
Demanding a thousand taels of gold from the emperor isn't exactly extortion, is it? He didn't even ask for ten thousand taels!
"A thousand taels of gold?" Upon hearing this, Eunuch Fu considered it for a moment. After all, it involved a secret technique related to someone's lifespan, so he couldn't very well say that the person wanted too much. He glanced at the person's face and, seeing that the person nodded slightly, quickly agreed.
Wei Junpei, who was standing nearby, listened and glanced at Hong Xiaoduo, thinking to himself that he would discuss with his son and daughter-in-law later how much of a thank-you gift to give Hong Xiaoduo.
"Young Lady Hong, may I deliver the payment tomorrow? Could you please have it appraised first?" Eunuch Fu asked cautiously.
The man beside him glanced at Eunuch Fu, who had served him for many years. Even when speaking to the other princes and princesses, he had never been so cautious and careful…
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