“Although you are a servant, if you come back to Yue with me and I say you are the prince consort, who would dare to say what you are?”
Huang Laoba completely forgot how Xiao Yuanshuang had rejected him in the first place.
A spark of hope immediately ignited within them: "Really?"
"Really, I never lie, but right now you need to do one thing well to prove your worth."
“Princess, just say it, I’ll take any, not just one, but a hundred.”
"As long as you take me back to Yue."
He now has only one thought in his mind: he wants to go to the Yue Kingdom to become a prince consort and leave this loveless home.
“Write a letter to the Marquis’s mansion and ask them to give you 300,000 taels of silver, and request a bank note from Hengyue Bank.”
ah?
Why do we need silver?
Huang Laoba didn't understand.
"You're going to Yue to become a prince consort, are you going to leave all this silver to your older brothers and sisters instead of taking it with you?"
That's right!
"What if they refuse to give it to me? Should I threaten them with my life?"
Xiao Yuanshuang shook her slender finger, "Don't be foolish. If you threaten them with your life, they'll only think you're useless."
"Tell them you are going to the Yue Kingdom to become a prince consort, and say goodbye to them."
"that's all?"
"That's enough. Remember, don't do anything stupid." Xiao Yuanshuang went into the room, leaving him with a cold back view.
Next, someone released him from the latrine, gave him warm bathwater, clean clothes, and writing materials.
Huang Laoba was deeply moved and, as Xiao Yuanshuang had requested, wrote a letter to the Yong'an Marquis's residence.
Of course, after the letter was sent out, it passed through the hands of Qi Yuan and Murong Anle before finally reaching the hands of the Marquis of Yong'an.
The Yong'an Marquis's family was very uneasy.
Those who had influence gathered in the council chamber.
"Could this letter be fake?"
"No, our family members are not allowed to enter the palace, but many people saw the Third Princess taking the Eighth Brother to the restaurant."
"The eighth brother is indeed favored by the third princess."
"If our eighth brother becomes a prince consort, will our family...?"
Could we go to Yue together? They are from the Marquis of Qing, and with a prince consort born into the family, their status in the new life wouldn't be too bad.
In the Qing Kingdom, they had no room for further development.
The old Marquis offended the retired emperor and was banned from entering the palace for life. Many officials and powerful families were unwilling to associate with the Marquis's mansion.
Even for marriage, they could only choose partners from other places.
The key point is that the title is completely abolished after being passed down for one more generation.
They had been struggling to find a way out, but now hope was within reach.
The eldest brother hesitated for a moment. In fact, he still had a noble title and didn't really want to leave the capital.
“But my eighth brother did not say that we should move our whole family to Yue.”
The old Marquis finally spoke, "Send thirty thousand taels of silver to the Eighth Prince, and have him serve the princess well..."
The word "serve" just sounds awkward no matter how you look at it.
But he didn't have any other suitable words.
Thirty thousand taels of silver was almost one-tenth of their family's savings.
The second son felt a little uncomfortable. "Father, do we really need to send so much silver?"
The old Marquis nodded, confident in his plan.
"When the eighth prince wrote back, he didn't mention anything about the princess wanting to see us or wanting to take the Marquis's mansion to Yue Kingdom."
"Then we need to show the princess our value."
"The Marquis's mansion doesn't have anything worth mentioning right now, except for some money."
Several brothers beside him persuaded, "Yes, once we get to Yue, it'll be worth more than 30,000 taels, even 300,000 taels! We'll make back a hundred or a thousand times that amount!"
Thus, the 30,000 taels of silver left the Marquis's residence and went through another round in Murong Anle's hands.
How could Murong Anle possibly give Qing Kingdom's silver to Xiao Yuanshuang?
They directly exchanged it for a fake banknote.
It is identical to the 500,000 taels of silver notes in the hands of the Liao Dynasty compradors.
"Tsk tsk, I wish there would be more good things like this."
Upon hearing this, Murong Yue immediately perked up, "Yes, yes, come a few more times, hehe."
"There's still food, don't forget."
She reminded Murong Anle that Xiao Yuanshuang had lost 300,000 taels of silver worth of grain to her.
"Your Majesty, rest assured, I will certainly handle this matter properly."
The capital city was bustling with activity.
There are so many things ordinary people can do in the spring.
No one paid much attention to the disappearance of the second prince of Yue.
Some members of the Yue delegation would occasionally inquire, and Zhang Hui would report on the Second Prince's latest life.
"His Highness ate locust flower cake today."
"His Highness has moved to a new residence today."
"His Highness met with Lord Qi today."
The envoys were delighted to learn that the Second Prince was doing well in the palace.
Moreover, they felt more at ease knowing they didn't have to worry about the second prince causing trouble outside.
They've all gained a lot of weight.
That's right. Imprisoning Xiao Yuanche in the imperial palace is a problem because there are too many people and too few courtyards. There are people everywhere.
Inside the palace, there were empty palaces everywhere.
Xiao Yuanche was imprisoned in the deep palace, where, as usual, imperial guards stood on the walls.
The two attendants he brought with him could serve him, so he didn't have to do any work himself.
But food and drink are a problem.
One meal every two days, and a bucket of cold water.
Manager Zhu tried making locust flower cake, but it was so bad that everyone spat it out after just one bite.
It was then given to Xiao Yuanche.
Xiao Yuanche wanted to sneak out over the wall in the middle of the night, so he moved to a smaller courtyard that night.
It wasn't even as big as the courtyard where he was imprisoned in the imperial palace.
It's perfectly square, ten steps in total, not a single step more.
It can be considered as moving to a new place to live.
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